Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1821-11-16

anu Morgan Lewis then Governor tor signing, some
grants TO the college, declared 10 be entitled to
its lasting gratitude The college had not bees, ,n-
KIND to Dr. Bard, for says the orator. " they have got
his picture -(qucre, have they paid for ii , And
inning his academic hour quite gone, the orator al
ludcd To Dr. Barl's enthusiasm Tor merinos said he
could have expatiae much longer on the subject of
this memoir, and concluded by applying 10 him the
lines OF Tckell on Addison,
lie taught us how to livc-and nh too high
The price we pad-hc taught US how tie.
MIR ADAMS N ENGLAND.
There are some pretty severe structures on Mr..
Adams Address to be found in late number of the
London Examiner This publication Processes q
strong friendship for America. and IN implacab,
opposition To the government Ut En9lan'!-perhnps
toeribIe opinion may hc formed of its politics. in
All their bearings, from tho remarks tn which re-
Ter, and which shall offer in detail To our readers
The article is capiloncd by the significant words
= Iirade OF Mr. Adams, and commences by saying
speech OF six columns in length, which was deli
vered by the Hon. John Quincy Adams on the ami
versary OF American Independence This document
Is much talked of he Atlantic IL then nves
the satirical peroration OF MIR. Adams, in which
he very happily pays his respects = BRITANNIA, ruler
OF the waves" At the close OF the extract, are the
following remarks -
1t cannot but he allowed by the truest well-wish-
ers'o America, that the speech OF. the Hon. John
Quincy Adams is in bad taste. There are no greater
admirers OF American revolutions than ourselves We
nave even an hereditary affection for tie L. States
ana their founders and believe that the striking
example afforded hy the first EHglis,m1t as il were
WHO hiU IN opportunity oil setting for themselves
VIII have the greatest possible effect, in Il course of
years, all over the world. But why do the ANGLO A.
neiIcans think IL worth their while 10 talk in this
manner: Why cannot they he content with ,loinr
ana having done things unequivoca!iy great without
showing this petulant jealousy (or il is nothing else
alter ally OF things which they evidently wash, they
had heem able To do also Iii not honorable to John
Quincy and we tust there are great number, of A.
nericns who thin% SO, besides the British party The
Americans, who only an Offset from ,hc English
ana have been chiefly engaged in setting up their new
I I.s,,,
mother country and why should thew exhibit "A sure
ness at not being The true state of the ease is
Tins :-ihe Americans literary as the Eng
'si Dut they have undoubtedly, they they have
done great deal for liberty, and n he love of if
4 he English, on the other hand, m c moic literary
but they have not done much for liberty or III shall
Ultimately turn out that they have, they did not in
tend 1t nourishiug repnbiic set t,p and siunid
doctrines OF Legitimacy brought back are very differ
ent things. But the Americans seem 10 forget not
only that they boand to he us literary s the
whole English people, with ali its old facilities of edn-
cation, intercourse and inspiring haunts-but that
Americans and English have both a common ancestry
to be proud OF with all its Siiakespeares. Mions and
naeons Inc Americans may If they please
Tor an Obvious reason, call themselves the descend
ants, par eIcetepce Of the Millions, Aaryells and o.
Their great republicans WHY then do, they ,l;sgr,ce
their own glory by behaving as f they were not sen
sible OF what they boast Of And why does Mr.
Quincy Adams pretend to undervalue what he would
give even his oars 10 possess He talks of Themis-
tocles Ii was fit in Bonaparte 10 talk of The
mlStocles, than republics protesting love of freedom
EpaIgInondas would have been more 10 the MIR
pose, though not for Mr. Adams sophstrv for r.
pannondas hesides being the deliverer of his couu-
| try, was a musician and dancer"
lie DRIFT OF Mr.. Adams satire seems 10 he wholly
| misunderstood. Ii drawn forth not in vain
Roasting, not ia anger, not with the umiallowed de-
SIRE oil robbng England OF her weIl-won laurels but
as pheasant retaliation upon the spirit discovered by
her writers towards this infant country 1t was prob
ably produced by that venomous article in the Edin-
burgh Review, (Which Mr.. Hunt cannot fail 10 re-
member, and which an American forget)-hy
mat article wherein 1t was tauntngIy asked, What
uoes ihe wofidyet owe 10 American genius or scicn-
ces, or the arts, and who reads an American book
looks nj an American picture, statue Sc and what
does The world yet owe to American physicians or
surgeons We have not the article before us but il
Is evident, from impression of it, that Mr. Adams
was merely retottimg with much severity perhaps
ana certainly with less prescriptions the sarcastic
sneers and triumphant malice of the Edinburgh yhiqs
say nothing of the multiplied causes for rebuke
winch have been authorized since il breatIicd
INTO lie, 10y the Quarterly Review. Whatever NAV
he saiu OF Mr.. Adams personal feelings IN relation To-
Great Britain, it canno, be denied that this respect
his language was Jus;iabe. Boston Gus
AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY or ALBEM.RIE.
CHARLOTTESVILLE, (Va) Nov. AT a Regular
meeting OF the Society on Monday the 9th of Octo-
Der, 1871 the following officers and committees were
elected TO serve FOR one year.
JAMES MADISON, President
mos NJ KAEDoLPH; LIST Vice President.
JNo III. CoCKE, 2d Vice President
NIMRoD BRAmHAM, Treasurer.
PErER MINOR, Secretary.
IHos w. MAURY, Assistant Secretary
COMMITTEE OF CoRREsPoNDENCE
James Barbour, Th. NJ. Randolph,
Th c. Watkins, and
WIN. ID. Meriwether, Peter Minor
COMMITTEE OF ACCOUNTS
&C. h. Eslon Randolph, Dabney Minor, and John
Winn ~
ne committee reported settlement of the Trca- |
sirers account, exhibiting balance in his hands
due the Society OF SGf9 81 ID, exclusive of interest
aud OF arrears due lIom members
The society then ResOired, TO continue tie offers
Tor Premiums heretofore mate for the greatest pro-
auctions OF wheat and corn, and the reclamation of
worn out Rand for the best experiments made to as
certain The value of oxen substitute for horses
ana Tor improved agricultural implements, for two
years rom the limited time prescribed respectively
Tor each subject TO tho same rules and REGULATIONS
AS heretofore prescribed. That is 10 Sly
lst. premium Of Thirty Dollars Tor the greatest
production aud best quality Of winter Wheat from no
less than two acres Ia one piece
"a. A premium Of Twenty Dollars for the next
greatest production from the same number of acres
these premiums To be awarded IN the regular Au-
tnnndi session Of 1923, and for wheat the growth Of
that year
80 premium Of Thirty Dollars for the greatest
If