Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1859-08-02

"a W.! N'uiI s'oe
keep with his interests. vt tie beginning
of the war that was forced upon him,
bc;m"s. by the crossing Of the Ticiro.
Napoleon might think that the haStcming Of
war tunlinalv .,r him, Us he was not fully
prcparcl) was only y symptom Of an under
Standing hetwcen Austria. Prussia and England.
to take him u; disadvantage, first, and then 10
ovcrpowcr him by Their coming into the ring,
in some va; or ";hor, - soon IS necessary
otherwise he conll nn; explain how Austria,
unsupported, wou! have committed the iden-
teal iaul. OF EicolaS pa>sin. the Pruth, in
order TO meet with the same fate He forcsaw
coalition, and made ready for it; summoned
up all the military energies Of France kept
sharp look cut on the Channel, and larger
lice: there than IL the .tdriatic before Venice.
He appointed to The command of the army Of
the Rhine ihc Very inpcrSonaiion of military
implacableneS>, and Of pltlcss, unrccnting
mood Of fighting, the General who smoked
to death Whole tribe Of Arabs, and storm
ed MalakoT at the price Of a slaughter that
eTen the recent battle OF Solfrrno has happily
not elliallrd; he let loose the doc: OF war: wei.
coined Garabaldi, the Roman patriot, who
fought against him III 10, Ut II: siege Of Rome,
and ut one time made out of his ariny AS many
prisoners, (siy hundred, rs the Ansiriars have
only been able to parade in Vienna after FIVE
battles; raised from the pi; CT exile tie wan
dcrins Governor Of Hungary, who ten years
ego was not allowed to touch the soil Of France,
but kept off from the shore at Marsclllcs. rs
the pcstiicrous travellers from the East; called
him To the head Of an army, and surrounded
him with such military men rs kapka, lelcNi,
&C., whose only politics are fighting conquer
ing OF dying f1r their country; his fears,
far from being diminished after the battle
of Magenta were increased, the attitude
Of England and Prussia was more host!"
than ever. Then lie strikes another blow;
he makes speech at Milan 10 wake up
UP the Revolutionary Hydra. Italy will be free
from the APPS 10 the Adriatc. The Italians
must shoe it,'0SeItts Jorthy Of freedom and
rise and fight. rha. speech took Europe SOME
what by surprise No wonder; it souT'cd like
the voice OF an honest man. lie cntertains idea
ofconquest Ereedom. for til: first time, officially
drops from his imperial lips; and the world
startled, looked at il as an echo Of the times ct
the Convention when fourteen French armies
were fight ng around the frontiers for the intcs-
rity OF their r.native SOIL People at large were
What next! Then came the fall of Lord
Derby's Ministry; the death of Prince Meter.
nch-a prophetic soul the accession to power
Of old Pam, as PVnch says, Of a friendly &c.
compiicc Of the coup Fetat; the speech of Lord
LyndhurSt who can see through the smoke of
SoIierino the artilcrymcn praesicing for point
lng their rtled guns on Westminster Abbey; a
note in the .Ioaite"r, explaining that the
French Government does rot iiud i,uit with the
Government of Prussia for the mobilization Of
his armies; in short i great perturbation has To-
ken place in the scales where the French Enpc-
ror weighs the chances Of his future. and that
change was wrought by revolution in Eng
land-the accession 10 power Of Lord Palmer
ston-and protest against that revolution,
the speech Of Lord Lyndhurst.
Now Napoleon finds himself safe from coaii
ton he has but an enemy before him and inc
has utterly defeated him at Soicrino; his army
is encanped in the very stronghold Of Austria;
his feet threatens Venice and may literally
make Of it a mound Of ashes. Piedmont fights
now in earnest. Snc finds herself again. after
ten years, before Pcschiera, and, excited by the
sansuinary battle OF Sollerino, where five thou
sand ol her children have been put hors 1c corr
jat, thirsts for revenge. Garbadi is growing
formidable in his passes and mountains, AMI
will not shrink from carrying war on German
ground. or calling Naples and Sicily TO fight
out their tyranL Mutiny begins among the
troops at Naples. lnsurrccion is successful
at Bologna The Pope Cardinal .Antonell aud
others are burnt in eili.y in Milan, where
Napoleon fcw days past was hero and
guest What he will be there himself in 4 itw
weeks if he attempts to pass back, he does net
know. At Pcrugia, the masSacrcs are hut
4 specimen OF what is forthcoming. General
Goyon, in Rome. shuts himself up, not to hear
the " ccrira" of the crowd, more annoying 10
him than their srIiien silence Modcna anl
Parma have already fairly begun the revo-
luton, and among these Italian friends, he is
obliged to keep his own cousin, with an army
of thirty thousand Frenchmcn to loter about
for no other purpose than as II disguised reprc>.
sion Of those Duchies, and oil preventing them
from acting too much aS friends Of the Allies
and foes Of Austria Six Thousand men are
mustered under the Hungarian flags, and their
action in Hungary, with the addresses of their
military leaders, will soon begin to tell and
then eight more millions Of people will be in
arms. France applAud; There is an awaken
Ing of the E;prN puJie. The short sighted
are only enthusiastic of their Emperor; but.
with that easy drift into another current,
which history proves TO be the cause Of all
French revolutions. their enthusiasm will
socn be turned to liberty, in the name of
which so much glory is won By the French
armies. Napoleon feels that his basis of
operation, France, is shifting under his feet; he
has not work enough 10 give to all the forces
that he commands; the strength of his enemy
is decreased, his own increased, and will sOOa
prove lnnanageablc. What was necessary to
fight Il coalition, coHt, gge c0pte, has become
crushing burden, If u.cd only against beaten
Austria lie has put tn his wagon 4 team Of
horses for a weight cf IA hundred tons, and now'
that he has nothing but fifty tons load, his
horse power is about 10 dash forward, hcadlong,
on the road that extends before it. The cart
will soon come to pieces as the path is scabrous;
the cilariolccr will bc thrown head.foremos:,
and the axlc.trccs level the ground in their
sweeping advance. 1t is the old story, in our
proSaic world, of Piacton attempting 10 drive
the Chariot of the Sun through the Via Lactca,
the Scorpo aud Taurus, and pitching from the
heights of the emryreM sphfT6-whcrc:-int
hc Eridanus. into tie Po, aa we call It now
the same river under = different name. In short.
me NlT I'LL -Au>lIl IN siSSuLHIlis,
launching Of the revolutiona-
~ power without an enemy 10 make head Ia
t." No longer in keeping, 'llie stake is not
worth the game with tho interests of France,
the cn!ranchisins Of the passes Of the Alps.
ind the security Ui q smaller intermediate
power. Piedmont, between Austria and France,
Is connected with Ills formidable war. (which
S not yet the war. formidable a. it was, will,
which the interests Of France will be connected
without restriction.
Thus it appears to us that the absence oi
he natural allies of Austria IN the ring and
hc prompt response OF the latent revolutionary
power oi Europe, when asked to participate, +
aye altered the shape Of the original wal, and /
lcii,eatch growing monster to imperial eyes, I
bc-rM a. piiscem mp'ier. .r'rmo~t snptr"''
In the haste with which the two Empcror>
signed the peace between them. one can find !