The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1808-08-23

to the prosecutions of government, some
times to an unconstitutional extension of pow
err. III a collector was tn:nea out of his Of
nee Tor coHnivance in guilt, why, it was no.
| thing but the persecution of party spirit !;
| and addresses of coincidence and regret were
poured in upon him. They attempted to
blow the murmurs of all the discontinued
Vermontese into the fame of Instruction.
And now, when there is a little miserable
PreseXt tor giving vent to their rcmonstran-
ces; when the distractions of Portugal and
Spain seem to furnish a .Reefing glimmering
OF AN extended trade; the opportunity is
gladly embraced. The whole northern pack
is bursting forth into full chorus. The fede-
ralists OF Boston have already renewed the
war-whoop. Newbury-Port has lifted her
voice up to the very pitch of the gamut.-
portsmouth is about joining in this delightful
dirty. Committees of Correspondence have
been organized in Boston to spread these MUIR
murs to the very verge of Massachusetts
And every federal town of the north is soon
expected to join in one loud peal of remon-
STRANGE, murmur and denunciation.
1t is not the duty of the man who loves his
country, to be an idle and indifferent specta-
tor at this juncture. LET him take up his
cross and follow me-" Let him rally around
that administration, whose measures he con
slders as essential to the honor and dearest
L
regeneration, for shifting, for doubling,
trimming, or equivocation. The genius of
Qntddism must now be extinguished These
VINO are not TOR the rights and honor OF their
country, must be against them. Those who
Will not support the government, in the firm
and prudent measures which it has pur-
sued ter these purposes, are not wanting to
the republican party. Under circumstances
or this trying import, it becomes the duty of
the friends OF government to express their
feelings and sentiments on our foreign rela
tions. II the tederalists of the north will
fling their brand upon the public mind, it
surely believes the republicans of the union
to counteract its influence by their firm, high
minded and honest resolutions
But the proceedings Of Boston are at this
moment particularly before u.s. There is no
Particular 6eneff to be derived from them.
which forms an exception to these peuerci
| pies oS of the Federalists. There is nothing
In this case to convince us that they are not
notv actuated by their predominant policy
The objections 70 this measure are mime
rous and irresistible
list Has the President received any official
accounts of the Revolutions of Spain and Por
tugal from his accredited agents i'm those
countricse 1t would be ridiculous for
lie cHiSt magistrate or this nation to have
exercised his powers, on tue faith of C. oliing
woods dispatches, or the public prints of
Trinidad
3D. He has at all events had no tidines of
the adjustment of a peace between Great
Britain and Spain. The ministers of the
Junta at Seville, who were commissioned for
that purpose did not sail from Cadiz before the
18th of Iune.--Ths British orders of Co,;r-
Gil are therefore still in full force IS to the
spanish and Portuguese ports and our YES
sells are now as much liable to capture, when
bound to those ports, as they ever were
q, Inc federalsts would have been led nv
common prudence to zvait, alntiL G.. Britain
had suspended her orders as to these ports.
But the spirit of inveterate resentment * su
ps"er TO the cool dictates of prudence
WITH what tace then, can this ESSEX Junto
address the President to " suspend the En-
barge" when no "such changes in the mea-
sures affecting neutral commerce, have Ia
ken place III q. B. Gas may render that of the
y. States sufficiently safe. The President
has not the least authority on the subject.
\ srd. BHt tet us take the superstition, that
Great Britain suspends her orders as tothe
Spanish and Portuguese ports. What would
then be the consequence? Let the Embargo
be taken of as to these ports, it might as we'll
be taken OFT with respect to Great Britain.
Has she not already issued an order. which
dispenscs with all the forms of our Custom
House entries Has she not already invited
our merchants to violate the Embargo. nv
declaring that the Custom-Housc Daners
were not necessary to an entry iuto her ports
Has she not already admitted those vessels in
to her ports e--France has yet adopted no such
Fdspensation. On the contrary, she Is said
to Lave denounced the Punishment, by her
Bayenne decree, of capture upon every Ame-
rican vessel, that is found or the high seas.
What would be the natural effect of these
arrangements No vessel would 90 to France.
for fear OF being taken. All our vessels that
were bound to Spain or Portugal, would stu
be liable to capture by French cruizers. IL
But as to Great Britain, all our vessels would
have free ingress into her ports The me-
cessary consequence would be, that these
vessels which even cleared out in our Gus
tom Houses forSpain and Portugal, would not.
hesitate to repair to british forts.
Let us profit by the erjterience, which we
have obtained, from the present embargo
laws. They have presented a scene of profit
gacy & smuggling, at which the heart of pa
triotism shudders. How many vessels have
cleared out from one port of the u. S. to;a4
mother, that have sailed immediately for.
Kingston or Havana! This soecies ef :-a.:.:e
IS carried on on too large scale aready1--
Let us not enlarge the means of it. Let us
not furnish new temptations to those disho
nest men, who would violate the most sacred
laws Other country from nlercena ,.,y ~, ,t;ae