Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1821-10-22
From tas Hanioaal Gdvoeuse.

PoLEoS BoNAPARTE.
From the slight notice in the French pa
pers, of the decease Of this great man, ana
the assertion in the English journals, 'nat
the intelligence of his death has occasioned
no excitement in Frsnce, it might be suppo'
sed that the people OF that country had not
only ceased to admire the splendid achieve
menis OF their Emperor, bot had reconclieo
their minds to the sway ofthe BuuIbons, and
to the restraints which that family has impo'
sed upon liberty, since its restoration to the
throne. This, however, is by no means the
case. The press is silent, only because the
government has said it shall not speak; and
the complaints of the people are not heard,
because they would subject themselves to ru.
iuous prosecutions. if they ventured to pub
Iish ;hem TO the world. In this degraded
state, it is in vain 10 look TO the French press
for a Development OF public feeling on any
great national question. Excepting now
and then, a garbled report ofthe proceedings
of the legislative body, we learn as lite
from the Paris journals of the political stale
of France, as we do Of the empire Of China,
or of the extensive duminions Of the Cham
of Tsrtary.
That the people of France have so soon
forgotten Napoleon, is what no rejecting
mind viii! admit. There is, indeed, every
reason to believe. that the majority have al
ways been attached to him, and that they
would at tins moment readily embark in a.
ny likely project which had in view 'he ex-
pulsion of the r%eigning family. and the ele.
walton of young Napoleon to the Imperial
purple. The following letters, which we Sc
Iect from a great number published in late
English papers. while they show the extent
of this feeling, suggest TO The mind prospects
respecting France which encourage the hope
that she will one day emerge from her pre-.
sent ~thraldoN, and resume that elevated
rank among nations. to which her imposing
situation gives her a Legitimate claim.
Extract Of letter from an English gentle
man OF. a tour, dated Nantes, seventeenth
July.
"Tlie news of the death Of Bonaparte has
made a grea, sensation here, and | have had
| much trouble to convince the French families
/ associate With, that he did come to his
| end by fair means,a as they have a strong idea
that he was attended by the medical men Of
our country only. They buoy the ns.lyes
up with the hope hat his son may be able to
do something in the course of . or s years,
and the probability is as generally oanvassed
as any other topic OF conversation, and from
what | observe, there will be a struggle
whenever king Louis is relieved from his
troubles of this world. There are frequent
duels between the military and the young
men of this city, who are to a man libereaux
SO much so that a regiment has ately been
sent away that the officers might have a
! chance OF saving their lives.
(Lstter dated at Paris, Jply IL, 1921
4 " VIA q "CSNN y f'sSSh VIZ " "ds
known at Paris tina, Napoleon was no more:
~ have delayed writing till | could inform
you of he efectofthis important intelligence
II do not mean on The funds, for no human
being in Paris thought of the connection, ill
| they saw The idea IN the Eng ilsh Journals;
sentiments and calculation OF a much higher
nrHor tn,naitof.lv or,upt.l a.. .,:t r
FrencEmen OF all classes. The rumor had
been so oft repeated, that on its first %circula-
lion, it was met by the smile Of pleasantly
and unbeiirt; buI when The same telegra, J.
which had 50 frequently rpprised his aston
isi,ed capital OF the rapid progress Of his
camp, and the splendid triumph OF his arms.
commenced ie mystic muvemsn,s-when
official lip. proclaimed The fact, and it WAS
announced to the ruling sovereign unbelief
gave place TO stupid CONSERVATION and de.
spair. | first heard the truth from a deputy
of the extreme gauche. who was warmly OPP
posed to Napoleon; but who had neverthe.
less proposed with others that bis person
should be placed under the protection OF the
honor OF the French people. He had fine
conceptions, said he, land did many grear
things, hut surrounded by emigres and the
same miserab!es, who are ASlering and To-
sing Louis, II is no wonder that he was be-
low IN virtue, his station IN talent, and that
he committed grsa I faults. His death may be
YET seIYlcoable 10 the Cause OF lihertyW