The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1814-12-27


goods accumulated in the Warehouses for five !
years, and the amount of duties upon then,
as said to be.'ogr rsiilions sterling. Now, to
force these goods out upon the market all at
once, without regard to the demand or price,
is a measure of such Sevesi'y rs was never I
attempted before. Many of the original c@n-
ers are gone. They disposed of their pro
perty, and it may have passed Through Sc
yeral hands. In many cases sums have been
lent upon the security of those bonded goods
and it they are to be brought forth and
exposed to sale, they must fall to price ra-
mons to all parties. We suppose that q very
strong representation of all the facts will be
made to the treasury against the measure, as
they are ordered to clear them out and pay
the duties on or before Sunday the 5oth inst.
We suppose that the chancellor OF the ex-
chequer considered that : the better day--
the better deed If he saoald not succeed IN
procuring this seasonable supply, will this be
AN apology for requiring aioan. OF the fund
ing of excheQuer bills after al -
Those who have been accustomed to cons:-
der the writer OF this journal the enemy of
corruption, win be able TO appreciate, by the
above article, his hretensions to that Charac
ter. When the unexpected event OF the over
throw Of Napoleon electrined, as it were, the
good people of this country, * almost render
ed them frantic with Joy, did not the Morning
tituted hireling Journals, in abusing the fallen
emperor /; in stigmatzng him tyrant,
6eSfct, and an s,snyiisr and in giving minis
tcrs ,credit, nav, loading them with Erase,
for tie notie efforts they had made to rid the
earth of such a monster? Was not this di-
rect ahf,rol,Gl of every warlike measure OF
ministers Was is not a tacit acknowledge
mcnt, that every sixpence Of money they had
levied, had been properly done, and met with
their entire appreciation But what is more:
Has not this organ of faction, while canting
and whining about tile miSerieS ard caiGMiitfes
Of war, given its hearty concurrence to the
prosecution Of the war with America, s. an
ilauded every step taken by lvernment to re-
colon;ze the y. s.! Even the most servile of all
the crew ofcorruptionists, has been able to
excel this cont mptiblc writer i'll the manner
he has cruitcd over the reUerses Of The Ame
r1cans Either the editor of the Morning Chro-
nicle is sincere in wishing the yankees adrub
bling, or he il nor sincere. If the latter, then
does he labour in vain to be consistent, by
professions of regard for peace, and abhor
renee of war, while he acquiesces in, and APP
rlauds, the hostile measures pursued against
America But il this new war is not altoge-
Their dspeasing to the organ OF the wings if
lie and his party have resolved to allow min
listers tn prosecute II their own way, without
any mOlestaton from them ; how comes it
that they are endeavoring, as is evident from
the above article, to hQrlkZc he hands of min
listers Ifthe war with France required money
to carry it on /; if We, could not put down Ma
polcon, without increasing he national debt
from fzv5 hundred end ffry-nine millions TO
NINE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY if the de-
7ivcrance OF Europe coCld not be effected I'M
til the country was burthened with an incalcu-
liable load of taxes by what means is itthat
we are to re-conguer America, and to comhei
upwards Of eight millions of people, who have
shewn no liking for our government, to sub
nit 20 its sway, and to relinquish all the bles-
sings of independence Is there any other
way Of doing it but with money? To say no
thing of their pay, can the men we are every
day sending scross the Atlantic, to tumble
the Yankees, be conveyed thither without mo-
ney They must have food as we'll cloathing.
The seamen must also have food who navigate
the vessels, and this not for the voyage mere
", but for the whole time it is calculated we
are TO take in conquering the Americans
Then there is the immense quantity of naval
and military stores, necessary for such an ar
my, to be provided for Can this be done
without money, or even with little money ?
No, surely the war with America, Ike every
other war. can only be supported with mo-
ney and where are minister's to look for it
but into the pockets of those men who called
for the war, and who PROMISED them their
warnest support, If they would only give Jo-
nathan = drubbmg who assured ministers
that they would consider no sacrifice too
great to obtain this desirable object.
What right, then, have these men to come
forward, now that the American war has be-,
gun in real earnest, and complain Of the hard !
ships of making them fulfil their engage
ments? Or where is the consistency, the r s.
pect for f,THcihie, so much talked of by the |
Morning Chronicle, when it tells US that il |
would be harsh, distressing, i1convenient, |
grievous, severe, 77ti'iouS and the Lord |
knows what, to. farce these men to keep heir |
promises? Is it because they are akurmed, |
because they begin to feel the consequences
Of their .foUy, that they deserve compassion |
For ny part, it gives me great satisfaction
tn find thess bawlers for war beginning at |
last t. fcel unra8y for their sit1atijn. ] wish |
sincerely they had begun to be alarmed some-
what sooner 1t would have been for the in.
terest of all Europe; may say, it would |
have been for the interest Of the whole hui
man race, If these Gl1rBiists had, twenty years
ago, instead of raising a Glamour against Ii !
bcrty if they had then felt some of those
con,hu1ctions they now feel, about the cost
of the war, into which they plunged us. As
il is, however, no real friend Of his country |
will regret their present alarms. Long. too !
long has the majority, the most deserving |
class of the cornmuaty, suffered inconveni-
ence and disfreSs.--HarSh, grieT0Us, SeUerc,
and ruth OTIS 20 thousands, have been the Inea-
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