Portland gazette and Maine advertiser. (Portland, Me.) 1805-1818, 1813-03-08
miscellaneous Collections.
II Remark of Bonabarts Reviewed.

woods, dying with hunger, comes uDnn the
ruins to look for fome fcrap. and ga den
Ruh'o live upon. ''---Bonseafe 29t5 Bullet.
This was faid by the tyrant, as it
would feem, rather as boat than
out OF feelings of compam n. The
fight of this MATS of human mfery
which hs himislf had cccMoned, IN
i'ead Of Affecting his heart with pity,
was feat TO his hellilh mind And
what mighty provocation had RuiIia
given Bonaparte, that he itretched
his march Two thoufand miles, and
aflembled together armies half mil
lion ltfong, to invade her, and lay her
waite with famine, fire, and fword /?
She bad nor eaajed Der rights to be
rsipe7et. Her emperour had expref.
fed his determination to govern his
people independently, and not as a
vice-roy, and to give them the priv
ilcges of free Commerce, in defpite
of the inhabitants of the continental
iyltem and the menaces of its author
This continued the whole fun of
his offence.
We gaze with horror rather than
delight, upon the fpangled lcales of
the ierPent, and the elegant lhape and
graceful motions of the tiger; the fe.
rocity of their nature making th:ir
very beauty appear frighIfuI. And
yet in regard to the animal in human
form. triumphant guilt and pre- emi
nept cruelty IN career OF full iuc
ceis, dazzle the unthipkins many, aud
gain their veneration and even their
attachment. While iiogle murder
committed by one IN the common
ranks OF life, is coaGdered by the Il
with horror, their admiration gets the
better # their conp.ili n when III y
fee On a Iafee fca'c, murder commit
Ted by ali amb,ti US and powerful
conqueror. Nay with a great many,
the iuccefsful man llyer, one who
lays Whole countries waite and ahof-
iword peoples with millions the re.
gons OF the dead 10 crafty MS own
ambition and iwell his triumphs c.
ven luch monitor, terrible IN the
fame manner as ferocious wild beaits
are terrible, even iuch moniter is,
with great many, h=ld in more ven.
Grafton than they holi real and diff
tiugulihed beneiactor of The human
race FOR iuaaace, Bonaparte, the
dcitroyer, has had far greater num-
Der OF admirers and Jealous devotees,
than Howard the phianthropilt
his is the more aitonithing, a. thai
man, II man he may Be called, is not
knowffto be podefcd Of a Gagle good
quality t. balance ms bad ones
Ia his black tn .ushs revenge aud ll4u gh,er
roll"
julius Caefar had magnanimity
and generolity. Louis the fourteenth
OF France, was diltinguiihed by iome
noble qualities. Mott other ambi-
tious and bloody corqIerors had
iomething or other relpc6table in
their characters. But Bonapartc is
wickednels in the abltract, a COM
pound of ambition, cruelty, perlidy,
and every thing horrible, without
iol'taty trait of character to recon-
mend him to eileen, or ihield him
from deteitation. 10 make ule of
borrowed language" Is there
Jingle crime he has not committed
Remains there aught of luit, cruelty,
treachery, ahailination and murder,
that he has not yet perpetrated /?
Where Il the innocent blood he has
no. lhed /? Where is father, within
the reach of his power, who does
not remble for his children, or
huiband for his wife, at the mere
mention of his appalling name Is
there iolitary good, or even doubt
tul action, the accidental perform
ance OF which, might, a, lealt, anim
late hum to the monitors who have
preceded him; and which might for
moment bring him down from that
horrld eminence, Oh which he itands
alone, tar above al compeers in I'M
putty 7"
No man of fober truth, acquainted
with The character of Bonaparte, will
fay that this picture is overcharged.