The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1804-06-27

of Nachiavelian ftatefmen ought to be mortified
by the recollection, that no event has ever more
notorioufly belied their hopes and predictions
while thoie men who, reafoning from the analo-
gies o. nature and of hi,tory, calmly deduce eff
feet from cauie, and, nuder the name of ph;lo-
fophers, expofe themielves to the fuipicions s
fometimes even to the Prescriptions of ignorance
and presumption clothed in the garb of autho-
rity, mufi be allowed To have poiieGed the rare
merit of calculating the phaies and foreteliing
the refult of the revolutionary warfare.
The treaties of Luneyilie and Amiens, by
changing the relative htuations Of the various
Rates in this quarter of the globe, have forced
Europe to afiume a novel as well as an omnous
afpeet. The boafted balance OF power is chang
ed, and the political chart is henceforth to be
calculated by new fcale.
Two of the northern powers, profting by the
contentious fthe neighbouring itates, have cul-
tiyated commerce, manufactures, and the arts
of peace, in the midf of the mott caamtous
ftruggle, and derived immenfe benefits from
thofe conflicts that have beggared nations and
deftroyed kingdoms. Sweden, ltripped of the
precious metals, and obliged to recur to the
wrctched expedient of leathern money, in con-
fequence of the brilliant but destructive achieve
ments of Charles XII. has increafed her ihips,
her manufactures, and her commerce. Den
mark alto, by reapins the obvious advantages
! refultng from polite neutrality, has added
greatly to her PROPERTY and the cities of Co.
penhagen and Altoona, under the administration
of prince-regent, have received an immenfe ac-
cefon of wealth. The cloud has paiIed away
which threatened the navigation of the Sound /;
| and the trade of the nations on its borders has
been fecured in cafe ola future conteft by new
| and advantageous concefiions.
Ruiiia, towering like ColofIus above the
lneigbouring ftates, has neither added to nor di-
| miniihed the extent of her dominions by the late
conflict: but ihe feels contcioufnefS of her
own power and preponderance and while The
acts even now, as a mediator, and the umpire, of
-contending nations, bids fair to realize thofe gil
gantic projects of ambition which originated in
the genius of Peter the Great. Alexander Pau
| lowitch appears to be preparing new deftiny
| for that immenfe empire, at the fame time that
he is acquiring liability for his own government.
| BY removing the feudul prejudices againtt COM
merce, he has opened a new fource of wealth
and induftry for the nation while aware, by
the dire experience of father and grandfather,
of the evils as we'll as of the dangers of depot
| i'm, he cnfures the continuanceoo of his own
! power by fharng it with the fenate.
But, if the north of Europe was fortunate e.
nough to be in fome meafure exempt from ca
lamity, the fouth has been pregnant with chan
ges. The Cifalpine Republic, chiefly competed
of territories difmembered from the houie of Au-
itrla, has been at once created and protected by
| France while the Venetian poflefiions on the
continent are fubje6ted in their turn, to the GO
vernment of the cabinet of Vienna. Genoa,
retcued from dependence by the wifdom and
hrmnefs of Andrew DORA, and once famous in
| the annals OF war and commerce, is now Known
under the ancient name of Liguria while, by
an eXprefS convention between Ruflia and the
Porte, the fettlements in the Ionian fea, recent
| ly fubugated by their arms, are permitted, in
coniequcnce of the ieaioufy OF two OF the mott
arbitrary governments in Europe, to aflume the
! name and outward forms of a commonwealth.
To add to this ingularity, by a folecifin in po-
| litcs, it is expressly ftpulated by treaty that
the republic of the Seven lies is to be at once
| free and independent ito be regulated by no fu-
perior, and yet to be tributary TO the grand
fultan.(e)
The prelatc who had Attended the pontifical
throne under the name of Plus VII. retains but
a fmal portion of the patrimony Of St. Peter,
and in Fate and grandeur fcarcely equals car
| dinal during thofe times when the tciTors of the
triple crown appalled, the mott powerful fove-
reigns of Europe. Chiaromonti, more polite,
! more fage, and more humble, than his prede-
cefior Braicbi, is, at the fame time, better ac-
qnaintcd with the fpirit of the age in which he
lives and, in imitation of the primitive fathers
J Oh inc CHURCH., Knows now 10 OtHQ ike willow
beneath that form, which wouldroot up the OPP
pofing oak, and fcatter its branches in the air.
The fituation of the houfe of Savoy, 70 prof
porous during the early part of the preceding
century, is peculiarly difaitrous. Victor Anne
deus III. after involving his dominions in an
unneceifary and unfortunate contef, towards
the cloie of long and variegated reign endea-
voured to find coniolation in religion for the
misfortunes occahoned by the want of policy &
dfcernment His eldeft fon, Charles Emanuel
NV. overwhelmed with family misfortunes, and
bereayed of his richet provinces, foon after his
accei1ion reGgned all his preteniions to his bro
! Their Emanuel V. on Whole head the crown OF
Sardinia is fill permitted to totter. Difgufted
with his fate, this prince, but little anxious to
viGt the unhealthy life thatconftjtutes at oncehis
royalty and his territories, is content to live in
! Italy as private gentleman and, like Theo-
dore StanillauS, the prince who afIurnes the
name of Louis XVIII. and his own unhappy
relatives of the royal line of Stuart, feenhs def
tined to fiji up the catalogue OF unfortunate To-
vereigns.
| The Gtuation of this monarch is wonderfully
contracted with that of Ferdinand the ". who,
flying before an infirgent people and an inva-
ding enemy, fcarcely deemed Palermo fate from
the vengeance of the Parthenopean republic
Aided howevee by the martial fprit OF an ad.
venturous prieit, fhielded by the protection of
Ruflia, and supported by the victorious fleets
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