The gazette. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1798-1799, 1798-06-18

| lar door, which on being opened, he,
notwithstanding his infrm fate, dcllv-
cred out one bottle Of wine when II is
fuppofed the fudden removal from a
warm bed to the damp air of humid
vault occafoned lhivering fit, thatwa8
fucceeded by an apopleGtic troke, which
occaGoned his death. Such was his
antipathy to the marriage fate, that he
difcarded his brother, the only relative
alive, for not living in fate of ceiba-
| cy.-On his effects being examined, it
appeared that he had 25,oool. in the
different Tontines, II,oool. in the a
per cents. and landed property to the
amount of 2oOol. per annum. One
hundred and feventy. three pair Of
breecheS, and other articles Of apparel,
were found in a room which had not
been opened for more than fourteen
years, and in the coach-houGe was DIFF
covered 1S7 wigs, which were be-
queathed to him, with other property,
by diffent kinlmen whom he furvivcd,
and to which the offending brother be-
comes entitled.
MODERN PATRIorIsM.-A writer,
who has looked quite through the ways
of men, has the following fenGble PAT
iage, III one of his works
Z" Patrioh(m, that once meant the
noblef exertion of diGnterefed virtue,
by which every attention to private ad-
vantage was facrifced to public good,
figniiieS NOW no more, than an oppo-
fition to the meafureS Of government,
whether right or wrong, fupported by
fuch pretences, as are mott likely to in
fame the pqDTOns Of The people, till the
Governors are 70 embarrahed, as to be
obliged to admit the Patriots to fhare
of power. The Patriots then directly
throw off the mafk, for fome new dema-
gogue to take up; and do themlelveS
the very things, which they before de-
claimed againt with 70 much noife and
vehemence."
BARBARIry The favage ferocity
with which the French generals have
executed the orders Of the directory
, in the conquef Of the peaceful Repub-
.lics of Switzerland-killing, in one ac-
ton with the inhabitants of Berne, as
we are told, 400 W0men-would lead US
to fuppofe, that thofe who framed the
orders, as well as thole who executed
them, had read the following lines in
Shakefpeare'S +" Timon Of athens :"
-" Let not the fword Kip one.
Pity not honored age for his white beard.
Strike me the Let not the virgins cheek
Make (oft thy trenchant fwoId. Spare not the babe,
Whole dmpled fmes from fools eThauit their mercy
Mince it without rnaoytr."
SANs-CULoTrE WORK A keeper
of wild BEATS in Ncwyork, fome time
palt (upon becoming fole proprietor Of
the ihew) frem his love Of French can't
and French fraternity, not only mount
ed the liberty zap upon the top Of his
roof, but courteouAy informed the citi-
zsns, that he wifhed them health and
fraternity, upon his being the one and in
di0jfble proprietor. The ketbersG, it
ieemS, entertained no fuch indiVjfblc,
%nOnqpOlizing notions but, on the contra
ny, accordingto the true agrarian fyC-
TEN, fhe thought that the good things
Of this world ought TO be enjoyed in
common by all mankind. Refolving to
reduce her principles to practice, it was
quite natural for her to choofe, as the
frt Object Of her favours, French
(an5-enlotfs, who, in very lhort fpace,
qualified the keeher 70 make bis ar,renr.