The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1812-09-29
EXTRACT. from Nm Cobbeies s.hxet.v to I'll.


EXTRACTS from, I'm Co6betf@ 5th Iets,r to til,
Prince Regent the dispute sui.h .},asric0.
What has now taken place iD the House of Com.
mons, in that anne House which has, for SO ions
| time, supported the ministers in their adherence.
To the Orders in Council, can hardly fail to have
awakened in the mind of your Royal Hshness {.
recollection of these my efforts, which, to the m; S
fortune OF the country, appear have been despis
eo 10y your late minister and his colleagues Now
however, those great teachers experience and adj.
Iersity, seem to have commanded attention and
IN consequence OF motion of Mr.. Brougham at the
close OF an investigation brought forward by that
gentleman, and conducted by him to the close
WIN spirit, perss and ability which do him
minute honor and which have received as they me
rt that highest of honous the thanks and applause
OK all the sensible and philosophical part of the ma
ton q; IN consequence Of this notion made on the
10Th INST. the ministry appear to have yielded ia
ther than put the question to the vote to have
greed, that the Orders in Council, as far as obiec
ted to by Americas should be annued.
Here, them Sir, is occasion for you TO pause s,
to reffect-And, The first thing to ask Isl what ne
grounds present themselves for the annulling Of
these Orders. There are none They stand unon
precisely the same footing that they have stood on
ever since the menth of November, 1910, when
your ministers were by the american government,
called upon TO annu them in imitation of the r.yo
cation OF the DEGREES OF Berlin and Milan. backed
the application of the American minister; | told
your ministers that the they repealed the Or
ders the better foresaw that war; must 1T last be
the consequence of their persistipg in a reflsfl.
urged them to do what they ought to do of their.
own accord, and not wait till they should be COM
PEELED TO do it. But, Sir, your minister that minis.
ter Tor whose public se,Vices we the people of En-
gland, are now to pay 50,000l. per annum tina,
minister, to whose memory We noSp to erect a
1'iorEmenf; that minister, persisted in his refusal.
and tanntingly set America at defiance; the hes;
and indeed, the only excuse, for which, is, to sup
pose him profoundly ignorant OF the ten cr
m anC nf a e Il
OF England in respect to her transatlantic connexi-
ons.
America, whose government is very properly obi
ged to consult the wishes of the people large, was
nov in her movements towards measures of hostil-
ity. Like s truly wise man the President not only
used all the means in his power to avoid the px-
tremity OF war; but he also took care to prove TO
the world that he had done So At last however,
the Congress, began to make preparation for war
beginning with fully explaining to the people the
grounds OF their so doing. From step they pro
ceeded to another, Il, at every STEP their proceed
inss became more and more a subject of n,ockery
with all those who, in England, take to themselves
the exclusive appeation of loyal men and friends
Of gogernmea.,
Ii was in this stage of the occurrences, on the
irst-f February last, Just after the arrival of the
Report Of the Committee OF Fore gn Relations to
the lower House of Congress, that thought ii my
duty to address Fourth letter TO your ii0va High
ness, the chief object of which was to entreat You
not to believe the representa- Of the hired press
which Was hard "a work to incuc belief, that the
Report imposition, & that all the warlike steps taken
" the Congress, were mere empty noise mere boas-
ting outlying that oil would end in smoke, & that
our ministers might adh' ne to their q. in G.. with
peT!sc. safety. 0aeGica less than four pages iii
my earnest endeavor To impress upon the mind OF
your toylitgliness adistrust oftiis hired thisbase
this prosttued press, VIII eli, while II was viii wing
the President and the Congress, while it was calling
them toolsin the hands of France, was telling the
people OF England, that a ar with America would
Ifslt al Il
of Sicily" Many the prints that labour d 10
these ends; but tie print, pre-emnent in this,
as IN almost every other imposition the pub ic,
was the Tines, the pr0stituted columns oil which
have within these two years, done England more
mischief than thoseof all the other prints put togo
Their.
What will be said by these prints, now that they
see the Orders in Council annuIicd even before n
pici1ca has struck n Flow, is more matter ct curl
osity than OF concern 1t must, with your Royal
highness, be subject of deep sorrow and NORTH
cation to see your ministers lowering their tune,
taking covering attitude, without any new reason
being afforded IN the Conduct Of either France or
AnicIca, and before the ink is hardly dry Of that
Declaration wherein you were advised TO proclaim
TO the whole world, that you would not an-HL the
Orders III Council, ill France had, by distinct and
solemn act, made an unqualified revocation Of her
DEGREES France, far from doing this, las, in the
most distinct manner proclaimed the contrary &
yet, our Orders are, or are to be, arnull .d.--Ai
Ter all the bold talk ut your ministers after all Tie
pledges Of perseverance, that they have put in your
mouth after all the coutemptuous defiance of A.
merca, here doing tie very act which we
might have done nearly two years ago, and inight
thereby have prevented much of the misery, in
the central counties Of England That We should
IL forced to adopt this measure to sustain war
with America, might have been loreseen aud ought
10 have been foresecn, by ministers from the
beginning.
There is yet one point, aud it is point Of great
interest, upon which am anxious TO address your
Royal iiighness aud th0t is, the effect which the
nnnuIlig Of orr Orders viii produce in America. 1t
has been said ly the hired writer's, (who dctcs the
Americans Only because they iree) it has been
said y these prostitutcd personages and their like
elsewhere, that America will now demand other
points 70 be conceded to her. had te honour to
state 10 your Royal Highness in my fourth letter,
that America had TWO subjects of complaint a.
sainst VS. upon both Of Which she must be satisfied
i We meant 60 have peace with hcr--hamely.
Me Oyders in Council and the Improvement u Il
merriam sSGDgen.
The nature, the extent and the grounds the lat
tex complaint was. in the letter here referred 10,
fully stated, and thea took occasion TO endoa1er
convi1ee your Royal ilihness, that CHS was wllai
stuck closes, to the hearts of the people Of Ameri-
ca and, ia kmcriss, SIR, tie feelings, ri the people
arc consulted, as thcy oaght 70 BE-, upon all ocva