The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1805-10-15

are no more anfwerable for the peafnres Of the
bntim government, than you are for the mea-
lures OF yonr government nor are they advo-
Gates for any unjua msafures of that Govern
ment ), they fuffer equally with, the native a
Fme''cans IN the refrain. and embarra;imeufs of
American commerce. .ts>-
Noneof the natives Of Britain in this aate e.
yer attempt to offer for any public office; few
OF them take any concern in politics at all |;
none of them go shout haranepiny the mnlr;,
tudc and fcarccly any of then, ever attend AN
election. They are fubiett TO all taxes and
burdens of apublic nature indeed, being al
mott all engaged in the mercantile line, and our
rulers ever resartiug all that protection with
an evil eye, they fuaain more ofthe public bur
dens than the natives. notwithstanding this,
ifthey ever dare to give an opinion on politics
in oproi'tion to the majority, they are immedi-
ately denounced as hottie Ia the government.
This is verified every day in all the principal
towns of Virginia.
With reipett to your correspondents remark
concerning the Iriih, ffiall only obferve, that
could the motives by which they are atfuated,
he as clearly ieen, as their notify and boifterou,
conduit in general, it would very politely be
found that enmity to Britain had much more
powerful fway over them than attachment to
America.
: am doubtful whether you will vouchfafe TO
intert ta'si IN your paper: it is not written In
the ufual ftyle of your correspondents there
are no f1attering compliments in ii; no enco.
miums on MIR. Jstferfon no ratings aga;u,t
the vile federalits. As you have the power in
your own hand, you will doubtlefs exerciGe It
according to your own good pleafurc. i',aIl ufe
no fluctuations.
A NATIVE OF G. BRITAIN.
Cheler6eld, October 10, 1909.
CONNIE 7 6.
We need emo folcitations' to promote the
free exprefion of fsntiments and the wide(t fcouc
of enquiry. IF truth is ever to fuffer an eclipfe,
it is not to arife from the determination of calm
and decent criticifms. but from the ftamp of an
Dnprimatmr or the fhackles of Sedtion law.
In giving publicity to the preceding ftri1ures,
we do not however relinquifh our privilege of
making zach comments as they appear to us to
deferve.
IF be any proof at all of the truth of his al.
fertions, that he has heen acquainted with ma
ny of the natives of G. Britain for great num-
Der OF years in this fate as well as in fome of
the other ftates: then will the argument be We
ry little in our commentators favour; becaufc
the experience of our "enlghtened correfpon-
dent" has been even much more extenfive than
his own. Both are known to us the Iaft by
acquaintance and the 6rt by report; and we
can venture to fay, that whilft the latt has been
confined to the toltary labours of his clofet,
the other has infinitely mingled in the active af-
fairs ofiociety; Whit the one has been fation-
airy in Virginia, the other has been WHITING the
other ftates; and that ifthe one has been among
lis for" great number of years. the other has
been ON our flores for a greater number. We
ihall not infult the feelings of our liberal com
mediator by comparing together their capaci-
ties for obfervatiOn, on the men and manners
which have come respectively before them.
T. We are extremely unwilling 70 difpate the &.
deity Of any alIertion, Especially when it is
made lin the mott folemn manner;'' but is il
credible that this commentator who has mixed
10 much with the natives of Great Britain, fhould
never have heard any exprefii onfrom them dero-
gatory to the government of the United States
Is tpofii5e that he ffouId never have heard a.
ny OF them lament, that thefe colonies had been
feParated from their mother country; that thew
had eftablilhed an independent government,
and are enjoying commerce, .unlhacked by
Brtiih monopoly, and free from the odous diff.
tinction of enumerated and non-enumerated
articles" Is it poflible that he has never heard
theie gentlemen boat of their Britiih contituti-
on, and triumphantly contraft it with the "pe-
riihahle republic" of America? Have no ex-
preiiions of loyalty; no toafts in honour of the
King of England no bacchanaan "God fave
tne hinS "ruic, Britannia, rule the waves"
faluted this commentators ears? Short in
deed mutt have been his experience, If
he has heard none Of thofe things, and
poorly entitled to refpeet NUT that mans
te'timony be, who would knowingly conceal
them. Let me call tothisgeDtIcshan'sr ecoleStion
the ludicrousincidentw which few years fince took
place at Norfolk, when at loyal dinner given
either to the Britilh Conful or the commander
of Britiih frigate, an honef republican propo-
fed to give as toaft "the kipg"--and when eve
ry loyal lip was eagerly touching the giafs, in
expectation of fome fpIendid eulogium, calmly
and indignantly added, "his head in charger !''
Let me, Sin the NOT foIemn manner" allure
him, that not three weeks fnce have expired,
when in this very city party of LOYAL Scotch
men, being collected round the fsftive board, the
King, the AdmiraIs, and the Mobiles of England,
were exutingly todftcd, and the favori,e airs of
their country were enthusiastically choruiTed ::
aud when an honeft republican, whole politics
bad been miftaken, Indignantly toaled the Pre-
ildent, and fang the new air of &" Hail Column
bia," he was jeeringly aked. whether he was
not faaniag his companions. And vet this
candid commentator, Whole warmef attach
ment" to O. Britain is no doubt a pafport to
the confidence of his coantrymen, has till the
iron front to call upon us for zach facts, as mutt
every day occur to him.
Heis pleafed to ridicule the idea of Cobbett's
having been the enemy of our government (;
when 1t is a fact of which even this commenta-