The Sun.
London, England, 1803-02-19 00:00:00

LONDON, FEIJRUARY 1803.

WE see, with great concern, observations and
speculations in almost all the Papers respelling the
fate of the persons now under sentence of death for
High Treason. Such rem'arks as we see indulged
in, we consider not only as highly impioper, but
also as extremely reprehensible. We shall not mini.
tate such =duet by any furtl;er comment, but
merely set the Public right with tesped to one par-
ticular. The convicted Traitors will be executed,
we understand, not at the New Gaul, but on Ken.
ningtori Cummon. The time of their execution is
probably not yet fixed, but at any rate it will not
most likely be promulgated till the day before that
client takes place.

TB TS morning we received the Illoniteur of the
1301 instant.
It contains nothing but some uninteresting de.
tails of the 37th Sitting of the Deputation of the
Empire, and an unimportant Decree I.)r the regu.
lation of the Cod Fishery at Newfoualand.

AFTER this Paper was put to Press, we received
Paris Paten to the tith inst.. The Court of rienna
has formally recognized the Kr NG Of ET RUal
Great preparations aro Making, at Minster, for
the reception of the KING of PRUSSI A, who is ex.
peaed there at the, commencement of the mining
spring ; about which period to or t 1,000 men wil
march from the interior of the Prussian Stares to.
wards the Rhine,

The French Squatironi baying on board 2009

hiktV'of the Polish Demi-Brigaele, destined for St.
Domingo, set sail from Genoa on the 28th ult.
The English Squadron in Chistan Bay, Sardinia;
is stated, In Letters from Genoa, to have sailed
from thence with such precipitation, that they left
some of their provisions on shore. The route
which the Squadron had taken was not known.

The Helvetic Government has addressed a Circu-
lar Letter to the National Prefeels of the Cantons of
Basle, Soleure, Berm., Fribourg, and Leman, en.
joining them to take the greatest care to prevent
the importation of English Merchandize into Suit.
zerland. This measure has been adopted in con-
sequence of the representations made by the French
General NEY. —The French Funds are at 58. So.

IF we were disposed to enter into a Paper War
with The ltioniteur, we know no topic on which
we should more readily have taken up the gauntlet
than that of our Finance. In truth, the extra Va.
gant and foolish Article which lately appeared in
that Paper on this interesting subjea, presented to
us a temptation which was almost irresistible. But
the very circumstance which made it so tempting
an objen of discussion, determined us• to abstain
from noticing it. Every line of it carried with
it its own refutation. It was neither ingenious
fallacy, or plausible misrepresentation ; but direct
falsehood throughout. Not a single statement in
it, but what the most superficial proficient in the
study of Finance could readily refute, without
assistance.

What must have been the objea'of the person who
deliberately thew up fur the French Gazette this
notable Statement, is another question: The fair pre- -
sumption is, that it originated from tlie same master-
ly head, which not long ago presented to Europe, in
the same Paper, .so flattering an account.' of the state
of the French Revenue. Was the motive of the 'well.
informed, intelligent, and disinterested writer of it
to depreciate our Funds, and to raise those of his
own Country ? On ours it could have no possible
operation, except by the impression which it might
mak! on the opinions of Foreigners, who had been
in the 'habit of considering British Security the
best in the world ; for we will not libel one indivi-
dual amongst our Countrymen, by supposing that a
statement, however specious it 'might have been,
from such a quarter, could on his understanding
have produced the smallest effed. The present state
of our own Funds, however, is pretty conclusive
that they are proof against any such ridiculous and
attempts ; and if those of our Neighbours
have a more favourable appearance than they have
had fur some time past, we see no reason to be im-
pressed, either with envror jealousy, let the cause
of their improvement be what it may.
These casual observations might lead us, were '
we inclined to pursue the theme, into some more
general observations on the uniform tenor of the
language of the French Official. Paper, almost ever
since the Definitive Treaty of Peace was -signed.—
That many of our Journals have regularly indulged
.
themselves in asperity, hostility, and even perso-
nality towards the French Government, is perfedly
-true. But is it possible, that that GoVernment can
be ignorant, that the Editor of a British Journal is
free to .express whatever opinions he may entertain,
provided he keeps within such bounds as the Laws
hive presetibed to him; to which only he is respon-
sible, and to which alone he is under control ? If we
have (with the exception only of the events in Swit-
zerland) abstained from giving. vent to sensations
which many circumstances have excited in us, we own
that we have been restrained only by considerations
of prudence and propriety. But, without justifying
the excesses into which some of our cotemporaries
have been betrayed, we cannot be insensible to the
,abundant provocation which the insulting lan4uage
of the French Official Journal has repeatedly, and
almost uniformly, furnished them with. Possibly
we may be singular in thinking, that, however it
may have been calculated to excite in the breast of
every Englishman dissatisfadion and disgust, it has
experienced more public notice than it was perhaps
entitled to.
When we see Mr. WINDHAM anti Lord GLEN.
v Rut (whose Politics we are the last to admire),
and even the great Minister, the qualities of whose
heart and head are equally noble and transcendent,
charged with deliberate assassination, our natures
revolt from a calumny of so foul and diabolical a
complexion. Where, unless in the cells of the most
relentless bigotry, does human Nature itself afford
the grounds of so base and detestable a Slander ?
And this is a charge not made once, but seems to
be the favourite topic of the French Gazette. We
will not stoop to retort, by supposing it credible,
that those who bring forward this charge, have con-
sulted their own breasts to discover the possibility
of any thing so atrocious entering into the mind of
man. On this ground Mr. WINDHAM, against
whom it has been more specially direeted, shall
ever find in us as sturdy Champions, as in any of

his professed Adulators. He has nothing to thank
us for. To him, in fief, it is no compliment.
It is not even the justification of our Country—a
but of Mankind itself.
When the sword was sheathed, we had flattered
ourselves that the hostile spirit with which the two
great rival Countries had long been inflamed against
each other, would he sheathed also. If it has been
studiously cherished, and even fuel incessantly.
furnished to fan the flame, who will presume to say,
that Great Britain, as a Nation, or as a Government,
has set the example ? The language of a small
Party is not that of a great Country.—The same
disposition, both in the People and their Rulers,
which pointed towards the return of Peace, could
not fail to be accompanied by a wish to preserve it.
With this wish the preservation of national animo-
sity was incompatible. We are perfealy satisfied, that
when the Olive Branch was mutually exchanged,
the universal sentiment of our countrymen was**
" Forgive and forget." If our neighbours have
not thought proper to sympathize in this pacifiC
sentiment, the blame can hardly be laid to the eloor
of a Government, which took the earliest opporiii.'
tunity of restoring ito us the blessings of Peacee-•
These blessings will probably still be preserved;
notwithstanding the rude tone of authorized public
cations. It would be well, however, for their
Editors to recolle&, that in proportion as their er.
forts are calculated to excite a hostile mind towards
Great Britain, by misrepresentations and calumnies,
on one side of the water, they cannot fail to pro.
duce an indignant and cordial unanimity on the
other.

Yesterday. morning about half past eight O'clock,
Hts MAJESTY left Buckingham-house in his travel-
ling post chariot and four, escorted by a party of
Light Horse, for Windsor. About twelve o'clock
HER MAJESTY, and the PRINCESSES ELIZABETH*,
AUGUSTA, SoPHIA, and AMELIA, and two Ladies
in Waiting, followed in two carriages. 'lhe
PRINCESs MARY being indisposed- with a bad cold,
Her Royal Highness remains at Buckingham-house.
The DUKE of CUMBERLAND spent great part of the.
day with his Royal Sister.
Yesterday a Court of •Direaors was held at the
East India House, which adjourned at six o'clock
till 'Wednesday next.
The Ship Peter and Catharine, from Mati.,,fasf
left Sr. Helena on the .19th of December. ner-
Passengers'arc,
Major J. A. Castleman, of His Majesty's first Regiment' E•,
Samuel, E. of Supreme Court ; John Turing, 'sq• •
Civil Service; S. M'Nlorr:s,. Esq. Surgeon; Captua
R. N. Wynne, of the Invalids; Captain W. ‘ci'lr',llC,:
Lieut. T. Chadwick, E. Smyth, and 'l'. Grant, of
114..jonlyin vt>th Dragnun. hiro. White and crime,
Lieut. Davis, H. C. Infantry ; Quarter;Master Everett,
19th Dragoons, and Master J. Penrose Davies.
Thirty per Cent, was paid on the Omninm re9°
terday : the day passed off very well. The Ott
nitnis Holders,, in confident expectation of a Ire"
rise, keep their. Omnium, and none to any amount
Was brought to market.
The opinion in,favour of the rise of the Funds
is such, that a most enormous interest is now given
for the continuation.' Between this 'time and the •
25th, the interest paid for the continuation, is at
the rate of twenty-six per cents per annum.
The late IsAAc HAwitiNS,Esq. of Burton-upon'
Trent, has bequeathed, amongst other liberal denitd p
tions, toool.. to the Salop Infirmary.
A magnificent House is building for His Royal
Highness the DUEE of.K.Escr, near .the Barracks, at
Knightsbridge. It will command a fine open view
over Hyde Park and BroMpton and Chelsea, to the
River and Surrey Hills..
Newspapers from Boston and New-York, to the
iSth of January, are received. Governor CL,st,
DoRNE, of the MisSissippi Territory, has had an
unfavourable answer to his letter, to the Spanish
Governor of Louisiana, which complained of the
exclusion .of Anglo-Americans from the Port of
New Orleans.
The differences at New Orleans still occupy the
attention of the AmeriCans. The fAlwing
motion
respeaing them was made in the House of Respress
sentatives by Mr. RANDOLPH, on the sth of lams' •
art, and referred to the Committee of the whale
House, to whom were committed the ',Messages fromthe President of the United States, dated the 32a.
and 3oth of December.
Resolved, " That this House receive with great.
sensibility, the information of a disposition in midi*
Officers of the Spanish Government at New Orleans,
to obstruct the navigation of the River Zssisstr(Pit
secured to the United States by the most solemn Stipu-
lations. That adhering to that humane and wisePre
licy, which ought ever to characterize a free pe;:ied
and by which the United States have always prarc*
to be governed; willing at the same time to ocrt
this breach of compad to the unauthorized tnise: n,
dud of certain individuals, rather than to a want of
good faith on the part of His CATHOLiC
and relying with respefful confidence on thevigilant.c
and wisdom of the Executive, they will wait the issu
of such measures as that department of She Govenia
ment shall have pursued for asserting the right', a
vindicating the injuries of the United States. 1-I°`:s
ing it to be their duty at the same time to exPi'LL
their unalterable determination to maintain the
boundaries and the rights of Navigation and COM:
merce through the River Mississippi, as establishea
by existing Treaties."
In our Paper of Tuesday we inserted the Ad's
dresses of the Legislature, Merchants, and Pl3nttr
of Essequibo and Demerary to Colonel Hisnors
Commandant of the British Troops, upon their re'
t;
tiring from those Colonies in cons,quence of then
cession to Holland. By an error at the Press, tat
Answer of Col. HISLUP was placed before the A
dress. We are the mire anxious to remedy this
error, as the testimony is so highly llonuOr3t 1;.1e
not only to the individuals concerned,' but to a
British chnatior ip general,