Alexandria Daily Advertiser

Men of extraordinary merit are modest and unassuming--the upstart is arrogant and haughty. These are the unerring traits of men in elevated situations, as well as in the humbler stations in life--and we need go no further for the test, than the character of Washington, on the one hand, and Bonaparte on the other. Fortune is depicted blind and her favorite votaries generally infatuated.- Hence we find the good things of this world lavished often upon the most unworthy. In one of these libertine moods, the Goddess led Bonaparte, a Corsican, to the throne of France. By wisdom and moderation, he might have been a blessing to millions of his fellow creatures. By pride and ambition, he has brought down the execration of distant nations. His thirst for dominion is unbounded. Church and state are equally under his controul. "I and his Holiness" (said Bonaparte) "have made choice of you," &c. when he addressed the Cardinal Legate. The rage of the Chief Consul, on being informed that placards, with "Vive le Roi" in red letters at the top, were stuck up in Paris, was boundless. It was a much more irritable matter to his Consulship. than that of the English firing into Boulogne. while he in pomp paraded round the town. It spoke to his heart: for the general cry of Vive le Roi, he well knows is to him as fatal as the warrant of death-and unless he conquer England very speedily, the golden harvest may be gathered in St. Cloud instead of St. James's.