The Sun.
London, England, 1803-11-10 00:00:00

• TO THE
Right Um. HENRY ADDINGTO.N; Ear. Efe.

LETTER T.I.

SIR,

Is resuming the subjea of the Treasury Mani-
festo, I shall endeavour to take, a summary
view of its leading principles, and to ascertain
how far the means employed have advanced the
proprised' end ; whether, in weighing the merits
of the late and present Administration, the pre.,
ponderance appears to be in the scale of the latter,
or whether an aver-confidence on the parr of the
Editor has not made him lose his balance, and, ac.
cording to a beautiful figure of his own, leave the
sides of his Employei 'naked in the conflia. I
Shall commence operations by. a contrast to that.
Gentleman's view of Public Affairs, not drawn by
myself, but exttalled from a Letter addressed to
you, Sir, as it is said, by a young Irish Noble-
man With regard to the generaLstate of the
Empire, you came into power at a moment pecu.
liarly calculated for your own fame, to. encircle
bour own brow with laurels, and to raise and up.
old the English name ,and Nation ; in alarming
quarrel in the North decided and adjusted with a
high and cavalier hand, in such. a manner as would
have done honour to .gritein in her proudest day.
but Sti,. it has been reserved far you,' notwith.
standing the glOry which the • Nation acquired in.
Egypt, • a glory that Might eclipse the far-faitted
achievements of our RICHARDS, our HENRYS and
oar Enwattos—With an Exchequer not exhautsed,
the spirit of the Nation undauntedandunsubdued—.
with en Army arrayed, disciplined, and expert.
enced, such *5 wq have never had since the days of
MAki,BoanuGH......viithia Fleet bending the Enemy
in all their Ports; It was reserved for you, under
ihese eirctimstances, to seal your own infamy, by
compromising not the Honour only, not the Cha-
'after only of the Nation, but by endangeling. iitp
Safety, to a degree that will require the united
tax •rtions of all the Talents, and of all the Physical
Voter, combined, to tender it problematical, even
then, whether it shall survive !"
I am of opinion, Sir, that the majority of Great I
:Britain will concur in this representation of the
state of the Country on• the retirement of the late
Ministry, rather titan in that chaos of misery, mis.
fortune, and complicated evil, which your Cham.
pion has painted in all the sombre tints of a distem.
pered imagination, The Writer from whom I have
"belated the foregoing observations, certainly op-
pears to have no predileCtion for Mr. Pisa; on
;brat account I should imagine his opinions, on this
110)jea at least, may be consideted as unbiassed,
and will, I suspea, have the greater •weight with
you.
Now supposing, merely for the sail of argument,
:without an, totention of separating Men from Melt-
shoUld please His Majesty to Record to the
-aoxtous wishes of a loyal and attached People, to
'accept at this moment the Resignation of yourself
and your C6lleagues, the first parallel that would
present itself 'to the mind.of a man wishing to cont.
'pare. the two Administrations, would very natu.
'y be the .Opposed state of the Country at the pe-
riod of the Dissolution of each.. Let as then calcu.
late how the account will stand on your. side, con-
trasted even with dark and murky clouds of impend.
ing ruin which hung over the horizon, and beyond
-which the ahort.aighted observer could not discern
ray of hope-.-a cloud behind which nevertheless,
though it seemed sat for ever, the Sun of Peace
awaited your commands. The extreme of Poetic
'Fancy had as yet been content Heroic Gallantry
`should 41 pluck bright' Honour from the pale.feeeri
.Moon;" but you, Sir, from this setting Sun have,
in the opinion of your Eulogist, newAighted up
the World front the Orb of Day, and restned Man.
kind from the fearful and ruinous effete of our too.
dery Patarroo-' from whose hands you timely
snatched the Ikeins.—You, Sir, thought ao great
-a good could not he purchased at too high a price.
When a man goes to market with his pockets full,
and his mind wade- up, there can be little doubt of
•bis carrying his purchase. Satisfied with your bar.
gain, and confident of having deserved well"
yourself, you never took the pains to iroluire how
far the other Conttaning Party was fulfilling his
engegements, so occupied weft you in discharging
your Own : nay, so fearfully appicherative were you
of,favouriog even an appearance of dissatiafaaion or
dooht, that you discharged the very Vatcloneo anti!
removed the Sentries, whom the common principle
of self-defence had- Usually placed over the reserved
articles. ! You may say, perhaps, that what '
was
left Was not worth the pains Of keeping 3 you will
not however admit this, 1 hope, for your own sake.
it ,„ quite enough to have tucked us up warm in
bed, buried our arms, and Cried to us, 'f Sleep in
Peace 1" to have song lullabies to us just when you
were about to rouse us—to drag us from our rest in
the middle of the nights; and when we would have
you explain, to laugh at us for a set of Ninnies and
DriVellers (as we most surely were) fur believing
•wltat you told us. io plasm English, having dii.
armed thus Country, and left her in a state of naked.
ness, we are now told officially, by the Editor of
your Pamphlet, that.„ the Enemyieto whose hands!
we liad :resigned every biting, and at whose mercy
you were resolved to leave us by the redalion of.
our defensive force, waa pursuing " a ttain of en-
croachment even during the NpgotiatiuntitAtolens."
The fda roost assuredly is, that with our eyes
open to a' decided and undissimulated System of
ambitious anti offensive Intrigue on the part: of.
France, we tofletins if we had not the smallest in.
centive to distrtist.—The Country supposed that
Ministers, with the advantage of better informa.
(ion, knew whit they were about—The justice ttt
this supposition will be better estimated by a refe.,,
rence to the Offizial Details of the Negotiation at
Paris, than by :my argument) the bitterest Own.'
nest of His Majesty's Servants could adduce. It
shoni this bubble broke lit little more than a.
• lwelvemooth ; anti after having 'borne insult open
insult—having p.1.(0., by provocation after rovo.
ererlvinit, the Continental Aggressions of
~liopo:eattiot without an attempt aCternonstranee
rfefa'erataviottostilhe opportunity of making a COM.;
• t ti e Mwho -
(..a6e 1,4 to . an was aiming at.
oni‘a:tsal Soveteie,nty, you, Sir, contrived by an

Art peculiar to the present conch:mil of Mrairs, so
to rime your rupture, though unlimited in 'your
.choice of the moment, as to give to the quarrel the
charaaer of Injustice, to make the Cause appear,
in the eyes of Europe, the Cause of Great Britain
alone ; and the occasion of the War, a Breach of
National Faith, Sir, I have conversed with some
of the best-informed men who have lately arrived
from the different Continental Courts, and I need
not assure you, for you have been told it, that for
the first time, since the burst of Revolutionary Po-
litics, the general sentiment is decidedly against
this Country, and more particularly as to the prin.
ciple and circumstances.,Of the present War, „The
cliira4er of the British is lowered—the spirit of
the Nation, no longer the admiration of Foreigners,
who, interested as they, for the greater parr, must
naturally be, have Observed to•, vanish the broad
system of enlarged policy, and; substituted in its
stead the pitty politics of a Gerrnan'State.

It is tiOW Just eight months since the fae.famed
Message from ,he KING was brought down to the
House, wherein a plea was inserted in the name of
the Sovereign, for the truth of which (whatever
might have been the Self.deception at the time)
Ministers themselves will not, I rather am inclined.
to suspect, cow contend. During &Nit short
period your Administration, Sir, bas lost the
Continental possessions of His Majesty, which
might have been saved had not procrastination been
considered as an indtspensible drequiaite in every
public trans:Mon of the day--even the Troops'
might have been withdrawn, but the trarotorts
were rasher too late—a•lreland (through the mat.'
tendon and inability of a Governoieota which In
spite of grossest miscondua ever yet passed over
at head-quarters, still continues) is.reduced to a state
which if we afford it the epithet Of 'doubtful, we
uoneede more than the remedies that have hitherto
been adopted, will warrant us in doing..—Here the '
system of delay was carried even tq the costrettien
of danger, and though the Rebels were sharpening
their pikes under the very walls of the Castle, it
required deliberation to determine whether or not
Government should feel an alarm. —Pending this
deliberation, which must nee/ward, employ some ,
days, the Viceroy went as usual to the Pink—the
Courtiers at she Castle revel'd in Irish claret, and
the Officers omitted themselves at cricket. Unfor.,
tunately before the mind of Government could be
made up remuletor arum upon the point, a venera.
ble and ever to be lamented sacrifice was offered up
upon the altar of indecision and inability, and
Rebellion nor'(' its head, and spread dismay'
through the unguarded and unprepared capital.—
Fortunately for that Country and for England, the
councils of the Rebels were in a converse ratio with
those of the State,they were as many hours too soon
as we were days too late—else woeful indeed had
been the event, and with a lost country, we 'might
at this moment have had to deplore the butchery of
those men to whom the disaster would have been
attributable, but for whom we should have then
wept, as we now do fur those whose shades hover
round the Vice-regal Court, and reproach such as
have hearts among them, with the fate 'to W. bias
their miscondu.t tZtent. This altsroste
cajoling*, and itistilt. to the Volunteers, which
have rendered therii averse to the public sdreil..
Astratiori ref afairs —the injury snatemed by
our -Conamerce---the Ports of 'Europe shot against
us—the deficiency of our Revenue in spite of
the gratuitous and unnecessary 'oliarepresenta.
•tiota to the Howe last December.,-010 b,411,d at,
tempts made upon the Coast of the Enimy with
inadequate forcearattm stigma consequently thrown
upon our, bear service-salor exertioos strained to
the utmost, and therefore the sooner likely to Maxi
with the hordes of lionar,smis Fret-hooters at
our very gates—vith all these evils, and damning
'pool* of, miscondud, what could induct this
Luny Whipster of a Knight Ecru", to oleo
forward your Squire, to throw down this gage of
t4anee, and tq tempt the exposure of the ?cal and
dreadful dilemma to which the Country is reduced
by your family ;outwits and unsteady policy P—Had
Mr. Prt-t's Administration left the Country in a
state :pore wretched, more pitiable than that
attributed to it in your Manifesto, still would it
stand a proud comparison with the circumstances to
which you have reduced it, If our resources Were
impaired, as he tells us, are they, do you wish us
to believe, itoprOvnd by your husbanding P If de.
sertedby Allies, are we bettered by the. loss of
Hanover, and the desertion of Portugal If the
eovict 'and Territorial Possesaions of France were,
as your Defender describes, so vast, have they not
increased and grown whilst you stood trembling
lest your Terms for Peace should be rejetled t In
short, after having resigned into the hands of the
Enemy all the Acqoisittona of * long and successful
War—having torn out the Nerves and Sinews of
our Power—after having sandioned the aggression
of France towards its Neighbours, and compromised
the Honour of the Country, here we stand upon
the edge of our own Cliffs and Shores; waiting with
Firmness and Courage, Birth.riglits of which you
cannot rob us, the event' of a Contest which; it
Chance or rate should turn against us, the Sun of
Britain is set for ever, and the Politics of an An.
nitiorow will• have overthrown the venerated
trui!lttte of our Liberties, our Rights,. and lode.
pendence. —Oar Constitution Will be sacrificed
to a narrow and selfish Policy, unknown as unte».
sottel ici by Mao 'born to govern, and our Exist.
ence as a Ndtion bartered away for 111' few short
month* of feverish Power, which you, air, and
your Colleagues have eojoyed at the r xpenee of the
People. Our Navy, the first Service M the wnrlcj, '
hjs been made instrionental to its own degradation,
by being dispatched* upon Expeditiona ineorredly
planned, and inadequately equipped. In the Channel
Otif Forte consists of Vessels many of 'them unfit for
Service, and others ill adapted to. the 'Service on
which they most probably will be employed. Every
Naval Officer is disgusted, with the intetopprate and
conduit of the Admiralty Board, and it
would' not be wonderful if the seeds of future miN.
chief were gernainating in every Docklard flitough-
ogt the kingdom. Much. is it to be lamented that .
this Noble Earl it the head of the Board, tied not set
about the business of Reform, and PPPOsed himself
to every species of Peculation whew r" rt.vas iu the
iliet.t.bdira—lie then 'by expetieni have"
been able to calculate Consequences, and thkisCoutt.

try wonla have eseved the datge of T _ngratitude to
her best Friends, and the popular vcrdit would
not have been given against a- Government Job..—
Spain, whose money supplies we might have cut off,
affords a revenue to the Enemy for his attack upon
us, and Portugal, a great objea to the Commerce of
this Country, independent of being a long and faith.
ful Ally, is deserted and abandoned. Here then Sir,
we are, in • the month of November 1203, in a
. situation dissimilar, in all its bearings from that in
which we were in February 1801 —Not Sir, as
your injudicious Adulator would imply, but so
deteriorated, that a Briton is almost ashamed Ofhim.
self. Setting aside the losses and the sacrifices we
have been made to
.undergo, we have sunk in the
estimation of the Nations around us. • 'Our Faith
{was till lately unimpFachable, and the quibbling of
State Attornies was unacknowledged in British Di.
plomacy. England might sometimes fail-1 uirramix
nt.—but she never dishonoured herself 1 How arc
the Mighty fallen I—how is the scene revets'd
The work is yours, Sir. The progress toguin is
a rapid descent, when once the ball is delivered.-
and much, deeply do I fear that it was delivered
with one hand, when you accepted the Seals from
your Sovereign with the other I haste taken the
liberty of drawing this parallel, though, to do yoni
Defender justice, he does not gourt it. Isranottrr
place, however, hit Zeal paralyzing his Jar.
ment, he without hesitation enter& into st compara-
tive Discussion of the tespedive Claims of. the lass
and present Administration. •
have the honour to be, Sir, yours, Sec.
NtIllY• 8, 1803. Fl TX.ALBION,

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