The Sun.
London, England, 1807-11-13 00:00:00

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FRENCH OFFICIAL, COMMENTS

ON RECE.WI POLITICAL EVENTS.

(Concluded from cur Paterof Yesterday.)

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It is false that the French army, before Holstein
had been. ;reinforced; it, is equally false" that this!
• army wasAlestined to aa against Holstein, What
indeed could have hindered'it? It did not aa, and ,
therefore it did not choose to act. It.was,with a
view to induceDeninark to dire .t her force tewards
that Province, and thus to leave Copenhagen unpro-
teeted,: that the English spread such reports. This •
French army had always been destined to oppose an
Expedition which was threatened in that quarter ;
hut instead of incurring risk by attacking-a French ,
army, the British forces. thought it less dangerous
to take in the rear an allied and defenceless Power ; ,
to bombard a.city without a garrison ; to set fire to;
the habitations, of peaceful citizens ; to destroy sy6; ,
men, children, and. old men ; and to add new atio- ;
cities to the history of notorious 'crimes ; a history
of which the British Government has furnished such
• litimerous and such horrible pages. •
-.How ludicrous it ,is . to hear , the British Govern-
ment asserting, that it was necessary to have re-,
' course to arms. As if it.was not the aggressor ; as
if it was not endeavouring, by every possible means, ,
to perpetuate the war.- And against whom' is it
that England takes up arms"? IS it against an ene-
my ? , No ; she is,alwayi ready . tsiNattack eutrals,
feeble Powers, and Allies.. •
Such, then, is the true cause of the enterprise •of
the British Government agaitist Denmark ! And it
dates moreover to avow it in the face of all Europe !
It was not against ,the , French Government, which
intended to seize Copenhagen and the Fleet,, that,
this enterprise was direOed, but,against,Denmark.;
it was to tannish that Tower for having once opened
the eyes of the world with, reaped to the interests of
• the North ; for having _formerly takers part in n
confederacy hostile to the despotism ,of Great Bri-:
• tain. ,Why did not the English Geveinnientlike-
-,• wise assert; that it was determined to revenge the
outrage nominated by the Daises when they subju-
gated the Britons in the middle ages ? l,shis . pre-
text would have beta as ridiculous as the ether. 7-4
The- English GoVernment, therefore, avows that' it
'was Denmark it designed to attack.; it assists itself
to.prove,•that the, obje& of its:clisgraceful Expedi-
tiMi was not to prevent Franca; from seizing Den-
ims irk.
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. Eegland, actuated by that spirit of
.revenge which
ehe purposely discloses to terrify all who- will not
submit to be her slaves, , has employed her usual
perfhly. While: the English. Fleet was 'steering 'to- •
wards ,Copeehagcni,end was proceeding to crown a ,
deed the most. unexampled;
,the Danish A tnbaS's'ador
still remained in London, where markS of the great-
est confidence were profteiely. lavished upon him.—.
The English -Ambassador was still in Denmark ;. he
there repeated, in the name of his Court, the' empty
declamations with vvhich: theiCabinet of St. James's
lefts for ten years stunned all the Courts of:Europe
declamations always so fatatto those who were itu-
prodenfenough to listen rt
to them! , •
Had not Denmark been ' full rot*. good faith, had
she not indnlged a blind confidence, she would have
armed her batteries, and drawn her arrnyta Cotten- .
hagen.' Then the •2,5,000 men .whom England vo-
tnited upon the coast Of :Zealand would have Twen
driven hack into:the sera, as. the 14.4'tiglish troop 4 were
at .Cluiberon,:at Toulon, in Holland;:at *Rescue, at
Buenos .Ayres ; a they will be wherever they dare
to -shew:their faces. ,
The 'Cabinet of At. Ja: itos's.; reproaches France
with having assembled under her standards the l),
pulation of several 'nations. .-:tut what obliged
France to 'assume ,the. imposing attitude which she
preserves, and to extend her influence" Opierthe
Continent ? It is the hatred and Ole perpetualcin-
trigues of .England. What right has it to reProaeh
France with .having opposed •thuextent ni her flower
and the valour of ,her 'arms' t6.l"ee incessantly re-
newed intrgurs, and to the effurtvof the unfortu
nate Princes, who, seduced by. English ,gold, fell,
upon her to tear her in -pieces ? The ;Engliab
Government threatens the world with a dreadful
speetaele of a perpetual war. , And what 'would Le'
the consequence ? France 'mild become more
powerful thateshe is. Tlhe t meta. it shell 'be
.Con-
a
firmed, that ,the .principle of a perpetual war is
adopted at London, there will no longer be any
, Neutraf,powemontthe Continent ; they wilt recal
all their Ambassadors; :they will, send hack the Am-
bassadors of EnghAstt ; they -will drive them out of
their bosoM;.as. tlie Face expels the distillers of
poisons.. lhis•vontin&will:be:prescribeil' them by
, their. Lemont., and by- t heir:own interest ; they will
not ' draw upon . their people. the ,celatiiit ies :which
arc reserved for every Power* ill-advised as.to keep
up any conneCtion ..with Engl'and. History heady
. proveS, ,by 'examples sufficiently -sirikic, that the
monseht; hi witich.:ii,Pritteoasseciates himself with.
that perfidious.GovernMent, precedes but a few AIAyS
'that of his abdication.. , . . .

' It is for the. inhabitants of Hamborgh to tell at

.what period, the French.artny entered within their
twalls,;, it ifii far the Wretehedinhabitants of .Lubeck
to recotle6t the 'moment when. ,their territory Waii
violated by the /s.rossians: . 'JAMS, .for nearly a year
30,000,French have.been in the Hanseatic towns,
.and yet Holstein, the island of Zealand, and ,thee
Danish Fleet,. were not at .the dispesal of Fratwo. '
In all these arguments there is a Want of, sense
and.refletliotrwh:ch i alpireme in every line, Had
ine Danish natjorilbeeti ho do.,stitute of honour, as
,willingly to deliver:up it.,; :.unis,' Wopld France, in
that case, 'have hesitaied to seize the condi:teats]
territory, of that Power ? And
,if tilt: ice..!; Of 'Winter
liad deprived Zealand. of. 43 natio:o 'ffleattiot' Au-.
,fence, . what ww..:!d have
,prtvottt (1 I.;4dilltauttp
- frotti falling into, the Ininds of ii'ilce..? J'ilua-the
LEI gli sh Ministry,- blind enough to form an enter-
, Trize by Avhich itvan,oin nothing hut a fei,v hulls,
nt Vessels, hits fmnitllctl.Plance.witha birong,R3.
son, in the eyes of ttnExtrope, , lot seizipk the, Pas-
sage of the Sotmd and the papist, iloiiiiiiious.
M to th.ct military formli whiiit 1!.:..41,04nd Might
have sent to detend Dentlyirk byland,:ii,lppever,
she would it;ti e Oren this first 0,•444t, .,..4 real.
itsit'stanci.; Allotted to an ally, every'g
i. 1,0.1 ,w,
li,
.lio;0,. it - ought to he apprecirited. 't1:131 .14hrtroop3
%A
diir•,,t venture to st.t toot (IIT Ihe Col)llhent, their vit..
• 11v;i1 woctici 1.,:0(h.,..:e 'the rum/. :,sitxere joy umung