The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1809-08-25

! Their Consuls form one Ct the great ar
teries of their h:inence-accompiishe III
their manners, lavish in their living, using
tho same LANGUAGE, deXtcrous'ri all the forms
| OF diplomatic scduclion-they shoot the
T, poison of their opinions into tho very heart
OF society. Such men are Phincas Bond OF
| Philadelphia, and David Barclay of New
York.
| The Press, that sacred "palladiutp OF
orr rights" does not escape them. Choice
spirits arc sent over amongst us to guide our
prints-and teach us lessons Gu our rights
and our liberties Such editors are picked
out of "the mercenary Swiss Of govern
ment. "--~-Such were Messrs. Cobbett and
Cuten-wliosc "snlc purposes were to serve
their king and thc, country"
British consuis do not want means to tlra :
COON Some OF the American Federal presses,
into their Service.--ln some cases where the
Secret Service Money" of his Majesty is
too palpa5le to he offered as a bride, there
are SLY and delicate means of requisition,
which bind the poo, tool to the task, per.
haps, without his beingconscious oft. Ifhe,
II as use for small sum OF money for a time
the consul Can easily accommodate him
with a loan: IF he be, weak enough to be
prond of the notice and acquaintance great
men, the consul can attack him with civil
ties until Inc enslaves him by the silken ties
OF gratitudc--and then sticks to him like the
Eccch, until he has drained hi,i of the last
drop of his political virtue. IF his print has
struck strongly the chord OF opposition to
the measures of his own government, this
sympathy OF opinions gives rise to congo
niality of interests and feelings. At every
great crisis of aGairs, his friend is vigilant
enough togive him his Cue-glosses over the
iniquities of his own government in such spe-
Colours.
warm attachment to the rights of the ".
States, as even to satisfy the conscience of his
victim, that the best thing he can do for his
own country is to support the cause OF Great
Britain.
Ii these resources are either wanting or
should fail In their effect, the spirit of Bri
fish influence is armed with other means Of
contributing the Press. Some of our towns
swarm with British merchants, agents and
partlZans in some shape or other. These
patriotic sf,irifs are at no loss Tor means of
influence. They mix with the printers,
and indirectly teach them what 7opiIions to
| form, and what selections to make. Their
| patronage directly addresses itself TO the inte-
rests OF the printer-they subscribe for his
| paper, and favor him 7ylth thrir ADVERTISING
custom, if he conducts himself according to
| their wishes ard principles. And woe be TO
the unfortunate printer, who i'll a moment of
enthusiasm for the rights of his country, elici
| ted by the wrongs of G. B. is generous enough
TO consult his old American feelings the alter
ed manners of his patrons reminds him of the
sins he has committed-the declension of
patronage pathetically warns him Of his ru-
in. The poor "devil"i is soon whipped again
into the ranks.
| The natives of Great Britain swarm, as
we have said, in our large sea port and mer-
Camille towns-to which they are principal
| ly drawn by the commercial relations of the
two countries These relations are built up
OH the great demand of the United States
for manufactures, upon the eXuberance and
chcapness OF those of O. Britain, and the
| long periods of credit, which are allowed on
the sale of them.-But with the change of
their residence, these men do not change
their feelings and their creeds. The graft
tude which they owe to the country of their
| adoption, is incompetent to CounteraCt the
ardent love which they have conceived for
the soil on which they were born. There
are few of them who ever part with that
strong political magnetism, with which they
were impregnated in their earliest years
but, true is the load-stone to the pole,
they point to the liking and the country" of
| Britain.
These men impart a tone to the manners
of our cities-and occasionally produce me
lancholy and almost proyerbi,i discordance
between the opinions of the to4Jn and those
of the country.
| They attempt not merely to raise an oppo
sltion between the mercantile and agricultu
raj interests-but in every collision between
the mercantile interests of G.. Britain and
the y. States, amidst the numerous encroach-
| mcnts OF the former upon the latter, are sure
to give the ascendancy to the former
! They insinuate themselves into our Cham
bers of Commercc-and fill the public ear
with murmurs against the best measures of
the government.
They even steal into the direction Of our
public libraries, and Gull those competitions
tor our paates, which are so highly crafty
ing to their own.
There are, in truth, many honorable
exceptions to this general character of the
| natives of G.. Britain. There are many OF
them whose comprehensive minds, and &c
nervous opinions would do honor to any coun-
| try-Many, 7pho are an ornament TO this
soil Of their adohtion--but we are now spea-
king Of the general rule, and not of the ct
cehHonS. Happy. certainly, would it be for
the y States, if all the genius and all the
sagacity of the emigrants from G.. Britain
| were enlisted in their service
Besides these resources, the British gov
eminent employs pensioners and spies a
monSst US, to msrePresent public events,
and attack the characters Of our best men,
through the more heavy artillery ofthe press.
Such are Charles Stuart, alias Stuarton, the
aua.or OF the Revolutionary Piu arch. and
Cullen, the rcputed writer OF " the memoirs