Portland gazette and Maine advertiser. (Portland, Me.) 1805-1818, 1807-04-13

gratitude and admiration Of the present
and future generation, for
HIS POLITICAL sAGACITY,
HIS LOFTY AND INTREPID SPIRIT,
HIS CoNsUNATE ELoQUEScE,
AND HIS sPoTLEss
INTEGRITY.
The sagacity Of Mr.. Pitt, as states
man, has been fully demonstrated, by
his uniform policy with respect to the
French revolution. By the side of
! Edmund Burke, he was the first to dis
Germ, and the first to oppose, the march
of that anarch fend-The course of
events, from the assembling of the
French notables, down TO the death Of
the late premier Of England, has made
manifest this momentous truth /; that
the councils Of Pitt and Burke have &C
tually saved, from political perdition,
not only Great-Britain, but .Ar1erica,
and every county, where even shadow
of legitimate government can be dis
cerned. In the eventful years of 1922
and 1898, the spirit of the French re-
formers appeared so often, that 1t was
impossible to mistake Its character or
its object. The first was of class
more baleful, more bloody and malig-
nant, than those execrated madmen,
whom we enrol among the monsters OF
deprayity, the Tiberiuses, the heroes,
and the Domitians. The second were,
not secretly, but avowedly, not with in
sidious hypocrisy, bat with flaJ rant inn
pudence, to establish atheism, to deride
morals, to annihilate monarchy and
rank, to violate property, TO new model
Justice and, as it has been described
In the words of ardent eDquence and
just Indignation, to force upon the sub
Jects of every government, French
f-eedars-i th@ laathsome form of " an
, irrational, unprinclpled, prescribing,
plundering, ferocious, bloody, and ty-
rannicd DEMOCRACY" Against so
execrabIe and so profligate a project, a
scheme as visionary as it was impious
and Infamous, Pitt exercised all the en-
ergies of his soul. and all the powers
of his voice as it has been elegantly
expressed, he encountered the political
phrenzy as Hercules encountered the
Cretan bull He triumphtd and his
country is still independent and free,
without universal suffrage, or French
fraternity, the speeches Of Marat, or
the massacres OF Robespierre.
The holiness and intrepidity of his
spirit were visible, even in his juvenile
years--Nothing could be more evin-
Give of the proud consciousness of
mental power, than his early declara-
ton, that he would not accept Of sub
altern place IN any administration. The
proofs of his political courage, Of that
" courage of the cabinet, which is far
better and less vulgar than that Of the
field" are to be found IN almost every
act of lis public life and this sort Of
intrepidity was never more stoutly,
more stedtastly, and more gallantly
displayed, than in hours of the most
tremendous peril. The highest degree
Of credit we must assign him, when We
take cursory view OF the State Of Eu-
rope, and of the world during lis
administration. From the common
cause, when the king Of Prussia was a
deserter when the hopes CT the allied
powers were completely deferred ;
wien the army Of the duke Of Bruins
wisk melted away like the snow OF
spring when the duke of York was
defeated and disgraced in Holland I;
when petitions for pernicions reform,
| and petitions from seditious cubs,
crowded the bureau Of state, and COZ er-
ed every Office table when treason and
rebellion began to Shogv thar nascreafea
from athzvart his gvay when he was
continually assailed by the kvencAt
weapons of yindictiye anu formidable
opposition. armed 1t al points for tins
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