The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1804-08-01


| operate with Britiih army in the reconqueft of
Hanover and Holland.
| y French army is fhortly to be eftablifhed in
A!iace, and the army of Hanover is to be rein
forced. Frelh troops are conitantly moving to-
ward Mantua.
Three large camps are to be formed in Prui1ia,
early IN the iummer, one in Prulan Poland, a.
mother III Sileha, and the third on the frontiers
of Hanover.
| Sugar, coffee, and dye woods in requeh-
Cotton and Tobacco, Ratt.-An the exchanges
| much in our favour. Our expectations to the
| Continent are vigorous.
| London, tune dolls. AZ. Sd. plenty-6
per cts. 80 9o-LouiGana, 95, no falc.
LONDON, June Q.
| Some more French papers to the 22d nit. ar
rived yeiferday. They contain part of the Sc
natuS Confultum refpecting the Emperorihip of
! Bonaparte, which. as we have already ftated,
took place on Sunday the Goth init. -
The above event WAS too long announced and
expected TO excite much furprize when it arri-
| we'd. The means by which it was brought a
bout were alto efficiently notorious, and though
they may afford room for much comment, we
do not think it neceGary to make any obfervati-
on upon them. The event is important to us
only, with a view to the consequences that may
aliie from 1.-THE thing i;1elf, however ii may
Contributed Authorities of France, as the ter
minaiion of the Revolution, we can look upon
in no other light but that of revolutionary G.
vent. Though the protected Object of placing
an Imperial Crown on the head of Napoleon,
and rendering i hereditary the family of Bon
aparte, IS, by eRablilhing Mouarchical Gov
eminent, under this new dynahy,to prevent the
lrecurrencc'of thoie annual changes which have
ailnoit uniformly tdkenplac. hnce the revoluti-
~ Ia.- n,
| fociety when they were any magnitude, and
which when they were Of imaler moment as
thote that occurred frce the Confulate of b.
naparte, feryed 20 thew the French nation, that
Ii was far renewed from iettled political habit,
from fixed Contribution though this be the
projected object of the prelent change, which,
we are told, is TO prevent all further change,
we have no rcafon to prefume it will be the Ialf,
or that others, of as great magnitude as any of
thofe we have feen, will not fpeedly follow.
To hail it as joyful event, as one calculated to
ecure for ages the eternal tranquility of France,
and to reitore repofe to the world, is what we
do not feel oUielveS warranted to do. The ef-
tablhhment ofthe internal tranquility Of France
II lmporta the French nation mot to provide
for; and though we may think the reltoration
OF the antient Sovereign family the mott natural
itep on The conviction that fettled hereditary
Government was the only one that could be
looked to for any degree of quiet, if it was not
the pleafure of the French people, or thofc who
took upon them to ast forit, to recall the Bour-
bons if they preferred, for whatfoever reafons
ftiii to run the courfe Of new changes and chan
ces, we may continue to have our wifhes and o.
PlnlonS, but we can do nothing againf it.
Asst the repofe of the world, we know not
how former ages felt in this reipect but at pre-
lent, and probably in all future times, no re-
poie can be had under bare fenfe of the ilfitice
and moderation ofneighbouring powers, except
repote deftructye of the rights and liberties OF
thoie whe indulge init no fecure repofe can
be enjoyed except fuch as is founded i'll conf
dence oflnternal frength and an unceaiing vi
GLANCE ofexterDal observation-disclosures thefe
we could not repofe in the fecurity Of a peace
with Louis XVI. the mot ptaceable the Bour-
bOnS win theie, we may tr,la to peace with
Napoleon ].
In fa6t, the only practical relation in which
we can conider Bonaparte's alIhmption of the
imperial ftile and title, is the effect it may have
towards the eltabliihment of prefent peace; G.
very other rcfult OF it is matter of diitant, ard
uncertain, and therefore, comparatively ufelels
speculation.
We confder this event as favourable TO pre-
tent peacein this fenle, that Bonaparte having
reached he fummit of his ambition; having flttlcd
the imperial Crown in his family, will be natu-
years ofquiet pofciiion; thing which he can
not perfectly enjoy, as long as there is anhohile
power, whole right and i1teref it would be to
give the greatef polibe effect TO the pretenfons
of the BOurbons. We cannot poftively fay, !
that the inclination and difpoftion of Bonaparte
in his new cation will be pacific we can only |
realOn to his difpoition from his intefef. lie |
iaid bimjef. when he was only Conful, that it |
was not to be fuppoied, that having reached the |
height he attained, he fhould with to put all to |
the iiique having reached height to much |
greater, beyond which it is fcarcey pot1ible for |
bin to arrive, and having aIocated his family
and its heirs in his elevation, it is natural to frp-
pofe he would be fill more defirous to avoid !
hazard, in which he would have little to gain,
while all that he has gained might be LOFT for
ever. 1t is natural that he fhould now, more
than ever confdef that he fhould apply himfelf
to confire and confolidate his power, rather than
10 extend it. Thcfe are the rational reafonings
IF man of fsnfe in his ftuation they are rea-
onngs which he held with himfelf OIL 4 former !