Alexandria gazette, commercial and political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1812-1817, 1817-04-21
ALEXANDRIA:
HOyND.4F. .fPRH 81, 1917.
rup LETTERS OF MIR. WARDEN,

Al least the small specimen we have
,,d of them in the National Intelligencer,
,,. extremely interesting. The style is
:, ,Sst clear, unaffected kind which con-
,ftu,es the principal charm in good
,ui.tolary writing, and casts over nara
~, an air Of authenticity aud truth. No
n. that lives in "this breathing world"
more devOutly execrated the projects and
,vactices OF Bonaparte than myseit-no
one more abhOrred the man, or, as | was
won't to call him, the monster, or regard
ID him with less mercy, or even chris
tan charity than l did while he had the
Uore, 10 Do mischief; and indeed such
"A. tbs mixture o. horror and hat-e2, OF
doubt and apprehension with which al
vars ccnteuplatehhis character, while he
uOs:essed TIE power Of doing harm, alb
,uIvsd as he seemed to all moral res
trsnt. fro,n all awe Of God Oc man, frem
every check OF conscience or remorse;
that used to consider every thing IN
life prccarious that lay within his rcach'
and had at length come to consider the
Intelligence from Europe as positively fe.
gr;tous when it contained no account OF
some new enormity Of his penetrating
In cOmmon with all who thought OF
French affairs as dill, his progress filed
me With CONSERVATION, and gave up my
heart 10 the merciless policy of fear. Blu
he has fallen, X | am now desirous to 60
mere than half way to meet any circum-
stance that cen be p.eaded IN mitigation
OF mis- offences. l feel desire to hear
that his motives were not always as
black as his actions aud though con-
slider the jacobin doctrine that "the end
iustiies the means as perfectly damna-
bic, vet having for years thought that ms
ends we're as sagitious as bis means, and
IN short that his soul was all shade with.
oat one ray of light, | now, that he has be
csme the subject Of harmless contempla'
tioa, tesI disposition such a. | believe i
christian ought TO feel, to receive w.t.!
pleasure, every information that has ;
tendency 10 redeem him from the imputa
ton Of being a perfect unaIlOyed devil
J remember that once abhOrred AMI re-
sarded as a vc.y Eend, the celebrated
SRrarr9F-his slaughter in cold blood o.
$4,000 Turks at Ismail, made an impres
sion on my mind which Ills services
against the French in Italy could nere
sface-bct confess that it little pal
hated nv abhOrrence of the man, though
rot OF the deed. that he acted under
cersua. ion that II would be ultimately be-
nefcial to mankind to rcnde, war as ter,
rible as possible. An execra' lie doctrine
but stiil so !ar applicable TO the argument
as il Showed that however bad the acI
was, the mans motive was not founded
in pure maleyolepce- The operations oil
the human Judgment however, are SC
constantly retracted by the association oil
collateral ideas, that it is very hard when
a man has lpng been regarded asa Satan
in propria persona, TO think OF MIN with
out conceit Of smelling birthstone. \
sublime niea is thing that warm ina
sination does rot Ike to part with, and &c
make Eonapartc appear less than the de.
vii himself, would be 10 strip his charac-
ter of great part of that submit. (which
affords 30 much delightful speculation to
the curious in such thiags. Every act Of
Napoleon, even his eat ne mutton cut
lett with his pare fingers, must BY ASSOC
citation have something dire in it. His
sneezing must be a volcano, as furious as
lEtna, and the noise Of his watch.chsin
the clanking of letters in He'll. 1t is re-
lated of an acute, sensible, good natured
lawyer in England, that was much Injured
to association, that having read that when
Kotzebue was Pardoned by Iaat the
mad Of Russia, the first sounds of liberia
non that reached that exile's ears, were
the words Sc n-n,nRnlrIain s1c6bodnio eYeI