The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1815-04-22

will never fade. With what happiness will
you not, when participating in tie bosom of
your families the enjoyment of peaceful life,
look back to the tolls you have bo,ne--so the
dangers you have epcountefedi How win all
your past exposures be converted into sources
OH expressb light. Who, that never ex-
perieIced your suf. rings, viii be able 10 APP
preciate your Joys? The man who slu,nbsred
'ngiorcusiy sc home. during your painful
marches. your nights OF watchfulness and
your days of TOLL will envy you tie happiness
which these rccoHectionS will affori--sti,l
more VIII he envy YOU the gratitude os that
Country which you have so eminently contri-
buted to save.
Continue, fellow soldiers, ON Your passage
to your sew raj destinations, to preserve that
patience. that subordination, that dgnitied &
manly department which haye so ennobled
your characters.
Whilr the Commanding general is thus ci-
wing indulgence to his feelings towards those
brave companions who accompanied him
through difficulties and danger, he cannot
permit the names OF Blount and Shelby aad
Holmes, to pass unnoticed. With what a
generous art!or of patriotism have these dis
tingmshed governors contributed all their ex-
ert:pns To provide the means of victory The
memory ofthcse exertions and of the success
VITA which they were attained, viii. be to
them reward more grateful than any whic:,
the pemp OF title or the solendor of wealth
can bestow.
What a happiness it is to the cohmand.
ing. general that, while danger was before
US, ne was, on no OCCASION, compelled to
use, towards his companions in arms, Ell
Their severity or rebuke. If, after the enc
my had retired, improper passions began
to shew their empire in few unworthy
bosoms, and rendered feeort to energetic
measures necessary for their suppression,
the commanding general has not cohfound-
ed the innocent with the guilty; the seduced
with their sedncers. Towards you. fellow
sol iefs the most cheering recollection exist,
blcnditl alas with regret, that dissas. and
war should have ravished from US so NAV
worthy companions But the memory OF the
cause IN which they persisted, and of the yir-
tues which animated them while living, must
occupy the place where sorrow would claim
70 dwell
Farewell, fcllew-soldiers. Tie expression
OF your generals thanks Is feeble but tii,,.
gratitude OF country of freemen is YOURS
yours the applause of an admirir,, world.
ANDREW JACKSON,
MAJOR General Com1lun1ii,7s.
Cqhy Of a ieftcr t+ons the Commissarp Gca-
erai Of Prisoners 70 Con,nrodctc Por-
fer.
OHics OF Com. General of Prisoners,
- April IL. 1915.
Presenting that it is not unknown to
you, that the British officers then command
ing ON orr coast, had denied the right eyer
c'sed by this Government last, summer. in
declaring You and the officers and crew of
the fr;gate Essex, discharged from parole.
and that they had gone so far as to demand
lrTSy pIa~ a,1I ILL
the consequences, should you be NET again in
arms. have thought it due to the occasion.
and toyoa, although the correspondence with
Admiral Cpchrane on that subject was not
terminated until afterrthe peace, to Dot ven
IN the possession of the Acknowledgement of
that oaicer, that his own government had ad-
R,itted the correctness of the Course adonteH
here.
With this view, and 10 shew the plea
on which the first pretensions were four
ded, have the honour to send you herewith
copies OF that correspondence as per mar
gin.
have the honor to be, sir, your most ob't.
serv't.
MASON,
Com. DAVID PoRrEp,
Washington.
Extract ofa letter from, admiral Sir .aler
a1der Cochrane 70 the Con1n,issary Cen
erdt of Prisoners, adted on board II. b.
E1ascsfy's shin Tonnant in the Chesahedke,
7th Seft. 1914.
observe, in the American papers. that
Captain Porter, the officers and crew of the
late United States frigate Essex, have been
declared absolved from their parole and free
to serve, in consequence of an order issued
b. the British Government. 1t Is nv t,bty to
remark, that the circumstances Under which
Capt. Porter and his crew have been permit
ted to return to the U. 8 differ very widely
from those under which releases have been
granted on the ground OF the order alluded
10 and which believe you are aware was
given to prevent the irregularities that at one
period were continually occurring from per-
SONS being landed o. released at sea upon
parole by those who had no authority for 50
doing.
The officers and crew of the ESSEX were
sent from foreign port for their own country
in regular cartel, acknowledged and esta-
blished as such by Capt. Portei's letter to
| Capt. Iiiiyar, dated the 5th of April. of which
/ send you copy.
The officers and crew Of the Java, similar
ly situated, were duly accounted for by nv
| government. Ii is therefore incc a,bent upon
me to claim Captain Porter, his officers and
crew, and to call upon you to prevent their
| serving against Great-Britaiu until regularly
exchanged.
/ can assure you. sir; that It will be mos,
| painful for me to meet with Capt Porter or
| any ofthe officers or crew ofthe Essex, s..rv-