The Sun.
London, England, 1845-09-20 00:00:00

No. 16,567.

ledge of his enemy's condition, and movements, and
Plans; so nicely could he unravel all conflicting ac-
counts, and decide at once as by intuition which was
true. In the field his eye for positions, distances, eleva-
tions, numbers, was quick, and it was infallible. All
Lhis generals at all times submitted their judgment to
citn, and without the least reluctance or hesitation, not
deferring to his authority, but yielding from an absolute
conviction of his superior skill; nor ever doubting, be-
cause firmly assured he was in the right. His own self-
confidence was in the same proportion, and it was un-
erring.
tying under some cover in fire, he would remain for
an hour or two, receiving reports and issuing his orders,
sometimes with a plan before him, sometimes with the
face of the ground in his mind only. There he is with
his watch in one hand, while the other moves constantly
from his peeket, where his snuff-box, or rather his snuff,
1:e:1-y4:pan:de-de camp arrives, tells of a movement,
answers shortly some questions rapidly, perhaps p•m
is dispatched with the order that is to solve
the difficulty of some general of division. Another is
ordered to attend, and sent off with directions to make
some distant corps support an operation. The watch is
again consulted; more impatient symptoms; the name
of
after one aiele-de-camp is constantly pronounced; question
.question is put whether any one is coming from a
certain quarter; an event is expected; it ought to have
aPPeced ; at length the wished- for messenger arrives.
--"II:h Bien ! Qu'a t-on fait la hie?" "La hauteur eat
tge4e; le mar6ehal est la." tionne forme—pas
Pa: de mouvement." Another aide-de-came is
ordered to bring up the Guard. Que le mereehal
quiMee very la tour en d4Slant par sa gauche—et tout ce
8
batw trouve sa droite est prisonnier."—Now the
jA consulted and the snuff is taken no more; the
Z-"le is over; the fortune of the day is decided; the
est captain indulges in pleasantry; nor doubts any
thti
ire,of the certainty and of the extent of his victory
-Aplf he had already seen its details in the bulletin.
Isii,;‘,"iev all, the grand secret of both Frederick's and
wetVt"tes successes, the movement of the masses which
appeo°Pisee their enemy in a disadvantageous position,.
obv• tO be, like all great improvements, sufficiently
on ti,111.3; for it is founded on the very natural. principle
reeds,"tch the modern naval plan of breaking the line pro-
his en If either at sea or on shore one party can place
his bat between two fires, or on any material part of
f___,eattle bring double the force to bear upon the de-
teiru.ere of that point, the success of the operation is cer-
dici In order to execute such a plan on shore, a pro-
-81;4°,11s eainbination of military resources is required,
to at`,"eY only who are so amply furnished can venture
'elcPt it. That Napoleon had this capacity beyond
ir name ia altogether incontestable.
a his genius was not confined to war: he possessed
and,,ee csPacity also for civil affairs. •He saw as clearly,
of
i.etciei:kelsype(cieiatellrymined on his course, in government
formations field. His public works, and his political re-
his Code of Laws, are monuments
s• 1115 wisdom and his vigour, more imperishable, as
ti _
tod, has already
.proved, and as himself proudly fore-
brit "an all his victories. His civil courage was more
the 'ant than his own, or most other men's, valour in
fen efiehl• How ordinary a bravery it was that blazed
t_li at Lodi, when he headed his wavering columns
iperress the bridge swept by the field of Austrian artil-
ti,le com.pared with the undaunted and sublime courage
or carried him from Cannes to Paris with a handful
men, and fired his bosom with the desire, and sus-
a:te
ere! it with the confidence, of overthrowing a dy-
,.
nand overwhelming an empire, by the terror of his
Nor were his endowments merely those of the states-
tete and the warrior. It' he was not, like Caesar, a con-
ettsunate orator, he yet knew men so thoroughly, and
PeeciallY Frenchmen, whom he had most nearly stu-
, WI, that he possessed the faculty of addressing them
to t.rains of singular eloquence,—an eloquence peculiar
il:ln:,l?!taself. It is not more certain that he is the greatest
that whom France ever produced, than it is certain
fttr t his place is high amongst her greatest writers, as
• bulletin 'ls:lmposition or diction is concerned. Some of his
s are models for the purpose which they were
intended to serve; his address to the soldiers of his Old
rdGuard at Fontainebleau is a masterpiece of dignified
pathetic composition; his speech during the Hun-
ted Days, at the Champ de Mars, beginning, " Gene-
tali Consul, Etnpereur, je tiens tout du Peuple," is to be
Placed amongst the most perfect pieces of simple and
n?ajestie eloquence. These things are not the less true
for being seldom or never remarked.
But with these great qualities of the will—tl highest
Courage, the most easy formation of his resolutions, the
Most steadfast adherence to his purpose, the entire
de-
votion of all his energies to his object—and with the
equally shining faculties of the understanding by which
that firm will worked—the clearest and quickest appre-
hension, the power of intense application, the capacity
of complete abstraction from all interrupting ideas, the
Complete and most instantaneous circumspection of all
difficulties, whether on one side, or even providently
aeon in prospect, the intuitive knowledge of men, and
*1„"e Power of mind and of tongue to mould their will to
bra
these qualities, which form the character
Tod greatest by vulgar minds, the panegyric of Napoleon
t close. He was a Conqueror;—he was a Tyrant.
to pttify his ambition—to slake his thirst of power—
sati"eatY a lust of dominion which no conquest could
have trampled on Liberty when his hand might
a.o,l3,,vaised her to a secure place; and he wrapt the
n'4,iisu flames, which the blood of millions alone could
kindly BY those passions, a mind not originally un-
ee,t__Y,
teasw Perverted and deformed, till human misery
sense
move it, and honesty, and truth, and pity, all
ppitseciffrottaheodhuottyhuwse owe to God and to man, had de-
bent given up to a single and a selfish
Tantas animi virtutes ingentia vitia tequa-
eihil ummana crudelitas; perfidia plusquam Punica;
jerany,eti, nihil sancti, nullus Deum metus, nullum jus-
queen), nulla religio." The death of Enghein, the
Jufferings of Wright, the mysterious end of Pichet
hoe 12,e, Punishment of Palm, the tortures of Toussaint,
mite the
been dwelt upon as the spots on his fame; be-
41rriotia...;t8eve :o,llu,erfoferet.luinnegss of individuals presenting a more de-
rouse to. the mind, strike our imaginations, and
more than wretchedness in larger
refiect;_mas distinctly perceived. But to the eye of calm
Pelee (", the declaration of an unjustifiable war, or the
tins
Ore g, in it a day loner thantm ti
o n necessary,
implies
a dii_
esiei e grievous object con e p ,
l'PeDreb°l.naore pernicious to the world, and calls down a
%Qua more severe.

General T RE
rien
RIVER PLATE.
Ayresity
: , y order of gives the
captiv' b
O'B
no
seasf,ollGoweviner account
Boufe
ehei
ss
:f4.7rleticect from General Rosas, to confine myself
o.i.ua:‘,.isite,ilisarmrtytti
wish
sib in detailing the treatment
.I_
toex;
sion rtain myself concerned, not to use a harsh expre
President of' Bur •
of the facts as they occurred, and, ass_
‘. I etzeting him.
at the request of General Santa Cruz, t.he,
treaty With the united provinces of Buenos A.l"
vi
is are v --
via, undertaken to form a commercial
Changepro-
natural
Potoi doll
was most willingly
ace,,ded to is am This proposal .
oftlle country—receiving in ex -
and th
tion
stra-
!.iY the governors of the different provinces,
hey evinced their feelings in marked demon
3of Their ft- - - d ard for him who
had be r a ection, respect, an reg
then
own
en entrusted to make it. In every greatt
pubiliigli which I passed, from Lima to BuenoshAyres,o.
vern e entertainments were given to me by t edir g e
I ~ rcirs, My old associates in the war of indepen enc .
•eier •
'°nal N. to these testimonies of affection, not from per-
jteeth vanity, but because in them I can alone trace the
em(l'es far the conduct of Rosas. They had excited histhey
hm 48Y---lhey had perhaps aroused his fears, and eye
Political
induced him to believe that a plain man, bent o
encli
l, tig the benefits of a free intercommunication be-
'ell the •
provinces of South America, was a formidable
e, agent
ras49'ere was not the slightest founddation fecsirtastuecsh
to
att44loa, if it were entertained. I had
mlywished that
'4ll to, and, in improving their value,dto analyse the
doersti toight prosper. Ido not pretend
ithout the
to hil'4B of Rosas—l have onallytheenedgehavoeuereedviyo attribute
Bhaacitil a probable cause,
to *of foundation in fact, for his unprovoked enmity
ti.
received ray arrival at Buenos Ayres I was most kindly
4 i',4 by the Ministers of Rosas.
Which
11
the course of a few days I found that the treaty
tlthr,:e.tneotherprovinces were most willing to make
-.14 determined - Upon rejecting; and, not content with
agm JeetiOn, resolved upon making a declaration of war
, ast General Santa Cruz.
Was 4 far, then, as my negotiation with Buenos Ayres
wil'lchcapeerned, t had been a failure. The object for
one 4. had visited it was at an end, and I desired at
,tie to leave it.
Per'tl had
as a matter of course, applied for my pass-
ato to the Chief of police at twelve o'clock in the day,
1340 the same evening I was waited upon by that
kr n, sere
by Colonel Pereira. Both were
_,
fort, and told me that Rosas desired to speak to me. I
deil"'ed them, but instead of conducting me to his resi-
a.nrce' ahoy brought me to the Cuna—a prison of the
titaisnt••d"criPtion, and there, without a charge made
ale_
_..4 me—vrithout any explanation demanded from,
IN i,l' was placed in a cell, measuring six yards by fi%.e,
in,/,105 that cell I was never permitted to stir for six
,ii s and twenty-five days.
lierio had Wen an acquaintance of Roses at a former
had dof lift' might even say his friend. No thought
wa, eve,r entered into my mind of injuring him in any
set to & could not believe it possible that he could thus
and vvards one whose life was so well known to him,
stra,),er I ~° whose
ma opinions and habits he could not be a
de a demanded an interview with him, but I
4 that demand in vain.
aiunb‘jveheit'ehanldreassidoende, nlottvayskelnattiintlgedtitloe
tittEthinrlventsPior!tatells:tajoeßn4oiltifitsrtitYhe British flag, and to the intorposi-
frieia
why
British Minister on my behalf'. My former
Cs
in
7 gaoler, and the representative of the
British `-4'?vvia did not enforce for me the rights of a
other, tibject. The one would not see me, and of the
Which Pi MY incarceration, I beard nothing but that
1. shall state hereafter.
ke,l:?pilc_e that the door of my cell had been closed upon
pnp;:B never opened, except occasionally, for the
g''neraii giving me my dinner, which was more
If I Y handed to me through a hole cut in the door.
;lOUs 3P°l,e, no one condescended to answer me; and
431111fie45,111titwill)icinhi$hent inpietedupoa me—solitary
11' of Stronhasg passions madmen, and to reduce those