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THE SUN REVIEW. (No. La V%) POLITICAL MI:FLECTIoNs on the true IxTEnrsrs of the FRIINCII NATION, 'vie/ on sonnc Publications whi c h h oer l a t t l y op _yerrrPd: ByF. A. CIIATEM7BIZIAND, Svo. Pp. 159. price 63, lIENRY CoLuV RN, Conduit-stret. (Contioued from our Paper of yesterday.) The -preceding quotation appears to us the most singular portion of the work before us. The feudal. system had, indeed many beau ties ;—chivalrous honour, devotion, loyalty, ge netosity, and a thousand graces ming►le in the bri!liant tints with which . the portrait of its features is banded down to our distant days = the dark tints, the horrible oppression for .which there was no redress,. the tyranny beyond appeal, the barbarity, and a long et caera of evils, are bid from our view. — But even of these enough has descended to us, to slim that equal freedom, just rights,. man protected and cbn scious of his value in the scale ,of creation ; in short, that the amended state of the Social Compact - human race, than the preceding order of things, on a retrocession to Which M. de C. dwells with somewhat too much of complaceney—o, " A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty, "Is worth a whole eternity of bondage." 7 . But, in truth, M. de CUATELYDRIAND himself, e few pages further on, furnishes the best an swer that could be given to anyone mistaken enough to desire the restoration of the ancient, order of things in France. " In former times, what were the hope and ambition of a gentleman ? To become a captain ; rafter forty years service, to retire in ' his old age with a Cross of St. Louis, and u pension of GOO francs. At the present day, if Ste followS a miii tary career, a rapid advance may raise him to the highest rank. Except through some extraordi nary favour, or by means of some brilliant ac tion, could a cadet - from Gasco:iy or Brittanny become, !older theold regime, a colonel, a gene ral, a marechal of France ? If, Mustering up all his little tOrtune, he made an effort to come to Paris to solicit some employ, could lie go to Court ? In order to enjoy a sight of that King whom he defended with his. sword, was it not ne cessary before-he could be presented that he should ride in a coach ? What part did he perform in the anti , chambers of Ministers ? AVhat was he, iu fact, in the eyes of a frivolous and ungrateful world, -but a poor provincial gentleman Otten of a nobility more ancient than that of the cour tiers who filled his place at the Louvre, he re ceived front these children of court favours only refusals and contempt. What was this brave man, this representative of the honour and power of the monarchy, but an object of ridicule for his simplicity, for his dreSs nod his language, they forgot that Henry IV. spoke Gaseun, and that his doublet was out of fashion. " But the time for such contemptuous sneers is now at an end : in the provinces, you, gentlemen, will enjoy that coosideration which ought to be attached to your fajoily ; whilst at Paris, you will be admitted every where, even to the Court 01 your King. A new and ex,tended career opens it self to your view," &c. epic. • Would the Author wish this •system to be re stored I He elsewhere says— " In the new order of things, however, there are some persons who displease you, who seem odious to you ; well, be it so; but they will pass a tray, Rita France will still remain. D . len's after a revolution, are slow in returning to a state of quiescence. One remembers to have seen that matt under such circumstances ; another cannot persuade'himself that this man can become a good citizen, or that he can .be usefully employed. 'this is an inevitable evil ; but still it is not such an , evil as ought to make us renounce the good of our country. In 1605, Henry W. set off for the Limousin : he had then been seated upon the throne . , for the space of 16 years and yet Mal , berbe said of him : vin maiheur inconnu ttlisse parmi les bouties, Qui les rend ion.nis du repos otl nous soannes: La plapart de leers vceux tendent au changement ; Et comae s'ils vivoient des miseres publiques, Your les renouveler ils font taut de pratignes, CiLle gni tea point de; peur n'a point de jugentent. Nous vayoN les esprits nos a lo l iannie, Ennuy4s de couvrir leer erudite manic, 'Towner tour lenrs conseils noire affliction : Et Ji.son.> claire:tient &dates leer connience Q.le tiennent la bride a leer irapatieucc Danes e'en sommes tenus qu'a sa protection (er Ilenti IP.) Qu'il vice done, Seigneur, et gull nous fosse vivre! " Thus we sec that the faftions of the League were still in existence"; and more than five years atter that, their horrid hands applauded the par ricidal RavailiaC. " At the restoration of Charles 11. in England, the inindS of men were still agitated. When once the first moment of joy was past, men who }cad espoused opposite principles during the Revolu tion, still continued to hate each o th er . Th e Whigs and the 'furies sprung out of those fac • ti o ns, 'llier e were even some so furiOus in their politics as look upon the condemned regicides as martyrs for the goo/kohl cause. They pretended that Harrison, Cook, and Veters, at their execu tion, were most certainly ' clothed . with the when in reality they were only covered with the blood of their Soveieign. "We may from this conclude, that those who regret the ancient government oug h t to at tach•themselves to the new, becaus e that it is very good in itself, because that it is a result to which we are brought by the manners of the times ; because, in short, that a fatal necessity has destroyed the former, a necessity to which all things are imperiously forced to yield." The tweatiettschapter proceeds to demonstrate that the Nell,- Gov ruaient.i for - the interest of all, i 1 stile following chapter carries on the ills , cession in these words— • J'hat the most numerous Class i►a France ought to be:sat:ooo with the Charter. _ _ `.` This has, indeed, no need of being proved. All that we have already said. demonstrates it sal ficiently ; as the Charter, in short enables us now to enjoy that liberty which we have purchased with the purest blood of France. : ft puts an end to our efforts ; it prevents so many misfortunes, and So .much glory tr•tan having been suffered and ac quired in vain ; whilst investing man with his just dignity, it ennobles even his errors. " Each individual may justify himself in Dis own eyes ; each may say, Here then is the cud Of my, desireS.' Natural rights are acknowledged ;. all Frenchmen are now called to civil offices, to . Military rank, to the tribune of the two Chambers; they have an equal. power of distinguishing them selves in the service- of their country. " This is not a hope, it is a fact ; and every man who may now exclaim, I am a Peer of France under a legitimate King,' ought to feel that the Charter is a blessing, and that there is a great difference between bein; ., a Peer under Louis XVIII. and a Senator under 13nonaparte. " What was there for true republicans to hope for under that political order of things which the restoration has _destroyed ?—an equal tultnission to offices and honours.—They now enjoy that under a legitimate King ; they could never have Nay, the most outraging distinctions hul already been establiJhed. It was then more difficult to approach the lowest subaltern of the Lnperial Household, titan it is at present to penetrate even into the presence of the Monarch. Those then who sincerely wish for liberty, ought to bless the Charter. Could they, indeed, reasonably have hoped that a tesnit so happy could have arisen out of our discords ? ,What man is there who can now be silly enough to dream of a republic after so mucil sad experience ? The extent of Fra the genius of the people, and a thousand disagreeable recollections, oppose themselves invincibly to such a form of Government. " Whoever then considers himself ;is a slave, t! , e eprescluat lot. of the too Chambers, with the i77bt of petitioning . , with the abolition of confiscation, with_the security of property, per sonal independence, and a safeguard against the attaas oi'Goveruinent, will only prove that the never had truth or justice in his - opinions, and that he never will he worthy of real liberty !" lIAMBURGH MAIL. IL MBVEGH, DEC. 9.—lt appears, by the ae comits from Vino, that the late Grand D u k e o f Frankfort was encouraged ir j , FFauee to protest against Bavaria. It is, however, very Certain► . that he will not succeed, the German Powers at the Congress being Wholly indisposed towards. him, beeause . this Prelate, formerly so highly re spected, not only on account of his high dignity, but also of his extraordinary learning, is consi dered as the proper author and promoter of the Rhenish Lonfederation, by which- the power of Buonaparte in Germany was very firmly consoli dated at least for a time. ,In fact, he had kept quite in the back-ground since the Late events, and nothing at all was heard of him. But now that reclamations of all kinds are pouring in from every side, he has thought proper to spew him self. Au opposition party seems designedly to endeavour to embarrass the affairs of the Congress. IlAmtuaGn, Dec. 9.—There was a slight mi litary disturbance here on Wednesday last, in con-- sequence of a company of the ilan3eatie Legion in garrison refusing to acknowledge the Olfieer ap pointed to command them. The principal muti neers were, however, arrested, and order restored. The - sth tilt. being the anniversary of the deliver •ance of Lubeck, was observed in that city as a day of solemn thanksgiving, and collections %were made for the'poor at the different cliMrchcs and chapels to the amount of 1712 marks. ENGLAND AND GERMANY. [Fmmtlie Rhenish Mercury.' Great eagerness is shown by the French to make the English more and more obnoxious to the nations of the Continent, and to inspire them With mistrust of the far-extended plans of this intelligent .and active people. To its Germans in I particular they call with a warning voice,_ to take notice bow they endeavour to make themselves masters of the mouths of all the rivers, 'after 'the example of Napoleon, and, for the same reason,. to be masters of their commerce, and to secure their resources to themselves. In Germany itself this suspicion is spreading more and more, to such a degree, that even in this paper one of their most humane and beneficial institutions, their Bible As sociation, which is indubitably founded without any secondary views, solely to spread Christian senti ments among foreign nations, has tat been able to escape misty Lst. • The English themselves com plain .bitterly •of the ingratitude of the nations whom they have aided by their exertions to rescue from the deepest misery and the most disgrace fill fetters, and who now, in return for their pains, jealously endeavour to thwart them in every way. It is, therefore, a proper tune to look seriously at the true connection between She Insular Empire and the Continent, and to consider what good or evil tiiey might have to hope or fear from each -other. As the course of the Rivers is determined be fore hand by the directiou of the Nouutaius, to we way sAy that tngittiiit's present pc;•:Atcr a! ti its ; Ai .°43 *,* the tsszty on the Progress bi - tying .5 Inlstpuried till l'-1311drrJ$Vi hi , torical importance have heel) predestined atla ordered by the natural form of the Old World.— ,No Country lies so well protected as this sea fenced group of Islands : large enough to con tain a population which can repel all attack, but not so extensive that strongly marked differences divide, it within itself and break its power; with this, incomparably well situated for commerce with every country ; and finally, inhabited by a People in whom the Gaelic blood is so happily mixed with the German, as to produce a nervous, enterpriling, intelligent race of men ; endowed with such gifts of fortnne, this empire may justly alledge a natural vocation to the So vereignty of the sea. In former times it sought to extend its dominion on the Continent, but it soon perceived that it could not effect much against the race that inhabit it. Irl mo dern times, therefore, when the southern and western worlds were opened, it quickly directed thither its 'whole attention, and has stuck into the , ground in distant Colonies she roots of the power which blossoms in the island. The modern art of navigation annihilates distance, I and the remotest possessions lie in a nar . row circle round the seat of Empire, hrotight near for its own use, hut far beyond the reach of the enemy, who might covet :hem. Since that time England, sufficient to itself, has withdrawn from_ the proper sphere of the politics of the Continent. It has an interest in preserving an equilibrium of power, and to prevent the arising (daily overgrown Power ; because in the latter case alone it must be ineyitably involved in the fate of the CoUti nent, hut in the former freely rises above it. It is called upon to be the Guardian of the repose of the Continent, maintaining, by its hite;- •terenee by word and deed, the dutation of the ancient once established order of things.—lts only care is to hinder any colossus from aris ing, .which, setting one foot on the shores of the continent, inay place the other upon the happy Island ; in other respects it play leave to every one the free developement of its powers. The minds of a people, which, with persevsn ifetivity, sir toggling with the wildest elemeids, is constantly cruising in all (plasters of the. globe, sure of al ways finding again, at home, liharty and pl en ty, and not made for nsrrow-hearted selfishness ; aid thus the Powers beyond the seas are threatened with no danger on this side,.and England's policy in itself can have no hurtful influence except ac cidentally. MAILS. 0 ' 11017'er Artatvr.n-1 flaniburgh. DUE-1 trolftlna , 6 11 1 Lisbon, 3 Guernsey and Jersey, 1 linbl" ford. STC CAS vEr.vc o'cLocti. Bank L. Ann. I lisprr'et, India Builds, 1254*dis. qs Exeheti. Pills, Oinnium, Rai/ is Cons. fur Op eni n b' NiO ° 11' lIIGH,WATnit AT LONDON lIRIDGI% 1 " - ; 0 A Morning,, 37 minutes after I I. I Evening, 2u'inu-c,p' PRICE TIIIS DAY T' Bank Stock, 150 3 per Cent. 3 per Cent. Cons. shut 4 per, Cent. Cons. 81i 5 per Cent. Nary Anu.sbut l' ' EKTItACT OP A LETTER ' , Rom GHENT, D -C. ' st, 4l° " The Atli : o'iCall COMiniSSiOiler, 31r. , • consequence of the rupture of the N e b - c r e tt''' is, I urn informed, about to set out for ei r burgh, for which capital -he tvas the pointed As the Represent a tive of /11.31 e interests. rl Ol "It is said that a proposition has. ; er' Alr. GALLATIN that 011 C Colllll l lSSial ler 'l' o ; 4 side shoald remain here, to take ad vgil"4 . l ,;(6 l opening that may offer for renewi'lg. t ii Lions. Ido not think the 13f;tish 0111.1 consent to this." ,wig iv I V We were yesterd a y ena bl e d exelfr - „if . before our R ea d e r s , i nte lli genc e O r to olit y r , P O t), most imp of tan t which - . has lie- I1 or e . , a 0 4 in a 13ritish N ewspa p er since the 5i r ,,,0 r i e s ll ft the Treaty of Paris. Our ContemP6l.3 0 l't i ' attached elore or less c re dit t o our aee °°T . t y' l ' i Client and Vienna, according t° • 0/ 1 ' _ t he P r .. ,iii! T r i o bias of their opinions ; for the inforno- t he 4 i e solely confined to THE St!N, it COO ti r la ni3O . sponsihilit v we hate undertaken in t he ,i i ll l4ll in which we laid it before the Pobliei ' 1 . 6 ,10 ,„F l l l , i e . gnage was tooeonfident to permit os ' - bat -to 4 a" - };AL slionld we be found to be in error) 41 IV, Ithowledge our having been misled , o ur L IO , onrsel;'= GM the lath Igence of our Co" , ( 1 to C, 4, re du . we are not afraid that tve shall be LL , 6ro' s, rofi pain p.:l apolOgy—we still place t" ,o teal o f , ~s fiance- upon the authenticity of th e / , , , dito' - ',,, con.tained in our Second and Thi rri he; • r to rii l) : • o i yesterday, and have no denbt be at A r t The commercial concerns are differently situated. lieSS will be speedily and unql►es ll " l3 ,0 litre England is in pretty mud: the sante position timed. ,' 0..'" od with regard to the Continent, as in another cow,- it is incumbent neon us , however/ (°' t o t lir , , „lilt ts.' try the Hierarchy to Ultramontime Europe. As ( ! MO Tl(.Nrlt , . ;.;'111C1) have !Kell too 7 co , t o- ito the latter strove to hied all nations in spiritual stn"[- ( 1 1- - -rr -of ert);•tv upon these 03t ,litq' bonds, so does Britain seek to draw them jute; rue ' '.• .. the great circle of its universal comtue7-ce. discredit what we advanced, took rne ' 0 0.° 10' ' . 0 1 ' all the roads of the world shall proceed froil its ' - publishing a Second Edition, to OY 1 o'l pot is ; that all the magnetic meridians upon That An Eve.oing Paper of yesteiday, as it . illt , Cl , l ' l 7, ment had not received any Messenger 0 ,II 1). ~ ..t 1,0 , ,_, which vessels s':til over the (teem) Inv v cross in its that morning from Ghent, and t"" i i O 4;rr metropolis as at a pole ; that the whole •mass of ' „ -. , w as a 1 be , rsocu, reported to have arrire:o c . O , moveable goods may receive impidse from it, Now, in • ..•,- • we " Ws It. our oern Jus•theation, ao this is its incessant endeavaur, the object of t . list ~.t h, i s 'was errc i meotts---- . Ilac e. l - lig u e ;i cl :Y I''fi r tjoll4 all its exertions. It is become the heart of from liOCllt to so late a date as ~ /0 El.o - ett t o av Europe for the circulation of goods ;in the two accounts :did reach Government 11 1 ) ',Ol be c if Indies it has its roots and suckers, what it imports one vessel which hrou,,ht thew, as ". ~,,cl ` A n ,i'saflg ia I , ~'l l. front these it manufactures with restless industrr • '' from our Naval News, Iva:: the w . ", ~aisl e l)' and exports then the productions both of nature VilliCh saled from Ostend on Wednesti" je ill' i( ~ •►lite " ' n ' q'''' and art to all parts of the world, and giving and on reathingAlargate yesterday Moil o w 4 , , - „; c ato ,0 • taking, exporting and importing, it gives impulse , s - ..“ sent on an Eixpress with the Coming"- ~ l i j or i o ci to the circle of commercial intercourse. It is this ' i., place in the European social union of which tint. vs' e may further state, that thel l , l " i l d ot cu l ic nocn (who has been long at hour his sot" or, alone, England is jealous, to maintain it is the passenger by this ,conveyancc, Y et ~0-01 ` 1 ,00 sole object of its policy : every .thing else is sub.. , CittAsiAra, did by allotiLer, 311(1-Alr. '.-- V lCll'it. ordinate to this, which it fe e l s t o b e i ts natura l .0. f' o ' ul ftf'eupied only a week in travelling L destination. The 'Constitutions on the Conti : t 1 Ghent ! ! neat may assume whatever form is Most snit- , So nitwit, not only for the O' sib. re o ff 0 0,, tr able to the respective nations, even the territorial the probability, of Government ha . , ;f ar , 4 ,„;, divisions may be made arbitrarily ; provided that • if nor Dispatches, at least Cow Acii koO s pa many have a share, all is indifferent to it. It is both these places, but also for the ll ' rbep tiG , infinitely more important to England, whether the Lesters which reached us are 311 te Russia and Prussia abolish or continue their -re- ~,i5-1 De ~, worthy of being relied opon. be eo• ad ~' straints on trade. It is the friend of those coin:- c lO' s One part of our intelligenc e dor- i 5 tries that are open to its industrious, active spirit; dmsteod by- the JOtfrnals whic h gir do 1°1. ,,i4 . 1 I •its- • . - te l and it renounces, it must hate and combat those credit our Correspondence, (" 11 `" ' c l:-.1 ° 0 .0 which are closed against it. It is' not therefore 11 . st o , st lowe no TICWS, and neither lie 1( t tfa OS so much the interior of German Y, as its .circln- k that ilif.l nor Party purposes) ; they thin l+, ,It, t o bs ,l ference, that i$ an object of its attention : if all • cd I , ol l ' .°O5 - remarked respecting a resetr , foc i, l o ~6 00 ' is there open. anti accessible, if its commerce can ; a/fah - Ist our eintelashin that the ne; , 5 . c . r' „It penetrate without Check and delay, its demands '" . - w e ha d i o7 come to a hostile terminator. a d ff el nonocst, J,,„. are satisfied L and, flourishing itself, it is willin ,- l''' sidered our letter on this to ( '.,„, r 0 0 . tt it! that others should be so lik ew i se , - ecio sl " yg' 1 ,6 . the phrase be citations, we eve „ I • • well-founded in construing i t lz ereci° / ' tit° The Amer . a Senate have a Bill before them, (lay a', .Ij for the equipment of a naval force, consisting of .. s for ,by , i small vessels, to he officered and maened by the main fact, that the Negociatio" jo wl io tt i did—namely, as in no waY o .} i te i v crews of the frigates, which are to remain in Commissioners. were mutually °PP ° 00 6 ' ,veto ~ so A port for the present. The Intelligeneer - says, in contemplating the views of the Secretary at War , 0 a _ d r, that as the process. of recruiting is too tardy to not Ivo - 0 two Countries had come to a cri sl- ro" - 0 ahle to pace as to be tantamo the 9 , ico supply the requisite number of men, there appears rupture, but that it was desired bY o ff -35 °l eo " - no other alternative, than designating by lot, broken •0 4 every 20th or 30th matt in the nation, and foreilete 'than the Treaty should be so of i o Lint into the !Talks. * room for a renewal, in the e,ellt 1-1 E S QUIS DICEHE FALSVM A LONDON, ist4' F R Y, DECEMBER 'h ►e, ci„ Tv tif k~ •o f~idt h jlt k r 1:1 .1 cr. 0 '' e; . !(.