The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1806-01-02
AFFAIRS OF EUROPE.
(Coafinued. J

Bonaparte has afked. "for what am fight
ing with The Emperor of Germany - We pulh
his quetion Gill further and demand, -" for what
are any OF thefe powers contending? WHY ARE.
70 MANY thouftnds hcri6ced on the plains o.
Suabia (? Why has the blood CT 10000 men
been lately mingled with the waters of the At
lantic ;" Thofe who delightto trace every great
event to the mott uncomfortable caufes, wil
here find an ample theme to prrach Upon. Let
them afcend TO the firt elements of the prefer,
war, they viii find little rocky iilan,s in the
Mediterranean terminating the Vita" Had
1t not been for the contclt about who fhorld
occupy NJ lta. the treaty of Amiens might fill
have remained in force the conrts of London
and Paris might fill have obferved the civil
ties of fufpcous and harmlefs n;ercourfe
Anftria might yet have repofed under her b1r-
rem hg-tree; and the Cufl)ao ky of Ruilia have
been cooped up within their barbarous haunts.
But no: thofe philosophers are mfakeu who
attribute any great event to tri1ing caufts-
The magnitude of the caue, mutt be in all ca
fes commemorate with the magnitude OF the
effect and though trifling circumstance may
frt bring the ferries of caufes into operation, yet
they were ficcefivelv ready to ali.il in the Ca
taltrophe. 1t was not the difpute about Malta
then, alone, which led 70 the contef 1t was
the national jcaonfy of England and France
the ufurpatious of the Britiih OH the fca it
was the a ambition of Bonaparte the anncxltion
OF Germany, AID the humiIiation of Holland |;
and nov il is The gold and fIbidy of England,
ard the fpirit of aggrandifement of Rufiia and
OF Prutiia, that mott all up the lii of the caufes
of The war.
The queftion about the propriety Of the pre-.
fent coali,io" in Europe; is too full of per-
plexities to admit of an eafy elucidation. Not
10, are fo:nr of the consequences, which it has
already unfolded.
1t England has ever expended her flbfdy
money 20 effrSt, it was in hiring the ,nercepary
troops of Germany and RnfIia. ' On this day."
faid Napoleon to his troops, on the evening be.
fore the ftirrender of Vim, sand but for the
army now in front OF you, we Gould have been
in London; we fhould have avenged ourfryes
for Fix centuries of infuts and reftored the free
dom OF the f.as." 1t was the gold OF England,
which led the armies OF Bonaparte from the
co?f, into the kesrt of Suaha.
IF ever there was time, when the faults of
the Gtrmanic confederacy were exhibited it
is during the preient war. In our own coun-
try, the federal head directs our refources. not
by requiiitions of the ft1.cs, but by direct iu
ridi zion over our individual citizens. But in
Germany, the weakness of the confederacy is
(fll more odinuny difplaved- The head Of ;he
empire acts, not upon the Individuals, but Inv
requi.i'ions, of the independent principalities
tNOlc IctIu'U'lOUS dTc never dufnOrItsn, eycPDt
by an edia of the diet of Ratiil,on, which has
even in its own bofom the agents and the votes
Of fome Of the othrr powers of Europe. VIVA,
has been the cnnfrquence during the preCsnt
war The whole rcfolrces for carving on the
war are drawn from the houfe of AuHria, Ger.
many is divided within itfslf, and the Electors
Of Bivar'a, Of Baden, and Of Wurtemburg, are
ranged on the lihe Of the French.
But there ate other consequences, to arife
from the war, which are beyond the keE of The
mott fasscious prophet. The lafl accounts lief
Bonaparte covered with victory. There is ne
doubt that in the French Bulletins, a great de,
is added TO heir fuceeIes, and great deal fub
traced from their iofies for WI >, for inAanrr
can believe that with The bare lofs of I 500 men
! Boraparte could fuccecd in routing, killing ant
dhperfne an army of 100000! Sill "a MOI
to BIZ dif?uied, that he har gained many Con,
advantages; that ne has made general MACK
and the ben part of his army, prifcuers OF war
that Uim is taken; and trait Snabia and Baysri.
are comrleailv within his lines. The,I,a AZ
Sc9urts reprcfent him, p.unging into a ne /,