The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1814-03-10
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CONQUERING FRANCE,

war was carried on for our independence and
that, IL we did not 60 on with II, we should
become the real slaves Of Bonaparte. Self
hresrruafion was then the cause In which the
nation was called upon to shed its blood and
expcnd its money. Our views extended as
Napoleon retrcated. He was to be driven in
10 the ancient boundaries Of France. But
,,ozv he is 10 be 6ehcaded, according to the
Times newspaper; and according to the Cour-
icr newspaper, the feofie Of France are to DC
hunished, unless they abandon him, and obey,
Al Ancc, Bourbon in his stead. Thus, In
ihe space Of four months, The war, from war
Of seif.defence, a war for our own erisfence, is
becoming war for imposing government
upon the French people. In short, We have
returned to the notions and the scenes oil 1872
and 1898. The Allies are crossing tho Rhine,
and, as we are told by these writer's, procla-
nations are to be issued, similar to that OF the
Duke of Brunswick, in which the people OF
France were threatened with dreadful furnish
menss, unless they submitted 10 the dictates
Of the Allies with regard to the arrangement
Of their government. The articles TO which
I aIIude here, 1 will insert not only because
wish to place them upon record, but be-
cause the reader should be convinccA that l
do not misrefresent the writer's, ana because
it will be useful for the public TO sec clearly
what the views Of these writer's and oil their
abcttors really are. The following article is
from the Times Of the 4th instant;
nWhen, or under what circumstances, the
great commander may think fit to carry his
forces against the large military or CONNER
cial dcpots Of the south Of France, wc do not
pretend 10 form conjecturcs. We arc conh-
dent, tha, as nothing will disturb the calm and
mcdita:ive prudence of his plans, so nothing
will arrest the rapidity of their execution
We trust alike in his caution and in his rcso-
luton but,pcrhaps,thc may be IN store Tor
him higher destination than the capture ofa
town or the reduction Of province. What 1t
the army opposed to him should resolve to a
vengc the cause OF humanity land to exchange
the bloody and brutal tyranny Of Bonaparte
for the asiid and haternal sspay ofa bourbon
Could popular French general open to him.
self more glorious tarcer at the present mo-
mcns, than that which Providence seemed to
have destined to the virtuous Moreau Or,i
it possible that any power now existing In
France could stop such general and such an
army, supported by the unconauerul Wei
lington and his formidable lcgions, it they
were to resolve boldly TO march to Paris, and
bring the Usurtcr TO the block! Every dispo-
sable soldier in France is on the Adour or on
the Rhine. In the case we are supposlng,
there would be no enemy to cncounter,unless
the northern frontier were at oncc dcnlrdcd OF
uOops, and the road to Paris on that side laid
open to tho Allies. This is no question OF the
attachment Of the French nation TO one dy-
nasty or TO another; tits question OF MILL
tary enterprise, in the minds of military ad-
vcnturcrs. The simple possibility, not to say
ihe high moral probability, that in moment
of general detection, an army which has so
much in its hands may run with the stream OF
popular feeling throughout Europe,is enough
to make the Tyrant tremblc on his THRONE
Lord Wellington is doubtless prepared to
take advantage of so desirable an occurrence,
in case il should happen without his previous
interference, but we wish him to intcrfcre
we wish that he were authorized plainly and
openly to offer his mighty cooperation to
any body of men who would shake of the ty-
ran,s yoke in France, as has been done in 1t.
ally, in Germany, and in Holland :.
Let il be observed, that il is here express
ly recommended to make war for the purpose
of putting Napoleon to death. He has been
acknowledged as lawful ruler OF France byaH
the powers at war wita him. He has had almost
every one Of the hostile sovcreigns absolute
ly in his power. He has spared not only their
lives but their thrones and now an English
journalist recommends to those same sovc-
reigns to make war upon him for the express
purpose Of putting him to death. Nothing can
be clearer than that he owes his present daa.
gers wholly to his having shared those, who
arc now his most formidable cnomics. If he
had cxtinguishcd the Austrian power, he
would never have been in danger. The sot-
tish desire to royalizc his family,snd the hope
of being able to rule the people Of France as
the old families ruled; those have led to his
present state of peril, and, if the people of
France turn against him, will, in all probabil-
ity, cost him his life; but, at any rate, that
life ought not to be sought by those whom he
has sparcd-More of this another time. Let
us new hear the Courier, that vile trumpe. of