Berkeley and Jefferson intelligencer. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va.) 1802-1810, 1807-04-03
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PoLITIcAL SprcuEArIoss.,

-, POLITICAL SPEcuEArross. .~z~
THE annihilAtion Of all power in Rus
STA to actin Europe, is one Of the prima-
ry objecss Of Bonaparte policy: And
this. is to be done, indire city" by making
>eoRpiete the. subjeesion of those o,hcr
nations who have resemblance to indie
pendent sossreignties or, directly,
campaign Or two may shew toahe world
tlIc standard Of France waving rpon the
rambarts of St. Petersburgh.
Things, far more arduous and Won
dcrful in execution than this, have
been effected in the years thar HAVE piss
ed in our own experiehce.s We have
seen Danaoarier complete the conquest
OF Flandefsin few months and itwas
but the Other day that thss sqnsdrons
which lined the shore Of Houlosne and
made The : Army Of England r broke
"PtAsir encamPment arid marched irtulL
career to the gates Of Vienna---a march
from Warsaw to St. Petershureh isnot
more difRcuK tlian was either of tie a.
bove feats If trismphane conquest. The
armies.of those great commanders NAL
borough and Eugene, were longer oc-
cupisd atrhesingle siess Of Lisle, than
Dumourie- vas in tatis nearly al the
fortified owns 10 the Northumberland
in former times il required more fighting,
and cost more blood, to penetrate tfs
strong line of the Austrian states tfiany
1t did latrlyien Bonaparte'to reach and
to enter their very capital. : So =. {
Vienna is as distant from Paris as ST.
4Petefsburgh is from Warsaw--and. whaI,
adiferentr 10 the intermediate coun.
-tfiex9 { LtHd b, s. -. j,
It was necessary for France, in her
war With A nssria, to open wavt through
the mountains Of the TyroL--always, es.
teemed one OF the most difficult labors
Tor general to accomplish. There Is
no Tyrol between France and Russia
but there is an open champaign country.
best fitted for ba,tIe ground, and peculiar.
iy adapted for the operations of the lieh,
troops, cavalry, and flying artillery Of
the French armies the fortified places
in Russia, are few in number--not CON.
straetedby the best rules of art-aud the
Russians are without experience in d..
arts OF attack and defence and of con-.
'qpenee are entirely wanting in .,he a.,tlity
to defend . town against the bliste, ire
Ere Of French artillery. *. .
+: Russia. we say then, Is mower by no
means match for France and she has
very much 70 dread froma desperate al.
taek, il such should be made by Bona-
parte. w.; IssEs j .; i-s s.-~ H. !. ~
Of;he hnaratime power of Russ:A I,o->
naParts may pass a.this hour as III. Great
controller IF he shuts up The enhance
OF the Baltic, and he sertainly has Il IN
his power SO. to do, and closes the
HellesPont, Russia will have no access
20 the ocean, nod must con6ne the sailing
Of her fleets to the waters of@the BaltiE
and the Euxine: *. i.ss.. J.
tits IN Vain that some deceiyers tar
!. about the moderation of France, Is mani
tested after the battle Of Au..eriitz, mo-
Iteration has no pat, inner policy, nules.
II be IN moderation Of necessity.
=. At the battle Of Austeriitz, Austria.
to be sure was completely humblsd d. ind
90. was Russia / but we would tell politi.,
cal emPiricks, who talk Of every hing
and know nothing, and French in:riga-,
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