The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1809-09-26

Content with ro6bing:us Of our property
they put our seamen on board their armed
vessels. and con,heited them to fight agains,
our friends the French
After this, who will pretend to charge the
attachment Of the republicans for the French
revolution. 70 the agency of French /hHu-
eneeY Who will arraign MesSrs Marshall
and Pickering as French farfixans?
Mr.. Jefferson, who was the Secretary of
State. before this famous Talk of L. Pick
ering, no doubt felt for the cause Of France,
2afausehe Believed it 10 be the cause of nm
MAP liberty. He felt due indignation :
Sa'nst the conduct of G. britain-her de-
l'tention OF the Western posts-the infiam-
natory speeches of Lord Dorchester to- the
Indians, which called up even Mr.. Picker
ing's ire--this robbery of our ships and
cargoes---tie had traced the Irrespective agr
gressons OF U. Britain aud France on the
high seas-he had seer that the former were
hrst in their existence and more atrocious ia
their extent--that the French arrete of May
9th, 1793, was sevesal weeks hostcricr to the
Convention between his Britannia Majesty
and the Empress of Russia, signed at Lon
don on the 18th vf March, inwhich they re
clprocallv engage to take all the means "irl
their fozve7:.' tor injuring che commerce oi
nce'--~and that Lord Grenville badc x
piIcity Hvowel TO Mr.. Pinkney, our minis
ter IN London, that the captures of neutral
vessels, as directed by the British order of
June Sta, 1793. were fully understood by
both Russia and G.. Britain to De.s soifhin the
intenttonof the Convention between them
But though Mr.. Jefferson was duly sensible
OF all this Interest in the cause of liberty, and
all this just indignation at The conduct of G..
britaIa, yetjn whatrespcct has he nipro
miuedths tights and interests or ms own
country .What sacrifices did he make TO
the cause OF France. whilst he. was the Sc
cretaiy OF State Are they to be found in
his pertinacirus and triumphant opposition
to the insoleuce of Genet his resistance to
the fitting out of FrenCh cruisers ia our
ports? or the sale of French priest Are
they to be found in that. powerful letter of
his TO Mr.. Morris, in which he demands the
Recall OF Genrt-e correspondence, which
throughout has extorted the reluctant admi-
ration OF his most enyeuomed opponents p
No--solicitous as Mr. j. was to witness the
triumphs OF France in the Cause of human
liberty, he was too deeply sensible of the
duties OF impartiali'y tn make the slightest
sacrifice OF the Interests and honor of his
own country. i'' ~.
Blind must that man be, who will trans
fer the sympathy that was formerly felt
in the cause of France, to the existing
despotisms of that country! WHY 6id VIC
once go along with the cause of France p
because we believed il to he the cause of
liberty. Those who surveyed the ca rlfest
stages Of her Revolution, had no doubt Of che
fact. AS internal war began however to de
ISOLATE her cities as The blood of the innocent
and thehelpless began necessarily to stream
from the guilloune,. many of her Former
friends relinqi iShed ali sympathy in her suf.
ferinss. Many still kept :. "a longing, lingere
ing look" upon her, and were sangiline e
noush to hope. that the Cause Of Iibcrty would
YET emerge in triumph from the blood Red
sea OF Revolutiou-but as soon as t&as was
shipwrecked on the shoals of despotis ,ana
the Throne of Napoleon was erected. upon
the ruins, why should we have preserved
our Interest In the cause of France, on her
ozoa aecounf'p Why should the Republicans
Offer mp their prayers for e constr uti On of
government (which was not calcu ale TO
rouse q single sentiment of sympaluy in
their bosomsF The suppositionis more than
absuid--r is the fruit OF an artifce, adopted
by British srbjecA and too successfully in
posed upon many an honest American--an
artifce which has been too fatally used as d
Sett- cF against British Influence. 49,, 5,
If in the late Contests of France with g
we have not partaken of the sympa,hies
OF the brito0s five have felt a rnomentary
sieam Of pleasure at French trjuWpiis; 1t is nos
because We feel any Partially foe France on
HcF CfV'E ctEouV'J L. Is HOt 'DtCSuSE we are
the admirers of her despotism, or the slaves
of Napoleon /; it is not because we feet any
interest Oh their own account, whether il
be a Cirrus or ar hr!,xefHes, Mahomet
or a Mustapha. who rule the reiDs of En-
pires---hut because we have a nearer and a
more daring enemy. to encounter, thx IN France
AN enemy, whose insults and injuries are
beyond bearing, who has. impressed our
seanten, robbed our ships and carg,es, cur
on our, natural privileges on the seas--an
enemy whose eager rapacity keeps pace
with all her victories over Franc@-an enc
my, whose asCendancy on the seas ought at
least tobe balanced By deficit of power on
the continent. Whilst France has whipped
us with rods, G.. g. has scoursed us with
scorpions--Wbilst France has committed
some infamous aggressions upon our rights.
9. has committed. asgressions more infa-
nous x mere alarming Whilst G.. y. will not
permit even cookie she'll Of ours TO sail IN
safety, it is the abstract interest of France to
multiply tho number of neutral bottoms on
the high seas. The actual policy Of her
cases Just as blind to her own Interests, as
insulting to the rights Of the ". S. But it is
because the system Of British piracy is so
much more CALLING, and is so much whetted
b. the defeats vt France, that We have been
compelled to rejoice ar the defeats Of Britain
A review of the acts of the last admins
tratjOp, connected with the charge of
French Influence, must be pos poned to the
next and last Number.