Richmond Enquirer

CHARLESTON, July 27.

Col. WILLIAM DRAYTON, a Representative in Congress for some years from this District, a native son of Carolina, and a resident of our city for nearly the whole period of his honoured life, left our shores this afternoon in the fine ship Sutton, for the purpose of taking up his residence permanently at the North. It is impossible to part with a man of Col. Drayton's public purity, private probity, distinguished ability, and extensive usefulness, without the expression of a heart-felt regret at the separation. He goes bearing with him the full measure of that reverence and respect, that popular approbation, unsolicited and unsought by popular arts, loves to bestow on the faithful public servant, and without an enemy, except such as the late unnatural estrangements in politics may have produced. We are sure that not one particle of political or other malice mingles with and taints the generosity of his nature—the native benevolence of his disposition. May the evening of his useful life be as serene and cloudless as its morning was brilliant, and its meridian effused a steady lustre.—Patriot.