The Sun.
London, England, 1803-08-04 00:00:00

PARIS, JuLY 31.

A terrible \VAT has been declared aglitut tri by
tjte ish. Doting the ievolutinnary tinats,
vre.it nntrdaer among t ti'received in England sue.
emir and -an:hospitable asylum : these circumstances
offer traits which malevolence has wished to. seize,
and which it is invoitant t r examine. The rights
on I the divici Which mty he prescribed in similar
present a great question ,of public Maki,
111 It is to say, Of tlw Law of Nations.
It has too much "understood- that morality
Only existed in the Universe for individuals it has
been scat) often said, that the equity tit Nations con.
slay in their interc,.;t. A' great and ancient pre.
ct.pr denies this do,ttrine " Know," it is said in
I):uteron.ifity, " that 'the Lord your God 11 the:
the Lord of (Lords, that he loves the
stranger, that he gives him food and raiment-, and
you also ought to hive strangers, for you were
stranger's in the Land of Egypt." Such is thelsw
whiclind himself diOated to one Nation towards
miler Nations.
Th 4.:: Gentiles hail not in this respeft any other
Own the Hebrews. Their Laws with re.
spt to hospitality are known: unfortunate stran-
gers were particularly distinguished in those Laws.
Thole who were •conneeled with the N,tritms of
whom they claimed qucconr by the ties of Law, of
Religion, or a Common Cause, were ohjeds of pre.
prence.
Examples are not wanting in this respeO. The
lonians, menaced by the King of Persia, received
from the Liocedemonians the offer of transporting
them into Greece, from the sole consideration that
they were originally Grecians.
In later times, a great number of Spaniards who
had escaped from the tyranny of the Saracens, re.
ceived in the interior of France proteahni and fa.
vont..

It was the tie of a common belief and. a common
enemy which armed. all Europe in favour of the.
Christians of the East, and which formed the Cru.
s'ades.
It was, again, this tie wliich attached Louts XIV.
to the fateuf King jAt.tes. When that Prince, the
Q teen, and the Prince of WALits, came to
.implore
I,ts.proe6tion, the French Monarch, not content
svitit heaping benefits ution theM personally, took
under his C,lrfe 20,000 hnglish, as well Soldiers as
Fngitives, who were associated to their fortune.
Utulet similar 6rettmstances, Frenchmen have ex.
petienced similar be.neftts. When the Protestants
were proscribed in France, all the Protestant States
in Europe regarded it as a duty to receive them.
Lastly, in recent times, a great revolution 'hay.'
log broken out in France, all its soil was Covered
with ruins, and all Europe with Fugitives and pro.
scribed persona.
It must be admitted that the English People were
those who in this great cause, common to ail civi.
lization, were she most faithful to the Law of Na-
tions, they received the proscribed with benevo.
fence--they gave them food, clnathing, and an asy.
Imo. It is nut intended here to accuse their mode
of doing this, or their intentions : a Nation is not
houn,l to borrow from other Nations modes of do.
thin,gs difFerent (tons its own, nor is it bound to
reooutice all hope of advantage or interest in its con.
dui.

do not wish to disseMble the benefit, nor the
obligation, which no person can pretend to dispense.
with ; the obligation may even be considered as
unposed upon ail .France. France,' in taking back
its children, liar adopted, in f4i, their engage.
mews and their gratitude. it is only intended to
inquire, in point of pnblic morals, what ought to
be, in similaccases, the measure of gratitude and
ittmxtent.
it Cannot be doubted, that Foreigners • admitted
into a Country, owe to that Country, whilst they
lOC in it, Protettion and support, even against their
own Country.. That has been the pratiet in all
times. tinder the. Roman Empire, Goths have
efunetimt.s served against Goths, and Franks against
Frit*, In the feudal times, the French, subje4
to the KANO of ENGLAND, served against the KING
of FRANC P. tlie.revocation of .the Ediet of
Nantes, the French Refugees composed in Holland,
and in Prtliala, Corps whose fidelity •was never
doubted, even against Frenchmen.
The same rule has been observed in the revrdu.
tionary times, I. mty dispense with citing. the
4ereot Foreign. Corps in the service of Krigland ; tic
eloquence of Mr. NIT and Mr. NV? N trust has*
rendered them sufficietaly celebrated. •
The result which these faCtsgive•is, that Nations
arcentitled to reckon oopthe 411egioce of those Fo-
' reignets Who belong to them, and those who arc in
their bosom. not this pretension was never ex.
tended beyond the period when Foreigners have
been restored to their Country. I defy a single
authority or example to be cited in this respea.
It was reserved for the English Writers to dare,
to proclaim a Contrary maxim7-tti dare to invoke
treason in favour of gratitude. Who could have'
believed that these Writers would hive raised
"Iterations against those ilislreps and individual i.
Frenchmen who, after having been received in Eng.
land' Awing the revolutionaty storms, have the
ingent;rille (that is the expression which they use),
4) espoo.e now•the cause of France ? What, the
benefiii which you have conferred 'upon these riven
had Own lot- their objea to make them abjure all
rhea ~,,tjoients oliFtvichmen ft
Of what nature then
v. ay the rood which you lifted to their lips, that
• you should conceive it capable ofcorrupting in 111C111'
"alt interest to their Country,- all nittionethortout ?
A 'lingular example which these Writers give to all
the wort. „t• the species of generosity which cha.
raderise4 the British, Nation,'
Pervious to the beeaking out of the ,War,
.1 hope
there is no FirtiOncran who has been teerived in.
England, who, t 1.41 not ardently desire the main.
tcnance. of Peace between the two Countries. Af, to
whit concerns toytelf,. I can assert, that. I hail,
formed in that revet the Most, attledt wishes.
k not intended to dispute what ~ve:owe to a coon.
It y whivit rt;feived us, beet we owe still mire to the
land which wilt our cradles .Whirb received the
ashes of our fathers, and which*will sOOO receive.

ours. We Are Crateful m Great Brintin, but we
tre not in-the least bound to support her affront, or
to conspire, with her tur her elevation and our de-
strth`.tion
It is our duty mnst ardently to wish that the
scourge of War may" not afTeet the two Countries,
but War having been declared, another sentiment
muit animate tr,. Qhoice of 'Alba and of Rome
and the misfortune must no longer be la-
mented: Singular pretension of these men who send
us all the thunder of Wat-,..and who pretend, that in
return they should receive nothing but compliments
and aah of kindness, _ _

I am not ;pinata what may he suggested by old
resentment. Ancient France has been effaced ;-shall
it be brought back to us by the bullets.of England ?
Wnr~ it of r countrytt:n were in tart destroyed, it is a
truth of which no Frenchman ought to be ignorant,
that it is more easy to re.animate the ashes of Our
Ancestors, than that we should be succoured by a
People who glory in abhorring us as a Nation at the
moment even when they hold tint to us as indivi.
duals an hospitable hand.---(illoititz.ur, Extraß
the Mereure.)

laces taking aAvantne Qf their Strength,- attacked
the different Nesyspaper Offices, broke the windows,
and would have,seizedthe Proprietors and Edirori,'
:if the :'tined force had not Interfered, and dispersed
thern."

SHIP NE/f3.

POOLE, AUGUST E.

Arrived—Love and Unity, Pincer, from Newfoundland.;
Four Sisters, Wilhom, frorif.Weymouth ; Willirne and C
thelitie,. Pratt, from Tenhy ; Stour, Kingsford, from S•ind-
with ; Hope, Drew, hoot Cowes ; Three Sisters, Black.'
stone, from Sunderland.

Sailed—Hope, Manelaws, for Southampton Dart, King,
Charlotte Roberts, for Portsmouth.