The Sun.
London, England, 1827-07-06 00:00:00

MEETINGS OF CREDITORS.

• COUNTRY DIARY.—MoNOsr, JULY 9.
Boor, J., Warminster—Lamb, Hindon ......... ............... ... 10
Garton, J. Castle Donington, Leicestersh.—Morris Arms,
Castle Donington
Jones, T., Ynysmarehog—Bear, LT;ndilo IS
Lund,'J., Dutton—Hotel, Blackburn
Radcliffe, J Burnley—Thorn, Burnley
Reynolds, H., Cheltenham—,Fleece, Gloucester to

THREATENED INvAsioy cIr.EATGLANR.

Buonaparte seems not to have entertained the
least doubts of success, could he have .succeeded
in disembarking his army. A single general
action was to decide the fate of Eng land. Five
days were to bring Napoleon to Lot tdon, where
he was to perform the part of 'William the Third ;
but with more generosity and disintt trestedness.
He was to call a meeting of-the inhabitants, re-
store them what he called their righ ts, and de-
stroy the oligarchical faction. A fi MI months
would not, according to his ace() 'unt, have
elapsed, ere the two nations, late si tch deter-
mined enemies, would have been • idenffied
by their principles, their maxims, their in-
terests. The full eplanation of this gibberish
(for it can be termed no better, even proceed-
ing from the lips of Napoleon), is to be four!'
elsewhere, when he spoke a language more ge-
nuine than that of the illoniteur and tht
bulletins. " England," lie said, " must have
ended, by becoming an appendage to the Franc
of my system. Nature has made it on .e of ours
islands, as well as Oleron and Corsica." It is!\
impossible not to pursue the train of reflections'j
which Buonaparte continued to pour forth to the 1
companion of his exile, on the rock of St. He-
lena. When England was conquered, and iden-
tified with France in maxima and principles, ac-
cording to one form of expression, or rendered an
appendage and dependency, according to another
phrase, the reader may suppose that Buonaparte
would have considered his mission as accomplished.
Alas ! it was not much more than commenced.
" I would have departed from thence (from subju-
' gated Britain) to carry the work of European re-
generation (that is, the extension of his own ar-
bitrary authority) from south to north, under the
republican colours, for I was then Chief Conan],
in the same manner in which I was more lately
on the point of achieving it under the monar-
chical forms." When we find such ideas re-
taining hold of Napoleon's imagination, and
arising to his tongue after his irretneyable,. fall, it
is. impossible to avoid exclaiming—Did ambition
ever conceive so wild a dream, and had so wild
a vision everatermination so disastrous and humi-
liating ? It may be expected that something should
be here said upon the chances which Britain would
have had of defending herself successfully against
the army of invaders. We are willing to acknow-
ledge that the risk must have been dreadful ; and
that Buonaparte, with his genius and his army,
must have inflicted severe calamities upon a
country which had so long enjoyed the blessings
of peace. But the people were unanimoint in
their purpose of defence, and their forces com-
posed of materials to which Buonaparte did m ore
justice when he came to be better acquainted with
them.—Of the three British nations, the Eng-
lish have since shown themselves possessed of
the same steady valour which won the fieldn of
Cressy and Agincourt, Blenheim, and Minden--
the Irish have not lost the fiery enthusiasm
which has distinguished them in all countries of
Europe—nor have the Scots degenerated fi•oin
the stubborn courage with which their ancestors
for two thousand years maintained their in-
dependence against a superior enemy. Even if
London had been lost, we would not, under so
great a calamity, have despaired of the freedom
of the country ; for, the war would in all proba-
bility have assumed that poPular, and
,national
character which sooner or later wears out an in-:
vading army. Neither does the confidence with
which Buonaparte affirms the conviction of his
winning the first battle, appear so certainly well
founded. This, at least, we know, that the re
solution of the country was fully bent up to the'
hazard ; and those who remember the period
will bear us witness, that the desire that the
French would make the attempt, was a general.
feeling through all classes, because they had
every reason to hope that the issue might be
such as for ever to silence the threat of invasion.
—Scott's Life of Napoleon.

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