The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1806-08-01

and confident on the occafon) are anxious Cor
better information from America than has vet
been received: Aud think the refult Of the
further enquiries propofed by the Committee
in Philadelphia, feafopably communicated to
ours in London, may eientially promote this
Object.
The rehdencc of your Amhaliador, James
Monroe in my neighhorhood {, miles dtantI
has introduced an acquaintance with him and
his family when we Ian fpent the day toge-
ther, about 10 days ago, although I could no.
properly ak for any information repeSting his
pending negotiation with our miniIters, could
not collect any thing unfavorabe to the hopes,
generally prevalent here, that an amicable &C
commodation will be effected And have the
fatisfaeion of knowing, that he believes, that
the abolition of the Slave Trade, by the United
States, will Immediately fueceed the federal
powers to legiflate on the fubiea.
sc Thomas Ciarkfon's work, entitled " The
Portraiture of Quakerifn," is juR publiihed it
is certainly very interefting work, and thus
far, have not heard any objections formidable
to the judgment or reputation of the writer,
who believe has been fincerely anxious to ex-
hibit true account of our religious Society, 70
far as it appeared TO him.
"The appreciation which the Reports of
your Committees Of Philadelphia and Balti-
more, refpeeting Indian CiziHsafioa, (ately re-
publhed here together) has met with from
Lord Teignnouth, Wilberforce, and Others of
that defcription, has induced them to form So.
ciety here, in order to extend imlar benefits to
the Aborieines, within the Briti(h boundary in
the Canadas, obierving in their printed propo-
fal, that " an example has been fet by the So
ciety of Friends. called Quakers, in the United
States, which offers at once, the ftrongeft mo-
tive, and furniihes the pureft model for fuch an
undertaking." The Biihop of London, in par
| ticular, has exprefied his high appreciation of
it:
Ohfcure, as certainly arc, the grounds where
| on we can expect termination of exiting hof-
tlity in Europe, it ispIeafant to obfcrve in fsme
well Informed men, hope of that kind cherifh-
! ed.
| With refped to the policy Of Pruf1ia, the
french government nave Iaueiy punl,ircci Iumc
curious notes upon his Britannia maieity's de-
claration with refpect TO Eanover.-They fate
that the court of Berlin declared pofitively,
! in the hrft intance, againlt M. Novoilzew's
proportion, and rejected all participation in
| plans formed againft France that count Haug-
WITT was TENT to Brunn to mediate peace I:
that he arrived there before the battle of Au
! fterlitz, and demanded, as preliminary ftep to
all negotiation, that fufpenfion of arms fhould
| be agreed upon. Bonaparte confented-the en-
peror Alexander refufed. Mef1rs. Stallion and
| Outlay, who arrived at Brunn before the battle,
refuied an armiftice alto. Thus Haugwitz's
milton was at an end. After the battle, what
was the duty of Prufia ? To offer her mediation
| in coniequence of the treaty of Potfdam but
her mediation has been diiowned, and Auftria
/ mad begun TO negotiate without her. Take
| part againR France ihe had not entered into
10 ienfelefs an engagement. Under thefc cir
cumitances, her language was worthy of great
power.
Do you with, fhe fad to France, the de-
ftru6tion of Aufria if 70, the continent is ina
ken. Will you place that power upon fold
balls, and not exact all that victory permits you
TO do if 70, the treaty of potfdam is fulfilled.
!. The king of PrufIia did more, the Englifh troops
I had arrived in Hanover sc, 900 French in Hol-
land under prince Louis, were ready to march
agalnit them; not man would have cfcaped,
and II was tn ne feared thai France wuui,ii nui
retiit the temptation of taking l 5 or $4,000 En-
gif in net. The king of Pruffia granted
them his fpecial protection entered into difFe-
rent conventions with them to protect their de-
parture; defred them 20 re-embark, and they
| did re-embark."
| The notes proceed to "afk for the produc-
ton of the convention of Potfdam." 1t will
there be feen that PrufIia always refufed with
diidain fuhideS from England.
| By occupying the electorate, Z" Pruffia," it is
added, Z" enfnres the tranquility of her frontiers
and the repoie of her people, and does what be-
comes good prince. Whereas, inftead of be-
ginning by regular and prudent proceedings,
and demanding explanations, England, upon a
verbal note, and animated by that piratical fp-
rit which never quits her, begins by declara-
ton OF war, and does TO Pruf1ia what the did to
! Holland, Spain and France. Veifels are to be
taken; hourifhing commerce TO he pilaged /;
every thing mutt yield to fuch considerations ;
it is by war they mult begin"
! The celebrated colonel Se6aaiani is the am
baiador OF France at Conftantinople.
Aarora
CONSTANTINOPLE, April l.