The Sun.
London, England, 1808-07-12 00:00:00

PORTRAIT OF MU,RAT.

OVIEDO, JULY 2.---4 t cannot be; denied, that
11,1 um, an Officer of cavalry, has goiovd :alogs;
and conquered towns; but not until be bad inundat-
ed them more with French blood, that with the',
blood of the vanquished.
It is said,-that his tallier was a waiter at Paris ;
that he himself Was a vagabond, and had formerl.r
been an e:tecutioner.,
Thus brought up between want and *tiler, in
early life a friend took compassion on him, an,„ be
became a member of - a band of stroning pla);ers, in' •
the humble capacity ofa scrub..
In the procesi of time,' he became,familiariz A
'to the theatre, and the actors or perhaps the ac-
tresses,. 'accrued him 'competer4 to assist on the
boards,'

Several times he appeared in pnblie; but was
always hissed, and then it was that he exhi-
bited the effrontery of . his character ; for instead
of being mortified, he laughed at his opponents, And
shewed his conter4t for them by pantomimic gesti-
culation. He soon discovered, however, that the
sock and the buskin were not suited to him, and hav-
ing enlisted as a soldier, he left his dramatic com-
panions at the time when the Sans Culottes were
in the zenith of power.
It was not long before he became among theprin.
cipals of that party, not even yielding to MARAT,
Whose name, after tl.e death of that demagogue, he
would have assumed, with the smzil change of a
vowel ; but'this glorions-distinaion he was not per-
mitted to acquire in those happy times of fraternity
and equality.
He. was one of the most cruel persecutors. of his
Sovereign, and his instrumentality occasioned most
,severe aftliaion to the Queen -and Princesses.

He most actively co-operated in all the revolutions
of that foolish and insane people, in the scandalous
atrocities which were pratitiFed, and which vbiereper-
mined, to punish the depravity of Frenchmen,
• That unhappy race have chosen to' assign this
tnan the reward of his eminent, services, and we see
MURAT the companion, friend, and the cutimpellur
of the Corsican BUONAPARTE.

Savoy, Tuscany, the Ecclesiastical State,, with
the other principalities of Italy ; the' Republics of
Switzerland, Genoa, and Venice.; Germany and
Egypt ; all, all have suffered from the excess of his
ferocity. For this distinguished merit, Iltfariet.-
PARTE is united• with hitn in friendship, and has
made him his' alfottionate and perpetual companion.
He formerly had another wife, of. whiifn all that
is ,4nown is that .she was divorced. from so honour-
able an associate, and died of intoxication.
It is said that his present wit,- excited some un-
pleasant feeling, until it broke out into an open -jea-
lousy, nut to-say all, against her own brother, the
teMperate I.U'ciEri. This obje6t of scandal became
so clamorous, that EUONAPARTE found lismself un-

der the necessity of separati..g these amiable bro-
thers, and, on this account, LUCIEN was disgraced.,
and ,liorn od the Imperial beams of the NAPOLEON.
family. '-
MURAT, always haughty, before he was created a
puke, atte6ted a princely power. Milan and Paris
Were astonished at his wealth, his splendour, and
-his palaces. His pride was not appeased, until he
was in% ested with authority over Spain and the

Such, my countrymen, is MURAT, who aspired
to be the liiiperiaf Regent of this great and renowned
people.

BENEVENTO, JUNE 25.—There frequently appear
in this neighbourhood, to
corps
themselves, many
disbanded soldiers of the raised in 1790.----
Every clay regular troops from Galicia are expeeted,
anti no doubt is entertained but the people of the
other Provinces will do their duty, and that .the ex-
ample of the early Supporters of the notion will have
a powerful effeCt. The Cavalry consists of about
110 men, and: we Soon expect a regiment of 'Vo-
lunteers, %hid was' ately at Tala sera de la.Beyna.
That' the French should be sacrilegious; that
they should despise and violate the awful, shrines of
our Saints, is not s'arpri.ing, for we were betoreac'-.
quainfed with their tufteli-y, if not at least:
of those who are under the age of forty.
But it is wonderful that Vrenchnien should so far
misunderstand their own interest, as to make a boast
of their proliinations, in the midst of a nation ;which
they must know to be devoutly religious, since they
endeavoured to deceiveand sednce her under the ap-
pearance of the holy character of fi iendship. This is
so extraordinary as not to be conceivable, excepting
under the supposition of some derangement of in-
telleet, which, indeed, in other respects, they suffi-
ciently expose.
Spaniards, the detests ion of this deprave:id people
is not a worldly passion, but a, sacred duty. .What
the Jebusites and Philistines were to the people of
God, they are to the
.people -of Spain. Laugh at
their feeble threats; triumph over the inefficient
means to which they resort to deceive you.