The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1806-09-26
TIE YoIcR OF EXPERIENCE.


We extract the following memorable faq
from MIR. Ellicott's Journal. In the exi0ine
tate of our relations with Spain, it is worthy Of
her attention; for no man knows how G,on
the plan it aludes 70 m,e come home RI her
"buiinefs and bofom." We truft to the wifJom
OF the court OF Madrid for the difcovery, that II
Is much more to her interef to accent an ade-
quate price for the Floriias, than to encoun-
.er the Poinoe riik or noitiiities We will even
nope that whatever may come of the prefcnt
negociat'on, other means could be devfed nv
the wIldom and moderation of our own go.
'Srnnest, TOR conclliating our differences, and
evading the calamites of war.
We muft however confefs, that theft. n,e,ns
are at prefent beyond our corpreher6on,
we know not how it would be pofIiblc to avoid
reiorting to fuch fteps, as would mott proba.
oIT terminate in war. The Mobile il l,ut
up. The people of the MRiHippi Territory,
with their own produce perfhing upon their
hands, and without thofe foreign articles
which habit has made efTential to their accom-
modat'on, are now appealing to that fenre of
duty which we owe TO every portion of the
country, to lay open to them its navigation.
II tni' tact has not been exaggerated to the At
Ian'ic tates, what other proof is reuured by
tae court OF Madrid, that we NUT adopt
lone meaiure towards them, which, if il be nor
wal in itfelf. may ultimately bring us 70 IN ,t
catastrophe
Let Spain then underfand the dangers to
which tuch an event would fubieGt her tenure
OF the Florifas. All her colonial government.
are proverbialiY weak, and unable TO refift anv
lerious attack. Her viceroys are men without
capacity. The great MATS of her coIonifls
are either difaGe6ted to her rule, or Indifferent
about its fate. Let her recolleet, that ar tbis
very moment, bold adventurer, witha Gnsll
corps ot rot more than three or four hundred
men, has dared to invade her S. American co.
ZONES, and threatens to tear the brightef lew
{, rom her crown. Let her recollea that
hrahoa mas no eitabliihcd government to re-
tort to for additional achievements no naoa-
zine OF folders to fuppy the place of thofe
who perth, except among the very neonIe
whom he has invaded. Let her confder that
10 tar as rcnforcements are to be obtained
from TvHbom, the Floridas are infinitely more
expoied to our armies, than Caracas is 70 the
force OF Miranda and that 70 far az Spain an
prehends an I1(n'redis1 in the heart of her CO.
lonIes, there is party in the Floridas not lers
Unaffected to her government, according TO the
Following iketch, than there is reprefented TO
oe IN Caracas. But iris confpiracy of the
FlorIdas was formed in 1893. How much frong.
er then are the inducements at the prefent mo-
ment, when their filter colony of Loui(i ma ba.
N' US iP'e"uu Example or acquired free
dom when the administration of Mr.. IefEer-
Ion has dsmonarated the exceIlencies of re-.
publican government when a greater number
OF our countrymen have emgrated amonea
them and the inhabitants of the MiHi(Tippi
Territory are now eager to fhake the Spanib
fhackles from their commerce
EXTRACT.
During the years i797 and 1893, the cha
raefer OF The U. S. food very high in the Flo.
'iaas ana LouIhana, and even thofe who were
directly in favour of the Republic of France.
admired the ffm manner in which Mr.. LJams
began his adminiaratiou.--This conduit pro.
duced iach confidence IN the, friends OF the