The Sun.
London, England, 1801-10-13 00:00:00

ORD E Rs have already been issued from the Admi-
ralty and Navy Offices, for the immediate paying off
of a considerabfe nuinber of Men of War. We cannot
but highly applaud the newsregulations frarnecay. the
Admiralty Board upon this occasion : The Seamen
are not to receivi all the Pay that is due to them
before their quittingitheir respective Ships, as for-
.
Me4y, but will be paid a small sum .to carry
them home, and be furnished with a Certficate
1
specifying the sum - due to ,each, the" amount of
which wilt be paid at their respective residences
:t , the Provincial Collator of Excise, Customs, or
"- axts. Thus the families of our gallant Tars-will
-
te greatly benefited, and the Public saved from the
scenes of riot and dissipations, with all their dread-
ful consequences, which a full discharge in the Sea.
Ports has always • heretofore 'imfcir:unately occa-
sioned.

We have seen, as we eßpeded, same objections
stated to 'the Terms of Peace. Never,. we believe,
was a Treaty yet concluded, on which there were
not many readyr to assert that more might, have
been obtained; and knowing well the Inconsistency
of our Opponents, we were prepared to find those
who were most clamorous for Peace—who have
,stated repeatedly that Terms were of little conse-
guence—the first to condemn whatever Terms were
made, in all the bitter reproaches of Jacobin In-
waive.

But many Misrepresentations, too flinisy to de-
ceive, pervade the statements of the Writers to
whom we allude. They chuse, to consider the War
which has just been concluded,. as a War volunta-
rily entered into on the part of this Country, and
undertaken, not for what we could save, but for
what we could/ obtain;' and then they gravely ask
us uhether we have procured•that which
_is, worth
all the treasure that has been lavished to obtain it !
They chuse to pass by all the unjUst'provocations
and aggressions with which the First Revolutionary
Governments of France insulted this Country-t—they
chuse to forget that BRISSOT thought War necessary
to the Revolution 'that lOBESPIERRE did not
think it less SO---.,that BARRAS and the Direaori
pursued it as if it had been commenced upon a fair
pretext—and that though BOWAPAR.I E offered to
' negotiate' for Peace the moment he had overturned
the DireEtory, yet lie sheaved at that time, by re-
fusing to treat with 'us jointly with our Allies, and
since by demanding an,
_Armistice, allowed. to be
disadvantageous to this Country, as the price even
of Negotiation, that he was not, at those periods,.
really desirous of Peace, upon terms fair and ho-
nourable to this Country—all these things these
Writers chase to forget—they chine to look upon
. the War as a common War, and, if we are to be-
lieve' them, prosecuted for the purpose of wresting
from our Enemy, by force of Arms, thoe acquisi-
tions which should repay the expence of the COrt.
test, Upon what other ground is it that they can
ask us whether Ceylon and Trinidada are worth the
Two Hundred and Fifty Millions-which they state
us to have spent in the War ? Upon what other
groundis it that they compare the Conquests which
France has retained,-with those which we have
'ke'pt ?-7---nnless they
.mean to, assert that it was per:.
!flitted to .us to have remained at Peace—and if
they mean to assert this, let us fairly canvas the
.Question—for if Trance would have left us and'our
'Allies *unmolested--if no danger was to be appre-
hended from the introchidion of Jacobinical Opi-
pions into this Country—if, in short, .we could
,have remaincd at Peaee,,--we shall then agree
_with
them' in many of their Conclusions. But the first
`step towards proving these thing. must be, to make
- us forget all that has passed since the commencement
of the French Revolution.
If Great Britain had -not been at War with
France, will these Writers pretend that 'the French
Army would the less hare invaded Belgium, or Hol-
-lan4 or S w tze land, cr Piedmont, or Lombardy,
or Italy ? pr that OisTAPARTE would the less-have
led his TroOps into.Tmt—and if not (omitting
every other a 1 of aggression), with what consist-
, ency are we told that we might have
.avoided the
mar Or with what justice is the Peace. 'con-
demned because -stance at the conclusion of the
War has acquired a larger extent-of Territory by it
than ,Great Britain?
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That with all the evils and miseries attending
the French Revolution, one of the effects of it ha.,
been to procure to France an increase of Possession,
gncl an apparent augmentation of Power,
)11; irzr an inflyence over other Nations, is cpr-
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flinly tree—but tje Goyernmen; of FraPPP is