The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1814-12-29

harbors. This is is all that can be done, ex-
cept using execution against their privateers,
which from their fast sailing, are not easy to
be caught.
Further ertructs from CANADA hahers 10 the
4th Of December.
MONTREAL, Dec. 8.
In the American House of Representatives
the CONSUMPTION requisition has passed by
considerable majority and it is believed the
Senate will also agree in the utility of this
mode of raising troops /; it will therefore pass
into law. The New-England fedcralists
consider this as an act of despotism in free
country. But in the free republics of Greece
and Rome, this was the only resort they had
to for national defence every citizen was a
soldier. As to the manner of defence, there
is also kind of CONSUMPTION law in Englandr:
for other purposes, recourse IS had to recruit
ting. The avowed design of the American
government is conquest Like the Romans,
it wishes to subdue the British Carthage in n.
America. 1t was tyranny in the Roman Sc
nate to force the citizens of the republic, to
leave their homes to subdue the Carthageni-
ans, who never aspired at the ruin of Rome
so is il tyranny in Madison to seek the ruin
of Britain, by forcing the people of the u.
States to conquer Canada. But it is the bu-
siness of the Bostonians te oppose this, if their
professions are sincere let US wait the result
of the Congress- at Hart ford, in Connecticut,
and we shall find out who are the greatest
enemies to Britain in the Northern Section of
the union. ~
Canal 20 La C1ine--It is with considera-
BILE pleasure we learn, that this important
project has come under the consideration of
the administration, & probably the work will
commence next spring. But it is affirmed
that the government would prefer the matter
being sanctioned by an act of the Legislature,
so that the public may gain, by an enterprise
which promises immeuse advantages. Mr.
Arthur Young in his observations on France,
says, there, all great national objects are
taken up by government and consequently
seldom prosper" In England he tells us
when individuals and corporate bodies have
the direction i" all terminates we'll - henee
the incompatible prosperity of England. Let
this great colony then follow the example OF
the mother country, by ameliorating its inter-
nal condition, under the auspices Of the pro-
vincial legislature. We know from good au-
thority that government will afford every en-
enlargement to the undertaking; and we
hope the citizens of Montreal will assemble,
and take the subject into due consideration !;
we are convinced the more they reflect, the
more will they be persuaded of the solid adj
vantages which would result by having ca
nal cut between this and La Chine. We have
little hesitation in making this broad asser-
zion, that the sums paid for carriage between
Montreal and La Chine during the last two
years, would be equal to the expense of max
ing the canal proposed. We only take what
was laid out in the summers of those years.
We appeal not to the merchants and gentle
men of real estate alone, but to persons of
every profession who will take the trouble of
rejecting, whether they could lay out part
of their fortunes to better advantage. The
security would be equal to the soil we tread
upon and we think in less than three years
after the completion of the work, shares
would SCI, at so per cent premium. The en-
Iehtened members of the Provincial Assem-
bly, will look on this enterprise as a child OF
their own fostering, and will bestow the re-
quisite ailments to carry it to maturity, since
their own interest and that of the public will
be closely united. But we leave the subject
TO ADLER pens to discuss or rather to the psr-
ses of the members of the community to de-
eide upon the completion of what is propos-
ed.
Mark this ye Federal Factonists IEno.
Montreal, Dec. 3-By the arrival ON Tues
day frem Halifax, we learn that feet of
transports, conveyed BY a sloop of war and a
store ship, was to sail from that port on Mon
day last for Martinico, &c to take the gar
risons Of those Islands to Bermuda or Halifax.
These garrisons have been estimated at rising
1000 men, under Gems. Eslington and Cas-.
kcll Of the regiments are The 25th, esd, &
a rifle battalion.
.Adjmtant Generate Office, }
Montreal, Dec. 1, 1914. s
GENERAL ORDER.
In reviewing the operations of the cam
paign on the Niagara Frontier, under the i'm
inediate direction of Lienf Gen Drnrnmnnd