The National Register. — 1815-08-06 (London, England)

BUONAPARTE. 4. i ' "" ' . . . ..!,•747. tl;-.1 ;I.* seek in vain for that world, once filled with his power and the prey of his ambition—to live) and to know himself What a chaage have a few weeks produced! On the forgotten, or if not forgotten, remembered as an examp;e Ist of June the Field of Mali was holden. Seated on the of the phrenzy of man and the judgements of God—to imperial throne in the midst of his brothers, the representa- I lire, and to Ael that he owes the breath he draws and the fives of the land assembled before him, and all France at I food he consumes to the mercy and charity of the nation i his feet, Napoleon presented a new Constitution. The he most envieds and most threatened) is to endure a mental flourish of trumpets„•the waving of a thousand banners, hell, which disarms death of all its tereors, and makes the the firing of a thousand cannons proclaimed its acceptance. grave appear a welcome home. Those, therefore, who lie took and received the oath. of fidelity. Hosts of vetepretend that to render his punishment commensurate ran warriors, of national guards and Federates defiled in with his guilt, he should be brought to the seatiold) all the pomp of military parade before him, and when his either speak without reflection or else are hand; presented them with new eagles and colours, their his secret wellwishers. Some, more insiduously still, urge the propriety acclamations rent the sky. Countless multitudes caught of trying him for the murder of Captain Wright, and letthe enthusiasm of the hour, a profusion of rash vows rose ting his future fate abide by the issue. They know that to Heaven, and consenting Paris shook with peals of fes - this charge rests on assertions; that no evidence can be tire thunder.—On the Ist of August, solitary and sad, Napoleon stands a captive on the deck of the Bellerophon. prodaced. Wile are the witnesses who could be brought forward ; and if they were found, what authority could Of all the relatives, of all the friends, of all -the multitudes ? compel their attendance All that is certainly known is . of warriors and citizens which: ]lately strrounded him and 1 that Captain Wright died in a French prison under cireueeswore to die in his defence, only a felt officers remain, with 1 stances which justify a strong suspicion that his own hand their wives and children, the companions of his flight, and d the order is come to separate them from him and send them did not perpetrate the deed. If he was murdered, none but back to punishment and death. He learns that a rock in the secret executioners could prove the fact, and even then it would remain to show that Buonaparte gave the order. a boundless ocean, lashed with incessant storms without, Would Fouche condescendingly open the records of the the abode of sterility within, is fixed for his habitation. and Police, and throw a sufficient light upon the subject to his grave. He looks round, and beholds the deep covered i criminate himself, in case our unfortunate countrymen with crowds from whose lips no sound of admiration, no should really have fallen under the daggers of his agents ? voice of pity breaks. Beyond, he descries those hills he In all probability the. result of the trial would be the . longed to climb as a conqueror, those vales whose fertility acquittal of the accused, not perhaps because he 'a as innohe hoped to reap, that country, whom he vainly boasted he cent, but for want of proof. Then how great would be would subdue, whose strength after twenty years of w,al. his triumph and that of his friends. For, having once has broken down his empire, and whose merry now been subjected to the, operation of our laws, and in case spares his life! After such a picture, weakened rather than exaggerated of his conviction 'exposed to the execution of their sen,. ' fence, in case of acquittal he must also .be trrateduccorof the revolution, which, with the rapidity of a dream has ding to those laws ; which direct the liberation of every hurled this extraordinary character from the summit of human greatness to the depths of misery, it may well be prisoner found not guiltli of the crime laid to his charge. ) who recommend that Napoleon should asked what severer punishment' could be inflicted upon Those) therefore be tried, only aim at procuring his liberty. ' They him than prolonged existence ? Yet, there are writers naturally enough attempt to conceal their purp,»c who ptetend to be his enemies and who wish to to ate . rot. 11 No.