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Whether Buonaparte was ever

at heart a real Jacobin even for the moment, moncler jackets

may be greatly doubted, whatever mask his situation obliged him to wear. He himself always repelled the charge as an

aspersion. His engagement in the affair of the Sections probably determined his opinions as Republican, or rather

Thermidorien, at the time, as became him by whom the Republican army had been led and commanded on that day.

Besides, at the head of an army zealously republican, even his power over their minds required to be strengthened, for

some time at least, by an apparent correspondence in political sentiments betwixt the troops and the general. But in

the practical doctrines of government which he recommended to the Italian Republics, his ideas were studiously

moderate, and he expressed the strongest fear of, and aversion to, revolutionary doctrines. He recommended the

granting equal rights and equal privileges to the nobles,
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indignant vassals and plebeians who had risen against them. In a word, he advocated a free set of institutions, without

the intermediate purgatory of a revolution. He was therefore, at this period, far from being a Jacobin. But though

Buonaparte's wishes were thus wiselymoderated by practical views, he was not the less likely to be sensible that he was

the object of fear, of hatred, and of course of satire and misrepresentation, to that side of the opposed parties in

France which favoured royalty. Unhappily for himself,Moncler Vest he was peculiarly accessible to every wound of this nature, and, anxiously jealous of his

fame, suffered . INTRIGUES OF PICHEGRU. as much under the puny attacks of the journalists, as a noble steer or

a gallant horse does amid his rich pasture, under the persecutions of insects, which, in comparison to himself, are not

only impotent, but nearly invisible. In several letters to the Directory, he exhibits feelings of this nature which would

have been more gracefully concealed, and evinces an irritability against the opposition prints, which we think likely to

have increased the zeal with which he came forward on the Republican side at this important crisis. Another

circumstance, which, Moncler

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cause which he embraced, was his having obtained the clew of Pichegru's correspondence with the house of Bourbon.

To have concealed this, would have been but a second rate merit with the exiled family, whose first thanks must have

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