Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1828-03-04

ont We sec n. To Oe guided Dy maAiins die yer
ieYeFse Oh these. As TO the laws, they are SO oi
zen chopped and changed that we never hay.
tiine 10 ind out what the existing law is-inucl
less to have 1t settled in the only way that IL car
TIC setted--by adjudication. Much of this evi
mas proceeded from the Senate, ut the instance ~
hc author OF the Richmond Adams manifesto
nave seen Sir John Bailey Try some six or egh
Stlinlna!S IN one day, that here would consume
''e Tine allotted Tor one, than one s,iper;
OF court 1t jstue, there, lawyers arc only admit.
1 'e" 10 crosse examine the witnesses, ard are no,
81 red Ia take up day in tioily defamation ia
instead the jury. But can conceive of no form
OF trial more fair than that in England. an, rho
summing up Oh Sir John Bavley, (who il indeed
counsel Tor the accused,) is the most perfect spe
Chhen oil fairness and clearness and Conci,cness
'hat have ever heard. or can conceive Henc
yer omi'S the most minute circumstance that
makes Tor, or : .,ainst the priS,ner and without
showing the least bias, either way he never faiIs
70 teithc jury tha,' if upon the whole hay doubt
ie accused IS entitled 10 the benefit of that doubt
cannot go so far an Irish gentleman ,yho,n
heard (hun orously). saw at Norwich AssiZes
Iliit IL must he pleasure 20 be hanged by Sir
D bayIey; but take pleasure, and pride. TOO.
IN mere naming the honour that received i'm his
acquaintance, and that oil Lon. ChcfJustice Best,
ana inc very Kind attentions and hospitality by
which was distinguished by both of Them The
last more especially.
The trials that speak Of were ordinary, cases
civii and criminal: not cases of libel and treason
uics, not excepting Virginia | fear that there is
always leaning on the side of the Bench to Pow
SH, IN Whatever hands it may be placed.
.'0fe D--Nr. Madison q speak it with
our me slightest disreSpcct to that eminent man.
Is sui stronger case, in point, than MIR Pitt
Except Mr.. Jefferson and Mr.. Jay.s ne Secre,a.
~ OF state, ne had not, perhaps, his equal in our
country--his superior wherc-a profound think
CT, powerful reasoncr, ''wiih tongue, or pen -
Sreat civilian reminding one of his prototype,
IN t.yI,n NJ
man was better fitted than Mr. Madison 10 have
opposed MARE LGBERUM. Yet, advanced to
the helm OF ajdrS, how consummate his ignorance
oil men, let his selections for great Offices civil and
military tell. viii enuInerate few lust as they
occur to me, beginning with his Cabinet
Secretary OF State-Robert Smith
Secretary OF the Treasury-George VI. Camp
bell; also Minister TO St Petersburg.
Secretary of W.--Dr. Eusts
Secretary of the Navy-Paul Hamilton. ard
Benjamin w. CrowninShiell.
Attorney General--Richard Rush; not beinp
ut Tor Comptroller, he is selected 10 preside over
the Treasury! and by the Richmond Adams-Con-
vention for Vice President,
Commander in the Observation-Disclosures Hull
Commander inthe Northcast-James Wilkinson.
and W ade Hampton
Commander at Bladenshurr-William WiDderl
assisted by g The Flying Cabinet" as Wilkinson
had the lnsolence TO designate them in his diagram
oil that famous rout. In this memorable diS-en-
gGSement, the GRAND Role was PLAYED by Mr.
Attorney General, So for that time only'' tcitho,,t
h'S nat We have no g Master of the Rolls in
our country; but, like the witty authors of the
RoiIad, Tor Sir Lloyd KENYON, we might take AZ
a motto for Mr.. Rush, 90 Jouez bien potre role -
And, verify, never did political adventurer make
more OF his parts, than this solemn gentleman has
done, Never were abilities so much below me-
diocrity so well rewarded; no. not when CaIiSula,s
Horse was made Consul.
a few days ago stumbled upon the following
stanza OF an unfinished poem, on the Glories and
Worthless of our Administration:
{. And for R., hi, early lock. of snow,
Betray the frozen region that's below
JhO' Jove upon the hesiop7d some FIRE
ne slt was all exhausted by the sire.
sage consuDld what ihou.ands we'll might share
And GShe5! only, fell upon the heir -
These lines are the only article of the growth
produce, or manufacture, of the country north OF
Patapsco, that have, knowingly used since the
Tarih bill passed. They are by witty son of n
witty sire-as Burns sings, :" true gude fellow 5
get"
Note E.-Mr Clay took his seat in the Houso
OF Representatives, in December, 1911; his first
stride was from the door to the chair where he
commenced TO play the Dictator: he fixed his ewes
on the Presidency, and |, who had been twelve
years III Congress, fixed mine upon him and havn
kept them there ever since. Syla said that he
saw many Il SIarus in Cesar. So 1. who had
heard Mr.. Clay for the first time in the Senate the
year before, on the renewal of the charter oil the
Bank OF the United States, was persuaded that he
inieriority that do not feel, may be allowed 10
say, that my position the guardian of the consti
tuition and country against the assaults of n man
goaded and blinded by his ambition, would have
placed dwarf on level win giant lie went
to Europe, and returned changed man
And not Mr.. Clay only. Mr.. Monroe, the
stern Glr Monroe, for whom General Washing
tons Administration was not Republican enouob
comes back after four years spent in Paris, Mad
rid, and London, TO settle points of eiiqiette ana
tnrent coat patterns for our foreign minister's
because, torsooth, they are not Franklins: (see
MIR. Sergeants specify SO that, like the kings
TOOL, our ENJOYS must have party coloured Goa,
to make up for their want of sense and dignity
p" motley rs your only WeGr."
the Justinian OF England warlike monarch. and
perhaps the most sagacious and powerful of all
| that wondrous race Of kings-the Plantagenets
" Nuiius liber homo capiatur vel imurisonetur
aut disseisiatur dc bo 70 tonemcnto so vel fiber
tatibus vel iberis consuetudnibns suis aut utIape
tur, aut exulet, aut aliquo modo destruatur. nee
super cum ibimus, nee super cum mittcrnus. mis-
per legale judicium Paruin suorurn, vel per Ieren
terre. Null vendemus, multi negabimus ant diE
iercmus rectum vel justitiam. ''-MAGNA Gran.
ia, confirmed % EDw J.
Wei might Lord Chatham, in the greatest of MI
his Incompatible speeches., say of these precious
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