Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1855-11-23

Bill of Rights had reported clause declaring there
shall be II" slavery or involuntary s"rvudr i'll tn"
State. \ portion Of the Convention was in favor "t
leaving all reference 10 slavery Of the C"nsfitI.
ii"n and calling upon the people IN yea my
upon the question after the Sne shall have been al
mttcd int" the Union. The Convention had adopted
report referring the question of the exclusion Of Tree
negroes from Tie Siafe 10 the people Ii ninrity
vote for their exclusion The vote s to operate as in
sirurtons to the first State Legislature convened.
SPECIAL MEETING OF THE NY. CHAMBER
OF COMMERCE..
\ spr'ial meeting Ufthe NY. Chamber of Commerce
wa held III the Merchants Bank last Monday in refer.
crrc 10 lr lifting nul of the barqne ,urv at thai
port and which WAS seized III October last as is SUP
pu.rd AT the inSiigann nf the liish COnsul and IT,,
leased few days thereafter. The meeting VIA quite
fully attended. lii" President ol tbs Board, 7. Per-
ril, Esq, occupied the chair. The meeting ben. or.
;:aniArd, Moses II. Grinncl Esq, rose and offered
the following rrsu!ulion
Whereas II appear. from Information derived from
rritbic S"rcrS tnai the representation made 'n the
lIrlIIsh H"rrrnI"nt, respecting the bGrqu" Mauiy
winch was seIz"d at this port in October last ssp
rio "i oehS httcd out us pryutecr to cruise under
The hnsshi ing, WAS ONE vi tle.auSos which led 10 the
recent hisl excitement III England; and wherein, it
iSlaid proprriiH the respectable OWNERS o. .that
srl. aud tins commercial community should ba relicr
'd from The mputntiUn thus cansclcs-ly thrown upon
them.
Resolved, That Committee be e:po:Ol 10 inquire
nt" '!ic iav'@, ahi report thc same al subsequent
meet ol the Chambers.
At:cr some slight debate the resolution wns unani-
m"ts'y adopted, and Committee "l ten was appoint
ed by The cInIr rhe following named gentlemen
compose the Committee.
Moses IT, trnlcll, Geo. Gri-wull, Charles. H. Mar
shall Jnhn ~ S"vcIs,. .Thomas TlcsUn, Il. {. Good
hue, R"bl. Kelly, James Lee, Royal Phelps, T.. r..
Morgan.
lbc name nj the President was afterwards added.
In reference 10 the foregoing proceedings, tn"
Washington Union lnR.cs the !olInwing remarks
"We r,iocr 10 see ,hnt the merchants Of New York
are taking up this 1t deserves their attention.
The people and the guverunrmt Ui the United States
have bru accused in the grossrst terms by the Lon
don press-irs OF being sn awl"ss, and, second.
feeble, that cluuis OF Russian privatccrs are fitting
out IN ports with the knowledge and cOnnivanrc
even d! tn" President Of the Init.l States nay the
British government tsrii ha- adopted the Scgmdal"us
nputat0n far tp max. ii the OCCASION "i dcs-
patching great naval armament tu the cnnst of
North amrrG; for il now appears that the alnir nj
the Maury ID the sole prrcXt ui all the wa- panic
which Hnw ag,tates England.
1--WE learn that the proceedings agains: tile Maury
were commenced by our government upon represent
tatnns made by Mr.. Barclay, the British consul al
New York setting forth that hr had information, and
believed that the Maury was fitting out for Russian
prlva,-er. Among the papers WAS IN affidavit by Mr.
Edwari, statim. that hr expressly informed that
the Msury Ia liz IL wait inr the Cunsrd steamers
and, by capturing them, TO raise er with which To
nvad" the British West Indies. ltappcarei il the So
Iucl that the whole story what i iamiliurly call
,,l mares Pest, or something worse For instance
i may he Du: Il manTuvrr to rainc II false issue IN Ia
{" the British government, or those nj ~ officers
implicated in the recruiting business in the United
States.
'Mr Barclay has undertaken, bv letter which al-
pears in the New York Herald, To explain bis share
IN this groundless prosecution Of the Mnury. Her
uwners L seems not known 10 Mr.. Barclay, md,
therefore, he assumed that she n Russian priyn.
tecr. Things nave reached n strange pa.s certainly
when nre not only to have lorGgr recruiting, oti-
ccr-, but u!so foreign police III New York, and the
bunfers oi that foreign police nrr to bring the
United States und GrcHt Britain TO he verge Of war.
We hope the Chamber OF Commerce will do ample
justice to this gross misconduct Of Mr.. Barclay