Jenks's Portland gazette. [volume] (Portland [Me.]) 1799-1802, 1799-07-29


determining to difgracc their own folders by
transforming them into public ara(fns, and by
directing their blows ssainlt the lacred agents
OF treaties, the organs OF the peace of nations
and the members of an alembly of European
negociators. The French Plenipotentiares Ear
from entertaining any Ouch approximations. re-.
PEELED all that were attempted to be infu(sa into
them refpeaing their perional fafety pcnetra-
ted with the maxins of loyalty and public faith
which their nation profefes, they were peffua.
ded that thof. maxims could not fail of iervng
as fafeguard to them, after having 70 con.
ltantly ferved as their rule in the courfe Of a
laborious million.
"Ciuzens Representatives, when we are
feeking for the motives, and, above all, for The
hopes which might have led the Aultrian
Government to this lai excefs of fury, it is inn
poaible not to feel how they reckoned upon the
two sficacious manGuvres by which they labor
| to perpetuate, in the boiom Of the French Re-
public, agitation, penury and difcord. Would
they thus hold thenleves up to the execration
of all people and of all ages, if they did not
/ fatter themfelves with foon feeling The horror
of their crimes covered and concealed by their
fucceiles And upon what could Aullria found
this hope, but upon the progreliive diminution
of our pecuniary means and, iince it NUT be
faid, upon the errors of the French whom III.
mifleads, upon the criminal concurrence of thoie
who with to fervs her, upon the unfortunate
didenfions OF thoie who deGre 10 combat
her
Certainly whatever may have been, within
few days, the military advantages which ihe
has iuf crowned by 70 cowardly an outrage,
experience has too well learnt hsr that fuch
reverie would be for us but the preiages OF
triumphs, it the rsROratisn Of or fsaneef were
fully to fecond the valor and attachment of our
Republican phaanxes.
1t is becauie the Auarian knows, or rather
becaule he exaggerates, the momen,ary dJfrsG
of oxr faaseeJ, that be thinks he is frong
enough to fhew himfelf ierocious, and that he
celebrates his ephemeral victories by folemn
aGalIinations.
s.After 70 fatal a recital, one feels. Citizens
Representatives, the necefity of directing our
thoughts to acts of loyalty and virtue. You
viii fee by the letter from Jean Debry, that that
Mioiier owed his fafety to the generous care of
the Members OF the Diplomatic Body, that they
aa, 6gned by ali of them, to declare him. in the
name of their condiments, reiponGble for the
crime and all its eonfequsnees and that the
inhabitants of Raaadt, after having loaded it
with all the execraton it merits, have almoit
unanimously announced the 6ra opinion of
Europe and poferty, by accuing the Aultlian
Government of having conceived, direded. and
accomplished it.
Citizens Representatives, the names OF our
Plenipotentaries, the Indignation Of the armies,
the menacing voice OF the French people, the
unanimous voice of all people, Of your allies,
of your enemies themfe,ves, the cry of all na-
tons who win for or will have peace, the com.
mon interelt of Cover ments, whatever they
may be, every thing calls out, every thing com.
mands vengeance The Executive Directory,
in order to make it prompt and tremendous,
will make ufe of all The means you have pla.
ced, of all that you fhall place in their power.
They cannot didemble that circumstances re.
quire all the energy, as we'll as all the wfiom
Of Republican patrio i'm, the feyere reprehson
of robberies of all kinds, harmony between the
conaituted powers, concord between citizens,
and, above all, the reaoration of public credit,
by an equilibrium between The receipt and ex-
psnditure.
"Citizens Representatives, when by fub-
lime impulfe the French people ro(e in mafs
againa the epemies of the republic, then fcarce.
ly proclaimed, Aultria had not yet run her
career of per6dy and crime ihe had not viola.
ted the molf hoy engagements, and The mott
facred laws Of nature ihe bad not madacred
the negociators of peace. Let, then, this new
impulfe of the people be formidable let their
efforts aud their facrfces be generous, Gnce
hey are to avenge at the fame time the liberty
of France, and the morality OF all civilized ma
TONS
(Signed) BARRAS, P,shJsnt.