The Sun.
London, England, 1806-11-25 00:00:00

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FROM THE FRENCH PAPERS.

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SHOPS AND BISHOPS '}F THE. E:',ll'lltE

" MGM L'kVEFUJE, the success we have lust_
gained over bur enemies, with the. aid of Divine
.I'rcividence,- imposes on us, and on our people, the
obligation • of '.‘giving..solemn thanks to the God of
Xrenies:- iuu 114ve seen, by the Note of the King
of Prii-si3ia, the "ffecessity ,-tinder which we lay to
draw our in,order •to defend the most pre-
-axis wealth of our people—Honour.- Whatever
repugnance tve, may have shad, we have been dri-
ven to the last extremity byijfir enemiesthey have
been beaten' and confounded'. On the receipt then
of the present, assemble our people in the Temple,
chaunt a 7'e Deem, and order prayers to be put up
to God for the prosperity be has granted our
Arms.
•
." This Letter hew?: for no other purpose, I 'en7
treat God; M. L'Evraua, to have you in his holy
keeping.
" From our Imperial- Camp, at Weimar, O.
15, 1806.
*(Signed) _ " NAPOLEON."
'His Eminence the Archbishop of Paris waited on
his Imperial Highness the Prince Arch-Chancellor
of.the Empire, in order-to concert with hiM on the
execution of the orders oflis Majesty. It was de-,
/ermined that the Te Deem should basun& in: the
Metropolitan Church on Sunday the'illth Of the
present month, at tWelye O'clock ; and that the
same ceremonial. should take place as was observ-
ed- last year, when Te Deems were sung as 'thanks
for the memorable Vidories of Ulm and Austerlitz,
PApts, have reteivedLondon Pa-
pers to the 2gth October. We are unable to give
ant- more of them to-day than the most interesting
articles relative to the. general affairs of Europe.—
Among this number is the Declaration of His Bri-
tannic Majesty upon the rupture of thelate Nego-

tiat ion. .
This State Paper demands particular attention..
Since his Britannic Majesty judges proper to justi-
fy himself indirectly-on the war which has just been
rekindled upon.the Continent, be must feel himself
to be the author of it. Indeed, upon perusing his
Declaration with 'attention, it will appear that he .
looked upon the Negotiation which he opened (at
least after Mr. Fox's sickness had rendered that Mi-
nister a stranger to, the 5!.,00 deliberations-of the •
Cabinet) much less as a Means of attaining Peace,
than as a feint for the purpose of more effeiilually
organizing The avowals he makes ; and the .informa-
tion which breaks through the vague . and hidden
expressions of this. State Paper, will serve to bear us •
out in this opinion.. _
It formally results • from the very words of this
Declaration, that it was France who again made the
first overtures of Peace, upon the basis of actual pos.
session, and on the mostanciderate terms. Now
this single avowal acquits France of the reproach of
ambition, which the king.of the United Kingdom
makes her, and shews England to ;be the author of
the, war, with all its concomitant evils. For. would
any Power so earnestly demand . Peace, and would
she make such -sacrifices to obtain it, when she is
ripening projects that can only be realized in war ?
And what other sentiments than au extreme desire
of restoring Peace to the world could have led the
Emperor NAPOLEON, become powerfal. by the
Treaty of Presburgh, to descend to all the steps
which His Britannic Majesty reveals to us, for the
purpose of engaging the Cabinets of London and St.
Petersburgh to put an end to the calamities of the
Wai• ? - ,
• From the very outset of this Declaration, his Britt
-
tannic Majesty speaks only of his Allies ; it would •
seem that he has made a formal engageMent with
the Emperor of Russia not to treat but conjointly
with each other. However, it is evident that on
both sides the negotiations were carried on without
any Concert ; and a Russian Envoy soon signed at
Paris a separate Treaty. No doubt it is hardly possi •
ble to believe that the Emperor Ai.EX,kiiDElt Would
have consented to treat separately if he had entered
into a contrary engagement = lieeee the common
rupture can only be attributed to subkquent
trigues.
We see in this vague and artful Declaration, nei.
ther the conditions at first proposed by France, not
the: restrictions successively' demanded by the Eng-
lish
,Cabinet. The Emperor of the French shewed
more frankness, because he had not so. much inter-
est in concealing the truth. He had made known
these conditions, aud every sensible man must have
been astonished as well at the moderation of him
whe proposed them as at the stupidity or perfidy
which caused them to be rejected.
Upon the probability that Viey would be accepted,
it ss'as several times- rutinoured that the preliminaries
were signed. But we see from the Declaration, that,
at the moment of their being on the point of being
so, .the negotiations were embarrassed by 'new inci-
dents. The secret of these delays was,- to wait the
result of the intrigue then at work to get.the Cabi-
net-Of St. Peteraturgh changed and agitate Prussia.
Every time the disposition of these two Courts ap-
peared to be pacific, the negotiations were resumed.
They did not take a decisive and warlike turn till
after the strange refusal made by the Emperor of
RuSsia to ratify the Treaty he had promised to 21)7.
prove without re-ierve. Then indeed the negotia-
tion proceeded only with diplomatic forms.
When his Britannic Majesty,speaks -of his Ales,
he makes no mention of Prussia, yet the blUckade Of
the Prussian Ports waloetexecuted. The two
bints were very amicably cotineded in secret rela-
tion's ; the English Oovernment, would not expose
Prussia : however,; the hostile attitude they keOt
with her was only a political masquerade : it breaks-
shrough the Declaration. France,was not the.clupe
of it ; but she perhaps too long_sutTered Lord LAU-
DERDALE to act a part which from_ that moment ap-
peared usele-.;; to the generalzeo4 and unworthy of
his personal charaeter. .
The Engli-h Ministry. did not reveal their alliance
with Prussia hetilre they saw -her arrived on the field
of L'iutte. They then-sent .her 'an Ambassador and'
.oecy :- they alien looked upon-the-Prussian army as
OA- own: T s. wa's first seen-- by the exultation
with which they .gOt-it praised by their hireling wri-
,f ; and afterwarda'hy the ridiculous rumours they
afloat of its viaciries. Not would better set