Jenks' Portland gazette. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1803-1805, 1804-06-04
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The following SENIORS of the celebrated royaI GEN
eral CEoRGBS. LACEY arreited at Paris, Is from a
late Ensiih paper.
GEORGES CADouDAL's father was wealthy
miller in Morbihan, where Georqes was born
upon the 9Th of May, 1870, Intended by bis
parents for the church, he received better edu-
cation than mott young men of his rank He
had hardly left the college, when the revolution
broke out. At his entrance into the world
from his ifudious retreat, he faw nothing but
crimes, and heard nothing inculcated but prin.
ciples contrary to thoie in which he had been
brought up. HIS virtuous mind did not know
whom mott to defpife, thofe who undermined
monarchy, or thofe who illuminated religion
the rebels or the atheifs. He had not a long time
to mediate upon this cruel fubjeet, before the
demolition of that temple, where his infant
prayers had been addrefled to the Almighty,
and the fale Of that college, where his youth
had been initru6fed, determined him never TO
Allocate with men vile, as wicked, as ie6fll,a
as iacricgious, who under the name of patriots
sibelled patrio,ifm, and as pretended friends to
liberty, organized the WORT Of tyranny, the
tyranny of the rabble. q
The year 1893 added to the wounded feel
ings of the loyal and religious fubjea, thofe Of
the outrageo-ily injured individual. The MUIR
der OF his parents, of his brother, and two fif-i
tiers, followed within fix months the murder of
his king. Hitherto he had hcirated between
emigration and mifery that awaited him abroad,
or the dangers and death that threatened him
IT he remained at home. But the blood that
flowed IN has veins, the fcaffold had mingled
with that OF his ioyereign, and both called loud
y tor revenge.-His countrymen of La Vandee
and Moroiaan were in arms, he would have
been deipicabe coward had he NOT Joined
them. he now not only Detected the fangui-
nary Republicans as regicides, but abhorred
them, and determined to annihilate them as
'Psrricides, and fratricidcs. He was bcGdes
procribed by them as fanatic, that is, Chrif-
tan, faithful to the religion of his forefathers,
the fole and fame crimes for which his parents
and relations had perihed. After the; battle
before lhours, on the 2sth September, 1893,
where 5000 royaits under Lefeur defeated
10000 republicans, Georges was made an off,
Ger. In civil wars, talents foon make their
way, obtain rapid advancement, and at length
thence envy. Whit his valour and activity
made him eifeemed by his fuperiors his in
telligence and popular manners gained him the
confidence and friendfhip of his interiors Hav-,
ing diitingeifhed himieIf on all occaions during
1874 and 1875, he wac, in 1876, with general
appreciation, promoted to the command of the
dlvlllon of RoyaIiit Chouans in Mofbihan But
after treaion had delivered Charette and Stoflct
over to the republican executioners, Georges
was obliged to dfband his weakened army, and
to wait for another opportunity to avenge his
country, his king and family This c. portunity
preiented itielf in l7s9, when he had attended
greater number OF troops than any other
Chief, and had alnoit daily engagements with
the republicans, whom he often routed, and
from whom he never experienced any lofs that
couli be called defeat. In December, 1900,
nc commanded the expedition on the borders of
the river Viaine, where comfortable quantity
OF arms and ammunition had been .debarked
from England which he carried away, though
surrounded every where by enemies three times
more numerous than his own men. Before
the uiurpation of Bonaparse, Georges was on
inc eve OF being proclaimed gcneralitlimo, a
place vacant iincc the death of Charette Ac-
cording to the advice of the guilty intriguers,
1aiieyrand and Fouche, the FirH Conful adopt |
ca with the royaliits conduct different from
tnat OF the Dlreetory.-By hypocrtica! PROM
lies and liberal brides, he divided and feduced
meh' whom his revolutionary predecenors had
oeen unable to conquer. He promifed royalty
to Tome, places to others, and money to them
all. Every royaliff chief, who Ggned peace,
Obtained 100000 livres, or I2,sool. fterling.
When therefore Georges, on the asth and 10th
OF January 1900, glorioufly fought the republic
cans at Crandchamp and Deliver, all other royal
ut chiefs, with the Jingle exception of Frotte,
had diibanded their troops and delivered up
their arms. But obferving the consequences Of
the republican emfaries among his men, who.
ny their defertion, proved that they were not
10 incorruptible as their commanders; he adj
Journed his vengeance without changing his
loyalty. Having heard that Gen. Bruno intend
ed on the 9th of February, to reconnoitre the
country, he advanced to the village of Theix, |