The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1809-09-01
DOMESTIC.
FROM THE AURORA.
BRITISH INFLUENCE,

BRITISH INFLUENCE,
THE POISON OF CIVIL SOCIETY.
When we, some time ago, repealed the in
famous subterfuge of the hirelings of England
in America. who set up the cry of French in
fiuence, as the thief in his flight cried out,
" stop thief" to divert attention from him
self; we gave the corrupt crew the challenge
the, coadjutors of CULLEN, and the in.itc-
TORS of Cobbeft, the yCheethams and Cole
mars. the RusseiS and Parks, the Eron-
sons, and the rest of the herd who subserve
the oppressor Of our Country and the corrupt
err and common disturber of the world, we
gave them the challenge to bring the least
shadow of plausible evidence to induce the
belief of any corrupt influence exercised over
the press or the government of America by
France we were ready to go into the inves-
tigation-and we dare it we dare ii, bvex
hibitiDg the eUtdence that the system of Bri
fish government, from toh to Eottom-is
corruption.
We have placed the fact upon foundati
on which sophstry can neither diminish of
its atrocious enormity, nor divest of its de-
testab!e character.
We now goto shew that her system in o
Their nations, has been as Aagrantiy corrupt as
it has been from top to bottom at home. Here
too, we shall not resort to any other than the
evidence drawn from British sources, evil
dence given by the partcipators. and re-
corded by the individuals themselves, how
were the agents or the instruments of COR
lrupton.
:, The first evidence whom we shall call, will
be school fellow of the last infamous and
exeerable lillian Pin, prime minister of
England, and of universal mischief-this
parsonage is WTiiiam II. Miles, ESQ for
merly an officer in the British army. This
gentleman published, in the course of last
summer, letter to the British Prince of
Wales, in which, among other matters, we
shall extract "a few of his facts.
Mr.. Miles says, that the war with France
was resolved on as early as 1871, "when the
revolution had scarcely ,peeped over the
Boulevards OF Paris" That George Ill
told Pitt. " he, must make war with
France or resign" That Pitt, although con
scious of his own incapacity for conducting
a war, preferred his place. 1.-THE Pigmv
ambition of Pitt, "says MIR. Miles, scared
"no higher than to Office. The book of "a.
"canctes was far more important in his es-
"timatIon, than the interest of the empire
cor the destiny of nations"
Observe, it is the school fellow Of Mr..
Pitt who speaks, a man who knew him well.
Looking solely to the preservation of
"what he had acquired by intrigue Chat is
g. his place , he entered into all the rash
"and inoonsiderate counsels of the man (Ed
'mund Burke,) who became, as it were. a
"focus in which were concentrated all the
"wild and wicked projects of the most art
''ful ofthe French enigrants," &c. "When
"ever parliament calls for an account of the
tissues to Mr.. Wickham, while in Switzer-
4" land, your royal highness will learn with
"equal surprize and Indignation, the amount
" of British gold paid TO a banditti of adven-
'turers, under the stale pretext of accom-
"plishing a counter -volution in France"
Mr.. Wickham drew" says Mr. Miles,
"for something more than seven hundred
thousand POUNDS, (about three millions and
ga AaT Of dollars.) during his short missi-
ION in Switzerland"
In subsequent extracts we shall shew
continuation of the corruption in Swisser-
land, and the manner by which Pichegru
was bought, as Arnold was bought by Bri-
fish gold in another revolution, and as Ge-
neral DaHican, now in London, was bought !;
for the corruption of England is almost ON
nipresent; and had net providence raised up
such man as Bonaparte, it threatened to o.
verwhelm and debauch the whole universe
Mr.. Miles narrates, very perspicuously,
several transactions in which he acted a part
himself, in efforts toprevent war, in which
France was uniformly the supplicant and
was as formally treated with supercilious
insolence or arrogant disdain. Mr.. Miles
was known as an Englishman, and a friend
of Pitt, he travelled in Europe as Mirabeau
formerly travelled in the north of Europe
as man of great talents, authorised to
report to the government the fruit of his OBJ
servations.
He was applied to by M. Chauvclin, by
Maret, (who is now Secretary Of State to
the French Emperor by the two Morgues,
father aud son by Noel, man of great in
tiueDce in France, and by Rehinhard mi
mister OF France in Swisserland, at subse-
quent period. These attempts were made
ih 1872, and in February, 1898.
All these efforts, it is well known, failed
the following facts however are new to us
"The war" says Mr. Miles, "determin-
"ed upon in 1871, announced itself on the
18Th February, 1898, after various efforts
"of France to avert the direful calamity.
Towards the end Of the following month
"(March an offer was made through me
Mr.. Miles, tothe British government, by
- the friends of limited monarchy, then
% known by the name of 19odereS, to march
AN army from the Alps of France to Paris,
"and to proclaim the son Of Louis XVI.
then living, king cf France, provided G..
Britain would declare herself contented
"with the constitution which Louis XVI
"nad sworn to respect; and as a pledge of
cher sincerity, procure the release of NJ.
=" de la Fayette. most shamefully as well as
"impoltically detained by Prussia first, and
afterwards by Austria. 1t was proposed
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