The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1806-04-29

kUSStA-feems not to have yet adopted that
tIrm and confident policy, by which her future
relations are to he regulated. According to one
accouns from St. Peterborough of January 90,
The was returning to the fate in which ffle ex-
iited before the war; her armies -retrea.ing
from Germany, and approaching the Ruf1ian
frontiers, tn occupy their former garrifons.
But another account reprefents Alexander as
" apprehenfive that an attack may be made
even upon his own territory. Redoubts are
Calling up at Warfaw, and other arrangements
ordered To guard againa any attempt of this
kind" One thing. however, feems to be in
ditPutably true that Rufiia has not vet made
peace with France, nor made any explanation
about the late violation of her neutrality. Ano-
Their thing feems to be probable, that RufIia
Will decline a fourth coalition that fhe will
not mix again in the wars of Europe, until Auf.
trIa or France fhall make an invalion upon
turkey, and call her out to the defence of her
ally.
GREAT.BRITAIN-ha not vet concluded
peace with France, though it was rumoured
that The had ftept forward with fome propofi-
tons for a negotiation. An article from Am
iterdam OF February IL, particularly fa.es
that there was ca rumour (there) that flag
OF truce had been fent from England to France,
to demaEd paf1ports from the French govern
ment for negociatiors, for general peace F.
ven from Paris, we have had letters exprefff.
ing, that hnce the death of Mr.. Pitt new
hopes have been INDUCED upon that ground"
Should Bonaparte declare war againR Pruffia,
he will then probably be much more anxious
to conclude treaty with G.. Britain. The
converfe of the propolition is perhaps not lefs
true: that fhoHld he meet with infuperable
difficulties in the way of an advantageous ac-
commodation with G. Britain, he will he pIeaf-
ed with an opportunity Of attacking Prufiia, as
pretext for declining the dangerous entcrprife
OF an inva6on of England. A war with Pruffia
will therefore fmoothe the way for peace
with England: but whether there is peace or
war with England, war with Pruffia is almoft
equally probable. it is proper
to notice, that in confederation of the en-
barrafed fate of the foreign relations of
Great Britain, the Roman Catholics of Dublin,
and the friends of Parliamentary Reform in
London, have determined to fnfpend their ap-
plication to government for the redrefs of their
local grievance5. A fchifm can no longer arife
In the miniitry, on thefe important auctions of
internal policy. The Engifh miniitry will,
therefore, till profit by the feryices of Mr. Fox
in the cabinet; and Mr.. Fox may at the fame
time preferve his principles and his place.
PRUSSIA-the fecond ftrongef power in
the welt of Europe that power, which had
lately in its hands the fate of the third coaliti-
on, and which might have put ffop to the
arms of France is, however, the great nation,
TO which the late intelligence from Europe
principally relates. Will there be war be-
tween France and Pruflia? TwS months ago
this was the great queftion at iffue between the
ftatefmen of Europe before this, it has proba-
bly, been determined bv experience itfelf {; but
we are in the fame degree of obfcuri-
ty in which the tatefnen of Europe were
then. Thofe who advocated the probabili-
ty Of war, and we think they resfoned
with the greatet force, declared, that Sc not
withdrawing the encomiums which Bona
parte had been pleafed to lavift in his Bull
letins upon the policy of Pruf1ia, the Demon
FrationJ made by that power at the time he had
pulled into Moravia, were well calculated to
excite both his fufpicions and his fears that
were it not for the battle of Aufterlitz and the
extraordinary events which followed i'm the
Armiitice, and the peace of Prefburg, there is
every ground for fuppoiing, that Pruffia, would
have at that time, declared war againh France
that it was the unexpected termination of hof
tities which neceharily exatted the greateft
circumfpeetion on the part of PrufIia that it
was fortunate for her, that the emperor A.
'exander had left his troops at his difpofal {;
that to this it is not improbable he owes the
preient poflefiion of Hanover and that whe-
Their be would retain the fame preponderance
nozv, that they had returned to their own coun-
try, the experience of few weeks or DAYS
perhaps would determine" That PruIia was at
that time, well difpofed towards the caufe of the
coalition ; diipo6tion which could not be
unknown to Bonaparte they demonftrate by
referring to the official communications of Pruf
fla to the Britith government. /" We know"
fay they "from authority Of the irt confide-
ration, that when the Englifh minifter applied
to the court of Berlin to afcertain the fafety of
our troops in Hanover, baron Hardenberg ac-
quaiDted him, that after the unfortunate oc-
currences in Moravia, the utmof circumfpecti-
on was indifpenhble ;--that the mott valiant ar.
mics could not always command the favors of
fortune that therefore it was not only the in
teret of PrulIia, but alto the, general interef,
to prevent her from being attacked at that mo-
ment, when the whole weight of the war wonh
fall upon her, and before any cooperation with
other powers could be formed that in cafe
her troops ihould be defeated, the lat raw
of hope would be extinguinied, &c. &C."
They declare that France will never forgive
this fufpicious fidelity on the part of Prufiia
and that the time is not far dhant, when me will
avenge it by a war. To what other canfe than
this, are we TO attribute the great military pre-
parations which are made by France on the
borders of the Rhine Under the bretext of
enforcing her contributions on rhe CITY, of
a.. he Ill 81.