The Sun.
London, England, 1810-11-24 00:00:00

1 THE C4BI rOF BUONJPARTE.

The complete crevt-lriNoient of the system of the
Vretch Usurper,- Avhich Mr. GOLDMITI-1 hds given
his valuable work, ;induced 'us to-think it an att
of duty.to p'resent several extratls to our readers,
cuid the satifiikon which warty of them haVe 'ex-

pressed 'on the occasion, tempts us la renew our no-
:ice of a. product ion which c4nHot but have a bene.
lic;al operation upon the public at large. We shall
at present extra& thefollowing note, as it relates to
a subjca which gate Occasion to misrepresentations
of_ tht.-: most rancoron'i description, and to a spirit of
pers-ccution, which had its origin. in feelings tT,Ty•
dJerentiroin those of hublte spirit and art attach-
merit to that,COnstitution*which has so lung been a
sonrc, of national pride, happiness, security, and
hcedont.

"'More I wont to France, I also was a reformer;
but I was only a reformer; I am afrid :some .of
our 'present refor'mers mean a revolution. I kno
-their aim. Cotild they succeed in what they hold
out-to the public' as a 'reform, they would endea-
vour to bring about a revolutiOn. What should we
have in exchange for our present system ? A' free
gOverntnent ?- No ! Buonaparte would not permit
that ; we must have a brother, or some bastard re-
lation °ibis, as king and vassal to him.
Irtm note to p. 248, 1 had occasion to allude to
an expression of Bnon,tparte, on the subject of the
Inquiry instituted by Colonel Wardle, into the sup-
posed abuses in the Office of his Royal Highness the
Duke of York, then Commander in Chief.
,The
e&itression• was, "-Voila nos scenes de 1793,
" There art• our exhibitions of 1793 ;" as if an in-
quiry, regularly instituted and calmly investigated
in a celiberat:rie 'assembly of the Representatives of
a Great Nation, could be compared with the tu-
multuous proceedings of a mob in Paris, and the
massacres and enormities which were committed in•
that ill-toed city in the year 1793..
No, Napoleon, we shall have no such scenes,
watever your efforts may be to produce them, ei-
ther- through the means of the newspaper's here
wrtich are paid by you, or by your secret agents.
winch you have herc; the people of England; though
vt.,,-.lops now and then a little chss:tristied with the
particular ACAS ofs the adrnini•tration of the day, yet
love their Constitution of Government too much to
be led away by such demagogues, who serve you
herre, and resemble those who hEie inundated Fiance
the blood of her awn cit'izet:ns, and. placed yun
a ~potover country which 'ought to have
lrec !--free as Entll.tnd„ which all your effo'rts,whe-
tVr by treacL.Cry or cuiioiog; will neter be-able to
_ _ _

(..):1 the same occa,ion. on which Buonapatte
nilide"use Of -the exPressi,;.in " Volta "nos scenes de
1793,'.' he said;_alluding to Mr. Wardle, "voila un:'
qui a le crotil'age de trainer la famille
roy.2le. d'Angleterie dans taboue,"—a very favourite:
epression of To drag the Royal Family of
Efigland into the wucl."
" I know nothing of Colonel. Wardle, but I haye
hear'great'deal and seen much more of the Pro,'
duCtionS Of his rate friend M'Culltiat ; but, as, I do
not wish to distulb his ashes, I shall not say any'
thing about him; and here I, think fit CO actin:tint'
the'reader, that BuOnaparte,catches at every trifling"
circuinstance by which he thinks the Royal. Family
of England may be lowere‘i the. optnibn of the
peoPly ;
.his object is to attack and traduce then
all occasions; he knows that they are the most an-
cient dynasty in Europe; that' they unite Mote
titles than,any other family ever did ; that: they have
heri:ditaly'descent, 'the right of conquest, he right
of election, which may be traced back for centu-
rie, ; he wishes to destroy this dynasty, and: to esta-,
blish on the ruins of their throne, and On. the runts
of the libertits of their people, a Subordinate deSpo-,
tlsm, uncier one of his republican leaders : RePub-
!lean ! no ; republicanism in France is now at an
end ; 'nothing but a cruel 'despotism reips, and none
but despots will Enonaparte ever send es histrlePn-
ties to .rule a subjugated country. The principles
of republidanisM are exploded—Monarchicalprinci-
ples r
of government are hot, in the abstrad, attaCk-
ed ; no distinction is, made bltweien absolute and
limited monarchy; hut the monarchies of Eufope
Which leave, for many centuries past, been conduct-
ad-on princTples ot, limited power; and fixed laws,
must be subverted for absolute despOtism in the,
per:sons of Buonaparte'S Viceroys-rieeroYs„ I Say,
because they are all subservient to
,his commands.
Look at Holland and "Louis .puonaparte ; and 'Jo-
seph of Spain, will soonibe obliged to follow the
,eX7.
atnple„ii Lord Wellington shall'not be abe to save
-him from that disgrace by a victory over. Mas:lena.
• " In my, preface I haVe shewn the attempts'nwHe
fiy .o.
BUdnaparte to attack the flo-,cal Family of
land in the paper called t):e haVe stated the
`1 Made, and my ChtielitiOn of the
paper
in consequence of that resistance. *MI successor
was not sufficiently coutageocia. to follow nay. ex-

ample.
" Sri justice; however, to all the persons who
have been called discontented, English and triali,
tow unhappily far ilietri in Fiance, who , have
written strong things against the GOvelii!ifetit and
Constitution' of England, 1 mtigt Say; and l'Say it
with. tliat no • ftersobalitieS on the 1107a1
Family of this country ever. disgraced 'their publied-
_.

. . , . .
tions. .
" Other meins of calumniafaig the ito!ral
Fa-
mily were employed. The inlietigation of die al-
' fair of the Duke of York was adopti.'d. s •
‘t; t „4,
" ctt were the realsinotivs 41.t,1%. inititutor off
-that' Inquiry, and of those who promoted,,it„:l do
not Undertake' here to discuss, hilt I knoivlitit ;it
produced -11'a good to the public, and that (ti °sten-
_ bible priine Mover of that InvestigatiOn
,Ly
the result, added much to his }dine either s -a
pa-
triot or a mad of honour:
• ".A strange unaccountable citcurnstanceltas.been
inti;oduced itito this case. of the
.Duke of York it
has been.insinuated that The puke_of Kent not
...only
c,,untenanced but suggested the ,idpa of theinvegi.-
gallon, in order that he melt
.have an .oppottunity

of suivianfing tali: Royal Brother, and stepping into
his place.
Let the conduct of Mr. Wardle, Mr. Dodd, and
Mr: Gentile, on .the trial of the, indictment pre.
ferred by Mr. Ward.e against the Wright, and Mrs.
Clarke, be considered
,as an answer to this chalge
against tie Doke of Kent. 1-I,s noy,} Highness
was,hiMself sub; mnaed, and sit upon tie bench the
whole time of the trial; his Royal. lii4tmess, was
not examined, because, Colonel Wardle's Counsel
knew it would be imprudent to call : .theten.
dency of the evidence of al! the thiee persons, whose
names I have7meinioned, was to exculp:ue. the-Duke
of Kent-from tivery imputation that had been made
against him as the instigator of the Inrjuiry on the
affairs. of his Royal Brother; but the pseudo pa-
triot, satisfied. as to the m dignity of .his 0,.91 (no:
tines, and wishing to conceal the real instigator from
the public, has put the Duke in front of the battle;
and has thus, in the elegant language ot Buena-
parte, " Traine nn autre Prince clans la boue."