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-
LT&ON III.," The Emperor-Maker," is steadily asso-
ciating with his reign a prestige of grandeur not
unbefitting 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 cf the Confedera
tion of the Rhine and Mediator of Switzerland
Emperor himself exclusively, NAPOLEON 111., iJ
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 be was Emperor of the
French. NAPOLEON 111., if solely Emperor of the
French, if unable himself to assume, with the Imre-
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
part 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 had 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 fur the
peace of Europe, have precluded the present NAPO-
LEON from extending, except in one comparatively
t*vial instance, the frontiers of his dominions. In
this, most unlike NAPOLEON the GREAT, the rapid
and •
the
gigantic extension of whose empire brought
trically
to the eeaar„
tn western frontier of his dominions down
r
0Y shores of the Baltic, and in the diame-
nosite direction at their south-eastern
extremity down
to the very shores of the Adriatic.
NAPOLEON the
GREAT, besides constituting him-
ealf sovereign of
to his supreme that vast dominion, appending
title the haughty subsidiary ones
already partieuie •
rised
the Germanic ) besides expanding two of
Eleetorates into Kingdoms, distri-
buted among his relative, friends, regal or
vice-regal authority over
standat
stemeetheafuntoholseessoifmHpoorh-
tance in the Europeas ay
land, of Naples, of Spain, et.
.` "toga/ of Wurtem,
burg, of Italy, and of a throng of mi
ties, Debarred, ha ilkll° principali-
, from anY emulation of
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 Emperor, he has carved cut an imperial throne
with his sword on the other side of the Atlantic,
and hag, with nothing less than a magnificent raag_
nanimity, called a brother of his Imperial ally at
Austria to ascend it.

So far as in all this he has succeeded in
gratifying the pride of his own people, he
has without doubt acted wisely, But it 15 not
alone the pride of France that Los to be con-
sulted. Neither is it— I
what NAPOLEON 11, has
cared for hardly 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
Helena—that vary crowning of the Edifice which the
r (dyer of this Napoleonic empire in Christendom was