Jenks' Portland gazette., 1803-10-31
neis Of millions, but it has enriched Tai
leyrand and his accomplices.

! III MAY, lIVO, HS was oiS VI thI hiSfii-
bers ofshe diplomatic committee, headed
| by Mirabeau, after whole report it was de-
creed by the national aaembly, and lantfi-
oned BY the king, that France renounced
forever all conque!fs.' Since he has be-
come are volutionary miniacr, he has ne
yer concluded treaty or entered into any
negotiations without agg andizing terrific
| ry and augmcnting the power of France.
/ In the fame year, when member OF
the ccclsGaltical committee, he pIasned
| the intolerant and impolitic decree, which.
made dilfinttion bctween.a contribution
al and nonjuring clergy, which has caufed
10 many torments, diientlons, and cirll
wars, and which fill continues TO, divide.
the Gallican church.
/ Talleyrand was always. the worthy
friend of Mirabeau, who nApril, 1891,
refgned his guilty foul in the arms of bis
lguilty accomphce. -
| In June, 17or, he was in theiecrets Of
La Fayettc. to betray his King into that
improvident fate (the journey to, Varen-
mes } which produced 70 many infults, hu-
miliations, fulpicions, and acculations
and which was the. principal caufe of all
the fubfeauent fuferings of the king and
his family. M + +
In the autumn of 1891, Talleyrand &C
companied the French ninilter Chauvel-
in to England. After the late conltitu-
! ton, he could not, for iome years, occu-
fpy any public employment but Chauv-.
elm was only the nominal, and Talley-
rand the real, miniaer, and the inventor,
author, promoter, and initigator of all the
plots, intrigues and confpiracies, in
and againf England in I79a.
In 1893, Robefpierre's faction caufed
decree of oullawry TO pafs againlt Tai
lcyrand ! profcribed every where ellie, he
enjoyed hoipitality and protection in En-
gland ), but in return he meditated new
plots, and invented new projects to en-
broil or ruin this country, which was the
caufe of the order he received from gov
crnment to leave it, .-s>- 4
! In 1894, he went 70 America, becaufc
no fate in Europe would receive him. In
1894, the national convention annulled
| its decree, Of outlaw, and in 1896 he ar
rived at Hamburger, where he reiided
fome time before he returned to France ).
gratitude was never among the virtues Of
this man. Hamburg, for its holpitality,
has fince by his orders, been fevsral Zines
laid under contribution, and he detelts a.
like America and England and their ru-
in is his. inceaant and daily ,contrivance
| and ltudy,.
l.. BY his intrigues with his old accompl.
ces, the directors, Barras, Rewbel,. and
La Rcveillcre, he.was, in 1897, pronot-
ed tosthe minilfry of the forsign depart
ment in France. His negotiations this year
and in 1898, at Rafait, prove his abiIi--
ties TO intrigue, to embroil, to divide and
10 profit by his nefarious deeds. s-s :
To tranquilIize the jealouiy OF the direc
tory, and at the fame time to employ and
crafty the ambition of Bonapartc, he
brought forward, in the autumn I7e7, the
| old fcheme of former French minilters !.
the, conquef of Egypt; and his emilia,
RES prepared the treafon that delivered up
Malta to Bonaparte, inH798.
After the victory Of lord Mellon, at A.
boukir, TaIleyrand became unpopular;
and the ifue in I7oo,, of the congrels Of
Raltadt,. and the unfuccefsful campaign
which followed, augmented the haired of
the Jacobin faction againit him, and he
was Obliged to reign fuch was, however,
as yet, his influence with the directory,
that he chofc for his luccefor, Rhcinhard,
a perion whom he governed as much in
1899 as he had done Chauvelin in I7oS,t
to whom this Rheinhard was then fecreta-