The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1807-12-01
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FRENCH EMPIRE.
Prejenfed to tbe Legj0afive body, BY the minifer'
Of tie interior, at the meeting, AngyR IA.
SKETCH OF The LATE WAR.
Imagine not, gentlemen, that J am going to
| treat of what has been done during long and
happy peace, in which France, furrouuded by
| friendly nations. receiving the tribute which her
ingenuity impofes on them, rich in every kind
! OF refources, and nothing to do but to improve
her internal administration, and to increafe her
| riches. No, you are well aware that this year
has been year of war, though the bolts that
truck our enemies were 70 far dfant, that we
could fcarcely hear the. thunder.
| On the 25th of September the emperor left
Paris-on the s.h of October he was at Balm.
| berg, at the head of an army already anembled
in the rear of an enemy who expected to fur
prize them.
On the 9th, his advanced guard defeated that
| of the enemy, at Schleiz and SaaIfeld.
On the l4th, the anniversary Of the battle of
Ulm, he gained the memorable victory of
Jena.
! The king of Prufiia fed, after fighting in vain
at the head of 10000 men he had feen the
princes of the blood, and the old generals of
Frederick, the Importers Of :hc monarchy,
wounded or made prifoners his army, the bull
wark of Pruilia, difperfed and deftroyed and
| its deRruetioH involving the fall of that power,
efablifhed by fuccefiion of princes, either
fucceisfu in war, or profitiug by circumstances !;
| extended and strengthened by the genius of
Frederick, and recently increafed by the friend
ihip of France.
On the 10th Erfurt capituIated.
On the 18th the emperor was at Weimar, re-
ftoring order in that town.
On the 18th, 10th and goth, LEIPZIG, Halle,
and Wtteuberg, opened their gates to his
troops.
On the esd and gath they entered Berlin !;
the emperor arrived at Potidam, viited Sans
SoRci, and, with his victorious hand, feized
the fword of Frederick, while he did honor to
his memory.
On the 9th and 3sth he made his folemn en-
try into Berlin and under the wallis of that
capital, reviewed his victorious army.
On the 9th and 9th of December his aGvanc
ed guard were at Pofen, pa0ed the ViRua, &
occupied Thorn.
On the 18th, the ele6or of Saxony and the
princes of his houfe obtained peace, became
the allies of France, and generous conqueror
granted them an increafe of dignities and ter.
ritory.
On the 18th the emperor made his entry in.
to the capital of Poland.
On the 25th he pafed the Narew, defeated
the enemy at Czarnowo, and the following day
routed him at Nafis,fk.
The emperor paffed the Ukra and the Soma,
in purf;lit of, that enemy, which had pretend
ed to defend Warfaw, aud to fupport Pruf.
fla.
1t was overtaken and defeated on the 2sth,
at Pu,uk and GolymiD.
The routed enemy owed his fafety to an ex-
traordinary ftafon, which neither the climate
nor the time of the year afforded reafon to
expect.
Slefa being thus ifolated and cut off, hav-
ing no longer any communication either with
PrufIia or with the allied army, could not fail
to fall beneath the efforts of that yong prince,
who, in his frft campaign, achieved the con-
queft of ten ftrcng places aud one of the fineit
provinces in Europe.
The RufIians behold the emperor ftationary
for a moment-this apparent repofe excited
their audacity-they formed raih project the
combats Of Bergfrend, of Hof, and the dread
full battle of Eylau, or rather an uninterrupt-
ed ferries of battles and victories, for fix days,
drove them back beyond the Pregel, under the
walls of Koningiberg, and crowned this memo
rabIe campaign.
The enemy did not acquire wifdom from
thcle reverfes.
After leaving the army the time neceffary for
conquerinG the mott important fortrel1es of Pruf-
fla, he marched with freih temerity, and the
immortal battle of Fredand at once increafed
n
army, and terminated the war.
fTsREsULTs.
During this fpsce of time, in fpite Of the OBJ
ftacles oppofed by the fortified places, the ri.
vers, wibter, the French army, in this fra part
of the campaign, traVeried in it's victorious ca
reer more than three hundred leagues of coun-
| try, took two hundred thoufand prioners, four
thbufand eight hundred pieces of cannon, four
hundred pair of colours, conquered PrUifiaj oc.
cupied Poland, and menaced RufIia. The for
trrfes Of Prulila fell one after another Stettin,
Cufrin, magdeburg, Brefiau, Glogau, Breig,
| Iiameu, Nieuburgj and Dantzic, had cspitulat-
ed. Hanover, alternately given in Tna by
England TO PruIfia, or become the fubjea of
dhpute between tbefe two Rates, again Tell un-
der the power of France.
| Swediih Pomeranz was occupied. Poland,
encouraged by the fplendour ofthefe triumphs,
rofe aganG her opprelIors fhe armed her ge-
nerous foldiers, who had often been the wit
neTes aud the companions of French valour.
Pet6s, and the Ottoman empire, routed by
the report of thefe tridmpbs, eagerly feiZed
the opportunity that was offered them, TO hake
of the yoke of long opprsliiou, and all AHA
rofe at the voice of the emperor, to iecond his
defgns. The Bofphorus became free, by the
appearance and the fight Of the Engiih Heet.
Schweidntz, Neiile, and KofeI, were taken
during the repofe OF winter. Dantzic, which
fesmed to be an objed Of the campaign, fell