Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1815-11-11

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tria viii yet have to mourn the folly of as
soclating herselfin league against France !;
and If her old minister, Kaunitz, had been
alive, she would not have committed the
mistake of assisting to enfeeble the only
firm prop which, in great emergencies,
could sustain her against the Incumbent
and increasing weight of Russia, and the
inevitable encroachments of the Prussian
monarchy.
III you think with me, that the report
will be interesting TO the public, the &C
companyiDg translation is at your service. 1t
has been made cu7Tcnte caiamo but NAV
be relied on for substantial accuracy. Al
most all the pieces referred 10 in it have
been repubhshed in the newspapers of the
United States. ] only add two letters,
found upon, and addressed to, the noted
chief of La Vendee. the Marquis I.aroche
Jtcquelin, which distinctly prove that the
British government, whist Lord CASTER
eagh was Stimulating peace towards France
IN Parliament, was fomenting instruction
among the French people. Hence we may
plainly perceive, thatit was no spontane-
GUS disafection that occasioned an armed
internal opposition to Napoleon, but the
gold and the intrigues Of England. One
cannot read the letters from Kettoe to
Laroche Jacquelin, without being forcibly
reminded OF the mission of John Henry to
the friends of his Majesty in the United
States, and of the Vaccinations of British
agents with the Indians, in time Of peace,
as established by authentic documents,
found among the papers Of that gallant
Briton, the fugitive Proctor.
This report explains the cause of what,
to many, seemed rather surprising name
iy, that Napoleon, who protested only to
act on the defensive. became the assail2nt,
IN that series of sanguiGary combats which
ended III the memorable bsttle of Mount
st. John, or Waterloo. 1t seems that, by
variety of hostile acts on the part of G..
Britain and her allies, a state of things,
tantamounr to open war, existed and that
the allies only waited to concentrate all
their strength, in order to strike with the
more certainty. Bonaparte sought to pre-
vent this united blow, by anticipation =
which led him to attack, instead of waiting
to be attacked
France now feels, with extreme anguish.
how fatal it is that she suffered herself to
be cajoled by the vague and insincere pro-
LESSONS of the allied sovereigns The fast
nesses OF her mountains are occupied by
armed bands OF independent patriots her
forests are filled with the wretched, who
ny from the prosecuting bayonets of for
eigp merceEaries her vailies are watered
with tears her forced King is prisoner
IN his capital virtue and talents are wi
thering away ptmps and parasites
only flourish and, to crown all, the daugh-
ter OF Louis the XVI. the Duchess of An
gouleme, with all the fury Of an exaspera
ted bravo, is employed in the south of
france in placing daggers in the hands of
her royal acherents, to plunge into the
hearts OF republican Frenchmen. If an ex-
cesslve amiability and compassionate dis
position were the characteristics of her IL
fated father, she cannot be accused of in
heriting his weakness. She rather seems
to Partake Of the revengetul temper attri-
buted to her Austrian mother, the unfor
tunate Maria Antoinette. | am sorry To
speak thus harshly of lady but when
She so far forgets her sex as to avow her
self the head Of a party, and to animate
tnat party to hloodshed, she necessarily To-
ses the respect which, under other cir.
instances, every man would willingly
feel for her.
THE TRANSLATOR.
November 8, 1915.
ReiioT made TO the Emheror, by the Min
lister Of Foreign .48airs.
PARIS, June 7, 1915.
SlRE-The expose which had the ho-
nor to submit, on the 18th Of the month Of
April, (G) to your majesty and the council.
upon the state OF the relations of Frame
with foreign powers, has, up to that peri
Cd, made known how far the dispositions
OF the greater part of those powers had
been from concurrence in the moderate
and pacific sentiments of which your ma
Jesty had given to them the example. The
same difference has since continued to ma
nitcst itself. Every thing, on the one side.
has tor its object the maintenance of peace
--on the other, every thing breathes war.
On the one hand, are seen the most tran
qunlzing explanations on the other. de-
Carnations which Characters the most o.
pen state OF hostility here, all the adj
vances which the national dignity ought TO
permit; there, disdanful refusal to re-
ply, which common decency ought to have
prohibited in brief, in all the proceedings
OF your majesty, a sincere desire to prevent
the renewal of the calamitics Of Eurcne
and in those Of foreign cabinets a cold in
difference TO the fate of nations, making. TO
all appearance, sport Of delivering over
TO the extravaganza Of individual passions
all the chances Of the future. This glazing
contrast cannot fail to strike in a lively
manner enlightened men of every country.
and above all the French people, who are
such good Judges in a cause to which they
have united ali their destinies.
-Four nations, in particular, present
themselves TO us under a menacing as
pect.
England, in her quality of natural and
constant enemy ofthe French power.