The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1814-12-22
FOREIGN.
from coBBEqT'S B'kEKLr REGISTER or
SEpTEMBsR
SUMMARY OF POLITICS.

SoCsN.u.faI OF fOLi {ICS.
AMERICAN W.7R.-The Times newspaper,
which was Of the ,ou'est clsmosers for tins war,
now observes "with dep regret, that il has fingered
for many months, without being distinguished by
any memorable stroke" Ii the infammatery and mali
eons writ OF that paper already experiences tsat,-
0infne,, what win he experience during ths months
yea, ant perhaps tie 5sars OF this war, which are
yet to come He, when ursing on the nation to this
enterprise, told them with the conde .ce thai,
~ tsrc Trseks after varshouid be coramc sed the
brssted American navy would he annillhied" Not
only hasthat navy not been snuiha,ed, but his very
much increased. is has annhiate some hundreds Of
our merShsnt ships, and has defeated several OF our
ships oil war; some at which, alter victory over them,
gained IN thr most wonderful manner, 1t has a,iied to
hts iunber. Ii is sad that We are building sbii,s
90 carry Oh guns for the express purpose Of co,abct-
'ny the American fisates Ours, il seems, are to he
called frydteS also Tits IS to avoid the ami, e,,r.ess
cd acknowledging that our tggteS not able TO cope
Nth American Iigates-NOw, il It should happen
shat one oil these new "jigd.eS ot is beaten and
captured by an American trisaie, what will then be
taldf For my rat,were itwiih me to carry the war;
would after what has passea resort 70 such peril
uus cxpedicnt this, but would at once, SEM, slbs of
Che Inc against those formidable igaes, without ma
king apology for doing Before the warbesan, not
word were we told aber s,e forTnidab'cnessofthe
H1s;tcs The editors of ihe Times and Courier were
oniy impatient that these frigates should meet ours
upon the sea. They said nothing about their
stout decks, and their heavy cannon, and teir
" big balls" But the moment that the Ameri-
ears BEAr and CAPTURED OF our rigates with ono
OF theirs, then heard these editors aud even the
undaunte6 sons %! Neptune" CARRIED in blue and
gold exclaming against the size ofthe American is-
ates, anil the number ottheir crews We should have
thought o all this before We talked of annlatng the
American navy in few weeks.--The Newfoundland
underwriters petitioning the Lords OF the Adj
inIalty & the Prince Regent to protect them more ef
fecualy against this :" c0a.cmpti6e American navy"
which, seems, has already destroyed their property
to the OF millions Of the ships which
are SAID 10 blockade, in Sort part of harbors
IN England and Ireland, and are capturing our ships
within the sight osand-rhese gentlemen should have
pe,itioned against the So far from that many of
them were eager for the X, do they Think that
tuey are to enjoy the satisfaction OF seeing the American
twns krockcd down without paying some little matter
ortf That the Admiralty employing great
r0a SHIPS X sailors in this wa years taxes
andioans will fully convince but numerous their
shps and sailors are, they not, and cannot be
safi lent to cover all the ocean. The farmers and
Iand-hoders, asd irndhoaers signing for the re-
peal of the taxes but how are they justified in this
wish, when II is well known that to carry the war;
taxes are absolutely necessary; and when it is also
well known that these persons were, in general
anxious FOR the war! Some ofthem want war TO pre-
vent their produce from falling in price others like
peace with France well enough but then they wish.
ed to "gve the Yankeesa drubbing" Therefore, if
10 keep up the price OF produce and to give the Var
kees dIubbng, taxes wanted, with what decency
can these persons cNpe that will he taken Off
FOR 1t IN some way other u want food, or raj
inen or houses pleasure, do We not expect to pay
for them Can we so 10 see a play orpuppet show
without money? Why, then, to expect The
pleasure of seeing the Yankees !s1s5bed without
F,ang for that too The public seem very impatient
a. see the drubbing begin. The Times and the Cpu-
rIer have been endeavong to entertain them for long
while, and until they, well the audience appear
exhausted. BGt is it not reasonable that the public
should, in this case, well in all others put down
their raasey previously to the drawing up OF the
tain ln yearo two, perhaps, we shall see the
drama commence in goo earnest But is il not enough
70 bs amused with little dancing and tumbng on the
outside before have paid Gus money Send
Send away says the eager editor ofthe Times, send
away force to CRUSH them at once" But not word
does he say about necessary pay for the SEN
ding and keeping up snch force. Our government is
somposed OF wonderfully clever men but they are
oteleyer enough tn make soldiers walk upon the wa
ters over the Atlantic, TO enact, word, Ioayes
and fishes to sustain them after their arrival To be a.
bic TO send that overwhelming force, Of which the
J INES speaks, the government must have money! *
rs IN all other cases, they must have the money first
iii short II IS unreasonable in the extreme EXPECT
Abe in America 10 be attended with any very se.
nal result, until we have literally paid two three
years oi taxes. The assertion is again made that the
merean ships are manned principally with English,
Irish and Scotch find this assertion in the Morning
Chronicle ofthe 9th inst this true, SIS hope il
rs MOI, what pleasant and honorable fact this war
would have brought to light No other than this
that many of our seamen, our "gallant tars the IN
daunted of neptune only nave no dislike TO
the Americans, but actually have the risk of being
hanged drawn and quartered, for the sake Of fighting in
the American service against their own country If
the world believe these accounts, what the world
think Of us :
During tie long in which France was engaged,
no Frenchmen were ever fuundin arms against their
kngand country. Some oftiem, indeed, embodied
themselves under foreign banners TO fight they pre-
tended, at least, for their coltry, aud against those
Ehom they called the uSuspers Of its government
lint, 1t these accounts be true, cOuNtrymen have
eohariggone into the American service to fisht g.
eanst their country that country being under the esi-
tIIate sway at the glorious and beloved House OF
brunswick The origin OF these accounts, disgrace
ful to the country, probably, the reluctance which
or naval officers have to confess defeat the hands
ot those Yankees, whom were so DESTROYS to see
si'It66sd 70 avoid this painful Acknowledgements It
has been asserted, that have been beaten 'sy
the ankecs, but by brave eountrYInen. But
here, again difficulty arises for how comes il to
pass that our own brave cOuntrymen have more sue
oe on bErd IF Yankee ships than boayl IF our own
heart Of oak How to pass, thu. The men on
bo svies, being Of precisely the and sduea-
slon, those in the Yankee shirs should beat those in
q" the wooden walls of Old England I" II has been
observed, that they fight desperately knowing
that they fight with htter d6oH their Hscks. What
a. sspersion on " the Of Neptune :" As if the
sonsof Neptune tie gallant Jack Tars of Old Eng
I7nh, wanted halter round their neeks, and the gal
lows and executionsr knife before their eyes, to make
en- do more III ba tie than they ready 70 do for
abe sike of thor KIN aIl country, and from sent
naest ofhonori 1isis, really, giYnga cruel stab 10
ths character Of sailors but such is the sorry ma
fgny If those who publish these accounts of tressona-
bic practices that they entirely overlook these obvious
I'eenee, in their anxiety to get rd Of the supposon.
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