Berkeley and Jefferson intelligencer. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va.) 1802-1810, 1806-06-20


perior in the science of their officers, IN
the number and manage inent Of their can
non and in theircavalry. They will con.
time therefore to beat their enemies as
the Romans did. Even the Grecian
phalanx, supposed to be the perfection
Of military science and absolutely irwin
chile, was found unequal to the contest
with the Roman legion.
The Frenchvictories have happened
in such series that we cannot RATIONAL
" suppose them to happen BY chance.
They are the inevitable results Of supe-
rior numbers and Of the French military
advantages we have mentioned. They
would happen again, Il their detected,
beaten adyersaries could rise again to re-
Sistance. -
From these positions this melancholy
influence is to be drawn; the continent
tai enemies Of France are totally incapa-
bic of resisting her in the 6eld-She has
taken PERMANENT ascendant over them.
Austria humbled and beaten, Is in no
condition to learn the eonauerinS art Of
her masters. Prussia, without risking
the combat, has fallen PROSTATE with her
Useful arms in her hands. Russia, like
the ancient Parthia, is invincible but in
significant to the system Of enslaved Eu-
rope.
If the French armies could pass the
channel, there seems to be nj sort ofIea-
son TO hope that Great Britain could re-
tist them. The regular army IS spread
over all the Empire, and if It were all
collected Il would be a handful against
the French hosts, and surely no military
man would place the smallest dependence
On the volunteers of England.
- II Is one of the inveterate, perhaps IN.
durable evils Of Mr.. Pitts administrati-
on, and the greatest blemish in the fame
Of that truly illustrious statesman, that
instead of forming an efficient army of
two hundred thousand men, who could
be sent wherever they might be wanted,
he was either the schemer or the dupe Of
the useless, expensive, and, ifthe French
land in England, fatal project of vOlun-
teers. BY equiPPing all volunteers, he
not only bad no army, but it was out of
the power Of England to have one. The
men were all engaged in acting the come
.dy Of an army, and the finances were ex.
haus.ed in getting up the decorations Of
the piece.
The sole protection Of Great Britain
thrui is her navy. The writer has been
brought very late, and 10th to believe,
that the military resistance of the cont.
mental nations Of Europe would be inef-
fectual. Events have at last convinced
him that the French actually possess q
greater and more decisive military supe-
riority over those nations than the old
Romansdid over the forces of Anti
ochus, Mithrida.es and Jugurtha; and
especially over the arthageniaps, Greeks
and Macedonians. Nothing is,wan,ina
to the solid establishment ofa new uni
versal empire by France, that should
spread as far last as long, and press as
heavily on the necks of the abjeet nations
as that Of Rome, but the possession of
the British navy. France whenever she
can get access to her enemy Is already ir-
resistible.. If Mr.. Gregg would give
her that navy, he would impart kind
of obiquity to her power. The soft
winds that wake the spring in the remot.
est regions of the globe, would watt
there the ministers Of French rapacity to
blast il. France would enjoy every thing
that Rome wanted to make the plumber.
= ed world her province.
. Are these ideas chimerical, or are the
differences drawn beyond the admitted
truth Of the pre- misses Is India more ca.
Pa5le Of resisting France than an English
merchant company its present sovereign!
. Spain and Italy are provinces already.
Greece. Egypt, the Turkish empire,
and all the shores of the Mediterranean
were once the patrimony Of the Caesars,
and for many hundred years slept sound
y h their chains, till they were radely
walked BY. lhe Goths, the Heruli, the