The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1806-04-29
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RICHMOND, 2efb APRIL.

vious fuppoition that the battle of Aufterjitz
and the peace of Prefburg would have reftored.
at ieait, the tranquility of the continent. The
Ruiians were retiring from Moravia and Hano.
yer; Pruilia bad acted dubious part, which
ieems AS much ia befoeak the fecret all
ly as the enemy of France Amftria, howe.
yer fhe might win for her indemnity in the
eat, would apparently deire fDme breath
| Ing-tIme after An unfortunate war, which had
exbauited her retources Bonaparte had reap
ed 'aurels enough in the field and all the fonth
or Europe, except the lite kingdom of Naples,
feemed to have none of the materials of new
explofion. Even England hcrfelf might now
begin to hope for peace, fnce the death of Mr..
| Pitt, and the Introduction of the peace-Ioving
principles of Mr.. Fox into the miniitry, feem.
ed TO remove the principal obRacles to its ac
compliment.
There is little very interefting in the Euro
pean Intelligence lately received at Norfolk and
New-York There is nothing certain nothing
momentous; nothing which gives the decided
can for peace or war. But there is little 10
! confirm thefe fatierng profpects of peace.
On the contrary, there is fcarce country in
Europe which feems to have placed its tran.
guilty beyond Interruption We can fee
! fcarcely one, in which. uniting the caufes of
hoitiity previOully known with the pr.Dar.-
tions actually making, we do not forefee
fome profpef of the old war being revived.
| or new one being excited.
TURKEYiG a gigantic body with feeble
| head, expoted to aggreflion both at home and
| in Egypt, uncertain whether fhe ought moft To
dread the old ambition of RufIia, that has TO
often feafted upon her provinces, or the keen
appetite of Aufra whetted by her late loiIes in
| Germany. That Bonaparte promifed Auftria an
indemnity in the EAT for thefe loties and that
| The will take every advantage of this concefTi
on, to extend her influence into Turkey that
the late ceiiion of Venetian Dalmatia TO France.
will enable Bonapartc to feize upon the neigh.
| bouring provinces of Bofnia and Seryja that
to raniom thefe or even to arreft his march
to Conttantinople, it may be neceTary to
put him in poiefiion of Egypt, 70 long the
favourte object of his wiihes and 70 com
plete recompenfe for the lofs of ST. Domin.
go thefe are 70 many probable events.
which cannot efcape the difcernment or the
fears OF Turkey. But we can CLEAN little of
thefe events or Of the policy of Turkey, from the
Intelligence which we have actually received.
Werare merely informed, that the cefIion of
Venetian Ddlmatia to the French, has fpread
terrour throughout the Dvan and that the
Porte has entered into new treaty of alliance
with the court of St. Petersburg for nine years,
Tor the pnrpoie of making head againa French
arns and French principles.
AUSTRIA--lopped of feveral of her members
and exhauIted throughout by her late diCaf.
tiers, but eagerly waiting for an opportunity
TO Obtain al indemnity IN the EAT. Mean
while 1t is whifpered about that there are "a H.
eret articles to the treaty of Prefburg, among
which, may be Populations for the divifon of
| Turkey and the indemni6c alton of Aultria.
THIS arrangement it may be, which has proba-
! bly, induced the Aufrian court TO preferve it's
army for fix months on the quar-. foof;fo.
| NAPLES IA feeble body with a Niu fee.
bier head, has by this time funk into one of the
! " federafi1e Rates Of the Empire" With what
aninfulting Ea1g .froid does Bonaparte i(Ine his
imperial Bull? Z" We, Napoleon, Emperor of
the French and King OF Italy, &c. &c. for d.
yers welghtY and fufficient caufes, do folemny
depoie from the throne and other fovereign au-
thorlties of his aucefors, Ferdinand, the king
OF the 7sOo SieiHeJ, &c :" Such are the haugh.
| ty terms, in which he reprefents him(elf as
the toveregn OF Italy, and lays his title not nm.
on NabLeJ alone, but alto the Jlaad of Sicily.
SPAlN-too, holds her independence at the
mercy OF France. A Jingle army marched q.
yer the Pyrenees, would place one of the Ma
.oleon army on that throne, and on that Of
Portugal. IL is even probable from the Iateft
accounts that this danger is no longer ideal, but
that an army has actually marched into Spain
at the foilcitation of the Prince of Peace.
sWEDEN-has not yet felt the vengeance
OF bonaparte, for the troops which lhe fcnt in.
TO Hanover, TO aid the late co.. ton. She has
not yet lott her ihare of Pomerania. The pro-
pa llty IS that her fate is connected with tina,
OF Pruiiia; and that, uHtil France has more