The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1807-07-03
LONDON M,r1o

1ONDON, May IL.
The continuance Of the an for fufpendirg the G.
Peration OF the Nom importation Act from July to
the fecond Monday in December faid to have been
determined upon by. the Preident of the United
States for the Purpofe Of attempting omc further
gotiation with government II is difficult to al
certain from the American papers what are the
points Il the treaty which the Pteiident Objects
One of them Rates that" the want Of fon,e adequate
rroviion for the protection Of feansn conlitute,
the objection to the treaty in its prefent form. Bu;
the principal one arfes from the note of the Brill
niiniiiry, which accompanies it,
The note relates to the condua to be adopted BY
America upon fubjed of the French Decree oil
Blockade. AS to the I" want of an adequate provi-
lion Tor the protection of American Seamen." II
America means by that general mode of exprefIin
that the American fhip iha protect the crew. that is
that feanan being on board an American fhip fhall
be deemed to be an American feaman, and ihall not
be impreiied from fuch fhip, though there fall be
grounds for believing him be Britiih fukiet and
fea''an, fhc will certainly find hsrfelf m6aken if
fhe expect that the rrefent miniGers will make the
hightett coneeiion upon that point-The period OF
cohc.iho is paa.
1t is beyond doubt we believe that Colo.
nsl Cra~ford's expedition is gore sgainft Lima
We fear that the LATE minifters have &c.
ted in this expedition as they did in that to
ContantnoPie, lent an inadequate force.--Lima
/, hrong. and is not to be taken by coup de MAN.
IL is fix or feven miles from the fea Gde, and
from the port of Caoa. The whole amount
of Col. Crawfords force does not exceed 5000
men. THAT the late miniGers have 70 fca,ered our
military force is mon repreheniible. IF they WITH
ed to make permanent imprefIion upon South Anne
rica why'd they not fend Col Crawford to the ri
Yer Plate! They divide our force in fuch manner
to render it improbable that any real good can be
produced any vhere-Five thoufand men into the
South Seas-hve thoufapd men to Alexandria,
Would it not have been wfer, would it not ALTO have
been more calculated to have attached Rufha to us
Would il not have proved to her tina, our obets were
not felhih, had united the forces ent TO Lima and
to Alexandria dpatched it 20 the Baltic and landed
1t in Poland +: 1t is there where the great friggle
is TO take place. IL IS there where the greate i'm
pTelion is to be made upon Bonaparte. Il is there
where fueceis wonld be mott important. IL is there
where victory gained would do the mon towards
attaining the great objects of the war, & curbing the
ambition and power of France. 1t was to Poland,
therefore, that views and efforts fould have been
principally directed.
can be repaired, we know not.-The Baltic has been
open all the wi,ter, but not has been fent to
join the Rilians, and whatever activity the pref.nt
minfers may uie, the battle upon which the fate of
the continent is in all probability tepend, will be
fought without any cooperation aiIitance having
been afforded by this country. But the talents
engroIed by the catholic conceRion and Scotch
law, and could attend to the conrnent-they were
too much occupied in barrsffing the mind OF their
own king to think Of tending fuecours any other