The Sun.
London, England, 1804-07-18 00:00:00

The truth is, directly contrary to' the assertion of the
M rrlrrur, treat there have men some advance. to wards a 'tie-
pets' scheme of seistunce to the dangerous and *daring ag.
grandizeinent 'of Prance: The ground of th'ese has been
Jove /4 which we suspeet the AAuthor,gl. thf A rticle in the
/Mu/tow wei/Anwr, and of which the great turopean Courts
are perfeCtly ao ire, hut which cannot yet,- with propriety,
be brought hoer,: the Public. For our- ow't tarn, we were
never sanguine enough to think that those advances would
lead hi any inmediatt conclusion ; we perfectly knew that
.torne of the Power:: are not yet in a state for any,aclive move.
meat, atid that there is a systeattof intrigue Carried on in a
certain quarter, which must be done away before any thing
for the deli veran,x of Europe can be effected."
Now, Sir, can any body presume to accuse the
Writer of the foregoing Article of the indiscretion.
usually imputed tti Public Prints, of an intention to.
betray the interests of this Country, or to baffle the
views of the Cm inental Powers ? --No,. Sir, routing
~,,•ean be more laudably cauti.ns. So far froto letting
our En. emirs into any secret that might be of advan.
tage to them, he will not even give the least iofor.
ma tion to -his Cour/icemen up On a subjeet of such de.
Heavy and importance. He tells us, indeed, of
so4retkiog, bur does not give us the least clue to the
natuie tit that to:nab/v. suspeCts, we find, that
the Writer in Ifni Monitekr nut only knows, but
'old/ kiroctl, what that ,rometking is, and that the
greatEtin.pean'Courts are purlc4ly aware Olt ; yet
hr is too discreet to let the secret go any farther,
It' must he admitted, that if there he a so/whirl
which is in iigitatinti among' the great European
,COuits, they ate likely to know 1011teibbi1 about it,
nisi can it he supposed to .be of a very secret nature
if it he known to the Writer in the Itioniteur, the
Official. Pal er of the. French Government but the
Witter tit the Article in the English Newspaper is
never t heless entitled to great praise for ,his.catrtion
in preventing, if possible, this thysterictur tontrthing
from known to more than th:,se byrwh4,7s it 11
de ,f;vie d, auti tl; Hr 'will; it it dire/ltd. 1
belie tlnit in these timrs, hen ripe licentious.
nes% of the Press is s ju,tlp condernhed, no parallel
jo,,taner can be fotottl of finch meritorious reserve
this which I have transcribed ; for I defy,any man
to penetrate through the cautious covering with
which the ametbiv in tvistion is invested, and it
may be doubted hetkr it be not now so well con.
ecaled as to be inscrutable even to the Writer in
the'Alswirefte, and to the great European, Courts, to
the fOrmer of whom it was before so well hieowle,
and by the latter of whom it is supposed to have
been devised. But ehouglt Sit', we cannot find any
similar, instance of such laudable reserve in the
Papers of the day, I Must acknowledge that Mr.
• Ainmate, in his memorable History of the Cruz:),
Politician,. on which Mr. Mu it Ntiy fuundcd his
pleasant Farce of The u.pbohterer, thews that some
Newspaper Writers about a century ago dkplayed
the, same kind of commendable caution in matters
that related to State affairs. , In justice to those
VVriters, who have • been lorg released from the
daily toil of political speculation, I shall conclude
with the instances 'preserVed in The .Tatter, and
which otherwise would have sunk into oblivion,
and have left no' example of, political discretion to
succeeding Newspaper Writets, The Daily Core.
rant of that says. 41 We. Ite.u.• from
gssi handr,, thAt a certa;u Pr;uct• has same
• store of great impurtaiwe under earoiderarion.'!--,-.
7'hr Powitare of the same period says,
,4 , There are
tri,varg, ;//timarisis of Meililitei taken by certaire
Prince which time will bring to light.",,—The same
Paper alio observes, that " the late contluet of a
tain Prince affords great matter cif spee4/4f10a."
It would be injustice to livieg merit, Mr:Editor,
while we admire the prudent delicacy of the
Writers whose sentiments Mr. AnutsoN hag Otis
consigned to inunoriality, nor to admit that they
are fully equalled in this respe6t by the wary Poli.
ocian, whose speculations upon rsqrethine► have
drawn Iron) this liturtbla tribute of patriotic ap.
probation.

CANDIDUS.

'esterday afternoon a very hard battle wai fought
in a field at the back of Lord'a Cricket:groutid,
Mary-le.bone, between a private belonging to a
recruiting party of Dragoons, and a 'groom -•of the
Lon:: of flarrowhy, who had inEsted the ps,:ceding
day. The battle lasted three quarters of. an hour,
during which time the Dragoon, who wit% the weaker
displayed a superior scientific knowledge of the
art,' while the groom 4.splayed mare courage ;Ilan
skill. lie received a very desperate blow on the
right temple, whir li concluded the fight, and he was
for •many minutes supposed to be decd.
A Gentleman of Hull has engaged to walk from.
thence to Drillieldi and back, for a wager of two
hundred gnineas-to one hundred. The distance is
al,:;int 45 miles, and the time allowed fur performing
it nine ituura.,

Saturday- Francis Stuith, cotwifieti in the last ja.
t,t; Se.sion9, of shooting the rnan whom lie sup.
p-,y:,1 to he the ilatnersruith 'zitosl, received ilis
slysi free pardon.