The Sun.
London, England, 1802-05-27 00:00:00

tivililation, stamps a very lits,tionrable charaftet on,
the political system which presided at the Nego-
tiation
.of Amiens:- It is not., in fad, for their
own private interest that they form thii noble as-
sociation. Their-peculiar Treaties with the Bar-
bary States sufficiently guarantee their own Com-
merce and• Navigation; it is fur the sake of foreign
interests, which their antient•principles of policy,
which the maxims loudly avowed by their Writers
-,:and Statesmen have denounced as inimical interests,
and which Humanity justly reproaches them with
having so long sacrificed.
May that generous design) so worthy of an
age, which affords such hopes of the triumph of li-
teral ideas, at length restore cultivation; industry,
and.civilization to these Coasts once so celebrated.
fur arts, riches; and commerce ; and where for so
many ages back a wretched population vegetates in
ignorance, oppression, and plunder !
" The 'Twentieth Article establishes an arrange-
ment long called for by Public Morality and the
general interests of Society. It authorizes each of
the ContraCting Parties to demand the surrender to
.the l'fibiniabi -of their own Country, of all persons
whu after having committed the crimes .of iViurder,•
Vorgery, or Fraudulent Bankruptcy, have taken re-
fuge in the territories of another Powei. .But this
surrender cannot injustice take place, says the Ar-
ticle, unless where the evidence of the crime is so
well substantiated, that the Laws of the place where
the person so accused is discovered, should authorize
his detention or surrender to justice, if the crime
had tilde been committed.'
" This Article, at length, does away, the scandal
of Close- political asylums which presented in the
right of territorial jurisdiction, a permanent in-
vitation to foreign crimes ; which opened to the.
greatest criminals of every kingdom, a secure re..
treat, where they might brave the laws of their
country, and enjoy in peace the fruits of their vii.
lainy.- It at length establishes the principle that
certain crimes are, by their nature, ads of hostility
against the human race. B'ut while it deprives
criminals of that great hope of impunity, it leaves
to persecuted or misrepresented innocence, all the
support due to her by generosity, all the protedion
she can demand from justice ; it leaves her the right`of
breathing in peace in the asylum which she has chosen.
The maintenance of public order is thus reconciled'
with the guarantee of individual liberty, the duties
towards, society in general, with the independence
of the State, the punishment of the criminal, with
the respeet due to virtue in distress.
" Such, Legislators, are the principal features of
the Treaty which you have offered to the exantina-
,tion of the Tribunate. You also will there remark

the spirit of equity which has presided. in the dis.
cossion of all interests, in the adjustment of all
rights, pretensions, and hopes. It is iri these re-
ciptocal compensations; in these combinations of
power, territory, and influence, made with justice
and moderation, that we are to look 'for the true
guarantee of every Peace, because it is on account
of-these that every Power finds it its interest to
maintain it.

" Experience has too well taught us, that it is
not the aCt of Pacification which .constitutes the
Peace of Nations.. A Treaty of Peace is too often
a mere appeal to time aild fortune.
" Can the Peace
.01 Empires be expeeted from
these immoderate stipulation• which, for a moment,
gratify the pride of a Natiot, at the expence of its
true , interests, and place the one people in_ that
jealousy which is excited by power, and the other
in that contempt which h inspired by weakness ?
They leave the present without stability, and the
future without guaranty. •
_ _

" Happily for the tranquillity of Europe, this
Peace is advantageous to all the Contraaing Parties.
In the strained situation in which they had been
held tor ten years, by the immoderate exercise of
their means and influence, Peace was become for
them the foremost, the most impericbs of wants.—
All had an equal interest to terminate a War de.
struEtive to their Agriculture, Industry, and Com_
merce. There was none of them to whom the ad-
vantages they might have wished to acquire or re-
tain,. could have compensated the calamities attend-
ing the renewal of hostilities.
_ _

g The loudest, the most solemn testimonies of
the public joy, have every where been given to this
Peace, so long desired sanEtion of national
concurrence, the voice of Nat ions has every where
declared that the pacificatory Governments have de-
served well of their Country, and of Humanity.
" The Treaty of Amiens leaves France and Eng-
land in possession of the advantages which were
more peculiarly adapted to their respeetive political
situations ; they can neither injure each other by the
nature of their acquisitions, nor distress one an-
other by the employment of means tending to in-
-3 !ry.

" France has aggrandiied her Continental Em-
pire. Compelled to•conquer in order to preserve
herself from the yoke of a Conqueror ; forced to oc-
cupy the Territory of her Enemies, to prevent the
partition of her own—she has retained a part of it
-as a compensation for the losses she has sustained by
the War.

" And that very accession,' to make use of the
expressions of One of His Britannic Majesty's Mi_
sisters, that accession is not so great as it might
appear, if we compare it with the accessions ac-

quired by the other great Continental Powers.'
" But France, as well as England, ha; great ca-
lamities to repair :—lt is necessary for her to re-
store to her Dominions those sources of prosperity
which external war, and internal troubles, have

either destroyed or exhausted. She has to create
new means of riches, proportionate to the inerea3e

of her Empire, and her political existence. She
stands in need of an enlightened Legislature, and

an attentive Adrninistration, that wilt extend their

united influence to afl quarters, in order to give the
National Industry all those facilities of exerting it-
self, *d removing obstacles in its way, which it
could never derive from individual efforts.
And yet, a; the very moment when all our
thoughts, all our interests, are diretled to ;:.e dc-
velopement of her interne' energies, these men,