The Sun.
London, England, 1815-10-16 00:00:00

PEACE%

i .111f! Calamities ef War are undoubtedly very great ;.bnt I
." t docs not follow, that every Transaction that may call I. '! itself Peace, Will ultimately be the means of diminishing., 1
:: them'eVen if it Should not grin„on Calamities of a worse
llii."--lErrei: 4 MR. WYDNIJANI'S, SEPT. 21, 1796-•
111 S fascinating wort!, always attractive insthe
abstract, though Sometintet iePulsive in the de-
. tail, is now sounded in •our ears—even unto the
echo. At length, we May repose udder our vine,
and trim our °lire ; or—to speak n-olie north-
etlilY---w , e may hammer our r sabres nto sickles,
411 d bend our bayonets into plough-shares ;we
Ma
Y cot up Our sails iota COrn-iacks, arid 'Cut clown
Qur Masts into hop-poies- 1 • .
~.144Y we indeed ?—the question is i•ailier in-
srasi ~
'e ; but, perhaps, not absolutely imperti:-
)441', .
leave iS a very .good thing i but, Hite other
rd things, its value is to be calculated by its
4ability.
.It must 'be a solid article, before the
thost Collllnercial man living will buy'it at a Solid
rce- For what cannot stand wear-and-tear; the
''''est purchase is too- high. We want to ►wrap
littirselves in every-day British broadcloth, not in
elidsY French tiffany--
I:ilia is the
dialect of commerce ; call it—if you
Irease----•tlie slang
tYlea of the counting house. France
ius a shop-keeping- nation ; she cannot ob.-
4,ect toa shop‘keepiro, argument. Besides, Peace
s, a c°Jitract ; and in discussing contracts, we must
use ca, . ..
.Itractar's language.
In
a world SO imperfect and so peaceable as
t6t's' the strongest obligations must depend on
isa.eirc'tstrongestn strength. We have not any court-pa-
st:l/%'r, to whiCh all nations submit, for the en-
eeinent
en of Treaties.
forward
Tor these are violated, we may go
fe4tess---like the poet's progressive distance of
°'lll—from the small States to the great,
tti ttl the great to the-greater, from the'greater to
ri.,e greatest. But—When arrived at this Ultima
14414---where shall we find the impassable houti-
t Y c'fiUjustice? the extreme power of command,
4; obs'erv'an ling fidelity,
40,_ ce, and compel
~
c e, however, we have not the Poet's uncer-
taint,:
01, . Ills " Lord knows where" does not ap-
Tha 3. Britain. The wheteabout is in tintsELF.
1.11 heri* 'leaven 1 she is mighty enough to seek it
own •. 1 in her rteighbout"s lio.,
testy
. . . lent,,t 1, not
' NT '. 1" her OWII power, not in his principle.
, either are we as puzzled for an answer as_ the
t4P6:n r Ttolian
; whose universe stands oh. an ele-
e'lll'it'Nvhieb stands on a tortoise, which stands
tell:
t„. boll,S
head, which stands on=lie knows not
5t 111.. IV' c know the primary foundation of our
tity"tY• Peace tA '
s_nr.s on reciprocity ; recipro-
pn °4 convenience; crinvenienCe on power ;
wer on .
In 4ac.—And so ends our catechism.
stat war, therefore—or rather in the resources of
onr s4B strength, and its preparation"—we find
ii„tieel'iltY. War is the Mad-Ratio of all bide,
41nillt States; and woe to that country whose
for i sand whose niinisters are not always ready
gar •a art ! Pace is the season for the
to wl .
i6ii , ',Let fit, . .
'' he sea-
tusks :-. but Peace is not t
„1,"/" Ills root- , .
ing tip the trees.
-dots , ,
• Its the —"ea for Peace in the abStract; even in
t,sher, sznY of. which the declaimers are so fond,
lite ,Ti't '31148 them'. Foot-um himself could di-
,
%ell,nti`mli I.t;end ring the changes Upon its beauty,
t such u.:6 I.' convenience. The PariSians
erntit Iris
.11, ---°1“. -good old English word is commodity.
_ It ill i, .
4ttty 1. 's Practlee--.-and, since We do not ex-
en 've irk Arcadian times, talking as states-
1, r....,.
~ h a.cner than
..estina as Orators, We will discuss the
&rst .cci ' not of Peace, hut of The i'sace.—The
I p„,,„ tltitleration then is, with 1t" I
sTie wo-i'.l,.i.as file
'' I temper,
Iviiat
tibeen made ? What is the genera
The le particular feeling, of 'our nets friends ?
\that en'illiry must advance a little farther.--7.
liktiv has been tj,eir past derneantiur ? WhiCiS
..tile'tgle their future conduct I
iilage icniPer of France!--In the emphatic iiin7
this, l'l'ir SHAKESPEARE, •" her pride is, her own
Vi,lit'.. own trumpet, her owii chronicle.*"—
Nten,,he. Y fug trumpet,
this pride, and blows it into re.
14;4 of I She tvas, proud of her conquests, and
. . eel ler trophies. Every bad passion consior-
to ,
, to
ti. exalt trophies.
her eyes. They were clear
Celteet
dearest ""snesti--,dearer to her ambition, and,,
. '4
tl4 l'il., to her injustice :an added zest, in-
retisnhi
She , eto the piount of a Gallic taste.
vii as been compelled to resign these ;to
sgort,
teik, ise them into the general world." Re-
ic e' ther :is
-"' 'llivi t'' 're, mingles in the deadly catalogue.
to, r 'eteution would gratify her avarice, in-
, to, her
n,
i*tiait
we. i estimPtion, and influence her rapine,
'ell h 'Pit expect that their privation will quick-
yet loal. , •
V it expect
?.
i et we n .
"(lest lay as well resume all, as forego the
... st p„rt .
Even
" lnex . ti our purian will be to France
i, . Plato, .
~,y, ~ inlor...
y W,,,1, ever she surrenders,
.....:!_vt(led, no -'
%,. ----- tby 116. eouseiews., , oat by our coin- • aoct shal:7-----___________
__ "iNinVilits.:l4o. La 0-,vn .4.:c.; ;,....,c- arohietc?

• '
1'14151611 ;. %.‘ ilaterer she :
by her thrtittide, but by our forbeahince. The
-
jeopal! k:
rdy of the loss ‘6ll be as linntillating i,s the
:mutat privation. The avarice of France may;
possibly, be appeased ; but her vanity caii never
be healed ; and if it could, tier injustice can ire:.
ver be satiated. In the true spirit of thieving,
she likes , no't their pc:Ong buck=it is double
labour."

11tit Vranee has one claint to those trophies,
and a strong claim, tvhile its strength histed—the
claim of conquest. Lord WEL' Lii4GToN, the
plain and gallant language of a.,scitdier, has hewn
that She has no claim by treaty. Her claim Of
conquest has noir reverted to-us, and merged iii
the better claim of right. If ever it was sufficient
for her, it is at least as valid for ts-:; if unlawful
possession can legalize a bad title, assuredly law-
fill Hssessltiti can revive a good one.

So mtich for the rest:ll46on bf manuscripts and
Statues, and pictureS, considering them as
~..,
ar-
ticles of *value. It, may Matter little to the con--
noisseur whether he • visits his morceau at Rome
or at Paris Whether he studies RAPIIAEL
in the Vatican or ih th.e. Louvre.—And it
tnatters as little to the inoralist. 'hie ques-
tion is, not of curiosity, but of cOnscience; ;not
of taste, but of justice. It were better to see the
last relic of atitiquity; battered, broken, and
burned, than to see it retained by France iu lftr
unjust and shameless possession.
This for example. To deter France front fu-
ture violence ; to save out• children, front the at,-*
tacks of her insolent impunity.
And what promise does she hold forth of return-
ing honesty ?
It has been observed, that as Revolution did
not occasion her excesses, so Connter-revolution
cannot restrain them. France is at this moment
unaltered : she has neither less injustice, nor less
ambition, nor less vanity : she has only less
power. She is not yet counter-revolutiOnized out
of that spoliatiug spirit which enlarged her terri-
tory by the Treaty of IVestphalia.
The moderation which leaves France thus tinre-
duced, may be a super-refinement of policy. If
she retains no means of insurrection, she cannot
Again become insurgent. A third reoellion against
her King and against her Conquerors may be re-
quired tot her ultimate dismemberment. - -
It such be requisite, MACIIIAVEL himself could .
not have managed it better. A plain' inan' an-
swer would be, that all this might have been done
after the Battle of Lelpsic ; and again, after the
Battle of Waterloo ; without postponing it to the
c:tance of a third victory.
But under the command of WELLtNoToN, a
battle loses nine-tenths of its uncertainty ; Our
Duke can always win the victory and march to
Paris.

True—but, victory is not a gratuitous acquire-
ment, nor even a cheap purchase. The blood-
price of Waterloo ought not to be paid do'ven for
the sake of rendering France a free- and indepen-
dent State under" her ancient dynasty.
Still less, should it leave her people-in posses-
sion of any one revolutionary privilege. In 1789;
we might not, perhaps, have desired to continue
upon them all the severities of the ancient Mo-
narchy : in ISO, we desire all these to be re 7
vived, as a punishment upon our insolent spoilers,
now spoiled in their turn, cloven to the dust,
huMbled, and vanquished. _

Revolution was one of the crimes of France.--,.
If she is spared even the least of its profits, she
is rewarded for her' criminality.—For example's
'sake, we should leave her no inducement cit
!—the strongest of all inecu-
fives to guilt, to violence, to treachery !
Ndt that we should care about the internal
state of France ; but, unfortunately, lies' revolu-
tions are never kept for home-consumption they
tire her faVoorite articles for exportation.
Aye—hut France has reformed this altogether.
Intlea !—Lti us then evacuate her territory, and
leave her to the er-et•eise of her new-born virtue.
A moment, however, before wL issue our March-
ing orders !—lt shay he worth while to examine
symptoms all& regeneration.
She has changed her cockade : she has new-
named her bridges : she has cried Vivent les Baur..
konsl 'she has pithished on traitor.
tia'Much for the creditor side of the account :
row for :he debtor.

,
She L:s 'retained her rev.olntionary peerage :
She has continued her revolutionary property :
-sie has rejected her ancient establishments : she
has cherished her rebel army : she has strtigglrd
to keep her plunder : she has rewarded a thou-
sand traitors. . .

On which side lies the balance ?—lii weighing
her deSerts, we heed 'ntit cast our swbrd into the
scale.
The single Itiestion is—the measurement di ref
tribution eranipie's sake—nothing morc.--:-.
Let Os have done then with contributions and
cautionary fortresses ! It France be guilty, these
inflictions are too lenient ; if she be innocent,
they are too severe. We have fixed ourselves
preeiselyin that nuftirtutiate medium, which alike
discredits our generosity and Wisdom ; winch is
not an excitation of her gratitude, but a memo 7
fiaVfor .her rancour ; %%hid' exhibits neither the
gi'aCO of pardon nor the vigour of punishment.
Here, the proverbial safety of a middle path
utterly contravened. Pardon were as heavy an
offence against Gallic vanity, as the severest pn-
nishment. Yet; what pardon can that nation ex-
pect, what 'confidence can she claim, while, even
in the mOnierit of her penitential profession and
Ij.p.7loyalty, under the very occuiiation of her
00-tiquerors, she sends the Regicide, the Septeirl-
'bcizer, the plunderer, FoutuE, with it ducal title
and a princely fortune, her Ambassador td a fo-
reign Potentate—to-the King of gAitO Y—io the
last and the most servile adherent Of hor Usurper

Let it not be arg'ied, that the presence. of the
Allies has changed the innate and inseparable
nt:inciples. of France. Thi's is a sophiStn, tl►e
vittcst and tl►e boost deceptive bron recottl, It is

i, ••
first of il;ved n
tazitei-iAL
ARlsToil—the gcedi of

inerates.

" The first is—takittg an acC,ental conintiL-
lion of things for a natural or.n.Aessary conne6-
• ,
tuba : Wfiell front an accident we infer a prn-
licrjy ;- when from an example, we infer a rule
when from it sing-le act We infer iYn habit."—=:-
Shetchej; 4;o1.111, Sk. I.

Therefore, the " accidental coninuction" of
the AllieclTroops in France is not a natural or
necossary connection" with her repeotance: the
" accident" of, her restitution is not the " proper
!y.7. of her honesty : the " example" of her pii-
hishment is not the " rule" of her amendment :

the " act." of her submission IS not
the" lier obedienb.
!laving adtilowleilged the parallel; 'tbe may ap-
ply to Prance another Aristotelian piinciple—

.DIVIEEEE &OW EST FRANGERE.

THE TItAVELLEIt ABOUT PARIS.

(No. XVIII. Co►icluded from Saturday.)

PARIS, OCT. 9.

, •
It is giibd for men to seeliccasionally with their
Own eyes, if it were for nothing but to convince
•them how little is to be. honestly seen with the
eyes of other's. The fates and finery of theatres
-are of course trifles. But I know no topic of
whateverclignitY that has oce4Pied a larger con-
tribution Of human lying than the, " grand Thea-
tres" of Paris. The Opera House ha's in those
tableaux dares, usually raked the lead. This
aniration of all admirers iS about the size of Co-
gent-Garden Theatre. The boxei in successive
above each other, are utterly bare, neither
driil/ery nor partition, silk or gold relieve their
nakeduess The boxes on a level with the pit,
are absolute cellars,out of which the tenants peep,
as shaded and grin) ;Is if -they were the natural
inmates of that squalid darkness. The form of
the house is a broken circle. Large wooden co-
lumns not for support but for division, mark the
fractures, fronting the Stage, and to answer the
double purpose of revenue and • deformity, those
columns are slit into small latticed hbles through
which hull-lan heads , are seen Struggling to get a
view of the pei-fdrrnance,uS uneasily as they might
in any Other pillory. The shies 01 the procedium are
choaked up with latticed boxes, that once mare
recall the idea .of a place of confinement for ivild
beasts. The pit is separated into three districts.
In a few rows' railed off next the boxes and next
the stage, women sit with a few men. The
centre is delivered up solely to men, %rho crowd
into it in the full abOintitatioo of a PariSian in dish-
The whole aspect gives the idea of la.'.
pine and disorder, incurable filth, and eager. irre
gularity. I now feel no surprise at the violent
influx of theatrical propensity at the time of the
Revolution, or that the shouters and sentimen-
talists within, should have been the robbers and
miaderers wi:bout. To those men the Theatre
gave scarcely less than the picture of the gloomy
riot, which had sent them het and stained to
look for new indulgence tinder its roof. If there
was a relaxation, it was such as might be found
by a banditti; weary of the day of spoil and
slaughter, and rekxiog in their cavurn•.- 'The or-
chestra is, however, of the first order : nearly
eighty of the best instrumental performers of
France must produce a fine effect under any roof,
and by a regulation, which might be well adopted
in England, their peculiar talents are frequently
called out to delight the audience—the principal
artists perform successive solos---,three are some,.
times given in one evening. The names of ibe
artists arc announced in the-bills of the clay ; and,
to judge from the attention with which they are
Beard, I cannot doubt that this practice adds
largely to the public pleasure. The scenery, so
far as I can speak from personal observation, is
miserable: A good scene is occasionally intro-
duced; but the genetal furniture Of the stage is
old, dusky, ill designed, and fagged. The changes
are, however, made Without peculiar dehly, and
serious mistakes seldom °cent.

.1 !wilt not,•speak of the singhn .
voices, harsh and strained in Society, and. appa-
rently denaturaliied by the hereditni-y affectation
of the country, hying out all theft obnoxiousness
in stronger relief, when they are forced on music.
The pride and palm of French delivery is, in all
cases, the power Of prodticing " un ton impo-
sant," asomething which no human being, left
to the natural impulse of the moment, Would ever
dreain oiproducing, bat which, in French jidg-
ment, is to be produced, by no means inferiOr
to a startling roar,-or a bonvolstvt whi'sper.
witliont melody, and power %-nthout
taste; are the whole comiilenient of this exellence,
and nothing More aft tiug vas ever premeditated
against the human ear than the bravura of a "
iltiere feni'me7 at the Abaclemie Royal tie Mus ique.
The ‘vliole company are at present mediocre.
The Ballet is yet the triumph. The Ballet is
like the rest,' a living testimony against the exig
geratiiins of tourists of till capacities. It ha§ the
nl.rAt advantages of youthful figures', and well
Cent'r'al
attitudes, as tnilo,l di'vested of drapety and
decency as they are any ileliere else. But it has at
this moment no highly d'itingitishetl perforMer, and
the eye, unatti'zieted by the skill of the perform-
ance, finds no resource in the In't'erest of the
story.
The 'Ballets are chidly of time composition of
GAI:ISEL I bia a ilancing:iiiia:iter cannot be pre-
sumed to bave liowet of inventing any thing
beyond a new PA. Make a Ballet as interest-
ing as its materials allow, it ought to be a lite-
Tary work, the Inveution of the same taste which
might be caging oft ty. produce a Drama. The
same sliMt might be thrown into 'it's silent and
exquisite action, which gives delight, in the higher
efforts of the Stage, and the Ballet be looked to
As alt enkiyinent y Oldie who even saw every
bosom on the bdards ‘vrapped in muslin, and
every leg' to-be traced only through its trowsers.
Mont this general mediocrity GosSELIN ought,
perhaps, to be excepted. She is a favourite froM
her delicate and finished style;
,but she wants the
figure that gives nobleness to gesture, and she has
perhaps attained her highest praise, when she
takes her place among the graceful and ;hc
_
liaat of thv modern sine.

'I

S
MARD

again . attracted
Tbeatre.; in the hart jjdelia
%%'s inqCll
sudden tech p;),lttoli
at a v:Ty sifort nOttee„ tuck, hcr-
farce The Magpie, and it ,ci h t
fevling mid elfect
COVENT -GA 111).E11.--1.7 11r. C. ErVILF. re..;t7r ne(l.
the part of Stift& on Saturday. 1? 'S'oile of
very, best achieverpents,.; and t:ie deep pollos of
Miss O'NEtt.t.'s gelvidera, rendered the play
powerfully affycting, Mr. V_ opNo. was' is usual,
aniniated and ithpressive - The houst
was crowded.

11. t, f%r

111'i. ii J 1::.

Ktc:cr

It
appears from ,the Reimtt of the i 1: cling of
the ProprietOrs of Drury-Li ,e held oti
Friday, that
_the amount of the annual Aggregatd
receipt fol' the laA three years.ks been 222,9061.
!65.:9d. The expellees, ott the coiltraly, have
been,- 242,4931. lis. 6tl. being an excess ' of
1.9-,5871. os. 90.; which, together with the
debtor balance of 8:050/. oti-the hUildiAg
count, forms the sum of 27,6371. Bs. 3d. the pre-
sent amount of the debt on the Theatre. Tliere
will be no dividend for the hist season.
'Committee; in conjunction with the Covent-Ger.:-
den Proprietors, have at!dresSe'dthe VEiNCE Rs-
GENT against the announced extension of perA
formanyes at the Lyeeutn.• The Meeting then.
confirmed the appointweni of the Earl of.Ess4x„
Lord lion. D. KINNAIED, Hon. G.
LAmBE. and P. l‘loortz, Esq.. as the SiAb-Corn.:
mittee for next year; amid ofth'e 'duke 9f PEi7O-N-.
stilitc, and P. OHENFELL; Esq. as Joint rrusteei
with P. Mootte, Esq.