The Sun.
London, England, 1815-09-13 00:00:00

To -.lse your, own quaint phrase, as we find it in
vout• Chronicle, had INT in 1814 struck the past, we
should not now have to•lament the present or to
watch the fttturc. Certainly, the. past is tt) be
considered (-milt for the lessons which it uffords ;
but as cer►ainly, the past has afforded to Europe
a lesson which was neglected in 1814. The ne-
glect now comes upon us with tenfold instruction.
We read it in the return of BLIONAPARTe front
Elba, in the abandonment of the BoonnoNs, in
the treachery of Nay, and in the falling-off of
FOUCHE.--=lye read it. in the Battle of Waterloo',
in the mourning of fifty thousand families, in the
blood which would still flow
.in living veins, if
proper firmness and proper severity had disarmed
the power of mischief. It is only by ‘,‘ striking
the past," that (c the present and the future" arc
proved to be the care of Oorernments.

But Instruments-.—you tell us—are not Accom-
plices : and your Chronicle may one day be glad
to use the distinction. Your Excellency, there-
fore,' and, the entire Soldiery of France, are not to
be punished for
.that instrumentality, without e
which NAPOLEON mail never have reached Paris
but as a prisoner. Tile Instriirneut, L,lntmoyEEE,
'vas punished with dea: li: the Instrunt e nt,Fovcttr,
is rewarded will) office. Perhaps, Sir, you will
withdraw your objections to the rule, while
you can make yourself so .profit.able an .exception.
If, however, tlse French Armies are capable only
of being Instruments, not more reSpwisible for
their actions than is the knife for its bloodshed,
and equally under the butcher's. difection, ynu
may stile the forbearance which continues tlieir
military strength—magnadiinitm—btit Europe will
proclaim it weakness, drivelling, thick-headed,
hollow-hearted tatctity, fit- only for cowards to
confess eITHi for ruffians to ridicule.

It forms no small part of your Excellency's
maticeuvres—and poJsibly ‘vill require no small
portion of your address—to comince us, that
" the Buonapartists are no longer dangerous,"
and, of course, thi4t we stand in no longer peril
of your counsels. NAPOLEON'S person is in the
Lands of Finland ; but his spirit is in the hi-art
of your Excellency. lVl;en the nets revolution
shall break out, and Le Due d'O-ra ANTe shall re-
lapse into all imperial Minister or Cit zen Folic lig,
we shall find how easily the dissolved Chambers
can be reconvened, and the servants of the Mo-
narchy- resume their " instrumentality" of re-
bellion. -

You tell us, that after the Allies had evacuated
France, NAPOLEON did not owe his progress from
Elba to her personal attachment, or even her fide-
lity : yet you argue on his exile to St. Helena as
a sufficient reason for their now-- leaving France
to the renewal of that insurrection which did not
depend on NAPoI.EON. This, then,- is the ultimate
point of your Excellency's reasoning.—NApo-
LEON'S presence did not occasion the mischief;
therefore NAPOLEON'S absence removes the clan-
ger :—NAPOLEON was the instrument of French
orscord, theretore France was the in3llltment of
NAPOLEON : Europe twice rescued herself from
France, therefore France twice rescued Europe :
the whole nation of France supported the war,
therefore the war was not national : the.Arniv is
hostile to the KING, therefore the! Army should
lint he disbanded : tire Army will carry sedition
annuli.; the " electric population,'l therefore the
Army should be sanctioned in its military (Ik:dicer
tiou : the Vendeans alone arc devoted to the KING,
therefore his amnesty should be withheld from
the Vendeans alone : fumy-fifths of France are
disloyal, therefore the King should be abandoned
to the r disloyalty. And therefore, as the sweep-
ing conclusion of all these inferences—it is in-
controvertibly proper and irresis.ib4y necessary,
that France should be evacuated to her own con-
.troul, to the rage of humiliated ambition and
Inct raving of• disappointed vanitv, to "the revival
of intestine -.turbulence, and the_ resumption of
external spoliation, with new vigour and with
new encottragement.
-Your Excellency's. revolutionary practice has
taught you a revolutionary dialect; extremely con-
venient for certain kinds of -diplomacy. When it
is your cue to insult the Allies, and to intimidate
the KING, to irritate the people and to inflame the
soldiery, you talk about elements and energies,
regimes and re-actions, until the meaning of
your mischief escapes into a sheltering 'absurdity;
which, as none can understand, so none. can ac-
cuse. With the help of your Sans-culotte Die-
tio,tary, your Reports to the KING tunny be con-
strued into this plain language :
"sune,—Franee submitted to your return,becanse You were
supported by foreign armies, and she calculated on her sub-
rlS_lhe price of retaining bet conquests and her !dun-
der.—She expected also, that those armies would speedily re-
tire, :tad leave her at liberty to do imperial justice upon your
Maji'sty. FoOhis.purpose, Sire, it is necessary to continue,
fur the protection of the Bourbons, the army "f Napoleon ;
an army, adverse to your Majesty's interests, hostile to your.
person, and ready to receive their late leader, or any leader
hut yourself.--1 advise you to retain it, because it will betray
you; and upon that desirable occasion its bayonets will he
indispeosibly convenient. Your Majesty ,cannot doubt the
sincerity of this advice, because good sense and loyalty, aided
by the presence of the Allies, threaten the return of affairs
into their ancient course; and, as our estates and titles are
built on the downfall of your family, •y 0,1 must be a revolu-
tionary Sovereign, lest we should be counter-revolutionixed
into our pristine obscurity."

Such, Sir, were the miracle of veracity to hap-
pen, would be the language of your Reports ; but
1 which your Morning Chronicle is not likey to ut-
ter until further orders. Here and there indeed,
we catch a fugitive glance of this miracle ; .which
perhaps, in compositions so prolix, could' not al-
ways be avoided. • But really, Sir, it was no Com-
; ,mon oscitaney, that, something like talking in
I •-one's sleep, spoke so easily Of " killing one's fel-
l' low-eiti4ens." Did your Excellency feel no adino-
I nitory twinge, to check either yourself or your un-
-1 luckyscribe? and,even though qualified by the hardy
.assertion, that the KING has done all against the
Buonapartists, which " could be granted or de-
manded by way of example," was it prudent to
gratify us' with the informatioa, that " soon there
will be oo Ingo in public ftm'etioos but those who
may be, depended on ?" Surely, Sir, yffili. Chro-
nicle must have apprised.you how gladly we shall
(~•11,,r of your dismissal, and rejoice in an " Ex-
Ntiiple" being made of your Excellency. Justice
has commenced her march with LABEDOYERE ;
she is travelling On to the deserter NaY ; per-
'haps she will not halt until sae teaches the Mini-
, bter of Police..