Alexandria daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1803-1808, 1806-06-26

/ rali,v. nor all your antlquatSd preJuoiee
deserve any indulgence. They are all bat
a wresched disgrace TO an age siike ours |;
and 10 trace new. plan, it is quite right TO
clear the ground completely.
IS Clear the ground completely INSIST.
ed I, Z" and the throne and the altar - !,
"And the throne and the alter" answered
he. will fall together: They are two but.
,rrsses supported by each other; break
one of them and the other gives away"
I.concealed the impression which ttis
. language mace~on me, and to draw h;m on
still farther. You announce 20 me, saio u
an enterprise in which think 4 "see more
difficulties than means.
/ /" Believe me, replied he, "the difficult
ties are foreseen, and the means are cal.
cula,ed." He then developed himself, and
! learnt that the calculations or the faction
were founded on the character OF the king,
! which was so distant from violence that It
was considered as pusiilanimoas on the
actual state of the clergy. which only con-
sisted, he saidsof few virtues without tai
ents. and few talents diseraced and dis
honored by vices finally on the condition
of thehigh nobility, whichwas saidto be
deeenera,ed, and in which few great cha.
rac,ers supported the lustre of a~great
name
But il is above all ia itself that she third
! estate ought to place its confidence. This
order long wearicd with an arbitrary au'h1-
rity whose tyranny extended into lis mi.
nutess manifestations, had over the other
two cot only the advantage of number, but.
that of~union, and that of courage. and au
daci,ytc brave every thing. In short, said
Chamfort, this vast board of impatience
and indignation, formed like astorm, and
insurreclion every where declared, and at
the signal given by the province OF Dau-
phiny, the whole kiogdom ready 70 answer
BY reclamation, that it demands TO be free,
the provinces leagued, their correspondence
established, and from Paris, as from their
centre, republican spirit bearingto the dis
tant cities its warmth and its light such IS
| the state OF our cause--Are these vain and
airy projects -
confessed that in speculation they were
very imposing but added beyond the
bounds ofteapera,e reform, the best part
ofihe nation would suffer no wounds to be
| made in the laws of the country, aud IN the
fundamental principles OF the monarchy
He agreedtha, in the welcome circle OF
their families, 10 their shops in their offlccs,
n their maaofac,ories, great numbers OF
| those peaceful domestic citizens would pro
badly find all projects too bold which
IL Il ri. md
joyments.
" hut il they should disapprove them"
said he, " /, will only be timidisy and
without nuise, whilst to impose on and be.
guile them, there is thar determined class
which secs nothing thatit can loose by
change, and THINKS il secs every thing to
gain by it."
" 10 raise this mob the most powerful
spring of hu man action will not be neglect,
| . cd scarcity, famine, money, reports to!
alarm and alright, the madness OF fear and
Of rage afford pictures that will be dill
gently represented to the view. You haze
heard only elegant speakers among the CT
cizens; but be assured that ali our orators
of the ,ribune are nothing in comparison
with Demoseheneses, at half a crown a.
head, who in the brandy shops, IN the
public squares,in the gardens,o on the qesys,
announce devastation and fire, villages
sacked and inundated With blood, and plots
to besiege and to starve Paris. These are
what | call eloquent men. Beside money
aud the hope of plumber are all powerfula'
mong this people. We have just made
trial of i, in the faubourg Saiu, Antoine,
and you would scarcely believe how little
ii has cost the duke d'Orlesns to get the
manufacture of that honest Reveillon sack.
ed and pillaged, which among this same
people insured the maintenance OF hua-
dred families. -s Mirebeau uoicrously
maintains that with thousand guineas one
may make avery pretty sedision."