Alexandria daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1803-1808, 1803-09-22
Latetf foreign gateuigentf,
Extracted from E0adoa Paper ,eeeiOed attbe
Office of tbe Nrqv 1gstk Morning Cbr0nffle.
THE INV Aston.

ten heard m society, II migfI scci Pciiestly a.
surd to labour the proof that Bonaparte will at,
tempt invasion. Those who still profess to doubt
/ It. must either be- so stupid as to be beyond the
reach of argument, they must affect such DOUBTS
| fer purposes which they will not chuse to ayow,
unless he besuccessfu. His refusal to suffer the
neutrality Of Holland, the most decided proo OF
his intention. That unhappy country will AFFORD
/ him no Invasion. Her ports are convenient tol
the most defeneelesS part Of this country. He
shipaing are Of kind adapted - such expeditions.
1t is not that lie can be supposed to feel any com
passion for that wretched republic, OF which tbs
war will complete her run. He istar above such
weaknesses. But on any other system than that
of invasion, Holland, increasing her wealth by
commerce, would afford much more substantial
aid than she can do in war. He has accordingly
allowed Spain to continue neutral, that he may
reap the traits of her American mines, because
Spain bss no coasts commodousy situat-d for The
invasion of Great Britain. An invasion is in
trush his only eAeanal means of hostility. On
the continent he has done his worst against this
country. In India and America he can do lirtle
more than create some Temporary mischief. En-
GLAND alone is the theatre of war, on waich he can
Hope real harm to his enemy. He cannot engage
in that final contest with Russia, for the empire
of the world, llch his gigantic ambition already
| contempates, unless he can deliver himself from
England, which hangs ON his rear and ii he could
add the feet of Great Britain TO his own army, tie
empire OF the world would cease to be a cfimera
No region of the globe, from Pekin to Philadel-
| pha, would then be safe from his bandits. He
looks on with the barbarous spite # Attila AID
| Alaric, those Sc sCoufges of God, whose succes-
scr and rival he is. Indeed the scale as well as
charaGterof his ambition is barbarc. 1t is match
| ed only among those destroyers of the world. Ii
is much TOO vast for the puny notions Of Europe
an aggraudizen,ent. He, who could ak Of
! Switzerland and Piedmont, as {" two trlAes," ard
OF Egypt, as what he meaat to have, but was IN
no hurry about, must have a standard of ambition,
in comparison with which LOUIS XIV. was only a
robbeE ofhenroosss.
All these motives Of hatred receive great addi-
tional force from he personal temper OF the man.
HIS original character, compounded Of Italian
| cunning, with the ferocity of the half barbarous
race from which he springs Strengthened in re
ciuse, monkish youth, by the contemplation OF
the hardest parts Of science, and by those widest
| gloomy mind was naturally attracted, termented
| by a few crude notions of ancient repuohcansm,
which he imbibed during bis scanty eduoatioa,
I inaamed by all those of rapine ard blood, IN
| which he has been a principal actor for the last
10 years, has been wrought to pitch OF phre zy
1 by this sudden elevation 10 unbeunded and ire
sistible power. He has lived at an age which no
thing can be any longer considered as impossible.
/ His own past history is more wonderful than
| any thing that he can effect in future. 1t qUas
| infinitely more Improbable than Corsieaa cbari
1 ty aboslbqy should be placed on the throne of
Charlemagne than it noqy can be that the despotic
master of the greatest part of Europe should be-
| come tie master of the world. Sc All that is diff
| fcut and all that is Dire have become child's
| play to his Imagination. His fierce passions,
| which submit with the greatest lmpatence To the
common decencies of civilized life, are inAamed
! TO ungovernabe madness by the restraint which
| he must sometimes impose them. He adepts
only enough Of the arts and manners of civiliza-
ton to cheat. He retains enough of lis native
barbarisn to Destroy short he is the murder.
er of Jafa.
To all this distempered and indignant ans b
ton he ADDS that stern pride which is its ma al
companion, and which has been copiousIy nou.
fished by The cowardce of that base age which be
is doubtless employed by the Justice of Heaven
toPunsh. He has pledged bimself 70 invade
England, and has never yet failed to redeem
pledge ef mischief. The vow OF enn,ity 10 man
kind, which resounded through Pandemonium,
| was not more ir,evocabe than his VOWS Of de-
trucfiop. As to the danger Of nsssloi,, his whole
life has been that of a desperate gambler aecuss
toned 70 stake his existence upon a single cast.
| Indeed he cannot retreat. He has held out The
| plunder q England to his baaes The plumber of
England Good God what words Into whar
times are we fallen when All insoler4 tyrant dares
TO utter them! Bat osft these wo,ds have flown