The Sun.
London, England, 1804-01-07 00:00:00

LETTER 11.

SI RE,

Try the success of the American Insurgents,-the
Historian will attribute that subsequent Revolution
and overthrow of die Monarchy in France, which has
deluged Europe with blood—and, by. an overgrown
accumulation of Power, has enabled our
.natural and
!inveterate Enemy to.. threaten our Shores with the.
Hordes of Viaurious Republicans, Assay ins, and
Freebooters, ready to be vomited forth front the
Land of Slavery acid :Licentiousness ;—to.awaken
our extrethest an,Xiety, and to'call forth and stretch
the veer 'heart. strings of out Deface. •-• • •
ee, • .
If we adrnit, 'however, that .I.ara -CHATHAM
erred, (which we cannot in jastice.do;as'the event
is in the bosotu Of time) with respetl to oar Corn,
plete Destreaion ; yet as to the Loss,. of -America.
his prognostic was fatally verified.' Ministers
_ridi.
et:led the .notiOn, as Ministers do notv theappre-
'..nension of danger—and as' they:, did before a:thou-.
:sand men were raised fur. the Defence of ttie (2atio-
try.. Thus tar is, viSibLe a strong and stiiking
audacity between the" eircurnstanceS'And COnditei of,
• e
-:Government, produaive' of the' fatal Issue of the
-Anaericari' Contest, and thos" which,ein the
_present
areleadieg'es.roWards our rate: 'rut,
- pardon the humblest of yoUr Ma jetty's Supijeas, if,
trembling for the event;and'at the batebggeq.fidn
evil.of
-an which -Should 'not have 'Veen Siiffered-a
place within the range of poslihility; I Wouldpiiint
cut the-great and -no:less •visibie disprop'oftion in
the magnitude of the' -stake • foe which the .p.layed
against the American Colonies, arid that whichis•
left too much to the .haiard' Of 'the the beiwe.en
France and the British •1-4.f•m-pire,:',iti the: present
most important crisise The -toSi of our:Colonies •
will' be long deplored, if not long felt in 'its conse-
-quences-the Country .sustained a shOek--:--ared Eng-
land was humbled; .still we had the Land 'of 'our
lYathers• to till, and• were we cut off from all corn.-
emunication with the world, our Commerce lost,
-our Creel:R.-destroyed, still
,might we -cultivate the
Soil genial to Liberty—thotigh our 'Bread-might
be the offspring of Labout, we should eat it under
the shade • of our Fig-trees and our Bet,
Sire, in the conlikt into which we have -now
plunged, we strive for our last hope—we defend our-
Jest ditch. The Citadel itself is menaced; and our
Palladium devoted to destruction _by the Enemy, if
•
.he succeed. We lose not 'ft Colony, a remote pos-
session ; it is our existence, our vitality for *which
we contend. Some may deprecate this language as
`the cry of Dispondency7--I do.not despond, because
I feel that we have 'at hand the means of Salvation,
but I tremble in the present moment, because" I find
those means unresorted to, when the next may bring
us accounts of the necessity of their immediate, and
perhaps too !Ong procrastinated, application. The
prognostic 'of Lord CHATHAM was desponding,.
because he prospeelively viewed the effeas of a bad
syiiteto ; but would to Heaven his despondency had
_.been contagidus l---Precaution might have saved
what confident rashness at length sacrificed.--To
contemplate a failure of our ptese:ut hopes and e)ser,
.• ,it-nrpa nt, or imagination
conceive, art adequate idea of an- event so dire, so
full-fraught with woe. I trust I db not trenth-
- upon the question of my Sovereign's high Preroga-
tive, in thus stating the general opinion, the univer."
sal apprehension .of all ranks• of men in the COun-
' try.---That Prerogative has ever been exercised

with the trimst discretion, and with paiental in-
_ diligence by your M./.lsts•ry—,l-lence your :dice-
- tionate People have felt none of those jealous fears
--which; in preceding times, have burst forth into
faaious remonstrances, .and-endangered the internal
reaCe frf the Commonwealth.—lt is from this convic-
. Lion; this grateful :•entimenr, encouraged by former
marks of your MAjzs-ry's gracious acquiescence in
the wishes of your Subjefts, that I have been induced
-to b,ecome the channel of their feelings and opinions.
—That I make this representation publicly, is not
to be attributed to me as a fault ; all other avenues
ave been sedulously barred against a.moreconfiden.
or respectful made of conveying intelligence
to the Royal Ear, by those interested in hushing
"flte tunnnil'ri excited by their errors.—The mass,
.Sire, of Yotr faithful SL:bjeds are not unreasonable
tresires, or chimerical in the objeft of their
:.vishes—They feel the critical posttire of- public
aril cannot be reasoned into confidence
(which the evidence of common sense contradicts) .
in the men who are entru,ted with the direction of
:.them.—Whether it lie crying to the peculiar cha-
ratierof the tithes,. the concurrence-of untoward
circumstances, or the misconduft-of your Majesty's
Servants,-it i-s no longer necessary or interesting to
inquire t;le C,:•tintry is placed. in a situation
of peculiar difficulty, hazard, and anxiety, will not
be disputed—To extricate ourselves from our pre.
sent einharras.ment, recrireiymore than
..c?mmon
talent and exertion.—Have we such -; corniwation
if% our favour, nr can tie look with.mingied hope
evezr- to.tyir,is' the Pilots of the Vessel, who steer,
self-assured, amongst shoals and shelves, which
lie beneath the surface of a seadeceptiyely calm, a
sea wlio,e depth they have never sounded, and in
ebbs )%vs they are unskilled' and un-
taught ?—Do we -not, Sire, rather turn our eyes
towards those who have before navigated her 'midst
storms and tempests, and brought her through,
with added laurels and renown; who are known,
acknowledged, and looked up to by'every State in
Europe, as well as byourselves; who have an here-
.

ditary claim to the virtunus partiality and affeition
of the Country, and who have been distinguished
by-a long; -loyal, and faithful attachment- to the
service yOur MAJTSTY ?--T feel myself borne
cut in calling the claim of our first and, greatest
Stitesman hereditary, for upon reference to the
most isupurtanr, interesting and marked -i,pochas- of
tour MA) benign
.Reign, we. shall find. the
mrrie-of CHATHAM, and that of hiS illustrious Sun,
• onnPited wiitt theit de.velopetnent, and. contribut-
ing tCo. their result.--To the American
Ali dr 1 shall onlS7'ag:tin cursorily allude ,is a prestnp-
-tive 111',tt (...)-lATRAtes'ativice and

tTached the. Cotiocils of the State, the Cohi-
ples beeo s..iyri) 'to your MAJESTY, and

all those evil consequerdes have been averred which

lave sptope, ttuzn tile prot4'cution of that fatal con.

test--That eonteirligriO. up iditfire-brand which
Ip.as since set the four.cornersa ,rope in flame.,
and carried its oierw4bnin and exterminaring
eTedi to the-heart.oellMost evlrftmpire and,State
Which it contains.-.,--It is but fair to assume,.
therefore, that had his 'Lordship boasted the
high -honour-7'of--your-- MAJESTY'S -Confidence at
the period alluded to,
_a z; tine of Coridud very
opposite,
.very. ,opposite to that' which was un-
:pursue4, would liaye been marked out by
that 'enlightened Statesman---The American separa-
tion would in all'prohability.have been avoided, the
hortors and excesses which ha-ve enervated the mind,
harrasseti the soul, and bioken the spirit of half the
Continent of Europe, never, hate Charaderlzed - the
rinks, or blackened -the page of History,---nor
would the• ambition. of `an iipstiatZlsurper at this
moment call. forth all kiiiri.xie.ty and exertions, to
avert absolute and irrevoca,Mhle
The termination of the; Colonial Contest forms a
very important epoch in..the History of this Court-
try,--tour MAT rsTr. will recoiled the feelings and
sentiments .of. your People :at that period—Nothing
was heard but the sigh of despondency, and the wild
liOWl -of discontent. The-iviies(*ifid most sanguine
.amongst,us no longer. Cherished hope, and the ge.
. neral voice 'mourned the Sun of Britain set for
ever 1 The Son of CirivrHAta stood manfully for-
ward; . he viewed out state with ,eyes. farslifferent
---Our 'Resources were diminished, he admitted,
but denied that they were. exhausted. New, ones
'Were opened fronfchannels hitherto unthought of,.
the' Spirit -of. the Country reviVed, her Finances
were regenerated, and the Glory of Britain Amongst
the Nations of the Earth 'ryas yonspicublis and corn_
mantling, as it had ever been in the most prosper,
ous. and. distinguished
.period 'of our History.
The French Revolution naturally succeeds as the
next remarkable air a in the Politics of this Court-
try-=Here. the farts and details are too recent to
'need I -recipitulation. A. SyStern
.without prece.
and a vigour we knew not that we possessed,
checked in its career the 'ffippAnt, but subtle
and. poisonous Sophistry: Ail the. Froth School of
Political;PhilOsophy., le'.ls too generally' admitted
to need my insisting upon it, that to the measures
of your MAJESTY'S then Ministers, is attributable
the _Salvation' of our onst ifution —To, their, fore.
sight and:precaution, we owe our escape from the
repetition of those. lawless and bloody scenes of
massacre and devastation, shut out from us only
by a Channel of seven Leagues--and current in
evert part of this Country in theory, through the
intrigues of an un`derniining Foe, and the criminal
caprice of too many infatuated and unnatural
of
states amongst ourselves. the•conchision the
.Revolutionary War, and a feverish interval, mis-
called a Peace, have approximated us rapidly to the.
present most serious and awful period of our exist.
enee—How far the great and brilliant talents of, the
Statesman I have alluded to as the Saviour of our.
Finances, and our shield. against Revoluton .and
Anarchy, will be permitted to avail us ihtnis most
interesting State of Public Affairs, it is not,for me
to judge—An aliernative hangs over us too dread.
ful tQ be contemplated by a common mind-4)114r to
be.averted,' I believe, by the greatest,

f hive clone, Sire I—l streak the-Body of
the People, and repeat,' that the feeling I have
pressed, is the feeling of a-great Majority of that'
Middle Class of the Community, who reason more
soberly uppo the• Measures, and contribute mare
cheerfully. to the Wants of the State, than any
Other Description of Men' in the Country.--Think,
'Gracious Sire! What would be our sensations, should
we have to look back from a .State of Defeat, Dis-
may, Subjugation, and Ignominy,' •and, in the unpick& 'Tone of Remorse,: regret that
Party Differences and Partial Feeling 'had impeded
that Union of Interest and Inteliea, which might
have carried the Destruttinn then overwhelming us,
to the Shores of the Destroyer—have reared, upon
the premeditated Ruin of this'Country, the Humi.:
liation .of his own unprincipled Ambition; and-have
placed, on firmer groundi than ever, our National
Stability and Greatnessi

Impi'essed with every Sentiment of Resped and
Loyalty,
I Temain, Sire,
. ,
Your MAJ'EsTA'i' mostuevoted'
-.- And hundlile übjeta aliServani,
A OLPHIJS.
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