The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1809-09-08
NJ II " I f Z ST
OF THE
SPANISH NATION TO EUROPE.
(CoNcLrprp)
Dated at the Regal Palace ejf AlcaSar.

For fifteen years, the ambition OF the French
now agitates and destroys Italy. Become the
theatre OF most bloody war, She has seen all
the fruits OF the prolonged peace which she had
enjoyed, vanish from before her every sublime
monument which the genius of arts had deposit
ted in her land carried Off to satisfy the pride of
one, who is unable to initiate them the limits
and equilibrium other different states, broken &
destroyed; herself destined, like us, to be divi.
ded INTO provinces, to satiate the ambition, re-
compense the ,nGuties, and content the unbri-
died luxury of these ravagers ofthe world. Lis
ten, Italians, to the voice of nation, with which
IN other times, you were so intimately connected
REGAL to your minds the days when your BAN
ners. your troops being united with ours, we hum.
bled the pride of France. on the banks of the
Careiiiano, and in the plains of Pavia. Spain
claims not the power she then possessed over YOU
10 an union she loudly calls you, and with her
10 liberty Make such regulations as will render
you respectable oppose another barrier to the
ambitious progress of this Colossus and Spain
seconding your efforts, will bless the day when
she can salute you as an Independent, great and
powerful nation
Switzerland has to deplore the same evils, the
same insults, and perhaps still greater losses
Her liberty and the simplicity of her manners
supplied the deficiency of fertility and the rough
ness OF her soil Happy with her independence
ana her virtues, notwithstanding her poverty, she
ehvIed not the most powerful and opulent natl
ons Her vicinity 10 France, has been her des-
truct'on: war has ruined her, rs it has Italy
converted into a barrack for soldiers, despoilcd
OF the riches, which the industry and economy
OF the inhabitants bad amassed in some of her
cites, and becoms the play thing of French in
trigue, the venerable laws of her confederation,
respected by time and by men, have, on a sudden,
Deen oVerthrown, to receive, in their stead,
constitution, made al the will of France. Of
what avail is the vain name of Republic which
the condescension of the tyrant still permits her
TO preserve Her prccarious situation leaves to
the Swiss no other alternative to maintain the
name and independence of Helyetia than to u
mite with those nations which aspire to preserve
themselves from the destructive vortex OF French
ambition If their poverty has till now preven-
ted their being reduced to kingdom, and given
as present, to some relation or favorite to-
morrow they will be the spoils of some inso!ent
wretch who may wish to trample under foot the
liberty and glory which sixty battles purchased
to their ancestors
Holland can by no means emerge from the con-
tempt and ignominy into which she is plunged -
Destitute OF navigation, commerce and colonies,
deprived OF her constitution and her laws, forced
30 acknowledge and give the title OF king to
man who possesses neither virtue, talents nor
glory she must either basey consent to be entire
iy struck out of the political world, or must APP
peal t. the just, the holy instruction, to which
every thing invites her. The whole of Germany
has seer her system Of confederation overturned
by intrigue, her liberties invaded, the emporiums
Of her commerce piundered and her cities desc.
lated by cruel war. The small states of that
part of the world have enjoyed monetary sa-
tistacuon IN seeing the great humbled but when
these shall have entirely disappeared, who will
be able TO preserve them from the destruction to
which they are huriying The political barriers,
which existed between their interests and those
OF France, are already removed by the nlonstrous
confederation Of the Rhine. The chief of that
confederation. more oppressive, more powerful
one hundred times, than the former chief of the
Ccrmanc empire, W II make that alliance, like
all those concluded between the weak and the
strong, a contract between slave and tyrant.
+. lsit possible that Austria can any longer doubt
as to the path she is to pursue Can the mistor
tunes OF the last war, the offspring OF surpri3e
and intrigue, not OF skill and vaior, deter her from
entering those lists, III which she has commended
with so much inAex;biiity, fought with SO much
glory After having engaged in three great
three bloody wars, for the aggrandizement OF her
power, the acquisition of glory, will she cease to
exert herself, when, upon her eXe,'ens, her very
existence depends Let her remember with
what pertidy Napoleon Julled to sleep Prussia, in
order to humble her at Yin and at Austerlitz -
Let her bring to mind, how ne availed himself Of
The inactivity OF Austria, that upon the plains OF
Jena, the fate Ut Prussia might end IN cxlcrm,nati-
on His fortune he has ioundedupon the diysi-
on OF these two powers he has weakened the
one, destroyed the other, and heaped coBtuinely
tits time to discover that France, the natural
envy OF all nations, cannot be restrained except
by coalition of lem all If Austria wishes 10
aveEge her insults, to repair her losses, and pre-
serve her poIi,ica! existence, the present is tn
time to effect 1T, whilst the attention of the enc
nys diverted in such distant quarters For.
Inerlv united with Spain, they together checked
Che impetuosity Of this restless, ever anbi.
tiOus people Span nov invites her 10 War "a
eanst the common enemy, and invites her
VITA the energy, the eagerness OF a nation NOR
tally wounded in her honor, aud threatened with
destruction They will both struggle Tor their
existence. IfSpain is destroyed, Austria sinks
Russia, trusting to the immense extent, to the
remoteness of her territories can, in all APP
pearance, live without fears, and treat upon a
footing of equality witn the oppfessor Of the other
powers. But when she shall have suffered him
TO aggrandize himself with the spoils Of The rest
of the continent, when her Indifference Of bad
policy shall have permitted the empires Of the
West and South to be united under one autbOri-
~, then she will have add Che destruction of
her commerce, the degradation Of submitting to
the commands OF Napoleon. Let moi the empe.
ror Alexander coniide either in prJIRs es or trca
ties, which are no longer complied with, than
whilst It's the interest OF the parties TO de
monstrations offriendsiiip, which per6dy can al.
ways command. Let her contemplate tie fate
OF three sovereigns, the most intimate friends of
that vile man. Let The ruin Of the supreme Pom
tiff, who sanctioned his exatatiOD, the degTadati-
ON OF the king OF Prussia VINO gave him his pre-
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