The Sun.
London, England, 1863-08-21 00:00:00

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LONDON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 21, 1863.

Aspiring to a loftier title than that borne in
history by WARWICK, "The King-Maker," NAPO-
LEON III.," The Emperor-Maker," is steadily asso-
ciating with his reign a prestige of grandeur not
nnbefitting the inheritor of the great name, and the
reviver of the empire, of the modern CHARLEMAGNE.
The Founder of his dynasty, it is true, was in him-
self both Emperor and King—Emperor of France
and King of Italy. To say nothing of his being
also, in his own person, Protector of the Confedera
tion of the Rhine and Mediator of Switzerland
Emperor himself exclusively, NAPOLEON
unable to arrogate to himself the haughty supple.
mentary title of King of Italy, seems in a manner,
in very despite, to have been resolved for that
precise reason, if for no better one, to make another
at least the claimant of the title. NAPOLEON the
Great was, in propria persona, King of Italy him-
self, no less actually than he was Emperor of the
French. NAPOLEON 111., if solely Emperor of the
French, if unable himself to assume, with the Impe-
rial Crown of France, the iron crown of Lom-
bardy, has won that diadem for another, has
enabled the King of SARDINIA, by the aid,
now of the statecraft of CAVOUR, now of the
adventurous sword of GARIBALDI, to absorb the chief
Fart of the Roman Peninsula within the boundary
of his dominions. His wonderful predecessor, the
head of his Sovereign race, delegated his son-in-
law, the Prince EUGENE, to preside over Northern
Italy, from the Lombard-Capital of Milan, by the
title of Viceroy, as his representative. NAPOLEON
111., having conquered that fairest province of the
peninsula, like his predecessor as a General in the
field, at the head of his army—having bad his
Marengo at Solferino—hands over Lombardy to
another, makes a present of it, an imperial gift,
indeed, to his ally and brother-in.arms throughout
the war, King VICTOR EMMANUEL. NAPOLEON
the Great haughtily accords to his only child, his
infant son, the destined heir, as the conqueror
imagined, of his imperial sceptre, the loftiest desig-
nation surely to which a helpless babe was ever
born, that of King of ROME. NAPOLEON 111., de-
barred by the situation of affairs in Europe from
doing the like, in his turn, for his
.only child, his
infant son, the heir, as he hopes, to
his empire, does everything he can possibly
venture to do in the same direction, in-
stead—by way (almost we might call it) of
compensation to his own pride. Unable to have
the POPE at Paris to crown him in Notre Dame, he
has preferred reigning for more than ten years
without being crowned at all. If his infant son
cannot be King of ROME, he receives at least the
title of Prince Imperial ; he has the Pontiff for his
Godfather; the Imperial soldiers of France, long be-
fore the child's birth at the Tuileries and ever since
then, guard the Eternal City. The emulation, so
far as appears to have been in any way practicable,
the distinct and carefully pains-taking emulation, in
every way, of the Founder of the Dynasty, by the
present occupant of the throne of France, is among
the most remarkable peculiarities of his most re-
markable and hitherto most successful policy.
NAPOLEON 111., as NAPOLEON THE FIRST did
before him, has made war:upon Russia, has made
war upon Austria. As his predecessor strove to
do, more than once, in his time, and for
one brief interval in truth, after the accom-
plishment of the Treaty of Amiens, strove not
ineffectually, the French Emperor has secured an
alliance with England. With this difference, that
the alliance once secured with England by NAPO-
LEON 111., he has remained consistently faithful to
it—.without one solitary, even the briefest, interval
of interruption. Circumstances, fortunately for the
Peace of Europe, have precluded the present NAPO-
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from extending, except in one comparatively
trivial instance, the frontiers of his dominions. In
this, most
unlike NAPOLEON the GREAT, the rapid
and gioutie
extension of whose empire brought
the north-western
frontier of his dominions down
to the very shores of the Baltic, and in the diame-
trically
directionopposite at their south-eastern
extremity down to
the very shores of the Adriatic.
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vice-regal authority over states
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less impor-
tance in the European system than
those of Hol-
land, of Naples, of Spain, of Portugal
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burg, of Italy, and of a throngofamnyin'o
ties. Debarred, happily, from
that kind, NAPOLEON 111. has done now what
NAPOLEON the Great never attempted, he has
Created an Empire, he has raised an Archduke into

an 17mperor, he has carved out an imperial throne
with his sword on the other side of the Atlantic,

and has, with nothing less than a magnificent mag.
nanimity, called a brother of his Imperial ally o,

Austria to ascend it.

So far as in all this be has succeeded in
gratifying the pride of his own people, he
has without doubt acted wisely. Bat it is not
alone the pride of France that Las to be con-
sulted. Neither is it—what NAPOLEON 111. has

cared for Lardly less since first he assumed the reins

of authority over France—her material interests.

There is still that judicious " crowning of the edi-
fice"—that is of this imperial constitution of a Na-

poleonic Empire—established in spite of European
Coalitions, in spite of Waterloo, in spite of St
Heit 13R—that very Crowning of the Edifice which th,

a viver of thibNapolcouic empire itiChriatencioai way

,cede "an assembly of Princes." Of course everyone
knows who spoke in that remark, and whose influ-
ence it was that sought to be represented in that
Preliminary parley that was to come before the
spaoidetrh and
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tphreogiri.ess. Tie EMPEROR
lions carried ou
by
proved fruitless second IpNeGrstalanast
had
naelgwoatiyas
betore. He forcibly declared to
the :KING that it was their duty to "reform the
Bund." Notwithstandin
EMPEROR endeavoured g the defalcation, the
to exhibit the most friendly
intentions toward the absentee 'and exhorted his
mighty kingdom
confederates to preserve for the
may
of Prussia that place to Which she
was entitled,
produce an
and thus hope that their Unity
indelible impression on all German hearts."
At the conclusion of his long and elcquent
harangue the EMPEROR observed that he should
,iwayb feel satisfied that he h.d done all in his

power to "drew closer the f,es which unite all
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