The Sun.
London, England, 1814-05-10 00:00:00

(LETTER V.)

" My LORD, Amidst, the great and glorious
events which have pissed in such rapid succession,
during the short Period elapsed since I had (a) last
the honour of addressing your Lordship, selection
of subject seems to be almost as.mach foiled by
the equal magnitude and importance of the facts,
as the multiplicity of them would convert my let-
ter into a volume in the vain attempt to philo-
phise on the whole in detail. Let Its be satisfied
that the general result is the downfal of tyranny,
the restoration of lawful government, the freedom
of Europe—and the world at peace h—Whilst
Britain—proud, triumphant, happy Britain, in
full possession of the E sure superbiam gucesitam
meritis,' with conscious worth smiles at the glo-

linos prospect, and assumes it for tier fivvn ;
grateful produce of her bong emlured, her steady
pi rseverante in the cause of justice, an►! of *suf-
fering virtue.

In my last, pby Lord, I took the liberty: of
pointing Out what seemed to me to be the only
branch of the alternative in the power of the Al-
lies to offer with security, of France :with safety
to accept.--Thank Heaven, the die is cast,. and
ours the goodly prize : innocuously, indeed, has
the whirlwind passed over the domes of (b) Paris ;
and the breath of ‘var no longer swells the storm,
or loads the desolating gale with the groans of
dying thousands. Art has no ravaged monuments
to weep for, and Science lifts her soothing:t:oice
only to call her distant votaries from the field of
bloodshed, to rally once again beneath her peace-
ful banner: A long continued perfect state of
peace now promises to await us ;

" In aurea nascitur eetas
" Et proles antiqua redit, concordia, virttyk,
" Cuinque Fide Pietas :ilia cervice vagatur." (c)

A fruitful golden age or amicable commerce claims
to•succeed the steril years of iron warfare we have
vassed ; the fell destroyer quashed, and all his
horrible atrocities for ever ended, the silken bonds
of amity unite us to that amiable deseenant of
the sainted Louts, whose parting words (d), in
warmest gratitude for long continued hospitality
and 'steady persevering succour, breathed forth
friendship and prosperity to 'everyson of Britain.
" Be it the first and proudest task of renovated
,
art, and science late restored, to designate tne
happy portrait of the parting Sovereigns : the
painter's. pencil cannot choose a fairer subject
than the princely Ruler of the British realms ;
his footing on the utmost verge of England's war-
like shOre ; his eye commanding his own subject
ocean ; himself the leader of a host of Freemen,
whose loud, unbiassed, animating voices, directed
by the waving of his Royal hand, lend their 'eon—
current aiding to the cannon's thunder, to waft
from shore to shore the stamp and promise of an
age of Peace, which rises to approving Heaven
for sacred record ; whilst the proud vessel, con-
scions of her Royal hurthen, in stately swiftness
glides along the glassy main :—on the deck ap-
pears the attractive loveliness of female gratitude
dissolved in tears of joy, surrounded by her
Princely Relatives ; but leaving to imagination
to depict the absent Louis, like the Grecian Mo-
narch at the sacrifice of AuLts, oppressed by feel-
ings too exquisitely keen to be embodied by the
painter's art.

" To the pen of History a more imperishable,
though perhaps less generally. communicated re-.
cord of the rapturous scene will be- assigned ;
and future ages, whilst they feel the blessed ef-
fects of mild and lawful Government, will learn
to estimate, with due appreciation, the virtuous
patriotism, and long enduring perseverance, of
their heroic ancestors ; nor will they then, my
Lord, refuse to you, and to your Colleagues, the
well-deserved and hard-earned tribute of• their
praise, for 20 years' of unabated and unwearied
labour in the cause of justice.
in a former (e) Letter I ventured to assert,
what has for years been my unvaried judgment,
that the world would some day feel, and own,
how much it had been duped by the over-estima-
tion of the Corsican's abilities. In this I never
was deceived : his whole conduct, from the Egyp-
tian Campaign in 1801, to the present moment
of his complete discomfiture and deposition, has
tended to confirm my early conceived opinion of
his lamentable deficiency in that real talent, which
nothing but the perfect union of commanding ge-
nius and consummate judgment can combine to
form. But meanly as I thought' of his intellec-
tual powers, as a first-rate Actor on the stage of
life, I candidly confess that I did not expect •an
exit. of his mock-heroics so exquisitely con-
temptible, si parfaitement en polisson, as the con-
eluding scene of this Duke and no Duke, this
Hero of High -Life Below Stairs, has exhibited.
—I did think that, like SHAKESPEARE'S Tyrant,
be would have exclaimed--
, ' "At least we'll die with harness on our backs."

Instead of which, he,sneaks from off- the boards,
and quits the crimson drapery awl ‘vax
chandelier of the royal tent, for the half-furnished
garret and farthing rush-light of a strolling Player,
when he has ceased " to strut and fret his hour
upon the ,stage :"—why, 'tis the very dreg of
scenic pathos, and theatric Royalty. No longer
like the thlinder-bearing Bird of Jove, "chi sovra
gll altri coin' aquita, vola," (0 he sinks at once into
the pilfering daw ; and submits, without a struggle,
to be stripped of all his borrowed plumage.
" And yet this wretched imbecile has had his
admirers even on this s• the Channel, amongst
the party Chroniclers, the would-be Statesmen, and
self-created Examiners of the British Press, whose
stupid praises seem to justify the observation of
BOILEAU, that there was never yet a character So
silly, as not to find a sillier to admire it,

Lin sot trouve toujours, un plus cot qui l'admire.'

" But to me, my Lord, whose opinion of the
wan, and of bis slender abilities, has never (g)