The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1805-04-09

Bile to announcethe accefiion ofhis imperialhigh-
neis prince Jofeph, brotherof the emperor, TO the
throne of Lombardy--T Tate the Cifalpine Re.
pubiic.1 The emperor's journey TO Italy will
be connected with the new monarchy and it i.
faid hisholincfs vii! on his return to Rome, per-
form the coronation of the new king of LON.
hardy.
| The arrangements for new organization oil
the kingdom of Etrrria, are not yet ripe for eX-
Location.
| A divition OF the Grcnadiers and chafTsurs o!
the imperial body guards marchedto Lyons
from thence they will proceed to Milan Will
ther detachment from the corps of Name.
!ukes is already gone.
| There are now in this city, deputies from the
Italian (Caalpne) republic, with inlrueions
to offer the crown to Bonaparte, as king of
i-rmoardy. LONDON. Feb. 6.
3onapartei is on the point of again croiling the
Alps and to make another Wifi To ItaIv. Let
Auttria beware ! She neglected this caution
before the battle of Marengo, and fhe lol TIA
! ~. Bonaparte's mameukes and his guards
have already left Paris, and are iinmediately TO
he followed 10y his inperia. majeity. The e,e-
vation of his brother Joftph to the Throne of
Lo;nbardy, which has been offered by I depu.
tation from the Italian republic, is alledged 70
be the fole caufe Of his joarney---it is only one
OF the caufes.-For forle time palt troops have
been filing off from the Eaftcm aud South EAT
tern parts OF France to Italy lit is even faid,
that the Italian attachments which formed part
Of the ercampments at Bou!ogne and along the
Weitern coat of France, have broken I'D, and
returned to Italy, under the pretence that the
cold weather was injurious TO troops ufed to a
warmer climate. The increafe Of the French
troops in Italy, and the petition they took a.
long the Adratic thorc, and on the Neapo,i
~ f.N,,k, r., r. 4
occupying Naples, and of defeating any at-
tempts that might be made by the Ruf,i,n
troops in Corfu. Whether Auitria faw that 70
large force could not be required to defeat the
debgns which the Ruflians in Corfu might IN.
terrain, or TO overrun and occupy the whole
kingdom OF Naples, we know not, but fte be-
gan to form Gordon upon her frontier from
the Tyrol to Venice. She has alledred th. o.
pidemic dihemper in Tufcany as the cauGe of
this cordon--a pretence which does not de-
ceive bonaparte, who certainly perceives that
TO large force Can only be for the purpoCe of
ooiervatlor. 1t is evident that Auffria fufpecfs
hm:--He has endeavoured to quiet her appre-
henicns by an exprefs condition that the new
king of Lombardy fhall renounce all claim 70
the iucceiiion to the Imperial crown of France.
and that the titles of Emperor of France and
King of Lombardy fllall never be united in ,be
lame perfon. But thefe aflurances have NOT
produced the effect of removing the apprehen-
lions of Auftria, or of inducing her TO with
draw her Gordon; fhe has recently increafed if
Hence the alteration at the levee between Bo.
naparte and Count CobentZel, to whom the for
mer fpoke in the language of infult and def
aDce.
The ACKNOWLEDGMENT of his family. an aoor,n-
difement for which they nlall he indebted foleJv
to him, is the vaf object of his ambition. To
give his family power and confequence which
none ever poliefied bcforc--to be Emperor.
reigning over dependent Kings-Ings bearing
his name, and created by hmfeIf; is the Grand
tcheme and determination of his mind-Kinps of
Italy, and of Holland, Switzerland, and ofSoain.
all ttriPped from the fame tree, and planted in
the different foi!s of Europe by himfelf.-The
Pope is conveniently abfent from Rome, and al
ready do we hear it infatuated, that his relidence
may be fixed elsewhere. bv the intended chan
ges in Italy. The Kingdom of Etruria is fichlv.
and is haiiening to its dGolution. In this king.
dom of Lon,bardy vii! be merged the ReDub.
les OF Liguria and Lucca, the Kingdom of FL
rur'a, and even the territories of the Church
Naples will be the laft part of Italy feized and
added TO it. That fuch are Bonaparte's gi-
gantic deiigns, feen to be fufpected by Auftria.
and this is the motive of her having afTsnbled 70
large Gordon.
We nlall not be furprifcd TO find that Roma
parties object, in paf1ng the Alps, is not TO feat
ms brother on the throne of Lombardy in the
hri Initance, but to place himGelf at the head of
ms army, attack and break the Auftrian Gordon.
which, by being too extended, is in no part We.
ry itrong; which, not expecting immediate hof.
til1tIes, has not collected fuAicent ammunition.
& other necefiaries, & thus drive the Auftrans
Out ofthe Venetian territories, and fecure the
poilefion of them to France, that is TO thu king
dom of Lombardy.-Bonaparte fees that war
with Auftria is inevitable, and his policy is al.
ways to ftrike the firft blow.