The Sun.
London, England, 1806-04-24 00:00:00

dvantage to FraOce..

Her actions had much less pretensions to' the Chi-
raaer of impartiality. After haliing- permitted the
French Troops who seized 'on tlie --EleCtorate of
Ilanoi'er a passage through the Pinisian TerritorY,
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she declared herself ready tn oppose, sword in band,.
that which the Einperor of Ilugsia had demanded for
his Ai'mieS.• ' " ':'• • - • -• .

France herself foreM the passage = she pretended
to offer excuses for tfik step, but it was in a manner
equally offensive.

, She had seen tpp clearly where the resentment of
Prussia would terminate, width, in faEt, appeared to
be stifled WheiiAls Imperial. Majesty oti,ltusSia en-
gaged in a personal communication with the King.

Prussia then demanded Subsidies of Great raitain,.
Whiefi were promised to ber,-,and slit signed -the,
Convention of. Potzdam, iice,cqnditions of which site.
would, dotittless,. have teen nzore disposed to fit fl, if'.
1 corcfd have so far, fingotten my dllty,.as to consent

40 the proposition cedi tize Ei3ir7o' rale of //wore)-
fro —spike -
. . •
Prussi,a.affirms, .that. from the events of the War,'
she has not .had the choice•of means to secure the
safety.a its mooatci,y; sand of the States a: the
North. She wiSlAs to snake it 'appear that she: has
beentompelled to aggrandize herself; aad to become
. .
the instrument,-".rather than the objea; of 'the ven
geanee of my enemies.. •
Such an _avowal does net become a great Power.
All EUrope knows that it depended on Prussia,
be-
fore the battle of Austerlitz, to give repose to Europe;
if she had taken the part which her. real interests
atid the outraged-honour of her-Monarehy diaated
to her. She. can no lOnger be excused, after having
missed such.an opportunity; and even since the event
of the id December, did she' not command on army
of 250,000 men, W'ho still remember the viaories
, . .
it obtained undet the Great FREDERIC, Which %vas
in the best dispositiOnS, and Supf,orted by the whole
Russian army, two corps of which were •aEtually
der the command of the King of Prussia ? She
would, 'without doubt; have beeasubjea toi certain
risks; but she found herself in .a situation, when
every danger must be encountered, to save the honour
of the State. The Prince who hesitates in making
a choice, destroys the principle which serves as the
• basis of a Military Monarchy ; and Prussia ought
,already to begin to feel the sacrifice she has made of
her_indePendence:- ,
• • The Note- of; pril 4, affirms, " that 'France had
considered the Eleaorate as its conquist; and that
its troops had. been
,en the point of re-entering it,•to
make a 'definitive disposal of it." • •:,
The Eleaorate of Hanover; -as an integral part of
the'Germanic Empire,- is not concerned in the War
between Great Britain and Fran.ce ; neyertheless, it
fiasbeen unjustly invaded by that fhwer, Which has;
notwithstanding.; frequently-indicated the objea for
which. She was disposed to restore, it.
• France was at. length Compelled to abandon the
•
conatty,-and forty-thousand of my troops; and those
of my Allies, were established there, when- the Count
Dn Hieon-wirz. signed the Treaty whiCh disposes of
ray-States. - kis true, that the, Russian 'Corps Was"
then,af tiiediSposal Of-his Prussian Majesty; but its:
Chief, with the genuine :Spirit of an honourable mats,'
was not the less determined-to fight; if Allies of
his Master were attacked i we shall not speak of the
'French garrison which. emained at Hameln, insp-ifi-
Cleat in point of number, -deprived of the Means of
defence, and 'on the point Of being besleged;, Wlio
the prOmises of Prussia eaused'' the. plan to be abaci-
cloned. • •
The intetitioif of France to dispose:definitively of
the Electorate. would have been contrary 'to the as 7-.
sertion she his 'so-often- made. It wonld, moreover,
have beeti.Contrary. to the. usage .ail• War; since even
•a conquest is not,..definitii7ely disposed of before a
Peace; and•particularlY at a moment when a wish
-might exist to' manifest a pacific disposition.
Prussia had be right to, j udge if Great Britain had.
the mean of opposing the return of my Entrnies to
the Eleaorate. Her power furnishes- bet with the
••
meals of bringing the War to, ant Honourable end;
;1;foi-,the interests she-ilefendS;:but it is difficult to
conceive in what ,14.,:ht Prussia pyends that her
:measures- removed Troops that are strangers to the
`4leaorate, and ensured-the repose of the North. Her
Troops, .in consequence of-the treacherbus condua
of her Cabinet,. will remain as much strangers to the
Eleaorate as the French Troops.
- Prussia should not. speak of her sacrifices at the
moment when her only aim is•tO aggrandira ;herself,
unless she feels the loSs of her independenr,e to be
such, and how Much she has departed from her duty,
in abandoning one of the . oldestpesSessions'of her
Housei-and of subjeas who 'implored, -in vain, her
assistance. BesideS, her Sacrifices' have hO•conneXion
.With my'systetu of policy, and confer .no right on her
.to usurp `the Government: of my' German SUbjeCts,.
whose fidelity nothing , has hitherto- shaken;- and
w•hicb they will retain to-Nards my person, and .a
ta-
mily of Princes, who for many ages leave Only sought
their happiness.
It isevident that theicondna ofthe'Court- of Ber-'
lin is not the es pres.sion of the will of its SoVe-
reign; but the 'consequetice of the influence exercised
ky niy enemies lb the dabinet Of that Prince; All
the Courts; and all the States,' however,' who can
judge of cireutustinces,- and all that they owe to the
system adopted by the Court of Berlin,' will agree
that the aa temmitted against a• Sovereign .united to
his Ikussian.MajeSty.by the ties .of blood, and until
now by these. of friendship, places the :s.afety of
.Europe in greater danger than any act of hostility on
.the part of Power -with which one might be at
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'open war. • _ -
Convinced of the justice of my cat.te; I shake
.'appeal to all the Powers of EnrOpe, who afe.iiiterest-
• ,
-.•ecl in resisting the consolidatiOn of :t.systern, Which,
by threatening. the political -existenee of an integral
-pirtlof the German Empire, brings into question
the security of the whote, I demand, most -earnest-

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On the loth inst. 1. V. Hewlett, Esq. Surgeon of the
tgorth Devon Militia, to Miss Strode, of Newisilarn Parit,
Plympton, Devon.
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I)IJU

On Monday last, at his seat at Tatton Park,' Wm. Eger.
ton,:Esq, M. P.. for the County of Cheiter.
Lately, at Dublin, the Earl of Lanesbnrough. -•
On the gth inst. at his .house, Dover Place, Kent Road,
Captain David Mirrylces.