Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1817-05-13
FORY,HE ENoNIRER

The Edinburgh and Quarterly Reviews
are much read in the United States. and
more admired than ii is natural TO sup
pose they would be, when we take into
consideration the manner I'm which thew
uniformly speak of ms and orr country.
The truth Is, that we are satisfied with
our situation-we are proud of our
i0rm OF government we see at no great
distance our country giving lessons To
Mother Britain of quite another sort
from those, which at present we receive
from the pens of her hrelng scribblers
and we laugh at their assaults, knowing
that they grow out of a conviction that
this state of things is fast approach
ing.
The Reviewers get their knowledge of
us from Patterson, Weld, Ashe, &c. This
latter gentleman draws our picture TO
perfection. Take face red and bloat-
ed from eating Salt Bacon and drinking
Whlskey without ears, which YOU must
look for on the pillory; without ewes
which are sticking on the thumbs of a
Gouger, mouth stuffed with oaths and
hands filed with fruit stolen from Mr..
Parkerson's orchard; and YOU have to the
lite an American subject inhabitiug ac-
cording TO their celebrated historian Mr..
Blgland the Colony of Virginia or Ken
lucky.
Mr.. Ashes Book of travels is tissue of
the most impudent and ridiculous false~
hoods yet the critics of the Edinburgh
isevew aresO simple as TO believe some
of his most silly tales.
Every one, beg pardon, the few who
have read the trash, remember his fine
story about the Mammoth Bones.-Wb;lst
in the State of Ohio, Mr.. Ashe met with
DIR. Gof9rth, a respectable and honest
man, who with much pains had collected
the bones III question. Ashe was TO take
them TO England, sell them, and remit the
amountTeceyed for them TO the Doctor ::
is 1t worth while TO say, that the rite Ame-
rlcan never again heard from The honest
EngIIshmcn or of the bones, till he saw
them figuring in Mr.. Ashes Romance?
~ The Quarterly Reviewers are very i'll
dlgnant, because Lewis and Clarke call
the river of The West the Columbia. in
stead of the ORGAN; vet, ii is called the
Columbia by many others, and especially
by Humboldt, who doubts whether If il
the Organ Of M'Kenzie; and, strange as
IT may seem, at is so called by The Ed
tors OF the Quarieyly Review, themselves.
IN their notice of Gass's Journal. II will
be found too, that in this place they adj
NIT that all tie country between the Mis-
supp anu tut dCihC ocean, Is included
IN our purchase of Louisiana; aIilough
III reviewins Lewis and CIarke's travels
they are astonished and enraged al our
assurance IN setting up claim 10, or E.
ven visiting, these distant regions. These
iastidious gentlemen experience the mcst
excruciatlng torture, at the names given
by Our cOuntrymen 10 some OF tie hume
rous rivers which they were under the ne
cessltv Of baptlsnS; as they had never
been visited, if the fact be possible, by
any Englishman But il seems TO me
that the appellaiions, good Woman, Slal-
low Water, Philosophy, and Wisdom. sni;
as well for American rivers, ms Rum.
Man, Scilly and Wight Tor british Isl,
ands. But Big and Little Muddy do not
sound well ~ Poetry ? it was moi
supposed, till tire Quarterly Reviewers
proved TO the contrary, that any Rhyme
ster would be silly enough TO trouble
themselves about such insignificant
streams, when England and Scotland Of
fered their maguiiIce Mt
Iane, Thames, Teifb. Tsyne. Tsnei, Tar. Ice,
Trent, Trieiot, Ja9, aud TWced, Mag, Dee.