The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1812-02-11

and arning the NIilitis, of the u.
-, ny majority of three votes. The details
and principle OF this bill have been debated
Tor some days and the day before it was
rejected, there was majority CT three in ia :
vor OF It's passage to third reading.
Inc several appropriation bills for the old
army. the additional military force,th corps
OF rangers and thenavy, passed to third
reading yesterday In the House of Represen-
tatives, - :, !.
Inc Supreme Court of the u. s. met at the
capitol in this City on Monday last, present
Judges Livingston, Washington, Todd. Du-
val and Story. We are concerned to learn
that Judge Marshall, by the over,u,1,ing Of
the stage, met with An accident, a fracture
OF the collar-bons we believe, which prevents
his attendance.
1t were an endless labor tn relieve the
pubic ear Of all the falsehood with which it
is daily. abused to retail contradictions of
every misrepresentation which tisgraces
the columns or our federal prints.-
hese are SO numerous, SO palpable, some
OF them so evidently intentional, that we are
tempted to believe there is systematic de-
sign to distort and misrepresent every thing
which occurs in this city. The boldness Of
assertion in which these are couchedis sucb
as sometimes even to deceive Republicans.
and no wonder the fabrications are SO gree
Oily swallowed by thefederal fraternity.
In no case have more extensive impositi-
ons been practised on the community than
IN the fabricated reports of conversations of
Members of the administration. and of Ell
ther House of Congress, which find their wav
into certain prints. To say nothing of the
eves-dropping disposition to retail every
conversation which unguarded and manly
irankness would permit d listener to over
hear, We do assert, from the most solemn
convection, that ine-tenths, perhaps nine
teen twentieths of such reports of conversa
tions. &c. are either without foundation or
utterly perverted from their plain and OBJ
vlous import.
only credit these prints. and one would
oeheVe that at the seat of government all is
uisumon. distrust and weakness among Re-
pubilcans, and that all harmony and talent
centres In the Federal party. In these
statements frequently repeated, we see new
proofs OF that inpincibie n,odesfy which can
NOT descend to trumpet its own fame, and
winch OF late has so conspicuously charac
terised the illusions of federal writers.-
Let'us test the assertions by facts. Look at
the votes on the great measures of the pre-
sent session, and see which is most divided.
the Federal or Republican phalanx. Mau-
gre the Efforts OF those who yield their iudg-
ments to the impulse of their passions and
personal predictions or antipathics, aided
ny those rese-ss spirits who muster under
l.ie banners OF ambition the great chain
winch connects the Republican party is I'M
broken, and the present administration of
the general government never has been
more popular than at this moment. As for
talent, we may with an honest pride point
to our columns, to the debates in the House
OF Representatives, and leave to the COM
mon sense of the People the decision of the
question on which side lies the Dreponde
rance of talent.
But it is not to this general assumption of
merit that we SO much object, as to the lit
tie art OF attributing to prominent charac-
ters sentiments never entertained, & cony err
sations never held.
1t would be we'll if those retailers ofscan-
DIAL would contine themselves to their legi-
innate province of informing their readers
in the cities what brilliant parties are given
by l1r. Foster & Col. Tayloe, and how far
their splendor is expected to throw those of
Mr.. Serrurier i'll the back ground how one
gives the best wines, but the other the great
est variety OF meats and other equally im-
portant particulars. On such details as
these, writer may be permitted to avail
himself of the poetic licence but for Hea-
VEINS sake, if politics must be the theme, let
us no more witness this sort of rivalry in ex-
agSeratiny and pe"verting as well the pro-
ceedings OF Congress as the sentiments and
actions OF individuals. Such All occupation
is scarcely more reputable than that of tile
tattling gossip who roams from house to
house, and disburthens herself at the tea la
Die of one, of What she worHled out of her
friends at the hreside of another.-Mcf, I.l.
ALEXANDRIA, FEB. 2.
in the schr. Regulator, from Corr,nna
came part of the crew of the schr Industry,
which was captured by the British frirate
Unicorn, ON the 18th Of Nov. OH a VOYAGE
rom the Grand Banks to Bordeaux. with
| cargo Of fish. On the 22d, the Unicorn all
10 captured the schooner Jane, from Ba,ti
more for Bordeaux, with large cargo Of
sugar, indigo and logwood.
To k.e Editors ofthe Ra!eigh Psgstey.
Burke County, (N. Co. Ian. 10.
Gentlemen,
herewith Communicate to YOU brief
,ccount of the cause of those dreadful shecss
which have lately shaken these mountains to
heir base, whose foundations were laid when
he Almighty ArchiIect first reduced ch .os
o order.
On the morning Of the 18th pItirno, great
smoke was seen TO issue from the top of
Shcar's MouHfain," which is detached
rom that Range that exteicls from the Blue
Ridge to Swananoc River, and ends some
nilesl below its junction With French Broad
Ia 4. Al.