The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1812-06-16

and laying down in VICTORIOUS case, and de :
generate retirement, never commingling in
the glorious conflicts OF ensanguned Europe,
from whose soil, thus enriched, like Cad
mus's tiliagc, of old, an abundant harvest
OF heroes, patriots and statesmen is produc-
ed.
| That, of late however, we have returned
to oar senses, and have discovered the i'm
practicabiity of establishing Il durable re-
public IN any quarter of the globe I; for il is
no. our cxtremties alone that are paralysetl
and benumbed by the chilling hand OF death,
but corruption has reached the heart of the
Republic. We will not tire your princcy
patience by detail of our calamities; suf-
iice 1T to say, that we have no lit charac
tiers among us to direct us iii the paths of no
nour, we humbly petition that some of Your
illustrious blood may be sent over to this
our distressed hemisphere, in order to go
vern us under the title of Emperor, Sultan,
Sophi, or Gar of all the u. s..
| hat, as the two great and illustrious ia
miles of the Guelphs, and the Bonapartes
have during their long and continued strug-
| gle, We'd with each other, in acts of friend
ship and good will towards our helpless
| country, we would, with due submission,
crave scyon from one Of those illustrious
stems OF royalty to guide us, rule over us, &
to direct our destinies and your petitioners
will ever pray, &c &c. &c. &c. ad injnitum
&c. &c. &c.
~ n Copy of the above will be left at
the Hygeian Fountain for subscription.
The MEMORIAL" of the inhabitants
OF this City. and Manchester, drawn in OPP
position To the Resolutions adopted by the
meeting of the CitiZens-contans nothing
which has not been much better said hum
dred times before. Its protested object is to
give more correct representation OF the
sentiments of the people than the resolu
tons convey, on the question of war against
". BRITAIN. he means correspond to this OBJ
Ject--it dwells with peculiar emphasis on
| the wrongs of France, softens those of c.
Britain, and as one specimen of Its . cor
| rect representation of facts, compile Celv
pretermits the blockading order of May
1906 and the wrongs of Ct. B. Prior to the
Berlin Decree.
by whom begot " it is impossible for us
to say-but the features of the Child evil
IDENTIFY be speak it to be of full blood federal
| pareptage.
1t first saw the light in the Columns of
the "Virginia Patriot )" from whence it was
sent TO the Hygeian fountain { be baptised
and owned by its Good-fathers \ few
gentlemen had signed the paper; when
Mr.. = '. Daniel, to whose republican firm
ness this is not the place to pay the elogi-
|
public resolutions because in his opinion an
immediate war ought to go against France
as well as Engiand) subscribed his name
to 1T with the following Protest
| The undersigned SURPRISING himself called on TO
declare in common with the OF his fellow citi-
zens his opinion OF the above memorial hereby
protests against the
LIST because its of facts, to him appear:
to be discolored and incomplete.
"a Because the temper it evinces, to him appear
to be that of party
| Sd Because to him it appears to be dissraceful,
10 attempt an eXtenuatlon OF, apoogy'f for the
| violence or the crimes of his country's foes.
| P.V. DANIEL.
i We learn, that the name and protest Of
MIR. d. were marked out-and it is said b,
way OF retaliation for this piece of courtesy
that some wag afterwards put down tn,
names of Messrs. Canning, Percival 6
lCastlereagh and other friends of A
merican liberty. This qniz soon put an enc
to the scene of the Hygeian fountain some
federal gentleman declaring that the me.
mortal was too serious a subject to be made
a jest of, took down the paper; instead OF
waiting for suitors, it went forth to seek
them. II was circulated with uncommon
zeal through the city /; from one end of it
to the other its nurses carrying it into G.
very shop from Bacon Quarter Branch to
| Rockets, where there was the shghtes,
chance of getting approvers. 1t stole through
cross streets and alleys; few we pre-.
| sumo, read II over on account Of it.
length and many taking it's contents, al
short hand, from its Industrious knight-er-
rants. We have not seen the names /; MOI
head their number; but we take upon our
selvto say that not more than 8 or 4 Rehu6.
deans have subscribed their names.---Thul
endeth the first chapter.
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