The Sun.
London, England, 1816-08-21 00:00:00

M. SUCIIE to the DUKE of WELLINGTON.

LETT= FROM THE DUKE or, OTRANFO To TilE

DUXE OF WE!.LINOTON.

A Legislator of antiquity, celebrated for his
wisdom, Solon, placed, alter long convulsions, on
the day Of the return of order, reconciliation, and
the,public peace, under;the guarantee and pro•'
tection of Heaven ; I recommend this example,'
my Lord, to the King for his imitation I appeal
to your testimony, the weight of which lies as
much in your character as in your reputation.
The evils were great. It was necessary not
to be deceived respecting the remedies : our
welfare, our social existence, depended on it : my
voice Was drowned by that of the passions ; the
:councils of moderation were represented as a snort.;
and senseless men, in the wanderings of th-eie
derst endings, calumniated at once my administra-
tion under the Republic, under Napoleon, and un-
der Louis XVIII.

I should unwillingly occupy Euro-pe with my
long and laborious administration, if it were not

connected. with the knowledge of the truth. I
shall represent facts in order and unsophisticated ;
many are unknown, others disfigured ; 1 shall ad-
duet: all. the causes of our great events : I have
seen close at hand the secret sprogs' which set
the passions in motion ; I shall explain that revo-
lution by which France was chanpied from an an-
cient monarchy into a republic, became then the
empire of Napoleon, and then the kingdom of the
Bourbons. • While I ant employed on this most
important work (for it shall serve as materi.ils for
history), I feel it necessary for myself to believe
that it will ho regarded as a new proof of my loVe
of toy country.

Lord, time flies, and I know not whe-
ther things tu:iy not' have changed before my Me-
rcady. Meantime I will comply wici the
Of
,those whO urgently desire 'that I would
enlightc.i (public) opinion uptin. relations u‘ltich
are per,sonal to me, and which have been strangely •
disfigured. Nobody can better do justice to my
sentiment's and orinviples than your 4orthitiip.—
From the I9th of June, the day on which I ball
first the honour of corresponding with you, till
the moment that l left Paris, ,try whole political
.conduct lies open before your eyes, I know', my
Lord, that yoh,- on all occasions, inlemnly and
lately do me the justice which 1 invoke; it
is for that very reason ,that I take the liberty of
-addressing to you the account I mean to give, that
you may find in it new anus for my detence. I
am by no means afraid of increasing yourclalms
to my gratitude ; I feel that my heart is rich
enough to satisfy Cheta.

The circumstances respecting which informa-
tion is desired relate, Ist, to the tetorn of the
King ; 2d, to my acceptapce of the,Ministry of

Police ; 3d, to the orditnince of the 24th of July.;
Jtud 4th, to my. niihsiOn to Dresden, and the tir.»
cinnstances which preven!edtne front entering in-
„to the Chamber of ,Depaties.

• I' •Vresidetit.:of the French Government
when the armies : of the Allied Powers were ad-
,Nrittlqing against: Park. Napoleon had. abdicated,
but was still at the Elysee, and desired to be as
.General at the head of French army. Thii
offer could not be apcepted; eleven hundred thou-
situd fiareign bayonets had penetrated on all sides
into our territory, and we had not a hundred'
thousand men under arras. The retreat- OF the
mmy.was therefore resolved upon, and Napoleon
invited to leave•MalMaison, to which ha had re-
tired,to embark for the United Statll3::-Ue might
misinterpret my ,urgent
,representations to this
-end in adversity the soul is easily accessible to
suspicion but I' am at 'least certain of having
served none. I had notserved him like the Cont-
tiers,-nor did I follo'w their example by abandOn7
ing him with his good fortune. Nobody apiire‘
eiated more than i ilitl the 'power of genius, but
at the Settle time nobody was more convinced that
his preSence musrplunge France into the lowest
ajltysOif. misery.,
1 theirefore conjured, him to•leave the continent,
The French army,. mindful ,of 'its glory, did mit
count. its inemies,.but burnt
_with itnratience to
kneastire, itself wait them; only those Who, like'
you, Lard, tire aequainted %vitt, its %talon'',
Lnory -.hoW to appreciate the tniirTt of the 'resig.;•
nation which it showed iti the retreat:

"in the reitthli crisis' in Avhicti ire wi,te, it wits,
uike txcititig,
Jn France penoe Wetepttch divided on the choice