Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1830-05-11
INTERESTING BILL.

We baya hoo. IL -, .
We nave been gratitied with the perusal of a letter
rom T" asnington, written on Saturday last, which states,
u ua vne Din Tor the relief OF the officers and soliiers OF
the virginia State Line, had that moment passed the
Senafe.-on Friday it passed to its Bird reading by an al.
most unanimous vote.-The bill as it has gone to the
Rouse oil Representatives, is as follows:
- A BILL
HoT .e reh9 OF certain officers and soldiers of The
Stdts me during the Revolutionary tpar.
s~entqtiues OF. the United Stats Of .america " "f T"a
gress assembled, That the officers aud soldiers who
were oil The Virginia line, on her own State es,,b.
'shment' during the Revolutionary war, or their heirs
or assigns, whose claims TO military bounty land.
remain unsaiished, may, and they are hereby an.
morized to, locate heir warrants on any un,etIed. nm.
inhabited and unappropriated land. lying in either of
me states OF Ohio, Indiana, or Illinois, which bsv.
mere 'oiore been brought into market, and remain nm.
sold: PToUtded, That such locations be made ON ar no.
lore Tue hrst DAY Of January, one thousand eight hur.
uTeu and 'hirty-hve, and conform, as 1 early as NAV he
10 NE subdivisions OF The public SURVEYS"
We understand the Debate will probably appear in
N,ohuays Ieiegraph-and IL we are not forbidden bv
other circumstances, we shall lay il before eur- reader.
on Friday. In the mean time we hone the IT Of p
resenuves will be prevailed upon to act upon il at once
III pass u into a law at the present session. IL is inter.
esung 10 pom virginia and Kentucky; it quiets the long.
standing controversy between these two States: & IL go.
cures 10 our officers aud soldiers the claims which have
accrued to them for their services in the Revolution
"1 unuera,ano, tnis bill Is in conformity with the Reso-
iuuons unon'"ousfy passed by both Houses Of the last
General Assembly Of Virginia, instructng their Soma.
Tors and requesting their Representatives to present
such a measure to the Congress Of the U. States.
A Printer in this City has got up a new Edition If IN.
sSe.'er u Aigernon Sidney, will, new scenery machinery
q decoradoBs-with a Preface on the one hand. e. an An.
pendix on the other. We have not been fortunate enough
TO see the Edition; but the systematic efforts which o.
making TO puff Il into notice, cannot escape attention
no one IS more willing than we are, TO paw homage IN
the merits Of ~ Sidney. There is genius stamped i'm.
on the lace OF it-aDd il was happily enlisted as We
tnen thought, and as we still think in the cause of truth
but a. :. has done its work; with all its witchery of stvIe
ana all its vigor OF statements with all the impressinn
winch II was so well calculated to make, IL only succeed
ca al the time OF its publication, in checking. but no,
changing the current Of public sentiment. And il is the
height OF absurdity to suppose that now, when the scenes
are entirely shifted and a new drama is going on. n IL
ues1ned TO revoluionize the public Inind.-Of the Pub.
nsner, we say nothing. What are his opinions AT this
une, or IN past time, Of Gen. Jackson, is of the least
conceivable consequence. II is of as little importance
20 know the Author OF the Preface-ihough ne is pro-
oaoey te same person, who favored the public with a
preface 10 Mr.. CIay's Speech-They attempted 10 puff
nun isst year, into some distinguished literary gentle.
man, pnt no sooner was the name whispered, than the
P'e'ehsion became too ridiculous TO be supported, We
exposed the shallow artifice at the time; and we under.
suar, the offended vanity Of the author poured Itself
lourh ~ an elegant effusion upon ourselves. We had
no. the Pleaure OF seeing il. We can very readily con.
oeiVe' therefore, that If the public mind is TO be reyolu-
uvniIed by TINS new Publication, IL is not the Preface
"hlch IS 10 produce the effect. An effort has been made
~ me newspapers TO give this publication the advantage
o, Nir. Lcighs name. II has been stated that he revised
n-apd the impression Is thus intended to be made that
ne mas taken an active part In the publication. But the
fuohshsr mas since had 10 contradict This impression I'M