The Sun.
London, England, 1815-08-18 00:00:00

cation :

" The Sovereigns assenthletlat Nrienna sole,rtudy
tieClared that they made war against iluonap rte
his aouerents only. They have .conqutred
Buonaparte,. and .he has now surrendered himself
as the:r prisoner. -‘ Payis'ancl part of France
are occupied by rife Armies 'of EKope: Frateett
expects dee siori of the Alhed Sovereigcs.--6.
'Nothing henceforth in •Fittrope will ii iye 'ail per.
Thanetity, hitt that ‘Vhich is just, and bononrable.
It is by gond. ptineii;les only that war can be made
;successfully argil/14 the passions, and the life of
Bunnapare proves clearly that tie most fotini-
(table physical force finisifes always 'sooner or later
by yielding to mord force, . .
" The S'overeigns to i, thetelore, he faithful to
their declarations 4 they will be. so be, Anse ii Is
their interest as well ai their honour. They have
concrered nuonaparte—it remains to themzto
punish his adherents..
" At present we 'shall take up one question
ofile ; namely, that of\ the ITat-Ilaxes, /Indic %via
be easy to apply the principle that Kings ouglit,
by reconciling. their interests with their honour,
to ove to itonorrable men of all countries, that
they mean to keep their promises, and make War
against Buonaparte only and his adherents. There
is nirt a man it, France ‘vho is not cr,posed to py
a war tax if the Allied. Government mike 'de+
winds ; but if it be just that' France should slip.
port a part of the expences incurred for securing.
her deliverance, is ft not justoray, rigidly just, at
the same time that the-weight sltoulcl chicfly fall
on such Ftenchmen as haVe provoked support-
ed an usurpation
.which has. brought so Many
plagues on France ?
"The Stiveteigns, with hare declared that they
made war against Buoriapat te only anti his adher-
ents., ought they, not to endeavour to prove to E«.
rope that they make a distinction between the
French subjects who remained faithful to their le-
gitimate Sovereign and their Allies, and the
French who supported Buonaparte Ought they
not, both tram- hononr and 'interest, to he severe
against the rebels, and soften to'faithful French-
men the burdens of a war which they have suffer.
eft in common with all Europe ? • .

" This is so evident, that prolaably the Allied
Sovereigns ‘votifd not hesitate to make the dictine•
titan, unless perhaps its application seemed to then
to he difficttlt,.. and vet never was ttivi• line of
ation- between the good and the had more
clearly defined: Pwelce hundred, thousand indi-
viduals accepted of ii'ttonaparte's Constitution
1---
He e then we have the adherents of'Ounnapakie
L. t the war taxt..s fall chiefly iipon them : Europe
and twelve millions of Fref.chmen will applaud the
deed. And who are Close 1200,000 %Om signed
the Additional Act 'ln she firsr place, the Army,
afterwards. the Chambers, the Cunucil of State;
the corrupted and corrupting Administration, -•the
nufaitA•td Magistrates. and finally part of the ae.
quirers of national doniai!is. •

" The latter., by spreading false report', and
disseminating threats 'and detianct., wart the more
culpable, becanse there was nothing to disturb
theirf:—the Const,tutional Charter, the Late,
the King, evecy thing guaranteed their proper. y.
Such is the list in question. It should seem as if
Heaven had permitted this Champ de Alai, and
nil the docnments connected with it, that all Eu-
rope itnow the enemies of the repose of
the world. :•These cousideeations are ,so clear
that they must strike every person.
-i• Here therefore is the simplest -method of at-
taining the, object 'ot •pmthhing the rebels, by
sparing as much as possible the faithful French
and ft lends of the peace of the world. It will be.
laid down as a. principle, and declared by the Al-
lied Sovereigns, that in the necessity under which
they are, of demanding from Franee war contri-
butions, to indemnify them for the .enotmout
charges Occasioned by Buoitaparte's usurpation,
they insist that cierysubseriber to the Addit:onal
Act, shall pay a contribution triple of that of
every.fattlitul Frenchman..
Thus for example (the- principle being once
mintilted) in a given clepariment it two men pay
each a thousand francs of contribution, and it the
war tax is traied on the department to half the
annual impO'sition, the Frenchman wlto has been
faithful to the King will pay 500 franc, and the
subscribev to Buonaparte's Coultitution 1500
francs,

" it mny be said that many public functionaries
only signed Brionarirte's Constitution to.presetre
their places: But is it not just then, since it
pleased them- to purchase their places at the ex-
pence of their own honour and the interests of
the country, that-they should puffer in their inte-
rests ?- Is it not just that the acquirer of national
domain, whose property the King has consolidat-
ed, and who lAas made sacrifices to .sup';oit the
close of Buonaparte, should pay a larger con-
tribution.l"

[The writer cotieltides by affirtning that it will
be gnite easy to prepare lists of the iiiionapartists,
in every departtnent, preparatory to levying the,
contritrutiou'iecontruentietl,) . ,

Two Thistles are now growing in a garden at
the front of the house of Mr.. CowENs, at Scone,'
in Scotland, which have` excited the admiration
of all who have seen them ; .the tallest is six,feet
six inches in height, and the stem is four feet six
inche. in circumference; both of them are at thi-a
time- in blOnin, and beuCupwards of one hundred
flowers.