The Sun.
London, England, 1807-10-12 00:00:00

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The opulence of the finances of BVONA.PARTE'S
Gcnerals is not doubted; but the people are too
well. informed of the distress of the Public Tre4sury.
Their deep-felt misery speaks to them, on this sub.
jea, in a most convincing manner. And what, then,
are the sources of the ". national opulence ?" Bun.
NAPARTE has dried them all up. What are the new
sourcc3 which he hao opened &Ilan; we skley.,
plunder of the conquered countries ? But the ex.
pences of the War have devoured them
true, than therobberies of. the Agents,and Generals;
but, in fifty, the devastation 'of .Europe .has not re-
imbursed Ihe sums which it cost to ruin her !

Commerce is annihilated in all its brattches, work-
shops are deserted, manufaaures abandoned, bank-
ruptcies cQuiinual.: all this indicates more sgrelv.the
real state 61. the finances than the falsehoods oca
Mi-
nister who is payed to lie, and who• lies withimpu-,
pity, belore a people whom terror 'hall rendered
mute.

. -The scandalous luxury of a tyrant is no proof.of
the prosperous state of•the finances; it only serves
to lay open tha primary cause of their ruin's and
this unfeeling, this barbarian pOmp of an Usurper,
revelling alone, and in the bosom of voluoubig and
soft delights, on the blood . and tears of a pebpie,
announces only the inconceivable patience, the lag.
situde, the slUmber of a nation, and' the audacity of
a Tyrant who flatters himself that this slumber of a
great and injured people is that 'of death
But what Will not BUONAPARTR believe ? The in*
texication of success, has con pletklY alienated bia.
senses. If it be doubted, let* any one ri;=o the
speeches which he makes, and those-Which he has
the courage to hear: let any one read that of Fok.
A day will come' when ,this. same Pos.
TANIS will 'prove 'that it was ireposiible to rerter'
the Tyrant More odious, than by. Sher.ing Ltrrape
with what Mean,. what despicable iliitteriei, his 14.
pity mtight 'lse ;- and thaV- ti) day open ;liis
plans, under tl*fiarrn °Fan e-al6gintr, Was. thvoniy

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service wt,ich a slave, compelled to offer inconse to
such a Tyrant, could perform for mankind ! Such,
T am mnvinctd beforehand, was the objed of M.

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But what will not BUONAI'ARTE believe ? Does
• he not imagine that his official Journals are already
become, in his hands, the oracles of public opinion ?
,D..Jcs he not consign to-them every Sovereign who
'd pleases him; every private man who has the ho-
nour of meriting his hatred !

Does he not believe that the abuse which he be-
stows, or which he makes others bestow, imprints a
Mdeit .r disgrace, as if it were in his power to ho-
nour or dishononr !---;Undoubtedly, he dishonours ;
but happily, only those 'lhom he intends to honour,
those, for exaMple, whom he covers with his rib-
bon& ! But he honours those Whom he outrages
and insults,: the marks of his hatred Will one clay be
the titles with which a just Bud grateful posterity
will decorate the remembranCe of those whom he
has murdeitd, or persecuted with vindiaive fury.
' Doubtless, in reading these lines,
.he has already
devoted to death the hand which traces them, AND
WHICH lIE ILECOGNIZIcS: but if be were the master
.ef the universe, who would with to preserve life
It would he then that We should say toldm with
truth : Pitant niiseriorenz, tc principe, gum sub to
imperature, 711Q1'1011!

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