Portland gazette and Maine advertiser., 1808-08-22
IWzo1e No. So /.

credulous people tunuled 70 pernu7
themftlyes) all implicitly relied while
fome of the poorer clals regarded
the French, not as enemies, but as
their deliverers from taxes and Ia
bour.
No fconer Ia the invalon taken
place, no fooner had the French be-
come matters of the country, than
they (pread tAeipfelves over it like
BEATS of prey, desouring and delroy-
ing every thing before them. They
fpared neither cities nor towns, nei-
ther villages nor hamlets, nor Golitary
houfes from the thurchto the cell,
from the cattle to the cottage, no
fate Of life, however lofty and hum
bic, efcaPed their raPacious afaul;s f;
no lancnty excited their veneration !
no grandeur their refpect no mile
~ their forbearance or their pity.
After having plnndeAed the houles
Of the gentry, the clergy, and the
tradefmen after hay ing piIlaged the
fhops, WAREHOUSES and manufactures,
they proceeded to the farm houfes
and cottages, they rifed the pockets
and chefs Of the inhabitants, cut O.
pen their beds took up the floors If
their rooms, dug up their cellars,
fearched their newly made graves,
and broke open the cofHnt, III hopes
Of finding iecreted money. They
fometimes threatened people with
immediate death, fomctines put
them &c the torture, iometimes la
ceratGd and crippled them, in order
to wiring from them a difcovtry Of
their little pittance Of ready money.
The deePeh, mott apparent poverty
was no protection againa their rapa-
city; grey hairs and Tipping infancy,
the hck. dying, women il chiId-bed,
were alike exp0led to tn mott inhu-
man treatment, dragged from their
beds, kicked, wounded, and fire.
qu-atIy killed, under The prGteice
that they were the keepers of fccre-
ted treafure. The teams and docks,
cattle Of every kind, the marauders
drove of, cut to pieces on the fpUr,
or in fate Of mutilation corn, hay
and hraw, they waited Or burnt.
hey demoliihed the houtehold
furniture dettroyed the utenils Of
the diaries, the barns, and the IA
bles tore down the gates levelled
the fences In many places they
ftripped the clothes from TIE backs
Of the people, fet their liquor flow
ing in their cellars, burnt their provi-
iions to aIhes. I ne churches, whcth-
CT Romilh or Protefant, they render
ed fcene Of indi(criminate robbery,
of fa:-iI &c and bIafphemy, to def
cribe. towards women, of all ages
and condition, they were guilty of
brutality never before heard Of
neither extreme youth nor extreme
age I; neither weakness, nor deformi-
ty, nor the mott loathfome difeafes
neither tbs pangs Of labor nor the a.
comics Of death could refrain them
-lhrieks, tears, Implications, were
of no avail and where fathers, huff
bands or brothers inierfered, murder
feldom failed 10 clole the horrible
fccne.
Germans, and defendants Of
Germans, in every part Of the
globe, but particularly in America,
does not your blood chill with hor-
ror at this dreadful picture Yet
fuch will be the fate Of your adopted
country, unless you come out to OBJ.
poEe the(e ffirnd-Iikc wrctchss, th-
Duanes, ana other agents Of Bona
parte, who are purifying The. fame
hellilh heps whick have led TO the
heart-rending fcenes above recited.
Such are the barbarities which have
been inflicted on other nations. Tie
recollection Of them viii never be
efaced the melancholy fory will
be handed down from generation 10
generation. TO the everything infa-
my Of the treacherous Corhcaf aud
his bloody myrnlidons, and as an
awful warning to all thofe nations
who may hereafter fufer rhemfelves
to be hrlt betrayed and then inva-
ded. The United States Is one Of
thofe nations w are che PeoPle
whom they have already 4lmof tc-
dnce3 u their purpolss u aGI.Lfing