The Sun. — London, England, 1815-10-16 00:00:00

#'~:~' I PEACE% i .111f! Calamities ef W ar are undoubtedly very great ; .bnt I ." t docs not follow, that every Transaction that may call I. '! itself Peace, Will ultimately b e th e means o f diminishing., 1 :: the m'eVen if it S hould not grin„ on Calamities of a worse llii."--lErrei: 4 MR. WYDNIJANI'S, SEPT. 21, 1796-• 111 S fascinating wort!, always attractive in s the abstract, though Sometintet iePulsive in the de . tail, is now sounded in •our ears—even unto the ech o. At length, we May repose udder our vine, and trim our °lire ; or—to speak n - olie north etlilY---w , e may hammer our r sabres nto sickles, 411 d bend our bayonets into plough-shares ;we M a Y cot up Our sails iota COrn-iacks, arid 'Cut clown Qur Masts into hop-poies- 1 • . ~.1 44Y we ind ee d ?— t h e ques ti o n is i•ailier in srasi ~ 'e ; but, perhaps, not absolutely imperti:- )441', . leave iS a very .good thing i but, Hite other r d t hings, its value is to be calculated by its 4ability. .It must 'be a solid article, before the thost Collllnercial man living will buy'it at a Solid rce - For what cannot stand wear-and-tear; the ''''est purchase is too- high. We want to ► wrap littirselves in every-day Briti s h b roa d c l o th, n ot in elidsY French tiffany-- I : il ia is the dialect o f commerce ; call it—if you Irease----•tlie slang t Ylea of the countin g house. France i us a shop -keeping- nation ; she cannot ob . - 4,ect toa shop‘keepiro, argument. Besides, Peace s , a c°Ji tract ; an d i n di scuss i ng contracts, we must us e ca , . .. . It ractar's l anguage . In a world SO i mper f ect an d so peacea bl e as t6 t's ' the strongest obligations must depend on isa. eir c't strongest n stren g th. We have not any court-pa st:l/%'r, to w hiC h all nations submit, for the en eeinent en of Trea t i es . forward Tor these are v i o l ated, we may go fe4tess---like th e poet ' s progress i ve di stance o f ° ' lll —from the small States to the great, tti ttl the great to the - greater, from the'greater to ri., e greatest. But—When arrived at this Ultima 14414---where shall we find the impassable houti t Y c'fiUjustice? the extreme power of command , 4; obs'erv'an ling fidelity, 40 ,_ ce, and compel ~ c e, however, we have not the Poet's uncer taint,: 0 1 , . I lls " Lord knows where" does not ap- T ha 3 . Britain. The wheteabout is in tintsELF. 1.11 heri* 'leaven 1 she is mighty enough to seek it o wn •. 1 in her rteighbout"s lio. , t esty . . . lent,,t 1, not ' NT '. 1 " her OWII power, not in his principle. , e ither are we as puzzled for an answer as_ the t4P6:n r Ttolian ; whos e univer s e stands oh. an ele e'lll'it'Nvhieb stands on a tortoise, which stands t e l l : t„. boll,S head, w hi c h stan d s on=lie knows not 5t 111.. IV ' c know the primary foundation of our tity"tY• Peace tA ' s_nr. s on reciprocity ; recipro pn °4 c onvenience; crinvenienCe on power ; wer on . I n 4 ac.—And so ends our catec hi sm . s tat wa r, therefore—or rather in the resources of o nr s 4B strength, and its preparation"—we find ii„tieel'iltY. War is the Mad-Ratio of all bide , 4 1 n i llt S tates; and woe to that country whose for i sand whose niinisters are not always ready g ar • a art ! Pace is the season for the to wl . i6 ii , ' , Let f it , . . '' he sea tusks :-. but Peace is not t „ 1 ," / " Ills root - , . in g tip the trees. - dots , , • Its the — "ea for Peace in the abStract; even in t,sh er, szn Y of. which the declaimers are so fond, lit e , Ti ' t '31148 them'. Foot - um himself could di , %el l , n ti ` mli I . t ;end ring the changes Upon its beauty, t such u.:6 I.' co n ven i e nce. The PariSians e rntit Iris .11, ---°1 “ . - good old English word is commodity. _ It i ll i, . 4 ttty 1 . 's P r actlee--.-and, since We do not ex en ' ve irk Arcadian times, talking as states 1, r ....,. ~ h a.cner than ..es t i na as Orators, We will discuss the &r st . cci ' not of Peace, hut of The i'sace.—The I p„,,„ tltitleration then is, with 1 t" I sTie wo-i'.l,.i.as file '' I temper, Iviiat tibeen made ? What is the genera The le particular feeling, of 'our nets friends ? \th at en 'illiry must advance a little farther.--7. l ik t i v h a s been tj,eir p as t derneantiur ? WhiCiS .. tile ' t g l e thei r f uture conduct I iilag e icni Per of France!--In the emphatic iiin 7 th is , l'l'ir SHA KESPEARE, •" her pride is, her own Vi, lit ' .. own trumpet, he r owii chronicle.*"— Nten,,he. Y fug trumpet, this pride, an d bl ows i t i n t o r e. 14;4 of I She tvas, proud of her conquests, and . . eel ler trophies. Every bad passion consior to , , to t i. exalt trophies. her eyes. They w e re clear Celt e et de ar es t ""snesti--,dearer to her ambition, and,, . '4 tl 4 l 'il., to her injustice :an added zest, in retisnhi Sh e , eto the piount of a Gallic taste. vii as been compelled to resign these ;to s gort, t eik , ise them into the general world." Re ic e ' ther :is -"' ' ll ivi t '' 're, mingles in the deadly catalogue. to, r 'eteution would gratify her avarice, in , to, h er n , i *ti a i t we. i estimPtion, and influence her rapine, 'e ll h 'Pit expect that their privation will quick yet loal . , • V it expect ?. i et w e n . "(l est lay as well resume all, as forego the ... st p„ rt . Even " ln ex . ti our purian will be to France i, . Plato, . ~,y , ~ inl or ... y W,,,1, ever she surrenders, .....:!_vt(led, no -' %,. ----- tby 116. eousei ew s . , , oat by our coin- • aoct shal:7-----___________ __ " iNi nVilits.:l 4 o. L a 0 -, v n .4.:c.; ;,....,c- arohietc? • ' 1 ' 14151611 ;. %.‘ ilaterer s h e : by her thrtittide, but by our forbeahince. The - jeopal! k: rdy of the loss ‘6ll be as linntillating i,s the :mutat privation. The avarice of France may; possibly, be appeased ; but her vanity caii never be healed ; and if it could, tier injustice can ire:. ver be satiated. In the true spirit of thieving, she likes , no't their pc:Ong buck=it is double labour." 11tit Vranee has one claint to those trophies, and a strong claim, tvhile its strength histed—the claim of conquest. Lord WEL' Lii4GToN, the plain and gallant language of a.,scitdier, has hewn that She has no claim by treaty. Her claim Of conquest has noir reverted to - us, and merged iii the better claim of right. If ever it was sufficient for her, it is at least as valid for ts-:; if unlawful possession can legalize a bad title, assuredly law fill Hssessltiti can revive a good one. So mtich for the rest:ll46on bf manuscripts and Statues, and pictureS, considering them as ~.., ar ticles of *value. It, may Matter little to the con- - noisseur whether he • visits his morceau at Rome or at Paris Whether he studies RAPIIAEL in the Vatican or ih th . e . Louvre.—And it tnatters as little to the inoralist. 'hie ques tion is, not of curiosity, but of cOnscience; ;not of taste, but of justice. It were better to see the last relic of atitiquity; battered, broken, and burned, than to see it retained by France iu lftr unjust and shameless possession. This for example. To deter France front fu ture violence ; to save out• children, front the at , -* tacks of her insolent impunity. And what promise does she hold forth of return ing honesty ? It has been observed, that as Revolution did not occasion her excesses, so Connter-revolution cannot restrain them. France is at this moment unaltered : she has neither less injustice, nor less ambition, nor less vanity : she has only less power. She is not yet counter-revolutiOnized out of that spoliatiug spirit which enlarged her terri tory by the Treaty of IVestphalia. The moderation which leaves France thus tinre duced, may be a super-refinement of policy. If she retains no means of insurrection, she cannot Again become insurgent. A third reoellion against her King and against her Conquerors may be re quired tot her ultimate dismemberment. - - It such be requisite, MACIIIAVEL himself could . not have managed it better. A plain' inan' an swer would be, that all this might have been done after the Battle of Lelpsic ; and again, after the Battle of Waterloo ; without postponing it to the c:tance of a third victory. But under the command of WELLtNoToN, a battle loses nine-tenths of its uncertainty ; Our Duke can always win the victory and march to Paris. True—but , victory is not a gratuitous acquire ment, nor even a cheap purchase. The blood price of Waterloo ought not to be paid do'ven for the sake of rendering France a free - and indepen dent State under" her ancient dynasty. Still less, should it leave her people-in posses sion of any one revolutionary privilege. In 1789 ; we might not, perhaps, have desired to continue upon them all the severities of the ancient Mo narchy : in ISO, we desire all these to be re 7 vived, as a punishment upon our insolent spoilers, now spoiled in their turn, cloven to the dust, huMbled, and vanquished. _ Revolution was one of the crimes of France.-- , . If she is spared even the least of its profits, she is rewarded for her' criminality.—For example's 'sake, we should leave her no inducement cit !—the strongest of all inecu fives to guilt, to violence, to treachery ! Ndt that we should care about the internal state of France ; but, unfortunately, lies' revolu tions are never kept for home-consumption they tire her faVoorite articles for exportation. Aye—hut France has reformed this altogether. Intlea !—Lti us then evacuate her territory, and leave her to the er-et•eise of her new-born virtue. A moment, however, before wL issue our March ing orders !—lt shay he worth while to examine symptoms all& regeneration. She has changed her cockade : she has new named her bridges : she has cried Vivent les Baur.. konsl 'she has pithished on traitor. tia'Much for the creditor side of the account : row for :he debtor. , She L:s 'retained her rev . olntionary peerage : She has continued her revolutionary property : - sie has rejected her ancient establishments : she has cherished her rebel army : she has strtigglrd to keep her plunder : she has rewarded a thou sand traitors. . . On which side lies the balance ?—lii weighing her deSerts, we heed 'ntit cast our swbrd into the scale. The single Itiestion is—the measurement di ref tribution eranipie's sake—nothing morc.--:-. Let Os have done then with contributions and cautionary fortresses ! It France be guilty, these inflictions are too lenient ; if she be innocent, they are too severe. We have fixed ourselves preeiselyin that nuftirtutiate medium, which alike discredits our generosity and Wisdom ; winch is not an excitation of her gratitude, but a memo 7 fiaVfor .her rancour ; %%hid' exhibits neither the gi'aCO of pardon nor the vigour of punishment. Here, the proverbial safety of a middle path utterly contravened. Pardon were as heavy an offence against Gallic vanity, as the severest pn nishment. Yet; what pardon can that nation ex pect, what 'confidence can she claim, while, even in the mOnierit of her penitential profession and Ij.p. 7 loyalty, under the very occuiiation of her 00-tiquerors, she sends the Regicide, the Septeirl 'bcizer, the plunderer, FoutuE, with it ducal title and a princely fortune, her Ambassador td a fo reign Potentate—to-the King of gAitO Y—io the last and the most servile adherent Of hor Usurper Let it not be arg'ied, that the presence. of the Allies has changed the innate and inseparable nt:inciples . of France. Thi's is a sophiStn, tl►e vittcst and tl►e boost deceptive bron recottl, It is i , •• first of il;ved n tazitei - iAL ARlsToil—the gcedi of inerates. " The first is—takittg an acC,ental conintiL- lion of things for a natural or . n . Aessary conne6- • , tuba : Wfiell front an accident we infer a prn licrjy ;- when from an example, we infer a rule when from it sing-le act We infer i Yn habit."—=:- Shetchej; 4 ;o1.111, Sk. I. Therefore, the " accidental coninuction" of the AllieclTroops in France is not a natural or necossary connection" with her repeotance: the " accident" of, her restitution is not the " proper !y . 7. of her honesty : the " example" of her pii hishment is not the " rule" of her amendment : the " act." of her submission IS not the" lier obedienb. !laving adtilowleilged the parallel; 'tbe may ap ply to Prance another Aristotelian piinciple— .DIVIEEEE &OW EST FRANGERE. THE TItAVELLEIt ABOUT PARIS. (No. XVIII. Co►icluded from Saturday.) PARIS, OCT. 9. , • It is giibd for men to seeliccasionally with their Own eyes, if it were for nothing but to convince •them how little is to be. honestly seen with the eyes of other's. The fates and finery of theatres -are of course trifles. But I know no topic of whateverclignitY that has oce4Pied a larger con tribution Of human lying than the, " grand Thea tres" of Paris. The Opera House ha' s in those tableaux dares, usually raked the lead. This aniration of all admirers iS about the size of Co- gent-Garden Theatre. The boxei in successive above each other, are utterly bare, neither driil/ery nor partition, silk or gold relieve their nakeduess The boxes on a level with the pit, are absolute cellars,out of which the tenants peep, as shaded an d grin) ;Is if -they were the natural inmates of that squalid darkness. The form of the house is a broken circle. Large wooden co lumns not for support but for division, mark the fractures, fronting the Stage, and to answer the double purpose of revenue and • deformity, those columns are slit into small latticed hbles through which hull - lan heads , are seen Struggling to get a view of the pei - fdrrnance,uS uneasily as they might in any Other pillory. The shies 01 the procedium are choaked up with latticed boxes, that once mare recall the idea .of a place of confinement for ivild beasts. The pit is separated into three districts. In a few rows' railed off next the boxes and next the stage, women sit with a few men. The centre is delivered up solely to men, %rho crowd into it in the full abOintitatioo of a PariSian in dish- The whole aspect gives the idea of la.'. pine and disorder, incurable filth, and eager. irre gularity. I now feel no surprise at the violent influx of theatrical propensity at the time of the Revolution, or that the shouters and sentimen talists within, should have been the robbers and miaderers wi:bout. To those men the Theatre gave scarcely less than the picture of the gloomy riot, which had sent them het and stained to look for new indulgence tinder its roof. If there was a relaxation, it was such as might be found by a banditti ; weary of the day of spoil and slaughter, and rekxiog in their cavurn•. - 'The or chestra is, however, of the first order : nearly eighty of the best instrumental performers of France must produce a fine effect under any roof, and by a regulation, which might be well adopted in England, their peculiar talents are frequently called out to delight the audience—the principal artists perform successive solos--- , three are some , . times given in one evening. The names of ibe artists arc announced in the-bills of the clay ; and, to judge from the attention with which they are Beard, I cannot doubt that this practice adds largely to the public pleasure. The scenery, so far as I can speak from personal observation, is miserable: A good scene is occasionally intro duced; but the genetal furniture Of the stage is old, d u sky, ill designed, and fagged. The changes are, however, made Without peculiar dehly, and serious mistakes seldom °cent. .1 !wilt not,•speak of the singhn . voices, harsh and strained in Society, and. appa rently denaturaliied by the hereditni-y affectation of the country, hying out all theft obnoxiousness in stronger relief, when they are forced on music. The pride and palm of French delivery is, in all cases, the power Of prodticing " un ton impo sant," asomething which no human being, left to the natural impulse of the moment, Would ever dreain oiproducing, bat which, in French jidg ment, is to be produced, by no means inferiOr to a startling roar,-or a bonvolstvt whi'sper. witliont melody, and power %-nthout taste; are the whole comiilenient of this exellence, and nothing More aft tiug vas ever premeditated against th e human ear than the bravura of a " iltiere feni'me7 at the Abaclemie Royal tie Mus ique. The ‘vliole company are at present mediocre. The Ballet is yet the triumph. The Ballet is like the rest,' a living testimony against the exig geratiiins of tourists of till capacities. It ha§ the nl.rAt advantages of youthful figures', and well Cent'r'al attitudes, as tnilo,l di'vested of drapety and decency as they are any ileliere else. But it has at this moment no highly d'itingitishetl perforMer, and the eye, unatti'zieted by the skill of the perform ance, finds no resource in the In't 'e rest of t h e story. The 'Ballets are chidly of time composition of GAI:ISEL I bia a ilancing:iiiia:iter cannot be pre sumed to bave liowet of inventing any thing beyond a new PA. Make a Ballet as interest ing as its materials allow, it ought to be a lite- Tary work, the Inveution of the same taste which might be caging oft ty. produce a Drama. The same sliMt might be thrown into 'it's silent and exquisite action, which gives delight, in the higher efforts of the Stage, and the Ballet be looked to As alt enkiyinent y Oldie who even saw every bosom on the bdards ‘vrapped in muslin, and every leg' to - be traced only through its trowsers. Mont this general mediocrity GosSELIN ought, perhaps, to be excepted. She is a favourite froM her delicate and finished style; ,but she wants the figure that gives nobleness to gesture, and she has perhaps attained her highest praise, when she takes her place among the graceful and ;hc _ liaat of thv modern sine. 'I S MARD again . attracted Tbeatre . ; in the hart jjdelia %%'s inqCll sudden tech p;),lttoli at a v:Ty sifort nOttee„ tuck, hcr farce The Magpie, and it ,ci h t fevling mid elfect COVENT -GA 111) . E11.--1.7 11r. C. ErVILF. re..;t7r ne( l . the part of Stift& on S aturday . 1? 'S'oile of very, best achieverpents,.; and t:ie deep pollos of Miss O'NEtt.t.'s gelvidera, rendered the play powerfully affycting, Mr. V_ opNo . was' is usual, aniniated and ithpressive - The houst was crowded. 11. t, f%r 111'i. ii J 1::. Ktc:cr It appears from ,the Reimtt of the i 1: cling of the ProprietOrs of Drury-Li ,e held oti Friday, that _the amount of the annual Aggregatd receipt fol' the laA three years . ks been 222,9061. !65.:9d. The expellees, ott the coiltraly, have been,- 242,4931. lis. 6tl. being an excess ' of 1 . 9-,5871. os. 90.; which, together with the debtor balance of 8:050/. oti-the hUildiAg count, forms the sum of 27,6371. Bs. 3d. the pre sent amount of the debt on the Theatre. Tliere will be no dividend for the hist season. 'Committee; in conjunction with the Covent - Ger.:- den Proprietors, have at!dresSe'dthe VEiNCE Rs- GENT against the announced extension of perA formanyes at the Lyeeutn.• The Meeting then. confirmed the appointweni of the Earl of . Ess4x„ Lord lion. D. KINNAIED, Hon. G. LAmBE. and P. l‘loortz, Esq.. as the SiAb-Corn.: mittee for next year; amid ofth'e 'duke 9f PEi7O - N-. stilitc, and P. OHENFELL ; Esq. as Joint rrusteei with P. Mootte, Esq. IRELAND. At the Special Sessions under the Insurrection Att, held at f..;lutiniel on Thursday week by ad journment from Cashel, John Hackett was brought to triic under a charge of appeariug asseinhied, with others, in a tumultuous wanner; . on,tiaitir 4lav, the 30th of .. eptcuiber last, at the Pair of The nature of the ei;ifiene‘e will be gathered. froth the conclusion Of the trial. Serjeant AloonE interpoSed. He said he as gl:td such a trial ita'd Laken place, in order to sheur the people; 'that the thlihing ,of any tumultuous aSsembly,Withotit fighting at all—the mere asNeitt- Wing iti a tumultuou4 manner, without a y other act done, is a punishable offence. But, in this case, there seems to be room for doubt that Liao- - kett, the'prisoner, did participate in any a ct a triiimpli, or that he ptirpOSely joined in the tn.:. Mu!mous. meeting. And althougli; in strict con , . struction of law, an' incipient proceeding towards a tumult . thight come. within the penalty ; et, as, there was in this case so strOng a shade of doubt, he suggested the Propriety of acquittal,, in which. the Bench unaniinously coincided with him, and he was accordingly di3charged. r • The Earl of DONOUGLIMORE; in expressing his concurrence with Smi&tit Moore, said, that it was scarcely left to hint to add a word on the feeling of the .subject that the Learned Set eant who presided had displayed spa much talent, juS:, tice, and nienteration, and had so fully jaStilied the selection which had been made of hilt) fl:h hit present arduous situation, that it must bi a tilat= ter of the highest gratification to he county, to . see so high an office so honourably and efficiently tilled. He congratulated the county, therefore, on the appointment of a person, standing so high In character, rank; and practice, and so rapidly approaching to that Bench, of which he promi se d -to be ate ornament. Edmond Ryan; Patrick Dwyer, and WiMara Ryan; Were brought to trial Mt twO several charges ; the first for having concealed fire-at m& and ammunition, and the second and third for be int; put of their dwelling:d!ouses at imprOper hours:---They weie.lontul Gni*, and condemned. to transportation -to Botany Bay for seven years. The foi•C j ign force to he kept in And paid ht France consists, as We stated on Wednesday, of 150,000 men. • Great Britain, Russia, Austria, and Prussia, are to furnish 30;000 Yuen eath 190,000 liararia Hanover Wirtembert 5,000 • 5,000 Denmark' • Total 150,000 Of the 700 millions of contributions, there aro Co he given to the Net herlands GO millions Lower Rhine tii,p'cr Rhine l'iedmont lO Spanish Frontier 7i i 37 about ,C, - 1 1 130,010 sterling:, About 175 millions of francs, seven millions sterling, are to be eMplOyed in repairing or erect ing fortresses on the north and north-eastern Eontiers of France: The remaining 388 about 16 sterling, are, it is understood, to be divided amongst the four great Powers: On. Friday the Throne and Sceptre of. Rajait SINGA I 'King of Candy, arrived in London, as a present to the PRINCE REGENT. The. colours of his army, together with the eagles taken at the battle of Waterloo, were removed on Friday to Whitehall Chapel, to be hung up in a private man , . ner. *CORN EXCHANGE, OCT. 16.—We had a tolera• ble supply of Wheat this morning from Essex and Kent, fine samples of which were dull at the prices of day week, .and inferior nearly un. saleable. Oats were scarce, hence the few sales made in this at tide were . on full as good terms as this day week: Barley, Pease, and Beans, were very dull ; the prices mist be .considered nearly nominally the same as . on Monday. In other ar ticles no alteration. _ . ..„. - SMITHFIELD; OCT. 'l6.—This day's Market was amply sup. plied with prime Beasts, and the shot of Battle in other re , spects was pretty good; Pea', Mutton, add Veal, sobi at Gist prices; Pork Was dearer; add the trade in general was to lerably brisk. The sales in . the Flay-market were tither :1 % 4 ; Straw obtaiped Ict price; Flay arld Clover has got u ? price,.