The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1810-02-16

Sou 'or u reign, WHICH, AT tlS CioSe OF itS forty
ninth year, sees in state of continual ieopar-
dy in a state. which places army of foreign
| mercenar,es IN the heart of the country in u
state M which officers OF those foreign
erUenaries, taking the command, even at re
views, in our own counties, of Englisa officers
and regiments, no. excepting reg irnents of mill
TIA Yes. in such = state ot things, We can hold
! n Jubilee; we can 20 and turn up the whites Of
| our eyes, and cicnch cur hands together, aud
| make responses, and sing anthems with a VOICE
! as loud that OF Martin Morales. Yes, there
are to be iouni amongst us, people thus to &c
and to thank Goi-to look upwards, as If in the
| face OF their maker, and thank linn for reign,
that found all oar enemies at our feet, and which
has brought us to point which it il unnecessary
| to attempt to describe. Numcru;,s are the de.
nunciations against hypocricy hut our Jubilee
| crew seem to have forgotten them all
The conduct of many Of the clergy, upon this
OCCASION, Is worthy of notice but, W.. must
not be too general here-because many honora-
bic exceptions will have occurred to every man,
VINO has had the means oil extensive observati-
We hear talk of enemies OF the Church but
the real enemies of the church are those, who
makes use of it for political purposes which,
first or last, must be universally reprobstcd :
a lew years ago, AS respondent observes,
the clergy lent their churches, and were most
active in preaching for, and even in some in
stances threatening their hocls into subscr,p
nagers, Patriotic. The recent attempt TO revive
that Fund, has shared the fate of the attempt Of
John Bowles, and his brother commissioners, To-
revive Jacobinism The late trick Of Jubilee
has, in fact, also faileI, and utterly disappointed
ITS planners and proposers. To require men 70
reJolce and he glad 1t the end OF the forty-u.nth
year OF the present reign, Tor what has happened
TO 1t, would be like requiring to laugh
and be happy with his HAND held il, a hot fire
or, like asking sick man in bed, to get up and
dance and sing. The 4 'ng is impossbe--and
the project, the trick las failed entirely, from
the natural and innate feeling. OF all men at the
present crisis. But those lypocrites, who put
forward the project with their usual cant and
cunning, are now grievously veXcd at its failure
and, taking advantage OF proposition, made
In the CITY by those hostile to the Jubilee, of con.
verting II TO the purpose of charity, they have a
gam set the clergy to work, collect money.
under the specious pretcnce of " relieving the
Poor"-but IN fact to endeavor, by this contr-
vance, TO let down easy their plan Of ioicing at
astlme when men feel only fear and distress =
shame tor things that have passed, and appre-
henson for the future aud in the midst of a war
that promises no termination, but in peace
without security. Amongst many who have
written to me this subject, one gentleman tells
me, the parson of the parish came to his door,
with his beadie and six other persons, to ask for
money on this occasion; that he gave them none
but told them frankly that they seemed to be ma
OF TIER property else why not appoint place
and leave people to carry in their subscriptions
lie tells me, that lie knows of several persons
particularly old women and others, who are ii.
MD, that have drawn THEN purses through fear,
and fear Only.
This is the case all over the country. Not
penny is given from the pretended motive. l
cannot help noticing, in particular manner, the
jubilee subscriptions at IIampe.esd, swarrniup
uare say, wnn government dependents, with
creatures who live upon the public From
printed paper, now lying before me, Durnortinsr
to be an account ofthe proceedings of the Jubi-
Ice crew at Hampstead, and signed by person
named Charles Cartwright, chairman, it an.
pears, that there found to be- in that village
two thousand one hundred poor persons, fit OBJ
Jects TO be relieved; and, it was, accordingly
resolved, TO give TO each of the families TO
which the said persons belonged, a piece of beef
and proportionate Quantity of bread. potatoes
and porter, and also quantity Of Goals sufficient
for dressing the same Why not send them
p.aiters too, and knives, that, for once, they
might not tear their food with their claws -
Wen but what were these people to rejoice
fori Why, that they got a NAV full, to be sure
tor, as to rejoicing for any good that their coun
try had enjoyed, the very thought would have
been absurduy. But, mark, here were 2i00 OBJ
jects Of compassion 2lOe, who were in want
even OF 4 couple of hat fulls of Goals and &C
ccrding to the official returns laid before Paria
amounts to no more than 4343 so that these
cant!nS gentry, these people who are calling
upon tie nation to thank God for the blessings
OF this reign, have themselves, in print, and
under their signatures, furnished us with the
proof, that WITHIN very trihe Of one half of the
people in this I" loyal'' parish, are objects of
compassion on account Of their poverty are so
poor as to render single meal of animal food
thing worth applying for and going after -
are SO wretshed to rendertwo hat fulls of Goals
worth their acceptance. This is, indeed, stri-
king fact. II is, once, proof Of the misery of
the people and of the craft Of those who have
been treating them.
The intention (and beg the reader to bear it |
in nind) the declared intention, of the first open
movers of the jubilee, to have feasting, and |
nothing but feasting all over the country. They
SAID nothing about charity, and, indeed TO keep a |
Jubilee IN honor OF a reign which exhibited such |
swarms OF pauPers to thank God for all this pau |
perism and misery, must nave seemed little in |
consistent. But, the harvest happening TO run |
rather short, and bread rising Just about the time
that the Jubilee project first preached, the |
projectors began to fear that their festivity would
not be well stomached by the haf-starved people,
wND have had the happiness to live under the Ju-
bllee reign. II was not till now, and til the crew
received some gentle hints Of what they might |
expect it not till now, that they thought of
the charity part Of the scheme. In fact, they |
found, that if they did not give the buagry poor |
share with them, the Jubilee feat very likely
to- lead TO the very thing which the feast was in
tended to prevent; and that, instead of contnu
ing the blindness Of the common people, it would,
at once, open their eyes The charity, therefore,