The Sun.
London, England, 1808-11-09 00:00:00

COUINTTY of &-Takit.roßD.
or,. form of the as advertised
in the Staffordshire Paper of Saturday last, appearing
to be 'oath irre,;ular and unprecederued, and ,t being my opi-
uion, tint under such Requfsivon a real ftleeting of the
I.ceebolders cannot ne obtiincd, I; cu my part, enter my
'Prot-est against, and disavow any intention of attending a
Meeting so conven
Trentham, Nov. 4, 184

STAFFORD.

MANIFESTO TO EUROPE.

[Though the following admirable Manifesto has been some
weeks published, we cannot deny ourselves the pleasure of
laying before our Readers a produttion t,o crniv,ntly worthy
of universal attention.--1t is avowedly fr,,in the pen,of An-
ti:wit) Mord:,lla y Spotorno, of Carthagena.) •

Eighteen years of horrors, calamities, proscrip-
tions, and enormities of every species, have been
the bitter fruits of boasted liberty. A few selfish
and immoral individuals, profaning the name of li-
berty, suhjecled to their fatal system the French Eta-
" tion, • who have become the viCtims of a blind crea
• dulity. Liberty exists not but where religion flou-
rishes, and man fulfils ;he high destinies for which.
Ise has been created. LibertyM;ichis case ceases to
he -a mere nominal eaiaqiin4,l,tut?,bacome a source
of desolation. It is a 'sacfr,4-)aelive, and Christian
principle, that,raises Man .above all the calamities to
which he is exposed, io consequence of the original
transgression. Tutelary angel of '-he French em-
pire inspire me ! that I may give an impartial picture
of tae hero who governs 'it, and describe what he
is, and what Europe has to expe& of him.
Let us cast a veil over the low pedigree, the pro.-
blematical progenitors of Buonaparte, the desiroyer
of all social order, and 'the bitterest enemy of the
Christian name. Let us accompany him to Italy,
invested with the
.high dignity of Commander in
Chief, which he acquired by the most criminal con-
descension. His arrival . was preceded by a Multi-
plicity of seditious publications, which were eagerly
applauded by the unthinking populace, ever fond
of novelty. • Tremble, fair Italy,' nebit 'fertile portion
of Europe, chosen mansion of Cerei and Pomona!
Napoleon comes to regenerate thee—under this pre-
, tence deposing thy Sovereigns, overturning thy laws,
pillaging thy rich sanduaries, converting into deserts
many of thy provinces, and plunging into ruin an
hundred thousand' opulent families—his avarice
sparing neither Rome, nor the Vicar of Jesus Christ
—the Ministers of Religion persecuted, and left
without offering or altar—the: Sacred
.Virgin,
Lamb's Bride, - ; but here let my pen stop,
nor transmit the' horrid deed to posterity. Rejoice,
Buonaparte, in beholding the efforts of
,your san-
guinary operations.
Swiftly speed your course to Egypt. Plunder,
massacre, and poison its peaceful inhabitants. At-
tire yourself as a Mussuhnan, more easily to deceive
them. Indulge yourself in the exercise of the most
atrocious despotism ; the avenging sword of the Su-
preme Being is yet suspended over yonihead. The
sacrifice was not then consumed; -tbt'so it was de-
creed. The measure of yoUriniqtiliies was not, yet
full. You had still many innocent beings to destroy,
many loyal nations to overthrow.
You fled from those burning regions, contaminated
with your misdeeds, arrived in France, and presented
yourself before the Diredory. You succeeded in in-
timidating them with false alarms, destroyed their
executive power, dispersed the representative coun-
cils of national freedom, and was elevated by your
fellow conspirators to the Consular dignity. Your
ambinen was still unsatisfied. You aspired to de-
corate yourself with the perpetual Consulship, assert-
ing it to be the free gift of the nation over which
you tpannize. It was your satellites and poigtiiards
that procured for you a dishonourable majority.
You had eserted yourself to destroy the founda-
tions of the British Constitution e huoyour perfidious
instigations were listened to only in -a sthell comer
of pacific Ireland. And what was the result ? Pros
scriptious, desolation, and eternal hatred to your •
name and race.
With the :same infernal fury, the same perfidious
policy, you proceeded to disunite anel dissever tlm
antient and renowned- Ernpre - of Germany ; to
abolish its laws, expel or corrupt its Electors, and to
dissolve its august Legislative Assemblies, -whichen-
lighteeed and adorned so many corinnunities by 'the
sanctity of their decrees.
You now aspired to encircle your brow with the
Imperial diadem. A small number of Frenchmen
consented to your elevation to the Throne.. You
were anointed by timidity and weakness. That au-
gust ceremony was condaded with a studied magni-
lscence, The most servile adulation decorated the
scene. But you were proclaimed only by a petty
herd of partisans; the majority of tht.Great Nation
4etested the whole of the transattion. Tyrant, how
many tell victims to raw cruelty:, foreestchnining
against so unparalleled an usurpatitnaiaede
erselt the head of a fam44/4.0 ,),,ertn never
happy, you resoissedow false-your faro-
s zest) to the possession of crowns and sceptres.
pureose,. all the resources of the blackest II
V. tr.:: put in motion ; and wider the. specious
!we ut I.4.•enciAlor of the Nations, and' by the
se:lW! cut your arms, you usurped Irons the august
in.posse,s 'the rights of many centuries,
eite t kiiionoms ut their ancestors ; and compelled
the pcop.e to pay obedience to men who were in-
ficitely distdut trolls any dein) to such 5:1te551011,,
ilaVr' Naples, Milan, Florseice, Holland', so much
•

degenerated from that spirit ut Fuerty 01 which they
were formerly so proud ? Are, r.}-4 to such a
siiite of degri,dat.on, a 4 to •'.iicktidNte for So-
, vereigos men alike Oeßitn:e ' of. reii:ill?ri a.nLI every
pritlc:ple of holiour and morality ?
nzpids, Cosmos, Leopoldi, and Alcuirices, arise from
the dead 1 Co..t a momentilly glaticsj over the na-
tions Whom ycra happy ; compare what they
then %%ere voh what thq pow are, and descend
again for ever to your tomb, !
Venetians, Pisaos, Ligarlaos, either the ac-
counts which we read of your achievements in de-
fence of liberty are apocrypll,ll, yr you Kaye so de-
snerated as to L- cotter un worthy of a place in the
o.palogue of free ;tae.. A w.:lte frocnyour lethargy!
'What remains tor you to lose ?
Descendants of the immortal Willi, inhabitants of
the United State, of trerica ! peter was the union
of every heart and hand among you so necessary as
it the reent motnet,t, when Buonaparte, the Prince
of DiscOrd, ti; declared enemy -ot your independ-
onoe; has sworn the destru6tion of every free people.
Let'your personal and party quarrels cease ;, combine
el your energies against the ccmnion enemy of. att.:.