Alexandria gazette, commercial and political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1812-1817, 1815-09-04
ALEXANDRIA:
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 4.
What is to be done acitk Bonaparse /?

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What is to be done acitk Bonapar.e 2
The London Courier is supposed to
speak the language of the ministry or
at least to contain no material misre-
presentations Of the views of the cabinet
and in what it now says concerning the
fate of Bonaparte, is entitled to, at least,
some confidence. In that paper of july
ED we find long editorial article, on
this subject, too long for republication en-
tire, at this time, from which we make
1.-THE following interesting extract:
That Bonaparte is at length secur-
ed that he 6 who kept the world in awe"
lis deprived of all further power to do
mischief, is an advantage the ip,por-
ltance of which cannot be duly appreciat-
led, without contemplating the possible,
may probable, consequences of his having
been able to secrete himself or to escape.
Had he got to America, who would have
pronounced it chimerical speculation
that he might have obtained great sway
in the United States, or that he might
have procured vast influence in those
provinces of South America which are
new in arms against Spain All these
lchances are at an end-all these appre-
lhensions are now idle. But it is by
weighing these things, by considering the
danger that might have occurred had he
escaped that we are able to feel and ap-
lpreciate the full value of his having sur
rendered himself to US. Another point
lis, that he has thereby placed the seal
|of condemnation upon all those calum-
MES which for years he has spread in
speeches and in writings against this
country. He has given himself up to
Ia people whose destruction he had mena.
ICED e attempted, & whose power e very
existence he pronounced to be incompati-
|ble with the welfare OF the rest of Europe,
stimulated and confirmed in this hatred
|by Fouche, among the rest, Fouche. now
Louis the 18th's confidential minister,
who in his letter to Collot d 'Herbois, dat
ed from Toulon, breathed the following
|" wish Let the perfdious and fero-
IS cious English be assailed on all sides ?
Is Let the whole republic form but one
IS volcano to vomit upon them its devour-
'' ing lava! Let the Infamous island
e which produces these monsters, who
ss no longer belong to humanity, be for
Sc ever buried in the waves of the
re sea-"
"In going on board British ship of
war, he surrendered himself to the Bri.
ltish Government, whose officer capt.
Maitland was, Let US net be supposed
for moment that IN discussing this
Question. We moan TO pall;ata Tho Aaer-
nous crimes of Bonapsste, or to contend
that they do not deserve condign pu-
nishment. But the question is simply
this: Bonaparte voluntarily surrenders
himself prisoner of Var into the hands
of the Prince Regent of Great Britain
and the law Of nations prescribes that
as soon as your enemy had laid down his
arms and surrendered his person; you
have ne lenger any right over his lite.
IF it be said that he paid no regard to the
laws of nations, and has no right to their
protection, it may be answered that his
former violation of them would afford as
no justification in violating them ourselves
Especially when he is no longer in any
lcondition to repeat that violation. But
then comes the answer of our ether re-
spectacle contemporary. " Deliver him
|up to the justice ofhis injured sovereign"
Why he could have done that himself
without our interference. But as he did
not do it, as he surrendered himself to us,
and we receive him, he must have sur
rendered himself under the conviction
that he should receive an ASYLUM, which
conviction we confirmed by the act of
receiving him-or capt. Maitland would
have refused receiving him. 1t seems
therefore, that we cannot give him up
that we shall afford him an asylum
that his life will be spared but that
we shall have him In such safe custody
that he shall not be able to disturb again
the repose or the security of the verdi"
". z. Evsning Post.
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