The Sun. — London, England, 1815-12-07 00:00:00

1 Tilt .GUSRANTEL :451F I•HE BOURBON DYNASTY. If France is to exist at all, she must exist un xler the Dynasty of the BoußnoNs,..the legitimate race of her ancient Sovereigns We ,set out With the conclusion : just miut.virt :will travel through the premises. The French Revolution, after-deSiroying the Royalty of France, spread over the other nations, I ttul in their turns subverted all. At length, the 'Thrones of Europe have•been re-erected, and the I'reneh Revolution has been suppressed. In the history of the last quarter century, one ))ointtis clear.—As that Revolution rose upon the tnia of Establishments, so those Establishments ir Q S e again upon the ruin of Revolution. True, it has been smothered : has it been ex tinguished ) W e h ave destroyed one of its Means : Hav e W therefore prevented its end ? We have nut of one of its branches : have we .therefore V ;~,l' torn up its remit ? 'These questions must affirmatively answer *cl. befor e the Guarantee of the Bourbon Dynasty " 11 be impeached as an unjust interference of the Allies. It shall he admitted—and our Jacobins are wel ebme to all the fruits of the admission--that this , "tirantee stipulates not for any compact between and People ; even that it declares the lin "nditional Sovereignty of the King, and the un reserved obedience of the People. And if it did not, the Guarantee would 'be an Inter nullity. The French People would.' become the arbitrators of its very existence; they would be privileized to evade its provisions.,. -and depose The Sovereign whom it maintains, upOtt any sty- Pesed, breach of any supposed compact. This it an evil, falling upon France rather than t the Allies. Whatever may be its inconve nience, it is of her own creation. It is one of the consequences of her crimes. The Revolution Iras her offence. the Guarantee-is her punish- In ent—no, not her punishment : it is: the miti lation of her capital forfeit. S'earcely even that.- does not punish the IPast only prevents the future : and if the pre entiell of future m i sc hi e f i s a m i serytO France, the should remember what she has escaped be. , lure. 3 t "e murmurs at what she has incurfoi. Ikr soffering, however, though indispensible, 114 t remerlitess. The Allies will, douht ' , 'tite rare that King Louis rules with all ac s ; Ille lenity ' we trust they will be at least t. "411 Y • proiident that he rules with all needful ztstice. . , t, A ‘ far as the independence of France can be w;th the safety of Europe, so far 4 "'nee may h e i n d epen d ent ; no t an i ota f art h er. 141 e nay still be m i n i b er: d a we i g h t i n t h e ba t t ‘e ; but her specific gravity must not be en- P'4sed,hy the sword of Revolution. Tl, 41 ere are t wo ki n d s o f I n d epen d ence, externa l tt Int erna l Within her pre-revolutionary li fits' : Prance still possesses the one : under the 21.7e110Ns she i s an independent Member of the , tr il eat ; enjoying her regal rank and her 45_ tional dignitv— o f her moral character we will Pre the recollection. But , f e . uer Internal independence she has for 4 , ed much.' She cannot &inn :4 e her Govern blent or ' ti It4 io depose. -c, her Dynasty: 'or these are Revo , nar y , ' s, and Europe must not•toterate the 1" 1 ( on. ; )f anoth er -F r ench Revoluti 1 j tt , e / r , a re, howev er , acts w hi c h h er so l emn ab aqt ti , 11.1 ha th fo r ever put away ; an d , therefore, ‘-luarantee of her Own previous acioption,.can 7.var cel • Y Inip a i r even her internal independence. t ee e Rev o l ut i onists will consider this Gnaran 'ts - • 4tr 9" injurious attack ) inasmuch as it binds Inlet I jet. v'tuc her own covenant, and enfor c es its ob , She ca nnot , they say, be independent She ' -ereti o le ppivil ege o f un f ettere d con f us i on an d nary disorder. e it s c ,. W e make theM a present of the ar tutnent, a „, l W_ li i in rmin only its inferen c e. hit e a strange mill ; in a crisis that corn are no )1.- to action promptly and vigorously. - There thert ece6ielits to be found ; and if there were, 8 110 time to seek them, tte e could lay th e f oun d at i on o f P eace on , Stab, li@_ -3 Would Qteo, or on th e St a t us an t e B e ll un t.. , — aDcf I • little_ h ne ,nave given to. France ; toiamuch, e o ther would h ave ta k en frorm .:her too ?el e could not resort to prior rules : a no- Predi t ,' • Hanna demanded a novel remedy. • lint , r Statesmen could not discover, they flailsthv ej of. • I heir fi rst step reclaimed the spolia tPlire4 I,llt.Property and territory ; the second re r-ilhe es. recompense of injuries. , : I (au thiet ;? . titliture of blood was incapable of t i l . °St 4 , ill_ t he expenditure of revenue wqs alp of compensation, Vie one, "as eilic4.l",ts remitted altogether, and the othea as very very liberal disproportion. ,Tv fit, t• •- " ../ku t tr‘ , p ton is riot unishment, Prance uf kft is, this ab s mlute impunity. contribution—ell it rather a i•aribution socnetshat•about a.farthing► in the.pounll,,was the .litnitary - demand the .A►lies 5 and even this perry penalty has been accused as an unbounded extortion. But the time of confidence had gone by; it ex pired with French chivalry. The Allies had now to do with a People, .of whose honour, Expediency was the touchstone. A few cautionary fortresses, with a strip of neutralized ground, and the main tenance of some hundred and fifty uhousand.sol diers, were added, therefore, as the Seal of the Bond. So much, or so little, for the satisfaction of past injuries Allies had next to settle the prevention of future. Through every preceding ,contest—for the whole space of the Revolution must be reckoned as one Avar-Nations had com bated, and Sovereigns had corn ended in a frank and honourable, and gentlemanly spirit, which left them open to the courtesies, and the affec tions, and the eonfidences•of Peace. But when they were forced into the conflict with meanness, and rudeness, and depravity, they soon felt the degrading difference and having once come in contact with a Jacobin adversary, witether under a red cap or an Imperial crown, they soon found the, hopelessness of any Peace which was not up held by Power. Power, then, must support Peace ; or Peace re lapses intt) %Var. But it were rather too much to expect that the Allies must pay for their vic tory the high price •of constant vigilance and ceaseless preparatiod. Revolution, we have seen, opened the stream of blood in France, and sluiced it out upon Eu rope.—Not in that regular detail which levies armies nu-.- of the nation, but in that simultaneous movement which pours the nation into the armies. A Popular t)eanny, or a minter); despotism, could alone have compelled a warfare, so extended, so universal, so inevitable, so unsparing.of property, of home, of affection, and of life. And Revolution lis not only so habitual to France, but So incorporated and spiritualist:4 into her very essence, that one _moment's indepen dence would cast- her back into its indispensible luxury. As if .she were wedded to Insurrection, shelasc year took nine months to be delivered , of its hellish offspring ; for thus long only could she endure the presence of her legitimate Sovereign and the absence of her Usurper. We cannot exactly afford her an annual parturition, which snail scatter her spawn over Europe, to grow within our bosoms into devodring serpents. — Force alone keeps the French Crow') upon the head of a BouiteoN; but that force, ti) be conti nual and effective, trust possess the permanence and the strength of a guarantee. Neither can France forego the recollection of her guilty triumphs. Even her emigrants indulge in it a saucy vanity. It is the food of France, her pabulum vita , which she would expire, as in an air-pump. With this, her Judges. com pliment her Criminals, her Royalists flatter her Jocobins, her True men euloeize her Traitors. , !'either can she separate the idea of Revolvtion from the hope of Aggression. To contmaud a gene e'l conscription, and over-run Europe iron), the South to the North, is a calculation too sweet to her heart to be easily relinquished. What has been done once, may be done again. Pass a few years, and the waste of human life will be repaired for another profusion. Aed if a iestification be necessary, " the war rant will bear out the deed." And if our safety is to be squar4 and shaped by c and prece dents, and Instances and authorities, - we have these at hand, even for the itiost technical diseut ant• Exictly a century ago, England, and Ger many, and Holland. guarameed by solemn ft eaty the Crown and Succession of France ; and this to the Bourbon Dynasty ; and this, not to protect Europe against RevolutionX, but merely to pre vent the union of France and Spain ; the union, by the way, which was one among the blessed . purposes of the late, Revolution. And be it remembered, that after all this e)c clamation about pop,4at rights and national in dependence—considerations, which the character and situation of Fralee'alike pit out of the ques e tion—the guarantee which is now so happily effect ed. takes from reance not a sous of money, nor an inch of.toritory. If she is sincere in her pro fessed hatreu tut Revolution, it forms against the deprecated mischief her security as strongly as our's. • •Conclusively—AS Revolution in France is the occasion and the means of every misfortune to Europe, Europe must chain down its evil spirit, rind confu to her Sovereigns thekey of its Abyss. The BOURBON Dynasty, or the extiuctinu of France, are the alternatives. We have chosen, if not the wiser, the more merciful side ; not quite so maguanimems, - perhaps, or SO romantic, as +our last year's exhibition ; but somewhat more pru dent, and in the end more humane. For of this we may be assured—the guarantee of the Sovereigns is in its benefit's reciprocal and universal: it is at once the bulwark of Europe againsi;France, of France against Europe, an el of both . against Revolution. NUMBER OF COTTON MANUFACTORIES, THE QUAN- TITY OF COTTON USED, AND THE V1.+1.1/1: OF THE CLOTH AtiNUALLY MADE IN RHODE ISLAND. It has been satisfactorily ascertained, that in the small district alone comprised within a circle of 30 miles from Providence, • there - are not less than 140 manufactories, - containing in actual ope ration more than . 130,000 spindles, capable of holdiuga much larger number, few of them hav ing yet received their full complement of ma chinery. The quantity of cotton which, in their present state, they spin a year, may be computed at 29,000 bales, which, when manufactured into cloth of the descriptions commonly wade, will produce 27,840,000 yards,, the weaving of which at the average price of eight cents, amounts to 2,227,200 dollars, and the total value of the clnth %%ill exceed six millions of dollars: TO complete the manufacture from the raw material, until the goods are. fit for market, it is estimated, would afford steady and constaz“ emploVnent to 2(00Q. persons, ANO AItEIVALS. bowager Countess of Clonmeil, at her house, Portman vinare, froin.Worthing; .Lord' Mont Eagle, from Ireland ; Lord Bolton, from a tour; Sir William Bellingham, Bart. in Dover -street; Colonel Chiles Palmer, at the Albany, from ti tour; Mrs. Wellesley Pole and the Misses Pole, in Saville row Lord Cochrane, in Portman-square, from a tour; Sir Bellingham Graham, Bart.' In Grosvenor-place; Duke of . Montrose, from:Scotland ; the Marquis of Salisbury, from Aldhorough ; the Earl of Pembroke, from Wilton-house. • lEPARTURF.S. Lord Lriedocb, from Grafton-street, (ma visit to the Duke and Duchess of Bedford, at Wobrrn-ahhey; Captain Turner, for Bath ; the lion. Dr. and Mrs. Territt and family, from Refiflisles Hotel, to their seat in Suffolk; the Hon. H. De Ross, from ditto; the Marchioness of Buckingham.' tw her seat, , Southgate; the Earl of liarrowby, to Devonshire ; the Earl of Batiirst, to Cirencester; E. P. Portman * tsq. Ai. P. and son, to Devon,hire. TIDE THEATRE. DRURY-Ti:lE.—The pleasant, but licentious Comedy of .4 Trip to Scarborough, was revived last night at this Theatre. This Comedy, which is an alteration from VANBURGH'S Relope, or Virtue in Danger, was revived in the year 1776 at Drury-Lane Theatre, and was not, we uelieve, as stated, altered by Ir. RICHARD BRINSLEY SHE - RID A's, but by his father, Mr. THOMAS SHERIDAN, who announced in the play-bills of that time, that " all the exceptionable passages were expunged." But as the genet al .texture of the play is excep tionable, the omission of a few licentious points in the dialogue was not much calculated to render it more acceptable to amore refined and delicate age than that in Whieh the piece vas originally written. It was justly said of the Atithor, _ " And VAN want; grtee, who never wanted wit." But we must now come to the performance of last night. Mrs. MARDYN, for the first time,ap , - peareil in the part of Miss Hoyden. Her buoyant spirit was as fully manifested in this as in all her former exertions, and she gave a' very animated support to the character, with k kind of rustic shrewdness that proved' she had a inst conception of it. 'Mr. S. PENLty was the Lord Foppington, and though. it 'was a promising effort for a young Actor, it was top uniformly languid am: ;trawling, yet not without effect. Mr. PrNILEY reminds us of a passage in • The Old Bachelor, where a pet son is described as, like the great door of a country Hall—" bit mouth most hospitably kept open for the reception of travelling flies," for he is constantly upon the grin. He 'should take care to avoid the ;Application of the following couplet . . " Eternal smiles an emptiness bttray, " As shallow streams run dimpling alt the way." But we repeat that his performance was pro mising for a young Actor. Mr. R. PALMER, whd performed Sir Tuabelly, for the first time, dis player a respectable share of veteran skill. The female characters were well supported, by Mrs. DAVISON, in Beriilthell ;, Mrs. °RORK, in Amanda; and Mrs. SPARK.S, in the Nurse. Loreless, Young Fashion, Lory, and Townly, were Su...c.ent.y con spicuons in the hands of WALLACK, BERNARD, HARLEY, and HOLLAND. A very gond House. NATIONAL SOCI ET? FOR THE EDUCATION OP THE POOR IN THE PRIN CIPLES OF THE ESTABLISHED CHURCH. Yesterday the General Committee of the Na tional Society held their Monthly Meeting. Pre sent, his Grace the Archbishop of CANTERBURY in the Chair. Ananngst the Societies anti Schools 'received into union at this Alerting, was that of the Ald gate Ward School. We are -enabled to state, that the National system of teaching has been in trothiced into many other of the Ward Schools in the City, trout a conviction on the part of their respective Committees, of the superior advan tages which attend this mode of communicating instruction, having themselves previously witnes. eci its operation at the National Centrical School, Baldwrin's Gardens, Gray's-Inn-lane. PEDESTRIANISM.--MAIDSTONE, DEC. 6. TUFFEE AND Son--=-(3d day)—TUFFEE was Ore• vented, by the inclemency of the weather, from starting until a quarter before -six o'clock this morning, after vvhich it continued fine, and nume rous spectators were on the ground. When TUF FEE brelkfliSted, At eight o'clock, he had perform= ed nine miles : the son then started, and by 20 minutes after nine, he cozapleted li‘;e. miles. At one o'clock they . had accomplished 32 miles, and it nine o'clock at night' they finished their third day's task With GO miles. The following notice was yesterday posted at LLOYD'S Coffee-house :—" The NeWrry, FORREST, bound from St. t'etershurgh to. Liverpool, has been run away with by the Captain, and is ar rived at New York."- - Query. What encourage ment will the Govonment of the United States give to this wholesale rirate and traitor From a recent survey ()title houses in the town of Liverpool, made fnijthe purpose of compiling a new Directory, it appears that a very great dimi nution in the number of empty houses has taken place since the last survey in 1813. The compa rative numbers are as follow : The empty houses in Liverpool and its environs} l422 amounted in 1813 (r e ck on i ng f ron t h ouse s o nly t 0.... According to the survey in 1815, they ar.% .... 731 More front houses occupied in 1815 than )813 . . 641 This number, on the, usual scale of 5 persons to a house, adds to the population 3800 persons, exclusive of the back-houses, which have increas. , eel in wore than an equal proportion.. Anti-Atli ition has no smell with it ; it reme dies the defects of bad tanning and preserves lea ther from the ill effects of bad blacking, at the same time that boots and shoes, when blackened twice or three times after being rubbed with the Anti-Attrition, they will appear wore beautiful, %rill last one-third longer than they otherwise would do, and onehalf-crown box of the Compo sition, Which is sold at No 40, Charing-Cross, is quite sufficient to render three pair of boots, or six pair Qi shoes colupletely water-provf. S [IN ItE VIE W. (No. CVIII.) THE lONIAN ISLES. Travels 41 the lonian Isles, in Albania, Thessaly, and Greece,. in 1312 and 1813,,&c.'&.c. .By HENRY HOLLAND, M. D. F. R. S. &c. &c. Quarto, il!nstrated by a Map and Twelve Engraving:, price I. 3i. Longman, Hurst, Rees,. Orme, and Browns. We have taken up this Volume hastily at the present moment on account of its immediate in terest and if me do not enter into a detailed re view of its contents, • but merely :limit our- selves to a few extracts to-day, we hope tine slight departure from our usual custom, will rather he ,pleasing than otluerwise to ()or Readers. " The rapid decay of the eastern Empire, and the active policy of the Venetians, during the period of the Crusades, threw the lonian Islands, together with various portions of the adjoining continent into the 'hands of this en:erprizing people, dur ing the thirteenth cent►try. Some parts of those acquisitions were afterwards permanently taken, and others occupied for a time by the Tullis, when that nation was in the height of conquest and military power ; but they did not lon, tain any of the lonian Isles ; and the dominion, of the Venetians continued in this sea, with little interruption, Int more than 300 years. In later times, the political situation of the Isles has , been much more fluctuating The sueCesses of the French In Italy, in the campaign of 179'7; gave them, by the treaty of Campo Fortnio, this possession, together with others of the Venetian . colonies. The various events succeeding in the Mediterranean, rendered the situation of the Isles for two of three years very'precarious and dis 4 turbek; and it was not till March 1801, that 6. settled form was given to their Government, by a treaty between Russia and the Porte, tinder the .name of " The Republic of the Seven Isles." The integrity of this Republic, consisting of the Isles of Corfu, Cephalonia, Zante, Santa Manta, Ithaco,,.Cerigo, andiPaxo,was further made ars. article between England and France in the Treaty of Amiens: The small commonwealth, so con stituted, had a population of about 200,000 souls; allied, indeed, by origin, language, and habits, but so divided from their insular situation, that they could have no political efficiency, even under circumstances more favourable than the present condition of European politics and warfare. " At the head of the Republic, the Govern meat of which wks fixed at Corfu, svas.placed the Prince Commuto, a Zantiote Nobleman, whose rank and integrity recommended him to a situa tion, which 'he filled with honour and , propriety. Tbe Prince, now advanced in years, resides at present in Zante, where his estates are situated, and maintains in private life the respect which formerly was given to his public situation. " The renewal of the war did not directly affect the lonian Isles, but they could not long escape, in a contest which successively involved every part of Europe. The naval forces of Rus. sia, with a few land troops, afforded them pro tection during the wnr, which terminated in the Treaty of"Tilsit ; but by the terms of this Treaty they were consigned over to the French Empire, and immediately garrisoned by French troops. " The Government establiShed in Corfu affect ed to give a certain degree Mt legislative freedom to the peopte, and to restore various usages of the ancient Greeks. The reckoning by Olympiads was to be renewed ; 91ympic games were to he celebrated at each period of four years ; and iron medals to' be distributed as prizes. These pro jects had a migirty aspect in the columns of the Moniteur, but this was all ; and it they were de signed to influence the minds of the Continental Greeks, their effect was speedily lost in the train of succeeding events. " Ea►ly in 1810, a small English expeditioni left Sicily, under the command of General Os wald, - destined to act against the loniat! Isles. "-Zante, Cephalonia, Ithaca, and Cerigo, were taken almost without opposition.' In Santft Maura, the French garrison made a longer resiSt ance, but was finally compelled to surrender. Corfu, and the small a<ljoining Isle of Paxo, alone remained, the French power ; the garrison of 'l^ - the former, being much stronger than the whole disposable fo - rce in the captured Isles, and our only offensive means, therefore, being a maritime blockade. In this state the affairs of the lonian Ivies continued from 1810 to the late pence ; two islands being subject to the French, under the im• mediate command of General Denzelot ; the re, tnaining five, which contain a population of near ly 140,0(40 souls, being under the protection of the F.,nglish, with the tale of '' The Liberated lonian Isles." At the time I am now writing (1815), it is still uncertain how this little cons- minity will be disposed of, under the internal ar rangements of the great Powers of Europe. An independence, under the common guarantee of England, Russia, France, and Austria, would prObably, on the whole, be the condition most favourable to the interests of the people: . " While the Islands continued under British government, considerable, perhaps too great, de• ference was paid to their ancient institutions. " TlieNenetian laws were maintained, And their execution committed in each isle to four of . the principal inhabitants, with a president, or capo del goCerno, which office was always filled by the chief English Military-Officer in the Island. " Corlu being possessed by the French, the seat of the general government, civil and tarp, was established at Zante and hither were