The Sun.
London, England, 1802-11-25 00:00:00

tare and his Capita! were occupied by a Prussian
garrison, and afterwards a part of his possessions
in Hanover given away, as an Indemnity to the
House of Orange. It had been said, that our
Honour had been saved ; but he would ask if there.
was any Gentleman who would lay his hand upon
s breast, and sincerely declare, that he thought our
Honour had been consulted when, in the midst of
the Negotiations for Peace carrying on by us at
Amiens, and during a suspension of hostilities,
Bonaparte had not scrupled, without
,thinking it,
worth his while to say a word about it to us, to
annex the Italian Republic to his dominions Re-
sPeding the conduct adopted towards Switzer-
land, it was not denied, though not openly avowed,
that a remonstrance had been sent against it by our
10overnment. It certainly had a right to use that
interfei:ence, in consequence of the most foul and un-
provoked aggression that perhaps ever was committed
On the independence of any nation. But if that re-
monstrance was really made, as he believed it to he,
he must condemn the mode, as it should have been
rnade before. He did not know positively that any
nfficial communication had been made of it to our
Government, but unless it was formally, and.from
Swiss the
authority denied, he would not believe that the
themselves would have negleded to communi-
cate it at' an early period, to the Government
fro
ton which, of all others, they were likely to ob.
anY Prompt assistance or proteClion. •There
cdeurat a i neil
Youvvraassaaidrsei.d of mismanagement in the con_
remon-
strance
To give effed to any remon-
and readye should have been armed at that time,
.1
but
to Come
forward should occasion call for
1 , but instead of that, we suffered Germany to be
enfeebled and overturned,
.rid co. and then, when assistance
operation from that quarter must be quite
hopeless, we Carrie, unprepared with any means, to
Tlll°nstrate in favour of Switzerland, already in
the power of our proud Rival. Surely prudence
should have dilated, that before the last hand was
Put
t° the Treaty of Amiens, we shoUld have found
'l9'llo method of ascertaining what were the ultimate
laws of France with resped to the Continent, and
et Foreign Countries. But, for any thing sti-
lbn.lated there. to guard against it, France may he at
s 4,tnnasent, by virtue of some Convention with
stll34llh in possession of Peru and Mexico, as well as
we was of other valuable places. However, nothing
,to,a, to. be wondered at in the condo& of a Power
o"eh, even pending the Negotiations at Amiens,
aye strong and unequivocal marks of its duplicity
vand insincerity. Without the slightest regard to
s, France, by indired means, came, during that
err period, into the possession of the Italian Ike.
Public, Louisiana, and the Island of Elba; add by
4 trick Upon the Turkish Ambassador at Paris, it
contrived to interfere in the subjed of the Evacua-
tion of Egypt. He believed there was not a man
xjho voted for the Peace who did nor at the time
not
it merely as an experiment ; and he could
conceive that many of them would have been
induced to have given that, if they knew at the
tine that we were to be kept unarmed, arid unable
to
aproted ourselves. From what had hitherto ap.
pjtre. d, there was no reason to doubt of the designs
the French Government ; they were openly and
p StateicitlY Dorn proclaimed, not indeed by any regular
be
sent ments, but by those Newspapers known to
official and which would not have, in the pre-
state of the French Press, been permitted to
atFiPear, if the declarations had not. the sanction of
e, Government to proted them. Perhaps these
ruulications may be disavowed, but by whom
TcQuid they be disavowed ? Not by the Edi-
tr' for that would be of no consequence ; not by
le French Minister, for he did not profess to have
we.
them. They might, indeed, have been
tritserted by mistake, or inadvertence, had there
i no more than one of them ; but they came out
') a regular series, under the appearance of official
a
4thorit Y. [He then read an extra& from the Mo.
!lieu', in which the position of France was de..
ribed encircled on the south, east and north by the
I liendlY States of Spain, the Italian Republic, the
„._Na of PaussiA, -Holland, &c.,) Such did it de-
rribe the situation of France every where, not only
°Y friends, but dependants, or rather subjeds ; but
I.4v.hat was most remarkable, he said, was, the ad..
4ltional observation, that "all these achantages
Q` been carlsolidated by the Treaties of Amiens
3;41 LAneville." Here then he would- make his
,v ands and seriously ask Gentlemen whether they
have voted for the Treaty if they had
z;n warned that in so doing they were giving con..
ti Idation to this magnificent and formidable posi-
:n Under 'all this, the consolation offered us
Thais indeed of a most singular nature. It was said
teirt the present station of the First Consul him_
1)14111'11st necessarily make him a friend to esta_
e, ed Government, vet how did this sort of
tarist!lation operate on those who were thoroughly
tioovlnced that his leading objed was the destruc-
41ann_ °f. this Country ? If there were really any re-
IrelConspiracies here, or any Combinations in
111,i4nda it was easy to perceive they must have
ton t,foreia n
6 communications with Paris. One self-
‘l:t6cl Traitor and Irish EN-Director
Nook) was said to he received there with great fa..
aar,t and,distinClion ; and another (NAPP ER. TAN.
pro/ aPPeared- to have been always under French
11/I,tic°i°n• The last Traitor had received His
4estY's pardon perhaps properly, in some points
view ,
talw,s very properly ; in others he thought very
not ntseei,Y• Were he in power himself; he should
who us inclined to take the life of an ignorant man,
life very advanced age and insignificant rank in
it itereFndered him unable to do farther mischief ; but
e
Pranchui heard it whispered, or ever, surmised that
though was in any resped solicitous for his safety,
would he would not have spilt his blood, he
visit th noe taken especial care that he should never
at ,
while
.1. saountry. It was not unimportant, that
sea Under the friendly Government of France,
red to English Newspaper, the Argus, was permit-
the h... O daiiv, with seditious libels
cations Government. In one of its late publi-
tons
even asserted, that the whole of mestoa.
saa,4„, of throwing off• what it called " its
Irelan
icarr„,,:°er'unew." .1 he tendency of such pub-
n'eros fr Was too obvious to require any COM-
he , ons •
was b hut' upon it. As to our resources,
aacli Y no
demeans disposed to make any
463e111‘4"3 that they may not be now