The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1806-10-03


Anens and Mr. Pitts continental politics. have done
more for the emperor OF the French in three years
time, than thirty could have accomplished without
them.
The fooner Creat-Britain makes reace the better
for herelf. Every years delay mum make her con.
diton to ftipuate lefs eligible. This has all the
raw-materias for working her ruin gradually. Her
only policy is to give peaceful direction to thofe
raw-aiaterials. Let him have " commerce and co.
lonie to blunt the edge of martial enterprises and
there are chances in favor OF long peace but
ihort one, Creas-Bri,ain may find fomethng new on
the water to pillage. Buff the war continues ten
years longer, the concrption extending beyond the
limits of France proper, will accumulate fuch
ed force that million OF armed men may be allotted
TO the invafion. What is now predetermined would
then become ~evabls The means of crofing the
channel in calm, would be confined to one point
but would embrace many. Venice, Genoa, Spain,
Portugal, the ports of Holland and even the Baltic
might be ufed no. for maritime dominion, but alb
ioiute nvaGon and fearful llbiuga,ion. Among the
impending peris that Great Britain fhould calculate
upon, il the war he carried on for years longer,
no iouud politician can put ofhght the prohabil-
y ct an invaion of India by land. Dalmata brings
all France to the gates Of Confantineple. Should
the Ottamon heartily fecond his only dear friend and
great ally, what the ancient eonqneror Of Macedonia
did perform, the modern vaor of Europe certainly
may perform. No leader that eyer fwayed iceptre
knows better than Napoleon the great difference be-
tween achievements very 6i6feui aud achievements
atjoiuteiy inasfThie.
" His horefs the Pope is in very declining health
french troops occupy all the ports Of this territory 1t
IS cone6ured that the ncSt Pope will rede at Av;g-
nom and that in that cafe, Rome. formerly will
become the metropolis of the Italian douiinous.
The Emperor fgnazed his return 10 Paris by a
meaiure or two that perhaps YOU may have learnt
He abolifbed the public gambling houfes throughou;
his dominions He doubled, and in fome in9arces
frit the alaries Of the judges of the tribunals He
repaired and opened fstrtvvc fuiie ourfaa5 through
every quarter Of Paris, which ince the fri OF Iuy
have diluted living and continual Creams OF water
To theie eighteen be added. On the 5th
OF Auguf there isto be grand feniva! at Paris. in
the Held OF Mars, which the main army of Gerna-
ny are expected to af1iit whether merely to eat,
drink and be merry, or march afterwards to Bou-
logne, know not. There is a coloiTul triumphar,
arch and column erecting the Grill de Cbqik-
fef, 10 as to form terminus the grand vita that
opens through the Elyian fields. Many hundred
worSmen are founding it to the honor of the heroes
OF Auiterlitz,
:. After the grand feaival in Auguh, grand fair
will expofe Paris, fpecnens or famples of all the
manufactured productions the French Empire.
underttand that our negotiations at Paris and
iiheiy proper ana DOUBT not that
IN London alio enveys will arrange matters from
all the reports chat are brought from thence thee
two rations continue to frugge, they cannot fail to
nourith the anina OF the United States beyond the
wi'hes OF both. IF they make peace, we muh become
manufacturing people within few years"