Berkeley and Jefferson intelligencer. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va.) 1802-1810, 1804-08-24

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the truth Of the assertion, d & TIC have
their French spies and agents "a :. m
the congress Of the Americans. M
thing thatthe Frenchman LHcas or tlls
French Geneyesr Gallatin can say tc TIE
contrary notwithstanding.
Lancaster snrnaL
THE sEcRETFRENcH POLICE
The present secret French police, is
founded upon the same planas the Ger-
mand tribunal, during the 18th, 18th
and l4sh centuries with this only exceptl-
on, thar It secretly inspects, Of removes
obnoxious or suspected persons, whilst
the tribunal secretly condemned, and Sc
cretly executed every person, mourning
their displeasure. In hepresent French
system, all forms are laid aside ; in the
other The forms were more terrible than
death itself. lnthc present system persons
disappear from the scciety;t to be shut up
in dungeons, to be transported, orto be
shot, without often knowing the cause,
equally unknown By their jailor, and BY
their exesutioners. II is and remains the
secret Of government. Formerly the ac-.
eussd were summoned, tried, aequit-
ted, or condemned; had time to prepare
themselves for defence, or by fight to
escape, If possible, their prosecutors.
Under The present system, alt flight -:
impossible, escape aSails nothing, be-,
cause the agents Of our police are every
where in England, as in Russia, IN Ame-
RIGA, as in Africa, in Turkey as in thI
Eas,.Indies ;they al possess the descriP-
ton Csigwalement) Of the person perse-
cu,ed; they are informed Of his habits,
place and resobt, and have a facsimile Of
his hand writing. Unknown to each o.
ther, thsse agents act in unison by their
reports a. by their actions the Duke Of
Engheiu, Moreau, Pichegru, Georges
and others were watched by hundreds Of
agents. foryears, ofwhom aettwo know
each other. Louis XVIII. at Warsaw,
and the Bourbons at London are yet sur
rounded, bynumerous agents unknown,
and inciabie to them, as 70 each other.
The transaction of the cabinet Of st. Pc
tersburg, Of Vienna, androf Berlin, are
as well known to our government, a.
those Of Madrid, Florence, Naples, St.
Cloud, the Hague, or,of Berne. These
agents sit in the Diyan Of Constantine
pie, rs in the Congress of the Americans
and although their sentiments are, often
opposite, their services meet in the same
eentfal point. Not . sovereign, mot q
minister, not statesman, not . coun-
leellor, NOT a warrior, not banker, not
a merchant, not an author Of any reputa-
tion, who. is not narrowly watched by
the invisible agents of+our secret police
who employ the talents Of preachers, as
well rs those of actors to serve them
they take the advantage Of the popularity
ofan orator in the senate, as wcll As the
fashionable imbeeility of a ballad singer
in the street as well as the toasts offae-.,
ton at public tavern. Their activity
10 seen in the budget Of finances for the
state, as well as a subscription tor pig.
nc or q charitable institution. They
indirectly decide the marriage OF princes,
a. well rs the divorces of subjects. The
political, as well as amarous iutriguer,
wear often their livery.--The law pro-.
mulgated, the air sung, the bargain con-
eluded, the treaty signed, the war de-
clared, the peace proclaimed are more
than often their doings. They employ
At the same time and for the same Pur>
pose, the devotion Of the Christian and
the in6delity Of the deist the bigotry of
The supsTstitious, and the blasPhemy OF
the atheist the intolerance Of the fanat-
ie, and the indifference of philosopher.
They penetrate and plot equally m the
Psgods ofthe Hindoos, in the Temples
Of the Chinese, in the Mosques AZ Con-,
stantinople, in the Church Of 81. Peter
at Rome, and in the Grand Synagogue
Mt Amsterdam. The royal exchange in
London, and the FISH market &C Paris