The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1810-04-20

and without any reference whatever to ne.
goc,ation for peace.
Price of Stocks this day at twelve, per
cent. Cons. for money 81 1924.
PARIS. March 1.
A letter, dated Seville. Feb. 5, states,
the entrance of Sebastiani into Granada, and
that the Duke of rrcviso was the next day
to march for Badajoz.
Another letter, from the same. dated Sc
Vile, February S, states. that Sebastian
was to be that day at Malaga, and was to
occupy Antequera and Guadix, and COM
munioate by honda and Marbello. with the
first corps, the troops of which were on
that day to occupy San Lucar de Der.
ramido. Rota Puerto de Santa Maria, Pu
erto Real ct Chicona. and Medina Sidonia,
for the purpose of entirely blockading Ca
dir on the land side.
MINISTRY FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS
Note from The Minister of FOREIGN If.
fairs. to the Baron de RoeH, Nltnisfe;.
Of Foreign .9fairs for Holland.
1.-The undersigned minister for foreign
relations for France, is charged with making
known to his excellency, Baron de Roel,
the Dutch minister for foreign affairs, the
resolutions which his imperial majesty has
been forced to come to, in consequence of
the actual situation of Europe. If these de
examinations are Contrary to the views of
the people of Holland, the Emperor is Ger
tainly sorry for it. and has adopted this
course with great regret But the unrelent
ing destiny. which presides over the affairs
OF this world, and which chooses that men
should be governed by events, obliges his
majesty to follow up, with frmncss, those
measures, OF which the necessity has been
demonstrated to him, without suffering him
self to be turned aside by secondary consi-
deratioDs.
''His imperial majesty, in placing one of
his brothers OH the throne of Holland. did
not foresee that England would dare to
proclaim, openly, the principle of perpetual
war and that, to support it, she would a.
dept, as the basis of her lie gislation, the mon
strous principles which have dictated her
orders of council of November, 1907. Until
then, her maritime right was undoubtedly.
combated by France, and repealed by neu-
trails but it did not exclude all navigation,
and left a sort of independence to maritime
nations. There was but little Inconvenience
to the common cause, in the commerce kept
up by Holland with England; either through
the agency OF neatrals. or by borrowing their
flag. MarseilTes, Bordeaux and Antwerp
enjoyed the same advantage. England had
Stiii W tile the Russians
and the Prussians, the Swedes and the
Danes, and these nations formed sort of
league between the powers whom the seas
separated.
- The fourth coalition destroyed this state
of things England succeeded in uniting "a
gainst France, Russia, Prussia and Sweden
she Was no longer obliged to resort to SO
much management; it was then that she
abused both words and things; she set up
the pretension of making disappear, all the
rights of neutrals before simple decree of
blockade. The Emperor was forced to use
reprisals, and at his entrance into Berlin, he
answered it by the blockade of the British
Isles Neutrals, and above all, Americans,
demanded an explanation of this measure.-
He answered them, that although the abb
surd system of blockade, was state altoge
Their OF intolerable usurpation, the Emperor
bounded himself tothe stopping, on the con-
tiDent, the commerce of the English; that
the neutral flag should be respected at sea
that his vessels of war, and privateers, should
not distHro the navigation Of neutrals, the
decree being only to be executed upon land
- But the measure itself, which compeli-
ed the shutting of the ports Of Holland a
gainst the English commerce, injured the
mercantile interest of the people of Holland,
and was contrary to their ancient habits.
Cio Was i've uISl SOufCc Oh Tie opposition
which began to prevail between France and
Holland. From that time his imperial ma
jesty could not but observe that the King Of
Holland was divided between his most I'M
prescriptible dutes---his duties 10 the I'm
perial Throne, and the mercantile notions
OF the Dutch nation. Nevertheless his I'm.
perial Majesty armed himself with patience,
add shut his eyes, i'll expectation from the
tnrn OF events of some incident which should
deliver his brother from the very unpIea
SAINT alternative to which he found himself
reduced
During these transactions the peace of
llisit was concluded. The Emperor of Rus
STA, provoked by the outrages which the
English had committed against her flag,
while she was fighting the battles of Eng.
land, AID indignant at the horrible attack
on Copenhagen, made Common cause with
France.
France then entertained the hope that
England would have been sensible of the in
utility OF protracting the war, and that she
Sou!G have been willing to listen to reasoDa
bic terms OF peace. But this hope vanished
very soon. At the same time that they van
lshed, the English, as if the expedition 70
Copenhagen had deprived them Of all sense
otshame, and set them free from all res
straint, disclosed their projects, and publish
ed their Ordersin Council Oh November 1907
an arbitrary aHd yrannical act, which filed
all Europe with indignation. BY this act
En5an took upon het 60 make regulations.
obtGe foreign vessels 10 come 70 her harbors
before they proceeded to their ultimate des