The gazette. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1798-1799, 1798-11-12
portland.
MoNDAr, N01EMBER 12tb, 1903.
Communication.

lntulting ipeech of III. Barrat proficient Of the
Executive Directory to Monroe on his recall, in
detail, and expofe It's barbarilns and crudites
to critlcilM, as we'll as lis whole tenor of moR
lmpudent arrogance TO Indignation.
az. Barras thus addreGes the philo6ophic and
fubmifIive Moarof-
Mr.. MniHer Plenipotentiary of the United
. States OF America, by preientng TODAY your
:" letters OF recall TO the Executive Directory,
" you give TO Europe very Grange ipetiacle."
How orange fpeGacle Was it anything
new or " orange" to recall an ambadador /?
Especially an unfaithful &c. France herfclf
has recalled two from theie States But mr.
Barras finding the people Of France almoR fck
OF their contemplate liberty, end having party
10 lupPort in the United States, mutt make The
mott be can OF revolutionary caut-in which,
ne and his colleagues and complt:iots are won.
dertully adiled by their ignorance for nothing
helps man 10 much to fay thing boldly as
indifference 10 truth and falishood fupported
by ignorance of the matter Of fja. IT'S thus
that maa becomes republican of the newelf
fathlon, and after due exercife in villainy, and
proof OF imPenetrable impudence, may Be
Director. But M Barro5, why NUT you fer
al : Europe" gazing at Msar o. ! Let me
tell you, citizen, that Europe had fometh;ng
ellie to do-Wh-re were your armies, wretch n
Frlnce, rich in her liberty. lurrounded by
atrain Of Victories, Rrong in the elteem of her
allies, will not a5df: herie.tby cal, ulaJing The
conlequences Of the confederation Of the
" American government to the fuggeaions of
her former tyTaots."
Here, a one Of my good friends always
fays, IS food FIR the mind SC Ric5 IN her E5rr-
y" Great God when will impudsnce end,
md truth have any chance , Rich in hs>y-
y - True, if n any thi e; for fhe was obliged
az that moment = turn pirate Or harve. :" In
liberty - Never was poor nation 10 ruined
As to her " ailes," the eaeern thy have for her
IS jult luch as makes th- Indians iacrihce to the
Devil--But now "wILL NOT ABAsE HER
sELF"-So then, NJ Barras. We a'e me 10 Be
only younger I" ii4el" already Ae elder takes
airs-muft noop-but woa't COOP, not fhe--
To'ther day il was " lear fEeet elder Giter,"
that ihewed Frame tie SUay, and al that-But
leIiouLy word or two further, we fee that il
is the = meric1n GOVERNMENT" to which
France will not condelcend. How SVondtrtglly
condeicec ding France would doabtkG be ii We
had no government What an ulelefs thing to
| the P-oPe IS government f. troublefome to
France How prettily The Dired ~ brides up
to the Proficient Of The United Statee " I'd
| have you TO know, Sir have lived in your
| family, Sri have debauched more than half
ct it, Sir ancient tyraRiS' IS the word, SiE."-
| Oh, the ratcals ! my heart grows 6ck Of
them
" Moreover, the French Republic hopes that
20 the iuccedors OF Columbus, RGmbipb, and
g Penn, always proud oftheir liberty, will never
6 forget that they owe it to France"
CWho the ID are the fucceFors of Coum
bus, RamhiPh and Penn ?-Thi. Directory is a
lett Of ignorant bioekheads. Coumbus, to Be
fure, diicovered America conlid- ed as a quar-
ter of the world, but nevsr 4Vas 10 any of the
ATTITUDES Of the United Staes He was a
G-noele, and as to his fuccefora" they are
the people who fail between Old and New Spain.
Thele people may have obligations to the
| French Republic tor aught | know-But VIVA,
could that Gshity to Mozroe ?-RAMH1PH p
Yet i Is 70 Il q evar % in The original -
What can I mean, / ry'thee ?-Rambibb you
villains Why It is the frt time the heather
looking word was ever ieen. But the more
icholaT-llke Printer, iays in a note, " Proba5b
irteadea far Raleigb BE It fo-But Sir Wal
ter only made little frttl.ment at Roanoke
at VIII oh he never rslided. I'll, true, he after
wards pundered Guiana in Souh America
and lott his head for it. But who are thi.
| geutIeman's fuccelors," and where are they
Certainly IN England, if any where. ClaGica
Directory Penn with lome propdety may b
faid to have fuccellos in Ps446lpania, but nj
where clle in tine United States. What a TT
OF ihamelefs blOckheAds this Directory is C
outrage hlory and common learning in Il
grois a manner !-Bu we know they mean tht
people OF America. Why rot then q h,
conPatriots of Warrington and Adams ! W.
ihouid underRand this, IT. BQrrd5 But no
Wilmington ana Adams vii not be the cat
paws Of France to ennave their fellow citizens
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