The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1815-03-25
AMERICAN WAR.

Negotiations at Ghnf--.Ncdsues Of the. american
Congress Battle nei' Fort Er1e---Lahe Ontario.
Dispatches a6ettt she Lake ChGmpidia B,the--B,l
ti.h attack Fort .lfot5Le--Ihe negotiation at
Gheot, though kept secret from Johnny But, have
reached him, s ether disclosures do through tie
telLtale press OF America Oh tl,st Requisite and
her Press how many things the world knows thru
them tstssre no way OF reducing them to silence
Take 1t IL hand coed people, and see il there be
mears OF acc mplisbng it. These negotiations shew,
that Jon ATTAIN poor he spiseA JONATHAN is not much
less in the eshinet than he in the s.I. Ger
tauly nothing better managed than tits nego-
Cation on the part Of Jonathan. He prielet our
brains, aud then would 40 nothing, untlhe hea,d what
the people OF America should say. The ground of
Messrs- b.. ard, Gallatn, &c. vas very reasonable
tor, how could they be expected to have distractions
relating to matters ne1er 6cfose E.atters IF dsptf
The substance ~ tire disclosure is this we asked as
tteLw7rary that the Republicans sho.,d Give up l.arr
OF their territory, including those very Lakes and
their own borders of those Lakes, ~hereoa thew have
defeated U.s. and which heir only secure barrier a.
gsiust us and our Iadisn allies. The President, of
course, lost no time an laying these papers before the
Congress, who are said to have heard them with una
nirnous indignaton and the TINES ewspaper tells u.s.
tat " these papers have been made the neaas of AM
fg az aist lts the te'toie qrneTicat beoble" Thou
great ass, they were united sgansi before. They
we're only handful OF 7" Sereae Hiph,,e sses' and
tossacS" in Massachusetts, the acquaintance of Mr.
Henry, who were not united against This, sup
pose, The shit that you order 10 cover
your disgrace in having that Mr. Madison
Is ger PresFtent, asd that bc is not q i'm
Mr. Monroe, worthy OF great attention He tells the
Plenipotentiaies, that there is much reason TO pre-
sumo, that Great Britain has now OTHER OBJ
JECTS than those, for which she las hitherto profs-
sed TO coutend Probably he built this presumption
the language Of public prints, or on the report
ots speech in Parliament attributed by those news
papers TO Sir JosEpn YoRKE, of the Lords of the
Admiralty, in which report the reporters made Sir Jo
seph say, that we had Mr.. Madison to DEPOSE be-
fore we could iay down arms. This report was
published some time in May or June * in Aug. Mr.
Momoe's dis at h written. However, Re the
presumption what it would, Mr. Madison doesnot seem
tohave shargcd his tone account of 81 there eau
be doubt that the people have been greatly in
famed by such an impudent declaration This shews
what misciiefs newspapers can do Tile war is ia
great part ie, Let
them, therefore, weep the fate uf our fleets and
armies in Canada and ut Mobile. The measures of
fds fnesScs Congress seem TO be OF very bold cha
raeter. ard we'll calculated tor war of long connuai.
The President has not been afraid to lay bare all
the wants o the government and to app al the sense
and patriotism OF the people. From every thing that
discover, the .No6Sse Massachusetts will not be
able TO prevent, even impede, any of lhese mea-
slres JoRSSy Butt is. in last Saturdays Gazette,
treated OF the late battle near Fort Erie
from which JoSATaAS sailed out upon General Drum
monps army According to this account, our loss was