Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1833-03-28
NEM-YoRK. March a.

speech, is the reported arrest in Spain, and
confinement to his apartments, of Don Carlos.
Owing TO the scandalOus reports circulated
the causes Of the Duchess of Ber-
ri's indisposition at BLdye, several duels had
occurred in Paris between her partisans and
the opponents ofthe Bourbons. M. Brissault,
Editor of the COrsaire, and NJ. CareI, Editor
ofthe National, had both been severely woun.
ded by their royalist antagonists.
If the newspaper accounts are to be credit
ed, it would seem that the British govern
ment have come to the determination to dbol-
ish slavery in their West India colonies, in
the course Of the ensuing three years; and
that this is to be done without compensation
to their masters. We have considered it the
settled policy Of that government, for good
many years past, to break up this system of
nquity as fast as the nature Of things would
admit. A resolution was adopted under Mr..
Cannins's influence, in which the general de-
claration that slavery must be abolished in
those islands, was specifically contained. The
moment this event occurred, we considered
the main question as decided, leaving nothing
further to be adjusted than the time for car
rying it into effect. Tit is determined to ac-
conplish the object within the period mem
toned, which we doubt, they have advanced
more rapidly than we expected. We have
no doubt the violent conduct and measures Of
the colonial authorities have had strong ten
professedy wished to avoid. These have
been not only violent, but insolent and threat
ening, calculated to excite the parent govern
ment to a determined vindication oftheir own
policy, and vigorous support Of their own
mcasureS-N Y. DyiEn AHrpr
We have received, in the Columbia Tele-
scope, the account Of the re.assemblage Of
the South Carolina Convention on Monday the
1th inst. On that occasion, -Ex- Governor
Hamilton, President of the Convention, delv-
cred Il short Address, recapitulating the mis-
sion from Virginia, the modification of the
tariff, and the new Collection Bill, in terms
not unbecoming, considering that he denies
the authority of the United States to make
laws at all, or (what is the same thing) to
make laws that shall bp imperative. After his
address, delicately suggesting that he owed
his present station to the fact of his having
been Governor Of the State at the time when
chosen to it, Gen. Hamilton then resigned the
chair of the Convention, and Gov. Hayne
was elected to preside in his stead. Nothing
further was done on the first day Of the Con-
vention.
1t is earnestly to he hoped that the language
of the Telescope is no criterion of the feeling
of the majority Of the Convention for it is
vindictive, violent, and even o,itrageously pre-
sumptuous. We refer to such language, for
instance, as the following:
"This little State, in the mere panoply Of
courage and high principles. has .toiled the
staggering giant Of the Union. Thirty thou
sand Carolnians have not only AwED the a0ild
Vest into something like respect-coMPELLED
Pennsylvania stolidity into something like
sense-New-York corruption into something
like decency-Yankee rapacity intO sort of
image of honesty; but all this has been lOft
ly and steadily done, in the face Of II, 1000
what shall we call them? What epithet is of
shame wide, lasting and deep enough, for
the betraycrs of the liberties of their own
countryside instigators of merciess slaugh-
ter-the cOntrivers of il retrievabIc ser,itude,
against their own struggling State?"
The " seventeen thousand" referred to are
those who have mantully stood for the Un-
ion and the Laws, in opposition 10 wild and
desperate Misrule.-Nat. INTEL.
BY the following article from the Charles
ton Courier, Of the 10th instant, it win be
seen, that the meeting the Union Convention
has been indefinitely postponed:
1.-THE Committee appointed to determine
the time and place for the re assembling of
the Union Convention, taking into considera-
ton the late passage Of Tariff bill. which
has been regarded as conciliatory measure
by both parties, and the assurances given by
the leading politicians from this State, that its
adoption would prove satisfactory to the
Convention now in session at Columbia not
doubling that the pledge given by them will
be honorabIy redeemed by that body, rejoi-
cling in the prospect of returning peace, and
DESTROYS Of removing, as far rs depends upon
them, all further cause of agitation 10 the
State hereby give notice. that tho sacrifice,
which the attendance upon the Union Con-
vention in this city on the 18th day Of this
month. would impose upon their feIlow-citi-
zens, is no longer regarded as necessary. and
the meeting Of said Convention is hereby
postponed. The Committee beg leave to as
sure their fellow citizens of the Union and
State Rights Party, that il, contrary to all
reasonable expec tatiOns, new acts of tyranny
by the dominant party in the State should
call for united opposition from the friends Of
the Union, the Convention shall be promptly
cOnvoked, in orde. to take such measures as
the exigency may demand to vindicate the
rights Of the People.
J. r. Poinsett, D. e. Huger,
J. L. Petigru. r. J. Manning,
Robert Cunningham.
A. 80 n< L. - sNno &c