Daily National Intelligencer

GENERAL CARNOT.

The following extracts from the London Morning Chronicle, remind us of traits of patriotism worthy of old Rome developed in a favorite champion of liberty. Features such as these we like to contemplate:

"It will be recollected, that so long ago as January, 1814, Carnot, in offering his services to Bonaparte, spoke to him in a language so firm and frank as to astound all the servile instruments of his unbridled ambition. The letter is short, and is a model for an honest citizen.

"Sire—So long as victory crowned your eagles, I kept myself to my studies in the closet, and employed myself in the education of my children. Now, that she appears to abandon them, and you have need of devotion, I hasten to offer my services.—Do not disdain them, though they are those of an old soldier, about 60 years of age. He can rally round your eagles many Frenchmen, undecided as to the part which they ought to take. It is yet time, sire, to obtain an honorable peace, and to regain the love of the people, which you have lost.

CARNOT.

January, 1814."

In forwarding this letter, Carnot said to a friend to whom he showed it, that it would either send him to the Chateau de Vincennes, or give him a mark of the emperor's confidence, which would be auspicious to the return of moderation and freedom. Accordingly he was entrusted with the defence of Antwerp, and from that time the friends of freedom have not ceased to plan the establishment of a representative government in France."

Speaking of the late events, the Salem Register says of Carnot, "We doubt not that the present opportunity will again display the genius of Carnot. In the most trying scenes of the revolution, he discovered that he was not to be overawed. In all his fond attachment to the glory of a man he created, he discovered that he was not to be deceived. And when the highest honors were ready for him, he proved that his integrity alone could fix his choice of condition, when all that titles could give was in one hand, and all that poverty could threaten was in the other."