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Turn to Bonaparte. It was a saying of his sycophants, that he sometimes spoke like a god, and sometimes worse than the feeblest of mortals. But, says one who knew him well, --the mortal I have often heard, unfortunately never yet the god. He who sent down this sneer to posterity, was at Napoleon's right hand on the most memorable occasion of his whole career--that cardinal occasion, as we may aptly term it, (for upon that his whole fortunes hinged, ) when he intruded violently upon the legislative body, dissolved the Directory and effected the revolution of the 18th Brumaire.