The Sun.
London, England, 1815-12-02 00:00:00

are the army—inthe time of panishtne'nt, -the
army are nofthe people. Excellent logic! Worthy
of a French 'Politician ! And far Jot; good to be_
answered I
Some 11W-witted fellow, with not sufficient in-
tellect kir Ureie :niceties, may insist ti, .r so gene-
ral a defection must have been ;zcif:,onal; and very
.....
impertinentlynsk, Where was the Nation while the
1 'Usurper WaS taking liis- easy journey to the ca-
Ptal ?—While 'he was forging a Constitution, and'
ronvoking- the Champ de Mai ?—While he was
receiving Addresses, reviewing troops, and levying
1. conscriptions ?
~ Were the Due de ItICTIELIEU to satisfy such a
troublesome querist, we should be told that the
• Nation vas all this time arranging the return of
the King, preparing assistance for the Allies, 14
tutting out white cockades by dozens—that NRY,
BOULT, MASSENA, Foucuc, and the other thou-
sand Traitors, executed and unexecuted, were all
lall the point of being taken up by the Nation ;
4t1(1 that, if the Allies had not " precipitated
themselves upon the " Frontiers," the Nation
Is'ould have delivered into their hands the Usurper
and an his accomplices. .
What advantages have wve lost by this incon-
siderate " precipitation ! How cruel were we
1 tb anticipate this happy exhibition of French
loYalty I.
But the balf-wittCd felloW again intrudes, in-
' listing that all this might have been done in. the
first instance,as the Neapolitans did—for example,
ivith MurtaT.- For, says he, ,had that Brigand.
!narehed from Pizzo to Naples as easily as Btro-
ltkl'snTß marched iron) Frejus to Paris; the King,
would have been expelled and the Usurper esti-
Ilished ; but had BtJONAPARTE been arrested at
Frejus as My RAT was at Pizzo, the King would
have been protected, and the Usurper EXECUT-
ILD.---A practical argument this, which pertina-
cious people will make ; but which Statesmen like
tile Duc de RicraeuEu will hardly condescend to
answer.
The Nation, hOwever, knew the proper sensor',
for her loyalty, and she still kaows it. While
bey " revolutionary principles, and the courage of
her soldiers" were spt ea ling ruin over Europa,
we heard nothing bat the glory of France and the
'lig I'ity of her Emperor. Now, when " a million
„1,
" ~
iret
~,,, gners " have occupied her Territory, the
• llation has teen all this time " united by her
wishes to her legitinuite Sovereign," King Lours,
01
~
ae,,
t, -"rse, and the National Troops have been.
ar
'',‘:,' -"-this forces of Faction." • •
LI
, the Dee de EicaELtnuti judgment, the sen:
2ten!
has now arriveJ for informing u.s that IV
l'e i - -.. • - . ... .41i7 •
- ''P'6 who permitted NAPoLEOtsi's march to Paris,
4n. d joined him.on his- journey, were "paralyzed
.14 their efforts" for Louts by the "perversity"
°f their betrayers—NEY, we suppose, and SOULT,
"4 PoUcnE ; and that the Army, which contend-
.`l against Louts at Waterloo, , was nothing hut
rl° . 4 Partg, not seconded in France by the Na-,''
41 will, or by the assent of public opinion."
v Oh ! nothing else ?—The Duke of 'WELLING-
I" and Prince BLUCHER were grievously mis-
aak:"_oiti " the true extent of the forces which they
.ite:i.„t combat." And this combat was, of all un-
• • at'Y things,' the most unnecessary, since
" the „
e generous men who from all parts of the
110oarei'Y Were preparing the ruin of the Usurped
l'olver ,
' Would have seat NAPOLEON a prisoner to
INT_ England,, and shot LABEDOVERE, and indicted
:,!•• without our " precipitate" interference.
verTf
distillation
sure they would ! and it would be the
ill Y (4stillation of impertinence t• ask Monsieur
, 'Quay Where these " generous men" were so
Aor, , .
g "'"e" .1 hundredthousandt i
—t these reaps coneea -
ed e, , .
- zrentr, d
for ,as the Rehearsal has it ? We see
ahund_
just "lee of them now; but it would be pleasant,
rn,,
„,, curiosity's sake, nothing more, to know
a [tare iiifor,Le ey were then ? In some old Play an uo-
tuna._ inhabitant ofa besieged town is taken in
the (tar,
Ayi tc, and upon being questioned by his captor
1°
and what he is, replies very shrewdly by an-
`Pother
.4ittestion i.—" Are you Tark or Christian ?
• fit,
vok m flow YouE quality, 1 shall be enabled to tell
or th,—The " generous men" of France are
45 aced
mmodatina'
complexion.
II b
"ts alas! "the generous min" could not "be-
"l their
Me . operations before the Allies !" Perhaps
Iv are tinder some small obligation to Lord
t..t.ra.,,,
s c --TON that they could not. Nor :could they
act with the •
140,sii . same promptitude and 'effica,cy."—
,been niy, if they could, our lamp oil Would have
At saved on Monday, and oar Itoefical Loan
&Volt .
:Lis `vould not have been put to trouble for
AP* of Distichs.
tt
.1 nd alas !- the Allies have saucily " considered
the fall
0_
hei,
vietot:'e Tyrant
as the immediate
effect of
to Really, Monsieur le Due it is a
, nlt linpard
4 NISsia" ,
s, to forget the services Which your
4 ZneO"s Men" intended to do them ; and it is;
Ibis
_ot unpardonable injustice, that " France, by
v n'billation of Unhappy circumstances, shoLi,l
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