The Sun. — London, England, 1803-08-31 00:00:00

TO 111 it PIC.';IIT YON. WILLIA.II PITT, Etc. &c. SIR, To AT a Ministerial Manifesto should have been, at such a season as the present, issued from the Trea. Auty ; that tte petty anti narrow feelings .of Party should have so far operated upon men who have uniformly deprecated every specks of Oppoiition, and who withal are entrusted with the conduEt of Public Affairs at this alarming crisis, as to induce them to break in upon that unanimity which has so providentially proved our resource in the absence of talent and ability, is to, be accounted for upon no acknowledged principle of Prudence, Honour, Decency, or common Ptdicy.—At any time, in a period of the most Profound Peace and National Prosperity, such a publication (official upon the face of it, even if the Author were not known) must be considered as gross and offensive ; but at this mo ment, what palliation, what motive can be offered in extenuation of the breach of private Confidence? —the open exposure of State Transaffions ?- 7 -the garbled Truths, and ungrounded Falsehoods which defile every page and close almost every period of this. Paper ?—The common feelings of Gentle. men—the high honour essential to the charatter of men who hold such responsible situations under the Crown, (as those from whose midnight, dark, and secret Orgies is sprting this Dmmon of Discord,) are sullied andscimdaiized, and the Crown itself assailed by this unprecedentedand undignified roes. sum—Are the present Ministers, who have been so incessantly preaching up the necessity of 'Com. moo. Feeling and a CoMmon:Catise—the union of heart and hand—who have uniformly stigmatized those who opposed the slightest tittle of their Ptiblic Conduct---are these the men to blazon forth, under the sandlion of an extra official authority, a tissue vf Calumny and Falsehood, of Perversion and Mis statement ?—a catalogue ofcharges wilfully and no. toriously fabricated for the basest of all purposes, aglinst rhe.most upright CharaCters in the Country, to throw dust into the eyes of the People, and poc upon the feelings of the multitude ?—Are they, weak as they are acknowledged to be by their best Vrietrds and Advocates, (for no Friend, Advocate, or,even Dependant, could. be found hardy enough to Commit himself as they therriselves h4e unblush. ingly done in this said Klinifesto), still so weak as to suppose that such detotable Policy will not fall brick with redoubled weight upon their own heads, and that the wound inflicted by the recoil of the Weapon they have thus .barbed and envenomed, will not canker and turn to Corruption ? Impossible ! and, yi:t beholding the Confidenee with which the gaunt. in is thrown down—the clapping of their wings in tiiken of self.appi•oval .and .conscious prowess, and their chanticlecting note of Victory from their elc. vated sannuary, one might be led to imagine that thy intended . to Strike a deadly panic through the whole Katy Politic. They tell us that we must not condemn them.even if we have serious .cause of Impeachment; and this because " Unanimity alone can preretve the Empire !"--'-an tnianimity which they have never, by any one measure, tended to establish, and which, in the present instance, they have taken the most unequivocal, mode of infra. jag—.-Gut to prove to us that we have not even the virtue of that conditional If, their words are pledged for their own most upright and admirable condusl, snd• they tell us, that they are " able, otligorous, and fortunate." —That they are the first, their treanicot of their early Patron and best Frilnd is ample proof—The leading-strings to which, in spite of themselves, they were obliged for a time to submit in the same quarter, is no bad illustration of their' second quality—The third may he constru ed from their Diplomatic Correspondence with 130. sitArktvre, prior so their order to Lord WII wort-ru to return home with a hop, step, and jump; 4114 as the fourth is certainly as yet unaccomptished, I leave them to enjoy the prospect of its fulfilment, it the loss of Hanover anti the dreadful state of Ire_ land lie considered a 4 the basis of it, while, fq my own part, I thii , k them completely entitled to the epithet in its fullest extent, if, after all the evils fur which they will ultimately have to render account, they escape in safety, or are permitted to retire to that obscurity which appears to be eonge. )vial to their habits and pursuiss. Without taking page by page find paragraph by paragraph, and proving, which a Child might do, the utter want cif candor in the statement of the few real tats this Party.Plecii Writer brings forward— the subtlety anti contrivance by which he endeavours to conceal the deformity and weakness of those over whom he would place his brazen Egis—the decided untruths, the scurrilous attack+, and the truly un ineanh,g and unintelligible Self.pariegyrics which pet vade this Farrago, it is utterly impraCticable to enter into an analysis of it.—Besides, I am unwil ling that art answer should be returned from any quarter but that whose Authority must ever be de. cisiee, tend whose word will, as long a s N at i ona l Honour, Gratitude, or Feeling exist, be a sacred pledge to the Public, of the fact it either confirms, or tends to di , prove, Upon ynti therefore, Sir, (4) I tan to repel this assault upon your a:trader, the more ispecially as those who have made hive Once been admitted to your Confidence, and the World is nut yet sufficiently aware of the exte n t t o which, they have abused it : I appeal to you, Sir, and entreat you to lay aside that contempt which must of course be the first sentiment of your mind at such raidious and tiAling conchiCt. A buzzing fly, a mnskito, may tCaZe . and annoy its fo r a w h o l e even . ing with impunity, but at length excites a sufficient dcree of irri:ation tti ~wipe him away. 1 do not wi,it you, S;r, to poise your ponderous lance ; I only ask you to lift your arm : this will be sufficient (0 restore these infatuated people to their senses ; ,;tail 1 wally consider it seriously incumbent on you to undeceive them, and to convince them that the, i r a t : e d sense of their own importance, which they !give of late so openly displayed, has no foundation, but in the forbearance of those who dis appiove their condusi, and watch over to corred it, in l rerrence to agitating the public mind in the Lout of public dillicolty—and to the peculiar deli. pry of the times, veils i lead the Country to dis. penie with do: talent ;old ability nece:;sary to meet the,crisis al it should have been Met, in orde r to tlishlay to tilt *:nelnY.tin Oispimotts'r,cntiment dis. gust and resentment against his aggression and threats. But that ass Addington, a Bragge, or a Hobhoust, should dare tt) plaoe themselves in the gap over against the Son of CHAtttma, and enter into a defiance against talents and resources of mind which they know not even to appreciate, is too ridiculous a Caricature for their best Supporters to contemplate without a smile,. and too palpable an absurdity for their real Friends not to lament as the precursor of their downfall. How are we to regard the conduct of our present Ministers, who, for a time, courting populatiry by every artifice they could devise, co. queued with one party, affeded candour towards another, and submitted with' becoming modesty to the suggestions of all ; but who now, at once, veer. ing short round, plant themselves in hostile array against every Party, except their new proselytes— abuse and call names with all the volubility of rani. sian demagogues ; and in a style so nearly allied to the revolutionary jargon of modern France, that one might almost be persuaded to think the Editor of this Conglomoration of Treasury Spleen had, on former occasions, not been quite to halt& to her Cause as it is his 'Policy to appear at 'relent. Surely they cannot he so full fraught with self. opinion, as to_assume any credit to themselves for the Spirit and Patriotism which have broke forth among all ranks of the People of late. I do aver, that every Measure, every Speech that has been uttered from the Treasury Bench, has tended to discourage and mislead the People. Truth was banished, and manly preparation deprecated-the Galleries were cleared when Patriot Virtue was to be heard, and the . Swinish Multitude were to be regaled with half measures and half truths—the Sophist and not the Statesman was to feel the pulse and prescribe for the Nervous .System of the People—Jame day Negotiation, the next War , ---one week all Confidence, the next all Despondency. Was this a condud likely to pro. duce a great effed upon the minds of a great People ? Did this new schooled Administration really calcu. late upon the Spirit which has manifested itself?— and if they did, had they the presumption to derive it from their own exertions ? Did they suppose that the People of this Country 'were like the In. mates of a Nursery, and were to he roused or si lenced as they cried Wolf or Bugaboo ? No, Sir, I,cannot think so. meanly -of them. They have once (some of them at . leas t in Council with you, and the : vett, temporar contal must have communicated a" spark of self. nowledge by compa rison, sufficient to open their eyes to the inadequacy of the means they have employed to produce the great effed whiCh we all enjoy at this moment in the unanimous Spirit of the Country. I do verily believe that more has been done by the halfpenny Ballad Singers, Grub-street Poets, and the Bill. stickers of the Metropolis, than by the united efforts of the Treasury Orators and their coalesced Band of Pensioned Patriots. To your statement, Sir, of the Country's predicament, of her Resources, of her Deficiencies—of her Dangers, and the Means she • posse:iord of meeting them—of the Rancour, Ani mosity, and Power of the Enemy who threatened her, and of the necessity of lighting up the flame of Public Spirit to resist and overcome that Enemy : to this 'appeal to the senses and judgment of" the Community, and to the feelings and nobler passions of the multitude, do I trace that Spirit which bath swelled every breast and nerved every arm in de fence of their Country—aed of every thing dear to man in civilized life. The People did the rest—but even now that the great and desired point is gain ed, these Genilemen', who seem to think no measure of so great importance as the security of their own Seat in the Saddle, are cutting and lashing ire all rejions, and fighting even the shadow of Opposi tion, lest their course should be impeded, whilst they' are carelessly throwing away the advantage they had no share in obtaining, and repelling even to disgust, the manly offers of the Voluareets who stand forward the Defenders of their Country's Rights, which they cannot so confidently trust to their Country's Councils. I have, as 1 before de. Glared, no intention to enter into any critical ob servations on the curious Paper which occasions my troubling you: with this Letter; but it is impossible to pass over without, peculiar admiration, the As. suranee, and more than Consular Effrontery which charaeterizei a Sentence I shall venture to extra& If we were not aware of the gravity and heavy dig. nit) , which not only mark the condud,but define the line of 11 - 3;0111Cr and deportment of the present Ten ants of the Treasury ~BeriCh, I should really be • tempted to believe it a dFlicioos morsel of pleatan. try, or roguish irony played off upon the easy and docile humour witl. which John Bull has suffered himself to be treated by men in whom he has never reposed confidence, and has onlreonsidered as Loca tenentes. In this point of view it might have been considered as a happy and charitable reliefltom the heavy and monotonous tone of Rancor which per vades this pe;aei,a/ed PerforMance. But, alas ! when men who must either acknowledge themselves De. ceivers'(thuugh not gay ones) must confess that they have trifled with the Public Money, and misled the Public Opinion ; or proclaim themselves the most ignorant, uninformed, and imbecile . Statesmen that ever occupied the lowest Departments of the Public (Economy, however they might be in clined as a sort of Saturnalian Freak ttYllass the whole off as a joke, they are reduced to the sad dilemma of speaking in sober earnest, and have therefore merely assumed a political, instead of a poetical licence, and by adopting-a little sophistry and more mis-statment of fotts, with the assistance of a total suppression of the points essential to the elucidation of the subjed, they draw a conclusion in the remarkable sentence to which I allude, and which shall speak for itself. '' Really if there exists a man who ever did confide in the duration of the late Peace, I would connsel him to keep his own secret, It will be in vain Jr him to charpe his drivellim at a crime upon other min. H e is N a _ lure's fool, and not Mr. A DOINOTON's. This from the portfolio of the man who made that Peace ; who satn fiend the successes committedand the cha rat!..lor of the Country ; who degraded us in the eyes of Europe, and stink us in the scale o f Nation,—wh o disbanded our Army and dist:landed our Nis , e, both in the highest state of spirit and Discipline--nay, w h o disticvklitd themselves by the only adivit v . th e y have diTliyed during their Admini4tration, in hur rying ai!d excedittog the tedu,tfitan of our vr: ,d i.'"ot:ce p ;Ind all this to proCutf: a r,.:40.4. the permanency of which their own mouth-pieoe has now the rash assurance to tell the insulted Country, it must have been besotted to place the smallest confidence. I will admit, for the sake ofargument, the truth of the position, and that a man of very ordinary faculties, contemplating the Treaty of Amiens, could have little hope of its durability, though not so much in the secret as this Gentleman, who iserhapt is aware that his Colleagues never purposed to conform to a leading Article in the Treaty, and that they bad resolved &fore they pledged the Faith of the Country to the fulfilment of it, to forfeit that pledge and retain Malta at all events. Still let me ask, does this taunt upon our native simplicity and good humour in professing to believe, and conduding ourselves as if we really had believEd all that Ministers told us, come with a good grace from Ministers themselves ? Had we all,, (as certainly some people implicitly did) relied upon the strong assurance of a permanent and solid Peace, had we locked up our apprehensions with our muskets, and left the door on the latch whilst we slept in confident security, I admit, that we might have been in soma degree as many proved them selves on the occasion—Nature's fools ; but we should most unquestionably have been as far as the Minister possessed the power of making converts (and some illustrious instances have occurred of late) the fools of Mr. ADD NGTO N also--- and this in ference very naturally follows, that whoever could be made the dupe of the Right Hon. Gentleman's statements or professions, must indeed be that fed by nature which the Near Observer so quaintly and delicately describes. I have been led to say more. than I at grit in. tended.—l will not attempt experiments upon a subjea so complete in its way. To you, Sir, as a skilful Anatomist, I leave this carcass of a self. conviaed malefaaor for disseetion. Again, Sir, I must repeat that you have a part to bear in this Drama, with which neither feelings of pity which have been so ungratefully misconstrued, nor senti. ments of dignity must interfere. The Country calls upon the Man who has more than once saved her, and to whose charafter she looks with a jealousy of its dignity as coupled with her own.-- She has no doubts- , —she entertains no tears—but she demands the sacrifice of those, and the exposure of tit& deformity, who have dared to cast a.stain upon . unspotted Honour and unsullied Pitriotism.— That which your open and avowed enemies have never dared, your friends whom you have raised from the dust, and whom you have armed with weapons now turned against your own breast, have not hesitated to do., The fOrmer, however they might differ as to their political application, ever bestowed their unqualified admiration upon your steady integrity, disinterestedness, and most pro. found abilities. These have sought and availed themselves of all you' would bestow upon them as a counsellor and a friend, and now would hold you out to the World as a mere presumes—a 'LI:/X et preterea nibil, whose declamation has raised a name unsupported by any of the requisites of a Politician —who, now that the People_ have experienced so auspicious a change in the Administration, may talk to the winds ; for the. Public, in plain English we are told, pay no attention now to this mere gift of eloquence when it is opposed (as the evidence of fads most clearly proves to us it has been of late) to judgment, knowledge, firmness, and equanimity. w , ) Parties only, Sir, have ever displayed viru lence and rancour in their opposition to you, and both haie resorted to the same policy of endea: %/outing to sap the foundation of a charatier which their open attacks would only tend to strengthen. The Court of St. Cloud, and the Treasury Bench at St. Stephen's ! Both have their particular points to carry—both are equally anxious that you should be excluded for ever from the Councils of your Country—both look to the inauspicious event of your return to power as the signal of overthrow to theirs, and thus sympathising in the same end, they appear neither of them to have been very servo. luus as to the means of attaining it. You are told under the san6lion and seal of your Successor in Office, that you at one time openly supported him ; perhaps you would feel inclined to think he thanked you for it—No such thing 1 You supported him, he tells you openly, and perhaps ()pie/it/J. Fie on't ; 'tis offensive I It cannot, however, be now c•msidered officious in you at least to,wipe off the filth with ,Which these State Scavengers, who are not above doing their own dirty work, have attempted to bespatter you. An official accusation calls for an authenticated defence, and the great name of PITT must nor, shall not be aspersed by a Mongrel Administration, whose rasa.. atansera is open to all Principles, to all Se Is, and to a ll Talents ; to renegado Tories, pensioned De. magogues, and,reformed Whigs. t have the honour to be, With admiration and respect, for the first and most exalted Talents that ever graced human nature, and with the highest gratitude for their regular and indefatigable appli. cation to the interests of my Country, Six, your's, FITZ-ALBION. TO THE EDITOR. tut, • A report having been circulated, that after the Review on Wimbledon COMMon on.the 24th inst. some Light Horse Volunteers, conducting themselves in a manner altogether foreign to the general habits and behaviour of the Corps, had occasioned a dia. turbance in one of the, neighbouring villages ; I have taken painti to investigate the origin of this rrno n u g r,inform t h e pu b_ iitoyour Paper, t h at so ttti; channelatn ltapv i to tar as it implicates the Light Horse Volunteers, it is utterly destitute of foundation. Some individuals belonging to a Corps in South war k, w h o eac as si ) e ti,,to.:.t..i'otir m Review, and whose uniform l e ts , 0 tittle ftoto out's, that to a stranger the ferenee , is not immediately perceptible, were the persons really concerned in the affr a - y -, which has improperly been attributed to the Light Horse Vo. lunteers. I owe - this public explanation to the Gentlemen whom have the honour to continua ; and who. I ant confident, will never dkgrace the charAder they have su long maintaine(l tor nrck :r ly ,„,.i soldier. iti2rldtta tindtr I take this opportunity of informing yon, that I did not dismiss the Regiment, as stated in most of Papers, on the Common ; but only gave permission, to those who re s ided, or were ertaged to dine in the neighbourhood, to quit the line of files as their engagements might require, after forming the diffe• rent detachments which marched under Officers ap. pointed to condua them. _ _ _ I am, Sir, your most obedient bumble Servant, CHARLES HERRIES, COL. L. H. V. MAILS, OWL Harnburgh 3 - . PRICE OF STOCKS, II THIS DAY AT TWELV O'CLOCK. Consols . . 14i I! ! Uranium b} 1 dy, THE SUN. LOLIN QUIP DlCtllt It V aLeUlt •trasar t LONDON, AUGUST PI tBc3• THe Dublin Mail of the 27th arrived this morn• ing. Robert Emmett, the Brother of the Counsellor of that name, stands fully committed by the Fria` Council for trial as a Traitor. Ws lament to see that same wavering and unse r gf tied disposition, which we think has already upon several occasions proved so disadvantageous to the Country, prevail upon a subjed on which we no t onl y thought the o pinions of all parties were agree d .. but on which we flattered ourselves one general and tali' thtou form system would ha ve b ee n a d opt ed. We re fer to the Plan of raising x Volun teer F orce ghout Country, upon which from the tithe the measu re was proposed, till the present Moment, theft ha s appeared in the Members of Administration so mucit fluduation and v a ri at io n of opinion, that very for persons know ei t h er w h at t h e y h e m depend uPollo or how the question at pre sen t s t an ds. This is tt subjed upon which the Volunteer s n a t ur a lly require explanation from their Commanders—but scared,' the has one explanation been given before the case hat been changed, and it has become necessary to do it away by another. Immediately after the first Att for the Levy en Masse passed, two explanatory Big ° were introduced, and the provisions of all thes e Aas have almost entirely been dont away by Letters from the Secretary of State to the Lords Lieu te " flatus. A Letter was circulated on the Bth °f July offering a rate of pay for Volunteer Corps ' 41116 we confess we thought 'extravagant in the highest degree—it was however annulled by another Letter about three weeks afterwards, proposing a rate pay about equal to one-fourth of the first proposal But this is not all—Volunteer Corps who have been invited to offer their services, whose services hav e been accepted, and which have been trained a nj exercised, have been told that their services were not wanted.--What can be so ungracious as to s l t to a Volunteer who has put himself to the eXPen cl of purchasing his Regimentals, that he is not allow ed to stew his zeal in the service of his Counts"' ? What can be so aukward as for a Commander of Volunteer Corps who has encouraged his men Sct come forward, to tell them that the Minist ers Wei changed therr minds, and that he is obliged to re Jf their proffered, and perhaps accepted servic e? is trifling with the spirit of the Peoples and it m" already had unpleasant efeas•' The Country ce r t a i n ly does not 'look u Minist e rs f or t h e di sp l a y of to the of great and transcendent talents, but t h e y d o aped from them upo n p l5lO subjects, something like a uniform sy stem of anion'lf a difficult Negotiation were on foot , we 0014 expect various and changeable Council s, and we but should know how to make great a llowance , i surely in directing the spontaneous zeal a nd P ub 1 0 spirit of the Country, no ability was thatreVited' deep political knowledge was necessart'a ll te the ardour of the People one day, was wanting was a settled system. Bu t to "cl ic a nd to f e l l " the next, is to do all that can be c l one , though vl are sure not intentionally, to destroy ' it altoget her. We are disposed upon this occasion much more to lament than to condemn. We earnestlyhope no more changes of opinion will be manifest ed vP ;o n this subject.--If Mr. AnniNcrori has a frien d w ho is not a flatterer, the advice he will give biro this, anti indeed upon all other stiLjeas, is, to dal` Jr He will tell him that an unsteady fluctuating Anil indecisive mind, if it ultimately take s t he ri P t cision, generally takes it too /ate—that upon ' vet t )? oP many occasions (though it certainly does Hat u n fi PY e, to the present), if the knot is too difficult to u e it is best to cut it ; and that if ever Firmness t " L a Decision were necessary for the condu Lt of i s in the arduous affairs of this great Nation, it have been entrusted to him. anxious period when the conduct of thoseaffairs WY have frequently had occasion to advert to the temporising, dilatory condat of Min igt" With "hard to Spin, as ‘vril as ur n evell oshtf