The Sun.
London, England, 1818-07-25 00:00:00

[PART 1711

To look beck on this subject, we see nothing
but human deformities, vices coloured by vices,
in 'mishit of a short-lived and perishable dnß►i-

'Lion, from its .comineticement in wickedness, t

the solen►rrity of the .grave. For us the scene is
too bOrtible';• btit ideasiog as it may be to our
modt4n Levellers and Reformers, we will con-
elude it for the& admiration, and then retire from

its ahon►inatious, to pity and fervently pray tha
God will soon torn their hearts, and rn3lie then

worthy of his merciful favours, by their penitence
and abhorrence of those deeds and maxims which
lead to perdition, both here and hereafter.
It mdy be remembered that 114 e first ptofessions
cif the French Republic were a love of peace, an
AyersiOn to conquest, and a respect for the inde-
pundence of other countries; but these they af-
terwards violated, pretending it was in conse-
queoce of ,the provocation of other powers, the
example being .First given by Great Britain to.,
wards Chauvvlin, although France anti Prussia

hmi been at war eight months before he Wall sent

away. :lie had-given a peremptory ultimatum,
saying, it the explanations were not sufficient, and
we dul.not disarm, our refusal would be consi-
l!creil a declaration of war. After the French
king was murdered ; from whose death Mr. Er-
skine thoughtlessly dated the beginning of a legal
Government in Fiance. It was then -demanded
that we should receive Cbauvelin with new cre-

deniials; to which we answered, that he came
here as the repreSentative of a murdered King ;
that we had no satisfaction for injuries received,
nor security against dangers with which we were
thieatened; and that,• therefore, new credentials
could not be received from those who had de•
stroyed the old by their regicide. He was hence
a private individual, and (mitred to quit the

kingdom. The refusal to receive credentials front
an infant Republic, acknowledged no where fn

gtirope, was. not a cause of war. In 1793. pot...
velle was sent Ambassador to Dtomark ; but not
received there as suet) tii1.1796. Acts of hostility.
tad been openly threatened against our allies, on
an a,Sumen tight to open the Scheldt:Afterwards

lie French Rulers mHJe the Rhine and 'he Alps

the lawful b tnidarie of France ; band when their
Rimy, atter the battle of Jeutappe, was matching
for 11ollalad, they ordered their Geuerals to'por-
!foe the Aiistriin troops into apy.newral country.
r bey !lien invaded and joined Belgium to France,
wiested'Savoy from 'tire King of Sardioir, and is-
sued a declaration of war against all the thrones
of Europe. They had passed the Decree of the
19th November, promising succour to all nations
woo w;shed to be free ; and in..the midst of their
atonable expiaoaEii nc they decreed, on the 15tli

December, that wherever their arms shoo',
come, their Generals should in•r►►rluce the hrin•

eiples of their Revolution. On the motion c
liarrAlon, that this Decree should be lint4ed t.
countries they were then at war tirth, it was los

by a great majority, and they gave their Generals
papers containing the words—" The people of
France to the people of . We are coma
to expd your tyrants." To complete their inju-
ries, they declared war against us, saying we pio-

•'oked it by encouraging a combination of other
Powers against them. This was false. The

charges of the Brisotines on Robespitrre for the
war ‘vith its, manifestly sheen that war against us
was intended long before Chauvelin was sent