The Sun.
London, England, 1815-07-20 00:00:00

not ap,ainst
piled Iris end, if we had not dreaded his means..---,
If his life be incompatible with our peace, .it May
be sacrificed :—but the sacrifice must lie made; to
secure the inutile, not to revenge the past.
But example ! The end of all punishment.
We may well caltulate 011 NAPOLEON, as stand-
ing single in the elevation of crime :—so single,
that no with will be found to emulate his fame or
his offence ; that no man wilt desire to rise so
at the price of falling so low. While Seclu-
sion can restrain., Seclusion is a -sufficient putiish-
went : severer, perhaps, than more ostentatious
penaities, if inaction and reflection occupy its
melancholy void.
His circle, however, must be narrow :—cOin-
prehending neither paroles nor privileges, neither
tlig»ities nor endowments. It is of consequence
to pale him within his pristine obscurity, since all
eves would be tnined on another Elba.

But-example !—Yes, France must be an Cx-
ample, .not only to herself but to the world.—
The coalesced Monarchs, now seated in her ca-
pital, must spew her forth-us the fatal instance
how Revolution cods its crimes arid its follies.

They have tried upon her the experiment
magnanimity.. Flow it succeeded, ask the thou,-
sand lives we -are bewailing !—France has al-,
ways her Vival prepared.. She Can hurra it-Bour-
bon to the scaffold and to the throne with the
same ductile devotion : her dance is as 'ready as
her dagger ; but her dagger is as 'ready as her
dance. Vapid, vain, and versatile, her affec-
tations of Freedom are ludicrous, her profeSsions
of loyalty are hollow : incapable of sincerity, site
can respect no confidence; to be trusted, she
must be chained : before she can lose the will of
revolt, she Mustsbe deprived of the power.

Yet France should receive as much of our for-
giveness as is consistent with our, safety.--We
may not burn Paris, because :Moscow has been
consumed and Madrid destroyed : ‘ve may not
make France zt desart, because ~he devastated Eu-
rope; we may not lead her people into captivity,
because she subverted the liberty of the world.
We may not do-all this, because all this has been
done by France. So much .only is to be done, as
shall prevent Fiance from doing the same again.
Retribution must be the -result of , the judgn►ent,-
not of the feeling ; it must be exercised for ex-
ample, not for punishment :—it must be mea-
sured rather by the dangers of -Europe than by
the crimes of France ; it must he apportioned in
Wisdo►n, nut lavished in vengeance. _

The first object is, to place France in her pre-
revolutionat y condition. The several states
which she plundered must reclaim their property;
her triumphal columns and arches must be de-
stroyed ; the boastful names by which she comme-
morated her Victories must be effaced ; and the
foreig►i titles which she gave to her successful
leaders must be relinquished.

But when this primary justice shall be accom-:
plisbed, France will have received no warning,
as she wilt hare incurred no privatiOn. She•.nust
pay the expences of the campaign, and surrender
something of her original possessions. After hav
ink; forced us to the contest, she must meet the
consequences of the hazard ; after compelling us
to stake our all, she must not withdraw her own
stake at pleasure. War is a game: It presents
its chances of success and of failure. But who
would not be a gambler, with the expectation of
winning something,
,and the privilege of losing
nothing ? . • '

To prevent an encouragement so mischievous.,
France must submit yet farther. She must give
up her northern fortresses ; she must dismantle
her frontiers ; she must disorganize her soldiery;
she must maintain within her territory a sufficient
number of the Allied troops ; she must put clown
the whole tribe of her Jacobins and Buoirapar-
tists ; she must div6t them of their plunder, and
dismiss them from her councils.

And, when all this' is done, who will say that
France has suffered the thousandth part of the
shames, the privations, and the miseries, which
she has inflicted upon Europe ?
It is not requisite that she should suffer them.
We desire to punish her, not in retaliation or re-
venge, but in justice and. necessity. So far only
as her sufferings will disable and deter her from
future aggressions, should she be punished for
past injuries., But, as the penalty is moderate,
its infliction should be certain. The blood Which
bas been shed must not ' flow in vain :—it must
not be idly poured out on the altar of magnani-
mity.