The Sun.
London, England, 1814-06-20 00:00:00

o tatiOnal hope Gl Attaining; tits in kisiAiiit,
The Spaniards." In 1.4310, nothing but ruin wits
to be expected from Ministers so 'incapable as to
be in " a state of self -abandonment,", &c. &c.—
Eyen so late as December, 18.12, after he himself
bad contain the Tower, and BL7oNAPAZTE had
been heated in Moscow) this inveterate De,
Irotee of -.the -Tyrant supposed it " more than
. .
lirobabte" that « tooNAPkwra should extri-
cate hirnselt: from these perils; and :titer hay-
`'
ng 1-ound good winter-Tiarters, return to the
'e retest. with::rtinovnted ardour in the spring."
AV-Inie-thea ccinld Russia do could she coin-

. tirme such a contest, and undergo a repetition Of
similur dreadful experiments and sacrifices ? Sup-
: posing he marched to Peteraburgh,,Which seemed
to'be his ultimate intention, would the )anie mode
of defence as at Moscow be adopted ? Could
Russia burn another Moscow, to prevent its oc
eupatioh by the enemy ? Would she burn liefi,rs-
burgh, too ?" Oh no ! and as for ALEXANDER; Ile
.f was not like the Emperor of the Fienrh, person:-
ally sharing in the dangers: of the war. lie poll.
bETT) eollitlllo,t Slihdlie the conviction which arose
in his Mind, on viewing all thew things, of the
utter-impossibility of the Nanperor of Rossi A feel-
' Alig any einitatiOn whatever. On the contrary. be
-Ithomight that unfortunate Individual must be oi•-
pressed by 'a.vieW of the irreparable calamities. to
• which himself and his people had been, and were
'likely still further to be, exposed." Not a whit
higher was his opinion of Lord WELL! tiGToN (De-
cember 7, 1812) In the Peninsula it had been
observed, arid by military men too, that the .Mar-
yds of 'WELLINGTON hod brought his Arney into
; his men had fought him out qf them
again ; and that, in the capture of the fortres,;Cs-,
a waste of life was to he complained of. 'lke
Cause of Spain apppeared to him iiyinilely mine
bopeless • than it was; at time commencement
of the • campaign," and '' he thought the. case
of the Peninsula more deplorable than ever."—
So innelm fol. this enligi.tened Patriot !! ! As for
-Mr. CALCRAFT, he, with his-accustomed wisdom,
" did not
.(in 1809) look to our acting a great
part on the• Continent " (in 1810) ; the. battle of
Talavera " was indeed no victory—it had been
swelled into a victory by the influence of politi-
cal connexion, to get Lord Wellington advanced
to the Peerage—it was a piece of Ministerial fop-
pery—all. he knew was, that if the French were in
earnest in their design upon Portugal, before.three
months,,,Lord Wellington and his Army would be
in England. Windt' to God they 'were in England
at this moment !" Thou prayest ill, M,r. Calcraft.
Of such another stamp of mind, and.therefo:•e of
a similar Keay little way of thinking and ex-
pressing himself, does Lord ERSKINE appear to be
(page 120). :77" The men who were seat; to Spain,
were sent to be 'massacred, without any,prospect
of their being able to do any good." Arid, " God
forbid he Shyuld wish to pass censure on any set
of men, if they. had not justly deserved it ;; but
they (his Majesty's Ministers). acted without sys-
fern, and ran head foremost into every thing that
was wrong; 'by which . means every thing they
undertook was„ defeated, and iii the end they
would be (vat ttienistiveS.- 7 nomer i)AxIEL, lo!
another DANIEL! Getieral FERGUSON " having
been in Portugal,"
" I've seen, and surely ought to know,"
took upon himself to state his "'decided opinion
from what h d had seen mid heard of ahem, that on
the very first defeat time little discipline of the Por-
tuguese army would vanish, and a 'dispersioh
would be'. time con Sequence." A Mr. Maaia-rott
FITZGERALD agi•eeclin these opinions, and ridi-
culed the '' extravaganeies," 'of Ministers, in tak-
ing troops into their pay whose only exploit bad
- been- " to enter Oporto two thousand strong, with
a Bishop' at their head, and take twenty-four
Frcneittneu." Another of the small politicians,
Mr. FREEMANTLE,. at page 132,: drivers a me-
-----lancholy portrait of the utter imbecility of
Ministers, their mismanagement of this con-
test, and the entire ann!hilation of all hope
of success. " Thus, Sir, (exclaims this famous
Tactician, muter a long-winded review of the war
up to March, 1811), • thus, Sir, have I terminated
the history of the Spanish contest, bringing be-
fore your view,,as the result of all your victories,.
Of all your expenditure of men and money, of all
your exertions, and of all your waste of the mi-
litary resources of this country, the position of
your army at Lisbon, insulated, and incapable of
acting but at the discretion of the 'enemy :—your
Allies in' every part of the Peninsula overwhelmed,

and only manifesting partial and mu:railing hosti-
lity; your own resQurccs exhausted; and your hopes
of ultnnate.succes9, to every mind which is not
blinded by enthusiasm; completely annihilated.—

_ - ~
Such: is the re3ult of a system fommed upon *elm
principle of attempting to subdue Buonaparte by the
foree'of your armies on the Continent." And so
he goes on at great length to say that whieh, we

ha\ c no doubt, be is liCvi ashamed to read ;., hut
wc.luive no mole r6:91.3 for 'his rulings. acid ilAco

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The Trial of MITFORI; for Perjury is so avowedly an ex parse
publication, on the part of Lady PERcEvAL, that we fear we
cannot in' justice enter into a detailed notice of it tinder

this department-Lit is, how: :et., ander consideration.
The Voyage to the Isle of Elba, and.several• Paniplilet:s rela-
tive to the questiong...at issue between Great Britain and
America, shall be noticed in due course.

Erration:—Acus is informed, that it was not in ignorance
of kr. SouuritEr's being Poet Laureat, that we said in TREE
SUN REVIEW of Friday last, " Mr. Flatter Scott, the Lau-
•i-eat appointed by the Prince Regent," We then alluded to
the generally understood fact, that his Royal Highness,
with that:liscrimination for which he is so greatly distin-
guished, bad, in the first instant, nominated Mr. SCOTT t*
this Poetical bonour ; which;after cSusiderations alike ho-
nourable to the PRINCE, to Mr.ScorT, and to Mr. SOUTHEy,
.caused to be transferred to the present de:erring and ex-
cellent Latreat. •