Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1824-03-30
OMITTED ARTICLES.

upon the United States, Mr.. Cockburn,
another eminent Scottish lawyer, made a
speech which deserves also To be copied into
the American newspapers. 1t is thus re-
ported in the Glasgow Free Press.
MIR. Cockburn rose lexcessive applause
II was impossible not TO recoect the enthu-
siasm with which, at the last meeting, the
friends of Mr.. Fox drank success to the cause
ofSpanish liberty ; they then believed that
the efforts ofthe tyrants Of Europe TO controuI
and keep down the principles ofiiberty in the
Peninsula would he successless, and that they
were not sufficiently powerful to prevent the
people of Spain from arranging their own M
ternal rights, and political government such
was the increase of liberal principles, that we
then believed these tyrNnts hnd met with an
enesy fit and capable to oppose them, and
that freedom had selected the soil of Spain as
the spot where she would shew her nobest
powers, and her brightest glories. In these
hopes they had been disappointed. The
cause offreedom had been sadly unsuccessful :;
and the warmest and sweetest authorizations
had been blighted and blasted [cheers1 They
had failed, not because their energies were
unequal to the task, but because they had no
material TO work upon. The patriots of Spain
great IN their patriotism. and glorious in their
mental conceptions found nothing but an ig-
norant populations, swayed by bigoted priest
cheers. The immediate result had been, that the
progress of liberty, and almost the progress Of
thought, had been stayed and destroyed in
the Peninsula and that Spain is now nothing
nut the relic and monument OF gallant few
who endeavoured to achieve and obtain free.
dom. not fitted for her base and miserable l,o-
puIaton.
We know that many brave and illustriaus
patriots had not been able to escape the
lnnC Of I'm
and amosg them the gallant. the glorious, the
spotless, the murdered Rrgo Immense
cheerlog.l ButhaPpy were they who had so
perished-hapry were they who could no
longer brood over their counfry's desulation
ct, alas there were hundreds and thousands
who We're obliged To witness, not DULY the
destruction of their country's liberties but the
ruin * their own fortunes, and The extinction
ofiher families Heaven bless them Heaven
bless them IN their political misery Heaven
bless them in their political despair--in their
dungrorsin their cells -- in their miseries--in
their suiierIpgs--rnay they now feel thar they
have become members ofthe great community
OF the friends of freedom in every part Of the
globe loud Ulcers. In the glowing pagse of
history, every incident OF their lives would
cause the admiration Of posterity, and their
deaths would be recorded with those Of a
Hampden and Il Sidney in another land, but
in the same cause chesrs.3 Same there are,
however, whom a more particular fate had
followed, who yet lived TO witness their coup.
try's wrongs, and to thirst Tor the day ofre
neutrality-suspicious. who, believing ia nothing
but the common feeling Of freedom, among
all their brethren, had thrown themselves, in
spite Of the Alien Act, upon the generosity of
the British people. They had done this cOun-
try the singular honour Of selecting it as the
place of their retreat, -narncs, that would
hereafter be the stars Of his;ory---the gallant
and inyincbe Mina-tbe eloquent aud philO.
sophlcal Argnelles-the prompt and detersRin-
ed Alava-with more than 600 self-expatria-
ted Spaniards, choosing rather liberty. with
out all the domestic and local enjoymenls of
their own country. Than any thing and every
thing the iyrant had To bestOw loud cheers.
Little prepared by their past lives for the
bitterness Of poverty, or the cOntumely of
dependence, yet they preferred both to the
ienOminy Of political slavery many an
honoured Italian too was among them-and
II was to the glory of Albion, that her cliffs
were sought by the sons of freedom, as their
seat, their safeguard, and their sanctuary
lcheers.
Yeti was absolutely heart breaking to be-
hold their miseries their ruined fortunes, their
wretched families ; however Britain, lie
trusted, will enable them TO visit their des-
pendants in South America, where might
klndle new flame Of liberty, greatness, and
glory loud cheers Let oar support Of
them not be degraded by the name Of charity.
When the Stuarts, by their arbitrary mea-
sures drove many Of our patriots from their
native land, they sought succOur from the
States of the Continent, and now the sympa-
thy Of the British people would show they
were not forgetful Of their former obligations
loud cheers. Though the tyrant of their
country might prescribe their names, confis-
cate their property, condemn their lives, and
destroy their families, he could not rob them
OF that glory which British people can al
ways enjoy this was entirely beyond his
reach loud cheers Upon these grounds,
propose to drink" The healths Of Nina,
Arguelles, Alava, and the other illustrlous
spaDardS who have sought protection III this
country. Drank with three times three, and
loud cheers.-Air-'Tyrolese song Of Liberty
From ibe London Morning ChrOnicIel
The question 0f the Presidency Of tho u.
hlted Stairs is one that still continues to occu.
ny The public attention from one extreme nf
the Union To the other, and the excrtiOns
iRade by the parfssns of the respective candi-
yates are unprecedented. As a statesman,
JOh0 Quincy Adams appears to be most res
pected, ard, notwithstanding he is not con.
sIdered as properly belonging to the Republi-
can party, he has eFpry chance ecsucceeding
mr' Crawford, il is thought, willie his strong
EST competitor, as the demonT aiions on the
part nI The European league a{Sinst free insti-
tnuous IN every part Of the gl5be, require that
me reins Of the United States Government
suoald he placed 10 the hsl.ds Of man Of