The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1813-04-13

four successive years, would build navy that
| should, and that do contemplate with great un,a
s,ness: for, as once before had the honor TO stat,
TO your Royal ighness, the Americans are as good
sailors rs any that the world every u notori
Gus bat the American merchant ships Ill with few
er hands i'm proportion TO tho ir than the in.r-
chant ships Of any ether nation the AIaer,c N
active in their persons. they are enterprfI ny ;
they are brave AID, which is OF vast consequr
they, are from education ap almost from itu.
ton, SOBER, virtue not CT ELL less valuable in An
army or a Heet than il is in domestic lie.
This, sir, Is vi W ct the mean. and resources of
America very different, perhaps, from the views
which some persons might be disposed to present
to your Royal Highness; and, it this, my view Of
the matter, be correct, surely becomes us to be
very cautious how force these into ac-
ton, aud set them in array against as, backed, as
they will be- with the iinpiac'be hatred OF the
meriesn people IT, indeed, the honor of England
required the setting of these resources defiance:
IL England must ei'her confess her disgraee-
must basely abandon her known r;ghts-,nust kuuck-
Gle down to America or brave the cons guences
of whStI have been speaking OF 4; should then SAY
in the words Of the old Norman proverb adopted
by the French in the Duke .f Brunswick
proclamation, Z" Ter honor be n,aiSsainei, hdSeen
xph0t Gill
But, sir, the question is: does the honor of Eng
land require the making OF this perous experiment.
In my opinion it does not and l now, with the
most anxious hope that at last, they may be attend
ed with some effect, proceed respectfully to submit
to your Royal Hghness the reasons upon which
tnis opinion IS Iouuueu.
The dispute with regard to the orders in council,
look upon heing ct end, for, though all is not
quite clear in that respect. arrangement seems
to lie matter of little difficulty. But, as am sure
your Royal Highness will do the honor to Iecol-
ect, look the liberty to warn the public, the very
week that the orteis in council were done away,
that that measure alone would dc nothing towards
preventing with America. then said, and i'm
the most distinct terms and without any hesitation
that America would never he content without a
complete abandonment part, of the practice
'fseising persons board her ships neen the high
s. 49,.
] formed this opinion upon the general tone 81
the American prints upon the declaration Of the
Congress, and especially upon information contain
in letters received from friends in America whose
hearts, strange as it may appear to some, my inn
prisenment in Newgate seems to have revived for
mer feelings towards me. These letters written
" persons be it observed strongly attached to En-
gland, for no Others did ever number amongst nay
friends these letters assured me, that the people
OF America notthe government not a faction"
as our hireings have called them that tke people
ut America, from one end of the country to the o.
ther, cried for in preference to longer submss-
ion To the stopping of heir vessels the high seas,
and taking persons out Of them, at the discretion OF
our officers. Upon this information, coming, in
some cases, three hundred miles from the Atlantic
coasts, could safely rely; and therefore, did
not hesitate TO pronounce, that the repeal of the
orders in council alone would not preserve peace
nor was i a little surprised to hear MIR Brougham
declare, that il that measure did not satisfy A.
merica, he. for one, would support war sgaintt
her