The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1812-04-28

to maintain IL. IF there be ar, where snch
usage, il is time il should be abolished IL
is surely q prepostero1s mode OF eigumen;
to search in history for all the crimes ,hao
have been committed, aud offer them as ar
guments for pcrpctratiny more. They tell
JUS of their protection. iaiputicnt mOckery
who have they ever protected but to rum
and desolatiun! For the last twenty years
of their history, how many have been blot
ted out of the great community OF nations,
not by pestilence or famine, hor any Convul-
sion, or calamity of nature, but by simple,
and natural operation Of their protection.
Where are now the kings and princes OF
Europe whom they have protecteds For
centuries they warrel against the Rourbons;
they were not able to destroy them, though
to that end, they pledged all future genera
tons toan enormous debt. Bat from the
fatal day, that they avowed Themselves the
protectors of that devoted race, then fell
that race to rise no more. They projected
the king of Sardinia till he was banished
from the continent Of Europe. And him, OF
Naples, till he followed the example. At
Naples their illustrious Nelson first Offering
amnesty, and then dealing death, gave t.
friend and foe, the measure OF British afro
city, and pcriidy. They protected Spain,
till her king became a captive, and lost at
dominions in tile new. Portugal they pro-
|tected, till its miserable prince fed across
the Atlantic; and the king of Prussia, till
half his territory was seized to the profit oi
their enemy Holland, till her territory
was Incorporated with that of the Conquer
ing foe, and till her stakeholder was added,
together with so many other potentatcs and
princes, to the ever growing list of British
paupers. The great sovereign of the Ger
man empire they protected, till he abdicat-
ed his imperial diadem, and ransomed the
remnant of his dominions, and his existence,
by the person of his fair daughter. From
the alliance of that daughter with the VIC
torious enemy, has sprung the infant king of
Rome, for whom is destined the throne of
the Caesars, and the Roman empire. We
have seen this protecting monarch, the
swern oppressor of the catholic faith, his
crown bound on his brows with chains Of BIZ
gotry, at one and the same time, prescribing
the catholic subjects of his own dominions,
and protecting the pope, who shut the gates
of heaven against him, and would not turn
the key to save his soul. And where is now
| his holiness by virtue of that same desolat-
ing protection, like all other crowned men
who have been affected with it, captive or
a wandering fugitive We have seen the
frantic Paul, stiled the magnanim Gus al
| ly,'' protected and sssassinated. The In
dian nabobs, the rajahs. and bejums; have
| they not been protected? Has not famine,
slaughter. spoliatioB, and slavery been the
bitter portion of the protecting Indians
And Oh Ireland! with what 8 memorable
protection hast thou been protected; all this
reminds me of the saving of the boy Andes
to Don Quixotte: :. For the love of God
though You see they are beating me to
pieces, never succor me again, for my mis-.
fortune cannot be so great but a greater may
follow from your worship's aid"