The Lancaster Herald, and Town and County Advertiser. — 1831-12-24 (Lancaster, Lancashire, England)

GREY AND M. NECKER." On this article WC have a few observations to make. As the title purports, it is a parallel drawn between the patriotic premier of England and tile celebrated father of De Stael—and, as a matter of course, the French financier .is charged with the sin of subverting the government of his country, and Earl Grey is warned, by such example, to desist from pursuing a similar course here. The most singular circumstance connected with this most audacious libel is, that in order to prove the justice of the imputation that attaches to Necker the responsibility of having caused the disasters and horrors of the French Rfievolution, the opinion of Napoleon Bonaparte, retcorded in Bourienne's memoirs, is produced! Bonaparte--the professed champion of liberty—the real establisher of thraldom—he who.opposed, with determined hostility, one despotism, that he might the more easily erect an4ewho shamefully restricted the freedom of the Aied, with savage and unrelenting animosity, such ccturageous individuals as dared to dispute s Yi}tra.tioarehical doctrines, and ventured to in'culcate virtuous and enlightened views on political subjects—Bonaparte—a selfish, imperious, heartless, cruel, vindictive, and fortunate adventurer! to whom, Religion was a bye-word, and Faith a mockery taillicious pastime, and murder a venial act; r.eigated to himself the attributes of a God, nil, with the sacred name of liberty continually on  his lips, trampled upon the rights of individuals, and crushed the privileges of nations !—this is the man chosen by the writer in the Gazette to preach the doctrines of wise government,—this man, whose insolent dominion was overthrown by British arms on the plains of Waterloo, is selected as the oracle of the Lancaster Gazette!  We are not among the number of those who reverence talent, because it is talent. 'We look to its application. We should find it difficult, perhaps impossible, to prostrate ourselves before Mind alone. It is the union of mind with moral greatness that we have been accustomed to respect; and this union we believe, did not belong to Bonaparte. "There is nothing great," says Seneca, "but what is virtuous, nor indeed truly great, but what is composed and quiet." We have never yet seen it clearly proved, that, even in intellectual qualifications, the haughty despot of France rose superior to the generality of men! In what, if it existed, was this superiority evinced? It has been well remarked by a recent historian, "that Bonaparte was not made to sway events, however fit to sway mankind. War he always found made to his hand." Mankind may be swayed, for a season, by fools or madmen :—such has been the case, and such may be the case again. But to influence events—to bend them into the direction of one simple will, demands the exercise of higher faculties, the aid of stronger powers, than history warrants us in supposing were possessed by Napoleon. There is probably only one man of the present day, to whom these glorious capabilities belong. England has the honour to call him her son—and the people of England, their friend. But to "Lotto