The Sun.
London, England, 1806-10-22 00:00:00

MILITABY TOUR.

HYTEIE.—Some very important 'works, for the
better proteaion of the town, on a scale of vast ex-
tent and magnitude, have been construing at this.
place for a great length of time. They are already
in a state of tolerable tOrwardness, and, when com-
•pleted, wilt et-Teat-rally insure us from all future alarm
06n the score of invasion. To convey a faint idea of
the judicious measures which are now adopting,
_it
may not be unnecessary to.describe, for the benefit of
'thole who are unacquainted with the town, the man-
Ti'tr in which it is built and situated. The cliff
breaks away, Or beginS to fall back, about Sandgate.
The holges here' are nearly a mile from the shore,.
having before them an immense bed•of beach, which
extends for a considerable distance, and fo:ms a vast
plain of loose shingle. , This seems to prove, that the
Meal recedes from some parts of our Coast; in the
same degree, perhaps, that it trespasses-on others.—
Thus, tor, several miles to the .westward, -are we to-
tally undefended by nature ; to supply which ,defect
we. have-predently, of late, had recourse to art.--
Where Albion's proud turrets a& as a bulwark, we
gave little occasion for•further security—but, where
the Coast is • exposed and accessible, it hecomes ex-
pedient to adopt the, best possible means that Can be
resorted to for its safety and defence. Three batte-
ries 'are erected .on the beach; in front of the town,
at such distances as 'breach to cross the range of the
ether's shot: -Thes4rts, whiCh are called Tots,
Ea Airiland, and Moncrieffe, after the names of the .
Ebgineers, who projetled them; arc mounted with
several 'Pieees, Of heavy • artillefy, and are capable
f containing two Companies each. In addition to
iheso batteries; and betweeh them, are ere&ed some
Martell() Towers, of precisely the same dimensions
-With those to the Eastward of Folkstdne. A mill,
tart''canal has likewise been recently cut, extending
all through Roinney marshes, and forming a juntaion
Irlith the harhour of Rye,, Withinside of the canal
is formed a new road ; both of which run parallel
-With the town, but between it and the, sea. In
the eVent„ therefore, of the Enemy's having effe&ed
a landing, 'he -Would be completely cut off from
the town and the inferior. These are the principal
measures of defence, of which this 'is but a sorry
and inaccurate -description. ,It may be sufficient,
however, to 'furnish the intelligent mind with some'.
vague end imperfe& ideas on the subje6l. The
Earl of MOIRA has taken a house in the neighbour-
hOod, for, the purpose of occasionally inspe&ing the
wnrkti that are earl-prig oh. The second battalion
Of the 43d occupy the Barracks, with . the Radnor
Militia. 'The, Forts along the shore laregarrisoned
by-detachments, and the men employed on the for-
tifications are drafted front the diffitrent .Regi-
Meats rcitind abdut.

kr. I'ol3ll4'S manuscript Play df The Fdui Tale,
is; it is said, withdrawn from Drury-lane Theatre,
a 4 it .was thought to bear too hard on the manners
43,f_the fashionable world. It is a, pity that
,a good
&atria has been withdrawn, and particularly on this
ground, as it must be acknowledged that what is
deerned fashionable hfe Stands too much in need of
a corre&ive. • .

A new Musical Piece, from the pen .of Mr.
DIMOND, jun.' it.c to be soon brought fon)varci at
Covent-Garden Theatre. The poetical and' dra-
matic powers of this Gentleman have been before
exerted with merited success.

The late Bishop of ST.‘AsAin had for some time
baore he died adopted a rigid plan of ceconomy; in
order to liquidate Many pecuniary burthens which
had been brought upon him by the thoughtless iin-
providence of a 'near relation.' If the venerable Pre-
late had lived a fewyears longer he would have en-
joyed an annual income. of .700a1—by the Operation
6: his prudent measures.
The Jack Tar,..M`Pitißso?4, arrived at Bantry,
B4y, sailed from Savannah-la-Mar the 6th 'of Au-
gust. Hii Majesty's Ship Lark escorted her.out of
sight.of the Island. On the 13th got instructions
from his Majesty's Ship Snake, from Honduras, with
helve Sail in company. On the nth, in lat. 33.
I6ng. 75. fell in with the wreck of: the Nutivell;
which_ had sprung a leak, and was disniasted
learnt froth her crew that the Exeter, S'M ELLIE;
Sally, WILLIAMS, and another, name .unknown;
had foundered in the gale ; Captain Bmiwg and
part of the' crew drowned. . Same day, part of
the . Snake's Convoy
*picked up the C'overdale's
launch ; saw a number of spars, chests, &c. float-
ing about.

Yesterday Arthur Bruce and Themas Ashby stood
-fn the pillory in East Smithfield. They were con-
vi&ed of having defrauded several tradeSmen of a
large quantity of goods, under false ,pretences ; the'
one passing for a merchant, the other for a Captain,
and disposing, of the property at an inferior-price.—
After standing the usual time, they were condliaed
back to the 'House of Correaion, to undergo the
remainder of their sentence. They were meanly
dressed in-jackets and: trowsers. A ,great,,number
of. persons assembled on the occasion.
SAORILEop.—The Parish Church of Dorking; in
Surrey, has 15.'en broke open, and all the ofAciating
Minister's Canonicals taken aivay:, fortunately, the
viliains did not find where the communion plate was
fleviAited,

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A71.17'E, S
D 1 MS PRUSSIAN, MAiLsTy.

. - . .
Conti hued from the words—" Make his own security and
that of his neighbours :his first objc:et." ' - ‘_

The French Emperor propased to Count HAUG-
WITZ a Treaty, in which was stipuldtecl on the one
side, a mutual guarantee ofpossessions, the inviola-
bility of the Turkish territory, and the results of the
Peace of Presburgh ; .and on the other, the taking
possession of Hanover by Frugsia in return for the
cession of three Provinces.
The first part of this Treaty promised, at least, for
the future, an acknowledged, guaranteed, and, if

NAPOI4ON had so pleased, a firm political Constitu-

tion. The results of the Peace of Presburgh were a
general misfortune to Europe; but Prussia sacrificed'
herself alone when she accepted them ; and, to
place alimit to the incessant usurpations of France,
should the Treaty he considered by
.the Court of St.
Cloud as any thing more than words, appeared an
advantage. The King therefore ratified this article
unconditionally.
' The second half of the Treaty of Vienna related
to an obje&, the importance:of which had been ma-
nifested by serious experience. Prussia could not
rely on security'for a moment so long as Hanover
remained involved in a War in whiCh that Coun- I
try had, in rata, no concern; At whatever .price it

might be purchased, Prussia was resolved that the

French should not. return thither. She had her
choice to obtain this end either by a Treaty or' a
War. The cession of three Provinces, which had
been faithiltLand happy for a long series of years
was a sacrifice not to be made for any plan of vain
ambition.; but these Provinces, in case of a War,
would have been the first sufferers : ail the cala,
mities of that War would have pressed upon the M-
onarchy, while the' acquisition of Hanover,scould it
have been made under less unhappy circumstances,
would have been produBtive of the most valuable ad
vantages to Prussia.

The King, therefore, conceived that he recon-
ciled his wishes with Itis principles - when he ac-
cepted the proposed exchange, only under the con-
ditio9, that the fulfilment of the smile should be de-
ferred till the. General Peace, and that the consent of
His Majesty the King of Great Britain should be'
obtained.

All the advantages of this Treaty were for France.
On .the one side she received guarantees 'which put
the seal on her conquests ; on the other, she gave
what she did not possess, what. might be again con-
quered by the chances of an uncertain War, while in
the cessions of Prussia she found the means of en-
riching her Allies..

• But between a policy which will do every thing
in its, power, and an integrity which regards its du-,
ties, and especially its promises, the contest is ever
Unequal. The King approached the moment when
he was convinced of this' by experience : this mo-
ment was the most painful of his reign.,
,It was in the power of France to reje& the modifi-
cations under which the King had confirmed the
Treaty, if she did not approve therii. But she
avoided.. doing this ; for the whole Prussian Army
was still under arms. She continued to be lavish of
assurances of friendship—she fulfilled the Treaty as
far as it suited her; but when His Majesty wished.
to reap the only advantages which he had proposed
to himself from the late Negotiations, and which
was nearest his heart, she suddenly altered her lan-
gdage—the modifications added to the Treaty of
Vielina Were' now rejeEted at Paris. Endeavours
were Made, to force Prtissia into the most injurious
Measures ; and wfien Cdunt HauowiTt, who vas
at Paris, remonstrated against this, the micondi-
tiOnal fulfilment of tbe Tmity was hauggtili in-
sisted on, as were the immediate cession of the
three Provinces, and
_the recall ,of the Patent by
which the occupation of Hanover was declared
provisional. 'Prtissta was required to resign a Bart
of the advaltages stipulated, and to shut her
Ports against the British Flag in the same MariL,
ner as if the French had relutted into the:Elec.;
torate. •

' The King at length was perfe&ly co'n'vinced of
the true Charkter of. the friendship of the Eth-
peror of the French—a soporific draught -.for a
Power which still 'feels
.its own strength ; an in-
strurnent of degradation, and' finally of subjedion,‘
to every Power which no longer possesses strength.
In the Mean time NAP.OI.3OIsI was in possession •of.
every advantage. The Russian Arms, had returned ;
his own, after some movements of, no consequence,
at which deceived Germany prematurely rejoiced,
On some frivolons pretences; established itself on this
side the Rhine. The first conflia might produce
misfortunes: War; which is not; under aif circum-
stances, the greatest of evils, might become such
under those then existing. The King deterinined to
continue the part he
.had
.hitherto acted for some
time longer. Wishing to. preserve bil force, now
More than ever necessary to Eurdpe, and at least to
secure the tranquillity of the North, be confirmed the
new Treaty/ Gernfidehee, however; 4.c.a3 tacnv utter,

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•
Paussia vaaS
_Convinced, that on 0/ first had eiPeaqed that Ciiiini;;sOcUred by the stipta-
opportunity: to iieaken. her' will ait daner, she 1 lations of Prussia and France, should be satisfied.—
.
might -expeft an attack from her pretended Ally-; The Batavian Republic been willing to slat. r
convinced that there is afdegtee of ambition which into-an accemmodation•L :o but the. Enat-or Na
. . .
nothing can satisfy, which proceeds without inter- LEON .forbad, it. Neither the recolleelien of t:is
mission
.from usurpation to usurpation, sometimes' circumstance, nor the . consi-leration of the ties :£
without a plan, but ever intent on destruetion ; care- blood which united-: his Majesty to
.the Prince, nor
less of the choice of means, and empl6ying alike the declaration, twenty times repeated, that the King
arms and the pen, Violence and oaths. .But even could rot deart tt e rights. of ills
.bl-other-in-la;V,
with thisconviaion, so great is 'the unfortunate su- could prevent Its being added to the heaP of V:16111133.
peridrity Obtained by such policy over those, wh6 He was the first who was deprived of his paternal
Wish only to be just, the King fulfilled all the con- proiSerty.. Eight days' before he 'had -received lorri
ditions of the Treaty with the puneluality of a faith- the Emperor a letter, condoling- -With him, in the.
lb! Ally. It is known what the consequences were customary forms, on- the death of his 'lathe!, and
with respect to the connexions of his Majesty with Wishing liiin.joY on 'his undisturbed succession t
England., France gained nothing by this, but she the States of his House. None of these circum-
'triumphed in secret at the thought of having dis- stances are UnimPortaiit ; eaCh'throwsP.a light on the
united the two Courts, the union of which might whOle.
have been dangerous to her; and what, in the view Clevii-had been, allotted to Prince IVluaaTa--;
of- France, -gave the principal value to bet' alliance Scarcely become a Sovereign, he wished likewise to
with the King was, that this alliance isolated, his be a conqueror.' His troops took
.possession of the
Majesty, since it produced an opinion that Prussia t Abbeys of Essen; Werdena and Elten; under the
Was -a participator in the cause of so many misfor- preteit that they appertained to the Duchv of
tunes'. But not content with this, we shall Soon see► CleveS, though they were entirely 'territories newly
in wbat manner the politics of France, 'assured 1 acquired, and there was not the shade* of a con.
that she had now no enemy to fear, belieVing :that nexion between them and the ceded Provinces.—
she had annihilated Austria, forming a judgment of Great labour was eniployed iri s to give even a
Russia with equal ignorance and rashnesS, and colonr to this-outi-.age. -Wesel was to -belong to the
blinded by the 'apparent tranquillity of Prussia, at new Duke, not to the Emperor NAPOLEON-tht:
length threw off the mask, and despising forms, King bad never resolved to give, up the last fortrss
which she had hitherto sometimes respeaed;openlY i on the Rhine into the power of France. Without a
trampled on all-Treaties, and all rights.; three months i word byway of eXplanation; Wesel was annexed to
after the signing of the Treaty with Prussia all its a French Department.
articles were violated. . (To be- Coddadad to-morrow):
The, Treaty had for its basis the status quo of the
moment in which it was concluded ; also the gua-
rantee of the German EMpire and its States, accord-
ing to the Constitution then established. This truth
arises not only from the nature of things ; the Treaty
had also expressly prescribed to the two Powers
their duties. The relations in which the .Peace of
Presburgh had left his ,Majesty the Emperor of
AuStria were guaranteed to him, consequently also
the Imperial Crown of Germany and the rights con-
netled with it. The'existence of Bavaria, ani con-
sequently the relations. which had conne&ed it for

?y-lost.

IRELAND.

Corte, OCT. bare been issued frO-ri
Government to the Collectors of the respective ports
of this kingdom, to report.-upon the state of Pilotage
in the adjacent harbours, and to communicate, after
due inquiry, what improvements may be made in it.
It is intended by the AdministratiOn to establish a
superintending Institution over the pilotage of the
Irish Coast in this City; which is to be connected
with the Trinity.llouse in London, and to exercise
an authority in matters of pilotage StibOrdinato. to
'that important establishMent.
We regret that we have to relate ail uriptetedent,
ed instance of.misguided ferocity. TWo clans, Li
factions, as. they are called, living in the parish of
Ballivouritoy, in' this county, having disagreed up-
on some subjed or other; determined upon decid,
ing the misunderstanding by a battle, in which
.each
party was to bring whatever, strength they could col-
le& into the. field. The day of the engagement wag
appointed to he last Sunday se'nnight, and their de.;
termination Was not .a di ttei of secrecy in the neigh.z
bpi-01100a. On that day they met; and in the pre,;
paration for action several stand of arms were added
to pistols, swords, scythes, sticks, &o. It emu-.
menced A break of day, and continued, •withoUt
the parties closing, until the principal part' upon
each side were wounded and disabled. The one
party had 'the superiority, in number, but were-yt
greater stifferers.than their. adversaries ; for the
other, as it is stated to us, procured as an auxiliary,
a soldier, who Was: a deserter, whose services they
purchased for two guineas ; and this man; resting
his piece, upon a bank, unerringly brought down the
man he aimed at,' and he was generally polnied out
to him for his strength or resolution. 'ln this brutal'
conflid twenty people were wounded, many, of
whom were yesterday despaired of. The ferocity
wilb 'which each party maintained their, ground-,
contempt Of destruaion, was extraordinary.

so many centuries to the Empire, were likewise con-
firmed by the same common
,glirantee. Three
mont.4. after, the Confederation of the Rhine over-
threw the Germanic Constituticrilideprived theEtn-
peror of the antient ornament of his House, and
placed Bavaria, and thirty other Princes, under the
tutelage of France.-7,Bnt-it is necessary to. appeal lb
Treaties to form a judgment of this extraordinary
event. Prevjous to all Treaties nations have their
rights, and had- not France, sported with the sanc-
tity of an oath, this a& of unexampled. despotism
would exasperate every mind. To deprive Princes
who had never offended France, and to render.them
the vassals Of others, themselves the .vassals of the
French Government—to abolish With a stroke
.0f- a
pen a Constitution df a thousand years dUration,which•
long habit, the remembrance of so many illustrious
periods, and so many. variotis and mutual relations
had rendered, dear to such a number of Princes,.
which had so often been guaranteed by all the Eu-
ropean Powers, .and even by France herself—to lay
contributions on the cities and towns in the midst of
profound peace, and leave the new po3sessors only att.
exhausted skeleton—to abolish • this eonstitutio4
without consulting the Emperor of Germany, froni
whom,a crown was Wrested----nr:AUSia, so lately be-
Come the Guarantee of the German League—or
Prussia, intimately interested in that, League, thus
arbitrarily dissOlvedNo—wars and -Continued:vic-
tories have sometimes produced great and remark-
able catastrophes, but such an example in time 'of
peace was never before given to thti world..

The King commiserated the unfortunate Princes
who suffered by these transa6tions, but he pitied not
less those who had suffered themselves to be lord.
by the hope of gain, and he would reproach himself;
should he increase their unhappinessby judging them
with•toO great severity. Deluded by the reward of
their compliance, probably forced to obey comniands
which admitted of no oppdsition, or, if surpriSed
into consent, Sufficiently punished by their acquisi
tions, and by being reduced to a state of vassalage
as harsh and degrading as their former relations were
b6nourable, they deserve not to be treated by Ger-
many with the utmost rigonr. Perhap3; when the
'Magnanimous nation,
.to which they formerly be-
laged; arises round thern on every slue tdedatend
for their independence; they may listen to the voice
of gratitude and honour, and at least abhor Oieir
chains, •v:heri they find tlierthuSt be Stained the
blood•of their brethren.''

It was not enough that these despotic As Were
immediately injurious ,to Prusia. The Emperor of
FranCe was intent On rendering them sensible to the
person of the King in all his allied Stites. The exist-
ence of the Prince of Ortlge was under the cOmmofi
guarantee of the two Pover.l, for the King had ac-
knowledged the political changes in Holland only
Linder this condition for several you: This Priuc4