The National Register. — London, England, 1809-12-31 00:00:00

. • • - . _ R, r 0 1/41 • • , . • EGISTER ! • %. • • .... • ti' ~~ I. 4 , t1 , 014 • C e. No. 105 •4 • SUNDAY, DECEMBER-31, 1809. •.. ~ ~ t'OUtIC AL D IyQC 1SI ; V lON •, 111PF1L8ER ONE 11 UN D RE!) AND TilAir4; • i 41. • ,1 • . 3.. ts I 4 PR ICZ 9(i. the couragelo despise hint. But the star of lie , gct,atuess begins to dim and it wilt soon descend, like that of most conquerors, into the mephitieal sink Of debaucher,. His continency was admirable ; hit moderation, worthy of the highest applause; and the vigour, nctivity ; vigilance and !bnrdihood of his mind—the healthy . Spring of the for. mer....threw a veil over bis enormities and the villain was forgotten in contemplating the capacity and greatness of the man, But these have lost a pad .of their elastieito He bas already sipped .pikt of the enervating, 'cup of plea sure. Ambition has lost its novelty and. invigorating charm.: Other wishes, and wants and eujoyinents, rise in delusive forms. He has strayed from the togged pathsof glory into the flosverrfieldt of amorous dalliance ; and that man is. only half. ainbitions, when that passion is divided with others. Some Egyptian Queen has unwrinkled the stern brow of the soldier ; and taught hint to lisp and sigh, and sing amorous ditties. , : " If the world be worth thy *inning ! • Milk, oh t think it worth enjoying", ' •:1 Would to 6041.• 4 . Some change' of thejklijd.'had taken' placei itelropes Of' softening the ferocitPiPhisnature-t is true, his condikt Vienna, dirring';‘briktnistice; a as"' wrapped in'mYstery ; and his iniettVilfr i ftWthat Was unaccountable. The fair Coitietiislittia epileptic fits:. alkilwes*Ek' 644iiree-'-the yoiniiintii of a flithir.: if we colu;.; bine these circtimstanCes, we shall shrewdly suspect our hero to be in live. 0 COPIA ! king of Gods •and Men P BUONAPARTE fi n s taiittdoned the sword for the distaff; ands of , modern HEACIII.ES lies at the feet of some imperious • Onip - hale. Ah faithless CELADON ! What shall become of' his poor JOSEPHINE ? Who has just given hirio " the great , est proof of attachment and devotion which has ever been gi yen on earth."—The woman, who raised 'him from the . dust ; rescued him from the hard eye Of poverty, and served him as a footstool to mount to his present. flagitious -.eminence, The ungrateful wretch! he kickod •it away' wlien he wanted it no more.. But no' conni4o bareness could gratify his mind.. Ile added insult tolte4fatitude and perjury. In the presence of her two ei;:iMien, before his own relatives who bore her a deadly hoe, l ituti with a so lemnity so dreadful on a similar Occasiotinniimpetled the unfortunate victim to avow sentimentalti' painful to a fe male heart, so repulsive to female deticiey ; and then sign 'the instrument of her degradation. 11;er ! .. The monster ! They too were dragged to *witntis and approve this atrocious act—the dishonour of a mother. What a heart that man eitupt have! what nerves and moseies !- to prepare, and gd thfough the disr,itstingiholleninity of Stich a scene. The victim before him—her agilitiiiing sensations-- - . her confusion—het'shame- - -The past, the picient, and de , Wore crowding upon "ter mind—the anxiety and cation of her children—could not breakthis isiflrxlblu reso: lotion; relax the iron' severity of• his mind. AnOls,''oet devils, could ouffpossess that degraof impertnrbabilify: ft is beyond the stretch' of twain fortitude. ' The' tidal" • .4 e ttnil.,.: r-!..*-4.1111 i ‘. % BIJONAPARTV . S ECPUDIATIQN OF JOSEPHINE. lINNIN•Mimm•MI.I We fitt a chilling horror on perusing the particulars of this divorce. The name ot BeanAPAlttt was long fami liar to our mind as conveying every thing that is abo miaable ; ants yet` his last act, trifling as it may appear in the Catifogiin of his atrocities, Is branded with so much hypocrisy and ingratitude; discovers such contempt of moral~cfciat,' and religious obligations; betrays so pro ibund a disregard of forms and Opinion, that we depot re• • collect a - single enormity of his life so hideously dligurting. This impression was not connected with the ill-treatMent JoseientNe ; it arose from the idea of a man, poi4l4ig • l/ kg , so much ,power, talents, and captsbilitief doing iniseflief, whom nOendeariug ties can huthatiiie ; .nor favours, nor fa miliarity! nor services can fix ! Like the tyger, noosing can subdue the fet4eity Or - his disposition. Like the tiger, In; is sure to lacerate the person, vitae, for years, ministered . to his wanti, 'and' hoped to gain him by kindness.' . The most hardened reprobates "have occasionally diseßvered a . wilkihe4of 4i4wao *attire the vilest r4tit 4 egotists a . , syttipathy. nut fiumiatAava moue displays a savage s ,. on relenting consistency ; alone is insensible to the affections, and sympathies, and arniabie sie4nesses of humanity. This divorce has stamped his etiare4er, and will give it, through a perpetuity of ages, a currency, in which not a particle of ,baseness will be last. Be.may proclaim to a synod of rascals—that vile 'herd of slaves and syco phants, whom he dignifies with the title of Se Late,--that "the wants of his policy and the interests of France" justi fied the measure; but their fears will get the better of their sycophancy and obsequiousness ;* and even they will anticipate the judgment of future ages, and internally reprobate an act, which sets before them the insecurity of their own favour. This has been the most inconsiderate freak of his life. Great and comprehensive crimes excite not hall' the resentment nor disgust, an act of this nature produces on the geuerality of men ;. the tatter ap plies to the feelings of the lowest , ndividual, and comes within the range of his apprehension. In every country, and iu every age, treachery' and ingratitude were marked with peculiar abhorrence ; and the prostituted approbation of every titled scoundrel in France will not bias the natural feelings of the multitude. BrONAPA 4TS, notwithstanding the solemnity of a 'full-dressed senate, the sublime farce of a family council, the boldness of his appeal to God, the affecting scene of the separation, and all his grimace, impiety, cant, and.hypocrisy, does nut impose upon the meanest capacity ; and must be viewed in the light of a treacherous friend, a lecher, and an ingrate. This fellow has occasionally imposed upon ourselves ; and we never had fol. 1/....-11'o. Cr. ~; , . , • Our lima; Conattutton, nub La y. • .0.1•44 ~~ , "~ v.; i. 7