Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1825-07-08
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Sir Withanl Lltniey, sailed in public armed
vessel OF Fl. NJ. for Halifax, from which place h,
Immediately proceeds to London. II is understood
ne has been recalled and his successor is supposef
10 be on his way here Sir William has LEFT few
behind, il any, 10 regret his absence for the Colo
hists despised his very name. His administration
mas been such as nearly 10 ruin the Colony: he has
usurPed authority which generous Magistrate
would have spurned His acts are fresh in everv
body s memory here. In 1919, he dissolved the
Colonial Legislature, because that Legislature did
not answer his views. He convened Council, ap-
polnedby himself, and over which he himself pre-
sided-a sort OF Privy Council, hose acts were
seldom, II ever, announced 10 the people AT one
Tune he challenged the decisions of several cases
m which ne was personally interested, decided by
The Superior Court of the Colony against him. To
erect his purposes, he dissolved the high Court.
convened new one, presided himself had these
cases tried over, and reversed them; and he has re-
peatedly insuted and injured, in various wavs.
many respectable inhabitants of the Island. He
IS very wealthy and his living here costs him about
SlS,OOO annnay-a rather difficult matter, one
would think, who looks at the banenness of the
Island, TO get rid ofso much money in year.
SO satisfied IS every one, certainly every one
with whom have spoken, that Sir William Ium-
leys course OF conduct has been an attempt to ruin
the Colony, that they speak of him in no other
terms than Of dislike. If any proofwere necessary
that such was his intention, the Impoverished and
still declining condition of the Colony would be
abundant. He never invited the attention of the
King or Parliament to its situation: he never HIM
self proposed or enforced measures for its relief
The Colony receives the greater part of it's supplies
oil provisions from America, and many things are
Struggled in: The supplies from England are gene
rally unsatsfaciory Swsrms Of idle negroes infest
the Island, group of whom you meet at every
turn. Their masters have nothing, or very little
Ion them to do and they cannot sell them out of the
Island There is but very little agricultural bust
ness here: they raise and export small quantities Of
me onions, aud they grow very excellent potatoes:
they also export arTow-root. But il is shameful
to see the large quantities Of rich soil left untitled
while so many blacks are idle, and many in want
oil comforts, and sometimes necessaries The
inhabitants look forward 10 the passage of MIR
bill for general reduction of duties.
with much anxiety; but while, al the same time.
they leel confidence that il will become law.
The Public works are vigorously prosecuting on
Ireland Island, at the Dock Yard, on an eminence
at which place building is erecting for the Com
missioner (Commandant Of the place. which, it is
SAID, wild exceed, when finished the sum Of $780,
BOO. This may be right or wrong.1 A Tower
also, on one Of the highest bills on Ireland Island,
IS IN the contemplation Of the government Be
tween 3 and 400 convicts are employed there.
Nat Int.
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