The Sun. — London, England, 1807-09-10 00:00:00

ttkiiketiOlii ON THZ PEACE BETWEEN RUSSIA . AND PRAY' OE!. (Co ued front our Paper of Tuesday). To understand the political systeM which iilu i. result from a Treaty, it is previously necessary to inquire into the objea; as well as the means set on foot to obtain it. To understand the respetlive situations" of the Contrasting Powers at the moment of concluding. the Treaty, it is also necesnry to inquire whether it was the result of free deliberations, opened and carried on by independent Powers, or whether it was imposed on a vanquished State by the Conque- ior ? 'This inquiry' is of the first importance, inas• much as it enables us to judge, without committing ourselves,' of the future. The Power who makes a Treaty in consequence of deliberate Negotiations, in which she has pre served .and manifested 11?.r independence, frames a political law for herself. The Power who accepts n'Treaty imposed on her by the Conqueror, receives the law ; and it cannot escape us that situations must essentially differ between those Powers who form a law for thernselvo, and those who receive it from others. At Tilsit, Russia received the law from the Con queror : Russia was, it is true, mistress of all the meant which ought to have secured her independ ence; her frontiers were untouched, her armies numerous, her so:liers full of courage,' and of a spirit equal .to their insuperable, constancy. All this, indeed, is true ; but if Russia was independent,.. the Lmperor of Onssia was not: A 9 agonizing . dread of the evils of war, united to his love far his people,. dragged him to Tilsit : from that moment; surrounded by a party-who eagerly sought to preci:: , Oitate him into all the, dangers of a peace, he no longer made ihe law—he received it ! It remains for us to examine the Treaty of Tilsit : and as this Treaty is: the work of BONAPARTE; fn . Other words, is the law which he has imposed oa Russia, that country, receiving . it, must be 'Ousi,' tiered as absolutely passive. Let it then be inquired, first—what was,Y3oNA V491111'8 object in dietating this law'; and then--- whether the means developed in this Treaty:Will eventually lead him ro the end iu ? The obje& of BmsAPARTE is to subject the world to his caprice :—to environ France with Powers avowedly dependent ; to leave the rest of Europe in Bitch a state of debasement and confusion- that it may be in his power to introduce all the evils of anarchy, and circa, at will, the destru&ion of the Sovereigns whom he has set up, in order to substi- tate . others according to his convenience or his hu- • mour There is no tnethod more' etTeaual to establish anarchy, and prepare the Seedi of political disselti ;ion, than separating a People from their Chiefs Two modes of doing this present themselves : the first—lo tear'a nation from its legitithate Sovereign, and sell or transfer it to an Usurper : the seconds-- to humble and disgrace a Monarch before the. 'eyes of his Subjeets," by rendering him the instrument of . foreign tyranpy i and thus compelling him to be , 1 / 4 come at the same time the Objea of their con tempt and hatred. From this moment . anarchy is established ; and while such a state of things is suf 7 fared to exist, he who introduced it is absolute master of the. desiiaies of• the country thus cruelly agitated. One while he avails himself of the calamities 'which he has brought on thi. People; to irritate them against their Sovereign,,., who could' find no better mode of public defence than rendering .themselves contemptible ! Another while he 'takes advantage of the hatred of the People, to multiply the terrors of the Kings whom he has degraded, and thus oblige them to exasperate the evils already infli6ted on them, by a thousand-odious' precautions suggest e d' by their 'fears ! Thus Kings find themselc'eS without Subjeas, and SubjeLtts without Kings : while both -.the p ile, and the other lie at the mercy of the Tymint whose ~outrages produce and perpetUate their calamities. In this state of things, .BONAPARTE, while dic tating a Treaty of Peace with Russia, had, and Could have, .but' one object; . naMely, to render Russia an agent in ti'e prosecution of hisdesigns, And to Sepa, rate the Sovereign from his People, that he might be enabled to sow, 'in the bosom of that Empire, the aceursed . seeds of discord, anarchy, and eternal revolutions-! • To accomplish Ms purpose, it was necessary to deceive.the Emperor,. and to endeavour to:degrade him in the eyes of an energetic nation, full of cou rage, and above all, of that stubbotin,andlnilexible courage, which obstacles mai; irritate, but net•er Subdue. It was no less.necessary to force this gallant na tion to endure; in the person of - their Soveieigti, , tb most anjett:butniliations, andi for this ; end,, to disi grace.biiii in a avO-f - old - m,rtmer, first—by compel h4D w become an aceolitelicel ict 4ii.(le'AniCliccli r i)j e seconctif-by bratiditig . Lim With 1114 friyndship, and, it, circumstances felnireci it, by his alliance , y . Such was -6Vidently the objed which BONAPARTE hail iu .Conterriplation. Let us . no‘tr examine 'the Treaty; for we have yet to see whether the means lead dirdialy'to the end in view. If 13024APAET has been faithftil to his principlel, and to the political ,system whith results front them, the Treaty of Peace which he 'imposed on the Eat peror of Russia, at Tilsit, must, of cOunte, degrade this Prince in the opinion of his Subjects, must alienate, their affeBtions from him, and prepare, at no remote period, the ruin of Europe ; and the anarchy and destruCticin of all thoSe EMpires in which he has not hitherto found means to intli6t a • political death. This Treaty, then, will naturally divide itself into two kinds- of articles, disgraceful and destruCtive ; the former having for,their obje& the person of the EMperor ALEXASDER ; the latter, the Countries which the Tyrant has condemned to inevitable poli tical ruin : to these may be added a few-others, com bining both the proposed objects, and pregnant with an equal degree of danger and dishiMour. .The Treaty contains twenty-nine Articks : the first three, simply announing the cessation of hos • tilities, present nothing extraordinary. Article IV. dedares that BONAPARTE, "..041 Of te- , Bard for the Emperor of Russia, and to unite the two Nations by the bonds - of mutual confidence And friendship, consents to reinstate the King of Prussia, the; Ally of the EmperOr of Russia; in the: Countries - ; ,specified in the Article." . Is not this,Articleevidentlydi4ated by the feroci -0149 and-perNious vengeance of a tyrant, ?-•= 7 ia not 'the Sole purport of it to debase the Emperor of RuSsia and the Kink df'Pr6Ati,'arid to stamp a mirk of ignominy on ,the King of Firuisia by the very .; hand of his Ally ? • It is Out, o f ildra, then, far the Emperor of Ras ,sea that Prussia is allowed 1 pOlitioal .existence (We shall 'presently,provc that, thisauiseratle.exist7 once is merely a stri.iggie in the agonies of, death.)— . Without Rnsoia, : t i l!epohe would have been penili ed with complete- anoihdation Bnt :why ! , such severity on, the one part 'and such'deference on the ether I Prussia took up arntS' to escape de strudion—Russia took up arms to. avert ahe ruin of her Ally. In the eyes. of, the Tyrant the crime 'of n;a supporting his outrages with' patience is equal in both. It is because Russia has not yet, like Prussia, been. rendered restless and, disaffe4ed by the emissaries of 'corruption because Rtissia has , not yet, like Prussia, experienced the evils of French friendship, nor felt the disgraces of French alliance. Add to this; that one of the Belligerent. Powers had reached the - utmost bounds of her political existence, the other was yet to destroy : it became a, matter of policy, therefore; to crush the former by the hand of the latter, while indulging' her with an uesub stantial existence, to diminish even the value tif-this wretched boon, by saying to her :—" Vanquished, degraded, mutilated, you shall only exist out of re gard for the interest of others : I have reduced you _ • „ a • to,. such condition, that you will not henceforth excite even the feelings of pity ; and it is the hand of your Ally which I will ,compel to hold out to you an insulting . proteelion, and to make you pay for it, .at the sameti ate, ,by a fragtuent of your mutilated -po-hessions!" • ' ' .1 . 4.0 thousand yeifs jiave rolled 'iyVay r Otice the Roil) ans i ppsed oil the. King .of Syria that cele brated Treaty wtticli MoNTESQUlgtrAtoriVies not. to. la th m e i7if.gli, , pus one which' a gieat rrince .ever made:* In * perusing the Treaty of Tilsit,we felt 2 Wish. to know whether INIONTESQUIEL7 would have wr i tten i n 1807, that ‘vhich he wrote in t 750. • lAr e bocech our Readers. to turn to this Treaty in L in (lib. xNst viii.).: We implore them to examine it Witlf attentipti., k,ltat tiiuy may be convinced, by their own eye:!•,l : l,9w vain ;1 ;s to search into anti quity with,Cliecxtie , ':tatiun ot . dtscovermg :my Treaty capabfe of tieing compared with this of Tilsit. No; • nothing of this kind is to be found ; and if .I%lsmitts 'QUIEU were now alive, he would instantly erase'what he 'wrote in I 7.50: " The King ut Syria," saysllovresautau, "was beaten ; lr took to flight, more frightened than state he received the laW from the ROmans.. The - Iltoinans . ;e:cumulated upon him all the evils 1 Imaginable :••birt • they, did not add derision to finis , fortune_,' :arid, in this Treaty, ap, 4iernorible a as' MoN:ry.seutitu obServes, for its infamy, we do not, ••, see an Ally of.A.wriocaus.so mertified,sotittnpled • - npon,, as to'admit that he is only suffered' to exist ~.-out ,reg4Til for.ANTfocuus, on. his „ pail, is compelled-, : by: the, same Treaty, to share the spoils' of that very Ally who is thus permitted triliva - out of `regard . tor ' t 'What,. ,hoWevei'' * Greatness and Recline al:the.ltornans, chap v., Ltvr intinins- us, wileirslieaking of this Treaty; that the Romans stipulated tot have 14).44Ntivalt,:,THOWs,:Na zi, id Neu ..RusoL t3tt r 4iftti-itirtt-a -- : Nothing of this tore arp;itiqtt the Trtitt of Tilvt. , •l.: Li) • • • i n • • - • be Nina th•e Treaty of the tdrriaiis tivith the KinE,* of Syria, may bt Seed in the . ninth Article Of die Treaty' of 'Tilsit ; aid - what is stipulated in thai Article is not. to.be found hi any other Treaty - sipt;.6 the ereatiott of the worlct: We take. tiPoti ouiselvei tO affirm boldly, and without fear of contradietioii, that no :other Traty atfordi an etan - ipleof a powerful Prince, Who had flown to the succour: of a King, hi , 4 nnithig himself to most ,rticl enemy, and receiving, in that very Treaty 'which terminated the , war, the spoils of his Ally froxii the hands of lus Conquetcm true, that a ttArtrrtsAt. Would not be easily round iii thie age. Assuredly,. these perfidies were stipulated by Secret ,Articles; and time alone can .shew us whether any sacrifices of this hature were eitecuted at Tilsit. (fii Le essitingiii:, T9ORTHIAVG, SEPT. 8: Last evening, Mr, and Mrs. MESTAYEtt, of Bthad= street, in the city, went Out in their barouche• to take an, airing, When the horses took i - right-; and untbrtu nately ran with such violence, that the coachman could riot command them, when: makiug a Most desperate plunge, they hpAct. the carriage, .-and Mrs. ME+TAY Olt was thrown out, and her ~ face so •dread fully 'lacerated that it is 'feared she will. .lutean eye. Apprehensions were entertained that the coachman's back was broken when he wa raised fro:tithe ground; however ) I have. learned this :monung, that is mot the case ; but both his , shoulclrS are .dislocated, and his body dreadfully bruised, the horses having re peatedly kicked luin, and clashed:the barouche nearly •to pieces. - • The Theatre bit night was crowded with .all. the :heady duct _fashion of the place : the play was Hamlet, for the be:,etit of .klincttr• Sronons„. in which he played. the Danish - Priice, and his wife the interest ing °like/id. • • INDIA • (JEVLON-COVERNNIENT CAZiirt . E, DECiNtBER 3, 1806... • , .The Supreme Courtrettrlled , yesterday afternoon from its circuit • round..the. island, and will hold a Sosion, for Civil Business, on Friday, the .sth, at eight o'clock. ' . ..ntrltiAsi• Dec. 94,. 1806.—0 n Monday arrived the Ship Raamarina,. in. charge of .Nlr. Jolts Jot , - utio,-priztnaster;. .This vessel . was captured by a French •Brig Privateer, on the coast of Begu, toge ther. with' another veisel,' from six to seven.hundred itons burden, namettot. krioWn. The Fatamarina wits. _retialsen by the ./10PPILT, f.',:lptaill MCGii;., !flttPd out at Botany klay b inlat. to. INTJOnk. 88. E. ;on this list ult, and dispatched to this place. • -Two• Prittamar sloops have arrived irt the Iloads, NOith cargoes of rice, froth Bengal. DelAnttAs, JAt. 1, 1814..—Grain has considerably 'risen in .price 'in . the courseoltlte present week ; but, whether in consequence of-a real, or tiaiciout scar cityj,we are not competent to determine. As large quantities orrice, pease, &c. are:arriving daily (mit Bengal, in country vessels, there can he little doubt that there will soon be litirlicient for the =sump. thin' of-the Carnatic, and the price. will, of course, then fall. In the• mean time, any combinations.t4at, which have for their objetit . to may nto be nOpo discovered, lizegr:iin grain, will doubtless meet with merited punishment at, the bands of the Magistracy, whose aaivity, whilst it protects the lair trader, will de feat the designs of any who way harbe4r intentions which lead to such poignant diAress -as the want. of rice musi' produce to the natives of this country. Music.:—The'annual Mtls; . Meeting at Winches ter take 3 place on .the aith„ Nigtm, p A RKFi, and GRIGLIETTI,. with a numerous train., o f,Chorus ,Singers, are engaged for the occa sion), * l 'Well as WtitCligl•34,. LiNDLEY, HOLME,S, SMART, LAVENO, IiItYCE, &c. to sup port the. initrumental .department. The whole is ,t . o be uilder the direction of CHARD, and it Could. not be assigned to . better hand 6. BaAu.ssl, it seems, has at. last been successful in his.etforti to procure an engagement -forSroKAcs, ,at Drury-lane Theatre, iu the ensuing season. Drury •lane 'Dv, re. is 601 able to muster, its strength till next week, and therefore is not tot open till .this day selmight.. The new bujiding aloilt to be added to the east end of Dfu7 Lane The.Fitr , ., i s f ol . ;4 dditio na t :scent rooms, , painting and 'clressin-Triortis the colOnnad6 will also be .carried •on in . 14; , ,ritil-4:reet, for ponyeni ence of company getting to thoir carri.iges. Mrs. SUMBEO,, late Mrs. Wet.t.s, had an 'Eae-f -t:iiunient last night in it. new Theatro his been ereaed in CagLirifie.street, Strand. It ,cotvisted of `her own .InuttionJ of Theatrical Por formeTs living antfdead, other linitations by a Mr. flow?titD, and Comic ,Songs between. the Aas.— Mrs. Sumnet.t.'s liiiitation) were striking, and were tunfli applauded. The liouse was CroWded, and ;nett ace Wereevidentiy ivell'satiitied with the hole 01 the Ewertaiotucio, z • h as tv..iny.acivantageous otrefs front provincial Marlae,'(fri, ,filiti he could not con veniently have .accented : , ngagement flan) either of the Landon. Winter Theatres it ... overtures had been. made to him. He ,hod, however, determined not to accept a secondary situkition,and his prudence, it Seems, has placed him Above the necessity of abat ing the fair .claiins of Lis merit. A few days since, four' horses, belonging to Mr. Do, of Sandford, . near Oxford, were taken by boy, with their harness on, into a shallow' pond, about knee-dp, to drink when.otte of the horses, as is not unusual in warm, weather, began splash ui the water ,with .his fore-foet, by whiCh 'means it oceanic entangled : in the harness, which caused him to plunge. and, throw himself down. This a liqne c t tp e horio„ whq .plunged and and cotietiuently becathe more en til) they all fell; iaid three of them, worth , of too guin. a 3, were dro r wned. The buy, oui the for, hprie, was taken tut, nearly s uifi,c;ited with v titer Ana mud, an‘t.,:everely . . . Thii 111..11.1111 , g the Prisoners in New PriNon, Prison, ••110.:,.:i . einoved to I,l.,: i oratory.to the Ses ;h ,at the, Ohl LAI which cenolue_q;:ei t 1 iday. 4wct..„ • 1101;16'.- .o.ersoit wittrirotight h A t;rore IVIr; Alderman PRINIir, the Sitiing kawistrate, charg( 4 with .4) haYing assaulted and"' abdsei - anofher Frtsn,in the lap room of the King's Armsi in Smithfield, in consequence of which he .Was two/ hi the HoTital, and 'his life. despaired of. A young man virlibwaS a witness of the tranlac tion, said, that the person injured .was asleep in one; Of the liose4 ,in :the taproom When the Prisoner. first went up tOhint. He shook him, bdt the' man did not awake. He then knocked of :hiS hat; and struck him, , which had the effAi.of arousing Another man, who in the mean fime cache into tltt taproom, went up to the who . I.IIJ been asleep, and slidol: hini, as inned'iaely after did the Prisoner. The tiolostunate hian, how _eirei-; haying alluded to ate iittprOpet tre:ninent he had previously received the threati, followed on his hide, whieh ilirefe,Speedily followed' by kicks and blows; wheri, a scuffle having ensued, the man noW in the hospital Was in a fcv iniontos extended on his back on the table. The Prisoner lifted hiM frolin thence by the back of the neck and one thigh and protesting that' he *dal burn bun nlive,,laid ltirn on the grate; in which, however, there was no fire where having left him, the bo dy of the poor man tumbled down on the fender, and there,he without sense or motion, f6e up wardS 0f.15 minutes. The witness adviSed that inrgeon shotild he called, and, after a short. intt-rval, lii!-ti;OLly t . was Conv.eyed to'the Hospital. 011 qUiring this morning, the Offieer, who also . l4,nd= ed, could not see the sinteon, tint was inforiliOd . by the sister of the iie'reon who .had• Met With ' "fortrine,.that there Was t.)fit•ertnitted of his recovery. , .The Pr:honOr said he I.vai a stOnc-nri'y'O'n'; t• he was drunk at the tithe, and . kn , )W little if:ilk - nip! • was chaiged .........ti4l - 6 .... ~ . .. t ~ 3 ..... .. ‘ , 4 The w.4l4y,Attierlthati pOilito ok't4 lbe rrisciner the very daNleroureonseqtmcel Iftlt . restilted 7ii:ouk t, intoxication. ' Th c i/ g h ,:lc.,;iii, i! i.f.coc ii i en t •is "ti iiillif ~ ation Of t ;, if not an 3,Ctlsitt , fer) ri,.)i?4, ,4p ,iiitilro'Per . conduit, it_ was it) it ,elf a. ctlms,t r o b lct ? '). trivial 1 punishnietit oilgilt tO•be,t • Atitftol,, ili 111 4 844 t - tr'ti , )ij Prison ,t 4 .le,barolleiV, : , tlift, l it quilti, ,a, ~' did c i pt:tich.)e,t tie MQs,t fa tai ,i0wan5.,464.,.. 1 tk o cir LI! (44, ~ the" Prisoner to be retriatte : , till 4 ,ls,ithiy:„.Tn i i'`.l;4i . 'r ', th.it' the 'fait , of lye unt . ‘,;r4iiii%Ffian . ,,efhe , ro , ipic t might, .iii the mean time,. be tzicertlitteti.,,..,.. , . , A yotvg coy, oue of Ath . , 60.0 , g . ;- 2: , %11 ,if )c d , b e r me . , the Ardent-lan (..t , 'r•i:ty l ,z) I.'g,ii)' , t;'wl; l olo ijiii of hi.-, associlte , , , ;low in cit• i to:!.; , , 11,td given i1 ., %iri11 4 "" tiph, aS : hei,ll4,oll.ty of 1)kl.::11.. , po...letsx!t tecTlarg.,, ,Fair, the prziceeds of 0 w1410. 1 -z ;i - w rieraLli pieu.iekt - t with • pa . x n-broii.;n• on Sno*-lifli i ;t1:1 .ii-.o t'svt) t "b :IS vi ii. sill; more 1,11cr:t i , e,.,....b,;)1. 1 0 s un -, ll 6,,ir c 'd tl,easelyes to the Keeper 'or (.lii-Pi.ir:street Coro. ,ter, as wanting parents or any '(,,i1,;(..-r friend' to Imk. 3 after 'them, were ortlered by ,•tlie 41,14it i trat$,,ko be , ~. carried to the Marine SOciety, With a recon4e, llll o -. tion from him, begging that. they might be .li.l'cei . ‘;'‘ d into that laudable Institution.' `, - ' ' ',,, One Gentlethan who had his pocket picked of his handkerchief,, at Bartholomew Fair, .appeared; and , , begged to see the hhndkerchiels foiind in the posses. sion of the Niggler, mentioned' in our last. WO, hope that others will follow the example, so that this seducer of youth:may be brought to exemplary . ' punishment. WoltSUlP 7 STßEET.—Yesterday . ,falter Skate underwent a final examination'. before the Sitting Magistrates, being charged, 'upon the oaths of the: - • Rev. Charles Thomas Heatbcoate, and . others, on suspicion, with having stolen out of the yard ail-, joining the hOuse of Mr. Heithcoate, , several arti-' cles of hed=furtiit f ure, on Monday; the 3 Ist Itll. — He waipursued and taken by Griffith, the Ofiicer of Hackney, With the property upon'shiM; and on searching him, duplicates Were found upon him; descriptive of shifts, table-cloths, and other things,; The property being produced by the pa . Mibroker, , proved to be the property of 'the above Gentleman,, and stolen from the samesprernises, in July last...-. clpon 'both charges he was fully committed to New gate 161.11421. , • A dreadfd'accident 'beret a young than of the, name of Beettiittew; the son or a Fat"-tc;r' 'to the fiamp'stelid Woad, ott 'Kuesday. 4-to bad gorteßn a shooting paihity to the nvig:ll)o , o'hoOd of colnbrol)lc,, and had httiped . hirnse!t he toil, of the da r y,;.. he W:l4 sitting (joi.vn under Pi taking tetrt 7 porary refteshtivot, ,when - tll,O the P 1 which . i3Os pointed toward.'; 'him', ui.nt °lf ;it baircock, 'and he . itvai shot The Wa‘i ft promichig yOukig inait tinder A's a speeitnen of the extortion, prltaiseu onpef , sons arriving frotn India, we hay.e,eo mention the UnreasonaVie demand atittegaaiciti• a forty guinoso by the.t Nlaster' t or' a coa4tirtt Slbo'p for hinding,.t%N'S young OCtieors, comb 'home by the'O'resent 1. h et, ,at Brighton. As if the oril;inal, exornit.oncy Nt , %lS oat Ei fort her (Vint Ind of tive guiinfa!ovai made 00 puttinz'theyoung met) into the 6r.,:it'vhicil,vvzs to put tb non sti6re. liill . rir a:very nto aerate supper at. Brighton kept 'pace 'charges, :Intl tirade them declare thoy out again' to India in the next i'leet, in or.ter to be able to exit on a moderate , . As Mr. J. AlcantY, a Gentleman, of. Cork, ac cornpanied by a Latfy and child, in a post-chaise, were passing through Passige, on the acg . h ult. the boy, in suddenly 'getting otf to adjust the haruesti; unfortunately got one of his feat entangled.' trt ex tricating himself,. the' hertes' . tot* •31.1• proached the • Cliff, over, which .the . 'Whkile, extiept the boy, were precipitatedin. an instant to a depth of at least 200 perpendicular feet to the beAl Ai* river. It, however, very tintunately happened to b* low water, and the mast of a 'small. Vesiel agoaud broke the fall, but did not prevent a dreadful crash. The chaise ' , xis . nelirly br,,ken to pie...es, but ex.. traordinary to relate, 'the Ga loan wk and I Only sustained 'a slight injury; and' the child escaped un4 hurt. Tne polir animals werccOnsiderably bruised, - i Plough, ~sours individuals,,seemcd _not cleak,ikto comprehend the new Lottery. Platvon, its first .ao nouncement, it ta pow •rendereQi so manifest, , that he f` who runs t tna,y read.',' in a. word, ly at the option:.of every holder of a Supplementary 'ficket v lpstataly to receive 201. for }t, or to , tbidst the late of it in tne:SupplerngntAry Prawing. Heup t it is rpanite r ikot all the grsitt_ciaitp.6 itut.„x: r/ ... cipal bcne ineartlplayed for at loos than two to, a Pt:49 !:I'.;,