Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1828-02-28

Our Reporter was not in his place, on Saturday
evening, when the Debate took place-We have ia
safe, That Mr.. y. had moved Saturday to instruct
the Committee TO enquire into the Official conduct
OF the Chancellor. He had on tlc same evening
opposed proposition TO discharge the Conmi,tee
from the further consideration of the subject He
then gave an explanation OF his motives He
mad then believed il to be the opinion of MANY
members of the House that the enquiry should be
had; that so far as he then understood, each mem
per haa some particular objection to moving il
hmselt-sorne, because they were the personal
friends of the Chancellor, and some because thew
were not his personal triendS-soIne because thew
IVed IN his district, and some because they lived
out OF II; that neither of these objections appled
20 hiin that he had never spoken to or seen the
CHANCELLOR, and that he neither lived in his dis
trict nor out of it, being at the time in tunsitu,
toelng representative from Southampton i'm the
Williamsburg district, and having moved 10 Green's
Vile county in the Richmond district during the
winter0 that though he had objections to placing
himself IN that prominent attitude before the
blouse, yet az what every boly's business
seemed nobody's, he had been induced to do it un-
DER the belief that ii move was made, il would
Then, perhaps, command the best talents of the
House ; that without undertaking to spend his in
dtviduai opinion as TO the conduct Of Chancellor
Taylor, 1t was sufficient that common report had
given 10 him the character of an arbitrary Judre
and that the Committee, in consde ring that branch
OF the subject, which had already been under
their consideration, had reported that he had been
guilty OF niSappreheRSiOn Of the Lalo or of mis-
conduct; and that the House owed TO all the
parties full investigation of the subject
lie had then further urged, in reply to gentle
men, that it was unnecessary to occupy the time
OF the House IN the matter-that the Committee
could act on that subject willie the House was
deSatching its regular business; and he pledged
himself, so Tar as he was concerned, that lac propos-
cd to drop the enquiry provided the House should
no IN aito haC IL.
iect in the Committee. He had stated on that oc-
casion, Saturday. that it had not entered into his
views to express his individual opinion 10 the
House on the subject, but that, when called on,
he would state that the following charges were
proposed 10 be made:
That the Chancellor had refused TO reside in
Richmond as the law directed--tliat he had used
the power of his Office for the purpose Of avenging
MS own private injuries and gratifying his own re-
sentment5-in this, that lac had issued warrant
returnable before himself, and directed to diff
ieTent county, to appr0hend citizen (Wheeler)
for abuse to himself, as stated on the face Of the
Farrant--that it was generally reported, and as
generally believed, that he had induced the party
90 beg his pardon, by threatening 10 send him 10
distant jdHthat the facts, so far az the issuing
OF the warrant and the cause were concerned,
were already proved-As 90 the Councillors mo-
ives and the treatment towards the individual,
fhat would depend on evidence and opinion; but
that, however the transaction might have been
colorcd, It could not be denied that the procedure
was contrary to law. He had then charged hin
also with want Of decoFum on the bench; and in
ms ne spoke from the record Of his opinion, as
expressed by himself delivering the Judgment Of
the Court, in which he spoke Of a letter p1rporing
70 nave been written by party who had been or
oered by him TO render before a commissioner, an
account oil his estate, which letter complained Of
the order as unconditutional-when the Court said
u was obvious that II was written by the advice Of
counsel, and II the Court knew who that COun-
sei gas, u he did not have cause 70 regret It the
Sourt would not. Mr.. B. had contended, on Sdtur-
0ty that The order Cds illegal and unconstitutional
that the party acted iustiliabiy in complaining
aud that The Chancellor was guilty Of indeeorous
and arbitrary conduct fOther gentlemen, parti-
cu'arly Che member from Harrison, (Mf. WilIiams)
zen vndica'cd The Chancellor against the charges
At length, and with much abiliiv--tbat. member
pressing tor the enquiry to 60 OH, and eptertain-
z no doubt Of the Chancellor's being able to
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