The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1809-10-20

in the Channel, and Tor several DAYS could not
stir to the assistance Of Ireland Admiral Col
poys, totally unable to find the French feet came
home. Lord Bridport, at the change of the
wind, cru'sed for them in vain, and they got safe
back to Brest, without having seen s. single one
OF these floating bulwarks, the possession Of
which we believe will enable us, with IMMUNITY,
to set justice AND common sense at Defiance
Such IS the miserable and precarious state of an
Anemocracy, of people who put their trust in
hurricanes, and are governed by wind In Au-
gust, 1913, three forty gun frgates landed l, 100
men under Humbert, making the passage from
! Rochelle to Killala, without seeing an English
ship In October Of the same year, four French
ffigates anchored in killala bay with 1000 troops,
and though they did not land their troops, they
returned tn France in safety. In the same month !,
line of battle ships, eight stout frisstes. and a
brig, all full of troops and stores, reached the
coast OF Ireland, and were fortunately, in sight
otiand, destroyed, after an obstinate engagement,
by Sir John Warren.
fyou despise the little troop, which, in these
Numerous experiments did make good its land.
ling, take with you, f,ou please this -ecis of its
exploits: eleven hundred men, commanded by a
soldier, raised from the ranks, put to route a Sc
lect army OF 5000 men, commanded by General
Lake, seized their ordinance, ammunition and
stores, advanced $50 miles into a country con
tanning an armed force of $780, 900 men, and at
last surrendered to the viceroy, an experienced
general, gravely and cautiously advancing at the
head of all his chivalry, and of an immense ar
my to oppose him You must excuse these de
tails about Ireland, but it appears to me to be of
I'll other subjects the most important five con.
ciiiaie Ireland, we can do nothing amss if we
do not, we can do nothing we'll If Ireland was
friendly, we might equally set at defiance the ia
Tents OF Bonaparte and the blundcrs of his rival
Mr. Canning we could then support the ruinous
and silly hustle of our useless expeditions, and
the almost incredible ignorance of our CONNER.
cial orders in council. Let the present admins
tratton give up but this point, and there is no
thiEg which would not consent TO grant them.
Mr. Perc'al shall have full liberty t. insult Tie
tomb of Mr. Fox, and to torment every eminen,
dissenter IN Great Britain /; Lord Camden shall
nave large boxes of plumbs Mr.. Rose receivs
| permission TO prefix to his name the appeliatiye
OF vIrtuous; and TO the Viscount Cas,lereagh, a
round sum of ready money shall be well, and tru-
~ paid into his hand Lastly, what remains to
Mf. Storge Carving, but that he rid TN and
down Fall Mall glorious, upon white horse. &
that they cry out before him Thus sh II il be done
to the statesman who hath written "'rhe Needy
hnife Grinder" and the German play! Adj eu
only Tor the present; you shall soon hear from
me Sg in; it is subject upon which l cannot
long be SILENT
| u The last London Prints stare the French ma
rine force to be now great as sis ships of 100
guns, oil Of 81, and 45 f-;sates of different stse,,
embracing SIS, Sos. 40s, As, 4Ss Enquirer.