The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1807-03-27

that the Rufhsns Ion 80 pieces of cannon, more
than 1900 baggage Wagons, and 1000 mes,
killed. wounded and priioners. The nature
% the climate, and the Gate OF the roads, i'll
the her ieaion bad, aud the want of al, accom-
n'ndations, obligedthe rsfoluti0n 10 ,e;irc i.tu
winter quarters. Though the operations of the
Grand Army ceafe, negotiations will continue,
and fuch arrangements are to be made in the
adjacent territories as will involve important
| consequences. The refult Of the msa(ures with
Denmark is not known, nor the inteutous of the
French in Pomerania, and in regard to Sweden,
! as well as in regard TO Poland and the countries
| around it. From Paris we learn that the lirn
Intention of the Emperor of France is to vifit
his capital and TO attend to the Gomeitic con-
Germs of his Empire, while his army is left with
| the officers who have fought 70 bravely fer the
victories they have obtained.
| Should we regard the French accounts of
Turkey as from good fources, it may appear
that ferrous alarm aeainft Rullia had begun in
Turkey, and that the Ruf1ians had encroached
| upon the European provinces. We know e.
nough to difcover that the French have been &C.
tive to excite both Turkey and Periia aganft
the RuGians, and that the difcontented fubicSis
| of Turkey had their ihare of the preulices
Before the commencement of the French revo-
| luton, the French regarded with great attenti-
on the relative itrength of the Turks and Ruff
fans. They furniihed much ufeful informant
on, but they gave very different climates of
thofe nations. The bold Volney, whole pow
crful imagination will not always itoop 10 facts,
INDUCED ftrong partiality towards the Ruff
ans. The French who had been engaged in
Turkifh commerce were not 70 partial, and this
| ingenious writer foon found that no hopes pre-.
vailed of 4 fpeedy reformation of any civil or
commercial evils from the Rufiians. Ia reply
to MIR. Volney, lays fpirited writer "Sup-
polling the Turks driven from Europe, what is
Rulia, whole Legislative wiidom is to enlighten
the ignorant Turk? A nation icarcely half
emerged from that cloud of barbarifm and ie-
norance which covered the chief Of its territories
at the beginning of the preient century, writ
ing in 1898. )-..Even at this day, where are we
to find in the mot uncivilifed part of the Turk.
ifh dominions, more profound ignorance, more
favage barbarian, than in many provinces of
4 Ruf!ia Unable to introduce the arts of civil
liZation into its own domnions, docs it think
itfelf equal to the artuous talk of pra6ting it's
Legislative abilities with any profpea of fuccefs,
on flrangers averfe to the Ruiiian name, averie
to its manners, and fill more averfe TO its reli-
gion?" But while Voney feared for Denmark
and Sweden from the growing power of Rutlia
on the Baltic, it was fuggeited that the increaie
Of Southern power would withdraw its power
from the North---Yet Volney was of opinion
that France ought not to interfere with any
profpe6s which the Rufiians might indulge
from home, as they mutt tend to the dminuti-
on of its power. The prelent order Of events
forebodes a new criGs of all Ruflian affairs
At the beginning of the French revolution, the
French trade in Turkey was comfortable.
Though the French exported "a millions of
piafres in amount, and imported &c millions,
yet, as they took raw and fcnt manufactured
materials, they did not conlider the trade as
unfavourable. A writer in Turkey at this
time, gives the following account of the French
trade in that country. He pronounces it the
bef, and the bsh regulated trade in Turkey.
After Eating the articles, he explains the man
ner of it. 1t is managed in every part of Tur-
key, even in the villages, ander the difcretion
of the Chamber of Commerce at Matfeilles,
and all employed have d time fixed for their
employment in it. No merchandise is fold
without notice given to the Aubal,ador, or the
coniu, and body of merchants, 70 that all
fales might be regulated together. In this way
all interference, iealoufes, difputes and frauds,
are prevented, which might eventually ruin the
trade.
! For the convenience of the French merchants
| in each maritime town of the Levant, a general
bank was efabliihed, to which every one paid,
in proportion to his fales. This was not oppref-
five, as the gains were large, and the advantages
great, as the capitals of the merchants in France
| were late, and in Gale OF bankruptcy part of
the lofs could be recovered from the common
flock. They fold upon eight months credit, to
receive in three payments IN all the trade of the
country. Ifone of the payments failed, ten per
cent intereft was to be paid. The general bank
in this manner was in good reputation, and it de-
| frayed all national expences. The French were
indebted for it to the Marquis de Vikeneue, and
the Marquis de Saint Preft provided for the
complete fuccefs of it. The Britih trade with
Rufiia at this time was reckoned at SO millions
weight firon, 65 millions of Hemp, Al millions
Of talIow, and % millions of fax, beGdes other
articles, and it has been increaGng.
We learn that the King of Prufia had not
Ggned the armiftice, with the French, and that
he was at Welau, at the confluence of the ALE
and Pregel, not far from Konigberg. The
French had adopted no new meafures with
Hamburg. Large fupplies of winter cloathng
were required for the army, and it is faid that
Hamburg had made large offers to have the
French troops withdrawn. No conie6ures can
be made upon what terms the PruiIian and Ruff
fan Princes had dfpofed their alfairs. The
Ruf1ians, upon their retreat, had difcoyered
greater inclination to render the country uTeefs
to the French, than comfortable to the inia-
bitants. 1t ia faid that at Ddntxic the Eng0,
were permitted to export grain, a meafure
which appeared defperate in the prefent rate of
the adjacent country.
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