Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1816-05-25

uaue IN operation duvlug such number OF wears
hey thought Tor a time that they were iniurins
trssee and when Mt last they found that we were
iajaring ourselves, the discovery came too lste;-
the error. IN which we SO long persisted, had ted
as, hike Bonapsrts ~ Moscow, into 4 situation from
which we had no escape. Lord Liverpool, howev-
err. having STUFFED the trne principles ofcommerce,
and seeos farther into their consequences than his
predecessors, pealed The Orders in Council imme-
dIatcy o. being appointed to the Grst place in The
cabinet; and he repealed them not from anv chsnze
~ cGr political strat0r, Tor Bonaparte was still
triumphant, and not, AS lar we know, from any
nav light thrown ON tnem by Parliamentary Discus
Sons, but from conviction that whatever shack
les tue Tree course OF commerce, must be Of the
create tury to England the country at Ill others
t,e most benefited by commerce." Unfortunately
las REGAL came too late, the : Americans having al
ready declared war. tits expressly admitted in
the document before us, (p. oS,) that had their
rcpeal peea inade known to the u. States before
tieir resort to arms, Is mould haze arrested IL !;
a"d that cavse OF war being removed, the other
sentIsi cause, The practice of imprcssneut, wouil
have oeeh tue SUBJECT of renewed negocati-
nr."
ifi, be asked, why dis zot ;,e Americans DO sf-
ttr the commencement Of the war Tint which taev
would have done before it ? ~ sra.l BIZ no means
seek to JUSTLY ihsr refusal. We may however
e's'tv account Tor il by the eXasneralio caused BY
reeenteyents. "Great nr.tsin' lssys:heir govern
m ut n iriiesto, p. 6l,) chad converted the com
SSSi'C' VI &C anu prosperity
INTO scenes OF comparative poverty ard distress
she ha brought the existence Of the U. States as an
dependent nation ihto question" We seem to
have lite reason for d uh ing, that tbs executive
SVerhmehiin America was desirous Of getting out
ct the wsr as as il asc ertaneCi the repenl of
oar orrers IL Council; but the people in the mid
Gle and southern states, and, in consequence, the
mJority 1 the memb, rs in Congress " re in
very c'F rentlispus:tion. From this time for.
wares the'e'' re, we hal no other choice than to
meet force by force; Hnd oar only satisfaction, q
mid the mutual havoc that ensued was that we had
now ministry disposed to make pace ON r.ir
terms. In declining Offers aud particular, the
arnisice pr passed by Sir John Wairen in 1912
the Americans assumed the tone which had char.
seterzel ur Cover me't few years before. The
Marquis f Wellesley and AR Canui y he'd AIKEN
l. In granted, that the u. States would submit to
any thi s rather than hazard war (; nav that war
would be r;li,nlous on the part OF conntry Which
had neither army nor navy. On he other hand
tIe Americans now made sare Of the cnunest r
C'na'a they anticipated it in their GipIomatio
noes AID they pc rsisted in their ,ttepts even at
ter rel" ated oyerthrOws. II would be unpleasant
10 u' Il dwell o the events of such contest and
W shall merely remark, thst it happened, b,
Singular Coincidence, that fortune declared against
-Rch pat' . Z venturei 70 assume the oifensiv..
since We sil d. in nur tnrn, waen w advanced be
you ''e C,'a'ian line, and when We attempted an
attack on New Orleans
Alter thisdscHs'ior Of The general nnerits of the
question, 1t remains to state more particularly the
contents oit'ie publication before US which NAV
D di'itd ms the following parts
Conduit ctie r.rcan Government tc,yayol, Cr.a, Brit,
1', ?'l''SrtV ''da regard 10 the i'ressaR oteir
=, Ir es14ft 'o.grd France qr Spain especially RESPECT
'ig Le'fs'sl-2 and Florida: PEA 81.
4'f'ar PToesefigs on e suect Of Inpressen, p. 81
20 E'he7are'' DEGREES, and ORDERS conci: p 43 to
1he ca'e: re h,r. cratte OBJECT she american c0p-
erGl'ert Giii ing az continuance: u. so 70 II.
co't'Gtrts q tlhunlanhy Fart. during tl.s
''eT particularly an 2cif.iinS Indian Aies TO bt bris-
p. n &c the end.
The Isneau,bie excuses contained under the
last head, derives their origin from two causes
hrStI our system of calling a. Indian allies and
next, as tar as it regarded own troops from an
eastrness to retililte the burning of the town OF
Newark, on the Canadian frontier, by the Ameri-
cans. ms rreenisrity Is confessed in the expo
siton,' o. rs, 10 but was forthwith di7avowed by
the American government, who transmitted to SIR
u trevost copy of their orders 10 the officer
who had been guilty OF the excess, az proof that
n thi of the kind was in tn contemplatioa.-
Gar sriny having avenged itseIfby burning five A
meFican villages, and our gen raj haying decisrs
IN proclamation, "that full measure of retali.ti-
on mad taken place" the Americans argue that the
violence ot their osic.r ought not 10 have been 4
motive TOR subsequent deviatiCns from Tue lay of
nsiions and they complain, in particular. Up. o6,)
VI cui pu. int ctVH eOUcecat washington,
stead of combining the destruction TO their naval aud
military stores. The picture exhibited (p. 92 ea,)
otthe irregularities committed at a npion in Vir-
GINA, must be distressing every reader of hu
manly, and recalls the conduct of BOnaparte or ST.
chet; brt we dcemt unnecessary to dwell on the
SUBJECT because cruelty forms no part ut the chsraa-
ter Of onr gallant deeniers, and, if wrong, they
must have acted under n belief Of curre spontent x
cesses on the part of the Americans
1t did not suit the views nfthe American govern
nut 10 make distinction betwe. n one set of B,.
Il b ministers and another. Their o ieet was to u
ME the people in Common cause and il IS anu
sig 10 see them charge cabinet, in which We
reckon such pacific coUrse'lors as Lord Sid noutb
a Hr. Nanslt'srt, With the ruthless Dr iects Of
their predecessors. il is nopart cfour duty, or
our intention, to express admiration Of GU pre-
seat administrators bit, neither the yilent
cht'aeter Hssum b, the during the last year
d operations, or the rasl, enterprise on New.Or-
leans, appears To us imput Die to them. Hostility
10 Anei ica had BEE cherished among us in former
years and the sum Of ministerial culpabiIity seems
TO be confined IN passveness Of conduit 10 not on
posing their own CONVICTION to ihe Impulse of nsfi
ona feeling. IL IS OILY by this de'eronce h public
sentiment, that we can account for IT. fiy tone as
sdmed III Parliament by Lord Bathurst and his CO.
adjutOrs, indctence OF our vindictive onerstDrs:
tone the more exlraortI nary as We were then n
the ere Designing the p 4cs at Client A II tar
Jason may serve 10 cxf lain the high de,oar ds
''''S Vi puT i$Ft St INC OeSnnI 2 N the neEoci3ti-
on IS wei! IS di!a.oriness in treating, Of which
we fnd much cenpai It in the Exposition IN
rs and Which certainly was not exped;cDt in thf
actual state Of cur finances.
The style ofthis publication has all The GRAVITY
end s,ateiiness of offc-. W. have observed !, II
few devistioss from f slish Horn, (such ssp. 90
% test, instead Of to put to the test but is mes;
unusual characteristic popular add es, Is ts
'c"gth On this side of the Atlantic, Governments
are IN the habit Of presenting in these plausible an
p ais only few leaiing points to the 5piy Of the