Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1818-11-12
ALEXANDRIA,:
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1e, 1918.
OLIVER CROMWELL AND BoHAPARTE.
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paid TO that execrated man Cromwell, stop
here When his SON. in-law died, the whole
legislature went into mourning for him, and
the foreign ambassadors paid him visits OF
coincidence. The corpse of his mother,
the br. wer, was, notwithstanding the law
against luxury, buried in great pomp, and
even deposited in Westminster Abbey
| The parliament expressed wish, on the
part IF the nation, that the protectorate
should be hereditary in his family, and the
deputies congratulating him on the occa.
sion, knelt and kissed his hand. Jews, es-
teemng him the true Messiah, came out of
Asia, and he was so hattered with that RI
diculous circumstance thathe granted them
an immediate audience, which was an I'M
usual thing with him. But when they were
afterwards simple enough to go TO Hunting
don, bis birth place, in order TO ascertain
whether be was really descended from
Jewish family, Cromwell, who would will
lingly have rrided himself on antiquity OF
ancestry, was so much exasperated. parti-
cularly as a satirical pamphlet then appear
ed. bearing the title of Cromwell, the
Lion of the Tribe of JUDAH" that he drove
them out of his dominions.-Spain. which
once strained every sinew to de,hrone the
good and glorious Henry w., because he
sas not a true Catholic, now deputed one
of its greatest courtiers, Den Alphonso de
Cardenas, as ambassador to Cromwell, the
chief of the heretics, and that ambassador
, requested an audience of him as if he had
been king. The Jealousy Of Portugal in
duced her TO brbe the commons by BAN
quets. France received Cromwell's SON.
in-law, Falconbridge. in the most sump-
tuous and princely manner, and the naughty
cardinal Mazarin placed him in the ball on
his right hand--an honor which he had ne
yer before vouchsaled TO any foreign am
bassador. The duke de Cregui was also
sent TO London ilgreat pomp, 10 congratu-
late Cromwell, and this also was distinc-
ton which had hitherto been confined TO
the greatest pUtentates.-He was more or
less fattered by other courts, which sought,
either out Of fear or self-interest, to make
sure of bis friendship. As usual, Denmark
distinguished itself by the manliness of its
conduct. The Dutch also, on account of
the princess of Orange, who was daugh-
ter Of the decapitated monarch, behaved
with great reserve to him. But no power
ven'ured TO declare openly against Crom-
well, except Russia, which retained no. only
political but moral dignity; for when Crom-
wells ambassador reached the confines Of
that empire, the car ordered him to retire
and 90 back 10 his own country, "heing
resolved not to receive mission from rob-
bers, rebels, and regicides."
And after all what was the end of Crom-
well and his pretended commonwealth Of
England why, in space ofscarcely ~
years, monarchy, rebellion, -egicide, re-
publicanism, protectorate, horrible ty-
ranny, feeble successor, again republi-
canism, and finally monarchy again Fri.
umphed in Britain. The greater part of
Charlcs's judges died by the hands Of the
eycoutioncr. Cromwell's memory bran
ded with infamy his corpse was dug up by
the common hangman-and, after being
burned under the gallows, IFS ashes We're
strewed before the wind. His family pinned
in poverty; his widow was compelled by
want TO marry a country clergyman; and
his children were only pardoned on condi-
ton that they should never show their faces
in the metropolis.
AT this day few are so ignorant ofthe cha
racter of Bonsparte as &c he unable TO Judge
for himself how far il forms parallel to
that of Cromwell His future fate and
that of his family is yet uaknown-but it
is consolatory TO think that they are secured
By the superior refinement and humanity OF
the times in which they live from the I'M
worthy treatment bestowed upon the corpse
and family Of Cromwell; treatment Which,
whatever the protector might have deser-
we'd, was in the highest degree disgraceful
TO those who inflicted il.
Aswe are upon the subject of that extra
ordinary man, we think it may be ANU
sing TO our readers TO furnish them with
few adages which Cromwell was much in
the habit Of repeating they will help to
throw light upon the general character of
his mind
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