Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1821-08-28

ment al! these establishments, its mower and
Influence is greatly strengthened
Elizabeth regarded the power to grant patents
Tor monopohes as the part of heyprcrogative
| that constituted . the chief flower in her gar
uen, and the principal and headpear in her.
crown and diadem." The connection created
| oy The couit, between the government of the
Union, and allsorts Interpretations, is, no dot;bt
as agreeable 10 those, who are ever ready to
strengthen the general government, as was
tne power 10 create patents To the monarch of
England. am fearful that this power will be
'ouhu as mischieVl0uS IN our Institutions, as it
WAS iatai TO the prosperity of that country.
am fearful that the principle upon which
'he government of the union was founded
upon which twas Recommendations which
II was adopted-by which il was put in Opera
ton, are fast sinking into oblivion. Ardent
professions OF attachment 10 these principles
are sill common among us--bUt very few take
AN active interest in their preservation.-A
Siom confidence prevails in all the departments
Oh tne general government. shall be glad if
tins confidence is not rapidly corruptinar the
whole system IF encroachments are not
dally and insensibly making that, at no distant
gay, may produce Il terrible eXplosiun.-I am
not sure but that to this confidence, and these
encroachments we NAV fairly trace much of
L
ed without exordium. and intended to close
without peroration. think ii probable that
Inc Judges themselves may be among the few
persons" who will take The pains to read what
have wriiten-IHey will see that | have
understood the subject which / have so far
discussed. am satisfied that they will find
some matter worthy OF their consideration.
andsomc matternot very palatable-Let them
be assured that ii is impossible foranv persoal
iceiinS To have entered nto the discussion-I
am Tar removed from personal acquaintance
or personal collision with amy of them. My
iot III life is too humble, my station too obscure
even to- come into personal contact with them
or to hope any thing personal from thus pub
| ucIy Questioning thcir correctness. Ii is the
right OF the citizen to expose what he views
as an erroneous and dangerous doctrine, no
matter by what public funclionary it is adyanc-
ca. 1t IS the duty of all public men to give
aiieAuon To every examination of their opiu-
IONS, and To derive Improvement from it
I'hat the Judges OF the Supreme Court will
make very proper use OF this review, enter
tam no doubt. But for this consideration,
might well regard The whole as labor thrown
away. HAMP DEN.
TIE SLAVE TRADE-No. e.rr.,a.
We have already stated what we consider
earnestly the entire discontinuance of The
slave trade The time ut which she hernn to
push the question with zeal upon the attention
OF foreign powers, sufficiently indicates that
her motives were principally Of a commercial
nature. TWAS atthc moment when Napoleon
had been oyerthroWn, and when the nations of
Europe, returning 10 u condition of peace
would reclaim their proper portion Of the
commerce ofthc world, compelling the British
government, In order TO retain the fiscal and
political ascendancY it had gained, to seek new
channels oil trade. Ii proof is wantingth that our
oplmon is well grounded, il NAV be found in
the language held by lord Casiurcagh himself.
In memorandum annexed To the protocol OF
the conference of the 18th OF February, 1918,
held ut London, between the pIenpoteuti;r-
rles of tie five principal powers in Europe,
on the subject OF the trade in slaves, his lord
snip concluded by calling the attention OF
ms colleagues to the indisputable pools af-
iordcd, both by the present state of the colo
ny OF Sierra Leone, and by the increase OF
Atrcan commerce in latter years, OF the fa-
Guilty OF that continent, both in its soil and
population, for becoming civilized and in
dustrous, the only impeachment to which un-
doubleday was the per.iicious practice of slave
trading, which, wherever it prevailed, at ouce
turned aside the attention OF The natives from
the more slow and labOTious means of barter.
which industry presented, to that of Selling up
ON and selling each other" This Passage
cmphatlcally demonstrates that Africa is view
cd by the British ministry in the light OF an
increasing market for their commodities; and
The inference is strong, that their efforts for
the eXtlrpatlon of the slave trade are mainly
founded upon that considerations
Acting upon such impure grounds, il was
not gate fair in lord Castlercagh, in the re-
cent discussions in the house of commons GA
the trade III slaves, Ia attempt 20 throw odium
on the United States for refusing to- conccde
the right Of search in time of peace as il the
American government IN prdciice hadinvaiidat-
ed ITS professions OF an ardent desire to put am
end TO that horrible trade Considering that
both the lords and commons, IN parliament "a
senblcd, had, Oh the 7thand 9Th of J uly, 1878
otcd All address TO the prince regent, where
IN they declared that the United States oI
AMERICA were honUrabiy distinguished as the
first which pronounced the condemnation OF
his guilty traffic." and that they, the lords
and commUus, felt " the CONSCIOUSNESS that the
government Of Gredt Britain lgas o,iginaill
| instrumental an ieGdiug the ,5n1tricGHS into his
,r71nindtCOprSe !" considering these confessions
| We sayy the observations of lord Castlereagh
we're peculiarly ungracious. Nor, indeed
| vhen he said, that, e" of all governments, the
! moot determined against coDccding the right o
luallitdsearcli was that Ofthe United States, .
7 lid he utter the truth. Lord Castlereagh
! ,nows very well that France wasas determin-
/ against it as the United States that Rus
| sia held the plan TO be impracticablc; that
/ Prussia agreed with France; and that Austria
/ " tic present, and until the concurrence o.
i0rtuga had been obtained, declined entering
! lpon the question. The spirit and decision q
I
/ emarkable. A the conferences held at Aix