The Sun.
London, England, 1808-04-16 00:00:00

With any thing devised by a tritish Minister, not pi
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their own'party, then it is a measure of tyranny
but still their kindneas for BUONAPARTE will etiwa-
rily break out, and his Cwiscriptipn is muchbettet
, .
than the Conscription brought forward -hYilie
British Government. But how do
_the Opposi.,.:.
tiotn Writers endeavour to prove that Bvet!lArtT's
Conscription is preterable•to lord 'CAsTLERF.49n's -.
Plan for the defence:olthis Country ? They say that
the French Con,setiyip will adMit of substitiates
but they confess _that the price of substitutes in
France has risen to the enormous' amOuut, of 8.00 L!.
f •
sterling. They admit, too, that in particular 'caSes.
Lord .CASTLEREAGIni system allows , substitutes.
Will they, say (bat_ any thing resembling_ the
French' price- is likely to take place under Lord
CAsTLEREAGH'S, Plan ? "Oh ! but" say the Op..
position Writers, ""the'Ane iti"flifs'.oOuntry is to be
.paid to the power who has authority-7 to grant the
~ - •
b.00n," and then they make a great.. leap, and say,
this power must be, WC suppose," ' the CrowP,'
,
mediatelY or immediately. . This "we • sUppo,se.7l.,
is very properly and very naturally brought - in,
for-the„Writers alinded to will be .sure. to sUp-
pose • any thing that will tend, to. tavonr their .
o.tirt, Deßa,cratical notions, and cast,an. odium on
the Crown.r-,Bat pray, Gentlemen Opposition Wri.
• ters are :not the enormous Fines in France. for Sub-
stitute.s paid to the';Posver who has .authority to
'grant the boom. rand do they not medintely- or inane- .
diately pass into the bands of Bootirit/iit'rE, :or'his
:tninions? How then is what* you are pleased to Caltt he
Conscription in England worse titan the Conscription
in ,France, even upon. your own concessions, and
your . (shall' .we 'say)
,reasotti?ig, P But: they i W ri-
teriAell
.us, Alia( the-New .Plan, which has only
been .generally • stated -to ',Parliament, and
.which
will doubtless be' improved by Legislative wiStiona,
" is the most undisguised departure from the prin.
ciples of thc',British Constitution." If-it be undis-
guised, 'there is,•to bypocriay hi it—it is open :and,
plain, and will therefore:better rtclniir of ii'dis6lissl64
than if. it were enveloped in one of Mr-.. W*l3ll A.M'S
abstract theories. 43ut are the.'ie times for such nice
' ex(w.ptions, 'when we have lin Ellectly 10. 011.1?wu echo
,kill.
,not make us. merely depart,. tiotii ' the prin. '
ciples of the Constitution, but overthrow the Consti-
tution' at. 'once; and all its, ',English ' friends and
'enemies ? But it is the eXCelitZtlea. of our o:in-
stitution to admit of occasional 'departures from
itself, in - order .'to support itself; au .l ivb.at time
so, fit for any such departure- as. when it is menaced
with total rein,altogeiher ? But• we deny that the.'
New Systendepartsfrom the Constitet4m, in re-
quiriag, that proportion. of the People ' who are best
able to defend it, to come forward in the cause of
their Country. We have but ,a few wards more to
soy, in. order' to show, that Lord CASTLiEeI:',Ai3II;O

Conicription, if the Opposition Writers will "call it
So, is rather.-'.hetteri• or, at least, is not.sO mucli
worse than •BuobrAPAKrz's,- as they: ;mould !'airy'
make the Public
,telieve. Oa Lord....CATin.
REAGfi'S the People -called info' the service
of their Country 'will be' out but a few days in the
course of the year, :and ~will be ekeroised in their

own neighbourhood.r-No great• hardship,• we pre.
some, to those who have any regrird. for their Conn-
I try, and sense enough to know the designs, and to
estituatO, the strength of the Enemy, 'But 1100t4.5.-
PARTS does ,not 'carry his. Conscr,iption, into etre& for

the defence of Prance, but i:or the gratification of

his own prick), ambition, revenge, 'and rapacity.
His Conscripts must go wherever he orders them;
to pull dotvn inoffensive States, and in the' pursuit
of his thirst of conquest, to be exeaied to every
change ofclituate, and every possible danger. After
these observations, the public perhaps will 'see
some advantage on the side of the new Plakof Na-
tional Defence in this country, though we expeetto
read many more compositiOns in the fataions Prints,
calculated to skew the superior wisdom that designed,
and the greater freedom that results from the,Con-
,
scriptioli of tlie 'French ' R uler. •

• .
We are sorry to learn that a Gentleman who. had
made ,liiniself very conspicuous- in Indian
~Politics
and. EleClion*Contests,•put a period to his life„,.• It is
4inderstood that great pecuniary diStreas
,y,r; tic.the'
cause of thiS'dreadful'aa. • • . •
Yesterday being. Good Friday', His *parrs.,
PrinCesseS,AuclusTA, M,ARY, and SoPtirs, .and the
Duke, of cANlßßlDGE,ldcompanjvd by the Countess
of IM Mott, Lady..A. CpAITIERLAND,
General tzx-
upX, Major Patcs,'and Mr. BucKLY, rode to St.
Goorge's Chapel; Windsor,. soon oftei• ten o'clock,
and heard a sermon bythe Rev. Dr, CoOKSON, frOrp
the gth"ch:ipter of St. Pours 'Epil,k) to the 1-lebrevis;
and the .f4tsth verse; afterwar4tOtiey Went to Frog"
More Honse, where they metier MrozsTy, Prin-
cesses ELIZMIIiTIi and .Asial,rA His 41,unstY
dined there.'At three o'clock the Rival Panik.re-
turned to the Palace, Where kier iy4 .46tery, the
Put ticstoes, and the Duke of CAMIIRWOEs.(I4Ied.

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The, Co kdonia, 134 guns,- k nearly ready for
launehibg at Plymouth; and be.otf the
the last tide in 4nne.. She carrieb on each ded the
following number of guns:—
_ ,

On the lows,' gun-deck
Middle gun-deck
uu-deck•
On tilt taseccale
011 the quarter-deck
On the poo?

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