The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1814-12-17
FTe"s Co66ett's Eeek!o Register of ccto-
Der SE
Summary OF POLITICS

4
A.fERIcAN War The expedi;ion against
the CRY Il Wasdi{gfon. or rather, the result
of IT, has produced in this country the effect
which might naturally Lave been exprctcd.-
The Yankees aIe dom for Their IGetroh-
olis mas been taken! They ran away at the
s ght ct our troops Mr.. Madison and his Co
vernment have dccar,pe, The States are
left without l'ulers The ill-organizeti asso-
citation, the Times newslapcr, is on rbe
eve OF d'ssoluien; and the world is speedily
To De detivered OF the n,iscEieTous craDlhkc
Of me f1'Stence ria g0UcrHD,ent f5und~d on
democratic ycbeAim."-T'hus 3ars tire Times
and thus SAYS vast majority of this taxed
hltNn This was to te espscied. The name
OF H4f'To1'ofs vas en9egh she people hsre
were sure to look upon 1t as the London of A.
merCa and. ns ccrrsc, 70 conclude, that ~
merica was srhdned, or very nearly s,IbtlneI
his IS, too the notion held forth bv the news
papers and, IN fact, it universally prevails -
j. ow, the truth ie, that the City OF WashiDg-
ron IS no city a. all, except in name. IL was
7e7I'1 &c 0e 6iGiit only about sixteen years apo
ne congress r rs not met at it above ten or
twelve years. 1t was built nv Il sort of Iotie-
~. the shares of which fell, Il one time. to
less than ] per cent. OF their cost The Lot
Kerry was drawn; the prizes were not paid |
90 rot. indeed, know what may have been
done since left the country but at that time.
i was the general opinion that it never wonld
be a place OF any Consideration, though the
hGzy compelled Congress to meet there.
w neFeV-i tie hAfg is, there is the Cg7trt ~
.,ut the Hepubhcan Government OF america,
though they Ulay have had the puci.ile Dr,6f.
OF erecting Cui,1ol and a Pyesjd, 1fa Z MI
ace, could not make q CITY which inDIrs .
numerous population and great wealth. But
our otlccrs, naval as we'll as military, appear
To nave perceived what would hit the t,ste Of
war-ioying Johnny Bull. Johnny, who has no
doubt ofhis having c2fg1lered F5uuce. womb
OF course, be delighted at Jle prospect OF con-
queimS America, towards which he woad
necessarily look on the capture Of Washing
toh IS al almost last step ahd, indeed, /
heard soUie people, usually very srnsil,le
say, upon the receipt OF the news. Thank
God, we shall non have peace, and have Che
hlcopts tao hgt@n cf.' What, in the eve
OF common sense, is the event OF which we
nave made such 6D7Stiug? We have, with
an enormously superior naval force, ascend
cd very capaCiols bay 80 America, To the
distance ct about sixty miles We have Ian
ded az army: we have repused the militia
Oh superhr nunbeIs, Gas zoe say y we nave
entered a strag5iirg town of WOO en- build
lugs, which our own newspapers had told 1s
tue Americans themselves lid a.kuo,yled
Bcd 20 be detenceiess We have set FIRE.
To several Buildings and some ships -
we have (thak God y burnt the p@csi
dents Pattcs. aud building ON = ridcu
lousy grand scale, called the CaLftol, where
the Legislature 1t tbe Union held IT'S sitti,,gs
WChdvC theD refYectcd, and r. .incd cur sh,ns
wIdisuch haste, that We have been c.urel-
/ 'e1 '" 'eave orr dead, dGdinany Of our qclsq
r. O. oGtccTs, as weil as men, IN the sieycD n
HH f"4Hy whom our newspapers call mur,e-
! SPied. co" ardiysnd l--1 las is .ehat ibe
, NlorH'ns Chronicle caiis ore oft he most "feai-
| 'lnt d2shes' Of the war. Jhis is styled suc-
cf6s. IaE Is victory TO- b9qsf o.. This IS
70 'nd'ce tie Americans to 90 down n,on
.he'i e"S;5, and s,licl. reace o.. any terms