The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1807-08-28


going backward. Her government is bank
fupt, aad her people miferable. More than 4
million of them are paupeysA Her Ring
is mad, and her paramsnts corrupt. we
have yet TO Zee what the prefent new elect
ed parliament will be. There is no one man
| in it, whom / proudly call friend, from
| whom there win be great expectations; but
surrounded by fuch MATS OF ignerance aud cor.
ruption as have for many years pat governed
that unfortunate nation.
The great dependence OF England has been
on her navy, and i, is her navy that has been
her rpin. The falfely imagined power of that
navy ffor it was neceffary it fhould be amphibi-
Gus to perform what was expected from i'll has
prompted the ignorance of her government in.
to nfocnce towards all foreign powers, till En-
gland has not friend left among nations. Ruff
fla and Sweden will quarter themfelees upon
her purtc till it becomes empty, aud then We
| ry probably will turn againa her.
| Depending on her navy he blockaded whole
countries Sy proclamation, and now Bona
parte, by juitifable retaliation, has blockafed
her by land from the commerce of the weftern
part of the continent of Europe. Her infoent
and imbecile expedition to Copfantiuople, has
excluded her from the commerce of Turkifh
| Europe and Turkey in Ala, and thrown it into
the hands Of Frauce-aud her outrageous con-
duct to us will exclude her from the commerce
of the U. S. By the iniolcnce Of the crews of
her navy fhc is in danger of lofing her trade to
China and 1t is eafy to fee that Bonapartc is
paving his way to India by Turkey and Periia.
! The madnefs of the Brtiih government has
| thrown Turkey into the arms cfFrance. Persia
| lies between Turkey and India, and Bouaparte
is forming friendly cornsttious with the Periian
government. There is already an exchange of
ambafsdors. Bonaparte is tending military
| officers into Perha, and will with the content
lNGsk n.
the Engliih monopoly in India. IF France
holds her connections with Turkey Perlia,
| England cannot hold India.
| 1t is in this wretched chaos Of affairs that the
mad government of England has brought on
herfelf z new enemy by commencing hoftilities
againf the U. States. She mutt be ignorant of
| the geography of America, or The would know
| that we can difpoflefs her of her poffefhons on
| the continent whenever we pleafc, and fhe can
not with fafety, keep fleet in the Wet Indies
during the hurricane months. Bonaparte will
find employment for every fielder fhe can raife,
and thofc file may fcnd to the continent of Eu.
rope will become proifoners. There never was
an initance of government conducting itfclf
with the madnefs and importance the Britiih
government has donel This is John Adan1s's
! fupendous fabric of human wifdomi
| The Brtifh Government will difown giving
hottie intruttons to Berkeley have no doubt
| 1t is the tricks of old governments to do 70
| when they find themfclves wrong and pay fome
| fcape goat to bear the blame. But this"will not
be efficient. The pretended right of /eaycb
and the impeachment of our feamen mutt be a.
bandoned. Three thoufand of them have been
imprefied by Brtifh fhips to Fight againft France.
| The French government has fhcwn great deal
of patience in not complaining of it, for it is a
great injury to her and muR be redreiied or
| worie consequences will follow.
| have faid in the former part Of this efIay
| that 1t is difficult matter and requires great
political wiidom for neutral nation, during
1 war, to form treaty with one heliigerent natl
on, that fhall not commit her with the other.
I / will give an inftance of t. s.:
! InI794, Warrington fcnt afr. Munrce as mi.
nifer to FRANCE, and John Jay to England, and
gave them contradictory inttruetions. By the
treaty that then exifted between the United
States and France, Free Hips made free goods. ,
So that the Englifl property on board ,Ameri-
can fhips was protected from feizure by france.
John Jay made treaty with England which
Warrington and the ftupid fenate of that day
ratified, by which free fhps DID NOT make
free property, and that French property on
board American fhips could be fezed by Eng
land. This of coniequence reached the free
article in the treaty with France, and me avail.
ed herfelf Of it, and the United States lofs the
carrying trade of both nations. There isa Je-
fuitifm in jays Treaty which fays, that the
quettion whether free btpJ make free geo(J fail
! be taken into confederation two years after the
war. 1t is now more than two years lince that
war, and therefore it forms an item with the
matters to be now fettled with the Engifh GO
| verRment.
The Britifh government have been 70 long in
the habit of nfolence, that lhe has not the fen(e
of feeling when the power of being infolent
ceafes. She ought to fee that the power of
France by land is far hyperion to Der power at
fea. France, by land, can blockade the COM
merce of England out of Europe and India, and
the Englifh navy can do nothing to prevent it,
| Of what ufe ia it to "rnls the spaps5," IL you
cannot put your foot on fhorc! IF it was
contet for hiheries, the mott powerful navy
would decide; but as it is a conteft for com
merce at land, it is land force that decides, and
navies are out of eueaion.
| If the Britifh government were wife, fhe
would ceafc the pretended right Of Irare6 of her
own accord, for it brings her into endefs trou-
! bic. IL makes all nations her enemy. Every
nation detefts the piratical in(oence Oh England
and none more 70 than the u. States. The fpi-
rit that is now raied, cannot be appealed unit!
PREPARATION is made for the paIt, and fecurity be
| given for the future. COMMON SENSE.
| NETWORK, Auguft 21.
| The Mayor and Members of the Corporate
on, accompanied by capt. Chauncey ofthe Ma
| Wy, and feyeral other gentlemen, went down
| vPnerday RI thp yIarroNVs for the Du,nofe of