The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1806-07-15

ed Paehas or Beys leading friends of liberty, who
ha have gloriouny broken their festers as aves of
Selim, to become the fubjeas of Napoleone. The
Eaitern empire has indeed long EXPIRED but it may
iuddeniy be- revived Aufria and Rulia" re-
piled my friend e" would fufer IT, aud England
would fooner ruin her navy and exhaua her treaures
than permit lueh revolutiou.-" So they have tri.
edit do retorted Ta!leyraAd TO bring about a
eounter-r-volu,iou in France. But though only a
moment is requiiite to erect the Randari of revolt,
ages often nec.Gary conquer and feze il, Tur-
key has long been ripe for a revolution Il wanted
only chiefs and directors. In time of war, ten thou
fand Frenchrnen landed in the Dardanele., would be
matters Of Conaantinople, and perhaps of the empire
In time OF peace, four hundr ~ bold md we'll inform.
ed MEN. may produce the fame eHea-Beli1es, with
fome temporary celion Of a couple of provinces to
each OF rhe Imperial courts, and with the temporary
prefent of an iand Great Britain every thing may
be et,led pro fabore and Jeeeb Basaasa-i< Be per-
uafto rrsnaf Cor9aufnop,e, Nisoleone does Pa
r That the miniaers made ufc of this language lean
take upon me to affirm; but whether purpo'ely or
unntentionally, whether tn give high opinion of
his plans, TO impofe upon his company will not
and cannot affert,
On the fsbjef Of this numerous fuite of Bruno
Marko is faid TO have obtained everal conference.
with Ialeyrand and feveral audiences of Buonaparte
in which approximations, as JUN energetic were
made: which, however, did alter the intent of
our government, increafe the favour of the Ruff
an ambanador the court Of S.. Cloud But it pro-
we'd that fchemes of fubverion are fupetaed and
that our agents of overthrow would be watched and
their manauyres infpeaed.
Count Italinfsi, the Ruiian an,bafa dor to the OF
tonan Porte, is of thoie no5lenen who unite rank
and information. talents and nodety honour and pa.
triotilm, wealth and liberality His perfona charac.
ter and his individual virtues, made him therefore
more eteenled and revered by the members of the
Divan, than the high Ration he occupied, and the
powerful prince he reprefcned made him feared or
retpeaed His zvayniasy had created preiudices a
gaina Bruno, which he found difhcult to remove.
To revenge himielf in his way. anibaiIador
inherited feveral paragraphs in the Moni.eur, and in
our other papers, in which I,anfle was libel
led, and his tranfacfions or views illuminated.
After his firt audience with the Grand Signior,
Bruno complained bitterly of no, having learned the
Turkiih language, and of being under the nrceiity
therefore OF ulng interpreters, whom he afcrihed
the renewed obtacles he encountered in every eo he
took, while his hotel continually furrounded with
ipie and the perfon of his fuite followed like crimi-
nails every where, when they went out. Even the
valuable preients he carried with him, amounting in
value to twenty-four millions Of hvres, (IOoOOOlj
were bu, ndirrently received, the accep.ors feem-
ing to fufpea the objea aud the honeAy of the do
nor.
In proportion our politics became enbroiled with
thofe of Rula, the pot of Bruno became of more i'm
portance; but the obtacles thrown in his way aug
Insnted Iaily, and he forced avuw that Rufia
and England had greater influence and more credit
than the French Republic and its chief When Buo-
naParte was proclaimed Emperor of the French,
Brune expetaed that his acknowledgement as fuch, at
Conttantuople, would be a mere matter of conrfe
and announced officially on the day he prefented a
copy OF his new credentials. Here again he was
disappointed, and therefore demanded his recall from
place, where there was no probability, under the
preient circumstances of either exciting the fubecis
to revolt, of deuding the prince into liibmion, or
iedacug miniiters, who in Pockeng his brides forgor
for what they were given.
1t was then that Buonaparte fent Joubert with !
letter, IN his own handwriting, to be delivered into
the hands OF the grand Sgnior hmfef This lou !
bert is foundGng and was, from his youth defined
and educated 10 be of the fectet agents of our
fecret diplomacy. You may already perhaps have
heard thar our government feleas yearly nu ,ber OF
young fonndlings, orphans, whom il caufes to BE-
brought up in foreign countries at its own ex- |
pence 70 learn the language the native. Of rhe
nation, where, when grown rp they are chiefly to be
employed. Joubert had been educated Under the in
fpetfion OF our coniuls at Smyrna ard when he af
fumes the dreis of Turk, from his accent and man
ners, even the muiulmep miRake MIN for one Of |
their creed, and of their country He was introduced
TO buonaparte 10 1877, and accompanied him to F.
gypt, where his ervces of the greatc utility
our army. He is a kind of under frcreiary in
the office Of our fecret diplomacy, aad member o.
our Legion Of Hononr--Should ever Jofeph Buona.
Parte be an Emperor Sultan of the Rai Jouber.
will certainly be his Grand Vizer. There is ano.
Their Josbert with whom you NUT nor confound
him. who was aifo kind Of Dragoman at CONTAIN. |
tinope lone years ago; and who is till fomewhere OH
j iecIet milton, in the EAT Indies.
Joubert's arrival at Conitantinople excited both
curioy amorg the people, and fufpicion among the
miniitry. There is example in the Ottoman hiRo-
ry OF chist OF Chrilian nation having written 10
the Sultan by private mehenger, or of his hghnefs
having eondeieended to receive the letter from the
bearer, and TO converfe with him. The Grand
Vizler demanded copy of BuoDaparts's letter, be-
tore an audience could be granted This was refufrd
by Joubert and as Bruno threatened to quit the ca
pital OF Turkey II any longer delay was experienced
the letter was delivered in garden near Contantno-
pie, where the Sultan Buonapartes agent as if
by chance, who feems lo all courage and prefence
OF mind, and did not utter four words to which os
aDfwer was given.
ihis impairment intrigue, and this novel diplomacy,
therefore totally mIfcsrried, to the great fiame and
greater disappointment Of the fchemers aud contryers
mutt, however, do ralleyrand the juRice to fay,
that ne never approved of it, and even fore,old the
lue 10 his intimate friends IL was entirely the within
and invention Of Buonaparte hnfelf, upon fuggef-
ton OF BRINE who was far from being 70 we'll ac-
qUanted with the fpirt aud policy of the Dvan, rs
he had been with the genius and plots of Jacobinifn
Not rebuked, however, Jopbert was ordered away
ieeond time with eeond letter. and after an abfence
OF four months returned again he went lefs fats
he'd with the ieeond than with his frff Journey
In theie trips TO Turkey, he had always for ira
Yelling companions fome Of our em;Haries to Au-
itria HuBgaria, and in particular 10 Seroia where