The gazette (Portland, Me.), 1798-06-25 00:00:00

The Gazette.
[NUMBER 9.]
By ELEZER ALLEY JENKS, Portland, Maine.
[VOLUME I.]
Monday, June 25, 1798.
POLITICS.
An ORATION,
ON THE
POLITICS OF THE DAY.
Friends & Fellow Citizens,
THE period, the important period is now arrived, when every man should boldly speak his sentiments. The die is cast, the interesting crisis is come, either to assert your freedom, or yield to slavery—like men bravely to maintain your rights, or like slaves ignobly to surrender them.
The time is come to set a noble example to posterity, or shamefully disgrace the glory of your ancestors; to prove to the world that you are slaves or freemen.
The freedom purchased by the blood of your forefathers, is your undeniable inheritance; it is your birth right against foreign invasion—you should support it at the risk of your lives.—The flame of patriotism which distinguished the heroes of seventy six, is not yet extinguished—It now burns in the breasts of their children; and that independence which was purchased by their blood, shall ever be maintained.
When the first dawn of liberty made its appearance in France, rejoicings were echoed from one end to the other of this continent; we all wished well to the cause; but when cool reason, and calm deliberation, gave way to turbulence and disorder; when wisdom and experience, to rashness and presumption; when order and government to anarchy and confusion; when probity and honesty, to rapine and plunder; when philanthropy and humanity, to carnage and bloodshed; when virtue and morality to sacrilege and profanation; in short, my fellow citizens, when religion to Paganism, and a reverence for the Supreme Being to false philosophy, accustomed as we were to sober and rational liberty, in the full enjoyment of all the blessings of a free government, and restricted by the principles of our neutrality, which we were religiously bound to adhere to; upon no good principle could we advocate those measures, which characterized the French nation in every stage of the revolution; under no pretext could we sanction the performance of acts, unparalleled in history; at the reflection of which human nature shudders—acts which will forever disgrace the cause of freedom.
Whilst under the banners of liberty and equality, they were confiscating and distributing the property of the peaceable and honest citizen at home; whilst under the pretext of emancipating mankind, they were unhinging and disorganizing every principle of order abroad; whilst under the appearance of giving laws to the inhabitants, they were plundering and desolating the best countries in Europe, and placing the most happy and tranquil nations under the severest contributions; whilst under the colour of patriotism, they were massacring thousands; we pitied the unfortunate sufferers, but ascribed these excesses to the ebullition of enthusiasm, which would shortly evaporate, or to the exaggerations of their enemies, till their unprovoked aggressions were turned against ourselves—till depredations were committed against our commerce, violence against our citizens, and insults against our government—in vain have we proposed an amicable adjustment, in vain for a cessation of hostilities, in vain for reconciliation with a nation now at war with the whole world.
What measures more moderate could have been adopted, consistent with the dignity and honor of your country? What more likely to bring about a reconciliation and a good understanding between two nations? Have they not plundered your commerce within your docks and harbors? Have they not imprisoned your seamen? Have they not insulted you within your towns and cities? Have they not treated your envoys with the greatest indignities? Have they not boldness to demand contributions of you, as if you were a petty province of Italy, or a canton of Switzerland? Were ever the ambassadors of a colony, treated with more arrogance by a Roman emperor? Do they not tell you that you must submit to their terms, that they have a party in your government principled to support them? Gracious Heaven! support a people hostile to your country, a people who have not only disgraced civil society in their revolutionary excesses, but even the barbarians themselves, in openly disavowing the excellence of a God? Still do you not wish for an accommodation? Do you not hold out the Olive Branch? Do you not pray for peace, for a cessation of hostilities, for an amicable adjustment? Still do you not pray and pray in vain?
How long, my Fellow Citizens, are you to bear all these things? How long are you to remain a laughing stock to the insolence of a Foreign nation?
Where is that flame of patriotism which lately burned in the breasts of your ancestors? Where are the descendants of the heroes of Seventy six? Where is that love of country, which has so much distinguished the American annals? What availed the effusion of so much blood, in the support of your liberty, if you thus supinely suffer it to be torn from your hands without a struggle?
But if neither the insults offered to your country, the depredations committed on your commerce, and the violence on your citizens will move you: let me entreat you to look to your wives, and your children, your lives, your liberties and properties are all at stake: let me not recount to you the tragical scenes performed on the revolutionary theatre of France. The Columbian bard will record in historic pages, unborn millions will read over the parts; the streets of Paris deluged with blood; the shrieks of innocent women ascending to Heaven seeking for their husband and sons, in the common carnage, and their miserable daughters torn from their embraces, to satiate the lust of a Russian soldier: let me not recount to you the tragical scenes of Fort Dolphin, let me only turn your eyes to the wretched victims of misery and distress, who, having escaped the poignard, were thrown naked upon our shores; let me remind you that there are slaves in America, that they will be ready to rise up in an insurrection at the very sound of French principles, that there is nothing more dreadful than the horrors of a servile war.
If then any fathers among you, who are interested in the morals and welfare of your sons, if in the virtue and chastity of your wives and daughters; if any brothers who owe protection to your orphan sisters; if you have any regard for your own lives; if you wish to enjoy the blessings of peace and rational liberty, DISCARD ALL FRENCH PRINCIPLES—DISCARD THESE PRINCIPLES WHICH ARE NOT ONLY OBNOXIOUS TO YOUR COUNTRY, RUINOUS TO MORALITY AND VIRTUE, SUBVERSIVE OF ALL ORDER IN SOCIETY, BUT WHICH LEVEL MAN WITH THE BRUTE.
And you, my countrymen & fellow citizens, who are bound to defend the freedom purchased by the precious blood of your forefathers, who have bravely volunteered in the cause—you, who from interest, gratitude & principle, should risk your lives in its defence—you, whom the frames of the constitution have with unbounded liberality, matricated and admitted as children by adoption—you, who are admitted to all the place of profit and honor, to all the privileges, immunities and enfranchisements of the general government—you, who subsist upon the fruits of the American soil—you, who are growing rich and influential from her commerce, will you not be unanimous in the cause of a country which affords you all these advantages, in the support of a government which bestows on you these privileges. Only contrast your situation with that of Europe; in the comparison you cannot fail of feeling superlative degrees of happiness. Instead of anarchy and confusion, you enjoy all the blessings of peace, and well organized government—instead of riots and disorder, peace & tranquility—instead of rapine and plunder, honesty & probity—instead of sacrilege and profanation, virtue & morality—instead of enthusiasm, rational and manly liberty—these are blessings you inherit from your forefathers, and these you are bound to maintain with your lives against the inroads of a foreign nation. By intrigue & misguided policy, too long have ambition and disappointment put every engine into operation to create discontent amongst the people of the United States. The annals of every country no doubt afford us instances of patriotism, BUT MEN WITHOUT PRINCIPLES OR PROPERTY, MEN OF UNBOUNDED AMBITION, AND OF VIOLENT PASSIONS GENERALLY FAVOR REVOLUTIONS, EVEN IN THE BEST OF GOVERNMENTS.
By misrepresentation and false construction, too long has the British Treaty been held out as a snare, in order to answer the private ends of partisans. At this time it would be too tedious, nay, it is not my province to go into its merits; only permit me to mention, that it was made by men, who were vested with constitutional powers; by men, who had the confidence of their country; by men, whose virtues, integrity and talents placed them at the head of our councils; by men, who fought and bled in the cause of their country—by Him, who without stipend or reward, bore the bleak winds of the North, and the scorching suns of the South, that posterity might be free; by the brave, the virtuous, and immortal WASHINGTON, the bed of men, and father of his country; for you, my fellow citizens, he fought; for you he bled; for you he conquered.
In comparison amongst the heroes of antiquity, he remains unparallelled; these virtues, which God & nature appeared to have divided among many, were all concentrated in him: in war, like Cæsar he was brave, but without ambition—in peace, like Cicero, he was eloquent without vanity—and in the evening of his life, like
Cincinnatus, he returned to his farm to enjoy amongst his fellow citizens, the blessings of freedom in the shades of retirement. His fame shall never die—like the sun progressing to its meridian, it will assume additional degrees of lustre and brilliancy, in dispelling the mists of calumny, and the vapours of detraction: with the American Empire it will rise and brighten by time, a monument of patriotism in the annals of genuine republicanism.
But how long, my fellow citizens, will the French nation abuse your patience—how long treat you with indignity—how long insult you? As long as you suffer them with impunity. Till they feel the right of your power and influence; till they feel that you have the spirit and indignation of a free and independent people; that you are jealous of your rights, and will not suffer them to be infringed on. These bid fair for an honorable negotiation; these for advantageous terms of a treaty; and these will render it lasting and stable after its ratification. But, supposing the best, what stability can you promise yourselves in a treaty formed with a nation who are base enough to demand a bribe for a negotiation; what security in a nation who are daily exacting contributions of those countries with which they are upon a good understanding; what security with a people who are daily engaged in seizing and condemning the property of honest citizens, contrary to existing treaties, contrary to the laws of nations? I can see none. Where then is your alternative? TO DEFEND YOUR PROPERTY FORCE BY FORCE.
But who are these Frenchmen? A Banditti, who exist by plunder—an enemy who are desperate from want and necessity—a nation to whom nothing is more formidable than peace—that which brings happiness to the rest of the world, to them threatens the greatest misery, and the means of existence. And which are their mighty conquests? Italy, Portugal, and Switzerland, nations, who in a few days march were put to the sword and obliged to surrender. But what relation can the conquest of these countries have to America, a country distant from Europe 3000 miles, abounding, from an immensity of climate and soil, with all the comforts and necessaries of life; hardy, in bearing the toils and fatigues of war; lately distinguished by the prowess of her arms; a nation whose swords are scarcely returned to their scabbards, as yet hot with the blood of their enemies; a people whose ancestors emigrated from their mother country, exposed themselves to all the horrors of a wilderness, and the dangers of its barbarous inhabitants, that their children might be free; a people, whose breaths are this moment beating with the thrall of Liberty and a manly indignation, to revenge the unprovoked injuries, since insults offered their country.
In concluding, my fellow citizens, permit me to recommend UNANIMITY TO YOU ALL IN THE COMMON CAUSE; in retaining unshaken the freedom purchased by the blood of your ancestors, in supporting the measures of your VENERABLE PRESIDENT, who has grown grey in the service of his country; let the sons of the heroes of Seventy Six, ensign under the banners of the Illustrious WASHINGTON—let them act at his standard, rise or fall, in the Defence of their FREEDOM—Let MORALITY and RELIGION, Public and Private VIRTUES (the firm basis and corner stone of your Republic) be venerated—consider them as the nerves, the health, the vigor, and strength of your CONSTITUTION, and MAY THE GREAT AUTHOR OF THE UNIVERSE, perpetuate the blessings of your Independence, till time is no more, till this Globe, the theatre of action, crumbles into atoms, and leaves not behind it, a wreck of human ambition.
A Friend to Government.
Devotional Patriotism.
[Among the universal expressions of Patriotism, issuing from the real people of America, it is pleasing to notice the pious, and excellent Address of the enlightened Clergy of this State—who, on every occasion, have evinced a love of country, of order & of government.]
THE ADDRESS,
Of the Convention of Congregational Ministers in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
To the PRESIDENT of the UNITED STATES.
Adopted in full Convention, without a dissenting voice, May 31, 1798.
SIR,
WE the Congregational Ministers of your native State, met in annual Convention, feel ourselves called upon as men, as American citizens, and as public professors and teachers of christianity, to address you at this solemn and eventful crisis.
While the benevolent spirit of our religion and office prompts our fervent wishes and prayers for the universal extension of rational liberty, social order, and christian piety, we cannot but
deeply lament, and firmly resist those atheistical, licentious and disorganizing principles, which have been avowed and zealously propagated by the philosophers and politicians of France; which have produced the greatest crimes and miseries in that unhappy country, and like a mortal pestilence, are diffusing their baneful influence even to distant nations. From these principles, combined with boundless avarice and ambition, have originated not only schemes of universal plunder and domination, but insidious attempts to divide the American people from their rulers, and involve them in a needless, unjust and ruinous war; arbitrary and cruel depredations on their unoffending commerce; contemptuous treatment of their repeated messengers and generous overtures of peace; rapacious demands and insulting threats in answer to the most fair and condescending proposal.
In this connexion, we offer to you, sir, our tribute of affectionate esteem and gratitude, and to Almighty GOD, our devout praise, for the wise, temperate and benevolent policy, which has marked your conduct towards the offending power, and which has given a new and splendid example of the beauty and dignity of the christian spirit, contrasted with the base and profligate spirit of infidelity. We all bless GOD for your firm, patriotic and important services to our country, from the dawn of its glorious revolution, and for the conspicuous integrity and wisdom which have been constantly displayed both by you, sir, and your excellent and beloved predecessor.
As Ministers of the Prince of Peace, we feel it to be our duty both to inculcate and exemplify the pacific spirit which adorns his character and doctrine. We remember his command to forgive and love our most injurious enemies. But neither the law of christianity nor of real man requires us to prostrate our national independence, freedom, property, and honour at the feet of proud insatiable oppressors; especially of a government, which has renounced the gospel and its sacred institutions, and has transferred to imaginary or heathen idols the homage due to the creator and redeemer of the world. Such a prostration would be treason against that being who gave us our inestimable privileges civil and religious, as a sacre d trust to be defended and transmitted to posterity. It would be criminal unfaithfulness and treachery to our country, our children, & the whole human race.
The fate of Venice, and other countries subdued by France, though held up to intimidation as degrading submission, shall teach us a far different lesson. It shall instruct us to shun that insidious embrace, which aims not only to reduce us to the condition of tributaries, but to strip us of the gospel, the christian Sabbath and every pious institution. These privileges we consider as the chief glory of our country; the main pillars of its civil order, liberty and happiness; as on the other hand we view its excellent political institutions, as, under GOD, the guardians of our religious and ecclesiastical privileges. This intimate connexion between our civil and christian blessings, is alone sufficient to justify the decided part which the clergy of America have uniformly taken in supporting the constituted authorities and political interests of their country. While we forgive the censure which our order has received from some persons on this account, we will still, by our prayers and examples, by our public and private discourses, continue the same tenor of conduct which has incurred this malevolent or misguided abuse.
Amidst the fashionable scepticism and impiety of the age, it is a matter of consolation and gratitude that we have a PRESIDENT, who, both in word and action, avows his reverence of the christian religion, his belief in a redeemer and sanctifier of the world, and his devout trust in the providence of GOD.
May that BEING whose important favor you recently led us to implore, graciously answer our united prayers in behalf of our common country. May he preserve your valuable life and health, your vigor, firmness and integrity of mind, and your consequent public usefulness; and at length transfer you, full of days and honor, to the possession of an eminent and everlasting reward.
Signed per order.
DAVID OSGOOD, Moderator, } of Congregational Ministers in the State of Massachusetts. JEDEDIAH MORSE, Scribe, }
Answer to the convention of Congregational Ministers in the State of Massachusetts. GENTLEMEN,
THIS respectful and affectionate address, from the convention of the clergy of Massachusetts, not less distinguished for science and learning, candor, moderation, liberality of sentiment and conduct, and for the most amiable brevity of manners, than for unblemished morals and christian piety, does me great honor, and must have the most beneficial effects upon the public mind, at this solemn and eventful crisis.
To do justice to its sentiments and language, I could only repeat it sentence by sentence, and word for word; I shall therefore confine myself to a mere return of unfeigned thanks.
JOHN ADAMS.
Philadelphia, June 3, 1798.

American Ardor!
[Among the many spirited ADDRESSES to the President, the following ranks high. Like the Federal Magnet of the Union, that great and good man attracts and prompts to action, all the noble and virtuous spirit of the nation.]
ADDRESS, from the inhabitants of the Town of CONCORD (Massachusetts) To the President of the United States.
SIR, WHEN we contemplate the wisdom and firmness, the integrity and magnanimity of our National Executive, we rejoice that we are men, we boast that we are AMERICANS!
When Britain treated America with more than stepdame cruelty, the daring infant manfully asserted her rights, and bade defiance to her foe. A surviving few of us acted on the memorable 19th April—we saw unsheathed the first conquering sword; Concord drank the first blood of martyred freemen—here commenced a contest, dubious for Columbia; but by the perilous patriotism of her sons, and the all-conquering sword of God, and Washington, she won her sovereign independence, and founded a growing empire on the indistructible basis of justice and equal rights.
We, sir, having kept a watchful eye on your active merit, from the first dawn of your political existence, until you rose to the acme of political greatness, recognize with warmest gratitude, your signal services, during the tempest of a revolution, which challenges obliterating time to blot it from the scroll of Fame. We revere your invaluable attachment to the interests of our country, which shone with eclat in framing and defending our immortal constitution, which exhibits wisdom, inferior only to divine.
While we view with fullest satisfaction, peerless Washington's equitable administration, we cordially acquiesce, in the unshaken rectitude, the amicable disposition, and the vigorous measures now adopted by our Executive, towards an aspiring power, who, unprovoked, has outraged the piracy and perfidy of Gothic darkness and Vandal barbarity; who has perpetrated crimes unparalleled in the history of man! France, grasping at universal domination and aggrandizement, has abandoned every moral and religious principle; trampled on sacred faith, sported with national laws, and demanded pecuniary exactions, which would bankrupt our nation, and render us slaves, instead of a free, sovereign and independent people. Shall we submit to these repeated insults, and humiliating demands, or resolve, in holy remembrance of those who bled, that we will defend by our valor, what they won by their blood? We would not dictate, but should the crisis demand, we will rally round the standard of our Government, and under the direction of the concentrated wisdom of the union, make a free will offering of our lives and fortunes, sooner than truckle to the mandates of any foreign power. We will gloriously perish in the attempt; or unfulfilled, transmit to posterity, what we received in early days, from those who are now transmitted to brighter worlds, or trembling beneath the weight of age.
WE, in unison, with the Union, will convince France and the World, that the divine ENTHUSIASM, of '75, glows in the bosom of each genuine AMERICAN, and under providence will render COLUMBIA as formidable to her foes, as was MICHAEL'S SWORD from the Armory of GOD, to the rebel ANGELS of HEAVEN!!
Federalism of Maine:
ADDRESS. Of the inhabitants of the town of Wells, to the President and Congress of the United States of America.
AT a time when the agents of a foreign nation boast of their intriguing talents, and of having a party in this country devoted to their interest, with whose aid they pretend they can impose on the people of the United States, and by their deceptive skill prevent them from unit-
ing in opposition to the unreasonable and unjust demands of France, and at a time when so many attempts have been made, to defame the administration of our own government—The inhabitants of the town of Wells, have thought it expedient to address you—and accordingly at their meeting held on the seventh of May, unanimously directed us, respectfully to declare to you, and through you to the world, their firm and unshaken attachment to their country, its constitution, its laws, and constituted authorities—to declare to you their entire approbation of the measures from time to time, adopted by the Supreme Executive of the nation, in respect to our foreign relations, and in particular towards the French republic—to declare to you their just indignation against those enemies of our country, whether foreign or domestic, who have been busy in sowing the seeds of discord, and propagating an opinion, that we are a people divided from our government, and opposed to its measures—And at the same time to assure you, that although they deprecate the calamities of a war, yet reposing the highest confidence in your patriotism, wisdom and firmness, they will most cheerfully afford every support in their power, for carrying into complete effect all such measures as you shall deem necessary in defence of the country, and for securing that freedom and independence which are equally dear to the American people and their government.
NATHANIEL WELLS, JONAS CLARK, THATCHER GODDARD.
In behalf of the inhabitants of Wells.
Wells, May 10.
ANSWER
Of the PRESIDENT, to the inhabitants of the town of Wells, in the State of Massachusetts. GENTLEMEN, YOUR address to the President and Congress has been presented to me by your Representative in Congress, Mr. Thatcher.
Unanimous resolutions at a legal meeting of one of your towns, cannot pass, without a real unanimity in opinion and sentiment; those of the respectable town of Wells, upon this occasion, are very satisfactory.
The agents of a foreign nation have had too much colour for boasting of their intriguing talents, and of having a party in this country, devoted to their interest.
Your unshaken attachment to your country, constitution, and laws; your approbation of the measures of the Supreme Executive Authority of the nation, and resolution to afford every support in your power, are as honorable to your characters, as they must be satisfactory to the nation and its government.
Phila. May 28. JOHN ADAMS.
ADDRESS of the town of ARUNDELL, To the President of the United States.
SIR, AT this important crisis of our national affairs, we the subscribers, inhabitants of the town of Arundell, in the District of Maine, have conceived it our duty respectfully to express to you, our firm attachment to our Federal Constitution and Government—and to give you the most unequivocal assurance, of our perfect approbation of your administration since you have presided over the interests of our common country; especially in the measures adopted in relation to the French nation. And while we behold, with indignation the vile insidious attempts of those enemies of our happiness, whether in America or France, calculated to divide the people of the United States from their government, by sowing the seeds of discord and sedition amongst us, thereby to accomplish the subjugation of our infant Republic, we beg leave to assure you, that placing the fullest confidence in your wisdom, firmness, and integrity, and in the patriotism of every department of our government, we will cheerfully afford every support in our power to effectuate such measures as you and they shall deem expedient to adopt for the defence and protection of our country, its Freedom and Independence.
The above was signed by chief of the inhabitants of the town, and forwarded to the President.
THE GAZETTE.
Portland.
Later than the Mail.
Yesterday afternoon, arrived Capt. Massey, 24 hours from Boston. The Editor has been favored with the Centinel of Saturday last, by which he is enabled thus early to communicate the following VERY INTERESTING INFORMATION,
Arrival of Gen. Marshall.
FROM NEWYORK, JUNE 18.
Yesterday, General MARSHALL, one of our Envoys Extraordinary, to the French Republic, arrived here from France. We can give on good authority, some intelligence relative to the state of our affairs with France, and of the European politics:—In consequence of the French persisting in their refusal to come to any terms of reasonable agreement, Gen. Marshall and Gen. Pinckney, on the 14th April demanded and obtained passports to return to America.
Gen. Pinckney is detained for a short time by the indisposition of his daughter; but before this has probably embarked for this country. Mr. Gerry still remains to wait the determination of our government, and with the hope, although it is conceived a vain one, of effecting some accommodation.—No hope of an honorable and equitable adjustment of our differences was entertained by his colleagues; yet no disposition on the part of the French Directory is discovered to hurry matters to a crisis—They count upon our final and absolute submission—They view us as weak and abject—and have no idea that we mean to resist resolutely their insolent demands . They calculate on their skill at intrigue—the divisions among ourselves, and the government wanting support. As a proof that they wish on our part, the idle farce of negotiation to go on, while they play the serious game of plundering us of our ships and property, there is “ unquestionable evidence ,” of the Directory having ordered several privateers out expressly to intercept Gen. Marshall and Mr. Gerry on their way to France and carry them to the Westindies, which would necessarily create delay, and give them further time to capture our vessels.
The opinion of the Envoys respecting Talleyrand's official communication to them, is, that it's as empty a production as ever come from a man who had any reputation for talents or information. We know indeed that the objections and pretended complaints and grievances there stated, have been answered satisfactorily by JEFFERSON, RANDOLPH, and PICKERING.—It is obvious to every man of common discernment, that this piece so replete with falsehoods and misrepresentation, yet so full of candor and good will, was written not with the expectation of satisfying and convincing the envoys, but with the insidious intention of deceiving the general mass of our citizens, whom they impudently, and falsely, we trust, expect to deceive and separate from their government. An answer to this communication of Talleyrand, by the envoys, is brought by General Marshall, who goes on this morning to the seat of Government. We are happy to see him in good health—He is worthy the warmest gratitude of every true American.
With respect to the continental affairs, the French begin to consider their schemes of an invasion on England as impracticable, and have considerably relaxed their exertions. They still keep an immense body of men on the coast, the destination of which cannot be ascertained, as the French Directory preserve their views a profound secret. The report of Carnot's death is true.
At the time of this vessel's sailing, the public attention was principally occupied with the elections. The choice of the primary assemblies had generally fallen on decided terrorists—the real supporters of the constitution and system of Roberstierre . These are nearly as unacceptable as the moderate republicans to the existing government. The consequence is, that schisms have taken place in many of the electoral assemblies. The minority disposed to elect persons in favor of existing men and measures, have separated from the majority, for the purpose of making separate elections.
The late change in the Spanish government, was in consequence of the threats of the Directory, as the Prince of Peace was not found pliant and friendly to their purposes, which aim at the absolute subjugation of every nation in Europe.
The Portuguese government would have long since yielded absolutely to the demands on them, but for fear of the British, whose ships command their harbours, and who have soldiers in most of their garrisons.
* This letter is now in the hands of the Editor; but its length excludes its insertion this day. It shall appear in the next Gazette, if nothing more important occurs. The answer of our envoys shall also be published.
The French have demanded a contribution of 29 millions of florins, of the Danish government; however, it is not expected they will be able to enforce their demands.
A letter from a Member of Congress, to a member of the Legislature of this State, dated Philadelphia, June 18, says:—
“The letter from Talleyrand appeared in Bache's paper the day after it was received by the Secretary of State, and before it had been laid before the President. Our curiosity was much excited to discover the channel through which Bache received it. Hearing that a young man came in the same vessel by which the letter was sent; and having some acquaintance with him, I called on him this morning. I found by him, that the very day on which this letter was executed by Talleyrand, as appears by the date, and before it was delivered to the Envoys, a packet directed to B. F. Bache, and another to a gentleman at Newyork, under the official seal of Talleyrand's office, was delivered by Talleyrand's Clerk to one of the passengers on board this vessel.
“Our government received the dispatches by another vessel which failed some time after, but which arrived about the same time; and with the letter, we received the very spirited reply of our Envoys, which you will soon see. The object of Talleyrand was clearly to get the start of them; and by means of his letter to stir up the public against the government.—Fortunately the means of defeating his machinations arrived soon enough to prevent their operations.
“These facts tend to show that the declarations of X. and Y. as to the agents of France in this country were not without foundation.”
* This Bache is an infamous Jacobin printer in Philadelphia, supported in French pay.
Eighty thousand dollars have been subscribed at Philadelphia, for the purpose of building armed vessels to be loaned to government; the Hon. Mr. BINGHAM, alone, has subscribed 5000; and the subscription was still open.—A committee to superintend the building of the vessels is appointed.
A new section has been added to the provisional army bill, authorising the President to appoint the officers when he shall think proper.—The bill providing arms for the militia throughout the United States, has passed—yeas 55, nays 17.
On the 16th inst. the Sedition bill was taken up in Congress, when Gallatin (in order to destroy the bill) moved to strike out the first section, as unconstitutional! [No wonder this imp of sedition is afraid of it.]
The Portland Volunteer Company is fast filling up. It is their intention to equip themselves with all possible speed, and proffer their services for the defence of their country. This is the genuine spirit that pervades the union. Let our enemies calculate upon our divisions; but see! should they have the audacity to approach our shores, they will every where find hardy and determined divisions of soldiers.
Great preparations are every where making to celebrate the Fourth of July . The numerous military companies that are now preparing, will give a brilliancy to the day that will seem to renew the sacred declaration. May each one swear on the altar of his country, to support its independence.
Capt. Joseph McLellan has received instructions to place Buoys in this harbor, and at its entrance, where they may be necessary.
* Much important matter is unwillingly omitted this day.—The excellent address of our State legislature, and the President's answer, are received, and shall have a conspicuous place in the next Gazette. The editor has received Westindia gazettes by the late arrivals; but they contain nothing essential.

COMMUNICATION.
IT is very satisfactory to all those who have the true interest of society at heart, to see at last a paper in the District of Maine, which promises to counteract the poison which private views, electioneering interests, or the most dangerous enthusiasm, has conveyed to the very vitals of order and union among the people. The five or six years last past, have teemed with French successes, French grievances, French pretensions, French philanthropy, French power, French songs, and French cockades. We have not been allowed to say that our souls were our own, unless they were republican souls upon the French model; and the pitiful fellows who called themselves republicans, ignorant and contemptible as they universally were, have threatened us with the guillotine if we defended our own government, or questioned the infallibility of France. Would any body believe that among a people in the free exercise of a wholesome government, which they adopted and can change at pleasure, such an infamous trick as the French Revolution could be played off with such amazing success? What did we want but neutrality and peace? How were we concerned in the bloody proscriptions of France? What was Fayette and Dumourier, Robespierre and Marat, Brissot and Pétion, Anacharsis and Tom Paine, Piehgru and Barthélemi, or what is the present idol Buonaparte, or even the dignified and immaculate Talleyrand to us? Have they been savors and benefactors of the human race? No—but the most inconsiderate destroyers of it. Have they been friends of the United States? No; the whole administration of the pretended French Republic has been consistent in one thing at least, I mean in taking every possible advantage of the ignorance and weakness of individuals to raise a party for the purpose of destroying our government, of whose integrity they had the consciousness of their own villainy to be afraid.
Why have our ears been eternally filled with "republicanism, liberty and equality, health and fraternity, aristocrats and democrats, British influence, & friends of the people," who were friends of the Devil? Has it not been to carry on the most infamous farce of imposition, and to raise a rotten popularity among electors upon the basis of the lin of insurrection, which, as the perpetrators supposed, must easily beset the people?—Let the people reflect, if ever they intended to reflect, upon the conduct of those who have affected to be their friends, and of those whom the former have endeavored to brand as their enemies. Among their friends, they will find a constant disaffection to the best government in the world, I mean our own; and an eternal, irreconcilable enmity to all its proceedings, attended with an absurd and treacherous vindication of all the monstrous and jesuitical conduct of France. Among the enemies, however oppressed by fiction, and insulted by the jacobin system of terror, they will observe the most uniform support of order and good government, opposition to foreign influence, and horror at the bloody and avaricious ambition of France.—Now is the time to try men by the long series of their conduct.—Who have been discerning and honest? Has the jacobin declaimer, the time serving editor, and the demagogue of the day?
I would ask the politicians of Buxton, who have immortalized their town, whether they have really comprehended the little mischief they have attempted to do? Their town might make a more conspicuous figure under the administration of Marat, than it can ever make under any other. But ought the town of Buxton on this account to sacrifice, or at least consign to infamy the whole United States? I cannot but think that they will take back what they have said, and even renounce their skill in navigation, rather than insist on a denunciation so severe.—But as it cannot be denied that the politicians of Buxton have as good a right to judge as well as they can of public measures, as the President himself, I am willing to leave them and him on a par, only requesting as a favor to him, that when they see proper to denounce him again, it may be grammatically done, for he has been at least forty years an accurate scholar.
To return—I wish to know to whom the support and continuance of the Federal Government is to be attributed: and by whose means it is that we have at this trying time, a Constitution that will hold us together, and enable us to act as a people?—Will even jacobin impudence answer, We have had a share in it? If jacobins had the grace to blush, might we not in fiat reply to this question, expect shame and confusion of face? Let them lay their hands on their mouths, and their mouths in the dust, and cry, unclean, unclean! "father we have sinned in thy sight, and are not worthy to be called the least of thy children!"—But where is this repentant language—where is this unaffectioned remorse? Can deadly malice; can horrible disappointment, dwell with the friends of investigation, the philosophers of the times? What! they have not been able to substitute themselves in the room of the People, and so they will not now go hand in hand with the friends of the people. Very well—always exclusive, and inquisitorial, in the caverns of their meeting, it can hardly be expected that they should commit suicide at once, by taking their proper places in the matri of the public. Usurpers of the powers of the people, they will not resign them even to the people themselves. Once in two or three years these liberty mongers have done so much mischief to the machine of government, that the TRUE PEOPLE are obliged to come forward, and as it were, retouch the magnetic point of the Executive—and then these fellows
are so brain-sick with their own delusions that they call this an insurrection against themselves—for say they, We are the People —have not we said so? and said so too when you did not dare to dispute it?
But let them remember that they are under a legal obligation to have some knowledge, or at least to behave well without it. The TRUE PEOPLE, is a patient and well conditioned being, but in proportion as its long suffering endures, its final frown is terrible and blasting—the FALSE PEOPLE is noisy, fretful and uneasy; and like a child of this description wants correction oftener than it is to be found a good parent will bestow it. Let this wicked child remember how often for want of the seasonable rod, such children have come to the gallows—and in the fearful apprehension of a similar fate, let them now kiss the rod, and him who hath appointed it. (To be continued.)
MARRIED —At Waldoborough, Captain Charles Sampson to Miss Sarah Thomas, eldest daughter of Waterman Thomas, Esq.
DIED —In this town, on Tuesday last, Mrs. REBECCA THORLO, aged 55—an amiable and affectionate wife, a kind and tender parent, an excellent friend, a benefactress of the poor, and a friend to religion.
Mrs. MARY MARIA ARNOLD, aged 22. A fine understanding, an excellent character, and cheerful disposition, endeared her to all her acquaintance. On his passage to the West Indies, Mr. James Whittier, of Wiscasset, aged 27.
At sea, 27th May, Capt. John Murray, of Wiscasset, aged 27.
At Boston, suddenly, on Wednesday morning last, the Rev. JEREMY BELKNAP, D. D. aged 54, pastor of a church in that town. He was an eminent and distinguished character.
KILLED —On the 15th inst. as Mr. James Turner, of Lewistown was felling a tree, it fell on a dry one opposite, which broke, and one of its branches struck him on his head, which killed him instantly.
Marine Articles. Port of Portland.
Tuesday arrived Schooner Rosebud , Captain Purvis, 21 days from Jacquemel . Left there a brig belonging to Philadelphia, and brig & Schooner belonging to Baltimore, to sail in four days. Capt. Ropes, in a Schooner from Salem, failed the same day with Capt. P. bound into the bite. On the 3d inst. was boarded by a British 74 and a frigate, 10 days out on a cruise who informed that they had taken 8 American vessels bound to French blockaded ports; their crews were on board.
Wednesday, arrived Schooner Jeremiah , Girdler, 45 days from Biboa , bound to Marit Head .
Thursday, arrived Schooner Hero , Capt. Alexander Aikins , of Wiscasset , 17 days from Antigua .—The brig Delaware , James Dunphy master, from Philadelphia, was taken on the 8th May by the French privateer brig Independence of 12 guns, Petit Pierre master, from Guadaloupe , in lat. 30, long. 70, and retaken by an English privateer from Antigua , the 27th May, and carried there the same inst.—Sailed in company with Capt. Dion in a snow, and Capt. Gammon in a brig for Boston ; Schooner Mary , Douglas , for Newbedon . They were all captured by the French, and retaken by the English.—Lat. 41, 40, long. 65, 30, spoke the South Dispatch of Boston , four days out, for Surinam , all well. Lat. 40, 49, long. 66, spoke an 18 gun ship from Halifax to Antigua .—On his outward bound passage, Capt. A. was captured by a French pirate, and plundered of every thing but his lumber. Even his provisions were taken from him; when he begged that they would not leave him to starve, they threw back three pieces of pork and made off—Markets dull at Antigua except lumber.
Saturday, arrived Schooner Polly , Thrasher , from Philadelphia.
Same day, Sloop Franklin , from Boston , 24 hours.
Same day, Schooner Mary , Capt. Blake , 12 days from St. Croix . Left there brig Catharine of New York , Samuel Wickham master; Schooners Thomas , Drew , and Nancy , Chase , of Boston .—The brig Vulture , Lambert , of Salem , was at St. Thomas .
Capt. Blake informs that great numbers of American vessels were continually carried into Port Rico ; that the crews were imprisoned, and no letters suffered to be sent from the place—that the French captured all the vessels they met with, and that an embargo was laid in all French ports.
Capt. Reed arrived at Boston from Surinam , left there a ship belonging to Portland .
Brig Hannah , Kempton , of Hallowell is arrived at Boston .
Thomas Slemmon's Estate.
THE subscriber hereby gives notice, that he hath been duly appointed Administrator on the Estate of Thomas Slemmon, late of Falmouth, in the county of Cumberland, yeoman, deceased, and taken upon him that trust, by giving bond as the law directs. All persons therefore, who have any demands against said estate, are requested to exhibit the same—and those who are indebted to said estate, are requested to make payment to WILLIAM SLEMMON. June 20, 1798.
Notice.
WHEREAS SAMUEL WARD, who now lives in the town of Gorham, who holds a note of hand against me the subscriber, for Fifty Dollars, which was given him some time in September 1797, and witnessed by Joseph Wilson—and although the said Ward has received of my property, according to the judgment of judicious men, to the value of said note, yet he refuses to deliver it up—This is therefore to forbid any person from purchasing said note, as I am determined not to pay it. BENJAMIN CHIPMAN. Portland June 18, 1798.
REMOVED.
Jesse Richards,
INFORMS his customers and the public that he has removed from his shop at the head of Titcomb's wharf, to the bottom of Fifth-street—Where he makes and keeps constantly for sale,
HATS
of every description. Those who may favor him with their commands, shall receive every attention. Portland, June 25.
Ran Away,
FROM the English ship Admiral Duncan , Capt. Cuthbertson . JOHN SMITH , an apprentice boy, about fourteen years old, short thick light hair, having on when he left the ship, a blue serge jacket with bright metal buttons, and blue trowsers—no shoes or hat—Whoever will apprehend said boy, and deliver him to Mr. Arthur M'Lean , or Capt. Cuthbertson of the above ship, shall receive TEN DOLLARS reward, and reasonable expenses. JOHN PILE. Portland, June 25.
FLOUR.
SUPERFINE and fine Baltimore and Philadelphia FLOUR, of an excellent quality for sale by WALTER SIMONTON. June 25.
To Samuel Freeman, Esq. one of the Justices of the Peace within the county of Cumberland.
THE subscribers, being five of the proprietors of the Portland Long Wharf, judging a meeting of the said proprietors to be necessary, do hereby apply to you the said Justice, for a Warrant to call a meeting of said proprietors, to be held at the Columbian Hall in said Portland, on Wednesday the eleventh day of July next, at 4 o'clock in the afternoon, for the purposes following, viz.
 1st. To choose a Moderator.  2d. To choose a Clerk, Treasurer, Collector of taxes, a Wharfinger, and a Committee to adjust and settle accounts.  3d. To determine what additions or repairs they will make to said wharf the current year.  4th. To determine what commission or other allowance shall be made to their Clerk, Treasurer and Wharfinger, the current year.  5th. To vote such sums of money as may be necessary to pay accounts, and for such additions or repairs as may be agreed upon.  6th. To determine on the manner their Collector shall proceed with delinquent proprietors.  7th. To determine what instructions they will give, and with what powers they will invest their Wharfinger.  8th. To determine on the manner of calling future meetings. 
DANIEL TUCKER, JOHN KENT, MATTHEW COBB, ABNER BAGLEY, S. HARDING. Portland, June 1798.
CUMBERLAND, ss.
To Daniel Tucker, one of the proprietors of the Portland Long Wharf, and one of the subscribers of the foregoing application.
YOU are hereby required in the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, to notify and warn a meeting of said proprietors, in the manner by law directed, to be held at the time and place and for the purposes mentioned in said application.
Given under my hand and seal the eighteenth day of June, Anno Domini 1798. SAMUEL FREEMAN, Justice of the Peace for said county.
Pursuant to the foregoing warrant, I hereby notify and warn the proprietors of the Portland Long Wharf to meet at the time and place, and for the purposes mentioned in the above application. DANIEL TUCKER. Portland, June 23, 1798.
Five Dollars Reward.
RAN away, with the boat, from the snow Hartford , Capt. Brightman , lying in this port, DANIEL CAMPBELL , about 18 years old, dark complexion, flame hi greckled, his hair dark and curly—about five feet four inches high—Also, a boy by the name of JOHN SMITH , light complexion, long favored, has a scar of a ball shot through his left thigh—about four feet eight inches high.—Any person who will take up said runaways, and secure them in any jail, shall receive the above reward, and all necessary charges paid, by HENRY BRIGHTMAN. Portland, June 7, 1798.
WE the subscribers, having been appointed by the Hon. WILLIAM GORMAN , Esq. to receive and examine the claims of creditors to the estate of GEORGE JOHNSON , late of Falmouth, yeoman, deceased, represented insolvent, do hereby give notice, that six months from the first day of May last, were allowed to said creditors to bring in and prove their claims; and that we shall attend at their place at the dwelling house of ARCHELAUS LEWIS , in said Falmouth, on the last Monday of this and the four following months, from two to six o'clock, p. m.
ARCHELAUS LEWIS, JAMES MEANS. Falmouth, June 5th, 1798.
District of Maine.
BY order of the Hon. DAVID SEWALL , Esq. Judge of the District Court of Maine, Notice is hereby given, that a Libel has been filed in said Court against the ship EMMA , her tackle, apparel and furniture, for sundry wages due to sailors; and that agreeable to a decree of said Court, such part or parts of said ship, together with her tackle, apparel and furniture, will be sold at public Auction as she now lies, at the long wharf in Portland, as will produce 479 dollars and 99 cents, together with the legal expenses of custody and sale. The above ship will be exposed to sale on the fifth day of July next, at 12 o'clock, A. M. JOHN HOBBY, Marshal. Dated at Portland, June 20th, 1798.
Chaise for Sale.
FOR sale by the subscriber, an elegant new standing top CHAISE with harness complete, WILLIAM CALDWELL. Portland, June 25. (cp1)
A second hand CHAISE for sale, not half worn.
Inquire at this Office.
FRESH GOODS.
J. Blake,
HAS just received at his store in Fifth street, a fresh assortment of SUMMER GOODS, of almost every description, which are for sale very cheap for cash.
Also, a beautiful assortment of PAPER HANGINGS, at the Boston prices. Portland, June 11.
JUST OPENED, AND FOR SALE,
By Kexia Butler,
MILLENER, from Boston, At her Shop in Middle Street opposite the store of Mr. Joseph C. Boyd,
A variety of Fancy and other articles, suitable for the season.
AMONG WHICH ARE, FASHIONABLE Vellum and Sattin Bonnets, Sprigged and Checkered Muffins, Muslin Handkerchiefs, Cambric ditto, Coloured Sattins and Moles, Fancy Ribbons, Necklaces and Ear-Rings, Miniature Chains, Lockets, Spigs, &c. &c.
ALSO, A variety of Japanned WARE, and an assortment of CHILDREN'S TOYS. N. B. MILLENARY of all kinds made at the shortest notice. Portland, June 11.
William Hudson,
Informs his friends & the public, that he has for sale at his West-India & Grocery Store, fore-street, an assortment of W. I. Goods, Groceries, &c. AMONG WHICH ARE,
  Anchovies,  Mace,    Allum,  Molasses,    Alspice,  Nutmegs,    Almonds, shelled  Netting Twine    Awls and Haws,  Nails    Black ball  Olives    Brown Sugar  Oiled Umbrellas    Butter  Pepper    Bellows  Pins    Bindings  Pigtail Tobacco    Bed Cords  Paper-writing & wrapping    Candles mould and dipt, per box or lb.  Pomatum    Chocolate No. 1 and 2  Powder Flasks    Cheese,  Raisins    Capers  Rice    Cart boxes  Redwood    Cotton  Rappee Snuff    Cards, playing  Razors    Corn  Kit and Mouse Traps    Codlines  Segars,    Currants  Scotch Snuff    Cloves  Slates    Cards, wool and cotton  Shot of all sizes    Copperas,  Shoe Brushes    Cinnamon,  Sieves    Chest and padlocks  Spanish, French & Carolina Indigo    Cake Soap  Sewing Twine    Cake Ink  Shaving boxes    Cloth lines  Sewing Silks    Corks  Stone Ware    English Mustard  Sand Stones    Flour  Smoking Tobacco, No. 1, 2 and 3    Fustick  Tobacco boxes    Figs,  Tapes,    Files  Threads    Flax  Thimbles    Florens Oil  Twists of all colours    Figg Tobacco per cask or single pound  TEAS—Hyson, Souchong and Bouca.    Flat Irons     Fish Hooks of all sizes     Ginger     Glass, window, 7 by 9     German Steel     Gun Powder     Hard Soap, per box or lb.     Hair Ribbon     India Sugars     Iron Hovels     Knives and forks     Log Wood     Loaf Sugar     Lemons,     Long and short Pipes     Mackerel Lines     Men's, Women's & Children's Shoes   
LIQUORS. Best French Brandy Common ditto W I & N E Rum Hollands Geneva Anniseed Clove water Snake Root London bottled Porter Bottled Cyder Draft Porter Vinegar Cherry Rum Sherry Malaga Mr. HUDSON returns his thanks for past favours, and hopes by his attention to merit their continuance. Portland, June 18, 1798.

POETRY.
The American Bards do not forget to express, in their animating language, the sentiments of Federalism.
ATTENTION!
HARK! The clarion's shrill alarms, Strike to the soul of slumbering thought, Where on downy pillow laid, Of soft delusive peace, it strayed...
Loud the guardian Eagle screams, And soaring high on thundering wing, Beckons all her honest brood, To union for the public good.
Yet firm as Washington's great soul, She views with unbleach'd eye the storm Which Adams now in virtue's pride, A second time is doom'd to guide.
On the sailing of the UNITED STATES FRIGATE.
THE anchor weigh'd, the cannon's roar, Proclaims along the echoing shore, The manly farewell of a crew, To honest Independence true.
No sighs disgrace the gather'd crowd; The shouts of joy are heard aloud: No wife her parting lord restrains, To check the smile her soul disdains.
Each sister, as she bids adieu, Crimson with the glowing hue Of honest pride, and loud declares, "The noble toil my brother shares."
The vessel now adown the tide, Moves slow in independent pride; While Delaware with honest boast, Presents her to th' insulted coast.
And you ye TARS, who foremost stand, Guardians of your injured land, May smiling cherubims on high, Guard you with a watchful eye.
We pray not from a mortal foe, The heavens to turn your chasing prow; Your courage prov'd our quarrel just, In you we place implicit trust.
FROM ANACREON.
FAIREST Art! thy wonders bring, On my goblet carve the Spring, Mother of the lovely rose, The prime of every flower that blows.
Be sure to mark my order's well! Draw neither guest nor antique tale; But paint me Bacchus, son of Jove; And let the laughing Queen of Love.
THE COLLECTION.
"A THING OF SHREDS AND PATCHES."
LITERARY.—THERE should be a social or circulating LIBRARY in every town. Less money than a man spends on an election, or training day for punch or grog, would entitle him a reader or proprietor; and if his sons, and even his daughters should contract a taste for reading, it would do them no harm.
The advocates for ignorance insist, that folks who work, cannot read. The reply is short:—they will not work always. In rainy weather, in winter, or holidays, in the intervals of rest, or during sickness, books will afford treasures and consolations which blockheads know not of.
Singular Retaliation!—A short time since, a young fellow who paid his addresses to a lady, carried things so far, as not only to be asked at church, but to stop short in the marriage ceremony, by answering no! to the important question of, wilt thou have this woman to be thy wedded wife?
One and Indivisible!—By the Redacteur, a Paris paper, under the immediate direction of the French Directory, we learn that Tom Paine is writing, under the patronage of Talleyrand, a "Vindication of the character of Judas Iscariot," wherein, with his usual plausibility, he endeavors to prove that Judas was a bon patriote.
MANKIND are the creatures of habit; and their ideas of what is RIGHT, are continually changing. Prejudice and education, rather than reason, determine all their actions.—About a century ago (as mentioned in some of the histories of those times) an old woman in New England, under sentence of condemnation for witchcraft, was carting to the gallows—the crowd were unanimous for her execution, with loud shouts and clapping of hands.
SENSIBLE!—Two gentlemen, a lawyer and physician, were riding one each side of a boy who was walking in the road. "Well, my lad," says the lawyer which are you a rogue or a fool?" The
boy looked earnestly each side of him; "I believe, fir," says he, "I am between them both."
It was the custom of Charlemain, to affix to the treaties which he consented to, a waxen seal impressed by the pum-mel of his sword. "And with the point," added the Emperor, "I will support it."
He who pursues the glimmering steps of hope with steadfast, not presumptuous eye, may pass the gloomy rock on either side of which superstition and incredulity spread their dark abysses.
Revolutionary Horrors!
[To give my readers a true idea of the more than savage barbarities which have marked the progress of French anarchoists, I shall occasionally furnish them with extracts from the "Bloody Buoy," a work collected from French writings. May the bloody picture serve as a caution against French principles; Let it serve as a mirror of our own destiny, if we adhere to the infamous politics of obdurate and unprincipled jacobins.
"DEBOURGES, a witness, says, I have seen, during six days, nothing but drownings, guillotinings and shootings. Being once on guard, I commanded a detachment that conducted the fourth masse of women to be shot at Gigan. When I arrived, I found the dead bodies of seventy five women already stretched on the spot. They were quite naked. I was informed that they were girls from fifteen to eighteen years of age.
"Soon after the first National Assembly had decreed, that the Comtat of Avignon belonged to the French nation, an army of assassins, of whom one Jourdan, sur-named the Cut-throat, was the commander, took possession of the unfortunate city of Avignon. The churches were immediately pillaged, the sacred vases profaned and carried off; the alters levelled to the ground. The prisons were soon filled, and the unhappy victims were released only to suffer death. A deep pit was dug to receive their dead bodies, six hundred of which were thrown into it, mangled and distorted, before ten o'clock the next day. Among them was Mr. Nollhac, a priest, in the eightieth year of his age. He had been thirty years rector of St. Symphorien, a parish which he preferred to all others, and which he could not be prevailed on to quit for a more lucrative one, because he would not desert the poor.
of his love, and the next day embraced and cheered each individual as he was called forth by the murderers.
Two of these stood at the door with a bar of iron in their hands, and as the prisoners advanced knocked them down; the bodies were then delivered over to the other ruffians, who hacked and disfigured them with their sabres, before they threw them into the pit, that they might not afterwards be known by their friends and relations.
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