Delaware gazette and peninsula advertiser. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1814-1820, 1817-05-28
Memoir of Bonaparte.

in London, the manuscript OF which
is stated in Bells Weekly Messen-
ger, to have been sent by Bonaparte
70 England. enclosed in packet.
The Messenger (received at this
etIice) has the following notice of
the work.
The first sipgularity in the work
(Which is only published in Fre,m'J
is the abrupt, and as il were. passion.
ate style of the writer a style, which
has 80 VIGOROUSLY the characterize
manner of Bonapa1te, AS to be an ar
gument nett her ON the one side or the
other for the au,ileneity Of the work.
Tie narrative (for such it Isl ~
throughout in the first person. The
book is an octave volume of $50 pa
ges, and the subject is running
commentary upon the principal events
oil the military and civil life of Napo
Icon. Oat limits vii not admit vi
heightened cri,,, isias /; ba~ $40 nins'
notice, in passing, one or more O, IT,
most striking passages. We begin
will, the preface which is hold enough
and short enough.
81 shall write no commentary.
Tile world has seen my reign, and ]
feel no disposition dlimenter Ia Gu
riosite publiqne to purvey for public
curiosity. But l shall briefly run
yer the main events of my life for two
reasons. l care nothing for the PIE
ssnt times but let me stand as l am
before my son and posterity.
"This is my motive for writing !:
am compelled to resort to an indi-
rect means Of rendering this nara
tive public. Should l send it to the
English Ministry, it would remain tnr
ever inthe Office which it should first
reach.
s. This is the whole of the Preface
the Work then commences with a
narrative of his early life, his ednca-
tion, Sc. but which are all dispatched.
each in lis turn, with sentence.--
Some Of these condensed members
are very striking-some even acute,
and all are characteristic. We SHALL
subjoin few of them.
/" I succeeded in every thing he.
cause resolved to succeed. My will
was strong. looked at the point,
and precipitatcd myself towards IL.
1 carried all difficulties by assault and
as few difficulties are mails Of brass,
they fell before me. The secret oil
my success has been, that l never
hesitated."
" The best part Of courage, or ra-
sher courage itself, is in the wili,--in
vigorous but deciticdresoiution. isnt
shis will, the faculty Of thus Willing.
is not matter Of choice il is The
siff of natural iirmness." But ths
French here so much more expressive
shan any translation, that VIC are in
iueed to aid it. Do Val0nte de.
pend au reste, dc Ia treHipe de fndi-
ridu i; il n appdrtion raS chde'lun
d etre nlitre chez hi"
81 derived no advantage from any
study hut the mathematics. rea,.
Indeed all, because 1 would not be
ignorant Of what was known to those
around me. But long and methodical
arguments of these writer's on morals,
law, and history, seemed so much
beating about the bush I j saw their
object ut once in history wanted
only the fact, and in morals ! saw the
reasons in the hook Of the world be-
fore mel very early accustomed
myself to impress u distinct idea. a
picture in full of every subject in my
own mind II then closed my eyes and
ears, and examined il as it it were in
the silence and darkness OF self refiec-
ton. This is the secret OF my strong
conceptions, which were in fact onl,
clear conceptions"
al was first under fire when a
LieuteDant in small action with the
Genevese. My natural GOODNESS and
habit Of attentively looking at the az
fair before me, made me at once &.
soldier, and date my military abili
ty from ,his moment. ! saw that boti.
parties merely occupied themselves in
firing strait forwards at each other !:
and that this mode promised nothing
decisive on either side both parties
fighting merely to discharge their
duty. SAW Hill at small distance !;
/ saw that it commanded their rear,
and | concluded that it tell on them
from that post should decide the
battle. | took small body OF men !;
I nniln tie movement. and gained,