The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1805-09-13

There is TO frigatc hm, would, In futh an upc-
qual coulliG, have been beat; and, vet the TO-
lila is only al its birth It's irepgth has not vet
received its full extent. F,wever immenfe too
may have been It's advantages rs plan of COM
paign,it will be attended with no lels fuct els in
the field Of battle. With bold Eeamen, who
have quilted the hackies OF prejudices, and
brave folders fomewhat formed to the ita, we
hail fee large mountains heiet with guns and
iron, avoiding the attack of gun-hoats carrying
the fame number of men and guns as they.
Mo1i.ear.
Snlvl.
All the Pachas of Bofnia. have received Fir.
mans from the Grand Seignior, enioiring them
to furuIli a certain number of oxen, for the pur-
pote of victnalling KnIiaD troops.
letter from Confantinopie contraditts the
account Of Mr.. Jouhert having delivered the
letter from thc emperosr OF the French 10 the
Grand Segncr, as the latter was going out on
horf back. II Aates thar Mr.. Paranciier, the
French charge d'Affaires at that court had pre-
tented fecond note to the Refs Ehvndi, in
which he renewed his demand TO pr.fent the
letter to the Grad Seienior, in private andi-
ence, eating in cafe of refufal that he had orders
70 ak for his pafTpor,s and TO leave the Turkiih
dominions immediately. Two days afterwards
Mr. Joubert was requehec, to repair to the Villa
iuit, received the letter, aud prefente it to his
hlghreis who was walking in the garden.
Their Exce'lcncies the mar.ta!s Berthicr and
! Lanncs are both arrived in town.
lie Valiant, privstecr of Bordeaux, and lie
| Hoob, Ce Marfeiiies, have taken two Engli!h
prizes, one of which c uineaman, very richly
| laden, has been carriediuto Monte-Video.
3uiy 10.
| All parties al London announce the dehrc Of
| peace; they differ among themfeves only upon
/, the manner of making IT. However, to believe
! one of the miniiieria writers, the King wifl,es
| for war, and it is for this reafon that MIR. Fox
cannot he admitted into the minifry. Were
the aGtrtion OF this writer exact, how much a
people would be to he ritied, whole general
viii, fbou'd be thus haed by the caprice ofther
monarch! We fear to expatiate upon this tub
ief for it is not likely that he who ought 70 be
the father of the people, Aiould have fwo-n tc
be eterna!'y their eXecuticner, and to reduce
them to with for a-othcr reign as the only term
| Of their caiamities.
| Whether the qneft:on be to make war or
peace, the Englifl, minifers have never done in
voking the general welfare and the fecurity OF
Europe. This hypocritical benevoence can no
longer impole any body. Such alfo is the Ian
guaee that the governer-general of India holds
out 10 the native princes of the country whom
| VIC dlihS NV tufNS SSdHbt CdCH QUIET, CdTtIuiiN
preventing all accommodation they may with to
come to without his mediation, ALWAYS n,ifruif-
full Of the frongen, and dreading nothing 20
much az general peace, which might one day
prepare their independence. But this fvftem,
which will fucceed in India as long as acoura-
geous prince, or happy Circumstance hall not
have determined its fall, can have no fuccefs in
| Europe. where the powers independent Of Eng
land confult their own interef before they arm
| for hers.
The Englifh riniaers never ceafe complaining
Oft Of France; but thew conhder it lefs
relative to Europe than to Englapd. II is from
their having too lightly believed that France
could not recover the lofIss fhe fufained in the
revolution, that her power now appears TO them
mon6rouS and irreconcileable with the profpe-
rity Of England. They have dreamt that France
was no longer to have either iudunry, navy,
trade, or colonies. The genius OF the emper-
our ard of the nation have difiipated thi chime
rical iluiion. They cannot yet habituate them
felVes to inffer the maritime and commercial in
dependence which France is determined to have
for herfeIf and for all nations. They had laid
the BATS of a chimercai empire upon the ami
hiIation of France nor can they now reconcile
themfelves to adjure the falts consequences they
had drawn from falfe principle.
| 1T has fometimes been faid in parliament and
by Englifh writers, that This warts an inextn-
guilhable one, and that England fhould carry it
on to the lar extremity; hecaufe peace which
| fhould leave to France free trade and navy
as numerous as fhe Chofe, would always expofe
England to inevitable ruin. This principle of
an eternal war is 700 dreadful; it is rcplete with
consequences too fatal 70 humanity FOR every
generous man NOT 70 hafcn to combat it and
clearly demoufrate its fallacy. If, indeed, Eng
/, land wifhed. as the means of making fold
| peace with France, that the latter fhoud re-
nounce all the advantages The poheffes from the
nature Of her foil, from her ftnatiou, from her
| population and the genius Of her inhabitants {;
it my readily be believed that the war would
Taft until the extinction of one of the two natl
ons. But we mutt firft examine whether this ex-
tremity, to which it is fuppofed that England
is reduced, he real, or be not rather the effect,
| of falfe fyaem, OF an extraordinary exaggera-
ton and Of pretenhon above her ftreneth.
Here the judgement has not to hefitate. The
| aim of the war which France is CARRYING on a.
gainft England is not to fubiugate 1t it is, on
the contrary, to defend berfelf from fubiugaton,
to conquer the independence of her trade and
of her navy. The iDvalion feems to menace
the exiffence of England this, however, does
not render the war lcfS a defenGiye one on the
part of France. The fault lies in thofe Minif-
tiers whoare rain enough to fake the exifence Of
their country aganf tranfitory advantages and
| an ephetncral Empire