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APPEAL AGAINST THE AMBITION OF ZYONAPARTE. 
ef that higher class, to whose voice 
senates listen, and even generals of ar- 
mies. And thus the country: would pro- 
bably have escaped the calamity of a 
new contest. 
Art. XXXV.0 An Appeal to the People of the United Kingdoms against tha insatiable 
timbition of Bonaparte. 
THIS is one of those zeatous.pam- 
phieis, which, like a fire of fir-cones, 
torches ard blazes much, and warms 
but little. Its object is to recommend 
the war to popularity: this is difficult; 
ministers have so mismanaged the nego- 
tiation, that their best reason of war, 
the non-evacuation of Holland, is flung 
into the back-ground, and scarcely makes 
its appearance in the official correspon- 
dence. One cannot then be loud about 
the justice of the war: neither can one 
be loud about its prudence. Russia and 
Prussia may join us, and we may march 
to Paris; but the probability of such a 
junction, when the war began, was very 
inconsiderable. ‘There remains a ground 
of fanaticism: a wise minister would 
recur toit. It would marshal around 
the constitutional throne, a support more 
popular, more vehement, more perma- 
nent, than any war of this reign has 
yet obtained. It would attract, by the 
force of sympathetic feeling, the sup- 
port of the independent talent, of the 
unbought genius of the country. It 
would secure at once the secret, and 
soor the public, voice of continental 
Europe. it would divide France into 
mighty parties, and probably hurl the 
‘usurper from his throne. This. ground 
of fanaticism is to proclaim a war in 
behalf _of the suspended popular au- 
thorities of the French; a crusade for 
the restoration of liberty and equality. 
_ Since the beginning of the anti-jaco- 
bin war, the interior situation of France 
“is reversed. The French were then puil- 
ing down their monarchy, their church, 
their nobility ; and they were patroniz- 
ing the concatenation of democratic clubs, 
in order, by their means, not merely to 
disseminate and popularize, but to influ. 
ence and overawe the volitions and de- 
__. cisions of their legislature. Loud im- 
rtinent attacks resounded from the 
Prench senate of those institutions in 
other countries, most analogous to the 
establishments they were subverting at 
home. In order to excite here the 
_ greatest possible antipathy to such pro- 
ceedings, it was natural for Burke and 
Barruel to seek out, in the writings of 
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their jesuitic teachers, ‘for those argu- 
ments and war-whoops, which had, of 
old, inspired and accompanied an ex- 
cessive and prejudicial value for church 
and king, or (if the abstract be pre- 
ferred to the concrete expression) for 
religion and order. But now that Bo- 
naparte has restored popery in its ancient 
integrity, and monarchy (or the go- 
vernment of one) in his own person; 
these arguments all tend to stabilitate 
his institcsions, to render popular his 
government, and to facilitate the pro- 
gress of his alithority from alife-long to 
an hereditary, from an anonymous to 
a titled sway. 
Bonaparte, at every period of his 
being, was personally an antijacobin : 
officers and generals had scrupled to*bid 
the soldiery fire on the people; Ais first 
step to promotion was the use of cannon 
and grape-shot against the multitude in 
the'very streets of Paris. ‘This massacre 
of the jacobins took place at the time of 
the msurrection of the sections against 
the directory; and was so bitterly re-. 
sented in the suburb of Jaint Antoine, 
that vows were made for the’extinction 
of the commanding officer, and réliques 
of the slaughtered were worn by women 
in their bosoms as a spur to vengeance. 
Bonaparte withdrew to the south of 
France; then got sent to Italy, where 
the manifestoes of Berthier (for Bona- 
parte can no more spell than Marlbo- 
rough) got him the unmerited reputation - 
of a friend to democracy and liberty. 
His earliest measures of power were to 
chace, withthe bayonet, from their hall 
the representatives of the people; and 
to disperse all sorts of popular assem- 
blages and confederacies. ~'T'o satirize 
affiliated societies has passed for the 
panegyric of his usurpation. His reli- 
giosity was already apparent_at the ob- 
sequies of Pius VI, and probably re- 
commended him to the critical prefer- 
ence of Sieyes.. He banishes, at will, 
members of the old directory, or of the 
new tribunate ; he governs by a sort of 
martial law, mildly if he can, but, how- 
soever, he governs. The admiration of 
a government, flourishing and success- 
