Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1833-04-02
MIR. RTVES

The Speech of Mr.. Rives i'm the Sonata IF tho II
STATES has raised his reputation to a high pitcI
"rouGIiout Tie Union-as Il Statesman and an ORR.
'oI' Ii mas not been in our power to transfer IN ou
Columns the numerous panegyrics which have hoo,
sodt'ereu through the newspapers. We required me-
Sucn evidences TO satisfy us ABOUT the extent of his
"''l.les' but we lind, in the following article from
me New York Courier, an additional Iribute 10 A.
kivcS's merits. Ills services i'm France bovo 49,.
orliiIa't indeed. And they are estimated az sucb
by every Frenchman, or American, who under,
S'ahns lhe difficulties he had TO surmount:
"FFench Mdemnify.-An investigation j., a, nrosou,
progressing in the Oh mbsr OF Deputies Of France in ~
la ION TO the treaty of indemnity Gt .poIisuon, on u r m"
merce' concluded by MIR. Risrs. with Chst Governnen,
~ Is S'ateu mat The result oil Ibis iuves igdton will nrov.
IN a positive manner the o al absence Of taitni or r aus,
common discretion in General Sebastian, who s.scn ed IN
nc I as hegoclaior On iho part OF the +. ehch govern
"eh ) DIS gentleman, ii is added, when in ofic. w a.
p'eased 10 make and sign a treaty With ia, Unitcd ST..
W virtue oil which France will have to , 25 non no1
francs Tor The liquidation Of al least yetv ,ioui,tt,1 49,
uPo" ,'s !a'er country. That in 1893, The Comife die Sa
10 FhoHc having Illegally seized and captured severaI
ameI al Snps' me Government, Of he United Sta e. put
knov ie"m, ,' accommodation; Napoleon refused TO ac-
N.ohle' g me debt contracted by the republic, and soon
the DEGREES of Milan and Berlin bcc.mo IT,
cI.in o' y ne" cohhscatons' and consequently of nea
claims on the part ef the u. S. Bonapsrte. Wilhelm -,
'aching much importance TO hem, sent them 70 a ro,r,j.
SION, which declared all the ships duly seized and coST'na
e'' a"u Ul'' ,he claims " ere the more unioundrd as many
" u shlps had false pap'rs. In 1915 NJ. Gala.io ib.D
hme Ican minister in Paris, opened a nrootisnon w.
,nese Claims which lasted till The revolution Of juIv
: W. comm, 'sioners were appointed, one during the Minis.
uy oi'he DuNe lie Richelieu, the other under NJ do VII.
Iele,s administration. Both were of opinion. tLat NJ; -
So,ovo'ooo. claimed by this country, 10, 900, OOOi. were
no. -; ""e5 'mu "qt the 10 remaining millions should not be
pau uh.I me United States had admitted French cIaiu,,
founded upon the Sth article of the treaty rc,aGma
louisiana. In consequence NJ. de ViIele PROPOSED In oncW
nro,os,I amJ sauhe negotiation; our minister rejected This
ploPos''' ana such was the zeal value Of those claims. tIat
'ney were openly quoted at New York and pbiIaJcI,Ii,
az % per cent, discount. The French might easiIv tIcro"
'ope nave bought them up. But NJ. Sc ,su,ui ,H,oio,ot
:" 7" fOiUllSFlOler, which uCcIlel ncig, -,
ones had done-namely that OH of % 0o0 ooo ~
800 were IhauiniSslhle; and yet, in the face OF .ucL, ,r-
.uult'a'cu evidence, Nj. Sebastian signed a treaty. he
which he uselessly gave I'D TO ms ali 60 ci,i, "'"S'" W
W. have no objection 10 this version of the matter ro,v
uenh'uVeIy settled; at any rate, il conveys a high co'pnli.
~ ~ 'O''e'' Of The American negociator."
W. learn that a passenger in the stage from WASHING.
'oh Clty States, that the Office of the II & T,r"ms
was destroyed by fire on Saturday nipl1 I,si T. T|msONf
perte' mere, that il caught from fire, which was made.
G w. ,e" I'D te crate by one ofthc clerks, when lie leh
news w. ~ me gvenlng" The passenger who brings the
'"' ""S himself an eye- witness of The ruins.
Inc hopes of the infamous " Spy" of the n. V
ybarIos,,o n"u . me u . Telegraph, aud Of the
'u' Georgia has not been involved in INV cn,bar-
usSTnent by the Collection Bill. The Ciernkoos
rnnot appeal to II, for assistance against tine penuIs
- uoUrgIa' me Globe and " II" in the National On
an -, III snowh that IT'S clauses are utterly irrele-
aut 10 me case between the Cherokees and Geor-
"a besides, what are the facts ? Tbc &C.,
'ourier states as follows ""s'S'a
"a hIeDd, who was in Washington. iuCorm. 80 H.,
eGIelafy Cass bad dismissed The Cherokees. unable ~
laEe a ireaiy with them, ten days before the ps.s,ge o1
ne enforcing Bill" So much for the false rn,u,or ,g51ioI,
as INTENDED 10 operate on the excited feelings of Ills STAT
enlist Is honest citizens against an administration wbioL
Is 80 sgnaIy favored our policy. What does not Geo.
"a owe TO me administration Of Gen. Jaskson, Wo,Gf ~,
most infinite difficulties have been enco,nt.rag g"m no'
20 auspices Of almost any other Of our great men, CO.
.ams' unlnk Of this, when you are importuned 10 raise fbo
amer Of Opposition to your friends. But we have mo- Co IVY
? MS subject. Georgia will not fail IN s,a,,I ~ w. 'onS
ny a',t9de to the General Government. A Cew ~
aefia,iners at Court Houses and street corper.
ay olow tI they crack their cheeks. The pr.sbiSn, ~
Q strong a hold in the affections o ftbe peonle n, by .h h"ns
any ordinary wind irom their confidence; and they will :