The Sun.
London, England, 1802-08-13 00:00:00

LONDON, AUGUST 13, 'So:.

WE this morning received the remaining French
Papers of the gth, some articles from which will be
found in our subsequent Columns.

The Court of Prussia has declared to that of
Vienna, that it is its intention to occupy the Coun-
tries devolved to it as an Indemnity, only provi_
sionaliy, until the Deputation of the Empire shall
formally terminate the important business of the
Indemnities.

An Imperial Edict has been published, requiring
the Deputies of the Empire to meet at Rat;s6air
with all possible dispatch.
Admiral VILLARET JOYEUSE sailed on the zd
inst. from Brest, with two Ships of the Line, and
some smaller Vessels, fur Marti/1;72e.
On the 4th, intelligence arrived at Nantes from
St. DQmingo, of the date of the 26th June. At that
period the Colony enjoyed the greatest tranquillity.
TT General in Chief had published the new Constitu-
tion ol. St. Domingo, the execution of which is wholly
suspended with respea to some Articles, while the
Colony remains in a state of warfare. A Decree
on this subjea by the Captain-General, determines
the exceptions caused by existing circumstances.
Another Decree of General LECLERC fixes the Di-
vision of the French part of the Island into Depart-
ments, Quarters, and Communes.

We yesterday offered some brief remarks on an
Article which Appeared in The Moniteur of the Bth,
and which struck us very forcibly with emotions of

surprize.

We do nor, by 'any means, except to the obser.
nations which may be made in the Moniteur, or any
of the French Papers, on the occurrences which take
place in this Kingdom ; on the contrary, we invite
inquiry, and challenge their most invidious remarks.
Nay, we should rejoice in any observations that
may come from that quarter, because we are con-
scious that every paragraph must redound, in the
comparison, to the Honour and Glory of this
Country. But, whip we ,feel a conscious pride in
this expression' of our sentiments, we would not be
understood to approve of, much less to justify, the
violent and indiscreet language, which has often
appeared in several of our public Journals, resped-
ing the French Government.
!'he tr3e use, arid praCtical advantages of a
Free Press, consist in the honest avowal of Fats,
and in a manly comment upon them; not in the
language of intemperate provocation : and if this
liberty be abused, and licentiousness assumes its
features, there must be an end to all just Reasoning.
The Press is not a chartered Libertine ; it ought not
to transgress the rules of decortim in private life,
and, surely, the rest eft which is due to Nations,
exacts a stronger conformity to this rule.
The Moniteur objets, in terms of unusual acrip
many, against this abuse of the Liberty of the
Press, in which many of our Journals have indulged
themselves, While we reprobate all foreign in-
terposition respeEting this primary Article of British
Freedom, and while we highly censure the abuse of
it among our Contemporaries, we feel it our duty
to expose the falsehoods and wickedness that have
distinguished the French Journal, respelling the
greatest and brightest Character, that this, or any
other Nation ever possessed.
In the deceptions and virulent language of Jaco.
binism, it accuses the best men of the worst atroci-
ties. ,Smarting under the animadversions which
have issued from the British Press, it has discovered
no other way of refutation than by recurring. to
Calumnies, which would have distinguished the
epoch of a ROBESPIERRE and BAR.RERE. The
late virtuous Minister of England is accused of
having been the Author of the Massacres in the
infamous month of September, and of the tragical
scenes which occurred in the unhappy city of Lyons.
Such a charge we should degrade the honour and
the charaler of the British Press by refuting, Lyons
'was not the only Theatre of blood-stained atrocities.
A thousand towns in France exclaim against these
Assassins, and these Assassins still exist. Nay,
there is more than one man at this time in the cons
#dencc of the French Government, noted for fero-
Inus and horrible assassinations in other towns be-
, s'des Leonf, The French Paper falsely accuses Mr.
Pt t dilfiviee can they Wee for M. Foss E,
Olt) Priest of rile If that Pape: he

official, is it creditable to the FreachGoletntsent to
suffer such a groundless charge ?

The language of Conciliation better suits the
present position of both Nations ; it is an example
we have uniformly given them; and if at any time
we have remarked on their Protean Institutions, we
have always accompanied our remarks with a re.
servation of the peculiar habits of the French Na.
Lion. If we have condemned, we have condemned
Only a long tissue of Crimes and Folly. and we
have felt more disposed to pity than to texture. We
have always thought the French incapable of enjoy'.
ing such Freedom as we enjoy, and we have depre.
cated any mode of judging of them according to our
own glorious and enlightened System of Policy.—
The propriety of this moderate co'ndua, between
two Nations which are sincerely at Peace with each
other, is apparent. The Ildoxiteur would have bet.
ter consulted the interest of its own Country, had
it slimed an equally pacific temper.

With respedi to the observations on the Paper
Which gave rise to these remarks in the French
Journal, we have no defence to offer in its be.
half, but that which we 'have already alluded
to respeaing the just freedom of the British
Press ; fur that Paper is, we believe, so versatile
and mean in its principles, that it is fully prepared
to serve any cause which may suit its personal
views. The Country has no charms in its ayes.
But when the Moniteur ventures to assert, that
" the French Government is 110241 more solidly esta-
blished than the English Government,"—that a
Government which is undergoing continual changes,
is more stable than that which is upheld by one
of the most Illustrious Houses in Europe, and
unquestionably by the most Virtuous King in
the World, and supported by the unanimous voice
of his People ; when it asserts that a Minister of
the Crown, whose vigorous mind, comprehensive
genius, and sublime patriotism, are balanced only
by his private and unsullied worth, and by a dis-
interestedness which has no parallel in the annals
of mankind,—such assertions can hardly be expea-
ed to receive from us a serious refutation.

Yesterday His Royal Highness the PRINCE of
WALES was to dine with L'ord LUCAN, at his beau-
tiful Seat at Wick, and in the evening was to at.
tend the Ball at the Castle at Brighton, in honour
of his Birthday.
The Earrand Countess of CHATHAM, Lord CAR-
RING-roN and his Son, the Right Hon. GEORGE
Rost, and the Right Hon. C. LONG and his Lady,
are all at \Valmer Castle, on a visit to Mr. PITT.—
They make frequent excursions on the water in the
Trinity Yacht, which is appointed to attend them.
Yesterday at three o'clock, the Dutchess of GOR-
DON' and Lady GEoRGrAN4 GORDON Set OUI i.lOlll
Mr. PITT'S, Wairtler Castle, on their way to Spa.
It is said that Mr. Fox was married to Mrs.
AamsTEAD soon after his retuin with that Lady
from Italy, at the time of the Regency.
Mr. Fox has promised to he at Paris on the 17th,
and Lord HOLLAND has taken a house for him in
the Rue de Notre Dame des Champ, in the quarter
of St. Germain.

We are sorry to learn that Mr. MAIN WARI NG is
so much indisposed, in consequence of his fatigue
during the late EleEtion, as to give serious alarm to
his friends.

The Court of DiredOrs of the East India Com_
pany have taken up the undermentioned Ships, and
stationed them as follows, viz, the Henry Adding.
lon, 1200 tons, Captain , Ocean, 1200 tons,
Captain A. PATTON, for Madras, Bombay, and
China ;'the Castle Edell, SIS tons, Captain ALEX.
CUMI NG, Lord Duncan, 830 tons, Captain GEo.
SALTWELL, for Bengal. The above Ships to be in
the Downs, the Ist of Oaober next.—The Court
adjourned till Wednesday next.
. The Coll .wing Whalers have been licensed by the
Hon. the Court of Direftors of the East India
Company, to proceed this season to the Eastward of
the Cape of Good Hope, on the Southern Whale
Fishery, viz. the Aurora, Elizabeth and Mary,
British Tar, Astrea, Alexander, Georgiana, Mary;
New Euphrates, Favourite, Commerce, Flirt,
Charming Kitty, Resolution, Dubtte, William Fen..
ning, Policy, Pacific, Albion, and Edwinstow.
A Portuguese Squadron of two Men of War and
some Frigates is fitting our, to reinforce the ships
in the Mediterranean, and take vengeance on the
Pirates, in conjunaion with the. Americans. The
Milbrook Schooner arrived lately at Lisbon, and
brought. accounts that Captain BAR Low, who had
been sent by Lord KE tTH to Algiers, had returned
from thence, with full satisfadion from the Dey,
and a promise of his future good Wlaiviour.
Capt. STEW ART, Aid Ale Camp to General STEW.
ART, late Commander in Chief of the British Forces
in Portugal, died at Lisbon on the z3d ult, of a
consumption.

A new system of Police, which has lately been
instituted, has produced a total revolution to the in.:
ternal Administration of Lisbon. This improve.'
ment was planned and is executed by a French
Emi-
grant, in the Portugueze service, the Comte de No.-
vioN, who now commands the Legion with which
he has cart ied his reforming purposes into effect. It
is composed of 200 picked men of cavalry and Soo
infantry. At night they patroie the streets and
examine every passenger, arresting all who cannot
give a good account of themselves. Sy this means
the hordes of miscreants who hitherto infested,
bon are considerably diminished in number. Seve-
ral murderers have "lately been executed with every
imptessive cireuintance of public example and some
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more are eptc4ed to be hanzei4i