The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1806-06-10


ooJeSt OF tins gruugc.--it may ani"er a s.ou
end to explain this more fully.
In the fri place, Hanover is the frt and
connecting link in the chain Of our contributions
al fyaem.
AS long as England, depending upon her in.
ternal and agricultural fonrces, growing only
fuficient for her own fuppiy, and manufaStu.
ring only to the fame extent--in a word, 70
long as England had not reached the utmof
point of her civil ~progrefs, 70 long might En-
gland in iafety p~referve herfelf aloof from con-
%tinental connection. The argumcnt was then
more than me~taphorically good, that as an Ic-
land, nature had feparated us from the CONT
nent, and given us a fytem of our own that
we were a lofty but fertile rock, ri6ng from the
bottom of the waters--a natural g~arrifoa,
which, having efficient within its walls for
defence and confumption, might look fccurcly
on the world beneath.
But it is the part of commerce to withdraw
us from the (implicity Of nature. Ii forces its
obief not merely into contact, but into cohei-
on. In this condition, whatever affects the one,
is almot exnal!y felt by the other. To nations
thus mutually embracing aud embraced, under
the commercial fytem, that blow mutt be di-
reSted with more than common dexterity, which
can fall upon the one, without communicating
the efeG1 of the violeno ( to the other. Under
the commercial fyte.n, nations ceafe to be- in
dividuals, and become members of a body,
of which is the vital princip'e-the
blood which circulating equally through all
the parts, maintains and cheri(hes all alike.
So much as to the general principle of the
neceiiity of continental competition. The inn
tiIity of thefe connections was the favorite to-
pic upon the commencement of the reign Of the
prefent king, and in the variety of political o.
pinion even in the prefent day, there arc not
wanting thofe who Riu urge the fame afgu-
ments and hefitate to confider as an evil the
preient feparation of Hanover and England
To thefe indeed there is a ~fuficient anfwer in
the event which ineantaneouny ollowed this
feparation, i. e. tie escLaEon of Bri.ih Mer-
chants from ahn2R all tie ports oftbe continent.
1t may, in faGt, be conlidered as fundamcu.
tai principle, that the preiervation of our con-
%tinental connections is efientially necefIary to
US.
J. For the preervation of our commerce.
Q. For tie preervatiOn oftbe Ueyy esiRenee
Of omr empire.
The Iofs of Hanover, therefore, is efIentially
injurious to us under this point of view. 1t di-
miniihes what may be called the cohefion of Our
continental connection. 1t is a brick at leat
out Of the general fabrick, and the violent alb
ruption off has certainly n,aken, in a flight de-
gree perhaps, the Fracture. 1t has afTuredly
oDbN W. " Ai' NuC anu
o~fcourfe the ftrength of the whole.
Hanover was in faa the German feat-the
Gothic Villa of England, it was here we kept
An hofpitaI hoard, and had a kind domefic in
~tercoufe with our German neighbors-our con-
~tineptal friends were ever welcome TO us, and
feeling us live amongf them they confider us as
one of themfelves. England in pofehion, and
in the friendly ufe of Hanover, was more than
half German-a point doubtlefs of no inconfi-
derahle Importance, when we confidered the
neceflity of German alliance.
Nor is this lofts of one cord Of connection the
only evil of our lofs of Hanover There is one
till more important and more immediate-Han-
over, 10 long as The was our own, was the raily-
ing pof of the northern confederacy +: it was
here that we fent our continental armies-here
they found a home, and all the conveniences Of
being in their own country-Here they could
wait til they were Joined by their allies-Here
they were in no want of fupplies-In a word to
comprehend every thing, here they were in their
own country.
Such was Hanover then--What is Hanover
now
-Tenedos notefima fama
Infula, dives OPIUM, Prismi dun regina manerent.
Nune tantum Gnus, CT Gatio maiefda carinis.
Let us now put a final quefion--In any flu
ture expedition to the continent, where is our
army to find a no ne or a harbour ? Is it to de-
bend upon the caprice, the fidelity, and what is
fill worie, on the prudence and e~xertions of our
.llv in procuring the neceflry magazines, pro-
%vilions, &C.? A mof important confederation.
The Rullians found it 70 at AuRerlitz.