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APPENDIX to the CHRONICLE. 
years, beloved and respected by his 
people, and without a single stain 
on his character? On the same 
principle that the English newspa- 
pers were in all these cases innocent 
and unaccused, Peltier was equally 
‘innocent in this publication. [f it 
was, in fact, only the republication 
of the work ot another writer, the 
republication was certainly blame- 
less ; and if it was even written by 
M. Peltier, with a view to givea 
dramatic character of the faction, 
by putting its principles in their na- 
tural language in the mouths of its 
leaders, he was equally innocent ; 
or if there was any crime, it was a 
libel against Chenier or Ginguenet, 
to whom the article was imputed, 
and not against the first consul. It 
was natural to think that a remnant 
of the jacobin faction still existed in 
France ; it was known that it did 
exist, and it was the nature of that 
faction to seek a refuge from the 
maledictions of those whom it had 
formerly oppressed and tortured, in 
the resumption of his former power. 
The faction was active, and sucha 
piece as this might well be among 
_ the means it employed.—Mr. Mack- 
intosh having, in the course of this 
Jast argument, used the word re- 
publican in a sense which appeared 
to convey some censure, explained : 
he did not use the term as meaning 
citizens of republican governments, 
many of which he respected, and 
particularly a new republic of Bri- 
tish growth. Neither did he mean 
it as any imputation on those whose 
political opinions favoured a repub- 
_ lican form of government; but asa 
just sarcasm on those pretended re- 
publicans of France, who used the 
name to cover the worst and most 
fatal hostilities to freedom.—It was 
evident, from the context, thatthe 
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ode in question was not the work of 
M. Peltier. It appeared, from the 
passage already cited, and of which 
a poetical translation had been read, 
that it was written by a fanatical 
republican, once hostile to England, 
now a little corrected in his judg- 
ment, but not yet perfectly recon- 
ciled. It speaks of the people rest- 
ing on the law, resisting and setting 
at defiance the exertion of regal 
power. ‘This certainly could not be 
mentioned with praise by the roy- 
alist Peltier. My learned friend, 
said Mr. Mackintosh, cannot forget 
that Swilt did not mean, by his ar- 
cuments in defence of atheism, real 
ly to support that doctrine ; but, 
on the contrary, by that unrivalled 
specimen of irony, to ridicule and 
shame all such unprincipled tenets. 
Such were the motives of Butler for 
putting such odious sentiments in 
the mouths of Hudibras and his 
Squire: and such were Peltier’s for 
putting such sentiments, as in some 
places he did, into the mouths of the 
jacobins. Not that even they, bad 
as they are, can be suspected by me 
of any design se shocking to human 
nature as assassination: and I own 
I am surprised to hear my learned 
friend say so seriously, that any al~ 
lusion to theapotheosis of Romulus, 
or to the affair of Brutus and Cesar, 
must necessarily have such a shock- 
ing and abominable object; as if 
these events, so much the themes of 
school-boy declamation, were not 
too familiar to excite any extraordi- 
nary propensity to imitation. With 
respect to that part of the paper 
which alluded to the assassination of 
Cxsar, Mr. Mackintosh denied that 
when that event was spoken of, 
every man who used it intended to 
recommend or justify assassination. 
He stated a variety of cases, in 
Rr which 
