The Portland gazette. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1818-1824, 1818-09-08


they were either maintained or reprobated.
He examines for himself the management
of pubIick Affairs. His Judgment assenss 10
their correctness tie investigates the
characters of public men. lie is satisfied
| that they are intelligent and upright. NO
just or manly principle withholds him from
giving them his hearty support, But ne
calls himself federaiss and the name de-
priyes him Of publick confidence. NO mai
ter how much he is beloved, no matter how
great his talents he must renouncc his
party before he can be trusted And II do
ing this although he reDounces no princi
pie that his judgment sanctIons,or his heart
holds sacred he must incur the inputstionI
Of apostacy. and become an object OF con-
tempt or hatred with one party,and jealousy
and distrust with the other Unless he
does this, lie can be Of no service to his
country, except in private capacity. la
this view o. the subject, The perpsluation OF
The present party appellauyes IS directly cal
culaled to exclude one portion OF the rising
generation from publick service, who have
done nothing to forfeit publick esteem, but
adopt the party name OF their fathers,
What must be the effect of this i is easy to-
foretell The states will still have Findleys
and Ridgeleys for go9ernours, and the U
States Rushss and Campbels for foreign
minister's CHARLES HAMMOND
gentleman of Newburyport, lately re-
turned from Europe, took an opportunity,
last spring, Of visiting The spot where the
famous battle Of Waterloo was fought. The
person who conducted him 10 the spot was
the same who attended Bonaparte and his
staff, as tenogrsphical guide, on the me-
morable 18th of June LIE info med
that Oh The battle field an extensive plain
was raised, the last year, an uncommonly
luxuriant crop OF wheat and we'll IT might
for it was ierili2ed by the blood OF 10000
soldies, who fell in that sanguinary battle.
The surface Of the ground over the PIT in
which were thrown many thousands ofthe
slain, both mea and beasts in one common
mass, is sunk considerably lower than the
surrounding earth, and distinctly marks the,
extent of this vast cemetry,
The chronological account Of the principal
events fthe life OF Bonaparte, says Mr.. Cole
man, naturally leads the mind back to the |
splendid military achievements OF this once
formidable Terror Of the European continent.
The battles OF Marengo, Auserlitz, Dresden,
Hohenlinden, Jena, Moskwa, Leipsic, &c. &c.
will live while there is an admiger Of military
genius on earth. Born in ajaccio, Of Y par |
entage obscure" at the age Of Ten years he
was placed in the military school OF Brienne,
where his proficiency was SO great, that in
1888, being then only twenty-four years Of
age, he was appointed general OF brigade. In
1896, he had the entire command Of the army
of Italy, and during that year Tough. the bat
ties OF Lodi, Castligone and Arcoa. AT The |
age OF thirty the battle Of Marenso was fought,
where he obtaneda brilliant victory over the
most scientific and consunmate general Of that
day, the archduke Charles. Indeed The whole
history Of this mans life, up to the cath June,
1915, en- which day the battle Of Waterloo
took place, has been continued and uninter
rupted series Of good fortune. The mind Of
man when buheting with the rough current
of adversely, must necessarily undergo some
depression. Not 50. with Napoleon hen
severed from Empire, Wife and Child, anG
exiled TO barren rock in the midst OF the
African ocean, has mind suffered no change
In the very tempest and whirwind OF the
storm which apparently engulphed him and
his fortunes in irretrieyable ruin, we find his
inexhausible and energetic mind acquiring
strength and towering sublime above the fee
bic and impotent schemes devised by the ALI
ed powers for his detention. He arrived at
Eliza Oh the 8lh May, 1914, and in March
following reascended the throne OF France
without solitary drop Of blood being shed
Two months after he took up bis line Of march
| at the head OF a hundred thousand men, a
gainst the combined British and PIusslan ar
mics. This great battle decided the des-
TIMES of France. Napoleon's sun sci in night
on the carnage -strewea plains Of Waterloo.
The fatal ambition Of this man has caused
more bloodshed, than has probably before de-
luged the European world for centuries Be-
ing prisoner for life, St. Helena may be con-
sidered bis final home---his grave. Although
we have not now as much interesting ne7vs as
when Napoleon was subduing Russia, Prussia
and Spain, we are contsnt, and acquiesce in
THE justice Of bis fate, Europe, since his in
carceration, has enjoyed profound peace
and her fields loace crlmsoned with human
gore, are teeming with the fruitful productions
of the earth, amply rewardng The husband