Portland gazette and Maine advertiser. (Portland, Me.) 1805-1818, 1815-12-05


From The Journal Of DR.. MOORE, fcriHen duriair Il
residenee IN France at the commencement Of the
Rcuotuiion, al 1899.
"a fellow, on a kind of stage had monkcv.wh
played thousand tricks When the man called
him Artsiocrate, the monkey flew at bis throat with
every mark of rage; bnt when he called him aa
bon patriote, the monkey expressed satisfaction and
caressed his master.-I see a great many monkeys
every day, who affect to be ben pafriotes One has
no great objection TO those patriots who dance a.
bout like monkeys; but they who to the airs of The
monkey join the dispositions of tigers, and daace
with heads upon pixies, are horrible"
The vices Of tyrants are said to run in circle,
anu produce one another. Luxury and prodigali-
ty beget rapine rapine creates hatred in the sub
Ject, which raises fear in the Prince Fear pro,Iu-
ces cruelty, cruelty despair, and despair destuc-
ton. In the PeUpte Souoerdin, cruelty is not der
we'd from the same remote ancestors but springs
directly from power combined with creduty il
the most absurd accusations, and taste for the
slght OF executions. All tyranny is intolerabe.
If the French cannot find means of bringing that
OF the people within the limits of the law. they
VIII gain nothing by their revolution One par
ticuiar circumstance RENDERS lie Pelpie Soureretna
more formidable tyrant than any other namely-
that all ther tyrants are in respect personally
ans" cradle for their actions which is some restraint
on them; whereas the Peupte SoucerGin indulge
Their caprice or fancy without any restraint what
ever.'-'Le Peupie Sourerain is monarch compo-
SEQ Of Heterogeneous substances, like the image of
which Nebuchadnezzar dreamed part is fine gold.
part silver part brass part iron, and large pro-
portion of clay each Of these divisions occasional
~ assumes the right of representing the whole SOW
efeiSn' and the clay portion is exceedingly apt to
bedaub all the Others, when they offer to dispute
this right with t.''-Scpt. 2, 5r M.-Ihe most
shocking crimes are at this moment pcrperatlng at
the prison OF Abbaye, hard by the hotel in which
now write thing unequaIled in the records Of
wickedness! The mob-they call them the people
here; but thew deserve no name by which any
thing which has any relation TO human nature can
be signlhed-A set of monsters have broken into
the Abbaye and are massacreing the prisoners!!
- at night They have been at this shocking
work several hours"
Marat has been Pc pting the PEG 10 TO new
masSacres. lis astonishing how he retains their
affections, for the only means he uses is. exciting
one half To cut the Threats of the other vet the
more people are murdered, the remainder seen to
like him the better. This brings to nv remem-
brance fellow / once saw sewing UP the mouths
OF terrets; shocked at the unleeling manner in
which he passed and repassed the needle through
the poor little animals lips, which were all flowing
with blood desired him 20 desist, saying, how can
you be so cruel 2
Loard, Sir, replied he, il be'en't cruel; they
likes it. Likes it !-Ay, that they does, resumed
likes me the better"
Louis XVI was never considered as an unprin-
cipled man, or man Of inordinate ambition L
cannot help thinking that he was satisfied with the
constitution, and as he is man of piety, would
never have thought of breaking his oaths by UNDER
mining it."
Congress was TO convene at the city of
Washington yesterday. After attending to
the treaty of commerce between this country
and Great Britain, it is supposed the Secreta
ry OF the Treasury will propose the repeal of
the double duties, and the establishment OF a
National Bank.
AT the last term If The Circuit Court Of
Common Pleas, held in THIS town, CHARLES
FREEMAN, JOHN F. BOYD, and NATHANIEL
DEERING, Esqrs. wer mitted to Ir ttlee as
Attornies at Cumberland bar.