The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1813-07-13

anc generosity, should descend! RI acts so I'm
worthy, So iDcons islSnt with ,i,Sn charac,e;.
SEal lying iDpe.tirence, nix, this wash oar
from GU recollection thc crimes cf =. 81
soltiers during the revCiutiJuar. was Shal
We doutt. becacsc sc age ofdc,ed, that ar
len, Hsr, AID many u eur U,e,hre, were
l'rcachcrous'Y bUtche,eS al the K. isiu SAall
We, when FIeCch Town AND Hare ase
smoking before our eyes, win iunuuer
aole pico!s OF brutal violence and Conlcn.p
toie thiev'ng "a every sIGe III Us, doubt the
Willingness o: our ice to indulge ~ every
! 'n0astrous brutality As seen can b. douo.
ed the basensss and peitidy VI ms friends
ara advocates. s. mucu Tor presuulpt Oh, !!
- hut IN" accusations against The Britisl,
, Whist a Hampton are disproven. A ;eud
10 'hi2-an old mau from the upper cou u!
VINO visited his son, sUider in tie Virgin.
ae'achment stationed al Hcn,p;on, was ia
ken prisoner. carried on beard the BRITISH
teet ard detained ; this old man saw no vu
ieDce done To the women. TINS Is the ouan
itu'n ami totum OF that conclusive testim,
ny on which the traitors amung us eXcui
pate tntir good Fellow subjects II .he u,ani
ac King aud his l,,yed and besntted son. -
An Old man, a perfect stranger 10 the town
and Its Inhabitants, called 70 the place by
accident is taken to situation which ren
dered him necessarily ignorant of all thu
passed. Admit that he remained in the
to%n prisoner sis 1t probable that the
facts aiiedged would have beer transacted
with IN his view Is IL to him, stranger,
"hom these unhappy sufferers would have
communicated their wrongs To what is l.
that this string Of impIdens absurdites is
opposed The Official communicaticns o..
men credible trorn the station they fill bolh
! in military and civil life, eStinabIt fur their
private worth, and specially Sr chat glo
! rious contrast that by GobtY defending their
native soil. they make with the O,goti ed OF
corrupt apolgists Of their mry's foes
~ iJor Crutchheld. the comuandant OF the
station, ASSERTS the factsin his .ficial etts.
| TO the Executive. they arc alledged IN 7 con-
| cluu'eatIea 10 .lenoei' OK the ExecutiveL w
fGaptaiu Cooper. who as thtir country man,
! thcir re- re>entatiHe, the;" fPivad and brave
I ieiehder, has every :iain tD familiar and
/ snt're confidence from the EIaJnp ionians /,
! tne Nag ssnt them by Lienerai Taylor con
nrnls the 3'2Cklns account both OF the STIR
reader 81 the town 90 the soI5.ary, and Of the
facts waich ensued this dia5glcal licencc.-
fes all must sink before the presumption N
FAVOR OF the honole and civihty or peapl.
whose Wars both 10, eign and domestic, from
the earliest periods oi their history TO this
aay, display Il anton & beastly licenticus
nes,,a sansumsry cruelty not surpassed BY al
thc world beside, Such shaxleiess ;npu
dence < talsehond from Hanson, Pick. ring,
Sl"incey aud.Strong: IS not 10 be wondered at :;
taey make the equivalent rendered for Rrl
tish patronage C Protection ; that they should
any where be fouud in Virginia, is ituly as
soa'ssnng. For the honor OF my country they
are here rarely found, not p, FL except with
lew foreigners, who for the hbgi ty, proper
,sy aDd social hap pincss secured to them by
our institutions, magnsnimously return the
pcrildy OF devils; and with some Sill fewc-
natives whose subsistence has been gained BY
On" daily * rigEtly inf,actiun both Cf law &:
i'io'as. .: the regularity OF whose lives Is row
even qiiiie prCbiemstical. Let thzse wretch
es ba~ are; e. chem rec0llect tn At at best
they are Justly objects OF suspicion, and Iia
bic :" na.fi hasn't or reTTova' beth ty the
federal g state authorities abGxs ali, let
rhem reUeobsr tbat the spirit Il cid Nir.
gina IS reused, that she will not tole
rate the miscrean- who, when in her very
arms her Sons are murdered and the purity
OF her daughters polluted stands BY, and
ei'ner approves Or e24clsss the. determination.
EIRGINIUS.