The Sun.
London, England, 1817-09-27 00:00:00

1)110‘.-1N-t AI. JOU RNALs.

(Cfiittituird front-Mu Paper iif the t2:11 inst.)
CUR'NOI; y RENI 11,t1('4 VON THF._THANSACTIRt<S OF
TUE sr,,:sioN OF I':IItLUMENT.

ron The rlltebtin) Corr, spOitilent of ;log. 23.)

jr te, he i -tercet! that theSoi- Avant Wlkigs
tvct e bad lOOOOAr all the • Orht, bticause
`they dragged . mail of taients and letters before
'the epreseiti atives of thrre Rocie,.l Kingdoms,
and:, 'hen they were encumbered matters
of
infi Ott, piddle ~..osen i-nce,tor hip having corrected
the ertor• of hi. early judgment ; for-having aliati
"'lc,' false, d and dangerous principles ta-
t: ; and fur hating embraced those
111,,It• ‘..11 .it 411,1 wke, stud better adapted to ad-
vance he int, res?-s and happiness of human
it, society. It is not to be concluded, that they
are Ireton-ions and gondging of the public money,
because t ev hetore that contested a contingent
etilar:4etnetii ot the 'salary oil the Secretary Of-the
Atludialtv, cot,. nitence of the Algeritie Expe-
diti,n). :try ii : ey hail 'heir favour.
ire. although Mt' tsouthey was Dot among the
rtiuther— thee could lie bountiful, although they
so bitterly come-t, d a grant of 250/ to Mr.
Croker. lVlieti their sympathies .were excited
they could commiserate; and-whentlreir
gratitude was ascendant, they could remember
their tibligationS, and discard economy in the
pohlie expenditure. They pitied lintmaparte, he-
caitse he was in our hands ; they telt for his sub-
jugation—for many a time bad his ferocious ca-
reer neatly lit'ought them to the very threshold of
power. They have always hail a taste for sue-
'Coining mischievous kienchmen ; and Lafayette,
at Olitititz, and gtionaparte, at St. liclena. %vele.
in their turn, subjects of their regret, and objects
of il.eir sympathy—tfficient, in •beir mind-, to
authorise most urgently the mediation of a British
I'llr;iateent. 'Will both, perhaps, some
sintiments may have .co-existed—but with
littonarrte flier,. was a coincidence in opinion,
re-peeting the course ant character of those
mighty events that shook Etirope‘to her centre,
ar,tl caused Nations and Elte,,iresto nnake, which
map have enhanced their sympathy for a defeated
tyrant. Iltionaparte did nut like the manner in
tt hick -the 11inisters Carried on the war in the
l'eninstila—aril,-truly speaking, he had no great
cattie to like it, as tle: event demonstrated. 'llse
(../pposit inn did not like it either, for it promised
to be sticc.-ss!iil—and success, attendant input) the
meastites of their poli'ical must keep them-
sekes out o, powur and office: and-they, too,
as good reasons for their apprehensions ;LS 'Boo.
it 'ltalie had for his 'Diu tyrant foresaw, that a
grand t unit of lititish iii the Peninsula
might be rata! to him.. The Whi,ls foresaw, that,
if their r...e-hear!-ant!-bloody-bones, with which
they so oft en etylea%-tired to strike tern or into
the iieJr-s of the. Bluish people, were, by any
renioteol nom the theatre of evil', befure
thry ~to i ,tn pow, T. all their hopes were ad-
jourio•it to uroore,een misfortunes, and to na-
tional c tsttalties in the woutb of time, and that
the c,dcolatio-s (bl all their follokt ers must he
lowered to a desperate pitch of deptession.—They
did not spre their twigs, lint as lit. le as Boone-
parte did his evpenditore in lonnati life; and they
railed, with unremitting perseverance, against the
war in Spain —against our fighting the battles of
another country—against the sending of a Seapoy
Gent -a1 to meet in the field of tear, tbe •carred
itsol tinsiy veteran Chiefs who had been leacltug
tl,e French armies through stick a dazzling stic-
ee••iott tit victories. '1 lo y reviled, and they ar-
gued, and they predicted most dismal things ; hut
all w,.; I l licit tio-11 ellington carried off the liv-•
jug Igurel of renown and glory—Buonaparte's
power fell, never to tehnunci again ;--.41111 the Op-
posit ion are vet der rued Co find fault as before,
„„d to ".nalu out of place and offiee—Sedet,eter-
tvinive sedebit, In Mir Theseus. -
It is tint quite unaccountable, that die Scourge
of Eto opt. should ret cite, in his exile, while lie
is •i2,liing for the fine um et apes strepitunicue
Boma!, 41111 spitefully meditating on the ocean
WI,ICII encircles his prison, a fetv of the rancor-
ous graces. and malevolent courtesies, which pa-
liti al . concordance will sometimes engender. It
was stated by a lacquey of litionaparte—a,fellow
wfm had been just dispatched to Europe upon a
mission of intrigue—that his master had many
illiberal privations imposed on that his table
lead'ibent red excessive retrenchment ; that his
'doleence was severely restrained ; that a morose
and ungenetotis vigilance hail robbed his retire-
ment of quiet and comfort—and, tilioi) the whole,
a 'cause of hardship, quite to the taste of the Whigs,
was math.: out for their esponsal. They fell in
love, at once, with the•studied narrative of fietiti,
.ons hardships, which this fellow had spread abroad.
a depraved chivalry, they avotyerl themselves
. the redressers of all the wrongs which " the
Child and Champion of Jacniiiinisas" was imagined
to lie suffering. 'lliey.cliAllenged the Ministers
to the Lists—the nation was invited to look on,
while. the Chatiipions were engaged—the charge
.was sounded—the combatants were commitivd in
.e ,;a1(1 ct—and, at the very first onset, truth and
the Administration were proclaimed the victors.
There never was a politer instanee of invention
titan this fable, which had been attempted to have
)„,posed oil the CI eilhility of the country. It turn=
eel out, that if any cause of complaint existed, it
was , •perh ps, that the Common Disturber of the
%vorld had been treated with a illfillifiCel,Ce, ytft
suitable as it was unmerited ; but let this matter
be as it will, it was clearly established, to the ap-
parent mortification of the %Vbigs, that all that
had been alleged, concerning the pentiriotts and.
parshnottious curtailment of litionaparte's table,
was a gloss and imptident falsehood—that his at_
Jo wances, on the contrary, vtere stiperfltiously
abundant—that the wine personally allowed tor
his daily arse, was enough to make three ordinary
topers litterly intoxicated--that his accommoda-
tion was laid out after the most liberal and gene-
rous design—and that, if lie met with any incon-
veniettf!e, either in his mode of• living, 01 ill his
place of residence, it was only to he attriboted to
the' sulky_ capriciousness of his own disposition,
and his splenetic awl intractable temper.
Nothing is( so noble as generosity to an eviemy
tabu hat Liien into the extremity of fortune. No-
tfulus the reality of a great soul mute