Southern telegraph., 1837-07-18

ubiqailyl Tho wholo contineu, Of EuoDe
iromblefat beholding the audaciiy Of his
designs, aud The miracle Of their execution.
ScePticism bowed to the prodigies of bis
performance; romance assumed the sir Of
history nor was there aught too incredible
ior belief, or too fancifll fir expectation,
when the world saw subalten Of Corsica
waving bis imperial fllg over her mlst an
rlent capituls. All the visions Of antiquity
became common places in his coniempla-
lion; kings were his people--nqtions we're
his outPuSts; aud he disposed Of courts, and
crowns, and camps, and churches, and cab.
nets, as If they were the titular dignitaries
Of the chesshoard!
Amid oil these changes he stood immu-
table as adamant. Itmaterod little, whe-
ther in the field or drawing room-wiih the
mob or levse-wearing the acobin blnnet
or tia iran crown -heni-l.;as a Rraess,,sa
or espousing IIapsburgh--dictaiing peace
on raft 10 the Czar Of Russia. or contem-
plating defeat at tho gaIlows Of Leipsic-he
was still The same milinry despot!
Graded in the camp, he was TO the last
hour the darling of the army; and whether
in the camp or in the cabinet, he never
forsooka a friend or forgot favor. 0falI
his soldiers not one abandoned him, till af-
lection was useless; and their first slipala-
lion vas or lhc safety Of their IavoIitc.
They knew we'll ihat ifshe was lavish
s. hsln, ha Was prodig;l Of himself; and
! II ed lIloln to pcril, he repaid
NiiH |anaer For The soldier he
people % tho people he
tribute. Tho yicto-
od Withhis gains; and
bis with the spoils ot art,
iHao metropolis Of the uni.
fele wonderful coordination, his
aa aem|ure must not be omitted.
Tie .iIsg e The press, heallected the pat
T S. oi |ee lIe proscaber Of books,
eHa philosophy --lhe Rersccator
ulhaE and BE murderer o printers,
hp pretended h he protection Of learn.
lnN thc assaesif III Palm,lhe silencer OF
ael, aad ao dcnouncerof Kotzcbue,
IS lie friend Of David, The henefactor
- isle, and sent bis academic prize to
lhe philosopher of EngIand.t
e|I niediey Of contradictions, and al
the zame islne such an Individual cOnsis-
teney were never united in the same char.
acter. A royalist--a republican ant
an Emperor Mahometan--a Catholic
and a patron Of tho synagogue snbal
tern aud sovcrcign--a traitor and ty'
rant--a Christian and an irfidel-hc was
through all his vicissimdes, tho same stern
impatient, inlloxible originaI--the same
mysterious, incomprehensiblc sclf-iho mar
without model, and withouta shadow.
His fall, like his Iilc, baillod all specula-
tion. In short, his whole history was like
dream to tho world, and no man can tel
how or why he was awakened from the re-
verie.
Such is a faint and feeble picture Of Ma
poleon Bonapartc, the first, (and it is to be
hoped the Ias) Emperor Of the French.
That he has done much evil, there is H.
lie doubt; that he has been the origin ID
much good, there is just as little: Through
his means, intentional or not, Spain, Portu-
gal, and France, have arisen to the hles.
sings Of free constitution; superstiti'ion
has found her grave in the ruins of tho in
quisllion;t and the feudal spstem, with its
whole train Of tyrannic satellites has fled
forever. Kings may learn from him that
their safest study, as wellas their noblest, is
the interest Of the people; the peopIe are
taught by him that there is no disposition
so stupeudOns, against which they have
not a recourse; and to those who woult
rise upon the ruins Of both, he is Il living
lesson, that ifambition can raise them from
the lowest station, it can also prOstrate then
fromthe highest.
-
ain his hypocritical cant for Liberty, in the
commencement of the Revolution, he assumed
the name of BSutus. Pro PG,!or!
+Sir Humphrey Davies was transmitted the
first prize of the Academy Of Sciences.
tWhat mclanholy reflections does this sen
tcnce awakcn But three years have elapsef
since it was written, and in that short space, nj
the good effected by Napoleon has been erasc'
by the legilimates, and the most questionable
parts of his character badly initiated! His sue
cessors want nothing but llls genius.
MAN ANn WOMAN