The Sun.
London, England, 1802-09-01 00:00:00

plies a Peace by which the Independence of the
State, or the Liberty of Individuals has been sacri-
ficed ; by which . Colonies, Ships, Fortresses, or
Territorial Possessions, have been given up to the
Enemy ; by which the Faith of the Nation to its
Allies has been violated, by which the future right
of making Peace or War is left dependant -on the
will of the Conqueror ; by which, in short, Com-
merce and Industry have been made subjed to in-
jurious restrictions. Who will venture to say, that
he recognizes in this description the charatter cif
the Treaty of London ? Is there one of its Articles
which bears the slightest resemblance to any of these
degrading conditions
" Deviation in one point naturally leads to an-
other; and the spirit of Party knows
.no bounds.—
The whole Honour and Advantage of this Pacifica-
tion, has been consequently given to the three
PoNers• with whom toe hat e treated. Hearing, as
we do, the magnificent descriptions of the situation
in which they now stand, one should h led to sup_
pose, that instead of having lost two of the .most
valuable of their old Possessions, they had aftually
acquired new ones; and that they were no-W opposed
to us in a state nf relative and evident superiority.
Had those persons, who thus tieseribe them, been
content to say, that all things considered; Fiance
had made as good a Peace, as she bad reason to ex-
ped, every impartial men would agree with them ;
but would at the same time deny, that it i, honour,
able to her, since she has only recovered hstr own
Possessions at the expence of those of her Allies._
Before wr Tait this point, it rierec,ary To rem:is-14,
that the traducers of the Treaty rinnte themselves
by their own arguments. It, as they incessantly
assert, France, who has gained nothing ; Spain,
who has lost one of her most important Colonies in
the West ; and Holland, -the most valuable which
she posSessed in the East Indies, --have nevertheless
made a triumphant an,l advantageous Peace, how
can the same epithets be refused to that Peace by
Which Great Britain, losing nothing of her own, has
gained all that the others have lost ?
"Pressed, however, by these unanswerable ar-
guments, which, in fad, embrace in a few words
the whole substance of the Treaty ; refuted also in
the separate discussion of each Article, the Oppo-
nents of the Peace retire into the darkness of futu-
rity, and utter from thence the most terrific pre-
did ions.

.the Death-Warrant of Great Britain has been
signed. Her• Glory will vanish like a dream. The
Colossus of her Power will crumble into dust. Her
Name will be erased from the Catilogue of N;tions,
and to her unfortunate Inhabitants' there will remain
only the vain remembrance of her firmer. gran-
deur." Happily these self-constituted Oracles have
sufficient compassion to leave us ignorant, when and
how these fatal Prophecies are to be fulfilled. Till
they shall condescend to he more explicit, we shall
take the liberty still to confide in the destiny of our
Country, to enjoy in repose her actual Happiness,
and to await what is to c ,me with calmness and se-
curity. 'nil the contagion of their despair shall
extend to our minds its gloomy influence, we shall
hardly be brought to believe, that what eight years
of a most rancorous War, what Jacobinism in the
fulness of its vigour, and with all the attraftions of
its youth, what the Mutiny of our Fleets, the Re.
beliion in Ireland, the Suspension of Payments at
the Bank ; what the disasters of our Allies, the
magnitude of our Debt, the enormous weight of
our Taxes, the severity of the Seasons, and the
sufferings of a great Body of our Countrymen, have
not been able to bring about, can be produced by
the very event, by which a part of these evils is
removed, and the return of others precluded. We
shall not easily be persuaded, that events can thus
be in an inverse ratio to their causes ;. nor shall we
fear, that the Vessel of State, after having weather..
ed so many Storms, will, at last, founder in a Calm,
when safely moored in Port, where every means
which human foresight can suggest, and human
p,wer can employ, are made use of to prote4 anti
secure her.

prediEtions cannot command the atten-
tion of refit ding Men, except when they anticipate
the future consequences of some powerful cause, con.
cealed from vulgar observation. Of this descrip.
tion were those of Mr. BURKE.. But predictions,
framed in opposition to the course of obv iops causes,
and which ..rest on no other basis, than the wishes
and prejudiOek of Individuals, cannot counterbalance
the weight of )general reason, and can ad only on
minds congenial with those from which they ema-
nated.

" The people of Great Britain have too much good
sense, and are too much in the habit of being guided
by what they evidently see, and clearly understand,
to be affeaed by those visionary terrors ; and with
all resped to the patriotism and good intention com-
bined with them, will separate the mixture, retain-
ing the ore, and rejecting the alloy.
" In fad the apprehensions which may be enter-
tained, are reducible to two principal points, which
include all the others_ Fran, I,Lay
openly at contrary to the Treaty. idly. That
taking the advantage of the communication which
Peace has opened, she may endeavour to excite inter-
nal troubles amongst us.
" To come at once to the second point, it may be
remarked, that our Government is at present so firm-
ly established, and the generality of the People are
so loyal, that no troubles can be apprehended of any
kind, except such as may have their origin in jaco-
binism. Although the source of this social poison
be not entirely dried up, it is however manifest,
that it has almost entirely lost its power of adion,
and that for some time past the symptoms of it have
disappeared, not only in this Country ; but even on
the Continent, and more particularly in the Coun-
try which gave it birth. All must agree that no
Government is more interested to-repress with ri-
gotir, and to prevent with vigilance, every attempt
against its authority, than that of France ; and
every thing demonstrates that ,the doctrines of mo-
dern philosophy have there completely lost their
credit. We do not see that they produce any
positive effed in Germany, where they have more
Partizans than in any other quarter ;, and it does
not even appear that the French, in their last inva-
sion of that Country, made any attempt to bring