The Enquirer

Nassau. (N. P.) May 9, 1813.

It is with much satisfaction that we observe from the American papers, very few prizes have been of late taken by their numerous privateers. Many of those concerned in privateering seem to be sickened of the pursuit, as well by the amount of the expense of outfits and continued calls upon their purses for subsisting those privateers, as by the little profit they derive from the few prizes carried in, more than two thirds of the proceeds of which are swallowed up by the enormous duties on prize sales. A number of privateers had been already laid up.

The opinion of the writer of the Ohio letter must perfectly coincide with that of every man who has attentively viewed the state and progress of the war in that quarter. The people of Ohio have been as yet the greatest sufferers of all the states. They have not even a prospect of an amelioration of their situation but by a due submission to their lawful sovereign, our king. Prudence and interest will probably compel them to do, what they in fact are bound in duty to do. It must be remembered that when their independence was accorded to the U. States by the British government, certain treaties of amity and commerce were entered into. Those treaties having been broken, & hostilities re-commenced on their part, his majesty may of right cancel that independence of which they have rendered themselves thus unworthy!