The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1813-04-16
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Russian Nediatiom.--It is stated in the
Northern prints, and VIC have reason to
believe it true, that JAMES A. BAYARp,
Esq. at present Senator in Congress
from Delaware, is TO be one OF the Mis-
sion to Russia. lie is an honorable man
one between whom and the cause of his
country the line has never been drawn
He was the man, the only public man of the
federal party, who dared to throw OFF the
trammels of faction, and boldly to avow, on
the floor of the Senate, that There syas
cause enough of scar." MAJ. Int.
The Enemy's frigates, we learn, are in
or near the mouth of Patuxent river, hard
by, and landed predatory /, arties along the
shore in various directions. The inhabi-
tants are much alarmed, and portions OF
the Cavalry and Militia from the adjacent
districts have been called out to protect the
coast. H.
We had yesterday the pleasure of com
versing With the Surgeon of the privateer
Dolphin, one of the vessels taken BY the
British in toe Rapahannock. He conarms
in all essential particulars the statement
which we extract from the Baltimore pa
pers, copied from the Coffee House books
of that place. Captain Stafford, of the
Dolphin, narrowly escaped death, a cannon
ball having glanced along his side and con-
siderably injured him. There were no men
killed ON our part, and but four wounded.
The British had from forty to fifty killed
and wounded. as cur informant thinks, he
having assisted in dressing many, * seen
many dead. But for the perfect calm
which prevailed, and the misconduct Of a
few. different result would probably have
been exhibited. The British landed ma
rauding parties on each side the Rappahan-
mock, and took whatever they could get
They declared their determination to go to
Annapolis, and were anxious t. know whe-
Their they could approach near enough to
throw shells or rockets into the town. Our
Informant was politely treated, with the
exception of the abuse hatituaily heaped on
The government of America, in which the
British officers were far from being sparing
rs.
After all that our re adeTs have seen and
heard Of the proligacy of the federaI prints,
it will excite but little sarprize to learn
that these degraded journals. at the mo-
ncnt the British and their savage allies are
rensacking cur shores, apd butcherng help
less women and children on the frontier,
can occupy their columns in no more repu-
table manner than by copying the vile &
detestable forgerics of British prints--for-
series so palpsbl-, falsehoods SO base, as to
be unequallcd by any thing we have ever
seen--unless indeed it be some articles
Towing from the pens of the copyists them
selves. Dead men tell no tales" says
the midnight robber, who first plumbers &,
then murders his victim. The dead tell
NO tales" think the British editors & their
factious copyists and servile tools, whilst
they basely prostitute this revered name of
Barlow to their unhallowed purposes. But
they are mistaken in their calculations Of
impunity, because the witness to prove the
fraud reposes in the tomb--their own pre-
varication betraya the cheat. The stain
which the present conduct of the factious
editors fixes on them is iRdelible--it can
never be effaccd ID.
Boston Federal paper. after noticing
the appointment of two Adjutants General.
sapiently asks" What, arc there 10 be
ywo .fdjntants General ?" 1t is not a
month since we published the law for the
better organization of the staff of the Army,
authorisng the appointment of eight Adju
tants-G General. If these gentry would but
pay half the attention to the affairs of their
own country that they bestow on the inter
csts Of the enemy, they would not so often
betray their lamentabIe ignorance of facts
wk:ch every schoOl-boy might teach them.
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