The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1813-04-13
Ito be Continued.
From The National Lntelfgencer.
IMPRESSED SEAMEN.

This fertile subject of inst indignation &
painful comment, demands, that it never
be SUITE: ed to sleep, till the practice be
abandoned, and the tyrant of the ocean
cease the commission of crime against the
United States, as irreconclable to every
sentiment of honor, jus ice and humanity,
as it is to the independence and sovereign
ty OF the nation. Our records are replete
with those offences, aggravated by facts
equally disgusting and alarming; yet the
worst is often hid from our view The
:" Register of impressed American sea
men," presents, No. 9, The name of Moses
Wentw nth, seized i'm 1911, at Liverpool /;
ne died Of broken heart! How many
such victims have fallen whose fate is
concealed Is it not natural death, un
der such circumstances Who can paint
the pangs of high minded man, robbed of
his liberty, by people whom n called his
friends, his kindred! whose Prince, heir
apparent, claims one common origin
with him." Of this Incompatible blessing
he is bereft, as suddenly aud unjustly as
though he should be seized and immured
in the Bastile or the Inquisition, establish
ments which Engishmen affect to abhor /;
ye. hy those people and IL their country
are innocent toreigners-frieBds, Consigned
TO irredcemable servitude, while they boast
the magic Of their soil imfarts frredom TO
the siaUe, the moment he freads uflon IL /!
When we recur to those pages which re-
cord the proceedings of the British House
of Com mons, detailing the foul offences of
the African trade, we are shocked at the
sufferings of a class of beings forming a
link in the great chain; yet this trade was
continued and indicated by like arguments
in it's support, as the impressment of our CT
tizens; 7iriyate interest and pretended hub
Tic need. 1t was at length, exposed in all
IS nakedness of guilt; statesmen felt as
Englishmen should feel" Mr.. Fox, to his
immortal honor, performed in Office, what
before he came in he had promised he
abolished it, he did it--he did it---for the
nations SOUPS If such sympathy was Just
~ excited for those whose bodily sufferings
called it forth, are we not aware that when
the mind snffers, how exquisitely keen is
the sense of anguish! You that e'er lost a
father, husband, brother, by this barbarian
practice, paint tiff you can You that
have suffered & survived confinement in a
floating dungeon, your coufdnions iSlons,
your commanders x petty officers tyrants /!
describe the hours, the r-ce0sine eCe-
crGfions OF your task masters, you that are
now suffering : who can do justice to this
part of the picture
Daniel Foster. of Hillsborough, deposes,
that eight Americans acre Steien from tie
shin WiHSLo7v in 1908, who for three years
& four months we're never suffered to go on
shore could not the slave in Aigiers boast
life of liberty compared to this or might
not the sooty African, when the sun sets, be
thankful, that his fate was not that Of an
American on board British vessel of war !!
This practice Great Britain calls the
right which she has felt to be essential to
the support of her maritime power" The
French Emperor has the same right to
justify similar wrong. in support of his
power over the land.
But even the pretence Of necessity, the
tyrant's law, has no better foundation -
Instead Of taking the seamen out Of our
vessels, let her take so many out of her
own, or~if she must have more rsen, let her
steal the people of her allies, Portuguese,
'Spanisrds. Sicilians and Algerlnes, and
call the practice inpressment they have
long been slaves and can submit to wear
the chain. Freemen, never. never.
GHOST OF mon TGOMERY.
Mr.. Sheridan's speech, 10 compliment to his
mem cry, in comparison will. that Of Mr.. Pit.
Tile capture OF the Montesas.eu, in the