The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1808-12-02

| accustomed to communicate without reserve,
and who probably knew that his spcculatioas
had sometimes proven erroneous-EIis letter
was written for him, & for him only. & i, pro-
duced on his mind, the effect which was i'm
tended. He returned home leaving the price
OF the crop of wheat to be fixed at future
day. Let this single fact attest the sincerf-
| ty and hu'fty Of his naotfves! It may not
be improper to add, that the first intimation
which the President had of his having written
such letter, was obtained from publication
in the Mercantile Advertiser of New York.
This publication did not make the small
est reference to any publication in the Enqui-
rer. 1t was simply an extract of letter
from a gentlemen in this city to his cores
dent in N. York. Hon. Mr.. Co,es's name
was given to the public, is not the question
The fact is, it did not go from us.
The Norfolk Ledger displays the usual
spirit of discrimination, characteristic of its
sect. 1t has asserted, that the Committee
OF foreign Relations " has followed Mr. Ma
olson in mistake committed by that gen.
tleman in asserting, that the British Orders
in Council were issued before the govern
ment OF that country had ascertained that
the French government intended to enforce
the Berlin decree - for that " certainly
Mr.. M. in a letter of March 90, 1907, in
forms Mr.. Armstrong, that the French CRUZ
zers hadacted under that decree, that Spain
had passed similardecree, and was acting
| upon it."---This ground has also been taken,
| for want of a better, by the whole host of fc-
deral Editors. The learned Coleman gilt
tiers in the van and the chaste association
of the F" Federal Republic n'' thunders in the
Rear. Some of these worthless have charged
Mr.. Madison with fragrant contradiction; o.
| Tiers less squeamish in their expressions,
have not hesitated even to Charge him with
| fiagrant .fatsehood.
R"t hc. s..:..!e che ca.e Tic .I..e:c. sc
these gentlemen is to the following expressions
of Ms. letter: "Therc are proofs that the
West India privateers have, undcr color of
me edfcf, committed depredations which
will constitute Just claims of redress from
their government. rs not the obvious dis
tlnction here taken betweenthe cruisers and
the government of France Has Mr.. M
made any other assertion in his letter to Mr..
Esrkine, than that the French government
/ had never enforced its decree, drcyious to
the case the Horizons Where then is the
contradiction where the untruth; whore
the mistake 1t was certainly to have been
| expected, that the individual cruisers of
France, would have been eager to extend
the range of their depredations, f" under color
of these edicts,' until their spirit had been
|
on OF the government But surely the conduct
ofthe French government is not always to be
tested by that of it privGtcers. The friends
OF the British government should be the last
persons on earth to insist upon this identity
his distinction has even been taken by
MIR. Erskine himself in his letter to Mr..
Madison of March 10, 1907 when he de-
clares that " his majesty has learnt that the
measures announced by this decree. have al
ready, III some instances, been carried in
to execution by the privateers of the enemy. -
There is even doubt, whether Mr. E. him
self has not here committed a mistake, by
confounding the cases of sequestratien in The
ports of France with those of capture on,
the high seas.
IT it be said, that cases did occur. g.
ven after the spirit of the French govern
ment was known, it then remains to be shown
that these were not cases of - vessels which
were arrested for having introduced articles
OF English growth or manufacture, and a.
mong them some, which being actually from
England, and laden with English colonial
produce, had entered with forged papers. as
it Coming from the u. States. "-Several
cases of this So. did actually occur; but nc
man will pretend to say, that these were any
other than the municipal effect sof the French
edicts.-lt cases OF any other description did
occur, why are they not mentioned by the e.
ncmies OF the administration The whole
host of federal witlings are dcfed to name a
single case of condemnation, before the case
of the Horizon.
1t is astonishing, that any wel-informed
man should venture to assert the contrary
} position. Even the bold author of the Bri.
} fish pamphlet, g Hints to both parties
which Carries the British doctrine as far a,
any statesman, and even enforces the pro-
Priety OF retaining their orders, though the
French government should rcscind its de.
crees---even this ministerial Mr.. Marriott i:
Obliged to concede the point. He employ.
this very remarkable expression in his 9Th
page: This intercourse between the u
3 and G. b. was further interrupted by the
measures of the enemy; by the Berlin de-
cree, OF Nov 1906, and the subsequent en-.
forcement ofthat decree in September last.
thus candidly confessing that this decree, wa.
not enforced, as high-sca regulation, unit
sep. 1907.
COMMUNICATION.
VIII the friends of Mr.. Monroe never rest
tranquil undertheir disappointments These
gentlemen are now resorting to the most Gu