The Sun.
London, England, 1815-04-06 00:00:00

LETTER to the EARL of LIVERPOOL.

NUAIBF,R IL

. March IT , hns.
Lottn,—Aware of the prejudices'entertain-
zed by many, even of theanore-sensible.and well-
informed members 6f society, :against the Plan
detailed in my last communication on tilt-subject
of storing and warehousing Corn hi. SCRUMS of
'superabnridant plenty, in order to re-issue time same
in less fruitful years, foe the. nurliose of levelling
stud equalizing the markets, and thereby, prevent-
.. _ing that tinreasonalile fluctuation so injurious to
the and Coneet valuation of all property, it
wa my intention-to devote the present letter, to
the many and powerful . arguments .which so
readily offeethemseltes in refutation of
.the vul-
gar error with respect-. to the injurious' effects
zuppoEed to ensue sfroin,the interteience of Go-
‘ernment in the Corn market, than which I think
nothing can be tn:Fne idle and groundless; but the
storm which--has so :unexpeeted,ly Aliso in the
political heansiilicre,two ominous, so portentous
in its aspect, and of:lnt..,iniportateso paramount
in its nature andptiobable,..conmqwees as to the
Allancial acid politicArsituatiott this-countrv,
has swallowed up and?zibsotheteyeray minor Con--
sideration in its overwhelming vortex. And, in-
deed, I feel the more reconciled to the suspen-
sion of the subject for the present, as the wisdom
of the Legislature, unawed by the clamours of a
misjudging mob, has passed into a law those sa-
lutary regulations which cannot fail of producing
the mot beneficial results. with respect to the
future supprf.-the public, markets and most
sincerely 'chi- otmgratulate your Lordship on that
. displayof clear-Sighted titniness'whicll has enabled
you with so much justice to assert
" Muititudinisjawiiti non reformidojudicinin."
-Gloomy aa the. pre§nect .presets` itself to our
view at the present„titontept„,iind arduous as the
contest in which ,We4unst iiie-vt!ably be engaged
will prove; and deeplras I lant;en. e consequent.
expenditure of blood atetreasurettlirliieh it must
necessarily involve us, 1' cannot help issuming to
myself some degree of credit for time prophetic
foresight which led me to anticipate the dread-
ful consequences of suffering. the blood -stained
Corsican to escape.the 'punishment which every
law both human and divine so justly awarded to
his manifold initluifies.'

At the very moment . when such unseasonable
and ill judged lenity was shewn to this demon. in
human shape, I foresaw the evils which the rest-
less and perturbed spirit of the Gallic Nero would
prepare for those, whose folly permitted such a
sanguinary and unrepenting Monster to escape
the scaffold. The infa Nation of the Confederates'
was a 4 much beyond my comprehension then, as is
now the ideotic imbecility of those who would
contend that we have no interest in the struggle
nd that France has a right to choose its own

waster, without our daring to interfere in die
decision. But- you, my Lord, will. not be found
amongst the Special Pleaders in abstract theories,

" Gallia causidicos docuit facienda Britannos."

You will judge with more acute discrimination,
and with sounder policy ; you will know and feel
that nothing but immediate and most vigorous ex-
ertions can. remedy the gross and unpardonable
negligence, which, whether it originated in the
primary error of suffering him to exist, or in the
more recent neglect of preventing his escape, has
let Noose on the world a train of evils, more nu-
merous and more pregnant with misery than-ever
Pandora".i Box was fabled to contain.
If France alone were to be the sufferer for re-:
ceiviug the ITsurpsi,',richly inda 'would she_ de-
serv2 it ; and J•shotild,bohe fiNt io.advoca'te the
principle of.non,ii4eliferencetill• she had dram;
the vely dregs of itc§ppti,sni t')(Foliffessive ty-
ranny,- tar bet:-stupid apathy anriiilantaus ingra-
titude to a Mondieh only too exceleni for such a
race 4).f brotiSh slaves, who seem"to eieroik: no
Judgment for themselves, but with the variable
velocity of the weathercock, to turn and Waver
with every, gale that blows
•
"lion est qui judicat vere,. confihnt in nihilo, lo4untur
writates, coneeperunt laborem, pepeterunt iniquitatow."
But; myLord, the fate of Europe is too deeply
inbolved in that of France to leave the Allies any
other alternative than that of instant and un-
bounded energy of action—every nerve must be
strained, every possible exertion must .be put iii
iitunediate force, to quash the evil ere" it gets too
strlSngly rooted; and then, I trust, the result will
he ultimately inure beneficial to .the general wel-
fare titan if it had never happened—the good will
be selected front the ill-disposed ; and France, in
cOMMOO with the rest of Eur Ope, will benefit by
the externiivatiou of a nest of Traitors, fostered
in her maternal bosom to the deadly prejudice of
all her best and iearest interests ; and which
ought to have been -swept from the face of the
. earth, with their infamous Master, at the moment
when the Allies were in possession of the Gallic
Capital.
The error, however, obvious as it was, even
at the time, to every etenr-sighted judgment, has
been committed, anti it now remains only to re-
medy the conseqaences with all, the expedition,
and with all the energy in our power to exert.
Fortunately, the lawful Monarch, instead of
giving up the contest tamely., and returning to
this...peaceful and secure asylum, has taken the
wiser and more manly step of placing himself on the
frontier of his kingdom, 'and near at hand to our
valiant and untonquerable troops in Belgium, and
11) the line for receiving constant and powerful
succour from the rest of the.Allits ; and soon
hope to hear of our illustrious Chief resuming his
rapid and victorious march into the northern pro-
viiices, and establishing a nucleus for the parti-•
sms of loyalty to, form artditally round'. In the
West, too, let us trnet therelt a considerable pro
-
Portion of loyal pcfptilaticin, who woold declare
themselvet for their Itv.iftti Sovereign, whenever
thee should be secure of such effectual support as
to render it safe and possible to embody an army
on die- side. .434 t j confess to you, my lord..
that I have liMe_reliftrice on the natives. whilst
unsupported by the- atiiitanee of a powerful ct.mt-
, -

.;*"Fur tht correctnnticipAtion of what bog htpperted, vide
Lotvr I. Mst.•Jaiiiitry, 1314. Pamphleteer, ,ice. 6, pages
4, and 5. -
t t2oF p. 0,404.

bination of the other Enropean tingdoms ; for,
however illiberatit may seem at first sight to libel
a whole nation, l hardly know a Frenehnian who
is to be trusted, -after the damning proofs of trea-
thery and black ingratitude., in .Ney;• Massena;
and, in short, almost all the kingdom, to their
amiable and too confiding Sovereign.
The present struggle sVill, however, prove a
discriminating Test between the faithful and the
.faithless; and it will become the imperative duty
of the Allies, to let no ill-placed clemency seduce
them a second time into the deadly error of suffer-
ing the criminals to escape again Unpunished.
' There is but too much truth in the observation of
BUR KE, that '' Kings will be tyrants front poll
ey, when subjects_are..4e4els .from • principle."—
Let tor,-therefore, the same thamgli
amialile fear of inflicting punishment, agitin be
suffered to prevail ; but ",where the guilt is, let
the great axe fall." Perhaps, to yield up every
traitor to condign punishment the moment he is
taken in arms against, his lawful Sovereign, Wright,
under the present circumstances, be the means of
consigning many an innocent loyalist to the re-
taliating fury oldie bloody Roscius.; but. it would
certainly be right,. instead
,of releasing.rebels on
a parole which they never mean to keep,• to.send
them either to Siberia, to Van Diemena Land, or
to some such! distant and insulated place of exile,
as should entirely preclude every possibility of es-
caping for the purpose of future mischief..
Neither should the nation, which, has so tame-
ly, if not so treacherously, allowed the Corsican
to usurp his master's seat a second- time, be now
treated with the same liberal forbearance aril in-
dulgent policy which marked the conduct of the
Allied Ppwers in their former irruption , into the
French .territories ; both principle and expedience
now call for the support of the invading armies at
the, eXpence of_ the invaded. Corporal retribu-
ii.on intest,be„exacted,from those .);• who are found
in arms against their Sovereign, and pecuniary
requisition from the " imbelleet inutile valgus ;"
the low-minded herd who yielded up their alle-
giance without r 4 struggle.
France must be heavily amerced for her disloyal
apathy, her more than negatively guilty indo-
lence ; and I ant almost tempted, to say, that if
ever a nation could deserve the fate of Poland, it
should, rather be the Gallic 'territories that I
mourn subject to
:partition ; all power of future
aggression should be totally and, inevitably pre-
cluded.
The weak. and the desponding, "the feeble-
minded tribe of Croakers, will tell to you, my
Lord, .as they Itaye.told to me, that the Usurper
is so firmly seated on his throne at' to be imunove,
able; that the Apies have no chance of penetrating
into France ; and that,
.according to :their. silly
expression; " the game is up :" but do these deep-
judging statesmen' ever take into their„ considera-
tion, the widely difiering circmnsrances of the
Corsican's situation,ditring his farmer triumphant
career, awl his present desperate, bat impotent
attempt to renew it. Surrounded as he then was
by the Confederation 'Of the Rhine, with one
brother on
,the throne of_ Holland, another in
Westphalia, and- a third in Spain ; with almost
every Power in Europe, either in his alliance, or
at least in apparent neutrality ; and at one time
only Britain in a state of open enmity. He haS,
at this moment, not a single friend in any corner
of the glObe, unless, indeed, one should be found
in Italy.
His legions, Which before wtre swelled with
Germans, Poles, Hollanders, and Italians, must
now be recruited front the territories of France
alone, and dragged fi•oin the bosom of an unwil,
ling and diminished population.
Ban4rupt, in tinailce, where are again his hoards
of plunder to be rarisled ? pent up and circum-
scribed within his Own limits ; forced to provide
his armies from his own exhausted resources ; and
most probably seeing the victorious forces of his
assailants living at flee quarters within the terri-
tories on 'which he depends for his own supplies ;
hOw is he now tOsupport with greater strength
that contest under which he bent before. is his
reputation as a varrior and a statesman 'so im-
proved .by his- abdication of the throne be had
usurped, and by the numerous battles in which
be bad been foiled by the superior skill and mas-
terly manceuvring of the Allied Generals, that his
name should now be more " a tower of sttength"
than it was when he fought with yet unblighted
laurels on his brow ? Is he still '' the uncon-
quered ford, of pleasure and of pain," as when,
like another Charles the Xllth. be marched " on
MoseOw's wails," to see his " standards fly"
My Lord, he has no chance of ultimate success,
unleSs it should be afforded to him by the supine-
ness of his adversaries.
Some persons affeci.to laugh at the possibility
of tike Allies getting again to Paris ; my Lord,
they have done so once ; they will accomplish it
again, and that at no very distant period; and
brilliant and truly praiseworthy were the motives
of their clemency and their forbearance then; they
will now take ample vengeance, and terrible will
be the sacrifice they extort for violated faith and
slighted pardon.
Wellington yet lives, and has bad sufficient
breathing time from his laborious triumphs, and
Blucher, Wrede, and Schwartzenberg are in his-
steps. The troops they have to lead are those
who are well acquainted with the road to Paris;
and their bosoms beat high -with the expectation
of revisiting the Gallic metropolis. To anah
h men, my Lord,
,nothing is too difficult, nothing
is impossible; and what they have once accom-
plished they %rill find an easy task to repeat.
From all the best and latest intelligence which
I have been able to glean front those who are just
arrived from Paris, I am inclined to think that
the inhabitants of that city are decidedly in fa-
vour of their lawful Prince, if, unawed by the
presence of a licentious soldiery, they dareti to
deefare their real sentiments. By those an whom
I can best depend, I am informed that a gloomy
and distrustful silence prevails throughout the
city of Paris; even the Spectacles are almost de-
serted; and instead of the heartfelt rapture with.
which the restoration of their legal Sovereign and
.the return of peace were proclaimed—whenever

• Of the leaders who have so basely betrayed their .easy,
fatuous Monarch, and especialty'of Souit and Ney, those
first of fraituti and foul ditgralce to the hon6urable name of
soldier, the punishment should be ium,tediate, .17:m1111:try,
and terrible..

the sullen Despot himself in public, a few
faint civas are all which the utmost exertions of
his sycophants and sutellites can draw forth front
the thinly scattered spectators. But hard as it
may seem,,there is now no alternative remaining;
and the war against the ,Tyrant and his banditti
must be carried on at the cost of those whO'have
not resisted his return to potri'er—and to their own
indolence.,and. guilty apathy must he attributed
the miseries which a'conquered country must ne-
cessarily undergo—to this must he imputed the
future ravages of the Cossacks, and the. plunder-
ings and burnings of the Croats and Pandours—
to this.the

cc
Barbeiricis jaceant quot•vzaisia jlaninds,
" Quas niilai Mtfinus .strages,quantlinique cruoris,
quautis eputrittur coqibus hydri."
FALKLAND.

. .
**l' For the former letters, part of which were first pub-
lished in'Tur.Trms and part inTric 4(.1s Newspaper, during
the course of the year 1814, see-the Collection of Tracts pub-
lished under the title of The Pamphleteer (Numbers 6 and 7),
in which they were admitted to .I.ld re-printed by the. Edi-
tor of that admirably useful publication ; and for the Bth
Letter of this series, detailing a 'plan for the storing and
warehousing of Corn for the more regular supply of the
Marbets ; and for the 10th Lettvr, in which the financial Mea-
sures to be pursued, in consequence of the renewal of the
Continental disturbances, are treated of, see the 10th Num-
ber of The Pamphleteer, in which they will make their first
PPPearance, together with a re-print of the prizsent com-
Munication. •

ATTEMPT TO STEAL THE CROWN.

LAMBeTII POLICE-OFFICE.--Yos'terdav Mar-
.garet Moore was brought before Sir DANIEL WIL-:
LIAMS!i; the. Sitting Magistrate; and underwent, a
sec;on(l,examivation, charged with an attempt to
steal the King's Crown from the 'rower, on Fri-
thly, . the 31st of. March last.
Elizabeth Eloisa Sraeiling, Deputy-keeper of
the Regalia in the Tower, deposed, that she was
a widow-; about one o'clock in_the afternoon of
the day mentioned, the prisoner came and asked
to see the regalia=--the usual charge made for such
exhibition is,. eighteen pence, but the. prisoner
having offered_a slriiliug, and.soe supposing her,
"bei• aPpearance,.to
.be a soldier's wife, con-
sented to take•it': •-''She piloceedeid to slim her tile'
regalia in the usual way.,.. until she came. to the
last article, the crown.; conoined in a case,
and is ne-ke'r taken out ; she opened the case, and
held it with. both hands, on the' ledge of a table,
except-when she was obliged to disengage -one
hand, and point ,outparticular jewels. She. had
just been describing the ague minora, a jewel of
great value, when the prisonet stared, and in an
instant thrust her hand through the centre bar of
the railings or _grating placed there, and seizing
hold of the centre bow of the crown, pulled with
great Violence 'to draW it forth. Witness put her
hand at die `top of the bcl'.v and bottoth of the
crown, to preserve it, while the prisoner kept
strugg:fng with still
.greater violence to get it
away. This struggling continued for about five
minutes, and she at length got the crown from her
grasp., She then put the crown at a distance be-
hindher ; and instantly slipt the bolt of the en-
trance, secured the prisoner, and called for assist-
ance.' • ‘Vhen help was obtained, she sent for the
Governor„but.the Ward7keeper,having come in,
a constable was also sent for,who soon arrived
and took the prisoner` into custody. She was
searched, and 'abont-5/: in money %vas found upon
her ; .there were also some.papers. In the strug-
gle between the witness and the prisoner, there
were two bows of the crown broken from the
socket ; a string of pearls was also'broken, which
rolled upon the. floor, some inside- the railing, anti
solve outside, where the prisoner was. These
were stibieyiently picked up by the witness, as-
sisted by the GOvernos,„
.The prisoner being called upon for her defence,
said, that she was a single woman, residing at
No. 3, Union-street, Apollo-gardens ; she was a
milk-woman, and had a girl of about 13 years of
age,ie
residing with her; she was a
lrdaughter,
widow, her husband was a labouring man, and
was dead about 11 years ; is not acquainted with
a soldier, nor was she ever in company with one,
or at the Tower in her lite before the day in ques-
tion. Being asked by the Magistrate why she
came so far from home she replied, she very
often Avant to Thames-street to buy salt herrings.
Then, said the Magistrate, what induced you
to go to-the Tower ?—A. 1 ,went on Friday pur-
posely to seethe lions—no one was with me—l
then went to see the crown.

Q., flow came you to snatch that article
from the keeper thought it a pity
that so valuable a thing should remain there,
while half the nation was starving for want of
bread ! -1 wished, also, at the time, to take the'

whole of what was there, - and give it to the
public •
Q. Who told you to do this; or who was it
put 'that good' thought in your head I had
no adviser whatever.

Upon being asked by the Magistrate to state a
little More particularly %rho she'was, She'sai'd"she
was a Welch woman, from the county. of Car-
marthen, and had been ',)rought iip in the, princi-
ples of the‘Church of England. About 10 years
since, she purchased some ground from Mr.
Henry Hooper, of Apollo Gardens and about
five years ago built a small house, in which she

resides, and which already cost her 1201. She
was to have hail 1501. Her other houses and

property . _
Ivere -stolen from her by eiecttnents', exe-
ctitions, &c. and her losses amounted at least to
5001. ! She never bad any idea of- stealing. the
Crown until she saw it, and.. then was only im-
pelled by the motive already stated. • Does not
recollect that she ever thought of providing for
the poor until then.

Mr. Swift, the Keeper of the Jewels in the
Tower, was then called, but it was stated that he
was out of town, and would not return before
Sunday or Monday.
The evidence of this witness, however, being
deemed necessary, the prisoner was remanded for
a final examination.

At Chelmsford Assizes a pauper of Greenstead
recovered three hundred pounds in damages, for
the Injury he had sustained from the want of skill
of a surgeon in reducing a fracture Of t!de thigh-
bone, by which the man wits incapable of per-
torutiug 4is dairat6ur. •