The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1812-10-20

Since receiving this LITIGATION, have kept my
self armed with pistols and several loaded nuske,,
IN n, house, determined that the first WHO max e,
an attask ON my house ei SON, to shoot him down
let the consequences be what they NAV
| Yours respectfully,
! We arc not aware whether MIR. Davis
meant this letter for the eye of the public
nor do We we'll zee svhy he brings this stuff,
neck ard shoulders, into his letter TO his
correspondent; but it is now before ms ::
and We nail it, as we would a coun.crfeis
Com, 20 the counter. No man of sense should
nave made tins miserable quiz Of So much
. consequence, as to think of 1t seriously a.
gam ; bat that any man should have set
down seriously like {. b. or the editors of
the r. X To make such ause as they have
done, Is solemn m0ckery, a conference.-the
farce, OF which none buta Snavc could have
been capable.
Is there man in this city who believes
thatthis Anonymous letter is any thing but 4
quI Is there man who thinks that there.
IS Ia this state one being who would assassin
ate Augustine Davis?-O Other men have
fallen Tie best s. the worst Have perish
ed beneath the dagger but that Angus
tine DAVIS should be made the mark of such
Iresentment---it cannot be.
MHo"ing The ,enSOiiity OF Mr.. >. some
Iinischie"0rs urchin, some little storeboy or
lconpunS-h house apprentice has written him
TINS letter, as aqnlz, to play upon his feel
hss i:ut as the frogs said to the misc hiev.
Gus boys, " Though it is fu7t to you, i, is
death" to him. AS the bait has taken. tn.
Post Office will now swarm with anonv-
moas letters, * the farce will not end until
we see all has windows lined with SO
Founders.
All the great men in the nation receive
these anonymous letters-tun, spite, some
little mischievous demon or other, STROUD
cd BEND the "ln m nitieS of invsi biiitv."
.ets ny the shaft at the high & the low
Mr. Madison is nundated'by shcm-and e.
ven Toe are not humble enough to escape
them. Seven weeks since an anonymous
note also reached the Editor of this paper
through the Office, threatening to tar &c
feather" hlm--he laughed at it {: he recog-
Missed III it the work OF some Inischievous elf
andthought nothing seriously about 1t. He
neither got pistol, nor a musquet, nor a
dagger of iath" and not even a "L2thing
hatchet" to guard his house or his person.
1t was our Intention to have let The hatch
ct sleep, until Mr.. Davis's Dictionary, or
his understraPper, or some vile mercenary
scribbler. like poor Prentiss, should have
come IN to his assistance. Bnt the occasion
requires US to speak we have done.
The Humble Petition If .fuSmstiue Davis.
TO The FederatistS Of Yirginin and Else
7vherc,
HUM5LT SHEwETH,
That your Petitioner is the Editor of
newspaper, which goes under the name of
Patriot, aias Virginia Gazette that under
these respective .dHdSSes, he has used every
means which his purse, his pen, his rare Ia
Tents, on his scissors could supply, as in du-
| ty bound, 10 further your cause that where
nc could not write himself, (for who is wise
at all times? & the wise man saith, "tkere
Is "A time tor all things, he has employed
the best blood OF mercenary scribblers to
| MI his empty columns; and like true tool
lsh vassa, has failed in very few duties that
he owed to you, his fcudal lords that if nj
some critical moments, he has been true to
| the American blood that flows in his veins
or "seducedb by the instigations of the devil %
| (as he thinks 1t is) and has turned recreant
To your interests, he begs leave TO plead
| that the occasions have been rare and the
deviation has been short; and that hi has
attempted 70 make every abundant atone
'nent which MS siHS would require < that
| On your zeal and generosity, he relies for his
compensation Your pctitioner bers leave
70 stat, that if, when the present war com
! menced, he 7vas guilty of any little regard
FOR the interests OF his country, it was but a
very transient regard; and it was regard
| - 'huStA from rear as from Low
Jhat the ruins of the Federal Republican Of
ice were already before his eyes and that.
so tar was he Carried away by his sense OF
prudence as to assert, that the printers of
! said paper deserved their fate tor being such
! FOOLS AS to write against the war after II had
| been declared; but that as soon as he dis
covered, that the good people of this CITY
we're too enlightened and too cain, to mob
him and his Office, his paper resumed ITS
| natural complexion; was true to YOU and
false to his country and YOUR petitioner
! can proudly appeal to its columns for the
truth of the premises. Your petitioner.
! however, beSs leave 70 state, that on the
! 27lh OF last August he received threste
| ing letter through the Post O flee. which
has since haunted his sleep, broke his rest
and caused him innumerable anxieties in
| your sacred service that it has put him to
the expcnce of buying pistols, powder, and
musquets, and converting his house into d
| fortihCation and that knowing your gene
rosity, and seeing the solid proofs of it which
YOU have given to his brethren the Editors
of the Federal Republican, he throws him
sell at your feet, trusting you will stretch
TIE shield of your munlhCcnce over him.
| also paying him for the rest which he has
lost, the shock which his shattered nerves
have received, the cost of his powder and
munitions; and praying that you will. at
all events, pay him for cheating the po-
ker."-And your humble Petitioner will, as
! in duty bound, eVep pray, &c. &c.
Fort Davis, Oct. 18Th.
Wclearn (says the \. Orleans Caz. of