The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1804-11-07
LONDON, September 70.

We yefterdap received 4 letter from our cor.
fefpondent at Vienna, OF the ED ultimo, which
relates fome Of Bonaparte's intrigues at tina.
court previous to the late revolutionary ftep OF
the Apltrian csbinet, Before" fays the let.
ter, "the Sen0t%s ConJnit7ou, making Bonaparte an
Emperor OF thu French, was pubifhcd at Paris
our court, as we'll as thofe Of st. Petersburg and
Berlin, had been founded as to what manner
they would rsgard fuch an act, and couricrs
were Immediately tent by it to Pruiiia and R nj.
ia, to obtain the opinions Of theEt Cabinets -
We foon learned by our anbafIador at Berlin,
count Metterni;h, "that whatever changes were
determined onIin France, would be approved
DIN Pruiiia, beng regarded as mere formaIitiey,
as long as Bona parte continued at the head OF
the French government"
Before the court of st. Petersburg had time
70 anfwcr our aueition this fubjea courier
brought tot an account of Bonaparte's invaiion
OF Germany, and murder ofthe duke q Eng.
hier. The coonefs before fulfilling between
k1iiia and France was now increaled, and pro.
Poial was mad by Alexander l. TO France II. o:
uniting with Slffia, England, Turkey and Swe-
den, and attempting to fet limit to Bonaparte's
crimes and eIcroachments. This propofa of
Ru,la was fcconded by the Engliil, and Swed-
in ambafiadois there: as both Ruiiia and Pruf-
Ia were arminE, orr court ordered large en-
canpments, Bling deGrous to be prepared to
repuite all alta ks made upon its independence
During this interval, the French Ambaiiador,
chamPagny, received courier upon courier.
snoftiy con6dehtia! officers of Bonaparte's guard,
fome carrying offers of agsrandifement, others
threats of inykGon, but all intriguing swth our
ninRers, as well as with our courtiers, diff
trIbuting pretents to fome and great pfomifes to
all.
The propofal of IN hereditary haftrian
emperor came from Talleyrand but our cabi-
netdefired at3the fame time, an hereditary en-
pire over Germany, whic, the cabinet of St.
Cloud ftrons!y oppoGsd. The emperor and
bis family, to get nd Of all thofe ,troublefome
intriguers, and important intrigues, left his ca
pital for Baden, and every thing feenned TO ndi-
cate an alliance with Ruiiia, and the formation
nfanewlesgne againft France, when Bonaparte's
favorite aid-de-camp, General Laurifton, ART
we'd here with kind of ultimatum, which re-
q,nrcd an immediate anfwer, and in threatening
language declared, "that 100000 Freuchmen
fiiouid, before three months, be at our gates,
aud king of Pruilia be Immediately elected
a king of the Romans, if our cabinet he(itated
any longer to falute the Corfican an Emperor
Of the French; offering on the other hand, an
augmentation ofterritory, with Belgrade, and
other forts upon the Turzifh frontiers, if we eli
ther joined in alliance with France and PrufIia,
or only continued neuter."
&C Many great and unexpected obhacles had
beides been met with in our negotiations with
Rutland England. Dur court was, therefore, on
the eve ofawar with France, withoutany alliance
with other hatcs, and had no other choice left,
but to take the discrimination it has done de-
termination equally Dictated by policy and pru-
dence. BY it, time is at leaf gained and if,
during the next winter, general Justification
cannot be brought about through the meditation
ofor court, as defredby France, we will At leaf,
be better prepared then than we are now to act
as circumstances may require
I" cannot conclude without mentioning a
common report here of PrufIia and France ha
wing ofe red to guarantee to our court the pro-
Pofed acquiiitions on the Turlilh frontiers If in
its turn, it would guarantee with France, to
Pruffia, the acqni6tion of Hanover and Swediih
Polnerania, and, with Pruiiia to France, the in
corporation Of the Batavian republic. This /
can tate as certain, that Bonaparte Gil medi-
ta.es great changes upon the continent"