The Sun.
London, England, 1816-12-25 00:00:00

Alut.Ltn, with wheat from do.. to do.:
Nicholas Henry, Botsun, with wheat and oats
from Rotterdam for London."

A Gentleman recently from St. Helena states,
that 13UONAPARTR continues in very had humour.
'rise place of his banishment becomes daily more
irksome to a mind which has exchanged sensations
of , constant delirium and frenzy for those of un-
varying calm and unalterable sameness, without
Religion to fly to for solace, or even philo-
sophy to teach endurance. After life's fit-
ful fever, such as his has been, nothing but
the endless sleep can yield repose. With
all the unnatural apathy described by Mr. WAR-
Dan, the reflections of the Exile upon his past
career must be full of gall and bitterness. Scenes
of activity and new interest might divert If not
dissipate these feelings, which the unchanging
and unoccupied revolutions of time in St. Helena
must augment and aggravate. The soul preys
upon itself, and idleness is the most horrible of all
punishments to the•guilty.
An anecdote has been related to us which we
have not heard before. A Captain G--7 of the
R— it seems, infecied with the ardrnt
curiosity prevalent in all ranks, to see the person
who has acted so conspicuous a part in the history
of our eventful times, found means to avoid ob-
servation and reach Longwood. Here he pre•
vailed on some of, the attendants, and procured
access to BUONAVARTR, with whom he had along
conversation. The latter, we are told, gave full
vent to his-dissatisfaction, and complained bitterly
of the treatment be had received from the, Am...
peen Sovereigns. Heialso blamed the British Go•
vernment, and especially Lord BATHURST, who
had the misfortune to incur his displeasure front
being its oflicial organ in what related to his treat-
ment. Capt. having gratified his passion, re-
tired, and the visit being soon after talked of, be
was not without apprehension that his imprudence
alight cost him his commission. It is added,
however, that after a lecture from his Commander,
he was simply imformed, that a lodging wool(' be
provided for him at the Governor's house, whence
visits to Longwood were not so prscticable.

It is consolation to a patriotic British heart on
Christmas Day, to. look back on the exertions
which have been made and are making by almost
every class ot the community in behalf of the in-
dustrious and'sulfering poor ot these realms. At
alt ...I, ettirarAtre.• •.•,. -'• -
great measures of policy which may be adopt-
ed for the permanent advantage of the Em-
pire, whether in new•modelling the system
ot Poors' Rates, devising plans for ameliorating

the condition of the lower classes, or adopting
financial resources to the altered state of our in-
ternal and external relations. These we leave to
the able anti benevolent men to whom the Admi-
nisti ation of the State is entrusted, and to the
philanthropic enquirers in private life, te,,e(llol
we are as a people so much indebted. There
has been'a tremendous revulsion, but it is from
storm to calm, and those who have so nobly
Steered us through the perils of the tempest will,
with God'il blessing, pilot us through the after-
Swell, and moor us in honoured safety in the har-
bour of peace. To this good end the- national
character will mainly contribute. With all our
blemishes we are a firm, patient, intelligent, Ind
morel People. There are the factious antliisekn-
tented—the violent end the wicked—as ite-41i
communities; but the Mass is 50U1101 at heart,
anti no Country 'ever exhibited a- more Sub-
lime picttire than oar's does at this :moment,
glorious in Universal charity, and stirring through-
mit with the godlike principle of pity to mortal
seffering. The ark of out human. salvation is in
the midst of this mass ;—the inexhaestiblefouti-
tain of our prosperity is encircled by its multitu-
dinous force. Revolutionists may trouble its pe-
riphery, but the center is secure, and (bellowing
our phraseology from a neighbouring country)
happy is it for Britain that the strength 01
her population belongs to the Moderis, and
that neither the
.Ultrae of Government nor the
Exaggeas of apretentied reformation have power
enough, if either desire it, to overturn the
Constitution of the Empire. But we have rather
digressed from our subject, which was to point
the, attention of the affluent to the relief of
the iliwyssed, and the gratitede. of the reliev-
ed to the exertion's of the affluent, by shortly
noticing what hes been done. Even the purest
itetiouti may be stimuleted by evirople sine
the force :of' feshion—what a blessing it is that
the fashion of, the present day is Christian Corn•
passion and active Charity '
In the 'foremost rank stands our PRINCE, whose
splendid ,benefaCtious have thrown a fresh lustre
round his Throne. His Royal Relatives of every
degree have also shone with conspicuous betioai
in this illustrious course ; adorning their