Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1816-10-26
eause. 5. many have been urged tat are ;.ot cnti

| The following, tor example, is one Of the sje-
cfdfdcts referred to IN illustration oil his remark
The British advised of the declaration cf,o"r Com
grv by letter bearing The frank of Cabney Minister
!, detained ome time by 'e post-master M Detrw aim
atlns,h passed only because gallant soldier drs n,
think himself authorised To violate @aI-te enemy to
this channel receives advice Of the war; nine iays before
Ger. Hell and the catastrophe of the fall of the
my j, prrpar,t-btit y the act ef0ae IF the parfy'
| We find, the circumstances here alluded to,
stated more at large the Aurora of the 18th De-
cember. 1915, in the following terms:
/" I, he r1nenbre. that shtn Gen. Hull had reach.
I'd the ncighbnrlsi Of Detroit. IL found ia. English
had cta,l "i.e. Of n. days preceding an,
hng received Detroit. X that the
the eap,nr. ie baggage Of Cen Huh. How did 'e'r
envy receive th;, advice w- shall few facts a,
they communicated, by officer OF the staff Of the
army who Detroit. and who letter addressed
gentleman of the N. ~. conpany which had bes,
brought h. express from merchant in Newyork. ON
the envelope of tat letter the official irr g-a
ture.of tI- secretary of,. field officer wso
has dsngui,l himself soldier. and VIII is e"ai,
by ali Who KNOW hin sste'l to the editor ira, was re-,
trained from dctaninr the letter only by de ee,ai sigma
ture Another irld ocrr who has bied IN the public
a,p the postmaster, il Is believed. hest
tat.d beire h. would std it; for there then eApec
ia,ion "'he deenraon of war;, and an a?rs,heien that
letter. ia pcfSonn Canada contained tue norma,i
The Officer of the staff. who wroe at the time ON the
time, that the letter should b. reta, for few
dryshnt the po'naStr con!e ~, himself bonnd by the
dinghy
The first observation make, relates to the diff
ference that exists bitween these two state
sinr'fiop, that .ir. Ga':in ieht hare thus COM
muneaed Ia the enemy the fact of the deeisrs'ion
In the last article. as il cattle ing confidence from
the circumstance of no notice being taken OF the
prev us ,nsiniatior the AURORA comes ont with
bold and explicit ctnge al the declaration being
ennyeyadin aislicr bearing the frank ofa cabi-
| net minister" The ius;'WGfion might possibly
have been correct-but the Editor does pos
lively assert irfh he so--he merely " states
" Facts and leaves II to the reader draw is own
inf b..h hod i- l;e
late statement, he facts what before
mere matters ofir ferenceit contains bold, unco-
| dona and impud!ent accusation. II would deceive
| the country by paImisg upon them inlisputs-
bic fast, what he well knows to be 4 matter
ofdubous inference.
For, ask Mr.. Duane dill he see this letter. Has
he seen any one whn read it Did the Post-Siast-
er at Detroit inspect its contents MOTOR it is
confessed, that he did hot break its seat How,
then, does the .9nro"d know that it dii give adj
vice of the declaration nj war or, not knowing
it. how dares he ,meq0iUocaiiy charge any
with uailorous correspondence it'll declared en-
envy
Tie fact is, rs we understand it, that the Aurora
has misepre scented the of this very letter
A letter written by John j. Astor, Of New
York, whowas largely engaged va the fIlr-rade of
Canada, which excited stteniion there, as he
had stated his correspondent that he e,pected
1roid rake piHce, assigning this reason why he
wished cer4sin arrangements 10 be made with his
property. This letter, believe, was frankeh by
MIR. Galls,n, the Secretary Of the Treasury
why attsch such Importance to this crcumstan &c,
| to call Down a sentence q! execraton from the
whole country upon the "rtlfng party - Asthe
Intercourse open with Ca-ada, such reports
were going into that country daily. This letter was
written before the >, and could therefore, only
saw, what all ether letters of the time must have
sail, that 1O1r s1ds brobabe-
Mr.. Foster kept the government of Canads well
informed of what was going here-it was his
dispatches that Kept them on the alert.-We are a.
ware OF this being the fact aud Il 1t had not been
So, MIR Foster must have been the most ignorant
and nattentve Privileged sty that ever appeared at
| Washington. Being 1t that city, AZ time when
f. the ewes of the whole nation fixed upon the
closed doors of the capitol, hut when almost every
step OF the important measure at issue was dvu!sed
in the newspapers, he would have been tceacherous
to his trust, il he had Suffered the Canadian govern
mcnt ocoil"ctits information from common report,
the specuia;i'ns ofletters. It's true that hr.
Foster Pretended to be surprised ut the Declaration
OF War but we know that he expected 1t. His in
terccped dispatches prove the ct, and that he had
| dd5.ised his government accorhng!v.
| The .7urora contends that &c the English had oh
| tanned advice of the nine days preceding any
account being received at - troit. and that the
sequence zoas tie capture of!Se luggage OF Gene
raj HtN"-lt is fossibe that they may nave receiv-
ed this advice through some channel but pt thro
| the letter of Mr. Astor.-We suspect, indeed,
| 1t is the most probable account, that it was
this very baggage of Gen. Hut that gave them the
make, being the cause, MT the consequence of their
iniormaton.--as corroborstive proof of this
opinion, refer to The LIST charg Of the articles al
/ vanced against Gen Hull Def re the general court
| martial. These articles, framed M doubt upon
| good evidence, submitted before MIR. Dallas, the
Judge Advocate, charge Gen IIu /, in the 1st spe-
cIfieaunn, with hHving tiaitornIsy " designed 10
convey intelligence" to the enemy 90 touching the
| declaration OF war;" that SO in pr secuton OF the
said trsdorous and unlawful design" ne did, the
| LIST of July, hire u1armnd vessel at the rapids
Of the river Miami Of the Lake, with the pretended
purpose ottransporting therein certain sick soldiers,
aud the principal part of the hospital stores Ut the
N. w. army, from the rapids TO Detroit, but in
trnth intending that she should he captured by the
enemy-tha, in further prosecution ri his design, he
put on board of her trunk containing the official
correspondence Of the Secretary at War and Gen
| crai HuI, as well touching the expedition on which
he was employed, toUchine the declaration d
captured with her baggage AID papers and shat "by
means OF the So i'll csp,nre." the declaration Of war
&c "came to the possession, knowledge" &c. 81
the enemy.rhe suspicion ut any frdiforouS f1l,e'l
lion the part of Gen. Hull, IS in all probability
filse-bUt il is still probable that il was in the way
here pointed out the enemy came possessed d
| the Intelligence Of the actual declaration Of the
| war.
| Its thus tnat this accusation hachel an bv the
Aurora to uiulge its hatred aesinst Mr.. Gaatin
and its oppo ition u tn Republican party vanish
| es u,n smoke
We come INV to the next poi"t W. have lal
down, under the head of The WAN, viz:
IT'S PROSECUTION AvD MINArION
) VIVA, says the Aurora on these points