Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1809-11-25
Tom tie Federal RcpaJM an.

Have those, VINO laDCr SO necessarily 10
bind our fate to tie fortunes OF Boraparie,
ever considered, that the duration Of lis
power is as precarious as any thing human
can be Should il not be broken in pieces
by the new confsderacy, which the news OF
every succeeding day may be expected to
announce, it carno, Sc transferred 70 his "a
mily a, his death. There is 8. ficient room
to believe that he was .aseiy laborins under
a total deransement of lhe mind or dan
gercus malady Of The body, of the event Of
which We remain ignorant. The lette, re-
ceived by the Wasp, from L'Olient, cen
hrmed by the intelligence circulated in Eng
land from Guernsey, leaves 10 room for
doubt of the fact. Neither Of his brothers
has ability or energy Of character 70 main
tain himself upon The lh.onr, should it be-
ccme vacan, by this or any future attack Of
disease. Whether either of lis generals
or The old line of monar,hs will occupy it
must he uncertain. Ike termination OF
the English civil via, in he restoration OF
Charles the Cd, may ard most probably
viii be initiated in France Oh tie decease
of Bonapar;e. The Bourbors are superior
in every other quality, besides The legi,ina-
ey of their title, to tie tou! brood ;ha, has
succeeded them. The French nation knows
dis, and that their condition has in every
way been deteriorated in tie experiment
they have made inthe revolutionary change.
As there can be no prediction for he Eo-
napartes, so the recurrence to the old stock
will be invited by an attention to the quiet
and settlement Of the nation. For it IS
remarkable fact in the history Of govern
ments, tina, when any circumstance has oc-
casional'y happened tc interrupt the regular
transmission of monarchica! power, The in
truding family, which has usually owed its
elevation to the rare and tral: scendan, ab!li-
ties of one or TWO Of lis members has, at
ter short lived possession been thrust out
again. The creation of ,itular tisni;ies
and the assignment of large revenucs ex-
torted from the subject to Influential ineli-
vinuals, cannot change but may accelerate
the result. Power with I'll its splendors end
enjoyments has hitherto rapidly shifted
hands in revolutionary France, ard were
the charm which has SO lorg fixed it where
it now is, dissolved with the superior mind
or the steady fortune of Napoleon, 10th OF
which combined have produced it, TO OBJ
struction could be experienced but from he
army, to complete a radical overthrow OF
the envied grandeur which elittels on his
favorites.
The next arrival from Europe may bring
us the reality of this speculation, SO preoa.
rious is ill-gotten authority ard SO presump-
tuous the reliance of those who hope to in
hcrit it. But if the line of the Capets
should remain excluded, and military
chirt step into the vacant place of Nspole-
on, it cannot be imagined, that he could
adhere to the gigantic plans and the desc
lating policy, which now prevail. The &C
emulation of means, which the present
head of the French government possesses,
would fail his successor. TIE riyalship OF
unsuccessful competitors would render him
more anxious TO fortify his thrcne, than to
extend his conquests by any uncommon sx-
ertion in foreign coup,ries.