The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1807-02-13
November "a.

November o.
GENERAL MoREAU.-Sone of our cotemporar;e,
have exprecd doubts Of the arrival Of this celebrated
commander in London. We allure the public,
that he was not only in town for many days bur that
1t was at the preiing intanoe of government that he
came to England. He was conveyed from I.rfbon in
one oil his majetys veiles The greaten care W.
ken to prevent his arrival from being known He
Paied for an Italian, and had communication. at
all, while here, but with his maeffy Us alinGers He
had ievera conferences with Lord Grenvi. and Lord
Howick, and paIed few days in the country with
the Earl of MORA 1t is clearly the with of our govern
nent that he houd be placed at the head of the Ruff
Ian forces but whether the mcclure has been sne
oned by TIE Emperor Alexander we cannot undertake
| to lay Gen. Moreau is eager to oppofe himlef to
his great rival III military fame, and formal commu-
nicaton of his with has been fsnt Peerburgh The
laef intelligence received from him ince he left En-
gland, was dated Hamburger, where he was to remain
but one day. Esiravag0at and untyne-G.n Nfoy<su
| is at py1E"t in NezV Tori.
The contents of the Frtnchand Dutch papers, which
we communicated yeNerday, have gone very near to
fill the dr, ding meaure of the dilarous intelligence
have been in the habit of receiving from the CONT
| nent fince the commencement of the campaign. The
oaptuaton of prince Hohenoe, the fUrrender of Mag
deburg, Cufrin and Stettin, in the latter of which
5000 men ard so pieces of cannon fell into the
hands of the enemy the capture of Ankam with its
garriion of 1000 the great probability of the
approaching reduction OF the only remaining corps of
Pruiia, under the duke of Wemar and general Blu
cher and the advance of the enemy towards the fur
Their bank of the ODER and the heart Of Po-
land all thee croumfances concur to prove thar no
hope OF retance to the French armies now remains
except in prompt and mighty exertion Of the power
and reiources of the Rufiian empire. We fear on the
one hand, that the Emperor of Ruiia, unapprized,
and unapprehenfve of the total ruin that has over
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ted hmfelf with Tending forward in the fra inance
force iuffcieDt, in conjunction with the Prulfans
! (now, alas aDnhilated0 to balance or overpower
that ct the enemy. On the other hand as this rug-
! gle NUT have been underltood from the outlet 10
have been expelled, at the unoa, only to keep the
French at Bay until the arrival Of the RulIans fome
are Till inclined to entertain the hupe that the empe-
ror Alexander will have felt the ncceity of Tending
forward force in itelffucient to meet that Of the
enemy. Some accounts Rate thofe actually upon their
march az amounting To 25o,ooe but that the advanced
guard under prince Bagrathion, had not advanced
| beyond Brelau at the end Of Oaober; and we have
no doub, that Bonaparte will nov uIe hrs efforts 20
beat them in detail though deem it very unlike
y that he will be able to Puih his conqueis the Ru-
{ fan capital.
] WIKI reipea to England, Bonapsrte as we yener-
day obferved, Tvs his declaration againh making
peace till fhall be obliged to renounce the iche.ne
ol ddlurbDg the continent, and the tyranny Of the
feas. " As to the di1urbance of the continent" we
know Of no ieheme which Britain can be fad to have
had for that purpoie except the dfpoton to aid, to
the utmof Of her power, the reliance Of irdepen-
dent nations TO all attempts the violation Of their
rights; we know Of no peace Of the continent which
France can mean to etablih, except it be the peace
of unconditional fubm1ion to her own will How
France will be able to compel US to renounee this
Gfa,6anc, to elabIifh eeas on the continents we
know NOT, unefs it be by the humiliation Of every
germ Of liberty and independence with which we
could form an alioeiation. To reduce our means or
to limit osr difPoftion to shifl the eIerton Of the