The Sun.
London, England, 1803-07-20 00:00:00

PAP 73, JULY It.

Tiu iteaStlfe adopted by the. Erttitsn
ment, of blockading the mouths, of the4lbe and the
Weser, is a new infra lion of the Rights of Neu:
trals, and of the SoVereignty of all Powers.
France, attacked by England, acquired the right
of carrying the War into all the British Possessions,
and of seizing,
_as it had done in former Wars,
Hanover, which made a part of those:Possessions.
'But she did not occupy the Banks of 'the Elbe,-
which were in the Country put into heriposseasioo
by conquest she respeded the Neutrality of; Bre-
men, Hamburgh, and' the other States of the 'icas-
tinent.
What circumstance, then, could authorize the
KING of ENGLAND to prohibit to Neutral Powers
the Navigation of the Elbe and the Weser ? If the
English Ilag cannot appear on all the points that a
French Battery can reach, it at least ought not to
binder Neutral Vessels from navigating wherever
the chances of War have conducted the French
Arms, and maintaining their communication amongst
themselves. The Elbe and the Weser wash a great
extent of neutral territory ; the Rivers which fall
into it increase still further the commercial rela-
tions of which they form the receptacle. To
close the entrance of these Rivers, is to intercept the
communication of a great part of the Continent : it
is to commit an act of hostility against all the
Countries to whom this Navigation. belongs.
Erstaad should have declared more frankly, that
she would not suffer any Power to be neutral : but
Will the Neutrali suffer in their turn their Flag and
their Rights to be treated with contempt ?
If Eugland wished to punish Germany for not
having protected and defended Hanover, it is doubt.
less as a Prince of the Empire that she must con.
ceive herself entitled to that proteEtion. But how dare
She claini a Guarantee from the Members of the
Empire, at the moment when she violates the rights
of one of them ? The KING of ENGLAND, in his
quality of a Member -of the Germanic Body, had
consented to the arrangements, and had stipulated
for Indemnities in favour of the Order of Malta, also
considered as a Prince of the Empire. Scarcely
had His BRITANNIC MAJESTY solemnly signed these
dispositions, than he attacked the independence of
the territory of the Order. He can have no right
to form for himself reclamations which wrist mote
justly made against himself.l
As to any thing further, the measute.:of shut.
ting up.the entrance of the principal rivers. of Ger-
many,. as like all those adopted by England for
several months Past: an aft of blindness which will
recoil upon herself. She breaks the ties of her
Commerce with Germany, and shuts up the
principal ways for the introduction of her mer.
chandize upon the :Continent. She accustoms
people to deny themselVes the proddis of her
industry : she obliges them, in order to obtain
equivalent articles, to address themselves to France,
to whom, when the mouth of the Film is shut, all
the land roads remain open. Anger and passion
are very bad Councillors.
The English Journalists announce, as a feat
of arms of which they boast, the taking of French
Fishing Boats ; and England ads in this case aho
against herself. In taking away the property of
the unfortunate Inhabitants of the Coasts, and de-
priving families of their support, she reduces to de.
spair that population whose resources she has de-
stroyed; she excites them to come forward with
greater ardour in the defence of our Territory, anti
to avenge their Country. She lights Los the senti.
ment of hatred in the hearts of meal, whom, by the
obscurity and tranquillity of their lives, seemed to
be the least accessible to it.

.A bad action always produces disastrous conse.
quences : that which is unjust is never profitable.
What would he the situation of Europe, it there
was no Power disposed to restrain the ambition of
a State which pays no regard to treaties or to jus.
tice ? The English Minister follows that line of
cond4t to which his chars ter (which is well knows
to all Europe) leads him. Weak men never obey
'reason ; abandoned to their passions, theY aiValways.
in extremes.

Moderate conduct proves a sound judgment :
injustice and violence proceed from real weakness.
How can the light of reason shine amidst the
sion of delirium I Are not the People of England
every day told that France is a , prey to all
kinds of disorder ; that the Government is without
force, and the people without energy ? but perhaps
Ihe British Ministers do - not speak mare againit
their conscience than a man in a delirium dots,
when he chews the people who surround him the
phantoms which his imagination has created. Woe
to that People who are governed by Men who are
weak, and without plan. Woe alto to Europe, if
those men are to dispose of that which remains of
the power and prosperity of a great People.

ITANovrit, JuLY 4.—The Administrator Gene.
ral of the Forests, Citizen CHAVVIT, arrived here
on the zsth of last month, with several other
Frenchmen ; his mission has, it is said, for its oh.
jea, to choose the oaks and other trees fir for ship.
building, and to cause them to be conveyed to
France. Several French Administrators fur the
mines are also on their road hither.

MIDDLEBURG, JULY 7.---Yesterday evening the
French Ambassador SEMONVILLE, and the Com-
mander in Chief, General V tcrost; arrived here ;
and this morning about too Horse Grenadiers and
snnie Mamelukcs, pat t of the Consular Guard, ar.
rived.