The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1813-11-19

res tSe ocnciency q. understanding OF
thinking people. SO much has been said
bout this paper. and b. so many too who
pass for men of sense upon commUn occa,
.ions, tina, after having read it without ex
ci,inr in me any other emotion. than such
as feel on the perasal otthe common run
Of state papers, in which the principal tea
ture usually is. 4 presumption mat no man
will ever examine the truth or fa,iacy of 4
state paper, or at.emptto compare ITS ri
legations with the acts TO which i refers.
or even the different parts of the same pa
per with itself. t~t,
This forcing os a state paper upon the
minds OF a thinking people. has something
IN il of the method by which bad plays are
forced upon a London audience, by a con-
sDiracy of poor authors stationed in differ
ent Darts OF the theatre. and acting without
any apparent concern. One half OF the peo
ble ok England have not time TO peruse
such declaraticn from its great length K
tue pressure of their necsss'ies---ard the
idle part are always prepared to take upon
trust whatever is given to them !, who
nave nothing to do but attend to my farm
and my newspapers, was induced to turn
70 this Austrian nanitesto--and by q second
1erusal, endeavor to discover the founda-
fion of those suspicious applauses, those
marks Of the great statesmen. those won
derful examples OF truth and moderation,
which had escaped me on the first peru
sal.
A second reading has not had the effect
upon me which it appears to have made
upon the venal presses, or those VINO write
for them my first impression, l confess,
partoea more of pity for those whom it was
Intended co impose upon, aud contempt
for those who resorted TO such means
10 cheat the people OF Europe, than
any other feeling. The second peru
sal served only to sggTavate my contenp,
and almost to forbid my pity tor any man
who could be imposed upon by such means
I shall, therefore, take up this Austrian
manifesto, and as it Goes net concern the
aogging tf soldiers, l shall do Il withou,
any apprehension Of two years confinement
M New gate, among teions and pick kets
and under the certainty that his majesty's
treasury will not be enriched by another
Thousand pounds thc property Of my faini-
". 49, -
The Austrian manifesto begins hy dscIa-
ration that "the emperor was compelled to
engage in most OF those wars which have
wears" This is the very beginning Of the
Austrian manifesto! Now who Compelled
himf dare say very few OF tbs hink Ra
Deople ever stopt 10 enquire what was the
meaning of this Introductory sentence t!ey
are accustomed to hear Of the parliameuta.
nv orators, and the election orators, and the
law orators. all commencing their prepared
speeches with some plausible compliment
10 their auditors, or some fourth bcs,e k.
ing their coniidence--and no doubt never
conceived that great manifesto issued N
the nalne Of a great emperor, and the ally
of our most gracious sovereign also wnul(
commence he very first paragraph with tht
assertion of falsehood, which every man
WHO has lived in the last twenty years, mus
be as capable of de ermin;ng, as coun Stadi
on. or count Stahremberg, or any statesman
IN the cabinet OF Vienna.
I shall not enter into the question whether
thc French had any Cause of CCmpisiut a
yainst the Rournons, or whether theJ ha(
any right to reform thcir goyernmeDt-thcs,
nuestions are foreign to those with whici
ttie Austrian manifesto Sc out. The Con
ISrClCSS -TraHIuu aug at = INIT, wer:
held before any attempt was made upon the
monarchy of France. Austria was party
principal, in those designs ard IN W bic.
she barganed for a large additional slice o
Poland, which. it shouih be observed wa.
no more jacobinical at that time, than az tht
two former partitions, betWeen her presen
imperial and royal allies. Isay, Austria
with Prussia, Spain, cad others. entered in
TO engagements for the partition OF Certain
other parts OF Europe, beside Poland, ard Z
L.rge portion of the Kingdom OF France
Ehat IL, tDe klBSNOih W TdUCt as ~ $1,000
move than twenty years ago, before the co
alition OF Austria and other powers, to sub
due France and rednce the hints even o.
her then territory, had taken place.
On the face of tho Austrian declara tinn
in it's very opening, then, it proclaims TO IL,
whole world q falSehood unqualified ant
rnreserved---as for the combustion. which
the manifesto says Austria acted under
where is it to be soushts Austria. twent,
years age, had become by TIE decline G
Prussia, the principal power in EUROPE. -
There was no power, no cCmbina ton Q
powers, then in Europe, possessed Of sufsici
ent confidence or genius in the head If il
sovercment, to act upon Austria by com
pulsion.
OF those vars which have ravag%d Eu-
rope for more than 90 years, Austria la
been either the tIrmciFal, or if that be no
admitted in its full extent, the only alter
natiye is that Al tria must have been tn
dupe or the t7stra77CHf Ct sorTc i.nseen fioas
er, whose means Ut compulsion must be il
is means Of orrupSion--what power tina
is, shall leave to the Judgment Of u think
ins peop'e.
Il was neccs sarJ to settle these prelimi
nary facts because iicy embrace SO man,
others--and il ssill not be necessary afte
these facts are explained, "a DENY that
ia eughgps tbia arduous B,ruggle the sam,
sfpol teal principle has invariably directed
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