The Sun.
London, England, 1801-09-11 00:00:00

TLIE SUN.

SOL EM Q.U1,6 DICEhE FAL•SUM AUDIAT?

LONDON, Si',PTEMBER u, 180 i•

Colat secvenee of informarion yeciverl by Loyd
Lsora 0:,1,..\\,',ed,,f5,d;1y last, by one of the Armed

Vessels, that r?►e E u-,m);'s Flutii a had moved out of
the Harbour ir,to Bovlogne Road, six Si' p 3 of War,
vizith a quMlier`of Guit-homs, Lave sailed from Deal
p' resume- their-station off do Coast of France.

WE this morning received Pari.; Papers of a date
,ippe day lincrdran those . which had before reached
):Is, yiz. to the.. inst. They do not put us in
possession of any intell•gence of importance. We
seket. the following as the most proglinent Articles;
').VEst:t., AUG. zB.--The arrival of the Pruzsian
Minister Baron de Doxm,. at Ifildesbeirn, has for
its objea: to accelerate the payment of the different
States of Upper Germany owe to the
KING of. PRUSSIA, for the maintenance of the Pros-
skin Army of Qbservatio;), which has secured the
Neutrality of that Country, and caused the Line of
Demarcation to he respeted by the Belligerent
Powers during the last Campaign. For this pur-
pose? a Congress, c.ornposed of Deputies from the
different States of Germany, is to be immediately
opened at Hildesheim.

HAGUE, AUG. 3l.—The German Papers an-
nounced ome days ago, that the English had car-
ried a post of twelve men on the Island of Gorey.
This news is entirely groundless. The English
have made no attempt either upon the Islands of
.Goree, Zcaland? or
.the Texel.

TIDE best intelligence, and even the public Pa-
pers from the Continent, joined to the ostensible
fads which we have before our eyes in our own
Country, every day justify more strongly the opinion
we have constantly expressed for some months past,
respecting the offensive Plans of the French against
this Country. Qn the one hand, we see the Coasts
which lie opposite to our own lined with Troops ;
the number of Vessels in a state to carry or to
proted them sensibly. increased ; ; vigorous press
publicly enforced by all the Departmental Au-
thorities on all'the rivers of France ; and particu-
larly on the Garonne, and on the Loire ; the Ports of

the Texej and of the meuse, those of Boglogne,
Mthkirki Cherl,urg, Brest, and Rochf6rt, become
the rendezvous of all-the Seamen and Naval Work-
men who can .be procured; and, in short, as great
a degree of activity displayed its the means of the
. French and Batavian Republics will allow. We
see', in a word, the Government of , the former
enLavparini, with the greatest constancy and exer-
tion, to enab:e itself, if not to dispute with us the
empire of the Ocean, at least to cross it, and to
make a moment...ry appearance on it. Never since
the attempt of CIIATILgS the Fifth upon the Powers
of Barbary, and since that still greater and still-
more vain, which his Successor made upon us, have
preparations of invasion been set on foot, on so
great an .extent of Coast and on so large a scale.
If every Vessel which arrived front the Conti-
nent did not bring us an account of these prepara-
tions, we sh uid be sufficiently aware of them from
those which are rcarried on here to eoUnterao them.
We have seen the Supplementary Militia again
. called out, flotillas particularly appropriated to
observe and to alarm the Coasts of the Et)etny
provided for that purpose ;—we see Troops assem-
bled at several points on our-Eastern Coast ; en-
/
campments taking place at a period of the year when
they commonly terminate ;—wc see our Commander
iin
Chief, ',not satisfied .with the intelligent and assi-
duous care-which. he ai well as the. .Secretary at'
War displays 'in putting our
,Country into a com-
plete state of defence, himself surveying cur Coa,ts,
and investigating cvc:ry.thing in person.—We see,
in' short, our 06vernment adopting with calmness;
but yet with aEtivitv,• with foresight, but yet with
• 3 • •
discretion, such measures as must be most efficaci-
ous, but at the same time such as must-occasion the
least:possible:derangement in the business of
. .
and in the ordinary course of the pli tical,
and civil machine.

With this two:fold and irrefragable 'eVidence be_
re Minting 'Ckkonicie, unable --teiT'leSiSt
cite weight of such testimony, has 'at lciigth been
obliged. to recant the opinions which it had e)spress-
ed 'vith so much confidence and so much malice.
'omewhat hoWever, of having been 'the
cape, or rather, we believe, of not Living succeeded
iel making others 'dupes on this sphic4, the Writer
now endeavour;) to excuse himself for. what he had
ativanced, by• pretending that it is- we who have
ascribed to him "such sent;ments. We should cer_.
tainly. have nothing more to do than to take the
labour of again perusing what has appeared in that