Jenks' Portland gazette. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1803-1805, 1804-06-04
MSoie Dumtrr, 3Io.

of all hour, in open air, on the corner Of
hedge, every thing was terminated GEORGES
agreed to dnnifs the troops, and general Brune
pledged hmfelf, in the name of the republican
government, I" that they fhould not be puniih-
cd tor being in arms that they and their
countrymen ihould be exempted from military
conf, ripton tor ten years and unidentified for
the loiies they'had iutTered by the devaieation
OF their country from the republicans during
the civil troubles" Neither of thce conditions
have been kept; all have been d;fresarded or
violated. Georges became, therefore, the ire
concilable foe, not Of Bopaparte, but Of an tfur-
per, who by his tyrannical breach of faith, had
cauied his own to be fufpeaed by his adherents,
iuffering victims from the pcridy of the Con-
iular government.
After the pacihcation, Georges went TO Par
is and was preiented to Bonaprete, who offered
him commi!llon as General of diyiiion IL,
the army OF reicryc then collecting near Dian.
He declined, however this republican rank, as
he formerly had refuled republican MONEY.
AS with the Firt Contul, every man who re-
fufed to be his fave is regarded as a traitor, or
ders were iflued for arrefng Georges who
sfcaped death only by flight, and was convii.
ced that his life would never be tafe in his
country as long as foreigner was its tyranr
He determined therefore to dethrone n+oniter,
who employed the. laws themteives to murder
innocence who had no claim to kingly fup,em-
acy in France, where nature had, by his BIRTH
right, made Georges a citizen and who had
done nothing to forfeit this right, Whit, in
moral times, the whole univerfe would. for his
enormous crimes, have profcribed Bcnaparte as
an infamous outlaw, the fhame Of human Kind.
!. Bopaparte accufes Georges Of an intent to
ahaGinate him; but as long as no other evil
dcnce than the words Of the Confu is produced,
juftice and grnerofiry will not condemn as an
aftatiln, man who was never fufpc6fed Of any
crime, upon the ancrtion of another man. Whole
attrocious guilt is known and proverbial in Eu-
rope and America as well as in Ala and Atri.
ca, who has been an uncontradieted murderer
and drowner III France and Italy, and a convict
ed poifoner and murderer in SYRIA and in Egypt.
When the incalculable difficulties are con-
ildered that in France royalif commander has
to encounter from want of union, of patriotifn1.
of diicipline, of arms, of clothing, of money,
&c. and the dangers to which he is expofcd.
more from the trcachcry of weak or faithlefs
friends, than from the bayonets of the powerful
enemies in pofefiion of an authority, governing
or rather oppreiling fifteen Gxrcenths Of the in
habitants every candid mind mutt acknowl-
edge that to dare to oppofe fuch means, it re-
,quires, not only firmnefs of character, courage,
capacity, and vigilance, but the noble facrifce
of ones felf, which makes the country and the
caufe the frft, and exittence only legendary
object.
From bis humanity and genero6ty, backed BY
his abilities, Georges was become the mott
popular royalift in France; and how mucl, he
was dreaded by Bonaparte, the correspondence
with the Brtith government, of Lord Whit
worth, Of Otto, and of A ndrcoEi, evinces.