The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1815-05-24

~ them more eager IMAM ever tor interf,
II ence in the domestic affairs of France 81
~ while the cries ofour countrymen az M,
#Orleans, are yet vibrating On our ears. m Use
n men are endeavoring to urge you and yur
i culleagues on TO the sending of thousa N. D.
N on thousands more OF our men, and 70 e,s,nd
hundreds OF millions more of our mone in
A order TO overset government which the
" French nation love, and to compel the, to
4 submit to one which they hate, or. Ar asst,
tespse. from the bottom of their Parts,
and with unanimity absolutely unpa,llel-
ed.
My Lord, if my advice had been fopwed,
we should nave had TO American Var
the twenty or thirty thousand men, Il; fifty
or sixty millions of money. which ths unfor-
tanate war has cost US ; and which i've on
", as it turns out, created an Americn Ma
Wy, aud exalted the Republic amogst the
nations Q, the world, would all have cen sa-
we'd. Inc literary Cossacks of London,
were, verify believe, the chief caue of that
war.
They urged you and your colleagues on to
the destruction 81 the American Form OF
GOVERN MEM, Napoleon berg, as they
thought down. never TO rise arain, they urS-
ed you On to make war. till YOU had tut d9Svn
.laaes nad.son, and "DELlVFRED THE
WORLD OF the existence of thatEXAM AMPLE
of the success of DEMOCRATIC RFBiI-
LION" " No PEACE w1rHAApIsoN,'
was their cry. Kill kill keep killing, till
he is put down This was their incessant
cry. And, IN short time after, Napoleon
was exiled to the Isle of F be-, these literary
Cossacks published paragraph, which they
inserted in the report of the dsbates in the
House OF Comrncns, as the report ofthe speech
OF Sir Joseph forke, tuen, and low one of the
lords OF the Admiralty, in the FLOWING words
NfN..I..> II i. 4. =.
one great enemy at this country, Bonaparte,
had been deposeI there was smother gentle
man whose Deposition was only neces-
sayy to oar interest he mcslt Wr. President
MADISON and with a view % THAI DE
POSITION, considerable laval force must
be kept up, especially in tie Atlantic. But
as to his honorable friends opinion respecting
the reduction of the Navy, he wished it to be
considered that number OF shipping were
employed IN conveying French Prisoners to
France, ADD bringing home orr own country
men. ~ much for the occupation of our ma
Wy On the home station. Bat from the Nled.t-
eranean for instance, several three deckers
we're ordered home, and he could aver that
no Pr cticai eXertion wtfiid be reuitted to
reduce the eXpence of our Naval Depart
me7t,"
With what shame with what sorrow,
would these writers, if they had not lost all
sense ct shame, and Al feeling for their
country, now look back on their conduct at
the time tc which am referring Instead.
however, Of feeling shame for that conduct,
they are now acting the same part over ag,in
they are now rcv.ving allthcir oil calutn-
MICS against the Emperor Napoleon they are
abusing the French army and the French
people; they are bestowing on them appella-
tons almost too inf to be repeated &
they are Calling upon you and ycur colleagues
70 make war OF DETERMINATION W. ~ that
people, unless they VII receive and adopt the
ruler and the government appointed, or pnn-
led odt by Ensiard. These men called Mr..
Madison a TRAITOR and REBEL.--
They called the Americans slaves. thieves
and these appellations, with many others, not
executing co7VGrds, they are now bestowing on
the French people.--They now see that you
and your colleagues have found it necessary
to make treaty of peace and anlty with
MIR. Madison, whom they called a traitor &
q rebe.; but these men are of that descrip-
slon OF fools to whom experience cannot teach
whIom, and they are now repeating their
Cry, no Reace 7mth NAPOLEON no peace
IN the Bourbons are again on the throne of
france war with the French until they a
uopt ruler in whom I'VE have Confidence.
later this Introduction, the writer, with
hic usual acumen, eXpostulatcs with lord
~~-S"' va e-AS SSClCGN Vi = new I ICtlCl
war.
Bat. my lord, long as this address to you
already is, there is one view ofthis impending
danger, to which beg leave to call your Sc
serious attention.
It's said, that "war will as hitherto favor
cur sALlh2ig and commercial interests, while
our navy secures us ne Sopereignfv-oCthr
-ea$" And. afterwards, it is said, that our
" Manufactures viii prosper with the con-
tiGent OF Europe and America open"
l)1-s nos ev ~ man Of America coupled with
tAa' OF war in Europe, give rise to thousand
uiougHtS ~ the mind CT your Lordship> DO
You not see the rising navy in the m5u.hs of
tue ousquthannah and the Hudson In short.
wat Eng'iahman can look that way without
alarm Il is well known, that our commerce
;Dd shipping, during the last war, were sup.
Iwfed by the restrictions. which our navy en-
ahiett us 10 impose, on the commerce AID ma
VSHticn OF ncufraks, and especially OH t. se.
~ Nmerlca' 1t is well known that, had we
nnt Claimed the sea as our own, and ej:ercis-
CT our power there accordingly, oir com
nero and navigation must have dwinGled in
10 very small compass, and that those Ut A.
mcrlca would have been swelled to an cnor-
in lis slzc. lille France, OMEN to the ship
ping and com nerce of Amer.ca, would have
experienced little injury from the power of
orr navy.
Wen then, is it to be believed, when we
took at tnc prog ess and conclusion Of the
American war, tGat We shall a.rgif 0fJcy5ff