The Sun. — London, England, 1806-04-26 00:00:00

I FRENCH EXPOSE. [PROM THE MON ITEUR..] PARIS, AP,RII, 18. , . . " England has - declared War against Prussia. All the King's Ships have received Orders to attack. the Prussian Vessels', and Letters of Marwae have been issued to• Privateers. 'thi s a just prOceeding on-the narteof the English Governtiaent ? Is ifdpolitie one ? arequeStions which if is not our intention "to examine.' It is'sufficient for.us to discover, that this Measure is. advantageous to' prance ; that one of .its Corisequences will be to shut the North agaipst, ,the English trade; and•that.there is little wisdom on the part of England, in acting so towards a Consider adele Power, whom she forces into a nearer connexion with Frafnce ; and ..WhOm she deter Mines to remove from her Councils the Agents and the influence of • England. Prance and Prussia- united, can, if 'they 'please, shut the Sound. , If *England had learned bow to aueorrirsiodate her policy tacireurnstances; she would have maintained herparty and her creatures in • credit in Berlin. 'She would have rendered the block - ade of the Ports of the North less severe. She would have, in fait, preserved the 'advantage which she de rives from the Prussian Flag ;1 for commerce'has caiien for. intermediate agentsbetween the. merchant and the consumer: But, hoWever it may be, we can ' n`ot consider this new political event but as tending to accelerate Peace ; Tor, assuredly, .Prussia is neither a weak enemy for England, nor a weak ally for, France: We know that there are persons who,accustom them selves with - difficulty to the idea of theseconneCtions betWeeti France and. Prussia; but they do not see that • the hesitation which was first manifested by the latter: Cabinet; depended - uponlemporary circumstances which have neither-altered the principles of the King, nor tho4e of his most faithful and intelligent servants. If there Was any thing, which gave offence to France, it could only be imputed to a frahtic Minister, .who was sold to England, who was formerly in her ser vice, and who quitted it for reasons 'which the dig nity of this Paper will not allow us to- mention. It, perhaps, "maybe supposed, that England, in the new circumstances in which she - finds herself with regard to Prussia, hdd no medium left her, and could not avoid declaring War. But the occupatiOn of Hanover, , by Prussia; was, the only _enbans of preventing the French from returning to that country ; and if they - had - returned, the freedom of the English trade would - not have-been - the greater. It may be said, ,that Prussia has-not only shut the .ports of _the Elbe and 'the Weser ; as they'were by the French, but that the ,-+ occupation was made in the'pame of the King, and . in the same form as if he had determined - to annex this rine province to. his vast Monarchy. However, there is'',notking; fret, to pave that-this was' the in , t:iztiolt ofPrussiii; and it-is very possible, that the ces sion of Cleves,Anspach, and Neufchatel, may relate to smile other principles of arrangement, since the po pulation cif all thethree does notequal a 5 thoftbepopu lation of Handier. Some discussion, therefore, might have taken place between Prussia and England ; and the Wisest course would havest s see.ri,not to have began by declaring - war.- Supposing occupation to be equal to thial iticorperation, England, .instead of avoidihg that consequence, makes it more certain ; for what ever losses the -Prussian trade may experience during ' two or three-years war,she Will be indemnified by the more considerable loss. which ,the trade of the enemy will sustain ; and England submits to these losSes for - aa 'interest which the English ‘'Naticin has ali.Vays . disowned. It:has always 'considered Hanover as a foreign property, solely belonging to .the House of BetinSwick. How happens it that it has so suddenly Chahged its principles in this respect ! lt appears — that M. SCHIMMELPENNINCK, the, Grand Pensionary of Holland,, has entirely lost his sight. Who is to be his successor? What effect will beproduced by this change in the Magistracy.? These questions excite - the attention - and - anxiety of all the Pinch who tire' sincerely attached to the Country. It is well knoWn, that the Emperor never gave: any'po sitive sail:Slim to the late changes in the Constitution of that Country; and. that he said, on that occasion,, that the prosperity and liberty of Nations could only be assured by two modes of Government—either a tempered and constitutional lgonarcliy; or a Repub lic constituted according 'to the theory of liberty, and which - should be the true organ Of -the public will. All hations,cannot, with safety, leave to the people - the choiCe of their Representatives ; and when, a Da _tion has to apprehend the effects of assembling the people; when-the advantages which it expeelsare less than the inconveniencies. which it foresees ; such a • hatien, which cannot find Proteaionnnder a Repub— lican form of Government,. has recourse to the prin ciples of a good and prudent Monarch Under the present .Constitution of Holland, the Grand -Pen sionary has more rower than the King has in Eng land--he-has even more than the Emperor has in Fratiee; or than any Sovereign has 'in an}- country : end, what is without ex a mple in a Republij, their - ',Hligh-,Mightinesses, the Representative and'lsegis-e . BOdies,_ have been nominated by - the Grand Pensionary. The defeetof this Constitution-tannot c seape the observation of the sagacious. That cannot ' be called a RepubliC, where the Representative and. Le- , islatii;e Bodies are not nominated by the Electors : and if there heany fear of the,EleCtors, it will be best 'to renounce, et once the Republican form of Govern ment. A GovernMent, which neither having the ad vantages of a Republic, nor of a Monarchy, corn - 'Vries, all the inconvenieneies of both, should not be absolutely prescribed. Such being the situation of Holland, she must be a'gainer by any ,changes 'that she may , make in her Constitution. If the landholders, the merchants, the enlightened men, are of opinion that they can have a Tepresentatien . made by the choice 'of the people without of classeS or pinch religion, they will create a. system . . _nteb more proper than the present one. - - If-that be northeir opinion, and that they think it necessary to have,recourse te. a Constitutional Monarchy, they will do that WhiCh will be more,advantageous to their Country than the preservation of theireetisting Con , siltrition can. , be. It ,is their duty- to examine their -situation, to judge of the circumstances in; which , they are ; placed, and to -choose between the -two, sys, tema that-Which:is best suited to them, and the most . • likely.to establish,' on a -solid foUndation, the public -prosperity and liberty • . Bavaria has - taken ogscsiion'of 't'ie Margraviat of Asfspach, and hAS ceded to. France the Duchy of Aerg, pited with -that of Cleves, is settled e,pon prince Joachim, the Grand Admiral of the Em . Fe ; Wesel is.a strong Fortress on qi4r,Fpnticrs, The Dachyof Clevesigives us an advatitageous point of coritaCt,with- Holland ; and France, for the future, will only find oh the-right Bank of the Rhine Princes who are allied by blood tq the Imperial " General Oudinot has taken poSsession of the Counties of .Neufchattsi and Valengin. He found those Countries ,loaded ,with English merchandiZe, heaped . there by 'the Merchant's of Switzerland, and principally by these of Bale. Of these the'French Arrity has taken to the amount of many'rnillio'ns : all the bankS of the Lake of Neufchatel were . covered _with 'English inanufaeltires.. This circumstance justi fies all the prohibitory measures Which maybe taken regard . 'terSWitzerland. ,That Country is' little mare; at this moment, than,a warehouse fdr English goods.. Whenit:shall be cleared of these manufac tures,we shall perhaps have the mains of giving a new .check to our enemy. Is it poSsible that the Landam- Man was not struck with the danger' to which heat- posed the Country ? Who will prote& Basle-from a visit from the French Army ? Does thiS Magistrate, who sees smuggling carried on-by - wholesale .under his eyes, suppose that he, is. not responsible ? lithe French consider these depots of prohibited goods so publicly made, and to such great extent, a real ael of hostility=-if the French Government multiplies pro hibitory laws between Switzerland, France, and Italy, will not the Landarriman be the cause of it ? and will not all the - cdtriplaints than the Swiss may make be unjust and ill-founded? ". Dalniathi is occupied by - the French Airily. It is separated j - rem the mouth of the Cattaro by the Republic of Ragusa : the country is mountainous, - and the rraidS are bad. The. French troops lifiVe arriv ed at Ragtisa, when the fort of Castel,Nnovo was-de livered' to 300 . 1 3.ussiati a by Gen J3rady,who command ed .2000 • Austriana. This General, whose ancestors were English, has keen wanting in respect to France, and : has betrayed hia Master. 'Upon receiving this formation, Marshal aerthier gave orders that Bran, nan o ,' which defends the frontier of the Inn, and which was to have teen given up on the ISt pf.April,Should . not he restored, and that it should' he again garri soned. . The division of the* Grand Army, Which was on its way to France, has halted. - The Prisoners of War .that were to hOve been sent back to Germany haVe -been detained, until farther orders, in the places at wall they were. " This outrage offered by Rutssia to -the Austrian flag and7arms, is:the more inconceivable, becaUse the Russians : are at Corfu, draw their provisions from the Forts Of Trieste and Fiume, a free cominu nication - with which h•as not been prohibited. The Court of Vienna has. ordered, that General‘ Brady should be arrested ,and tried. - it has expreSsed its dissatisfaelion to Russia._ It -will - cause Castel Nuovo, and the mouths of the Cattaro, to be delivered up to Fratree, -without having occasion to reply, by arms, to this aft of hostility.. • The Rtissians have evacuated Hanover, and re turned -home. The Army which the. Emperor Alex ander commanded has also returned to Russia. Af ter all the losses which it sustained, it is very natural that'it Shouldrepair them by recruiting. 'A part of tire troops which were at Corfu have returned to. the 'Bosphorus With General Lacy. A considerable part of those that Were in 'Poland are marching towards ChOCiim andthe Crimea. The illusion, with respect to the Russian Armies, is to more.. The French Army which, in two months, dissipated the third Co alition, was-then.only on the Peace Establishment : at theend of the three months, whiCh have since elapsed, it finds' itself on the War Establishment.. IClias no 7 thing to fear from - all the Forces , of Eurepe; but no person will be able to form a fourth 'Coalition. — England knows. full well that it would be money thrown away. She, reflects with . terror, that the: first Coalition, which lasted five years, made Fiatucc: mistress of Holland, Belgium, the Rhine, and all the Cisalpine Country—that the second Coalition,' which Only lasted two years, gave to France Piedtil'ent and • Switzealand—that the third, which only lasted - three motitlis, gave her Venice, Naples, and Genoa—that the least she Could expect from a fourth Coalition would be Trieste and Fiume, and the eternal ex - clusion of the Eng lish from all thy. Ports of Europe. Russia, reco vered from the.vain illusion by which she was de ceiVed,--w ell knows shat. thirty : millions of people, • scattered 'over an immense territory, and under. the necessity of opposing - the Persians, Turks ; and Tar tars; can do against f li rty, millions -of Frenchmen united on the sail - rep - latform, brave, 'Olive, and in telligent, and more Capable of conquering Russia than the-Russians are of conquering France. -"- English; Russian,. and .Sardinian Envoys, and, a knot of malcontents from all the. Countries in the world, had fiXed en Rome as the centre of their ma ' chinations. The Emperor required that they should be driven from thence; and that a Sovereign, placed in his EMpire, should do nothing contrary to the: of the Armies of Naples and Italy. The first care of an Army should always-be, not. to allow it self to 'be surrounded either by spies or those who encourage desertio'n. 'demand gave_ rise to Many •ConsiSloriea, when the persons who were the objeetS of 'it didjastice to theMselves, and all eva . - . cuated Rome. • The Kingdom of Naples is'entirely ongnered. The French Troops are at - Reggio; at Otranto; and .at Taranto. • Only a small - body of.the Neapolitan Troops cOnld embark and reach Sicily. That Island is defended by 4500 English. " The pre sence of such Enemies is am additional induce ment for the French •to• go there. Gaeta; an in significant Fortress, with a Garrison of •k6OO Men, : . ts besieged. • ". The Vii ory at Austerlitz has . produced as much sensation at Constantinopleas at Paris. The exaltation there was sincere and universal. The Government of the Porte is neither ignorant , nor sold. There may, at Constantinople,' " be' some' traitors, but They' • area hot - numerous ; whilst, on the contrary, "'the muliiplied 'measures of Russia for sapping,, the foundation .of this. vast Empire have not escaped the, "notice. of the real Ottomans.. They are not ignorant. that the protection .of France can_ alone..be sufficient fOr the Porte ; and that France..' PoWer interested in i)ro. - - teelillfr ' her' -the Fiench in •Dal matiahas. the liveliest joy.' The EinperorN.,' A n acknowledgedEtup pr: The..,Porte Well that its Treaty limb Russia was etorted . ; and thA it is rather-a Treaty btfwen a despotic" Prince . and than be tween Sovereign and Sovereign : . that it is not: the French who 'have "excited the Greeks and Servians to insurrection; whOst-; AVay arc akclkok-ed befor6 Constantinople ; and who are continually creating.commotions in the Mores.. This new atti tude of the Porte has produced much uneasiness at St. PeterSburgh ; and if the Porte shall be rouzed to of energy against Russia,, there will not be found between those two 'PoWers the . - great diffe rence that may be supposed. The Mussulmat is heave ; and were he but direaed and assisted, .be would triumph over, the Muscovite It is not p,robable that the Porte will wish to go to War . ; but, she has a right fo preserve her independence,.and to, wish for prote&ion against the imallts of M. Ita-; linsky, every proceeding of whom, when he com municates with the Divan, is only calculated to -ex cite'hatred and indignation. . • ~ " We, intend to collea in this way, every month,. inforination of .what is passing; and to throw-some light into•the' labyrinth of false yepOrts, by‘ which the.lawful speculations of fair-and honest Merchants may be injured.": PARIS APRIL 17.—We learn from Rome that the , Garrison of Gaeta made an inetiecaual Sortie, towards the latter end•of March, in which the French took 300 prisoners. - •. The Court is establish . eA at St. Cloud, where it will continue during the summer : it will occasionally come to Paris. • LEGISLATIVE BODY, APRrz. 16. PRESIDENCE OF Mi,FONTANES CONTINUATION Of Till SITEINGOP . :THE 141"11,, M. Cretet, Counsellor of State, in presenting- the projea of finances, has explained the motive of them i.vith much perspicuity. The Orator's refleaions upon each part of this immense work have.been heard with the liveliest interest. Our limits will not permit us to give them literally, but we shall other that part to our Readers which has the -most 'intimate con nexion' with the political' situation 'of Europe, 'and particularly that of France and England. - " A trifling increase of the publicdebt, balanced by a redemption - executed or prepared; resources .de rived 'from the remains of the national domains ;..fo reign succours, the fruits of viaory, and.a wise policy; these, added, to the ordinary public contributions, Cretet observed, might perpetuate to the latest . term of glory, a" vast empire, but lately • almost oyer helinectlinder the wreck of a terrible revolution: - " It haS - been said, and unhappily it. is but too true, that Europeseenzsas.if she could no longer reckon upon the benefits o, Peace which have been promised her by unfaithful Treaties ; she :does not even enjoy the benefit, of a truce; which is a necessary interval previouS to there-commencement of hostilities. If we.examine hoW it is that, in the midst of civiliza tion, the - people still feel all the etTeEts of barbarism, we must be convinced that some extraordinary cause must have concurred to throw Europe into a state the most opposite to the repose and the interest of the surrounding nations. ' The-abrogation Of the Right . of Nations was pre pared, at the commencement of thelaSt age; by the Contempt of an ambitious. Nation, which Was dis posing itself for the attainment of t niversal domi nion'; and it was crushed beyond reniedy, *hen one' of the Ministers of the Nation-, lifting upithe'voice of audacity, dared to. proclaim, .‘" That a single .non-shat should not he fired in Europe without • the p6rmision of his. Government; •- . Eurdpe remained mute, and indifferent to this insulting declaration. She , seemed as if She wished to. conceal the faa, that this signal of dominion was the loss of her independence; and that, as this na tion had assumed the command, obedience was ab solutely necessary.—lmprudent slumber, which has' since produced such melancholy consequences • " The assertion made by the Minister Chatham, flattered the pride and ambition of his nation. . • England; favoured by unheard-of eyents, pur sued its designs with rapidity. London at this day' would probably have been the metropolis of the unit- 'verse if Heaven had not giver. )iriElt to an extraordi nary man ; if heaven had not charged:him - with the re-establishment of the lawi of. n:Yziowt, in'enctowing him-with prudence, and every necessary means for accomplishing hiS destiny with success. His . genius has laid those storms incessantly excited by our implacable enemy `his poWerful hand has . .paralized her efforts--but 'at. the same time he construtied a vast system, the only one whichcOuld remedy the evils of Europe. " The struggle which subsisted between France and Englapd appeared at first a's though it.could not .be terminated but by reason or, by foree. The el feas of reason will always vanish in proportion as Our. Enemies pretend to the dominion of the universe through that of the seas_; and as long as its Councils resound with those savage cries for a war of exter mination, the means - of force Must be prepared against this Nation ; but nature opposes obstacles to their execution, the duration of which 'we are unable to ascertain. New combinations 'are . upon the point of fit ing the future, and consolitb.ting our ,hopes, sooner or later, for the return , - of al T lasting,peaee.: He has formed a power in the centre of Europe;suffi ciently strong to hreak the.force of every, attack it • has received, as well . as those that may yet be pre-, pared against it. " England, abusing its situation and its immense maritime forceS, has itself indicated the. pOints froth whence shp may b; resisted .with snceess.. To the efforts that: shp make 4 by sea, it may r be neceskiry to oppose . greaL:reffOrts upon land and ' since • she. pretends to isolate and cut off 1 other,Natious, by laying the ocean under an intetdica: just reprisals call upon us to isolate her, and to shut her out of , the - Continent to the greatest extent - that may be possible. • - " Thus till England Shall - c — onsole the weeping commerce of • Nations, ; and" fenouneing . an univer sal monopoly, : . shall r6 - tore': l -thein "their.. natu ral rights, and no longer pretend .to• 'dispute with them; except in respell' of the advantages of its soil, and the perfe&ioli of its arts, her Vessels, loaded with unprodutitive. riches, shall spew them-' selveS in vain upon those extensive . •Coasts' which shall repulse then). t England- will at last be tired of this' rigorous divorce ;. it shall restore. to En- ; rope the Empire Of. Reason, and with it a pei'ma 'lent- Peace: , . . " Such are the oii,Aaclea that oppose a Peace:so desiriihle.; we aught to render ourselves, worthy of it, by putting oursclyes ip sltuiAtlon to obtait it, by eoPT 1 6) 1 " • PRICE OF STOCKS THSS DAY AT TWELVE O'CLOCK• Consuls - - - - - S9i MAI i.S. , ARRIVED—I Dublin, z Waterford Duz— t Harnburgh, 3 Gottettburgh, Waterford. T II E S UN. SOLE:VI QUIS DICERE FALSUU AUDEAT ? L 0 'N D 0 ]V, SATURDAY, APRIL 9. 6 , 1,506.' LAST night Parts Papers to the Nth inst. and •Putch Papers to the 22d, were received; the former are extremely interesting,' and we have inserted as copious ExtraCts frond them as the length of the Par liamentary Proceedings Would. .permit. The most itripbrtant. article' they contain is, a 'long detailed commentary in theMoniteurupon the state of Europe. —The first point observed , upon in this Paper is the differences -subsisting between England mid Prussia, and. it states, in distina terms, that Eng land. has declared War against PriissiA, This, .we know, is- not the faa ; but the Moniteur chooses to consider the justand energetics.measures which" the British Ministers have, been" compelled to adopt as a Declaration of War. It appears from the manner in which this subje& is discussed in the Moiiiteur, that the ,French Govertfment did not ex pea that His Majesty's Ministers would have taken such strong measure... againSt Prussia and . great pains are taken to sh.ew that , it would have been much more to the interest of great Bri tain to have temporized with Prussia, and ti have endeavoured rather to obtain a mitigatio of the orders 'for' shUtting the Ports in ./le North, than to retaliate upon' Prussia for the in- . justice of her -Proceedings. -The French Gccern merit are evidently disconcerted by the pronvtitude and vigour Of His Majesty's Ministers; bu: it de- .. rives great consolation from. the - tonsideragOn; that however Prussia may, suffer in this• contest, it.,muss be beneticiai - to France. This 'certainly is not very kind treatment..to•a Prince who has sacrificed both his honour andshis• interest, by comply ink; with the . commands of the Emperor of the ii'rench..- , -But this , is• not ill, the'ffironi,tur . eXPressly'States, that it is not . .• • - true -that his. Prussian Majesty-,has finally annexed 'Hanover to hiS Dominion,• - and " that there is no thing in fad to provi . that such was his intention:" The writer of' th?... .article : in the AloniteUr, cer: tainly cocld not - :be unacquainted with the last Pro- . . clamation issued inthe'narrie . ofhis Prussian Majesty, respeaing Hanover ; but he knew perfealy well that as the king of Prussia. had taken possession.. of, that Eleaorate by the. permission of BO,NAPAATO . A: so he must give it up again whenever it shall be the pleasure of his Imperial Ally. • With respe& to Holland; the . determination .off' BONAPARTE iS communicated in a manner too line- quivoeal to k misunderstOo i d. It is stated, that the Emperor of the French never gave his consent to the last Constitution which was imposed upon that Country—that a' new Constitution is necessary for it, and that the enestion to be considered is, whether it should be a limited Monarchy'or a Republic.—, The Monitehr, of course, gives the preference to thq former; and we have no doubt that in a few,weekt,, or perhaps 'days, -a limited Monarchy will be esta blished. in Holland, and that ene of the illustrious familyot BONAPARTE «rill be the new. Sovereign.--, Another 'important faa announced is, that an' irnme, diate change is to take place in the Government of Switierland : It is not. distinEtly stated what shape it is to assume, bUt it is clear that it will no, longer retain even the name of a Republic. The occupation 'of Cattaro and of Castel Nuovo, by the RusSians; forms a very prominent subje& of coMplaint in this curious Paper. It is averred, that. Genera! BRADY, with an Austrian Garrison of two thousand men, gave up Cattareta three hundred Russians, in consequence of which BONAPARTE has demanded, in the most , positive and peremptory manner, that Austria should compel the Russians to evacuate that important position :. - and-in order to en force this demand, the Freach have taken possesSion . of Brannan, on the Inn, the fortifications. of which they . are • strengthening, and orders have been given to stop the Anstrian Prisoners' who were on their return home from France. _ Indeed, it seems to be the obje6t of BONAPARTE, either to force Aus tria again into War, or to reduCe her to 'file most abje& and- unconditional state of submission.—As We cannot suppose for a moment that - the Archduke CHARLES will consent to the latter, we may expel very shortly to hear of the renewal of the War be tween Atistria and France. Great pains 'are taken to shew that France has nothing to fear from the hostility of Russia ; and it is positively, but' we are happy to add untruly, • stated, that all the Russian . Armies have returned home. • • . 'The whole of the Kingdom of Naples, it is said, is now in possession of the French, with the qxceptioa. of the insignificant Fortress of Gaeta: it is, however, asserted in the t/ntch Papers, that an Irish Oflicerhas, •iyith afew Troops, thrown himself iitto' Civitella del Vcontc, which he is determined to defend against 711'..