Martinsburgh gazette. [volume] (Martinsburgh, Va. [W. Va.]) 1810-1825, 1814-08-18

grafton OF cities and the explosion OF states
his libation was of the purple stream Of
life the dogs and ~vultures of prey were at.
tendants on his orgies; the earth around
was strewed with bones, as spoiIs dedicat-
ed to his lust OF domination; while extorted
acclamations, enveloping on all sides his
stupendous throne, silenced the murInur-
ings of complaint and denounced terror
to dissffection.
O. the schemes of foreign conquest, a
chieved and planned by the foul Corsi-
can, it is unnecessary to enter into any re
capitulation. He seemed about to realize
The widest project OF universal empire hi.
therto entertained. With a fury more un-
quenchable than that of . Macedonia's mad
man or the Swede. " he had subdued the
larger portion of Europe to his direct con.
trout, and exercised q sinister influence O.
yer the remotest part OF that continent.-
Intoxicated by his tremendous career of
success, he conceived his power at last to
be irresistible and it is manifest, not
merely from his profane imposture, address
sed sixteen years ago., from Cairo, to the
disciples of Mahometanism, buss from the
whole tenor of the language of alteration,
In which he required himself to be ap-
preached by his own functionaries F; by the
dignitaries of his own clergy, and by that
mock Sanhedrim of the Jews:-it is paipa
Bile that he meant TO ascribe to himself the
attributes of the Deity, or, at least, to be
regarded as an elect vicegerent of aimigh-
ty power, destined to reduce to his rule,
by fire and sword, the utmost bounds of
the habitable earth. For a time, his nod
seemed to shake the spheres; and pc ople,
municipalities & po,en;ates, were humbled in
apprehension at his frown.
From this appalling and humiliating
sight, at which +" hope was sinking in des.
pair, = let us now turn our eyes, and behold
and adore the goodness of the everything
God, who, in that moment of exultation to
the wicked, and depression to the faithful,
was pleased 10 lay the foundations of the
deiiverance which we now commemorate
y to cause it to be effected by a train o fevents
and instruments, which, at first, and through
the greater part of their progress were
seemingly so unpropitious or inadequate to
the accomplish ent of this happy and Won
derful work. When, six years ago. with a
peridy unparalleled, the usurper invaded
the Independence OF Spain, and led its Gn
snspecting prince into treacherous capfivi
ty when his armies overrun the country,
and his brother was seated, as the shadow
OF his authority, in the palace of Madrid,
mortal eyes considered the subj CATION OF
that devoted land, as not only ine yitab BILE in
itself, but as threatening materially to con
tribute towards the ultimate views of its
conqueror, in r%iyetting the chains of bon
dage on the rest OF Europe. And yet it is
now evident that this i%nordinate outrage on
Spain produced the germ Of that resistance,
which has laid the tyrant PROSTATE In the
dust. 1t is evident, that the noble struggle
in the peninsula, directed by the consum-
mate abilities of a spotless Leader, reared
up by Providence for the occasion, first
served to break the spell of Bonaparte's
invincibility, and materially aided, by its
success, the toilsome efforts, which the
north Of Europe was doomed to undergo
against the Unsuitable ambition of its devas-
tator'
When, in the further developement ofhis
plan, Napoleon penetrated with his count
less hosts into the bosom Of Russia, what
v~irtuous heart did not quake with anxiety
and fear as to the evcng o. 2 contest appa-
rently so unequal? And yet to the issue
of that contest is the world obviously in
debted for the union Of those means which
Divine Providence has employed in the late
redemption. In the very fulness of pre-
sunptuous insolence, on the instant of exc
cutting the haughtiest and most extravagant
threat of flaming wrath, the catastrophe of
the invader began to be unfolded. From
the flaming ruins of captive Moscow, the
holy ardour of patriotic enthusiasm, catch
ing redoubled blaze, spread forth with in
extinguishable ~luslre; vindictive justice
cleaned over the ranks Of the fell incendia-
ny and his gorgeous armament " melted
| away like wax. +" The myriads, with which
he had advanced, were dispersed and dri-
ven back, " like the ehaff which the wind
driveth away from the face of the earth"
In addition to the energy of Russian prov
ess, we bebeld the dement's of nature en-
ployed to complete the signal chastisement
of the enemy of man and defer of God
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