The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1813-10-05
WASHINGTON, Sent. %.
PEEDING TIE E.NEWYi
ErfrGef Of letters from Gibraltar, datec


E.rfrGcf Of letters from Gibraltar, dated
JYly 10 ~ IS
You viii! perhaps lie surprised 10 learn
that we have been captured, cur license not
withstanding we were taken IN sigh, of
| the Rock. Although everr remonstrance
was made that reason and justice suggested
against sending the ship 10 another port. she
was Immediately manned and ordered here
as the British have not yet established a
prize couit in Li.bon. She is libelled and
is 10 be tried in few days for .' breach of
blockade that is the ostensible ground,
but ihe rsa. one, his ma jesty'S officers can
not pay club in the mess unless they are
INDUCED in pIuckiHg The Yankecs. as they
call it, ard if not iaWfu trize piracy is
sanctioned by this RELIGIO US govern
meat.
Another ship was taken at anchor IN
PORT and gent here. What steps viii our
government adopt towards the Portuguese,
for permitting these outrages9 Tncir fiags
should be inadmiss bic into our ports, until
sucn wrongs be redreSsed.
Several Spanish, Portuguese and English
vessels are now hltirg out for the u. States
IN Cgdiz ard Lisbon, some of them are to
80 via Havaunah and Brazil those vessels
aud cargocs are altogether on British ac
count.--They say that from experience
hose VOYAGES answer capitaliy. Thus we
enrich the enemy whoN we should distress
IN self defence.
The Marquis de Casa Yruio has been
sent in here also, in the ship lIugenia. Of
and for Philadelphia, bound 10 Cadiz, from
of that port, with special license from
admiral Warren to emove his property &;
family. ] fear her fate, as she has large
and valuable cargo; uahy people here a.
well as the naval officers observe "she is
too valuable 60 escape"
The judge having heard the owner of the
ship was born in France, and that he wa,
rich, and that gov. M'Kean. the MARQUES
father IN law was democrat, affords am
pie cause OF condemnation 10 British Judge
this observing frequently will examine
my last instructions - But our eastern
patriarchs style this nation the bulwark of
our religion. If such be the fact,we are all
Psgans.
The error permitting our vessels to be
thus employed is nov gIaring aud am
ashamed of myself for not following your
advice and going in the army, instead of dis
gracefully feeding an unfceling and brutal
enemy but alas! avarice Will destroy cur
conntry--our poor seamen are the princi
pal sufferers. Conhding in treacherous DO
cuments on which merchants embark their
property, the sailor Considers his wages safe.
Nv uC iDI oiliy IOSSS TVS nara edFntnb PIT
tance, bat his clothes. (alwaYs piuudered by
those free booters) his liberty, and perhaps
his life. by sickness IN loethsone prison.
without even the satisfaction of having con
tended with the robber Of his rights for Ell
Their. The crews of all those vessels are
now considered frisoners of7por--my eyes
are oPencd----l now see the grossness Of
the folly Ibis system of warfare exposes -
he innocent are made to suffer for the
guilty.
The ship Madoc, cf New Bedford, with
5000 barrels Of nodT, was condemned, two
days since. InHs are ne fareniug the
FhHisines. ltis not yet too late to make
Them feet the power of the United States,
which they now ridicue. Should Congress
~ the next session, immediately pToaibit
The expnr,ation Of provisions, &c our rights
would be acknowledged before the adjourn
nent''