Star.
London, England, 1805-11-23 00:00:00

APPEAL.

The foaming interefting Article has lately been printed in the
German Language, and circulated on the Continent:
" England has not provoked the bloody contell
• which now extends over the whole Continent of Eu-
rope; and if (he has patiently and Wendy endured
to long the virulent and unjuft accutations heaped
upon her by France, it is becaufe fhe conceived it un-
becoming het- dignity lo notice affertions deftitute of
proof, and crant:yeel in terms of intuiting, felf arro-
gated fuperiot icy. At a moment, however, when her
troops are about to join thofe of other nations, equal
ly as herfelf outraged by the nikinfi menaces and
aggreffion: of France, the conceives it was no longer
prudent in her to delay expofing to all Europe, but
chiefly to Ftance itfelf, the undilguifed caufes which •
base induced her to call forth the loyalty of her in-
. h ihitants, and the valour of her troops. Theft caufes
originate not in ambitious views on her part, or, as
France would have it, in perfidious violation of trea-
ties, becaufe nhote treaties were found to militate
natal her into-efts; hut in the deep deligning eel-
s iefs ambition of a man, whore fele occupation teems
to be congneft, and whole every affirm testifies
gard to the common obfervances among men.
" When England, penetrated with a proper fence
of the miferies a long and doubtful war had entailed
• upon her inhabitants, contented to accept even a
ddadvantageous peace, the prepared with fidelity to
execute every article of the treaty, and the moll
!. undeniable proof of her fincerity was given by a
complete difinanding of her (hips, and a general dif
banding of her troops; all the warlike cores were
fald without referee, and even the barracks were nis-
i furnithed of every article of ufe or comfort. Such
was the actual (late of Great Britain a very few
months alter the Definitive Treaty of Amiens had
been ratified by the feveral parties—nay, In unfufpi•
cious was England cf any impediments taking place
to the hoped tor bletfing, that even pending the ne-
gociation, the contented to France fending over to
St. Doinlego an immenfe force, both in troops and
thippwg, and which any croaked policy on her own
part would undoubtedly have thrown un her defence-
la> W.fl India ;mai:Mons.
" One point Anne remained to be fettled, the eva-
cuation of Malta, a pla...z of no importance to Eng
land, tittles at war wi h France, but of incalculable
magnitude once oectipi,d by that relllefs power. To
• guard agaitill the Ffilhility of fuch an event, Eng-
land required its neutrality to be guaranteed by both
Rullia and Anibia ; and until this arrangement could
•. take plane, flit prudently refilled to evacuate the for-
ma. France, on her part, melted with a furpicious
impatience the fulfilment of this part of the treaty of
Austen', and while (he arrogantly and loudly exaEled
what the termed her tight, the did not even attempt
to difguife her own views on the independence of this
impregnable ir.a.3l. All Europe has witneffed the
• fucceffive encroachments of France on the rights of
) independent na:ions—every month annexed to her
dominions thine fret,: ;co:Ilion of dignity and power,
not only thereby merely eggvandizing herfeif, but
weakening, to an alarming degree, thole hates, from
which alone a nit and due balance of power could
be expeCled. At no eeriod of thn billory of France
were her telOnrces Go imuecnfe as at the termination
of the fail war. All Brabant, Savoy, a confiderebte
part of Germany, were annexed for ever to her
Crown. He nho wore it a mighty Conqueror, at
the head of an obedient and numerous army, teemed
to be left withritit a hope or a with unformed or un-
gratifie4. Peace as in his gtafp, Ole Arts courted
his (miles, and offered full fruition to his mandates.
" Such was the proud date of France at the con-
, elution of the war. Let us now turn a hefty view
P. on the fituation of other Powers. Auttria, humbled,
and almoft ruined, entertained not a with to renew
the war ; Ittitlia was in amity with France ; Prufsa
almoft her ally; the weak Powers feared and courted
.• her ; England, as has been ken, ferioufly prepared
to enjoy the bicilings of Peace.
.4 Switzerland, Holland, and Piedmont, all Italy
indeed, demanded only to be left to their own inter-
nal regulations ; their independence could not injure
.
; France ; their enmity could only lead to their own de-
ll Ilralion. Such was the date of Europe, when, with
if 7 a wanton tyranny, unparelleled in the hi inry of En.
rope, Buruirmirri feized on all there nations, and int-
' • vied on them his own iron yoke. He did more; under
•• the pretence of fending Commercial Agents to the
rowers with which he had just figned a peace, he in-
et odueed eng:neers to take fiaundings of her ports, and
plans of 111.1,i:wills ; then, and not till then, England
I
• took alarm ; and when the well known mill Si
imtdiiem public,bam
ewhatatenceoirn-e
111 lAld6roillarYitte"ell.l.-agYlPtito74gf,pl pi
difputable prnnf to the Nations of Europe. To
the inhabit lig a of France we fubmit it, could Eng.
land do lei: than et ; her commetce refit ;act! and
refuted, her ince :lot tampered with, the terms of the
treaty vittuaily intrieg.:ti, our very existence threat-
ened, the had nn al. er iintive but *at lubtuElinn, or
unequal war. Sue thole the latter, and Goo has
Ct owned her etf.,: V. to pit lerve her liberty and tier ho.
noir. Let then the world at large judge, on what
mctiv,:s is at reftnt at war with the whole of
the Conti.notal ; while, at the fame time,
' Frenchmen well ti.. w-11 to relief), whether it is for
their honour, or their happinefs, to fupport the cnn-
,
viittance of a war, merely to gratify the inordinate
•
• ntonitnnt of one man, who feta at nought the lives
liberties of the Great Nation over whole deli-
s i:s he rules, provided their facri4ce is the con-
fummation of ors unjuti and frantic &fires. Eng-
land, fo eotitixntly accufed of being the Pole pro-
minter of the war, to unworthily
.and unjultly charg
int with the perpetration of crimes foreign to the
i charatter :Limped upon her great renown, fau-
pies not
hn
to declare, that her (word will be fhentlied
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the very lira uninsent that. France difavows the
right of meddling with the political relations of
, mistral independent States, and confines herieif to
loch limits as are compatible with the freedom of
other eat io:i. : lint while the continues to manifelt her
' eaorbitaut ptentiniuns,untound.td aannacknowledged,
England .out emnley with a tarn hand all that gold
(to much the envy of France) the fair produce of her
labour 4r.d her lkiil.to fupport the tottering'andatfailed
• Veen its of mankind. Without a with for aggratn
dirt Inet:t, the tights only for independence and feCu-
' !fey alid it France is animated, as the rays fin is,
ysith ri!":44T pr-nfc is m 451 404.1!