The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1827-09-06
FROM SIR W.aLrER SC0TT5 LIFE or
AAfOLEON,
JUST PUBLISHED

| Intended INFUSION Of England. -Buonas
parte seems not To have cnartalned tho
| least doubts Of success, could he have sue.
ceeded in dlsombarklDg his army. A sin.
gle general action was TO decide the iutd
OF England. Five days were TO bring Ma
roleon 10 London, whore he was TO perform
The part of William the Third, but with
more generosity and Observation-Disclosures. Ho
was to call meeting OF the inhabitants, re.
store them what he calls their rights, and
destroy the oIigarchicul faction. A few
months would not, according 10 his account
have elapsed, ere tho two nations, late such
determined enemies, wouldhave been iden-
lifted by their principles, their inaxims,
their interests. The full explanation uf
this gibbersh dor i, can be termed no bet.
ter, even proceeding from the lips o. Ma.
poleon,) IL 10 be found elsewhere, when no
spoke a language more genuine than that
of the MouIteur and the bulletins Eng
land he said, must have ended, BY be.
coming an appendage TO the France o. mn
systom. Nature hns made it one Of oar s-
lands, a. well Hs Oleron ana Corsica It
IS impossible not to pursue the tram Of re.
Elections which Buonaparte coniinucd'ro
pour forth to the companion Of his exile, on
the rock Of 81. Helena. When England
was conquered. and Unidentified with France
in maxims and principles, according TO ono
form Of expression, or rendered all appen-
dagc and dependency according 10 anoth-
or phrase, the reader may suppose that
Bonaparte would have considered his mis-
sion as accomplished. Alas it was not
much more than commenced. would
have departed from thence from subiuga-
ted Britain to carry the work Of European
regeneration that il, the extension Of his
own arbitrary authority from south TO north
under the republican cOIors, for ! was then
chief consul, in the same mannet which
was more lately on tho point Of achieving
It under the monnrclical forms When
We find such IDEAS retaining hold Of Napo-
Icons Imagination, and urisIngtO his tongue
after his irrctreyablc fall, IL is impossible
TO avoid cXclaiIning, Did ambition ever COM
celye 30 Wild a dream. and had 30 wild
vision ever tUImlGgiIun 30 disastrous and
IL may be expected that
something should be here said. upon the
changes which Britain would have had Of
defending herself successfully against the
army Of INVADERS We are willing 10 ac-
knowledge that the risk uust have been
drcadful and that Buonaparte with his ge-
MUS aud his army, must have inflicted So
we're calhmi,ies upon country which had
so long enjoyed the blessings ofpeoce. But
the people were unanimous IN their pur-
pose Of dcloucC, and their forces composed
If materials 10 winch Buon1psrtc did moro
Justice whrn he cIr7e TO be better acquant-
cd With thcm or tie three British nations
the English have sfDce shown themselves
possessed Of the same steady valor which
won the fields of CTesscy and Agncourt,
Benhe im and Minden; the Irish have not
lost the fiery enthusiasm which has distin-
gushed them IN all the countries Of Europe;
nor have the Scots degcnera,ed frou tho
stubborn courage with which their ances.
tors for 1000 years maintained their inde-
pendence against superior enemy. l..
ven if London had been lost, we would not,