The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1814-06-01

Rheims, through the heart CT ChanfGSne to !
Paris. The Duke Of SAKE Weimer will /!
push to the same object through Artois and !
PicQ,Vy.
LEYpxN, Feb. 2S.--It is confidently sta.
ted, that Garnet, the Governor OF dnt7ver3,, !
has made proposals for surrepdering that
city and has scot out $500 Of the inhabi-
tants. Should the terms not be agreed to,
we are assured that Gen. Graham is ma
king preparations for another attack on the
city.
Some time ago the English papers infer-
med Us that general Soult had yielded TO
their offers. The following Proclamation
contains his noble answer 20 that calumny.
1t was a few days after this, that with a
force, rs he says, numerically inferior, he
beat Wellington, who was wounded in the
knee, 10 the English acknowledge. snd o.
bligetl him, as 1t nov appears, ~ draw off
Reresford with his troops from Bordeaux
TO assist his great lordship.
Dem. Press.
(I7r2nslated fran, The 1ediateur, for the
Democratic Press
PROCLAMATION,
OfHis Erce.lencv Marshal me Duke Of
Dalnat;a Soul, J TO his army.
SOLDIERS New combats summon you
attacking or attacked there will DE no re
pose until that army, formed ofsuch extra
ordinary elements, shall be completely an
initiated, or has evacutcd the territory of
the empire, whatever may be its numcri -
ca, superiority, and whatever its progress
il is not aware of the dangers that surround,
nor the perils which attend 1t; but time
will teach it. and the general who com
mands it, that parts of our territory are not
20 be invaded with irnpuDity, nor French
honor outraged.
Soldiers! the general commanding the
army with which we arc Engaged every day.
has had the indelcacy To provoke you, and
to provoke vanr compatriots TO revolt & Sc
di.ion. RE talks os peace. and the brands
of discord are in his train He telks Of peace.
and h excites the French 10 civil war
Thanksto him for having thus aPprised US
of his designs!> From this moment cur for
c,s a-c increased an hundred told, and from
this moment he himself rallies round the
Imperial eagles those. who, seduced by de-
r~itful appearances might have tho't that
be would age war " it'll loyalty They dare
ius,,t our national hupnr they eve ,nfaUlous
enough TO excite FrenchUen TO betray their
uaths, and to b. perjured towards their
E,nperor-an offence to be revepged but
in blood. To Arms! Let this cry
be re echoed through all the South Of the
Empire. Every F,enchman is called tc
vengeance, who dives not abjure his couctry,
snd who from that moment ought to be
counted among her enemies. A few days
more, and they who have put faith in the
sincerity and celicacy of the English, will
learn, to their cost, that their insit'ious pre-
misses had no end but to cnervate their cou-
rage & subdue them. Those pusiilanimcus
tcinrs who calculate the en- riiices to be
made fer I'll. salvation of their country will
hear in mind ,har h English have 10 other
e,Niect ~ this war than the destruction Ct
Fra &c itself, and the subjug a'ior Ct the
French like the Portuguese, the SiCihans &
all the Other nations which groan uncer their
domination. The hisscry Of tho past, will
rapres-nt itself to the m mories nf these
anti French, who prefer transient enjoy
ments TO the safety Of the great family. and
they will gee the English setting the French
90 mutus hatchery at Quberoon they will
see the English at the head Of a.. cpnsp;"a
cjes, of the overthrow of principles. If the
deatruc'i,n os all the establishments ofsran-
dur and industry in order TO satisfy heir
;nor5ina.e ambition and insatiat'c avarice
Il here single spot en- the globe, known
20 the English, where they have not By sc
duetjon ard violence, BROUGHT destruction
on the manufactures and hrics whose pro-
dartions rivalled or ec!ipsed their own p
Such wouli be the fate of the French eateb-
lishments, if lhe English should gain their
end'.
Soldiers ! set us devote TO general cppro-
briunn and execratiCn. every French man
who shall have counteoanced in any man
ner whatever the insidious designs Of the
enemy, nnr exreP ing him, who, alyho' for
a MON mt overcome, STALL not have sought
means irna Einsb'e for their ANNOYANCE. Lit
II also devote to opprobium, and repud ate
as Frenchmcr, those. who, With the
means Of personal defence. lay hold of spe
cions pretexts Of disPensation. From this
mocnert. there is no connection bstwcen
them and us. and We anticipate The iaexo
rail History which will transmit their nan 'es
wi iyexecvation 20 pcstcriTy. rs for uS, our
dutg is naarkcd out--H01oT and Fid ify &!
hattie. 70 the last, with the enemies OF or
august erppsror aud our dear France res
nrct for persons and proprrty pity the
rnisroTtuuss of those who NAV he moments-
,iIy suhdsed, end hasten the instant II their
6siiveranre obedience and djeci9linc i'm
olacatlc hatred for traitors and the euemies
Of the French name war unto death with
tnose who attempt 10 divide, in order to
deztrny Us l. Va AWAY bear in mind ST
teen cen II les Of glory ana the innumeFa1le
t-iumphs zticn have Illustrated our ccun-
+yv. Let us contemplate the rrodigiaus eff
fsrts of our great emperor and his signal
victories. which will eterrize the French
name. Let vs. prove worthy Of bin, and
then .Ve may beqrea,h without ssair 10
our Hssccndants the Inheritance We recei
,V-d ICON our fathers. i.et "a b5 French
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