Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1818-02-17

lars.
I,xpect to leave this Tor Georgia the
first fair day. and will then have the
pleasure OF presenting for your cnnside
ration an exposition of facts and oi cum
Stances attending the present state OF at
iairs in the Creek uatior, upon which gu
can rely; :or | percci by the pubic pa
pers, that as usual false impres,p'Hs are
entertained, aud mere conjecture taken
for real facts.
am, &c. d r. MITCHELL.
From the baltimore Federal Republic n.
BoNAPARTE.
We had yesterdal, in presenting to
our rtsders summary Of the foreign in
telisence, occasion briefly to notice the
various arts adoptei by the cunning 81
DISCONTINUED men to disturb puoIic re-
pose. Men who ale born in tne ahirl-
wind Of political revolutions, VIA are
nursed upsn the bosom OF battle. who
have been familiar to hood and siaggh-
ter, sink 10 silence AID ObsCurity in the
season of public repose. They remain
at such time unnvticed aud unknown,
and they have no chance Of occupying
The space which they once did in Il G eye
of public admiration, but in another le-
volutiou. To etfectuate such an cbject,
no pan which cunning can contrive Or
execute will be left.unatIempted. II Boz
napar:e is so vigilant'y watched and
guarded as to leave all excrtions to eff
trct bis Liberation hopeless, then the Pab.
lie ear is filed with rumouEs OF his hard
Treatment. Letters PurpOrting TO have
been written from st. Helena, com
planning of .unjus,ifiable usage, aud bear
ing, to all aPpca; suce, the stamp OF au-
lhenticity, are presented TO the world
Before the frgery is detected and ex
posed, it has ans we ed its end il has
Jou.neyed over tive continents, and has
excited the sympathy of millions lor the
suffering COrsican, and when at last the
fraud is detected, it is snly succeeded
by another more imposing than The FIRST
The proselytes of BonspaTte are perfect
ly familiar in all the art and mystery Of
such deception it is part OF that sys-
TEN Of policy by which his tyranny was
founded, and by which it was afterwards
overthroun. Falsehood is a very sue
cessiul engine for season-but its effect
must in the course of human events be
temper airy only. How many,while read.
ing the suffering, Of Bouaparte. rea! or
imaginary, will be prone to forget the
cause of all these sufferings Where
was the same sensibility displayed when
this Corsican was carrying 6re and
sword from the cottage to the palace,
when the prints of his feet were seen in
human blood on the arid sands If Egypt,
or on the srows of Russia The distress
was so widely extended, we had become
50 familiar to sPectacles of misery IN
such horrible varieties, that our bosoms
were strangers to the throbs of sympa.
thy. They affected US far less than the
tales OF romance, and produced 4 sort Of
intellectual paralysis. Now when the
being who has been so oftcn the occasion
oil such suf.rings and of such multiplied
agonies, is merely debarred from an op.
Portunity to perpetrate such enormitics
again, we are called upon to shed tie
tear OF coincidence on his fate.
Let the question be fairly a.ked, how
it would be in the power Of thi, man to
repair the i"iuries that he has done p
The thins is impossible. What coppen-
sation is lie capable Of making TO the wi.
dows and orphans, ulinse husbands and
sires have been sacrificed at the shrine
oil an ambition that knew u other
Boundaries than those Of the universe !.
To mourn over his present confine ment
il only TO say in other words, that we
lament that more widows and orphans
have not been made, more cities and vii
ages WRAPPED in devouripg flanes-that
the earth ia fact has not already been
saturated with human blood. II such
are indeed our ideas, If the smiling vii
lager BY his fre,de surrounded by the
rudy countenances of his happy chill.
dren, ENJOYING in this cod season
the fruits OF his own indus.ry,-if spec
tac|es ike these occasion pam, the time
may come when we may BE- gratIfied to
the full extent Of our sangainary desire.
Our native land has no charter 1t ex-
enption tror, Heaven from su,h mutt.
Piled miseries. We nay not always be
able to amuse The dub ias,i,ude OF w:u-
ter eve:ing while sitting quietly on the
comfortable hearth, BY pegu,ing accsan $
Of blood ana MURDER, in Hhich the naT-