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if: -n C3X ... rf . - 1 . ' ... : r-i- ". ' , .. : .' -, 7 "'- , : - : ': : r; , life tf NE'R V'h i'i i .urn j tii ... -iii H .. i iimtaqmi. .ii.i i i miiiiiii' inn.,, ' L. ' .Ml&ssX' . .. '. runui c-,1y W.M.IA.M BOYI.AN. . ., . . 7x:SI ' 1 ' 1 ' - 1 " 1 ' . - . yl 1 1 ; ' , , y :: RALEIGH, (N. C.) MONDAY, JUNE, 30, 1Z06. ' - No3. :V -r 11 r it- - . jprowi the Boston, Repertory. Tt.isa'fuljefl of fearful -pmofity to in 7. quire into the caufes, vvhjch have Jo ra- ritfly qn Ai ted Kr?-ffce tVthe cbnqiWk of the con iiiehruKpart of Europe. By ' carefully tra;i their operation, we may " be-trie better enabled to - calculate the chdnc.cs of her tfiumph over Knglar:,i, ! - and 0 heceT.try . conlequence, oyer America. , - It'was a 1 riniethe fafhion to afcribe ! 7.Pienc-Kres -t-o the republican faria- J ticibi of her. citizens. When France ; pcflible that political enthufiafm, as well , might favehis houfe from the flames. r the Auflrians' and lately over the'Ru as religious fanat.acilm, may inipire a fud- j 1 he Englifh government, in .particular, 1 ans in the fled, that the Spamurds-p den fury into the bcloms oi a raw undji-1 wss near the fcenei and' cculd nnr (fee icfled over the Mexicans, i he Ruffid ciplined multitude. But a veteran corps' , the revolution, like TEnia vomit fire, and Auitrians awas LjfsVeinlieFrem wou'd fureV defeat fnch a multitude. wi'hout lbrne natural tears and fome but'the French are teally fupefior in 1 ti lt the inhabitants of France ever felt prudent rheafures of precaution. Wno fcience of rht fr cflicers, in the ImmU ie repuh ! him which is jn deed very quefiionable, there is not much r.ya'on o he'ieve that it contributed-to fill the ranks of their own army or to make'thofe of their enemy give way. experience, which brings plauhb'e the- i. n av mnorant that lirnl.it and H.irras , and Danton and Kobefpierre would chaofe to underltand thufe fears and thofe precautions as figrtsv6f "the invete rate hoifiiiiy of kin;rs to the French II ben y- if t ; s e Mrili ih co u I d h av s fh un- A U kilt Wul J 11 and management of their cannon a cavalry. '1 hey will continue therefq to beat their enemies a$ the Romans d Kven the Grecian phalanx, fuppofed be the perfection-. of military fcience ai abiolute'y juvincmle, was found uneqi ories to the teft, and a correct knovv- 'edtfe of human nature, have abundant- have be.jn f.Srced uoomheui before tune, t The French victories have haoben ly confuted the nofion that the ccmnuai j. It is childilh prattle to charge the ene- ' in fuch aftries that we cannot rational ceafed to be republican in name, and it men ape the better Mdicrs fcr the found- i mies of France with ihe comiufirt-mfnt was inly i'i -Vhit; flie ever was re-. nefs of thekJopjc or their politics. Men j uf the war. he nature of the revo u puMicah, ilit iltptriof. perfonal bravery are vcrvtmucii al ke, in a'l the JLiropean i lion wa: war apainff mankind. Its vital enruavy 170-1, it would ;to tne contelt with tne Koman legion. rrejicn vjctorie aftfies that we of'iheTYijri.h ToMiers and the-fuperior ! countiics, in refpect tolheir capacity of genius of Bonaparte were deemed to be being trafned for war.- When ib train- the tw adequate caufes of her triumphs. Thcrt is probably linle ground for thefe.ooifiiorisV or the influence of thefe caufesjs -mttr!i overrated. Ihe body of Amer'can democrais are, no doubt, the grcateft political bigots ?n the uni vefe. They are accultomed to believe i "that no. tenets can be true or wi th?ir cv-n. ... That alf power is derived fro 'ii the people and fh.Du!d'.be exerciled for r'u-ir benefit H a "pi inciple of which they Jancyjhe world : vv'as ignorant,- til! ; it was cifcoverej in the courfe of our re volution. ConfrJerinor themfelvcs the fble dfpontiuKs o political truth, hav ing in rheir hands her? cafket where the keeps liberty, the-niott precious other ed, tiie difference between two ho'tile ar mics of coual numbers will be found to ue 111 tne talents or tneir numttern om- cers and principal commanders. Goinmbn loldiers are fooh tniinedbut it is the work of art and time to form of ficers. '1 here is not rhe'le;Mi. rea!Vn in the .world to fuppofc that tn Aurins or Ruirvirs pjc inferior to. the French fotdiejs in Heady, per fevering valour. But there-is ample evidence of the h-ipe-riority of the French r fficers over thole of their enemies. War has A: ecohie, in deed it ever vva, among cr iiized nati ons, a sd-me. Jr excites and employs the u;tncit vigor and extent of humn intel lect. .Thouuh it is a fcience. it is fuch fupnofe them to haDoeii Ttv chance. 4 1 ' hey would happen again, if their dejeq cu, uearen aavenanes could rue again reliltatce. I';om thefe pofitions this rnelancho inference is o be drawn : the continer . . . . ' . jal enemies of r ranee are oraliy irieap principle was a burning pafli m for pow er within the Hate, and' when they had gain' d .,, ro cftablifli by arms the pow er if France over every other Hate. Wlivis the vulture carnivorous? why ble of refilling her in the field, -heh; docs hot the't erof B.rgal eatgrafs? j taken a pn-m,;n?i,i sfct-rfdant over then , ciniiu wiui a- mucu.guCKi lenie in quire why does not die 'torrent itay upon the hills? Wriv are the-collected wa ters of the revo'u ionarv ftorm orecioi- tatfd from the htighr oi the Alp,, tode luuria miniMed and nea'..-n. ts m condition to learn rb - conqutrin arf. her mafltrsi Prufiri, vhont rifkm theroiubat, h;s U'U 11 "prollrare with h u!e!e($ arms in l;rr 'hands. Rufli.a. 111? tniate the plains and to bury men and j the .ancient Par' fun, is invinci'e but i their labours under mali'es of banennefs ; hgn Meant to the i'yitem of enfLved F ana nun r - t ! he military means of Austria were fiintcd, tliofe of France unlimited.' In ajmolt every battle the FiencVhad the advan'ag?. ' h o!ltrer., even the iub a' etns. had betn educated fo as to oui- j3w-els,-ther;-4hks.kvour- country is etiti-! only fpr the ofli-ers, not lor the com- i liiy them to be uencuiis. '1 hs genertds were nt for nothing c!f--they unoYr ftood th ir trade and afpircd fo no otrur i'ortcf diiiinctinn. he French. alwas ence than' a'lhe reft of Europe. LouisAvell commaadt d by their officers, well XlVth effcabliflji-.il fiich military fchools i fupnlied by their enemies countries as the Great Cyrus would have tie fired i v. l i;;h they ravaged, have rapidly over for the education of the officers of that : run ail Europe. t Another caufe cf the French Turerio. rity and which has grown out cf the real fupcriority of their military fcience is tc ri; tied to be nor a little vuin cf.. ihn orh liev feel r 'o as f -aM patr;o,;c merit cor fii'ts in prcpagatitig'thi i" pitnctpks .'thro', the worfi Wp a t f;ro' of profelyt fm.- rJ heyv wo'ild njn'.t' if.not only France, but th.? Grand ! i:rk and the Dey of Al giers ihou'd a br their unfettered rab ble in pi im 1 r ? iT-mb ies t nd n?ake them . fwear, with u'lt'-ie zal and fmcsrhjdof opium and .br..idy,,itS maintain tfenthts of ir.An with dit k. daggers and their oikes Accord t J v, wha France laid and funs and iw re the words of their le- , publican ci . ed, they were dure thegro. .-Vel'in -world wa? vrrf near beinpftflfed from its-centre ; if would be launtdied into the fky and glitter among t! e bright oi theflaVv" 1 he te'gn r f rerettibi lity was' bvHMjmmg; man fo long a rep tile, trodden -in the fnkc, was rifing to : ever top ihejalleft cl the feraphs. I heir tt-eniing fancies ha i made a creation of thc:r own .and lighted it with a new fun-" fhine. Above all things, it -de ighted th, ir hearts and feemed to rerJie all their h..n.s to fee the lowTVulgar, the fquihd hods of vice and ignorance- ill'us from the-Jtipeninr;- cella'rs of -the Faux--hourg cf'St. AftHiine and from the cman. cipa 'ed j ro Vxercife t he d)verf'ifnty' -ot-'rhH-lirhy ftgnaWertgeaitceorrthe pofed " ofraw recruifs-' Mgdlrarts, their e.nethiips. I hey were fure the flrufturc of fociety muif have rif'en, when they fawits low foundations - already higher than its roof. Tr was not Mong befo'-'e-hi v rabble armv was arrayed asa-Up'dv of Marfeiijes patriots, and as a part ofthelSari in.ii Guards - 'i helpitm 'did virttiesVf Kt aoce attributed to mori men. lor two centuries pair, France has devoted more attention and more money to the perfection of this (ci- army tliat achieved for him the conouelt of Aha.:. Bonapatte and Mareau. bot'i undpub'cd'y great (jetierals, are indebt ed for tliiiir triumpi to ; thefe fchoob; It is ol'en faid ,'thc common .men will dare to, do .whatever their-officers will lead them' mi tp do. Ir is no ltd's puvpe r to (ay the ofHrers will feldom flinch frorii lead the mm if they but know how to lead them. : ' . - - Nothing is more certa:n jhan that the military' inlfitutions of France fup.ihe i the fi.it .revolutionary armies ith ati in fini t e nrtm ber of accom p 1 iflie d yoim g officers, '-whd glowed wi.;h impatience to pain glor , and prom'otion in "t hat pro feffion which Jiad from their infancy en grofled their thoughts and kii.d'id all their pafiions. ihe revotuUon fiirniih- be found m th vrIfe.nce of fht'T rrr f 1- let y. 'I he number and the m mageable nefsothe French field audlery, mult have given t'wni dec.'five -advaip'ag e over the Rrfiians in the 'ate battle of Auiltr- litz. It is not to be fuppolid that the R uiT.ans have cqu-d'j' !tr proved ihtir artillery n r if they had, wrukl 'hty have encuivbt red their march of eight hundred leagues, clpcna.'iy wh.en they had lo many itafons ior haile, w;i?h an immerde train -of "field', p-avs. '! l'Jy wouhl be the lefs cdrolrd -o tfo rl: is as the xu ft r i;ins nui ft h: vc be i n ic !i.(4 u pon .to liipply them in lidlkj-. nt. i nrtdicr.- i fie -nnich, Dy hjo cc insv oi ni.ir ! If the French armies cdu'd pafs-tl : chartne', tht.te feems to be no fort of re pon to hope thaf Grcar Britain.' c-uld r : hit i hem. : he re. !::::r vnv.y js- iprea ,'oer al: rhe hfopire, and if n vtre?dtJCO 1 lected it would be a handlul ainMt th French hblfs,, and fureiy nu rnill'siry ma would place the fma'U.ft dependence o the volunteers cf Er gtand. It is one of the inveti-rr.-v-. perftap'S 'in curuoieevilsof !Vrr.lJ,'L:7s aclmrnittraffoi' and the grca-.cft .Uciif.fti in the f?me t mat wu:y, luminous Jtteltnan, tliat.irJ ittr.d offohninj' vn cliicientarmy of hv hundred thc.uland ien, who could b lent wherever they might be wanteds h was either the fchemer or the dupe oj ne uielcfs, txpcnXive, and, if iheFrcncfl :hi.'u iand in I-ngland, fatal DroiecTc Volunteers. rBY eouiiMiincr vfi'iintppn he hot only ha i no army, but it W2S oil of the pow er of England to have cne.H i he.nun were all thgflKed in aftinc thd 'i oi;:i! afiy, wA the fihar.ces weiq u d m getting up th: decorations q ecu tlS 01 ...j tun' ed only fpai ks and not the fuel for their" f movements, hid however ohfainetl ffoi- com tuition.- I leflmn of a Nci is thercihe ieafl reafon to preterid '. artillery. that the firft French armies were coin-i In this poir r, w is, probably, "a material the vi , 1 proteftion of 6 rest Britain: then is ia btr nny. 'the writer has been broivhr very hire, and loth, to beJ hove, "if i at-the md farv refifiance of th 'r'n:.rira! laU'iis of'tirrpe woul be curat- r:vc'ufs fu.vt- at ..U. con An i-nmenle i caule of'ihe.r lofs of the ban!. Handing v.rmy was maintaineii, & when When gun powder andrga.r, guns, ir fo confiderf d that on theTide of the'" were firft brought b to ule, they were low countries antfon rhe Rhine, France j more capable of Unking an ei emy with guarded what has ben emphatically I a panick than of breaking his line, "i he Tiiu txrhim tbn-tfe l iench aduallv ccf4 a gf.- 't part of the tu (Irian j f -s a gTratcrimd in 5 e dfifTve mi'iraryj ! he dt ficiency of, the RuiTiatts'l fupenoiiiy 'over th.c nations than thel ojd jMiiajii-did-ovt r-4hiMs-etAnfi called her 'fin. fiontier, with a double row of fortified "towns,': and that every one of thefe wasoccupied vvith a veteran garriion that would figure as a refpe&a ble American army, c lee phiin'y that r ranee pouefled every advantage for Tut-. which had none. In the time of the fa mous Duke of Marlborough,-the event the exalted hem-RiM of. the! e nen, who it was i?id, fought wriJ. not bccaule they vycreJtiliiierjJaLLldinMb asii T't.'..".. 7.,r!T:.,-Ar;. FiV. ttr. ' j ...r.i...r . ji :ir...:r jt i. ' - , inn. t 11.1:1. a ;;u iioim 'ii.c yj)'- u )pie-,of-Air erica J elievef th'aHhe li- neopie berry loving panton obFrcnclimen matli France was entirely defeiicelefs when her military operations- 1 he democrats, to a man believe that ". . v 1 i . 1 them an over matfll for the difciplined l&c aaliihtrof iW?-' fecretlv enter fi-ercenarielol AuHria' atvd Frufl'n, atid into the treaties of Pilnifz and Pavia f ignorance of difefp'ine. 'I he French G en.erak were nor t"e dupes oFour filly opinions . : hey drilled ajid ftw'W their citizens' ; till thraWdJlab4 JlrcUni.pufh; ryoriefTiHThy: vi oul J no I, jhey fhbt thet5-- - . v- ""T-" - w ' - - v 'i -. ' ' cannon were unwieldy machines, and the management of them was un(ki!fu!.. S:l the armyAvhich had f hem muithave poffeifed a great advantage over that The notion that the po-itical opinions "of the common m.' ri will make tfiem any 7 .rrToJ3ier.stsJrangely ab'furd'l 'h'cy are ( more iikely to effect arnuiiny thari a Tr u umph. Men may fancy they are foldie rs, bulhey are rot reallytuch, iintii ifci--vjline ncdJubitivaneivLJUd lIougLis .andfndina'tfor.stnJt hecvieirV of peaceable rradermcnare no more than' ' iheToknin foppefy of a parrrmnhne, a iff ed in the open air mftead tTihe tfieatre would not be under flqod'tu" fay that tu2inihdahas not both its merit and its tl'.e. Both. w? mifefs. arp rrrfr. IV.tr their mufqu'ets. -In ftill moVe mode.rn wars. he. b;ivonef hps hpen ronfi'fl-rpM tne aroiter or victory, iut tne rreiich- have introduced another , revolution in the fcience of war,- the dightnefs 'and pro diginus nimiber of: thcir horfe artillery enabling them to unorder and break an d for her difniemberrneat. . " Thofe treaties, if has been a theaind times prcved are; forgeries. Auft M.,was taken by fur- prize.'.' "J pp ftfgphfraH lvpjlfd 1 .Tm - iihrnr-rnmtiAfajnrrrtrirfi dfavii': beyond the adinitttd Tight, by raining upon tt.cra an m'cle-i fiuth of t"hc premtfes r Is India more the1 rampartsof Tils townsthe fether- iahdi,J,uxembourg.t;c ocj-.iis, Mirhridates and iugunha ; and efpccially over the' . Carth-gfniansJ urceks: and -Macedonians. Nothing is 'wantmi? to the foliil eftablimntentJof a new luifverfal empire by France,) that) Jhoula ipread as far, tail as lon ai"id pre..; as heavily on the necks' of the ab jsVi nations, as that 'of ome, hur.ths p; .-fil'llion of the Britifh n-jvy. France, whenever fhe can get zeedt. to her enemy, 7s already irrcfilt-.b If Mr. Unrvg -woultiiye her ;1 haf naf 77 he woufiTm part a kind of ubiquity to her power. i he foft , winds that wake the fpring ia the remotelt regions of the globe, would watt there .the-mini Iters ol French rapa city tp blaft it. fiance would enj iyeye;- Ty thing that Ki me w anted to mase the plundered world her province. Are thefe ideas chnnerical, or are tha troops in that , country were no more than a feeble !orps of jODfeyarion. Ihe Aultrianstiad a larger proportion of raw recrtiits tn Their annieS than "the" .FrertcKT Hi it remembered too that the rcvo lutioTFftipplied the French with an un exhaufted lupeifluiry of n;en and meaiia. that nb regular government in the world eou I d countervail. ""T hat man .mutt be ftrongly diforderid in mind, who can now lookback on FrenchJdlairs arid fay thai the revo' utionary leaders poffefiiag fuch nieaiis, Lft ny option toThe go-" verhmen'trBhgland;oTk.uIl r 1 a to r e. ma i n a tVacrA e miiiht they'faY'f- we do fay tJiat their propere'Ts. rot tp is burning,'- that a wcactetaiitw vv-jHs:tndcvd TeiytTnarir pttuttotb raim ia;rus eiDo;.v chair, i ja-Ule-te mpeft. or-grape- fliotr By means 01 her-. inniimerabje fiejd pieces, artdf their unufuaj proportion Lvalritjta the ir enemy to defend a country by lines or field entrenchment. It Jias been f tar ed that Bvmaparte's grand army was atr tended by filty thoufand hoi fe. Such a body, aKyas.oji-the-aljrUcouId ftri ke an enemy at almoll any diftancc, nnd in every mortal part at once . If he con tracted his 1 potts, his. flanks Would . be turned if heTpread out his troops to prevent it, his lines would be forced. By refining, he met his fate,' and iLhe J rctreaieu, ir was uviiran&overtooK. nicri. tairTihTctsTmeiayariablefuperio capable of-refifiing -France than "an Eng hfh merchant company its prefeht fove- reign? Spain and-' Italy are pro inci$ la treaUy.ureece,-,rgtpf,ahe7T ur r: fh empire, and all the fliores of f he-Medi terranean were once the patrimony of . the Caviars; and for many handred years' flept I'o u nd ly in th f irjjchains till th cy. vef e,rudely-waked 'Ty-the Goth, ; ths. Heruli,;the Huns and the Arabs. Afri ca is a quarter of ihe-glob that cou!d with tamenefevhut .abctifyto'mp;J be needec), France cVphy Sin '.'".'7 '; (Cz&eJ iu: Idfl J.'''-T-::-: 1- 7. .-r., - 0
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