Portland gazette and Maine advertiser. (Portland, Me.) 1805-1818, 1811-02-04


we dispatch this evening 3l3 rcbels with
the FIRE Of thunder I! -" a very kvrrdne
sentiment well worthy of the man who
Is now one of the Ministers OF NsPole-
or
n Ayras the same horrors. The pro- Con
SUI Joseph lie Bon, although only Is years
Of age and a Priest, nevertheless proved
hlinself worthy rival Of his colleagues at
Lyons, &c tie committed crueties Of the
same kind, as those related Of Col. Klrke in
the reign Of king James the ID. He sent
a Lady and her daughter to the Culllotne
for reading an English Book
III Paris the executions, after a trial, were
seldom less thar %, but rerer exceeded 90 a
day ~ The numbers are large, but they
bear no comparison with the massacfes in
thu department.
The traits OF ferocity are scarcely credi-
biz. Mons Real, now Count Real, in his
I0urRst de lOppositon OF the Is September
1924 CATER the fall Of Robespierre) relates
The following atrocities
One man was taken for another Of the
same name, and put into the cart he was
taken TO the Tribunal and afterwards ex-
ccuted q bye-stander observed 10 the Jail.
keeper tina: lie was sure lie would get into
a scrspe about it, as the man who was 10
nave been triod will probably be reported
IS still alive. "Oh, never fear" WAS the
answer, Sit is NO matter, if that fellow has
not yet gone to Gay answer tor It he will
20 tomorrow and sure enO2sh the next
day he was dispatched
The two following traits Of barbarity are
related by an author who was present,
6 One day all agent OF Fouquier Tinyllle
{" the 50 Gale d Attorney GeneraD came 10
4" the prison with list of ~ names he
only could find IL ; d-n il, says lie 70 the
sIior, aust have ID. An unfortunate
maD happened TO pass by, he asked him
ms name, winch he TOOK down, saying,
You will do as well as any body The
man Was accordingly aiken 10 the TTibun-
Al, aud executed afterwards.
"On another occasion, one ofthese agents
summoned man ct about fifty years Of
"age he had been a general, and was a
Corsican by birth he could MOI speak
French, avs did not Immediately answer
"ths call a youth Of about sixteen, who
was also prisoner, was playing at tennis,
and hearing the name called OUT, which
every much resembled his own, answered
"the summons the lad WAS taken TO
the tribunal, snG guillotned few hours
g after -
Well might member Of The Cont ention,
Of the name OF Ami1n, at this period, pro-
PUse the erectlon of a temple to the God Ne
70 ! This may appear a per. fage, but do
not think thai amy member Ut Tie Conven.
ton would have had courage enough, at
that Tune. 10 say II by way Of joke al
though they eyiDced, in their feroCious
careers, the same French tritlng az hereto
fore.
In the time Of Robespierre, however,
blood ana p.unGer were AS parable com.
panlons ana Il bonsParte DOES not iniict
trssonE ue~tn upon LIS victims, whom he
plchders OF IheIr property, lie taxes care
- put them - olitIatl-A which prcclSdes
them tim e'sr ~e4.n taking an active part
OF LIC.
hobesPIerre, it seems, had il in contem.
pl~uou 10 co ,hat winch LonapArte has
Since ucnr to de-rUA the Com ention, and
PrUcUiI iiiihse to be prOcisInie q DiCiator :
he NIGH, have succeeded, 30 Ire had The
armed lore u Paris II his command bul
81 &c he Attempted that, lie w.shl d 10 get
rtd % ms powerful adveisal les, VINO hau
'eG. ID ti', maci'es OLh0xi, us 10 lie de.
psrtnle Vhil,er they lad b. Ell sent: Of
tina, desc Iyuoh were Fouche, COilul d +! err.
bois, iSr!Aud dc VAltm mes, B4lr.s, Iailcn.
issabta Al, frefon, DuerIs, Cranee, &c. &c
Inc iatAI list WIS already given 10 Fou-
quieF IIn'iile 1t seems the latter told tie
circumstance 10 h's friend Merlin, Who
communicated ~ 10 CarnOl, who con.mu
nlc-,ed I to 34irere. None Of these three
persons wore on The list they did not how
ever feel e.sJ Under the idea that they were
10 he Mate tne toOls.Uf such man as Robes
pierre, whom all his colleagues considered
as a man OF very inferior capacity they
therefore ORencd The business 10 Their col
leagues OF tie Committee OF Public Safety.
Coiiot and biiiaud al agreed 10 make he
asne Known 10 IaiiieE and the oihers. and
especially TO Legepdre the butcher, who
NsS the great tilend Of Damon, and who
Mad srtat influence with the Camille OF Par
-. lhey were aprrIsed 81 ! Nv dav when
tic Dictator ca petfO ~as TO have denounced
his colleagues 90 the Convention. Robes
pierre wa aware OF the strength of the PAP
~. The comb4tanls ~ v eulered he lists
slilsud began ba-Jere was called uDon
Dy e Convention 10 say II I'LL was rue
wbich hsG been related BY Billaud. B,rrere
IN very eloquent speech denounced The ".
rant, and T@illen liz cided it. His arresla.
tlon WAS decreed. Be- such was tne ter
Tor OF ms name, tnst 1--WE G.dl keepcrs refu.
sed 10 receive hIm, lie VAS therefore CIR
red IN triumph 10 Tie Hotel &c Vile,
where lie was bes'esed by the Convention.
sltroops, and subdut d. fortunately for the
convention, Henrlot the commamdait was
SO inebrIated. that none of his soldiers
would obey him. The payfisans say, 1hat
q kobespierre bad known how 10 ride Oh
horsebacs, aud head Tie troops, lie would
not have been Su-dued. The monster, how
ever fell
y hen il YVES known that he tyrant was
arrested, messenger was sent after four