The Sun.
London, England, 1802-08-30 00:00:00

TIIL AIONITEUR.

•The Moniteur still. attacks the English- Press,
and perseveres in its declarations, that' our Go:.
vernment permits a set of wretches who are
guilty of assassinations in France, to find an asylum
in Jersey. It is icpossible that the CHIEF CON-
stn, can give any credit to declarations so injurious
to the British Government, antl,,so inconsistent wiz!'
its acknowledged character. We • are surpriie,i,
therefore, as The Moniteur is to be considered, as, an
Official Journal, that he does -not at once suppress
such malevolent and such improbable libels upon the
Government of a State with which he is in amity.
He ought to know, and he really cannot but know,
that the freedom of the Press in this Country is
one of the darling privileges .of Englishmen, It
'is a priVilege which, like all other human enjoy_.
ments, is often abused ; but though Englishmen
are conscious of the frequency of the abuse, they
view with the utmost jealousy any attempts to re-
strain it, and too much vigilance on the part of our
Government in noticing the produftions of the Press,
would only expose that Government to • general
Odium. But this is not the case :vitt) the CH I E
CONSUL whose authority over the Press is uncontrol.
able, And therefore by not suppressing the attacks
of French Journals on the British Government, he
exposes himself to the suspicion of giving a sanc-
tion to them. The charge then, which 'has been
made upon the licentiousness of the Press, applies
with much greater force to the French than to
the British Government, for one can restrain the
Press immediately with the strong arm of Power,
but the other cannot make the attempt without
exciting popular alarm, and lessening the security
of an essential prop Of. British Freedom. Away
then, with all these " paper bullets of the brain "
on• the part of France, and as we have put an end
to the horrors of War, let both sides forbear from
the prosecution of such pitiful hostilities as are
carried on by the French Journals.

,
Mr. TIERNEY, according to the account of a,
French Paper, seems ro havemadelan extraordinary.
Trip to Calais. On the Sunday he landed' at Boulogne,
on the Monday he arrived at Calais, and the folldw.:
ing morning sailed. for- Dover. if a Putriot-cotthi
ever be guilty of gaming, it might be supposed that
this Gentleman went to France merely on.account of
a rz.vager.

Sir FRANCIS BURDEIT has
_proposed to Mr.
BYNG, that a Dinner shall be held at the London
Tavern, in honour of their Joint-Eledion for the
County of Middlesex, and that Tickets shall be is-
sued for the accommodation of a Thousand Persons.
This proposal has embarrassed Mr. 13YtiG, who, it
seems, was willing enough to avail him Self of the
Baronet's interest, to promote his own Return w
Parliament, but who now strives.: to draW a line
between the Political Party to whom he has gene-
rally attached himself, and the furious Believers in
the outrageous Creed of his Colleague. The Bttß.
DiTTITES are aware of this relklance 'on the part
.of Mr. BYNG, and, no longer wanting the support
of his kntere:it for Elealonee'ring phrposes, they
wish to oblige him to come forward unefaivocallj•
This is a vexatious predioment for Mr. 131-NG, and
it is certainly the 'result of a mischievous trick ,of
the BURbETTITES ; but nobody who seriously, ob.,
served the whole proceedings of the late MiddleseX
Eledion, can regret that he is placed in so 'awkward,
a situation.

The Irish Viceroy was so pleased with his Enter•
taintnent at the Mansion. House, a few days since,
that, after his carriage arrived, at nine o'clock, the
hour he had appointed for hig departure, he direded
that it should go home, and 'return for,him at eleven.
Sir Jon Fetus, who to ax excellent voice joins
Much taste and humour, and who has lost all relish
for Church Music, (except of a Sunday) preferred
the gratification of the Company at large, to that of
the BISHOP of DU,I3 LIN, and sung-several Songs;
the etiquette, which requires that no person goes
away before the Lord Lieutenant, obliging his
Grace to continue during the whole of them.

The ci-devant Governors-General of the Pl°
Countries, on quitting Brussels in 1794 with great
precipitation, left considerable property in the hands
of several inhabitants of that capital, mho have
preserved it with the
,greatest care, .at the hazard'
of their lives. The whole is now colleaing for
the purpose of being sold ; the overplus of its pro;
dtice, after paying the debts left unpaid by the 01°
Court, will be placed at the disposal;a--the Corn'
missaries of the Archduke CHA41.40,..'
The heat in the neighbourhood Zfi Frankfort, at
the commencement of the present month, Was 5°
intense, that the leaves of the vine, and other trees,
fe3 in the same manner as at the end of Autumn•_•

It is stated in a French Newspaper, that a
at Niost, devoured, in the presence of several Per-
sons, an entireitiii.grown Sheep, together with. its
W 001!

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