The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1804-05-16

pofe it, and the general councils, and the
councils of G,rozdiDsmenf, will find, in the
union of all the plans, the elements of al
Allotment jult in its baiis and perpetual iS
its proportions.
The chef ofthe linking fund ful6ls, with
conftancy and fidelity, its defamation. AL
ready the proprietor of a part of the pub
lick debt, every day it augments trcafure
which guarantees to the fate quick de-
liverance a fevere exactnefs in account
ing, and an inviolabfc fidelity, have merit
ed to the administration the confidence of
the government, and iecures to them the
interef of the citizens.
The calling in of the money! is executing
without commotion, and without ihock I:
it was Il fcourge when the principles of
juftice were fwerved from; it is become
the mott Gmple operation, fince the pub
lick faith and the rules OF good fente have
fixed its conditions.
At the treafury; the publick credit has
maintained itfelf in the midft of the ihocks
of the war and interelted rumours.
The public treafury contributed to-
wards the expenfes OF the colonies, either
by dire6 remittances, or by operations on
traitors were empowered, if the fums prov
ed Insufficient, to procure more by means
of drafts upon the publick treafury but
with prefcribed forms and in determined
meafure.
All on fudden MATS of drafts Ito the
amount of forty two millions) was created
at st. Domingo, without any proportion
to future wants.
Men without character hawked them
about the HAVANA, Jamaica, and the u.
States: they were every where there ex
poted in the publick market to fhameful
falls, given up to men who had, funded
neither money nor merchandise, or who
were only to furniih the value of them
when they fhould be paid at the publick
treafiry.=- enfued a fcandaleus
debafement in America and more fcanda7
lous flock Jobbing in Europe.
1t was rigoroully incumbent on the 60
vernment to ftop the courie of this impru-
dent meafure; to faye to the nation the
lofles with which it was threatened, to re-
deem above all its credit by juft feverity.
AN agent of the publick treafury was
lent to st. Domingo, charged to verify the.
Journals and the cheit or the paymaiter-ge-
neral to aicertain how many drafts had
been created, by what authority and under
what form how many had been negoci-
ated, and upon what conditions if for
money really funded, if without effective
value, received, if to acquit legitimate
debt, or If for pretended purchafeS.
Drafts, to the amount of eleven millions
which were not yet in circulation, were an
nailed. Information was obtained about
the Others.
The drafts, the entire value of which has
been received, have been acquitted with the
mtereit from the day of their becoming due
to the day OF their payment thofe which
were delivered without effective value,
hear evident tigns of their forgeres, inee
the 'olns ot .,,-isar for ,7,r,,o,, f,rJ.d
, though the ftatement of payment ceTtifies
that nothing was funded; and they will be
iubmted to fevere examination. Thus,
the Government will fatisfy the iuftice it
owes to lawful creditors, and that which
1t owes to the nation Whole rights ii is
charged to defend.
Peace formed the wiihes as we'll asthe
intereit Of the Government. 1t had de-
iiredit In the midft<of the fill uncertain
changes of war it delired it in.the MIDI
OF victories. 1t was 70 the PROPERTY of
the Republic that it had always attached
its glory. In the interior it had awakened
induitry, given encouragement to arts, un-
dertaken ufeful labours and monuments of
national grandeur.-Our veiiels were diff
period on every fea, tranquil on the faith
Of treaties,
They were empioyed only irf4eftoring
our colonies to France and to Happiness !;
there was no armament in our ports, no.
thing menacing on our frontiers.
This was the moment the Britifh Govern
ment fixed on to alarm their nation, to CO.
yer the channel with vefiels, to infult. our
commerce by injurious Wits both our
COATS and ports as well as the COATS and
ports of oar allies 'by-the prefence of threat
ening forces.
If on the 18th Ventofe, year IL, there ex-
|lfted any important armament in the ports
of France and Holland, If a Jingle move
ment on which the greatet miftruft could
put iiniiter Interpretation, was executed,
we are the aggrefiors, the melIage of the
King of England and his hottie attitude
were commanded by aiegitimate foreiight,
and the people of England had reafon to
believe we threatened their independence,
religion and contribution.
But ifthe ahertions in that 'menage were
fahe, if they were believed by the confci-
ence of Europe, as well as by the confidence
of the Britifh Government itfclf, this CO.
vernment has deceived the nation, and by
70 doing plunged it without deliberation
into war the terrible effects of which be-
gin to be felt in England and the refult OF
which may be 70 decilIiive of the future
deGiny of the Englifh people.
The aggrel1ors fhall always be account
able for the calamities which weigh on hu-
manity.