The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1809-12-28
Gurppe.


1'S"s s"e wa Co, "a >~""HV. [FGIiefs " tNc
9th November.
We grieve as deeply as any men at the
result of the war between Austria & France
the mere, because we confess we cannot
buoy ourselves up with those hopes of better
things, of brighter prospects, which some Of
our contemporaries seem to do. They consi
der that Austria is still lief. by the peace Of
Vienna independent and formidable, and
that BonAparte has not realized those threats
which he set GU. with; that he has left the
Emperor still Emperor of Austria; that he
has left him his capital, and that he has
rot executed his Nenaces with respect to
Hunsary.-He certainly has not; but it is
in tie nature Of Bonaparte's policy to begin
by making larger demands & holder threats
than he feels he can execute, or means to
attempt, ia order that when he comes to
negotiate, he may appear to have more mo-
Iteration, and also that he may furnish the
power, with which he is negotiating, with
sonle prstence, palliation, CT excuse, for ac-
ceding to his terms, because they are less
severe than those which he threatcned.-
Thus he began the late war BY issuing de.
cree in the nature of \ command to Hunga-
ny, and in speaking of the House of Austria,
he affected TO call thei- only princes of th.
House ct Lorraine. 1t was supposed then
that nothing would content him short of
stripping the Emperor of the Imperial title,
and of rendering Hungary independent. But
this inteetion he never seems seriously to
have entertained-By making peace, howe
yer, without accomplishing either of those
objects, he affords an opportunity to- those
who bclieve that he really had them in view,
to say that he has failed in attaining them.
and that therefore the peace is less disas
trous than their apprehensions led them to
expect it weuld be. Bonaparte has given
back to the Emperor Of Austria his capital :;
he knows the pride that is attached to such
possession he knows also by experience
the little obstacle it has been to his opera
tons. The capital stopped not his march
IN the war with Prussia it checked not his
career in the war with Austria I'm giving
back the capital, he gives only that which
would fall before him the moment he could
reach its walls. and hence he did not de-
mand Berlin in his ne gociations with Prussia,
Dor Vienna in his negotiations with Austria.
But he has concluded treaty, we are told,
with the Emperor, as Emperor of Austria !:
he has left him still the Imperial dignity
BY the great stress laid upon this point, it
nay by some be suspected that the retaining
the title was deemed a sufficient equivalent
for large territorial cessions. We trust
such a suspicion is i'll founded because the
policy that should have advised, such a mea
sure would be most ccnsnrable The mere
possession ct the title could not recsneuer
the territories that were ceded fer it, tho
the possession of the territories might re-
gam the title that was coded in preference
to territorial cessions. We should think the
preservation Of the title of Emperor of Aus
tria dearly purchased indeed by the giving
upthe Iyrol, or the Abandonment of Saltz
burgh. Bcrchtolsgaden, and part Of Upper
austria. 1t may be, however, that Bona
Iarte did not press this point. The title of
Emperor of Austria indicates only the sove-
I7gn authority over a territory in the actual
possession of the Emperor. Bat it was diff.
ferent with the title Of Emperor of Germa-
ny; that title signihed that the posScssor of
1T was the supreme chief of the German,c
Body, the abandonment Of it therefore was
pressed by Bonaparte, because having placed
himself at the head of the Members of the
Conftderacy OF the Rhine, under the name
of their Protector, he had virtually assumed
the station of the House of Lorraine, and
was DESTROYS being considered as Empe.
ror ~ Germany, combining in that charac!
ter all its ancient privileges, with the energy
peculiar to newly formed and reyolutiopa
ny government.
Grea. sacrifices Austria has certainly been
obliged to make by the peace of Vienna she
has been driven from all Maritime conpec.
ton and intercourse, and is more CLOSELY
pressed on tnree SdcS ny powers under the
absolute control of France. The loss of part
OF Cafiathia, of Carnioa, and of Saltz5urgh
shuts her eat entirely from all contact with
Italy, AID By the loss Of Trieste aud Fiume,
she is rendered eli inland power, not being
able to send her produce by sea without tn c
consent OF France, or ct powers dependant
upon France. Blu. still it may be doubted
whether the peace, as far as it relates to
territorial ccssions, is by any means so bad
as We had reason 20 expect from the man
.ncr in which Austria had placed all her
stro"g holds and important positions in the
hauds ct France by the armisticc Of Znaym.
BY that armistice she had absolutely depri-
we'd herself of the power Of communicating
freely between one part Of her territories
and another. Bohemia was cut off from all
correspondence with Hungary by the inter.
position of a French force in Morsvia. The
French possessed the key Ct Hungary. thev
lad Gratz and Brunn they had Villac, thew
Lad Vienna, they had tie command nf the
course of the Danube, the Mnhr, the brave
aid the Save; Prague was allnos, the only
stiOng place IN the hands of The AHstrians.
an armistiee that surrenSe red the KEYS and
Lids If the E,npire to France would have
ia tified "a belief that harder terms would
have bern demanded that Bohemi., q pbe If
the AuSuias would have been wres.ed fr IA
tue Emperor.
But upOn oiUrc mature reflection our yea
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