Kentucky Gazette And General Advertiser

BONAPARTE.
From the Massachusetts Spy.

MR. THOMAS JUN.

I send you the following extract for republication. It originally appeared in a South Carolina paper of September, 1798, as an extract of a letter from general Bonaparte, at Toulon, to an American at Bordeaux, and was supposed to be authentic.

The former sentiments of that extraordinary man will amuse the speculative, and his remarks on the American republic cannot but be peculiarly interesting. The reader will form his own opinion how far his anticipations of the state of our Councils are realized; and how far true, of the consequences of ITS FALL.

EXTRACT.

"You soon depart for the western and I for the eastern hemisphere. A new career of action is open before me, and I hope to unite my name with new and great events, and with the unrivalled greatness of the republic. You go to unite yourself once more, with a people, among whom I behold, at once the simple ages of Rome, and the luxury of her decline; where I see the taste, the sensibility and the science of Athens without her factions, and the valor of Sparta without her discipline.

"As a citizen of the world I would address your country in the following language. Every man and nation is ambitious; ambition grows with power, as the blaze of the vertical sun is most fierce.—Cherish therefore, a national spirit; strengthen your political institutions: remember that armies and navies are of the same use in the world, as the police in London or Paris, and soldiers are not made like a potter's vessel in a minute.

"Cultivate union, or your empire will be but a Colossus of gold, fallen on the earth, broken in pieces, and the prey of foreign and domestic Saracens.

If you are wise your republic will be permanent; and perhaps Washington will be hailed as the founder of a glorious and happy empire, when the name of Bonaparte shall be obscured by succeeding revolutions."