The Sun.
London, England, 1815-08-09 00:00:00

Tilt SUN REVIE ‘V.

, . . (No. I,XXXVIII.)
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oiIEiIVATIONI Mr tire• Punt.ic !tart PntvATz LIFE of rils
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A very masterlV Pamphlet tinder the above titl
baying 3itst issued front the Press, We are induced
to step a little out of our re.zular cwt sc of. re-
Viewino; tct. tiring it under the. nOticeof the i;ub-
lie.
.ror this iervice we shall look to be re.ttard-
ed by general acknowledgnientl, 101. the Publi'ea-
tion is assuredly' one for. brilliant ClictiOn,- and
forcible reasoning; very far superior to the ordi-
nary cla-ss. of prorindtions of the same nature.

'As WC do nit however mean to pass an cub°-
,
gium upon the talents displayed in this brochure,
but rather to enable- others to appreciwe theM,
we shall confine. Oiirselves to a few extract's,
with nothing more of sintroduetion than h.., • ne-
cessary to explain their coniiection.
The Writer sets out by relating the charge Of
tooopulariti) brought against the •Prince by a
faction as loud and noisy as it is mischievous and
eonempt ible, whit:h charge he demonstrates to
be ".onsuppo'rted by any authentic expression of
the
,Public Voice. Upon- this subject he ably re-
marks :

" The personal character, of the So'vereign is a considera-
tion of deep intrust to c'etri man Who desires to live in
pc:ice under his sceptre ; and to, fipd him deeidedly and de-
servedly npopular, would be, to a subject of England, as
grave a discdi.-1.-r4,A9 could he forced on his apprehensions.
For the fact, w,e have, if not the faost dignified, the active
portion of the public sentiment. it is to he found asserted,
in the multitude crf the Interior journals ; the speechrSsif the
revolutionary patrhils are full of it ; it is the favourite adaie
in the assemblages of ti-eh;,.tqealcrs in treason; tire Common
Council has carried it hyacti.unat',l,n,aod the whole le;islative
purity of Palacerlard lias.sh9Ard to the whole executive
majesty of St. Giles's,

" In the face of this array Of authority, doubt tlt fact
and must require a totally,different rank of proof, before
glee way to the gs,ertion, that the Prince is unporinlar. Here
ere must distinguWi. There is no popularity worth Oestring,
hot. that which comes from the patri”tic and t hi! pure. The
passim) fcrindiset ;initiate applause belongs to the failing side
I 'of our nattii.e. Coriverted into an object of ambition, there
is no disease tnore fatal to the original .and vigorous c•ritle of
a mind of whatcvet erectness."

After some further observatimi lie thus pro-

.ceed§—
" The form of the charge is suspicious. when an 'English
ruler' loses the respect of the country, surmise will have uo
share in announcing his loss. in Will not be left to glean it
in the paragraphs of a newpaper, nor to stand shivering in
the antichanibei• of city republicanism, eaves-dropping for
the inteiligtnce. fie will find it appry :citing hint with the
grave and ilerions publicity 'of national vu ;mg ; it will come
in the fo in and authentic errentoniA of the Constit ; it
will insist On patting remonstrance into his own band."
The Awful crisis whichtmtrked his Royal 11igit-
ness's asstimption of. the sovereign pojeci- in thiS
cottntry,..is describeti in laugnagt which reminds
us of BtYRKE, fusel deser=ves a place-itete :
" When the Prince Itcgetit (Artie to the conduct of affairs,
England was alone in Europe. fierinany sync a field Of slatigh-
ter, covered with the wreck ()titer thrones ar2 armie3. Spain
was a desart, through which the I.lriti3b al-:lies, triumphing
oyer its CII6iIICA, impeded by 'it S goverbineiit, nniyed, ie fiery
pillar, in that darkened time, to marshal its reitictarrt and,
murmuring tribes. Russia sustained an uneasy truce, kept
alive by the in fence of France, bat utterly infirm, cold and
heartless., Autono; oUrsvlves, the multitude called- out for
peace ; the war had been glorious and oppressive, the perpe-
tual lifting of the *word, even for tictory, was exhausting- our
arms, and sclfishni!ss in the'allie3, anil tremendous and hourly
inereanng force in the enemy, seemed to-make successun-
grateful and defeatyttinnui.
" This was one of the ;s omentt iftrivhich the filte of ages
'turns. We wete in the very jaws of sub Mission; and submi3-
Sion would have crushed all that was free or wise, or manly in.
European principles. A feeble heart, oti the British throne.'
at that hour, would have derided its fall with a stroke of the
Pea. We muffs., at that lime, have purchased with perfect
facility such peace ds *could be made with France. We had
but to sacrifice the Peninsula, and the arising and the treaty
Would hare Levin made on the same altar.
" Bat the firmness of the Princ‘es Goveentnent was putt to a
Still sterner proof. The enemy had been repelled in-war, he
*as now defeated in nogociation. I:is fame and his and)i-
lion called for unequalled effUrt, and it wasinatle with a al-
letter and tkvelopment of physical force, the toast rapid, ex-
tended, am: nqrwheltning, that the world had ever seen.—
.
Thislast exertion seemed to be conclusive, h desperate ha-
zard for the subjugation of Enropb, or the total rain of
France; the great explosion .was to disembowel the moun-
tain, and either to leave it utterly eXhaustedi or to melt:and
shatter the Whole surrounding 'region into its own fiernsub.

stance. The commencentent of the year ?SW. was a period. of
the deepest anxiety felt by the civilized world, since the ir-
ruption Of. Ole barbarians on the Roman Empire. Gallant
things 'were said find tholit;hl.; brave nun knew that they
kold,put die unreveliged ; good men looked to Providence,
an (
01— d consoled themseltes with the conviction, that the Sri
r r
,!
'.timph of rapine arlA blood Cotild not last for ever ; but he)
prOudest arid noblest feerng %Vas shaded by tbe belief, that it
imwst yet fight the fight of despair."
After a spirited sionmary of the Oriticiii
transactions which have distinguished the
life, of the Prince of WALE-, tae are brought to
that momentous era which sltw him converted
into the PRINcP. REnttaT,,,A)ert the late of Great
Britain, and the salvaticin 'of Europe, depended
yipon,tl)e selection of Adviser 4-. !lyre we most
c,adiAlly at...knowledge the hao4l of a master in
7the,.strangly-drawn picture:
<< /clad (.53.3-s the Afithor, page 45) a noble policy at once
adopl'ed ; the mOment of power seized on, not to gratify
sium-
berictjrei•ent;e or toile,-thwarted authitivu,or cherishedproven-

i dies, htit to litioont to integrity art wiAdom, in the person
of the very administration which had restricted t Itt Itt.gency;
to challenge ettlitainy at in th'e dinipPointm.ent of a
pawerftll party who had already divided place among them-
and t(i 'COtlFriint a scene of unexampled struggle and
danger abroad. for tii Slow *sile;tt inn of Etirope. I find t
noble and far-sighted polio add,,ted by the 'solitary impulse
t • •t
of iddivititial Mind, for the rrince- could Ittre have bad no
adviser's. He could 119 t base learned it from the men wir4
were,. Ir':y lone, habit, attori,ttei to, his privacy t for it waslatal
tit their pretensions, He con'ti !int him: borrowed it from
the Ministry, for them he liad no intercourse before bis
th'etit'rotte.. His cd:icktion Of the s6stiont of tilt it-
tueasitrbs, Must hate originated in his individual obsertatiori.

of their ieus. .
~" The so:idity of this great act of ileterniinotion is now Ii
vrind dunk; hit justice is not thine, where its•phsonal sit-
erifices are tint its.certailiZtl. Was to
(.!issiii.ri; the fantasiet of thi!:ty yens, Mid those were the fn':
tasies (Auto) not accut.toniett to be preeiSe in their dispicii.•;:
sore.

" The hour that placed at the head of the Covernment a
,;
P'rince, the friend of Fox, and the declared advocate iir the
ConStltution, bad beeniong anticipated, fur the full revel of
all that crowd. of low and
,giddy extravagances wlll'ett bad
lurked under the name of Constitutimral principles: This,
Lord Grey, in the pride of aristocracy, and Lind, Grimedlei
in the remaining spirit of earlier feelings. Will deaf. But
their e7acohin orgOns; the ,Iforning Chronicle and ill stiiiors
rernember the exuberant and incautious joy that
betrayed them within the talons of the Altorne7-GentrA;
and be more candid. It is beyond all question, that if,
on that day' of sacrifice, a few gat - and proud were.
to lead the pomp to the Capitol, its gates were not
to -be thrown open exclusively for them ; that the " pa-
tricii"- and " (ignites" Of that procession bore no corn-
parison to the, " plebs" which were to follow in their
train, a multitude ferotiOus and squalid; suddenly startlne
up front the hovels and recesses of society, fearful to i:yen
their leaders, but too deep sharers in the struggie.s of daft
cause to be expelled from tbcir chilli in i•lie precession :nick •
the hecatomb. To men, utiblinded 11 the " str,mg
sions" of political dna...l-ling, it taai•teetn singular that such
hopestdldilid•la•re been .formed. The public reserve, the
authentic acts of , the .Prince's- political life, the digni6A
reluctance which he had, on all occasion-,- exhibited ti)
interfere 'witt the 'established principles of the Govern•
ment, ought to have saved bin; 'from. this coarie
Cation. But it was essential to a party airea lv perishing fur
want of sustenance. This " hope deferred," sickening_ as it
was, vas better than " flat 'despair." The P.inee's name
was the grand elixir in'the hands of the master moulitebankk;
for renorving the decayed and shrivelled sinews Of thine
pauper patteitt.
• “ The brief administration of Fox had acted upon thent .
only as an increase of appetite; tantalized them with the •
sight of luxuries,and lett them still immersed and famishing.
The Prince's Coursing to the throne brought near them the
final resource of disappointment and exhaustion, the promise
of a general indulgence, a great marriage ferit.ti for which
the highways and hedges were to be cleared, and the beggar
and tile profligate, , the hilt RIO ihe hint t, to be solicited, if
niit.t he hi,a, at le,:ist awn* the most iavoured visitors.
1.,-vn during. the yet it of the restrictions, the sentiment
'wits too eager riot to speak very artifice of intrigue, down. _
of its triumph was exerted ; the tribes, not un-
likews in their suffering; or their spirit, stranded the
trumpet
the first glean' of that veiled and secondary splen-
dour,t b biiiitise ti
.njin
for which they had looked so long from the nakedness
of the hill top, and the rising of its broad and "orbed ma-
jesty" was scarcely waited for, as the commencement of that
jubilee, which was to wttsh off all the stains of the past, to
reverse the successions of the land, and to transmit thq
debtor and the bondsman, the fallen in habit and the broken
principle, clear and whifc-robed, into, at inheritance tun:-
rious mind perpetual. . .
'rhe f! VI tiSio):4 however rapturous, had the brevity of hu-
m an rapture, and time Sovereign's dtclaratiun; that he had
" no predilection to indulge, nu re:entinent to gratify, 110
personal object to attair,': a- decloration, than wilich, one
More solemn, simple, and worthy Of a leading mind, never
issued froM a throle, put at once au end to the triumph. mid
let loose its whole array in cureless, bitter, desperate hostility,'
The horn of the gang, time ' pa..t.rale signom," was blown,
and the total strength of rude and lurking revenge came down
upon the royal person. His private habitA, his put-suits, hi,
intimate friendships, were turned into objects of attack anti
base misrepresentation."

bat perhaps, eyen this ad:nimble canvas must
yield to the follow,ing portrait of Jacobin is nt
But, of a Prince, of the governor of :people, the great
Acquittal is the popular prp.perity;'and when England shall
have azain run' through sub a course of triumphs, such a
cycle of glorious. percod::,' and fixed hcrsdf in Such Splendid
and stately" securiiy, the " central star" from which that
whole system, in their " golden' urns -draw light," she way
diminish her value for the wisdom which guided her through,
the dariihess and the cloud.

" Among those distinguished and fortunate services, it is
p6reely U prcuiiiir feeling -that, with me, marks the first as
the most entitled to our gi at itude. In exelirdirg the Opposi.
tlons front his councils„ the Regent did more than fescue the
country front men, by whom it had been already injured; hr
placed the hoot stamp on'principles more formioolde than ig•
ourauce or incapacity.
't '['e great evil of the past day, has been Jacobinkm.
great tr'..ll of the present and the future, would he its re,
rival. 1 do not inVolve, in the fulliess of the charge, the
ostensihleleaders Of the party. But tie language of their
instruments, instruents, their JournaJA, their gross and insolent
ibels, open the secret. 1 most here turn from the sum.
moneys of the spirits, to the spirits themselves. When the
question is about the blood of Kings and the fa,e of king-
doms, I must enquire " not of them, but of their inasters,",
The catastrophe may be more ilitprobahle here than iii
France,- from the superior soundness of the publ,c mind. But
it is to he reinembered, t gat of all disturbanc.O. of the brain,
the insanity of Jaenbinism is the most unaccountable in ha
times and visionS, the most Sudden, the most thoroughly in-
flaming-, the inost difficult to be extinguNhed. It cattle over
France " like a .summer cloud," to totivtotir special. awhile-
lancholy ivonder, in the midst of a season of peace and sun-
shine, and the glow of:emulous loyalty. We way still brew-
ble.at the swiftness with Which it iassed, as on the wings of
the wind;l:to.slied its calamity on even our guarded' atmo-
sphere. s _ •
Of all evils, this alone never dies : from its strong assi-
milation with the lower palls of our nature, its characterising-
rhever to he without nutriment. When it has been driven
h) increased science, froth the superior orders, it still contrives
the squalid habits and stagnant blood, and gross_
exeesscs of utpliter life, until the hour is 'ripe for its worm.
with keener 'contagion.- Against this no caution can be
sevet'e htunaiUy forces us to cut off tits suspected, by the
strictest titatintine. There is no defence*hort of
The,leper niust'be cast without the camp. •
. .

\vhat would be the extended and fearful virulence of
JA.etibiTiisni, if it.'were once admitted jut° power. If, its
vresent hour of depression, rejected alike hy the nation and
the throne, it can exhibit its malignity in calumnies au both;
disgustinst and furritidable in i:s reptile state, and trusted
Only as. "adders fanged," ".oud it be, when the dra-
gon spread's its tvino Sb the'st.th." •,

We could withitgly extend these extracts, but
we are persuaded that the examples ire have
ready afforded of the brilliant style ai4d uurow-
mon energy, which characterize this...very able
pamphlet, will be a sufficient inducement to the
public to peruse than in the original.

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