The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1812-01-18

uiSy may Iaue DIS TnuCn as tney please.
| W Y. Cokun.
| Mr.. CHESS SPEECH,
! (coNT1NuED.)
1 Mr.. GneS said that whilst upon this part
OF the subject, he begged to be excused for
| reading few paragraphs from a newspa-
per which he accidentally picked up last
| evening, containing the hnnuncation of the
Presidents message at Quebec; the very
point to which The proposed force might pro-
badly De directed. 1t fully demonstrates the
impressions existing there. and which have
been produced by our former measures.
QUEBEC, Nov. 10.
PREsIDEWT's EssAGE.-Happily,
the expectation Of Mr. Madison's speech,
steps in opportuneiy, As something of an an
tldote Co the efecto of the European dearch
From that speech shall We learn, that the
terrible being, John Bull, does not suffer his
thousand armed vessels, manned and equip
ped at an enormous expense, to lie VIII !!y
Idle butthat they are guilty Of the audaciaus
tyranny OF being, in some degree, a check on
the violent inclinations Of Dame Columbia to
extend her arms to cherish, aid and assist
her admired hero Napoleon, in etfecting
Johns annihiiation. Mich will the speech
complain that the sovereign of the ocean is
not powerful to no purpose, and does not
descend to, and put himself on a level with
the imbecility OF the u. States, with their
dozen ships. Unparddlable is the grievance
that the Levisthan IS nc as powerless rs
the Cod; that the Jackall. whom nature
meant for the Lions provider, is not permit
ted to divert its prOvendcr to the support Of
the Tiger, With view to the destruction Of
the Lion.
The speech may not say these things in
direct terms; but such will, unquestionably,
be its meaning:
"With sylogisms twill make clatter,
With abstract rights, three-deckers batter;
an empty purse at millions shake,
And no trace 'gainst free trade stake
VI "ottlng produce count the gain,
sea-board boast shut from the main;
10 seamen recommend tn loom,
And on each mast to fix the broom;
Merchants for ack OF foreign wares,
10 retail apples, plums and pears"
Limit all oar mighty efforts to 10000 men,
ana 1T will afford better subject for another
pasquinade, than the Presidents message
had done for the one lust read He should
not have ventured to read these paragraphs
to the senate, however, if these impressi-
ons were merely local. But he believed ST.
mar impressions pervaded Europe and A
inerca, and had unfortunately found their
way mo the French and British cabinets
Nor should he have thought these sarcasms
worth regard, were it not for the trusms
with which they were pointed. When the
DUO de Cadore, upon his review of our pr
ceedings, told us officially that he would
ave expected more frorJ a Jamaica assem-
by, he thought it both impairment and inso-
lent; but the point of the offence, was q
consciousness that it was too much like the
nth 1t is the truism which forms the sting
" every sarcasm. We find the Emperor
napoleon too, acting under these same i'm
iressions, when he seiZcs and coniiscates
our property, without even a plausible
| pretezt. The only ground upon which he
'ctcd, was conviction that YOU would not
'csenti 1t, and he therefore might plumber
'ith irnpunity The same impressions di-
| 'ect the British cabinet in its 'infcxb!e
1osthity, and lis gvar upon our CONN cree.
Doth III character and rfTicf, brought home
t. the threshold of our territory If our pro-
ractcd moderation, wonderful moderation,
sc. by which he presumed were meant our
'eebie contrivances for the last three years.
md OF which, he feared, the rcquisition If
10, 900 men, was a branch both in spirit &
policy, should skill be continued, he believed
= would degenerate into something Of a very
Inherent character, and would receive a We
~ different denomination from the public.
IN" GileS begged the senate to turn its
attention to- the means Of resistance now ac-
tualy IN Canada, which would probably be
'i'''SN w NuC i}ltstSu iJTCe. FROM
nc best information he could obtain, the
British had at this ti'nc III Canada from to
10000 regular troops and from 70 to - 600
yeliappcinted, well furnished militia, drawn
i'.oni a population Of nearly 100000 souls
y therefore your troops could be ready 20
Ct in the spring before the breaking M Of
sc ice, md before the British could throw
.lrthcr succors into that country, it appear
I'd 20 him there would he very good employ
neiit for 10000 men in su5duing this force
nd population /; and If undertaken with
ewer'neu, a failure Of the enterpriza would
}rohabiy be the consequence. Besides, sir,
yc should recolIcct. that Great Britain is
nc same Great Britain we encountered m
rs, l776, &c. and although some gentle
zen seemed to suppose, that she was fuly
ccupied with the European war; that she
rs impoverished. fighting for her exist
nee &c. &c. and of course had at Comm nd
cry little disposablc force, he viewed the
sGoicss cry differently.