The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1812-03-31
THE ENQUIRER.
RICHMOND, MARCH 81. 1919.
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KOMOORS 4
Our City is full of Rumours--s. wars and
rttDiours of wars"
IL is said, that the President has reou;red
the Governor to call out into immediate
service regiments of militia.-We give
his rnmonr to the winds. For no such letter
has been received-and the whole story has
arisen from a determination of the Council
to distribute the arms on the Sea-board and
upon the rivers. Thus, our only 7ui,,era6ke
hoint will he cascd against the assailant. =.
In the second place ii is said, that Con-
gress mean to declare 7var off hand against
France. Do not stare, reader No slip of
the type, we assure thee! We say France.
and not Great Britain. For they saw the
GOOD folks at w ashington are in such a rage
against France for burning our ships on the
seas, OF the Asia and the Gershom bound to
Cadiz and Oporto, that their own flame is
apt to burst forth into Declaration of War
The act OF Mons. Fereticr is, In all consci-
ence, bad enough it is an act of piracy
which brands his own master with disgrace q
IL is one OF the most outrageous forms, which
maritime war can assume. The propertv
Is tor ever destroyed the article in QUESTION,
put tor ever beyond the reach of the claim
ant And who is the Judge Not court of
Admiralty, who hears both sides, * decides
according to thelaw of nations ; but a high
sea Admiral. perhaps proud of his own
II.
ana certainly not very. well versed in the
laws and rights of natons--a man, who is al
once both party, judge, and Executioner.
| And what is his plea /? That thew are
bound to Lisbon, loaded with grain and
hour,'-as it we had no right to carry our
1-erovisions to the Spaaiards and Portuguese.
Why nor France will not say that Oporto
&C Lisbon are in the state of 6iorkade-If she.
says that these are her towns, and that we
nave no right to feed them we first ask
nef 70 prove that they are her towns. The u.
otates 40 not take upon themselves to say
that they are or are not !; for as we did not
receive Don Onis, as the minister of Fer
! dlnand, neither should we have received
minister from Joseph we do not side with
either 1t Is not our part to settle disputed
] successons.-It is the same with the Portu-
guese ports. But even if they were her
ports, we next ask her to point out the kz4y of
fhe seas, which gives her a right to burn
our ships bound tiiither. If she would inter-
| cept their supply, She might leeitimately,
conhscate the ships after they had entered
| the ports and If she cannot do this, because
-.he ports are not IN her possession, the fault
/ is not in us but in her want of power
/ But though the act he of so atrocious de-
scrlPtion, without one specious justification to
excuse IT, yet 1t furnishes no reason to believe
as has been said, that the Berlin and Milan
DEGREES have not been repealed. The act
| Is not pc rpetrated under these DEGREES. but
IN pursuance ofthe instructions of his Ex-
ceilency Monseigneur the Minister of Ma
ilne and OF the Colonies. Nor should Con-
s&ress declare war, or take any other step,
until redress had been formally REQUIRED for
these new Instructions We think, there
lore. that the runonr is false IF CIR politicians
be wise men, they will not be thus cheated
out OF their revenge for the wrongs of Great
| Britain. Every means will be attempted for
this purpose. The old plan will be resorted
TO of screening Britain behind FRANCE. The
! Old scheme of distracting our exertions, of
Leading us again to a triangular state of war
fare, viii be used; so that, we should have Ell
ther to fight both, or to fight neither-But
what we ought to do is to go straight
on IN our course against G.. Britain to suf-
Ter no cause at preseht to divert or distract
us; and II France shouid persist in her ag-
Sresslons and refhse us redress, (Which we
fought by no means to expect under such cir
1cumStduces,) Then we may pursue our
lcourse against France, (in zohich case we
may even expect that G.. Britain will do us
Justice.
His said in The Sd jiace, that the prcsi-
ldedt and all his SECRETARIES are for war a.
Igainst q. Britain & that they are all for an
instant Embargo, save Mr.. Gallatin, who is
for waiting until our rich East India ships
should arrive, 30 pay their duties, & add 20
cur 7oays and means.-This rumour NAV
be true the objection which it assigns to the
Head of the Treasury is in cheracfer.
1t is said that the embargo would have
been laid before this, but for the bpr-
iing OF our Ships queer reason. BY the
way for thus,the more risk there is atsea the
more reason for sending them tl.ither.--Thc
report, however, may be true, but II This he
the reason that the embargo j., kent off We
calculate, it will soon be laid on.
Another ,rumouT Of the day is, Congress
mean to adjourn FOR tfme.--But we Go
not. believe it.--NoSo or never, is the watch
| word.
| -, GJ More Recruits for the Biack Li,t.
imee American ships and schooner have been
ateiy se"tts by British crusers--Two of these sbirs
| were pound from Baltimore TO Bordeaux. the sd
lTou, bordesux to w-York.-The Schooner rThe
opy) was bound from N. v to Bordeaux, with !
VARIABLE cargo OF coffee, sugar, indigo, pepper, Gle
Of Bordeaux. W.
The mesps Of Cancellation Continued.
| Speech offhe Prince Regent.
~" Further illustration.