The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-02-20 00:00:00

shot athwart the sky—it was brilliant—it was sometimes
fearful—but look in a ditch, in the barren rock. of St.
Helena, almost out of the world—where the wild waves
alone sing the praise of the CREATOR—there you will
find what remains of BIIONAPARTE. It is the glutinous
remains, as the shepherds say, of a shot star, which they
point out under a hedge.
Aud CROMWELL too! He also was a strong sucker
pushed up by the manure of revolution. The people who
pampered him, and upon whom he trampled, gave him
the power which, like all tyrants, he turned against them.
He was just such an instrument as BUONAPARTE. He was,
like NAPOLEON, a man of extraordinary talent, but he
was, like him, a scoundrel and a hypocrite. He made
religion a cloak, because the ascendant religious im-
pressions of his age were pharasaical, and he made religion
the pretext for every invasion of civil liberty, and every
exercise of despotic power. He had his.minions and his
tools as BUONAPARTE had. Both were admired and sup-
ported by murderers. Crime called both into existence,
as putrescent matter produces vermin, but short was the.
period of their power and effulgence. Where is Caom-
WELL ? He lived, bated 6y all that is noble and good in
the land. He died unlamented; and, singularly enough,
his name is not borne by any family-or individual of any
rank or station in the kingdom. We question if there be a
single family of the name of CitoiewiLL in England.
Louis PHILIPPE, too, in our own time, is the favoured
child of revolution. He was raised to the throne of France
by the same persons who raised BOONAPARTE to the im-
perial dignity. We have seen what the felons of the
gaols, and the patriots of the hulks had to do with his
elevation. He himself is the son of a heartless hypocrite
—of as base a man as ever lived. Thereis treason'and
guilt in the blood he derived from his father. He was
placed .on the throne by. the vilest wretches that ever
robbed or stabbed in the cause orliberty. Is his fate then
to be different from that of Caoartrem or BUONAPARTE?
This is a question whiclicannot be answered. M. LAPirra
supported the republic—he supported the emperor—he
swore fidelity. to tharestored monarchy—he contributed
largely to the placing of Louis PHILIPPE on the throne.
We mention LAPITTE'S name because, although one o
the twenty thousand fools and charlatans who live in
Paris, his name is best known. But can we fairly calcu-
late upon the stability of the dynasty of the son of EGA-
LITE, seeing that it had such founders ? We say that ail
hiStory, all experience, all justice, is against the supposi-
tion. It must fall! The props are rotten—the heroes of
the revolution are in gaol—its prime promoters are bank-
rupts—those who fomented the revolution are now the
victims of it—those who wrote eloquently in favour of
liberty are now enjoying undisturbed liberty in the fetid.
prisons of Paris. Those who ventured their life and pro-
perty, in order to consolidate the "best of all republics,'
have had their houses burnt about their ears, their chil-
dren massacred, their factories destroyed, without the
slightest hope of contpensation. Witness Lyons ! That
is a Phoenix in its ashes, which lifts its dying head, in
order to protest against liberty and patriotism in France.
Witness also the long terms of imprisonment and the
heavy fines imposed upon the conductors of newspapers
—upon the very persons who so largely contributed to
place Louis PHILIPPE upon the throne. Far be it
from us to regret that these literary scamps are punished-
We applaud the measures of BOONAPARTE, which kept
their teeth and their pens in due order. They lied in the
cause of liberty; and it was proper that they should not
lie against its fruits. If some fifty or sixty of these gen-
tlemen of the press were guillotined, it would be a kind
service rendered to France and Europe, for- they richly
deserve it; .but the punishment of one set of dishonest
adventurers by another still more dishonest, is not a prin-
ciple which we much admire. If the tools must be burnt,
the piincipals must also shine in the grand oblation. The
flame, to be impressive and exemplary, must be of the
pitch profane, and the rosin red. 1_ Both must blaze or
there is no justice done. • •