Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1822-02-16

n'tions prove efitctual, their countries will no
doubt, in gratitude, reward America by ii grant
of commercial advantages. The products
ana position ofboth countries render them g.
minently available for mutual Intercourse.
England, who has hitherto looked with great
apathy on the progress of change in that quar-
ter, would do well to cultivate the friendship
Oh the new governments by siinilar applica-
ton to Spain Though Hitherto imperiectiy
known or rocked of, saving by few mer-
chants, the South Americans have it in their
power To open large market for our manu-
featured goods on advantageous terms.
.iercurg.
FRANCE.
Affairs I'D France appear somewhat per-
picked, by the difficulty of compreheuding the
views and objects, and the inpeiling motives
OF the actors. The death OF Napoleon has
materially changed the relative force of opin-
IONS. Those who were before silent, through
apprehension or hopeIessness being Invested
OF the object OF their hopes, have been rc.cas-
ca also rom their apprehensions. To extol
Napoleon when alive, was To be hostile to the
Bourbons, and what. was France without the
BourbOns? But now the nameof Napoleon
and the glory of France are inseparabie and
that force of sentiment which hone or fear
policy of France in relation to Turkey, has
never changed the Bourbons were as ne
cessarlly governed by it as the the Bonapartes
The death of Napoleon is still united in the
sentiment that makes France the partisan of
Turkey; because the enemy of Turkey is the
power which was reared to- menace EurOrr
and Asia, upon the overthrow of Napoleon.
Had he been at the head of the French en-
pire Greece would have been unmolested.
or would have been protected. Sebastian,
with pen, would have accomplished more at
Constantinople, than 100000 men on the
Borlsthcnes or the Danube. His death places
ltnssia without rival capable of nterrupting
the march of Alexander into the hear, of Eu-
ropean Turkey; and the occupation of Con
stantlnope would bring Russia within that
sea, which, before the revolution was SD much
engrossed by the commerce of France, AS To
be called the French SEA where the French,
fabrics, and French language superseded all
others, and IN which every ather European
nation was absorbed in the denominations OF
Francs
The loss of the French influence in italy has
been of correspondent nature and SO all
Frenchmen must have felt, when Naples was
PUT down by Austrian bayOnets. The marches
OF Championett and the mild and salutary
reign of Joseph, had produced an union of
sentiment, which obvious circumstances ia
their relations made eventually desirable and
precious. The reign of Joachim had riven an
additional impulse to that sentiment Inv the
Profusion, gaiety, and prosperity which his
system, or rather that of his wife had estab-
lshed. The Napoleon code had become the
law, and the simplicity and efficacy of that
code, was the more tie, because contrasted
with the system which it had supercedc,I
and by which it was itself superseded the
di1erences were too sensihiy and generally
felt, not TO produce ardent and durable sym.
patlies. The indifference of The government,
of Louis XVIII TO the state of Naples. was
not misunderstood, and it was reprobated ;
and III the fate of that part of Italy, was fore
seen the fate of Constautinople.
In TINS way we may imagine the agitations
IN TIE French chambers are to he accounted
for The address of the chamber to Louis.
though guarded, could not be mistaken and
the rebuke of Louis, Showed that il was keen
y felt, as Representing France on il passive con-
duct in Italy and Turkey.
M. PdSqu1er, Though removed to the peer
age, demanded as minister of foreign affairs.
the suppression of the obnoxious passage,
his principal argument was that there was
nothing IN the speech, to which this paragraph
was an answer that, neither war nor peace
had been mentioned, but merely the conrnu.
ance ofaInity between France and other pow
ers, and that the address went out of its way
to throw suspicion on the king.
NJ. de Lnfot, said he knew that France
wished the answer not to be the echo of the
royal speech, but the sincere expressions of the
sentiments of the country.
vi. de Labourdonndye, specially pleaded on
the charter, by pointing the address against
ministers, not the king. He, however, l.t ont
the secret, that the late silence oC France ON nh
European affairs Of Importance, was the real
cause OF the discomfort az Tie chambers. After
a long discussion, the address was carried.
by majority OF i76 to 28-or majority of
20 against the ministers and tue ministers re-
signed.
The struggle continued to tha 18th Deem
her. The list of ministers w,. h;,v,. br1,r.
gwen, and the subsequent appointments are
too inconsequential, aud probably too transit
tory u merit particular notice. Two only of
them merit present remark, because of their
former concern in affairs equally boisterous
ana critical, that IS the duke de Riche!ieu and
NJ dc Btuccs de .4ulps. The former il is said
means to return to Russia to resume his 90.
vernnent at Odessa, and it is alleged that his
name continues to appear in the Russian GA
lender as 6 absent GA leave" NJ. Biacas was
the companion and the Grst minister of Louis
on his return from exile, in his fight upon
Napoieons march from Elba and again or
his return and who became so obnoxious tn
the chambers in 1915, that he was sent ON 4,
mission to Rome.
Should the reported determination Of the
luke OF Richelieu be true, it will NOT aucnr
wei for the Bourbous, ar the permanency OF
the present order OF things IL France. A
dangerous question was agitated, that is !
question involving the security to the present
possession vt estates sequesteyed and sold
during the revolution. The agitation, of s,,rb