The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1805-12-10

the xtence oil Poland, the abloute proitration
of all the moral and phyGca arensh of the Ottoman
Empire and laltly, the we'll underaood ambition Of I
RuiGa, places Europe in circumstances which ihould
excite the attention apd awaken the anxiety of all
thinking minds and lead to not Improbable deibe-
rations
Reflection and forehght are the grea, and dilin-
gnilhng faculties Of man; they the lroug levers
OF human aston. He who forefees has advanced one
aepiu accomplishing or preventing the event fore
ieen
We are at cri6s when events lucceed each other
with fuch rapdity, that the boldsit predictions of
vents that aPoar far dtant, realized in els time
than the mott clear and active mind would require to
anayze them.
That equilibrium of Europe. to which we have
ju alluded, exits longer; is deftroyed that
balance, that deep complication Of interes, of OPP
pohng and concoriing fyltems, which was the fouu-
dation of the profperity of Europe in ordinary times,
when its wars were, if may 70 fay only civil wars
or family quarre.s, cannot exe when attacked by
great extra-European powers and has every thing;
to fear from the preiure Of Ala, of Africa, and per-
| haps ofboth.
In theIe in;eteaing and trying circumstances. which
have more than once taken place, aud which exif
at the prelent time, Europe is infaibly defined to
a general iervitude il he ultimately perfeveres in
| her prefent inseline ealouGes and diviGons
| AT what epochs was it, that the barbarians made
their hrh Eruption into the Roman world with i'm
|
Emperor, 1t was when thirty tyrants at time were
proclaimed bya frantic foldiery, when cities in
tumuis diiputed an empire which they alike
ger TO deilroy and unable to defend
The world is very old, yet always changing, al
ways the fame, prey to the fame paiions, ieduced
or enlightened by the lame intereas the fame caules
produce the fame effects III every age, need not
erviley ek in the records of the pa rules for our
conduct at the preient period but let udy in the
grand Mirror Of hitory, its repeated elons and reap
tinaruttion from the experience of the paf.
In the earheit ages, when Europe was infulted by
Ala, he ranged herief under the command of fin
gle chieitan Tome ages after Greece then CIVILIZED
| EuroPe) was within hairs breadth of dearuttion
by the monarchs of AHA who took advantage of her
! intefine diviGonS
But at the voice OF thor Amphi9ions, they a1em-
4 oed to chute captain general liberty Jealous as
love, and as eaily alarmed, for longwhe refiited
the supremacy of Philip and his fou.-Thebes paid
dear tor her reiitance; but foon was the voice of
gratitude heard throughout Greece, now delivered
from all fears of the barbarans, and all her affairs
imoked in honor of Alexander
| Europe competed at preient, | will not fay of re-
Pubhcs but OF denlocracies more foolilhy Jealous
not only of that liberty dear all generous hearts but
OF Its mon frivolous forms, will be forced if the po-
ney OF Vienna and London are changed, to adopt
IDEAS or combination and unity, incompatible with
out doubt, with all the dignity of independent Ra,es
but by which alone fhe can be faved when attacked
by another part of the world, and it is TOO plain
truth to need expedition, that even thofe who moR
complain of the power of France and who invite the
intervention OF Ruiia, by their meafures driving
Wet OF Europe to the alternative of perhng, and OF
perifhing foon under Rufia, or of giving greater
weight and importance to the preponderance of the
( French government.
Certainly Hannibal encountered the greateif diff
culties and Disadvantages in attacking Italy if w.
compare his expedition with the other ruptioas into
Europe by Ala aud Africa, or even 30 that which
nov menaces US nevertheless if a, this epoch Italv
had not been almoR united under the fame influence,
If the power of Rome had not been the fame that il
was before the ege of Veiac, there would have been
an end OF Rome, of the independence of Itaiy and
Europe had been fubjugated BY Africa
| Oaavus fuRained the caufe of Europe, of Europe
indignant at behoding Anthony drawing in his train
the kings OF the eait menacng Italy with te manners
and iervitude of AHA and Africa This fate of the
| public mind colt Augufus the empire of the world
Conitantine united 1t anew, and took an advanced
po!t agantt the attempts of Alta, by CHUNG Byxan
tim for the feat of empire. Under his fuccelor all
| was again debated, again divided.
Already was prepared in the deferts of Arabia the
mott terrible ielon Europe ever received an exam,
pie which above all others calculated for our inruc
| ZION.
Certainly this terrible overthrow of three parts of
the world was leis probable, than the fcourges which
now threaten US, and which it is yet poble to avert
When MahonIet traveried the delrrts a, the head
OF caravan, rather than army, with which how
ever he laid the foundations of that military power
10 formidable, and which for 70 long time was ac
knowleiged by large portion of the globe it would
have required more than human foreight to have
Predeisi the cenquefts of Caiph who were his luc
ceiors, to have forefeen, that after having (ubuga
ed part of Ala and Africa, they fhould adyspce
| triumPlanty into Europe, and meet with no check |
to their career until they had penetrated to the plains
Of T,ari. |
Nor: ju't motives for alarm now exia, when we |
lee the Seythans and the Tartars already MARCHING
to prey upon the vtals of Germany when the md
gent and erocious nations of the Morea and Epirus
are already rejoicing in the page of Italy, ready TO
DC dgorged upon the hores OF this beautiful country
led on by Rullan and Engliih armies.
Oh Italy, thou halt detefled, thou han called bar
barian thoe people, thoie folders who from the FUN
nits OF thy Alps have poured upon thy vales What
name dot thou relerve for thefe fwarms of deva1at;
ons which the Adriatic is about to throw upon tbv
COATS. '"'
But is it Italy alone which fhoud be alarmed A.
gam and again repeat, it is the wei il is Rurope
which IS menaced and in manner far more terrib.
than at that famous and much illuminated epocb
when BY sn effort which preferred its independence
its political and focal exiaence the wet, aauated
by one ientment, rofe and marched in order to ore
ierve the benefits of ehranity, and of civilization
which were then one and the fame f. D.ss q. - :