Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1803-07-29

care into his county on tie public faith.
BY permitting then to enter his territories,
and ronti uc there, he tacity promised
them liberty and security for their return.
He Is therefore to allow them a reasona-
BE time for Withdrawing, their effects
&c. And as to women, it was surely
to be expected, that they would at least
have been exempt from the gross indecen-
cy of arrest and Imprisonment; tier sex
alore should have entitled them TO protec-
ton and respect in every country ore de-
gree removed from savage ite.-ls rot
such conduct too outrageous to be borne
in civilized age? Should it not render
the name Of Bonaparte detessable through
out the world
And here We ought not to forget that
useful lesson for ourselves is deducible
frenl the conduct of this man. Let 1T be
remembered he was one of those who talk
ed loudly of liberty and equality, and
called himself a god ,epadliean; that
while he was secretly meditating how he
could best usurp the sovereignty and en-
slave the nation he never ceased to be
foremost in extolling "equal and exact
justice to all men," to depreciate all
s. anti-republican tendencies $" and TO IN
culcate ga Jealous care of the rights OF
the people" his first step was to render
the popular branch Of the legislature sub
serwent to his views, by means of which
he next secured aperpetuity to bis power.
He had his /" Legion of Honor" and
boaoyld legion; he had too his devoted
ministry, and he had those associations OF
men in various parts of the empire, who
whenever tits necessary, become to use
the language of Washington "potentl
engines, by which cunning: ambitious
and unprincipled men are enabled to sub
vert the power Of the people and to usurp
for themselves the reins of government;
destroying afterwards the very engines
which have lifted them up to unjust do
ininlon" ia course of things which we
strongly suspect the State Of Pennsylva-
MIA will very soon be called upon to wit
ness; though we can make no satisfactory
conjecture who the successful demagogue
will be.
Here it would be want of candor
in US not explicitly to declare, that we
have no approximations Of military ufur-
patton from the great philosopher, him
elf, who formerly faw g the honor, the
happiness, and the PROPERTY ofhis below
ed country committed to the aulpices Of
the day" of his Inauguration. No; we
have an ample fcurity againA this, in
certain constitutional in6rmity, under
which this great pcrfonage very fortunate
ly lsbours. But fuppofe a war with
foreign power, and an invahon which
would render an army necefary, have we
not every reafon to believe that this army
would be oAicered from one favored /e9,
and the probability is that the Comman-
der in Chief would be the fame man who
once wrote an address to the revolutiona-
fy army to induce them to turn their arms
againft their own country, and which ad-
dreis excited fpirit Of rebellion that re.
CURED all the popularity and all the ta-
Tents of Warrington to overcome. We
have not time and room to purdue this fpe-
culation further we therefore conclude
in the words of the old ballad
Learn TO be wife by others harm,
And you fhail do full well. "
IN. r. En-. PeR.)