The Sun.
London, England, 1801-10-07 00:00:00

SHEERNESS, 0cr..6.

SAILED the Aim Armed Ship, and resuoe Gun-
brig , with a Convoy for the Elbe.
. _
The Ilecla has come into Harbour.

SUN-OFFICE,

HALT-PAST TWO O'CLOCK, P. M.

WE understand that an account has been receiv-
ed
by the Telegraph at Deal, of the Messenger
6 this forenoon landed at Dover with the Ra-
tat.ion of the Preliminaries of Peace. He may be
exPeaed in Town early in r,be evening.

Yesterday morning HER MAJESTY and PR r:;_.
EssEs, attended by Lady CATHCART, took an
airing in the sociable round by Virginia Water.
PRiNCESS AMELIA rode on horseback, attended
by Lady ALBINA CUMBERLAND.
Yesterday the Right Hon. the LORD. •MAYOR
I,,as waited upon at the Mansion-House by the
v!aster and Wardens of the Bakers' Company to set
j,ll, Assize of Bread ; the.. Mealweighers' returns
whg~examined by his Lordship, it appeared that
"eat had fallen as. 94. per quarter, and Flour
iqd. per sack, his Lordship therefore ordered
p tread to be lowered one assize, or zd. in the
Teeck h
Loaf, to take place to-morrow—the Quartern
'Oaf Will then be sold for is. id.'

It Would now be very curious to peruse the co.
I
of the Opposition Papers on the subjed of the
negotiation. Predictions were daily circulated by
the Writers in these respeliable vehicles of cOm.
Illunication, that the Negotiation 'would trot end in
leact—they were indeed quite certain what would be
the result—" it was set on foot," they said, " only
t° amuse the People,"—" to prepare the way for
the demand of larger .Stipplies for carrying on the
bvar,"—" there was no sincerity on either side,
ut certainly none on the part of our Ministers."
l'ubltcWith this jargon have these Men stunned the
for the last two months, and yet, from our
experience of them, we hardly expect that they
Dill fairly avow, that all they have written must
2i, e eeceived their Readers, if any credit was.
to what they said.—We think
,they should
3-et have the shame to
call this error; and. the grace
to make some apology for it. .
We rather expect, however, that these Men. Will
take a different line, more suited to their usual con,
dua and their true charader. Although they have
often asserted that Terms were of no consequence„
rovided' we could obtain Peace, we now see them
-violently objecting to the Terms Its inadequate, ;old
even as disgraceful.-7-We ate asked, with the usual
fairness of these Writers, whether-the ppssessions of
(:ey/or and Trinidada are worth all the Sums which.
have been expended during the War ? They chuse
oi.ther to forget or to deny that we were forced
into the Contest, and that We entered into it not
44/- 'what fah, had to acquire—but
_fir what we had
lo preserve. Indeed we cannot think these Men
\t.'4l rate very highly the preserVation of' our own
"Qlstitution, who have so often held up to our imi-
!'tiQn, the beautiful model which France
,has pre.
`l'ted to our view.

,411ut whatever may be hereafter the opinion of
Men, of the French Constitution 'of Govern-
ther't, we very much suspeta that the praises Which
sAY have so lavishly bestowed' on the Chief Con-
by decent dcgreci, be dropped, or, perhaps,
,on'rerted into something like censure—for lic has
peftlrhitted an unpardonable crime in concluding
4ee with any person but with the Idol of their
A !
--What such a Peke, made by such a Man,
ta°'!ld have. been—how much of French Republi-
qt%ni it would have included in it; or how much
qr-,.u.nglish Independence it would have sacrificed,
t.t:' thank God! questions which it is not now ne-
t:l,-I'4Y 'to consider. The Peace which has. been
e: founded upon those Principles on which
th.l-,nisters hive asserted, throughout the Contest,
,tl' they were .ready to conclude is a Peace
'stnt yith the litilependenoei the Honour, and
Se •
.• er.rtty of the Country,