Martinsburgh gazette. [volume] (Martinsburgh, Va. [W. Va.]) 1810-1825, 1823-12-18

NO. contains IeUsr 1Toa tnS CIV
ernor of New York, accompanied by
certain resolutions of the legislature OF
that state, disageeing to an amendmfnt
proposed to the constitution OF the Uhi-
ted States by the Legislature OF Penn
sylvania,
No. s contains statements off the Bank
of the Valley and Northwestern Bank
of those institutions at the periods of the
year when they are directed by law to
make such reports to the executive.
no. 9 contains the copy of letter
from the keeper Of the Penitehtiary to
the executive, requesting information
on the subject Of his authority in giving
orders to the guard stationed at the PEN
issntiary, in resisting an attempt on the
PAT of the prisoners to escape, should
such an attempt at any time be made
This question on examination was found
10 be involved in some difficulty, and
was referred by the executive TO the at
torney-seneral for his opinion. That
gentleman, after an elaborate iDvestiga-
ton, stated the question to be involved
in considerable intricacy, and recon-
mended a communication oil the subject
to the legislature. A copy of his letter
is also contained in the envelope mark
ed 3.
No. 10 contains a letter from the Ad-
jutant General with his annual Report
on the Lexington Arsenal.
Nc. ~ contains letter from the same
officer, giving an account Of the num-
her, SIC. of the arms received from the
United States, amounting to something
short of 5000, with 1000 horseman's
pistols, and recommending the erection
of another arsenal. On this subject j.
is proper to remark, that there is law
authoriang the building of two addition
al arsenals, but no money has been APP
propriated to the purpose.
No IL covers the copy of letter
from Brigadier General John G. Hun
ter, resigning his commissions the mi
ljtia of this state.
l AN unwilling to close this commit
e@-nication without congratulating you
which most cordially do, on the pros
rect which the people of Spanish Ame-
RIGA have. of closing their protracted s.
sanguinary revolution, by the establish
ment of representative governments,
the best guarantee of rational, practical
liberty. The Greeks 100, unfortunate
iy as they are situated, with their ruth
less oppressors on one side, and Chris
tan nations on the other, looking with
freezing Indifference on t,'eir tate, give
numberIess proofs of what an invinci-
BILE valor in good cause is capable oil
achieving; and great as the difficulties
are by which they are surrounded, it is
ardently hoped may in considerable
degree better their condition, though
they may not be permitted to establish
free goyernment.-The people OF Old
Spain have yielded, to superior force,
and their constitution has been put aside
by the point ofthe bayonet. France is
stronger than Spain, and this is the third
time in the course of little more than a
century, that her armies have deluged
He Spanish soil with spanish blood
Contrasted with these nations, and with
all others OF whose history we have any
knowledge, how eligible is our situa-
tion! That we may have that true
wisdom, founded on moderation and ac.
1uiescence in the will of the majority
fairly expressed, which alone can en-
sue felicity Of our situation, is my con-
slant prayer 10 that Great Being, in
whose Almighty hand is the destiny Of
nations.
JAMES PLEASANTS, JR.
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT.,
Council Cbar,bor ct lAc 1G39