The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-02-11
OlNL HUNDRED YEARS AGO
THE GREAT WASHINGTON. Wellington Compared to Wash


 Wellington Compared to Wash (Letter circulated in Paris addressed
 to Lord WelltngtonO
 My Lord-
 1T have read with mixture of in dignation and regret. your letter ad- dressed to Lord Cast1ereagh. wherein you attempt to justify the sacking of the museum at Paris. You fight bet ter than you writes me Lord, tho the principles which actuate in both ap- pear to be the same, to distress oth- CTS and fatten on their spoil. You have admitted that these monuments are the trophies of former victories and permit me to say. that even as such, they ought la. have been held sacred by soldier. They were the right and fruits of conquest, nay more, they were given and received in di- m mutton of the ca1arnities and con the property of the French nation as the soil of Malta is a. gem of the British crown.
 sYou say the convention of 1915, made no provision for thern- Had that instrument been so worded as to guarantee them you would no doubt have said, with all the stability of English probity and policy, that such a clause was of no avail from the il-| 1ssttimacy of the provisional govern ment-
 s4But what says the convention of 7814-that all the rnonunnents of Paris shah be respected; do circumstances alter the case. or do you feel that you do not now as an Ally, owe as much to Lo4z1s the XVIII as you did then, or has the weight of his nlisfortunes Iessened your conmiseration. for this msHHfcted venerable monarch2
 ssFTe, me Lord, you weigh the finest sentiments of the human heart, rather by the depreciated scale of a London merchant, than by the noble feelings of soldier or the generosity of an { A1lv. You have taken from victory it's reward, and from a nation it's or ] naments; you have transported the I arts from a genial cline to the smoke or on or the frozen zone of the i North, ana though you strain hard as a conqueror, to pass unstafned with the crime of blood. you appear to 1scourt the crime of treason.
 - Yes treason, me Lord-You stole l into the capital under the sacred garb Of a friend and a champion, and after betraying us, retired with that of al p1unGerers Like a physician who comes to cure the plague, while he en- genders the Ieprosy teeming from his own ulcers-
 Ton have been called tIe~ Washing ron of the age, but that hero would have suppOrted and followed his friend to the scaffoad, while you, me Lord would not only abandon, but drag him to it's
 stIt is in the power of the neanest to trfunph over fallen greatness, but high and elevated minds soar above sach deprax1tx. You have forgotten, or never knew me Lord, that he con- quers twice who conquers in victory. But admitting that it was necessary for you to attempt the Justification of interposiug your authority, in favor of these champions of the rights of men, these rnagnan1Inous allies; why after urging all in your power to palltate your injustice. that you may escape censure. why carry your anil mostly towards us so far as to seek to punish what you are pleased to style our s%arrogance." This me Lord as the very quiesce1ace of arro- @ance-
 sAndi then our morals. too. must receive q lesson Imagine an Eng 1ish general teaching morality to the French nation! And that. too, to- that noted tartum Lord Cast1ereagh Pray, me Lord. where did you inbibe those lessons of morality2 Was it on the shores of the Ganges. or the plains of Hindoostan, where millions Of human beings with their legitimate soveretgns have been 3molated, to sat1ate the thirst of British dominion; from the Inquisitors of Spain, whom 5no11 assisted to raise tine funeral pile and turn the nQuisitoriaI wheel to ensIave and subdue their fellow sub- 5ects. or from the conhagration of Co., panhagen or Washington. the crimes Of Hampton or Kingston the revolt ing scenes Of the Chesapeake or the black hole of Calcutta, or from the desoIaxing and destructive policy, which hangs over and preys upon your uative country? But I will go no earther.
 .sYou have retrieved me Lord, the anharacter of Napoleon. by the relief you have given it-you have brought into full view the odfous p oIicy of your internal government, the inveterate foe of the repose of human kind, by Attempting to degrade our country and disgrace her citizens. And since you could not. with your imperial eagles and royal vultures dismember and devour France. you havW sought to retard her resuscftation; that re- lsuscttation will some day come, when it may be her turn, me Lord, to sit idn Judgment on your and their crimes.
 Tn the meantime it will be said of the confederacy of which you are generalissimo; in arms they. ravage the earth, and it is their delight to collect the recent spells and LIVE as their plunderers.' .''
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