The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1806-10-14
RESTORATION OF THE Ju1ss.

We are af1ured that Bonaparte, nerf; ye,.s :,
ms dehgn of encouraging the hopes Of the I.ws
ne ia't reports wer- TIA. The r,->..,;-e nc ~.
Jewiih nation were ATTENDING a. Paris. and
mar conhierabe number had arrived from, =
taly.--Should he favor his fri plan of peopl;n,
Egypt and SYRIA with the fubietes of his ow,9
Kngdom, and thould he reftcre Pieiline IN The
Jews he would find many religious opinions
favourable to this deiigp. About \ cen,nrv
from the prefent time, the Jews were reckon,
ed, as tar as known in countries vif.ed By En-.
ropeans, at three millions. At that time thew
every where felt discourage ments now unknown
TO them. The ipirit of commerce has abated
the fury of perfecution. In proteaant conn.
tries tser Complaints are eiIened, and in Ca
tholic countries they ihare in the federation
which very wifrly obtains. In Ala, az COM
rerce becomes more free, they can more
eahiy ininuate themfelves, where the coun-
tenapres AID manners of ftrangers have be-
come more familiar, 70 that all the caufes of
their degradation continue TO ceafe, and with
Them all the evident cauies of their diftina and
NATIONAL character. The love of their national
exltence now finds new motives TO increafe the
deilred return TO their native country. And
their political exiitence mutt be the beft fccuri
ty which they can politely hold. The ftrenyth
OF their attachment to their native country Ia.
been contemplated with aftopiihment i'm every
age ilnce the deitrucfion of their CITY, and +
has been employed varioully by their friends
and their enemies. Among the caufes of their
ditquets IN the time of Adrian, it has been reck-
oned that when Jerufalem was delivered to
JewI'h Colony, they deemed it prophaned by
the ido'atry OF their Conqueror, and thus the
terms OF their iettlemeDt violated. In the
'"SHt century, they were not ffrangers TO
the religious enthuiaitn which was lSindlinc. s,
IN france IN i1s7, appeared falfe Mef1iah,
VINO created fuch an alarm, as to produce the
mott violent meaiures of the nation to prevent
the iuccets promiied from his manifestations.
In Span 2 Gmilar alarm arofr in the fame cen.
fury, as did alfo on the flores of Africa. Pr
ia iaw formidable army RATED in its KINGDOM.
and Arabia had ferrous alarm from the fane
pretence OF national deliverer. Other conn
tNes found the Jews excited hy the fame ex
pectatiOns. The fame fpirit dfcoyered tCeIfin
the feventeen,h century in the peighbourbood
OF eaiettine, and all their difappointments have
no. aiienated their hopes4of future profperjty in
the Llnd given to the Fathers. For the pre-
tence from the opprel;ons they fufFsr, and from
me lniufhcIent means TO enjoy their love of
wealth, they are more content to be buried than
to live n the Holy Land, itii they maintained
an a ademy az Sapheta few miles from Beth
ia'da, IN the tribe Of Napthali They excuE.
their want OF Zeal for retiience ia the conn
try IN IT'S prefent fate, from the want of ma,
nTeration ofihe divine will, and fome have pro-
feiied belief, that the prcfent city will he pu-
rtted by fire at the oming of the Meifish, and
then he rendered fl hqhitation FIR the Saint,
OF iirael II is evident that the chriitian Apof-
Tie Faii was not a ftraneer 70 the image of fuch
purihcAti0n. Shonid it accord with The cor
merciai fyiterr of the French Emperor to en-
ploy the zeal of this ancien, psople in the CEN
ter ofthe Commercials! world, it might prove in
his haads an experiment not unworthy of his
ambition ard bis iucceGes. But we leave this
world OF conJectures. Salem Reg.