The Sun.
London, England, 1803-12-30 00:00:00

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A Rumour lux for some time prevailed) that by
the tithe that Parliament meets again, a union of
Parties may be so far arranged as to give a new
feature to the Proceedings of the House of Com-
mons,. Upon this surmise the Papers of the Mini.
ster, and that attached to the remnant of the Old
Opposition, are arguing for and against the Measure,
as suits the interest of their respedive patrons and
employers. There is no event of course which the

hireling adherents of the present Ministry so Much

deprecate as an union of talents. It has long been
urged against the present Men that from their Ca.
binet talent is proscribed, and there has unfortu.
nately been nothing in their IVleasures or condat to
falsify the assertion-.-a Combination of the great
political talents of the Country must therefore strike
them with peculiar alarm, and it is no wonder their
Supporters cry out, even before tlr terrific being
Is embodied that is to give the deathblow to their
hopes►
We have reason to believe that some approsirna.
tion has taken place between the principal personage
of the Old Opposition, and some of the Leading
IVlembets of the New—We• certainly have never
been admirers of Coalition since that in which the

person alluded to was a principal Aftor, and which
Was unquestionably formed with the sole view of
opening the door to Placc•..but new and difficult
elrcumstances lead to the overcoming of difficulties
that would otherwise appear insurmountable. All
thinking Men are at the present Moment seriously
alarmed at the actual situation of the Country's..
t,:ever was Armless, and vigour, and wisdom, and

c2periertee more necessary in our Councils than now,
end never certainly had the Country an Admini.
titration so destitute of every'requisite quality+ ..k
becomes therefore the especial duty of every man' to
'unite in the endeavour to produce such Councils as
may replace the Country on the high ground, both
with respea to domestic and foreign relations, which
it hat held for so many years. Au Min are ready
to acknowledge the pre.eminenr . talent which has
Mote than once saved it, and the Nation in general
look to the Mile quarter fur similar effeetse.—and if
to that talent were united the support of the most
able men of the Old Opposition, we should not de_
split of regaining in three months every thing that
has been lost by pusillanimity and indecision.—
The Powers of the Continent would restore to
ut their confidence and respeft, and we should
Yet hope to see amongst them such a combination
as might put limits to the destruflive ambition of
France, and bring her back to that point at which
the could no longer overwhelm the weak, and im.
reriously didate even to the strongest of theZuro.,
bean Powers, with the exception alone of Britain,
for which exemption from Gallic tyranny and
power, we arc solely indebted to the good sense
and patrotism which form so prominent a part of
the English charaCter. •
That Mr. PITT views with great concern aed
much inward disapprobation the Measures of the
present Ministry, may easily be supposed by all
who know the vigour, decision,- avid disinterested-.
ness of his own great mind, and that he will not
feel it his duty to speak his sentiments fully and ex-
plicitly, it %Ponta he an injustice to his Patriotism
to-suppose. Should then the sentiments of the two
greatest men in the Country, when they become
both to be fully known, tend to a point, or nearly
so, upon the Line of Policy adopted by the present
Administration, anti the feeble and temporizing
Measures to•which it has given birth, who would
not tejoice that, in the crisis which we have reach-
ed, their conjoined talents were to be exerted for the
Salvation of the Country have ever disap.
proved of many of Mr. Fox's political principles,
and we may have again to find fault with many of
his opinions; but if Mr. -Fox now thinks it right
to exert his acknowledged talents in union with the
greatest Statesman and most virtuous Minister this
Country ever possessetli these talents so exerted
we shall think capable of covering a multitude of
pan ptsliticid transgressions. That Mr. PITT will
pursue with the most generous and disinterested
ardour, that line alone which leads to the general •
good, we het the 'most perfect conviaion ; and
she CitellillStalleti of the Country site such that to
enlarged minds, and enlightened political pereep.
tions there can be but one way of working out that
Salvation—that is, that Men should hold the reins
'of Government aftuated by higher motives than the
mean and selfish love of place, and whose ideas soar
beyond the little expedients of the hour in order to
Preserve it.

New-York Papers►, of a datelarber old, arrived
Yesterday. The orders of the President for tak.
log possession cf Louisiana in form, according zo
the Treaty of Cet4ion, were dispatched tests*
the Senate-House on Monday the 7th November,
and were expefted to. retch New Orlettns in eighteen
daYt• The 'freciury. of , the State of New jersey
hits been lately robbed of 10,914