Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1816-06-12

4 III. DANS.tNl INjR ilil>.
In the French Chamber of Peers on the
9th inst. Viscount Chateubrand made the
following proposition:
Gen.Lemen--I shall 90 myself the hon
or of submitting TO YOU project of an adj
dress to the King. 1t is for the purpose of
asserting the rights of humanity, and effac-
ing, l trust, the shame ofEtrope. The
Parliament of England, in aboishing the
Slave Trade in blacks, appears to have
suggested for our emulation more splen-
did triumph. Let US abolish the slavery
of the whites.-This sort of slavery. has
too long existed upon the coasts of Bar
barry to-. by the peculiar design of Prov
idepce, which places the examples of pun-
ishment where the fault has been commits
ted, Europe paid to Africa the SORROW
which she brought upon her. and rendered
to her slaves for slaves. nave seen, geu-
tlemen, the ruins of Carthage, have met
among these ruins, the successors of the
unhappy christians, for the deliverance of
whom Saint LOUIS sacrificed his life. The
number of these victims increases daily
Before the revolution, the corsairs of 1ri-
poll, of Tunis, of Algiers, and of Morocco,
were restrained by the vigilance of the Or
der OF Malta. Our vessels had the domn-
ion OF the Mediterranean, and the flag of
Phillippa-Augusta, made the infidels still
misunderstanding advantage of our dis
cords, they have dared to insult our shores
They have carried off population of a
whole island. Men, women, children, old
men, have been all plunged in the most
frightful slavery. Is il not for Frenchnneu
born to glory and generous enterprises. TO
accomplish at last the work begun by their
ancestors? 1t was in France the first cru
SADIE WIS preached. 1t is not in France that
we must raise the standard of the latter,
without departing from the character of
the times, or employing means foreign
from our manners. / know that we have
little to fear fer ourselves from the Pow
ers of the coast of Africa but the safer
we are, the more nobiy we shall act i'm OBJ
posing their injustice. Small commercial
interests cannot balance the great interest
of humanity. 1t is time for civilized nations
to free themselves from the shameful tri-
butes which they pay to a handful of
barb arians.
Gentlemen. should you adopt any pro-
position, and 1t be afterwards lost by foreign
circumstances, your voice will at all events
have been heard. You will have the no.
nor of having advocated SO good cause.
Such is the advantage of these represent
tative governments, by which the whole
ruth may be said, every thing useful pro-
posed. They change the virtues without
weakening them; they conduct them %
the same end, while they give them DIFF
ferent direction. Thus we are knights no
more, but we can be illustrious citizens
thus philosophy may share the glory at
tacned to the success ri M proposition, and
Doast to nave obtained, in an enl ehLened
age, what religion attempted in vain in an
age Of arkness.
" Please then, gentlemen, to hear my
proposition.
81 move that there be presented an
Address to the King by the Chamber of
Peers. In this Address his Majesty shall
be hnmbly requested TO order has Minister
for Foreig1 Affairs, to write to all the
Courts of Europe, i5c.'
According to publication made at Pr
ma, the following is the title which the
Archduchess Maria Lsuisa has adopted:
Her Majesty the Imperial Princess Arch
duchess OF Austria, Maria Louisa, Duchess
OF Parma, Placentia and Guastella. The
following letter, WRIT by this Princess 70
Count Magawli Cerati, has been made
public at Parma
Dear Count 11agazuli-I learn with
the most lively grief, The distresses which
still Cypress my subjects. My ardent d.
s'reis to contribute, by all the means in
my power, 10 alleviate them. in conse-
quence, particularly recommend TO YOU
to hind r ali kinds of fetes on my arrival.
The finest proof of attachment which
my subjects Can give me. and tine most a.
greeable to my heart. III be their dstribu
ing among the INDECENT the sums which
they design to these fetes
MARIA LOUISA.
Schoenbrunn, Feb. SS''