The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1811-12-21

lie Jail. He then adverted to the mcmor..-
Die session OF 1866, commonly called lhe
fear OF sChism, when a wise man of the
last (BidwelD had come up from Mss
chusetts to manage the affairs OF the Ame-
rican house OF commons. with what degree
OF honesty, We could judge from his conduct
IN more TRIVIA! matters, which has siiiCc
been unfortunately trusted to him--We then
commenced our warfare Ill reports aud ma
nitcstos, accompanied with n voliey Of r,so-
iutions-we were now approaching it more
In reality, and alter we had fought tlpe bat
tie OF Friediand, we might be able to make
the peace of L sit, and receive n Patterned
squeeze from the great emperor Mir. Il.
said he did not think our patriotic feelings
would Mozv revolt at the treaty of AIR. MIN
roe of 1876 ; (he said of Mr. Monroe, fo;
although there was another gentleman at
tached to the embassy ,he shrew:lly suspect
Ell he had no moro hand in making it, thai.
he had } especially since our feelings have
been so scared by the note OF the duk 90
Cadore, declaring that We were not be,teH
than British colonies, and unworthy OF Il MS
tiooal name that treaty had been pushed
| ender the presidential table certainly IL q
manner not very conciliatory toth;, neeocia-
tor. Cc I'd We have done better than to have
taken this treaty even with the note OF lords
Holland and Auckland, tackled to its hack
Il as certainly written in decent am; cs-.
pecful terms, and bore no comparison far
Iinsoience, with the aforementioned note
dc had heard honorable gentlemen urge our
engagement with France-this was the most
absurd doctrine he had ever heard set up /;
1t was bubble which a Newgate pracsiti-
nner would hardly catch at, TT only for cor:
rupt Journalists such. nonsense, he would
venture to say, was never argued in county
Courcs, rs that, when we had held ont tcrm.
to France and England equally, antlbecausc
~ ht,r mr. had AnI a..
bound to fight the latter-We were not
bound, nor so help him God, we never should
! De, II 1t was IN his power to prevent it
This would be putting it in the hands Of tine,
most dcspiclSle despot to make way for us
| and who has in effect already undertaken to-
do SO for us--A tiend who has been plua-,.
dering us tor years upon his bare hron,isc Of
for5earance is to hold at will the energies
and pursestrings of this gccd people-ou,.
ships would naturally make use of French
ports to reft, and carry in their prizes; our.
people would become identified with his, aaIs,
an alliance would as surely he produced, as
there was God III heaven, 50 inevitably will
one thing lead TO ar0thar-,or the fin:.s issuca
| he would refer to his other allies in Eu-opss
who have had fraterral or rather an infer
nal embrace.-He would ask where vas the.
return we were TO geton cur part Our to-.
lbacco was not wanting there ,|there was but
~
could be no sale for cotton, our bread stuff
was refused which he prevented rs FROM
carrying to England, while he supplied hey,
in.that very article himself. What, then,
wcre'we to goto war for the mere privilege
of going to France MIR. r. here read esc-
tracts from treaty signed by Bonapar,e,
while consul, which declares that the Uuis-~
ed states and France are afwaysto remain in
| amity, that in case war should break out,
six months were to be allowed TO the respect,
i've subjects OF each country to remove thei,,
| persons and property to the domlnions OF the
! other.-Ihis treaty had never been violated
OIL our part. nor has any such pretence been
urged yet our property has been seized to-
the amount OF $50, CC0, 0CO and some Of our ci-
tlzenshave not been treated ogeramicably--
lie Could assure the house that the French
vulture never going to relinquish this.
treasure, without having double and a tre,,--
Die lien upon us--We are now about to 6 u
our. blrth-rISht Tor a pot of French broth
but to return to the ulterior purposes of the
tconmlttee,- stout which so much has been
SAID tear that this is not to he war of
detence gentlemen have been taken to the
summit OF the mount. and shewn the fet tile
soil or the British side of the. Lake Ontario
which was said to be better than that ON thu.
American side. He had heard nothing in all
TINS eXtirpatmg war OF commerce about Na-
| max and Nova Scotia--like the whippoor-,
will, the committee had always sung the
same note, Canada Canada Canada
he mouth OF the st. Lawrence to be sure
was very desirable, but he had never heard
OF our commerce being molested from that
lquarter. The secret was that there was
rich Land there, and our agrarian avarice
prompted us towards it a held for specua-
tors to the north, such as we have had TO thes
isoutn-Mr. X. here made q brief statement
OF the good effects of ninorites, both aere
and III England that our country was ~
debted to them for averting war, both IN the,
days OF terror and times of schism The
bomb (report) which had been fred from the,
Committee of foreign relations, put him in
miHd OF carricature he had seen of Gil
braltar III the moon, and Frenchman max
ing passes at it with his small sword-The
Spanish knight was also present, with hon-
est Sancho at his back, mounted on his dapA
pie, who, by the bye, he believed to be one
OF the wiscSt ministers he ever knew, wisely
exclaimed 7veW starve then, OUT" Hun
and his friend from Carolina had been so alb
surd as to calculatc-they were called cali
culato' y--he believed that war was never
entered into without calculating, and that
by better heads than either his OF his friends
would turn out to be. Avaricc was too low
an idea tor a statesman, we have been told,
and tit only for dirty shops-Did gentlemen
know that avaricc of the public treasure
was the first and greatest virtue of states
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