The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1810-07-20
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FROM THE NATIONAL INrELLIGENcER
FRENCH INFLUENCE
July II.

The search for the philosophers stone has
exhausted Inc life OF many human being,
which, devoted To more rational pur.uits
HilSut nave Oeen advantage Gus TO society %
comfortable To themselves. We seem 60
nave a.hohS us some poiitcai aichemists,
VINO IN the same manner waste their exis
tence IN endeavoring TO prove the ex stence
OF AZ unhnown principle, a supposed Fyeoch
l"i'uence IN this Country. Should they be
enaoied TO discover 1t, they imagine it would
be the specific, which would rouse rhe dronn
ing mead Of Federalism and give if new lie
and renovated vigor. Unfortunately for those
VINO undertake the search, they have so Tar
only exposed themselves to the ridicule Of
their friends and the contempt of their enc
mics, for their absolute failure in develoDiug
that winch, according to them, needed but
TO pass through their Cruclbles to become
self evident.
writer IN the Freeman's Journal (suppo
Sed to be Mr.Eliot, formerly a representative
III Congress, from the state of Vermont has
commenced a series otletters addressed to the
people OF me United States on the subject of
french Influence" Having already pro-
duced SIC letters aud not touched the sub
Ject, and finding himself EXPOSED To the
Aneers OF his friends for having rashly ven
urea amongst quick sands, where he had
no ground TO stand upon. he has made A
desperate plunge in his SEVENTH LETTER
-"hich, however, so far from relieving him
from the aukwardness of his situation will
Out the more bewilder him.
lhe only sentence in which the writer of
these letters has attempted to advance any
ming IKE p'oot in support of his allegation
OF french influence, is introduced in ms Sc
Vehth letter with pompous parade some.
'h,hg IKE the machinery of an epic poem
\ InSr I'm, he. Il,
purchase OF the FlorIdas and our differences
with Spain in 1906 IS and 10 the snonositi
on entertained ny many that Spain was
under the influence of France, the writer
says -
1eherai Armstrong, at length, tanta.
ilzed beyond endurance in this Business, &
ven KNOWING that there was a snake IN the
SreSa, applied to NJ Talleyrand. 20 know
what the y. states must expect from France,
should they go to war with Spain. The pc
neral wrote to the president land the pre
siuent tncauTonSly suffered this to 20 Con
Sress ~ the mass of Confidential docarnents)
Mr.. Ialieyraud was instantaneous
prompt uneqniyocal IN his reply-Jf UNI
gs 10 zvar zviM Shain, France cG, 7S,i5er
donbf nor hesisate! She must take HART
zviLh Sham 4" I'Nf
Ihus early was the criminal man who
then firctended to administer the executive
department of he government of the Uni
TED states informed, officially, by his own
CONFIDENTIAL agent, OF the infie:: iblc determi
nation OF The T. nperor n 1poeon to controul
the Conduct of the u. States in its foreign
relations and thus clearly, as we shall a.
bundantly prove. did he submit 70 such con
troll nese facts infinitely momentous he
yoDd any thing III our recent history. have
oeen Concealed from the people of the u ).
fg.n an 4 ~
Ana upon this basis the writer of these
letters proceeds TO raise his superstruct,we
u French influence Wretched mus,
DC the cause whose abettors resort TO such
,npo'ito'is and subtetfuges FOR support. -
VINO is there so ignorant a. not to Know that
| - the treaty of alliance between Franc y
7pain' then existing. there was Contained
~ article precisely applicable to his case
ne whple world knew hat in that treat,
after speaking OF the relative good Offices to