The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1806-10-03

E*!ra7 Of letter from an hm~isan GENTLEMAN =.
DsIasR""' % 4 JTis"4 "a BaAnoye dated 14tb 9HIy,
1906. ~
The impoverished fate of Bordeaux, the Rap-
nation OF commerce and the new duties on wine and
on foreign articles Of general conlumpton have af-
ie6ed all descriptions of people here. Wines of all
kndS are extremely low, and Wea-India produce has
but nominal price Nothing is doing but from hand
TO mouth the hope, rather than the expectation az
peace has had fome hare, of late, in making every
body wary OF Purchaling any article whatever.
negotiations for an exchange of prifoners are go
ing or-and has indeed, been in part accomplished
but while England inlifs on maritime domination.
and France is every day acquiring or consolidating
continental dominion, it perPexes me to CONJECTURE
how Preliminaries can be adjuGed between them.
he Kings of Naples and Holland will not de-
ieend from their Thrones-So far from it, that the
rsPort of the day is, tina, the ancient Kinpdor, Of
Navarro is to be fevered from Spain, pyatey, and a.
dorned with crown for LUcIEN ;--ani Switzer.
land to be conlituted into Rsg4! Re6ubGe for L.
ROME. Time only develope the truth or the faf-
hood Of fuch cone6lures
Troops have been, and are fll marching in con-
sderable bodies towards Spain: whether for the a.
boVe PurPoie, or Tor more efIeaually Giuttng out
the Brthh Commerce from the Spanilh ports kaoyy
not. Some people fupPoie that Portugal is the OBJ
jea
No perfon can queNon that the great Emperor
OF the French will become, in efeel the great En-
peror of the Weit, under whatever title the powtr
may be welded. The effects Of the great battle of
Auitcrlitz will be felt for centuries 1t has made all
future coalitions with France nugatory or impraci
cable Already RuIia has negotiation for peace in
Paris And the Ottomans longer tremble-iavs
at the name OF BoaefoyfC. He holds them in the ho
low of his hand, and bids them fcorn thofe whom
they lately feared like fate. For himleli poneGipo
(beides all Italy from the loot p to the f9 both We
nice and Raguia-he will of courie obtain the lands
and territory that conGltuted Grecian Greatnefs
and this without bloodhed. The views that Rufia
had been nourihiHg Turkey for thaie fifty years,
are vanfhng day by day; the Oily attenp, to
ftrengthsn Corfu by ieizing the mouths of the Cata-
70 before Aufril could deliver Daln1ata to its pre-
Gent owner, has cor much more than its own defeat
It has kept hundred and fifty thouiand troops in
Germany hefe tx months the expegee of Auilria
who is pay fifty millions (to1fnos) extra, for
their iubtence. Au(lra has at la feut four thouand
troopsto retske the mouths Of the Cattaro by con-
feut the Court Of Peteriburgb, who n1uG other
wife have been at war with Auftra on that point.
Meanwhile Prives Nfnraf is becoming an E}ago,
and Prime Of Germany. Cardinal FeIeb is already
Coadi1o, Of the Hytb CJdneei1o, of the Hell, Ro0ss
EmPi,sI The EisS7,r Of Bsd,a, Gpnior,l who is
married TO ae1s F,eaeb Pyiseei, will become kim
SO that if you will look at the map, you will no,
fail to remark eonolidaton Of family power that
mum take and extend its branches over the wea
and foa,h Of Europe. The rupture Of tile peace Of