The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1808-09-02

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considerable works at the cxtremities OF the
empire, if foreign power were placed at
the very gates of that arsenal. Spczzia shall
become second Toulon in the Mediterra-
mean ON the whole coast there abound iron,
timber, provisions, aud useful hands the
provisions, the iron, and the men surrender
ed up, must become French. France and
the continent, which arc DESTROYS of restor
ing the balance OF power on the ocean, have
the self same interest in the Prosperity OF the
new Maritime Department ofSpezzia. The
incorporation of Tuscany is a necessary con-
sequence of that grand plan.
This union is also the interest of Tusca-
NY, which under the sway of its little primo
es, was governed without system, without
visor, and was perpetually insulted by the
Barbary Powers. Men IAN now no longer be
governed in a capricious and fantastic man
ner. There must be certain rule, the go
vernment of the law protected by prince
sufficiently great and elevated above the pas
sions of men, and inflexiblc as the law is ne
|cessary for this purpose. The time indeed
is passed, in which it was believed that peo-
pie were made for kings. not kings for peo-
pie. Lands, pastures, and forests may be-
come property, but no person can possess a
kingdom as if it were a farm. These dis
astrous consequences can nolonger take place
in great states. 1t is in vain then that OBJ
jections are made to the great extension of
he empire; the communication by land,
now that neither Alps or Apprentices oppose
it, is as easy from Leghorn to Paris as from
Paris to Nice. 1t has been the pelicy of Eu-
opean States to subdue the most distant
countries i'm order to obtain new commerce
al and maritime resources why then should
we neglect those resources and acquisitions,
which are so valuable to us? The Territory
of the Medicis, the country of the sciences
and the arts, must form an immediate part
of the French empire.
"The Dukedom of the Urbino, Camerho,
and the Mark of Ancona, lying on the cost
of the Adriatic, fall under the influence of
Venice, & must necessarily be united with ne
kingdom of Italy. This is also accomplish
ed, and the considerable works in the prt
of Ancona will afford the opportunity of it
ting out there ten sail of the line, to secure
the freedom of the Adriatic sea, of with
Ancona shall be the harbour, and Venie
The naval arsenal. Before the end of tbs
year, five sail of the line shalt be lying in til
roads of Ancona, in that dangerous sea, which
to the English presents only hostile shores, K
where they will be obliged to maintain SIX
ships of the line, if they attempt to counte'-
balance our power. No, the war shall MT
De eternal, in spite of the blind fury whid,
cherishes that inhuman and senseless primo
pie in the cabinet of London. Every wher
French s9madrems ere forming and o;iiii. liz wi
power in the Scheldt is already considers
bic. In few days there will be in the roaos
of Flushing and Antwerp feet of thirty sal
ofthe line that OIL the coast of Brittany wi
be still stronger. Besides that. we have tie
allied Russian squadron at Lisbon, whee
here are alreadya division of several new
CHI r>f 4 me s,,f he he r ~,
pid advance of the army under Genera lJunt
placed in our hands.
"The events in Spain have converted
declining and badly conducted monarchy in
To constitutional and energetic government.
the dock yards at Cadiz, Ferrol and Cartha-
gena, have felt this already.--Touon, Spec
zia, Venice, all the resources forth coming
from Holland, Spain, and Italy, are in une-
ration. We must have ships, and these last
named countries have no deficiency either of
iron OF of timber and hemp, for building or
rigging them.
A decree has been issued from the En-
peror for the incorporation of Tuscany, OH
the principle of the necessity for completing
the system of the great Empire, and for rem
dering the naval administration of France
harmonious throughout all the members of
the great confederacy. Without the incor-
poration of Tuscany, there can be no com
with Naples, and our relations
could not be maintained with her, but thro'
the medium of states subsisting under other
governments, from which it might be fear
ed that the guidance and influence might be
lost, which must be exercised towards such
states, to place the coasts and sailors in
state of opposition to the common enemy.''
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