The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1810-04-06
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u. Britain, the steady foe Of liberty and tin
rights. IS
The Chief Justice Marshall. in his life O
washington. has made remark on thi
subject. which l read with sorrow, for hav
no pleasure in disappearing any act o
thought OF that gentleman. He admits tn,
strong feelings in favor of France, which
have mentioned declares that they wer,
universal throughout the United States; yet
AS Tito cast a csnsure upon thesc feelings, liz
says" The war in which the several pc
! tensatcs OF Europe were engaged, although
IN almost eUcry fnsfunce declared 6y lha!
foSver, was pronounced to be a war for the
! extirpation OF human liberty and for the
Punishment of free government from the
face OF the EARTH" If it was the intention oil
the Chief Justice to test the correctness q!
ourfeelings. by adjusting the relative, mer-
its OF the parties to that war, it is impossl
BILE but that his analytic mind must have
seen-tbat the true question was not who inst
declared the svdr, but who Was guilty of the
hrst aggression. The Barbary powers, I be-
lieve, never declare war at all :, but they
make it. And the potentates of Europe
seem to have thought revolutionary France
unworthy of the Ciyility of formal declara-
lion OF war but affirm, not on the evil
dence OF party histories. but OH the public
and authentic acts of these potentates
themselves, that the war came in every in .
stance from them, and that it was a war up.
on liberty. et
have now under my eye the declaration
under which the King Of Prussia marched
his armies into Poland. After the enumera-
ton OF few unimportant pretexts. he says,
But what still more requires the serious
attention of the. King, and all the neighbor.
'ns' POWERS, IS the propagation of French
democracy" with this object in view, he
says, he had thought it proper. to concert
measures with the courts of Vienna and Pc
| tersburg and after stating that it depend !.
ed on the Poles to merit their protection "hy
prudent and tranquil conduct, by giving to
the frussian troops friendly reception and
treatment, and by assisting them with what
ever they may want and facilitating their
subsistence" he concludes with this perfidi-
Gus Sentence" The King is fond of cher
fishing the hope that with sentiments so TIA i.
cUc, he may depend on the good will of a
hat'on, whose prosperity caiiTot be indiffer-
ent to his majesty and to whom Ills males
ty wishes to give real proofs of his affection
and good qofshes."-With these hacifc Gen
fsments having entered Poland, with his ar
mics, at three several points, he gives
decisive proof of his disintcrested aft lection
ana good wishes, by seizing into his own
a
tHe ofhcr fofOers concerned therein" the
CITY and whole territory of DaRtzig ;. alledg
ing as a principal ground of the seizure, the
connection betweena powerful democratic
faction which inhabited it and the poisonous
factions of France. This CONQUEST & partiti
on OF unofending Poland. was followed by
al immediate invasion of, France; accompa
med by propagation of manifestoes by the
Duke OF Brunswick, switch" says Mr..
IN fl1ofr 49, ~.volo 1.
neeh carried into practice, must have inevi-
taoiy produced the return of that feroci,y
and barbarism in war which beniGcent re.
iig'on and enlightened manners and true mil
itary homo: have for LONE time banished
from the christian world :" and Of whic!. Mr..
Fox, when speaking exclaimed, save us
from that last of infamies a participation i'm
the manif.stoes of the Duke of Brunswick 20
Hence the British lords Lansdown, Lau-.
deraaie and Derby. in protesting as they did
against the war with Fraacc, might we'll as
sert it as "being notorious, that Prussia has
been the aGgressor against France"
AS to the empsror of Germany, thu sue
cessor OF Leopold. when he was called up
on hy M. de Noailes, the minister of the
french republic, to say what the republic
had to expect of him, he answered :. that
the only terms on which peace could be con-
tlnuea. were, that the French monarchy
Snouiu BE re-eStaOnshed according to Tie
plan proposed at the Royal session at Yer
saiiles, In 1889, which exacted the restora-
ton OF the nobility, clergy, church lands,
&C. &c. This was justly considered by
France, as equivalent to a declaration of
war, whereupon France declared war in
regular form. Can il be doubted in this
case, who was the aggressori Or can it
be doubted, that the war which he waged,
was war against the principles of the
French revolution?
With regard to Great britain, the rude
dismissal of Mr.. Chauvelin, the French
ambassador, and the refusal to acknowledge
or correspond farther with the republic,
constituted a sufficient aggression. to throw
upon Great Britain the guilt Oft war which
followed. But those measures were them
selves OF little moment, when compared
with the fixed sentiments of hostility, from
which they sprung; FOR the king Immediate
ly sent war-message to Parliament, in
which he called upon them not to resent
any insult or injury which he had received
from the French republic, for he pretended
none such but to resist views of conquest
and aggrandizement, entertained by tina,
republic, at all times dangerous to the
general interests Of Europe but peculiar
| ~ SO, when Connected With the propagation
OF principles, which lead to the violation
| OF the most sacred duties, and are utterly
subversive OF the peace and order of all CT
VII society,"" Thus, as was well urged by
those members OF Parliament who opposed
the war, that cabinet which could siumber
over the progress of the combined arms.