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

P""' uPoh thtS p1titul S0ntttia, tl:iS small
spark OF wickcdness, the Cxsrwhelming tor
rent OF conviction to the public mind which
Is contained in Mr.. Pinkney's answer to that
letter. But we read eternaily in the news
papers OF partially to France in this 90
vernment. Why, sir, the circumstance of
TINS letter being withheld from Congress by
the administration is a proof of a disposition
IN the government not to put at hazard our
present relations (precarious as they are)
with Great Britain. The letter of Mr.. Can
ming ought to have been. as it was, withheld
til. the answer was received-and why r.
Because the broad calumny which is uttered
against this nation in this cowardly manner,
when the whole truth in Mr.. Pinkney's let
ter comes out, is found to allude to news pa
Pers, the very things we have been talking
OF. Taken unexplained, l ask whether il
would not have set in flames the people of
this nation? Read this clause:
" You gave me, OH that account, the most
satisfactory proof that such misrepresenta-
tion d'd not originate with you, by .cOmmu-
hicating to me that part of your dispatch.
in which the conferences particularly refer
red to, were related correctly but this
very circumsta nee which establishes Your
personal claim to entire confidence, proves,
at the same time, that a faithful report of
a conference on your part is not a security
against its misrepresentation"
AS the thing stands unexplained, who are
the persons supposed to be capable of making
misrepresentation the government, sir.
The administration has had in this Instance
to suppress feelings in which, had the letter
been published, all the honest part of the
community would have participated till the
explanation came. AS this explanation ha,
come, 1T does shew that the persons alluded
to as capable of making Misrepresentation
are the Editors OF news papers. / do not,
with the gentleman from New-York, reerec
the Particular notice taken of the Editor of
a news paper on this subject, because the
article alluded to bears a peculiar charac-
ter 1t dos not proceed from the fumes of
tie cauldron or the paws of little devils, all
luded to the other day (by Mr.. Quincv.)
No, sir, an arch fiend had a hand i'm it;
whether on this or the other side the Allan
TIC care not. It's an appeal to the people
OF this country, made in favor of the British
government against our own.
Mr.. hey said that he would give his hear
ty vote Tor printing the greatest. number of
copies proposed for he did conceive that
the American people ought to have full intor-
matte and that the antidote should accom-
Pa''y the poison. l consider the late publicati-
on (Said he) as the most direct and in sidious
attempt ct a foreign government TO take adj
vantage OF and influence the parties i'm this
country, and that too by the most dishonora-
bic means The paper alluded to, could
only have been in possession of our own ad-
min!stration or of the British govcrnment.-
IL came not from us it must have proceed
cd from the othcr-and from what view p
Had ta;T iiifor nation been the object. the
letter of Mr.. Pinkney i'm reply would also
have been made public. that one might have
confronted with the other. If it proceeded
IRON that quarter, the separation of the re-
ply from the letter, is e%vincivc of the ATTEMPT
10 impose OH the people. Iconsider it an
attempt to set the people at variance with
thelr government, and an insolent attempt
OF aforeign nation to interfere in aur affairs,
IN three points of view. LIST. Mr.. Pinknevi is
expressly exonerated from the charge Of
misrepresentation but no man can under
stand 1t otherwise than as having allusion 20
the Executive of the Country-an insinuation
which there is no proof to support, and in
support OF which none can be adduCeL.-
whatever difference OF political opinion NAV
exist between us on some points, i respect
the administration on the whole. and every
honest man of every political opinion must.
side with me. 2dly. There is an insinuation
that the President of the u. States had only
permitted our minister at London indipiGu-
aHy, not formally, to make a proposition ON
he subject of the embargo. This is unfonn-
ded IN fact, because the documents before the
f1ouse prove to the contrary. 3dly. A cues
ton Is raised whether actual knowledge Of
the orders in Council of November was in
possession of our government at the time of
laying the embargo, which Mr.. Pinkney
has fully explained, that the American pa
pers showed that it was well known before
the passage OF the embargo, that such would
probably be the measures adopted by the
BRITISH government. 1t is upon the three
that this letter is insidiously cal
culatcd to deiude the American people. L
tnink therefore as ample publicity should be
the truth as may be. However we
may differ as to internal regulations, ! hope
we shall feel as husband and wife, who, how
ever they jar, viii not suffer the Interference
.! q third person. In case of such interfe-
renee, | trust we shall always be ready to-
ra'iy around the constituted authorities as
protecting the true interests of the coun-
tiy.
Mr.. Cook said that these documents she W.
cd that, instead OF being more favorable to-
+ rance than Great-Britain (as had been said
FOR party purposes) our administrator had
been lar less favorable to France than G..
britain aid less favorable than they ought to
nave beeu. ! shall never feel cordial (said
nc ~ going to war VITA France, until we
make to her the same liberal offer which we
nave made to Great Britain, and il shall be
refused. The publication off This mrnnr, -