The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1810-02-01


the hands OF greedy ana impudenr specula-
tors upon the public soil; aud -heil.er it be
not how IN his own power to obtain COM
plete redress. for past, and as complete Sc.
cuiity against future oppression and in
sut!.
1t is denied by no one. that the situation of
this Kingdom is awfully dangerous. Even
the vile wretChes Certainly tho very vilest
OF mankind) who are hired TO put forth
faisehoods. for the purpose Of deiUdiog the
people; even these wretches, who have for
months past amused the ignorant with hopes
OF 4 new war between France and Austria.
aud who have talked of the iirmness and
dignitied tone of the later power; even these
awkward as well as venal wretchcs, who
asserted that the Emperor Napoleon was
insane, and who. as if TO prove their own
mental arrangement, told us, that he must
cease to reign il he was mad even these
wretches, profiga,cly impudent as they are.
nave not the Impotence to deny, thar this
Kingdom is now in greater danger than it
ever before had 70 contend with. They
talk OF ITS prosperity, and they triumphant.
iy compare its situation with that Of other
countries; but still they are compelled to
acknowledge the existence of the danger
and, it would be quite impossible for them
to point tany nation upon the earth, eX-
posed to such danger
The more We possess, the more we have
10 lose; III number equal to that of our enjoy
mentS are cur wants, nor does it require
much reflection to convince any reasonable
man, that If this country were to be suSdued,
those amongst US who live in luxury would
suffer the most. 1t is not possible for any but
mad man, or a natural fool, or some one
WHO'S partly one and partly the ether. not
to see the danger now hanging over us and
4 M %,
sensual brute that cares not what becomes of
the country, SO that he can crafty his never
satiated appetites; it is impossible for any
lone, except brute like this. not to feel
great anxiety on account of this DANGER
We see kingdom after kingdom falling at
the feet OF the conqueror; we see him re-
turning from'the subugation of one empire,
to begin, or rather to finish, the subjueation
OF another, where even detachment of his
mighty army has discomfitled and pursued
all that We have been able to raise up against
him we see HIN in possession Of all the ma
val ports and means of continental Europe :;
we see him with all the facilities of doub-
hing In year the amount of his navy, alrea-
| uy large; we see him. in his last act of pa
lcihcation, not forgetting his war with us,
and his means OF assailing us; and, what is
OF more consequence than all the rest put
toSether, We see, lii our government, those
qualities which he has met with i'm govern
ments which he has overturned and annihi-
| lated, and, moreover, while we see, in our
rulers, the same pertinacious adherence to
that OF which the great mass Of the people
complain, we see amongst ourselves that
GOODNESS, that listlessness, that indifference
that want ofpublic spirit, which of all symp-
| toms is the most alarming because it denotes,
that there is wanting the only thing by which
nation can be finally saved Much of big
talk have you, Gentlemen, lately heard from
the Curtises and the Dixons, and the Jack
SEES; much about the contrast between this
| nation and the fallen nations of the continent
OF Europe; but, do beseech you to bear in
mind, that there is not one no, not one not
any single nation or state amongst them
which has not, in its turn, been The object of
the praises, OF the applause, and admiration
| OF these your city couTliers; these YOUR
smooth tongued place hunters Every one
OF these fallen nations has. Ii. st or last, been
the ally CT England; all their rulers have,
LA their turn, been praised for their wisdom
and their piety; their kings have all been
| ardently beloved by their people, and their
queens have all been amiabic and virtuous :,
their people have all been devoted 20 their
holy AFFAIRS" have been full Of "loyalty, %
and have mortally hated the French. Is not
this So! Have you not been told this? Has
not tliS OSen QlNneu In your ears even to the
danger of stunning! Yet, all these nations
have fallen before the conqueror all these.
nations with their pions kings, amiable and
Virtnous queens, wise governments, and peo-
pie happy, contented, religious, loyal. and
hating the French, have all, one after ano-
Their, yielded to those same French. who
nave not only beaten them in the field, but
have revoutionised their governments, and
in most cases, have furnished them with ne W
sovereigns. We'll then, what becomes Of
this contrast SO fashionable with your CITY
orators! They tell you, for instance, of
what Holland is nov; but they do not remind
you OF what they told you about Holland be-
fore it was subdued by France.
In short, this is the truth of the matter.
such as they describe England to you now
they have each in its turn described those ma
tions tobe, which they nozv bid you look at
as objects of triumphant comparison; where
as II they wished you to derive any benefit
from their observations, they would bid you
! 6eqvare, for that all those nations, who. but
little while ago, were, according to their
| account, 7vhat England no7p is, have now
been sH6dned6y tie enemy Of ENGLAND.
Folly and wickedness, which are general.
| ly, IN the end, their own chastisers, do, ne
Vertheless. sometimes derive benefit, or, at
least, temporary impunity, from their long
continuance. 30 has it happened with re-
spect to the folly and the wickedness of these
who, at the end of q seventeen years con.
test for security" have brought us into a
situation, in,which we not only are not secure,
but in which we have not left the smallest
| chance OF seeing security provided for the