Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1826-02-02
From tie Commercial .qdperf;ser

80 'No'''SNS Ni'J' l.'. bJec.
From tie Commercial .4due,fser
MEssRs. EDrroR read in one of the NOR
ming papers, that meeting had been held al Phila-
delphia on tie subject OF French Spoliations, and
that Messrs. Daniel w. Cox, Jacob Ridgeway.
w. Montgomery, Johnston Imshecp, and Hugh
Calhoun, be a committee to draft a memorial 10
The President of the United States Sc 10 CORES
pond with those interested in those French Spo-
iaiions, in the several sea ports of the United
States, sc.
am sorry that those resolves do not explain
what those sPoiatons were. Ii is certainly due 10
those who had claims under The late Spanish treaty,
and whose claims were rejected, en- ma-se amount
Ing TO several millions, by the late Commissioners
acting under said treaty, should be included in the
same.
1t Is, therefore, 10 be supposed that the claims
rejected, on the ground that the King of Spain,
was not answerabe for The evil deeds of bis Off
GERS; although 1t proved, that upwards OF $50
American vessels had been sold and spolia ed under
the eyes OF the Spanish arhoriiies say il is 10
be supposed, that the captors Under French flags
should be made snswerabe, seeing our Wis, Com
iniss!oners declared il 70 lie So
| thnk II necessary for the committee appointed
In Philadelphia, TO make thei. of the subject
more slaring; let every have before lis eyes,
and thereby prevent anxiety of mind, useless ex-
penses and disappointment; mean poor man to
expend, and to be made poorer still
! The Insurance Companies of Baltimore alone
without considering private claims, had upwards Of
one million FIVE hundred thousand dollars rejected:
Philadelphia, about five hundred thousand dollars
| New < ork, nearly the same, Boston, Sc do -
| Charleston, Sc. do. The whole amounting 10 nm
| wards OF seven millions OF dJlllrs.
would advise those who are claimants, TO look
well ere they sign their names, it has been prov
| ed that the names of many have been benef-
! cal only to the tply
A LATE AGENT,
! For Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York, SC.
| New York, 10Th January, 1925.
| NEw HAVEN, Jan. PIC ounterfeiter De-
| fected. On Saturday last, man calling himself
Jo'in PeQ6ody, was detected in this city in pas
F.! sing counterfeit money-bronght before Justice
HUNT, and committed for trial On being arrest
ed he strongly denied hi@ guilt and asserted that he
had received the forged bills, (Which he had pas
sed In several iusances,) Ia exchange during his
| journey from Quebec TO this place On search
| Ing his baggage small mahogany dressing case
was found, between the sides and lining of which.
on being d'ssected, there discovered upw ards
| OF $500 in counterfeit bills, when he immediate
y acknowledged his guilt. The sub,eoueot de-
veiopeinent was melancholy and affecting He
had with him young wife, not eighteen years of
age, with an infant child, about SIX months old
After coniessing his guilt, / am, said lie, atuined
man-I have ruined an innocent and amiable yyo
man, and entailed disgrace upon my child With
apparent fTankness AM candour he stated that he
received the bills of man named Page, in Dun
, ham, Lower Canada, who prepared the box for
their concealmeut, that he paid for them in specie
and Quebec bills that he had passed them witt,
the full knowledge that they were bad, knew his
fate, acknowledged its justice, and that he must
meet it,-leaving doubt that he was as finished
rogue, in lis line, any that yet remain I'm
whipt ofiustice.'
Previous TO his commtal he was permitted IN
see his wife, and the interview affected The sDec-
tators even TO tears So young, 80 interesting, so
apparently gUileless and sincere no one could sun
press the natural sympstbes of The heart under the
pressure OF calamity affecting and destructive
With equal fortit,de she followed him to prison
declaring that she would not leave him in his ut
most distress-s,here ne nov remains to answer
for his offence. His trial will probably come an
at the session Of the superior court now pending
He is a native of Massachusetts
The following is list ofbills found in his pos
session, which appear 10 have been well assorted
and provided for a winters tour 10 the so,th
whher he bound--viz. Bills of o dollars Of
the Utica Bonk los a1d 2's Of The Phs.nix
BANK, New York los, rs and rs of The Pbce
nix Bank, Hartford one 500 bill Of the Frank
lin Bank, Baltimore 100 dollars in 2O's of the
Wilmington and Brandy vine Bank, Delaware !:
i0's and 2's OF The Bank Of Geneva SIS Orsnge
county SIS Of the franklin Bank, Providence
5's of the Agricultural Bank, Pitisfeld; SIS of he
Jersey Bank, payable at Ontario, ~ York y
Ontario Bank SIS Manhattan Company So of
Hgrisbrg Bank, Penn 3's Landholders Bank.
II. J. 3's Commercial Bank, Perth Amboy s's
Washington Bank, Westerly, II. T.. 4; 3's of Che
mango Bank, and $ of Central Bank Cherry Val.
ley, ". Y. -most of them well executed, and a.
mounting in ali TO 1881 dollars, including ten |
dollar bill which be paased i'm Harfford nnl i,.o |