The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1808-05-24
THE E.NQUIRER.,
RICHMOND. MAY "a. 1908.
No. III.
TO ONE or 'FHE PEOPLE.
MreDEn MIL OUT!

{.promised the, public some time ago, the
KEY TO the marked and rancourous maligui-
ty lately displayed towards a certain indivi-
dual of the Protcsters, by One of the Peo-
pie. and take this opportunity to give it
them. This smooth tongued gentleman, who
has evinced upon more occasions than one.
a violent passion To become an author and an
orator, used upon late memorable Occur
renee, as ill-iortunc would have little strange
concert OF certain great parsonage shut
Hing, cutting, and turning upon another per-
son, "a figure. which it should seem, is fa-
vorite one with him, as he has used the shut
iiIng part or 'ttwice upon us.l 1t was men,
toned to thatone of the Professors against
whom ON bland and polished assailant, has
uttered all his most virulent abuse, and his
opinion was asked. That gentleman who
has most unlucky knack OF saying what he
thinks upon most occasions, and who ought
to have been made wiser by the memorable
example OF Gil Bias and his patron, had the
sad mischance to reply, that those all-four's-
metaphors of high. low, lack and the game,
were not much to his taste. This was touch
rng One OF tie People in his tender place,
and was one Of those mortal offences least
likely of all others to be forgiven. Ills pre-
sumed he soon heard of the criticism, for
from that moment almost it appears, that
this Inflated Prdtester has entirely lost his
! place in the good graccs of Ones of the Pee
pie who previouslNto that time, it is noto-
rious, was not unfreluently in that gentle
mans company, was spmetimes an eulogst
of his character and t,lents, and apparent
ly at least, fond of his society. How far this
Circumstance will account for the sudden and
unexpected luminosity of One of the People
towards the gentleman alluded to, | cannot
undertake to say. To melt appears a salts
f,ct =.
that others will be OF the same opinion. But
let me not neglect One of tue Peoples third
number.
| Upon what basis you found your belief that
eve would Willingly dispense with any fur
| ther attention to our Protest." cannot tell ;
| 1T is truly, indignus vindiCe nodus-a diff
Guilty unworthy OF sdution. But how you
could mag inc that men, who, according to
your first account of them, were willing to
hazard every thing for The sake of little pub
lie attention, and even to transform them
selves into blazing meteors," rather than
| not attract some notice, could so soon be dri.
ven from their purposes, is indeed, difficult
to guess. Are you SO impatient for pubic
eulogium or your late essays, that you are
! determined 10 forestaii tue market, by be-
coming the trumpeter of your own praise, and
III tone OF applause too, which nothing but
the most sublimated egotism could reach
have seen nothing for a long time which
could come near II, unlessit be late at
tempt In Certain friend of yours, to per-
suatsc some OF his friends, whose iaueiabfe
zeal it seems, had threatened a coat of tar
and feathers to violator of the Embargo,
to devote this iawless fellow to him, that he
might give him a coat of - ink, as much
more severe chaStSement. If this alterna-
tive should BIZ offered to the intended Nie,i,.,
! - Z ~. a
he would prefer. You, sir, are at least a
Jealous, if not very competent Judge of your
own merits, and it is;well perhaps that you
have undertaken to do fhat for yourse: f.
which no body else might do for YOU. That
you have assumed the whole merit Of max
ing us sick, las you alledge) of our Protest,
Is f:. ;,,ir sfaii..g ever, TO notice
much less to acknowledge the share which
Your adjutors .itticus and Franklin have
certainly right to claim in atchieving ibis
notable victory. How far these worthy GER
tfemen and Acknowledgements of yours, will re
sent the ndighity put upon them, it is no bu-
siness of mine TO enquire they have not
vet received much OF our attention, and !
believe they will receive still less. Your ia
Tents, however, are so various, and your no.
tees of US marked with such peculiar and
ardent traits of urbanity, that we should CON
slider ourselves lost to al sense Of gratitude,
if W failed TO make you suitable acknowledge
ucnts. Not content In yoir first numbers
with displaying the qualifications of law
YER and divine, you now attack US as sur
geon, and most cruelty thrcaten-Heaven
hep the poor Protssters' to " anatonioe and
dissect U.S." although not alive nope What
YOU can mean by keeping US :. buoyant''
whilst these operations are performing, | do
not we'll understand. Are our bodies to he
kept afloat in spirits for this purpose. If
they are, have only one request to make o,
you, which is, that you will at least preserve
and forbcar " to tap our admiral" tor whom
we have a special regard. The rignt Of Sc
pulture, and the ceremony of burial, which
you have promised to our ruined reputati-
ons. !" is an act OF unmerited and unlocked for
kindness for which we owe you lasting oblga
tons but the part you would have us per-
form of - pouring groans of remorse and re-
pentancc" over them, is one for which, am
sorry to say, you have not yet sufficiently
qualified US. Every thing with you seems to
assume liquid form, or TO be susceptible of
hidraulico-sp irito-ilustration Gf you will
pardon a new coined word) and hence pre-
sumo this figure of /" Touring groans." One
more word Gil the subject OF this fuperal, and
have doBe----lf you mean to act the Par
son, let it not. we besecch you, be III the style
of old Spintext i'll the song