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the energy of a conspirator, and unrestrained by religion or mercy, he determined to strike off the head which he thought unfit for a crown. In the rapid march of fate his own soon fell. Insulted with the semblance of trial, convicted without proof, condemned unheard, he roared, in a voice of thunder, "I have been told, and now believe, that the punishment of man is the fruit of his crime. Wretches? I gave you the power of dooming innocence to death, and I, by your doom, must die. The same justice shall overtake those who sent me here and you also." The voice of the savage was prophetic.

the decencies of private life. Yet they found adherents here! This country is not without bankrupts, both in fortune and in fame; nor fiery spirits promoted by ambition. There are among us some who, wishing to be great, disdained to be good; who, in pursuit of riches and power, indifferent to right and wrong, take the nearest way. Many too, there are, who ignorantly swallow every idle tale.Many who, puffed up with conceit, will no longer listen to truth when she offers instruction. A mind bloated by vanity loves to feed on falsehood, and drink the flattery by which its dropsied understanding is drowned. But Those who slaughtered their prince, and in that moment when crowned heads in Eumade havoc of each other; those who endea-rope crouched to the French directory, an invoured to dethrone the King of Heaven, and sult aimed at the honour of America was inestablish the worship of human reason-who stantly resented. This dignified conduct of placed, as representative of the Goddess of the new world astonished the old. Our charReason, a prostitute on the altar which piety acter was raised to the highest pitch. Raised, had dedicated to the Holy Virgin, and fell alas! only to be precipitated, by the impedown and paid to her their adoration, were, at tus of its fall, more deeply in shame. length, compelled to see and to feel, and, in agony, to own that there is a God. I cannot proceed. My heart sickens at the recollection of those horrors which desolated France. That charming country, on which the bounty of heaven has lavished blessings, was the prey of monsters. To tell the crimes, every where and every hour perpetrated, would wound the soul of humanity, and shock the ear of modesty. But where, my country! O where shall I hide the blush, that these monsters were taken to your bosom ?

This occasion does not require, neither will it permit of a history, or even the rapid recapitulation, of important events. We have seen the tumults of democracy terminate in despotism. What had been foreseen, and foretold, arrived. The power of usurpation was directed and maintained by great talents. Gigantic schemes of conquest, prepared with deep and dark intrigue, vast masses of force, conducted with consummate skill, a cold indifference to the miseries of mankind, a profound contempt for moral ties, a marble hearted I retract the charge. Nations of the earth! atheism, to which religion was only a politibelieve not the imputation. The virtuous cal instrument, and the stern persevering will sons of America were not guilty of ingrati- to bend every thing to his purpose, were the tude. Much as they love liberty, the name means of Napoleon to make himself the terof liberty did not drive from their hearts the ror, and the scourge of nations. The galling friend of liberty, THE PROTECTOR OF THE of his iron yoke, taught Frenchmen feelingly RIGHTS OF MANKIND. No, holy martyr! to know how much they had lost in breaking their greatful bosoms re-echoed thy dying the bands of their allegiance They had, ingroan. In humble submission they viewed deed, to amuse them, the pomp of triumph. events whose mystery they could not compre- the shout of victory, and the consciousness of hend, and waited the development of eternal force which made the neighbouring nations wisdom. They beheld licentious crime, under groan. But the fruits of their labour were the name of liberty, roaming over the broad wrested from them to gratify the extravasurface of France, seeking virtue for its prey, gance of vanity, or supply the waste of war. deiiliag janocence, despoiling poverty, and lay-Their children were torn from their bosoms, ing the very face of nature waste. They saw it and marched off in chains to the altar of imvoracious at home, victorious abroad, every pious, insatiable ambition. Aged parents, where triumphant. Europe was appalled.-who, with trembling step, had followed to bid Her princes trembled. The new-hatched, the last of many sons a final, fond adieu, in undedged, French republic soared, as on ea-returning to their cottage, once the scene of gle pinions, beyond the clouds. Dazzled by humble happiness, but now stript by remorsethe lustre of her victories, the moral eye less collectors of every thing which could be could scarcely perceive the guilt of those sold, looking round in vain for the little obprodizate leaders who dictated law to a pros-jects, to which use and need had given valne, trate world. Drunk with success, slaughtering their countrmen, pillaging their neighbours, seducing their subjects from allegiance, and preceding the storm of conquest by the poison of eurenption. they reviled whatever antiquity and custom had rendered respectable, made sport of religion, treated public law a romantic nonsense, and trampled on

and seeing only the remnant of that from which they had taken their last meal, moistened with bitter tears, turn their eys to heaven, then throwing themselves in each others arms, exclaim, my child! my child! Such, France, were thy sufferings. Thus was the innocent blood of thy sovereign visited upon thee. Frenchmeu! by these woes were fou

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taught to feel the present, the avenging, God. To elude a peace which, conceding vast terIt was this deep agony which led you to de-ritory, and restoring his captive legions, clare to your sovereign's brother, in the lan- would have placed him again in a condition to guage of nature and truth, "Sir, we bring you menace, insult, and oppress the world. But our hearts; the tyrant has lelt us nothing no. A confidence in his talents, a confidence else to give." in his fortune, have made him blind. In the month of September, 1812, the son confides in fortune, the God of atheism, which, of an obscure family, in a small island of the analyzed, is nothing more than the combinaMediterranean, was at the head of a greater tion of events we cannot discover; in which, force than was ever yet commanded by one nevertheless, though unknown, there is no man, during the long period to which history inore of chance than there was in a comet's extends. His brows encircled with an in-orbit ere Newton was born. But the adoraperial diadem, his sword red with the blood tion of that which derives its essence from of conquered nations, his eye glaring on the ignorance, accords with their wisdom who defields he had devoted to plunder, his feet ny the existence of that Being, by whom pontrampling on the neck of kings, his mind glow- drous planets, hurled through the infinite ing with wrath, his heart swoln with the con- void, are compelled to move in their prescribsciousness of power unknown before, he mo-ed course, till time shall be no more. ved, he seemed, he believed himself a god. naparte, elate with rash confidence, eluded While at one extremity of Europe his ruth-negotiation. At length the father of his wife less legions drenched, with loyal blood, the found himself constrained, by duty and hoarid soil of Spain, he marched, with gigantic nour, to join the allics. At this connexion, stride, at the other extremity, to round his which could not have been unexpected, Navast dominion in the widest circle of the civi-poleon was not dismayed. Calculating on the lized world. Already he had pierced the Rus-hollow faith of coalitions, in which a diversity sian line of defence. Already his hungry ea- of interest often keeps asunder the hearts gles were pouncing on his prey- -Pause. whose hands are united, forgetting, or not View steadily this statue of colossal power. knowing that his tyranny had formed a league The arms are of iron; the breast is of brass; against him stronger than the union of states; but the feet are of clay. The moment of des- a league of which all mankind were members, truction impends. Hark! The blow is giv-and general sentiment the soul; he still flaten. It falls. It crumbles to dust. This tered himself that, by the weight of his arms mighty man, this king of kings, this demi-and the edge of his craft, he could sever the god, is discomfited. He flies. He is pursued. He hides. Stript of royal robes, distracted with apprehension, flapping the wings of fear, he scuds in disguise across the wide plain of Poland, not daring to look behind. He takes a moment's breath, and slakes the feverish thirst of his fatigue in the waters of the Elbe. A second flight brings him to the Rhine. After a third effort, he is within the walls of Paris.

hands of this new alliance To this end, the bravery of his soldiers and the skill of his officers, the dexterity of his ministers, and all the resources of his gepins, were exercised and exhausted, during the last summer. The plains of Saxony were wasted with inexorable severity. Pestilence and famine marched in the train of war, to thin the ranks of mankind; to extend the scene of human misery, and prepare a wide theatre for the display of British benevolence.

Here again he reigns. Here the crafty statesman contrives, and the gloomy tyrant At length, after many battles, the well-plancollects the renewed means of warfare. Again, ned movements of the allies obliged Napoleon unhappy France, must thy garners and thy to abandon Dresden. From that moment his veins be opened. Again, and under the dou-position on the Elbe was insecure. But pride ble weight of oppression, must thou groan. had fixed him there: perhaps, too, the same Vain are expostulations; vain the tumultu-blind confidence in fortune. His force was aus cry for peace; vain the shrieks of despair. collected at Leipsic. Leipsic, in the war of Alexander, the great, the good, advances. thirty years, had seen the great Gustavus fall He moves at the head of his hardy Russians, in the arms of victory. Leipsic again witnessfrom the ashes of Moscow, toward the banks ed a battle, on whose issue hung the indepenof the Elbe. At his approach the plundered, dence, not of Germany alone, but of every insulted subjects of Prussia, rise to vindicate state on the continent of Europe. Hard, long, their honour. The Germans burn to avenge and obstinate, was the conflict. On both their wrongs. But Napoleon has anticipated sides were displayed an union of the rarest his enemy. He is in force on the Elbe. His skill, discipline, and courage. As the floodvigour and activity are successful. Again he tide waves of ocean, in approaching the shore, quaffs the luscious draught of victory. Drunk rush, foam, thunder, break, retire, retarn— again with hope, he shuts his ear to the coun- so broke, retired, and returned sel of prudence. But, true to his principles, talions, impetuously propelled by the presAnd as the he calls fraud to the aid of force; and, ac-sure of their brethren in arm; cepting the mediation of Austria, displays the whelming flood, a passage fored through the insidious craft of a perverse policy. For what? breach, rouds, tears. seatters, dissipates, and

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And now behold a scene sublime. Three mighty monarchs lay down their crowns and swords. They fall on their knoes. They raise their eyes and hands to heaven. They pour out thanksgiving to the God of Battles. To him, the King of Kings, sole, self-existent, in whom alone is might, majesty, and dominion. With one voice they cry, The Lord is with us. Brother, the Lord is with us. Glory be to the Lord." Contrast this spectacle with that which had been exhibited thirteen months before on the plains of Russia.

tuated by motives of humanity, and governed by dictates of human policy. But he and they, mighty though they be, are only instruments in a mightier hand. The heart of this modern Pharaoh is hardened. He will not release those whom he holds in bondage. His demands, far from being suited to his condition, would have been unreasonable even bad he been victorions, His severity had silenced truth. His violence obliged all who approached to feed his vain glory with pleasing falschood.

Ignorant, therefore, of his peril, he believes the French attached to his person. Yes. Strange as it may seem, he who led The anxious hour is past. We respire. The them so long through every stage and degree air is embalmed with blossoms of liberty. Hu- of suffering, believes himself to be the object manity rears her head, from the dust, smooths of their tender affection. But why wonder at her dishevelled locks, and wipes away the tear. his self delusion? Has not the same strange She greets you victors! princes! heroes! thing been asserted by men, among us, rechristians! She bids you follow the path to puted wise? Nay, has it not been believed immortal glory, pointed out by the finger of by hundreds and thousands of their followers: heaven. March. Lo! already the opposed men who shut their eyes to reason, and their armies are separated only by the Rhine. Here cars to truth, from the fear of perceiving again the olive branch is tendered to the their own delusion? In the great scheme of fierce Napoleon. Perhaps experience may Providence, as far as man may, without imhave made him wise. Perhaps he has learnt, piety, attempt to raise the veil, miraculous in the school of adversity, to moderate his de- events appear to be wrought by human intersires. Perhaps, confiding in fortune no more, vention. Thus we discover, in the preceding he may begin to believe there is a God who tyranny of Napoleon, the cause of that self governs the world. No. The mysterious deception and false information which promptplan of Providence is yet incomplete. Na-ed his extravagant conduct. Spectators, poleon's pride is yet untamed. He conades amazed that an adventurer, followed by a few in wintry storms which bid the weary soldier exhausted, dispirited soldiers, remnant of rerest. He confides in the lofty barrier of the iterated defeats, in the midst of a great nation Pyrenees. He confides in the fortresses along which holds him in abhorrence, should persist his frontiers. He confides in the neutrality in refusing the throne of France, unless other of Switzerland, and the reverence of his ene-thrones were added, cannot resist the convicmies for public law. The violation of that Jaw was, with him, an ordinary measure of The plunder of neutrals was, with him, an ordinary fiscal resource. And yet he believes that his foes will be restrained by principles he never regarded. He is not deceived. He relies, too, on assurances wrung from the subjugated Swiss; supposing the sentiments of Again the cannon roar. The long arches men to be stifled in the bosom of his slaves. of the Louvre tremble. The battle rages. He is mistaken. The allied armies, insensi- The heights of Montmartre are assailed. ble to frost and fatigue, defying alike the rage They are carried. The allies look down, vicof elements and the rage of man, throw them- torious, on the lofty domes and spires of Paris. selves over the Rhine. They march through Lo! the capital of that nation which dictated the cantons of Switzerland, not merely au- ignominious terms of peare in Vienna and thorized by their permission, but furthered Berlin; the capital of that nation which wrapt by their assistance, masking strong places by in flames the capital of the Czars, is in the corps of observation, they penetrate the in- power of its foes. Their troops are in full terior of France, on the east and the north, march. The flushed soldier may soon satiate while Wellington pours in, on the south, his his lust and glut his vengeance. See before Britons, Spaniards and Portuguese. Mark. you, princes, the school of that wildering phiThe representatives of Bordeaux were first to losophy which undermined your thrones. In proclaim a French republic. Bordeaux is those sumptuous palaces dwell voluptuaries, first to unfurl the royal standard. Napoleon, who, professing philanthropy, love only thembeaten, on the verge of ruin, remains unmov-selves. There recline, on couches of down, ed. The allies, anxious to spare the effusion of blood, and terminate the misery of Europe, again tender peace, with the possession of undivided, undiminished France. They are ac

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tion that he is blinded by the direction of the Almighty will. And yet we can trace back the present madness to preceding crimes, Thus punishment springs from offence. That determined, inflexible will, which had beaten down so many thrones, now recoils on himself, and drives him to ruin.

those polished friends of man, who, revelling in the bosom of delight, see with indifference a beggar perish, and calmly issue orders for the conflagration of cities, and the pillage af

kingdoms. Listen to the voice of retributive He abdicates. He shows thee, Democracy, justice. Throw loose the reins of discipline. his kindred blood. He takes money for his Cry havoc avenge! avenge! No-Yonder crown. Look at him. Him whom you hailis the white flag: Emblem of peace. It ap-ed as invincible, omnipotent. He goes guardproaches. They supplicate mercy. Halt! ed, to protect him from being murdered by Citizens of America, what, on such an occa- those lately his subjects. He goes, assassin siou, would Napoleon have done? Interro- of d'Enghein, a pensioner of the house of gate his conduct during fifteen years of tri- Bourbon. umph. Sec this paragon of philosophers spread ruin around him-his iron heart insensible to pity-his ears deaf to the voice of religion and mercy. And now see two christian inonarchs, after granting pardon and protection, descend from the heights of Montmartre and march through the streets of that great city in peaceful triumph. See, following them, half a million of men, women and children, who hail, with shouts of gratitude, Alexander the deliverer. They literally kiss his feet. And, like those of old, who approached the Saviour of the world, they touch, in transport, the hem of his garment and feel sanctified. He enters the temple of the living God. In humble imitation of his divine master, he proclaims pardon and peace. Those lips, FROM COBBETT'S REGISTER OF APRIL 23. which, victorious in the plain of Leipsic, eried out Glory to God, now, again victorious, Re-colonization of the American States.-It complete the anthem of benediction. "Glo-was easy to believe, that the enemies of freery be to God in the highest, and on earth dom would, upon this occasion, turn their balepeace. Good will toward men." Let all ful eyes towards the United States of Amerinature join in the triumphant song, Glory! ca, and endeavour to stimulate our governglory to God; and on earth peace.

That royal house now reigns. The Bourbons are restored. Rejoice France! Spain!' Portugal' You are governed by your legiti mate kings. Europe! rejoice. The Bourbons are restored. The family of nations is completed. Peace, the dove descending from heaven, spreads over you her downy pinions. Nations of Europe, ye are her brethren once more. Embrace. Rejoice. And thou, too, my much wronged country! My dear, abused, self-murdered country, bleeding as thou art, rejoice. The Bourbons are restored. Thy friends now reign. The long agony is over. The Bourbons are restored.

Ye who are promoters and supporters of war! Ye whose envenomed tongues have slavered out invective on all who wore legitimate crowns? Ye who represent sovereigns as wild beasts, for whose destruction all means are lawful! Approach. Behold. Come ye, also, who, wrapping yourselves up in self conceit, look with affected pity on such as believe in a Saviour. Ye who dwell, with cynic satisfaction, on crimes committed by fanatics! Look there. Those kings are christians. And thou, too, Democracy! savage and wild. Thou who wouldst bring down the virtuous and wise to thy level of folly and guilt! Thou child of squinting envy and self-tormenting spleen! Thou persecutor of the great and good! See, though it blast thine eye balls, see the objects of thy deadly hate. See lawful princes surrounded by loyal subjects. Soe them victorious over the legions of usurpation. See, they are hailed, followed, almost adored, by the nation they conquered, pardoned and liberated. See that nation seize the first moment of freedom to adopt a constitution like that of England. The land of our great and glorious forefathers. The land you abhor. The land at which your inadmen, if heaven indulged them with power, would hurl the bolts of vengeance, and merge millions of their fellow men in the billows of the surrounding

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Yes, Democracy, these are the objects of thy hate. Let those who would know the idol of thy devotion seek him in the Island of Elba.

ment, who, let us hope, however, has too much sense to be so worked on, to wage a war for the destruction of liberty in the western world. But I, who fully expected to see this, am really astonished at the speed and the boldness, with which the project has been brought forward in some of our public prints, especially the Times, which, in plain terms, urges a war against the United States upon the same principles that the close of the war has been carried on against Napoleon; and, indeed which aims at the subjugation, re-occupation, and recolonization of that country. Before I proceed any further, I shall insert the article, which has called forth these observations.

"It is understood that part of our army in France will be immediately transfered to America, to finish the war there with the same glory as in Europe, and to place the peace on a foundation equally firm and lasting. Now, that the tyrant Bonaparte has been consigned to infamy, there is no public feeling in this country stronger than that of indignation against the Americans. That a republic boasting of its freedom should have stooped to become the tool of that monster's ambition; that it should have attempted to plunge the parricidal weapon into the heart of that country from whence its origin was derived; that it should have chosen the precise moment when it fancied that Russia was overwhelmed, to attempt to consummate the ruin of Britain; all this is conduct so black, so loathsome, so hateful, that it natn

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rally stirs up the indignation that we have de- which he cannot blame us for adopting, since scribed. Nevertheless there is in this case he follows it himself; namely, that we should "not only chastise the savages into present the same popular error, that there was, not long since, when France was identified in the peace, but make a lasting impression on their Hitherto we have considered the Aninds of most men, with the name of Bona- fears." parte. The American government is, in point mericans as identified with Mr. Madison's goof fact, as much a tyranny (though we are farvernment; but is this the fact? So much the from saying it is so horrible a one) as was that reverse, that it has been openly proposed in of Bonaparte; and we firmly urged the prin- some of the states to treat for peace with ciple of no peace with Bonaparte; so to be Great Britain separately; and they would act consistent with ourselves, we must in like wisely and justifiably in adopting this measure. manner maintain the doctrine of no peace The eastern states, the most moral, the most with James Madison. The reasons for this cultivated, the most intelligent, the best in are twofold, as respecting this country, and every respect, are at this instant reduced to a as respecting America. A very little reflec- complete thraldom by the southern states, under the forms of a constitution, which the tion will render them sufficiently manifest.In the first place, hatred of England is the prevailing faction violates at pleasure. “The fundamental point in the policy of Mr. Madi-small states," says Fisher Ames," are now in son. He is the ostensible organ of a party, vassalage; they obey the nod of Virginia. all whose thoughts, feelings, and sentiments The constitution sleeps with Washington, are guided by this master key. Some of the having no mourners but the virtuous, and no statesmen of this school have not blushed to monument but history. Our vote and influassert in full senate, "that the world ought to ence (those of the eastern states) avail no rejoice, if Britain were sunk in the sea;" if, more than that of the Isle of Man in the poliwhere there are now men, and wealth, and tics of Great Britain." If this was true belaws, and liberty, "there were no more than a fore the annexation of Louisiana, how much sandbank for the sca-monsters to fatten on, a more strikingly so now, that that addition has space for the storms of the ocean to mingle quite broken down all balance between the in conflict." Such is the deep-rooted antipa- states, and poured an irresistible stream of thy! With such men Mr. Madison acts; corrupt influenc into the channel of the exeand he himself, before the accession of his cutive! What is very remarkable is, that the party to power, he expressly laid it down as a preponderence of the southern states is chiefprinciple (on the discussion of Mr. Jay's ne-ly owing to the slaves they contain! The gotiation,)" that no treaty should be made number of votes which each state has in the with the enemy of France." His love for the national government, is determined by the latter country, however, was but an adjunct of whole population. Hence, though the slave the hatred which he entertained towards us; has no political existence, he gives a weight for the same reason that Bonaparte did; be- to his master over a free man in a different cause we stand in the way of any state that state; and by another curious, but not uncomaspires to universal dominion; for, young as is mon paradox in human nature, the slave ownthe transatlantic republic, it has already in-er there, is generally a furious democrat, and dulged in something more than dreams of the the democrat has hitherto been the most sermost unmeasured ambition. We need not vile of the tyrant's adherents.) Clear, therehere detail the long history of fraud and false-fore, is it, that the free constitution of the hood by which he at length succeeded in deluding his countrymen into war. Suffice it to say he had two objects in that war: first, to sap the foundation of our maritime greatness, by denying the allegiance of our sailors; and secondly, to seize on our colonial possessions on the main land of America, leaving it to future occasion to lay hands on our insular set-parate their interests from those of the incatlements in the West-Indies. Perhaps when pable and treacherous individual who has he finds himself unexpectedly deprived of the dragged them reluctantly into a war, no less. buckler under which he aimed these stabs at inglorious than unjust. When we speak of our vital existence; the mighty Napoleon, these and the like crimes as perpetrated by the protector in petto of the Columbian con- Mr. Madison individually, we ouly mean to federacy; he may be willing to draw in his use his name in the common way, in which horns, and sneak away from his audacious un-persons in eminent stations are generally dertakings. But shall we have the extreme spoken of. He stands at the head of the list, folly to let him off thus? When we have not but that Mr. Gallatin may be more artful, wrested the dagger from the bravo's hand, Mr. Clay more furious, Mr. Jefferson more shall we quietly return it to him to put up in malignant, and so on; and besides, there is a its sheath? No, No. Mr. Madison himself ferocious banditti belonging to his party, of in his very last public speech, has furnished whom, perhaps, he himself stands in awe, and us with a most opposite rate of conduct, who, as they consist of Irish traitors, and fu

United States is either incompetent in itself to afford an equal protection to the wisest and best parts of the union; or else that constitution has been violated and overthrown by the faction of which Mr. Madison is the ostensible head; and, in either case, the oppressed states would act justly to themselves, to se