The Sun.
London, England, 1802-03-12 00:00:00

LONDON, NIA RC If iz, 1802

WE this morning received the Paris Papers of
the 7th and Bth instant.— The Constitution of
the Helvetic Republic is at length announced ; the
Government is to consist of a Landamann, a Senate,
and a Diet ; the Christian Religion is to be the
Established Religion of the State, .but all others
are to be tolerated. , The Republic is to be divided
into 2T Cantons, and is declared to be One, but
the word indivisible is left out.—The Valais forms
one of the Cantions of .the Republic ; but Letters
frorn Berne state, that the greatest uneasiness pre-
vails on account of the recent movements of the
French Troops in that Distria, and strong repre,
sentations have been made to the* French ,Govern-
ment upon the subject,
Letters from Florence, confirm the reports—that
4000 French Troops are to he taken into the pay
of Tuscany, and that the Island cf Elba is to be
ceded to France.

There has been a slight rise in the French Funds :
they are at 56 f. 75 c,

IT is not yet, and possibly may not, for some
days, be in our power to remove the Political Veil
which still overspreads Great Britain and France:
but amongst the various critical situations which
we have had to surmount for some years past, there
has been none in which we must have felt ourselves
more at our ease than under the present. Every
one at all acquainted with History knows, that
Kingdoms have often found themselves in a pre-
dicament where they had nothing to hope, and no-
thing to expert, but a greater or less degree of
evil. We are now in one, the absolute contrary
of it : nothing have we to fear ; and the alterna-
tive in which we are placed is one only, of a greater
or less degree of National Advantage.

If a Definitive Treaty should happily terminate
the great work so wisely begun, we should have to
enjoy, after this long struggle, the honour attached
to a Glorious War, and the benefits of a Pacification
maturely considered. With the satisfadion of see-
ing our essential• interests fixed on a solid basis,
we should see our Expences gradually diminish,
our Commerce and Manufactures following a free
and beaten course, and our Prosperity increase in
the bosom of a repose, purchased by nine years of
effort and of courage, and guaranteed by the 'ln-
disputable evidence of our power and onr energy
being still in the plenitude of their vigour and
a&ivity.

If, on the contrary, the Ambition, or, we may
say, the Folly of our Enemies, should compel' us
to renounce, for a time, this happy prospea, we
should have before us that of being enabled to make
them quickly repent of their obstinacy, and of aim:
ing at them blows, more easy to ourselves, and more
disastrous to them, than any that we have had an op.
portunity of striking for a twelvemonth past. Should
there be a renewal of the War, then would appear in
its full lustre, the Wisdom which has clireeted the
conduEt of our Government, whether in the con-
clusion of the Preliminary Tteaty, or in the mea-
sures which followed it. Had they not nego,tiated
last year, we should have been exposed to the
greatest of all possible incoGeniences that can at-
tend War, that of waging it without an objcet, as
we should have found none truly national, after
the Conquest of Eg)pt. In that case, the Country
might have complained, and with some reason, of
Burthens and Expences that appeared useless ; and
our Enemies might, with somewhat less impro-
priety than before, have thrown upon us the odium
•
of a Continuance of the War.

In these two important respels, the conclusion
of a Preliminary Treaty, ,has totally changed the
Mate of things. By that transaaion, our Ministers
have demonstrated to their Countrymen and to all
Europe, that they entertained a sincere wish to re-
store Peace to the two Nations, arrd moderation in
concluding it on terms, honourable and advantageous
to both. Whatever may be the result, the Treaty
of the Ist of Oaober., destroys before hand every
argument which our Enemies might attempt to ad-
vance, in case of a rupture. It is an unassailable
rock of defence, against which, MachiaVelism
itself could never make any impression.
- The measures which have followed this Treaty,
would afford us no less advantage, in another point of
view, in the case of a renewal of Hostilities. Short.
sighted people, who we now and then hear deplor-
ing the liberty that was given to the Enemy's
Fleets to quit their Ports, would not he long in dis-
covering, or backward in acknowledging their
error, and in banishing their ill-grounded alarms.
'We should recommence the War, having in view
the greatest objea that it could possibly pment to

us, that of destroying. the Naval Force °'r
Enemy, which fur the Whole- of the two last }'ears'
shut. up in the HarbourS of France, Spain) °Ls'
Holland, at once defied our efforts, and coMpelled°.
to continue them withoUt relaxatiOn. PosArAalc
then risked nothing in a -Maritime jar ;
would risk every thing we were then, excert
hoine defence, uselessly exposed to the expence °.•
our vast Naval Establishment ; we' now should It
the prospep, under Providence, althost a certain one,
of obtaining a proud compensationfdr-this ExPegce',
he
by advantages, not only highly important for t-
present, but which would be so perhaps, in z 5-
rill
greater degree, for the future. In the course of °II
year, we might perhaps find means of destroyil
the greater part,of the Ships belonging to the tbreA
Powers which have ventured to quit their ports, !Ili
of thus giving a finishing blow to the remains (If
their Marine; which had hithertO escaped ft.° °II,
Naval Efforts.
Should we not prove too sanguine in these e'r'
pe4ations, we should be more than ever, ill sof
tuation to diCtate to our Enemies the Terrilstd
Peace, (unreaSonable we are sure they never svn-i
be), and of continuing the War with more
less expence, and little or no danger to ourseles:.,
ich to:
This short view of the alternative, whe
state of things at Amiegs, as far as we can form
conjecture about them presents to us, proves t
we may be perfectly at ease with resvett to °,,e
future destiny. Either we shall conclude• a Deinill'
•
Treaty on terms such as we have a right to o'l- di
or VAR will soon place us in a situation reWiV
00.
snit more advantageous, than that in which We the
are. We are far from being disposed to ahand°l4,er
Trope that the loaner will be'realized ; and Ie
'h wilslty,
anxiety we may feel to see the Definitive
speedily concluded, some small delays w°ld o
.or
far-from exciting in us impatience. The teirirnr,
a
embarrassments which may result from them ()It
:rt
Commerce, and to the interests of some ind!vA--
o
cannot, ought not to be put in comPetitl"
the importance of the object in View/ and With
attention and consideration which it demand
of DelibCrarlaUlTi CSi diu, quod statuendUm

Yesterday morning, .His MAJESTT' WA 2.° ek'
cursion to Kew, beiP
Certain injurious and libellous reports half,itsi
in circulation, and have even got into the 1./ it
.that an Officer of high rank had lost great 510
play. We have great pleasure in stating' ocial
there is not the least foundation for these ZWitr all
lous , rumours, and we need scarcely addfu
bee°
the idle and contemptible stories which 'l-ve
grafted upon the original Libel arc 01 3

true.
tO
The Earl of AYLESBI.IRy has been plearsepi 10°'
point Mr. ROBERT BLAIR, to be one of
jesty's Yeoman of the Guards, in the NO
JOHN FORD, deceased. 010
We are authorized by the Naval Ofcer' tl0(
came over from France two days ago to stat7r,ol'
he did not see Marquis CoßNwALi.rs at iteroll
arid was wholly unacquainted with the .:30116
Ascribed to him at Dover. This shews, gife
Public ought to be careful what Reports the tho
ear to—They will do us the justice to allol'copP
we have never in this way abused their
dence. ~11
;
It is generally understood that Lord NE Lt°
be appointed to the Chief Command in oc..
Indies, in the event of a renewal &the Waf.

Yesterday the Dispatches for-Cliina, by 011011/6
Charlotte) Captain R. PATTERSON, Wer6,l tO
th
closed at the East India-House, and delivere"
Purser, Mr. EDWARD GREEN.
ot-
By a Cartel, arrived at Plymouth ,frotr . 0„
on Sunday last, we learn, that the French )erl °';
permit any British manufactures to be I.3°ancl 111;
any account, except smuggled on shore, tar/
Custom-house officers were so very stria, ell. 3ge,'
sent of pickles, anchovies, and salt fish, re`.ocl
tleman there, was refused being landed, -t-icli01;
turned again to the cartel. Provisions are much
vaneed ; full 25 per cent. dearer than a few
el
since. flot
rt
Lord Etc laid the first stone of theneW
-t ref"/
at Constantinople, which is to be the luOrte:ert
dence of all English Ambassadors to the cli‘Plie
The QUEEN of ENGLAND'S Birth-daY '41,311500 .10/
for the ceremony, in compliment to '
rd"
CAPITAN PACHA gave freedom to one hun—gt
forty Maltese slaves, e
CTof
An extensive edifice has been lately eru rpog,ew
Hereford, appropriated to the humane Pll OP
receiving persons labouring under the t° of
tion of Insanity.
betlser.
A distressing event took place at the
near oc
VERNON COTTON, Esq. Gilbert's-Lea,
cleshall, in Stafford, on Thursday se'noiilbell°llllo
villains were endeavouring to break into .e py
ter
when Mrs. COTTON was so midi tetrifi in tvls
noise as to be thrown into convulsion fits'
ogsst;
she expired in a very short time..
'tact" 1)131
Yesterday was married at St. IVl.e
Shaw, by 'the Rev. CHARLES EDRIDGE: CALI' or
in Ordinary to His MAJESTY, 1:1101A,"
jun. Esq. of Upper Charlotte-stree" ) to, y
square (son of Mr. Alderman CAl:"V'a
SMITH, daughter of ROBERT SMIT'I4)
singhall-street. War tat
A match is recorded in
which far surpasses any modern feats' for c.,,Qccer,
1606, JOHN LEPTON, Esq. of York,' ys iil
derable sum, engaged to ride, six (.1a)1 'v°-
sion, between York and London ; an
wager—he consequently rode 19/
" Fuller's, in thtbei;ossii'c,

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