The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1807-02-27
pru,,,,. Whole armies have been for fome,ime

pru(ia, whole armies have been for fometime
O.. awar footing, has made treaty OF alliance
oaepGve acd dsfruiive with Us. Sweden does
no, merit to be mentioncd.-As TO Rutha,
there exits ceween her ard US direet propoh-
tiens for ne gociations. From her power ihe has
no location for the protection OF any perion'
and the will not claim the Intervention ct any
court to terminate the differences which divide
us by her dfauce, ihe Is 10 tar out OF our
reach, as well as formal means OF iHJur-
ing, that a fate OF war, or Rate or peace on-
~ produces in our relations respectively, chan
PES purely diplomatic. If then, in iuch ttu-
alton. the emperor ihould agree to negotiate
conformity with England and Ruiiia, would he
not neglect all his advantages ! Would ne
not fuppofe the exiitence OF a war he has gio-
rioufly terminated--Would he not in ihort a.
bandon with England, the principle OF an equal
ity already agreed upon between US: In
word, Sir, do but examine with the dicern-
ment which pertains to you the confederation
which have the honor to lay before you, and
YOU mutt acknowledge that fuch negotiation
would be much more pre- judicial to us than war,
and even than Cougrefs
In efea, in a Congrefs, If England, Sweden
and Rufa ihould dtpute for the prevalence OF
the principles which have ferved as tounda-
ton for the third coalition, Pruiiia, Denmark,
the Porte, PeIlis and America would declaim
againit thefe principles, and demand equai
laws of navigation and juit divihon IN the
domains of the fea. Without douot, III TINS
difcufiion, they would vote often Tor inc aam'-
niftration of the power of France, often ALTO on
the diminution of the power OF England.
Some powers would claim the equilibrium OF
the South of Europe but Others alto would
reclaim the equilibrium of the North; great
number would bufy themielves with the equi-
librium of Alta, all would iDtercf themielves
in the equilibrium of the ieas; and II from the
boTom of many tempeAuous aud complicated
iifcufiions it is pof1ib!e to hope Tor reiuit,
and this refult would be juit, oecauie IL wouio
he complete ; and furely if his maJeity has de-
clared in all circumstances that he will not have
arepupnsnce to make facrihces for the public
tranquility, when England, Rut,ia, and all the
Great powers fhail be each one dHPoied to &c
knowledge the rights etabliihed to protect the
weak Rates and TO adopt the principles OF JUL
ticr, moderation and equality; but the emPe-
ror knows mankind too well to iu1er himlei'
TO be feduced by chimeras, and ne knows TINS
would be to wander from the point and TO look
for peace in the labyrinth OF ten years OF debates
which during this time would perpetuate the
war and would do nothing but render its ter
minatiou more uncertain and more difficult 10
attain. We would then have to change the
f,ut, and do as was done at Utrecht, leave the
allies to confuund themfelves in endleis and
ufelefs debates; treat ingly and dlicuis, as
was then done, the intereit OF the two powers
and thofe of their REFLECTIVE allies, TO make
peace, in fhort by yourtelt; and to make II iu'-
fcientIy honorable, 70 that it canno. fail to be
+. ree,blr TO all the powers interefed. There.
fore, il is convenient, not ten years hence, but
already that two powers, fuch as England
and France. Gbould terminate the differences
which divide them, and eRablith at the lame
time, the regulations of their ishts and the IN
terefs of their friends.
To return to the fubjea, fir, do not fee in
the negotiation propofed, but three poihoe
forms OF difcufFious. Negotiation with Eng
land, and the allies ihe had acquired at the
time of the formation Of the third coalition ;
neqociation with ALI the powers OF Europe,
;o;ning therein the Americans I; aud negotiation
alone with The EngIiih. The frit OF thete forms
i inadunimhle, tecaufe it would fuhmit the
ernDeror to the third coalition, which exits no
longer. The emperor would have negotiated
in this manner if he had been beaten. ne ie-
cond form ofnegociatioa would eternze the
war. if the incidents which would multiply at
each infant, and the paiiions without meaiure,
which il would unchain, did not with a ihock
hrsat ,hr difculfions few years after it had
been eHablllred. The third, then, is the only
one which fhould be deired by thofe willing
for durable peace.
His maety is perfuaded that in the juft and
moderate difpohtions which ne is Pleafed to
find in the tone and language of the BrItlh MI
nRer, feconding to the extent OF his dehres, the
,,acidc fentimeuts of which he is more than e
YER determined to give proofs of to his friends
and even to his enemies, the nations exhaufted
by the efforts of war, the intereit of which is
80 difficult to be underftood as the true Object
&c il is difficult to be difcovered, will fee, at
iensth. a negotiation propofe peace which
is called for by al! their recefites and all their
wifhes.
Accept, Sir, sc.