The Statesman.
London, England, 1815-08-22 00:00:00

'ARACTER OF BONAPARTE.

'DE EDITOR OF THE STATESMAN.

Hitherto I here confined myself (exceptinK
obserrationi ant♦ expressions of sentiment)

Irguments as pro►e, that if the worst which
inveterate of his enemies have been conti-
rusing into the public mind against BONA-
tefipt that they became tamer and more
ist before the battle of Waterloo) were or
(he truth, it would still he true, that such
,ward him, ns our Ministers have adopted,
neither ju•t nor generous ; politic, legal, or
ions!: it would still tie true, that it was
that any alien, brought by his own desire,
by tempests to the Brili.h coast, and
stop to refit, would have been entitled, as
mad Region!, and therefore temporary cub.
protection of our laws, and to that of the
abeas Corpus in particular; and I know
!Is less true. that having been driven by the
'he political world (and among the magi-

hate raised them we °choppily stand first),

•rns which hare deluged France with the
Europe, he was not less entitled to seek
to expect all asylum here, than he would
been cast on our shore by shipwreck, hare
led to be exempt from the treatment by
iris suffered, is now suffering, and long hard

lid indignity yet before him, with im other

boundary than that of life. It would he
true, were he the worst of men and of
tt he is no subject of ours—that there is,
iy, no pretence which the law of nations
will support, when he is once forced from
to attempt to bind him by an Act of Par-
ours; or to ratify that wrong which is
1 and circumstantial, but essential, and of

Act of Parliameut can change the nature :
ild be equally true, that it is not for such
rage of Ministers, as those against hies, that.
Indemnity are provided, or admissible, by tho
ion.

be but just and seasonable, however, to
Bellerophon, and attempt (notwithstand-
iimated picture), at least, 'faint sketch of
Jage against whom such proceedings have
,rected.

Ib is derived from an ancient Greek and an
iglu; two among the noblest of the nations
di. And it was a circumstance of value,
fo was to encounter all the blandishments
join of the highest station, of splendour, and
lid external g, menus, without being ener.
irerted from great objects and pursuits of
4. and who was to he tried by adversity
it all its forms, and be ever usisubdued in
I burn a ColtsrcAl, and there passed his
' first youth ; in an island at all times fer-
mi:, active, and ardent minds, and heroic
. That h- entered inififary life in the de-
of the artillery; 5411,L;,, ;move all others,
,cady a 'Trevino, science, discipline, aid
.v,ity of ev.,) i ul for perfecting the habits
!flier asuit of the man. That lie %A% ali4e
in Council ~mtl in the field, dosing the
,trugcles whirl' the violence of •external at-
Internal treachery and commotion raised in
abut:, That he has been twice adopted Eno.
France, by suffrages incompsrsbly more
than were ever given to establish any indi-
any throne. That in the midst of wars,
4st of secret conspiracies, the sciences and

we been culti‘sted and promoted by him.
more and mote expanded, public economy
tonal improvement in all its branches, systems
Ilion of the greatest comprehensiveness,
and precision, and in their paid branch
proportioned, awl alike guarded against
indefittiie indulgence on the one side, and
latitude of severiN on the other : e ansti-
iiided on the wisest, most liberal, and
lel, accommodated to the national circum-
twl progressively improved.
Kviished Kings have been replaced by him
trones ; that captive armies ha►e been li-
about condition ; that of conquered coun-
ts raising from the dust the monuments of
lays, and meliorating the circumstances in
found them ; that the relatives of deceased
If genius and public worth have been
him to impart to them unexpected benefit
t►rent honourable provision ; that living
been called forth from neglect and obscu-
-hatever exercise of its functions in the

of his Empire nature or habit had

with paternal solicitude. That in the
.11 end violence of war, the arts and
the edifices, and instruments, and persons
!0 their cultivation have been protected.
le most sudden and severe emergencies a
r with the great examples of antiquity, and
'cart, and intellect, correspondent to theirs,
tested themselves in Him : such his tem-
the plainness of his ordinary dress ; his
fee to luxury ; his denial to himself of

unwearied exertion and endurance of al

sad privations ; his dismissal of the
'ho had struck at his life; his fearless ex-

himself to the infection when his soldiers
ig of the plague in Egypt. That the smaller
aces of his life hare been answerable to
—the Dog at the battle of Castiglione)