The Sun.
London, England, 1814-12-28 00:00:00

LONDON,

WEDNESDAY,. DECEMBER 28, 1814.

The Treaty with America, for Peace we cannot
yet call it, forms almost the, sole subject of poli-
tical cogitation and discussion.- Never did there
exist so great a difference and diversity of opinion
every. man seems to have his, own theory, and
though, no one either wholly "approlies or, wholly
condemns this measure,, so neither is there
any one who does not partially do both.—
There certainly does exist in the:Country a strong
feeling of regret, that the unprovoked aggression
of the. Enemy has
,not been more signally and se-
verely pUnished before he was permitted to march
out of the contest with what his • vanity and arro-
gance will doubtleSslydisplay as flying-colours. On
the other side there is a Well-founded argument that
very solid advantages have been reaped by the
conclusion of this wasting and useless war--ad-
vantages which it would have been grossly imp—
litic and unwise to sacrifice to fear, least the ad.-
versary should exhibit his customary vain-glorious
boasting and ridiculous egotism on the occasion.
Those who call themselves Statesmen, say, " a
real, substantial, important; national good has
been gained—would you have thrown it away, be-
cause the Americans may exult in the comparative
triumph with which they have escaped ?" The
question is thus reduced between the gratification
of a vindictive feeling, at a cost which the country
could ill endure., aNd the not dishonourable sur-
render of that feeling for a great and permanent.
public benefit.. •

Those who delight to exaggerate this plain case,
may talk of naval disgraces, of the trident being
withdrawn from Britain .to be placed in the grasp
of laurelled RODGELS, and similar stuff; but were
they called upon to particularize these disgraces,
Bi.c, it would gravel them exceedingly. True it is,
that we could have wished the li,:ierny bad been

less Succes-ful with .Lis piiraterrs, and in ,t.. 0
actions, where a superiority of force has enabled
him to sink or capture British ships of war; but
in the' whole list cf these encounters, there is not
one fair subject fur triumph on the one side, or a
sense of disgrace upon the other.

While occupied with' the more momentous. la
'hours which demanded all their diligence, and the
employment of all the, resources of the Country to
bring the war in, Europe to its glorious termina-
tion, Ministers may well be excused for having
confined their exertions on the other side of the
•
Atlantic to defensive operations. So soon as the
Treaty pf Paris released a portion of our force
upon the Continent, time utmost expedition was
used to transport the Conquerors of the Garinue
to the banks of the St. Lawrence. Persons who
imagine' that such things can be done with a
.wish,.are little versed in the actual history of those
details which are necessary to fit not only com-
plete regiments but even individuals for a,service
so different .as.that which .existed between the
South of. France and the North of America.—
`What Ministers.did achieve in this respect at the
close of a most protracted, expensive, and obsti-
nate war, would have been viewed with astonish-
ment at any other era of our History. But our
_political .FGrtuaotusse,Y make nothing of requiring
•
The conditions of the agreement,at Ghent being
yet very imperfectly understood, we shall not, en-
ter into any remarks upon the points which are
known generally-to he decided. What has been
waved is so material, what ha been settled is so
trling, and what has been referred to future ad-
justment is so much of the essence of all that-
was is dispute, that we are not surprised our
Correspondent at Ghent, On the preceding Satur-
:day, should have thought this a continuance of the
War, rather than the conclusion of a Peace. Whe-
ther he was misinformed as to- the rupture of the
negociations, or whether only one week before
this document was signed it was a question whether
a Commissioner left on either side would not be
as efficient a measure, remains to be ascertained.'
Of course our Informant was not one of the Ne-
gociators ; and we are convinced that what he
stated to us was of the next best description, and
that on Saturday the 17th afLtirs bore the appear-
ance stated in this .Paper on Thurs-darlast.
It has been thOught that Mr. Momtot's Letter
is at variance with the act of the Commissioners
at Ghent ; but it is absurd to raise any argument
upon the mere tone either of State papers or State
pretensions.. They are .used for the' purposes of
the hour, and may very naturally differ in tone in
America and Europe without having any real dif-
,ferenee as to.the object contemplated.

The contents of the French Papers to the 26th,
of Frankfort Papers to the 25th, and of Brussels
Papers to the 20th and 21st, will be found in our
•
preceding columns : they offer no news deserv-
ing of special notice.

The language which has been used in the French
Journals, and adopted by some of those printed in
England, respecting the Netherlands, must either
be founded upon a complete ignorance of the his-
tory of that part of Europe, or upon a wilful per-
version of the knowledge which they may posi'ess.
From the arguments of the French writers, one
would be led to suppose that the Netherlands
formed an integral part of France, and_ that
it is an act of injustice -and oppression to-sever
them from that Empire: . In Order. to meet pre-
tensions so unjust, not to say absurd,. it may not
be out of place to take a short review of the His-
tory of that Country. The Netherlands, neither,
in ancient nor in modern tithes, ever belonged to
France,-except at.the periods and under the cir-
cumstances which we shall mention. That France
has always been anxious to obtain them is true;
. -
but the only.time she had an opportunity of accom-
plishing this cherished object, she last it by the folly
or the violence of her own Sovereign. The writers
and politicians of France
.have always pathetically.
lamented that solecism. in politicks committed
by Louis XI. when he. suffered that valuable ter-
ritory to be transferred to Maxim' LLIAN of Germa-
ny; instead of annexing it to France, byluniting his
son, the Dauphin, to the Heiress of CHARLES the
Bold, Duke of Burgundy, to whom it belonged. By
the marriage of MAXLMILLIAN to the daughter
of the Duke of 4HUGUNDY,. these rich provinces
became vested in his family, and :from bins de7
wended to his son Pit SLIP, and his grandson, the
celebrated CHARLES V., .from whom they again,
descended to his sort PHILIP 11. of Spain. The
tyranny, both civil and religious of that Prince, led
to the Revolution so celebrated in, History, by
which that part of the Netherlands now known
by the name of the Seven United.,Provinces,
were severed from his Crown. The remainder
continued a• part of • the Dominions of the
Spanish 'Monarchy. Latns XIV. who coveted the

lU ok °if°
ovcl rigniy Of Europe, Ticit 1e045'
indifference to the possessions of the Nei
00 bl
'and a small part of that territory, 'ffi'w 1:11 lite"il
the name
of French Fhinders, was by )
to France. In the succession war of Qi;"- isas
all that part now called Austrian F.and.ersio.Es
also takenfrom Spain, and traltsfel red ti)C,l4t:tlie
Germany, and remained gtPehea
Otivii
Austrian Empire till the War of lbe jcp:: .o"t`.
It is true, that io the ;val• which was 1114 S,
by the Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle' ittbefiv
France carried on the ‘,..-arsticcessfollY fisir
v
therlands, but they were all resu'ret-i t4):::cf
perort
by that treaty, at least-ail that Par be br
at now-form an object •of dispute` is ol°
i ginning of the Revolution Vijar, the defe3c 0
i 10
'rince of COBOURG Gen . 111FArr (iirr° 0011'
again into thepower of France, by tilci:!(l'pirei
t" mi were united by a decree to the Freacil ").eftv
but that decree could. no more bind the rest
the
er sir e dr
rope than the decree of -Cnaai..ss
Sovereign, by which these Provinces olOt
dared to be for ever inseparable.
ground then, we may ask,
claims Upon the riglit•of conquest ! nut he' tltilt
surely be a hardy disputant who a°t0111•05/
the right which has been odobuttlilnlhe:"liic„:;:scht
riot be lost by do feat.—What ticit"
urge to the Netherlands, that she
Piet;
ipi
equal justice advance to. Holland, to . TIA
Hantburgh,to to Bremen, or to Pant's- tiP
advocatesi of
_France say she Can ceeet-0114
ienever she pleases, but surely to assert t..,,t116
balance
the power when she pleases to destr°'erov
• ance of Europe, is not the most CO
ment that could be used to induce the -1:1
augment her strength.—As a Military
reef
rope alreadyknows that herphysical
nno(civalsiaardNlyavcaoluott,ibbleer wpoiirlitts iluretrce;:;slo,o°:a,
the Ocean, and hi the Mediterranean)
l
dent for any Sovereign, whose viewsalre'
d 111/
tothe security and commercial prosPeritio o 4
subjects,
and whose ambition does 10t
him to Make France' the mistress of tbiet'
ment, instead of being what she 0603,
and always will be, a '. powerful. andiatiov
. _ •

Member of the European ConuitunilY'

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duplicate copy of the. Treat y of re- go'
'between Great Britain and th' 0
,Stalteea'
front,Stateson l t
the
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sAenctreertiacia.
y.,, 0 1
•Dispatches for Amer' t .-
a
• oviil4,
• last „iii
to be forwarded iuim
sel, which; -front the -wind ,b'ein.;l;vo4ll-
- this. day. •
e,tetilAllo4,,
'he Duke of YORK held a Levee Pi-A, o'''' 011
ltiiiisillOffice as Comthander- in-Chief, wl"- be t)i,
ily -attended i. the following beiOg tat"
General Officers who- were - ----61- 1
CONVE L L , BEAT S 0 N , qiili (aCisTRI(Vb)e-itEefeNi Ce.sfrfe(:.re-113'4it'iltbfl'if'.5Clii‘°
Yesterday the LORD CHANCELLOg tilde rilf;fis
_of LIVERPOOL had long audiences of l'4-0,11)"
REGENT, at Carlton House. Visconar --,,,.5
~l,
had-also an audience of hiS•RoVal iliglll4,-I;tiu 01
I.Ve have' (says a- Morning Paper) mwi.'.;ilPoli
state, -that notwithstanding the coge:(10,0)
preace with America, Lieut.-General '''. hisic-0
RE.VOST will demand a Court Martial '34.40c1it.
duct, immediately on his arrival in Martial
tie(
consequence of the char-4-e . preferred 3f''': I le-ttiO
by Commodore Sir J. YEO in his oflic'A't 0 -
to the Board of Admiralty, as pliblisbe'.
$'
Landon- Gazette. n cf i i
-... It is said, that two vessels will sail, ('-ociP
fec'llif
lifax, and the other for the-Cltesapeake Of iie'
Admiral HALLowELL is arrived ill t° ifitrile
has received notice from the Judge Ad`ii°gc G''
Feral,tiactol to givesi.) hjs evidence at the eou'l7 4)1
01). v
ti ' tlie4.l,y l'P
consequence of the severity or
several of the Mails did not arrive Yestel‘. I,
several hours after their usual time. sere,
The Earl and Countess of LorEarn°,,.; G_,,"(V
night• in the Duke of YonK's 80% 1.- A ir'°,4ol
garden Theatre. We were ulgul to toll'see °-,i'df
man, whose mind is constantly and Loci'
pied its the service Of his country, able
.10
0, e
some relaxation from his toils. 001 01
BRIGHTON, DEC. 26.—There now re lb pf
1 orl i '
doubt of our being. again honoure"fgailles .
PRINCE REGENT'S royal presence, ilt . c'
k 10e0j1
New Year's-day.
sartlulredaaynnetvtaelniCnshriasttmoaas-afaeisltdisitite7csit:6os(
,10.:
eve. het.° 7,
.
A list Of the criminal causes brougl" ,iv, i'i(er
thefts,
of Assize in Paris during rills Yee-314 `V
their nainher amount to 358 ; of whic'.l/1 ll,,tilti
lent
e s
' and 2 rapes.
button-maker, at PariS, found goliltY( lioeiVh
6 assassinatioooo'e
,noetto:3,ol;
tempt to violate the person of a _girl a' ',.,1,9 '; 21
of age, has been condemned to `2O P':. p vi Pr
labour, and 3000 Fr. for the insPcctit'll 131'
High Police,- under which he is to ret9'll 1/
life. plc, 1 al
A French Paper says :—" Mall Pej 111‘,
..i,'
felt as that Madame CATALAtr(l7llrttr,,
fuse 40,000 fr. and a free benefit, t-':i-,ets' Pty
the the Managers of the Opera for 50 o'gici. 60.1.ity ,
mance during the year; but they 0. hi''ert ITI
sider• the reasons of that celebrated 5-1.01-10,'
thar f'' ore 6,,
fusal : Madame CATALAN' Says,
eight years she made in Eaglatid .9
t 4 iiff.
250,Q00 fr. a year by her talent ; tii'leflg
50,000fr..are too trifling a sum to s; tit
a fixed engagement,
to do without. She means to retro° III:.
and employ her talent ou her own ''cctlLl.
ilk
which her fortune e; ii! 1