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sylvania,without epuWolent con cession, be required to furnish a quota of militia proportioned to hor representation in that body.” Butler, Pickmau, 'f’roup, Tall "sdee, Taylor,* and Smihe opposed Mr: Dana’s amendment auu Mr- Dana and Mr. Hoots •upported it Mr. Tallmadge read an extract of • letter which h« had this day r* reived from the Secretary of War containing information to this efleet. “ There is no state in the Union which has not made its returns of roihtia according to law.” Mr. Quincy made a motion su. proceeding the motion under con. ■ideration, viz. to strike out that part of the bill providing for cases cf deficient returns. As there was no occasion for such a provi sion. Mr. Southard moved to recoin, mit the bill to a select committee with a view to enquire into the practicability of more equitably apportioning the quotas than has heretofore been done. The motion was carried, Messrs • Southard, Fisk, Ross, Tallmadge, and Daaa supporting it, and the f bill referred to a committee of twenty members, and the House a cjourncd. t• ' * From the Richmond Enquirnr • TO PHILO LAOS, ALIAS MUCIUS ALIAS The htn■ John Randolph, Sir The world is not at no loss to discover the honorable gentleman who las addressed the President of the United State*——No one can mistake the peculiar style of [; his con positions. The pen which he wields evidently borne along bv the same irregular eccentriety which n»*rks the political path of their author—He observes norules of composition——he pursues no arrsgement of ideas. He skips here and there, with the antic agility of a jacko and wan dersfrona subject to subject, with, out the lest regard totheconncction of ideas* He writes as he speaks —in the same “ crude and desul tory” style—and with the same want of arguement and logic- All his ideas are loose, brilliant without soliditj— “the mere legs & wings, of an argument. They are the emblems ot the mind from which they spring. 'For he that thanks without rcsoning on any subject must necessarily speake by stans, and write in the maxes of parenthesis. Nothing is more remarkable in tHesr ccnpari tions, than such involutions of style j the meserable pitfalls of thought—which, v*aya an ingeu - ious writer,) i4, on some occasions may have a spirited appearance as pompted by a certain vivacity of thought, which can glarce happi ly aside, as it is going along. — But for the most part, there effect ia extremely bad, being a tort of wheels withiu wheels ; sen tences in the midst of sentences ; the perpUxed method of dispo sing ot some thought, which a writer wants ait to introduce iu its proper place.” But these letters, Sir, do infi. nitcly. more credit to the Head than to the ifeatt of their writer. They are marked by a pecular mao. nerum ot temper, if 1 may bib al lowed the expression, which sumps them as the pi oductioo ot your pen. The spirit, which in spires them as yours. 1 hat illi beral vehemence of temper, knew* no curb upon its ryacjitmenu— - which overleaps all the bounds of principle or ptudcoce to satiate Its vengeance Or its ambition:—> which lulls withoiit distinction, like the merciless Indian lon a. hawk, upon the beau ot thculdor the ) oungi-rtbat * haughty tmea of sedsutticitncy which arrogates ' all possible iperit ty r .'itself, and j demos it io all, but to the total its enlisted in ifs service-——Uhyt air of pailent pliriiy which 'falsely as sumes ths ociusive title of lie. publicans ot the Old School, and •* lets loose the dogs of wat” upon cvciy aids who dares to dissent item its chattel- these ate |hc symptoms which peculiarly point ► out the author ot these nddrta aes. Whether you, sir, utter decla mutton* in the Representative T!a!l of Congress—or deign to un bend your majesty in the circle of vour “ choice, spirits”—or whe ther vou nrc stretched on the bed of disease, realty sick or only craf ty-sick,*’ the envenomed spirit of resentment Will still continue to haunt you. Wherever you are the incuhut is upon you ~-tlarrt latcri lethulis arundp— tho’ your head may fail you, the roaster spirit, which presides over your disposition, is always at its post. Dismiss your fe,ar% sir, about the progress of your disorder; “ Ob. scurity and fcbleness’* may rob your understanding of its pow ers, but the rancor of the politician will never desert you. It is not wonderful that this sort of spirit should have been infused into your followers. They have caught it by a sort of political ino culation from yourself. la the opinion of these tolerant gentle men, they are the only Fleet of Heaven—they represent t*»em selves theexclasivc Republicans of the old school-you are sh ad« W ed out as theholy St. Peter of this political world and all those who are so pfesumptiuous as to refuse to kiss the little toe of their Pope, is of course to be damned without the chance of redemption. I • 1 ask, air, «here is the political wet in this country, which has Hcca animated by a more ranco. roo« sentiment of hostility i The “ two gangs,” into which, you are pi eased to say the people ot the United States “ have been divi ded,” are comparatively tolerant toward* each otner. Tftey will, occasionally allow some atatw of merit to their opponents. But ve ry different indeed is the spirit which animates your small and puny band! Wc perhaps owe it to that very contemptible thinness of your members, that at this mo ment the intolerant practices of the superstitions sects of antiquity are not agaiu dug up, to be used against us—that we are not now broiled on the gridirons or roast ing on cowles. The ire faggot oi the catholic superstitions are but types and emblems of the lu ff which would consume us But your ranks are too thin for the pur poses of resentment —and ihcie. lore you may take it out iu low abuse. Monks and women who have no other mode ot venting and gratifying their spleen are prove l ’^ l, ally privileged to rail! Like them sir, you, are destitute of the poli tical power of inflicting a more de cisive vengeance—and like them, may enjoy the dtstinf uislied pri vilege of employing your tongue or pen in the language ot the pas sions- Happy, if you do not in flict greater mischiefs upon your selves, than upon the objects of your resentment ! In vain do we look for some dis tingushed exception in the motley group, winch you have rallied to gether. Your spirit annimates the whole"" 11 Whether we template their restless and ambi tious chieftain, tho e who staud next to him in vehemence and rank, or that class of subaltern characters, that bring up the rear of the army—we behold the file of persecution, spread along the ranks. The generosity of their I opponents yields ao claim upon the | ingratitude Sc toleratiou. In vain ' have two adminisiratioas shed the light of countenance upon an at torney of the United States—in vain are instances of official remiss* ness imputed to htw- in vain it. his disaffection to the leading mea* suiesof administration not only su'pccttd but proved upon him— the man still iciains his post an;, his hostility. Pleading helot< the very tnbuaal of th Chief Jus ■ tice the United States, in this dis I trict. under the last adminisuati on, he laments that the substance f ol Liberty was near being cilacct ia this country. And now he it | preaching up the extinction of [ federal and Krpublitau distinc.. » tions— the union ol all the tricuds of their country to snatch it fram ' the disgrace, which hovers over it through the auspices of the pre dominant party. lliiaspuit, air is caught from you—uml it covers under its wings the most pernicious absurdities, which you utter. 1 will net say of ycu, sir nor ol Hume| the volants ot idolatry, that u the baser the materials are, j of which the divinity '* composed, j the greater devotion is He likely to exrite in the breasts of hi# d»lu ! ded rotaries—«hat they exist in , their shame, anti make a merit ‘ with their deity, in braving/or his | sake, all the ridirft'e and con tumely of his enemies —that ten ■ thousand crusaders enlist them selves under the holy banners ; & even openly trfhmpH in those parts of their rehgiotf? which'their ad. versaries rega/d as the most re proachful.”— I have, too a high respect for your genius and inte grity to entitle them base materials ——and one of the sincerest re grets which I feel, when John Hwndoph rises to my view, is the prostitution of ihote powers, which he possesses, to the gratifi cation of liio ungenerous and un bounded passions. Had you, sir, at the time when you disapproved of «oy particular schemas t.f the last administra tion, confined your strictures ro these alone-—had you exercised your independence as you ought ‘to have done, without fly ing into the extreme# of passion—had you come forth frankly and faintly with your reasonable objection* and remonstrances—your object I might possibly have been atchievtd | & your talents would have been of use to your country. The gallant stand, which you had made, a gainst the Yazoo fraud, would hava insured you a most favorable hearing. At all .events,(the coiussu* of your reputation would not at this time have strewed the earth •e—your ears would not have been ravished with the thanksgiving of federal hosts and British minions. But this reasonable course did not suit your ambition- .You as. pired to be the leader of your par ty—and you have now sunk into the champion of a faction. Y m might have been spared the morti fication of contradicting your for inti maxims, & of refuting your, sell. You might have avoided the mortification of flying through the signs of the Political Z idiac, from Capricorn to the Crab The course of few men has been more eccentric & inconsistent than your own.—You have scarcely consulted any other monitor than your own possessions ; and they, like an ignis fatuus, have bewil dered you amidst bugs and quag mires. These very letters which you have addressed to the Presi. dent of the U. States, furnish new proofs of the facility with which you may contradict yourself. At this time, you can speak with a sneer of “ the masterly arrange ment with Mr Erskin«” whan you were the very first man, du ring the last session of Congress, to bring forward a resolution, ap proving of Mr Madison*# prompti tude in forming that arrangement. In what terms shall we speak of your conduct towards Thomas Jef*> I’erson— the man, whom you once so deeply admired, but of whom you now sneermgly stale, that “ he made his debut” (this jou know is false) * on the theatre of the great world at the court ot Versailles, and caiue home in due season, in dis tress, taste, politics,’* (what poli tics, of the old or new regime, you do not distinguish) f philosophy & religion i in short, in every thing but the polish of his manners, a fin ished Frenchman.” When you say of him, that « the measures which have led to our present dia« astcrous and disgraceful condition, were the measures of .hat nun” : do you imagine that the world have lorgotten the compliments which vou paid him at the last season of Congress, when you said that the »age * Nestor and faithful Sthene.. ms by his side” had prevented a itruish war ? Aud is it Mr. J. who s now the cause ‘ of our present lisastrous and disgraceful couditi *n Was it he Sir, who has issu d the french Edicts and British orders in Conned ? r Was it he who wove around the brow of Napoleon, the laurels of ; Austerlit7— or was it he that de* posited the Trident of the Scaimo i the hands cl Biitain ? Yet when these unjust Edicts were issued against our commerce, the spirit of this country, sir, flew to an embai- j gt. this would have answered •very purpose, but lor the evasions j ot smugglers, and tiie oppoHtiou of i such Uiciaimt'ts, as vourselt in ti e ' ' l | national council The world are i well acquainted with the measures jof protection which you would have pursued, though you have not had the manly «pi"t °*> e " * >oa vow them. The Honorable Job), Randolph was for a base uncondi tional, unmitigated nubmiaaon to British outrage and mercantile cu pidity. He was for giving Great Britain * carte blanche to be filled j up, as she pleased, out of the spoils j of our rights and our honor—— Good Heavens! Could the spirit of the immortal Curtious be once ! more permitted to visit the regions of day, ho* would it blush with in., dignat ion to behold you thus basely stooping to * a stupid and insolent ■ monarch who has long been the ty j rant of the Ocean, the curse of his people the scourge of the world !’ 1 shall not breathe another word sir, in the defence of Mr. Jefferson. When an adversary comes forth, who is any thing like his Peer ac complishments tr services, he shall be heard but at present, it is ; so unnecessary task --—for when j such men as John Randolph ate , the assailants ol such men as Tho mas Jefferson, a defence is useless. I he accusation only recoils upon the accuser. It is * Hyperion’ and a 4 Satyr’—*-it is the attach of Dio mede «gait*t the shield of Apo’lo. j I pray you, « ir > turn vour xe*'nt. m»n<B against some humbler game ; against, if ton please, the reputa tion of Wilkin.-on ; but Thomas Jefferson is above \our mark. Like the illustrious Chatham, * re. corded honor* shall gutter round his monument, and thicken over him. It is a solid f abt ic, and will support the laurel# thru adorn it Their praise will wrur well, for they have been dearly earned.’ These observations are some what like your owij dissultory & unconnected. In iny tv.xt, Sir, we will go on to take up Mucins more in the wa> ofsvteir, cod touch the principal points which he discloses. MARIUS. Extraft fro«i the report cf a Initiative committee on the Penitentiary of Virgina. During this year, there have been fewer eonvitts received than in the fix preceding years, except the lass. as ap pears from the following iili, deferiptive of the numbers re ceived during each fueceffive, year, the since commencement of the inftituilon. Year Spring in. Pell tin. 1800 pnloutit. 6 15 «i 1801 l 9 i 4 33 1802 17 21 gb ,80 3 33 2 * 65 1804 30 n 41 1805 24 26 5 1806 a8 13 41 i 8c 7 $1 *8 fid 1808 18 18 36 1809 4, Total 410 The annexed table (A.) shews in detail the number of con victs received from each dif tnfct ; their places of nativity j their periods ol confinement and the nature of their crime. It appers from the following lift, that those who hdve beer dilchar ged fiom the infiitution, duting the year, are fewer b) one than thole who have btgr received : Number of prisoners dischar ged at the expiration of their relpefclive terms of imprisonment 36 Pardoned by the governor and council 6 By the Piciident of the U. S. , Total 43 At the expiration of the last year there were 119 prtloners within the walls of the penitentiary ; a: j prefem 12* , the tneteaie of I courts is three ; of thele there ; ate now u in, for lecond of fences. The following lifl j shews us sn what way these be. ings are employed, or in ntber | words the fpecicsof occupations which arc now carried on in ; this inltuulion : l si shoemakers 4 boot makers 3 binders a cutters s harness makers 31 wrought nailors j 10 headers of nails 8 cutters of nails and brads 6 black smiths and (inkers j 2 grinders 2 coopers 2 capenters 5 Assistants to spinning ma. chine 4 spinners—these are all the women in the penitentiary 2 tailors 5 weavers 2 attendants on weavers 1 washer t beating hemp 1 dish washer 2 cooks 6 at milcellaneous work Total 12a The pecuniary resources of the inftitotion in good con. dition ; the profits of -the pre sent year are not so great as tho r e of the iaft. The follow, ing p’-efent< at one glance the a. mount of each article manufac tured from Ift December 1808 to 30th Nov 1809, vie : Amount of wrought Dolls. Cts* nails 10.669231.$ Do. of cut brads 17,3185! Do. blackfmhhing, carpentering, Sc c 1,269 7* l-i Do. of tailoring, tinning, Sec, 468 54 i-» Do. ofholftcring catrideboxes See 4,519 34 1 • 1 Doof cordwaining 11,459 891-2 Do. of weaving, spinning cotton, twine, Sec . 1,235 78 4*b9*s °3 1 * The gross ptofits of which are about 9,121 64 i t From which deduc ting the commiflions of the fuperintena dant and turnkeys, &c. Sec. the clear nett profit of the whole is, as near as it can beefiimated, about 5,29« 27 It seems, that there have been fewer articles manufactured du ring this, than last year; and the realons are, that the public work, which has proved so pro fitable to the institution, has been almofi completed; and besides, the carding, roving and spinning machine, were originally biought to us in so imperfebt a condition, that ft good deal of work and atten dance was requisite to put them imo operation. So much la bour was therefore, withdrawn from the manufacture of other articles. These machines are now going into excellent oper non ; and may prove confide* rably profitable to the institu tion. The machinery is now to us worthy of infpeftton.— The cotton is carded, woven and spun at three thftinbt oper* ations. The ' spinning mule runs 60 spindles, and (pins a ( this season, about ten pounds of five yard thread a day'.* when the cay s (hall be long, of courlc the execution will be greater. The fame Tpirit of econowy is seen in the feeding & c loath ing of the prisoners. Each one is supplied by contrast, with breaklalt and dinner for fix a quarter cets per day. The whole of their cloalhing fr crn the law materials, up to >be complete gaitnent, is the woik ot their own hands. Thelf views cannot but be flattering 10 the people of Virginia, arv* ’ the friends of humanity ever, where. Interest Sc benevolence aie thus (hewn to go band w hand ; and (ince the ends of } punilhment fo husi£ BC ''