The Sun. — London, England, 1801-09-14 00:00:00

THE SUN. tOLIM QUI3 DICIER& YALSUM AULCAT ? LONDON, SEPTEMBER 'Soh Thu Hamburgh Mail due yesterday arrived in ourse,and has brought us intelligence more interest ing than we are generally accustomed to receive by that channel. The Letters from Vienna are tht ce days later than those published In the Paris Papers, that is to say, of the 29th ult. Lord MINT() had, it app pears, received a Letter from Constantinople, of the date of the i 3th of August, in which it is said that the Allied Army having arrived before Alexandria, IVIENou had acceded to the Capitulation of Cairo. This report, however, is father contradieted by the Letters from Constantinople of the same date, and %ve are inclined to think that it stands in ,need of confirmation. As we predkled some days ago, France has not been slow in supporting Prussia in her opposition to the Eleaion of an Et.EcToR of COLOGNE and a BISHOP of MUNSTER. On the 31st of August, Citizen BACKER presented to the Diet of Ratis_ bon a Letter from Citizen TALLEYRAND, in which the latter required BACHER to. declare to . the Diet, that France opposed not only those two elec tions, but ,even that also to any other ecclesiastical dignity that might become vacant by death, The Treaty ofZnneville is the pretence under which France shelters herself as her authority ; and LEYRAND says, that the French Government will carefully see to the due execution of it. As the intelligence froth Ratisbon does not- come down later than the 31st, and as it was on that very day that the Declaration of Citizen BAcH ER was made, we know not What resolution has been adopted on. the subject. Nor do we find that the general question of the Indemnities came under discussion on that day. While on the one hand Prussia and France are thus insulting, with impunity, the Empire and its Chief, we see that the latter had decidedly accepted the offer made to him of the two Ecclesiastical Dignities for his Brother the Archduke ANTONy. Already even, had a sitting of the Chapter of Munster taken place on the 3d ult. but on the following day the Officer sent to Vienna returned, and brotight for answer, that the Count of WESTPII AL TA (the lead ing Nobleman in the Eleaozate of Mentz), would first go, to Hildedieim, and thence repair to .711unster. fle will probably settle with M. VON POHM, and Prussia and Fiance will Tecoi sa tisfaction. Fresh Enemies to the Ottoman Porte have sprung pp in its bosom. A Corps of rebel Janissaries have t::ken possession of Belgrade, the Paella of which they deposed. It is supposed, and with probability, that they are making a common cause with PAswAN . 00G L 0 u. They are doubtless both of them excited by the same foreign impulse, It is desirable for the Torte soon to call home part of its Troops in Egypt, in order to defend the heart and the capital of the These Troops, inured by sonle battles, and iastruaed by the example which our men have afforded them, would probably oppose PASWAN OcLou with much greater success than the raw jevies of Romaio have been able t 9 do. WE this morning received Paris Paper; to the Ii th inst, one day later than, those which came to 'land on Saturday: They are not very interesting. The French Funds have experienced a further rise. The Ticr Culla;Ede is 4t Though the regularity with which the Freud/ aters reach us, be all that the Papers that have ar rived this morning furnish us for remark, those that arrived on Saturday certainly have some claims to our attention. For the first time, for a lbng period, do they publish any tiling of their own knowledge, on the subjeCt which, next to the Negotiations, and what relates to the threatened Invasion of this Country, mast immediately interests us, Emt. The Cap tain of the Corvette, the ilaio_pais, which, as it , pay be recolleCted, had succeeded in getting into Alexandria, had also the good fortune to escape from thence in an Armed Pinnace, carrying only a Crew of twenty Men. Haying reached the Coasts of Italy, he there iande.l the Dispatches of General MENotr, which were sent to the Chief Consul. — `These Dispatches, which are more recent than those which we have received from cur own Army, ptate,or rather !lave bee s i construed so as to corn rnunicate to the Public, the most flattering intel ligenee Egrn could furnish after the fall of Cairo, ./lexandria was, on the il.th of July, in the best possible state of defence,' with Provisions for a, great length of ,time ; it was deletded by 9oco Frenchmen, all of whom had sworn to bury themselves uncle: the ruins of the place, The French wtim masters of the Lake Mareofis. Of all this, wig frankly acknoledge that wc do not be. lieve one word. A tbird part at lust of the French shut up in Alexandria, consists of Sailors, Civil Agents, Scavan's, and Artists, and although we may be told that all those people have taken up arms, it would be ridiculous to calculate upon them as effetc.tive SoldierS. One single observation is de cisive on this point. If the French were as nume rous in that place as the Morsiteur asserts, why did they never once attack the inconsiderable force left by us before Alexandria, when the main body of our Army had marched against Cairo ? We believe more readily that General MENOU is discontented with the Capitulation con, eluded by General BELLIARD, but' if" the Com mander in Chief.has not thought proper to accede to it, he will himself, sooner or later experience that , necessity often forces men to do things which are unpleasant ,to them. if we may believe a French Journalist, a new Flo tilla of Gun-boats has found means, by faVour of the weather and the night, to slip along the Coast, and to enter Bodogne. This. Journalist draws triumphant conclusion from this, that as we cannot prevent the French Ships from passing from Calais to Boulogne, we can still less oppose their crossing from the Coasts of France to those of England.— This reasoning would be good, if the wind which .blows our Ships from the Enemy's shores, drove them also away from our own, and was the occa sion of their wholly disappearing from the seas which surround us. We will venture to assure this sapient Logician, that the French will find them there, and will ultimately meet with very different chains in our Ports, from those which confine them to their own. 'According to letters from Vienne 'of the 26th ult. the affair of the Indemnities and the Seculari a.tions has been concluded upon between Austria, Prussia, and France, but we conceive that if that be true, it could not be known at' Vienna at that period. The Frankfott letter which we quoted some days ago, appears to have better claims to credit ; what seems more likely is, that Austria has in some degree given way to Prussia, with re. spec to the affair of Cologne and Munster, the Chapters of which place will not proceed to the election, as they had announced. A letter from the latter place of the Ist. inst. leaves no doubt oil the subjeet. Neither that question, nor the general one, on which it depends, has since the z+th of Au gust occupied the Diet of Ratisbm, which, as it is known, had postponed until the 3 rst ult. the pur suit of that important pplitical subject. It has been engaged in the interval with the -representation made by the Envoy of the Republic, 13/113.4.ra, re speeting the 'Recruiting carried on in the Empire by the Prince of LOWE/O'7EIN for the Corps which he has in our pay. A Conclusum has been draw up on this subject, and addressed to His IMPERIAL MAJESTY. It seems that the Archbishop ELECTOR of TREVES has been in haste to give proofs of his adherence to the Concordatum agreed upon between the POPE and, the French Gell.rt r en t , for after having signified his, intentions in this respel to the latter, he has sent his stfrrage to Treves, who has taken his oath of submission to the French Re, public, before the French Prefeft. We know not yet how far this measure will be advantageous to the interests of the 4 1 ,E;CTOR of TREVES. Among the different Journals which have taken up the' question of the Negotiations dependant be tween our Government and that of France, some have expressed an opinion that no sacrifices ought to he made on the Altar of Peace, and others, that. every thing should he granted which France could require. Our Readers have been prepared to find that we adopt neither of these two opinions, for the one is repugnant to common sense, and the other is inconsistent with Patriotism. The first is too ridiculous in itself, and evidently too erroneous, to make any demonstration on the subjett necessary. To assert, that we are not to pay, by any conces....ion , whatever,' for the advan tages attached to Peace, is`to say, in other terms, that Feace must never be made, and that conse quently we and our Children are to continue to kill and be killed for ever : those who reasc,n in this way, plunge in the very depths of absurdity and If, therefore, we think with enlightened men, with real Patriots, in short, with the Statesmen of all age , , that no Peace is desirable which leaves it either tine wish, or the interest, of one of the Con trLcling l'arties to break it, and that a Peace may be too gold, by sowing the seeds of future warfare, to be early ripened, we 'are, on the other hand, as far as possible from thinking, that we ought to make a sacrifice, at the feet.of our Enemy, of our essential interests, and, consequently, of our Na tional Honour, which is concerned in the procava tion of them. Every TRITO3arroN would sooner meet death in a thousand sliapes than preach, adopt, or approve such a doarine. That disgrace was reserved for the Morning Chronicle, which unblushingly ex posed itself to it on Friday and Saturday- last, and we feel it 'Nur duty to expose still farther than it has itself done, the feculence and abominable de ' pravity of that Paper. If this Journalist had roundly advanced that every thing ought to be granted to the French which they could require of us, such an unqualified proposition would have so much revolted the minds and hearts of all men, that no one could have been injured by it, but he' Who had ventured to avow it. Uniting, however, a certain por tion of address to the highest degree of malice, he has been at the pains to involve his infamous counsels in, some captious or even true propo sitions, and connecting them by an artful sort of logic, he has endeavoured, and flattered himself, no doubt, that he has "succeeded in giving currency to the bad by its mixture with the good. It can hardly be eXpefted that we should attempt to sepa. rate the mingled mass he has thus made, sentence by sentence. It will be enough to extraa the spirit of the whole, and to shew its objeEt. Amid the censures which, according to custom, and in defiance of consistency, he heaps on the Ministers who have made War, and those who are endeavour ing to make Peace, he has laboured, as much as a Member of the Cabinet of the Thuilleries could do, to persuade us that we have to .expea from France no concession in return for those which we may be dis posed. to make. "The thing," he peremptorily says, " cannot be done." To suppose that it can be done is "dorruni-ight tri f ling." Having thus irrevocably established that France neither will nor can 'make any concession, he thence concludes, that we are to make all, and he spares no argument to shew us the necessity of it. Not, however, daring to assert that to restore to Holland and 'Spain what we had taken from them would not be a.restoration to France herself, he escapes the objection, by assert ing, that the cession of Ceylon, the Cape of Gocd Hope, Surinam and Trinidad, (would not confer on France the means of compassing -our destrudion. What ! after nine years viaories, after having acquired an indisputable Naval Superiority, after having made every part of the globe -a witness to the glory and the power of our Country-;-after this, we are to esteem ourselves sufficiently fortunate if we escape destrudion ! This is to be the object of our ambition, the result of our labours i of our constancy, of our sacrifices ! And this writer dares, in cold blood, to put forth such insulting and igno. miniciu6 s cnrences to his Countrym.n_to English men ! Their contempt and their execration of such an insult, is the only punishment which I can supply the want of a due severity in the Law. If indignation did not prevent 04 entering into argument, he might be told, that while France has conquered on the Continent, we have been still more completely successful at Sea. She seeks to recover the antient Property of herself and her lies ; we, on our side, are to look for a balance of advantages on the Continent. We ought, besides, to have a guarantee, that these advantages should be as solid as would be the cessions which we . Might make.---This short explanation is founded on Com mon Sense, as %yell as on Policy, and the love of Justice. All the . sophisms of the Ilfpniteur, or of the Morhillg Chronicle, cannot shake the evidence of li. The latter, entertaining little confidence in his • own reasoning -s, and mist kinghis inclination to gross abuse for a talent of criticism, calls in aid all that his imagination can furnish, to , represent Mr. PITT as guilty of having made War, and Mr. 4DDI NG TON of being desirous to niake.Peace. Could it he believed, that he has again renewed that accusation which has an hundred times been successfully over turned, that we were the aggressors in this War ? To the charge against Mr. PITT, he joins that of having positively qnd.arrogantly ,refitse el to, negotiate; and we arx again condemned to' call to the recol leaion,of our Readers, what is known to all Eu, rope, and what the Direaory boasted of, as &Is- SOT boasted of having occasioned. the War, that after having patiently supported all the evasions and haughty pretensions of the Quintumvirate, Lord MALMSURY was abruptly sent away from Lisle as soon as they had gained the internal victory of the 18th Fruaidor. This experiment made it evident how impossible it was to treat with the parties which succeeded One another with such rapidity, anethis naturally had an influence in producing the reply to the overtures which 139NArAILTE made with such haste, and in so extraordinary a manner, when scarcely seated on the ruins of the DireCtorial Throne. There was no security that he would remain for any length of time, master of it, He has now main tained himself in, power almost two years, and the quastion is consequently nolpnger the same as it wa3 in the beginning of the year i 800. 7- We may be allowed to express our belief, that if Mr. PITT were at the present moment at the head of affairs, he would himself negotiate in these cis , . , cums,ances. Mr. ADDINGTOIC is not tried wi d less injustice, nor mentioned with less abuse by the Morning Chronicle ; nor can we conceive with what face hr can venture to blame, both him whom he considers aS adverse to making Peace, and him whom he sees ne. gotiating for it.. How, in particular, .:an he date to say, after the prolonged efforts which the present Ministers, arc making to attain it, that they have an utter dislike to Peace ; that they hold the opinion, that Peace has nothinj in itself to charm ? Where, and when,. for Heaven's sake, have they . uttered or written any thing like this—and when, and Ji.)on what occasion herivhey professed, as lifinist.fr4 to adopt the principles of their predecessors ?—\l'lleri • we sum up the whoie, and read all that this Jour nal utters against Mr. A DDINGTON , because he is negotiating, we cannot conceive what more it could have said if he did not negotiate. What can be the objeft of this Journalist, is thus insulting truth, talents, and virtue ? One only —that of removing, if possible, from us the bless. ings of Peace, by raising, alarms in those who are treating with us, if they be sincere--or if they be not so, by furnishing them with justificatory argu. ments ; for the French may well be weak enough to adopt such impressions, when an Englishman is to be found sufficiently criminal to circulate them. As far, however, as it lies in our power, will we destroy 'the Machinations of folly and wickedness, and, in concert with the majority of our Country. men, will we formally disavow them. Such ma. chinations are the work of a Party only, and that a very small Party, as contemptible for its principles, as odious for its designs. Fortunately, however, the writings of its tools skew what would be the , aEtions of its Leaders ; and we feel ourselves still more earnest in • tip hope, that the moment will never come when our'afrairs shall be in their hands. It is at least more tolerable to see the former disc grace the Press, than it would be to see the latteg dishonour our Country. The following Form of Prayer was read in all Churches throughout the 'United Kingdoa k y est e l4 day, and is appointed to he read the three succeed. ing Sundays ; O Almighty Lord. Cod ! wonderful in operation, iinfiniteN wisdom, power, and - goodness ; terrible hi thy judgmenr but abundant in loving kindness apd mercy ; thou turnestl l,4 fruitful land into barrenness for the wickedness of them that dwell therein; and a4ain thou commandest the water to spring the dry ground, and the vallies to stand thick with corn. We, thine unworthy servant s , t h e P eop l e o f th i s sinAr ful Nation, oder unto Thee our praises and • thanksgivinOs ter tha: Thou hast vouchsafed to remove far from us the leaf' - • of Dearth and famine; causing, by Thy blessing, the Leith,- w: •"e had sewn to yield in overflowing abundance Melt: va:lous iruits of increase; ;sod, in Thy goodness, so oiderinic - toe seasons, that we have joyfully reaped and gathered into otr 'lams. Not unto us, 0 Lord ! not unto as, but ma? Thy Name, be the praise. We acknowlzdre that we had niel. • .itcd tne severity of Toy wrath ; but "i'llou in ,judgraens tUinkest upon mercy, and wouldest not the death or a sil TIV! , • Inat sinners turnfroin their evil ways and live. Giv-, us grace, 0 Lord, to employ the gifts of Thy bounty to Tilt oor)—neither squandering them in riot and luxury, nt nnaniing them from greediness of sordid gain ; bu t grant t hat, with hearts full, ofthaiik:olness to Thee, the giver of all 400d1 we may use them with temperance for the supply ofottroW4 • wants, and dispense them with iiberalit y for the relict and corn"? tort tit the Poor, and make us ever to be mindful, that a nutn'S life consisteth not in the abundance of things that he possesst eth, and that he liveth not by bread alone, but by every wora, tnat proceetleth out of the mouth of his God; tint set • While we pray daily unto Thee, as Thou h ast eorimiandek for the perishable meat of this world, we may cease .not tcs labour o;ore earnestly for that which endureth unto everlast" log life, which thou 'last given us by Thy Son, Jesus Christ' • our Lord, to whom, ..vith the Father and tile Holy GhoSil be all honour and giory, world without cad, Amen. A Council of His Majesty's Ministers was 0 1 / , Saturday held at Lord HAWKESBUAY'S Office, in Dowing,street. On Saturday the Court of Directors of the ELst India Company received overland Dispatches frog) Mr. BARKER ► the Company's Agent at A/engt dated July the rgth, inclosing the substance. of in formation received from e t ypius to the 7th of tie same month. , c His Majesty's Ship Diadem had arrived there from the , Coast of Egypt, and stated, that at tie time of their departure a firing of cannon was hea:d . in or near Alexandria ; that about a dozer► d►- serters, who had succeeded in quitting Alexandria . in a boat, and repaired on board our Fleet, staid the place to be in the greatest dis.ress from the•wrnC of provisions. " That about 4o leagues to the Westward of Alexandria, His Majesty's Ships off that place g ave chace to four French Ships of the Line and one Fri , gate, which escaped by favour of the night, and are supposed to be part of Admiral GANTHEAUMT,' Squadron, which it is said had again sailed frail Toulon, reinforced by eight ships of war ,taken frog • the KING df NAPLES. " That it is supposed if Admiral GANTH EAloigg Could not succeed in conveying succour to the French in Egypt, that he would probably, surptiO the Island of Cykrus, in order to effect a diverSi?t3 of our Forces in favour of the Enemy on the Conil' nent of Africa. " 'That the French have lately made a sortie; m A which they were repulsed; with loss on both sides' This intelligence is confirmed by private, advic e : received at Aleppo, from th e C amp o f t he attAllY VIZIER. " That His Majesty's Frigate I,6higenia t OOl4 fire by accident, while cruizing before Alexr.ndr?, and was destroyed, but all the crew were happily saved." 0 Pursuant to an Order of Council, in future, whe 6 ships or vessels arrive at any out pore with Officel bearing Dispatches for Government from Egypt, °h any Port of the Straits, the Officer chargcd wu Dispatches is to be permitted to land, providecist' w : Inspetting Officer of Health certi,aes that the crelt are healthy, 'xtral Saw; Bay, I he \re tie ra Ship and als You tnemy tnornin I could half-pa tny col ca lie t 1 broads and w: ihalf, ac 'fry pri "eive t the Sh San ti liflicul tablet', the g you se for sor s braver *eranc tei . 1 4) go been .n tecona Office! Thenda other of whi fir 3 List 11r. Jo _kale Mr. swaii I 1 th t‘ °AY ah P .atj 4 , 1 It ltim *lith men ) tma 11 Pear. I al 4 1. 11 s co fir. j .13er, 4 ters .therns 'Wow.< An a Cap 1 aria °rl 13( Ine n , c aptu for Gi F; r ~