The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1806-08-15
PARIS, June 10.

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| The Moniteur, of the stn, contains the fol-
lowing note upon that pafIage of MIR. Fox's
ipeech OF May 80, wherein he exprsfied his OPT
| mon, that fhoud favorable opportunity occur,
! ne would not ohjea to rifls part Of our militia
| ry force in recovering for Europe what had been
lon in the lah ca,npaign:
| This paffage in Mr. Fox's fpcech is really
extraordinary. What does he mean BY acting
offeniively on the continent What il there on
the continent! Who are the allies of England
in the war Is it PruIiia! But if we rightly
read the declaration of England, fhc has ordered
the Pruiiian veflels to be detained and in that
we cannot recognize liquidation of alliance
Is 1t Auitria? But before we can fuppofc Mr..
Fox thinks 10, mutt fet him down ignorant
OF the treaty of Prefburg. Is it Rutfia. We
mus ato fupPofe Mr. Fox does not know that
which is known to alnoft all Europe at this
day. Let him be well perfuaded that the court
OF st. Petersburg does not know what ihe.her-
| telt has to fear from England on the feas and in
the eaft and that fhe is ignorant that the af-
front which has been offered to her anbaliator
IN China, has been produced by the iutrigues
otthe Engiiih factory. We mutt fuppofe, in
Facf, that Nj. Fox is ignorant that the mouths
OF the Cataro have been reltored to Auftria, that
Brannau is in coufequence reftored to the en,per
or OF Germany, and that the grand army, in the
tourie OF few weeks, will be united at Paris
30 i,tlo ,Ti'rt'' ,t.,,i1Ji ~ take pi1ce
in the month Of Nav. II is true that the in
treues OF the Englih retarded theie fetes three
months; but it would be eafy for us TO prove.
that the power OF France has been increared bv
the delay, and that her fyftem has been confo
iidated. II is thus that the efforts of England
always turn TO our advantage.
+" 1t The will only make peace when fhe fball
have recovered all that fl1e has loR on the con-
tnent, which probably means when .he iha
| have effected the re-efabliihmeut of the fad
tto'der in Holland, of Auftrian Belgium, of the
oogee at VeaIce and Genoa, and OF her victim
at Naples, THE declaration is by no means CON-
ioliug for the creditors of the Engiiih debt. Mr.
Wirdhari hiniclf, excellent an officer as he is.
kno';s thai II viii require twenty campaigns to
iucceed to this extent; and the re-eitablihment
or the princes who owe their fall to nothing ellie
than England, does not offer very encoursy-
ing profpe& to the new allies who would en-
gage in this fourth coalition.
- Bat II we are to believe thefe .orators, their
new military fyitem is to change every thing.
What nonicnte. 81 no period have armies
purely Englifh ever rendered themfeves con-
| ipicuous on the continent. Thus the troons of
the Black Prince were competed of Brstons.
Gaicons, Normans. Charles the Bald, the
dukes OF Burguncy, the great feudatores who
betrayed their prince, produced the fuccefs of
England. Thus the armies of Marlborough
conGfea Of Dutch and cermans, :::;a, ;,;;;,,;vs
fmall number of Rngliih. It is true that the
duke of York commanded an army wholly Eng
mn, when he appeared in olr days before Dun
kirk but we know the refult OF the battle of
Hondfc cote. 1t is true that this fame nrince
commanded An army entirely Englilh, when he
landed in Holland but the retreat of Alkmaar
will not be compared with that of the Ten
Thouiand. IT is true that more latey aiEo and
IN the lait war, the Engliih landed in Naples,
but they only appeared there TO oyerturn the
throne; and after having thus deftroyed il, thew
did not honour its fall with drop of their
blood.
They have afo appeared in Hanover; but
here their triumphs were limited to the power
of re-embarkng-an advantage which they
owed foley TO the king Of Pruifia, that prince
whom they treat at this moment with 70 little
confederation.
" Shon'd 1t even be true, that England had
confderable armies in the time of Louis XIV.
and XIV. we are to draw no conciuiion from
that refpe6fng her actual military powers. She
had not then the great extent of po1c0ions
which now belong TO her. Were her arrow as
great as it has been, il would be annhilated By
the establishments which thefc detachments re-
quire. Thus, The is obliged to keep forty re-
giments in the Eaf-Indes, ten in the Wen. two
at Malta, two at Gibraltar, SC. A nation of
nine millions of people, which before it can
have man for It's own defence, is Obliged TO
fend fifty regiments to the Ear & Wet-Indies,
| TO oppoie the entire Indian population, the ne
groes, the Canadians, and the yellow fever, can
never be military power in Europe and il is
in thefe circumstances that England has loft
twenty five thoufand Hanoverian foldiers-a
lois which The will never repair. The Englifl
are laughing at the princes of Europe, when
they fuppofe that governments are weak enough
NOT ff, rr,1la At,xF, II. ..I. -.
that nation, which has occalioH for fifty re-
giments to defend its colonies, and an hundred
and fifty thouland failcrs to protet1 its com
merce and maintain its fquadrons, incapable of
any effort in continental affairs. Befide., thefe
hne ipeeches of England, when fiie wnies 10 fi.-
duce cabinets and form coalitions, have never
been luitihcd by facts. Let us recall TO our re-
collection what minjaers did at the time of the
ir!t coalition: Infead of employing tbefe
means, which appear 70 powerful and formi- |
dable IN the mouth Of their fpeakers, on their |
emiilaries, the Engifh attacked st. Domingo. |
Porto-Rico, Guadalupe, Martinique, and feem- |
ed to have no other anxiety than to plumber |
the commerce Of their friends, as well as their |
enemies. In the fccond coalition they went In |
Egypt. IN place Of fighting with their allies on |
the plains of st. Domingo. In the third, they |
went to the Cape of 0ood-Hope, inftead of !
throwing ten thoufand men more into the king
dom OF Naples; and when England acted thus,
no one can fay that fbe acted IN, for me could
not act otherwife. As fhe is obliged to pay con-
hderable fums to her allies, The has no Other