Jenks's Portland gazette. [volume] (Portland [Me.]) 1799-1802, 1800-12-22
MISCELLANY.
FROM A LATE roNDoN TAPER.

French revolution reduced fromah the com
forts attached to wealth, TO extreme Indulgence.
was that Of the MARTIAL de Coudates the re-
collection Of whore f.rvices could not procure
his offspring. dinner. The natural and ac
quired accomplishments Of his daughter com
permitted for the want Of nat~al gratilnle.-
A young fubaltern officer became -euanoured
Of her, and thortly after, beomiug bis wife,
he accompanied the expedite, under Buona-
parte to Egypr.
The charms of this lady, bsi cultivated un-
derRanding, and The brillisacy f her wit, &C,
.eafiOnei many admirers, whole rpTsortunity fhe
treated with indifference. or contempt.
At length the cOnqueror Of Italy entitled
amoDga her cap,ives, and Deferred lis adm-
ration in a letter. which fhe Immediately hand.
ed to her huf6and, to whom fbe expreiTed a
high fsnle Of The infult 70 which h= furpcnd
her humbled Gate fabjo6sd her, Ter huB4nd,
however, poGeGed too mu Oh of tn dilcretion,
or r laething elfe, which Is a;tribteI to bis
country, to rilz the consequences ota quarrel
With the General, and urged his-w4 10 itreat
him with at leaf poli,enefs. u 4 hort time
Bqoaaparte fent TO her fc2nd iclor,. with
which ih9 had augmented caufe to be ,Fcnded !;
but to her innportunities to her hubad to ap-
peal to the General againR himfl5 n order
that ihe might be prot:aed from ia th.r ialulr,
the necefity Of flence and politenefs was re-
Peated, with frOpg Piapre Of tie POfible
consequences Of different cond.a.
AZ length the General, rearisd with ioef
fe6ive fluctuations, habit privately minated
TO the young folder mat dispatches were about
10 be f.nt 70 Eurrpe. which would iufure great
honor and peo4niary reward to the perion who
hould carr them, and that his friend Tzllien,
had ufaTii-Ient intereH to obtain for him the mil
.fon. lie infantly applied, and the General.
win much complacency acceded 10 the re-
qaef, obfeving that the veGel would fail in
three hours. Thi S the flbaltern faid would Be
enough for preparation, as his wife had but lit.
lie to pack up upon which Buonaparte ex-
claimed, the fervce did not permit that wo-
man fhQuld Be employed on it, and that he had
: srdered accommodation for only an officer and
thI' iervant, no more than whom could po(ibIy
be embarked. A thoufand circumstances
: crowded at the infant to the mind of the flb-
y a'tern, but the promifed rewards, aided BY
hint from his friend Of the difcredit that would
:. attach to him by refuGng an honorable fitua-
h itcu which he had foIicited, merely becaufe he
efould not have his wife at his elbow, determin
I'll him to accept the difpatches, with which he
almOf Immediately took his departure.
= Thus defcrtcd, tn. lovely unprotected fair
\ was raeked By every patton to which mind
/ ieafbility is liable; bur largely endowed
} Filh what alone can reconcile the children Of
tniiery 10 their f4tc, and for which The French
2 are pre.eminetly diainguihed, natural phi.
!, acloPhy, which fomc will term Indifference, Gle
ln Mort time received her former acquaint-
, anee, who, representing that her hufband had
Ppaiely facriGood her to the Po1ibility of perfo-
fl emoument, fle conlented to receive the
H PITS Of Buoaaparte, BY Whole dedre fuit Of
fvoree was iaaitu:ei n he court in which
y ALLEN preided, and which inaantly a6folvng
e from all matrimonial oblig atoms, fh9 az !
aHed the name Of Belize, which was that 2 {
II ia'nly.--1aus far, TIE well laid arrange |