Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1803-03-09

oorrf. Of us condpa, fnce te, fra came
;oTo public notice, there is not perhaps q
snols insance can be produced, where e.
rrs The bai.r or Tie nqblcr f4ficas have
made hin, turn aide from the direct road
Of power. He has none OF thoic weak
oea.s of humanity which sre called anita
bic, becaufs they fpring from virtues.
His meaiurcs are never impeasd by the
interference Of friends and tavori'es. A
/ sties, Rodefer, Foucfe, by tuTns
{erve the purps ies Of his ambition, and
by turns flares the iunfh!nc othis favor
by turns ALTO thele tools become blunted,
and loofe their Utility, and are IN COME
qaence by turns thrown aide. Bona
parte has no friend, he has no one that
unlocks his heart, ard penetrates into lis
utmof 1ecefs. With peculiar reieEve
and ieerscy that has hardly ever been
psralelled, he agi!ates and completes his
plans within his own bofom, and tnsn
producing them unexpectedly 10 the
world, excites almoit as much furprlze IN
thssimmediate attendants OF his owo courts,
as in the Cabinets of ST. James's and Vi
emma.
The effects of this fate Of mind are
perceptible in every part Of his condua.
His ambition ieells to have acquired the
additional energy Of all other Paaions
which it has afforded and neither the
the difficulty Of any attempt, nor the In
reference Of thofe motives which ufnally
act on the human mind, have been able
10 Overt him from the object of his
purfuir. There is not one OF BIS enter-
p,if which has b en- dctea ed BY obffa-
cles within the power OF human genius
80 remove. Ia war, whatever could be
efeaed by addrefs, by iiratagem, by 10
tTepidi;y, he has effected. Where he
could, he furFT'zed the enemy's camp
where he could, he broed the officers
to deiert their poas, where he could nor
effect lis purpcles by neither of thele
methods, be marched boldly u7, and
frnited his fortunes 70 the deciGon of
battle. When his furpofed religion was
likely to sp:ove IAN ooifacle, he ablured
ii, & when his rurpoies again required ii,
he has folemay became anew 81 apoaate.
knowing however, the Influence OF reli-
gion On The human mind, he never fail
ed 70 prove himteif the mott devoted of
polelites.
AT Rome, he was the chofen champion
Of the Crois at Cairo, f ecial meilen-
ger tent by heaven for the eefruttion Of
inaIels.
By fnch means, by defpidng fear and
putting tcrupte of conf fence to def
snce, Bonspsrte, in imitation of the
greatea hero of antiquity, never receding
from grand deGgn 'ucceeded in ali but
eue. His attempt en- the TuIkih En-
pirc was completely bafsed. But if he
was for once compelled to renounce the
Object ofhis hears--if he was oppoied by
an enemy of no lely genius than hmfelf,
if his rclnnrces we're cut off, his troops
tained by ihcmoa dreadful of dilesfes, aod
dilperi,ed by the infuperabls difficulties
which feemed to hem them on every hde--
If, in thefe circumstances, he found him
GeIf unable 20 contend with nature and
fortune-we are not yet TO fuppole that
his ambition, for once, funk under the
preilure Of dilaGer, OF that his eager hopes
were for moment extioguilhed. In the
whole courfe of that expedition, there is
not the lightce appearance ofremifnefs in
his ruling PATTON.
His religion and his country he abjur-
ed wih1u, hehtation. When his prifon-
crs became 70 numerous as to clog the ope-
rations of his army, when fome of his fol-
diers was infected with the plague he a.
dop;ed the lanmary exPedients of Frede-
r OK tie Great, to proven, the infes ion
from fpreading-and when lie had TO ar
,ilery to play on the walls of Acre, he