The Sun. — London, England, 1806-12-11 00:00:00

Howecer, rrutsia, who pretencL to lave so many ,! • ' other grie.vances.to set forth, looks on this as'a gros. ; affront, a decisive reason. His Prussi3u Majesty appears determined to plunge his, whole nation into the horrors of war, .because a small 'corner of the ter- , . ritory, far removed from his States, was.trodden by the horses of the Vrenth Army t and he then "de clares. to France that all his engagenients with her are 'dissolved. ire mak" his a.rn ty take not attitude suit - ale to fircuinstances—." It may, be readily seen why the King' of Prussia suddenly becomes so ticklish Upon his neutrality: till then he had l*n secretly . plcased at the losses of a paramount, whom' lie chose to look upon as a rival Power he had sincerely laboured fof the hu, miliation of Austria. _But now he trembled at the - . ascendant which fifteen years .of .unjust Wats and glorious viaories had given the French Power.— Yet who - should think ~that, in' the midst of , the exaggerations of his . anger, and notwithstanding the conviaion which the cabinet of Berlin had, of its impoitance, its usual policy could have got ,the,better of that injustice which it thought it could not wash away but in-rivers of French blood ? A t the moment when it was thought he was marching to the field of battle, he qlfers, says the Manifesto, to the coalesced to Ge the organ of Peace. But from the habit of a constant contradiEtion between what he does, and what he declares, he secretly sub scribes, on the 3d of Novemher, avngagement to unite his forces to those of the Russians and Ans . - trians. This engagement was certainly a great political error; but -there are , circumstances in which even errors themselves announce courage, and in which, like certain reverses, they are not without honour.— No dourn'„ bad this engagement been faithfully per .fored, had Prussia immediately marched her army -forward, Trance !eight have complained of so great , a lightness in her engagements, of so quack and un. founded an, irritation, and of so sudden a change ;. but at least it was a frank war,. and courage would have decided it. However, the. King of , -Prussia was ciecumspeet. The dangers which he atill,saw in, the execution of his -vengeance, moderated .his. im patience. The grand viaorious army marched against Vienna, but- another French army then menaced -Franconia, and whatever weight Prussia may wish to attach to the 'resolution which she might have taken, the fate of France did not'at that time de pend on her policy. , I Thus her usual prudence got the better. There, again appeared this time iu the midst of the Bellige rent Powers, Only an • Ambassador . instead of an, *army e and this Ambassador, the witness of a deci-. sive victory, arrived there only to sign an alliance, and witness the Treaty of Presburgh. Hitherto Prussia had nothing personal to alledge . against Fiance, .but the passege over the ten itery . of Anspach, 'She made herself in words the champion of those who asked of her anions ; she presented .herself upon the stage when there were, no more' aaors,. She wished to affeit an overawing part; but she met with the mortification of being disavoWed by ail, the Powers in a part whiCh did not suit her. 'lt ill became her indeed to attempt to diEtate laws when she would not fight, and to plead for those whom, ahe retU,ed to defend. 1 After this wavering condu&, she, however, reaped great advantage from a quarrel into which she had • net entered, and from a peace decided only by vle tory. She offered and exchanged_ three small Pro-, vinces of her dominions agaiest . a permission to take . . - Hanover, long since the objet of her desires, and which lay so convenient to her hand. She dares not avow it atahis day„ ; slave passes lightly, as over live cinders, over this concession, which she wished for . and, solicited, and :upon which France -never stipu lated any thing further than a kisser faire (let her do it). However, Prussia dire&ly got the country ad . .ministered in her name ; she every where set up her arms; she raised taxes and exercised all the privileges , of sovereignty... By this . tad alone she was at war -with England, as by her pretensions upon Swedish Pomerania, she bad formed against _Sweden. From' the friend of Frauce, , Prussia was become her Ally, and had promised to support her interests. She was to begin by shutting-her Ports against the eternal ene mies of France. But at the moment when every thing tommanded her to 'have at length a frank and de cided 'policy, Prussia assumed, to the great-astonish ment ofEurope, a still more equivocal and hypocri tical attitude. Her ports were blockaded, armies were drawn up in presence of each other, and did not yet know whether.they were at War.. After eN.ercising for several months the rights-of Sovereignty of Hanov'er, the King of -Prussia began 'to testify to' the King of England that he regretted }is being forced to keep his patrimony. At present be seems to wish only for a temporary possesvion, and we shall soon see that the most violent of griev nces is, that England proposed peace to France upon the basis .of this very restitution which the .LoNDoN : Printed by RICIIARD 11A 'tills, Of No, 4, Martlett.c6urt, Bow-street •" and published by'.. ILLI Am Aami G R SCRIPPS, Qt . South Nlo;toh.,t.e_ . s,i,r...r , u , r-square; At the Sur;-Ovitc it, No. t.; tratici-; where AdverlisemOits; Orders for the•Pifpr,. Leiters-for the- k;ditttr,•&:c. (pcst-poid). lutist Is: add restc,... Ittiig of ''''Pra . Agh'iri3r*rs tntich: to 'cle.Are., Never was - • • tly'ertigma more aancult to be resolved. ' t rthe.Cabinet orßerlin complains that the Treaty • I , of Presburgh was entered into in favour of Vance. This, indeed, is a very strange reproach I Is it not the usual effe& of .viaory to : secure advaptges to the conqueror ? WasJ?rance,.upon.coming.otst of a strblggle in which her ruin liad,been conspired, to .leave her enemies the means' of renewing the same plots, and bringing bask the same calamities However, these enemies. recovered almost all they had lost, France contented hersellwith what was re- quisite to guarantee her glory and their tranquillity, whereas the leagued Kings shared among themselves her spoils even before they took the field., The mea sures then take❑ by the Emperor i',Capoleon had for their objea only a solid peace, and even an honour able.one to the vanquished. Other conquerors keep their. conquests; hOrnade the ascendance 'of his arms serve only for the good of his allies and the safety of other Potentates. The Treaty of Presi)urghicontain ed:the.elemeuts,of a polit,ic,ll arganizatlon more ana logous to the interests of the respective States of Ger 7 'Many.. Their free Fill laid the baiis of it. The ar rangetnents. made.subsequent to the Treaty ofPres . - burgh were only combinations judged necessary to • secure their execution ; and as they were the fruits of the wishes and meditations of a great part of Germany, these . arrangernents acquired a de grew of. legitimacy and 'solemnity' still greater than If they had been only snatched by vidory. The EleEtors .detached themselves from the Germanic Boclv, and the Emperor of Austria had a right to abdicate a title which, for half a century past, has been • only a source of contrarieties and occasion of wars for his House. This affair was quite fofeign 'to Prussia, who had often given the example of defeiaien, and of a permanent-rebellion against her paramount head.- 7 - Nothing can be more pleasant than to hear the King of Prussia so kindly pitying the destrudion of a dig nity which he so long laboured to render a mere mockery, the prerogatives of 'which he continually opposed, and the humiliationsand disasters of which be had secretly encouraged. Atistria may . -„yet an!. swer the hostilities of this insulting pity. with—You should have come to the field of /Austerlitz ! If the Envoy of Prussia was admitted to the-Ne gotiations which followed that battle, it will doubtless not be supposed, notwithstanding the bravado of the.. Manifesto, that it was from the terror she inspired. The French army was ready to return to France by the way of Berlin. But France then thought to lay the foundation of a lasting peace, and. she wished to reconcile the interest of Prussia. The full and en tire execution of the Treaty was to be followed by the evacuation of Germany by the French army : the Emperor of the French had a right to-exped it.— ; However, the King of Prussia looks upon the forced stay of the French troops as a grievance ; but he dissembles: “. the King determined to continue the . part he had. hitherto a&ed, for some time longer.— He wished to preserve his force, now more than ever ; necessary to Europe.7'- 7 (See the Manifesto, pape 9.) Thus the Treaty Of Presburgh . was no sooner signed, than they foresaw the period when, they were to re ! .. kiudy the war. They Waited only fora favourable moment—they wished .to catch . the lion asleep. , Thus _France could only rely on herself. They jus tified before-hand every thing they would have done for her. security. However, nothing Of all that she might have done did she do. The proteditai which she a year after, had given to the ConfederaCy of the Rhine, was a sacrifice to the common safety. This Pad, -freely consented to, did not concern Prussia; it took nothing from her it encroached neither upon her rights nor upon her territory, Which she found' to be increased without her having drawn the sword.. The accessory grievances which she sets forth besides the 'great interests of Europe, are trifles which be tray the weakness of her reasons. The pecuniary indemnity which she solicited for the Prince — of Orange, was only a private negotiation ; the loss of the three Abbeys might have been compensated ; the uniortof.Wesel . to the French. Empire was a free cession, in which Prussia had no right to meddle.- -Besides, she had just complainecl4 that the Conte— derate Princes were only Vassals of France. 14 her reasoning the union of Wesel made no alteration in the state of things. • Moreover, Majesty this King of Prussia pasSes so lightly over those grievances, that they are not deserving of 'a serious refutation. He expatiates more at large upon the restitution of Hanover, and upon the obstacles thrown in the way of a Confede racy of the North. He feels the futility-of the rest ; he willingly abandons all foreign interests ; but these two grievances are insupportable. Ire oreselratuing . near the moment which Merinined leis . M jelly. We have already seen the King ,of, Prussia, after taking possession of Hanover-as its Sovereign, mea suring' back his steps, and looking upon it only as a temporary property. He now.got himself intreat ed to keep it.definitively. HP. wished to have the air of paying lioninge 'with it' fo tic Cat inef'of St. James's,•with which he was already engaged in:the negotiation. Upon this well-known disposition, the Cabinet of St. Cloud might hare made the same Overture. It was still but a simple proposition, a matter to "'he discussed ; the only question was to find a. compensation. Hitherto nothing wounded the honourof Prussia. She had shewn, or, to speak. more truly, affeeted so much repugnance to a defi nitive possession, that 'one must haiTe thought it ren dering her a great service to aisembarrass her of this 'temporary load. • Again, nothing can be mire strange than- to see alledged as the principal motive of a war 'evidently. excited by England, restitution 'which One wished to make to his Britannic . Majesty. Supposing that the King of Prus‘sia, hoped to hold the province from the, generosity of its former possessors, - thiS would serve to prove what sacrifiCes . the . English Government is capable of making when it is in contemplation to spread confiavatidn througtiont the Continent. As to the proje& of the Confederacy of the North, it so much flattered the pride of the King of Prus- sia, that it for a tong time concealed from him the danger of the Confederacy of the Rhine. Upon viewing the sovereign protetaion which 'he Wished to exercise over his equals as a new. dignity, one might' wonder at the pride of this pretension, and ask by what exploits it had been inspired, upon what rights it was' founded ? The Rhenish Confederacy had appeared necessary to put an end to the intestine dissentions of which Germany had been.the theatre for nearly ,two centuries, to regulate interests till . then irreconcileahle, and to put the Princes wlib . , compose it .under. the prote&ion to 'which they had always been forced. to recur: But Prussia had no thing plausible to ailedge for extending' her. influenct over independent States ; they were .not menaced.; she had never drawn her sword for their defence ; her domination was not necessary to their safety. If. her aim was to oppose a fival Confederacy to that of the Rhine, it was 'preparing eternal wars, and re . moving. Europe from the pacific end which•liaci been - the object of the one formed under the proteClion of the French Empire. The Hanse Towns, which have so long been the envy of Prussia, are indebted to France for their in dependence. They are the emporiums of the trade of Europe ; 'but until trade become the common property of all Nations, it is important that it be under the proteCtion and immediate observation of the Power charged to iletroT commercial des- potisu Such then were the real grievances of Prussia. tier claims were so long veiled under friendly forms, that the Emperor Napoleon must 'have mistaken them. But at length the nzinagenzent she affected towards the Cabinet of St. James's, the Negotiations, whiCh she resumed with Russia, the secret intrigues which were a&ively carried on among the Courtiers Of both sexes ' sold to the interests ofEngland, the putting the Prussian army upon an extraordinary footing of war, and above all tl.b obstinacy with which the king Of Prussia insisted upon the eva'=' citation of Germany before the complete execution of the Treaty of Presburgh—all this served to open the eyes of France. The Emperor of the French resolved on vanquish ing, before he answered the. Manifesto of the King •of Prussia. But now France may ask Prussia, which ofthe two nations has had most reason, to be satis- • fied with the other ? Which his been ambitious', false, and perfidious ? Which has had exaggerated pretensions, and has excited unjUst wars ? Franca , had figured for a thousand years amongst the first Powers of the world, when the Margraves of Brandenburgh were not yet in the rank of crown ed heads The Prussian Monarchy , ra ised so sud denly,, and by such equivocal acquisitions, at the beginning of the I.B B th. century, was in want of the protealon of France, and made effeEtual use of it in its-pretensions aOnst the Emperors of Germany: tiowever, scarcely was it able to exist by itself; when it thought of undermining, perhaps even of destroying, the Power v.;lto had defended it. The French Revolution broke out ; Prussia - was the first to sound the alarm, to call the Kings to the Con gress of Pilnitz, and to sign the treaty by which France was to be shared among them ! 'But as. soon as she saw that this nation was more difficult to be . realised than that of Poland, she abandoned the project as .quickly as she had conceived it, and since that time, she has never ceased protesting the most - Solid - friendship towards her, whole ruin she had sworn. It was always the same system. — Prussia, aggrandized by acquisitions wrested' by the timely importance which she knew how to give her.; self, thought that Germany and France were going to. make.war forher benefit, and the first campaigns . proved in reality the justice of - her-conjeaures: But at length her dark policy tired out the other Powers, and as sobn as she attempted to quit her neutrality, he advantages. She thought - she might easily triumph over France : she alreaily'disposed of the fruit's of her vi&ories—she sUbdued Saiciny, led Hesse to deceive French generosity, and formed ati immense Eriapire, usurped - without 'haVitig fought. What now remains to her of so many. preSurnptions, projeias, and treasons ?—Seven days of French War have overturned the work of a hinidred years of ail . fill policy. Far be it from us to wish to make the errors or crimes of Cabinets fall upon their nations. Most of those, who Wye brought so many . citlarn'ities upor),. Prussia, have ,atoned for the errors of their life by an. honourable death. Their courage w'as deserving of a" jester cause. They have set a fine example, and their soldiers have not yielded without glory to French valour—buf the morality of that Cabinet Was . a . scan- ' dal and a Scourge Eiiroie, and 'Others as well 1 'as the connueror may congratulate themselves-on its. downfall: It is 'time, that the relations'of Sovereigns should take a more noble and loyal turn—France wishes to give a long Peace to the Continent—the dangers Which she .has - met with in her way have not ,stopped her—the enemies she has remaining can no longer frighten her. SMITHFIELD CATTLE SHOE Yesterday morning, the fat cattle, sheep,. and pigs, sent from various parts . of the Country, as candidates . for,the prize's offered by the Smithfield Club, for encouraging the economical feeding. of :animals intended for the London Market, begau to arrive at M r . SADLER'S Repository.-yardi in Gos :well-street, to which place the show has been now,. for the_ first time, removed; and we were pleased to find the accornmodations for the cattle and com pany still more ample than at the last place of show. Mr. GIBLET, one of the Stewards, was in attend `ance, in the absence of Mr. ARTHUR YOUNG, the Secretary, for receiving the certificates of the ages, breeds, time of putting to fat, kind and quantity of artificial fohd .eaten, if any, by each aniotal,, and other particulars, withoUt which formalities none are adMitted to the yard. Before dusk last night,: oxen had been received frorn Lord BAGOT, Messrs. WESTCAR, PICKFORD, WATERS, KING, ;BELL, &C. Cows had been re ceived . from Lord WM. _RUSSELL, Messrs. WEST CAR, HARVEY, LUCAS, -&C. Lohg woolled sheep Mite :Messrs. TUCKWELL, WESTCAR, HIRONS, HUMPHREY, CHANDLER, tEEGIIMOOR, PICKFORD, (mixed), &c. Short woolled sheep from Mr: KING. Pigs from his Royal Highness the Duke I of YORK, (Spanish breed) GEORGE DODD ; : SAMEj BUTLER, &C. An additional Veteran Battalion is' to be forth with raised for service in Canada—it is to be CO ITI-+ posed- principally of Qtficers-and 'men 'who have served in America. One of the men in custody on the charge of hav ing murdered - Mr. Steele-some years - ago on Houns low Heath, has made an wtempt to poison himself; but an emetic Was speedily arlininistored,_ and his life was saved. The eviLlcocq is, not so complete as to justify a public examination ; but yester day there wm a private examination on this in tereting question before Mr.,NARES, the Magistrate at Worship-'street. We have before noticed_ the astonishing success of Dr-SOLOMON respelling the astonishing Cures performed by that all-sanative Medieine the Cordial Balm of Gilead, which haS • amazingly- promoted the sale in this neighbourhood. These Cases,-so re speEtably attested, prove its intrinsic value in ner vous consumptive _complaints in veneral,,and versally stamp its fame •as first of Medicines extant. SKIP APE in. GRAVItsEND, DEC. 9. Passed by'--the, Charlotte, Carfvell , from Malaga; An— drew, Mackie,' from Botirdeaux ; Venus, Cooper, from Bremen;' Commerce, Savage, front 'Hambro' ; Happy R turn, -APOLany, front Memel ; Amelia,•—, and Favourite, Shaw, troth Stockiloi Sailed--the Lord Duncan, Lowe, for Limerick tria, Lucas, and Gute ErWagturg,• —, for Varen. • - • BIRTHS. ,„ On Tuesday last,' at Mrs. Chester's, Hampton Court, the Lady oliAnthony 13—St. Leger. Esq. of a Son and Heir. On the 74th ult. at.lltnikettles County of Cork, the Lady of Ctiarles Silver Oliver, Esq. of a Son and Heir. MARRIED Lately, at Aldgate, Robinson Kittne, Esq. of .His Majes ty's Dock-yard, Lleptiord, to Miss/Harriet Dominicus.. On 111o0iy morning, at St. Mary-le-bone Church, Mr. Harris, Grocer, of Oxford-street, to Miss Mills, daughter of Thomas Mills, Esq. of Colebroulc, Bucks. DIED. Early on Tuesday morning, Mrs. Hamilton, +rife of Wil liam Hamiltbn, Esq. of Lincoln's-i La-fields. Lately; at Southampton, at the age of 2G, captain WOW gate, of the Ist Royal Veteran Battalion. His premature death was caused by a voand he received in, the landingof the British 'Troops _under the comniand of General Aber crombie, at the Bay olAbodkir. Last week, Mr. lackson, the Chief Proprietor of the 'rhea-, tre at Edinburgh. On Simday last, at Kelso, Pringle - Hogarth;' SecondsOr4 David Hopi - fit, • Esq. oti liil tbn. At Roseileath, Scotland, atter a few days illness, on- 'Our 23d ult. lo'on and, William, .und, on Friday, the lath, Do nald,' the 'ilitant children Of Robat Canipbell; Esq . . 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