Alexandria Daily Gazette, Commercial & Political

FROM THE TRENTON FEDERALIST.

A Likeness in a feature of Mr. Jefferson
and that of Napoleon.

Mr. Jefferson induced the people of America
to believe he was the enemy of executive
influence and power; yet caused the
same people to put him in possession of more
power than ever was possessed by any other
president of the U. States.

Napoleon induced the army of France to
believe he was the enemy of crowns; yet
caused the same army to put him in possession
of one with more power than any other
crowned head in Europe.

Mr. Jefferson told the Americans that
under his administration they should have
more liberty, enjoy all the comforts of life,
and pay less taxes; yet he has not only de-
prived them of the liberty of trading to all
foreign ports and places, but even from one
port to another in their own country, and
thereby deprived them of the comforts they
did enjoy, and laid the heaviest of taxes
upon them by causing their produce and
shipping to rot on their hands, or to be sold
for a song.

Napoleon told the people of every nation
whose territory he entered, that he came as
their friend to secure them in their rights
and privileges, and yet he took the lives of
thousands of every nation he thus entered.
deprived them of every right and privilege
they enjoyed, and universally laid a military
tax of many millions upon the inhabitants

Query: May it not have been a discovery
of this likeness that induced the
great
Napoleon to create Mr. Jefferson a member
of the Legion of Honor, and this creation
that induced Mr. Jefferson to keep secret
from congress the conduct of his great friend
towards this country?

N. B. There is another feature in which
there is not the least likeness.

Mr. Jefferson flies from personal danger
Napoleon rushes fearless into it.