Portland gazette and Maine advertiser. (Portland, Me.) 1805-1818, 1811-05-06

FRENCH LICENCED ABUSE.
IL 10 qyeH kngzgH that nothing IS tn6Hshet
in France, HH after II Is ni4hroUed anc
Hcenced by shc Government. n
nl0ngat me Eafe Rcenced z9orks az P1r'
Is, is f" Travels in Louisiana, by Mon.
8ieHr Robin" from rVhich me JsHof0-
ing extracts are made -
The French and Spaniards were
silent and drowned in tears at the GER
emory of the cession of louisiana
Even the American Flag appeared
confused when it was about to occupy
the place the French"
saw him 1t. Bower, an Ameri-
can oficer,] in his bidious fort, distri-
buting justice in the midst Of the
sounds Of yiolins, amid the fumes OF
tafiia he broke in the evening the
judgments Of the morning. A woman
complained to him of her husband
he was chained and thrown into prison
without being HEARD"
" The American commanders of
Louisiana are young ignorant and drum
ken; they know not word OF the
French language, and treat with con-
tempt the French and Spanish military
officers and chiefs"
lin the United Statesl "where a
workman can gain dollar per day,
al army of warriors cannot be found.
Where would government SO ho0r
find monty to pay them? None
would engage but the dregs of the PEG.
pie, on whose foreheads is the ignom-
my that covers them. If the militia had
to march TO Louisiana, II or 1900
leagues, the time of their service would
be expired before they could arrive al
their destination. Of6OO who arrived
at Louisiana called by the French ia
fier soldiers, on account of their liyid
faces, only 200 outlived the year"
"The .fmerican, amidst his thick
forests and rigorous winters, is pale,
weak and inactive living on watry pro-
auctions, bad bread and salt meat,
tough and sinking. In their sgricul-
tural Iabours they rather devastate than
tertilize the earth. They work and
leave j. sterile, in order to render other
spots also sterile"
+" How unlike the vigorous and TO-
bust FrenchnGn, who braves the heat
and the cold, &c. who c1ltivstes the
stcepest and most barren mountains,
This Is The man fitted for hi. country
[ Louisiana. ]"
"To the commandants have succeed
ed Judges as drunken, and perhaps
more rascally than they, surrounded
by attorneys and lawyers, which, like
crowd Of grasshoppers ravsge the
colony"
"The Congress Notwithstanding the
treaty, from hatred Of the French, di-
vided this country into Upper and Low
CT Louisiana. A legislative body,
which ought 10 be named Legislative
commission, was organized, which is
sued a most singular code of laws.
They adopted the English code in
mass ; of which they know not even
the title, and from their ignorance,
they forgot to say when and how they
had execution. The Legislators neither
considered territory nor population.
It appears that their object in this d.
vision was to deliver the unfortunate
inhabitants to the rapacity of lawyers !;
and IN this they have bur too well sue
ceeded. Each country has its first
Judge, justice Of the peace, constable,
clerk, lawyer, attorney, all Of whom
have their emoluments and rights, and
particular salaries. Under the mild
Spanish regimen single commando ant
administered justice in his Canton"
(" The American Government rents
Louisiana as farm, and the taxes i'm
posed arc neither measured BY Justice
nor by locally, She seems to fear
that This powerful colony will every
moment escape from her hands"
mere i hatred OIL every thing
French. At the Jete Of the indepen-
dence of the United States, celebrated
10 the midst Of a colony Of Frenchmen,
not q word was said Of the taking Of
Yorktown, by which The French deci-
ded the independence of America !"
For all places the .fnlericGns have
the od'oHs preference. They are so
numerous in the legislative body that
the others are mere automatons.
What betrays the hateful Passions Of
the Americans, is the form Of oath
proposed for the Louisianisns, 10 be
taithtAIIo fhe constitution 81 Tie Unifcd
M0fes-Io renounce the Emheror Of
The French and kiulr Of Eaolo,d a.,