The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1806-06-06
EFrom the Moniteur.1
FRENCH EXPOSE.

PARIS, ADril is" ENGLAND has decI,,e3
war ayaint PruGia. Al the Kings G,ips have
received orders to attack the PruGian venels, and
letters OF marque have been iiued to privatee,s.,
Is this a Juh proceeding on the part of the Eng
lith government |? Is it a polite one (, IheGe
are auctions which it is not orr intention TO ex-
anime. IT is fuHicient for us TO difcover, that
this mealure is advantageous to France; that
one OF Its hrtt consequences will be TO fhut the
North againft the Englifh trade and there is
httle wiidom on the part OF England, in acting
10 towards a comfortable power, whom ihe for
ces into a nearer connexion with France and
whom The determines to remove from her conn
ellis the agents and the influence of England.
France and PrnHa united can, if tbey tZea6. B1t
The Sound. IF England had learned how to ac-
commodate her policy to circumstances, ihe
would have maintained her party and her crea-
lures IN credit in Berlin. She would have ren-
dered the blockade of the ports of the North
ieis fevere. She would have, in fact, prelsryed
the advantage which fhe derives from the Pruf-
Han flag (; for has o~ccaion for inter-
mediate agents between the merchant and the
~coniumer. But, however, it may be, we can
not conhder this new political event but as tend
ing to accelerate peace for, aiIuredly Prufia
is neither a weak enemy for England, nor a weak
ally for France. We know that there are per-
Ions who accutom themfelves with difficulty TO
the idea of thefe connections between France
and Prufiia, but they do not fee that the hefta-
ton which was frit manifeft by the latter Cabi-
net, depended upon temporary circumstances
which have neither altered the principles of the
King, nor thofe of his mott faithful and inteIIi-
gent iervants. If there was any thing which
gave offence to France, it could only he imput-
ed to a frantic miniiter. who was fold to Eng
land, who was formerly in her fervice, and who
quilted 1T for reaions which the dignity of this
paper will not allow us to mention. II, per-
haps, may be tuppofed, that England, in the
new circumstances in which fhe finds herfelf
with regard to PruAia, had no medium left her.
and could not avoid declaring war. But the
occupation OF Hanover, by PruGia, was the on
ly means of preventing the French from return
ing to that country and if they had returned,
the freedom of the Englifh trade would not have
been the greater. 1t may be faid, that Prufia
has not only fhut the ports of the EIbe and the
Wefer, as they were by the French, but that
the occupation was made in the name Of the
King, and in the fame form as if he had deter
mined to annex this fine province to his va(t
monarchy. However, there is nothing, in Ef,
10 br0ze tint this 1uaJ tie Intention Of PruEo
and it is very pohibIe, that the cefion of Cleves,
Anfpach, and Neufchatel, may relate to fome
other principles of arrangements, hnce the POI
p%ulation of all the three does not equal a 6th of
the population of Hanover. SOM difcunIon,
therefore, might nave taken place between Prui-
fla aud England and the wifet courfe would
have been, not to have began By declaring war.
Supporting occupation to b equal ~ final incor.
poration, England, inftead of avoiding that con-
fequence, makes it more certain, for whatever
loiies the PruHian trade may experience during
or three years war, ihe will be Unidentified
by the more Considerable lois which the trade
of the enemy will iutain (; and England fubmits
to thefe Ioles for an interef which the Engligl
nation has always dilowDeJ. 1t has always con,
idered Hanover as a foreign property, foley be-
longing to the Houfe of Brunfwick. How hap
pens it that it has 70 fuddenIy changed its prin-
cipies in this refpe6t.
" 1t appears that M. acknowledgements, the
Grand Penfonary of Holland, has entirely loft
hfs fight. Who is to be his ~fucceTor What
effect will be produced by this change in the
magiftracy? Thefe q%ueaions excite the atteu-
ton and anxiety of all the Dutch, who are fu-
cerely attached to the country. It is well
known, that the Emperor never gave any poii-
fanetion to the late changes in the Conaitu-
Of that country and that he faid, on that
occaion, that the PROPERTY and liberty of Ma
tions could only be ahured by two modes of
Government-either a tempered and contitutj-
onal Monarchy, or Republic confituted ac-
to the theory of liberty, and which
Mould he the true organ Of the public will
nations cannot, with fafety, leave to the poo
pie the choice of their Representatives E; and when
a nation has to appreheud the effects OF atIeia-