The Sun.
London, England, 1803-06-17 00:00:00

Ves,,els of Engli--nd since the Peace, and here, at
t denial c; E. Et -_rievante asserted which does not carry,
it-, with it, the' Shameful embarrassment which the
• iters tn.t ifosted -n this polo in Parliament,
t icy XV.2'e called • p nto state facts and.proOnce proofs,
cs superfluous all explan,tion in this respect."
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{ 'hen f 11ows part of the Paragraph respaliog
di Comm rcill Agents].

The Ministers of His BRITANNIC MAJESTY are, in
this circumstance, e4plicit beyond what one had a right to
expect from their prudence. A Peace without a' Treaty of
Commerce, 1 Peace without unliinited liberty for, the con-
sumption o. their produce; a Peace, in short, which did not
leave them the exclusive privilege of introducing every where
the produce of their industry, and of proscribing amongst
them F oreign industry, is not a Peace. We must either re-
nounce the right of establishing Custom-Houses, and dis-
courage National 111:mufaaures, or make War. '
This system is strange. What ! is there no general
Laws of Commerce ? Can we not trade with England with-
out a Commercial Treaty ? Can we not have Commercial
Agents. it there are no special stipulations in Commerce ?
Well; be it so ; let us have no Commercial Agents in Eng-
land:: But why must England have the right of interdiding
access to her Ports, whilst France cannot exercise the right
respecting entering upon her territory ? Why must not that
reciprocity.take place here as in other things ? The rule ad.
mitted and recognized amongst equal nations.. What hinderi
you from proscribing the productions of French industry ?
What Power on ti tali can constrain us to consume English
productions? And is it not the height of arrogance told!
us Peace will not be profitable to our industry ; therefore
`let us break the Peace; let us iitjurc and destroy Fre»ch in-
dustry ; let us arm to defend English industry ; short,
you shall pay us dearly for our Manufactures, or you shall
have War.

4, We know not whether the English Government, in pro-
fessing this tyrannical and audacious doarine, had in view to
render the War which it had undertaken populai in England.
If it is so, and if by such means it obtains the success which.
it desires, it is for the Nations of the Continent to decide
what degree of importance is.attached in England to the opi-7,
*lions, the rights, or the interests of people who have not the
happiness to navigate or carry on commerce under the Hag
and the auspices of the Government of Great Britain. It is
tot them to decide whether the War which England now
makes upon i,rance, like all those whin she has made for a
century past, will not be a constant and necessary conse—
quence of a system uniformly hostile on the part of English
industry against all other industry.
" If it be so, the future question between England and.
Europe may be reduced to this dOuble alternative: If Eng.
land has.public spirit, and if Europe is without public spirit,
woe to Europe I"
,1 In the hypothesis, that Europe will not be without
public spirit, If the English Government cannot render. the
present' War popular, woe to it ; if it can tender it popular,
- woe' to England I "

[Then follows another part of the Paragraph re.
!ming to the instruEtions given to the Commercial
Agents).
4‘ The English Ministers brave ridicule with a hardihood
unexampled. France has sent to England, as she sent to
every Country in the World, Commercial•Contmissiouers.
Of eighty Agents of this class whom the Republic maintain.,
abroad, a great number hoe served both in the late War and
the preceding. It was discovered, that amongst those
pointed for England, one had served in the Republican
Armies, and all on a sudden an'alarm of the Cabinet multi-
plies him into Military Agents of France : thus •it has hap-
pened more than once on the coasts, that the appearance of
some hihatriten his been taken for the advanced guard of a
flotilla destined to make a descent; and spread terror in tlte
Country.. This foolish exaggeration might be displayed in
an English Gazette; but it seems to us contrary to all biee.
stance to introduce it in a Manifesto.
" The second subject of alarm with the British Ministry
is still more ridiculous. Questions to be answered respea-
ing the state of Commerce, such as 'have been published in
the lournars, in order to spread them snore easily and morti.
generally, were addressed to a Commissioner of the Republic.
tso years these series of questions have been the, subject
. of open instruelions to Commercial Agents: •they are of a
nature so little calculated to excite distrust, that those Agents
transmitted them to Sub. Agents, who frequently are Mer-
chants conneeted neither by interest or dependence with
France. In short, these instruaions, prepared without any
other intention than that of obtaining information, which in
the places even where it is collected, it is interesting to see
extended and propagated,• are written and addressed without
• any mysterious form, and it is thus that they have traversed
England in ostensible eharaacts. Is ,it then through the
medium of the Post °Mee that this great secret has been
discovered? It scents to us that the only thing that remains
proved,. after the éclat given to these instrucligns by the.
?ilinistet'soflits BRtrnNxtc MirxsTY is, that the secrets.
of Correspondence are not religiously•respeatti,, at the Eng.
lisp Post Office, and that letters arc opened by the Agents of

GovernMent.
" As to any thing further, one cannot praise the prudence
of Ms BRITANNIC lkiAJZsrtr 111 not haVingttlfrOrCd to pro.
reed to their destination French Agents, on the select-of
alarm§ in his Cabinet, which had taken them for Soldiers,,
and who,. if they had been suffered. to proceed, would not
have failed to send to their Government extrails from low.
lusts and A 1 municks respewling the balance of Exportation
and Importation, Banks and
.Commercial Houses, the Du-
ties of Tonnage, Commission, and other mysteries of equal
importance," ,
1. Then follows another part -of the Declaration
re•pe4ting the contlott of the French Government,
refilling to the conunercial relationS of the two.
Count rretnl , •
44 It is difficult to discern the true intention of the Nl-
nistly in inserting this observation. Did it wish Co remark
upon the 'recent origin of the French Government ?
taint)" it is not without reason that it seeks to redid the re.
colleition of the past, for it is so lost in the great splendor
of glory which has signalized the birth of this Goverment,
and in the noble train of power, ofenergy, of wisdom, and
pi dignity which followed,4that the respect anal love which
is borne to it confounds itself in the imagination of people,
with sentiments confirmed by habit, and transmitted by long