The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1814-01-29

bounty /, so th2t, III NllS OH was agreed 10,
,b, whole bounty in money would be 124
dollars to each recruit-50 on enlistment, SO
-, mastering the recruit, and "a on the dis
cb.rre from service the land bounty re-
n,a;oipy as II has heretofore been. Mr.. Il.
related the arguments which had been used
I'm committee, &c. and recommended an aC-
cep.ance Of the report.
The report was accepted by the House
without division.
TSo that this bill wants only the signature
Of The President to become law.]
TIE NIAGARA FRONTIER.
MIR. Hopkins of N Y. rose to make a
motion witch he deemed worthy the imme-
d;ate attention of the House. His distance
&C., ,he reporter prevented his first re-
,orts from being heard. He took rapid
New of the progress of the campaign in the
re;ghbourhood OF Fort George, and of the
r;rcnmxtances which led to the evacuation
.,ud destruction of that post, by our military
force. Connected With that transaction also
no, another into the merits of which it was
80, - !. ,,,srDose TO enter al this moment, as
II lid not come ,sithip the scope of bis mo-
tien. The village OF Newark was burnt--a
Circumstance in every respect deeply to be
regretted, both az respected the Oh araceer
of the nation, and the faith violated by that
act. which had been so oftcnpledged TO pro
,ect the inhabitants in the enjoyment of
their property and personal rights. The
place had been burpt. not in the act OF at
tack not as villages suffer that arc destroy
ed in the contending operations of opposing
armies. 1t was burat in cold blood, when
there was no resisting force 10 defend it-N
This act was tue less defensible because is
position was such that II might have been
DESTROYED at any moment it its destruction
had been really necessary. Inc conse-
- I
onence Of which act, and the Abandonment
nf the country by the Cuted States, & the
nublic authority of the SKATE OF Y. Z. was
that the enemy had retalia,ed on our from
tier he distresses and injuries they had suf
fered by our inyasions OF their country. The
fort of Niagara chad been destroyed and,
Notwithstanding the published accounts as
serted to the contrary, with It vast amount
of public stores had been destroyed. 1t was
imoossibIe not TO have forescen, he said,
when All our forces were withdrawn, when
we gave up TIE conquest we had made TO
prosecute another ard very distant one,
that the country would be left exposed 70
tine incursioss OF an enemy eXasperated by
our inroads into his territory, and ~ strong
too that during great part OF the past sea-
son he he'd our forces confined within
small fortifcasion. The Consequences of
those incarsioas/of the enemy were yell
known. I,ewistown, SchlOsscr and Butfalcr
were burnt II might be necessary, in Che
view OF government, to sacrifice part of
the territory for the preservation of the
whole Whatever was the ytj-ct, the tract
&C country TO which he he'd refer ed fell
sacrifice in consequence q the operations of
the government. War was first carried
there by our government, and The country
afterwards left defenceles, abandoned to the
euemy. The dislress8ss incurred in conse-
queuce of this policy were great. veral
Vii.aees had been burnt. Terrified by the
fears and horrors of savage warfare, the
people hid abandoned their Publications, and
{or 80 or 20 mics, and more, from the scene
of action, the roads SNVarmed with the fy-
ing sufferers. To refeye their distresses he
would propose a resolution TO the House.
tie did not say whether It would 6e proper
IN all cases for the government to comDen-
safe individuals FOR losses occasionsd by war;
but this was case III which it would be pro
per Tor our government TO afford some re-
lief Our cove rnment had heretofore eX
tended the hand of relief to foreign suffer
ers-he alluded to the case IN which a
quantity OF -four had been sent under the
authority of government TO the fferers at
Caraccas-an he presumed our own citi-
zens, equally suffering, we're at least euti-
tied to attention. Mr.. II. was proceeding
SO advert 50 the libeTality which 1t had al
ways been the policy vi Britain TO display to
her citizens III similar cases--but the Spea-
ker called MS attention to the subiec' ct his
yuotion and Mr.. II. submitted the following
res ,luticni
Resofped, That a committee be appoint
ed TO enquire into the 9, pedicncy Of provid-
ing BIZ law for the indemnity or relief of
those who have suffered losses by tire irrup-
rion of the enemy on the Niagara frontier
nuG that the committee have leave TO T6pott