The Enquirer

MR. ADAMS' LETTER.

We have read with inexpressible pleasure the answer of Mr. Adams to Mr. Pickering's letter. We must excuse ourselves from an attempt to give an abstract of it. It will be read by every patriot that can obtain a copy, and with the deepest interest.

As these Gentlemen are Senators of Massachusetts, an appeal of the one to his native state against the measures of the other, was a demand of such a vindication, as it was in the power of Mr. Adams to give. And while the vindication amply justifies Mr. Adams in the part he has taken, it fixes upon Mr. Pickering those charges which we thought ourselves bound to make, that his letter did no honor to his understanding, and that whatever efforts might be made to give circulation to his letter, he must be condemned and despised by all our patriotic citizens.

Mr. Adams has explained the true character of Mr. Pickering's appeal in all its tendency. He has followed him in all his statements with a power of refutation, that leaves no doubt behind. He carries us to the moment of the Embargo, and with one great truth, satisfies us. Mr. Rose's commission and the order of council of the 11th November "might have been signed," to use the appropriate language of Mr. Adams, "with the same penful of ink." The subject of impressment is treated in the best manner, by assembling all the circumstances, too well known to us, from the part we have been obliged to take, in order to recover some of the children of our best families.

The negotiation appears to oblige the humiliation of our nation without one hope from any promise made from Britain for such a voluntary degradation." May the American public have eternal gratitude to Mr. Adams for this timely effort to save the nation.-"If we must fall, let us fall freemen."

Essex Register.

The title is, a letter from the Hon. JOHN QUINCY ADAMS to the Hon. Harrison GRAY OTIS, on the present state of National Affairs, together with remarks on Mr. Pickering's Letter to Gov. Sullivan.