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

• SUNDAY, DECEMBER-31, 1809.

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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 iniettVilfriftWthat
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 fins 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, lituti 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"
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