The Sun.
London, England, 1814-03-29 00:00:00

LETTER n•.*

MY La: 0,--At length the auspicious moment
stems to be arrived, when Europe may, with
safety, declare its open wish, nor fear resistance
even from the voice of France herself. The Star
or BouttnoN,so long eclipsed and veiled in night,
now shews itself above the horizon n ith
mined splendour, whilst the baleful
_Meteor of
Ajaccio sets, as I trust, with all, -its Arain of hor-
rors, in everlasting darkness,

The return. to loyalty and reason will be at least
as. rapid, and, beyond all doubt, more permanent
than the departure from, them.
Already has the child of Gallia's school,
" The foul philcisophy that sins by rule ;
" With all her train of reasoning, damning arts,
" Begot by brilliant heads or worthless hearts;
44 Like things that quicken after Nilus' hood,
44 The venoed birth of sunshine and of mud:"—
Already has this foul and misbegotten imp—,
this illegitimate offspring of dulness and false
genius, lost -its evanescent sway over the deluded
minds of Frenchmen, and wherever they can find
protection from the Tyrant and his satellites, the
magistracy and the people alike resume the plain

unvarnished language, and utter the wholesome
dictates of common sense, as if the, advance of
. the British, like the touch of the Angelic steel,
- bad aroused them from the the transitory incohe-
rent follies of .a deep deluding dream, to the
sober realities of waking truth.
So rapid.has been the reverse, that it is not im-
probable, ere this can meet your Lordship's eye,
the reign of usurpation may be completely extin-
guished, and the Usurper himself have met the

fate he merits. No, my Lord,---not the fate he
merits, for that would be the rack and wheel,

the ignominious exit of a bloodstained malefactor;
but the far More honourable, though not less cer •

taus termination of a soldier in the field of bat-
tle. Let us not, however, cavil at the tikle, so
that we obtain the end ; nor object to any casualty
that rids the world of such a monster of iniquity,
whose whole life has exhibited a constant scene
of enmity to.' all mankind, whose frozen stony
bosom has presented' only one . unvarying speci•
'well of

" Heartless speculative ill;
" youth's transgression, with all age's skill;
" The apathy of wrong, the bosom's ice; •
A sl9w and cold stagnation into vice."
Rather let us'rejoice, my Lord, at any fate 'which
saves an English Gentleman the fear of being
prevented from paying the accustomed tribute of
Ws loyal affection and dtity to his Sovereign's
.throne,lest he. should be shouldered in his Prince's
drawitig-room ,by one of the pickpockc.princes,
or unfettered Peers of theCorsican-Court ; by
the midnight murderer CAULAINCOURT, the but-
cher SU CIIET, or the merciless and insatiable
thief DAVOUST.

From scene-5, and fears of scenes, like these,
with what heartfelt satisfaction do. I turn to con-
template the well-deserved, the transcendently
triumphant glories of my native country ; and
most sincerely do 1 congratulate you, my Lord,
and your Brother -Ministers, on being relieved
from the hard necessity of listening• to the
cold dictates of political expediency, whilst every
better feeling of your hosoms must long since
• have pressed you to the bold avowal of equitable
right and moral principle. The disgrace of treat-
ing with the mock Emperor, Tuf raising the low-
born family of BUONAPARTE to a bei,-Jit above the
• illustrious Hous"e of Brunswick; is now, thank
Goa, no more a point in question. With tile
real Sovereign of the French, with the descendant
of the great HENRI, with Lot's XVIII. you will
snot be afraid to negotiate on the fairest and most
liberal terms, convinced that what is a►reed to
solemnly, will be kept religiously: for what-
ever errors may have marked the early part of
the career of the Bourbon Prinaes--rto whatever,
erratic gallantries or dissipated extravagancies the
youthful ebullitions of high and ardent spi-
rits, nursed in the soft, luxurious lap of roy-
alty, may heretofore have given birth, now
chastened and subdued by the severe, hut useful
lessons of long-endured adveisity, and counselled
by the constant experience of the mild and limited
rule bf British Monarchy, their conduct, when
restored to the throne and fortunes of, their-an-
cestors, will doublers prove to be but a 'continti-
imce of the benevolent government of their mar-
tyred predecessor, too merciful only for the times fi
in he lived ; and all their youthful follies
will have been equally long abandoned and con-
temned.

" Speuto it rigur,,,he i ran desir nudrira,
" to ugni cur nun sul rien mancu amure ;
" Ma chi piu arse, del suo fulle errure
" 1)i ricurdursi pur abborre c schiva."
And, after all, even allowing to the:Usurper
the full extent of talent claimed for him by his
besotted admirers in this couhtry, but which I
deay.to him, and admitting that the lawful princes
were as far below bins in the intellectual scale, as
/ (10 ,„t believe tieuz to be, although they may
not be able to% •mananivre a brig'%de bf holdiers
with quite so much accurate rapidity ; the people
of France would then only have to decide, by its

The three Erst Letters of this series appeared in 7ie
News.papers of the 31st January, 9th arid :'id of Pe-
Lruary last; but the Editor of that Paper having, on' their
fast colulaurtication tr him, iu manuscript, eapres:ed his re-
rret, that, after the Meeting of Parliament, it WWII,' nut he
in. his poNt..cr ttr afford room for any more,- they are' now, by
the liberal Itii:dnes, otthr Edina' of the Sus, a ltoi'eti to be
communicated to the Pablic throneli this channel,

insulated merits in the present instance, on a
question which their favourite NEcitia has
cannot be submitted to any general decision on
simple and abstract principles:
" L'ou a gnelquefeds agittf, tan linnnue sans principes,
mai:, gni reuniroit a des :,,randes lumi!•res 1111 esprit smcriedr,
n'etn:t pas pins cont-enable a l'adonnistration qu'up humane
vertneux rpais depourvu de talens. Cast une que6tion chat
notetre de velles qui nr peuvent jamais etre soutnists a uue de-
cision simple et absolue."
Our oltt school acquaintunce 4ESOP has, how-
ever, settled this.matter' much more easily than
the SwisVFinanaier ; and I am apt to imagine,
that the French, if left to themselves, completely
independent of all cotitroul, either foreign or
domestic, would not he long in- returning to the
gentle sway of King Log, rather than continue
subject to the'Yoracions appetite of the conscrip-
Live Stork.
Anxiously, neverthOess, as I feel expectant of
the restoration of the House of Botratiox to their
ancient seat in France, I any by no means de-
sirotis of enciatv,cring that balance of power,
which I trust to see so soon restored in Europe,
by suffering- too minty countries to remai:. sub-
ject to the .sway of one family. France atlSpi-iin
are full enough. to he governed by the Princes of
that race it Will, therefore, te
,an act of wis-
dom, not to permit any part of
,Ittily to continue
under the dominion ot, a 'branch. of the same
stock ; and a compact and powerful kingdom
founded there, whose Sovereign shall not be con-
nected in hloOd with either of the houses of Bour-
bon or of Lorraine, would be a iniasure most ad-
visable. I3tit, I confess, at the some time, my
Lord, that./ cannot approve of the man who is
already seated. on the throne.of Naples ; neither
his conne:sions• nor iris moral Tr.ralities are such
as. I could wish: Besides, I think., such a I,vide
distinction in the ultimate destinies of I3uONA-
PARTE and his brother-in-law, has 'too Much of
the " eadem tliverso crimina' foto ;'! and !though

I am perfectly ready to adjmlgt the " illi crucem,"
I am not quite so well 'disposed to allow the "hie
diadema." • ' •
Mr. BuRKE, indeed, has given-us a dispensa-
tion from highlbirth, when he says, " There is
no qualification for government but virtue;
.and
wisdom, actual .or presumptive. Wherever they
are actually found, they have, in whatever state,
condition, profession, or ,trade, the passport of
Heaven to human place and power." But then,
my Lord, we' must have the existence of the
wisdom and tha virtue in actual proof,, before we
admit the validity of the certificate. - • . .
I have said, in a former letter, that even when
the active part of, the contest shall be over in the
field, there will and must be much serious matter
of discussion remaining for the Cabinet. - The
whole fateof Eueope.has been so completely coil-
vulsed. and distorted ; `sitelt changes of territory,
such dislocations of jurisdiction have taken place
in almost every country on the Continent, that
tvithOut attempting 'to reduce the Whole to a corn-
plete and perfect status quo ante bellum, which,
under the existing circumstances, would, perhaps,
be,quite impracticable, it will yet require a long
and Undivided attention from the wisdom of the
wisest,_ and the temper of the most temperate of
European statesmen, to reconcile the jarring in-
terests, and give any thing like a satisfactory set-
tlement to the claims of the many powers •con-
cened. But this, my Lord, however intricate
in its diseussion, and tedious as to its duration, is a
point not •so much dangerous as troublesome. 'lire
nations of the continent have suffered too deeply
already from the long, lengthened period of years
• consumed in warfare ; have had too much .of ac-
tual distress brought home to their very doors,
and mostly even to their fire-sides, to be easily
seduced into a renewal of hostilities with one an-
other, for the sake of claims, either doubtful in
themselves, or admitting of convenient and ade-
quate cOmpensation. And. your ,own country,
though happily exempted from 'heal -suffering or
lOss of foreign possession, has yet eruhiredsuch
-heavy burtheus, and submitted to such enort.aous
sacrifices in. finance, that the moment of peace,
when peace can be honourably and safely pro_
/ cured, must be mdst anxiously sighed for by every
man of every pi;•ty and description.
Let,- then, the knell of the Tyrant, the corn-
mon enemy of all mankind, be once but' actually
rung, and the world may safely rest upon it arms
immediately ; and ail the anxieties, and almost
all the barthens of warfare, may be at once thrown
aside. In such a case, I see, nothing to prevent
the return, in a very short ..s.-_.rieel, •to • the com-
mon expenditure of a peace establishment ; not,
indeed, the low establishment-of five and twenty
years back, but such as would, however, admit
of great and essential relief to 'the pithlic burthens
hnmediately

But fit, very far different, indeed, must be the
prospect, under any peace that could be made with
BnorAft-rE. What Minister, my Lord, would
be bold enough to disarm this Country Finder such
a contingency ? 1 have heard it Bait'.- that the Al-
lied Powers would compel the enemy to a similar
measure. M) Lord, it is impossible ; thkre is no
Power on earth which could enforce a ilisArming'
of BU6N.I.PAItTR'S strength, similar in. al.l its con=
sequences to the disarraying of the military force
of Britain. Let us recollect the tedinus, tardy
process by which we have arrived at our present
strength in the field, and on the, ocean ; remem-'
bet. all the statutes for encouraging yeomanry ca-
valry, and volunteer int'antry.; the numberless vo-
lunteerings front the militia ; the limited and un-
limited service men ; 'with all the various plans
that have been contrived to increase otir armies
by slow and painful steps ; and say, What pro-
portionate force.they all bear to the energetic ra-
pidity of a single conscription. The Corsican
Emperor might be without a soldier, beyond the
Imperial Guards of his sacred and illustrious Per-
son, ode day, and would have a formidable army
almost on the next. No real Sovereign, no Mo-
narch, governing by known and. ascertained laws,
'could possibly execute such vigorous und decisive
measures ; and therefore, in the commencement

. .
of a struggle, the advantage is entirely with a
Despot ; the."Lnperator solus et conditor et inter-
pres legis," whose quick and'uncontroled attacks
resemble the feverish, phrenetic, but powerful
exertions of a Alatituan; whilst time and coolness

can give due.eirect wily towards the latter end of
the eontegt, to the-warier effotts of health and sa-
nity,. • Of-these England has, at present, the full
benefit'; so, indeed, has all. Europe; ought-4T,

, „
then, to !brow away this ha,rd-earned, slovlyiktA,
quire(' superiority, without the prospect of .sos
certain and equivalent adtantage ; but where that'
taryivalent to be found, in what form it is to
presented to us, 7 am 3nre•l knuw not ; and
think it would puzzle the. most acute politician
to point it- out.
lVere Peace, in any reasonably durable shape,
to be attained,, no one couleue more sincerely re,
juiced by the event than myself; but the hollow,
fallacious, insecure, armed truce, which is .all that,
we could conclude with 13CTONAPARTE, under the
semblance only of real Peace, the '" Bellunz invo-
Intunz pads nontine," is a thousand times more to
be-dreaded and deprecated, than continuance,
however long' protracted, of open- war.

" Et apteni,
"Jupiter, ut sit, ait; metuo tame!' amnia."

The successes of the Allies, of which every day
brought fresh accounts, seemed,- a short time
since, to put this out of question.- The masterly
combinations of simultaneous movements on the
Marne, the Aisne, the Aube, and the Seine; and
the, hurried and distracted rapidity with which the
surrounded Corsican was obliged to turn his de-
fensive operations from one point to another,
sufficiently evinced the falling state of his for-
tune, and "gave dreadful note of preparation "
for the near approaching conclusion of the Ty-
rant's bloody career. But with all this. fair out-
side spew of union and vigour, there was some-
thing rotten at the core, which paralyzed the best
energies of ItAsia, and reduced the -heroic valour
of the brave Prussians, and their immortal Com-
mander, to be no avail; and when the
tableOilill Of the veteran .31.11c1-tea had foiled the
Corsican on every point, when every eye was
turned, • with anxious expectation; to the imme-
diate march of the Austrians to the Frehch me-
tropolis—what followed—a fearful pausewhich,
I fear, from. the uncertain Councils of FRANCIS,
threw away a precious moment for decisive action,
worth whole ages of irresolute hesitation, or tor-
pid inactivity. Nor am 1 mainly satisfied . with
hitn.who seems to say so much and do so ; and,
contented with having strested.a province front
the Crown, of I3enmark for his own purpose;
still keeps his forces, idly lingering

I' the North,
" When they should serve their Sovereign in the West."
it'4such'half-Jaced felloWship, as this that has
kept all Britain iu the aguish fevery intermissions
of hope and fear; one moment expecting the
downfall of the Usurper, and the next, dreading
to hear ot a treaty with the bloodiest Monster
that ever disgraced alliance.
But now, thank Heaved, the shivering tit is
past ; and the glorious ..progress ot our trium-
pliant,\VELLlNoTor?, and the unbiassed declara-
tion of the whole people of -that portion of the
French kingdom which is at liberty to declare it-
self, have decided the question beyond the power
of the whining, puling ad"tocates of peace to
alter. •

Even if preliminary articles were signed,
which GOD, forthe honour and security of every
true Englishman, forbid came when they win,
they are nOw of no•avail ; they mutt, as fias so
energetically been said, be mere waste paper. We
/Jaye no power to sign away the rights of a whole
nation, hp- the acknowledgment of an Usurper,
against the voice of tine people•over whom be has
usurped his swan. I' could go much further in
this argument, fin; it would be' a waste of tirpe--
the measure will execute itself; and the French'
%vitt have their own Sovereign in spite of all up-
positron.
It is, to be hoped, that the Parisians themselves
will be the principal actors in the, concluding
s'..'me of the tragedy, and that the Royalists of the
(lathe metropolis will redeem-their: city's reputa-
tion, by bringing the monstrous malefactor to the
har.of justice on the very spot where his Royal
"Master -had bled s'o Many years before ; 'but be
that as it may, let hini but t , !!cl in any place or
mode, and the world will once more beat rest and
in security.

Yet, independently
of the great principle of re-
tributive justice on this rank offender, it is to be
wished, for the sake of literature and the fine
arts, that Paris, the present museum and depot
of almost every saered relic of ancient • 31...i11, or
specimen ,of modern ingenuity ; that the grand
magazine of every thing valuable to the than of
taste and science, should not be.exposed to the
desolating and irremediable ravages of savage ig-
norance and rapacity ; and the best chance; of
avoiding this, scents at present to he by the re•
-call of the lawful Prince, and• the execution of
summary justice on the traitor'whO has usurped
his place ; for if once the Cossacks enter the Gal-
lic metropolis, we may. expect to bear of the
Louvre and the nuillerics, the splendid palaces
of the arwient Kings of France, being consumed in
flames; and wild would be more irreparable to the
world at large—all the fine Monuments of Grecian
sculpture, and thateldess • productions of the ltalian
Schools of Painters ;* all that the combined efforts
of science, taste, and genius
.have drawn from
long past ages, to soften and ameliorate the mind
of than, woeld sink together in one common
wreck, nor leave a ve&tige of a loss, beyond the
power of time to remedy.
If, however, the Princes of France are suffi-
ciently active to prevent this scene of devastation;
ifihe Allied Sovereigns and their Generals are ac-
,tuated by due liberality and clear judgment ; and,
above all, if the Parisians themselves are duly
sensible Of their owit interests and ditty, and dist.
claim the usiirper, and invite their lawful Soyt'-
reign (by his brother and,. representative) to 'his
ancient metropolis, then,•as I trust it will, may
the threatened storm pass innocuously over the
domes of Paris, an the treasures, of antiquity and
genius yet be safe front spoliation.

Indeed, the restoration of the lawful Govern-
nient,_by. the return of the Boy ItIIONS to their
hereditary Throne, is the only certain. guarantee
of permanent peace in Europe ; that is toy say, of.
such a peace as might be looked to for any rea-
sonable presumption of continuance... It Was this
alone which could justify the passage ofthe Rhine,
this the only legitimate object of carrying the
arms of the Allies within the boundaries of ancient
France.

" linen est ilia dies mihi.quam Itubieolis ad undas,
" l'Anui4saaa AUzzini cljtis spe nauviruus arena." • 4
FALE.L.AND.

"

tfALTA MAIL.

" Malta; Dec. :27, 1915

gi I have trittch satisfattion in acquaintiugll'.
that the public, health irr thiS Islapd coalii;ues
wear• the Most favourable appearanef. Sinc4; the
Proclamation whith issued on the 4th inst. and
which I had the
,honour to inclOse you in my Teti
4er. of- the 51b, nothing untoward has occurreG,
and we have now completed our first tweet; (IRV
.of clean quarantine. There is,' however,. one
village in the country where the disease still lit►"
gets in a trifling degree, but it is now walled
round ,by a double wall; aud surrounded' with 3
curdonof . troops ;- in fact,. it is-treated inevetY
respect as a lazaretto, and we have no fear what.
"-ever of it-s infecting airy other part Of the Isbell•
" I have the honour to be, Sir,
" Your most obedient, humble servant,

" T. MAITLAND..
"To his Excellency Lieut.-Gen. Campbell."

GIBRALTAR, MARCH s.—The Malta Ilacke
came in on Wednesday, in 30 days when site
left the Wand things remained in the state de*"
scribed by General Maitland, in the Letter we gOre:
on Saturday last.—( Gibraltar Chronicle, 'March 5)•
--On the 27th January a Proclamation Was- .?5"
sued by Get*ral Maitland, at Malta, stating, iirt't
the general quarantine would cease on the 29111'
which day he ordered to be set apart as a day
solemn prayer and thanksgiving to almighty God'
CADIZ, FEB, 26.—0 n the 3d 'inst. was signe'l
in Naples between the Plenipotentiaries W. C"
Bentinck„ COmmander in Chief of the 13riti5il
Forces in the Mediterranean, and:the Duke d°
Gallo, _Minister for Fol.:rip Affairs'-to the 104
of Naples, the' following Convention :
Art. I. From this day liostilitis shall cease, both bYs''
and land, between The English and Nea/iDlitan forces, 011'11
are in the islands of the Mediterranean and Attriabc,' pr ant
other forces wha.tcve.r, :ander the'curnakand of English ci:o
rnanderS.

-11. During the Armistice, there be, between Gre°
Britain anti the Kingdc.in of i';aples, and islands mentioned
in the preceding article:, it free: trade, in arti..les not 10'3'1'
bited, subject to the regalia:ens established by the respectic6.
Ge.vernorA, or those which have been previously establi..l34:
111. If, from any ~.attse,:the Armistice should cease, lAg''
tilities slie.ll not recommence till three Erik/tabs after itilDeini
denounced by one of the two Parties:

IV. Ilete sli4; be ioirtediatvly coricluditd a Military C'n-
vention I:etween the Grrieral or `-'itlperior Otlicers of the -1-11';
triao, linglilb, arid Neapilitan Armies, to establish a Plan
operatiom, accoi.dirig tt-ixhicii the xe.,pee.tive trout' nr"l .1
in the same cau,,, act in Ttsly: