The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1813-05-27

it.-You did not balance You again saved
Prussia by admitting her into yorn Alliance
When Your Majesty visited Dresden, th8
Sang came To see you. and there openly re-
litcrated the assosaDces of en- invio'abis at
,aehmens TO tbs system which he had en-
braced.
As long as vow Majesty was n-zr,>r Of
events, and you were so as long as, genius
and courage could confrcl them Prussia
renamed faithful, and the Prussia rroo,,s
did the'r duty but when he Freeman .arry
experienced ~ its tgrn the casncet Of for
tune, the cabinet of Berlin no IooS~~ held
any measures. The detection of General
! ork called the enemy into the sts.es OF he
| King of Prussia, and compelled our armies
! - evacuate the Nistula and 10 preceed to
The Oder. 90 s.
Prussia, to disguise Der Intentions, oiaiefed
to furnish new contingency. Sac nac-in
Syesia and On ta:s SIDE Ne Oder a{fst -ass.s
numbered troops atEHady former. q 4 ii ca
valry WHICH would have been so useful in
I opposing TO the light troops OF the enemy.
But she lad decidsd not to keep her pro
/ mise. -
The King unexpectedly quilted Potsdam /;
he abandoned a residence in which he was
!ccvered by the ODER to 20 into AN open city,
in order to hail the approach of the enemy.
! Hardly had he arrived at Breslaw before
General Buiow, who commanded some thou
SAND men ON the lower Oder, initiating the
treason OF General York, opened his lines to
some Russian light troops, and facilitated
| their passage of the Oder Conducted by
/ some new raised Prussians. these troops
! fought several battles at the gates of Ber-
lin. he cabinet of Prussia now threw off
the mask. The King, by three successive
ordinances, called to arms, first the young
men OF the most respectable families, rich
enough to equip themselves then the whole
OF the youth from II to "a years, and at last
| all men above that age. 1t was sen~appeal
made topassions which Prussia felt the ne
cesslty OF restraining when she desired your
al'iance, and while she was faithful to it q.
! he Chancellor of state ordered before him
/ the leaders of those sectaries, who in their
sediiious tanataciSm preached the overthrow
OF social order and the destruction of the
throne. Prussian officers were sent in pomp
t. the Russian headquarters numerous
Russian Agents succeeded each other at
Bresiaw. Finally, the first of March, Prussia
hnished by treaty with Russia what Gen.
York had begun.
1t was on the 18th of March at Breslaw,
and the 2Sth at Paris, that the ministers
of the King of Prussia announced officially
that their master had made commoh cause
with the enemy.
Thus Prussia has declared war against
your Majesty, as the price Of the treaty of
liisit, which replaced the king On his
throne, and of the treaty of Paris, which
had admitted him into the alliance.
! join to this report the pieces presented
to your Majesty when Prussia solicited his
alliance, with extracts Of the letters from
| Count de St. Marsan on the same subject !,
the treaty and conventions concluded at Pa
/ ris for the establishment of the alliance !;
the convention concluded by Gen. York with
the Russians, and his proclamations the
pieces relative to the dispositions taken by
Prussia on the subject OF the detection of
Gen. York; the pieces relative to the mis-
sion of Prince HatzfeIdt to Paris extract
of a report on the connivance of Gen Bu-
low, with the enemy; three edcts for ex-
traordinary levies of troops the ordinance
OF the King which acquits and recompences
General York ; finally the notes by which
the Prussian government notifies to the min
listers OF your majesty that he breaks the
alliance and DECLARES WAR.
am, Sire, with the most profound respect,
&c. &c.