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

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than-sptre and I:it up a fallen foe. But Bun.
inagnaiiimondv dealt with, to meet the
and disability to do turther
'le suffers, but he sulkers only in re
straitit for critnes innumerable, and actions
the mt-ist ittrocious—not f(sr the. plunder of na•
(ions and th'e'overtlirti-wing of thrones, of which:
he had been gnifty doting the reign of his lawless'
and •nefarions ptitv'ertuft for soborned assassina-
tioos and judiciary niorders—but that lie may
L commit no further. Trespasses against the !Milian
race. s tight to war was only fottuded upon
his appetite lot plunder and his lust for power.
fle svized a Goverument, during the phreitzies of
a wild awl protli.2ate race—he plat aged the Nation,
over when, lie usurped the tyranny. into war, it:
raise his frame to a dreadtal eminence, mid to ex-
fetid his power over nnotfendiug Stales and Eto-
pires. lie had no right to his Tyranny—he had
no ill!ht to the atrocious enormities iii which he
ghitted himself in his capacity of Usurper—he tvA
answerable, like any other criminal, to justice,
for his wrongs against people and nations, when
he was deserted by the power which alone conqi-
lured his qualification to rule and to oppress—for,
when vanquished and a captive, there WAS no
throne to which he shoold be restored—and the
rightful claimant of thethrone of France had as,
serted his pretensions to it. The misfortune of his
town war; which doomed Buonapirte to defeat ,
nettle hint 'at Once an outlaw and an ourcast.—l-le
was the kin,- of no subject—the subject of no king
Ire was a'singolar and an isolated being, not the leis
responsible for his abominable crimes, because
he had abused the po'Ner he had obtained without
a right. And, if he were spared for his enormi-
ties, because they were committed upon a gigan-
tic scale of wickedness—because his whole career
was a. surptising and a terrifying glare of guilty
splendoor—is that a reason that he should he left
at large, to prowl upon that society whida he
had so shockingly affil cted for so many dreary and
melancholy years of tyranny ?—to harass it with
fresh schemes of ambition, to steep it again in
misery and ruin ? Perhaps Jos ice may he de-
frauded of her due, when the person of so terrible
a criminal is avowed to be doomed to safety.—
But, as the guilt was singular, it, let the mercy he,
that remits its punishment. What punishment
could atone for Buonaparte's crimes ? If there be
any, perhaps it is—to let him live. To le3ve
him leisure to turn back to the hideous retrospect
of his own actions—time to ponder upon the mor-
tifying errors of us phrenetic ambition--to hate
himself for his vices—to retest himself for his •
follies: perhaps the fate of captivity at St. He-
lena is the exact punishment which retributive •
Justice would award to a culprit of so unique
stamp. Let this be as it will, whether there he
conscience enough left noseared, to convot re-
flection into punishment, olie thing is'clear—that
sitch a man, displaced Irmo the Throne, of which
he was unworthy—unclainled by any Sovereign,
anal divorced fiton.all allegiance to 11.1 y—with ilia
piiwers of mistlitet which lie possesved—with all
the revolutliwury resources o,f. the times, still spa-
nagable asol.couvertthle to,..plans of uproar and
contusion—ought not to be left tree and unfetter-
ed, to re-enter upon his career of evil. If there
he any mode te's exceptionable that, the cootio-
log of hint ut St. Helena, whereby the same es-
sential advantage way be secured to Europe, it is
not to be found in any of those disquisitimis, con-
cetuing the eating and drinking of a fictitious
Emperor, or a lath-and-plaster Sovereign, which,
during the last Session, were delivered in the
House of Lords. There is not living man, who
is not convinced, that tireenlargentent of litiona
parte wrothd lie necessarily and unavoidably follow-
- to! by fresh tumults, and revived wars in Europe ;
and ate those, who have fought but for peace—
lotzarded their own and their subjects' happiness,

liberty and life, to win a peace—are those, the
conservators of the world's repose, to cast away
the pure and unsullied rewards of ail they suffered,
and to permit the grand mischief-maker of the age,
to try his hand at new plots and conviracies, re-
volutions, invasions, aid wars) Who are. to he
his sureties for keeping the common peace ? A
Monarch upon .the Throue of his forefathers, the
rightful inheritor of his sceptre, according to the
ancient laws and customs of his country, has solid
and substantial pledges to offer, in the interests
and happiness of his people, for his faithful ob-
servance of his compact—for it is they who must.
pay the penalty of his breach of his faith. 13nt
what guarantee is there that Httonaparte, at large,
with the world open to his schemes, and his pride
stimulating his ambition to search out new oppor-
tunities of repairing the blutiders of his former
greatness, would flout temptations to recover
power, repel excitements to fresh adventures in So-
vereignty, and keep inviolable his parole of, ob-
scurity, hurnilizy, and peace

There is no alternative, but to detain him from
the possibility of allying himself, once more,.
with the restless spirits of the• times—to intercept
every scheme of ambition, by surro►ntding him
with every physical barrier possible to his escape,
onto the maintenance of ►►n intercourse with his
partizans—and there is no place wherein all those
esSential 'objects of- detention and security are so
effectually obtained, as in the Island which now
contains the gloomy and ferocious spirit of Boo-
naparte. There, a provident liberality. leaves him
in want of nothing but complete liberty—bat the
liberty of returning back to raise up fresh storms,
and to conjure up again the defeated spit its of re-
volution and bloodshed : and, should any of his
panegyrists be ever sent to keep him company—
should, any of his advocates he doomed to his fel-
lowship—it may he a CM4SObIIIOII to the first who
may be exported, that, out of an allowance of niue
bottles of wine daily for his personal ,consemp-
.tion, Bonaparte has sufficient to share with a
political friend. The Laureate's butt of sack, it►
England, cannot aflord a thirsty -spirit as Oren-
dant a supply as the cellar -which the n►eniiicence
of the British Government maintains for Buena-
paite—but of which Buonaparte's valet, and the
Opposition, most grievously complained. It is to
.be presumed, that Patriots of every sort—Refor-
Aucts, Whigs, and so forth—interest themselves in
the consumption of wine ; they always choose a
Tavern -as the tit theatre of their elocution—as
the proper seminary for instructing others in the
pi inciples of Government.,

{l' be continued.)