Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1830-09-16
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MARTINsBURG, srFrrnnIa i6. 1880.

TIC nNA SNf'Sa 1P~A 10 cACCt OCftEAtSS 10
the General Assembly. The adoption sf the
amended Constitution, renders the election
held in the Spring, null and void. The next
Legislature to assemble, we conceive, to be
tie most important that has convened for the
last fifty years. We view it as more impor-
tant than the Convention that assembled 20
anns.nd the Constitution. BY that amendment,
the groundwork, or rather Foundation, is
lJd-the suporstructure is to be raised. In
the selection, we should have an eve to the
bestmaterials, bestqualific atoms, best talents.
Let it not be said, sach a enc is a good man,
and no doubt, will dc as well as any ether;
but let US take such as are able to cope with
our low land brethren. At the time we took
up our pen, we merely meant TO point the
readers attention to the communication sign
ed "~Neighber,' calling upon one Of the
didates for an expression of his sentiments on
political matters. We are inclined TO the be-
lief, that this is only the prelude to futsre in
terrogatories that, no doubt, viii be pressn-
ted thought the columns ofthe paper TO all the
candidates. We wish it to be understood by
those gentlemen, that we mean nothing in
eidieus 10 any one of them-Bat The People
have Alright to know their sentiments on mat
tiers that will necessarily come before the next
Legislature; and possessing that right, they
are boaad to give their opinions. frankly, if
called upon. -
TIE LATE REyeLUTroN IN FRAscx.-The
following extract from the last number of the
London Quarterly Review, written previous
TO the recent events 10 that country, rs not
without interest, as affording some indication
of the course that England may feel herself
compelled to pursue in the present crisis -
It will be asked, why need we care
what France doesi Why not let her do
as she pleases? What have we to do with
her institutions as a nation, more than
we have with the domestic arrangements
of our mex, door neighbor in the street9
The answer to this, unfortunately, is
but too ready. IF our neighbor merely
beats his wife and children, and regu-
lates his personal concerns in the worst
way ressible, we have no right TO com.
plain; but if be gets intoxicated, and
alngs about Grebrands, SO as not only to
set bis own house on fire, but to threa-
ten the destruction of the whole parish,
we are compelled, in spite of ourioye OF
quiet, to take a lively interest in his
proceedings.
If the French could be circumscrib-
ed by a great Chinese wall, within which
they might cut one anothei's threats,
and experiment to their hearts con-
tent on irreligion and democracy, it
would signify less to the %neighboring
countries. But where the amplest ex
p~erience proves that no commoiion OF
any extent in France ever fails to en-
hrnil the rest ofthe world, and when we
know that there are innrmerable objects
o! ambition Of aggrandizsment, aad Of
national revenge, all at this hour con-
spring to stimulate a large portisn OF
the French population to fresh wars,
we cannot possibly view their present
unsettled state without the deepest anx.
iety. We think it is hardly psssibleto
doubt that, unless the existing govern.
ment adopts, and succeeds in carrying
into effect, some very decisive measures
10 the course Of the present year; there
will ensue another burst Of CONFUSION;
and Napoleon has left no saying Of more
iadisputable truth behind him, than that
"a revolution in France is a revolution
in Europe" -
kQe EOttOES VI tue ave" Iof psuSEtto
have received a Gibraltar letter Of the
I4th July, which states thatthe hey OF
Algiers had four millions OF pounds
sterling in his treasury, and that eighty
thousand had been allowed him. Bust
ness was exceedingly dull at Gibraltar,
and rents had fallen from twenty dollars
per month to twelve and fourteen -
'There were at St. Michaels, On the
25th june, the American brig Ann,
Hammond. Of Boston, from New Or
leans for Madeira. She bad touched at
Fayai for refreshments. When within
fifty miles Of Tarceira, she vas csptu.
red by the bloekading squadron. con-
demned, and ordered 10 Lisbon. A
Spanish orig FROM Havana for Cadiz.
with q full cargo, condeaned, British
brig Amelia, from Sierra Leone for En-
gland, full cargo, condemned British
brig Velocity, from Valparaiso for Eng
land. full cargo, and 100000 specie,
conference.-the Nil 70 be sent 10 Lisbon
The Captain of the American brig was
robbed 10 the most shameful manner of
his wearing apparel.
Extract Of a letter from Trinidad de
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