Alexandria daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1803-1808, 1806-10-07


troops are taking positions for the purpose
of preventing all opposition TO the execu-
ton of the newplan. The affair OF Gait ia
no has afforded Bonaparte pretence Tor
keepiing his troops in Germany and tor
making fresh claims upon the emperor OF
Germany. This is Dis system-he Will
acs aim an open blow at present at Austria,
bnt by sharrassiug her with repeated de-
raaade aud claims, he will produce advan'
stsges as. great 4. he could derive from open
war. Tie withholding Gastaro from him,
though he has exopersscd Austria from all
biatae, has furni 5aed hisa with pretext
for dems-1ing large sum pf noaey Tor
the sddi.ionsl ,expencs 70 which che keep
iry his troops IN Germany has pus hlra.
TIE sum demanded is TIVE Y.foaf al2li-
ons ~. Gam which the AEagrisn srcaaury is
nnabie z, present to discharge. French
trocps 1scI .fere ere l,rcce~dn to take
q session Of Salszbargh, az3 the import
a1e Poae of fh- lnnyeyshiels and .aus the,
poems and pei r. of AUSTRIA will be still
further cra,aped, and she Kill be less able
to opgoss IDS essabi;Aar.ent of the Rhe.t
Dish confed4racy.
!. large aedy Of French troops aeeus
also to be marching to the frontiers of
Hesseand S4Zopy, with view of over.
awiAg both shose powers. And Prussia !!
Bonapsfse pays IS lite attention to her
iaclinat.oes and iasstestss as to the saeaness
prnce in lae empire. This act Of confe'.
dera,ion must be done in contempt aud,
defiance of the cabinet OF Berlin, for it is
Impossible to suppose that the Prussian
government can visw Tie establishment of
SUCH coafedeY.cy, with any other than
sentil'euts Of the deepest disspProba'lon
and 2iaFn>. A new state is suddenly IN
iradsd into the empire more powerfal than
neEself the princes whom she could 10.
auence or command, will not only be en-
tltely Withdrawn from her, but if Hesse &
S4EoHy be, AZ We have no doubt they will
be, sorccd 10 joir, the RhruisEl confed,raey,
ti.ase VIVA were formerly the fr,aest allies
assd frirnds of the Prussian power viii be
converted into spies upon her conduct, aud
insU engines Tor controlling and expressing
hei whenever the supreme head of The
Rhenish confedcrscy shall think 6,. Let
anyone look at the POSITION Of Saxony &
hesse. and OF that new dukedom which has
been given to Murat, and ne Will rnaledi.
a.ely see how Prussia Wlll be henmed in
and surrounded almost on every side. Oh,
versatility of human affairs! Prussls, who
has followed with undertaking eonstaRcy
enc line of policy. the policy of reduciog
the power Of Austria, whose eye has been
always directed TO the acquisition of one
object, who has fa,tered herself that she
could make France her instrument FIR
Wrestling the imperial crsWn from stle house
of Aass.ia, aud Tor placing herself upon
the shrone Of the Caesars Prussia has IN.
deed succeeded 10 REDUCING the power Of
Austria, but she has succeeded also IN re-
ducing herself to situation of more than
equal humiliation. she could have pre-
vented these fatal effects--shc held at one
time in her hands the fate of { urcpe and
the world. What fatal irtaiuation, or what
foul tre&aon epfe4 bird her arms when she
could have struck decisive blow, and et-
feeted on the. plains Of aioravia the deli.
verance of Europe Such an opportunity
of combining her own glory with the sal.
walton OF the world, OF carrying her oWn
greatness to the highest pi.ch, and of en;i"
Ting herself to the gratitude of mankind,
vas never afforded to any nation. She ne.
elected it, aud negotiated when she should
have fought; sent az Ambassador when she
should have sent an army, and thus assis CO
with her own hands in forging fe,ters for.
the continent. What would have been the
conduct of the Great Fredcdck, under tie
same circumstances? But these are unavail.
ing and affecting recoliec,ious. Gonaparte
has owed his presen, elevation less TO his
own vigor and genius, than to the feeble.
ness aud imbecility of those by whom he