The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1813-06-01

ses very considerable interest, aud can
not fail 70 ensross the chief attention Of our
readers. The hostility OF the u. States,
which the siavish papers represented as of
ouch msignihcance, is unQuestionably
Of Atore importance to than 4 war with
ali the world BESIDE. This declaration may
excite sdrGoDic smile in the editors of
those vehicles of profound reasoning which
we have alluded to but there IS nothing
more easily proved, it men worid give
themselves time To think. General DriDci-
pies have long been lost sight of, or our
Constitution would not have been so wound
cd & msnglsd as Il is and general reas IN
ing is not entertained BY our selfish states
men, as not being m sintainable by their way
OF acting from iaY to day. They will hes :.
tow more tine on the petty, paltry cire
cumstsnce to which OF the PRINCES they
shall consent toassign the largest slice Of
that sos,nd cake, alias Oroits II Icmiroifi,,
IN the Bank, according to his infant repute
Of Becoming one day an usCfAi orator in
Parliament or what portion of that annual
seeG-cufte, the secret service mones shall
be give,, TO their a.ored parasites for their
hidden services. Gnthose venal, o. as our
rulers deem them. highly political topics,
will they spend much more of t,ieir pro
fncna attention, chan dn such subject
that " hich would have given This devoted
Ouuntry an honorable immunity from Those
ills which war with America must infai.
titly entail E,son us. w. say infailib!y. for
it is and must be SO, in spite of all THE hire.
ling scri5blers can say as much as that if
you play odds against one 1T any game
where year adversary is aswell informed
SIS sontaeie. you must in the end be the
loser, and the longer you play the more
you will lose. We take this subject up to
day, not more in reference to what we ob
served on Saturday last in the new and
ominous occurrence in the American seas,
Tut in consequence of a state paper, drawn
upby the Committee of Foreign Relati-
ons and published at the instance eff the
Executive power. Such paper, so spec
div made public, is 10 US an indication, and
not feeble one, that the President and his
colleagues of government at Washington
city feel no repugnance, whatever may
have happened since the rupture, to discuss
the cause OF IL anew. Such view Of the
case appears to us not as ll-founded, from
the pains taken by the committee distinctly
30 shew the existing ground of controversy
between the two nations. Their observa-
ton, that "every step which they take
should be guided by u sacred regard 10
principle" so far from discouraging a phi
lospphic or an honest adversary from at
terlpting to renew SO Beneficial CORES
nondence, IL might induce him TO say, with
readiness, /" l viii meet you on that ground,
since YOU speak out so openly and plainly"
In the paper alluded to, we could point
out half o score instances, or expressions,
which a wise ministry here would not fail
immediately TO turn to the almost lnmed-
ate profit, and certainly TO the permanent
prosperity Of England. A nczD ministry
could not hesitate one instant to adopt such
an expedicet; and in that view of the case,
We are surprised thai our torpid Country
men have so long refrained from petition
ing the Regent for the removal Of men frcm
power, Who never Can bring themselves TO
act a part which, however saIutary TO
their county, would be decorating to their
own feelings.
Thst!t may not appear we are attached
q 90 any set q. men, or that we have placed
our affections in the keeping of any leader
of men, we would agree to selection OF
three OF the most experienced of Mr. Bar.
ins's. OF any other well skilled merchants
clerks, TO be our Ministers al h9c. Al
peace with America, and we should, at
least, be at safe anchorage against the
assaults from every other part of the com
pass lat war with her, we are exposed to
Danger il every part of the globe. + it to
be supposed that q nation, which sbouHds
In timber, iron, tar, and coroage, aod
with superabundance of every necessary
Of life. can ever be at a loss for means OF
-tIubFibS a. isOhSL silEt W, w no nave TO
look abrcad Cor great proportion of our
:ustenancc, and go abroad for the very
means which can alone feed our daily con
suming strength Are a people a. once a
Sricultaral and cons nerciai, and whom We
are forcing TO be manufactured also, are
such y people 10 be treated as an insiGhifi-
cani G @curyy race Can the adventurous
natives Of SC extensive region, Of SO varied
climz,e, be deemed contemplate, when
they every scar traverse two immense
oceans in ships of so small a tonnage as that
I'll Engii-h Captain would not think of ven
ruriag his life in them or if he did, for we
do not mean that he does not possess the
Courage, with. perhaps, superior skill, bat
he would uOt thick OF ventoring n petny
OF NE voyage in SO inferior vessel. I'm
der such heavy expenccs from gritvous
tax6,io1, tnat voyage Could not yield far
things pncfi. on even safe return. What
then may not be expected from the continu
ed hostility Of q new coUb.ry Ike America
its government sncOrrufst.d by selfshness,
and is people anyexed by rigorous imposts
Tie moment is critical we are assured
uiat tiIs bulk of the people of our once sis !
sc- coTorico, are not di-pos.J % .ttsalliAnce
with FraeCe--that such an CIV ent mus, BY
our bad policy, be forced ON them if it &C.
ours. Ipey caBnotB however, remain long
undetermined they viii mutually cx.l
change with France n every way possible
(for ~e know they cannot, as in the former
war, be assisted by troops, like those Of