The Sun.
London, England, 1807-09-30 00:00:00

ands npen the patrimony of her best Ally; Prussia,
sty, Junde, at length, the fatal 'discovery that
BUONAPARTE was sick of her partnership, and
weary of her forbearance and that, to free himself
from the tediousness of her complaints, and the in-
sipidity of her reproaches, he was preparing to de-
vour her. Then, indeed, and not till ,then, she

sought, to secure her independence, and prated her-
self from the rUthless fangi of the tiger whom her,
persevering complaisance' alone had nursed to matu-
rity! This is what BtIONAPARTE calls conspiring
against his
_independence ! and, alas! he is right
t is.:.Europe that has lost its senses it is Europe
that is over-run with cowards, and fools, and mad-
' smen, in that class, which, by its honours and en).-
plOyments, is deStined to dire& the policy of Em-
pires ; BVOVAFARTO, the creature of the Revolu-
tion and of war, placed on the first Throne of .the
world, and at The head of a people vain and irasci-
ble above all others, a stranger to that nation, which
has. never yet been able to endure the &minion of
a stranger, knows well—tliat the sword of • DAMO-
CLES hangs over him, and that millions of Men burn
with the fiercest desire to see it .fall and bury itself
in his heart ! He knows, that, in the Country
which he pollutes with his presence and his power,
R single moment is sufficient to sever the hair which
suspends the steel of lust= over his guilty head.
He knows that for every Frenchman he is a tyrant,
and that for himself every Frenchman is a legitimate
judge. All this he knows; and his wish is to avert
the dreaded catastrophe.. In the wish,. he is cer-•
tainly Finghlar hut, (as far as regards JUMself, he is
not, for that, the less reasonable.
To remove from his person the perils which his
insatiable ambition is eternally increasing,. war is
necessary. It is indispensably neeeisary for him,
ibecaUse peace,' a real peace, would give the French •
ssn opportunity of occupying themselves with their
own concerns, of
,refle&ing on their situation, and
of fixing their eyes and their attention on this Corsi-
can, this subject of Genoa, odious in every possible
mode by which hatred can be, excited-; on this

Corsican, the, most ridiculous of all men, past, pre-
sent, and to come; 'since he is avowedly/ such in
despite of so-many viaories, and ein the midst of so
many triumphs ! BU6IAPARTE is the, only human
being; who, become sole master of Europe by the
chance of war, end at the very Moment when he
terrifies mankind by his cruelties, his furies, and
his rapacities, is unable, notwithstanding, to open
his mouth in public, in his Councils, at the -head -of
his armies,- to the Kings, his slaves, or tti his Allies,
without appearing both' in word and a&iou coth-
pletely ridiculous. The terror which he inapires is
real ; but the respect which he' laboUrs to procure,
that imitation' of great Men, which he sedulously
attests, those phrases stolen from history, which he
anxiously wishes to revive ;
,all this, in his person,
exhibits, by the side of the master of Europe, the
figure of an upstart, inebliiated by vanity more than
pride, . and prevented by this very vanity from
a tipting himself to the part which Fortune has given
Win to play ! Consequently,. in him is combined
what may not unaptly be termed the sublime of ri
*cute ; that is to say, the most decided, the most
glaring opposition' between what we wish to per.:
suade others to think us, and what we are in reality.
This 'ridicule, you will say, is nothing for
straogeOL True ; but it is every thing for French-
men,' -Let them enjoy peace, and' every word of
,the tyrant will 'lie weighed, every gesture 'exa-
mined, and every a&ion judged. Give peace to the,
French, and, in six months, they will whisper to one
another, thrOughout the whole extent of France,-
that. BOONArARTE i's 'ridiculous; and the day that
this confidence becomes a national convi&ion, Roo-
NAkAiere will find himself at' the last gasp of his
poWer and his life! TO sum up all, it is absolutely,
necessary that France should not have leisure to
retie& on her situation, nor 'time to fix her atten-
tion on the tyrant, to enable him to rivet her chains.
War does this, war manacles her in'eVery ;
peke, real peace, woUldburst. her fetters; and yet
you would ask ofl36ots7APAßTil'a real, an honourable
Peace ! Was there ever seen such an instance of
madness ? We's there ever heard a request so child-
ish and absurd ? To ask a solid and permanent
Peace of livoe APARTE is to supplicate him to plunge
a dagger into his own heart. If he seems deter-
mined to refuse this blessing to Europe, it must be
allowed' that his obstinacy of denial, however (Lis-,

tressing it may be, Is not without some excuse.
What, however, is without the slightest shadow
of an excuse, is the more than diabolical obstinacy
with which the Ministers of the Continent persist
In pressing upon BUONAPARTE their paltry, their
pitiful Notes: - I am well convinced that he consi-
ders the necessity of reading them as the sole hos-
tility which he has to apprehend from such a whin-
ing and despicable crew.
•Unhappy Kings of this age, RUONAPAIITB wishes
to. D.ESTltuir YOU MORALLY AND PiIYSICALLY ! He
wishes to DasTaoy you l When, he sheathes the
sword,cia is only becanse he has left in your domi-
nions the venom of a 14eace which necessitates your