The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1812-05-26
FRENCH PdPERS.

FROM fHe journal &c l>OIIS OF .dNTft III.
8. elf we take a view of the French Empire
we see that it now offers deyelopement Of
forces, perhaps unexampled. AT the mo-
ment when near 100000 men are marching
from Hamburg, the Vessel, Mayence, We
1ui,a. Munich, Dresden and Berlin, to take a
position upon the Utiioi. and the Vistula
whilst 10 eco men form camps ofreserve for
the protection of the coast of France, Italy,
the kingdom of Naples, and the Ilyrean
provinces, and that six armies, amounting
to nearly 100000 men, are in the Peninsula,
fifty battallious are in march from dffe-
rent points, to replace in Spain, or regi-
ments which have been recalled, and some
detachments of the Imperial Guard 5000
cavalry have set ont from tie depots to re-
iiforCe that same army, and all this is done
without effort, with u extraordinary means,
without hustle; at the same time, Conside
rable fleets are equipped and armed, several
vessels will in the course of the summer,
be completed i'll Touion /; several are con-
structmg 1T Venice one has been launched
at Genoa, many others are upon the stocks
at A amsterdam Rotterdam, Antwerp, Cher
b0urg, and Rochefort.
g The funds to be appropriated to ships,
roads, canals, bridges, new basins, & dock
yards, are, as we are assured, more conside-
rabic than that of last year the construc-
ton Of a basin at the mouth of the
Loire is talked of the road from Hamburger
20 Vessel will this year be finished; thus a
route of more than 80 leagues :, costing OF
more than ten Millions, Will have been fin
ishcd in less than two years.
The road from Amsterdam to Antwerp
occupies three depots of workmen, of the
same are employed upon that which coasts
the Mediterrean from Nice to Rome, that
from Parma to Spizzin. The cause way from
Bordeaux to Bayonne, across Les Landes
will be finished this season.-Roads which
will cross the B&rri in different directions
are, it is said, in contemplation, and the es-
Enlistment of a direct communication with
Saragossa by levellng the Pyrcnees at 3
great number of points.
The Basin of Flushing will be complete
ly finished before the month OF June, sc
vessels completely armed will be able to en-
ter il, an advantage which the old basin did
not possess, in which ships could not enter
without having their guns taken out.
- THIS year the E.ibe has been sounded s.
1t is understood that river possesses similar
advantages 10 those possessed by the Scheldt
ii has fine harbors, basins, and an arsenal
for building will be establi,he there
e" The works of the strong fortresses arc
pursued with equal activity. Three fort:
have been constructed ut the Helder
Forts Morlands, Dugominur and La Sale
undations. Batteries defend the passage
of the Helder and protect the squadron 4; a
basin and maritime establishment have
been decreed, and will be commenced thi:
year j.; already would three months opcr
trenches be required to take the Heder
that key of Zuyderzee and Holland"
a London paper of the 18th ult. mentions
that one of their vessels had peeped into
Cherburg on the 8tlI, where the IT, S. sloops
OF war HORNET and WASP were lying---so
that HENRY the Spy is safe in>France
The London Courier of April 4, saws.
:" The American dispatches, taken from on
board the American schr. Hotspur, bound
tr. Baltimore to Bordeaux, are SAID to have
been traced to the Register Office i'll Doc
tors Commons, where, says the report, they
were Sc we terday by a gentleman inte-
rested III the snip. According to this ac-
count there where three enclosures, two OF
them addressed to the American Minister
an France, both of which are stated to have
been opened, and put together again with
waters; the other was addressed to MIR
Lee, the American Consul at Bordeaux, the
seal OF which appers not to have been bro
Ken"