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R ;on rrE rt R AND POIAP ATE COMPAREI)..
In 17N;, Franey " stiff:red, and Europe was dis.
teased by tk re*4utionary anarchy ofllohtspierre;
• in 160:1, Franc:• is enslaved, and Europe di,hondured,
-by the revolutionary tyraony of Bonaparte.
_ltobespierrt and Bonaparte are both children
tis s.une p went, the French Revolution; they are
brother ion:-negtes; brother 'Jacobins ; fellow sub,
• jetct.i of the sovereign people ; fellow propagators of
(-a:tn.:shy ; fellow apostles of equality ; and fellow
..nuyers of liberty in the name of Liberty itself.
•I:^ll,we rebels to their king, they have both usurped
thmne; and fellow apostates of their religion,
isave -Loth used religion a, an in.strument to

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xuppo rt their usurpation.
Reoes?ierre had -but little revolutionary experi-
ence; 'Bonnpurte has a perfea revolutionary educk,
tioa. That the game blood runs in the veins of them
both,. the clean: Woody ineasures 'employed to ob-
r:thi power, and.eiluettually bloody deeds to preserve
„power. • prove *ood coni-adietion ; but the int•
p.:litic al terror esbployed ST fie one, ha gr.olgth:.
envi had cenE,ined the politi,:al o,.,2rcssion of the
tehr. •
'i'he moidin and inassave of the Parisians in the
S,pc4riber, 179 e, laid the. foundation of the.
g. e ;mess of llobespi'erre ; the murder ;yid massacre
of the Parisians rr the streets, Oaher, 1795, Lid
the fonndation of the guns:less of Boraparte. Both
wore, hoWeier, previously known in the bloody annal.s
of the Revolution ; both had already given pioofs. of
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their rot olutlonary cieisas. Robespierre planned the
mastacm ,at Avignon, Oauber, 1791; and Bona-
parte performed the masiecre
.at Toulon, in De-
cenib.er...l7;;;.3.
BOhestieire had his Danton ; Booartrte hit Bar-
'sus: the advice of Dantn-astiseed Robespierre; the
prop, enon of Btrear advanced 'Bonaparte: •Rybes-
.pierre, to become Di..ciaw.r, espatised the interest 'of
Daseon t llonaParte, to b::tome a General. martiect
the misnetiof &t-ms.. Robespierre scut Damon to
etc scaliold ; TA;napArte sent Solis into exile. The
one nivrezred in accomplice; the 'other disgraced a
leneftict.ir he dared not murder.
art the head of the Committee of Public Safety,
Robespierre' crouded the prisons with suspeaed
"Frenchmen.; it the,lreeed of the army in Egypt,
Bonaparte poisoned the wonneted Frenchmen who
cii.eded his hospitals. 11.pbespierre" guillotined ;a
*rue French Aristocrats ; Bonaparte poisoned en
mire French solderi. Fear moved the axe of Ro.
tetpietr's piliptine ; et uelty distributed the poison-
tida,thatnght of Bonaparte. Cowardice made i',ohes-
Plette n murderer; calcnlation made Bonaparte a
poisoner:: The one destroyed those he feared as ene-
*tic ; the other poisoned those friends who had
served hivit as soldiers. Robespierre gave no quar-
ter to.hls enemies ; Bonaparte massacred, in cold
Wood. enemies to whom he had given quarter.
aeberpirrre declared a war of extermination
artist La Vendee; Bonaparte, by a perfidious
, .
lelee,exteftninated the !royalists of La Vendee. The
one•hurr.ed and plundered their property as ene-
Ifter ; the Other irapristmed, transported, and mur-
dered their persor.s when friends.
Robespierre, in his peoclarna Joni, threatened all
kurepe srfth a Revolution ; Bonaparte, by his nego-
datlons, has revolutionised the whole Contin, at of
tutape. Robespierre, with his guillotine, proposed to
ettihitit an universal anarchy ; Bonaparte, wit,
it's tiiOnet4 propoies to establish 'an universal
&very.
hobos
pierre• spoke :of huMarkire in sending
hundreds every day to the sctaffold ; Bonaparte
speaks of generosity in sending to prison thousaas
of ihnoee:u travellers, proteaed by the laws of na-
tions and er.bospitatity.
Itobesik:ere. tiv4ts4 groyd gustier:to begiven
to Briiish tolebees; ..Bonaparte ma& imprisons Bri:.
tons who areitO
Under iioliccpierre. ,tirousands of Frenchmen were
in fetters ; Undo.: BunaPzite:,- the wholes Trench
Ra-
tion is enslaved.
Roliespierre called all Princes tyrants ; Bo-
naparte wishes to 'tyrannize over all legal Princes: •
Robespierre, in his speeclies, abused and insulted
all Monarchs; Bonaparte, by his negotiations, has
deskaded Monarchy.
Itebespierre proscribed commerce in Prance, by
get iMishiig amaylinum ; Bonaparte cr'petris to re.
Tire earth_ terse, •by ert.iblishieg a maximum upon
Robespierre, wten a Diaator, to undermine
erriote. consiatred to, use the -mAnnet; and language
of • cit'iteftame-eoloes; Bonaparte, when a ConsUl,
to crush thrones, speaks to kings as if they.were Jam-
"! mei, and ID elnyerort as if they were his fellow
citi tens.
Robespierre was a revolutionary fanatic; Bona-
parte, is a revolt.tionory hypocrite. The one was
1004i.shi te d aweigh fear and fanaticism ; the other
is cruel from nature, from ambition, andtself.inte.
res.. 'lle one baldly told all mankind, that he was
its enemy; die other seas as the enemy to all man-
hied :a protendirg to be its friend. The one ;leaved
death to any one who should speak of peace; the

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r.ther Inedkates slash;, plots,,tikylliOtptipet.s
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death by hit ricifiCations.
The names c,f-dse vidirns who perished by Robw,
pietreAn cruelty, were publLhed in the daily papers );
the names of those vidims of-Bonaparte's crueltt
who perish'iTtho aims of his Military commissions
;by poison in his duligeons, by sufferings during
`transport
itioo; and brmisury in' the wilds of Ca-
.yenne, are only known to himself, to his accom7
•plices, and to his axecutioners.• Robespierrc'a vie-
rx.re tried and condemned before they were
:cies:wed ; the vktinrs of Bonaparte are condemned
without a mai, and eseco.ted without a condemna-
tion.

The revolutionary fanaticism of Robespierre, like
the religious one of Cromwell, scut his king to the
scalfold ; the revolutionary hypoer4yend ambition
of Bonaparte, like 1.1.1.. of C: oniwell, keeps his legal
king from his hereditary throne."
t The friends of Robespierre pr tend be died a
martyr to his cause, as a revolutionary enthusiast;
ionaparte is a revolutionarysophist, who., probably,
wilt perish the martyr of his own niachiavelisin.
' Robespierre was a Fleming ; Bonaparte is a Cor-
sican; the one born at Arras, in Flanders, the other
at Aiastio, in Corsica; the one in the ien-them the
other in the southern pot of the French empire ;
neither of them was a Frenchman. .
Robespierre has only been seen during foreign
wars, civil troubles, and domestic factions; Bona-
rte is firmly seated upon the throne of the Bour-
bons, all enemies are venquished, all troubles ate-
.quieted, and•all factions diemlved. What Robespierre
would have dcne in his situation it is impossible to
Say; but we have all witnessed, and witness yit, the
proseripeen of liberty, the subversion of laws, thein-
ila
certitUde ot 'property, and the organized military'
• de-on:ism of Bonaparte. The First Consul of the
French itcpublic, and the sovereign of thirty millions
of slaves, screws every day the low whims, the mean
caprices, the degrading vices, and the unbecoming
passions of a Corsican Adventurer, and the little soul
of a fortunate upstert.
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As the IV chre ond long ceich was passiug Somerset•
house yesterday afterneon, .from the badness ot the
payemert, one cif the fore horses stumbled and fell ;-
th.! coachman, in endeavouring to pull him up, lost
his balance, and. fe:l on the pavement, by.whichhe
was so much brui.;ed as to make it necessary to
convey him to tee hospital.
Teesitav sennigh t arrived in Leith Roads the ship
Ci. of Danftk, Captain Eppart, from Dantzic
with timber. Sec.; the master reports, that on the
4th inst near Naas of Norway, be fell in with an
80 gun ship. and a cutter in company, with lbe
wind at south, and standing close by.tbe wind ;Am.
he was boarded by the ship, 'which had French .
colours flying, and the officers and seamen_ appeared
to be-French, and spoke the-French language ; that
the cutter, when he was first boarded, 'Woe at 11:149"
distance, but soon after joined company; tharbet
has every reason to believe they were French r. hdlt 1
does not think the ship had cenie of; 'iengotoyaeen=
as she appeared to be very clean. He could. fin.:
however, lrarn; from whence they caMe, .or.wherc
they ivern *bound, but concludes thereto,. north
about. . -
By 'a leant decree of the FrealleaOtretrm ens,
the service of the batteries along the noseli-ern &entice
and the maritime emits of France, and the freneit.
'slands in Europe, is committed to a- hundred
companies of Artill6iymea, under the title' et:
ar•no, iers-garda-cotes, who ate to be distributed as.
foliages :—Bruges 1, Lille 2, St. Omer 4. Havre Sell
Cherbourg 10, Brest 18, Nantes 14, Rochelle 13;
Bayonne 1, Perpitnan 2, Montpellier 3, T0010n.1%.'
and Corsica 5. in addition to Leese, who are to her
considered as a disposable body, -there ate to he
companies, who who will be stationary, at Belleisle 5,
Ilshant 1, Isle de Groia '2, Islede Brehat 2, Irl.e d,..
Bar 1, Sept Isles 1, Lsle Des 2, Noirrnouticr 2,
Islede at 4, (heron 4. and Elba .1. '
A letter from Liverpool says, "The spirit of pri
vateeriag is proceeding in thikpormith nneormnroZ
alacrity, though not quite with so Audi expedition, -
as stated in some London papers. The writers of i
these articles-must know very little of the nattirecif
fitting out kship of sear, to suppose that 100 priva-
teers could- be sent to see free, a commercial port,
within a forongie ty.:er ihe Driteret;cn cf (Ver. Yet
this, ridiculous assertion has iteually been made, and .
seems to be believed byelie laiodon Papers. Eight '
privateers, eveAl equiteseil and appointed, haveleow-
eve!, eetually sailed, and abotit .twelve more will
socinfollow. Several prices have already been taken,
and 4 great many more will dotibtliris soon be an-
dounced." -
Monday Cuptain.Nesn, belonging to the Bengal
establishment, arrived at the' lidiii HOnseekithdis-
petchesfroM the Most Noble the Governor General.
He landed-from the ship Corn-re, which Is privately
•freiglited.OU accodni of individuals. - Mtn' ntrera
left *Neal on the 22d of January, arrived it the-
islandeaLBt. Helena the 17th April; mill-Sailed -the .
.231.: Wo.shi?s were left at the island; the •paseen-•
ers'br tNe Lever,' are, Messrs. Pringle and •San-
derse Ccanne,lOrrne, and Captain'Laundon. •
the BOA Marie, from l'ort-ats;Prioie. to Doer.
dermx, having been .captured on therthnleity tl.e
comrigi fidget", Capt. rage, in let 46.90. N. Icing.
O. Ste. W:: -Captain Page ,lent Mitsiirs. Sim and
Curran, midshipmen, and six meni on hoard her,
to-carry her to, port. When off .the .04d Head of
Kinsale, blowing a gale of wind and sqruinklnthe
men were aloft taking in sail; when.thei et,
being seven in number. rushed on deck, seised Mr.
StUt s sword, confined him in the 'cabin; and had
possession of the ship in about an hour. When the
Englishmen came on deck, Messrs. Stott and Car-'
ran rushed out of the c.aliskbsocked the man at the
hello dowa, and fought asap to man for some time
,con deck. At length a pilot hooker hove in sight,
when the Frenchmen desisted, and were innne-
.{'lately secured. Mr. &At is hut above the eye;
..!rt a F
.stroke-of a sword, butoes ways dangerously.
t warting OfEoer of the impress at. N. is
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aplioittted
dating waiStiti in
dull:42lU of Cart. Ustkaasie.