The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1813-12-18

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ter into the closest CONNECTION of Friendship
and for whose exertions you are about 20
pay. Nov, Sir, what was the Conduct OF
your own allies to Poland! Is there a sincke
dfrocfty " the French ia If0iy. Sspifzc,
lana, m bs5ft i you hteaSe, mare unhria-
cNlcd and inhumGn than that Of Russia
austria and Prussia in Polcnd 2 What has
there been in the conduct of the French Ia
foreign powers what in the violation of
solemn treaties; what in the pinndcr. de
vastation ana acknowledgements of unolfead-
ing countries; what in the horrors & muir
ders perpetraed upon the subdned victims
OF their rage in any district which they
have overrun, worse than the conduct Of
those three great powers in the miserable,
devoted and ,rampled on Eihgdom of Pc
iand, and who have been or are our allies in
TINS war Tor religion and social order, and
the rights of naticnss Oh but YOU regret.
ted the partition of Polandf Yes, regret.
ted! you regretted the violence. and that is
all you did. You united yourselves with the
actors you in fact by your acquisscence
confirmed the atroctty. But they are your
allies and though they overrun and divid
ed Poland. there vas nothing perhaps in the
manner OF doing it which Stampede with
peculiar infamy and disgrace. Thehero Of
Poland was perhaps merciful and mild He
bravery, and in the discipline which he
maintained, as he was superior in vitue and
Humanity !" He was animated With the
Puiest principles of christianity, and was
restrained In his career by the Benevolent
precepts which 1t inculcates Was he ? Let
unfortunate Warsaw and the miserable in
haoitants of Praga in particular tell What
do we understand 10 have been the conduc,
OF this magnanimous hero with whom it
seems Bonaparte is not to be compareda He
entered the suburbs of Praga, the most pc
puinus suburb of Warsaw and flere he
lct his soldiers loose on the miserable, uu
armed and nnreSiSifns ficofte men, wo-
men and children, nay infants at the breast,
were doomed to one indiscri'uinate massa
ere! Thousands of them were inhhmanly.
wantonly butchered And for VIVA, Be.
Cause they had dared to join in a wish 10
melorate their own condition as q people &
| Improve their constitution, which had been
confessed by their own sovereign 10 be In
want of amendment. And such is the hero
| upon whom the cause Of religion and social
order is to repose And SUCH is the man
whom we praise for bis discipline e his vtr-
tue, and whom We hold OUT as our boast and
dependence while the conduct Of Bona
parte unhts him to be treated with as an
enemy. Here is the portrait of those il
lustrlous allies tor whom all the feelings OF
sympathy, justice and humanity are to unite
~, -r,fshI'>s *..e.s.: @ -s,i,i~ anccess
The party In this country WHO affect to DE
so extremely sensible and tender-hear ted
towards Great Britain, and who preteAd to
be actuated by the purest impulse of bene
Violence and christianity, are guilty Of the
most hypociitical philanthropy, & the most
Eirreyerent mockery. Take glance for a
moment at the conduct of Great Britain
towards an immediate member Of her EN-
| pire. look at the practical operations of her
political temper in ioreigH regions, and let
every one ask himself. if he ever recollected
to have heard sigh from the party at the
lstupendous oppression of Ireland, or the mi
series OF indostan, where human nature has
been so barbarousiy goaded and tortured,
| that the only evidences Of their distinction
from the brute, their form and figure, is al
most los. and defaced by cruelty & wretch
edness Yet these are the mild, the humane
and the generous friends of social order and
happiness ; the warm. inspired & enthu
sastlC pretenders to the Christian religion.
Ii were an endless attempt to trace the past
and the present enormities OF Great Britain.
It's enough tn know, that from the mightiest
to the least OF crimes, from the daring and
treacherous robbery Of nation's feet, down
to the picking OF an individuals pocket, she
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infamv and abomination. Yet such is the al
most incredible state Of things that the deIu-
sion and the influence of this nation is so
wonderfully great, that many either really
think or affect the belief that she is the
7DoTid'S last hohe, in being rescued from
universal tyranny. These dlfIusive remarks
are intended to shew that the British
party in America form their opinions on
European events and affairs according 20
prejudice and not according TO justice
That 1t is not any principle Of right, of
humanity, or of religion that induces them
to espouse the cause Of any party on the
continent, but merely and exclusively from
the Consideration of advancing the power of
! Great Britain And it may he said almost
| 'ithout the fear of contradiction. that they
would be perfectly satisfied if all the so.
vercignties of Europe we're to acknowledge
iealty. and TO surrender their destinies Ia
her power aud direction. They seem in
deed to have taken the political fiction Of
that Country, as a political fact, that The
king can do no wrong. a few wears back
as has been said already. when G., Britain
| in the words of one Of her most distilgui. n
| ed mem q writer's, " stood Single. unprJt,'f
and nodding to her fall" as many were in
duCed to think, she was continually uterine
her curses which were as often reverberatef
4 here, against the pOtentates Of the Cont
nent as being alike destitute Of honor. coz.
rage and justice. The very moment tina
Rupture was indicated TO exist betwee,
Russia and France, that very moment IN,
character Of the Gar began to brighten
! and when At i1ef they Il.