The Sun.
London, England, 1821-07-13 00:00:00

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[MORNING CHRONICLE.]
Her Majesty had not yesterday eveninY re-
ceived any answer to her last letter to Lord Sid-
mouth, demanding that; asuitable place should be
provided for her accoramodation at the approach-
ing Coronation. But whether such a place be
provided or not by his Majesty's Ministers, we
understand that it is hoar Majesty's fixed determi-
nation to be present a t the ceremony. And'why
not ? Upon what cound should the first sub-
ject in the realm be excluded from a scene to
which any other subject is admissible ? The
discreet or the timid will naturally be slow to at-
tend a .ceremony which the official paper of Mi-
nisters states very likely to be a scene of tumult
and bloodshed. W,P may, therefore, have a
spectacle without spectators.

While the importance of the services rendered
by Mr. Hume to the country in the course of last
Session is felt from one end of it to the other,
and has been repeatedly acknowledged in
Parliament, not —merely by the opponents of
Ministers, but by many of their most stre-
nusus supporters, he is assailed day after day,
in the Ministerial „Tournals, with a mean and
vulgar abuse, as dis vaceful to those who can
condescend to use it, or who think proper to
countenance it, as it is harmless with respect to
the object of it. We really cannot help blush-
ing for the Press of this country, when we
see those who conduct it so far forget them-
selves as to have recourse to such unworthy
acts, Mr. Hume has the merit of having raised
himself by his diligence, his abilities, and his
honourable conduct, from a comparatively hum-
ble station to his present distinction. Mr. Hume,
and they, who, like him, are the artificers cf their ,
consequence and fortune, may well fed an ho-,

nest pri3e, instead of shame, at their having been
able to place themselves on a level with those
who began the world with so many advantages
over them. - Men of rank• or fortune, who have
no other claim to notice than the merit of their
ancestors,or the extent of their possessions, have
indeed cause to be ashamed.—(ibid.).

[NEW TIMES.
The speculations on the death of Buonaparte,
transmitted from Paris, inconceivably ridiculous
as they at first sight appear, have most of them a
hidden object, which it is proper to expose. We
may take as a specimen of them the letter
of a Private Correspondent. Among. a number
of absurd qnestions about this " extraordinary
man," as it is the fashion to call him, the writer
asks, c, Where will his corpse.be interred ? In
Austria ; or will it remain at St. Helena ?, Or
will it be transported to Westminster, to be de-
posited near that of his countryman Paoli ?"
The impression intended to be conveyed by.all
this is that the character of a Great Man and a
Sovereign ought to be sedulously attached to the
memory of Buonaparte—that his corpse cannot
be suffered to moulder, like that of a private
person, in a common grave ; but that mighty
nations must dispute the possession of his re-
Mains ; that they must be -consigned to the
vaults of the Austrian Princes, or preserved
with the dust of Heroes and Sages in West-
minster Abbey. We' have already said,
,we
.war not with the _dead ; and nothing but
the effOrts which are made -to perpotuate his
principles, under pretenCe- of honouring his me-
mory, would induce us to bring his life and ac-
tions again into discussion-. But our attachment
'to genuine Liberty, and our admiration of true
Magnanimity, are too sincere to permit our look-
ing on silently while fictions affecting these ftri-
portant pthciples age obtruded on the world as
realities. Justice would have demanded that
Buonaparte should have died the death of a
traitor; policy preserved his life, but preserved
it as that of a .criminal ; and monstrous indeed
would it be now that the man who deserved all
the indignities he met with while living, should,
when dead, be loaded with public eulogies and
honours.

FOR THE SUN.