The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1806-04-25
Gbe Gnqutrer.
RICHMOND, e5tb APRIL.
WHAT CAN ENGLAND EXPECT FROM TIL
N lew MINISTRY I!

WHAT CAN ENGLAND EXPECT FROM rHE
NEW MINISTRY!
The parliament of England have determined
to erect monument to the memory of Mr..
Pitt. twas difficult attempt to obtain the
necefiary appropriations, butt is fcarcely lefs
difficult to obtain an appropriate interruption.
, Some would write upon it " the heaven-born
mIniiter who was commit oned to fave fink
Ing land" Were truth to hold the pencil, fhe
would write, "this is the minif.er who lived to
be the cure OF his country; and whole death
was her falvation." In trush, the compliment
is poor one; but it is the only one which Mr..
Pitt deferves.
HIS power has now paf1ed into the hands of
her favlours. The heart of England once more
beats with hope. Every eve is upon them.
Every mind is anxioufly exploring the dangers
to be avoided or the abufes to be retreiIed BY
their administration. IF we look into their cha.
raeter, the frlt thing that ftrikes us, is the Ia
Tents and experience they pof1efs. It is a con-
Relation of the wifeft ftatefmen in Britain.
They are all men of great attachments, great ex-
perienee and in general repute. But the next
thing that itrlkes us is the equally great DIVERT.
! ty or their opinions. Fox is on the fame bench
with Grenville. Windham & Sheridan are no
longer the rivals but Importers of each other.
No mancanbe blindto the reafons of this pheno-
menon. We know that it is not a cabinet of prin-
ciples, but cabinet of many talents and one
principle and that principle is, the prefervation
| of England the warding off of mot formula
! BILE invahon, or the making of tolerabIe
peace.
England ha: not gained a Jingle Object for
which The went into the war. She faid that
france had obtained feveral acceiiions of power
| hnce the treaty of Amiens, which ihe required
Holland france was to give her up Malta
for ten years: France was to let her take
pohetlion of the ifland of Iampeda{,
| lhe'e were the three proportions that
| formed the uitimatum Of Lord Whitwortb.
But what has The gained by this war. She
| has Increaied the power of the very epemv
Whole ACKNOWLEDGMENT ihe mott dreaded. She
has made him the king of Italy; fl,e has ftreneth-
ened his allies in the fouth of Germany; fhe
has put Spain more completely under his pow
er; The has brought the Auftrians and the Ruff
lans into the field to be beaten by him, while
The has "paid the piper 30 fhe has loft Hano-
yer, though certainly this is no very great lofs.
1t is true, that her fleets have been victorious
at lea, but her trade has been fhut out of the
| continents and now flie fands upon the very
| brink OF ruin, with a debt that fucks I'D the
very tubhitence OF the people her country al
mott converted into a camp, and a victorious
enemy almof ready to land upon her COATS
1t was gravely and pompouily faid, before the
war that it was to be &C war not for Malta bur
for Egypt not for Egypt, but for India not
for India but for England" But what was then
rhetorical fiction is now indeed converted in
to fact. 1t is not war for Malta, for Egypt
or for India, but war for England.
Such are the ferrous difficulties which the
prefent minitlry have to encounter We believe
that their talents will fave their country if the
war was to continue but we believe that the
principles Of MIR. Fox will fave her from its ca
lamities. We believe that he will make peace
as foon as he can on tolerabIe terms. {" H;f
grand maxim" fays his biographer, " and fure-
ly it is Immediately connected with the profpe
rty, and perhaps, the exiitence of manufaetur-
ing and commercial country, is the mante-
nance ofpeacs. With this obie6t in view, he
oppofed a contef with RufIia, about the for
trefs of OcZakow (; and conRa with Spain,
concerning the peltry of Nootka Sound" He
was the enemy of the prefent war. He thought
that Malta fhonld be given up according to a
folemn treaty, and we have no doubt that his
pacific principles are the fame in fpite of the
times, Whit the times have changed the hottie
principles of others.
From the prefent miniftry therefore England
may look for peace but fome facrifces are
neceflary to obtain it. One great danger can
not here efcape us which threatens the difTolu-
ton OF this minitry. Perhaps Mr.. Fox may be
willing to make greater 6crifces to obtain it
than his colleagues. Perhaps he may be will
ling to give up Hanover to Prufiia. In fact il
has never been the intereft of England to pre-
ferve 1t. But will the king 70 cheerfully part
with bis hereditary dominions? Fox has at
no time been favourite with his maieay. Let
him ak for Hanover for the ufe of Esgland and
he will become Till lefs 70. Still lefs, if he re-
fufe to iwel the Privy Purfe by paying for it
out of the public treafury of England. Adeu
then to his feat in the cabinet Adieu to the
prefent minifry And adieu to thofe beneficial
changes, which it had promifed to produce in
the FOREIGN relations of England
But II we look to the INTERNAL affairs of
that kingdom we may expect very little benefit
from their labors. five figh for any great change
IN their government, their contribution or their
laws, we fgh in vain