The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1810-05-01

ries, the country would De AZ peace ana ts gov.
eminent respected.
As to the present question of party, 1 think
that if the federalsts, they called, had not
undertaken to justify the British minister, and
make the shew of division in our country, that c.
very thing would have been arranged to our salts
faction. ! hope it may be so yet but whatever
happens, 1t would never have done US any harm,
especially when the English themselves allow
Mr.. Jackson offered the insult, which the fede-
rali,ts say they cannot discover. As the French
think their conduct has been unjustifable
that Of the British. have constantly voted for
the same measures as to both, and will be ready
to make an immediate arrangement with the first
that will do US justice These my sentiments,
| which ihaye attempted to disguise, let
| those who are opposed to me lay their hands on
their breasts and say so II they can.
THOMAS SAMMONS.
Extract from an American at Paris, Jan. "a,
The. newspapers sent by your friend. as we'll
as several others, have never come to hand, and
| some Of them, for what know, may have been
taken hold OF by the police, and sent to make
| cartridges to Spain and Austria perhaps, as af.
fairs appear to be about close i'm the former as
they have closed in the latter, we may have bet.
| ter luck another time. The news from the D.
States, brought by the John Adaps, was down
| to 18th December, and SO far eonsoling to every
American heart, as it gave signs of life and feel
ing, of which all the friends Of our country here
had begun to despair. Before this shall have
| reached you, you will have heard of the renewed
operation of rigorous system for excluding Bri-
fish commerce, and all aags employed directly
or indirectly in it, which has extended itself to
Denmark, and fthe numerous seizures there
That country, like every other but this, appears
at this moment to be controlled, and in great
measure directed by commercial influence vet
from what hear within day two, there is
reason to believe that the real property of hnie-
RIGA will escape thro' the activity of our minister
here and very possibly the English property
under our flag, or under the illegal color Of our
| nag, will also escape; for the mercantile influ.
ence of London has centrved to place az Copen-
hagen, an Englishman, or what is much more
| strange, one Of your Phinny Bonds, as the osten-
| sible agent ofAmerica but how can we wonder
| at this, after what we have seen in Boston and
in other of our seaports; what Is more, when
| we the mercantile influence even of Den
mark with the ruins of Copenhagen staring them
in the face, after the seizure of their feet, the
conhagration of thsir capital, acting without re-
serve, so sovereign is the lust of money TO renesv
their mercantile connection With Engiand2 Hol
land, which has been the workshop of mercan-
i tile speculation and smuggling, if am not much
misinformed, willlose her denomination of dis.
| tinct nation, through this cupidity and seeing
that the Danes have not been behind their neigh
bors the Dutch, and that IN consequence the du..
i chy of Holstein as well as Hamburg is already
occupies by French troops, YOU need net be sur
priced, II Denmark incars the same fate. There
is great ditfieultyin obtaining, and much delics-
cy IN speaking of political affairs here as pri-
vate obscure individual, Ihear, and see, and say
nothing on suchsubjects but what cannot a.
void hearing, cannot forget The systemrof ex-
| clusion OF British and colonial productions,
make no doubt will be enforced with rigor vet
unknown, & the power to effect it ha. been ,6ro'
the want Of common discernment in the British
COVER nment becoming greater, and the motives
to enforce 1t strengthened every day, by the vari.
ETY. and extent the means employed to counter
act 1t the matter is indeed now reduced to a
question OF power, and the man who rules here,
however he may wave his pride when it
suits his policy, in the etreaty Vienna will
when his power on his own ground is brought
into dispute, consider it point of pride which
he cannot abandon, and which assuredIy he will
enforce E1pedients cannot resist power SO
directi no trade, however lucrative, under a
loose system, can afford profit against the in
| cessant and unrelaxing rule Of confscation-
Our nag will be used where ii should not, and
1t will be assumed by those who have trampled
on 1t, and don't know how Great Britain can
more effeetually make war upon our commerce.
| al enterprise or our character, than by usurping
our flag, and thereby confounding our fair trade
IN the indiscrininate confscation with her own.
frankly declare, that believe our flag will not
| any longer protect our fair trade, in any place
under the control of France and although this
may appear to be contrary to those ideas which
the release ofour citizens in last fall and of some
more recent exemptions Of real American pro-
perty thro' Gen. Armstrong; influence yet cir
cumstances have very much altered and mat
tiers which 1t would not be discreet to put to the
| risk OF paper, but of which we shall perhaps
| talk after my return home from Italy, may ac-
count, in some degree for it. Our fair trade in
spain and Naples, suffers through the same eau
ses, and was considered in jeopardy a week ago ;
have had few opportunities to hear any thing
more latterly than that, tho there was still dar..
ger III those countries, still it was not hope
less. -
We have Americans in Paris engaged in an IL
iicIt trade, with all parts Of the European coast
vessels are bought up, names changed, papers
forged, and contraband trade carried on in such
| manner as 1T is impossible to escape the know
ledge OF the police of this government how can
II De otherwise when /, who never enquire, can
know and hear of such things as matter of COM
mon discourse among the parties themselves -
mere Is indeed most unprincipled gang of
them here, such as should disown nv country
II all my countrymen were such as they are, and
yet ltI by such these we are Judged Of
Many OF these are in correspondence with men
OF similar stamp IN the Uaited States and in En-
gland have seen Our minister but once for three
months, b1t.he is much more reserved than had
supposed. He appears, think, too indifferent
to these people, and that is the opinion of some
others whom have heard touch this subject
Wonders will never cease, young Hare or Hare
Powell, 1t seems, is the secretary Of legation of
the United States for London. The John A.
dams is to carry the next dispatches home, per.
maps by that ship you may De able to collect
more accurate and definite information, as to the