The Sun.
London, England, 1817-08-19 00:00:00

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ELBERFKLI), JULY 27 .—phe Times cOmpiains of
the invectivei of the Dutch and German Journals
agaios-t England. The Ghent Journal in parti-
cular (they say) asserted, that " Europe is now
under the yoke of England. This yoke is more
real than that of Napoleon, although it is not ac-
rnmpattied by such humiliating forms." These
inveetives are considered abominable, as the great
• differeore between militaty subjection and coin-
' theLcial precedency is purposely oveilooked ; they
are convinced this clamour proceeds nom the
Boottapartists, now spread over all Europe, who
have inherited the hatred of their Loi.d and Master
against England. In what then consists this yoke,
they say, imooied by England ) What constraint
does she exercise towards foreign powers ? Her
wholecrime is, that she is moreindustrioua and more
ingenious titan other nations, and precisely on that
account more a trading, more a colonial, and more a
maritime power. Does she by violence or decep-
tion force the other nations to take her goods
They trade with England because it in their ad-
vantage to do• so ; this advantage is mutual, he-
cause otherwise no trade could subsist. "Do not
therefore abuse us (they conclude) but endeavour
to t ival us, if you deem such a course advanta-
geous, if you have sufficient genius and industry
to- vie with its in the honourable and open course of
commercial rivalry; and if you succeed in gettiog
the better of our superiority, and establishing
your own in its place, then you will have made
war with its in our own way, and beat Its with
our own weapons." Is this real ignorance
of the condition
,of the Continent, -or is it
scorn that suggested this language ? Can he
be called magnanimous, who when his ad-
versary is bound hand and foot, challenges
him to the combat ? in this last predicament are
the people of Germany, whose goods are nor
merely excluded from the English harbours, but
from almost all the markets in the world. Where
do our merchautmen yet find insurance ? Is not
the old Eanseatic fig still lying in the dust, and
nirruhterii4., to pieces ? We hoped that we should
again erect it, when 500,000 Germans flew to
their swords, among whom the 30,000 English
were lost like a rivulet in the ocean. It ought to
occur to them that no people are blind to their
own interest, and that of all voices from the Seine
to the Niemen speak only one and the same lan-
guage,. There must be something more than
.Buottapartism at bottom ; for in that case
the whole Continent would have become
Buonapartist after Buonaparte was no more
And yet. The Times talks of the honourable
open warfare of commercial rivalry, in which
genius and industry alone can have the as-
cendency. Well then might we answer., if you
challenge us 'to the field, we accept the challenge
with pleasure. But that we may fight Honourably
and with equal ar:ns, loosen first our hands and
feet, that is, allt:w our vessels a free entrance into
ywir harbours, and we allow your vessels to enter
our's. Allow our manufacttirers to send ship loads
of goods to your towns,, to expose them every
where by an army of riders, and to auction them
before the doors of your manufacturers, as we are
obliged to allow you to do with your goods.-1,
Allutv out manufacturers to throw away their
shopkeepers for a mere trifle at your fairs ; allow
them to put all the Jews and warehousemen, and
all time idle vagabonds, in requisition, to inundate
the low country with them, as we ate obliged to
allow you to do with respect to us. Allow the same
free entrance to our linen and lace, our iron ware,
our grail), our wine, and on; brandy, as we allow to
your calicoes and muslins, your sugar, and rum.
you yourselves say, " the advantage must be reci-
procal, or no trade can subsist." Grant us, then,
what we have already granted to you, and then
the battle will be equal ; then the genius and in-
dustry of the oatioos may contend for the palm.
We could wish The Times to have sufficient im-
partiality to t Lis to their challenge,
and then to give themselves the trouble to observe
.the impression whin tois proposal produces on
the English. And if that high winded people
should spurn from them the proposal with roil-
tempt, that in such a case they would have the
courage to say to them, " these demands, which
are equally offensive to your pride and your inte-
rest—these demands have been already realised by
the Germans to us ; by those very Germans of
whom hundreds of thousands have bled to tear
Lack England from the brink of destruction to
w,,irt, it had been brought by the Continental
System !"