The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1808-06-24
FOR THE ENQUIRER.

IHE tory party in the United
States have lately been making considerable
stir about what they call the unjust sci zure
of American property, by order of the French
emperor at Hamburger, These people affect
to possess much feeling for the Americans in
this instance-when it is fact very well
known to the most of them, that the proper-
ty seized by the French in Hamburger, is en-
tirely british. There ;s gentleman now in
this city, who can support this assertion by
facts that have come within his own know
ledge. He himself had been on board of ship
IN the river Weser, with cargo of sugar and
coffee, with a regular set of papers as If she
had sailed from Norfolk, Virginia, with file
of Norfolk newspapers on board, and log
book of a voyage from Norfolk to Hamburg
and a few weeks after this same gentleman
was OF board the said ship in the river
Thames, waiting there for another cargo of
american firoferty. American ciearances
can be purchased of almost every broker in
London indeed, it is said, that the principal
shippers of produce from London TO the con-
tinent, keep in their own couDting-rooms
counterfeit stamps of all the principal Gus
tom houses in the United States. These are
facts we'll known to most of these people, who
are making such stir about the seizure of
American property at Hamburger. and other
places OH the continent of Europe, but it is
believed that the great bulk of the American
people are not when they are, ain sure
they will say at once, that they are not will
ing to go to war with France to protect pro-
perty of this description. They will say
more: they will say, that the man or party
that would wish to involve this country in
war for such a cause, is an enemy to our
Country, and ought to be marked as SUCH
Fellow Citizens, take "a view OF the oppos
ers of our government, the opposers of the
embargo, and the Clamorers about the sell
zure OF American property at Hamburger,
BIC. and you will find they are all of the
same description of people men who would
damn the prosperity of this country forever,
| in order to Gratify their resentment against
p parfic lar ever: or who would DC any thing
in their power to engage this country in the
battles oftheir beloved sovereign George the
third against the French emperor.
! Citizen Cheetham has pronounced the en-
barge to be " miLt-Stone about The neck Of
( he nation" Ills opinions OF this point are
now of very little consequence to the rehub-
Hcan party. lie is far more important for
them to understand the opinions of the
Vice-Presdent OH this same measure. 1t
cannot surely he true, that on visit to Oneida
county, he did express % Iris unequivocal
and decided opposition to the embargo
! This circumstance, however, has been pub
lished in the Evening Post and republished
in the Public Advertiser; but no one has yet
Contradictedit. AS Mr.Clinton is now in npmi-
nation for the Offices of President and Vice.
President, the people Of this country have a
right to know whether il be true Or false. I'm
less Chcetham intends u do nothing but in-
jury to his friends, it is his duty to contradict
Che report.
! Luther Martin and the fcderalists Of Bal
timore are determined to batter down the I'd
ministration by haher shot. They are mo-
satisfied with having two newspapers, the
INorth-.6mericdn and the Fcderaf GAZETTE
under their supreme command An aSsoci
aticn is about TO establish a third paper un
der the amphibious title OF . TIE Fedora
I RefubHcaH."' who does not perceive tn,
master saiyi5 of Luther Martin IN the pros
pectus of this ncqO paperS A man, who woult
not discern the slightest taint OF treason il
Aaron Burr, is now about to disclose It's over