The Sun.
London, England, 1817-10-11 00:00:00

PROVINCIAL JOURNALS.

The followNg Observations on the- State of
- • ,
Fiance, and the conduct of our Opposition Writers,
are so much in harmony with what THE SUN has
said on the same subjects, that we are glad to find
our opinions so ably supported by a Provincial
Journal held in merited estimation
(From the Liverpool Courier of the ist inst.) .
" itis one of the most serious subjects of re-
flection to politicians, who are built able and
willing to conduct their reflections clear of the
,perversions'.of party, that, -in the. -midst of the
repose of Europe, ;Amidst all the riches which are
springing out of her fields, the revival ot her com-
merce, and all those 'advantages which arise front
the renewed intercourse of nations, there,is one
nation, and that which, from its habits, popula-
tion, and geographical situation, is most able to
disturb the peace ot the world, in which. the spirit
of peace, and those principles which alone can in-
sure it, has made no progress. ‘Ve look in vain
to that country for any amendment of principlein
consequence of her sufferings ; and the party
which, in reality, governs her, -anti which would
openly govern her, were the force wh.icla keeps
-them down removed, is at peace only because the
opportunity for war does not yet present itself.—
It is this party which our Reformers, and men of
pretended liberal ideas at home, have espoused,
which retains all the views of aggression and ag-
•graudizernent which characterized the Adminis-
tration of Buonaparte, w;hielt stands prepared to
rekindle the flames of 'war for private plunder and
national ambition..
'' France . appears to remain What she .has so
long been, the outward and %.isWle t-igo of ;ten-
hinism; its head and arm, the agent of its j
pur-
poses, and the god of its idolatry.
,By acobinism,
.we do not. merely mean that concentrmed spirit of
faction which sets itself against the Government
of a single country, and is incessantly attempting
domestic revolutions; but the hostile spirit of
opposition which is directed against all. Go.vern-
ments ; against the present frame of society in

• .
every place., aucf wly,.-qiis'eekq universal revo:mition
and overt•ltrouv, ill order .inter
soine'speciows pretc;;cet -universal 'spoliatiotr• =and
the graticatioii,."Cf-tioliticat Tuis is
wlmiCh.has gone, forth, anil:i4eeded many.
in ali
.countries,. oar own not .eNceptrid ,1;1, to
show bow truly tirod; are time objects, 01(1 Cult MI
pretences which. have.heeu•set up of. bettering the
tundition of the human race, and diffusing princi-
ples
,of liberty, are hollow and decup!ive ; that
thousanUsliave either grossly deceived themselves
or wilfully and artfully endeavoured to
others,; to.show that change and overthrow have
been the ruling and the only passions which icaye
neurVed their -minds; ha been to persons so
infected with this epidemic, atnatter of no con-
sequence by what means the (lesiruction has been
effected, whether by republicanism, oligam.liy,
arkarchy, orinilirary despotism.. Time loudest de-
,claimers aOnSt
.tyranity at how; Iml-77-been it 3
warmest apologists wiieu it 1.113 i bt,eti employed.
in gratifying time jacobin .passfion ; those who
have shuddered at our wars have cheered Ilia vic-
tories. of a French.. convention and of Buona-
parte ; and those who have been' most horror-
struck with 'our. stundi!i.g• tirmy, have surveyed!
with hope and exultation- the military system -Of
conquering and deStroying -France. Whether a
real confederacy, in different parts of -Europe,
exits or not, whether our reformers:, patriots, and.
111,6-ores are inenib..rs Of little cons'erprenee
ro determine; there exists that which has all the
force of a confederacy in the homogeneous feel-
ings of the advocates-of this -kind 'of jacobinism ;
and in the sort of instinctive facility which falls
into a.conminon- plan for facilitating its objects.—
We may take, for instance, the line of politics
taken by
.t be Morning Clitunicle, and those p 1.3
who copy its paragraphs and Communications, or
echo them.

" It gives comfOrt tothis'print, that foreigners
begin to disiingui;ll between the people of Eng,.
land and their government, and to reserve all their
censures 'tor the latter: 'Then follow lotig quota-
tions from someadvoCate Of -" liberal ideai on the
Continent," • touch in the style of out own re-
forniers,- and who, like them, of course, finds the
people -ot England in` the reforMing faction, and
prognosticates, •what all the prints of this race
are delighted 'to respond,
,that tither- the Govetn.:
meat must yield to their tiClll3lldi, or revolution
must be the conseqnence. lAut-we may ask, what
is the true reason of I be-••in fechng of
these foreign li,lierples to the Brit isb Government?
Is it to be supposed, that they eqre a jot for Ma-
jor Cartwright. and his reform r• For the aboli-
tion of 1nr.,1!;,,,1is ? For the construction or at
BritiSh Muse of Corunions? The secret is, they hate
t he l'yt It Ish Cili'vertnnentrb it,tcrinse
drawn the Captain of toriverl revolution, Buooa-
parte, and humbled France, the instrument of his
operation ; -and they love the British factions,
because they are .esentially ;evolutionary, and
are, at all tiows, the adinircts. of their politics,
and, as.far as their 'influence extends, the abet-
tins Of their Conspiraci'es. The power ut, Russia
is the object of the fears of the foreign revolu-
tionists, because it conterbalances that cif Franey,
‘vhoto they still hope again to see in rampant and
unbridled - authority over Europe; and they have
induced the faction in England to re-echo their.
alarms,-.under pretence of our own interests being
endangered by Russian prepot,tlerance Sir R.Wii-
son's paragraphs on this subject are, in consequence,
eagerly copied, and de'emed itifallibie and oracular.
Asiong as this Knight spoke truth about litiona.,
parte, and held up his murders and poisonings
the execration of the %world, he remained greatly
out of favour, and every paltry evidence which
could be procared was brought' forward to rebut
his blasphemies against the goitof jaeobinistu.—
Now, having been disappointed in the army, the
Knight turns round and says fine things of Bun-
naparte, and sounds the tocsin as to .Russia, who
but Sir Robert has political authority I. Finally,
The favourite notion of the 'continental revollt•
tionists is, that England should be disposed of,
and her interference in rout intuit al affairs pre-.
vented, by representing her as a naval power ex-
clusively ; and our idiot Politicians of the patty
gorge the bait, and 'et y out aloud against a Sianda.
lug army and a mditary system. The
.trip o.f the
Regent in his Brighton pleasure-boat is even
seized, to remind bins, that he was then •on his
own dominion and element-, and to coonsel him to
dish And his -army and redouble his fleet. Two
considerations will explain alt this. As long as
Great Britain avoided it'militaty co--operation witlt
the Allied• Powers, time career of France was un-
checked. if she had remained merely 'a naval
ally, the battle of Waterloo would never have been
fought and, won.
Evey brand) of policy' advocated by cur do-
mcstic reforming factiou, is that which cootineinal
revolutionists would advise, were they in direct
correspondence with them, and, they advocate
nothing but what goes to restore"ihe domination
of France, and to spread 'devastation, infidelity,
and -misery iht ough Eitrope. The revolut lona ry
hopes expressed in the quotations of TitelLiorning
Chronicle and other Papers, front the writings of
their continental friends, are, ItOwever, a little
out of date, They were written before our fine
and plenteous hat vest, and bVore the revival of
our commerce. The
,party who are to effect this
longed-for revolution, ti) join' the liberal, °has the
levelt iMikt S# in all 'countries," and to keen
Great Britain neutral in case of another revolution
in France, will be found too weak to renlite the
objects pteseribed to them by French and German
Bumiapartists, tioty that plenty tind employumit
are daily deprivine, them of a misled and intent-
ployed mob. These speculations must beyeserved
for brighter clays as to them; and darker days as
to the country.':

THEATRICAL REGIY,T`E,R.
• Pe,rfor4sed Last Night.
ttEAThr, Re3YAt. COVENT-F;ARDEN.—The Wondir : hit; re-
fix, Mr. C. Ketnble ; Viotante, Miss Brunton. After, Svhich,
The Ynnthfnl Days of Frederick the Great. To miich \vas
be added, A Day 'After 'l,- Wedding,.

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