The Sun.
London, England, 1854-01-17 00:00:00

She had a sweet and precious compensation when
Napoleon. FS truck off the chains from Abd-el-Kader.
The gloricus African ! The revived Jug,urtha !
Ignoble souls might have seen danger in that deed ;
but Nrip oleon trusted to the honour of a hero. The
son of the desert plighted no punic faith. He has
justified the confidence of a kindred spirit.
Daic what of these things. All will not cancel
the crime of the coup d'etat. This is the plague
spot, on which every malcontent in Europe fixes,
anel with good reason too, for it was the blight
Which blasted all their projects. Another week,
and anarchy would have raised the hydra head
again. Another week, and every subterranean
den in Paris would have disgorged again its mon-
strous brood bequeathed by '92—the orphans of
the scaffold and its heirs. Tho best authority, the
courts of law, have demonstrated too clearly that,
even still, there are assassins left to clutch the dag-
ger ; and, on their own vile avowal, awaiting but
the ;signal. The fraternity were on the watch.
The 'baffled outcasts and incendaries of Europe lay
re
.?,.loueching for the outburst which, commencing in
rjaaice, was to involve the Continent in volution.
BLit, the statesmanship, the secrecy, the spirit,
vv:nich devised, matured and, just in time,
eliectrified treason with the coup d'etat, saved.
-r4'rance, and will never be forgiven. Sup-
pose the conspiracy had succeeded, what
'would have been the consequence ? Depend upon
It, the evil spirit which the half rebel, half infidel
'philosophy of the eighteenth century evoked, still
lingers though it lurks. It held the first empire
in continual irritation—it detests the second, which ,
has scotched it, for the present. It still survives,
though restless, vigilant, ravenous as ever. The
blood of Louis XVI. did not satiate it—nor the
sacrifice of Charles X.,nor the more recent immo-
lation of the Orleans ynasty. Gorged but for the
moment, the horrid monster was recovering its
vitality. Its crest was rising, its coils unfolding,
and its maw gaping even for the republic it had
generated, when a vigorous arm struck it down,
and rescued a people from the death of its em-
braces. France is delivered, but who can say when
the danger shall re-appear. For full sixty years
the demon of revolution has demanded and de-
voured its human tribute, and it will never rest
Valle there is,anything remaining to demand or to
devour. The truth of this is visible in every page
of the half century, from the regicide mob, dabbling
in the blood of Capet, down in lineal descent to
the hereditary worthies who sacked the Tuilleries
the other day, and died drunk upon the pile of
PlunOter their own hands had kindled. Who shall
Bay the descendants are degenerate, to whose harpy
!Ire.; -Voltaire taught faith, Mirabeau virtue, and
.r,iaiLiat Just, Legendre, and Robespierre, humanity
It 'was the repetition of such spectacles, sights
of., horror and of woe, which Napoleon spared
-rjurope. Let them call his energy despotism if
'loy will, the question is, did not the times require
4,,t---did not necessity demand it ? Despotism in-
deed! What despotism transcends that of the mob ?
Prance has experienced it—does she wish again to
do so ? Would she willingly recall her tyrant
rabble crowned with the bonnet rouge—her moun-
tain elubbists writing their decrees in blood—her
guillotine fed from the veins of the wise, the brave,
the learned and the noble—her strumpet goddess,
dethroning the Almighty! We have seen such
Portents—may Heaven in its mercy avert their re-
Petition ! Yes, we should have seen it, had Napo-
leon Louis either failed or faltered. There are
miscreants enough without property or principle,
or scruple, panting to unfurl the dynastic standard
of the scaffold, the lantern, the poignard, and the
torch. Is it in the face of warnings such as these
'that we are to revert to abstract principles and re-
fuse to contemplate the dreadful alternative ? Call
the Emperor by what name they may, he is the chosen
of the people—three times the chosen—chosen, too,
after the coup d'etat, and by a majority counting
by millions over that of his uncle. A great nation
is surely capable of judging for itself. It must be
left to do so. Europe has made the somewhat
costly experiment of imposing a Monarch upon
France. Twelve hundred thousand foreign bayo-
nets re-erected a dynasty and the nation dug its
grave. In that grave six hundred millions of our
money lie interred—enough to surmount it with a
-Monument of gold.
And now, mylord, having to the best of my ability
sketched the character of Napoleon the Third, let
us consider our manifest policy respecting him,
--the policy which justice and interest equally
prescribe. We are on the eve of events which may
convulse the world. A mighty despot is bent on
realising the ambition of his race, and establishing
a universal domination. The first blow—long me-
ditated—is to be struck at the integrity of our
empire. That darling project, cherished from the
day when Catherine had " the Road to India"
painted on a mile-post, is at length upon the move.
Under pretences, false and indefensible, Turkey is
assailed—assailed in the first instance—to open a
path to India. That this has been the waking
dream of Russia for many a day, is placed beyond
a doubt by the inestimable revelations of Napoleon
the First. "If Paul had lived (said he) you would
have lost India before now. An agreement was
made between Paul and myself to invade it. I
furnished the plan. I was to have sent thirty
thousand good troops. Ho was to send a
,similar
number of the best Russian soldiers, and forty
ten
Millions Cossacks. I was to subscribe
Inillions for • the purchase of camels, and
other requisites, for crossing the desert.' My
troops were to have gone to Warsaw, to
be joined by the Russians and the Cossacks,
and to have marched from thence to the Caspian
Sea, where they would either have embarked or
baveproceededbyland, according to circumstances."
Paul, as we know, was assassinated, but did the
Project perish with him ? Hear Napoleon again.
" In a few years (added he) Russia will have Con-
stantinople, the greatest part of Turkey, and all
Greece. This I hold to be as certain as if it had
already taken place. Almost all the cajolling and
flattery which Alexander used towards me was to
effect this object. Above all the Powers, Russia is
most to be feared, especially by you." In the
natural course of things Turkey must fall to Rus-
sia. The greatest part of the population are Greeks,
Who, you may say, are Russians." " The only hy-
pothesis that France and England may ever be
allied with sincerity will be in order to prevent this."
flow strangely, how curiously prophetic, appear at
this moment these conversations of Napoleon, ut-
tered upwards of thirty years ago ! The alliance
does exist, and we have now upon the French
throne a monarch capable of appreciating its value
to the whole civilised world. For the first time in
our history we may confide in the good faith of
that alliance. The Bourbons ever had a jealously
of England. It was that jealousy which furnished
aid to Washington, and transplanted the tree of
Liberty to the Boulevards—a
Isoliecinn retriii-
ton ! is that jealousy which at thisii
hour animates a wicked Fusionist press to
accw dissension between the countries, by rem.