Richmond Enquirer

To a Gentleman of this City, from his Friend in Staunton, Aug. 20, 1816.

Dear Sir.

As you may have a desire to know something of the Convention, which met yesterday at this place, I have annexed a list of the Counties and Members who attended. It is difficult to say what they will do. Two specific propositions have been brought forward; one by Gen. Jackson, for a General Convention, to come immediately from the people, without the sanction of the Legislature--the other, by Mr. H. St. Geo. Tucker, to address the Legislature to call a Convention; and the advocates of each measure, so far as they have yet appeared, seem pretty equal.--One member (Gen. Blackburn) has expressed his disapprobation of Convention at all; believing that representation might be equalized in the Senate, without resorting to this extreme--and that the people at large would be satisfied with this change.

Yesterday they did nothing but appoint their chairman (Gen. Breckenridge), clerk, door keepers, &c. To day there has been some pleasant, and, I think, not unedifying speaking. No conjecture can be made as to the time they will sit; tho' I think at least for this week.

Counties and Representatives.

Albemarle--William Woods, Wm. F. Gordon
Augusta--Rb't. Porterfield, Johnson.
Bath--Charles Cameron, Saml. Blackburn.
Bedford--Jabez Leftwich.
Berkeley--Elisha Boyd, Joel Ward.
Botetourt--Jas. Breckenridge, Allen Taylor.
Brooke--Jesse Edmiston, James Marshall.
Fairfax--Thomas Moss, Wm. H. Fitzhugh.
Frederick--H. St. Geo. Tucker, Jd. Williams
Fauquier--George B. Picket, Fred. Chapman.
Franklin--Wm. A. Burwell, Benjamin Cook.
Greenbrier--James J. Myers, Ballard Smith.
Giles--David French, John Chapman.
Hampshire--John Jack, Wm. Armstrong, jr.
Hardy--Edwd. Williams, Abel Seamands.
Harrison--James Pindall, John G. Jackson.
Henry--John Redd, Nicholas P. Hairston.
Jefferson--Henry S. Turner, Wm. P. Floyd.
Kanawha--Andrew Donnelly, Henry White.
Loudoun--Wm. Noland, Joshua Osborn.
Monongalia--John Staley, Thos. Wilson.
Monroe--Isaac Estill, James Woodville.
Montgomery--Henry Edmison, E. Rawlings.
Nelson--Landon Cabell, Wm. C. Rives.
Ohio--Isaac Leffler, Moses Chapman.
Pendleton--Wm. McCoy, Zebulon Dyer.
Pittsylvania--Geo. Tucker, Geo. Towns.
Prince William--John Love, Edm. Brooke.
Randolph--Edward S. Duncan, Geo. Alderson.
Rockbridge--James McDowell, John Leyburn.
Rockingham--Wm. Bryan, Peachy Harrison.
Shenandoah--Isaac Samuels, Ch. M. Lovell.
Wood--Alexander H. Creel, Jacob Beeson.

One or two other members are said to have come in to-day.