The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1810-07-10
VOLUN EERS.

By Richard McRae-The Congress of the
y States-When they respect not our ma =
ti"nal honor, may they respect the public
treasure. by being content with the dull
pursuits OF a domestic life
By Samuel Imrner-Gen. Joseph Jones'
fhe soldier and patriot of '?6-No
Change ct power or clash of party, has
yet been able to change his old fashioned
principles.
By DaOid 7rokes. Adopted citizens May
they forget their native prejudices and
act tor the benefit of their adopted coun
try.
The company at the Spring. separated al
a seasonablc hour and no accident occurred
TO mar the general joy and festlvity of the
day.
On the 26th ut. the British sloop of war A.
Won, OF eighteen guns, III Fraser, commander,
entered the Delaware, pilo,ed by one of the old
stock, john Rowland, of Lewistown, state of De
laware The ship came to anchor off Newcas
Tie, on the 9th, and landed the purser and seve
rsl midshpmen before the master reported to
the collector the cause ofhis entering the Della
ware) who hired gigs to traverse the country,
ana contract tor provisions to be delivered OF
!. board The captain was notified by the survey
or OF the port, that all amicabie intercourse vas
'hterdicted by law; and that he must report the
c'use OF his enter e the Delaware, take any po
sIuoh IN tie river that might be assigned y lie
Collector The captain answered, that Ia
lay very commodiously & that he could obtain
from the people all he wanted, for his oney-the
next day Inc wrote the collector very insolent
note, continued to lay off New Castle trading
Tor PROVISIONS, &C. contrary to law. The collector
stated int circumstance to the government Of
the u States Copenhagen Jackson came posi-
% fh'isdtlPhla on the occasion. The captain of
me Av"" ""rH-nsnced correspondence with
the British consul III Philadelphia, and with sew
oral Spanish and American merchants, for
whom he had brought specie from the H.vanna
and continued to lie iii the river till tI. 81 instant
III such positions rs he pleased to take, keeping
up a reguiar market from tile Jersey and Della
wlre snore Son which day the collector OF Pm.
,ade phia informed the c;llector of Delaware
~ I'll er) that on the 81 i:,slaIt, Jonn Allen,
merchant ofsaid city, had applied at the custom
house Tor a clearance TO foreign port, for The
scarlet er schooner Earnelion. belonging to him,
whilst The real intention was 10 take from on
board the Avon, outside of the Delaware, the
money aud plate, and return immediately TO Phi.
i,delphia-- MIR Allen did not, however, clear out
the schooner, but sud her TO a Spanard, and she
was Cleared on the Cd for the Havana under
the name ofthe Re,no,G = she will no doub,
caIrya load ofstores to the Avon, and return
With the money and plate. When the Avon en-.
tered the Delaware, there were on board, and
are now ON board, several American scamen
| (l3) who had been impressed one in PARTICULAR
Thomas Collins, had been on board five years
< al wished to be released from their worse than
Tripolitan bondage But in all probability, be-
fore this the Avon VIII return TO sea fully sup
| piled, and our government has not on the Della
ware the means TO prevent h. Thus have our
/ laws again been violated with impunity and our
revenue officers grossly nsulted, by the same
power whose armies we compelled to- pass under
the yoke when i'll Our childhood as a naion-Bu
the men of the revolution have passed away-anc
this is the S4u' year of our independence q
Heavens would they have thought it-Aurora