The Sun. — London, England, 1814-12-31 00:00:00

THE SUN REVIEW. (No. INIT.) MI:Moi REA SECRETS NU NAPOLEoN B'JONAPARTEi ecrit par an Homing: qui ne l'a pas_quitfe dcrtis Quinze -Paris et Londres ; ebez Cothurn, Libraire, Conduit-street; Han- crier-square. 121n0. ' 2 iota. pp. 440. It has seldom fallen to our lot to peruse a Book of such lofty pretensions. .dnd such meagre per formance ; the Author of it, perhaps from mo desty, perhaps from motives tdf prudence, conceals his name ; but we could suggest a much better reason than either for his remaining unknown.— From the services which the Author says he was called upon to perform about BuoNAFARTE, such as opening a window when the room was too h►►t, or shutting it when it was too cold, or picking up a paper when it' fell off the table, he e%idently wishes , it to be supposed, that he was one of the attendants (perhaps the valet-de-chambre), upon that " great.. Prince," that " profound politi cian," that 'great Captain of the age'," as our sagacious Opposition Patriots used to call him.— But as we do not feel disposed unnecessarily to wound the feelings of Mons. CONSTANT, who had the honour of filling th4t. office, we do not W MI to insinuate, in .the slightest manner, that he is the Author of this - Work. But it is.time to let this Writer, who so loudly " thunders in the Index," spe ►k for himself : 7 --" No man in 'the world," be says; " knew BVONAPARTE better than I did; no Olie could know him better, no, not even himself; for, more than once, I guessed what he was going to do, before he had even projected What an invaluable Correspondent would this man have made to any of the Allied Powers ! how -uselessly was their secret 'Service money employ ecU ! He then proceeds to tell his Readers, that as soon as be had access to BLIONAPARTE he formed um most inconceivable, the most difficult, and perhaps the most dangerous plan that ran be imagined ; and that was, regularly and systema tically to study him, morally and physically, in pablic'and in private, by day and by night"— Jitit, in order to elude the penetration of Buo- NAPARTE, the Author tells us, that he put on in hi presence an appearance of " idiotism and thoughtlessness." We by no means wish to of fend.‘MOnsieur L'lneonnu, but we are sadly afraid, that, having assumed these appearances for fifteen years, " in public and in private; by day and by night," he has not succeeded, in shaking, them nit ; else, perhaps, he thinks that may impose upon his Readers by the same means that lie did upon his Master. We must, hot-ever, do our Author justice, if 'be really was about the person of BIJONAPARTE, and had an opportunity of , viewing him in hi s s private and unguarded nioments e or 114 any confidence re posed in him; his tiaterest enemy cannot accuse him of having betrayed it ; his secrets, if be has any, are locked up in his own breast, and his Reatlets will know jtist as much about Ffves7A rwrE when they have read his Book as they did before they opened it. He tells us, indeed, that BuoNaranze was born at Corsica ; that he was educated at Brienne ; that he joined the Jacobins early in the Revolution ; that lie was at one time reduced to such poverty and distress that he was about to twit France, and seek his -fortune in sonic other country ; that he was afterwards, through the interest of Bannas, appointed to the Command of the Arinsaof Italy; that he gained his victories there more by a wanton profusion of the lives of his soldiers than by his military skill; that after returning front Egypt, lie entered into divers intrigues, first to be made Consul, se condly, to be made. Consul for life, thirdly, to be made Emperor,_ and fourthly.to have the succes sion settled in his own Family ; that be mur kred the Duke D'ENGnIEN and General PI CH a- Gku, and finally, that he is' choleriek, selfish, ty rannicalaand cruel. Now, unless our memory is more than usually treacherous, we have before read Nip these facts in an infinite variety of News papers, :..lagazines, Pamphlets, Biograph ies., dotes, and Histories, published on the Continent., in Gseat Britaia and Ireland, - and in Anierica.— We must, however, candidly acknowledge that if our Author is spariug in his facts, when he does get hold of 'one he makes the most of it. What t!te preface with which he introduces it,- the commeats with which be iatellards it, and the reilections with whiell' he concludes, he makes an sueeslote which a less skilful writer wouhl tell in raaeaty lines, serve him for as many pages. Our I{c tiers, however, may wish to see some'Eatracts Isom a Work which promises so much, we will, therelore, extract foul.) it all that is ne NV , we hate nu doubt we can give in about one co lumn of our paper., The first attiele which we shall aa:sact frcea thi s Work is o,l . l.freaty, which he siya, .i3aoN•Aj'AliFe peoposed to the Emperor of Germ about the hee,itiaing a t 180-1, and which inflatiates:would hay.e been signed if it had not the D o k e D'E asuu e 11 been fat the munfas of Ihe Treaty is fallows - t• France shall restore to his Majesty the Ent . p.ci,,r of qvilnany, kviihout any injury or sub y witatsoever, al! the Conquests which she has made ante,: the commencement of the war iu 7'J2, with the e.xeeption .of those possessions in Itary' !low known by the name of the Italian Ile , piih!)ck. - NAeimmys Pwor. , :ArinTE, President or he said - Irldi - tn Republic, shall be dcclaied Sove ji,,,u td it %Hider tic title of King of Lombardy. Fititpt,Tor of AListtni engages tcl the Electors of Germany to acknowledge his title. The Kingdom of Lombardy shall be hereditary in the Family of NaroLeoN, the males of Avhich arc alone to succeed. The Royal Families of France and of Anstria , 'are for ever excluded from the "f hrone of Lombardy. " Wishingsto pot an end to the factions by which France is distracted, LOUIS STANISLAS XAVIER, Brother of the late King, shall he recalled to the Throne Of France. •11y the following Articles, BUoNAPARTF. engages - to support Louts XVIII. on the Throne .of France, and Louis XVIII. is to acknowledge B U ONAPARTF.9S Kilfg of LOMBARDI°, and to use his good offices to induce Foreign Powers to do .the saicc. France is to reinain in possession of • Hanover till a Peace is signed.with Ekgland, if tho King of FRANCE so pleases ; • and the conquered States, especially Holland, are to return under the - dominion of their ancient nias ters," &c. The Author having favoured us with a pernsal of- this inchoate Treaty, earnestly intreats " Mes sieurs les PublicisteS" to cast their eye over it, and he assures them they will find in it the hand of a profound Politician ! ! Fro he cwit tuned.] ESQUIRE LACY'S REASONS. Why Doctor MIMS was not raised from the stead on the 25th day of May, MS, according to the French prophet's pred; , ,tion, approach so near to the apologia's for the non-appearance of Shi loh, that we are tempted to lay them before our- Readers • " We are not unsensible of the harsh censures and uncharitable reflections that ate cast upon us and our' btethten, the prophets, in not raising from the dead our late spiritual brOther Dr: EM os, on the precise time we foretold ; therefore, to prevent, as much as'in its lies, all further clamour and unnatural violence that may he occasioned thereby, we have.thought fit to give our reasons for this oinissip.n in the following order " First, and principally, we are threatened with a popular rage and violence, which the laws of God and Nature allows all mankind to avoid, hav ing been practis&i by good and holy men in all ages '6l the world, even our Saviour himself, John x. 39. &c. who further confirms . ,thiS truth, Matt.x. :33, by advising his Useiples when they were persecuted in one city to flee into another. And, if it was lawful for the Apostles and Christ himself to avoid the fitly of their wicked and un believing a dversaries, we hope no man can rea sonably blame- us for deferring the accomplish ment Of the said intended miracle. Jonah pro phesied the deStrrictiou of ,Ninevelk in forty days, but it was deferred near forty years, on their re pentance. . Secondly, The secret decrees of the propheti cal spirit are treasured up in the fountain of, wis dom, and consequently past man's finding out, especially by a rebellions and gainsaying people. - " Thirdly, Raising the dead, restoiing' the blind and lame to•.their sight and limbs, are great miracles, and only performed by faith, prayer, and fasting ; but, where a rude, enraged, and re . vengeful multitude is gathered together, - in de fiance of heaven itself, all acts of devotion are obstructed, and even suspewled till a more season able time. " Fourthly, Though prophetic periods do not al ways take place, according to the punctual warn-, inks of the agitated spirit in the child of adop tion, yet, like a great conqueror,:wfio sometimes meets with .difficulties and miscarriages in his march, in due time break through all obstruc tion, for the more glorious accomplishment of the promises. " Fifth/y, and . lastly—Uad we been peaceably suffered to appear on the day and hour we pre dicted, it would then have been decided who were the cheats and impostors (name's we have been notoriously,loaded .with), bUr when open rage, mob fury, and even death itsj,lf, 'not only threatened but looked us in the face ; such a time. we arc sure, was inconsistent for the under taking of any thing that related to a public satis faction. For had the miracle really been wrought, in such a confused medley of ungovernable rabble, instead of being acknowleded as such, 'we had run the hazard of being torn in pieces, and per haps occasioned a fatal and general disorder among the people—for whose sake, more than for fear of our own lives, we prudently delayed attempting the said weighty undertaking, till a more favour able opportunity—though we could freely have sacrificed - our own lives. for the sake of spiritual truth, if such a dispensation had been either ne cessary or convenient.; but (considering theanad ness 'of -the age, the malice of the mob, and the rage of many.tnalecoutents against the present Go vernment, who in ail probability would have taken the ad - vantage of such a confusion, in order to have promoted their, long wished treason, and wicked designs). -we preferred the public peace and safety.of the Government before our own in tprest and reputation ; which, however so much Shaken in this particular, shall never discourage us from being loyal and obedient to our superiors, notwithstanding our being rendered obnostiotts to them liy spiteful and malicious agents, who are always fishing in troubled waters, to bring about their' - own notoriOns and pernic',lus purposes, though to the scandal of themselves, and ruin of their Christian brethern, whom they hate for no other reason titan being honester than them selves. " To conclude, let men of carnal principles have wln sentiments they please of us, we are resolt ed to act as the spirit of peace and love within us shall dictate and guide us, and as the supernatural agitations of Divine Inspiration shall enlighten out' understanding ! ! !" lc We arc rather idelined to think, that the ablest of the English Sybils'adherents will be unable to produce any apo logy half so cogent as Esquire Lacy's (from the Harleiau Alj.i cell.uny) for Mrs. Southcott'S dying instead of producing a son! The pessons about the corpse refused to allow it to be opened last night, though the old Lady is evidently enough,. to use the elegant expression of'one of them, " as- dead as a Doc' Fail, and as et"' as a Poker IMPORTANT CORPASPONDENCE. LETTER 11. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR,--L-It would have been well for. Europe, and ,glorious for the British nation, had Lord CASTLE REAGH known that Italy was a part of our Con tinent, included betcVeen the 38th and 46th de grees of N. Lat. and the lith and 19th of E. Long. His Lordship's tatal ignorance of this fact (which I will in a future letter endeavour• to skew, from geographical authorities, to be indis putable), as well as of the history of this country, in which profoundly difficult subject, his col leagues, the British Ministers, are not one.pgr ticle better instructed than the illiterate Noble man they have sent to Vienna, is the• fruitful source of discord and misery to come.. It is also altogether unknoWn t o your Ministers, and in a great measure to the pOpttlation of your country, with the exception of a few men of talents, the enlighleited Statesmen and Patriots of a dark' and venal age, tiVat' Italy is bounded on the -north by Switzerland, and the Alps which SEPARATE itliOrit GERMANY on the west by Car , uiola and . the Adriatic ; on the east, as I am firmly persuaded, hy l ,the Mediterranean ; and on the south as has been said, and I verily believe, by that sea (though it is' not easy to con ceive hoW the same sea can be on two sides of a country at once) and the Alps which di vide it from France. All! Mr. Editor, what dread ful and mighty considerations arise out of this vieo Of the situation of Italy. Switzerland and the. Alps are ordained by Nature, to separate it front Gcrnyany, but yet the harpy ambition of Austria would violate the order of nature, pierce the sacred bulwark of Alpine heights, o'erleap the barrier of libeity which Hel.:etia , has interposed, and riot on the ruin of a country which you may perhaps have read, was, by an ancient and vene rable philosopher, denominated de Boot of Eu rope. Bootless; indeed, is such a name now, if it cannot save us front the feet of cruel invaders. Nur Alps, nor Appenines can keep 'ein out, :or fortified redoubt—! Sir ! the length of this boot has been computed at 600 miles, and its breadth, like 'that of other boots, is very unequal. We strapping Unitarians in the North think ourselves entitled to be at the top, and it will not be easy to leather us out of our object. But More of ibis hereafter : it is necessary for me to proceed to - give you informa tion which will astonish England undsher doltish Rulers. Italy was once divided into three great parts, as follow :—First, the upper, or our part,• consist ing of Savoy, Piedmont, and a division of Mont serat, subject to the King of SARDINIA-Genoa, a free Republic—Milan, Mantua, and the rest of Montserat, under the dominion of * Austria — Parma, and Modena, subject to their respective Sovereigns—and the .great State of Venice. Se cond, the middle part, or calf of tLe 1.90 t, et it towards the anele, coniisting , of Tuscany, Lucca, and the States of the Church.—And third, the lower, or debased part, 'consisting of Naples.— " I hope here be truths," as one of Jour best writers has said in a play, the title of which sure for Measure) is so dear to every Italian tlo- , som, that it is as highly valued here as in the na tion of its. author. Here be truths which, I think, must make your"wicked Ministers pause before . they proceed with their iniquitous . schemes con cerning Italy. And, Sir, I think you' must nice with me, that it is a most melancholy thing that'the British Go vernment should be entirely unacquainted with these important matters, which, if they bad known, they would never have misconducted themselves as they have done with respect to this fine country. Their It - famous breach of good faith, which led 'to that of which I was a horrified. eye-witness, the execution 'of nine hundred and eleven men,•women, and children, at ten o'clock on the morning of the I ith, in the citadel of Mi lan, whence their bodies were thrown into the Olana and ,Lantbro , has alienfited the affections of every Patriot among us from the country which, prior to this barbarous massacre, they esteemed more than any other foreign nation. Oh ! that men, competent to guide the helm of the State, with wisdom to conceive, and talents to direct the Councils of England, had been in the place of those drivellers who have reduced you to your present lot of dehnsemenf, infamy, powerlessness, and im becility ; then indeed—hut the soul sicken; at, the hare contemplation of the reverse we should then have had to delight us ! England would hare been rery different from what- it is. Intending to resume these observations--will ing, for the good of mankind, to communicate , the knowledge of which . 1 seem to mySelf to be in the exclusive possession —desirous of instructing your blind and besotted Rulers in History and Geography—and ardent in the diSclosurse of 1 ; or great State secrets, which, but f 0 never be revealed to• a wondering `c. shall now, Sir, take 'my leave of you , s o or intimating, that you ought by no eteil'is gine that there are Parties Italy as ill 1 ' 1 , 5 01 . such as the Austrian Party, the Tte" lNE ,, i° „ i rti i ` ) New Philosophy Party, &c., and that I u`' d ' O4 v, i tri° t ' ro p the latter. I assure you lam a real dependent of every consideration, 0 03° p of action, private feelings, se:fish intere'rs'oor &e. &C.; and, moreover, that 1 hate 31/4- I , l o o ' the Austrians as I do the very devils in nium. But you shall hear from me ag gi "' Plan is agitated to an approaching CrisisVoo4 will astound the vile Monarchs plotting at the slavery of mankind whom they faiselY-P. to have liberated from the chaili s of ay r. hot NAPOLEON was a hero, ',and a (treat I°ll,ists mum ! no more !--:Thank Heaven , he still to enliven the :hopes of all true patri°. rs; P i ' your own TONI DE A SS Mugu, stith December 131.1. I A l° S —Were I not afraid of your inf erlia t ole ii O dpd Ag th e ec tits l of co a t t l i ld ui s :p y rin i c n i ( p )c le e d : A b :l i n t i ; these 1.1 cruel executioners of the barbarous r ie fo al of a persecuting people, haunt. my and prevent me from more bitterly "6116dd former and abusing the latter. W °111(1 were wasted, marrow, bones, and ~f. / 1 ' I'. S. 2d.—(Private and confidentiol)•""all tended apprehensions of the Alien 011.10 cis 01 hurt there is nothing alien , about, ine fat heart, and that they eannot touch. It w i/l.a ot tr our purpose; Alpwever, to take away the cilij it ibi 6 which Britain at present enjoys, as the litlsr etel ,ed asylum and cheering liiend of the q u ' every country ; and instead of the sanctler American, Dutch, Italian, S' irlss' n erers in every good cause, their str i o li t til P iti a i°°lll : ' l l 3 lll'lll3 , l .man, f Portuguese, anil liberal benefactor, to represent her " t •ollr i spirits,, f cunt in this u undertakentTaa p, just, dishonourable, and inhospitable 113)101' Spanish (yea, univers3"cjeo us triotic undertaking, Nlote Note of the --DITOR. toalni(ellpa suspect this not intended to be printed ; in short, it i Seed s have been meant for another Paper- 0 FRENCH PAPERS. [RECEIVED THIS MORNING:I M P t 1" r VIENNA, DEC. 17.—1 t is determine' 00 ' • A ° l King of Saxony shall not come to V ie ' ' coP j ' e quit his dominions as long as they °l.eht,"sill/ti'r to e by foreign troopS.:' That Prince w ho all e3 pride of misfortune, positively refus es tpi it at Vienna, in the character of a 0 0 ,. fot t e narch. All communications - Must clm/'1: cessarily be made to him in writing' i" ff % i of -sionsconsiderable delay in tLe proceed ',co? Conc , n ress • It is reported, -but we cannot s tate i t l,' $5, 11 11°1 ' , e 0 , tive fact, that the Conferences of t"" ori ~liVt, 14th, the, proceedings assumed a v e ry tr ing aspect. We arc assured, that t' cce (id sters of Russia and Prussia have a : of the proposals of the Austrian I° l ' s t; 11 ,1 lative to the left bank of time Nh itie ib ' sti l d i ,l land' -and to Saxony. It also saidi'-otold'ill Castlereagh received dispatches fr'o lll S ° o tbe t ,t i the 11th, which tended very much to st ti° t pt' o difficulties respecting Saxony. It 561i : 1 i; ° :( Prince Regent wrote to his LordsbiP band, in which be declared that he w°u make some . sacrifices of his German 11`1 '. than that SaXony shoußcease to c %is g a tO ctil rate and independant Kingdom. T he 5 'patches are very friendly to AUStritle FRANKFORT, DEC. 21.—Letters fr°lll,oPi'v, state, that the affairs of 'Poland- ari a 7 0 , 0 4 , settled. Russia cedes to Prussia a P rt-o fi o a ll laud; containing 15,000,000 iiihahloilts;;llsl:cf changes another part of her Polish Amqtria ;so that the King of Sax o Pi . d 1 at least a part of his states. t o l e J o , Prince John Sulkowski, proprietor o' of Bilitz, who had attached himllsclf F of `' oj parte, under whom he rose to the rak„. ' has unexpectedly a ppe ar ed a t Vietio 9 '' o ich intermeddled : in the affairs of Pol4ll',l', view Of exciting disturbancos, and b° ° ' 0 1 .6 ' f J • respects a maim of had character , be ` .g ` ls l oa t i v by our Court to retire to his estates, amend quit them without the perr n ission ° es c d • vernor of the Pro Vince. and arrived at Vienna in a. boat ; O ff ' ie h .l ' seized the Police, and sent ba ck t° ,most A prosecution has been c ommenced ab for a libel which was found,upon him' scril ( i i i? t;e Is l In the Mauritius Gazette wefind of a public party given at Port Lows,',„esseati". , apz , ars the following remarkable e7`l",sith Joe ladies' bosoms were unc overg' laiik and modesty." 1 I I.t h di ;p T ~~ ` 'an ai,„,il O , A „. %rile rjLti tC ' tt 'tt ' `\ < ' II P h 'IP (4 4 1 t .ik • . t, ‘i N .t, t 'e