The Sun.
London, England, 1808-02-04 00:00:00

e.t Of carrying her:plans into circa, he had fratnedsa
resolution for,that purpose, although he was con-
vinced she possessed no such tneaus.esTbrenext don,
sidetation was, how far France was to receive assist-
once in the execution of her projeels from Russia ?
Immediately after the cenel,ision of peace at Tilsit,
it had be6n argsied by many, Rossia had thrown her-
. self into the armi.of,Fratice, and thereby given pre-
ponderance to that Power in. the North of Europe.—
To those who believed this it must •have been strange
to see the Danish Marine' taken pesSeasimi ratified
the Rtissian Marine; suffered to rove about at i
sure. In one of Lord. Gower's dispatches, dated. 2d
Sept, and which was on the table of the. HOuse, his
,Lordship states, in a conference with Gen. Rudberg,
the General allowed the existence of Secret Artibles,
in the Treaty of Tilsit, :but declared those. Articles
had no reference to England: New it had been ire.
sisted In his Majesty's Declaration, thaelt :Was a
keowledge of those secret Articles that had,induced
his Majesty to take the steps he had done for secnr-
ing the Danish fleet. It therefore'became material
to know when his Majesty's Ministers became
tc-
quaintedwith those secret Artidesee.how far they re-
lated to Dentpark—and how far by those Articles
France approached her purpose with regard to the
Marine of that Country ? , In another dispatch Lord
Gower says, in a conversation with the. RusSian Mi-
nister, the latter had not alluded to the transaction at
Copenhagen, and adds, he was surprised next morns,
ing to receive a Note in which it was stated that the
Emperor experienced great pain and anxiety in cons
sequence of an intimation of this transaction from his
own Minister and from the Court of Denmark. The
English Ambassador was instrualed to give an ac-
count to the Court of St. Petersbnrgh of the motives
by which the British Ministry had been atauated.—,
He was instructed to declare they had been long in
possession of data which left no doubt of the intone
tion of the French Government relative to the Ma-
rine of Dentriark. Why this they might have known
ever since the war broke out ! • He was further in,
strafed to say the Danish' fleet had.been intended
to aid in a descent on the coast of the British Empire,
and therefore the security of his dominiens had ob-
liged his Majesty to, deprive France of so powerful,
an assistance. 'lbis was the explanation, given sty
his Majesty's Ministers to the Emperor of Iluss.ia—
in that very Emperor who was now repres,Aited
the chief instigator cif the confederacy assainst us
Was it possible any person represpting his Majesty,
and satisfied that Rnssia was what she vas now de-
- dame to be, whet) he was asked by the Court of St.
Petersburgh what was the cause, of our coedit at.
Copenhagen, could have replied' that his Majesty's*
Ministers possessed data which left no, doubt of ihe
intentions of the French Government relative to the
Marine of Denmark ? Would he leave duly main
tained the honour of the Crown, and the dignity and
interests of Britain, if he . had ' tamely said wd had
such data P He was convinced our Gaernment had
at that time no settled belief that Russia was engaged
or disposed to engage to a& hostilely towards us.-L:e,
The British Ambassador at. St, Petersbergli, Of whose
lumens and ingenuousness there could loe,but one
9pin ion, would have answered to the.detnand of Rus-
sia, " Why do you ask me this question, when your-
selves bave,created the necessityr-when'you your-
selves have been the chief instigators and prolnuter6
of theprojed which myGoVernmeut have taken these
,steps to defeat/ ?" in 'mother dispatch to Lord_Pow
er, dated eed Sept. when Russia liadoffercd
.tomee
dime between Great. Britain and France, the Right
Hon. Secretary (Mr. Caneing) writes, the terms on
which that mediation could !be accepted were, ; st.
the frank communication of the Articles of the Tre-
aty of Tilsit, secret and avewed. Now he thou ht
set that time the Right tionsGentleman knew them,
• and yet. a knowledge of them from Russia was in-
sisted upon as the in (pd. non of an acceptance of
her offer of mediation. Instead of grounding the
ossjeaions of our ..Government to accept .the media-
, tlon of Russia, on the conduct of that FoWer with
regard to Denmark, the dispatch proceeds to state
the. 'anxiety, of 'his, Majesty on a variety of other
tripies-,,eon the movements in the Mediterranean---
on , the surrender of Corftee-on the intentions Of
Russia with reseal to Turkey—on the public
Artielessof the Treaty of Tilsit, which. recognised
the French King of 'Naples only as King. of
Naples, although that Article might in e'tfett be
roan-as:Wed by a Secret Article, adding to that title
that orthe Two Sicilies., These were the cosisideris:
tuna which the Right Honourable Secretary urged"
the British Minister to press, as reasons (tar desk-
ing the disclosure of the Secret' Articles of the
Treaty of Tilsit; but on any confederacy existing
between Russia and France to, fOrce the Danes
tocloin against Great Britain, the dispatch was per-
,fe• ly :silent. How was, it possible then that the
Right trot. Secretary, or the British Ambassador,
could at that time really believe that RuSiia was the
chief instigator of the projea by v'shibh -Frence was
to have been put in possession of theDanith 'marina ?
In another dispatch from the Right Hon. Secretary,
of the 26th. September, he signifies to Lord Gower,
his Majesty's entire approbation' of the ittswee re-
turned by his Extelleatey,to General Budberg's Note,
On the subject of the operatiens at Copenhagen;
which answer containerlasot the most distant allusion
to Russian interferenepssas being a 'motive to those
opera! ions. The DiStsaisgi then goes on, aid /Or
the tinit .titne Russia 'mentioned •by the Right
Hon.? Secretary as constituting a great part of our
,danger. He says, that certain ennmerated circum-
. stances ". formed such -4 body of evidenee, not only,
of the designs of Buonaparte,s but ,of the. conni.
vane, if not of the participation, of Russia, that hiss
• Majesty-would have ,been wanting alike in what he,
owed so'his own dignity and. to. the security of his
. dominions, if he had, not taken tbie .moat
featua steps for breakityig Through. the Oripinatlon
that was collec.ting around him ; and it would LIB
been ithe,under such circumstances; to have waited
this consent et Russia, to tneasures calculated tCY it 4.•
pbt it danger of which Russia herseltformed so large'
.
-„a part." But there was no instructions try our Ain •
bassador to represent tot Russia herself the couse-
° tine:ices of her own eonuel, or. the mischief which.
bis .Majesty. apmhended tri his °Wei' deminioes,
from -her , submitting to the guidance of France.
Divalch proceeds ,to • state, " that his
Mijesty to pk,rfeefly - willing: that the pacifkation
with toe, I.:oert of Dent ark should be wholly the
work of the Emperor of `Russia.” The Emperor
,eies out two or three paragraphs be.
~,en described as' the;ehiof instigator of
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„a aainst Great Britain, and 'the great