The Sun.
London, England, 1865-02-28 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 28, 1865.

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lific in Royal and Imperial authors; of which our
own country has produced not a few. Alfred trans-
lated Boethius ; Henry VIII. indited theological
pamphlets ; the First James of Scotland was dis-
tinguished as a poet ; the First James of England
wrote a diatribe against tobacco, which displayed
more learning than wit in the Solomon of his age.
The Emperor Charles V. indited his autobiography
amid the solitude of Yusote. It is in no solitude,
but in snatches of busy hours at the Tuileries, in the
distraction of Compiegne, the oft-disturbed leisure
at Biarritz, under the burden of all the cares of state,
and while charged with supreme direction and con-
trol of the foreign and domestic policy of a great
empire, that Napoleon 111. has written his Life of
Caesar. The life of the greatest man of ancient times
is fitly indited by one of the greatest of modern
times. After the lapse of nearly 19 centuries the life
of Julius Caesar has yet to be written. Greek and
Roman, the historians who first wrote of him were
too near to his day to be able to form a dispassionate
estimate of him. If the sage of Chzeromea had the
advantage of oral tradition, the modern writer is
instructed by the collective wisdom, the calm and
impartial reflection of intelligent men during all
the years that have succeeded the death of Caesar.
And yet even now the very greatness of the man
must bewilder the judgment of the historian. If
to those of his own day he seemed to have risen
up on a sudden, some vast and superhuman demon
who, with his single right arm, gathered up the
liberties of Rome, and the allegiance of three con-
tinents which comprised the world of the ancients,
to our imagination he was scarcely less, but
" bestrode the narrow world like a Colossus," and
was so far superior in his achievements to all others
of his day that we are dazzled at the brilliancy of his
figure, and unable to estimate his acts by reason of
their magnitude. It is far easier for a soldier like
Napoleon 111. to describe with accuracy, and trace
out in all their interesting details, the wars of Cwsar,
than for a politician like Napoleon 111. to appreciate
to the satisfaction of all men the political career of
one whom, not without reason, he regards as in
some measure the prototype of his uncle. It is pro-
bable enough that the Emperor will regard this part
of his subject from a different point of view from
that which Englishmen will be inclined to take. He
will take rank with a school of historians which,
though comparatively rare among us, numbers as its
disciples some eminent writers of our time. It is a
school which takes account of the facts which have
been accomplished rather than of the things which
ought to have been done in history. It takes the
result as evidence of the feeling which produced it,
and justifies this feeling as an impulse of the human
race. Success is the measure by which the charac.
ters of history are appreciated, and the rule of ab
stract right is set aside as inapplicable. The prepon
derance of great men, the inherent right to cora.

mand of the commanding intellect, is not only re-
cognised but elevated into a sort of religion. Great
men become the leaders, pioneers, the prophets of
mankind. Wherever they point it is the duty of
others to follow. There is much to be said for this
philosophy, and more against it. It is most in favour
abroad, and in England it finds acceptance with
Froude and Carlyle. But to most Englishmen it
seems, and will always seem, that there is a right and
a wrong in all the events of history and the deeds of
great men; that in every case right ought to triumph,
and if it should not, so much the worse for the
nation which allows it to be worsted. Julius Caesar
threw the Roman commonwealth, subverted a consti-
tution not very unlike our own. Few can doubt that
to attain the supreme power was the settled purpose
of his life. It is no excuse for him that Marius and
Sulla attempted the same before him. It is no
apology for his ambition to urge that a worse
tyranny than his followed his death, for no man has
a right to pin the. fate of a people to his own. We
date the decline of Rome from her great civil war.
Napoleon 111. may be of opinion that had Caesar
lived he would have founded the Roman polity on
so secure a foundation that it would have withstood
the irruption of the barbarians. It is in accordance
with national instinct that while we prefer Cicero
as a model, the French look to Caesar. CEesar,while
he lived, was a success from first to last. Cicero,
living and dying, was'a failure. We do not wonder

that the cause which pleased the gods finds favour
with Napoleon 111., though the conquered found
acceptance with Cato, and still claims our suffrages.
jWe do not, then, expect that the Emperor of the
French, like Plutarch, will visit with sex erity the
ambiguous passages in the political career of his
hero. Cultivating the favour of the plebeians by
.profuse largesses, that he might make use of their
influence against the patrician order—setting up
against Sulla the images of Marius, arraying against
Cicero the eloquence of the licentious Clodius and
the memory of Cataline ; setting Pompey against
Crassus, and, when Crassus was dead, himself
against Pompey ; climbing higher and higher to
office and power, first on the shoulders of the peo-
ple. and then on the arms of his soldiers—the whole
history of Caesar is that of one who had determined
at all costs to be first in Rome. When still a young
man he was moved to tears at the exploits of. Ale-
xander, and determined to emulate them. Those who
render the fullest justice to his noble qualities are
at a loss to justify the ambition which drew all
men, and Rome itself, into its vortex. The Impe-
rial historian grapples boldly with this difficulty at
the outset. Suetonius, Plutarch, and all other
historians, have failed utterly to understand, he says,
the representative character of the man. He was
the genius, the guiding star of an epoch whom to see
should have been to follow—to hear to obey. " When
countries produce such men as Caesar, Charlemagne,
Napoleon, it is to trace for peoples the paths which
they are to tread ; to mark a new era with their
stamp ; to do the work of centuries in years." Look-
ing at matters from the Imperial standpoint we can
understand this view, and we shall be much interested
in noting the manner inwhich it is carried out through
the eventful history of the great soldier who, when
saluted as King, said proudly that he would rather
be Caesar. It is reported that the Emperor Napoleon
has taken the greatest pains to verify the exact loca-
lities of Caesar's battlefields. This part of his
work is likely to be of the greatest value to stu-
dents of history and to the lovers of military
science. We may expect an interesting description
of Autun, the ancient Bibracte, where he overthrew
the Helvetians ; of that plain by the Rhine across
which he pursued Ariovistus, King of the Germans,
and of his passage of the river on a subsequent occa-
sionttfilienofaGl alursi
near Cologne. We shall have the scene
gAtlaimamtbediaouxfheai feast de-
scribed of that great battle in the Forest of Hain-
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the ,
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ault, where he made such a slaughter of the Nervii
that field in the modern Lyonnais, where he defeated
ancient. Alexia of the Commentaries, where' he
Vercinge-
torix. Next will come the great civil war.
The
.localities of Arimnium and the Rubicon, Brundu-
slum. , and. Pharsalia, will be illustrated by the Im-
perial historian. Nor will Egypt be forgotten, nor
the Syrian field where Caesar ~ came, saw,
and conquered ;" Pharnaces, nor the scenes
of the campaign in Africa against Cato and
Scipio, and that in Spain against the hapless sons of
the dead Pompey, We shall, lastly, have the history
of the short Dictatorship in Rome, the alterations in .
the laws, the reformation in the calendar, the great
works which, like other mighty princes, Caesar had
in view, such as the cutting through the Isthmus of '
Corinth, the deepening of the Tiber, the harbour at J
Ostia, the draining of the Italian Marshes. His •
death will be an opportunity for the indignant ;
eloquence of his biographer. When Caesar died the 1
sun is said to have paled, and a comet, visible by
day, hung over the city. When Napoleon died a
mighty storm shook the rock of St. Helena to its
foundations. Like Caesar, he was a mighty
conqueror, a man of almost superhuman in-
tellect, of boundless ambition, and of great
aspirations. Caesar was slain by his enemies ;
Napoleon was exiled. As the nephew of
Napoleon the living Emperor may be com-
pared to Augustus. In a literary point, at all
events, he is

vocitri,
Ca)saris ultor."
Trusting that the world will long be enlightened by
his researches, and France enjoy for many years
the order and material prosperity which she has at-
tained to under his government, there is scarcely an
Englishman living who will not heartily greet him
with " Serus in ccelum redeas," the Horatian or
Roman way of saying, "May
you live for ever."

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