The Sun.
London, England, 1801-09-22 00:00:00

•Ws had yesterday the satisfa6lion to present our
Readers, EXC LUS iv ELY, with the Paris Papers to the
gth inst. They brought us letters from Ratisbon of
the 3d inst. but they are of little importance. They
continue to assert that the EMPEROR and Prussia
still maintain the best understanding, which we
may surely be allowed to doubt, since the Ele6tion
of Munster. It is calculated that of 97 votes, of
which the College of Princes consists, sz are in the
hands of the Prussian Minister, a number no doubt
very considerable, but nevertheless far from ensur-

ing a majority.
A Letter from Stutgard of the 9th says, that
the ARCHDUKE CHARLES, had on the. ist inst. ar-
rived in that city., We should be almost tempted
to believe that this was an error of the Press, and
that it was one of his brothers who was going to
take a tour in Italy. It seems that if PRINCE
CHARLES had been about to leave Vienna, and to
proceed to Suabia, the letters from the Capital
would have informed us of it. Such a journey in
the present circumstances could not fail to have
been remarked, and would indeed have been de-

serving of it.
The Moniteur of the 18th contains the speech
pronounced at the Helvetic Diet by Citizen RUT-
TINIAN, who presided, provisionally, on the day of
its opening, a speech which in the midst of its Re-
volutionary pathos, contains some truths that will
probably not be too highly approved at Paris.
c' For three years," said he, " we.have walked as
it were on coals of fire."

IN this anxious moment of suspense and uncer-
tainty., when rumours of every and of the most op-
posite description arc in daily circulation, which
it would be neither creditable to ourselves to
Adopt, nor satisfactory to our Readers to present
them with, we hope that the Public will require
no apology from us, for justifying, by a few Oh-
bervations, the course which we have thought it
pur dury to take, and the language that we have
held during the progress of the present Negotiation.
On this subjea we feel ourselves firm on the most
deliberate retrospea of them.

If to have steered a middle course between the
two extremes into which some appear to have fallen,
but between which we think there cam be no com-
parison; he an error, it is one to which we are very
ready to plead guilty. Themaxim media tuthsinitis,
has been sot/air/7;es thought wise and prudent, whe-
ther applied to the Moralist or to the Politician. In-
fluenced by no spirit of Party, unbotight by Govern-
ment, which would despise any such means of sup..
port, and unseduced by Jacobinism, we have hazarded
opinions which at least had the merit of being
founded on the most mature refie6tion. To be firm
but temperate; to consult our judgment rather than
our feelings ; to avoid the asperity and lofty tone
into which some of our cotemporaries have been
inca3tiously betrayed on the one hand, and the de-
praved pusillanimity, combined with the foulest
rzt;avery, which have been deliberately adopted by
others, has appeared to us, under- the present crisis,
not meaning to arrogate too much to ourselves, to
have beep truly " Wisdom's part." To the Pub-
lic we appeal, a Tribunal which we never can fear
to face.

TO the preceding Administration we ever gave
our most zealous support, persuaded as we were,
and at any time able to prove, that it was not only
with deep reluaance, but under the pressure of in-
evitable necessity, that they engaged in the present
War, and that they considered a vigorous pro-
secution of it as affording the only hope of
its happy termination, till opportunities might
Present thems,elves of affording the chance of a
sglid Peace. This will ever be to us matter of
consolation and-of pride. Of those opportunities
every possible advantage was oaken, consistent
with the object Which they had .in view. Why
have we expussed our confidence in,. His WIAJEs_
present Ministers ? In the first instance, be-
cause they were men of tried public talents, and of
proved personal integrity ; because, though they
disclaimed a slavish and obsequious devotion to the
opinions of those Who had preceded there, they
manfully avowed -a determination_of afting on those
great constiturional.orineiples which had saved the
contry from ruin. rfhey'desired only to be tried
by their condu4 'aria by their measures.' Why do
we plaCe bur confidence in Them now ? Because they
abundantly up,
to every
,profession
•
y4lip4 they made p-7-15e0litfsei'. were we to judge of
froM events, comp,ete success 'appears to have.
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