The Sun.
London, England, 1807-10-07 00:00:00

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OBSEIirATIO NS

ON DUONAPARTE's SPEECH TO THE LECIS.
LATLVE BODV, Auc. 16, 18c7.

" FRANCE 13 united to the people of Germany by
.be laws of 10 Confederation of the. Rhine; to
those:of Spari:and Italy by the laws of our Federa-
tive. System."
IloW tremendous a naivete has involuntarily
escaped from lips little accustomed to such loge-
tuous avowals It i n lot of Germany,
Spain, Switzerland,' Italy, and Holland, which
BUONART,E has in reserve for those which he
bonours . with the 'name of " States united to:
France 1.1%-,-Yes ;, those States are united to France
as dead bodies are united in a cemetery under the
rower of him who placed theta there, and who
keeps the keys of the' enclosure l Assuredly, this
• opens a most happy prospe& of futurity to those'
Powers whom be has not yet, found means to
" unite" to France ! This time, at least, be has
spoken out, and manifested no inclination to deceive
the world.

And it is the master of all those countries where
we see only Kings his slaves, or Kings his aCCOM-
plices—it is the master of all those countries who
pretend that the seas ought to be free ! And why
should they be free, if Europe is enslaved ? Woe,
woe to the world, if such a partition could take
place ! But, thanks to Heaven,' it is impossible.
He who rules over the sea wOuld,enjoy but a steril
power if the Continent were in chains. 'l'd render
his preponderance useful, the safety of Europe must
be secured. •The,power of BuoroAriatTE is that of
death.; that of England falls. of itself, unless she
preserves the e*istence .of Europel•stich is the strik-
ing difference between these two Powers
Our newconnealon,s.With Russia are cemented
by the reciprocal esteem of those twe great Nations."
There is an ambiguity of ideas here, which it is

ttece,ssary to remove.
The esteCm which RuSsia entertains for the
French Nation, as well as that which France feelg for
the Russian Nation, is totally independent of Bee.
WArAttu. They may unite in the: opinion which
they have of him : and I am persuaded that, in
,effe6t, they really are united in that opinion, which
it is death to express in France, while it i 4 openly
manifested in Ittissia. But the esteem which these
two Nations have for each other, is' not only, not
ativatiNeoui to BuowAti.taTE, but would become
dangerous' to him if they were not separated by
immense regions. All the ingenuity of BUONA-
MTE is emplOyed to identify himself with the
Frerich Nation ; but he is identified with her in no
other way' than the executioner is identified with his
%i&ims

Russia has had no opportunity of appreciating the
French Nation, but by her bravery in the field ;
and, in this respeB, she does her justice, by deplor-
ing the execrable use which she has made of it• to
the present day.
France has learned to estimate in the Russian Na-
tion a quality which she herself possesses, and, as. '
~suredly,. in what relates to courage, she is an en-
lightened judge.
They are the only titles which support the reci-
Vibeal esteem of the two nations; and it is not easy
to discover What advantage can possibly be derived
from th7m to BUONAPARTE.
tThqUeStiCillabiy, these two great nations esteem
each other; but the one obeys a legitimate master--
the other Is subjetled to a tyrant. The natural result,
therefore, of this esteem, on the pact of the Ras-
._
$lOll3, is to pity the French Nation, amidst all their
admiration of her courage, for employing it in es,
tablishing over France the power of aCorsican, who
can neither assure her a moment's repose, nor exist
himself, without eternally employing her in dis-
quieting and aflliding the Universe !
" Iu every thing which l• have done, I have only
bad in view the happiness of my people, which is
dearer to me than my own glory."
It would be' paying. too little respe4 to the 'good
sense. of Europe, to suppose that a phrase like this
stood in need of any commentary. This expression,
" My people," will never cease to be the astonish.
pent of the universe. Gracious Heavens, how
Severe a chaitisement ! And the French heard this
expression, *" My people!" and he had power to
repeat it a second time with impunity!
• 1 desire n Mitritime Peace." Either this means
nothing, or it signifies,. I desire to become by Peace
the master of the seas, as I already ant of the Con-
tinent by War and Peace.
The King of England may reply, " I desire a
Continental Peace. " BUONAPARTE will say--" You
bate it, since I am now master of the Continent,
and have given to the Ailiery which I have imposed
on n the name of Continental 'Peace."-.—The same
language _should be 'retorted on BUONAFARTE,reI,
.ireclipg a Maritim4u Peace.. " It already prev4ils
over every sea, since Eng)and is sole roiLtress,of the
,Ocean, and terms this doMinion a Maritime Peace
The expression, theiTiore, " I desire a Maritime

'eACC,'

as, in reality, no sense. BUM:APART/6,
however, understands himself, though be bat, tot
often the faculty of making himself understood by
orLers. Let us endeavour to render him intelli-
gible.

13UONArARTE has one obje&, and one system to,
obtain that obje&. He varies his means but little,
because, thanks to the weakness of Kings, and the
incapacity of thpir Ministers, those•means have al-
ways succeeded with him, and consequently he has
found rho necessity for changing them.
The obje6t is to enslave Europe—the• means are,
to dishonour by peace, to destroy by war, and to
deceive those whom he has not subdued, by partici-
rations which dPgrade them, and by fallacious pro-
mises which he never fulfils till the very'monient
that he is enabled to annihilate those who received
them. Thus, he has just compelled the King of
Prussia to pave the way.for the ruin of the Em-
peror of Russia ; and thus, too, be
,is how availing
himself of the same means to facilitate the political'
fail of England.
Our Readers cannot have forgotten that, in his
conference with Lord WHITWORTH, he proposed to
him the partition of the world, This expression,
" I desire a maritime Peace," is the resumption of
that proposition. He wishes to insinuate that there
no longer exists,. that there possibly can no longr
exist, any war but a maritime one; that the ins
fluence of England is annihilated on the Continent ;
that she neithpr can nor ought to enjoy it any longer,
and that she hainothing to treat for but a Peace on
the Ocean.

Now, in a ,Peace of this nature, be Twill either
propose arrangements destru&ive of the maritime
power of England, or he will recur to his former
proposition of dividing the world—the Seas to be-
long to England, and the Continent to BuoNAPARTU.
Either of these two propositions will lead direaly
to the end which be has in view : that is, to anni
hilate by Peace that POwer 'which he has every
where tumid invincible in the field:

The moment that England shall have laid down
her arms without securing the independence of the
Continent, or continuing to interest herself in its
existence, she delivers it up, bound hand and
foot, to the tyranny of. RUONAPARTE. And from
tlytt instant, amidSt all the propositions which
the Tyrant may offer her; nothing remain
for England• but to choose between sudden death,
alltfone more or leis slow—lP sun SUFFERS HER
MARITINIS RIGHTS' TO B,E 13110411 N IN UPON, unit,
pitATit wilt. BE ACCELERATED; if she contents her-
self with being ,roeroly a Maritime Power, uncoil=
neCted with the Cuntinent, her death, though
blower, will be no less certain,. Sdch is the fatal
circle' into which BUONAPARTE seeks to draw
her ! and such are the masons why, in speaking of
.England, he expresses no:desire but for a Maritime
Peace ! These wordS alone lay down the basis of
this Peace, and impress it with the cliargler which
he earnestly labours to give it a Peace that shall for
ever estranve England from the Continent 1., this is
the very, lite and soul of his system.
It is clear that a Peace of this description would
be more useful to BUONAPARTV than twenty years of
War, since he would obtain by it more than he
could ever hope, in his most sanguine moments, to
procure by war.
The day that England Shall dAach'berself frail
the interests of the Continent, that day, come when
it Will; 'she also dehehes herself from the care of
her own existence, and every succeeding hotly will
bear witness to her dmiy..
This momentous truth, if we do not deceive (Tr-
selves., hat been fullydemonstrated in the preceding
pages. it would be superfluous to recur again
to the proof. It is sufficient to have briefly deve-
loped, in thii place, the with of the Tyrant, and his
means for obtaining his object.
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Dispatches were last.ttlght, received from Admiral
GAMBllift, up to the 24th ult. at which time most
of the Line-of-battle Ships were PIA of the Har-
bour, and loaded; with stores, and the Frigates
and Transports were nearly full. The quantity of
storys is immense, much more than could possibly
be intended solely for the, Danish Fleet. They
may all be expeaed, 'if the weittber proves favoar-
able, about thi),middle of this month.
A fire broke out in the Arsenal, that for some
time put on an alarming, appearapce. lt was sup-
posed to been .oecabioned by a:soldier snap ing