The Sun.
London, England, 1847-05-06 00:00:00

system finds an apologist in France ; let him listen to them
all ; let him take every thing at its just value, and surround
himself by all the real capacity of the country. The French
pa.ple are influenced by to powerful passions, KLich seem
opposed, but which, nevertheless, are derived from one and
the same feeling—viz., love of liberty, and love of distinc-
tion. A government can only satisfy these two wants by the
most exact justice. The law and action of the government
must be equal towards all ; honours and rewards must be
bestowed on the men who seem in the eyes of all to be the
most worthy of them. Merit may be pardoned, but not in-
trigue. The Order of the Legion of Honour has been an
immense and powerful incitement to virtue, talent, and cou-
rage; if ill employed, it would become a great evil, by alien-
ating the whole army, if the spirit of court intrigue and co-
terie presided at its nominations or at its administration.
" 111 v son will be obliged to allow the liberty of the press :
this is a necessity in the present day. In order to govern, it
is not necessary to pursue a more or less perfect theory, but
to build with the materials which are under one's hand ; to
submit to necessities, and profit by them. The liberty of the
press ought to become, in the hands of the Government, a
powerful auxiliary in diffusing, through all the most distant
co ners of the empire, sound doctrines and good principles.
To leave it to itself would be to fall asleep on the brink of a
danger. On the conclusion of a general peace, 1 would have
instituted a Directory of the Press, composed of the ablest
men of the country, and I would have diffused, even to the
most distant hamlet, my ideas and my intentions. In the
present day, it is impossible to remain, as one might have
done three hundred years ago, a quiet spectator of the trans-
formations of society ; now, one must, under pain of death,
either direct or hinder everything.
" My son ought to be a man of new ideas, and of the cause
which I have made triumphant everywhere. He ought to
establish institutions which may efface all traces of the feudal
law, secure the dignity of man, and develop those germs of
prosperity which have been budding for centuries. He should
propagate, in all those countries now uncivilised and barba-
rous, the benefits of Christianity and civilisation. Such
should be the aim of all my son's thoughts; such is the
cause for which I die a martyr to the hatred of the oligarchs,
of which I am the object. Let him consider the holiness of
my cause. Look at the regicides ! They were formerly in
the councils of a Bourbon; to-morrow they will return to
their country—and I and mine expiate in tortures the bless-
ings which I desired to bestow on nations. My enemies are
the enemies of humanity; they desire to fetter the people,
whom they regard like a flock of sheep; they endeavour to
oppress France, and to make the stream reascend towards its
source. Let them take care that it does not burst its bounds !
With my son, all opposite interests may live in peace; new
ideas be diffused and gather strength, without any violent
shock or the sacrifice of any victims, and humanitylpe spared
dreadful misfortunes. But if the blind hatred of kings still
pursues my blood after my death, I shall then be avenged,
but cruelly avenged. Civilisation will suffer in every way,
if nations burst their bounds, and rivers of blood will beshed
throughout the whole of Europe; the light of science and
knowledge will be extinguished amid civil and foreign war-
fare; more than three hundred years of troubles will be re-
quired in order to destroy in Europe that royal authority
which has but for a day represented the interests of all
classes of men, but which struggled for several centuries be-
fore it could throw off the restraints of the middle ages. If
on the other band, the North advances against civilisation,
the struggle will be of shorter duration, but the blows more
fatal ; the well-being of nations, all the results which it has
taken so many 3-ears to obtain, will be destroyed, and none
can foresee the disastrous consequences. The accession of
my son is for the interest of nations, as well as of kings. Be-
yond the circle of ideas and principles for which we have
fought, and which I have carried triumphantly through all
difficulties, I see nought but slavery and confusion for France
and for the whole of Europe.
" You will publish all that I have dictated or written, and
you will engage my son to read and reflect upon it. You will
tell him to protect all those who have served me well, and
their number is large. My poor soldiers, so magnanimous,
so devoted, are now perhaps in want of bread! What'cou-
rage, what good sense is there in this French people! What
buried riches, which will perhaps never again see the light of
day Europe is progressing towards an inevitable transfor-
mation : to endeavour to retard this progress, would be but
to lose strength by a useless struggle; to favour it, is to
strengthen the hopes and wishes of all.
" There are desires of nationality which must be satisfied
sooner or later, and it is towards this end that continual pro-
gress should be made. My son's position will not be exempt
from immense difficulties ; let him do by general consent what
I was compelled by circumstances to effect by force of arms.
When I was victorious over Russia, in 1812, the problem of
a peace of a hundred years' duration was solved. I cut the
Gordian knot ofnations; in thepresent day it must beuntied.
The remembrance of the thrones which I raised up, when it
was for the interest of my general policy so to do, should be
effaced. In the year 1815, I exacted from my brothers that
they should forget their royalty, and only take the title of
French princes. My son should follow this example; an
opposite course would excite just alarm. It is no longer iii
the North that great questions will be resolved, but in the
Mediterranean; there, there is enough to content all the am-
bition of the different powers, and the happiness of the civi-
lized nations may be purchased with fragments of barbarous
lands. Let the kings listen to reason; Europe will no longer
afford matter for maintaining international hatreds. Preju-
dices are dissipated and intermingled; routes of commerce
are becoming multiplied; it is no longer possible for one
nation to monopolize it. As a means by which my son may
see whether his adminLtration be good, or the contrary—
whether his laws are in accordance with the manners of the
country—let him have an annual and particular report pre-
sented to him of the number of condemnations pronounced by
the tribunals. If crimes and delinquencies increase in number,
it is a proof that misery is on the increase, and that society is
ill governed ; their diminution, on the other hand, is a proof
of the contrary.. _ _

Religiousldeas have more influence than certain narrow-
minded philosophers are willing to believe ; they are capable
of rendering great services to humanity. By standing well
with the Pope, an influence is still maintained over the con-
sciences of a hundred millions of men. Pius VII. will be
always well disposed towards my son he is a tolerant and
enlightened old man. Fatal circumstances embroiled our
cabinets ; I regret this deeply. Fesch did not understand
me; he upheld the party of the ultramontanes, the enemies of
true religion in France. If you are permitted to return to
France, you will still find many who have remained faithful to
my memory. The best monument which they could raise to
me would be to make a collection of all the ideas which I
expressed in the Council of State, for the administration of
the empire; to collect all my instructions to my Ministers;
and to make a list of the works which I undertook, and of
all the monuments which I raised in France and Italy.
Maret, Daru, Blollien, Merlin, and Cambaceres, may contri-
bute to this work; it will be the completion of what I charge
Bignon to write on my foreign policy and the general heads
which I have indicated to you on my wars. In what I have
said in the council of state, a distinction must be made be-
tween the measures, good only for the moment, and those
whose application is eternally true.

" Let my son often read and reflect on history; this is the
only true philosophy. Let him read and meditate on the
wars of the greatest captains; this is the only means of
rightly learning the science of war.
" But all that you say to him, or all that he learns, will
be. of little use to him, it he has not in the depth of his heart
that sacred fire and love of good which alone can effect great
things.
" I will hope, however, that he will be worthy of his
distiny."
We must content ourselves for the present with these
quotations ; and we cannot more appropriately conclude
our remarks on the anniversary of the death of this
astonishing being, than in the exquisite and mournful
language of Count Montholon :—" After such a variety
of fortune, the Emperor at length reposes in his last
and unchangeable resting-place. The immense drama
of his marvellous destiny has closed with the gates of his
tomb ; but this glorious tomb itself will remain as an
abiding lesson to the whole family of wan; it will always
remain to recal to the world the vanity of all earthly
greatness and splendour. There sleeps the Emperor,
together with the passions and animosities of which he
was the object or the originator!"

SUNDERLAND DOCK.—The directors of the Sun-
derland Dock Company have agreed with the owners for the
purchase of all the property that will be required for the
dock and its approaches, and without the necessity of having
the value of any portion thereof assessed by a jury. The
contract for excavating the clay and other soil from part of
the town moor and the battery adjoining, required for the
site of the new dock, will be let by tender in the course of a
few days. The breach made in two of the groynes by the
sea, during the tremendous gale a month ago, has been filled
up with solid masonry; and in order to guard against any
similar accident, workmen are now employed in strengthening
the three groynes by reconstructing parts thereof with solid
masonry. The old fort,:which commands the entrance to the
river Wear, is to be immediately pulled down, the site being
required for the dock. It has long ceased to be fortified, but
has been occupied by the Coast Guard.
ROYAL HOSPITAL, GRAY'S INN-LANE.—
The influx of applicants to this charity, during the past few
days, has so greatly increased, that it has been found utterly
impossible to attend to all applicants. At a meeting of ti e
hoard held last evening, the Rev. Dr. Rice in the chair, it
was stated that distress and its concomitant debility anti
fever, induced by the unusual inclemency of the season,
caused a great portion of the existing misery and sickness.
ROYAL ORTHOYODDIC HOSPITAL.—The annual
festival In aid of the funds of this excellent institution took
place last evening, at the London Tavern, Bishopsgate-street.
This Hospital, which is for the cure of club feet and other de-
formities, alas, since its institution, been the means'of restoring

any. unforttinate cripples, and enabling them to get thei

,sing.

SEIZURE FOR THE NON-PAYMENT OF CHURCH- I
RATES.—Yesterday upwards of 1,200 ounces of silver plate,
which had been seized for the non-payment of church-rates,
were sold by public auction. The rate, it appears had for
some time past become obnoxious to the inhabitants of
Hackney, Shoreditch, and they at length, almost en masse,
determined to resist it The non-contents were accordingly
distrained upon, and their plate, amounting in the aggregate
to the above, was seized. The sale took place at Messrs.
Burt and 0., refiners, Cheapside, and the articles were
bought in chiefly by their owners.
A line of sailing packets between Antwerp and
the ports of Galatz and Odessa is about to be established, in
execution of a treaty passed on the sth ult. between the Bel-
gian Minister of Foreign Affairs and M. Frederic Harkort.
'Fhe engagement is made from the present year up to 1851 in-
clusively.—Gangnani.
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