The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1814-02-26

not lay down their arms till the indepen-
dence OF all nations of Europe be settled on
solid basis But this does not suit the flu
r.ous nti-iacobins: They would DESTROY
France they would reduce her to be of nc
weight in the scale of nations. At any rate
they would destroy Napoleon. They here
avow the principle, that no peace is to be
made by US, that shall leave him any thing
like forver. They are quite prepared to fail
spon the Allies, with all manner of abuse.
unless they will keep on fighting until France
IS SO reduced as TO be unable ever hereafter
to give Us any alarN.
These impruoen, men forget apparently,
that sue made peace with Napoleon. lea
wing him in possession of almost all that he
no7o possesses aye, and we received at MS
hands the island, of Ceyion, belonging to our
friends the Dutch and that Of Iyindad.
belonging to our friends the Spaniards-
Who has forgotten the rejocngs which that
peace occasiopedf I saw, at the. Lord
Mayors Feast,t the rricolored ag os France
ertwined with that of England, hanging over
the magistrate chair. We boasted of the
friendship of n Poleon and we heard the
very same WRITER'S, who are now calling fer
vengeance on France, proclaiming, that
me 800 great ma ions would keep the rest
OF TIE world to its coed behavior. There is
mailman, who writes in the Times who
expresses his wish that France could be
completely conquered. That, he says, is
the only way of making US quite safe. But.
IT that be impracticable. al this noment, he
is LOT reducing her to state of perfect i'm
becility, which, he says, is absolutely aeces
sary. to our welfare. How this ravinu
wretch must be comforted by the Declare
ton of the Allies A cell and straight
waiscoat ought to be prepared for him with
out the loss of time. This manisc tells his
readers, that, ever since TIE unfortunate
Battle OF Hastings, France has been the
eurse of England. The mailman forgot,
that 1t was that battle which gave us our
present almost adored Ii of sovereigns.--
George III traces his descent from ItiAia,n
ne Conqueror. This being an undoubted
tact, the mailman might think have looked
upon the Battle of Hastings as foyt 4nate.-
france, at any rate, gave us race Of kings
And, Jostie and shuttle and wriggle and
twist as long as we will about the mater,
we are now under the sway OF the descen-
Giants OF the Conqaero7' o. ouy COanlry, that
Conqueror being Frenchn1an =" All the
evils, we are now told. which have cursed
the world for the last twenty years, came
from france, with no larger extent of ter
r,tory at first than old France" If eyiks
tney aave been, (and that is a question,)
did they come from France, or, fros those.
r.
nal governments. Who began that war ?
Not; the French, certainly. War was
mace upon them, and their country was
actually invaded, for the openly-avowed
purpose OF compelling them to relinoush
their design OF changing the nature of their
government and because they repealed the
Invaders and afterwards punished them.
france is to be accused OF all the sufferings
WINCH the contest has occa stoned and (oh !
impudence unparalleled y France IS to be
reduced to species of petty PIN -ipality. lest
IN any case, she should disturb the word a.
gam - he truth is. however, that the al
hes see the matter in very different light.
ihey co not wish to see England. wholly
without rival. They do not " ish to see
her freed from the awe, which a powerful
nsiShoor is able to excite. We are contin
uaily smelling after the Reets., We seem
to see nothing but the fleets in the Texei
and at Antwerp. We are all Impotence to
see them aestroyed. We predict that they
WIZ pc Set hre TO. And, do we imagine,
thai the Allies are such fools as not Ia ner-
ceiVe our DRIFT Dove Imagine. that all
the powers OF the Baltic wish to see the sea
wholly at our mercy for 10 years TO come ?
II France be deprived of her fair share of
power, there will be nsthing to keep us in
cneck, unless, indeed, il it be the weight of
our enormous Debts and Taxes. Itis the
interest not only of the people, but of the
governments of the Continent, to have
peace. u is not so clearly the interest of
the present system in this Country. unless
france could be first almost annihilated -
Because France relieved from her deb's.
having none but her current expenses
to support, giving federation to ali relj
gions, end having abolished the ileavi-
est clogs upon agriculture, must nte
sent an object which an English eve will
LOOK at with envy and. what is more, If a
Few years OF experience should show, that
property ard persons are secure in France.
that country, between which and this tho
intercourse will be free. will inevitably be-
come the receptacle of manv EHsii,h reople
OF fortunes, too small to support the load of
taxes. which will here be to be paid, A.
present, and oflate, this island has been the
depot Of ali the moveabIe wealth of the
Continent. and it has eDgrossed all the pro-
hta OF trade. Peace and especially such
q. peace as is contemplated in the Declare
tton OF the All es, will produce wonderful
changes in these respects 1t will send
thousands OF capitalists out Of the country ::
1t VIII send their wealth away along with
them and, of course it will diminish or
means OF paying the heavy taxes which
must, ia any case continue to be raised as
long as the national DEBT thalf exist. Tie
war has been enormously expensive but
" mas, at the same time, created normous
means. On the ground that all the sea
coast of Europe was under the influence If
France have chit 81 a. -.