Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1801-1806, 1806-06-19
PRUSSIA vs.. BRITAIN.


the Centinel and 9TH, federal papers,
and toremember what they read, will
not TAIL TO recolleG the very fanguine
and extfavagant expectations which
were lately formed by the writer's in
in thofe papers from The Intervention
OF pIuiila ii favor Of ! ngland That
is, in favor OF the mott impoGng, in
fulting, bIood-Eained ariiiocracy. arti.
fetal and not natural, fzlf-crea,et and
not created, which has ever diiturbed
the repofe of the world-But Prul1ia.
uahapPily for this Rri,lh ariHocracv,
this government Of few monopoliE.
ing families, who modeitly take all
the honorS and benefits of their coun-
try in their own hands, and leave the
poorer and middling clafSes in the
mott wretched ftuation, PrufIia has
chofen a Ni(er part. She has done
that in taking pofleilion of Hanover,
for the fake of peace upon the CONT
nent OF Europe, which this fame Brit
iih government has invariably done.
and would have continued TO have
done, in every cafe and on every oc-
cat;on, from the conquef of Wales,
Scotland and Ireland, to the projected
iubjugation Ct thefe independent and
happy fates. States which were with
!uch difficulty wrehed from her rapa-
cious and intolerable gtalp. PTuilia
has mott wilely preferred the uleful
and honorable place of being the fec
ond power in turope, to that of hav-
ing become the niCtrable fubGdiary
and unhappy victim of Bri,ilh intrigue;
and for the mott polite meafure, the
venal editors of the mott corrupted
preileS i'll Europt, now vent the effu-
fions Of national fpleen againf this i
IDENTICAL monarch, who, but a few
months fnce, was tempted by the
Britiih cabinet not only with Hanover,
but With Holland, or any other eoua-
try he might with to have Who was
then told he might cut and carve as
ne liked Friend or foe, any thing
or every thing in the power of this ve-
ry Britain to help him to, if he would
only ltand in thsr way, cover them
with his power, and ,annihilate the
French army in Germany, that they
might become fovereign and fupreme
on the ocean ! While the mild and
inoifenGve Ruilians, with Suwarrow
and other good .hriltians a, their head,
were to revive the golden age in the
South of Europe!
This was the plan which the Bri-
tilh cabinet had matured and had
nearly brought to completion. This
was the chorus of the fong lately 70
popular in the theatres of Covcnr
Garden and Drury Lane, written III
faid by Mr.. Sheridan. SO that Brit
tania might rule the waves, no mat
ter who was to govern afhore Paul
or Suwarrow, Alexander or even his
internal highnefs himfelf, could he be
only fuffered to transfer his iron fcep-
tire to this neither world. Yet with
all thefe facts before our eyes, we are
now gravely told in an American pa
per, that Pruila is the mott venal,
corrupt and degraded nation in Eu-
rope, when it is notorious that fhe is
now infinitely more powerful than ev-
er, and will undoubtedly foon become
more formidable in arts and arms,
than even ihe now is for it is very
well known that this fame Pruilia, is
one of the governments which has
mott warmly vinoicated the liberty Of
commerce on all occeGons. 1t is i'm.
poilible to know precifely what Prul-
fla has gained by her treaty with
France But we have right to fup-
pofe that Hamburger and all the hanfe
towns will folicit her noverf,,l aid