The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1806-10-31


The advantages that can refult from fuch
expeditions, are beyond our difcernment. They
could not expect with 70 fma force to
conquer the whole of Naples. They could
| fcarcely dare to expect that as many infurgents
would join them, as would be fufficient to ex-
pei the armies of Jofeph.
But it was the proportion of Lsrd Mellon, fav
the London papers, that Britih army
ihould ever be accompanied by Bri,ilh feet,
by which they might be put on fhore, or move
from poft TO pot at peafure, and thus be able
to break the line of an enemy, and chuCe at all
times the point of attack" This plan might
be proper enough if there was already fuf-
cient army of their allies on the fhorc, TO
profit by the impreDion. But where is
the advantage in fuch cafe as this !, What
benefit could refult even from the breaking
Of the line, if they had not troops enough
to prefs on through the breach , The victory of
Sir J. Stuart may have occaGoned bonfire
| or an illumination in London but will tbefe
Pompous exhibitions compenfate the Bri,il,
nation for the blood which it has loft Will they
compeniate the treafury for the money which
IT has expended ; or will they indemnify the
unhappy CalabrIans for the new perfecutons
which they will fuffer from their m ore irritated
conquerors
No. Whatever all thefe appearances may
threaten, there will not be another coalition in
L"'oPe. Where are the powers, who will
dare to lift the banners agant France?
is 1t the Emperor of AuR,ia But be has
| not yet forgotten the memorable plains OF
Autterlitz the lofs of his capital and his
throne. He cannot but feel that his fpirit cow
ers beneath Bonaparte's attendant genius.
HIS treaiury is yet exhaufted. His army has
not recovered its fprit. The lately efablih
| ed confederation of the Rhine too, has ahridg-
ed his refources, and he fees planted at his We.
| ry door new enemy, renovated by new Or
gan,zation and devotedly attached to his enc
| ny's nterefs.
Will PruGfa fubfcribe to this new Crnf,de (?
Prutfia +! that refufed to unite with RufIia, and
Auitrla, will ihe now unite with them after
their late memorable defeat after Auftria has
been deprived of her folders, of her creatures,
OF her Germanic aiociates; and after Ru1ia
has been fairly beaten in the fulI-blnwp
pride OF her power and with all the uablemfh
ed reputation of her young Monarch Will
Pruiiia deiert her fagacious, neutral policy,
atFthe very moment that her allies would he
TAR away, and Gordon of French troops on
the very borders of her kingdom; when fhe
| neglected all the favourable opportunities of
| eXertion during the laft campain; when moG
F., OF the French troops were already kept at bay
by the enemy, aud when few hours march
would have conducted her into the camp of
the coalition That was the eveHtfuI moment
for Pruiiia TO interfere. But that criiis has Daft
| never TO return again.
viii Rufiia he difpofed to embrace new
-n'htio" Rn. - e"s- - {, lux ..,atr the ar
of the former coalition mutt have fettled the
queton.
| When fhe recollects the aftonifhing rapi-
dity with which the French armv of Bou.
logne penetrated into the very centre of
| Germany, defeated army after army and
overwhelmed fortrefs after fortrefs, until the
| engagement of Aufterlitz clofed the accompt
of the third coalition when ihe recoleSts that
the pretent army of France is as ftrong as it was
at the clofe Of the campaign, that fcarce fol-
der has been difbanded, and that $4,000 new
confcripts have been added to her military
force what pofible inducement ought to
| preciptate her into new coalition But
! the fame motives, which would 70 urgent
! ly di1uade her from forming military ALI
ance aganft France, would operate with inf
niteIy more effect to prevent her engaging lin
| gle banded.
Europe, and the whole world fnould depre-
cate the formation of nezU eOnfsderacy aganit
| France.
| Her exiting Emperor is d military chieftain,
Whole earlieft habits attach him to. the camp.
liar is bis bHfnejJ. 1t is the initrument of his
preient proud aggrandiftment and it is that
inftrument, t. which he muft continue to owe
his continued elevation. Againft lilch an heroic
chieftaln, what can the proudeft hereditary
potentate of Europe expect to atcheve by the
force of arms From fuch man, what can
fuch men reafonably expect but difappoint-
ment and defeat, the mutiaton or the lois of
| their kingdoms; armies flaughtered almoft
without ftruggIe ; and towns, provinces and
countries rayifhed away, but to fwell the aIrea-
dy accumulated MATS of his NOT formidable
power
France itfelf over whom this chieftan (tretch.
es the rod of Empire, is but as one VAT, difci-
plined camp, ready at a moments warning to
pour out its refftlefs troops upon the furround.
ing countries. In the terror which fhe infpires
and the incurlions which ihe menaces, he re-
fembIes thofe once enterprifng warriors, who
poured forth from the wilds of Germany and
Tartary.
1t NUT be confeTed that France is too much
Of military nation, whether the force or the
peaceful iecurity of the other continental
powers, be conhdered. The Inconvenience
and the injuries incident to fuch iipgular at
titude, are almoh beyond the powers of def
cription.
She thus compels every surrounding nation
to preferve the fame warlike attitude; and to
maintain fanding army, fmilar TO her own.
She difules over Europe the fpirit of war,
nftead of the fpirit of pace fpirit.whch is
ihoifile TO civil freedom, to amicable brother
hood among nations, to the arts and licences,
thole delightful foIaces, and inelimabe i'm