Jenks's Portland gazette. [volume] (Portland [Me.]) 1799-1802, 1802-04-12
Foreign ar ic3es.
KEcEivEo BY ARRIVAL AT rms PORT.
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tniUgi TWO LulfCS mutt 60 10 The revenue. L ne
guilds are in deplorAble condition and the
mechanics in the principal cities are nearly de.
Prived Of all refource, as free and general i'm.
portation has been admitted iince the new or
Ger Ct things took place.
Since the liguing ef the preliminaries Of
peace, our naval force has not been augmented !;
on the contrary, the dock yards are nearly def
titute of worknen and great number of
taiors about 10 be discharged. OF the
land forces, twelve men out of each company
will be diIb lnded but on the other hand, i
IS proPofed-to raife oooe marines and coleman
troops, who are chiefly to be formed of volun
teers cut of the Handing army, and in the
fuirg fpring, viii be fent to the Eat and Wet
indies, the coats of Africa and Guinea, and to
the Levant
A few marines, ncorp orated with the French,
have already taken their departure for St. Do,
fningo. The appointment Of this lat men,
toned force, with the expedition employed in
getting it in fate Of readiness, has for one Of
its objects, the fecuring OF the colonilts to the
new iytem Of Government and, for another,
which manifeas 0ill greater thare of policy to
convey, during this period Of calmnels, Ief
pettable force to our foreign PoGefions. fiuce
neither The navy Of this country, nor of France
and Spain can concordance that Of Great
Britain. This combined force will amount TO
$4,000 men.
FEB. 10.
Il is aferted thar the deficiency on the ex
penditure Of the State for this current year,
8o1, amounts TO go millions for The rafting
of which, the Government of STATE has propoi-
ed plan TO Legislative Body Of a voluntary
Iy@,o ~ nav - ba,v hot
foon as the manner Of the ways and m cans for
this year iAaI be refolvsd on BY ,he Lee nativ-
A1embly, the means allo which are fAnttioasd
by that Body for making good this deficiency
viii be made public.
LONDON. FEB. t5.
II would have been Rrange If the snnexing
cfthe Italian to The French Republic had been
paHed over, without any remembrance, or pro
te0, or The part Of any OF the European powers.
We call it aHas&izg, for in whst other light can
any impartial mao view the ye1iag in the hands
of one man the fuPr eme executive authority of
two great counties an authority without i'm
itations, at lead without any competent to re-
hrain the ambition, or % opPofe tie will Of the
peTfon holding the office of Firh Magiarate OF
either Of the Republics Is it to be fappoied
for moment that, if France and AuRria, or
France and any other 0ate, were to 20 TO war,
the Chief Conlul would refufe TO avail himfelf
the power and reiources Of his new empire, or
would fufer the Italian Republic TO be at peace
even though ihe might have an intereR diamet
tically oPpoite to that Of France Why then
we fay, that to all ntents and purpofes The
Italian Republic mutt be coniidered as intended
with aad forming part of France.
Under this convaioo, the Aulrian and Ruff
fan Minifers, at Paris, are faid to have pre-
tented notes againf the eletiion Of Bonaparte
TO the proficiency of tie Italian Republic. OF
the impre6ion which thofe notes have made
upon the Coniular Government, we were NOT
Informed. 1t may eaGly be fnppoled that they
are NOT likely to intmidate fich man as Bon
aparte, or to turn him from his Pprpofe It
may eaGly, too be conie6ured, that he will re
prefent his election to have proceeded from The
unanimous and unbiaGed votes y. the Confllta
OF free nation that to attack or oppofe that
election would be TO interfere in the internal af.
fairs Of an independent fate. What effect the
arguments of the Chief Conlul may produce
we know nor. His military power, and bis
great military fame, will, we aPprehend, be
deemed the mott irreifible, If not he mott con
vincing arguments he can make ufe Of. It is
aid in confequence Of thefe notes from the Ruff
fan and Aulfrian Miniters, that an order had
been iIued by the French minifer of war for
all officers Of the army Of Italy 70 join their re.
iPeetive regiments. The people OF France are,
we believe, by no means pleaGed with this new
dignity conferred upon their Fr0 Conful -
They fee in it more Of perlonal ambition than of
regard for the welfare of the Repubic-they
conGder it not 70 much strengthening the power
of France, as laying grounds for future wars,
and at no great difance of time. Indeed, for
every purpofe of defence, and of offence, as the
allies found to their cot in the late war, France
was sufficiently formidable and lrong, even with
her ancient pofelhons, and before ihe annexed
tEe Netherlands and Savoy, and areched her
pofefions TO he banks of the Rhine. Yet we
do nor think that this event will rskindle the
flames Of war upon the Continent Immediately.
France is too arong, and the other continental
powers too much exhauaed to attack her with
any ProiPed OF advantage at prsfent. This
very meaiure of which Auilria and .Ruflia Gom.
plain, furnlhes an ADDITIONAL argument againR
their going TO war, for it has added an alton
ifhiug degree, to the power and refaurces of the
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