The Sun. — London, England, 1807-12-09 00:00:00

Meant the world to believe we did -in July u Winch .• • stibjOins the happy Editor, ~;!.rnton3t pletely exculpatei the late Ministry." Usually supposed to want neither talentsrupt: nation, 'when the accusations of the Enetity were to be supported, has, frOm causes totally t~ntc ' ou'n to us, sunk into absolute wh'ining and despondeney: The remainder,. who only . follow " like hounds that make up the cry," are unworthy notice. • The ex to of the . lleclaration naturally di vides itself into .. three branches : the conduct which produced the Treaty of Tilsit, the stipulations of that Treaty, and the measures which have been Won to obviate or defeat them as far 33' the . 4)loy to this .Country. 4..)11,., , " Twice has the Emperor taken up anti's,) • .t it cause in which the interests of England . :most immediately concerned—l'iiit he has. solicited iO3-0,,T, - • • -; purpose h er co w o p erat i on to promote the acconv,,, plishment of her own . obje&s: He did not requii-t i a she should unite her foices with hii—he vas anxious only she should make a diversion in their favour.— He was astonished that in the fuitherance of hey own. cause she herself would makeno'exertion. On the contrary, SHE LOOKED ON' A COLD SPECTATRIX OF THE SANGUINARY THE. OF ?Hy WAR Whick, had herself kindled, and sent a part of her troop s to attack Buenos Ayres. ." Another portion of her army, which seemed to be destined to •make a diversion in Italy, finally Withdrew from Sicily, where, it was assembled; Hopes were entertained that they had taken tlkat step in order to throw themselves_on'the Neapoli-t: tan coast, but it was soon understood that •inhy. WERE EMPLOYED IN TAKiNG I'OiSRSSi4I: OF E GYPT." ; After observing that the )✓tnpecor is , guilty.of a mistake in affirming that England had twice suffered Russia to embark in hostilities withinn at tempting to co-operate with her, since we had an army of 60,00 u men in tne • North ,of Germany, tinder the!ausPices of the lamented Par, which was only kept from aaion by the baneful interfel:cnce of Prussia ; we cannot but acliitit that thedignainder of this.Seetion constitutes a case of uncototnn the late ' Administration ; and ;t it be obseryed, that thiq ,its. the only:pima the,Oegliira-, Con which is open and explicit ; .what ,fdllows is made up of inuendo and vagne - aeolamation, whiCh creates rather pity for those who were:driven to such miserable pfrras, than any. desiie; '6 indeed; any 4 Pssity, to answer them. To us, find we are persuaded that we may say as hutch for'every unptejudiced mirid,lt clearly appears that the whole force of the Deolaratlbn depends on *hat we have jtist quoted ; the remainder is the garnish 0f the Thuilleries, the . eranibetecntia of a hundred . _ Itioniteurs English Opposition Journals, &e.",.. MC! " CounsTE'DOStittoN oP' THE CoMidi/ b 1 the most pernicious Adminfitrathitt ; that ever Vigiteti an unfortunate Country, was ternttrke4. , ity . tuoNAPAiTa,•adroitly pressed upon the:EmOror of Aussia, already disposed to resent it'; and the Treaty of Tilsit was the fatal consequence ! I As . the Armed Neufrality, together With every ether step hOstile to England, was undonbtedly'then , toolved upon, it becotues utmost . unneces' skry to 'enter into any , 01 the subsequent Charges . Absurdly adduced . to justify what took place before they had bkh, further than to observe, - that they:betray an equrtl ,I..grec of ignorance 'and ititeinpera4ii and that so grave 3 questiOn was . ni.vdr befOr . g : catY 4 ,*4 . With s u c h deplorable imbecility. We shall 4 11 S) therefore, stop to notice the hypocritical tei;artiiillted wet * the bate of Denmark, nor to dispute th e is, moral 'iliknity of the. Crown Prinee, who seized upon an .tnoffe tt li t ig Citrwithout one plea of neeesaity or . justice,' ; who sacrificed the DOillbiOVlS of MS Sove reign and Rither to the basest of passions; end who,. after initigating . the Capital to a resistance:Alm could onlii involve it in ruin, stole, like a coward, ( torn the conflagration which he had kindled; and . tented, in dishonourable s3ft.ty,,' his splenetic and inVotent key. Neither shalt we condescend to dwell on that singular lapse of memory with Which the Emperor was affli6ted when he declared that the seizure of the Danish Fleet (of which the Enemy 'as rapidly hastening to take possession) was, ati II Et of violence hitherto 'unequalled!" 1-.16 , forgot that Switzerland, whose independence had.. been guaranteed by fivoNAiwurg, was, compelled to re ceive a Constitution fil,bricateclat St. Cloud ? He for , got that Germany, in the midst of a profound Peace, beheld her terrilorr violated by cut-throats, charged with es:muting the murderous commissions of a fero cious UsUrper ! fl Y e forgot that the Sovereignty n' Liguria 'was accepted ; the very instant after Trea ties, of the most solemn kind, had separated her 'for ever front France ! for of that the C4rruanic Constitution was violently abolished,. n defiance of the natiVe POwer;i• who regard ed it, and not without reason, as ad 'essential Part of the pub is L i‘v of Europe ! He forgot that tilaby States and CitieA . , Who e nontioul independence 444 been reuestedl4 OW. IPSO• wits. gust Ally ; " were occupied ; raid Witter totitribtitioti/ and finally compelled' to ddopt measures against our Commerce evidently destrnetive of . their dearest in terests'_ What is yet moreextraordinary, he forgot that CATUARINE and PAUL (SYhOSe' GLORIOUS 'ME MORY 13uotr4,PAit . rfs, with feelings of the' most u ntle signing tenderness, •has prevailed on him to - cele- , .biate) left him - rid inconsiderable portion of territory, obtained by means which, if Ime had fortunately re collected -them; might Dave abated his virtuous in dignation, and rendered his assertion somewhat" more 'than problematical Dismissing, therefore, the immaterial part of the beC6ration'from our thoughts, and recurring once more to the opening paragraphs, we cannot avoid observing, that lithe present Ministers had had the address to bribe Russia to publish a manifesto, for the . leurpose of justifying themselves, and accusi ng th e i r :iminediate predecessors on the most just and tenable grounds,:t hey could have wished' for nothing bette r adapted to; their views than the paper befOre Prejudiee itselt.must be convinced by it, that the folly, (we speak tenderly, for Wry alone, perhaps, is unequal to the production of *such exquisite mis chief), the folly, we say, of the late Administra tion in abandoning the Continent, completely alienated" the friendship of the Emperor of Russia, drove him into the arms of our implacable Enemy, andfurnished a plea for the adoption of measures of the most . fatal tendency to the political existence Of Great Britain. A new Marine Confederacy was organizedin the bosom of the Baltic, which, in the course of the ensuing spring, would put BUONA.. PARTE in possession of fifty Sail of the l. f inei n:forcn. that would have required more than half the Navy of England to watehindzonnteraifit it ! Thus it appears from the avowal of . the, Emperor of Russia, and the fairest construOion ,the State Paper before us, that all the evil was produced by' the late Ministers; and the indignation, and . all the charges against the present, amount to nothing more than that their prudence, promptitude - and vigour have aVerted , the impending ruin of their - Country,, byfruwatingperniciou3 plan, to which. the bad faith and imbecility of their predecessors bad. given birth. Greater and juster claims to the‘gra titude of a Nation cannot be advanced; and, as fir as we are enabled to judge,, those claims, and th.lL gratitude are allowed and awarded. -; Yes; for we cannot' repeat it too often, nor press it too strongly on the notice of our Readers, the Armed Neutrality, which, in the language of Buo xitrre, means the most determined hostility, was stipulated by • the Secret 'Articles of the Treaty of Tilsit. Denmark, aS 'once before, tuthed madly into dist, crontederacy Sweden was not thought capable of resistance ; and. Russia, besides tender ing all her naval forces at Cronstadt, recalled her Fleet from the bardooelles, and left the Black:Sea (the objest . of her fondest solicitude) at the mercy of the Porte : so tierce Was her enmity,' so abject her slavery, or so blind her terror! But if Ministers knew this, why did they not an., ticipate the &Signs of Russia", and commence ? That they knew all this, and More, the Ex pedition to Denmark triumphantly proves : but they also knew that ALEXANCIEIt acted under impreisions madeou hint by the most ariftil and wicked of ,hu . . rn4n beings, at a distance from his capital, apart. ,from his grayest and most ,faithful Counsellors, and .surrounded.by Intriguers, Spies, and trien , of blood they might, therefore, indulge a reasonable biTe . that, on his escape from BixotiAPARTE, his integrity,' which had been -perverted, but not irremediably cor rupted, might be revived ; and the voice of his true friends induce him to,take tho interest. of his people into. his sobz:r consideration, and adopt sounder raensutes and more salutary councils, This, hbw.over, though they might, and perhaps did expeet it, had no benumbing elicit on their condat t while they wished to engage the EMperor's friendship, they took itiedual means to disable ,his ; enmity ; and, having sequiod the powerful Navy of. Copenhagen, on which the hopes of the ContWera , , don chiefly: reited, Waited with calm dignify..for . that result, which, a sense of justice, if not a eon , cienshess of his ,inability to injure, might' and shOuld have Produced. It :is more probable that this would aanally have heon the, case; if. BooxAr.tirra, timely apprehensive of it, lied not environed the 'Emperor with - his own cremures, made.him a clo'se prisoner in the capital of his Empire,..and by it perpetuld recurrence to the arguMents which produced the Treaty -of . Til it, i m pelled him to surrender' his feelings, and sacri fice the best interests of his People to . the insatiablo rancour of the common pest of mankind, It is thus thar.A.dininistration find themselves in volved by the coudticit of their predecesiors, in all 'he difficulties of a protracted and universal War : for no one can suppose that Austria will be permit ted to enjoy lier neutrality ; and every post ,testy. be expeeted to tiring accounts of her releaant, Kees ;ion. to this hopeful Coniederacy. What compbihts • tititatiteteoni the Oppositioh Papers, \v &spair not of seeing a fabrication from flu; Tlntillerles that shall rival the present in ingenuity, and, perhaps, in justice ! Sweden alone will then remain (thr Portugal, we regret to say It, is 'no more) ; and we cannot but feel for that gallant Nation, and her noble and high , spirited Sovereign, when we retie& that she will probably be obliged to take part againSt us, by those I Armies which, directed by a common portion of honesty and good sense, might have effeqed the dowiitiil of the Corsican, and the deliverance of the Iworld. Let not our .Readers imagine that we seek' to alarm them by this display of _the,- Powers in array against us.—Far different are our views ; we have placed the picture in the strongest light, only.that• they may contemplate it without terror :. , and when they consider, with Us) - that this addition (sinee.the judicious disablement of Denmark) is more in,nurn;• ber than weight, they may probably regard with some complacency what they lately trembled to approach. • • For ourselves, on whom the Whinings' and the I clamours of disaffe&ion are equally lost,, we eannnt but indulge a degree of pride at the thought of be ing born Britons., We.see the country. which Buo 24A PAitTE, in the height of his fire-new - fortune; insolently declared "'unable, to - cope - With - France alone," deserted or 'betrayed by Ouse whom she struggled to saye, and menaced by the united forces of the world; we see that country planned— nothing .dejeaed, relying with tranquil confidence on the justice of her cause, the skill and , bravery of hpr Fleet; and Armies, and above all, the integen'y,.pra. , deuce and vigour Of her Government; for a termina tion which shall dignify resistance,- and. blend her security with herglory! We cannot conceal it froin ourselves, that England presents ) at this Moment, a sublime and striking spectacle - to the trembling na tions of Europe. They' have' long looked with fear ful curiosity, not, perhaps, without a mixture of satisfaction, at her overthrow:. on the gut ession of ' mitt) new gnemy',, their .expeaations . havo ti - ech it , vigorated ; and now . that the last formidable Power on the Continent leas madly joined the league against us, they behold •her with an astonishment which every hour increases, Steadily puriuing her ordinary course, and, mighty in her own..resour,ces, scarcely affected` by those combined., shocks, of whiCh the slightest was supposed to be suffiCiently powerful to convulse the Island to its center! This is a state in which we never before stood, in . which lip C4mutrY •ver .dared lc, stand ; and in w hi c h, if we prove faithful to .ourselves, we shall acquire a wreath Id Ilium that wilt finitrish,to the latest titnes,! Our lot is cast tar below ambition '; but we frankly declare, that : We cannot recolleat, in the varied annals of the world,, a name of which a Statesman Might be so justly proud, star ion 'of which he 'night be, so nobly i t?oVetons, as that of a Minister of Great WINO at this ntementous period. —lt has its difficulties and it dangers, but such only tis aro capable of inti.aining the generous passions of a lofty .who looks to the safely and glory ,of his Country as a parathount objeki,; and 'to ,the applause of a grateful posterity as biz.• great:reward. Tate, we: are luily perstiaded, the 'present Administration will' obtain .; and, ages after thts. , " envious how cif 'their opponents . have ceasedledannoy, will the orb of :their limi4 continue, with increasing bright ne93, to attrad the adinir.ition,. and regorate the' 6oticlua of every loVer of his country, every friend,. to the permanent welfare of mankind ! .; ; Yesterday a Cabinet Council assembled at the Fo , reigil Office, at two o'doelc, and eMitinued sitting until half after five. The hiembers present. were, th,t, Earls of NVEsratonetAwn.mod CAMDEN, LAnti, 111WKESIII:riY, Aftii:6llAVr, and CAiTLEIIIVAGU, Mr. CANNING, *GU CllANier.t.Lott of the Ex.• CHEIWKR. HIS MAJESTY has not beets out of Windsor Castle since Sunday, owing to the, severity of the weather. On Monday the DtsEt of Yoax, after tratisaaing tiusiuess with Hs MAJE.sry, dined with HER MA , . JEST'? and, the PaiNcs'ssps, and hi the' et enitss dame to London. I.'es' terday his, Royal Highness held a public. day at the Horse Guards, arid gave sun diencea to a nnmherof Officers of diaon6tion. . Yesterday the Make of M4blCtittFllnt Lord Gitoesg, Sir H. MILDMAY, and bfr, G. Rose, traniatied business with Lord bitmottott, at the Admiralty. Yesterday Lord C srt.ERR iuu trabsaAed bnsiness at his Office the whole of the' day. ENtrod of a Letter, dated Quebec, ' Ottober j 3, , , i received in ',moon the 7th tist.---.4 11110 his.Statf arrived here thi;r ino..ning.' cause. 4Uence of the arrival of the goth and NeWfoundland Fenclble Iletviments the i9th. and tooth have born Ordered to proceed without delay from hence to Montreal." I• The Lord Chancellor, in a C,111513 betweon Mrs. Gmtatetc, widow of the great itetor, and Lord CAMDEN and others, his Executors, upon a chiin of the former to a part of the remdue orthe Tea tator's property, yesteiday pronounced the judgment of the Court in favour of the Defendants. • Saturday the sth in was-11)4ft% at Wy- Withwy, in Cheshire, Colonel Coma...LAN, to Miss .13i;, tic:tiros, danghter of the Itiv. Sir InomAs ttioukiluoii, t xhdtiinzton-Hat,, tu the said f inn NAVAL NEWS; From the LOND')N cAzErri,D.c. 14, Admiralty-OoVe i Dec. 8 ; 1897 Copy of a Letter from Captain Francis Stanfill.; of his NU .; jesty's Sloop the Scorpion, to Admiral Young, and. traits. mitted by the, latter Officer to the Hon. W. W ..Pole dated on board his Majesty's Sloop Scorpion, Scilly Wac -14 Miles, Diu:. '3 !Soy— thyself of information gaiuecibr the capture of La Glaneuse, relative td thu celebrat , ed ketelitrivateer out of St. Maloth, it is with loft , mite satisfaction I ioforna you I fell in vvith.herPaird after a chiceof twelve hours, captured Le Glaneur, of ten guns and:..sixty . tuen, Mons. Jacquel Pabre, Commander, sits .days from Brest. She has beeti repeatedly chased, and escaped by superiority of sail , ing; and'itu well known 'at Lloyds ty have done more.misclilef than all the Privateers .out of. Sti loos; hating run two years with -uniotcropted I hegMiebjoin the names of two Vessels tiert i kyf her; ' and -ha! r e the honour to tie , & c - n ' , (Sign(ul) FLtANC,IS STA. NFL' i.,L; Te William Young, -F. sq of the Blue: ,"' Horatio Brig, I/avid Aiill, tviaster, froin,Lottdon.to Maga. cure.—La Gloria Puriuguese Ship, troxi Oporto to London: (Signed) F. STAtIFELL. ~ :%s~ Y310117'45, DEC. 7..---The Privateer which ar. rivcd)wre yesterday, captured by the Scarp/antBl64i oC War, ha Glaneur, Ketch-rigged, si4.days.frorn mountingl rI guns, pierced for 16, quite new. Arrived the American Ship Young Elias, 0E1.A4 m'O'NE,.froin Philadelphia, beund'to Bourdeaux, tk tained by aid Pailerctic( Frigate, for a breach of block. ade, having been into Rochelle, and taken on hoard , .PilOt for :B unrdeaux, after being warned by the.' Enierithl not tfrenter ° the Port. Aff4 l3 ( l : o)itkltiiid, of Whitehaven, laden with ceals,.frOm,Virhitehaven bound to Cork, captured!, on Friday :130)y a .French Privateer, near the: en trance of the harbour of Cork, and retaken on thq follo , .c.ing day, in sight, of the French Privateer, by the Hero Privateer. of, Fowey. ArriVed the Happy &tow Privateer, Of this Port,; , from a croize, duthig Which 'she fell in with the' Ripe, of I'lW..l(l,l,pliia; 'Cocs.s.AN, from Lisben bound to Gottenburgh ; out of which ;Au, took, and. ,laii . ckd :It Coi . l'ort, ELLEIiTON : Mr. Jos. N ; and Mr. Gigs. StkAllui, three British am chants, that , had embarked on board, her at Lisbon.. The - -Happy Returit - Privateer has detained the rag°, a Portuguese Ship, from "the Brazils, bound to Lisbon, not yet arrived. ~~; ~ , Sailed the Pitcebe Frigate, tojoih the, Squadrhu cruizing of Ferrol. Rear-Admiral Sir J. B. W!.RitZti , is expeCted to sail to•morrow in the.Swiftsure, of 7+ guos, for 114111.4 x. PowP - .NtouTt., Dec. 8.-.-. Yesterday. arriced tho and MOMaS, K 25.1114 j Severn . , 14 AcKwooD; and it, frornWaterford Erbtheri, TiatxY, faun Penzance netis, NunHY , and Mayy, :from Sn dcrlatid , and today thu forlm,liP., from the Downs. • ' SAN 'the i,y cAtrinkeid, ScuwYNG A, for ,Gut ten - burgh.; Thomas, FlAmmoNn, for Wuterford ; ani ' Cato; HMI t I EON, for Sunderland, Came into , the Harbour this day the Sharpshooter Gun-brig. 131;7914.w,cli r rAY, Ch.inuri tindtsvcornmand of Lord QMIDER, 10 Ow DEAL PAC. B.—Carne down from "the ,River, the Pititvsiv, , and ten:mitts in the Downs with the Ships its per last. Sunintatis, into Harbour Bsec/1(30n-brig, anc Prometheus. Fire-shilL Arrived 'the Aggress(Jr GOn-brig, Lieut. *AT• SON, from the North A vast number of Privateers are fitting out in the River, at' Liverp9ol, Hull, &c. At Bristol alonc , , seventeen are nearly ready for sea. On the night of Monday sehnight, the house of James Wildman, Esq. of Layton, nog Witlthant.: stow, was broke open, and robbed of confiderabl4 property. ' The robbery was not diSeovered till the hintily rose the following tnorhing. "Virntin4anted Kolcroft. has been apprehended on 4 , tOijApijOeing concerued in the robbery. .i. P. , -; . ':114: ' ~.Zit'A'• ii,...... aitt.amievott-STREET.—Yeste •I v , , ' , rch, -,- 4 t 4,:,, who .hpt undergone two examinak •.) ~ :i' fill t:rs gf charges offraud, was again hranglit up. His you clnd niu4erhvetit a long investigation, and he was finally committed for trial. enitsi.ExcitAtott, Dec. 91—There is but a short supply of Wheat to-day, 4;4 the. sales etreeted ftilty maintain last prices Barley in tolerable quantities, heoly In sale, and rather titeaper ; empties of hue new , Malt about SOB. per quarter ; icr White and Grey Pease, and the two kind of .tilean,si there but little alteration Oats also iLI shout supply, and at a farther-increase in the late high priqes at our.ltiSttarretity, fine American 3t33, to 40s. per bafret... : - , . Wheat.' - ' 46s 3::563 a 6ss od Tick *Arts . sla a 6os o d Elm ditto - .}: .11, 'A 74s ad Oats . , 3os a 35s a 424 oct Rye ... ,,, :, :4gs a So; 04 1 ) 01=1 MHO .13s a 44s od !}alley ~ ,t . • 1; ) : a,475 o f 1 Potito;',. - - 4se 3—3 041 14 4 4;t • . . - ' a 1,41 0 (1 i• Kp Seed _.. az! a asi od Whiter Nap sAlks a 164.4 ail [Age f loin sits sss a sgs 0 t Urev.dittn - fiAt a -.one .:.1 1 tZtanrsrleir ... . . . .