The Sun.
London, England, 1804-04-09 00:00:00

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(No. 1) These are the modes of commtinication
through which he transmits his ideas, projedi and
rewards; and, by these Means, he is informed of
the Schemes planned by his orders for raising insur,
reaion, in the first place, in four depaitifients ;
(No. v.), for raising an army, increasing the num-
ber of the disaffeded, and overthrowing the Consu-
lar Government.

These efforts and promises are too mad, and the
vile miserable methods employed are too dispropora
tioned to the difficulties of the enterprize, to give
any uneasiness as to their success. But it is not
with regard to what may occasion fear, nor with a
view of punishing, that the operations of that inte-
rior arrangement, called the Policy, aas; its prin.
cipal ()Ned is, not alone to prevent crimes as that..
of the exterior is to confine ambition, but to re-
move even the very occasion of vice and weakness.
In those countries that are the best governed,
there are always to be found certain persons who
suffer themselves to be led astray by a sort of 'innate
inconstancy. In the best regulated commonwealths'
there are to be found perverse and weak men. It
has always been considered by my predecessors as a
duty to watch over such persons, nor in the vain
hope of rendering them good, but to stop the deve.
lopment of their vices ; and as on thii head all
civilized nations have the same interest to watch
over, and the same duty to fulfil, it has always been
a received maxim, that no Government should stif-
fer a Standard to be created, around which hirelings
of every country or profession might gather, for the
purpose of planning a general disorganization, and
much less should they permit an infamous school of
bribery, and recruiting, to the prejudice at once of
the fidelity, constancy, affeetions, and conscience of
the citizens.
Mr. DRAKE had an agency at Paris; hut other
Ministers, the instruments of discord, ai.d exciters of
mischief, like him, may also have agencies. Mr.
DRAKE, in his Correspondence, unmasks all those that
exist in France, by the very measures he takes to deny
that he knows any thing of them. " I repeat (says he
" Nos. 4, $, 6,8, and 9) that I have no know-
" ledge of the existence of any other society besides
" yours. But I repeat to you (he observes in several
" places) that if there does, I do not doubt but that
" you and your friends. will take the necessary
" measures, not only not to embarrass one another,
" but to he mutually serviceable to each other."
In fine, he adds (Munich, Dec. g, 18o3), with a
brutal fury, and worthy of the part he plays, " It
" is of very little consequence by whom the beast
"' is brought to the ground, it is sufficient that you
" are all ready to join in the chase."
Pursuant to this system, on the first breaking out
of the Conspiracy that now employs the hand of
Jtivice, he writes : " If you see any means of ex-
."
" triCating any' of Geotic c's associates, do not fail
to make use of them ;" (No. 9), and as his evil
genius is never discouraged, even -in• his disgrace,
Mr. DaAtt will not have his friends give them-
selves up for lost in this unexpeaed reverse of for-
tune. _ _

44 I earnestly request you," he writes (Munich,
25 h Feb. 18o+, No., 9), " to print and distribute
" a short address to the army immediately (both to
" the dicers and soldiers): The main point is to
" gain partizans in the army ; for I am thoroughly
" persuaded, that it is through the army alone that.
" one can reasonably hope to t; in the change SO
" much desired."
How vain these hopes were, h sufficiently ch.
ratterized by the striking unanimity, that prevails
evety where, now that the danger is discovered with
which France was menaced.
But the attempt to commit a crime, the bare idea
of which is an outrage to humanity, and the execu-
tion of which
.would not only have been a national
calamity, but, I may add, a calamity for ail Europe,
demands not only a reparation for the past, but a
guarantee for the future.
A solitary, scattered banditti, a prey to want,
without harmony, and without support, is always
weaker than the laws which are to punish it, or
the police which ought to intimidate it. Bur if
they have the power of uniting,‘, if they could car-
respond with each other, and the Brigands of other
countries ; if in a profession the most honourable
of all, inasmuch as the tranquillity of Empires and
the honour of Sovereigns depend thereon, there
should be found men authorized to make use of all
the power their situaiion affords, to praEtise vice,
corruption,, infamy, and villany, and to raise from
out of the refuse of human nature., an army of assas-
sins, rebels, and forgers, under the command of the
most immoral and most ambitious of all Govern-
ments, there would be no security in Europe for
the existence of any state; for public morality, nor
even for the continuance of the principles of civili-
zation.

It is not my duty to discuss the means you may
possess to secure Europe, by guaranteeing her
against such dangers. I content myself with inform-
ing and proving to you, that these exists'.at Munich
an Englishman, called DRAKE, invested with a di-
plotnatic- charaCter, who, profiting o 1 this guise, and
of the vicinity of that place, directs darks and cri-
minal efforts to the heart of the RepUblic ; who re-
cruits for agents of corruption and .rebellion ; who
resides beyond the environs of the Town, that his
Agents may have access.to him without shame, and
depart, without being. aposed ; and who diretts
and pays men in France, ch,rged by him with pav-
ing the way to an overthrow of the Government.
This new species of -crime, escaping, from its
nature, the ordinary means of supprssion which the
Laws put in my power, I must confine myself to
the unmasking it to you, and pointing out to you
at the same time, the sources, circumstances, and
consequences.

Health and Respell,
. REGNIER.

INSTRUCTIONS GIVEN TO M. D. L.

The subtance of these Instrudions is as follows :
I. M. D. L. must immediately go to Franc::,. and witho%t
penetrating as far as Paris, must find an opportunity of coo,
versing with his associates, whom he must inform that,
having the highest opinion of their prudehce, the purity of
their intentions, and their patriotism, they may be tumished
with pecuniary assistance, to enable them to overthrow the
eresent Government, and the French Nation; to chtiseti4
torn of Government most likely to assure its hapjnes and
tranquillity ; a point which ten years experience- ought to
have rendered very obvious.

11. NI. D. L. must scale upon a goneral plan with his
Associates—containing,