The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1809-06-27

vi commons, wnen nc TOLD the House he was
about to set off for Ireland that night, and
declared before God, if he did not carry
with him compliance with all their de.
fnands. Ireland was forever lost TO this conn-
try. The present generation have fore
this but 1 have not forgotten it and
Know, hasty and uAdignifiel as the submis
sion of England then was, that Lord Auck
land was right, that the delay of Il single
day mightver probably have separated The
two people forever The terms submission,
and fear are CALLING terms when applied
from the lesser nation to tbe greater; but
1t rs the plain historical truth, it is the ma
tlrai consequence Of injustice, it is the pre-
dicament In which every country places
itself, which leaves s,ich a mass of hatred,
AND .disconteht. by lis side: No empire is
powerful enough to endure it; it would ex-
haGst the strenth Of China, and sink. it with
all its mandarips, and tea kettles to the bot
tom OF the deep. BY refusing them justice.
now when You are strong enough to refuse
them any thing more than justice, you will
act over again, with the Cat holics, the same
scene OF mean, and precipitate submission
which disgraced you before America, and
before the volunteers of Ireland. We shall
live to hear the Hampstead protestant pro-
nouncing such extravagant panegyrics upon
holy water, and paying such fulsomc conn
Piments to the thumbs and otfals of departed
saints, that parties will change sentiments,
and Lord Henry Petty, and Sam Whitbread
take spell at No Popery. The wisdom of
Mr.. Fox was alike employed in teaching his
country justice when Ireland was weak, and
dignity when Ireland was strong. We are
last pacing round the same miserable circle
OF ruin and imbecility. Alas where is our
guide? -,
You say that Ireland is mill stone about
our necks; that it would be better for us if
Ireland were sunk at the bottom of the sea !;
that the Irish are nation of irreclaimable
saTages and barbarians. How often have
heard these sentiments fall from the plump
and tboughtless squire, and from the thriving
English shop keeper, who has never felt the
rod of an Orange master upon his back
Ireland milestone about your neck Why
is it not stone of Ajax in your hand!
agree with you most cordially, that, govern
ed as Ireland now is, it would be vast &C
cession of strength, if the waves of the sea
were to rise. and ingulph her to morrow. At
this moment. opposed AS we are to all the
woi. =. the annihilation of one of the most
fertile islands on the face of the globe, con-
tanning five millions of human creatures,
would be one of the most solid advantages
which could happen to this Country. Idoubt
very much, in spite of all the just abuse
which has been lavished upon Bonaparte, whe
tiier there is any one of his conquered coun
tries, the blp,ting out of which would he as
beneficial to him as the destruction of Ire
land would be to US Of countries speak
differing in Language from the French, little
Infatuated to their int rcoursc, aud inflamed
with all the rescntmentS Of recently Con-
qnered people. Why will you attribute the
turbulence of our people to any cause but
the right-to any Cause bat your own scan.
tlalous oppression II you tic your horse up
to a gate, and beat him cruelty, il he vicious
because he kicks your II you have plagued
and worried a maStifi dog for years, is he
mad because he HES at you whenever he
sees you Hatred is an active, troublesome
passion. Depend upon it, whole nations have
always some reason for their hatred Before
YOU refer the turbulence of the IRISH to in
durable defects in their character, tell me
it you have treated them as friends, and
equals! Have you protected their commerce!
Have you respected their religions? Have
you been as anxious for their freedom as your
own? Nothing OF all this. What then !?
Why you have confsca;ed the territorial
surface of the country twice over: You have
massacred and exported her inhabitants ::
you have deprived four-ffihs of them of
every civil privilege: you have at every pc
yiod made her commerce and manufactures
the haired which the Irish bear 70 YOU is the
result of aboriginal turbulence Of character.
and of primitive, obdurate wildncss utterly
incapable Of civilization. The embroidered
nai'i'ics. and the sixth form effusions of
Mr.. Canning are really not powerful enough
to make me believe this nor is there any
authority on earth always excepting the
Dean of Christ Church) which would make
1t credible to me. am sick of Mr.. Can
hng There is not happ'orth of bread to
ri his sugar. and sack. | love not the
cretaceous aud incredible countenance of
his colleague. The only opinion i'm which
agree with these two gentlemen, is that
which they entertain of each other; I am
sure that the insolencc of Pitt, and the un-
balanced accounts of Melville, were far
better than the pcrils of this new ignorance.
Nome fuit satius sristes Amaryldis iras
A,q0e srperba pati i..stdia -no,lne Menalcam,
Qinu,yis Ike mgr?
LII the midst oil the most profound peace, the
secret articles OF the treaty of Fist, in which
the destruction of Ireland is resolved upon,
induce you to rob the Danes of their fleet
Alter the expedition sailed, comes the treaty
oi liisit, Containing no article publick
private, abiding to Ireland. The state OF
the world. YOU tell inc, justified us in doing
this. Just God do we think only ofthe state
Of tine world when there is an opportunity for
robbery, for murder, ana for plumber; and
do we forget the state of the world when we
are called upon to be wise, and good, and
just! Does the state of the world never re.
mind us that we have four millions of subjects
whose injuries we ought TO atone for, and
whose affections we ought to ConCiliatei Does
the state of the world never warn us to lay a.