The Sun. — 1829-08-20 (London, England)

XVIII. On the eve of a battle a soldier should only remember his oath to fight. Eight days ago history only could ask M. de Bourmont about his loyal treason ; now if he be exposed on the pillory, if the Ministry of France collect around him, whose is the fault ? If children ask what he has done, and parents answer he lost the battle of Waterloo, whose is the  fault ? If from every field of battle in Europe, where our grand army left some of its members —if from Belgium, where it left even its stumps —if from the place where Ney was shot there arise angry cries, which pierce our very hearts— if the column of the Grand Army seems to tremble with all its battalions of brass, as if it had received an affront, whose is the fault ? No ; the Ministry of the Counter Revolution wants nothing until Wateiloo is represented. Let M. de Bourmont not accuse our words of violence ;we do not judge his conscience. He assisted at the disasters of Waterloo. What be did, he, no doubt, thoughtb right. But how is it that he does not feel that since that day he has been branded as it were with a species of fatality ? Does he not feel that there is between him and France all the blood which he assisted in shedding at Waterloo ? If a man by justice, by virtue, even had assisted at the death of my  family—if I could impute to him the loss of' my friends—no human power could oblige me to give my hand to such a man. People or soldiers, we are in France all brothers and sons of the glorious dead of Waterloo, and we cannot give our hand to M. de Bourmont. What shall I.say of M. de la Bourdonnaye ? Of all the Ministers his unpopularity is of the latest date. Against him there are only fourteen years of public dislike ; but never was dislike mingled with greater terror. A few words were lutuctent to make his name famous, and in the.ilmeasy mind of' the public equally many actkons. The manner in which he speaks, always harsh and inflexible, has persuaded France that, as Minister, he would push every thing to extremes. M. de la Bourdonnaye is a partizan and a logician—a double reason for dread. He is, whatever honour he may possess for the Convention, of the school of those terrible logicians who boldly developed the Revolution. If he does as Minister what he has said as Speaker, he will develope the counter-revolution. M. de la Bourdonnaye represents in the Ministry the faction of 1815, with its murderous amnesties, its laws of proscription, and its dependent massacres in the South. • Coblentz—Waterloo-1815—are the three principles, the three persona of the Ministry. Turn them whatever way you please, they terrify and affront us. There is not an aspect which is not evil—not a side which is not threatening. Our hatred of thirty years ago—our afflictions and our distresses fifteen years ago, are all there —all have assembled to insult and irritate France. Press and turn the Ministry as you will, it displeases us with humiliation, evil, and dangers. The Ministry, however, is astonished at the public affliction. It says the public is unjust, that it does not know what the Ministry will be. What it will be ? Why, what can it be but what it has been ? What else can it be ?—Do It is should tr.a?cacc,t y with ou e vainstroke fions, aunrdutheir Thetremainlusghhatidlso;a:,stihßodefeuyt:%hvt,sievilillerep astffeo s themiu as t before them, and marks out their future path. tor ot t kos demandeo tfh his swt thatnsg bound tu Timeh r ywmillusrtetpurnoicbeeadcki.?, We will support liberty, the e aobl;,ssthoefn Coups drivend,.Eta ish.y npecroescseiet tcylh' ate:sr, taecemraa,einraclionoott:irtsuteh,r.,e Opposition." t)01, on traoml: lives have tried and sentenced you—your diiviny must be accomplished.  TliE