The Sun.
London, England, 1828-08-12 00:00:00

WAPOtioN;s citATERosITY.

" The Emperor's kindness, even towards his personal
enemies, was always carried to excess. I will cite an
stance of it which came under my own observation, and
occurred immediately after this a air of tile priesthood.
" I was informed :sgt the CO,Ur,lik, of the winter that a fa-
mily of great distinction in Dresden felt extremely uneasy
at the resolution formed by a young man of twenty years
of age, connected with it by the ties of relationship, who
had suddenly left the University of Halle, or of Leipsie,
where he was prosecuting his studies, and had taken his
passport for Frankfort on the Maine, from whence he
would probably penetrate into France.
" I was also informed that this young man was very
light-headed, and had quitted the Lutheran creed to em-
brace the Catkolic religion.
" The notice given was short, and the information ex-
tremely vague. I should have failed to make any discovery,
had not one of my agents written by the same courier to
apprise me of the passage through that town of a young
Saxon named Wondersale, on his way to Paris. He added
that the Saxon had taken up at Frankfort a letter of credit
upon Paris.

" I could plainly see that be distorted the name of the
young man, who, according to my calculation, must have
been two days in Paris ; and I caueed every search to be

made after him by the Prefecture, as well as by the Aliuiatry
of Police.

" I issued this order on a Sunday morning, at tke hour
of ten ; and ordered an application to be made to all the
banking-houses which were understood to correspond with
Germany, for the names of all those in whose favour they
had been directed to open a credit for the last five or six
days.
" I was immediately furnished with a list of names ; and
remarked, amongst the rest, the German name of Von der
Sulhn, having a credit for Frankfort of such a date, with
the name of the street and hotel where he was to be found.
" He was accordingly met at his hotel towards five
o'clock in the evening of the same day. Four pair of pis-
tols and a dagger were discovered in his apartment ; and he
bad confessed himself; and received the sacrament.
" When he entered my apartment, I was much mere
disposed, as I looked at his handsome countenance, to
speak to him of balls and amusements than of more serious
matters.

" I bad, besides, nothing but suspicion to act upon, and
wasborced to assume a disguise iu order to get at the truth.
I spoke morality to the young man, and forcibly dwelt
upon the irreparable disgrace which attended a wicked ac-
tion, especially when committed by a person of his distin-
4iiiebee birth. He coloured, became embarrassed, and
with that candour of mind which indicates innocence from
guilt, he at last acknowledged what had been his intention
in coming to Paris. He had resolved to kill the Emperor,
in order, by coupling their names together, to immortalise
his own.

" It was difficult to carry to greater lengths than this
young man had done the readiness to sacrifice one's self in
order to commit a criminal action.
I made a written report to the Emperor of whatever
had preceded and followed the arrest of the young Saxon,
whose intentions admitted no longer of any doubt.
" The Emperor wrote in the margin of my report, by
the hand of bis Secretary---' This affair must be kept con-
cealed, in order to avoid the necessity of publicly following
it up. The young man's age must be his excuse: none
are criminal at so early an age, unless regularly trained to
crime. In a few years his turn of mind will alter ; and
vain would then be the regret of having sacrificed a young
madman, and plunged a worthy family into a state of
mourning, to which some dishonour would always be at-
tached.

" Confine lain in the castle of Vincennes; have him
treated with all the care which his derangement seems to
require; give him books to read; let his family be written
to, and leave it to time to do the rest. Speak on the sub-
ject with the Arch-Chancellor, whose advice will be of
great assistance to you.' "