Jenks's Portland gazette. [volume] (Portland [Me.]) 1799-1802, 1799-09-23
Further Foreign articles.
TALLEyRAND IN JEOPARDY !!
Or, TIE Apgqate BilbQp doing penaaee.


pamphlets and journals. He begins with rel
marking, that all his acoulers are themielves
either ex prieffs or ex.nobles, and even princes
or foreigners, who, having hrit introduced
thenfelyes to notice with cunning and dexter+
Ky, foon affirmed, with audacity, the privilege
OF inAru6tng US how we flonld be free in our
own country.
IS What them continues Talleyrand, do
thefe men urge, who ne not Frenchmen, or
thole among Frenchmen Whole integrity they
have fucceeded in corupting ! That have
been one ct the conltituent afembly Yes, l
was fully convinced that they never could
forgive thofe whofe names sfe luxurious among
the founders of liberty. l was fully convinced
that men who had never experienced the firt
fallies Of the French people, in 1889, who in
dulged in ihameiu raillery on the iublime
enthufafm Of the nation, and who, unable to
prevent the revolution, exerted ahemielyes to
render it odous, wers IN fecret enraged agalnit
the aGembly which fri proclaimed the deela-
ration of the rights of man. and were more
favourable TO the anti.revolutionary part OF
that aGcmbly than to the part which produced
the revolution. But was ignorant that they
could carry their audacity 70 far as publickly
and without any mafk to reproach citizen for
having been member Of the conaituent af
Iembly. And yet this is one Of the numerous
accusations preferred againit me in their favour.
lie journal.
g In the prefsnt agitation of the public mind,
three fuppoiitions are alone poaiblc I: The
Republic will coniolidate its erength in the
midi of 70 many events : we fhall be overwhel.
med in the confuion and dearueion of every
kind of authority or royalty will be reRored
to opprefs us with increaled fury and tyranny.
Every other fuppofition is to me chmera, and
have unquefionably given fufiicent pledges
Of my zeal againlt the two Ian fyliems. The
fate allotted TO me, by both the one and the
other Of them, is efficiently known, as well as
the kind of preference which they would grant
20 me. Il has been a thouiand times demon
Arafed, that I can have no other deiire but
that Of confolda,ing the power and eltabliihing
rhe glory Of the Republic. l did not, indeed
expect, conieis, to be reduced TO the nseeflity
of proving, in the 9TH year of the Republic that
I am not an Emigrant A proof rendered
unnecsEary by the unanimous declaration of
the Natiooal Convention, which ordered my
name TO be GRATED from all lifts of Emigrants,
and repealed, at the fame time, the decree of
accula,icn which had been brought againlt
me.
+" But it is aiked by my accufers, What are
the motives which caufed the National Conven.
ton TO erafe the name Of Talcyrand The
anfwer however. is lmpe, and undoubtedly
Deceive, was ient to London, for the feeond
time, by the ProviGonal Executive Council, on
the 7th of September 1892. have in my
pcIsfhon the original pailport delivered to me
by the Council, and which is fgned by fix of
Its members, Lebrun, Danton, Servan, Claviere,
Roland, and Monge. 1t was tranimitted to
the Convention, when it tho't proper to take
my cafe into confederation, and l will produce
it to any perfon deiirous of feeling it.'
Taleyrsnd denies that he wore the white
cockAde in America and at Hamburg and ap-
psals to the teltimony Of the Envoy and Coniul
at that city.
With refpea to the reProach Of having fuf.
fered the new coalition to be formed, he vindi-
Gates himfelf, by quoting bis opinion, which
was decidedly given in favour Of an honorable
peace, and makes the following obfervations
+" ecten il esaEasrsd that hes eUko dare to ACME
me Of euRmg jor The Continuance Of euar are HE
veyy perons eoto firred up tie fire Of afford, invok-
ed eOtb The moi ardent prayers all fbs fury Of suar,
eager TO excite revolutionary movemsnt5 in eue
part Fbe uvrA abu)fd eve.y povoer IN he msf
iajaldng and impolte manner, tbrrqO osfacks in the
ruay IF ev,y negotiation, and propagate in The bnbe
.Journal5 the e9srtion 10 fatal 10 hs tranquility Of
Europe"
That Republics and Kings are neceGArily in
a Rate of holfility ;-when it is conlidered that
have been contantly engaged in repairing
the miichiefs produced by 70 many neoniacn-
cies and folies, and in calming the apprehen
Gons of the Envoys of neutral and amicabl.
powers, every one muft be truck with atonilh
ment that thefe men fhould accufc me of CO.
operating in producing the coalition, and that
they thoald themfelves be ignorant on how
many accounts the accufation applies to their
own conduit. I have alto, in detail which
has been notced by the Legislative Body,
pointed on, the principal and more immediate
caules of the coalition, and may be allowed
to oblerve, that my oblervations have been