Berkeley and Jefferson intelligencer. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va.) 1802-1810, 1807-01-02

their alliance With him for peace, indie.
pendan1s and hoooT.!-Prussia did no.
| thiug for her allies.-Napoleon ION the
contrary, would reward the accession Of
the Elector BY an enlargement Of terri.
tory. @.se..5.= !. .7zS,s >, %'.~t'33.s','-fts.
And this treaehery was exercised to-
wards an ally; aud a the very n'soment
when the king was advised to fotm his
alliance Of which Aesse was 10 be the
6rst bulwark rndeavours were made to
detach from him power whom family
connexions, alliances, and Relations OF
every Kind, united in the closest manner
to his majesty's person.
But even these hostile steps were not
sulhcient. Does any one wish to know
what was the lure by which It was hoped
to gainthe Hector of Hesse, and what
the augmentation Of territory u with
the expectation ofwhieh hewas battered
1t was the Prince Of Orange, the brother
in law Of the King, that Prince who had
been twice deceived in the most shame.
fnl manasr-who was now to be robbed
the third time! He still possessed the
territory of Fulda > this was promised to
thu Elecfor, and il would have been CIV
en-, and the Elector consented to accept
it, hid not Prussia taken up arms.
His Majesty saw the system Of usur-
patton adv anee every day he saw u
circle, continually becoming narrower,
drawn around him, and even the right Of
moving within it beginning to be disputed
with him: fora sweeping resolution for
babe a passage to any foreign troops, arm.
ed or not armed, through the states of
the Confederation. This was to cut Of
contrary to the rights Of nations the con-
nexion between the detached Hessian
provinces this was TO prepare~pretexts
on which to act this was the FIRST threat
Of punishment aimed At a magnanimous
prince, who had preferred a defender 10
q master.
=. But even after this his Majesty cannot
reflect on it without admiration the
King considered whether / combination
might not be found, which should rem
der this state Of things compatible with
the maintenance Of peace.
he Emperor Napoleon appeared to
be sohcnous to remove this doubt. Two
negotiations we're then carrying on At
PARIS, Que with Russia, the ether
with the English ministry. In both
these negoeiations the intentions of
France agaiust Prussia were evidently
~
- bythe treaty which the Emperor Of
Russ,s has refused to ratify, France Of
Tered, in conjunction with Russia to pre-
vent Prussia from derriving the King OF
Sweden Of his German territories. Yet.
tor many months, the Cabinet Of St.
Cloud had continually pressed the King
u seize those states, with the threetoll
vlew-hrst, to revenge himself on the
King Of Sweden secondly, to embroil
Prussia with all other powers, and third.
ly, to purchase her silence with respsc,
to the subversion Of Southern Germany.
But the King had long been aware tha,
such were the views 0f France and his
unfortunate dispute with Sweden wa.
painful to him. HI had therefore. been
careful to provide as inst every suspicion
OF seif.interested motives, and he con.
lined his explanations to the :fmp~, or A.
lexander. The scene now again chang.
ed and zNaeoseon. who had so lonv been
the enemy Of the King of Sweden. wa,
suddenly transformed into hi. pro,ec,or.
1t - not superauoGs to remark, that,
in this iusidious treaty Of the French
Emperor, in order to sa,isiv the no.
nourable interest which the cour, Of S..
Petersburgh took in the maintenance. 81
the rights Of the King OF Naples, he nro.
missed the latter an indemni6ca,ion en-.
gaging to prevail on the King of Sp.;n "a
eede to him the Belearic Islands IA
will act in the same manner with re,nec,
to the augmentation Of territory he pr..
tends to bestow on his allies.
| These were all prelude. to II. ,,.,.
he took against Prussia I; We nov .p.
Majesty. e" ma NV