The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1806-10-31
Ctr Gnqulrer.
RICHMOND, slR OCTOBER.
Let tie NORTHERN BEAR Grozul.

Let the NORTHERN BEAR GrozvE.
The lat arrivals at Philadelphia and Norfolk
bring down our European accounts to the 9Th
OF September from Paris, and the sth from
London. The rumours which they defcribe,
are directly oppofed to the rumours which thew
ihove off the Gage.
On one day, every rumour is on the eide of
france; out the next day comes and fixes the
Uniting weather cock ofrumour on the vantage
ground of England.
NozV, the whole world is to be i'm arms aeainGr
England the Northern powers are about to
trike up an indiiiolube maritime eoaLif;ou.
FOR the enforcement of their common interefs ::
and the rights of the ocean are about To he &c
tabhihed on the ruins of Britain. But foop after
the mind Of Europe is faid RI h,.. -....-c-,i
magnetic poles the Emperor of RufTia has
rejected the treaty of his minifer acting with
the ruiz powers of carte blanche and then
the only rumour is of refufcitated war A.
galnt France; that the Northern Dowers
not having "the fear of the devil before
their eyes," have dug up the fpettre of Coaliti-
on from the bloody fields of Aufterlitz and
determined to play the perilous game of rifkine
their own folid diadems aeainft the rom ,ntic
expectation or arreftiRg Bonaparte's ambition
But theie expectations are juf about as romantic
as the newspaper REGULATIONS which declare
their exlitence. This project is" the Hatterne
unetion which the London Editors are nowIav.
ing "to thelrtouls;" but they will foon dfcoyer
IFS tailacy. There will not foon be fourth CO.
aIltion in Europe, 70 fays the refe7ing traveller
who cats his eyes upon the monuments At AMI.
terlitZ: 10 fays Common SeAG. Still the mad.
neis and the folly of ftatefneu, very often baf.
he the predictions of the mott infpired Dro-
phet and there fill may exit new coalition
agalnit France. IF Alexander of Ru6ia he
as mad as his father Paul, he NAV Derbana
mediate upon fuch an extravagant idea !.
tut If the London editors have no other fonn.
datioD for their hopes than this, it is perfectly
inconiIitent with all their previous predictions :.
TOT they nave hitherto represented this young
royal ally as rational and difcreet kind of q
monarch.
The following are among the mon imnor-
tant Fails communicated by the late arrivals
RIfa has rejected the treaty concluded at
Paris by M. D'Oubril, although his foverciqn
had pledged his imperial zvord Z" TO hold GOOD
and faithfully to execute every thing which
ihall be fettled and igned by his plenipotentia.
ry."
To what, this violation of the i,nberiaI zuord
IS 10 be aicrbed, IS yet an imperial fecret. The
MonIteur explicitly declares that it could not
have been any objection TO the terms rs
the treaty, for they were "egnaNy bonourab, IN
both governments" Some afcribe ittoan inoor-
tant change in the members of the Rufrian
m'nlitry, which gave the Euglfh interea an
afcendancy in their cabinet The EneliC,
editors afcribe it to the Indignation excited nv
the flberior duplicity of NJ. TalIeyrand, who had
duped NJ. DO. into an unfavourable treaty. bv
perfuading him that the negotiation with En-:
gland was drawing towards a clof-. and that II
would be neglccting his matters intereR, if
he did not thus anticipate his ally. But the
probability is, that Alexander, no longer conf.
dered himtelf bound by his promifes, when he
law Bonaparte indifferent To every other conf
deration but the extenlion of his empire. He
might deem himfslf efficiently acquitted from
the obligations of his word when he faw that
the circumstances under which it was given,
were 70 materially changed by Bonaparte's
ACKNOWLEDGMENT in Germany.
PrHTd has withdrawn her troops from the
mouths of the Elbe and the Wefer and reftor-
ed the province of Lauenburg to the Swedes.
In return for which compliment the Swedes are
iaid to have cealed the blockade of the PruCJian
ports. She is declared too to he in Rate of Give
military preparation; to have provi6oned the
fortreis of Hamn in Hanover for feveral months,
and to have put all her armies into motion,
bonaparte, 1t is faid, has demanded the cefli-
on OF Eaft Frielldnd, Rmbden and fome other
,lttie corners OF Pruiia, to the prefent king Of
Holland.
England is on the alert Lord I,auderdale
had not yet returned from Paris, but the pc.
neral opinion was, that the negotiation would
foon be broken off.
Her boated victory in Calabria had DILUTED
new ipirts through the nation. But the E0o.
Ib bulletin of the battle of Aufterlitz will
teach us how to appreciate the nature of an
Euglifh victory. For at the very moment
when the pens Of London were celebrating
the iuccefes ofthe German Emperor, he him