Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1825-09-02

-, s,or, m. ..,v,ce u, sentence of the Court Mar
,ial held ON board the North Carolina in February
last has been reii,stdted by the Presidents ana m
ferences have been drawn from TINS tact, that tne
sentence of the Court has been di>approved- we
have inquired into the facts, and fad that the mar
ner in which the recent appointment oil Mr.. Nun
has been stated is calculated 10 mislead. The pro-
ceedinrs and sentence Of the court were examined
by the President, Gas all proceedings and sentences
going 10 the dism,sion OF an o'hcer must pe,l anu
being red by him, MIR. Null was dismissed
This officer subsequently, applied TO be restored
10 the service; and it was represented that many
officers, with whom he had been formerly associat-
ed, withou, condemnng what had been done in hrs
case, were anxious that he shouldbe relieved. "A,
their request, the Executive second time reviewed
the Proceedings and Sentence OF the Court, ou'
found notliing to disapprove. he Determined no"
ever after some hesitsion, TO yield Sinuhess ~
the wishes of the officers, not by reinsid'"ts N,i :
Null, but by giving him neio con'n'ss'on' VI Wy
present date. And Mr.. Null, as we ieaf"' "''
expressly informed, when he received inc 'o ""..
sion that he was not 10 regard 1t as any expression
nj INSTRUMENTATION of the sentence of the Court
We have thought this statement due 10 tru'i' ana
10 the characters of the absent Members OF the
| Nat. Journal.
| "A Hint to Tari6ites. Tie Ministers OF me
Emperor Alexander have, it seems, maze i 'o"s'
derable addition TO the import duties Oh i"ee"
! manufactures and produce. In other wofos' u'ey
have been throwing fre>h difficulties In the way OF
Russian exports 10 foreign countries. 10 what eN-
tent the English trade suffer from the auopuoh
| NV Alexander of these fiscal barbarisns, already
| worn out and condemned by the discerning nation
AGAINST whose interests he would now direct them,
il is easy to guess. Russia cannot inJure 1reat D
tain by means which are calculated 10 repress ui'e
rising industry of Russia herself, but TO rouse the
E,no lishm "A
paths of commerce. and into cultivation oiresour-
ces before unried, only because the want Oh 'heni
had not been hitherto experienced. we nave III
tie TO dread from rival armed win 'hose very
weapons which we have ourselves cast aside a. I'M
serviceable. The OF prohibitions Is disastrous
TO completely as him who wages III ana
the Russian Government, by this gross biunder.
proves against itself an absence Of political civllza
tion no less remarkable than that moral and social
rudeness which has long been reproach 10 It's SUD
jects. Sugar, coffee, porter, cotton, wooliens In
their several stages of manufacture, are all afec'-
ed by the tariff now published al st. Petersourgn
But will the prohibitions, or rather, perhaps, the
diminished sales, thus intended, be reai we appre-
bend not The Russian manufacturer will, 1t Is
fair to presume be as little benefited By the monop-
oily, rs the State by the duty. The stnuggier VIII
trick them both and of foreign commodities, just
as much is likely to be consumed In spite oil TINS
bastard Continental System (indeed more,) as IN
defiance of the legitimate one, raised INTO lie Dy
Buonaparte But should this indiscretion on the
part of Russia produce 10 England the evils which
it is possible were anticipated by OF its auth
ors, wha, follows Why, that England must of
necessity cling with Increased force 10 those adj
vamtages which she holds Independent, OF the pow
er OF Russia; that she must strengthen the ties
which connect her with other nations, and improve
those resources which their friendship and their
markets offer If Russia had perceived in the Bri-
fish overnment, for example, stupid Indifference
TO the blessings of which the freedom and prosperi-
" of the American continent, It's final dismember-
ment from the continent OF Europe, and intimate
union with Great Britain herself, might be rendered
productive to this commercial empire; II, seeing
this blindness of the British Government TO its most
obvious interests and duties, the Imperial Cabinet
had sought the means OF rousing our Ministers TO
sense of them, we know not of any more mastery
expedient for awakening their stupidity, or com
polling their repugnance than this, which proves
that the countries of Europe the most abundant In
raw material and least advanced in art, are hence
forth 10 be nothing to the English merchant; and
therefore, that lie can have dependence but upon
regions in another hemisphere which are. like Rus
STA, rich in produce, and unskied in manufacture,
but which do not unwsey and perversely, like her,
seek to transpose the natural relations OF commune
ties suffering under opposite wants, and formed Tor
accommodations. The Princes of the
continent appear to us; less by their mercantile
than their political system, to have agreed upon ty
ing this country to stake, and forcing her into an
alliance with every thing American, for the defeat
aud modification OF the monarchial principle in
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