The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1808-11-04
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i SIRE have the honor of laying bcfor,
yohr.Wajesty tue state and sit,,a,ion or vor
ima'esty,s armiss.in Paiamd, in Prussia ,nt
IN Si!esia, in Denmark, il Da.matia, in Al
oania. in Italy, Naples aniia Spain. an.
mex 70 1t, that OF your InaicSty's armies o.
reserve, at Eouogne, on the coasts, ON The
'-hnine and. in the interior Your M.;es,,
WIN perceive that France 90.
sesscd more numerous or better apDnftcd
armies, and hat they were never better kent
up or hettcr provsoned.
| Notwithstanding, however, the different
events which have taken plrcc in Spain,
! have occasioncd pretty considerable loss.
in consequence of AN operation as inccncciv-
| able as it is painful, of the division under
General Dupont your Majesty has notified
the resolution Won have takrn ri nec.,,,i,l;,.,r
more. than two hundred thousand men be-
| vond the Pyrenees. without, however, weak
ening either the armies in Germany, or that
| of Dalmatia. For thu attainment OF this
end, levy of eighty thousand men appears
| to be Indispensable. Your maiSst. can only
take these eighty thousand from the four
classes of the CONSUMPTION of the years 1906.
1907, 1905 ard 1909.
| 1t is ascertaincd by tile registers kept in
my office, that independently of the r.en who
have married within these four years, the
CONSUMPTION for these years might furnish
| six hundred Thousand. IL taking from th a.
number lew of eighty thousand men, your
majesty will have called out only one con-
script out OF seven, and the vacancies in the
armies will be filed up with soldiers of Il e.,
p and 23 years of age chat is, with men
IT and prepared ts undergo the fatigues of
war.
! Nor has It escaped your unaesty's foresight
that such an augmentation of force would
necessarily involve an increase of c-pence
OF several millions in sha War Depart @nt
| 1t is not your maJeSty's wish that should
detain your attention withthat object in this
report ; yOnr Finance Minister has taken
upon him to make good that charge, without
in anywisc increasing the taxes established
| by the last law
| 1t is true, Sire, that the custom observed
OF late years, might to a Certain degree in
dncc Il part of your subjects to consider them
selves az released from the duty o. the co =
scriPtion. from the moraent that, up n the
total mass, they had furnished the contin-
gent required Tor the wear and under this
POINT Oh view, what propose to your MACS
" might appear to require from vour sub
lects n sacrifice EI't, Sire, there is M one
but knows, that, by the words of the law.
your majesty would be authorised to call 10
your standard tic whole of the CONSUMPTION.
not only OF the last four years, but even of
the antecedent years and en- were there
questions of a real sacrifice what sacrifice
Is 1t that your majesty has not a rigitt to OK
pecf from the love of your subjects. Who
among Us is ignorant that your majesty Who'll
" sacrifices Yourself for the happiness of
France, and that upon the SPEEDY accom-
piishment of your high designs depend the
repose of the world, the future safety and
the re establishment OF a maritime pence,
wit ,~l,
and tranquility?
In proposing to your majesty to declare
that henceforth no respective call shall take
on an antcccdent CONSUMPTION, ! only partici-
pate, sire, your paternal wishes.
THINK 1t 'Xpcdicnt, at the same time, to
propose to your majesty TO order out the cor.
scription of che year 1910, and to determine
the amount Of it, from the present instant,
at eighty thousand men, to furnish the
means, as occasion may require, o. forming
camps o.reserve, and. of protecting til coast
in the s,tring time This corscription would
be raised only under the apprehension Of
war with other powers, nor would it he cal
led out before the month OF January next
Sire, 1T is misfortune inscparabe from
the present state CT Europe, that when one
power exceeds the mount OF the forces pro-
portloncd TO its population, tho othsrp0we.s
canEot dispense with increasing theirs in the
same proportion
England, independent of the immen,c
number Of her seauen, has on foot an army
of more than .wo hundred thousand men nor
- she occupied in tVery Session Of her Par
liamcnt, with any thing so much with tue
increase Of her land forces. The armies OF
Austria have been Considerably increased
France, although she has armies more MI
merors than all the othe" powers, has, not
wthstanding, fewer men uuder arms than
any 81 them, compared with her population.
Your minister for foreign aii.,irs assures
me, that n strict alliance subssted Between
Your majesty and Russia. The arn1men;s
of Kustria have often eEc;ted my solici;ude
| The same minister assured nc, that the
best understanding was Kept up with. Aus
tria, and that her levies should duly he con-
sidered, either. as precautions, OF as the eff
feet Of apprehonsions, which are forcibiy inn
pressed on every court, by the numercus a.
gents which England continues in pay on tho
lContinent.
But If it docs not belong to thc business oi
my department to dixie into the views and
Interests of States fnd explore tic. tortuous
labyrin;h Of politics, is at least foy dntg t
neglect nothing to.mate your maiesty's ar
mics maintsin, at I'll poiuts, that Just snpc
riority whic they cup<i't 20 pos csy. IN.
armies OF Albania and Da!nlstia, Of Den
mark and of the El5c, will no. allow Of an,
dminution, under the circumstances Of tht