Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1811-02-21
Fer the ALEXANDRIA GAZETTE.
Mr. NowDEE,

Mn. SNowDEN,
When the artfu!ly woven and craft'ly
pressed Vaccinations of the sage with the
" long tiller," who continues yet II seems
from his overweening fondness tor these
infatuated states, to directs their concerns,
are sbou, to be consummated, and our un-
suspicious, vir,uous President is On the
threshold eady to be folded in the imperial
embrace, it cannot be unacceptable 70 your
readers to knew what sort of man this
mighty emperor was before fortune, IN her
ill-wiil to the human race mounted him On
the throne Of our inestimable friend, the
murdered Louis. To enable you to crafty
us with this curious morsel subjoln an
extract from Goldsmith's Cabinet OF Bona.
oarte, book read universally in Europe
and as universally accredited.
This, Mr.. S. was one Of your bawling
English democrats, who had taken up the
opinion that English liberty was quite too
scan,y, and to enjoy profusely this best
political sif, Of heaven tc man he left his
own country and became an adopted son OF
France, where he entered uron the great
theatre as printer of a newspaper in Paris
called the Argus.
Tslleyrand, then premier minister to the
6rs, consul, pa,ronis*d the Argus in its
commencement, which gave to Mr.. Gold
smith not only an essy access to this arch
n, pocrte, but wiki it furnished opportuni-
tics Of acquiring much information respect
iag the character st his master and OF his
Chief agents in the rabiust and in the hsld'
After spe ndlng e'gbt years in Paris he con
rived oietufn 10 bis natae soium, expert
m n,al cow need of tn mighty difference
be wern good old English masna charta aud
French liberty.
= 1t seems the two late dissraceful nc
limitations OF the president issued from MIR.
Jetic sons recommend tion--the first !" IT.
VIM tie son of a Boston refugee who
on the enemy in ouT war, Sent lately to
Dennark-sho kirg thus to trea, the sons OF
America, and more So, as this lvm is the
veriest tool and puppy that struts in high
lie.
The second Alev nder Wolcott," to a
seat in tue Supreme court-a man we'll known
in this town for his ki ID efforts to pass insol.
vent paper for bna tide purchases, s like his
pro. otype singularly attached to the French
system OF morality.
Private LIFE and Character ef Napoleon
B0ndtarte.
"Out OF the tomb Ct the murdered mon
archy in France, has arisen vast and
" tremendous uniformed spectre, in far more
"teriic guise than any which ever yet have
over owered tie imagination, and suodued
:. tn forii;ude of man.
Burke's Letter..
This is the picture Mr.. Burke dslineateG
IF the French Revolution at the time when
he published his celebrated letter en- that
subject. | adopt i: as applicable 10 the
,r,s1nt state of things. with the exception
Of the word uniformed"
The spectre has now assumed sub.
s,an,ial form, but from thar form has be.
-ome far more tremendous and app ars ia
a" far more terrific guise," than WHEN Mr..
Burke wrote.
The reader must have remarked that
one object of this publication is to shew
the character and disposition of that 60
vernmrnt which has arisen ont Of Mr.. BIS
Uniformed but tremendous spectre.
By way of introduction to Ibis, find
it necessary to give some account of the
private history and character Of TIE man
who now has become the principal hgure
in the drama and whose name is the terror
of the four quarters OF the globe. This is
the peculiar object Of tie present section.
but in order fully to cerelope his character
snd talents, it will be necessary 20 follow
him through his career, after he began to
make conspicuous 6gu,e on the theatre OF
nu.,lc affairs.