The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1806-02-25

penfe they are to expect: Here, there arc mil
lions of accufations againft them, and the moR
humiliating apprehenfons. On the one hand,
general Mack, who until the prefent moment
has been commander for no other purpofes
than to furrender hs fword to our enemies, de-
clared to the emperor Of the French in Ulm.
that Ayeria did nor sri6 for suar, but had been
driven into il by ,Rnliia. To which this foreign
monarch made this energetic and forcble re-
ply-7ben .yoa are no longer Independent
pozrer. Huhgarians which among you do not
feel emotions of indignation at hearing thefe
words;
Who does not fee that the affertion of this
general, the favourite of the miniftry, reflected
thereby on the miniRry itfelf, and implicated the
whole nation in a charge Of the mott fhameful
neglect and inattention. Such ihameful con-
felton, could never have entered into the minds
of our princes, and fill lefs would have come
from the mouth of the brave archduke Ferdi-
nand, who in all his great procedures, infpred
! fnch confidence in his armies and commanded
refpe6 from the enemy. He would never
have facrificed the honour of his nation by ca
pitulation fore battle was fought, and de-
Iivering addreifes void of all dignity. Neither
he, nor the archduke Charles, who fupports
the imperial dignity with 70 much glory, nor
any of the princes of that houfe, would ever
fufped that Auftria, when fhe became party
IN the war, yielded to the meafures of her allies.
But general Mack was in the fecrets of the
court, the confident aud leader of the miniftry,
and had power even to direct the archdukes.
He il is that accufes them Of want of 6rmnefs,
hitherto unknown among characters who
/ have administered the affairs of eur govern
ment.
On the other fde, Germany confiders our
mniiters no more than agents and pen6oners
of England. The fums they have received are
publicly known, and the perfons are named
who have iened the receipts. There is TO-
reign family who, without any legal title and
without having rendered any military fervices
\ to us, have in fhort time acquired an immenfe
4 fortune, as well as credit to an immenfe extent
But in this, we eafly recognize the influence al
the old director of the Aufrian diplomacy,
Whole negotiations were never of advantage tc
any body but hinfelf, and who only fuffered a,
lait a nominal punifhment, for having 70 fhame.
fully fold the honour of his country to the En-.
glib, with the remains of our army, and the
treaty fworn to and fgned at Campo Formio-
May prefume tofay all MIR. Pitt BOATS that
he has all the Aufrian and RuiIian minifters at
his bid as one of his protectors vaunted that
he had the whole Britifh parliament at his pur.
chafe. The price of Hungarian grenadier is
as much fixed in London as that of negro from
the coat of Africa. 1t is there difcufIed, whc-
ther the falaries of the mercenary titled factors,
who are exhaufting Auifria for the benefit OF
England, are not higher, confiderine the reful,
of their fervices, than thofe of the Eaft. India
company's agents, to the wages of their tyran.
ny over the wretched people of Indoft an
And thus it is, that the characters who rule o.
yer us, in the name of one of the beft of foye
reigns, are in ituation between fuGpcion Of
unexampled villainy, and the mott l,amefu
corruption.