The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1811-12-07
NEw-ORLEANs, Nov. S.
CONVENTION

ed President .fro- tenn. and Mr.. Morel, Sec
rctary
Mr. Watkins, after. stating the situation
OF onr City as To health, and the danger that
might result from the country members re-
manning in the city, moved for an adjourn
nent-this motion was seconded by MIR. Ur-
euhart.
Mr. Bianquc was of the opinion that they
could not legally adjourn for any considerable
length OF time without first organizing their
body by eleCting President and Secrefayu
Mr. Urquhart joined Mr.. Blanque in that
opinion.
Messrs. Detreham, Watkins, Porter &
Sutton, opposed it. Mr.. Detreham conten-
ded that there was no member present
q knew that he was legally elected--at
least he had ouly hearsay or newspaper in
formation for his being so.
Mr.. Watkins stated, that it was the duty
OF Governor Claiborne to furnish the Conven-
ton with a list of the members elected for
each county that the Governor had omit
led to do so and he therefore conceived it
premature i'll them to elect a Presdent-that
Tor has part, he was on the floor without any
other authority than what he collected from
newspapers.
Mr.. Blanque Showed considerable warmth
in support of choosing President * Secre-
tery, alledging that unless the Convention
was organized before cit adjourned for two
weeks, their subsequent acts might be CON-
strued by Congress as contemptuous and IL
legal. His arguments was over-ruled-and
Mr.NNatkins' motion TO adjourn to the Sd
Monday (the 1Sth)of the current month, af-
ter being supported by Mr.. Porter & others,
was taken and cu~r9ed.
st. FRANcIsvILLE, wv. F.) Nov. z.
have been informed from source
which is respectable, that two hundred
Americans have crossed the Sabine near
Nachitoches, and are marching against Ma
cagdochcs, a garrison town of the province
OF Texas, now occupied by Spanish troops
1t i'll be remembered by my readers, that
about twelve months ago, thereawas some
severe fighting between the creoles of Tex
as and the Spanish troops, when the latter
succeeded III crushing what they were plea
sed 20 cali rebellion. AS far as can row
learn, . creole officer named Manchac, i'll
the patriotic cause, came to Nachitoches
Lately torecruit for the republican service,
and succeeded in getting two hundred CT
the finest riflemen of our country, who
have marched in high spirits, flushed with
the love OF liberty, and painting for glo-
ny.
PHILADELPHIA, December 2.
he following letter is from gentleman
OF this city, who has been some time travel
ling through England and other parts of
Europe A gentleman, who lef, America
without any partiaiities or prejudices for any
country 5yt his own, and after seeing Eu-
rope with a dispassionate eye, anu every
where wfn wounded feeling ne per-
ceives, or ne comparison of what he had
seen at no3,< and what he sees abroad, the
causes Oh American suiierinss and the Ger
tain means ~ a-,!nS her artn further and
more serious INJURY. Indeed it is consoling
10 find many OF cur young men, who have
travelled abroad with q more hamble opin-
ion Of their own country than our Cores
pondent, have returned home with very diff
/, serent feelngs.---.fHr0gQ.
Nsrt7Gct IF q letter from a gentleman of
P6iAddcif mia, dated
Lipsrhooi, SehteDl6er 3oth. 1911.
he storm that has been threatening
thcssc tour years past is at length ready
10 burst, and if the American government
viii eVen al this lite hour, act with the
nrmness ana decision which they appear so
long to have been destitute of, we shall vet
rise to dignity as nation, and retrieve that
national character which foreign agrees
ION & domestic faction seem TO have almost
cxtinguishcd. Tosuppose that the present
outrageous state oi things can much longer
exist, is to suppose OR people destitute of
all the feelings that DO honor TO men. and
our rulers unfit for aught but the tools of
British ministers As the case now stands
we are suffering all the epils Of rvag and
reaping none Of the benehtS.
=" The only trade at all worth pursuing is
to the continent, and the vessels engaged in
1T are almost all prey 10 English pirates
When we left Bordeaux there we're three
other American vessels III compan!, and the
gvhoie fur have been captured If these
things must be, in the name OF ctnmon
sense and common justice, let us have an
opportunity of retaliating, and those qho
have suffered by these lawless robbers, (sld
what seaman has not = be permitted to sco.r
the ocean, and execute that retributionup-
on British commerce which British pii'aCics
SO loudly call for at our hands. The mo-
ment has arrived on which much must be
done, when I" the dogs Of war must be let
loose" when our country "a happy period)
will nc purged of British agents and British
emissaries, when the spirit of party will
be swallowed up in the fame Of patriotism,
and the slumbering energies Of the only
people on earth who have rights and free
dom worth contending for, will DC awaken
cd 20 vigorous cxertiOns--Or when tho Uni
ted States must sink to contempt, and dc
serve to be expunged from the list Of indie
pendent nations. May they choose as be-
comes great people"
From tie Louisville CouXSy.
On the morning If the 9TH instSvs l. were