Berkeley and Jefferson intelligencer. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va.) 1802-1810, 1804-11-23

less deserved. He was then the great,
the wise, the good, the friend of man,
the paci6casor Of the world, the PatreH
and ,protector Of liberty is now in his
best features = tyrannical hypocrite.--
He who, in the month of October SOS,
was the Just equitable chief of the "er-
hghaencd government Of France )" in
October 1904, Is gloomy, selfish Des-
pot, who to crafty his own inordinate
lust Of power, would rivit the chains OF
slavery on the universe!!!- r.
With the majority Of the Federalists
he 10 Just what he ever was, and what
they have ever represented him to be !:
a grasping, ambitious, Unsuitable, and
blood thirsty I, rant. In the square Of
Toelon, in the streets Of Paris, in Ita-
y, in Egypt, and on the Imperial throne
he is and must continue to be, Bona
parte. His character is traced in the
blood of the innocent; il will never bs
cHaced. .
In the Richmond Enquirer, Of the
9Th Sept. theie is one Of the numbers
Of a paper called the Rainbow, (writ.
ten, as we arc informed, by an associ-
alton Of some of q the choice and mas.
ter spirits Of the age,") in which viii be
found the sentence that follows. -
Bonaparte might have ranked with
the Scipios or the Catosof antiquity; he
is now associated. with the despots OF
Europe. His venerated name wohld
have gone down the stream Of time, Till
time should be no more, and unfading
laurels have encircled his immortal
brow sit will descend with aecelera-
ting disgrace to the latest posterity and
infamy, eternal, everlasting, viii be in-
separahly connected with his name
The venerated name Of Bonaparte!!
Was it the butchery Of the Toulonese
that excited the veneration Of this wri-
te. - Would the, massacre Of Paris
confer immortality? When, in Italy, he
put whole Municipalities to the sword,
was he there to collect his uhfading lau-
relss Did his assumption Of the name
of Brutus rank him with the Scipios
and the Catos Of ahtiquity? The cool
and deliberate destruction Of JafFese, the
inhumaa murder Of his fellow soldiers,
find nothing in ancient history with
which they can be compared. Yet all
these, and numberless other atrocities,
were performed in his days Of glory and
virtues when he was earning these I'M
fading laurels when his name was pro-
Hounced with veneratiof; when his brow
merited; the wreath Of Immortality
No; bis name win never die il statids,
by almost every act Of his life,
Damn'd to everlasting fame"
1t will descend with aceelerating
disgrace to the latest posterity; and in.
fanny, eternal infamy win be insepara-
bly, connected with it." But Il had well
deserved, and had become indissolubly
yoEed with this companion, long before
his assumption of imperial rank. That
act may serve TO render him ridiculous,
hu, il adds little to the catalogue Of his
crimes, and is scarcely observed to aug
ment the. immeasurable rlOnument Of
infamy, which he has raised to perpeA
tuate tie memory Of his deeds. =.
Aud yet it would appear As II. not
only the writer Of this number Of the
Rainbow, bu. every other of his party,
view this as the only feprehensible, the
only disEraceful act Of BonaParte. The
was TO be expected. The name, and
not the thing, we have long since known
to be the object Of their attention. They
had no objections to all power being
possessed by Bonaparte, under the de-
nomination Of Consul fer Ne but the
same powers become criminal the mo-
ment they are exercised under the title
Of King or Emperor. r. ~ =.
He who might lawfully, and in per-
feet consistency with the principles Of
liberty. do every arbitrary act under
one tide, attempting the same under a.
no,het is guilty of treason agains. the
liberties Of his country. Consistent and
profound Statesmen! VIII We pretend