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i... . r r' '', -,; " . i! -. t -1. PATBICE. IlENRt. The Life anil Character of I PATRICK HENRY, by WIL LIAM Wxrtf; Esquire, recently puNishei Jin r ruiaaeipnia oy j aum vvcbstexl. has been reviewed m ca a tvrit of inquiry cf damages, no pita haying been entered by the defendants since too judge ment on the ' demurrer I he ar ray before Mr. Henry's eyes was now most fearful. On the bench sat more than twenty 1 clergymtif. the most learned men in the colo- M , - Xttomna enquirer oi oyf and the mot capable, us well eiEiueeo.o ion ru 'y " Usthe 8CVer( have selected the following inter catiog sketches : - t " PATRICK HENRV. severest critics before whom it, was possible lor him to .have made his I he court-nouse was crowded with an overwhelm- As our Author informs us, was j ing multitude, and ourrounded born on the 29th of May, 1 736, in with an u immense and anxious the county of Hanover. His par- throng, who not finding room to na vi-4 nnt ricn. nut ia. easy icuicr hkic iuutajuuuK .w .. u circumstances and of I respectable without, in the deepest attention; rhorar.Thev ton icemi to Hut there dwas- somcming sim WWW W - ( - M ...... cad rtvetted' upca the epeaVer, J wort on public Wsy-'-1 ! 3 correctect Tl)e uUi wcs tAteu if to catch the. last strain of some heavenly visitant The mockery of the clergy was coon turned in to alarm ; their triumph into con fusion and despair and i f, one burst of his rapid and overwhelm ing invective, they fled from: ; the bench in precipitation and terror. As for the fathierguch was his sur prise,' such 4his; amazement, such his rapture,' tha forgetting where hi; was, and the character which he was fillingt .tears - of ecstacy streacqed dqwn his " cheeks,- with-; out the power or inclination to re press them t i' - i . i VTheiury seera to have been -si .... .-... mi k - -- & m : so comptcteiv Dewiiaerea, mat jjHve given in his youth no cvi-lraore awfully disconcerting than jthev lost sight not only of the act dence of his future Greatness.- ! all this ; lor in the chair of the j of 1 748 . but that of 1T50 also j H is comnanions i recdilect ooth-1 presiding magistrate, sat no otti- tng that distinguished him ad van-er person than his own father.- taeeously from other ouog men, I mr Livons ppenea ine cause-very unless a certain propensity to ob I briefly ; in the way ;of argo Cerve and comment upon the - hu Iroent he did nothing! more than man character miiht be so re 1 explain to the jjurf, thatHhe- de Qardtd. He was nutured in i cision upon the demurrer had put dioess, and had nonej of the bene- the act of 1758 entirely out of the fits of a re ffular education. At way and left the law of seventeen the ape of 15 he was I placed be I hundred and fortyeight as the on hind the counter of a country mer j ly standard of their damages ; he " chant,, and' the nest year, was with I tpen concluded with a highly his brother William "4, set up: in I wrought euloguim on the 'benev- traded;? This proved a most un I olence of the clergy And, now; fortunate ad venture, and was not lone in cominc to its usual catas trophe. At. the age he married a Miss of eighteen Sheltoo, the I came on trie, nrst, trial ratricc Henry's strength. No one had ever heard him speak, and curios itv was on tiptoe." He rose ve - daughter of an honest but ; needy ry awkardly, and faultered much farmer x. bnd. Mr. Henry had to in his exordium; The people delve the nround with 4 bis sown hung their heads at so unpromis- haodS'fbr subsistence.4 Such,w iog a commencemet ;Jhe Iclergy exclaims our author,' u are the vi were observed to exchange sly rtfiitiif!- nf human life ! It . is I looks with each other and his for thoughtless even of the admit ted right of the plaintiff they had scarcely leftthe; bar, when they retarded with a verdict of ant p$n ny '"damages ' A Tnotioa .was made lor: a new trial; but the court too, had now lost the equip oise ot their; judgment, -and over ruled the motion by an unanimous vote, t .The verdict and judgment overrulinj? the-motion. Were fol lowed by redoubled acclamation from within St without the house. The people, who had with ' difi culty kept their hands off their champion.: from the " moment of closing nis narrangue, no sooner sa w the fate of the cause finally sealed, than Ithey seized him ! at the bar, and in spite of his own exertions,' and the - continued crv of b order" from the sheriffs and .' curious to contemplate this giant! father is described as 'hflog al ' genius, destined in.a few years toimost suux wiin coniusioo, iro ffuide the councils bt a mighty na-1 nis seat But these feelings jruide ticn.but uncbosciouSjOf the intellec (ual treasures which jhe possessed, enucmbered, at the early 'age : of eighYeenv wi th the xpres of a 0m i -ily ; obscure, unknowu and al most unpitied ; diggingi ' with Wearied limbs and witrt , an ach ing vhcart, a stnU spot of barren earth for bread and bless ing the hour of night, which re lievcd him from toil Little could the wealthy .and great of the land, as they lolled along the high way in splendor, and beheld the tKijyoung rustic at work in ? the course garb of a laborer, covered with dust and melting in the sunt have suspected that this was the man who destined humble their pride and sent to the commons. 1 from the British Parliament hav r Mu APKay presented a bill to nDg the power of pardoning in all cede'to the United States , certain leases ; but wc are ccrtatalv placed inds, which was read,, arid sent I ia a very jdifferen t situatiou -ttiey : to the Commons. .- y' A have no f written : Constitution they can pass what laws they may HO U Sri Ur IJUjJlItlUlO. tninic proper lor instance tha .xi-;"-Vt! - i same raniaraent wnicn : were c- Friday, Nov. 21. ,rct . fnr th :MA On motion of Mr. Burton vcu iu4i a juiui .ov.i w,w i nevco years, ana sucn is ,ineir un be appointed to examine & revise limited authority that it is called the several inspection wwss oil lrie omnipoteuce or Parliament--- this State : Messrs- Burton, West! Wc arc bound do WbV the termY T f Will!.-.. J T'a'AL.. fn. ' f I " t1 ' ' - j. vi. rr uuai9 auu liyuau jui ni ine .uonstuutiop, ana cannot the Committee on the part of this4 depart from what Is therein pi1 tioust , . ! , I scnocd Mr. Webb, of Lincoln, present ed a petition-front' a number of Citisen of Burke, Lincoln, and i Monday "Sir. Cook presented the petition Rutnerford, praying abroad to be OI vvrn. auora or, vvaerpray- opened from orgnlon to the iry w cQuect arrears oi tax- : - . - - " . . ' - " .1 e Maori nnM r.t.Mrl !' town of Fayetteville. Kead and "av 'V.. . ; f " referred to the committee of pro ' Tuesday, x Nov. 25 " positions and grievanaca, ,& ; sent Mr,, T. Wtbb presented a to the Senate. ';' ; s . v bill to .erect a poor house in "Lin- " On motion of Mr..Calloway, a coto. Mr. ?, Hl taubr a bill 6 committee on arrearages oi i ax- prevent Wardens o es was appointed Consisting on I serving on Juries, the part of this house, of Messrs. I Ou' motion of Calloway, Pinkham, Spencer, I Heaolved, that the 1 committee oo Mtxson. -:-"-t ' - j J the penal code, be directed to e- . Mr. Dudley presented a bil l, to I quire into theekpediency of re incorporate the, Female Benevo- j pealing or modifyiajr the act of the. poor frcmV Mr. .Caidwefo lent Society of Wilmington read nd, sent to the Senate. ; Mr. Winalow oresented a bill . . a concerning the steming and Man ufacture of Tobacco at Fayette ville passed the 1st. reading and sent to, the Senate. , ,. w . : The resignation s of 1 Willram the court, they bore ? him out of Ion of Wilmingtoni as not only . to but to - make were of. short duration, and soon gave place to others, of a very different character. For now were those wonderful faculties which hefpos sessed,! for the first time : dewlo : ped j and now,, was first, wit nessed that mysterious and almost supernatural tranaiormation ot ap pearance, which the fire of his own eloquence never Oiled to work in him. For as his ofiind rolled along, Stbegun to -.UiW trom its own act onfall the-cffuoftfof the clown,eem ed toah'cd tn:insclves,spontaneous ly. Uis attitude, by degrees, be' catne erect and. lolly. ; the spirit of his genius awakened ail his fea tures. His countenance t. shone with a : nobleness and grandeur which it naa never oeiore exniu the -court house, and raisinc him on their shonlde rs, carried ,: him about trie 'ard4 in a kind of elec tibneeriag triumph. I f M 'UTo be continued, Tf( - 1806 which takes 'awav the beneV fit'of clergy for house breaking in ; the day time-and also the set bt 181 1, declaring the stealing grow icg or standing corn larceny. If A joint committee was appoint ed to revise the wreck laws of this State. -K s-i On motion of Mr. Br it t am th Brigadier General, andV Uennis I military committee were instruct- Dozier of Currituck, as Colonel were read and accepted. Oa motion of : iVir. Jacocks, Resolved that a joint select com mittee be appointed to revise and the prince hirosclt tremWe on his; ited. I here was a lightning .in ulSiant inronc, auu :tv ..auaKC inei ins ey es, wuiui asciucu w iuc brightest jewel fro?irt; the British spectator.; His action became xrown.;i Little! indeed,' could : he graceful, bold,;and commanding; ed to enquire into the expediency ot establishing one or more' arse uals in this State.' 1 Wednesday Xvv. 2G. V'TTnTyTF amend the.- patrol laws of this! Uq motion ot Air. Spencer MMe tfM Carolina. State Messrs. Jacocks, Ward, Rved that the committee oa Gilchrist, & Manev, tor the Com I th part oi tne uoyernora iviei mittee on the part of this house. 1 sage wmcn relates to internal im Vilmo Vf hau' mttmnmtit i -fnr 1 and in the tnne nf hm voirr. hut! 2.. 2Vl . 1 ci u .u:ic- : k:. k first time and sent tXlluSi ilic uiscresseai WillCll Uiun I uiuic capcc.ai.y u m viuuasis, v . v. -A l,im:lth Hm. .r a Wnliar . harm -3 Vf0vmOtlOn Ot 1 . . ... . I . v . . . - I Keanlved that, d IN SEN A I E Nov. 2J, 1817 .fTirt. BtlhelU the Senator from Rockinghamt' appeared, qualified, and todk his scat. Mr. J , from the select com mittee on: the petition of John Walker reported a resolution re questing the Governor to grant a p irdon to said Walker. Un mo tion of Mr. Murphey the report w:ts amended bv stnkmg out the whole of the reaolutin and sub stitutiug a Bill to pardon John jth-I8 House. W raker, : etc; 1 he bill passed the first reading and was sent to the House.' '5 "Saturday. Nov. 22 Mr. Br utort introductd a bill to established the Fairfield -dead emy.in ienqir county, reaa ; the I port was Received from the ' : Senate a I pro vemeut bo instructed to message proposing to1 ballot Ion j qoire into ihc expediency of ope- M ondav next lor a governor ot niog a navigoic canai irora itoan. ' this State, which was on motion of oke, near tlymouthi in Washing Mr. Stanly, laid on the table, and! ton County, to Puogo river .io ; a committee appointed tQ enquire I Hvde county. , V. into the expediency of encreasmgl niritaniij presented, a bill to the Governor's salarv The com-1 incorporate the Newbefn Steam mittee consists of Messrs Outlaw Boat Company, which was read;." and Pickett of the .Senate; h Mes-jthe farst time and passed t lhil srs. Stanly, Love, and Dudley of bill asks' -for no exclusive priviU-v s House. , I fegd?;vtr. Jtaniy. stated ,that Received from the Senate thie I S50.000 hd alreadV'bceDsubscri- report of the joint Committee on bed, and that it was contemplated the petition of JJohn Walker of o; raise; a capital of y 8 100,000. itocxingnim county. rt:commenar I f uc, u,Faur ,vc ;h view w ni the passage of a bill to pardon said Walker olrclou? lhe rc- i to the House. I and the AfuiaJill.fi select joint com- mittee be appointed ti examine the State of the public Library, ana to lay ouc in tnc purcnase oi books for the use oi the ' General ihrealeced him not onlv with ob- criCt ot which aay one wro ever! ' - r -v.. 1 w -.. w , . - v.' . " scanty but with famine, no hopes heard him,' will speak as soon. as j Icame to cheer the gloom, nor did he is named, but of which : no' one ' tbere remain to him any earthly can give any adequate description - I . ? . MrUt 1. k I lk. m w . t . k tV . .- t k wwuow. , I . . ' I - 7 , . i : i Assembly the annual fund appro . - - .- . I . . . .. j. a . 7 iDnated for that purpose. jylessrs Soon after this Henry having devote read and disagreed to, papers recommitted . to the same committee, with instruc tions to report the facts. . k ; -, Saturday, Vb&. .22 -The bill to' incorporate the Be- j nevoltint. Society of Wilmington passed , its second reading; -t Mr. Nash, presented. a bill i to rua a Steam Boat from Newbero,0 iisabeth,by which,with the aid of; a tineof Stages from . Wilmington tc New bern,aod from ElisabetriCa N or tq$t. a passenger may go fr ' id -Wilmiugtoa to Baltimore in i or 4 days. .V;r' ;;:';iA ' . J Mr. frifwoTtf)presented the irVei mortal of the Board of the' JOirec tors of the Cape Fear Bank, pruy- praying for a reversion of "the, ex f Utibg law under which the insti tuuoa, recovers monies due them. ? ' M ' ?, T"T ,T u'T Murphey and Yanccjr wereap- d.rect the manner ot grannag par e M0 period,; Mr. m tell. ; Add .to all ,th.w,hu oind n the p.rt of the Senate, dona crum cases-Read the ad-wd'fefcrred ted six weeks wonder-working fancy and the pe- XM o : a first time and sent to the Senat.e i iir,,,-ri1 i- -..i..-k-' i :m .;.ki.k k. and Messrs. Burton, A. Moore, . -f , Mr. Wtntlow.. pi ito the s?uddy of the law applied I culiar phraseology fin - which be for and obtained a license to prac- l clothed us images ; tor he? paint Vise it. '.' For three vrears he liurcer- j ed to the heart with v a - force that . ed in obscurity until at lencth a I almost petrified iu Sin the lan ' tontroversy to rhith the Ugisla-1 gnage of. those who heard him on iure and "people, were parties , onl this occasion he made their tne cue sioe. anu tne . .cieray on the other, called forth his gigan tic talents. An act had passed in -1758, authorising persons indebt Robert H Jones, ant Caldwell of the Commons. i ' -v Monday , ,' V' ",. Mr. Leather man preaente J a bill to divide the Counties of Rowan blood run cold, and their hair to I and. Currituck, which passed - its I rise on end.'V . - : . , : J , I first reading and waa sent, to ; the i4 It will not be difficult for a ( House. - . v : ; ',' - uy one, who rever neard thisi, ja a oailot xor uriffauier v-en cd fori tobacco toJcomniute the! most extraordinary mad7to be eraltin i the 3d Brigade, to supply debt for money at the rate of 16s. Ilievc the whole ttc count of this! the vacancy occasioned by, the re- ,'lyattectea the interests oi tne surviving nearers ; and trom their ward u. JJuuiey, esquire was e clergy, whose stipends were pay-, account the court house of, Hano lected. (J 1 ; f : " Able in tobacco, and they resisted ver county, must have exhibited '-Mr;. Outlaw from .the com- .it on two groundst rst because Ion this occasion, a scene : as 'pic-1 mittee bo cocr easing the, Go ecru. the act of l7SQt not havtog re-1 turesque, -as has. been ever, wit-1 ora Salary, reported a bill tor en. ccivca toe royoi : assent, uau uwi i nessea in ? rcai ine. a nev say; i creasinc ine saiary u u ,vw - the force of a law i' and secondly, I that the people whose counteaan I passed its first reading and 'sent Because lhT King in Council : had I ces had fallen: as he; arose, v had I to .the House of Com mons. declared that act null and void heard ribu Received from the House oi In a suit instituted! by the rever-1 ces before, they began ' to look' up$ I Commons a bill to direct the man? v. Cuu J auici durjr, uie buiicvsi uiCD lu. iuu&:ai cavil uujci -.. . -tr tvi 1 uci ui giauuug .iuuua iu wi miu tot of Hanover, and his securities,! surprise as if doubting the evir j cases. -Kead the hrst- time and the question of law came to bedenceof their own . senses t then, rejected " 1 : arguco o ucmuTer, assxguipg its 1 attracteu oy some strong gesture, i oiouoa oi j-ir. jlucii, rcoi causes oi uemurrer tnese reasons, i struca oy some majestic auuuae.j vca, mat tne commiuee ca uic ana was aeterraiaea in tavor or i tascinateu sy taespeu oi nis cyejpcoai couc uc insirucicu en : the plaintiff ' Th2 case then camel the jcharm of hisHcmphasisjVand lquirento the espcdiency oil a "-before a iuxy on a I writ of enauirv I the" varied and commanding cs-1 mendinp: the laws respecting the no! damages; and it .was on this pression of his countenance, they j trial of slaves for capital- oSen uruwuy, i.uui wu tion of i4meseawcU bl layette mittee on the petition of John viilef prayiog'thc exclusive . right v Walkrr, made a favourable ; re ot navigat5og itlc wat.ra of C port, which waa rejected on the Fear river with Steam Boats for" grouna tnst tne egisiamre ; naa t- vearsRcad aod rcferred.tt no richt to interfere in the busi- ness A debate of some, interest arose" on this question," in which Mr. Stanly," Mr. Robt. H. Jones, Mr. A Moore, Mr. 'Burton Mr. fiuestionHhat Mr. Henry made I could look away " no more. In ais oeout or lore tne puoiic. y ur less man twentyminuies,' i ney cuthoPs account ;jbff theV w hole migh t be ceea in every partof the v matter is estreraely interesting, house, on every bench,-; iaevery but we confine oureelyea Ho; the window, stooping (brVardfrora following er tract, j detailing1 what their etaod3 in death like silence; f took place it Court " their features fixed ii araazeratnt fc Soon after the opening of the land awe j sdl their ceases lirtcniay: i izzzrz tto pcnalry-fcr fuiliDQ to vrtjins csuzs yea cu;uai su WTuesdavJM "25. - ? t Mr. Glisson introduced a bill relative to the emancipatica of Slaves Read and sect to the House of Commons : Ir. -iclrtr presented a bill to 1 ,...: Messrs. Dudley, Stanly, & Wius , Thursday Nov 27 . . ; f v Received from the Senate avbU Webb; and Mr. Calloway,' deli'v- to alter the mode of elecung sh;eri ered their opinions. , ims in future in cma ottie, Leon Mr. BixrMTisaid he perfectly! templates electing thera- by the agreed 'With the gentleman from people & a bill concerning strays Ne wberh, that this House had no r-each passed their first reading right to interfere in the present in this house. ' : r ,; 5 x case. The General Assemblv 1 Ua. motion- ox iur. A?f, tt have no powers eicept those that solved that a select joint cunamit aregiven to H by the Constitution tee be appointed to ; enqun e :f ititt of North Carolina, and he defyed the expediency of -erectjag a moa anv gehtlemah to shew any clause ument to the memory' of Brigav in the Constitution :which-author- dier General Francis Nash Who. ises the Legislature to pardon ot-1 fell at the '; battle of Germantdwnf fence like the prescntTho I and of Brigadier General t W il; Constitution h?a erpretsly delepa Davidson;' who fell at the Battle , ted to;the Governor'the ; power of of Cowansfofi, in Mecklenburg pardoning ill crimes, except in County MessrsV Kiag Brit- caseawhere thepf csecutibnis car taibi Cotran and; Sellersere ap- ried on by the General Assembly pointed oa the" part of this housev or the Jaw shall otherwise :direct 5 Received from the seha terthV ft was not pretended that j the report and bill from Judicial y present case comes within, either Committee, which was readied of those esceptinns. It is .- not a ordered ta be printed. The bill j prosecution carried ; on f by the I contemplates 'establishing two J3u Assembly, nor hts ;the lay taken I preme oourt3f one lnitaiign aqa away; .the .-; power " of pardoning fron the Govemor,-a-It is admit ted that thfr Legislature have par 1 cloned in socie ihstaocesand it is high rice ttpt the etror ehould one, "perhaps,1 in Salisbury, to be held by judges ta be" appointed for the purpose. v . "-Mr. Dud!ey pretested i,bUl to ' V 1-
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