The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1806-12-23

The ifIoe is all that we can YET dcfcriot--the'
fcene of action is eaGly traced but the difpo9-
tons for the battle are not fitch as can enable
the mott difcerning to approach more than two
points on range of S. mies-that is the at
tack in the deiles Of kofen, and the battle on
the oppofite or eat lide Of the river UuRrna, at
Jena. This Jena ia different place from
that befon. noticed which itands ON the Sala.
Roibach shut Ave miles from Jena, which is
in the duchy of Eyfnach, and 90 miles wet
from Leipzig.
The king of PrnfIia, duke of Brunfwick,
Mollendorf, Kaisreuth, prince Henry, prince
Ferdinand, Ruchel, Hohenohe, prince of
Orange, and Eugene of Wirtemberg,' were the
Prufiian generals-fonr of whom are reported
killed, and feveral wounded.
The French commanders were Bonaparte,
chief of the faff Berthier, Murat, Bernadotte,
Augereau, Davouff, Soult, Ney, are thofe of
which the names are yet known. The French
lot one general of brigade, de Billy, who was
much diltingufhed in the wars of the fecond
coalition, IN Italy,.
The armies appear TO have been very nearly
equal in numbers. The French reierve, which
did not, as at Auherl;z, go into action, con-
lifted of picked corps, aud of Itself amounted to
$4,000 men-the French columns, independent
OF the referve, appear to have been at one time
ALTO appear to have moved by columns at Ko-
fen.
The French, on this occafon, appeared to
have ftudied the faSieJ of Bmker'S MH-from
the partiality which they dfplayed towards the
Prufian officers.
The Pruliians loR all their artillery, 500
pieces, and equipage, and their magazines at
Erturth, Halle and Leipzig, $4,000 prifoners,
nearly as many killed, 80 ftand of colours. and
i'll g.,l
on the field of battle.
The confequence. of thefe battles, are now
the moit important Of all coniideratons-it is
eaiy now to difcover the truth Of zvbat qve bave
in this paper 70 often pyediaed-that on the
continent of Europe, Bonaparte will be fole
dictator and difpofer of power and authority
he Can make and nn,aake kings and he can adj
nit or Hm ont from every river, road ftead, gut
and inlet, from the Gulph of Finland to the
Dardanelles, the commerce of every nation
that is his enemy.
Let nor folly, or prejudice, or corruption,
conclude that we exult in this fate of things
we only narrate what VIC have for years antici-
pated as the inevitable and irre(ifable effect of
the imbecility and madneis of the cabinets of
England and Germany. II is the neee0ary re-
az oi The treaty or fiinitS, OF the mad and
prohibited rawlings of the infamous traitor to
liberty, Edmund Burke, of the bloody, exter-
minai'ng and aifa6inating policy ofPitt it is
retribISon of Heaven upon the perfdy and
taithleiineis of Kings. In judging between
whom, we fee no difference between the heredi-
tary ufurper of the rights of manknd-and the
conqueror of yeiterday-the fate of the houfes
of Bourbon, and Hap9ure, and Brandenburg,
are OF no other confederation in the eyes of
common fenie nor of chrftian truth, than that
of the houfe of the humble cottager it is lcfs,
beeauie that innocence and virtue which inha.
bits the cottage is not to be found in the pala-
ces, or surrounding tie thrones, OF kings-the
mitery which they create is the natural offipriDg
of their unacquaintance with humanity, and
their ignorance and Indifference to the affl:cti-
ons which they produce to others, without
partakine of them in their own perfons, unlefs
when in the courie of an age fome Charlie
magne or lengths Khan--fome Alexander or
fome Bonaparte, tarts from obfcurity to fend
rsem and their race into the ihadc, as an ex-
ample and warning TO mankind to avoid kings.
The conquet and partition of Europe are,
then, but tire necei1ary effects of the attempt
to corquer and partition France.
And every flccefIiye effort, every new Goa
lition, has only humbled or defroyed the bind
victims of hereditary ignorance and craft.
The inconfiderate may murmur, but what
avails relOrting to CALCULATIONS, when the delu-
iions of prejudice can tend only to aggravate
ieHfibiiity, when the event becomes more sriev-
ous by its greatneis on companion with what
prejudice may vainly covet.
The ports of Europe will be fhut againit the
enemies of Francs--and the venels of any natl
on which countenances hoftity to France will
be excluded-Merehdnfs, who know regi-
on, but proht--ho bible, but their kdgerJ-
will look to it.
And tbofe who are the emiHaries of foreign
governments in the United States, who affect to
fear the vengeance of the European conqueror,
will now thew that they with their fears to be
realized.
The Baltic and the Black fca will be ciofed.
The dynaRy of Pruiiia will be changed.
Poland Will be refored.
And if SaSony has joined in the league, that
dynaay will be exlinguiihed.
Every man from the borders of Hoifein to
the borders of Holland, from Bohemia to the
North Sea, from the Oder TO the Rhine, fub-
ieGted TO or allied with Prufia, is in fact pr-
foner Of war ; the fineft countries for induftry,
aud wealth, and men, and arts and licences in
all Germany, are TO be found within the icope
of this ten days conqueit, their reonreeJ, their
4vealtb, their animal force is at the command
OF their conqueror for in countries Of defpo-
tim, he who triumpbs is the divinity of the
hour-the fuperfition of conquef is fear, and
wherever fear is the iHPul!e of mind, the OBJ
iect of alteration will be adored-God or De-
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