The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1807-02-24
Tbe enquirer
RICHMOND, e4tb FEBRUARY.
EUROPEAN SKETCHES.

EUROPEAN SKETCHES.
We have this day publiihed koiciuiko's adj
drefs to his gallant countrymen. Let iufiici-
ent allowance be made for all the imperfeetions
eff the tranilation in which it appears, and we
do not hettate to pronounce il the nof ner-
vous, eloquent and pathetic produ ciion which
has ever itfued from the American prefs. II e.
quals. if not eclipies general Moreau's appeal
to the military tribunal, or Emmett's affecting
fpeech TO the Irifh court. Let the Poles but
breathe half the fpiEt which animates this ex-
quifi,e competition, and their rehabilitation to
Independence is as fure as death.
Autera will not object to the lofs of her part
OF Poland, 1t an arrangement which is faid to
have been concluded at Vienna, has been cor
reely reported in the French papers. Accor-
ding TO this convention, Auftria is to obtain
the reRoration Of the whole of Siletia (now
PrH5Gan province) and (ne is then TO relin-
quiih her claim TO every part of Poland, and
to cede behaes to the king of Bavaria, the
heretofore electorate of Satzburg and the Inn.
Wieftel.
Bonaparte feems extremely folicitous to con-
ciliase sne favor and to re-etabliih the indepen-
druce OF the Porte. In his Bulletins, in Tai
leyrand's official reports, in Berthier's note of
the 10th November to the Prufiian Plenipoten-
tiares, he declares his refolution to retain all
the c ouniries which he has conquered. until
Ruiiia ihall have reinqni;hed all interference
with the provinces of Waachia and Media
via, and furrendered them in complete fove.
| reignty to the Porte.
Whence this fleming anxiety to promote the
interefs of the Turkiih divan? 1t is no doubt
dictated by feveral motives.-F1e may with to
lure the Porte into a war with Ruflia, by fuch
difntereited projections of friendihip.-He may
with to cut Of all connection between Ruifia
and ihefe oppreffed and rebeIlious provinces
thus TO cut Der off from all further agerandise-
men! in Turkey, to increaie the T'nrkiB power,
! and thus to raife an additional barrier on the
touth to the growing power of Rufiia. But
what is more probable fill, he may be aftuated
by much more feli III considerations. In ex.
chance for the feryices which he may render to
the Porte, on the north he may hipulate for an
indemnity in the fosth. For occurring WaIIa-
CHA and Modavia, he may expect the gift OF
| Turkiih Dalmatia, of Greece, perhaps Egypt
| itfelf. And here it dtferves to be mentioned
that the French under Marmont has lately diff
| poaeiied the Ruhians # Porto Novo, the
| frongeh fortrefs in Cattarro. Every moment
feems to confirm their pofefon of this impor.
tant acquiftion from which as from grea,
centre, they may extend their power to the
ionian Ines, to Turkifh Damatia, to Albania
to Greece--and why not at lat, to the very
COATS of the Black Sea?
The late aitonifhing victories of France have
given new tone and exsen6on to her demands
England cannot now expect peace on the
lame favourable terms as were propofed before
| the late continental rupture. The Bulletins &
the proclamation Of the emperor at Pofen or
the 2nd Dec eTnber, have announced new bafi:
of pacihcation. In the PREDATORY remark,
to the correspondence between Mefirs. Fox and
| ialeyrand, which we have commepc ed in this
days paper, it is pofitiveiy avowed that Eng.
land was TO have IS kept Malta and the Cape o.
Good Hope" But what now ia the trium
plant 9il7mn of the French Emperor? "Wt
have conquered on the Oder; Pondicherry, anc
our establishments in the Indies, the Cape o.
| Good Hope, and the Spaniib colonies" He
completely abandons the principle of the
ati p?DFdeti5.
II JnggeGion,-The Spaniih court is rafting
comfortable levies OF men /; hefides the so ooC
P'uiiian prfoDers which Bonaparte has offer.
ed to place at their difpoial. theft
large equipments l.? Are they intended to att
againR France? No. Becaufe ne would
tcdrceiy furnifh Spain with intruments TO be
turned againtt herieIf. Are they to be difpatched
the defence OF the Spaniih S. American polIef
6ens Are they to att againft Portugal? Or
againf qubat POSER II is a hazardous, but not
impoiiible conception, that this riing camp
! this nett egg OF iome great dehgn, is ultimately
defined agsInit Ireland.
| Ireland is the qveak.R point OF the Britifll
| EmPlre.-She is at this moment agitated III
The oorh (Which has generally been calm a.
| midf the editions of the other parts) by the
religious ahociatons of the Threilers.-Thefc
troubles NUT have arrefted the vigilance of the
French cabinet; they are announced in the
mo& pompous terms in the Paris prints.
| What time more encouraging than the prefent
when the eenerohty of Bonaparte is feeu
exhibited in d retoration OF Poland ?-What
place more favourable point of embarkati.
on, becaule 70 little iulpeGted as Spain
Should the Pri6ians even perth in the attempt
what bscjon could be better lpared by the cabi-
nets OF ST. Cloud or Madrid
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