The Sun. — London, England, 1807-10-07 00:00:00

~r _-, OBSEIirATIO NS ON DUONAPARTE's SPEECH TO THE LECIS. LATLVE BODV, Auc. 16, 18c7. " FRANCE 13 united to the people of Germany by .be laws of 10 Confederation of the. Rhine; to those:of Spari:and Italy by the laws of our Federa tive. System." IloW tremendous a naivete has involuntarily escaped from lips little accustomed to such loge tuous avowals It i n lot of Germany, Spain, Switzerland,' Italy, and Holland, which BUONART,E has in reserve for those which he bonours . with the 'name of " States united to: France 1 . 1 %- , -Yes ;, those States are united to France as dead bodies are united in a cemetery under the rower of him who placed theta there, and who keeps the keys of the' enclosure l Assuredly, this • opens a most happy prospe& of futurity to those' Powers whom be has not yet, found means to " unite" to France ! This time, at least, be has spoken out, and manifested no inclination to deceive the world. And it is the master of all those countries where we see only Kings his slaves, or Kings his aCCOM plices—it is the master of all those countries who pretend that the seas ought to be free ! And why should they be free, if Europe is enslaved ? Woe, woe to the world, if such a partition could take place ! But, thanks to Heaven,' it is impossible. He who rules over the sea wOuld,enjoy but a steril power if the Continent were in chains. 'l'd render his preponderance useful, the safety of Europe must be secured. •The,power of BuoroAriatTE is that of death . ; that of England falls. of itself, unless she preserves the e*istence . of Europel•stich is the strik ing difference between these two Powers Our newconnealon,s.With Russia are cemented by the reciprocal esteem of those twe great Nations." There is an ambiguity of ideas here, which it is ttece , ssary to remove. The esteCm which RuSsia entertains for the French Nation, as well as that which France feelg for the Russian Nation, is totally independent of Bee. WArAttu. They may unite in the: opinion which they have of him : and I am persuaded that, in ,effe6t, they really are united in that opinion, which it is death to express in France, while it i 4 openly manifested in Ittissia. But the esteem which these two Nations have for each other, is' not only, not ativatiNeoui to BuowAti.taTE, but would become dangerous' to him if they were not separated by immense regions. All the ingenuity of BUONA MTE is emplOyed to identify himself with the Frerich Nation ; but he is identified with her in no other way' than the executioner is identified with his %i&ims Russia has had no opportunity of appreciating the French Nation, but by her bravery in the field ; and, in this respeB, she does her justice, by deplor ing the execrable use which she has made of it• to the present day. France has learned to estimate in the Russian Na tion a quality which she herself possesses, and, as. ' ~suredly,. in what relates to courage, she is an en lightened judge. They are the only titles which support the reci- Vibeal esteem of the two nations; and it is not easy to discover What advantage can possibly be derived from th7m to BUONAPARTE. tThqUeStiCillabiy, these two great nations esteem each other; but the one obeys a legitimate master-- the other Is subjetled to a tyrant. The natural result, therefore, of this esteem, on the pact of the Ras ._ $ lOll3, is to pity the French Nation, amidst all their admiration of her courage, for employing it in es, tablishing over France the power of aCorsican, who can neither assure her a moment's repose, nor exist himself, without eternally employing her in dis quieting and aflliding the Universe ! " Iu every thing which l• have done, I have only bad in view the happiness of my people, which is dearer to me than my own glory." It would be' paying. too little respe4 to the 'good sense. of Europe, to suppose that a phrase like this stood in need of any commentary. This expression, " My people," will never cease to be the astonish. pent of the universe. Gracious Heavens, how Severe a chaitisement ! And the French heard this expression, *" My people!" and he had power to repeat it a second time with impunity! • 1 desire n Mitritime Peace." Either this means nothing, or it signifies,. I desire to become by Peace the master of the seas, as I already ant of the Con tinent by War and Peace. The King of England may reply, " I desire a Continental Peace. " BUONAPARTE will say--" You bate it, since I am now master of the Continent, and have given to the Ailiery which I have imposed on n the name of Continental 'Peace."-.—The same language _should be 'retorted on BUONAFARTE,reI , .ireclipg a Maritim4u Peace.. " It already prev4ils over every sea, since Eng)and is sole roiLtress , of the ,Ocean, and terms this doMinion a Maritime Peace The expression, theiTiore, " I desire a Maritime 'eACC,' as, in reality, no sense. BUM:APART/6, however, understands himself, though be bat, tot often the faculty of making himself understood by orLers. Let us endeavour to render him intelli gible. 13UONArARTE has one obje&, and one system to , obtain that obje&. He varies his means but little, because, thanks to the weakness of Kings, and the incapacity of thpir Ministers, those•means have al ways succeeded with him, and consequently he has found rho necessity for changing them. The obje6t is to enslave Europe—the• means are, to dishonour by peace, to destroy by war, and to deceive those whom he has not subdued, by partici rations which dPgrade them, and by fallacious pro mises which he never fulfils till the very'monient that he is enabled to annihilate those who received them. Thus, he has just compelled the King of Prussia to pave the way.for the ruin of the Em peror of Russia ; and thus, too, be ,is how availing himself of the same means to facilitate the political' fail of England. Our Readers cannot have forgotten that, in his conference with Lord WHITWORTH, he proposed to him the partition of the world, This expression, " I desire a maritime Peace," is the resumption of that proposition. He wishes to insinuate that there no longer exists,. that there possibly can no longr exist, any war but a maritime one; that the ins fluence of England is annihilated on the Continent ; that she neithpr can nor ought to enjoy it any longer, and that she hainothing to treat for but a Peace on the Ocean. Now, in a , Peace of this nature, be Twill either propose arrangements destru&ive of the maritime power of England, or he will recur to his former proposition of dividing the world—the Seas to be long to England, and the Continent to BuoNAPARTU. Either of these two propositions will lead direaly to the end which be has in view : that is, to anni hilate by Peace that POwer 'which he has every where tumid invincible in the field: The moment that England shall have laid down her arms without securing the independence of the Continent, or continuing to interest herself in its existence, she delivers it up, bound hand and foot, to the tyranny of . RUONAPARTE. And from tlytt instant, amidSt all the propositions which the Tyrant may offer her; nothing remain for England• but to choose between sudden death, alltfone more or leis slow—lP sun SUFFERS HER MARITINIS RIGHTS' TO B,E 13110411 N IN UPON, unit, pitATit wilt. BE ACCELERATED; if she contents her self with being ,roeroly a Maritime Power, uncoil= neCted with the Cuntinent, her death, though blower, will be no less certain,. Sdch is the fatal circle' into which BUONAPARTE seeks to draw her ! and such are the masons why, in speaking of .England, he expresses no:desire but for a Maritime Peace ! These wordS alone lay down the basis of this Peace, and impress it with the cliargler which he earnestly labours to give it a Peace that shall for ever estranve England from the Continent 1 ., this is the very, lite and soul of his system. It is clear that a Peace of this description would be more useful to BUONAPARTV than twenty years of War, since he would obtain by it more than he could ever hope, in his most sanguine moments, to procure by war. The day that England Shall dAach'berself frail the interests of the Continent, that day, come when it Will; 'she also dehehes herself from the care of her own existence, and every succeeding hotly will bear witness to her dmiy.. This momentous truth, if we do not deceive (Tr selves., hat been fullydemonstrated in the preceding pages. it would be superfluous to recur again to the proof. It is sufficient to have briefly deve loped, in thii place, the with of the Tyrant, and his means for obtaining his object. !It LS. AR ktiv Gottenburgii, I , Lisbon, ,V.ll.:nord. PRICE OF STOCKS Tide DAY AT Twrivr. o'cLock:. Consols ' - T E SU N. QUIS DICERS VALSUM A . VDEA7 ? LONDON, :WkipIESDAT, OCTOBER i.i UK. Dispatches were last.ttlght, received from Admiral GAMBllift, up to the 24th ult. at which time most of the Line-of-battle Ships were PIA of the Har bour, and loaded ; with stores, and the Frigates and Transports were nearly full. The quantity of storys is immense, much more than could possibly be intended solely for the, Danish Fleet. They may all be expeaed, 'if the weittber proves favoar able, about thi),middle of this month. A fire broke out in the Arsenal, that for some time put on an alarming , appearapce. lt was sup posed to been .oecabioned by a:soldier snap ing in a room w )ere t Panes Ft some live gi)ells. No material damage was-done before it was gOt= under ; 6titfoor or five of our men were killed, and as ipany`wounded. ,l 7= ;;t` ,'.t A Morning Paper asserts that the Prussian Consul resident in- Great Britain has officially notified dirk the Ports,of Prussia will, henceforth be shut againke Great Britain. We may of course, exped that the enmity of France will be dire6ted against us in every possible Manner, but we are assured that no such notification has been made to our Government. WE have received American Papers to the Ist ult. the contenta o f which Will be found in a subsequent Column. ,They afford a strong proof, that while the People of America think proper to indulge in the Most senseless clamour upon every real or , supposed injury from this Country, they can sub-' ' mit to the grossest insults and injuries from France, without that'violent,display of patriotic indignation which was called forth by the rencontre betwech the Leopard and the Chesapeake. It appears that the American Ship Whelk has been captured in an American Harbour, by a French Privateer, upon the pretext that she came from an English Port. Previous to the capture of this Vessel, the Captain of the French Line-of-battle Ship - the Patriot went on board her, condts6led himself with great politeness, and did not give any hint that he considered her as a lawful Prize : but there can be little doubt that the 'capture •61 the Othello was made with the concur rence of the Captain of the Patriot, forthe Privateer' had 1.5 of the Patriot's men on board. This story. is calmly told in the American Papers. There are no ex pr es sions 'of indignation against the French—no public Meetings appeared to have been called—no ResolutionS entered into - to inrerdid all communi cation with the French ; although. the Privateer wantpnlyfired several vollies of musquetry into the Othello. It is possible that at another time the Pe'ople and the Government of America would sub.- mit in silence to this, as they have often sule.l mitted to outrages of' infinitely greater magnitude,' from the French; but after ,the importance' which . has been attached to the. affair of the Leopard and the Chesapeake, some remonstrance must be made to save appearances. It is said that the French Minister has sent a _Commission to inquireinto the conduct of the. Captain 'of the Patriot, and that he has declared; , that if the Captain connived at, or aid ed in the attack upon the Othello, he shall be given up to the Government of the United States, to be proceeded with according to. Law. The reason of extreme condescension of General under the present circumstances, is toe Obvious, tv require any comment. • The a&ivity displayed by the Court of Lisbon, in fitting Out the whole of its Fleet, has given rise to a number of conjeaures : the first and most obvious one, to which we have frequently alluded, is, that the Portuguese 'government, worn out by the con tinued exactions, and alarmed at the 'menaces of France, is at length seriously determined to put in execution the long-meditated plan of emigrating to the Brazils. But it has been snggested, with very little appearance of probability, in our opinion, that Portugal is fitting out her Fleet under the pretext of going to the BraZUS, but in reality with the intention of surrendering it to France. It is stated,' that France can proted Portugal, and that England, 'cannot; and that, therefore, it would be wise policy in Portugal to break of , her councilor' with, England, and put herself under the proteaion of France but those who indulge in this specula tion seem to forget that the inevitable consequence of such a step would be the immediate lasi of all her Colonial Possessiens. Ye§terday morning u MAJEsrv, Princesses SOPHIA, AUGUSTA, and AMELIA, accompanied by Lady I, TILY,NNE, General CAwrwatunT, and Co lonel TnYt.ou i took their usual ride in. the Great Park, and returned at twelve:. - is Jr,STIr Came to town thii day. .On :Monday night, the aikes of Foot: and CAM' BRIDGE arrived iu town, trorn Yesn-relay the Duke of Yoni held a putAic day, at his' Office, in the Horse Guards, and gave au diences to General Sir ARTHUR WELLESLEY, upon his arrival front Copenhagen, and Generil MEAD, upon his arrivalfroin Egypt ; as well at to a num ber of other Officers. Yesterday Mr : CANNING arrived in town from Bulstrode, where he has been fur some time. past on a visit to the Duke ofl'oaTL‘ta). Sir Aivraurt PAGET, we understand, has arrived at Constantinople, and has had several conferences wilt the Turkish Ministqr. Several smugglers were committed to Bodmin Gaol,last week, and whilst they were icading them withv irons; one: of the party pretend ng a great deal of sang frojd, said to the Turnkey, a Well, I haxe seen enough of this, so I'll be gone home. The Turnkey, supposing: - him a mere speaatur, who had bee induced by curioOty to come in to the gieves put, on the opet ed site gate, anti smuggler quictly,WAked off, stuntli repic jug in the s:nacVs of his 'Scheme'. The ipgen of the delitxinent, however, did not avail him much ; for one ot.'his 'fraternity, with whom he ha I t ken shelt , .-r, 'forgot Wl)at was due to hospitAil, and sur rendered him tam' to Me ,Ciyii Powe-. ' k l PATUOUTII, OCT. a ..••-• Sailed the Hibernia, of 1 i o'gubs, to join the Channel Fleet ; the .Raleigh ,Stoop e\Nr3r, on a eruize ; the American Ship San sOntto Cw, J. STEvetts, for New-York ; and the ' MOan Ifi ig 41 - rti7e, Gaps. ArAirw - iii, for Zia. nl, ngen. PORTSMOUTH, OCT. 6.—Arrived the POW" Bro. thers, SCHIPPER, from Memel, with deal and time ber for this Port and, to-day, the Shannon Frigate,/ Capt. P. B. V. BROKE, from the Downs: Sailed this day the Sprightly Cutter, Lieut. Gott• Dos, with a convoy for the Downs, consisting of the Christopher, Dixon ; London, Scurr ; Ralph Nicholson, Findlay; Enterprise, Clarke; Ibbetson, Harrison; Ellen, lemperion ; Peace, Kirk ; Flora, Johnson; Archimedes, aly ; and AieSander, Young, Transports; Pembroke, Les• ter, and Laurel, Headly (the latter for Srandgate Creek, not being cleared from quarantine), merchantmen, with several coa,ters; also the Matthew, Walker; London, Carter; Noralumbertinct; Robinson ; and Brothers, Carr, for New. castle and Sundrriand. The .nbreas Frigate, Capt. ScoTT, has captures; and sent into this Port, the French Schooner-Trivia , . teen Neaori bad been out, when captured, 36 hours from, Morlaix, had taken possession of an American Brig, 1. and from 4msterdam to an Eng, fish Port, and was steering her course for France, bOt which was recaptured by the &rear Frigate, and sent into one of the Western English Ports. :'game into Harbour yesterday, Lft Peat . sloop of War, Capt.. THOS. WII4T.E. Went out of Harbour this afternoon La Decade Frigate, Capt. ;Tom; STuAT, after undergoing 4 partial repair. DEAL, Qc?. G.—Arrived the /1/onkey Otzn.brig rem a cruize. Came down from the River the PhtNnix,DovoiAs t for Jamaica,' end. remains in .the Dk.).wns with tilt/ Ships as per last. StEERNESS ) OeT. 6.—Came down from, hpin a where she had delivered several French Pri. so.nov; to the l'andeuich l'rason-ship, the Deptford Tender, Lieut. ANT 4, Am, and immediately k) . roceedeci I‘.)r ) thp.akver.. .The viggresser. Gun-brig 1i tlAt: signal fiyi,ng fo; ei - invoy to. the Bill*. • Several 'Transports are again' colltl'Oed heie., Sailed. the Bruiser Gun-brig for Yarrnontli. A man on board the Namur has been recognised as one of the crew of the Dance,, apd propeg means are taking to-ascertain the th&. Came down from the River, and aticbciroci at the . . Nom, the .4/iztavt/i, 91: 74 guns, ;b9 Hon. Captl Cuazog. lIULL, OCT next Convoy fo; the Dala k tic is petitioned for the 10th lug: instead of the sth, ja motioned in ,our last, and will be th,e..last tLds year for the Russian Por►s., His Majesty's Ship Tr'usty is under orders to call in the I-lumber tar Volunteersfor Copenhagen ; and to take under her convoy such Vessels as may k)et then, ready for the Boltic. The Lady Du,s, Moxt4tsca4, which sailed. fro* hence on Alonday last for Sundt:slant!, arrived here on Friday morning„ having lost both her anchor& anti cables in'Biidlington Bay, in a gale 00 Wednes« . day Thel a vurite,AlN, of and from Sunderlnd,. was taken thd 20th inst. att . Beachy, by the Qrati . Napoleon Privateer, .Of . 14 guns, re•taken by. the Speculator Lugger, and .carried into Newhaven. The Lampion, from Sunderland to Plymouth, has hnn 'taken, re..taken, and carried into Purtitil"th' Last week a Vess e l fromWisbeach (the Union) on her voyage to G a i ns b oroug h , w i t h 300 quarters of beans, ran o n s h ore o n t h e Li ncolns hi re cost, off. Theddlethore, and yeas daslicd to:pieces. The craw were saved, but 230 quarters o f t h e b ea ns were 1°8 . ; The Frederick G er k a , ColoTALtus Flom, fro l 4 Stockholm to Portsmouth, arrived here yesterday, having been run foul of at sea by the Falcon Sloop of War, which carried away her foremast and 1113.11.*, top-mast. On the 14th of Febtuary, the Cakutta and Co hintta spoke his Majesty's Ship liviiibay otl Point de Ga Yielor, off Aleppo) and Pitt, oil Tciii cherry. The Prime, belonging to Bombay, had been purdlosed by the Supercargoes, for the purpose of cut tuencing a regular survey of the Chinese Seas. His Majesty's Ship Ilellona, Capt. BASXARD, ar rived at . Bombay the 4th of February last. His Majesty's Shtps Psyche and . Pitt were all well, off Calcutta; the tgth of February. His Majesty's Ship Phalan, Captain WOOD, arrived' at Bombay the lath of March, last Bross Madras, _ His Majesty's Ship Culloden, Captain C. Colds* Admiral Sir E. PELLaw, arrived at Bombay the 7th of March ' and the St. Iterenzo .I.4‘rigate, the 4th of March, from Sea. Ht Malg!tf's Ship Wilhe[mina arrived in the Ganges the"l4iter end of Januar/ last. Ti4e ‘, Ship, .Raineei; Brig Jane i a rd wrap 4 vanc e y, have been recently 4apturcd b ' l.° s Privateers. - Aimed at Point di Galle, Jantitri 14111, his I - jesty's Ship Bombay,.