The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1813-03-05

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believe that if he surrendered his country,
he would cease to be slave. The irish
Protestant was cajoled into the belief that
II he concurrcd in the surrender, he would
De placed upon the neck OF an hostile fac
ton. Wretefcd dupe,
" Ycu might as well persuade the TAILOR.
that he is less 4 prisoner than the captives
he locks up, merely because he carries the
key OF the prison in his pocket By that
reciprocal luminosity, however, Ireland was
surrendered-the guilt of the surrender was
most atroCious---the consequence of the
crime most tremendous, and exemplary
We put ourselves in a condition of the most
unqualified servitude-we sold our country
and we levied upon ourselves the price of
the purch7se-wc gave up the right of dis :
posing OF our properties-we yielded to a
foreign legislature to decide, whether the
funds necessary to their projects or their
prohigacy, should be extracted from us, or
be furnished by themselves the conseq ence
has been, our scaIty means have been
squandered in her internal corruption, as
profusely as our best blood has been wasted
in the madness of her aggressons, OF the
feeble folly of her resistance--eur debt has,
accordingly, been increased more than ten
foid-l ne common comforts of life have
been Vanishing-we are sinking into begga-
ry-our poor people have been worried by
cruel and unprincip!ed prosecutinns-and
the instruments of Government have almost
been simplihed to the taX-gatherer and the
hangman. At length, after this long night
OF suffering, the morning star of redemp-
ton cast its light upon us--the mist was dis
solved, and all men perceived that those
whom they had been blindIy attacking in
the dark, were, in reality, their fellow-suf-
terers and their friends !; we have made a
discovery OF the grand principle in politics,
that the tyrant is in every instance the
Creature of the siave-that he is cowardly
and computing animal-and that in every
instance he calculates between the expen-
denture to be made, & the advantage to be
acquired-And therefore do not hesitate
TO say, that if the wretched Island of Man,
that refugium peccatorum, had sense and
spirit to see the force of this truth, she
could not be enslaved by the whole power
OF England: the oppressor would see that
the necessary expenditure in whips and
Chains and gib5ets, would infinitely coun-
tervail the ultimate value of the acquisition {:
and 1t is owing to the ignorance of this un-
questionable truth, that so much of this agi-
tated globe has in all ages, been crawled
over by Manx population. This disco
very at last, Ireland has made-The Cath
Ole Claims his Rights---the Protestant ge-
nerously- and nobly felt as he ought, and
:
driven to the despicable cowardice, and
resorted to the odious artillery of prosecu-
tons the eXpedient failed the question
made its way to the discussion of the Senate.
will not tire you, (sad he,) with a detail ::
| an House OF. Commons, who at least repre-
sented themselves, perhaps afraid, perhaps
ashamed of their employers, became un
manageable tools in the hand of such aux
ward artists, and were dissolved lust as a
lDeaten or m RI
lire, in hopes of pack to find better for
| tune. Gentlemen, Continued Mr.. Curran,)
was well aware at my rising, that you ex
pected nothing like amusement from what
had To say, that my duty was to tell YOU
PLAIN and important truths, to lay before
/ you. without exaggeration or reserve, a
| fair statement of the causes that have acted
upon the National fortune, of the causes
that put you down, and that may raise you
up: to possess you with fair idea of the
present position, OF what you have to fear,
OF what you have to hope, and how you
ought TO act. When speak of your pre-
sent position, would not have you suppose
the actual situation of the Borough of New
ry: or, that think it much worth while to
dwell uponthe foolish insoence, with which
bessotted Cabinet has thought fit to insult
you, by sending stranger TO your Country
and your interests. to obtain momentary
victory over your integrity, by means, of
which none of you are ignorant
| Here Mr.. Bell, an Agent for the Gene
raj. stood up and fixed his eyes upon the
Master of the Rolls, with a very peculiar
expression of countenance1
MIR. Seneschal (said MIR. Curran,) Ide-
mand Of you, as a Returning Officer, that
aCandidate, shall be protected, as you are
in duty bound to do, from being disturbed by
the obscene and unnatural ferirDaces of =
Baboon.'
[Mr. Jebb, the Counsel : the s;eueschal,
! immediately interpreted, and ordered MIR.
| Bell to sit down
Mr.. Curran resumed" do not wonder
at having provoked interruption, when /
spoke of your Borough told you that
from this moment it is free. Never in nv
life have | so felt the spirit of the people.
as among you--never have so felt the
throbs Of returning life--I almost forget my
own habitual estimate Of ny own SINAI! i'm
portaDce. almost thought 1t was owing, to
some energy within myself when was lift
ed and borne upon the buoyant sure of
popular sympathy x enthusiasm. therefore
again repeat tit is the moment of your
new birth unto Tighteousness-your proved
friends ave high among you-your devel.
oped enemies are expnnged Tor ever--your
liberty has been taken from The grave, and
II she IS Put.51ck into the tomb, it can be
only by your own parricide, and she must
| be buried alive.
"thays to add. for your satisfaction. =
statement has been laid before me of the