Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1841-11-23
Foreign Correspondence IF the Boston Post.J
PESCuI.lSGS AT BREAKFAST.

week the mails arrive from every quarter; and iron
every quarter they bring-not " glad tidings Of srea
10y (would it were so,) but painful accounts oil trou
bes every where!
From France-from Spain-from the far East-ever
from China-and from the far West-even from m.
own native and beloved land America, the news i
panu it is painful TO refer tot IS not paniu
10 you or to me alone bnt it is painful to ALTO ever
member of the great hannah famy-ior all are alike
interested in the general welfare OF MANKIND;
If. then, we have not hearts of stone, what is tn
feeling at the news from China, where the British sol
diers consider war with China as Ga pas;me;' wher
British soldiers shoot down the poor Chinese a
though they mere automatic set up TO be hred al
What an unjust and cruel war England wlIlyet SUI
fer for it, She only sacrifices her own officers ant
men but considers it pastime to shoot tire
thousand human beings The blood is chilled at tn
awful account officially and exutingly gwen of suc
human sacrifice Killing the same number of human
beings at ST. Jean de Acre was nothing. Killing up
wards Of 5000 persons in and about Canton was no
thing Tens Of thousands of her poor artisans groun
to the dust with taxes to support bankrupt Govern
ment-ens ofthousands actually at this present momen
in state bordering upon state of starvation, is n
thing. oac.
Can the proud aristocracy of this country, N ,bev
knowledge themselves to be the actual ruersleast and
sit much longer in their stuffed chairs, 9nps exis,ss
fatien and sleep, when such state o1di,;oo of their
Can they not be reused 10 the reuan thew not be
own grand and glorious countryabrosd NJ MONDAY,
made to believe that distress over the world will
Can they not be aware that e earth. and sweep eve.
crush them later as thew have crushed others
ry thing from before l Them; Aye the time is com.
AND swept the,r al ~ when change will come over
ing, anu is net lot ream-a time is coming when En-
the spirit of hand so high among nations as she now
giaho WIN sword and the cannon-the mortar and
rust in the earth and grass will grow
the uIaes. Such reckless and wild ambition must
IN heaind check, and then her high hopes will be
ssooseIed forever.
But will not enlarge upon this topic ! will not
enlarge upon the all-engrossing topics OF the day
or YOU have heard enough of the disiresses in Eng
and-the dreadful distress among thousands and tens
of thousands which have long prevailed and which
still prevails and will for long time preyailior there
is cold and dreary winter close at hand, when the
great mass can get work, and consequently no bread
for themselves and their crying children will not
speak of the unusual excitement in every circle re-
soecting the present position OF affairs with America
ON the extraordinary pauics created in various quar-
ers, account Of the recent intelligence from the u
S.-but there is subject upon Which must enlarge,
and it contains proposition which ID as astounding as
it is alarming.
England design is TO break up the harmony exist
nr among the States of America, as shown in 4 most
article in the leading journal Of Europe
the organ the present ministry is well calculated TO
excite Alarm both here and in the United States. If
1t not for the present peculiar position OF Eng
lands domestic atfairs-the article to which now re-
fer would not, perhaps be deserving the attention
which intend to give it-but coming, as il does, from
high quarter and ut this particular crisis in the af
fairs Of both nations should not be justified in pass
ing it over with only ordinary remark. The article
referred to has taken certain parties interested in Ame
rican affairs completely by surprise, and they scarcely
know in what light TO view it. lis certainly the most
piece Of impertncnce, folly aud wicked
ness which John Bull, through the most influential
Df nil Europp has been puilty of for
year. cannot give copy ri the article in this letter
IS it occupies nearly two columns the editorial page
Of the Times of October 18TH but cannot omit to no.
lice its leading points, and at the same time refer you
Is well every journalist in the United States, and
our leading politicians, to this rare piece Of wicked
ness as if any thing were wanting to an mmed-
tie and most disastrous between Eng land and Anne
ca, this article is well calculated 10 supply that want
Indeed whether Mcleod be hung or liberated it mat
little for it would appear that the present party in
power are determined to have war with America at
I'll ercns and therefore, the America prepares
for it the better twill he for her.
From what have seen and heard Of late, am fully
convinced that the Peel Ministry would gladly go 10
with America for very trlng cause, but now that
here many plausible excuses for war; il is not
II all improbable-indced it is almost certainty, that
he present government will take some immediate steps
o this end But am indulg ing myself with my own
emarks, when should be presenting yon with an alb
tract from the Times. The article to which | have
eferred, puporng 10 be from correspondent OF the
Times was headed-"On our relations arith the u s.,
md The manner Of making 'ear, j ,rar DC the unhappy
-esuh of our present negotiaon The writer it
las resided two years the u. S., and having closely
observed "the habits of action and national character
lie adopted the conviction that, or later,
between England and America was ineritadte Where
ipon he applied himself TO consider in what manner
with the U. S. should be conducted by England
o ensure complete success.
Having studied sufficiently to mature all his views
lie transmitted them to England, 10 friend, who
,laced them in the hands Of her Majesty's Govern
nent Subsequently, however, he placed the whole
an, conprehending the military portion Of it, before
distinguished military man, who, after much examl-
nation, adopted his views elaborated the military por
Guards for consideration there. And now, what is
his astounding plan: The writer Of this article shall
Inswer-
q" think that war with the u S. should be direct
ID towards two objects
/. The breaking up Of the Union, by detaching the
Southern States from the Northern and Middle States.
2. The destruction of the resources of the Northern
and Middle States.
The attainment Of the second of these objects would
greatly facilitate that Of the first.
And how does this profound writer propose TO attain
he second of these objects, by certain changes in the
government of the Canadas by which the greater por
ion OF the carrying uade Of the Southern would be
out of the hands Of the Northern Staes thus
placing in the hands of Great Britain, and thus IL
,erang the South from its present monetary and conf
nercal dependence the Moth, of which the South,
;ays this correspondent of the Times, is very mpa.
lent.
"But," continues this writer, 'suppose n
o arise suddenly between the two countries, Great
Britain should Immediately prepare TO ally herself with
he Southern States and wage war with the Of
he Northern. Instead Of threatening to raise the
slaves of the South to land black regiments from the
West Indies, &c. by which proceeding she would bind
he South 10 The North .forerer; she should declare
hat, having quarrel with the South, and fully
ble that The interests of that portion Of the States
IDENTICAL with her own she will not be ungenerous
enough either to accept war from them, to wage it
against them, for the present"
"For the present. then, Great Britain would not
wage war against even the South But the writer thus
continues:
"Fler quarrel is with the Northern States, and for
whole year [mark that-"or achoie gear she will,
any provocation she may receive from
he Southern States, abstain from all acts of hostility
towards them and theirs. Great Britain, at the same
time, should institute the most powerful and rigid block
,de of the Northern ports from The confines Of Nova
Scotia down to the Potomac. ''-"The effect of this
would be- that in the course of two cotton
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