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From a London Paper:

"THE GREAT BUONAPARTE."

We have frequently expressed our disapprobation of the conduct and the language of the admirers of this detestable tyrant; and we are happy to find our opinion sanctioned by Mr. Bowles, from whose last publication we take the following extract.

"Who, then, will dare to prostitute the name of Greatness, by uniting it with that of Bonaparte; Monstrum nulla virtute redemptum; of whom no one trait of generosity is recorded; who has, in no one instance, used success with moderation: the baseness of whose actions infinitely exceeds the splendour of his victories; who is still more distinguished by craft, perfidy, cruelty, and oppression, than by military achievements; who, besides having shewn himself, on various occasions, as prodigal of human blood as Robespierre, is in other respects an object of still greater detestation to every virtuous and considerate mind, than even that unfeeling monster; who crowded into a single expedition, treacherously undertaken against a country, enjoying, without suspicion of danger, a profound peace, and whose government was in perfect amity with France, more baseness & atrocity than can be found in the life of any other man; who commenced that expedition with openly blaspheming his God, adjured the Savior of the world, renouncing the faith which he had till then professed, and, to facilitate the success of his enterprize, hypocritically assuming the religion of the people whom he came to enslave; who then unnecessarily assaulted a defenceless place, which he might have obtained by summons, and that he might strike a "salutary" terror, wantonly and indiscriminately massacred men, women, and children at the breast; who, after causing, by the orders which he issued, the French Admiral to lose his life with his fleet, calumniated his memory by attributing his disaster to his own fault; who, at Acre, suddenly and treacherously assaulted the place, when, by proposing a cessation of arms for the purpose of burying the dead, he hoped he had put the garrison off its guard; who, having in vain attempted to assassinate, traduced Sir Sidney Smith, by falsely and maliciously charging him with intentionally exposing his prisoners to the infection of the plague; and, finally, who basely deserted his own army, and secretly stole away to France when he found his expedition desperate."