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


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IRON coBBsrl's, wsEKLy ioLIrtcAL RE
0lsrER.
THE JuBILpE-This would seem to be tie |
rear Of .fn5ilee for, the people OF T'Tsasp, OF
Yienna, of Naples. and of many other places, are,
by the public prints, said TO be making boifires
and iilu,ninations, and singing Tie Deams that
is to Y, singing psalms of praise to God. 1t rs
true, indeed, that, la these instances God is TO
be thanked for tic birh. life and deeds Of the EN-
psrer Napoleon, and " for the manifold blessings
enjoved under his benignant sway - whereas our
people propose to thank God in form, to sing |
psalms of praise to then Csdtor, for the birth, Efe
deeds o. our king. & tor the blessings enjoyed
under his benignant sway :" and, msrcover, to |
bestow, at the same time, few exeCt;;ions upon
that same Napoleon, ON whom the other nations |
ct Europe are bestown, so many blessings, and
whom our people .saert to be despot, u n,erci |
less squeezer and grinder OF his abiecl subjects.
and, indeed whom some of them accuse of being |
| most profound hypocrte himself, while every,
aye every, member OF his family, female we'll
! as male, rs SO corrupt III heart and so loathsome
IN carcas", To be fl for little else than to be
thrown 10 the dung -liil.-BOnaparte's people
| never describe, IN u,is way, our sovereign and
| his family or, have missed the descriptions
but, ought not our jubilee people to be cautious
hsw uI.y thus describe a sovereign, whom so
| masy cities and nations SEEM resolved To honor
! with public rejoicings Surely those vino live
4
| people st Paris must knew the Empc-of better
than we can know him. They NAV h = taste
different from ours but, then, observe. our taste
is as different from theirs Our people think
| strange, that the French can like su;h a soye
| reign US Nonocon but, our neople should not
'orget, that,t is possible, that the French may
thnik IT as strange, that s,'ou!d like such a
severe gn. as George the third IN short, seeing
| that the Fronch are oIr enemies, and are likely
| to continue such, L thin, we All We, y inprHdent-
~ IN goading them in this way about their estate
| Of slavery" II appears to- ne, that our ,sisest
| way would be 20 Lei them remain in ignorance of
the great blessings, which we exclusively erljoy
and which, hitherto, they have not seemed dis
! posed to envy MS. Why should we fret on rselves
about their slavery Let them be si,,es, if they
choose it, so long remain so free and So
| happy-l is peculiarly unfortunate too tina,
| these wretched slaves" should be, as il were
out o! mere spite, making jubikccs al over the
4 empire, and pr0isiNg 0od fOf preserving the life
and proionSlng the reign, ofthe man, who, as cur
people assert, rul~s them with rod of non, and
robs them almost o. the necessaries uf lie. /
answer 10 this, our jubilee people tell u.s. that
esehnccations oiiOve and gratitude are not SIM
ctrei that tue people, the real PROFILE, ufFrance
Austria, Spain, IL,iy, Poland, &c. &c hate him
and his Authority, iih every limb aa, branch ard
shoot and bu! OF hts debSuched and corrupted
iainlly, Than winch, as is asserted there is not
IN ali history, ancient or modern, an instance of
any one family, in any nation, or in any rank Of
HE, more completely void OF every thing Ike
principle, whether OF morality or Of honor; and
that, OF course, SO fan from rejoicing and prais.g
Soa, for his existence, they would, left to thsr
own Will, 1t unrestrained by the innumer be
troops that every where have a bavonet r,oni, I'd
at their breast, put Up public prayers for his cxte
, minatea, lest, by any accident, his race should
be multiplied.
> Now, though ;his answer may Do very vel,
win men. assembled over the bottle, and part.
culaily with such able to hear the lers,
, OK the penstoned poet, tfzgeyaiI, vet. Il am a
fraid, that persons, who take time To reflect.
VIII not DE So easily satisfied with this answer
o., II they snuul, am afraid they will he led
to draw theref'om conclusions unf.ivorable to
The motives OF oar jubilee people; because, if
1t be fact wei established, and unequivocslly
1 acknowledged, that, in several other countries
Of Europe, ;!e people do make bonfires, dance.
illuminate Their houses. drink, gorge, ind sing
anthems IN honor eft man whom they wish at
the devil, we come To this dilemma, either to
allow, that there may be Gog6t OF the sincerity
:. OF our luolse, or that, the people of all those
countries CAL re continent indeed) are a sc. of
despicable wretches, and, of course, not at all
likely to assist" as Put used to call il, {" in
their own l!verance."-The jubilee discuss.
a ons, in the l. 1ndon common council, HAYS. been
very interesting, and cannot fail, in due tse 10
produce good effect. The proposition to hold
jubilee :ls given rise to remarks upon the &C.
currences of tie last SO years it has caused
some to be informed of what they never heard
OF be fore, and some to be remintle OF " nat they
had forgotten. After having, as they tbou,-ht
carried 4 measure, intended to set the exaynDig
OF booZing and gormsndizing and carouzinr all
over the country, Dire wnng the sens.s and re.
collection of the nation in toasting and cheerin
and hallooing, tn: movers of this measure, tho
not much subject to blushing, have been driven
to abandon it, and, instead of soiag to a tavern
they have agreed to 30 to ! church, instead OF
drunk, they have agreed to have thankspip.
ing But, this is trife compared to what is
ganed Ill another way. These discussions have
it is to be hoped, most clearly pointed out tc
the livery of London, the importance of Their
right TO elect the members otheir common cour
Gil; but, OF this shall say more in nv mex
and, in the meanwhile, / beg leave 10 recon
mend TO the reader careful perusal of what
passed at the last city meeting, and which, if
have room for it, shall be inserted I'm another
part of this number
NEW YORK, Dec. 27.-Yesterday arrived
at this port, the British Kings schooner Yes
ia, in IL days from Bermuda, with despatch
es. AS the Vesta was coming out of Ber
mutla, she met The British Move mber Pack
ct Express, going in, from Falmouth for n
!. York.
Captain CowTnap Of the BRIG Fox, has OBJ
ligibgly favored the Editor of the Mercantile
!. Advertiser with file of Calcutta papers to
the 21St of September, frora which we have
made the following extracts. being the on
ly articles interesting to the American read
or