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EXETER, (N. H.) MONDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1810.
Napoleon, when he does comedown
from his usurped eminence, will bring
with him, like the beast in the Apoca
lypse, the splendid firmament of French
politicks, together with the starry
sphere of philosophy, that has so long,
and with' such wonderful attractions,
danced around him.
For the Constituti onalist.
DESPOTISM dF OPINION.
OPINION is the perpetual tormen
tor of the vicious and thegood, of the
ignorant and the wise.—lt is opinion
that subjects us to restraint, and it is
opinion that lifts us above it. Incon
ceivable almost is its power over those
habitudes and feelings, that support the
moral world. —-It was opinion that
first gave birth to the pride of human
power, and it is that same opinion,
which often makes true virtue con
temptible, by exalting the appearance
Now is the time for breaking the
strong arm of the oppressor; and we
feel confident that the energies of
Britain, Spain, Portugal and Holland
united might, with the blessing of Heav*
en, crush like a rock rolling from the
mountain, destroy, and almost crum
ble out of existence the imaginary
Colossus. Nothing is impossible for
liberty ; her 'vengeance is irresistible :
" It falls like Erie, and it strikes like fate."
RECENT accounts from Europe
agree in representing the wily Corsi
can, that enemy of human nature, as
caught in a trap of his own invention,
and laboring in a labyrinth of his oWn
policy. While his best officers (Gen
eral Sarrazin, among the number) are
daily deserting him, it appears that the
new bride, the adorable empress, at
tracts more attention, than once did
the triumphal car of the conqueror.—
Che poor Parisians seem to be suspend
ed on the tenter-hooks of admiration,
thinking of nothing bu^hpw to please
this frail, but pretty creature of the
ryraut's ambitions, -Already tfoey com
plain that her caprice knows ijo bounds,
that such is her influence^he might
annihilate all Paris with a frozen.
Arbitrary as the wife of Socrates, it is
to be hoped that to her Bonaparte will
prove what Anthony was to Cleqiatra,
If le grand empercur is in realty the
dupe of a woman, there is occasion for
rejoicing to Europe and the world;
for the circumstance must be regarded
as an obstacle of no small prepjnder
ancy in the. scale of universal domina
tion. The secret once generally known,
those nations that could once be tame
ly conquered by an edict, by degrees
will begin to take courage, and on a
sudden will convince him, it is believed,
that like Achilles he has a vulnerable
part. Already Spain is recovering,
Portugal is alive with activity, and
Holland seems to be animated with a
generous glow of enthusiasm. While
the grand Napoleon is down upon his
knees, in 1 transport, worshipping with
blind devotion a perishable goddess;
let us hope that the rest of the enslav
ed continent will not dare be idle; let
us imagine they are already worrying
Heaven with their prayers ; —that they
are incessant in their secret devotions
at the altar of Liberty. Let us hope,
for we must hope, that Holland, upon
whom much depends, has yet her Van
Tromps and her Nassaus, that the
same spirit which once animated their
bosoms, and incited them to daring,
will again be seen to rise, and present
ly advance, like the shepherd-lad in
holy writ, to the overthrow of Golian.
ceeee9|^l^©%et
PETTICOAT GOVERNMENT AT ITS
ZENITH!
EXETER.
or his colonies! Ridiculous as this
charge is, it is no doubt intended as an
offset to our just claims, for the inju
ries we have sustained from his rapaci
ty and injustice. Equally ridiculous
are the complaints against the act of
March 1809, as it affected French mer
chant Vessels, when every one knows
that they were long before that act
passed, not only excluded from the U
nited States, but had disappeared from
the ocean. Our act serves, however,
as an excuse for the sequestration of
American property ; “ reprisal was a
matter of right." This position is tak
en, and will be maintained, or the cm-
of virtue above even virtue itself.—
Let no man pretend to despise the in
fluence of fashion, let no one flatter
himself that he is free from the force of
opinion. Diogenes, though be set at
defiance the whole town of Sinope,
though he affected to despise this world,
and the things of this world, was in
reality a proud and impudent cynick.
From the despotick power of opinion
arises the necessity of courting the
esteem of others; accordingly we find
th^t avarice and ambition, honesty and
dishonesty are successively applicants ;
th?y put in for an equal share, because
tley discover a degree of itjs necessa
ry to their very existence.—Despo
tism of opinion first takes its establish,
ment, where obtains a desire of pro
curing some benefit, tut law recognizes
not, V of removing some evil, against
whicflaw had — ovided no security.—-
Hence we account for the multitudin
ous and complicated rules of what is.
termed HONOR, which particularly
respects the opinion of others ; and to
the necessity of this opinion, are to be
imputed single combats and duels, the
latter of which have originated from
the anarchy of theJaws.—Duels are by
some supposed to have been unknown
to the ancients, because though single
combats were a common spectacle a
mong them, they were exhibited by
gladiators, who were slaves, and whom
freemen, of course, disdained to imi
tate.—Whatever may be the truth of
that supposition; certain it is, the
Greeks and Romans, those models of
Courage to all ages and nations, attach
ed the idea of bravery not to one's
shedding the blood of his own country,
men, but to his readiness to fight hi
country's enemies.—But Opinion ha
since become so despotick, as to render
society unsafe, without the utmost pre
caution over both word and action.—
Duels were once so fashionable ii
France, that by them fell 4.000 gen
tlemen in one single year.—St. Pierre
estimated the average number of these
butcheries at 600 per year, which would
amount to 60,000 in one hundred
years. Laws were finally uttered a
gainst this dreadful practice, and it
was, for a while, in some measure re
strained; but the king, though in oth
er respects a very wise man, speaking
in an unguarded moment, with some
contempt against certain gentlemen,
who in consequence of the laws, re
fused to accept challenges ; —the laws
presently lost all their effect. So lit
tle effectual are the laws, when put in
competition with the despotism of
OPINION! HAROLD.
Os all th^extraordinary state papers
which have proceeded from the French
government, since it commenced its re
volutionary career, that from the min
ister of foreign relations to Mr. Arm
strong, which is now published, ap
pears to us most extraordinary. It
would be a waste of time, to examine
all the many absurdities which are con
tained in this paper: they are too ob
vious to escape the most careless ob
server. Our embargo lost the emper-
POLITICAL.
From the; Norfolk Public Ledger
Oct. 13, 1810.
Something like an apology for Bona,
parte's tyranny over France-
The following is from an English
literary work. Without an introduce
tion, it might be thought to refer to
Bonaparte. ^
" 1 agree that Octavian, [Augustus
Cesar] was in many respects a rascal;
but he possessed in an extraordinary
degree coolness, judgment and pene
tration; which he made a cover for hi^
rascality. In the times in which ha
lived, the majority of his subjects de
served to be governed by a rascal.—.
The experiment of ruling them mildly,
was tried by a pleasant, sensible, gen
erous, open-hearted man, and him the,
assassinated. Those who abuse lenity
and moderation, have no right to com
plain, if they are afterwards Coerced
by a rod of iron ; a character ofa difa
ferent cast would not have wielded the
sceptre an hbur.^
riri. Q
As an event that promises advantages
to our country, we rejoice in it, but
, we think our merchants will be wise in
restraining their spirit of enterprize.
Necessity has produced fhgt which
justice or policy could not. To an,
one who took the trouble to examine
the Subject, the consequences were ob
vious.—The system of sequestrations
and plunder could not last long—the
expences of a nation must be defrayed
by means more certain —from the in
dustry and enterprize of the people—
protected by just laws ;on these sou rces
the enemy of Bonaparte relied, com
pared to which those adopted I, him,
was to compare time to eternity.
It is too plain that the emperor has
found that commerce is necessary to
France, as well as England, and how
ever his pride may seek to disguise the
tact, his own acts rise in judgment a
gainst him. Our act of congress which
assed the Ist of May appears to have
been unknown in France until the
month of August, and its effects are
wonderful, if we believe the emperor,
for although the Berlin and Milan de
crees are not yet repealed, they no
doubt will be. In these extraordinary
'imes, when all reasonable calculations
tre baffled by events, we ought not to
ne surprised that the most unpopular
and impotent (according to the opin
ions of violent democrats) of our acts,
has produced such important results,
or to speak correctly, furnished the
pretext. This poor act, which has
been abused with all the terms of re
proach, that can be found in the voca
bulary of an infuriated democrat, its
advocates branded with all the oppro
brious epithets which party rancour
ould suggest, has done what the won
der working embargo, and its append
ages of nonimportation, and non-in
tercourse could not.
But " at present Congress treads
back its steps." No, most puissant
emperor, it is you “ that treads back,
your steps."—You are at length com
pelled to acknowledge by your own
act, that your anti-commercial system,
which was adopted without regard to
reason, policy or justice, has most
completely failed.
It must afford great satisfaction to
those who have foreseen, and foretold
what would be the result of that system,
.of commercial t- f
jetted of ft rance, and so foolishly a
dopted by us. The advocates forem
bargoes and non-intercourses, must cer
tainly have some rejection's that can
not be vety comfortable at this time.
But more of this soon. Let us pur
sue the subject under consideration.
" His majesty loves the Americans'"
just about as much as every honest A
merican loves his majesty, and no more,
and with submission to his majesty, we
hope that he will not take any concern
about our independence, prosperity,
or liberty, for God forbid they should
require his protection. We should
hardly think of selecting the wolf for
a shepherd. No, all we ask of him, is
• the observance of common honesty as
regards our property.
The British government have fairly
overcome the emperour, and by retort
ing upon him the measure of his own
injustice.
peror must restore the sequestered pro
>erty. By this declaration, thus posi
tively made, we are given Jo under
stand that no claim will be admitted;
and if any one can discover any thing
like a promise to restore, or compen
sate for the property already sold or
sequestered, he must have the faculty
of extracting consolation, which, tho'
pleasing for the moment, will be delu
rive in the end.
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