The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1805-06-14
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list: A Hifory of the United States, during
the two firft administrations or, collective
view ofthe mifchiefs of federal policy. Tho
mas Paine has lately recommended that an OIL
cial enquiry fh6uld be made into the meafires
of MIR. Adams'S administration, and more efpe-
cially into the real motives of his friends in raj
fling an army, navy, taxes, the terrors of an ali
en- and fedition law, under the fraudulent pre-
tence that France was about to invade US. But
faithful hiitorian would unravel and damn
thefe arts with as much lkill and with greater
fuccefs than even feIef committee of Con-
grefs. John Wood has indeed attempted TO
write the hiftory of the four laft years of this
period but every one who knows the oppOr-
tunities OF the writer, or has read his " Hiitory
OF John Adams's administration" mutt candid
y admit, that the work was neither equal to
the author nor the author equal to his fubieSf
2Hd An Annual Regiiter of the u. States :.
or, "A collective view of the political events of the
Union and of each State, interfperfrd with all
public documents of any importance, and &C.
companed by view Of the progrefs of indivi-
duaIS IN farming, trade, manufactures, arts and
licences, and literature in general. Beiides the
rowing and irregular Retches of Calender, we
have feen only two plans projected for the pub
LEGATION of fuch work. One is now in the
hands of a Mr.. Carpenter, OF CharIelton, who is
at this time a Britiih fubjeGt /; and if we NAV
judge from his paper, the Charlefton Courier,
is a mott envenomed foe Of every trait in our
contribution, and every act in the preftnt admi-
nltration which is contrary to the monarchical
preiudices of An Englihman. The other has
been long fince projected, but never executed,
by Mr.. Duane, Of Philadelphia, who has neither
fufficient leifure nor tane to make out COM
plete and nterefting RICHTER.
srd. view OF our relations with Tripoli .
Part the fri. Into this little pamphlet might
be thrown much interefing matter: fuch as a
view of the Barbary ftates and the policy which
we have already pur fued and ought to purfie
with refpett to them /; the caules of our war
with the Tripolitans; the extent of their refour-
ces both on fea and land engraved views of
their town harbour and our fleet before it :;
an account OF our naval preparations and of
the gallant deeds of our fquadron during the
lat campaign. The events of the prefent year
will fefve to make out, Part tho fecond.
No one can caf his eye over the prefent faie
Of ht literature OF this country without being
Immediately truck with thefe very obvious
truths that too much of our literary Iabour is
already in the hands of foreigners that
though fome Of theic men may be a6tuatcd by
proper views, yet mott of them have fonght our
ihores in quea of employment, frauqht
with national prejudices and little folici-
tous and feldom qualified to fupport by their
writings the republican nhitutons of our coun-
try; that we have alto among us too few
readers of large and miscellaneous works and
that 10 multiply the number of native writers
and Of readers, il would be proper to felet thofe
lubjetts on which an American only could feel
ftrongly aud write correctly fubje6ts which
are not too profound in their principles to he
undeTitood by ordinary readers fubisGs that
embraced iuch facts as were recent and inter
citing enotgh TO catch The popular curiofty.
Such are thofe fubje6ts which we have already
placed under the head of Litstary Deliberate.
We have feveral accounts of tho arrival of the
Toulon feet in the w. Indies. Lord Melton
(dccotdiug to a late arrival from Furope) was
clofe upon their wake, aud every circumhancc
sutJeafs To hold out The rrorn,f. &c g,-,s 49,,