The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1811-02-09
Gurope.
Translated for the NY Evening Posr.]
PARIS
CONSERVATIVE SENATE

SIRE. ' = IS
Your Majesty has raised France to the
high st pitch of grandeur. The victories
Obtained over hve successive coalitions all
fomentedb by England. have produced these
results and it may be said that for the plo-
ry. the power OF the Great Empire, we are
Indebted TO England.
On all occasions. your majesty has offered
peace and withou. enquring whether it
would be more advantageous than war, you
considered, Sire, only the happiness of the
present generation and you always Showed
yourself ready to sacrifice to it the most pro.
missing futur. prospects.
1t was thus that the treaties of Peace of
Campo Formio. of Luneville and of Amens
and subsequently those of Prcsburg, of Ill
SIT, and OF Vienna, were conc iuded it was
thus That your Majesty FIVE times sacrificed
to peace the greater part of YOUR conouests
More DESTROYS of making YOUR reign iliustri-
Gus by the public happiness. than of extend
ing the dominion of your Empire, your Ma
Jesty put limits 10 your own grandeur. while
Engiand reminding necessarily the flames
OF war, appea AIRED tn conspire against her al
lies and against herself in order to make
this Empire the greatest that has existed
within twenty centuries.
At the peace of 1885, the power of F,auce
was strengthened by the Family comnact
which firmly at ched to her system of Poll
tics Spain and Naples.
At the period of the pence of A. iens the
respective strength of three great bowers
was increased by twelve millions of ,nhabi
tents OF Poland. The houses of France and
Spain were essentially enemies, and the peo
Pile OF those nations were etill farther separa-
ted oy their manner. One of the greatest
continental powers had lost less strength by
IS II n
she had acquired by the possession of We
nicr and the secula,isations of the Germa
nc body had still further increased the DOW
er of our rivals.
mus France, after the treaty of Amiens.
had a strength relatively less than at the
peace of 1888, and much inferior to that
winch the victories obtained during the wars
OF tn two first coalitions gave her the ripht
to claim
Notwithstanding, scarcely was the treaty
concludes when the jeal usy of England
was evidently in high degree excited. She
was alarmed at the constant increase of the
internal riches and prosperity of France and
she hoped that a third Goa ition would snatch
from your crown Belgium, the provinces of
she Rhine and Italy. The peace of Amiens
was violated. A third coalition was formed
three months afterwards it was dissolved Inv
the treaty of Presbure.
England saw all her hopes frustra, ed We
nice Dalmatia, I,trla, ALT coasts of The
Adrlatlc, and those OF the kingdom of Ma
Piles, came under the French dominion.
ne u rman body established upon princi-
plies contrary to those which founded fbe
ftench empire, tell to pieces. and the $, stem
OF the Confederation OF the Rhine convertad
into intimate and necessary allies rho 60.
people who, in the two former coal;,ions
had marched against France and iodissnI,,
DIV unl'ed them to her by com non inter
ests. "'e'
Inc peace OF Annie rs then became in Eng
land the object of the regrets o.. ALI her
statesmen. The new acquisitions of France
which thenceforth they had no hone If p.
wishing from her rendered them more cen
slole OF the fault which they had committed
and demonstrated the full extent oft.
AN enlightened man VINO during the short
interval OF the peace of Amiens. had come
TO faris' and had learned to know France
auo your McJesty, came to the head of aft
fairs in England. That man of eenius
comprehended the situation of the two co,n
tries He saw that it was no longer with
IN the abi'y of any p wer to make France
go back and thai true politics Consisted in
stopping her. He felt, that by he success
ses obtained against the third Coalition the
question was at an end, and that thev INNS,
no longer think of disputing with France
the possessions she had lust acouired h,,
victory !; but that they ought, by a speedy
peace, to prevent new ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
winch the cOntinuance'of the war would rem
derinevtable Thar minister did moi hid
from himself any of the ADVANTAGES which
FIR zee mad reaped from he false polit;I
OF England; but he had before his ewes those
which she might still reap He believed ,hat
England would gain much, if none of rho
powers OF the Con inent should lose more -
His system OF politics was to- disarm France
to cause the conteder, ion of the Nor,h &c
Germany to be acknowledged i'm opposi,ion
to the Coniederatinn of the Rhine He felt
hat Prussia could be saved only bv Peace
and that upon the fate of that power denend
ed the system of Saxony, of Hesse. of Han
0ver, and of the fate the mouths IF tbe
Ems the Jade, the Weser, the Elbe The
Oder and the Vistula, so necessarv 70 ,be
English commerce. A man of sunorior
mind, Fox, did not content himself win nee
lessly regretting the rupture of the treatv rs
Amiens. and the losses thencefor,h ,rren,rs-
bic he wished to- prevent still greateroree
and he sent Lord Lauderdale to Paris
The negotiations began, and every thing
Presaged happy issue to them when FnS
died. : y"
They then only languished. The Min;s-
nv were neither sufficiently enligh,en,d NOR
sufficiently cool-blooded to feel the necessitv
OF peace. Prussia, instigattd by that snir;t
with which England inspired all Frrooe
put her troops in motion. The imneriaI
guard had orders to set out Lord T,a,,dan
dale appeared afraid Of the ct,nseouences IS
the new events which uero - 80 VIZ