The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1808-03-04

! ~ Is HOT WNlle L rcnCn army Stllt occupies
and lays waste the remaining dominons of
the King of Prussia, in spite of the s,ipula-
ton of the Prussian Treaty of Tilsit while
contributions are arbitrarily exacted by
france from that remnant of the Prussian
monarchy, such as, in its entire & most flou-
rushing state, the Prussian monarchy would
have been able to discharge while the sur
render is demanded, in time of peace of Prus-
sian iortresses, which had not been reduced
during the war; and while the power of
: France is exercised over Prussia with such
shameless tyranny, as to designate and de-
mand Tor instant death, individuals, subjects
of his Prussian Majesty, and resident in his
dominions, upon charge of dsrespect to-
wards the French government: it is not while
all these things are done and suffered, under
the eyes OF the Emperor of Russia, and with
out his interference in behalf of his ally, tina It
his Majesty can feel himself called upon to
account to Europe, for having hesitated to
repose an unconditional confidence in the
efficacy OF his Imperial Majesty's mediate
! on,
Nor even If that mediation had taken full
. effect, II peace had been concluded under it,
and that peace guaranteed by his Imperial
Majesty, could his Majesty have placed i'm.
plicit reliance on the stability of any such ar
rangenent, after having seen the emperor of
Russia openly transfer to France the sove-
reignty of the Ionlan Republic, the Ind.pen-
dence of which his imperial Majesty had re-
Gently and solemnly guaranteed.
But while the alledged rejection of the En-
Peror of Russia's mediation between Great
Britain and France, is stated as lust ground
OF his Imperial Majesty's resentment his
Majesty's request of that mediation for the
re-establishment of peace between Great
Britain and Denmark, is represented as
an insult, which it was beyond the bounds
OF his Imperial Majesty's moderation to en-
dure.
His Majesty feels himself under no obliea-
ton to offer any atonement apology to the
Emperor of Russia for the expedition against
Copenhagen. 1t is not for those who were
parties tothe secret arrangements of Tilsit, to
| demand satisfaction for a measure to which
those arrangements gave rise, and by which
one OF the objects of them has been happily
defeated.
His Majesty justification of the expedi-
ton against Copenhagen is before the world
he declaration of the Emperor of Russia
would supply whatever was wanting in it
| II any thing could be wanting to convince
the most incredulous of the urgency of that
necessity under which his Majesty acted
But until the Russian declaration was pub.
lshed, his Majesty had no reason to suspect
that any opinions which the Emperor of Rus
STA might entertain of the transactions at Co
pehhagen could be such as to preclude his
Imperial Majesty from undertaking, at the
request OF Great-Britain, that same office of
Mediator, which he had assumed with SO
much alacrity on the behalf of France. Nor
can his Majesty forget that the first svmp-
toms OF reviving confidence, since the peace
OF list, the only prospect of success to the
endeavors of his Majesty's ambassador to re-
store the ancient good understanding between
t-p r,ta
the intelligence of the siege of Copenha-
gen had been recently received at St. Peters
burgh.
The lnviolability of the Baltic Sea- and the
reciprocal guarantees of the powers that bor-
derupon 1t, guarantees said to have been con-
tracted with the knowledge of the British go
vernment, are stated as aggravatons of his
Majesty's proceedings in the Baltic. 1t can
not be intended to represent his Majesty as
having at any time acquiesced in the princi-
pies npon which the inviolability of the Baltic
is maintained; however his Majesty NAV.
| at particular periods, have forborne, for spe-
cial reasons influencing his conduct at the
time, to act in contradiction to them. Such
fotbearance never could have applied but
to state of peace and real neutrality in the
North and his Majesty most assuredly
could not be expected to recur to it, after
France has been suffered to establish herself
n undisputed sovereignty along the whole
coast of the Baltic sea, from Dantzic to Luz
bee.
But the higher the value which the EN-
peror of Russia places on the engagements
respecting the tranquility of the Baltic,
which he describes himself as inheriting
from his immediate predecessors, the EN-
press Catherine and the Emperor Paul, the
less justly can his Imperial Majesty resent
the appeal made to Him by his Majesty, as
the guarantee of the peace to be concluded
between Great-Britaih and Denmark. In
making that appeal, with the utmost conf
dence and sincerity, his Majesty neither in
tended, nor can he imagine that he offered
any insult to the Emperor of Russia. Nor
can his majesty conceive that, in proposing
to the Prince Royal terms of peace, such as
the most successful war on the part Of Den
mark could Hardly have been expected to ex>
tort from Great-Britain, his Majesty rem
dered himself liable to the imputation, either
| of exasperating the resentment or of out
raging the dignity of Denmark.
| His Majesty has thus replied to all the
different accusations by which the Russian
government labors to justify the rupture of
connection which has subsisted for ages, with
reciprocal advantage to Grcat-Britain and
Russia: and attempts to disguise the opera
ton of that external influence by which Rus
STA is driven into unjust hostilities for inter-
ests not her own.
The Russian Declaration proceeds to am
nouncc the several conditions on which a.
. lon. - I.a.- i.