The Sun.
London, England, 1816-08-22 00:00:00

17. I"t'UCllLdo.tlie DU KE,of NVELLING'FON.

LETTRIt FROM TUR TAME; OF OTRANTO TO THE
DUI4.ICrOF WELLINGTON.

Nonehaled from our lastl
'File I't+lice is a political 'magisterial office,
whieh, hi,,ide its particul tr funetions, noeyt striae
by irreguetr, hu.rt jeat, leg;d, and beneficial Inca-
sores, to ineteahe the streneth, and the resoarees
of the. Government. The publicity of the pro-
ceefiings of the governing power naturally limits
itseilicacy... It is, much employed on gliett ob-
jects, others are lost in the erowd and escape it.
In the order of society all is not external,all is
-not visible. In the . midst of this public world,
there is as it were a secret one. The ordinary
po .er of Government does not penetrate thither,
the resadt is too far out of ifS way.
Partie4, however, will not have such a police.
They want denunci confidential communications,
descriptions of persons, intrigites, and a number
of inconsiderable trifles, to which they give greek
importance.
The properties of all the officers of the police
are scarcely sufficient for the complex movements
of a machine which may serve to plunge honest
and respectable melt into ruin, but which is of no
use whatever to the State.
To what did the importance attached to the
escape of M. Lavt4lette tend escape eteerly
proved that the Government cannot possibly have
eyes and ears, and placed the heroic devotion of
a young woman its a still clearer light.
People may say whet-they will, the whole has
sensibility for magnanimity and generosity. 'Mis-
forttme is an affe.ctieg object. -It is very true that
every Goverument has a right to pursue its enemy,
bist where is- the necessity of making a noise
where true was not aide to keep him fist or to
seize him again. The evetition of this rklit is
Ik9t Imre as it is lawfid, and in opinions Power
. does not altc,,r s. carry the general conviction with it.
Admirable &fleet of the power or morality !
fittore rinses host thum•elves with the cir-
cunistatices tinder which M. La vllette was snat
ed from th at h; and all the exertions of 81101014 y
not sot ceed in dishonouring thine who sur-.
routided him with their noble and efficacious com-
passion. . Whoevt;r is not inexioable and inhu-
Man has not refused his approhatirth to the result
of theircourage: they became guilty before the
.but they fulfilled a vow of humanity.
have been often reproeched for not havi-g in-
formed the. King of what the Comtier-, the Mi-
nisters; the Fot•eigu Mieisters, did every day.,
relief passed in the interior of families,
This. is the
.poli'ee of a Courtier who wants to
.please,.'or of a sultordinateagent,who is oblived
to have recourse to sal) means to give himself
cousepreoce7-it is not untie. , y
The tranquillity of States does not depend on
things :that affect. only the higher classes of so.;
ciety, or on the nature of the dispositions ob-
served there, •
The itaibition of great has not any political
influence, todess it be united with some popular
Interest. Their hot holes, their Conspiracies, are
impotetit-aml unavailing, unless they are favoured
y tke active ca-opetation of the multitude.
No opposition in the public councils, uo secret
parties aro to be feared, when the Alonarch has
on his side the attachment and, strength of. the,
people.
The repose of the State depends 'on the intel-
leer teti state ot;the working classes, of which the
, people consists, and which, form the basis of the
social ediflCC., This state must be, if,l may so
say, the s't'ile object of the care and the'vigilance
'of a good police. •
The .t.roWil ‘'ill always be quiet when their
interest _is openly aml,hottestly attendert to; when
every tline.; is removed that Can Weaken their con-
fidence, nsetessly offend theirpiejudices, corrupt.
their way and manner Of thinking.and acting, anti
suisteed their ignorance and credelity.,
Het:Anse these principles were departed frdm.
because an obsequious and thoughtless Police bad
etbsereed almost exclusively the Steps of 'the great
instead of attending to the people,it happened that
in the midst of prosperity,. opulence, and peace,
it was nuable to suppress the 'first ebullitions of
the Revoltnionolie materials of which, however,
bad been increasing and maturing fur forty years,
without being observed, or at least without any
otAtittele hring laid in their way. Vge have not
Awoken tit the pereon of the Monarch, it insist he
thesobject of a particular observation. My doc-
trine; could not suit those who wished to make
ofo le Police, not a department of the Magis-
tracy, ,
whityli devolved under one common pro-
tection all' the parties that had arisen in the Re-
voltitimr, end all that bad contended against it,
Jolt atl iequisit ion which would
,remove their s'e-
cret denunciations—my system was extremely dis-
tastefol to those who wanted to brand the past,
in order to have it arbitrarily persecuted and pu-
stished for pardoned tromgrewions. The lessons
of history are lust, and yet they ought to be re-.
membered ; all does not succeed with hypocritical
conduct ; one gains the confidence of men only by
oprighthess, it is as necessary for the exercise.of
rights, as for the fulfilment, of deties,, , But why
inquire of the paSt, if we throw from it no instruc-
tion for the present, if we observe iu it only the
faults orothers, and never our own ; let us be-
come wiseessed greater, if we possibly can. yid
Children I to-day you tread under foot what you
admired yesterday: when will you tit•length he-
come reasonable, when wilt you learn to
.0),-
serve 'oncl to judge? Several of thOse who now
speak With contempt of all that has passed within.
the fise,and twenty years, were actors very sulis•
,
'ordinate, and unknown actors, indeed, in most.
Id.the Scenes of our Revointion. By, the help of
their obscurity, they would, as circumstances
itertnitred, deny.or confess their parts,..but they ,
have acted's' port as well‘as others, they appeared
upon thetheutic; even .the consideration which
they.enjoy in their communes, howeVer ineonsi-
`,aerobic it -be, they owe to the places which they
filled tinder Napoleon.
111$1'n.y haVe &one good; let them not fear to
confess it, The good always adores life, at what-
ever, jieriod if
.may,have been. done. Instead of
struggiing;d w anishing to entreat-as it it were des
itied, "they mOst_eutifess with all the world,. that
.rnrons. like those ofnatorc, do Hot Pro-.