The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1810-04-17

another paper At present we shall close this
essay with few remarks Of more serious cha.
rScter. perfectly pertinent to the train of thought
into which we have fallen, from one of the most
intelligent Americans at this time in Europe.
90 There is an idea propagated in Europe by
those who have no resource but in their despair,
which it would be very unfortunate for our
country, If it were to find its way to America,
aud be adopted by any man of character for un.
Outstanding because ifa man has but sharae-
ter for understanding, his errors as well As his
sound opinions loo often 60 together into the
minds of others, who have no opinions but such
ss they take up from others; this idea is, that
the present continental system Of Europe. is a
short lived and personal thing, and that having
come in with Bonaparte. it will 60 out with him,
and that rather than do any thing, it will be
better to wait the slow, but safe ard silent re
medy of time. This idea 10 unsound from the
bottom. The present state of things in Europe
is now no more the exclusive work Of Bona. .
parte, thaR it is of Charles, of Frederick, or
Francis, or Alexander, &c. Tho truth is that
the old rotten dynasties of Europe required cor
rection and amendment, they are undergoing
the operation, and if the work was finished to-
morrow, their successors would have nothing
to fear. Have the people of Naples any desire
10 recal their old king I! Would Spain be better
n Charles or Ferdinand were given back to
them. Would Holland take back the Stadt-
holder! What disposition is there now in
France to restore the Bourbons ! How many
sards are now binding all those and many other
powers together But how ridiculous to sit
down < wait for the decease of man of forty,
whose constitution and habits are more likely to
carry him to 100 than short of it and all this
on the contingency that his system may not sur.
vive himself. Do not you be deceived. In the
long prospective of his mind, every thing likely
disturb this system will be foressen and provi
ded tor, and die when he may, it will not be An
Alexander dying of aebauch, and leaving his
kingdoms and conquests to be fought for BY his
generals"
Aworx.
April s.
The forgeries OIL year by Folger, and in
the name ofthe Doolttles, and all the parade of
falshoodi in the English tory prints at New York,
appear now perfectly accounted for-more
than 1900 sail of vessels really American built,
and others British, Danish, and Flanders built,
have been up altogether, or bought even for
| time, to be employed in carrying on the SNUG
CLING trade OF Great Britain; many of these,
| mates and seamsn, have been seized in France
or carried in, their ships confscated, and the
persons found on board, either imprisoned az
persons engaged in hostilities, or confined for
the legal penalties incurred by their own acts /;
many OF these fellows, who had forsworn their
own country and Prostituted its flag to the base
purpose OF England, claimed protection from the
American minister at Paris. Several Of them
were found to be absolute swindlers, no more
| entitled to the benefit of any law or protection
of any ls legislative government, than the banditti
who prowi on the highway, than pirates and rob
bers; these wretches, frustrated in their
schemes OF indiscrimnate fraud, and of the mar
rowly escaping condign punishment, fly from
Europe to the country which they had dsgraced {;
and here they find wretches of congenial spirit,
ready to employ forgery, and fraud, and falshood,
in degrading the American name Sucb .ra th !.
Folsers, and others, whose lbels occupied so
mauy columns ofthe British prints in Boston,
New-rork, Philadelphia, and elsewhere. -
Time, which has unfolded and detested so MANY
frauds of the British and their agents, has no
laid these impositors naked and furnished us
with many new facts-it appears, that there are
persons, who at least were born in america.
some OF whom have narrowly escaped the sibbet.
and some OF whom have been placed in some
such places of accommodation as il il usual to
put swindlsrs and pckpockets; and these have
been engaged In the diffusion of those yariou,
lamentations and reproaches which have been la
Wished concerning American prisoners in
france while some OF those amiable complains
ants have been as busiy profting on the other
side in fitting out smuggling vessels, and priva.
teers, and seducing those AMERICAN tyiseae,s ii.
France to 70 on board these smugglers and pri
satsers The Norfolk Ledger, with eonpas-
sion from the bowels upward, bewa;Is the fate
OF those unfortunate Americans who are forced
ssf T trsneh prisons to 60 on board ships en-
gagged IN smuggling and prvsteerins-but these
means and lamentations are understood; it is
well known where they come from, and per-
hsps we shall ons day make them look as ridi-
culous a. the lamentations of Laban Folrer and
his sympathetic counsellor, Coleman, Of New
York.
aurora.