The Sun.
London, England, 1803-10-11 00:00:00

CROIIfWELL AND BONAPATE.

THE situation of BONAPARTE, Usrtrp:r of
supreme,- pow,er of France, after .the,
.King
perished on the scaffolds and when the Heir of tli
Throne and the Princes ,of. the Blood are in exile;
naturally suggests to the mind,
,Ca.omw the
Usurper of England, after our Sovereign had. been
rtirdered, and when his .Heir and family, were iri
banishment. Between men ading in similar cir.l
cuipstances we arc apt to imagine a likeness of claa.
. fader which on close examination will be found not
• to exist. ,CitOlstWlrL.l. and BONAPAETE both rose
(non bailable conditions to the highest exaltation
in the. Countries to which, they respedively her
longed.. Both sacrificed every principle• of justice
to attain the elevation at
,which they aspired, and
both assumed every disguise that conduced to the
attainment of their :purposes.--In lawless ambition
and versatile hypocrisy the Englishman and the
Corsican agreed- bur in thei.plitber. qualities 'herd
will not be discOvered many, points at resemblance.
Let us considet the two Usurpersin their progress.
to greatness, and their. respeCtive conduit after they
.4 had ,reathel the desired pinnacle. ,

Though consummate hypocrisy eventually became
s sulking feature in. the.charafier of Ctsofawett.,
he was not originally a Proteus, ha slid not always
bend. to the predominant Party, • he never professed
himself the votary of STRATFORD or LAUD ; he
even proposed to abandon his estate and 'country
rather than submit to Civil and Eceleshisticalethit,
mantis of which he disapprovee. Bad as he wash
there must have been some. degree of sincerity
in his profession of opinions for which he was
willing to .relinquish his • property And native land.
BOgAPARTt, on the other band, from his outset
in life, with, sorifeeia impartia/itl, tlhered to the
Pgrty which for the time. 'was uttermost. When
he entered the Army., the King his master was at
its head ; him he very strenuously served until his
_power, was degraded ; then he was the (pally
faithful servant of the National Assembly; under
the first Constitution : transferring his fidelity, he
nett stuck close to tbe 'l3arssortmts, -and their
'General DUSIoURItRi until Powerappeated likely
tics ytave thei, and he then thought it was MO
time for him to leave theM also: To Run ispi ERRE
he adhered as long as fortune adhered ; with no
less eagerness he devoted himself to the successors
of that monster ;, and became a prime favourite
with I,E eAUX. Hitherto he had achieved nothing.
`which; may adtgit Adyentuter might not have ac.
complishedby mere' dexterity.. with_very

moderate abilities. l'o corn-piece his tylinining, lit
eyoused,a,col-oir inistris, and diet-, Ay l'ibtaineo
;.,the connnand of the Army of Italy. His achieve_
ments,, there, were those of a desperate itivestturer
• that would run' every Hazard 'for boOiSt,ilithei than
of. a, .viiire Gaueral. Front'ltaly'and 'other scenes of
gradation, atter ,abandoing.his Aripri li, 'tet creed
to "PaKs, and by courting the prevailing 'l),lrty
'there, at a fsvooralife- 'Crisis, he obtained the su-
prettlechniman;l. ' ' etbsitiviett girdled his Usur
pat' l 4 by a regular.fiyetantrof able lniqoity, carried
,en . himself,' and did. nor merely pup octet. the er
'sheiti deft of callers: -' He islitained an ascendancy,
',lnt by &Mowing 'bar' by showing himself able to
lead, ' Though at' lottp.ttvo unacquainted with
,arms; he rit forty.fivei•WaS the first genera! of
''the' flat ; and by the union of energy and Skill
obtained a vittorr 'which' decided. the -contest.—.
'Owing risen to the head of •the limy,: by mere
"teurage and, eapacity, ' his 'farther, progress was
. ()Wing to his superior talents exerted in profound
though svieked p,fl icy. 'His ulfiloyiNg ordinance,
'for preventing the union of civil and military influ-
ence in other leaders of • his party, that he might
filraw• the whole !management, first of the Army, and
• theteby of The State, into bis own vortex, was 'bd.
tritons without question, but it was, the'iniqui ty of
'lofty genius, • not of trimming dexterity. The alii.
city, vigour, and decision, lty which'he,overthrew
the ParltaMenr, and subjugated his 'antagonists in
every part of the empire, and the gradation of steps
by which he obtained, first in substance, and after.
'wards in mime., the supreme power, . wilted the
united soldier' and politician.--the man that was
great
.from the 'overhearing fines of intelied and
soul. Such a' mien we must acknowledge Citomw IL t.,'
however we. most reprobate his rebellion 'and nruiriiii,
tiring- '. CoSttplite EitstrAtArts 'and him as soldkrs.
Citomw 1 I,L, never finighr a battle that hi' did not gain ;
besirgadta,,town,ithat.haodid nut iapturf ; or invaded
.a country Ahae.hx,stiti:not.subdqe. He,was not,the
•-man tosrurtswayiwktljts great army from a handful
.o.floystios,;,,, nip Ato engage his soldiers, in an extra-
vagant undertaking, iiiiill .finding he c(ntld not sue-
celd, to leave, t,hetorin the lurch. Adi graceful'
blot it ii:• in the: MS tory of England, that such alma)
was sufle,red to be ruler 'of the country ; not so
,
sha mem, iir.e ft r,
,as it
;
tbe:lie,ct,•tro a' bnoi from tineof their dependent,
15tartfis:, tihcizoiradation or Emgliiiimen would have.
befii Oltfirqiiire , !militia; itig, if ilicy had borne
the yhlZi Urlder—u beau/tan of 4114ritei.
In the exercise of th.,....mwer. which he had iio
aillyt thoaah Fick7..:lly acluireir,-CitomsylLt dig:.
ppyg”, , v, )4.,,,, ". ,:- ~ 4,4 . •,, „, .
oilfpr .i,taralt),,
.„ sgreat, 4. regard both ,
to Justice ant clemency as, his,uatirpoi „authority,
teould attOttibly. rrmit.."
.c..,'ltp,hew n. 'Was often
urged to a general . massacre of the Royalists, but
with beirrtifl he rejefied such sanguinary counsel,.
:He wonlii-Ot ,tick at murder.vrhen it answered his
..purpose, but lit. did r),,t follow acioditbetl. as a
't aq.in!e: i!v.r, in no Jaffa or sick hospital, in his me..
"m(:)irs '',exiiktwst:i it Must he allowed,' tris nag".
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•nanitnous, as well AS.. transeendant in ability. He
had rico' childish violence,' or womanish fury sof tem.
per ; lie was no blusterer or gasconader. LortA..
"P'AITE hats and tears and boasts, hut cannot. per.
form ; . caw/1w tut, never threatened withatit.exe.
Outing. Iri.-evety projea which' he undertook, he .'
was suf:cessful; becanie,,, rike
,C. 41.42,., tie was alde,
' in' ' '''t'i • *-g ; Pifound, i , well as dex
SS W ascii erpriztr
trous. ca.;omw r 14, gave !au to mostthe powerful .
rl4ai' of kiiiol,e. 1.1 no country,dtiret they budge
.11' ft;or. agair,sr the English usurper.: Spain aril
France alternately rrtp.Ckled to his commands, and
ocher 'PriwOrs complied with his regoisitinns :

* flpmc vt! 3c9.

whereas the'C7rsiean Tyrant finds out Power far,
beyond his efforts. OLIVER, both at home mut
abroad, wis a robber, as well as NAvoirotra, but.
not so incessant,in hiscleptedations. Property. was
mutt less exposed to extortion and, peculation by
the iuler and his minions under CIL,OMWELLo than
BONArARTE and his brethren. OLlveit, AS well as
gAtOLTONE itronld alio rob other countries, but hii
attempts werrinueb more rare, though when made
much more efficacious ; his ships ruled the sea, and
plundered wherever he pIzased:iiNAPOLIONZ has
still better will to robbery than the other, but with
all his boasting he wants the powei. He cannot rob
wherever he- pleases, firitpin, defies him arisl hit
Plunderers. •

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On the whole, fully admitting the great and ma.
iniquities of CitoNtwELL,. we find. him much
less iniquitous than BOtiAPARTE, and without that
zest for butchery anti human. torment by which the
Corsican is distinguished : and that the Usurper of
England far surpassed the Usurper of France in
capacity's magnanimity, and success. Oni
ous native Villain was certainly a,much greater Mari
than the defeated and fugitive Villain that has beeti
imporred.to France from Corsica. Besides,Cßom.
w5t..1., with the wickedness of a Villain, ,had:none
of the base meanness of a Scoundrel. Though.
CROMWELL was an able, proionnd, magnanimous,
and successful man, we Taus )3R uroms, without
despising, detest
,his memory, because, insteati,of
Kerving he enslaved his Country: how much more
ought Frenchmen to detest their foreigh, Tyrant,
so far berondCaostwlLL in enormity, and so 'far
behind him in the qualifications that tbually procure
ascendancy over men. .
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CUR TIMIS ADVERTISEMENT INSERTED IN 'TIIF CA..
.LIDONIAN MERCURY OF TUESDAY, :%IARCII 4,
1740!'

That true Polly Rich, who was an "engaged ser.
vent to the Right Flon. the Earl Of R--,.for one
year, is. tun away; she, is about. 18 years old, 5 feet
6 inches high, fine shap'd, bine ey'd, and black hair
(Or not brown), long visaed, with a proper high
nose, finely dresed .. with a brown cambler gown_
faced up with a brocade silk on a white ground,
fineness, stays, and, all'iorts.of linen and cambrics,
' with the Earl's Mark. upon.most of them, especially.
• the cambric handkerehiefit, being a large R, and an
Earl'i cbronet over the head of it. , Ntlhatver gives
.notioe,spf the said -Polly Rich, so as
.she may he it.:
ttfrned to her right owner, may eall..at.john's Cof.
fce.,hou,e,, or the. Eat of R-7—'s, at'r fltenham's
',140 in Bristow, and shall have two guineas of re_
ward, and no questions .asked ;,. til* 'cannot speak.
.- s woe l ,of Scots. or scarce understani• it ; she is a
looLt.tin girl, illi,i what they call ei Coektmj.,
dir Ttlesel,are..;fprther to give notice, that there
is a jaw froth. Piiity .4.icw:, father, and ono, her.
froni Mrs.,,qarrycol, Which the Earl of.R.;-'-- will
send her, if she will order how to direii chem.-11w,
the letter from her parents i 4 most kind and: affec..:
tiooate, with her grandfather acid . grandmother's
love to Orr,
Lit: wise now these are to give .notice, -if any
body will inform of the said Polly' Weil, hoa'a_ thel
Said karl may see and speak to her, they shall haste
five guineas lii.! down :c:thetnimmediately there.
1
upon, and .the.beat security in Edinburgh for the'
perfOrmance thereof.
.
As,also, if the said Potty Rich will returnr here
service, she.shall be mo.t civilly received, a's if no'
such, thing had h..ppened, and she shall have the
five guineas of reward offered, upon her return, to
dispose of at pleasure. . .
Likewise MY Lord. R assures her, that she
shill hive ten guineas more to go to London to her
parents When she pleases. . .
Or she shall return with my Lord R.— himself,
upon Thursday se'nnight, who goes up upon an ap.
peal, and must be there upon the 36th curt. as said is.
And when she arrives at London, the said Lord'
will give her-credit for ten guineas more,'as witat
he owes her for wages, and a discharge from her
service, if she pleases to return, to her parents, whh
have wrote to
,her must lovingly and alfedionately.
bivu—My Lo rd,desires Polly Rich
, To mind My Lord R—'s /itt/t fish.

SwrNot.tß.--About a fortnight. ago, h genteel
looking young-man,.assuriting the natricr•of Major.
Hart, Went. to Greenock, .ttrid embarked oh 29th ult.
as a passenger.on board the Mary, Steam styvwhich
sailed next day for. Charleston. He said 'that his
-motherls name was Wolfe,, and that he was nephew
•te the late4Lord Kilwaytilen ; that he was in Dublin
on the day of the insurraaion, but left it that even.
ing., .His' business, to America war to look, after an
estitte, in the neighboathoOd of Philadelphia, left
him by an uncle, and likewise a small -property of;
hitt .4:hit mother in the vicinity of Wilmington.'
Hemotended,to. have bills fora considerabielsa n.
of money in the handi, of a hanker at the, fortner'
siace. Since the Mary sailed, however, search has;
been. making for him.° It seems he-went to Scot.
landsoitte time agqw ith.a -forged letter of intatt,
IlithitiOtt to an C)llic•zr of rank and respeetability, and; .
pretended 'his father was "going to transfer: his pr9.l
perty.froto Ireland to Scotland, on accOunt of the!
,--unsettlerl,state of affairs. there; anti produced. a con.
.siderablivamount of bills which he wished: to deposit
in some'of -the bankt.. By this •meiffis the Officer
was induied to .recommend: him :JO, a !respc4rable
banking.house in Edinburgh, when was so far int.
Imed on 111,40 advance bins a cilosidetable sum of
money. Thorbills had-been .sent 10 I.omltur. 4(kti
Dublin, but,' were returned. art Satu tday st9naight. •