Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1833-05-23

guIShed. His feelings are warm anu sLTons'
and easily aroused. Hence, with all the ad-
vantages of keen sensibility, he has all its af-
Aictions. Prudence sometimes fails him
prudence, that virtue in whose presence no
duty fails one. He thinks vigorously, and
speaks boldly. He fearlessly utters what he
thinks, cut where it will. Such men have
warm friends and strong enemies. II indie
pendcnce never cringes, independence must
have adversaries. To truckle to the times, to
float on the current, to set ones sails for the
passing winds, are charges never to be pre-
ferred against Mr.. Burgess. His worst enc
mics cannot but award the need Of indepen-
dence, perseverance, learning, consistency
IL to all his virtues, a man Of his tempera-
ment could add, what is impossible, that of
prudence, he would be almost the perfect man.
As he is. he is the Polar star of Rhode Island.
and sheds brilliant lustre over the sky of
the little State. So long as he is her repre-
sentative, her interests, her fame, the star of
her pride will never sink below the horizon.
New England could not have better cham
pion to repress the insolcnce and impudence
of certain men, who kno,Uing that duelting is
no part of the Ne,D ENGLAND creed, often take
care to speak towards one section of the Un-
ion as they dare not speak Ia. another from
fear of the pistol and the bullet. In the tilt of
W ords no man has any thing to gain by enter
ing the list with Mr.. Burgess. II he is sus-
ceptibe of feeling, he will be made to feel
If wit can make him ridiculous, he will he
made so. II he has weak point, it will be
pointed out. In short, all that learning. To-
gic, wit. or sarcasm can do, will be done with
that man who has temerty to provoke the
conflict. b.
Major Neutrality-suspicious. Jack Downing,
the eminent Washington correspondent fthe
Portland (Maine) Courier, is truly rara avis.
He has, it should seem, vast influence with
rough, sound, good sense. The subjoined is
his last letter
Washington City, April 90.
i and the President are getting ready to
come on that way this summer. We shall
come up as far as Portland, and expect we
shall go up to Downingvi!le; for the Pres-
dent says he must shake hands with uncle
Joshua before he comes hack, that faithful
old republican who has stood by him through
thick and thin ever since he found he was 60
ing to be elected President. lie will either
go up to Downingville or send for uncle JOSH
ia TO meeting him at Portland.
There is some trouble amongst US here a
little. to know how we shall get along among
the federalists when we come that way. They
say the fedsralists in Massachusetts want to
keep the President all to themselves when he
comesthere. But Mr.. Van Buren, says that'll(
never do; he must stick to the Democratic
party he may shake hands with a federal
list once in a while if the democrats don't see
him, but whenever there's any democrats
round, he mustn't look at a federalist. Mr..
McLane and Mr.. Livingston advise him 10th
er way. They tell him he better treat the
federalists pretty civil and shake hands with
MIR. Webster as quick as he would with uncle
Joshua Downing. And when they give this
advice, MIR. Lewis and MIR. Kendall hop right
up as mad as March hares, and tell him if he
shakes hands with single fcderast while he
IS gone the democratic party will be ruined.
And then the President turns to me and asks
me what he had better do-and l advise him
to go right straight ahead and keep up stiffup~
perlip, 81 shake hands with who he is a mind to. >
Newport, May 13.-To-day the examina-
ton on the part Of the Government in the
Avery trial, has gone on with great activity,
add increases in interest at every step. have
no question that faithful, full, and correct
narrative of the trial, if given to the public
without too much hurry. SO as to interfere
WIN ITO CoTTcClucSSs VIII prove one vi the
most Interesting reports of capital trial, ev
er put in print. 1t will not merely interest the
curious in murders and terrible accidents, but
will be matter for study and reference with
the metaphysical and the professional reader.
The counsel on both sides are indefatiga-
BILE in the discharge of their arduous duties.
To-day, seventeen witnesses have been exam
ined by the Attorney General for the prose-
cution, (ten men and seven females) making
the whole number Of witnesses already ex-
amlned against the prisoner forty seven. The
testimony is not yet closed, on that side, and
| do not think the evidence will be opened
for the defence before Wednesday morning
possibly it may be tomorrow afternoon.
We have just had Intelligence here, of a gu
icide from poison, committed by young la
dy in Providence, of a highly respectable
family there. in wealthy circumstances. No
cause is assigned for the deed, and it is not
desirable to mention the name of the unfor-
tunate. The very genius of crime and self.
violence, seems to have tainted the pure NOR
al atmosphere of New England. Suicides
are becoming alarmingly frequent and call for
moral influence to be exerted TO check their
progress.
Money Digging.-A few days since, three
young men on the south side Of the island OF
Martha's Vineyard, were engaged in laboring
in field which was once an orchard-two
of them plOughing and the other picking up