The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1810-05-11

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!, gallery, he gravcly adds. "that the de5at
fshowed that the degree of sensibliiy exci,
ed by this disorder, was extremely differ
ent in the different parties" Strange, in.
deed that party who, by their own rud,
aggression, had drawn upon themselves
ljust retort, and public laugh. did not en-
10y the occurrence quite as much AS others
1t is true there was, ut the time, an aticmp
TO parry the point of the rctort, an,i con.
ceal the smart which it gave. by affecting
a mighty passion az the disorder OF the
! gallery, and insinuating that the love o.
France was betraying us into an imitation
even of her jacobinic disorders; but this de
| sign was defeated by the concurrence OF the
republicans in censuring the disorder: the
only difference between them and the fede
raiists. in the debate, being that the reprb
iicans tsit noneccssity to swell the petty in
cident into unmerited Importance, by af
iccting an indignation which they did not
feel, aud which the occasion did not call
| for.
| Mr.. Madison's resolutions were kept in
suspense; week afeer week, and month aft.
ter month, they hung before the house, the
advocates OF the British interest entreating.
Threatening, imploring, raving and using
every expcdient which their ingenuity could
devise to keep them back yet a little longer,
and protract to Great Britain the enjoyment
OF her commercial advantages And what
did Great Britain in return for this for
bearance This was a state of things to
try her sentiments towards US and they
were effeciually tried and disclosed.
we may remember that during the de-
| bates III Parliament on those measures which
| led to our revolutionary war, one of the mi
nisterial party said that we had been plant.
ed by their care, protected by their arms,
tostered by their love, and had fourjshed
in prosperity at the expence of their blood
and treasure. The opinion among. those
men Certainly was, that we were UNEQUAL to
| our own defence; incapable of maintaining,
| our independence, and consequently that we
should be soon driven again into their shell .
tering arms. Here VIC have the kew to her
whole policy and hence it was that she
saw our Commerce harrassed, with plea.
sure. and contributed, to harrass il. We
nave lately seen It avowed i'm an English ma
per that ever since the acknowledgment of
our independence, there has been a party
near the throne who were determined to
make that independence as dear to us as
possible land destroy its value in our own ewes
by the eXpence and trouble of maintaining
1t. Thus is the point OF time of which I am
speaking, Great Britain, touched with no
corresponding sentiment of lbcrality by the
generous repugnance of the American Con
gress to retailate her restrictions, INCREASED
the riSor OF those restrictions and redoubled
her spo!iations; nor was this enough to sa-
tate her malignity. The corsairs of Al
giers; Kept within their own Forts, by the
superior force OF Portugal, then at war with
them, Opened the Mediterranean i'm a state of
nalcyon peace, to the commerce of the world
C Americawas reaping large share of that
harvest. This was too much for Great
britain TO bear; accordingly she went out
OF her way to patch up a truce between
higiers and Portugal, thereby TO let Ioose
'hose corsairs upon our unarmed merchant
men, and soon enjoyed the fruits of her GEN
erous and magnanimous policy, by hearing
the groans OF thousands of American Can
talns from the shores of hlgiers.
one would have thought that this might
nave sufhced. but even this was not enoneh
Tor her diabo!icaI spirit and, therefore. the
indians were excited to assault and ravase
our western frontier, and thus to place us
between the fire of African and Amer;con
savages. And yet even in this state of
things, when those regulations were again
pressed upon the house of REPRESENTATIVE
which proposed merely to mete unto all ma
tons as they measured unto us the reDubli :
cans we're accused of hostility to G.. Britain
and Partially to France. This crisis was
wound up, before the vote was taken upon
Mar. Madison's resolutions, by the mission of
liner JuStiCe Jay as our minister to the court
tof London, and that famous ,reatv of his
which although called a treaty of amitv and
commerce, left our commerce and our sea
men Just as much exposed as ever. and in
lion Of amty has given us only the most in
veterate hostility. 1t did indeed, superin.
duce some changes upon the law of nations
but they were TO tile advantage of G. Br;'
tam ; In swelling, for instance, the list of con
traoand so as to favor the scheme of the con.
tinental contederacy to destroy France bv
famine, If they could not DESTROY her by
force. The republicans censured this trea
ity as not eHecting the important objects Of
the mission: and for doing so they were
gain charged with French influence.
But still this charge was exclaimed r.
mean only excessive love to the French re-
public, because OF the AID which we had re-
ceived from France in our own war & becance
OF the similarity of the contest in which she
was herself now engaged. The republicans
d,lndeed, feel this sentiment; it was a gene
rous and noble one and glory in it to this
moment, But what shall we say oft the SEN
tiInent OF these who were disposed to Green
and truckle to the feet of G.. Britain and
return caresses for kicks And when ael,
did this sentiment for France bctrav the re-
puoIicahs into a sacrifice of the interests ri
their own country ! Not in the djscrimina-
ton on foreign tonnage or foreign duties
because that discrimination was founded ON
the different degrees OF encourapement hell
out to our commerce. by fore;e,n n..;ors -,