The Sun.
London, England, 1801-02-21 00:00:00

'Proceedings of Wedneiday and Thursday lastdsaa.—r
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not-compelled us to dedicate the greater part of :V
our Paper of yesterday and the preceding day to 1
the report of them, we should not so long have :i
suffered the Treaty of Lune/Jill( to pass unnoticed. ':1
It is not necessary now to recapitulate the con.
-ditions of it, -as our• Readers -are-'alteltdr-impere.
session of them : our attention is rather direfied - -
to the spirit, to theobjeft to which it- tends, and
to the probable consequences of this Treaty, in
comparison with which thoSe of Aludster and
of litrabt must give place, though it will pro-
bably not be so durable as either of them,
Whoever •has 'read it attentively, must have
seen, that it has unhappily .realized the two Plans
which French Policy has invariably porsued•-sinoe '
the Campaign of 1;94, with restate to6ermany, ";..
and. since that of 1796, withtespeti ,to Italy..
The fait consisted in making triii;iu the corn. '
moo limit between Germany and France,- and in
'republicanizipg,• if possible, all the parts of tilt-
Empire on .the other side of the Rhiter.' .in- this
-objed, as faras ielates to the,Empitit, tharenoh
Governmeot-•hare completely succeeded; bur it
remains- to laeseen whether they will .be- shit to
realize the hopes with which the Treaty ofilasd
has inspired them, and whether Prtusia willconsent
to yield or to exchange her Provinces of Ulterior
Rhine, It is probable that the levelling Illicit
of the gepublicans will mite great efforts to {sir,
vail upon the. Monarch of that Country so to do,
ariet- wig entlereur
_to,provide that no put of the
Country betweett the Ocean and the Rhine, from
its source to its mouth, shall henceforth he sub.
jeet to the control'of :my Crowned Head.
Thelnans which the ViCtories of Bots'ApArrs
in 'sl96.illowed•France to entertain with respeet
to ,Italy, and which the Campaign of last year
'enabled that Min icinali4e, were to destroy the
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:preponderance of-Austria in Italy, and if possible
.even. to. eXclude her from it altogether, Local ..
`and political considerations did not, however, ..4
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suffer the Republic to turn this °Wed to her .ow(o
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profit, and it became' necessarY* to' Meditate the •,_!!_,
creation of new Poweri in Itali, who might be
eisentially intiresiedin keeping Austria for ever .
removed from that Country,- -Hence sprung the ~
CiSalpine and 'Ligurian ieptiblics : hence the
revolutionizing-of Piedmont, in ardor to prevent '7-1
-the Ici-N-1; of SARDINIA and Austria Vora even. .':..1
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tually uniting to overthrow and to swallow up ihe
rising Republics ; hence"tbe destruftion of an thil I
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Fortresses in Upper Italy,' that whatever event i
might happen, the French might easily penetroc•
and the Imperialists might be unable to,maintain
themselves there in case they should succeed in
becoming masters of that Country. It wgig with il
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view to retrIOVC the I,o66ibility of such an evert
to a still greater distance, rather than todiminish
the power of Austria, -that the course of t'hi 1
Adige, instead of that o' the Mimic, t has been
mark the line of her. Vtontk Ir. Had she pOssettei 1
the latter rivets, her Armies might hare Marched
towards 141=10lb-between the Lake of Garda
and the Po ; and *ioiirtrds I.ower traly by the '
lower part of that river. Driven beyond the ,
Adigc., they cannot advange either on the Oaf
side or the other without great clif&eultios,
and until after a sufficient length of time 0141 i
have elapsed toaibr4 the trench leisule to Orin
•= 14. I
-Cin 'the Mincie atetliet Lower - Psi. The Taisuttr
Or z,z,-1,- ;a,- iiii.T. tliiiio'ke not only titpchea.iiiis
Est? V ROO. of his in Italy, but hlis also
takeo from biro the lOeatis of Rearming thett,
and consequently Iteintirsd his influence, both
actual ,and - eventual, in that fine part -of Europe.
*Thus vaniiiv.theOtirupsests of Citatl.lo.l4 V. the
relies.eff. Alm...Spanish. Sueeeisloo, the acquisition;
made 'from the Honk of Savoy, the exchanges
made,..: by , IVIA.a IA To EaesA and the plans
funned by jOiEPH 11, and his two Summar!).
—Thus too has the Usurper of the Thron'tOf
the BOURBONS) inheriting the long and bloody
contest between that Hotise and Austria, decided
it in his own faVonr, and Republican France has
sitoceeded4 an 4 ' glories in having done, that,
which the Monarchy. of France never was in a
state -its .do, and which it would perhaps have
Ilushed to have done.
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The execution of this double plan for aggran-
dilirnent on one side of the Alps, and republi-
canizing on the other, 'is the main feature which
preSehtf itself in.. the Treaty of lusevine : it
has been the object, 'and it is the essential prin-
ciple. of it. In this manner is • the whole of an-
-tivnt Gaul, an 4 almost all the Empire of the
West,. thit is to say, the largest and the best
part
.of the Contitient of Europe, divided into
fii•e Republics, united under the yoke, more or
less stri&'of one air., and having before their
eye 4, only-rid Monarchies, either weak or hos-
tile one to at other,' ot, at least, divided in late.
rests and- inclieatient.. Such a result from 3160 b
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rears "mfr. is nnoloutttedlY calcvlatetlAerply