The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1807-03-24

them beyond the pwina and ovcr the borders
OF Poland that the revolution OF Pound would
have been accomplished the p rte fscured
in his independence; fpch relations eitabiiih.
| rd 9th truiiia and Ro1ia, as were likely 10 b.
! I" Permanent texture in fact, that the CAIN
paixn was only to tie ended with the war.
But events have not come up to thefe ex-
pe9ations. According to the 45th Bulletin,
the French have taken Sc pieces of cannon, all
the Rattan wagons, more than 1900 baggage
carriages, and killed, wounded or taken pri-
foners IL 900 men. And the curfeqnence from
the whole matter is, that G. finding himieif
mailer of the ene,ny's artillery and all their po-
iiii"ns, and having driven them more than 10
leagues, the Emperor had ordered his army into
nler-quarisrs."
But theft achievements, grca: rs fhey really
are, do not anDorn.e Grca, vittory; az les!t
NOT one of Bonapar-s'I S1t7oric5.
He t'iflbled 1900 of the Ruiiians-But in
that army according TO an average calculation,
there mutt have been at ie.n 100 600 mcp.
What then becomes of the as 900, who mu.t
have fdryived the battles of Pu,taufk and ca
iYmin Surely this was no irignidcant fierce
for D1naparte to deftroy particularly rs it
was his beH policy TO cut them of, before they
could be joined by the large re-inforc ements
from Lithuania and Rufia.
He captured al their artillerv-of courfe he
the enemy. The thaws would not therefore
have nopt him in the esgernefs of pur.uM
III he (" had driven them 40 iesgues" it was
not lels eafy for him to tread in their fontfep Pc
They were in great mcafure the fame troops
that he had faced at Coymin s, Paltauik they
were the fame which he might have encounter
ed At Ofrodcrka.-Why did he not then purfue
and there encounter them?
Was II the extraordinary tham, which was 70
great " as to cauft the Artillery to be two days
! in making thr. e leaenes?'
Was 1t the fatal prftience of his army the
terrible PLEA Polonica ;--of which the Eaglifh
papers in this country and in England have
drawn iuch frisatful pictures and on which
| the official Bulletins have yet faid Do.hing
| Or was it, that the negotiations for peace
between the FIsnch emperor and the king of
| Prufiia were about TO be crowned with fuccefs
! and that Bonaparte deemed it fuperfinous to
purfue the Ruflians into LithuaEia, and expofe
his folders &c unneceflary carnage , PropoGti-
o1s for peace had not We, completely fuhfiied;
Prince Augufus of Prufiia had left BE rim on the
Goth Dec. for France; & the Prufliar Gaz had a /.
tributed this unexpected Witt TO the continued
negotiations for peace.
The king Of Prufiia may have feen how AL.
folutely impoflible it was for him to retriev.
| his thattered fortunes with the aiiifauce of the
Ruiiians; his defperate 6tuaton may have
prompted him to fuhmit to all the terms of
peace, which were demanded bv his ccpoueror.
| The RutIians have 4" declared that as his allies,
they were 7vb9lIg placed at bis diipofal." INLAY
not this then be the true key to explap the
ceffation of hofilties? P.ufiia is prepared to
make peace-and Bonaparte INDUCES no ap-
prehenlions from the Rufiians VIII, are pre-.
pared TO follow in the train of PrufIia?
Was it his purpoie to draw freih recruits from
France, under the apprehension that the actual
number of his troops was Insufficient to cope
with the gathering force ofthe RufIians?
Tbs fuppolition derives new confirmation
from the following article.
! In addition TO the intelligence received in the
papers, by capt. Mehervy, he ftates that Bona
pare arrived in Paris about the goth January,
that he was collecting more troops and putting
INTO requihlen as many az he conld find that
$4,000 men were required from Bordeaux TO
join the grand army In Poland that there had
been ievcral recent 7ttions with the Rufia,s,
and fb0t in TIE ksR battle, in avbieb eaeb army
eoEERed Of 900 men, tie REJFanS s0ined the
adaantage. Bottom Gaz
Should fuch be the motives Of this winters
truce, the two oppoGng nations will bring eve
~ means and infrument into play, during the
pre!ent interval Of repofe the mot corrupt
intrigues will be pra6tifrd in the courts of Eu-
| rope to obtain new allies & form new coalitions 4:
|
Poland more formidable preparations than ever
were collected in Europe and confsquences
will refult from the approaching campaign,
of the mon extenfve and important tenor.
Perhaps ST. Peterfburgh itfelf will fall victim
to the victorious Bonaparte.
Rmvoar ~. Elk. Chancellor Living Ron.-The
| following letter from Chancellor Livingston,
fully refutes the rumour 10 which it relates and
which we pnblilhed few days pat in our
paper. 1T exonerates the Chancellor from the
charge of having intended any oppofton to
| Mr. Jeferf1n at the next election. Rut it does
! not 20 the whole length of the fnbjeet. 1t is
moit probable, if fuch caucus were held
and its object related TO the next presidential
election, that " it was determined to punh for.
ward the Elk. Chancellor fnr the Rext Pref
dent, the cafe of Mr.. Jeferfon' sretiring But
the report from the Albany paper does not at
all embrace this idea, and of courfc Mr.. L. is
! hent on the fubjcd.
TO tie Editor Of tie albany RegiRer.
| CLE2MoNT, oIa Feb. 1907.
SIR,
Yclerday, fer the frft time, met with the