The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1809-01-27

iN : nave seen her preyAft When size Could
not speaA-w4aen she had "a padlocS OH her
mouth. lreth will prevail, and it is the in
terest OF every administration that acts ho-
nestiy>,o pnbl; sh al. should wish to see the
administration 1T this government lay aside
inc practice OF giving IA little at a time. and
come out at once and say, l wish to do this /;
ana then, 1T We will not consent to do il.
there is AN end oft. With repect to our go
Ncrn'nent paying cunning against any other
government, it is idle it can never do good
whilst they have untold millions OF secret SER
vio* money against our single cent. / should
wish that foreign nations had no
ministers here. nor we any there. Instead of
giving ministers 9 1000 dollars To go there. /
would rather give them SO, 0C0 to come home.
l wish the whole proceedings of our admins
trat'on 10 be at the door of every man in the
nation; that every man should have a Copy
Tor himself, for his wife, for each ofhis chill
iren, and indeed for all his household. Had
ms been done heretofore, the present crisis
would have been nothing like what it is
lhey would there have seen truth, as.;, facts
precisely as they exist, neither cartailed or
exaggerated by this or that party paper.
MI. H0con said, that he rose merely to
correct an error of statement into which the
gentleman from North Carolina (Mr. Ma
con- had fallen, as to The source from which
me first publication of the exparte letter of
the British minister had originated. The
gentleman had attributed it to a New York
paper. This Mr.. B.. believed was incor-
rect. Beng DESTROYS, if either honor or CEN
sure could be attached to any American
press, from the circumstance of its being
considered as the Official organ of a foreign
government, that it should lie at the right
door, he thought it proper to state, that the
frst appearance of that letter was as he
I'M ntSfnnf IN n nnn L. - NJ 1T
England Palladium" printed i'm Boston,
here was one other fact which, he menti-
oned with some regret, it was this that by
SOME unfortunate concurrence of circum-
stances, assu'edly without any improper in
'ention the printers Of this paper had been bv
the Legislature of Massachusetts, i'm The
course OF the present YEAR, designated as
the printers OF their public acts, and their
paper was a sort of state Gazette. On this
uniucky coincidence, it would be as painful
% him, as 1T might be indecorous to indulge
In any com 'nentS. From the known patri-
otism OF that honorable legislature, however
there could be no doubt that if they should
perceive any sort of incorrectness in the
conduct OF their subordinate agents. if il
should Sti1ke them az an :~@comgruity, that
their servant should appear to be acting in a
d.uoic capacity they would so manifest their
ehse on the subject as shouldbcst accord with
their views of propriety, and their feelings
of national homer.
Mr. RISK thanked the gentleman from N.
aofk TOT MS compliment to the people OF
New England on their " mischievous curi
o lty. The gentleman seems to SUPPOSE
(said MIR Fisk) that it would have heen no..
proper for The President of the u. S. to have
communicated these documents for the pu,.-
pose ct giving a correct view of our affairs.
than f0T any other reason. | would ask the
gentleman TO point out what diff rent view
the present lettero of Mr. Canning, published
first at Boston, has given, from the docu-
meats which have heretofore beea pub ish
q Certainly none, sir. The only infer.
ehce to De drawn from it, is the incincerity
or intrigue OF the British government for if
the tact vas, that Mr.. Canning did not &C
cePt the oiferof Mr.. Pinkney, because it APP
peared to be unauthorized, how happenedit
that Mr.. Canning forgot to state it in his Of
ilcial letter, instead of those reasons which
ne mas gwen for the rejection of the propo
sal: ihe gentleman regrets thar news-pa-
rers or their editors should be noticed here
1t Is not from a disposition to give them i'm
portance beyond their merits, but we disco
YER something from their publications, and il
Is Tor tlst that they are noticed to shew.
that there Is an intrigue carrying OH in this
country that the British government is en-
"o' u NiNIoe tie people, To separate
them from their government, through the
means.o OF the press. In the Course Of this sessi-
on slr,many insinuations against our own gov
eminent have beer thrown ont on this floor
My colleague (Mr. E.) made one the Other.
night in the Course OF a long speech, which
l cannot now notice. [Mr. GARDENER cal
led Mr.. r. to order, for abiding to all ar
gumcnt which the gentleman GMr. ElIiot)
was prevented from making by a decision
OF the Speaker that it was out of order.1-
Nv Fisk said he alluded not to what his col
had meant to say, but to what he did
say. Mr.. +. said he had merely risen to ask.
1t the gentleman from n. York considered his
to be true, that he would shew
to the House how or wherein they were true.
He hoped the documents would be prin,cd
and sincerely joined with the Gentleman
from North Carolina, i'll wishing an uniycr-
sal diffusion of information.
Mr.. Iayloy observed, that although not
to printing a considerable humber
OF the documents sent to the House, vet ia
he did not give tiiem that i'm
portance which some gentlemen were pleas
ed togive them; and he confessed hat when
Il gentleman had handed him a paper Con-
the famous letter OF Mr.. Cann,up
he had concluded from the paper itself, AID
the ritiful and pimping manner in winch it
was ushered into view, that it was a f1.t,- J
ry. What is it said Mr.. TAYLOR; Il reid