The Sun.
London, England, 1823-04-05 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Site,—The foregoing communication has been withheld from
the Public, in expectation of the Documents which were to have
been laid before Parliament, concluding7that those Documents
would exhibit the unreserved Manifesto of the British Cabinet
on the present unsettled state of Europe. This official delay
has disappointed the Public, and rendered it doubtful, whether
the information, when given, will be as full and satisfactory
as the Nation unanimously expects froni official Trustees.

Historical record exhibits a manifold variety of Manifestoes.
Amongst others, the very extraordinary—the famous Manifesto
of the Duke of Brunswick, when the Confederates of Pilnitz,
the Monarchs of Russia and Austria, blew the trumpet of war
upon the People of France. In similar terms, we have now
before us the Manifesto of Louis the Eighteenth against the
People of Spain. By the " development of the Pitt System,
the world may be amused with something in the character of
commentary on the general system of diplomatic Manifesto ;
which, in the Kesent instance, in the absence of royal, may be
denominated popular auspices : and of popular auspices, why
not take the designation the most congenial, and call it,—The
Coventry Manifesto ? which, by attentive perusal, will be
found, and unanimously decided by the universe, to be far
better calculated for the peace and welfare of all nations, than
all the conjoint Manifestoes and Declarations of all the Con-
spirators in the Royal Confederacy, artfully and designedly
levied against the natural and acquired rights of the whole po-
pulation of the universe. As one of the Representatives of a
populous commercial city, I have felt this little exertion a
duty, to assist every individual of the community interested in
the issue to form his own judgment of pas;ing events ; and I
lament that this Coventry Manifesto has not before been sub-
mitted to the national constituency.
The Right lion. Secretary for Foreign Affairs has given us
his Motto (I hope his Official Motto), in a Public Toast, at a
very populous Meeting—" Civil and Religious Liberty over nil
the World." The Coventry Manifesto most commensuratelyembraces it : and I hope, that when all others are referred to,
the Coventry Manifesto will be r,:ad with them, and issue fairly
joined. _

Neutrality is professed by, our Ministers ; and, for consist-
ency, it cannot be doubted that the Documents, when delivered,
will be found to correspond with this profession. But the Neu-
trality now professed, in 1823, only resembles the fume of that
professed by the Cabinet in 1792, without its. fire; and the
result may be the same in a less degree. Attend to times and
things : 'What the Confederacy of Pilnitz was, in hostility to
the French People, and in amity to the Cabinet of Versailles,
the Confederacy of Verona is, in hostility to the Peninsular
Nations, and in amity to the Magnanimous Ferdinand ! The
British Cabinet is now, as it then was, professedly Neutral as
to outward appearances,—but, in truth, it was decidedly, friendly
to Louis XVI. That professed• Neutrality was too hollow to
deceive the People of France ; and the nature of the present
lamely disguised profession does not—cannot, escape the con.
fidence of Louis :X.VIII. and his determined Confederates of
Verona. In short, our professed Neutrality is the abstraction
of all impediment to their designs upon Spain. Our Plenipo-
tentiary at the Congress has not given any Public Certificate
that he was not a voluntary Subscribing Party to their Despotic
designs, and the present march of their Confederacy against
the Domestic Arrangements of Spain,—at least, I have not
heard of any Protest of our Plenipotentiary at Verona; and
•I am yet to learn that lie made any. Had our Ministers
taken a more decided Position, with regard to the Confederacy
of Pilnitz against the French People, the late infamous War,
which I uniformly opposed, must have been averted. The
Jugglery of Conduct then, seems now inevitably to conduct
them into a like error, in 1923, after a woeful experience of
32 years.
In proof, let us look briefly to the present hot& of these
Ministerial Trustees, of the Moral Influence of our Cabinet
over the Monarchs of the Holy Alliance. These Ministers
have uniformly affirmed, that this Moral Influence has been
exerted to the utmost, to avert the Iniquitous Attack on Spain.
—The present Position of things proves ghat this boasted In-
fluence is a Nullity,—divested of the corrupt influence of
Ittßney, far, far worse than a Nullity: and that, if our Moral
Influence ever did. exist, the Curtain for ever dropt at the last
Act of the Farce at Verona. I believe, our only Moral In-
fluence was exclusively vested in our Money ;—I do not believe
we ever had any other Influence ;—and that, our Money gone,
the Moral Influence fled with it.

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As to any specific grounds for averting the evils consequent
on the threatened war, what ground more specific can he re-
quired by our State Physicians, than the hostile array and de-
clarations of Louis himself ? What more specific ground than
the toast of our Right Honourable Secretary himself?—" Civil
and Religious Liberty over all the World !!!"
And what does the declaration of Louis XVIII. aim at
other, than the destruction of Civil and Religious Liberty in
all the Peninsular Nations, and through him, the, destruc-
tion of Civil and Religious Liberty throughout the world.
Our declared neutrality, and its effectS, are not on a par with
their notable boast, that the finances of this country are in am-
ple condition to enable us to go to war. If so, instead of that
moral aim of war, why not have. taken a more decided line at
Verona? An animated protest, and the departure of our re.
presentative, would have worked wonders. Such an-appeal to the
British people would have spoken a voice of thunderouire vibrat-
ing throughout the nations of. Europe than the united thunder
Of the four Gentlemen of Verona; and more effectual in avert-
ing the threatened attack upon Spain, than the calm neutrality
of the British Cabinet. If our finances were so flourishing, why
not arm, so as to prevent the entrance of the hostile armies into
the Peninsula, rather than suffer them, Arst to occupy the soil,
and then attempt to drive them out again. For this, if successful,
the Spanish and Lusitanian people will thank von no more than
the desired Louis will. Prevention is better than cure ; but, in
this case, the first means of prevention have not been resorted to.
Every means of peace, from that of A ix-la.Cluipelle down to that
of Paris, proves, that victory abroad is utterly useless to
obtain indemnity for the past, or security for the future,
in the absence of wisdom, or, if you like it better, of politi.
cal sagacity in our negotiators. The appearance of a Bri-
tish Fleet in the Mediterranean, and of British bayonets, with
the patriotic Mina in the Pyrenees, would have done more
for the real cause of Civil and Religious Liberty over
all the world, not even excepting Greece and Naples,than all
the moral (or immoral) influence our Cabinets ever possessed ;
or, what is saying a great deal, would have done more for that
sacred cause than even the Speeches and Toasts of the whole
British Cabinet ; which; however calculated to be the grace and
the ornanuTt of Oratory, have not thunder enough to frighten
the four Gentlemen of Verona from their purpose of stifling
rational and national Liberty in. its very cradle.
I have the. luinour to be, Sir, •
Your very obedient Servant,
- Epping, April 4, 11123. I'. MOORE. •