The Sun. — London, England, 1801-03-16 00:00:00

Lord FrizirlLLlAm and Mr. FOX. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR S IT is in times of change and uncertainty that ambitious men commonly develope their views, and that, throwing aside the mask which they have before worn, they pursue, without shame, the road which they think most likely to lead them to their object. We have at, this moment before our eyes a very remarkable instance of that trial of mankind from which so few escape with honour. We see, and •it is certainly nor among the least of those singularities which the present times afford, Lord 1 7 1 rzw toe tAm and Mr. Fox entering into so intimate a connection that the former has afforded the latter an asyTtna in his house, and that the latter has exchanged his residence at St. Ann's Hill for Grosvenor-square. So rcmadeable a circumstance can n only have beet; . the effed of some decided unison in the, views and plans of the two Parties ; and this was Cer tainly not an event to have been expeCied. by those who have attentively followed the political condo& which those persons have far some time past purSuel One of them, considering it as an honour, as indeed it is, to have been the friend of Mr. BUAKE, and to have shared in his opi nions,..has declared himself the decided enemy of the , French- Revolution ; the other has not less openly on the other side declared ; that it was the . nosighrio#s fal ric of human (wisdom ; the one bas SheOn himself the warm partisan of the rights of the House Of, 'BOUR BON, and of the continuance of the War until it shall'be re-established on the Throne of France : the other has made the House of Commons ring with the. expressions of his puerile hatred to that Family ; nor has he been able to dicover any more serious cause of com plaint against the last Administration, than that of having carried on the War. in order to place the Crown on the head of Louis XVIII. Lord Fri'zia , LL lAM, in short, has, to his ceedit, pro feLSed his aversion to all new theories ; while Mr. Fox has, on the other hand, embraced them with eagerness, and supported them to the great injury of his character and reputation. At the moment when these great questions are not yet decided, and when our Country is more than ever engaged in the War which they have produced, what motive can have led to the union of these two men ? What force can have made such di verging lines run parallel ?—We should look in vain for any other cause than Ambition and Per sonal Interest : they have thought the moment favourable to seize the Places which they have both coveted, more or less openly. They have thought ; themselves too weak to attain them se parately,.•and throwing aside principles, opinions, engagements, and consistency, they have co alesced in views, in interests, and in forces.— They have forgotten the past, thinking, .no doubt, though erroneously, that every one would, like them,. forget it in the occupations of the pre setttand the future. Strange,, Sir, as this Association must appear, I cannot say, that, I have felt myself much :asto nished at it ; but I should be very much so, if henceforth, either of these two, individuals should think of preserving any part in the esteem, we will not say of the Public, but of their partisans. It appears, indeed, either that Lord FITIV LI AM must have effaced from his memory and his heart Mt. BURKE, she cause of social order, and the flow t e of Bourbon, or that Mr. Fox must have sacrificed on the Table of his new Host, his Re volutionaty and Gallic Sentiments and Ideas. 9ne or the. tuber must necessarily have abandoned his former line of conduEt. Probably, both have done so, and nave met half-way. In that case, they . will find themselves in the same road as Mr. PITT and'his . Colfeagnes have, pursued since the beginning of the present War..lt should be no in. considerable matter for triumph to that Gentleman and his Friends, and we may say to those who suCceed them in OfEce,• to find, that the Leaders of the-two Ptirties , who were striving to come into Power, have been able to find no other means of aCcouimodation, than by adopting the great prin. ciples which have constantly guided them. What an extraordinary contrast does; the condu(k Of Mr. ancl.his Coadjotors afford, clv,ing rather, to resign their Places, than to sacrifice their Opi tvion on any important' point, compared with that of the supposed Successor to the Tenets of Mr. BuaKE, and the great Apiastle of the Doarines of modern, France, guilty of mutual apostacy, for the distant and deceitful prospe6t of Ministerial elevation ? What Englishman will now, if he ever did, give them credit for their patriotism ? Which of their own Partisans can open his mouth in favour of their consisteecy ? Who will now be bold enough to attempt to persuade us, that it would be for the honour or for the advantage of the Country, that they should be placed at the head of affaira ? It is obvious, that if they have, in order to come to a good understanding, been forced to fall into the Political Track pursued by PITT, they would not long persist in it, and the interests of their Party would draw them from it, more quickly; . tlun their Personal Interests have led them to it. lam .urious to see how, after the publicity of this monstrous Coalition, these two men will set about accasi:lg the old Mi. nisters, and thwarting the new. I shall, I own, have a much higher opinion of their talents, than I pow have, if they are able to advance any specious argument on the sobjett, but I am con vinced that they will find none that can .have any efred on the common tense of the People of this Country. t'IVUCUS, THE SUN, 601./.14 QUIS DICERS FAISUM AUDEVT LONDON, MARCH i 6, WA can assure our Readers, from undoubted authority, that Mr. PITT resigned the SealS of ~"'haneello; of the Exchcqqg into j-n 3 MAJ El« ternoon ; and that at the same time Mr. AD- D I Nwrorr kissed hands on receiving them. This event at once puts an end to all the idle rumours of Mr. Prrr's continuing in office, which have pre vailed for two or three days past. Of the Four Hamburg], Mails which became due on Wednesday last s Three arrived on Sa turday evening, and the fourth last night.— The greater part of the intelligence which they bring us, is the sa:ne as that contained in the Paris Papers, which it is, therefore, unnecessary here to recapitulate. The latest News from Cons/anti/mph is of the 26th January, and if any credit is due to it, the Sultan was disposed to enter into a Negotiation with France, and to endeavour, by that means, to recover Egypt. The CAPTAIN PAC H A was even, it is added, soon to set out for 18441 for that purpose. To these measures the Sultan is said to have been determined by a knowledge .of the Plans of the EMPEROR of RUSSIA, and by the threats with which those plans were announced. It is to be remarked that the public imeiligence received from Constantinople, has at all times been so little correct with resne4t to the real situation of affairs, that it is very possible the present may not be more entitled to attention ; and the same observation may be applied to a Battle which is said to have taken place betw een the English, and' French Ships : the force of the latter is stated to have been twelve Ships, and this alone is sufficient to render the , statement more than doubtful ; tor whence could the French colleCi those twelve Ships of War ? It is a curious circumstance, that on the same day, the i zth inst. on which our Fleet set sail for the Baltic, the first division of flat-bottomed Boats which .the Danes have fitted out for the defence of the Sound, set in motion to proceed to its station. We shall not say, as a Paper of yes terday did, that it will not have had time to gain its destination, but we will avow our firm persuasion that our Fleet will not ,be delayed a moment by these insufficient means of defence.-- Loudly as Russia, Denmark and Sruledem trumpet forth their preparations by Sea and Land, there is no one so ill informed as not to know that they arc as inadequate as they are tardy, and that it is physically impossible for these three Powers to collet, means of defence equal to thole we pcsoSCSS of attack. One Han:burgh Mail Still remains due. WE gaVein our Paper of Saturday the contents of the .Paris Papers to the t tth i:lst. ; to which we now add the Papers that. have passed tetweet. the Empire and the Diet of Ratisbon, on the sub jeta of the Treaty Of Lunevi The Clef du Cabinet contains an article from Pisa, -of the r 2th inst. which we think it ne cessary to notice, only to spew its improbi bility. In this article it is said that our Troops, after having disembarked near Alex andria, had 'bt'en completely defeated with the loss of loo . ; men, and that the rest had been forced to reimbark. Besides the circumstance of its date being too old to excite any alarm, we can take upon ourselves to assert, that our Troops could not have been defeated alt e k bevy, ing been disembarked near Alexandria, as, in order to the first of these circumstances being coriea,, necessary that' there should bessome foundation for the second, which there cannot have been. Our Troops, we believe we can yen tUre ;tiraffirm, have not di!embarked near Alex andria.--Having been led to state the teal truth on thissubjea, we shall -take the opportunity of setting some of our Cotemporarie right on' ano_ ther point. Several Papers :asicrted on Saturday that important Intelligence had reached Govern_ me►it on the preceding evening from Egypt,; in this they were deceived; as well as their Readers. No intelligence of a recent date has been received from that quarter : every thing from thence being an terior to the loth of January. From the Extraels which we have this day given, it will be seen that the Diet of Rat:ibol, yielding, like the EMPEROR, to the strong cir cumstances which have dinned ,the Treaty of Peace of Lutifyille, instead of protesting against the constrained part which he has been. obliged !to take in this transadion, and of complaining of the unconstitutional oond4t of the Head of the Empire, have on the contrary approved it, and have opened the Protocol for the ratiication of this Treaty, which will not, to all appearance, produce any long discussions in the Diet. They were to begin on the 7th instant. While we thus see the EMPEROR and the ' Enlpire . admatiog, as a Prece&nt for a joint, Peace, the Treaties - of Batley and the Congress of Rastadt, and thus complying in every respect with the will of the French Government, we know not how to account for the order received by all the French Generals of the Armies of the Rhine and the Danube to join their respthive Corm and the departure of MOR E AU himself for the Head quarters. This intelligence is given in a Letter from Strasturgh of the 4th inst. and as it is to be found in the most recent Papers we have (those of the loth), no subsequent explanation af. fords ns the means of forming a judgment as to the motives of such a measure. Ac a first vim it would seem to indicate, if not the rercwal of War, at least the occurreric of 40MC interruption in the work of facificgion, 4i it however more that as the Republican Armies are to quit the Territory of the Empire in forty days, of Which we were before informed, the Chief Consul has thought proper that all the Generals should be present to condu& this retreat. Of the Northern Powers we have no news, ex cepting that which has already been announced, the march of a considerable reinforcement of Prussian Troops towards the Elbe and the Ileser. The opinion which we have for Some months entertained, that the Treaty connedling Russia with the court of Nap/es has been the best shield of the latter, is confirmed, and what it obtain ed at Campo Formic) by the influence of the F,m- PER OR of GERMANY, it has again obtained by that of the EMPEROR of Russz A. An Armistice has been concluded between the French Republic and the KING of the Two Sic' LI as, and there seems every appearance that it will soon be fol lowed by a Treaty of Peace. The Neapolitan Government, anxious to anticipate in some de gree the terms which might be imposed on it, has put an end to the Junto established in 1799, and which has since that time governed that King dom. Another Commission, with more limited pdwers, has been substituted in the room of it.— This aft of condescension towards the Republicans of Naples and of Paris, has not been deemed suf ficient by the latter. They are not pleased that the Kt bic of the Two SICILIES should still keep about him the persons who arc in his confidence, and that be has not done complete homage, by laying his Royal Prerogative at the foot of the Tree of Liberty. The EMPERU R of RUSSIA has not taken the same interest in the fate of the KING of SARDI. NIA, as in that of His SICILIAN MAJESTY; 07, if he has, the same deference has not been paid by the Chief Consul to his interference in behalf of the latter, as of 'the former. General LA. UOMIIE ST. MICHEL, the new Proconsul, sent to Piedmont, has declared to the Inhabitants of that Country, that they must be 61iNd nor to see that their Country would be united to France ; and this has since. been officially published. It appears, that the Mother Republic has not yet ceased to enrich herself at the expence of. her Children, for she has called upon the 'Helvetic Republic to give up the ra/ars, in exchange for the Frickthal, in order to unite that Country. to Piedmont. Thus, after having in 1792 de. creed, that they would make no Conquests, and after having afterwards said, that they would confine themselves to extending the French Em pire to the lituits which Nature had prescribed for them, the Republicans now push their impudent ambition so far, as to establish themselves beyond the two great Chains of the Alp. What the rest of Europe has to exped from such a Territo rial and Military position, we shall not pain our Readers by inquiring, though it he what a French Orator has modestly called, the Work of Reason. The Debates of !iie Deliberative Assemblies of France have been lately of some importAnce .to that Country. They h.l. e turned upon 'the.ri nances, and the question of Eiigibility in the Ete&ion of the present and succeeding years.— To' English Readers, however, these.subjefts are not sufficiently interesting, nor indeed to the Fi4tich Citizens themselves, in the State of Slavery to which they are reduced, to merit attention. Nothing can better elucidate the nature of the French Government, nor more ciearly slim the views which govern its Ruler, than the system which he pursues, and which he carries stilt farther every day, of placing Generals at the head of all parts of the Administration. We see them CI Offices which are necessarily of a' Civil. Na ture, such as those of Commissaries and Prefects of Departments. These Offices have been given to Generals who are not in Military Service and in affording them this sort of retreat, the Chief Consul, no doubt, affefts to imitate FRE DERI r. x, who bestowed similar, or even inferior Places, on his Officers. In so doing, LONAPARTE finds a double advantage, that of not having to reward the services of his Generals in any other manner, and that of placing the exercise of power in the hands of men interested in maintaining his own Authority. On Saturday HIS MAJESTY, the QUEEN, and the two eldest PRINCE S SES, took an airing in a Post-coach. and four, round by Highgate and ,HaillpStead. THEIR MAJESTIES wad the PRIN. C EMS Are out upon - this Excursion an hour and three'quarters. Upon their return to the Queen's House, the DUKES of KENT and CUM. BERLAND were ready to receive HIS MAJESTY, who leant upon their arms into the House. His MAJESTY seemed the better for his ride, and We are happy to learn, is hourly recovering from the weakness incidental to his late severe indis position. Messrs. SHAW and BASIL ICO, two, of His Ma. jesty's Messengers, and also a Foreign Courier,. arrived on Saturday with Dispatches of import. ance from the Continent, The Officers who arrived on Friday evening with Dispatches from the Mediterranean, came from Malta, and brought no accounts from Sir RALPH ABERCRONIBY and Lord KiPITH as erro neously stated. They brought, however, the account of Admiral GANTHEMMIE'S Squadron having put into Toulon to refit, which we stared in our Paper of Saturday. The Right Hon. HENRY ADDINGTON, it is supposed, will he elated fiir the University of Oxford, in the vacancy occasioned by Mr. PACE'S acceptance of the Chiltern Hundreds...— A new Writ for Devizes will probably be moved for this day, in the room of Mr. ADDINGTON, now Chancellor of the Exchequer. Some of the Papers are now giving the new Ministerial arrangements, of which our Readers have long been accurately in possession. These qt!ell-informed Prints add, that " the Secretaries of the Treasury have not been stated with con fidence, Luo different Gentlemen have been narued." We confidently stated a fortnight or three weeks :,go, that Mr. N. VANSITTART succeeds Mr. ft lost, mid Mr. J. H. ADDINGTON, brother to the CHANCELLOR of the ExcREQuIR, succeeds C, Low:, CONSTANTINOPLE, JAN. 26. THE Expedition of the English against E g ypt, and the strong remolastrances relative to it made by Russia, have greatly increased the perplexity of the Porte. Lord ELGIN, after receiving an extraordinary Courier from London, had on the 18th an extraordinary conference with the Turkish Ministers. Ten Turkish Ships of War are lying here ready for sailing, but the Imperial orders for their departure have not yet been issued. It is generally believed that the CAPTAIN PA. CH A gill to-day set out for Rhodes, in order, in the present situation of affairs, to concert mea sures with the English to conclude a Peace with the French at any price. The English Commo. dore, Sir SIDNI'Y SMI ru, has invited the CAP. TA IN PACH A to Rhade;. ,The Army of the GRAND Vlblit is diminished hr desertion to to,ooo meo,, and fears are entertained of an at tack of the French on Syria. GHEZAR PACHA and the inhabitants of Mount Lebanon a& in concert with the French. We have received accounts of a Naval Engage ment, on the Coastof Egypt, between the French and English : of t a French Ships of War, six were taken by the English, two sunk, and four escaped to Alexandria. We have as yet heard nothing of the consequences of the landing of the English in Ezypt. VIENNA, Eta. zr. THE GRAND Duns of TUSCANY will receive among other indemnifications, the Archbishopric of Saltzburg. Our Court is sending a great number of Troops, particularly Cavalry, into Transylvania : this gives occasion to a variety of conjeClures. We are assured the Duke of MODENA will pass his life in retirement, and leave the Government of the Brisgau, ceded to him by the Peace of Lunrvilli, to his - daughter. Yesterday Iwo Couriers passed through this City, on their way to litnicc And Coriltantinople, with instructions for Admiral KEITH and General ABERCROMBYi relative to the present state of affairs in the North and with Russia. AUGSBURG, FLZ. 27. ON the roth inst. a Note, transmitted by ths, English Minister Mr.. Wic.Kiiam to the PR INC t of CONDF, was read to the Condean corps i q ge . neral orders. It requires, that the Corps should be embarked to bc employed in the English Ex pedition in the Mediterranean,' the destination of which is probably Egypt. Every Ex.nohle muse dee,— e by the toth, whether they will remain with the Corps, and those who refuse, must not exped to receive the gratification hitherto allow. ed by His Lift !TANN IC MAJESTY. If the Corps on its mustering should be found weaker than was expeCted, his said MAissry can no longer grant to the Persons composing_ it, the protection they have hitherto enjt7ea. This. Note has occasion.► ed very unpleasant sensations in the condean Corps, and the FRWC& of CoND II has verbally declared, that he will not embark. The French are demolishing entirely the forti, fications of Ulm. KONIGSBERG, Eta. iS. OUR Gazette of this day contains the fol!aw, ing extract of a letter from Courland, dated F e _ bruary 7. " The extraordinary preparations for W ar which Russia is now making, both by sea a n d land, have, on the one hand, a reference to , a War with England in cpnjunttion with the other Northern Powers, and to attempt, in combina, tion with a French Army, a landing in Ireland; and, on the other, an attack on Turkey, as Rus— sia requires the Porte to break off its' alliance with England, and accept from it no auxiliary troops ; that the French may remain in undis, turbed possession of Egypt. Sixty thousand French, it is asserted, w:ll march through Hun, gary to join a Russian Army, and proceed jingle,. diately to Centtantinopl;." TIAMBURGII, MARcn 3. IT is said the Prussian Regiments are already appointed, which are immediately to march, if the answt.r of the English Court to the Declara, tion of that of Berlin be no; satisiaoory, MARCH 4. The English Prince, ADoLPIIIIS, is gone from nos/aver to Berho, on a Tecial invitation from the KING of PRUSSIA. MARCH 6. Three armed ships are arrived at Altana from Gluckstad ; a great number of Cavalry hav e likewise arrived in the vicinity of Altana. Bat teries are erecting on the Danish Bank of the Elbe. Yesterday fortnight Hisßoyal Highness PR INC ADOLPHUS arrived at Berlin, and th:, next day dined with His PRUSSIAN' MAJESTY, in com_ pany with the Earl of CAR YSFO aT, His Majesty's Minister at that Court. by dispatches which were sent off the same evening by His Royal Highness and His Excellency, and which arrived here on Saturday night, the KING has received the most satisfaaory assurances respelling the KING of PRUSSIA'S intentions with regard to the Eleciorate of Hanover. By the Lisbon Mail that arrived in Townton Saturday, it is stated, that the Spanish Ambits, sador quitted that City, on the 19th ult. and by Proclamation ordered all his Countrymen to fol.. low him. A numerous Spanish Army it; a sembied at Badajos, one of their Frontier fowni, only 40 leagues from Lisbon. The opening of the Irish Budge has hithert been delayed, because Mr.'CORR Y, the Chan-cel. lor of the Exchequer for Ireland has r 0:r yet t*cn his Seat,