The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1809-11-28

land; but, they have SO long borne insnl,
with unmoved gall, that they are Scarcely
to be either dreaded or pitied. These. are the
gentry, who complained so bitterly about the,
attempts to degrade eNtutHc men I; who al :
vised the king lin the last speech from the
throne,) to the people IN the parliament hou
ses to go into their several counties and in
culcate among their constituents an obeeF .
ence 10 tie iasvs these are the People. du
ring whose administration, the crown bar
judge at Winchester. 1T the last assises
thought proper in his charge to the grand
Jury (ot which the right honourable Old Geo.
Rose was tofeman,) to express his sorrow at
observing, that there was a prevalent dispo-
sition to degrade hu6Gc n,en, which he a,
tri5uted to the abuse Of the Lbertv of The
Press yes, these are two Of the gentry, who
were Ia Cifce at that very time, and who
at that very time, as it now appears, we're
brewing quarrel, which has Terminated i'm
an attempt to kill, to murder each osher.
When the Tinman Of Plymouth was tried
and punished so severely for an attempt up
on the virtuc.cf Mr.. Adding;on, the circu,n.
stance OF the latter being hrivy counsel
Tor was strongly urged in GggrauG,foa of the
offence /; and l. am fully persuaded, that. If
any one had said and published, that a duel
was about 10 take, place between these tvo
men. an out Cry would have been raised a
gainst him; he would have been Represented
ashavinG committed Il dreadful outrage upon
his maJcsty's government" in the persons
OF two OF his right honorable privy coun
sellers; we should have seen all the hipl,
sounding words Ot law marshalled arainss
him; and very likely, have seen him pro
secuted to his utter ruin. and penned up in
jan, as distant as possible from his affairs
and his friends Yes, only for saving, that
/ these men would do, or were likely to do
what they have now actnaHv done. this
would have been my fate, or that of any O.
Their writer or publisher. When we find.
! that these two men, the one secrstarv of
state tor foreign affairs and the otl err the
war secretary, have been at daggers drawn
Tor many months past, are our failures and
m:Stortunes any longer subject of wonder,
ror seVeTat months fasf (: that is the fact
stated Is it not in human nature. thu. ,hev
should, during that time, have khzyarted one
another by all possible means: and indeed
Is 1t supposed, that two men, who could not
De restrained from shooting at one another
would restrain themselves from DOING ANU
ihing, III their Official capacity, to annoy
each other, and to produce each other. 5;s,
gracef To what,a state then. is this mn
ton reduced! Whata shame. what n scap.
DIAL, 1t is, that the affairs of a great nation
should be thus committed! For months
past, nay, Tor more than two years, of thy
most Periious part OF this most perious war,
nave the most important concerns. ouestions
oil war and OF peace, been entrusted to these
men The expenditure of one half of tbos.
endless taxes that are weighing us to the
earth; the faith and honor of the country
the lives OF hundreds CT thousands; and the
happiness OF millions, have all hunp upon
the oreatn OF two men, whose malignant ri
Valship, or whose passions of one sort OF. am
other, have 1t last indnced them ,o s,lIy
forth upon heath, with the avowed into n
ton oil blowing out each others brains, And
"hlie tins IS going on, we are hidden not to
attempt to degrade public men, upon balm of
jail and pillory!
IL was this Mr. Canning it was this son
Uof Mrs. HUM indeed il was botb thsse
men, who, as plainly as men could sDeaIr
recommended new and more severe laws n.
Sainst the press, and that. too, because. as
utey sad, the press was the instrument of
JdCoolnical conspiracy; it was they who
cried out against those, who, as thew said
were endeavoring to disturb the peace O.
mind OF "our good old king whose "ooe
and u.fErnliEieS" it became us TO considsr
When we were pressing for certain decisi
sion IN parliament. Have they, then. now
the lmPudence to reproach others with =
want OF consideration for the kings peace of
lhino hsy, who, to the degradation of all
rank and Office, have turned out and ponned
at each others heads. They, who have
Drought upon this reign a stain, which no q.
tAer reigni in this or any other Country. has
ever received; stain that does not BELONG
even TO the worst part of the French revoln'
ton, IN all Its democratical madness, Tha.
revolution, mad and bloody as il was. never
exhibited two ministers Of state shooting a,
each other What figure do we. at This
moment, cut IN the eyes of the world 30
ntParte's ministers are not thus employed
lhey are engaged in quite other sort of mat
ters. his Mr.. Canning is he, who above
all others, has prated about the want Of drco.
run aud dignity in the proceedings of the
french 1t was he whotalked so much abou,
dignity In his paper, relative to the "univrr
sal Spanish nation" The world will now
De able toJudge of what his notions Of dioni
" are worth.---There wanted ONLY This
scandalous occurrence, this degradinp. this
Dlack guard rencontre, to make the fitness
oil inc J"6ilec complete. 1t will, indeed af
ter having congratulated the king upon. and
returned God thanks for the six 70 seven hmm.
area millions OF government debt. and the
premium upon guneas the increase of the
poor rates and the doubling IF the number ~
panpers the creating Of the Income and A.
sesSed taxes with vast addition 70 the
NUMBER OF all other taxes; the adding ten
iolo to the number and expence of the stand
SS army the introduction Of large bodies
Oh foreign troops into the kingdom: the fall
Oh Holland, Switzerland, Denmark. Italv
naples Germany, before our mortal enemy.