The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1815-01-28

dron which had>thc plumber on board, mad
but narrow escape in descending the Che
saPeakc but, plumber there was, and q
good dea, OF it; aud there can be little doubt
tnat the success and profit of the enterprise
VIII act as great encouragcments to future
undertakings of a similar description the
Only danger being, that the zeal .of our COM
nhanderS may push them on faster, than a
que regard to their safety might otherwise
dictate. In an attempt against Baltimore wo
iaied. l. hat rs to say, we met WITH a dcfslf
Not iii the field; but that is nothing to the
purpose. We marched and sailed against
tie town with all our forces, by sea s. land
ana we were comiteiied to retreat without
dong any thing against that town. The
town is safe and, if the war end as this en-
pedition has ended, all the world viii ace
that America has dtJs0ted us. We may -.
sure OF TINS and, therefore, we must carry
en- the war, TIL we have subdued America
OF, we must make UP our mintls to the repu-
ta.ion OF having been defeated by that Re-
puOiic. y pretty serious alternative but il
IS one which must and viii exist, and If this
we shau become More and more sensible T.
very day, aud particularly If @e attend to
WHAT Foreigners say upon the subject
he expedition # our troops and aeet a
gainst P.sssamaQuoidy and the reronsco-
is OF a nature so triilns as hardly to be wor-
my OF notice. That territory is no more i'm
portant n America than the Isle of Skv is IN
Great Britain. 1t is a conquest, ard so
would the isle of Sky he by an American
privateer. What a figure does this CONQUEST
make IN tine Gazette What grand az
talr1t appears TO be But, did a thousandth
part OF the people OF England ever HEAR of
rassainaqnoddy or Penobscct before! Il is
baltimore, Charleston. Wilmington, Nor
folk, Philadelphia, Newly ork, Boston, that
they heard of. They have been led to be-
ileVe, that the City of Washington is to Anne
rica what London is to England or what Pa
RS is TO France. Nothing Can be more fall
IacioUs. There are, perha ps two hundred
towns IN America, each of which is more 20
puious than Washington was or than il was
i'keiy ever to be. Besides. we did not kech
Possession ~ Washington, as the Germans
and Russians did or Paris. We did not re-
man there to erect negy government. We
only set ire to few bui, dings and then re-
treated Ii AN American privatccY. were: to
set fire to a few fishing huts or the coast of
w ales should we LOOK upon 1t as very bril-
liant atari Yet tins Washington enterprise
was, by the Morning Chronicle, deemed the
most safl4nt dash OF the war In the de-
monstration," as adm. Cochrane calls it, a.
gainst baltimore, gen. Ross was killed: and
some OF our papers call this fout hlay -
Inc JeHou, says one of them, g took ain at
the gallant Ross from behind some brush
7oooa" We'll, and what then Donot our
troops SHOOT froIn 6fhi10 parapets. & walls,
and works OF ali sorts And do we suppose
thatsche Americans will not make use of a
6uSh when It comes in their way If this
crying tone be mdulged i'll, we shall, /
fear cry cur eyes aut before the war be o.
yer. we have sent our bombs, and rockets.
and rifles, and all sorts of means of destructi-
on cur writers blame our ministers for not
sending the means for Knocking down towns
fast enough, and shall we abuse poor iona
than il he avail himself OF BUSH and of his
ssii at hitting mark Gen. Ross Ealrut
their PRESIDENTS house, and yankee shot
Gen Ross. These are things which natural
ly occur; ard, however we may Lament the
cath OF any Off GER, we must reflect that the
invade people will shoot at Their invaders,
uilcss the latter Will agree 10 receive them
rs friends.
Before pros. cd to notice the late affair
on and near lake Chau,plaiI, there are some
remarks 10 be bestowed on certain chQrurler-
istic Jfcts whichhave Lcatcd oKt, and on Ger
tain paragraphs in our newspapers. The
Americans are accused of eouarllice for ha
wing 1etreated before inferior numbers and
t'ken shelter in Baltimore. Why was this
cowaitiicc The man object was to defend
that great and rich city. The second was
W fl'iiIIiiidtc Our army ana naval force. To
make long stand in the open conntry.
with raw troops, against disciplined soldiers.
was not the way to effect either of these pur-
poses The man object was effected. and
our retreat only, probably prevented the Ell
tccting of the latter. The Times newspaper.
few days ago. remarking on the co7oardice
OF the Americans, contrasted with the brave
RI o. orr army and navy, observed chat the
cause was, that Ney mad no feelings Of m
fTiotigm that they cured nothing abow thcir
country. Now, what is the ground OF this
war? Why, we complained that the Ameri-
cans haT6orrd des, rtera tran, o,r natv and
they complained that we T1rced Hatf0c .fg,s-
TicaHs INFO orr Se1Uice. This fact il notorious
tn all TIE world. This fict is record
cd IN our own official documents. This f.ct
makes part of uBquestionabe history. A.
mother fact has Just been recorded by this
sam lines newspaper namely. that two of
our seaman were hauged, ON board the fleet
in the Chesapeake, /1r affenbftng 10 degcrs 70
me emmy. IT - aisu stated, in the sane pa
per (24th Oct.) that 1bout $50 of our soldiers
deserted oar the retreat from Plausbury. Now
lct this empty Oca5ter produce us instances
like these, an TIRE eide ofHc y9me,feanS, if he
can--anh if he cannot, let him acknowlegc
himself to be either a deuded fool or delu-
ded kuave. But has Jonathan shewn no zeaI
tor his country What was that act of self
devotion which Induced a man 10 expos, his
property to certain. and himself to probable
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