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

"Atui Cuiiloiiity. IN snort, you became, O
continued, the mere puppers in the hands OF
he did; you joined him in all his underta-
kings; you hissed or you clappet as he com-
manded. You shouted ior JOY wien he babe
you shout; and you wept, or affected to weep,
when he bade your tears flow. No pump,
no anvil, no bit OF dough or of dirt, was ever
more completely at the command of the
pcssessor, than YOU were at the command Of
the minister and his underings; and, it was
reserved for his reign, in honor VI which we
have just Witnessed Jubilee, and for The
4" blessings. Of which there are men TO be
found to "thank God" and apparently with
out dreadlng any ohastisen:ent; this reign,
which viii be distinguished III the history of
England, Gf England shall hereafter have
history yits calami;ies and its disgraces,
civil rs well as military; it was reserved
Tor tins reign To see the citizens of London
distinguished i'll all former times for their
good sense, and particularly for their firm
ness in resisting acts of oppression YES, it
was reserved for lhis reign 10 see the citizens
OF London not only become the duh Il stupid
tools 0f minister, in giving CURRENCY to all
MS doctrines rclAtive to war and peace but
10 suffer MIN to assault the liberties of the
country, to see, In silence, the suspension of
laws made tor the projection or the people,
and other laws passed creating new political
offences, and, to your everlasting shame be it
recorded, You openly appiauded the persecu-
ton OF those tew Eug.ishmen, who had the
courage TO make a stand in the cause of that
freedom. to preserve which for you, your
fathers had fought and blel. Toyou this na.
ton has Il right to look fer ne small part of
all Its losses OF every sort. Against your
voice the fatal measures never could have
been adopted; nor. indeed could they have
been adopted without your ahhrobunon &C
lively given.
You might have prevented all those
measures; and. therefore, repeat, that to
you the nation has a right to look as to the
authors. Or, at least, the joint authors, Of
all that II now suffers, and all that reason
bids it anticipate. If the citizens of Lon
don had acted with only common spirit, is it
TO be believed, that things would have come
to this pass But such has been their tame
ness, nay, their cowardice, that, at last, (un
til very lately,) they have become an object
OF so much contempt, that the minister of
the day appears to have doubted, whether
they were worth using any longer; and, up
on TWO or three occasions, the offer of their
service seemed to be scarcely accepted -
am aware. that it has in your defence, been
urged, that the city of London is not what
1t formerly was that the merchants and
frdde Smen, properly so called have, in con
sequence OF the increase of the government
debt and Pitt system OF banking, and espe
cially by the erection of new power i'll the
East India Company, BEEN in d great mea.
sure, put aside, and that the persons now
calliRg themselves 4" Tie City Of London"
are a set of contractors, brokers, Jews, Job
bers, nabobs and seat dealers, the interest of
every wretch of whom it is to create and
support pretences for expending The public
money, and 10 prevent by all means, and at
any risk TO rhe national welfare, every one
guilty OF any act of public robbery, gr cat or
small that such is the influence and, in
deed, the direct power, Of this numerous
swarm of keen and interchangeable enemies
Oh the country, that ali attempt at resistance
is vain; and that. seeing that it was from
these wfetches that proceeded all the sup
port that was given to tiic measures that
have produced our present. danger, the ca
I7zehS Of London arc not, without discrimi-
nation. tobc 5!&ned.
70 CHS | answer that, II the persons be infl.i-
enced OF domineered over, were lew in number
1t would not lie, with me, matter Of much sur
prize, That the real voice of the CITY should be
'siihsd. But when If is well known, that the
Livery OF London consists of, at Least, from ten
10 twelve thousand, Is not the City or London,
without any discrimination, to be charged with
the principles of Cults, Shaw, Birch and tie
Ike ! II IS III vain TO talk for Il ten thousand
CT the principal people IN the CRY can be intitI-
enced, the blame lies upon the people of the city
much more than upon those by whom they are
influenced. As if, however, this were not
enough, wherCon to convict TIE citizens of Lon.
don OF being the cause of their countrv's ruin.
there IS, annually, an opportunity for them TO
express their sentiments, III manner, which, if
they 90 not express them with effect, leaves
them no excuse whatever allude TO the cleo
non OF persons to represent the Common Co,n-
Gil, and, IN which election every citizen house
holder has a voice. Here, then, we have every
man 10 vote, who, upon any occasion, ought ever
10 be permitted 10 vote These citizen house
holders amount perhaps, to hundred thousand
IN number, and therefore, if Influence can pre-
vail here, the mass is too corrupt ever to be
cured. The fact is, that corrupt influence does
not prevail mere but, there is something, which
III lis effects, is full as fatal, that does prevail,
and that is Indifference which in this case, is
quite Inaccessible, because proper choice is,
~ few weeks, perhaps visible in its good con
sequences. Mucli hos been taken away from
you; the city ut London, as well as the rest OF
the Kingdom, has feltthe effects ofthc Pit sys-
ten but, this right of choosing your represen-
tatves in the Common Council still remains to
you that ~ not taken away you possessed
that before the jubiiee-reign commenced, and,
oy great good luck, you still possess it; and ii
you iaai 10 exercise 1t, and that, too with view
10 the advantage Of the nation at large, YOU act
neither a wise nor an honorable part /; and, you
should always bear in mind, that, as you have il
in your power 10 put down, by your voice, legal
~ expressed, the comb nation Of contract,~s lob
bers, jews, nabobs, and seat-dealers, every evil
resulting from the existence of that neiariOtls
combination Is ascribeaDe to you, aad that gainst