The Sun.
London, England, 1803-03-24 00:00:00

LOX DON, MARCH 24., iBO3.

NOTHING arrived from France in the course of
yesterday 'or thft morning, but we have reason t?
:hope that the public anxiety will in a few days be
at an end one"Wiy or the other. Some of the rope!,
meanwhile.make it a pradice
.to state the arrival.of
Messengers,' when none do arrive, thereby exciting
'public curiosity, and increasing that suspense,whirh
must naturally already prevail in a sufficient dcgter,
To this Paper, the Narion;tnay confidently look for
the earliest as...well as mast authentic account of the
issue of :he subsisting Negotiations.
Major-General ‘STIIAAT., who COMlllandea at
Alexandria, has arrived in Town. The Era.
cuation of that place by the British Trasr
took place as soon 25 possible
.after the are
rangement in favour of tlss Bet's had been can*
cludod-byLoitl'acts. The'Troops, we belie'e'
hive gone to Naha. General SrtiAXT came through
France, and his reception at Paris „is stated to have
been by ho means agreeable. . • .
By our Plymouth Letter, it appears that orlk
ders have been received there, to' =spend, for the
present, the mounting of any more guns on the
Ramparts of the Citadel.'

A Lisbon Mail arrived this'morning, brought to
Falmouth by the Pr;ace Adclphua Packet in i 8 Jar:,
Before she sailed, advites had been received at LW
bon from Spain, that the Chief Consul of Franc'd,
had insisted upon the Sparriards immediately sending'
7000 Tthops to garrison the Island of ilfs'norcol‘,
Accounts were likewiie received through the ulna
channel, of a number of British Troops having land-
ed in the bland of Sardinia.

TII E Opposition Writers tell us, that-if the Wit
is renewed all Parties must unite--Political digit
fences must subside, and we must all .jtiin, hand end
heart,. to save the Country,--to give eiceet to thin
Putriotic Sentiment, they begin by. endcAvouriog :j . 1
iw.ridenceinthHey insinuate
His Majesty's Ministets.y.
l, If destroy
th 7 Na'Cl'ia rc
breaks'out
see no hostile ells'is.
position on the part of France sin. 41t Sigri3"4"air
vernment here is to blame--trey see
that the Go.
the Treaty of Amiens—no •infringetnent of that
i
.. h
er
toldela
ntoytneeirtessieitalsfy, 0
fotrhthaaetn. ytßhrdeiyet
is.siriettmo
ptiarkeei stepsmin i:tffee :in
the
Peace their
the next, that they have broken the Treaty wit#'
France, because they arc ashamed of, It....ena this.
a: all rq'''''"",becausetbethreeys.°llOvver4
they -are told by persons who -compilment theta,
coirppreissotierls.i::
selves-on their , Consistency and who accuse. Mini., ..
_
sters of fludnatiOn ! This rimy .be ratty...lo4f or
Malice, otl Disaffeaion ; but it has not theltast
resemblance either to jiistice, Trot,, er- Honci'V. '
The call to unanimity lay sach persona,. Who ,ate`'.
doing every thing they can to destroy it, is insult._ . \
,- : -,
ing ; . but. there is no cheat more easily defraed ~.,
than Faction; in the garb and charafter of Patricia.,
ism.

We .are unwilling to state all we hAve to saY
upon the subjea of Violations of the Treaty Of
Atniens, because Negotiations are still pending
which may yet possibly end in Peace : but we con.
tend, that if the Conditions of that Treaty resPc4l"
ing Malta, haie in vain been attempted to I
Je. car"
tied into effeet, and that His Majesty's Ministers
then say they shall keep ,possession of the Liana
till new stipulations are agreed upon---:end the
Chief Consul replies, by insisting ulon the immedi"
ate evacuation of the Island—if dip, is, in substance,
-!!!• state of the case, ii is not Great Britain that
violates the
,Treaty in this respea, but From,.
There is another point -also on which 4e shah
venture to touch, because in doing so we implicate.:
no t ersons, and becauie it cannot have escaped the
notice of _those who have watched the 'progress at
France'since' the Signature of" the Treaty with thy'
Country. 'We were in possession of the Island to'
Oa at the time of the Signature of the Pre".;_
was not ceded by us. -to
—hut as if the Chief Consul was determino
tv
exclude us event from the Chance of obtaining s
Port in the Mediterranean, Frond has Since 1141":
nexed that Island to her Dominions. Now W'
ask, by what principle has this been done, which'
would not equally apply to the annexation,.oothe
part of France, of the. Cape of Goa Hoe, of Sillfr
yam, of Dontrar#4 of hiefai4o, or of any of our^
Conqueits which were -cede.' by us -at the. Peace!
bur 71.,;t ceded b Frinsti P. We have seen it WWI!
in The Mcaittur in a manner ,uSciently art itratP
thAt we have no tight to interfere wish rtaac-00