Berkeley and Jefferson intelligencer. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va.) 1802-1810, 1804-06-01

two ofthe most arbitrary governments Of
Europe 10 assume the name and outward
forms of ! commonwealth. To add to
this singularity by q solecism in politics,
tits expressly stipulated BY treaty that
the Republic ofthe Seventies is to be
Il once free and independent; to be re-
gulased BY no superior, and yet to be
tributary to the Grand Sultan. - - J
I" The prelate who has ascended the.
ponti6cial throne under the name of ri.
Gus VII. retains but I small portion Of
the patrimony Of ST. Peter, and in state
and grandeur scarcely equals a cardinal
during those times when the terrors Of
the triple crown APPALLED, the most power
fnlsoyereigns of Europe.-C hiaromonti,
more polite, more sage, and more hum
BE, than his predecessor Brachi, IS, at
the same time better acquainted with the
spirit Of the age in.which he lives; and
in imitation Of the primitive fathers Of
the church, knows how 70 bend like a
willow beneath that storm which would
root up the opposing oak and scatter its
E. branches in the air. T.. '-'-
"France, at FIRST prosecuted into great
ness, has, ON the contrary, obtained every
object which can be coveted by great
people, save that for which she originally
commended. With the exception of one
single nation alone, she has either terrifi-
ed or overpowered every foe with her
deyouriing armies, while countries hi-
therto accustomed only to the shouts Of
-. triumph have shrunk and withered up
beneath the ardour Of her innumerable
warriors. The Alps, 4the Apprentices,
the Pyrennes, have been scaled the
Rhine, the Trebia, the Inn, and the
Danube, have been crossed by her adj
yenturous legions. s.z. >
Il !. The battles Of Fleuriis, of Lodi, of
Marengo, and of Hohenlinden, have add
ed population Of thirteen millions to an
empire which, during the early part of
thereign Of Louis XIV. had nearly wrest-
ed the ceptre Of Independence from Eu-
rope. associated against it.-Ths narrow
seas, the Pyrennes, the Mediterranean,
and the utmost frontiers of Piedmont,
: convey but feeble idea of the limits of
Consular France. armed against every
opponent in the north, and welding the
new republic of italy against its enemies
inthe south of Europe. But this coll
lossal state, great in arts and in arms, is
still defectivein her social institutions !;
and with the barren name of a republic.
inherits noporsion Of thatfreedom which
alone can confer real happiness ON indivi-
duals, or true greatness on nations.
; q While the scanty sacrifices at the
peace were made at the cost of two of
her eonfederates, all the new acquisiti-
ons became her own the catalogue of
French conquest has been thus swelled at
the expense ofboth her enemies and her
allies Js@.<T -.
i" From the house of Austria she has
obtained the country OF Falkenstein, the
Ffickthral, a portion of the isle of Elba,
and the whole of the Belgic provinces.
The empire surrendered all that impor.
tant tract Of country situated on the left
bank ofthe Rhine, including the Ouch
les of Deux-ponss, Juiiers, and the Bal.
Iwiek Palatinate even Prussia was O.
blidged TO yield portion of her terrific
-ries in the same quarter. The, King Of
thetwo Sicilies had coded Porto Legano !,
his brother the king of Spain, besides
come advantageous arrangements for the
extension of the French frontiers in Eu.
rope, felinquishsd part Of Sc. Domingo,
together with the whole Of Louisiana.
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