The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1810-07-20

vated by being mistaken, and pernicious
remedies rcsorted to, instead of the simple
remedy OF invigorating the nation by treating
the disease where it affects the body.
Is 1t not notorious TO every man in the
Country, that the British government has ex
crcised, and does exercise an influence in
TINS Country can We not put cur hands up,
on the men, can we not so to the records of
Congress and the laws, aud shew thai it has
been Carried INFO our very Senates
Need we resort to the exposition given by
the late president Adams i'm his valuable
materials for history published in the Boston
Patriot; need we go farther than the whole
&C nduct OF the faction which for a moment
gained az execrable triumph over law and
order IN The legislature OF Massachusetts
need we ask mpre than to see how the vile
emissary Jackson has been treated by the
same faction at Boston need we look far
ther than their proclaimed sentiments daily,
TO shew the existence of fhis hoison in the
body polite
Where shall we find an example of French
snfuencey-where is the Senator corrupted
to treason, where is the public cha acter
who p2lliates. or where the press that JUS
titles or excuses even the comparatively lit
tie wrongs committed by Frances We have
40 senator who eXclaims that France is the
worlds last hope, even when France has
Is the man, or the party, or the newspaper,
that calls upon the nation to rally under the
cannon of France which has subjugated all
t.uropc-wc have no such man-we nave no
: such preS,-and vet see what the operation
OF BRUSH influence Is our presses and even
our government, are so much operated up
ON by British influence, that not merely our
presses but our government takes the atti.
tude OF extreme forbearance or identified
D1oderatton." while Britain kicks US on the
posteriors and splits upon our beard and
all this moderation is intended to prove
forsooth, that we are not under French in
Haence.
Why, conduct like this in an Individual
much less III national concerns, would be the
last extremity of bitterness lit is exactly
such conduct as would invite a coward to be
come a bully, and to kick him who with
a manly and open couutenance may pur
sue his course, Indifferent alike to the ca
lumnies and scuriitties of wretches of all
kinds
1t is this " dignifed moderation" (Which
translated into plain English. means con.
femhh6le and SELF destroying caSsiing }
which dictates the construction put upon the
new British orders in council.
We put a different construction On it, :"
Why there is not pettyfogger in a County
Court that could not give dozen or more
different constructions of any sentence in the
order. A celebrated minister of state said
he required only three words to convict any
man of treason, aud he could make out his
case by inueudoes on these three words.
The National Intelligencei discovers that
" however great the outrage upon neutral
"rights generally, 1t does not nozv apply to
+" the u. So
And if it be an outrage generally upon
neutral rights, we should be glad to learn
where there are any neHtrats to whom il
may apply generally. If on the other hand
there are neutrals but the u $, aud
this is the fact, shall we be told that gene e.
rally does not mean Particularly and that
as there is only one particular neutral
that 1t must be meant as a mere figure of
speech not to have any general meaning
The only nations Which at any time en-
Gagged in the whale and codhsheries, were
the Brush, the French, the Dutch, Uanes,
Russians and the U States. If the order
of council be like all their former orders,
meant to afi,ct all whom they approach. it
will be very important to discover that this
order which relates to the fisheries, does
not apply to us nozo.
How are we to test itbut by the evidence
of facts! the order cannot mean any belli
gerent nation then it must apply to some
nation that is not beligercnt and in the
civilized world we find only the u 5.
Let the whale fishers on the southern
cean look to it; it will avail them nothing
to say that it does not apply. to US nozu !;
they will find it, and in the China seas It
will be found when toe, late, what s7vooh
our dignifed moderation offers to our OPP
pressor.
Does the National Intelligencer not know
that the British claim for their navy, that
kind of obsequious Difference which super
Cllious lords expect from humble vassals !;
is that paper to learn, that an exclusion OF
its navy is considered more important than
an exclusion Of its merchantmen? The Bri
tsh we'll know that their merchant ships
can make their way in the manner which
their system of commercial swinding au .
thorizes, and their government countenan
ces but that the introduction of their navy
is held to be an Introduction of the freedom
of commerce, Because they say. that their
commerce must have Conveys, and if their
conveys are interdicted iron supplies, their
commerce cannot be carried on.
The prospective speculation of a certain
issue, appears TO us equally futile; it is in
vain to expect from France any change of
system. Tue Ramboulllet decree too plain
to be mistaken.
IINTERES Ting COMMUNICATION. !
CONSULAR OFFICE OF SPAIN,