Alabama state intelligencer., 1831-08-06
THE LATE EX-PREsIDENT MONROE.

| | The following accurate sketch of the pub lie life of the venerable citizen, who has just departed from among us, is, with the excep- tion of one or two sentences, taken from the Baltimore Republican,. It is at the present moment highly interesting:
 JAMES MONROE, was born in the year 1758, in Westnoreland county, in the State of Vir- ginia, on plantation on the borders of the Potomac, of which his ancestors were the original patentees a century and half ago. He was descended from a respectable Scotch family, distinguished fer it's loyalty and pa trlotlsm. Ills ancestor, who came to this country in 1859, was Captain in the army of Charles l, and was rewarded for his fidelity with grant of land by Charles II. His fa- ther was Shence Monroe, farmer in the county of Wcstmoreland His mother was sister 1.-the late judge Jones, of Virginia.
 MT MONROE was educated at William and Mary College, and entered as a cadet in the year 1776 into the Sd Virginia Regiment, commanded by Colonel, afterwards General MERCER, who was killed at Princeton. He was present at the battles of Long Island, Harlaem Heights, White Plains,-and was with the vanguard in WAsHINGToN's cele- brated attack on Trenton. In this battle he received ball through his left shoulder. He
 
 STIRLING, and in that capacity served in the campaigns of 1777- -7S-and distinguished him self at the battles of Brandywine, German town and Monmouth. In 1778 he resumed his studies and commenced the study of the Law under MT JEFFERSON, then Governor of Virginia. In l780 he visited the Southern Army, in the capacity of Military Commis- sioner.
 In 1782 he was elected to the Virginia Le- gislaturei and to the Executive Council of that State, and in the next year was chosen a member of the old Congress, in which he served the constitutional term of three years. In 1787 he was again chosen member of the State Legislature, from Spotsylvana county, and in the next year, member of the Con vention called to consider the new Constitu- tion of the United States. In 1790 he was elected to the Senate of the United States, in which situation he acted until 1794, when he was appointed by General Washington, Min ister PEnipotentiary to France. In 1797 he was recalled, with an implied censure upon some of his acts, in reply to which he pub lished hls whole correspondence with his own Government and that of France. Two years afterwards Gin 1799, he was elected Govern or of Virginia, in which office he renamed for the constitutional period of three years - His nomination to that office was made by MT MADISON, then member of the Legislature. Immediately after this term expired, he was appointed by Mir JEFFEPscN, in conjunction with MT LIVINGSTON, Minister to France, to negotiate for the purchase of bouisiana.- As soon as the Louisiana treaty was formed, he was tranlated to England as the successor of MT RUFUS KING. He arrived there in 1903, and in 1904 went to Spain with the same rank, associated with MT CHARLES PINcK- NEY. After stay of six months, he return ed to London, where he remained until 1908, when his foreign services terminated, and he returned home. He continued in private life until April 1910, when he was again chusen Governor of Virginia, and in the next year appointed Secretary of State under MT MADI- SON, which cffice he held until 1817 His election as President of the United States took place in that year, and in 1925, after serv ing two terms in that high station, his political lie closed. After his retirement from this distinguished station, he filled the humble of flee of justice of the peace in the county of Loudoun; was associated with JEFFERSON and MADISON in the founding of the Univer- sity of Virginia; and subsequently was cho- sen member of the Convention for amend ing the constitution of his native State by which body he was elected to preside over their deliberations. This was the last public office that he filled. It will be seen that, with the exception of a few short intervals, he has spent FoRTY-NINE YEARS of his life in the public service.