The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1806-05-23

felves to fecond all his efforts.
The army has made feveral campaigns in
three months. France reckons thefe campaigns
| ny their fucceffes, the emperor calculates them
for the recompenccs which he bellows the he
roes who return with him return with new no.
nors thofe who have devoted themfclves to
their country, have left to him the intereRs of
their families, and the care of their memory !;
he has been fatis6ed; but the mott worthy re-
compence of the French folder, is the regard
OF his emperor it is the glory of the empire
enhanced by his courage; thefe form the tranf-
ports of the whole of the French people. with
which they will receive the folder upon his re-
| turn. The emperor delires they may come and
enjoy them under his own INFECTION and that
triumphal fete may be given by the capital
to the army-a fpeetacle worthy Of the great e.
vents which will then be celebrated where all
the eclat of the arts, all the pomp of ceremony,
AL the characters of glory, and all the accents
OF public JOY, ihall encircle the grand army, re-
united under its worthy Chief and then fhall
form brilliant -retinue to tbefe phalanxes of
! heroes.
| Such are the principal events of the pre-
ced'ng year, which have but barely mentioned.
| Inc esPof next proceeds to deicrihe the va
rious improvements in the interior admntra-
ton, and the immenfe national works which
are IN contemplation
boldyto the nation, that its fafcty reouires that
a numerous army ihould be kept on foot that
f1eets thould be cenfruaed, and feamen RATED
10 project our commerce, our colonies and
| our rights. Theie circumstances require pro.
ductve finances. The emperor thinks eight
hundred millions will be neceffary in time of war.
upwards of fix hundred during peace as the
rate OF country fhould never be left to the
mercy OF an obfcure plot, nor any intrigue of
CABINET; but in all cafes, it fhould be ready to
make head againft any form and filence the
jealous clamours of its enemies
1t is the will of the emperor, as we'll as the
dei1re or the whole nation, to augment our ma
Wy; and, as we loft fome fllips in the late en-
| gagemeDt, 1t is new motive for redoubling
our ardour. A great number of our cruzcrs
are occurring the fea, and have attacked the
commerce of our enemies in the remoteR regi
ons. Our whole Hotilla fhall f1ortly revive by
the return to its banks of the conquerors of Ulm
and Auiterlit5. But all thofc warlike meafures
mail be nothing more than meafures to peace,
and even of a moderate peace, in which we
fhal fecure the pledge of not being furprized
and ieized upon under the mott vain and peril
oiouS pretences it were otherwife better to
endure fill the miferies of war, rather than
make peace which would expofe us TO new
loiies, and afford frefh aliment to the mad faith
and avarice of our enemies.
The union of Piedmont with France. two
years ago, rendered neceffary the union of &C.
noa, which is a part oft. That of the civ of
Genoa, tor long time occupied by the French.
and and defended by them during the fecond Goa
Ht'on is a contequeDce of the will and indepen
dence Oft the republic. This union does not in
create our ftrength upon the continent Eng.
land alone had the right to complain of it nor
| was IL the caute of the war iut terminated
me UNION took place in June, and in the month
or April the cabinet of Peterfburgh had been
ieduced by the intrigues of England. The A.
placement OF France, the difpoi1rfing her of her
provinces, was decreed. It was not only the
kingdom OF Italy, Of which they would deprive
us; Piedmont, Savoy, the Duchy of Nice. even
! Lyons, and the United departments. Holland
Brgia, the fortreiles on the Meufe, thefe were
the conquelts prefcribed to the confederates bv
England and to this they certainly would not
nave confined themfelves, if they had triumph
cd over the perseverance of the French people.
England attaches no great intereft to Italy.
Belgium is the true ground of the hatred which
The bears to us.
. But Holland, the hundred and ten DEPART
ments OF France, the kingdom of Italy, Venice
Daimatla, Iitna, and Naples, are now under
the protection of the imperial eagle and III
union of thofe ftates only affords us the mean
OF being formidable on our frontiers and COAT
:" Bavaria, Wirtemberg, Baden, and feyeral
or o. the principal powers of Germany, are our al
lies.
"Span, hrm-to its purpofes, has manife(ted
iaudaole diligence, valour and fidelity.
" In former wars, England and Rnffia had
promled the emperor of Auitria an augmenta-
non IN Italy, to draw him into war; but that
monarch better Informed of the ftate of things.
mas acknowledged the danger of being in ALI
ance with England, and leaves all the affairs of
Italy to France-having merely gained re-pof-
ieifon OF his ttates through the moderation and
magnanlmity of the emperor, he knows that he
can only find in the friendllip of France, the
rePoie and happiness which his fubiects want
more than any other nation of Europe.
The emperor of RulIia, unable to do rs
harm, Will feel, that the true policy of his coun
try is concentrated in the friendfhip of France:
every thing, as well as his genuine glory, is con-
center IN the liberation of the feas. and in
the retufal to recognize principles which are de-
t1mentdl even to the finalleft ftates, and which
has led them to iuftain commandments & block.
AIDES, rather than fHbmt to acknowledge thofe
principles.
The emperor, after each victory. offered
peace to Auftria. He ALTO offered il to Ma
pies before the war peace violated MS foop as
fworn, and which has produced the downfall of
that houie. He alto offers it 10 England. He
does not mean to force that power to recede
from the prodigious changes made in India, as
lIftle as Auitria and Rufia from the partition of
Poland; but he has right TO refufe 10 recede
from the alliances and unions which form the