The Sun.
London, England, 1802-08-06 00:00:00

LONDON, AUGUST 6, 1802.

THE Paris'Papers of the zd inst. this morning
arrived in Town. It appears by a Letter from
Frankfort, dated zsth ult. that the Prussian Troops
have already taken possession of some of the Indem-
nities, but the Courts of Wurzhnre.and Bamberg
have expressed their determination of opposing by
force, any Troops that may come to take posses-
sion of their Territories, unless by the authority of
the EMPEROR and Empire. •
The publication of the Concordat has not put an
end to the religious dissensions in France. .A vio-
lent tumult. has lately-happened in Seday, between
the partizans of those who are termed the Constitu-
tional Priests; and of the Emigrant Priests returned
to France.

Orders have been sent into the different Depart_
ments of France, to forbid the performance of any
Play that has not previottsly received the sanction
of Supetior Authori!y,

This morning a Mich Ind a Ifamburgh
zfrived, Their contents are given under the pro.

1.,!r

YESTERDAY we offered some,Rernarks to our

Readers on an Article which .ippeared in The Mai-n-
-il' fr Pest, and which to us seemed highly exception_
able, though written cvirh apparent temper and ino-
fo-d:ie, we are unwillingly compelled
to chastise another. utnal, which does not pretend
to Moderari,in, which evidently does not possess
the talents and ingenuity that distinguish its Con-
temporary, and which is known to the Public only
by its audacity and the deprivation of its Principles.
We, mean The Morning Chronicle.
That Paper has the impudence to assert, that if
NLANw Att LNG be well advised, "he cer-
tainly never will present a Petition to the House of
Connions against the Return of the Sheriffs of Mid-
d:esex, because a righteous decision would, beyond
ail pest:on, he 'against him." There can be no
douhr, if the greatest number of legal Voters were
on the silt,. of Sir FRA.NOS BURDETT, independ-
ently of other powerful considerations, which we
are well informed, must become the subjed of
future discussion, Mr. MAINWARING might not
consult his personal interest, by bringing this
question before the Legislature. But the con-
trary is the foci. It is notorious, and it is believed
even.by the friends ofthe Returned Candidate, that
his Votes will be found invalid, on a legal scrutiny.
It becomes therefore,• the duty of a man, who is
conscious that he is supported by the genuine voice
of his County, to exert every measure consistent
with the Laws, to wipe away the stain which has
.been cast upon it. This is a measure, which he
ewes to h:a own honour, as Nell as'to the charaEter
of the pei-sons who made him the objets of their
choice. He owes this tribute also to the reputa-
tion of the Magistracy, and to the course of that
Justice, of which he has for years pzoved himself a
courageous Advocate.

Ncr.it ion.

The question is at present, p'aced on a very
different footing, from What it would have been, had
not the momentary triumph of the vitiorious patty
been coupled with the abasement of the Magistracy.
Every thorcst m_tn is now a party in Mr. MAIN..
WAR I NG'S cause, not merely on account of the re-
3paciAbili(y of hi; private and public charafter, but
because he is a vigilant and aaive Magistrate, who
exerted himself successfity in the defence of his
King and Country, w hen both were assailed by wild
and mischievous Ruilians. The cause is therefore,
no _longer between MA I NIVA,R ING and BURDETT,
but between the Cons:it tr ion and Jacobinism ; and
according to the ultimate success of the one or the

cci r, we sil;;11 he enable.l ;o form some judgement
of die Po;itica; State of our Country.

Prom discus3ion, the Chronicle has direfled
its calumnies against the late and the present Ad_
ministration. It has the frontless assurance, in the
lice of a why►;e People, who are now enjoyiN all
the advantages of their wise and provident Admi—
nistiations, to assert that 'the Public Sentiment is

' against them, Without remarking once more on-the
strong association which is thus attempted to be rivet-
ed in the minds of a certain description of persons, be-
tween the result of the Middlesex Elation, and the
cause of DisaffeCtion, and which the above Paragraph
completely verifies, we appeal to the People of
Britain for -a candid examination of those measures
of policy, which peculiarly honoured the conduCl of
the last, and marked the undeviating path of the
present Administration. The mind is appalled,
when, refleeting on the dreadful abyss from, which
we have happily -escaped. Let events speak for
themselves. The disruption of Civilized Society,
and the habitude of misrule in a neighbouring coun-
try, fostering the spirit of Disaffedion, inflaming
the embers of Anarchy ; here Seditious Writings,
inflammatory Discourses, popular Assemblies,
abetted by the Secret Intrigues of artful De.
magogues,• not only. impeded the Foreign Ef.
forts of Government, but openly defied its Inter.
nal Power. Public Authority, the Laws, the Esta-
blishments of our Country were avowedly despised
and insulted ; all good Men rendered insecure of
their Property, and doubtful of the future ; the
Lower Orders of the People emboldened to advance
pretensions hostile to the Peace of Society, and a
great part of the Body Politic gangrened to the
core ; Ireland, reducing these dangerous princi-
ples to praetical assertion, throwing off the Bonds
of Allegiance, and unfurling the Standard of Re-
volt. Such was the sickly state of the Bri-
tish Empire, under the late Administration.--
In the space of a few years, however, by dint of
Wisdom, Fortitude, and Perseverance, the AspeCt
of our Affairs assumed a happier feature. Rebellion
was crushed, Seditious Assemblages dispersed, an
inflammatory Press silenced ; the Laws resumed
their ordinary Course ; Ireland was reconciled and
united to the Mother Country ; onr Domestic Quiet
enabled Ministers to exert, with greater vigour,
the National-Strength ; and Valour, combined wilt
Policy, obtained for our Army, Laurels which
have been justly envied by all Europe. T'aus, by a
spirited application of well timed Expedients, our
sickly state was removed, and the Nation bloomed
forth, in all theVigour of Health and Power.—lf we
look to the condition ofeve ry Coon t ry inEurope which
has been engaged with us in the la teWar, we shall find
them to have become the viaiins of their own in-
ternal dissentions, and of a foreign adversary. Not
one of them had the advantage of treating for Peace
on terms of equality.. This Country alone possess-
ed the power of continuing the War, without ha.
zarding her Integrity, and in the consciousness of
this principle, her Government was enabled to con_
elude a Peace without dishonour, and without loss
of her original Territory. The Morning Chronicle,
previously to the Signature of the Preliminaries,
unceasingly poured out its inveelives against the
continuation of the War, and proposed the esta.
blishment of Peace on any terms. When this ob_
jea, was accomplished, feeling the awkward predi.
cament in which it was placed, and the impossi-
bility of discovering any grounds of accusation, it
was eluflantly compelled to panegyrise the new
Ministry, and to approve their conduEt. From that
time, the Chronicle was drivelling gradually into
a dull register of Advertisements. Fatlion and
Party Spirit were so completely silenced by the
measures of Administration, that it was even sup.
posed, and purposely insinuated, that many of the
Opponents of the late Ministry were so delighted
with the condo& of the present, that they were in.
triguing to fill subordinate situations under it, At
a loss what to think, how to aCt, and much more
what to write, that miserable Journal, plodded on
in the stupid language of Monotony. The late
EleCtion for Middlesex at length revived its hopes
It sees the momentary triumph of Jacobinism, and
it grasps ar it with invidious pleasure, as the starv-
ing wretch catches at the offils of- Plenty. What
can its readers think of its principles and its inte-
grity ? This gleam of hope has suddenly darted
upon its columns, and irradiated the gloom that
universally pervaded them. It views with exul-
tation this efibrt of Party, and in the un-
guarded moments of rapture, conneds the cause
of 'Sir FRANCIS BURDETT, with the condem-
nation of that very Ministry, whom it had before
approved; and even applauded.
It i 3 not the exercise of the Constitutional Rights
vested in the People, that we censure ; it is the
abuse of it ; it is a perversion of true Principles
which we deplore, but which The Chronicle public-
ly extols. We wish to arouse " the Public In,
digoation of a Great. People" against misrule,
and to see Loyal Men " sit in ?ornament, to
obtain for us Indemnity for the past, and Secu-
rity for the future." It was the want of such
men !' which produced the destruction of the
Privileged Orders in France," and not (as the
Chronicle would persuade its Readers, what it calls)
" the Despotisnti which reigned Cowl.

NAVAL NEWS.

PLYMOUTH, AUG. 4.

ARRIVED His Majesty's Ships Czsar and Cene-
rettx, from the Mediterranean, last from Portsmouth ;
Diana and Blanche Frigates from a Cruize; Abbey,
HANNAFORD, hot]; Waterford ; and Anna' Catha-
rina, HoLsT, from France ; also the Busy, Revenue_
Cutter, Capt. BOWDEN, with a seizure of Spirits.
Sailed the Nile, BALLEY, and the Goad Intent,
TRACEY, for Lisbon.

The Generei:x; of 74 guns, is come into Harbour
to be paid off. ,

PORTSMOUTH, Auc. S.

ARR rvsp His Majesty's Ship Netley, from T.eith ;
the Sally and Calypso Transports, from ti,c Medi..
terranean ; Traveller, FE ETAM, from it tersburgh ;
Fielding, SMITH, from Dantzic ; Good Intent,
BROOKS, from Guernsey ; Nile, DaAYToN, and
Nelson, Do NAL D, from Havre de Grace ; Distateht
WOOD, from Deptford; asd Jane, BEVIS, from
London.

(~me into Harbour to be paid off, His,Majesty's
Cutter Pigmy.
Captain CASE, of the Antelope Cutter, has cap-
tured two Smugglers with 3so casks of spirits, and
carried them to the Customhouse here.