The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1807-03-31

CANNOT Know enough TO coreludc any thug with GER
tainty from the current reports It is an Important
qrcition refreiDg the aauai forces If the nuan
my. But the numbers 70 yer, different, that we
o'y conclude from To, reueh accounts that they
have beer greatly ovcrrated I; is believed that ion,e
communications have beer made to Aua.ia reipee,.
| Ing the fua;ion OF Poland, and negotiations have
! been mentioned refpeaing the kingdom Of Calicis.
fubjea to Auria, and e0abiifed in that form, wi
Lodomr and Bukowna, in l77e. The population is
given at 3,26o,OOo, and Bukowina at $4,000. ii
thirteth part Of the population is OF Jews. Tie ad-
vantages to the country from the preient efabhfh-
nent have been approved, and upon the diicufGons
which have already exined, the public mind will be
better prepared for new arrangements The popna-
ton OF Gaeia, when the bounds were fixed in 1916,
was gven at two and an half millions, ard the Jews
were not ninth part Of their prelent number. In
1884, Galicia exceeded its preitnt population by
reckoning which was reduced in 1884, and the in
create is now found to be above hundred thoufand
| fnce the Auftrias Establishment.
| The intentions of Denmark remain as vet, uuex-
planned. To form fonne opinion of the prejudices
! which prevailed in April, 1901, the following re-
marks given from official reports and faSs as pub.
liihed At Copenhagen, the time of the nvafon by
! the Britiih fleet. q" An open war between a power
whole feet amounts to above 200 fhps Of the line
and another tina, hardly luppy 60 Hips between
la great ration who only ends to b.giu sno.
Their; Whole warriors, naturally bold, have the ad-
vantage of continual experience in war, and nation
rather fmall adorng peace and equity, where the
temple of Mars has been ihut for so years fuch
war will certainly attract the attention of all Europe
The rea!ons for beginning hotli,ies are well known
All the European powers admired the convention cal
led the Armed Neutrality, by which Denmark, Ruff.
la and Sweden, 90 years ago, re-e.tabiihed prin-
ciPie founded on the rights of pstions-That free p
makes free bottom, and that the Witt which warning
nations have right to make lloud not be extended
toneutral vehels under convoy. England, proud Of
Il
pre- oil the feas. alone proteed again that conven-
ton But at Ian from regard the indfputabe truth
or from fear OF the gcneralhatred Of all other powers
II iss employed her guns againt 70 evident right
The kept fence, giving thereby tae, content before
all nations, which ihe wculd with might be for
gotten. ne French revolution, fruitful in grea; p
vents, could not fail to draw England into j war. in
which fhe perceived a pofiibty of dearoyiny the
French and Spaniih naval forces; and in which ha.
wing iuceeeded, fhe might attack the Dutch in turn
What was then left to move her jeaouiy, beGdes the
maritime powers Of the north? After having tried
every means to ruin them one after the other after
having Tor lone time TOWN difcord among them, and
iniuted alternately the Daniih and Swedh flags to
draw fome inconiderate itep, it only remained tina.
The toud take the r frivolous opportunity to declare
war aganft them. 1t was time fhe found, to renew
the tyrannical opPreon of this freedom OF the ocean,
by an openly hottie behaviour The taking of the
Daniih irigate the Freva, which, Though attacked by
much hyperion force, yet v'gorouiiy oppofed the
whiting oil her convoy, this fact, unveling the En-
ghth iyifem, fruck all Europe with aitonfhment
and the Engliih government alf was 70 con!cous of
the nature o. that ep, and forefaw 70 well the mea
lures which every independent power ought to take
IN eonieqaence oft, that envoy and fleet were
lent at the fame time to Copenhagen. BY availiup
itlef OF this Irength, and making enormous preter.
tons in order to obtain much though fleming ely aba
ting much OF Its claims, it wreQed from the DanGi
government convention, which was interpreted To
be concefion Of the right Witt neutral yeiels uu
der convoy. A Swedifh fr;gae had ALTO been taken
JUN before, which oppoled the WHITING of her convoy
ne court OF Stockholm, having made remembrance,
and ieeiCg thar they little noticed had never
theeis reclaimed the violated right, by leading the
ientenced captain to the place Of execution RnfIis
who iaw with dpeafire thefe Britif uiurpations ra-
pdly increang, and threatening even the TRANQUILITY
| OF the Baltic entered iuto an alliance with Sweden
IN order to re-eftablilh the armed neutrality Den
mark and Pruta invited to partake in Coalition 70
Ju and beneficial to all nations, unarimouily en,bra-
cad the glorious caule. IL vanly expected tina,
this coalition houd produce ione fautary effects on
the court OF ST. James; the effect was, that all Da-
NTH and Swedh velels in her ports or in her feas
were taken. After having protelted at Copenhagen
and Berlin, the Englifh mniftry formed the project
ofruning the Danh navy, before the ice could Der
init the Ruiiians to to her fuccour
a formidable fleet left Yarmouth, with orders to
force the Sound, deltroy the Danilh navy and burn
the arienals of Copenhagen" The event is well
known.-Sach are the mpreifions made upon the
OF the Danes fuch the representations made
to the fubjsas of thar kingdom
The French endeavour to revive the hifory Of
thee traniactons, and with all the prejudices they
have aganit the late meafures of Sweden they pro-
mile more from the recovery OF the memory OF pai
injuries from the naval power Of England, and the
entertainments OF the Rufians, than from lie rz!uc
ton Of Pomerania, or of Sweden itfeH.