Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1827-11-23

10 decidedly favorable to WING pIiEcip les-whil
the King IL the avowed advocate of all the right
and privileges of ancient prefogaiiye. Alarme
a: tbs Signs ofthe FINES, his majesty lately sen
tor his proclaim ion, enjoinias on all his 10y
al subjects 10 hold meeting at suitable plac
IA he county with a vie~ Of sneaiing the pro-
gres- IF tlisaffe. ton, which seemed TO be abr GA,
in he king 'om.
Gre,' ~ ere the an,icpaions OF the friends OF thu
king, ana IL now confidently asserted, that The
NEE ing would be both numerous and respectable
The result, however, showed how egregously they
bad erred IN their calculation. There were u !,
more than fou' and ttDenty persons present, and
OF hat number, il j. believed more than sir
or seuen voted on the adoption of the preamble s.
resolutions.
This NOV emeDt in behalf of the King. is likely
to produce counterplo on he part of The Queen.
The Wings have accordingly announced their in
tention of holding a meeting on the next court
day. Aud IL is due TO them 10 say, that they are
equally, II not more ssnguine of the result, than
were the friends of the King.
During the proceedings in favour of his ma jesiy.
Il was not little amusing TO hear the n'onitory
No! which sounded in their ears, from some
prying advocate of the Queen, who it seems had
stationed himself behind the bar (,he meeting
having been held in the court room,) for that pur-
pose. Nor have they failed to pay him a CON-
pliment, which am sure was foreign TO his wish;
tina, of including his vote in their proceedings-
venIon, IL one were disposed TO be suspicious, he
might well infer design of conveying TO the dis
tsnt mird, an idea approaching to unanimity OF
in the county. The writer's knowledge
however, of the individuals that composed the
meeting, induces him 10 acqut them of STOPPING
10 such GEcices. Although few in number, il is
due TO candour to say, that they of high res
the writer would Infinitely prefer
seeing their venerable Chairman placed in the Pre-
sdsn,ial chair. than the individual in whose behalf
he presided. In the one there would be the strong
est reliance in his sterling integrity and Csto-lke
virtue lille in the other, his humble confidence
- oud be liable to take unto itself the wings
OF the morning.
1t you'd be ant OF respect to the meeting, TO
omit the notice of any fact, Whch may tend to
place them in full dimension before the public. Ii
IL therefore proper TO state, that number of those
named on the corresponding committee, were not
PRESENT and il is believed they much pat TO
IL, to make out the tdiismGBic numbsr tv snty-
four. From which it may he inferred, that small
the real Simon PiTes. Indeed it is said there
all delighted with the compliment of being placed
there. One of them, il has been hihted, would be
quite as happy and coniented his own snug
farm, under the shade of Old Hickory as he
thinks he could possibly be, were he even raised
to = {" light house in the sky.
But the number ttUenty four. This is quite a
" deUice''- one for each state Now, my life on
il, one of the Queens men would ha We
dreamt of such thing. cod-po Jackson-
an, would soon have forgotten the battle of
Orleans. to have thought OF this! But from the
government down, it il the order Of tbs day 10
make the most Of trick.