Star.
London, England, 1811-07-31 00:00:00

IMPOItrANT FRENCIf STATE IMPER.-

44 By the command of his Majesty the Emperor
and King, my most gracious Sovereign, I transmit
to your Excellency the following erfidmial commu-
nication. It displays an impartial view of she great
question'of peace and war ; it thews clearly the source
from which the past and present misery of inaakind
originate and flow.
s, Had, some centuries ago, the British islands
been swallowed up in the seas that encompass, Mean,
the European Continent would have contained only
a grand and united family. Witaessing its sueerior
civilization and prosperity, the inhabitants of the
other parts of the world would then have strived to
obtain with it social compact, cr a palitiCal adoption:
The slaughter of generations, and the devastation of
nations, would then have been tinknnwn. A slight
chastisement would then have been sufficient to inti-
midate the refractory, and to correct the disobedient.
The true GOD would then have been worshipped by
all nations. Dutiful subjects would then have hailed
their Prince as another Providence. But when men
begin to canvass the adoration of their heavenly CRP.-
ATott, they will not long hesitate to assail the prero-
gatives of their earthly Sovereigns. Rebellion is the
twin brother of impiety : anarchy and atheism are
their common offspring. The English Wicklitr had
the sacrilegious audacity to propose innovations in
religion, long before the Bohemian Huas and the.
Saxon Luther proclaimed themselves heretics. The
latter would not have dared to stir, had not England i
already distributed its poison among the Germans;
they merely took advantage or a contagion, suffered
to become popular by the ignorance and vices of the
clergy, and by the apathy and impolicy of Govern-
ments. Since this time, in particular, England has
never been quiet within herself, and has never ceased
to disturb the tranquillity of all other States. , Air
might have been foreseen, the success of the religious
innovators encouraged the attempt of political incen-
diaries. The Continent was inundated with the blas-
phemous end perverse reveries of English anti-cliris.
tians and English anti-monarchists. They sapped
the very foundation of eoci il order. To prove their,
thorough car tempt for all institutions, divine as well
as sacred, they opened their temples to the most ig-
norant and vicious of fanatics, delivered the most
virtuous of their Kings into the h eels of the most
ferocious of regicids. How many millions of Conti-
nental Europeans have not bled, because these Islan-
ders had with impunity braved their GOD and butch-
ered their Monarch ? (Alas ! said, feelingly, his
Imperial and Royal Majesty°, without their enor-
mous perpetrations, Louis XVI. might still have
reigned, and a happy security been my lot. Supreme
authority is but an inadequate indemnity for my
anxiety and labour to be the worthy sovereign of the
greatest of nations.) fa fact, if the infernal assassins
'of Louis XVI. were debased Frenchmen, they had
been tutored by English sophistry, they had been
misled by the 'maples, or 'educed by the-gold, of
i the English factions. Is it not England alone which
1 at this moment distracts Europe, and causes the
blood of its children to be lavaed on Turkey, Ger-
many, Spain, Sicily, and Portugal ? Has not his Im-
perial and Royal Majesty almost yearly, and in the
midst of his most splenid achievements, presented the
olive branch, always interwoven with laurels, to un-
grateful England ? How often has he not, from the.
bottom of 'his patriotic soul, in vain exclaimed—
is Englishmen, I love you as men, and I esteem you
as warriors ! Let all human carnage be at an end !
Let outraged humanity recover its too long lost
rights ! Let us be friends upon terms reciprocally
honourable ! Let our future rivalry be to enlighten,
instead of destroying our fellow-beings !" But his
Imperial and Royal Majesty has addressed himself to
a Government too weak to dare to be just, and too
powerful not to be able to do mischief; and to a na-
tion too selfish to feel for the sufferings of others, and
too licentioueto attend to its real interests. It cannot
longer be doubted, that mankind must continue to be
disturbed, until the Constitution of the British Empire
is reformed in a manner more congenial with the spi-
rit of the constitutional charters, which at present se-
cure the dignity and the power of sovereigns, and the
obedience and safety of the subjects of the Continent.
—To effect such a salutary reform in the British
Islands, the principal European Cabinets must be
unanimous in their resolves, aad firm and vigorous
in their proceedings. Exueeen MUST FALL PHO.
STRATE 1F THE CnNTINSINT lILMALN LT:llene. The
division and weakness of other States compose berg
whole strength. Another Constitution mast he offer-
ed her. It she prudently adopts it, her independence
and dominions will be guaranteed ; bu: it she is blind
and obstinate enough to refuse, a solemn decree of
all civilized governments will repudiate her for ever
from the great family of the European common-
, wealth; and she shall be-ranked for the future among
the piratical States of Africa. No more neutral: shall
be endured. Capital punishment: shall be 4i:tell on thel
master and crew of Me ships of any foreign country Ira-
ing with her • and the law of high-treason shall be 1
executed on smugglers, purchasers, and sellers'of her
1 productions and commodities. These plans and re-
gulations may at an imperfect view appear rather
severe ; but without them, a truce alone can be sign.
ed ; but a peace can never be concluded between her
and the Continent. This severity towards her is,
therefore, a real humanity with regard to all nations
upon the globe, not excluding Great Britain herself.
This fact may be proved without any diiliculty, or
the possibility of a contradiction. If Englishmen
, were made of those materials that compose all other
people, it would require little knowledge of the hu-
man mind to foretel the most flattering issue, without
resorting to extremities ; but they differ totally from
the rest of the human species.
gg Who can deny, that a British King, according
to the organized constitutional anarchy of his king-
dom, is now the most humble of slaves ? When the
monarch is not free, how dare his subjects talk of
liberty ? The truth is, that the bondage of English-
men becomes heavier as it ascends; it emanates trom
the lowest of the rabble, a set of petty tyrants, igno-
rant and brutal, corrupt and oppressive.
gg is that Monarcu not a slave who is deprived of
selecting his own counsellors and savants ? Who,
during .a reign of half a century, has, among scores
of ministers, not been surrounded by ten he could
like or trust; by. six, he could love or esteem
Are the fetters of that royal parent light, who dur-
ing nainthe
.ie forced to see ,and bear 4 tocluiN
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'son the butt of the 'nest malignant passions, of the
I;nost malignant and debased of men ? Do these
Iministers deserve the name of freemen, who are ob.
',liged to be undutiful and ungrateful to the Prince
fah° has elevated them ; to flatter a licentious mob.
that despise and insult them ? What must we, think
of the heads or hearts of sworn royal cOunstlioro who
aim not save tfte bosom of their Prince from torture,
and the character of his child from unjust ignominy ;
though they must know that the tormentors are tke
most profligate of villains, and the most unprincipled
of conspirators ? What must be the standard of the
honour of a nobility, that not only not Literferes be.
tween the infamous assailants of a Prince tithe blood,
but suffers some of its own members to act as accoin-
plices in the assault ? Can these representatives of
the people make any pretence to liberty, loyalty, or
patriotism, who do not easel or punish the factions
among them that try to stab monarchy, by bespat-
tering the son of their monarch ? What freedom,
or what loyalty must these pretended friends of the,
throne possess, .oilio, to spew their attachment to the
Royal Family, purchase openly their fikuresileace
about one of the sons of their King, whom it was
hardly possible any new slander could degrade, more
than onnaturally to involve another son of their King
ittthe disgrace of his brother ? Can any decency or
any loyalty be sopposed to exist among the citizens
of the first city of the British empire, who not only
join the wild fiends of their Sovereign every where,
Out encourage the senseless pratings of insolent and
norant shopkeepers, never opening their mouths
ut to babble impertinence, but to bawl out treason ?
Did a single count; interpose in the shainoiolly and
cruelly audacious hunt of the royal victim ? Did not,
us the contrary, every county emulate in this race of
I :nf *my which should be foremost to wound the feel.
ing of a venerable King, and to recouspence the out.
ragenus perpetrations of the bitter enemies of his do-
mestic peace as much as his royal supremacy ? Is it
not evident, even to the most superficial obsereer, -
that either sound morality or rational liberty must be
wanting in the British nation ? If it would be un-
charitable to suppose the former, it would also be ri.
dienleus not to see the tutu absence of die latter.
o In Great Britain tactiim meddles with every thing
and every body ; even the King is factious in self-de-
fence, for self-preservation. Have not, however, both
in ancient and modem times--both in Greece and
France—both in Kerne and in England—have not
'factions always been the most oppressive of despots ?
Have not factions always, and every where, been the
companions of licentiousness, and the assassins of
freedom ? Have not factions at all times been into-
lerant, daring, unjust, and incorrigible ? To judge
by the scandalous scenes in the British Islands, which
the indignant Continent has lamented of late, little
hope remains that the (actions there would desist front
their nefarious deeds, were even France, as she might
do, to produce damning evidence, for centuries past
up to this very time, of every chief of faction; of
every usurper of the name of patriot ; and of etery
candidate for popularity in Great Britain, having
either ,zed his puce to, or intrigued with the enemies
of. his country—either accepted' bribes, or received
. instructions, from rival or inimical Cabinets. Though
the majority might be convinced, a desperate mino-
-1
rity would command. In England, as has been the
case in France, factions can never be mended ; they
must be extirpated. Some few persons, ambitious or
bankrupt in characters and fortunes, will always,
under the existence of the actual constitution of a
Royal democracy, find opportunities to mislead the
ignorant, and to head the needy and disaffected, in
committing excesses dangerous to the peace of Eu.
'rope, by contagious examples.
" It belongs to History to recapitulate the many
recent acts ot the daring spirit of British factions, and
Qt their inflaesite on the internal and external politics
of Great Britain, of their crimes towaras humanity,
of their cornilv n ferscity and barb.,rity. But lisct trey
not power, art: orampling under their lott a Prince of
the Royal blood, to eared the exploits of a Gmeral, who
deliberated, when he ought to have acted, who advaa-
ced when he slo,uld 'have retreated, and wnose retreat
was a disorderly flik,hc before a handful of pursuers—
while they force another General to resign, mough vic-
torious; because the climate, the dermas, and utter
unforeseen occurrences, prevent him from succeeding
to the whole ex•enc oleitravagant expectations ?Hoar
sheyoot forced their King to leave unpunrslwd a Nlito
cal agent*, who deserved to be impeached for want of
ability or ot integrity, in disubeyiag ;Ind disregarding
his instructions ? Have cloy nut forced their King
to leave unrewarded intotibcr poistkai agent t, whose
firmness, and whose obedience to the orders of his So-
vereign, exposed him 'to public insult and personal
dangers ? Have they not forced their King to swal-
low, without daring to resent, these and other Provo-
' Cations, tiseash ofered by the avert weak and etratinsibie
,1 6f tGovera,ttcats ? Cut in all Ile branches or the con-
stitaticall establishments of Great Britain, factions
sway an anarchical iron sceptre, contounding, dcrang •
ing, and invading all order. Has not a Captain in
the British Fleet, cruizing in Europe, draggc". his
Admiralbefore a Court Martial ? 'Cliouga era lat-
ter has been honourably acquitted, have oat factions
Shielded the accuser from punishment ? Have net
OffiCers serving in the British army in India seduced
the soldiers to mutiny.? Have they nut, backed by
faction, added rebellion to insubordination, and held
out the most dastardly and perjurious proceedings as
meritorious acts of patriotism and of retaliating jus-
tice ? Is not the licentiousness of the Bri:isli , leis
such, that, protected and patronized by factioos, a
convicted libeller §, published trona his prison the
most inflammatory, of essays, defying the laws, and
exciting civil' discords ; insulting equally the Judge
wbo condemned him, and the Vero want that car-
ried their sentence into execution ? Has net a Chic!'
of Faction fi• who is also a Member of Parliatne. •
honestly told his assembly, that the nation was is t 7.
presented by its Representatives, and that their cu,
try was not Worth defending ? Were they not
newly ail on fire—those very fa.ctions that shortiy -
fore, with such admirable and philosophical p a.o.
heard the sou of their King m st untnarcitull)
used j Did not these friends ot liberty inimei.hat,
decre a mandate of arrest against the deciainser .
this disagreeable truth, of this bold traokness ? Is., •
Britishanarcliyethibited itself in all its &dad, ul gi
Faction combats faction. Numbers ot lives arc ~:i
sat the very streets of the ;Apical, where a civil 0.-t
rages with all its fury. But, mark—when, at last, list
hamanity of the King orders his guards to pte. en;
* &Ow .1 Jatima- Welted States. i Cabinet. 1 Batileit.