The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1807-04-28

city Of one deed atoned by the perpetration Of
a greater ? or have they reverted the graduation
of crimes according to fome new difcovered
principle of algebra, that minus is plus and
E'converfo
Thefe are the very people who always vaunt-
ed of their jealous attachment to the moi RI
gid fy0em of ethics. But it now appears that
their politics are in conflict with their morals,
the lat of which (" fwings from it's mooriny"
to comply with the 0ratagems of the firf.
You are egrsgioully in error, my dear F.. if
you impute their conduct to any other motive
than that of political oppoftion, fretted with
a with to enroll their names in our public jour
mails ; fuch is the fervour Of this motive, that it
has given a kind of confpicuous movement to
men who are as dull as the I" FAT weed on Lee
the's wharf"
But Whit | feel inclined to afcribe the con-
duct If federaliits neither to charity, nor a be-
lief of Burr's limos ente, but To a pragmatic TEN
per of oppoftion, I hope you will not take it
for granted, that l entirely approve of the con-
duct of the other fde. Some of this party un-
der the Influence of Amor Patrie, bave fuffered
their feelings to hetray them into wapton and
unavaiii e rcurri.ity. The idle fcribblers of
the day Ito what party they belong ] cannot
decide) feem to have embraced the fubjeGt as a
happy opportunity of fpitting their enomous
dctrattion againt difinguiihed characters, I'm.
der the fcr,en Of patriotic indignation. 1t is
far from my defgn to attic mpt an extenua,ion
OF the conduct of the chief jutice ; although /
am inclined TO think, that he was Mt t actuated by
any corrupt motive. He is furely guilty of an
unpardondnle breach of prudence and decorum,
in not prefrrring the fpotlsf. purity of his Of
fee. and the refpe9 of his country, to the IA.
worry rari;ies OF the teafor.
Ii is faid, and it may be true, that he was
unappriled of ihe invitation of 3. but this ] pre-
fune could not have deprived him OF has faculty
of locomotion, unlefs he had been touched by
the transforming wand of Gree. But, perhaps,
| the imagination of the judge was tronger than
| his aocr,ite, aud had not for,itude enough to
tear himftlf away from the prelped before bin
IN this the Judge mutt pafdon me 1t | am ie-
| minded of one of Goldimith's dilles of a
tongue with final garniih of brains. Many
Judges have been co"den ned FOR the errors of
the teart AID the head, butt hope dear F. that
me lit is not TO be enlarged by the errors of the
appetite.
the public prints are certainly blamelefs in
furniihing a mensxto to tie Judge of his relative
and important Office, as ALTO of his improper
cordu0, but in regard to the other characters
ttey are inexcufib'y wrong.
Mr.. W*****~ hands in no OFF cial relation
20 the public, he is not amenabIe. to them for
his private conduit, and for the invitation
about which he is 10 loudly ceniurej, he was
enioined by the conmon tyes of politcnets.
But for this inofftrGvc a9 he has been a!iailed
with wanton and cau.;ic malIgnity, and brand
ed with a crime of The g~rcateit magnitude.
But it would feem that no character is to ef-
cape the maicvo.ent itrokcs of newi-papcr de-
traction, for | oi,ierve in the Aurora OF the 18th
that the maiielity Of ioTe tcurrllous writer is
more than concentrate with the extent OF
truth, and that he is obliged to pander with
his confidence. in order to feed the malice OF
his temper. In that paper a communication is
contained which is Rated 10 have gone from
this place, and in which it is a.lerted that Mr..
Rs.rss'. was a companion or this Cornwall
feah. This affords an additional evidence OF
the character OF the authors mind, thai in the
very place where every attending
this rrdoubted dinner has been critically can
vailed, and where it is well known that Mr.,
Rsttssss ieidom or never dimes from his own
table, and where it is alto known or 1T leaf
might be known upon the firit enquiry that h
was not one of this party. This itatetnent o
the Aurora then was evidently rb:icAted ioI
the purpole of making a forced and Himfy pre-.
iudc in order to draw an impertihent iutJett
into view, and to injure feelings which even
envious malice NUT refpett (: A fuhjcet too
10 tar from aiiOTllnf Il EDdESS " dOuiS, Nud D.
properly underGtood, to 4 generous mind
his character would bleach the more anc
whittier 10 the view"
The circumRanee of this Pa!try i~nvective be
ing dated at Richmond, where II cannot but b;
known that Mr.. R-''t''* was not at this trea
fon-rejoicing dinner, tends to induce a belle
that the name of the place is fnited for ths
~purpofe of barbiog the point OF afperlion.
For / an convinced that in This place the
character Of that gentleman is 20 highly ant
generally refpeaed, that there are very few, i
any, 70 Indignantly diipofcd 70 loft to mag.
nanimity,sasto carp upon a charge which, ever
to admit as true, has been mott honoraoly at
juGed.
RnGFans g Heneb.-Fhe accounts of thief,
1.-two eaemies are 70 various aud inconffen'
with each other, that it is impofible to anlwe,
the qneRion frequently propelled Which o.
them is viGoric,.- ?--The laa Ruiian accounts
Rate that the French were about to c~vacuatt