The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1804-05-16

bsen condemned to Gerve merely as trarf-
port veiiel, has fallen into the power OF the
enemy.
Out of three hundred millions which
the Englifh cruizers might have ravi!hed
from commerce, more than two hundred
have been iaved our privateers have H.
venged our lones by important captures,
and will fill avenge them by more i'm
portart ones.
Tobago, and St. Lucia were without de-
fence and could not do otherwife than fun
render to the 6rft army that attacked themt
but our great colonies remain firm (; and in
the attacks which the enemy have hazarded
againft them, they have been yanquifh
| cd.
Hanover is Till in our power. Twenty
hive thoufand OF the belt troops of the enc
my, laid down their arms, and remained
pritoners of war. Our cavalry is noun
ted at the exPence of that of the enemy,
& 4 pohefiion dear TO the King OF England.
becomes in our hands,, the pledge Of that
juftice which he will be forced to grant
us. 80
Every day Britifh defpotifn adds to its
ufurpation on the fea. During the lat
war it alarmed neutrals in arrosati,;y
to itfelf by an Ubiquitous and revolving
pretenfion the right of declaring eubols
| COATS IN a fate of6iorkade. In the courfc
of the prefent war it has augmented its
moIftrous code, by pretended right to-
blockade rfOery.
If the King of England has flyorn to con-
tinue the war until he has reduced France to
thoie diihonourable treaties to. which milf.
fortune & weakness formerly ubfcribed, the
warwill be long. France confented at Amiens
to moderate conditions, the will never ad.
| nit Others lets favourable above all, ihe
Will never acknowledge in the Britifh
| Government, the right of only fulfilling
! thofe engagements which do not interfere
with the psogrefliYe calculations ofits ans
bition, the right of exacting other guarran-
tees after the guarantee of 4 plighted faith.
If the treaty of Amiens be not executed,
| where in new treaty are. we TO look for a
more holy faith or more facred oath? Is
I Louifiania is henceforth aifociated TO the
| independence OF the United States of Amc4
! RIGA. We here preferve friepds, whom the
recollection of common origin will always
attach to our interefts and whom favour:a-
! bic relations of commerce will for LONG
! time attach to our pofterity.
The United States are indebted for their
| independence 10 France they will hence
| forth be indebted to us for more itrenetb
and more gradeur.
| Spain remains neuter.
| Helvetia is firmly seated on It's foundatiy
on, its contribution has, only undergone
thofe changes which time and opinion nee
\ ceritated. The withdrawing OF our troops
| atteft its interior fecurity and the end OF
| all its diviGons. The ancient capitulatio
have been4renewed, and France has again
met with its firit and mott faithfutallies
tranquility pervades Italy a divilias
of the army of the Italian Republick is now
crofiing France for the purpofe of encar,p-
ing with our Gym troops upon the soafss or,
| the Ocean.
The Ottoman empire, agitated by hid
! den intrgueS, viii in the intereit of France,
have that fuPport which ancient conneefi-
| ons, recent treaty and its geographical po-
fition, giveit right to.
| The tranquility retored to the Conti-
nent by the trestY.of Lineviie, is fecured
10y the REGENTS a6ts of the diet of Ratifbon.
The enlightened interef of the great pow
! ers, the fidelity of the government in cult
waiting the relations Of good win and friend
| fhip with them, the juttice, the energy of
the nation, and the forces ofthe Repubiick,
all anfwer for It.
7befrR CogfA,
(S'gned) BoNApARTE.
By the S;rft Conful,
Tx Secretary Of Ssafe,
LS;gnedj II. 8. MAeEr.
FROM FRANCE.
7Captin Carver who arrived at Bottom on
Thurfday Iaft, in 40 days from Bayonne.,
brings verbal accounts fomewhshi4terf thar,
we have received. When capt c. arrived
at Bayonne, there werefationeu there about
$4,000 troops, which were afterwards Of
dered TO different parts. There were like
| wife about 200 gun boatsgin readiness, and
| the whole topic ofcouverfation was the in.
vafion. Capt. c. uuderftood however, that
news of peace wotrld be very accepSibIe.
| 1t was runloured that Moreau wasexecuted.
FROM ENGL IND. j
| fMPORTANT.-Ca Miller, arrived
at New York, from Halifax, informs, thai
the day ne failed, difpatches of a very inn
| portant nature was received by one Of the
! Kings cutters in 10 DAYS from Guernfey.
| The printer AZ Halifax was preparing an ex-
ira fleet, but il was not out when the Mar
garet failed, Capt. Nj. however urdcTfcod
from Mr.. Cay, the printer, that Bona
parties reign had ceased, ard that Louis the
18th had returned to France.
". 4: Gas.
From the DALI Hdvsrtier.
A friend has politely handed us file of
| Nova Scotia papers to the Goth nit inclu-
five, received by the brig Margaret, from
| II atifav 4 t,sfyau,,,,. 90, looorJ -. AZ