The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1835-02-20 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

BUONAPARTE. He was, like NAPOLEON, a man of extraordinary talent, but he was, like him, a scoundrel and a hypocrite. He made religion a cloak, because the ascendant religious impressions of his age were pharasaical, and he made religion the pretext for every invasion of civil liberty, and every exercise of despotic power. He had his.minions and his tools as BUONAPARTE had. Both were admired and supported by murderers. Crime called both into existence, as putrescent matter produces vermin, but short was the. period of their power and effulgence. Where is CaomWELL ? He lived, bated 6y all that is noble and good in the land. He died unlamented; and, singularly enough, his name is not borne by any family-or individual of any rank or station in the kingdom. We question if there be a single family of the name of CitoiewiLL in England. Louis PHILIPPE, too, in our own time, is the favoured child of revolution. He was raised to the throne of France by the same persons who raised BOONAPARTE to the imperial dignity. We have seen what the felons of the gaols, and the patriots of the hulks had to do with his elevation. He himself is the son of a heartless hypocrite —of as base a man as ever lived. Thereis treason'and guilt in the blood he derived from his father. He was placed .on the throne by. the vilest wretches that ever robbed or stabbed in the cause orliberty. Is his fate then to be different from that of Caoartrem or BUONAPARTE? This is a question whiclicannot be answered. M. LAPirra supported the republic—he supported the emperor—he swore fidelity. to tharestored monarchy—he contributed largely to the placing of Louis PHILIPPE on the throne. We mention LAPITTE'S name because, although one o the twenty thousand fools and charlatans who live in Paris, his name is best known. But can we fairly calculate upon the stability of the dynasty of the son of EGALITE, seeing that it had such founders ? We say that ail hiStory, all experience, all justice, is against the supposition. It must fall! The props are rotten—the heroes of the revolution are in gaol—its prime promoters are bankrupts—those who fomented the revolution are now the victims of it—those who wrote eloquently in favour of liberty are now enjoying undisturbed liberty in the fetid. prisons of Paris. Those who ventured their life and property, in order to consolidate the "best of all republics,' have had their houses burnt about their ears, their children massacred, their factories destroyed, without the slightest hope of contpensation. Witness Lyons ! That is a Phoenix in its ashes, which lifts its dying head, in order to protest against liberty and patriotism in France. Witness also the long terms of imprisonment and the heavy fines imposed upon the conductors of newspapers —upon the very persons who so largely contributed to place Louis PHILIPPE upon the throne. Far be it from us to regret that these literary scamps are punishedWe applaud the measures of BOONAPARTE, which kept their teeth and their pens in due order. They lied in the cause of liberty; and it was proper that they should not lie against its fruits. If some fifty or sixty of these gentlemen of the press were guillotined, it would be a kind service rendered to France and Europe, for- they richly deserve it; .but the punishment of one set of dishonest adventurers by another still more dishonest, is not a principle which we much admire. If the tools must be burnt, the piincipals must also shine in the grand oblation. The flame, to be impressive and exemplary, must be of the pitch profane, and the rosin red. 1_ Both must blaze or there is no justice done. • •