The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1805-05-31
From Paris papers reee:s,rd a. .be office Of ire
Baltimore american.
PARIS. Marcll IL.

AXIS. ni'rVl u
The extraordinary audience which the En-
peror was TO have given TO the Weep eE'ert
and the me- hers OF the Coaruta OF the Italian
Republic, took Dlace vefterday with rnagnie-
ceuce WORTHY fits ohieta It's refults are looiz.
Ell for with impa'iencc, in the communicative,
which his nljeny is TO make 20 day 10 the fcr=te
politicians have long agreed upon the neceffi.y
Of giving fNid government to the ltaliar re-
public. II belongs only 70 the founder of TIA.
fate, to complete This immortal work. TIE
wifhes which the Italian people mutt form, are
u~eQuivocal; they NUT aipire to fuch A fate
of things. as that their country may 10 longer
be 10 unfortunate as to I've the pretext OF wars.
and the field ofhsttle 9th neiglIbourins pow
ers. An Europe has 20 win for any eitablili-
ment which may teId 10 copfulilate union A.
monc the great powers which may do away
all motive of divifon, whish, in iaort, NAV
render war inpofible. This advantage is
more real for nations, than the addition of pro-
vinces.
March 90.
The creation of the kingdom of Italy viii
hold high ~ /, among the great ev-uts which
recommended rhe century lately ended and the
ore iuft beginning, to the impartiality of hiffo.
nv and 10 the nfruetion OF poft-rity. Not one
Of the ftates which competed civilized Europe
during the feventeenth century, is in the ran
which ii then occupied. Some empires have
ncreaied, others have Ion part oftheir militia
w vigor and ofthcir population whole king
doms have diiappoare from off the political
ftage, others again have arifen to the higheft
pitch ofnfluence and frlerdor by dtant con-
queits and an extraordinary develcpemrnt of
their maratime mower !; ard aftera century Of
convnhons and changes, Europe finds itfeif
placed in fate perhaps more favourable to
the fecurity of its laws. than it was in even af
ter the treaty of Wetphalia. Never did more
noble or more fertile fuhie6t prefent itfelf TO
the pen of an able writer. The hinory of this
acc bears no manner Of resemblance to the ages
which have preceded If. Other interens, other
perfonares, other motives and other means give
If particular character. The fate Of It2lv
mutt occupy corner ofthe ptt.re. Hifory-
will find in the fpeeches delivered upon this DC
cation by his n,aiehy the Emperor, the vice
urefdent of the Italian republic, and the mini
ffers for foreign a@1irs of the French emperor,
fold reafons and irnrortant revelations.
IT, fatting afid~ AL prejudice and all perfonal
animofities, men lay open the pages of hiftorv
and weigh the r'erefts OF nations, they will be
convinced that The erection or the kingdom OF
Italy, coniidersd with regard to ItaIy, TO France
and EurNpe, in the real and permanent intereh
of the great family that it is in the. mott hap
ny denoneqent of great Tragedy, the end OF
One fnge word mirht put the ouerion to
ref and anfwer all objections to wit, that
France might lave kept Italy, and that ITALY
had right TO give itlrlf government. Since
the invafon ofthe barharous hordes, italy has
heenf,en without atoniihmentt to pats under the
dominion of thofe who conquered it, The
Lnmhsrds, Charlemagne, the Othons, Lewis
XII, Francis l. Charles V, ponefied il by turns.
the houfe of Aufria ard Spain eftablifhed fove-
reigns in If /: and the ore of all its conduerors
who had the creat~f right mutt then alone be
evcsrted No, without doubt victory MIGHT
futfce him with no other right, and hiIory
would confecrate il, rs II has done with all the
others. But this right, the moft brilliant of the
greateA Monarch, !. the-leaft Of thofr which Ie-
gitimate the accef1ion of Napoleon. The
win ofthe italians, is that upon which he
fets the hiehef value, and which in reality gives
peculiar luhre to his elevation. It is the with
of an indeper dent people exerciing the right
Of chooling their fovereign in the very forms of
their contribution. This with cannot noniblv he
looked upon as the effect of the violence of =
facliOn or Of revolution in the Fate II is the
completion, the guarantee, and the orcanifa-
ton Oftheir independence. Iheterm adopted,
refolves the problem of italy, confdered as an
independent power and as attached to the for
tune Of France. II has for its frt king, him
WHO gave ~ us DOILlCdI cSiltCUCG ana VINO is
heit athletic defend it. Gratitude and interef
are here admirably blended and az foon AS the
foreign powers choofe. Italy will fee its new
contribution founded in an unfhakeable man.
ner.
II matters little who the perfon be who fhall
he called upon after Napoleon to- begin this
Royal Dynaty y monarch called TO govern
a people becomes their father he has no lon
ger any other family. II flfices for the happi-
nets of the Italians, that they beindependent {;
feveral ftates of Europe afford fimiiar examples,
and the people who fiatter themfeves the mott
upon their independence and PROPERTY, the
Englifh, enjoy it under the government Of fo-
reign Houfe, to which ii is not indebted for f.
much as Italy owes TO the race Of Napoleon
Il would be fuperfiuous TO dwell upon the
reafons which France has 20 alledge in her ia
vour. More moderate than the other powers.
fhe has retained Other corqueHs only what was
eGential to her fafety; and in this fcnfe it NAV
be faid, that all the nations ofthe Continent had
the fame intereh as herfeIf TO fee her keep mill
tary petitions fuficienly rrfre6ahe to take
from whatever power hould Gill wiz, To attack
her, even the very hope Of Recommending a
war with fuccefs, and Of replunging all Europe
in the corvulfons official anarchy.
Superficial minds will wonder that ficha re-
folution Mould be taken, when Oscillations an
near in tbe r,olfticaI fbsr,,C,,et,r ,-l.., a. -