The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1806-12-02
Exfras from tie EdinJmgb Reviezv.

| Effra15 from tie Edi1JNrgb Rez,iezv.
| On his return from America, whittier he had emf
grated during the ir Rage OF the Freu On revolution
NJ laieyTand leems to have been arongly impreiled
with TIE iituaron in which lie found lis countrynen
ater the violence of the Tacobin times had Gblded
Their minds were Till in unfettled and turbulent
re and there eemed great realon to dread both the
commoons Of hoie reels fprits whom the times had
engendered and the effects of that apathy which in
the great mas of the people generally uccesds 20 ex-
! tr1'' '.:@;:- vi tIvie topics however
is but nightly touched upon and, without oonidering
the fatal consequences Of the operation ofee two
evils, or rejecting the impoiibiy of preventing
few tattions men from placing their leader upon
throne which the general indifference might prepare
and the universal dread of new revolutions might for
tity, alleyrand (at the date of his work only fpe
euiatve inqurer) directs his regards entirely to the
means OF providing fate for hofe unquiet pi-
rits whom the revolution had left behind II. The
Rate of the country in which he had lately refded
truck HIM as iomewhat analogous that of his own
He refetted on the iinguar cafe with which all the
violence o revolutionary civil had there fubf-
ded and was naturally led to conclude that induNrv
is the grand patitcator, both of individuals and of ma
tons; the bet coniervator both of domenc tranuui-
ity and focal peace. The impoiibility Of adopting
direct neainres for promoting new exertion of labour
among the people at home, was too obvousto require
any expedition and the oblervations which he had
made upon the fabric Of iocety in the infant fete-
n'ents O. the American continent, iuCgeied as the
belt means of accomplishing the great end in view
recurrence to the colonial fyfeem, then alnon over
thrown by the crimes and oies of the revolutionary
government,
"Thc example of America does not bear
10 " ttr'king an analogy" to the fate Of
France as NJ. TalleyraHd has trrGfbbolcd.
lie Iabcurs to thew, qoby the "turhnlenCe and
agitation" of the American character ipouId fo
UsI act A. u
on. But the fast is, that this turbulence and
agitation never did exit in the great degree
which he has repreftnted, or in which thew
are eNbibifed in France. The difference Of
theie efeiTJ is to be found in the difference of
theie rcUOItioH5 themfelves. The American
war was not conteit among the citizens them
ieiveS but between mother country and her
e'Io"ie5. 1t was in reality not eivH war, bot
war with a .torign and difant nation. In
ITS progreis it neceiiAriIy partook in flight de-
gree OF the consequences of civil war: il ne
ceGariIy divided the coloni1s fbemEi7,.t into
parties; but that divfon was not Of itT-lf cal
culated to excite much fufpicion or perfrcuti
on the party OF tories who actually Joined or
were lUipected OF favouring the eneDy, being
10 uncomfortable and the great mafs of the
people being united in the fupDort Of their
Right2. This fortunate feature Of our revolu.
ton aroic from the very ftrueture OF our Cocie
". ne people themieves were not divided
into fri-dtcycd and H1bripHeged orders. There
was no Ting 4; there were no MOBILES there was
r" highly privileged PrieGhood to create a
ditinct felt of interefs in the focal body and
to attach numerous train Of adherens TO the
eitabh'hcd order Of things. The revolution did
not therefore materially alter the exining focialI
relations OF the inhabitants il banilhed but
few individuals from the faug, lucrative Of
tces which the old government conferred up-
on them; few therefore iH!eysfed tbe,7EI7,.
IN Importing he Brtiih government, and few
were /Rlbe6ied BE- ofberJ Of 4 f,crct a,tachmcrt|
to its ex'itencc. Disappointed igfersR on the
one hand, and envenomed Gllbi-i9n on the o.
Their, did not therefore dre1 The paiiions Of the
inhabitants againt each other and except a
few r1eu who had held places under the crown.
a tew who were itiil attached to the iotereas oil
Their Old native country, and few who ON
principle oppoleG our feplratou, our country
men directed their whole force againa the
common enemy. After that enemy had retir.
ed, mon OF the turbulence and agitation of
our character, of themieives, fubided. But this
p'c,urcisin direct contraG With the French revo-
luton, What was tie focety OF France but
compound Of privileged and unprivileced or
ders! What WAS their unfortunate revolution.
tut a NruEs'c between principle and pri.
w'sge between fuch were nterened in
maintaining The old order Of things, and thof,
who were as earnetly bent upon its deitrutton?
4 contet in which one part of France WAS ar.
rayed agalnf another part of France a con-
tcit. ~ which 30 furhul~1ce and AGITATION of