Star.
London, England, 1815-03-31 00:00:00

FRO.SI' 4 GARM/IN PAPER OF MARCH 15.

NAPOLEON IN TRANCE.
While the watchman was asleep, and while the
Lords were disputing. and quarrelling around the
table, the malignant spirit, who was carelessly left to
his own keeping, has rolled away the stone from hit
den, and made his escape.
As not one of the many millions whom he had
subjugated chose to find for him the vindictive steel ;
nay, as the four Envoys of the four Powers secured
to him an independent revenue and an island, in the
desperation of his heart the thought must often have
come across him, that he was spared as the instill-
ment of farther events, and must snake his appearance
again for the fulfilment of his destinies. Accordingly,
after a short absence, he has again made his entrance
on the stage; and the question is, is he a messenger
of wrath to thd nations, or the precursor of his own
punishment ? Will his attempt be a mere adventure,
or an event involving the destinies of the world ?
Shall we again witness a complete revolution of
affairs? Will those who once crouched before him,
and then shouted for the Bourbons, again fall down
at his feet ? Will Paris, which dismissed him with
scorn, again receive him with acclamations ? What-
ever may happen in these respects, it cannot be de-
nied that the King has no one whom he can wholly
trust ; his fate is in the hands of his Generals; the
National Guard will not oppose him, but he cannot
reckon upon it as an instrument of attack.
But in this state of things what is the part we have
to act, and where is the place in which we ought to
he ? Certainly in France, if the fire is not quenched
in its first ascent. Shall we again listen to those de-
sponding souls, those half-men, who recoil from
every decided act that is proper to be done ; who are
tardy and hesitating, and with trembling hands only
half perform every thing ; who comprehend nothing
that is great, as the measure of their minds is only
suited to what is small ; who, with irresolute steps,
half forwards, half backwards, are vacillating on
every occasion • and who, while they wish to ward'
off calamity with a feeble arm, see it bursting upon
their heads ?
Such persons may again advise us to await in
tranquillity, till the malignant foe gains a footing :
they would counsel, that the armies should be col-
lected on the frontiers of France, there to remain,
until it was clearly seen whether it was our duty so,
interfere in the quarrels of the Fi ench :—let them,
such people would say, exhaust themselves by civil
war, we have only to look on in tranquillity. and
then to realise our advantages. Further they may
add, that were the Russians, Cossacks. Baschkirs,
and the troops of all nations again to occupy our,
frontier provinces, and devour the land, the worn-I
down impoverished inhabitants, in de. air of hide.,
pendence, might wish the return of French &mi.
nation.
No such must not be the course. We %ill no
longer be the sport of that weak and miserable spirit,
which is equally destitute of native instinct, and of
knowledge of affairs. 'l: he attempts of the returned'
tyrant upon us are foreseen. Those who limited him,
wish him again raging at their head ; that they may
revenge their humiliation upon us; that those sources
of plunder now shut to them, may be again opened
to their rapacity ; that they may play the robber, and
gratify their arrogance a..nongt us. This we roust
resist by the most vigorous measures of prevention ;
our Princes must rapidly resolve, as the necessity de-
mands; we must be up and stirring before the flames,
as has so often happened to us ou former occasions,
he collected around our head.. We must stand by
the King of FraLee, so long at least as parties are
equally divided, ta.it from a principle of silly genero-
sity, but for our ow n independence, which must be
endangered, if this banished felon be again able to
contend against us at the head of the many hundred
thousand veteran soldiers vThom we restored to him.

Let us, Germans, though always quarrelling dur-
ing peace and tranquillity, be firm and united on the
approach of danger. Let us banish whatever hostile
feelings may have entered amongst us; let us hasten
to call upon the Emperor, and to appoint a day for
the assembling of the States throughout the %hole
empire ' • iet us place at the head o —the work those
who, by their talents and energy, have given proof
of their qualifications; let us urge on the arming of
the people, not in so lukewarm and indolent a man-
ner as on former occasions, but zealously put arms
into the hands of all who are able to bear them. that
an armed population may follow and support the
armies; and these armies, when it is visible that
France summons to arms, will not hesitate to march,
completely equipped into its territory 1 •
When they have once kindled the war the whole
burthen of rt should be thrown upon ;hem : Ger-
many has now scarcely any thing to lose except its
independence.

It is also trident, that if new power is given to I
the wicked, and that should the warld be again in.
volved in flames, it ought to be our first care that
the scene of conflagration should not be laid in our
own country. Rapid and decided resolutions should,'
therefore, be adopted consonant to the march of
events ; on every day hangs the fate of years, and
all hesitation will sow the seeds of bitter repentance.
—Let it never be forgotten, that we may have to do
with a nation who have so often &hewn that they
know not what it is to live in tranquillity and good
order, and with an army that his been educated iii
robbery, plunder, and every kind of wickedness.