The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1807-04-28

freedom and independehce.-His maieay will
think no exertion too laborious TO attain this
great object.
Inhabitants of Germany the whole Rufian
army fights for your intereAs /! Under thefe
circumstances 20 favourable, fhall you alone re-
main inactive ?oShall you be 70 blinded, as in
the preient fate Of things to do nothing for your
felves?
The enemy is at a great diaance from his
frontiers, in territories, and at a feafon of the
year, which not only do not afford him iufici-
ent means of fupply, but alto impede all his ope-
rations. Will you voluntarily contribute to
his relief? Will you act againft your own in
tereRs Forget not that you have all poffible
aid to expect from the brave army entruRed to
my command. Itruft that ihall vittorioufly
drive back the common enemy Of Europe, and
convince him that there fill remains a people,
who, taithsul to their country and their. mo-
march, have both the inclination and the pow
er to REIN the impo6tion of his iron yoke.
But however probable this fuccefS may be, his
majety will till regard it as incomplete, 70 long
as the foe fhail not be driven back beyond his
natural boundaries ; and AS this is the only
means of retor;ng the independence of your
country, and obtaining a general peace upon
fecure foundations, his imperial majeity relies
with the fullet confidence, that at this finally
decifive cribs, the inhabitants of Germany will
not only lend no kind of fupport to the COM
mon foe, but on the contrary, that they will,
by 4 general refftance, render his further tay
in Germany impraeticable, and throw every
pofibie difficulty in the way Of his retreat to-
wards his own frontiers. BY this intimate uni
on of the whole Rufian force with all the
means OF the German empire, the common OBJ
jet may be attained, and peace, 70 anxiouly
defred, be once more reftored to fufering Eu-
rope.
Take courage then, brave and virtuous Ger
mans. Reflect on the immortal repown of your
anceitors, who in former ages, maintained their
independence with the mot fenal bravery.
Unite yourlelves under the colours of fuch of
your princes, in whom the unfortunate events
OF our times have not yet extinguifhed a fenfe
of honour, and of their own d%ignities. To
this grand and o purpo!e of delivering your
country from a foreign yoke, facrifce every
private quarrel, every confederation of internal
difcord, and then hall you compete a formula
Die whole, capable not only of diiputing every
inch of ground with the common enemy, but
ALTO of ultimately vanquiihing and repe!ling him
for ever within mis- natural frontier.
In your efforts to attain 70 glorious an OBJ
jet, you may rely with the fulleft confidence
on the powerful and continued a~iiiftance of the
emperor, my NOT gracious fovereign. The u
niveriaily acknowledged principles Of his impe-
rial majefty afford you a guarantee, that not
only will his tnajety not abandon you in the
prsfent ~ftruggle, but that on the happy termi-
nation thereof, he will particularly dire0 his
attention to the reftoration of your country,
which for a fuccefion of centuries rendered
your forsfathers the happieft people on the face
of the earth, and which could only be deftroyed
by the domineerine ambition OF an enemy, who
makes no fcrupIe of treading under foot the
mott facrcd treaties.
Given at the Imperial Rufian head quar-
tiers.
~(Signed)
Baron Won BENNINGSEN,
General of cavalry, military governor Of
Lithuania, &c. &C."
The following Addrefs has been circulated
at the out potts of the French army
Soldiers of France I; formerly, when foreign
armies medi.ated the conquet Of your country,
and came even in the bofom of your land to at
tack you, you repelled them with a valour and
perseverance, which the whole world admired.
The report of your brilliant exploits rcac hed
even US. Your courage, your loyalty, was
known to us, and the folders of France became
the objects of our efteem. But it is no longer
your country which demands your efforts, A
war foreign to your interefs tears you from
your families, your friends, your home. A
tyrant whole infatiable ambition knows no
bounds, drags you into ditant climates, and
lseds the blood of Frenchmen, that be may be-
row crowns upon his relations. He forces you
TO combat againf people who are ready to Of
fer you pledges of their ancient Affection, but
who will flied the Taft drop of their blood in
the facred caufe of their country.
(Signed) BENNINGSEN.