The Portland gazette. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1818-1824, 1818-05-12
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Tuesday. May IL, 1918.
Representatives Elect.

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Isaac Adams and John Woodman, Eso'rs...
representatives to the Legislature, for the year
ensuing.
Gorhan,, David Harding, Esq.
Wsstbrook, Capt. John Jones.
Bath, Maj. Joseph F. Wingate.
! New-Gloucester, Jabez Woodman, Esq. not
represented last year., .a.5 ~
Charlestoavn, Maj. Timothy Walker and OH
yer Holden, Esq
Danrers, Frederick Howes, Esq. last year
sent four.
Worcester, DR.. Abraham Lincoln, last year
sent three. ~
Cambridge, Col. Samuel P. P. Fay, last year
sent two. .-
.Medford, Hon. Timothy Bigelow. IL
FeW-Bedford, John A. Parker and John Nye,
Bsq'rs. last year sent but one
We notice by the papers that many towns in
every part OF the state have voted, with a view
OF SAVING expense, not to be represented
In this vicinity, we understand that, Scarbo-
rough, eCape-klizabeth, Falmouth, Windham,
BALDWIN, HaTpswell and Standish, have voted
not to send.
The present fallen and Frustrated condition
OF France has been the theme Of much decla-
nation IN many OF our democratick prints.
The justice OF the allies has been with them
subject OF constant complaint, and the m ost
viruient abuse. What pity the phAsnthro-
Ply OF the gentlemen who conduct them bad
not been more universal that it should have
been awakened at this latent hour. that
France alone should partake Of their sympa-
thy and coincidence They beheld the smok-
ing ruins OF Moskow with the utmost indiffer-
ence,a and without the smallest emotion. They.
beheld the sublugation of Italy and Spain, of
Portugal and Holland, &c. they followed the
footsteps OF bloodstained and unfeeling des
pot with the most perfect complacency and
good nature; not sigh, not a tear, not sim
gle expression of pity was known to escape
them But when a nation that had brought
almost countless mseries upon mankind, is
sentenced by the retributiye Justice of heaven
to partake of the same cup she. had so often
administered to others. the tone is changed
Their sympathetic feelings which had so
long lain dormant, are suddenly called into
exercise and action.
), But who does notpeyceive in the present
degraded condition Of the French the dispea-
sations of just and all wise. Providence, who
will never perplit guilt to pass unpublished
who will never suffer the INNOCENT TO be op-
pressed and insulled with IMMUNITY. The
allies had certainly q, night to- compensate
themselves for their trouble. and expense in
the reduction ofFrance, ard so long as that
country could have been able to raise her
head, the peace and tranquility of Europe
could not have been preserved. Not content
with the possession of their own undsputed
territories, nothing but universal dominion
could satisfy the Unsuitable ambition of that
people. And what are the contributions
which have been laid upon that country when
compared with those the French have so of
ten required in their marches, through other
countries with whom they were at war for
The support Of their armies! Bonaparte pill
LACED almost every nation in Europe OF its
works Of antiquity, genius, and art, and had
not these nations right to claim that proper
ty of which they had been unjustly deprived I?
The allies, SO far from doing an act of injus-
tics in this act, would have been guilty of a
want Of Justice TO themselves and TO the in
jured, had they conducted otherwise. If a
den of robbers is taken has not every person
who has suffered by their depredations, a
right 10 demand the restitution of whatsoever
property he has lost by them, if that property
can be found ? This is SO plain position,
and so conformable to every notion of justice
and ofright, that it is impossible for any per
son OF common sense or common honesty, to
assume contrary one. s.r
Let those, who are so fond of complaining
of the situation i'm which the allied arms have
at present placed France, reflect on the eau
ses which have occasioned that measure, and
candidly reply whether those causes do not
furnish an ample justification Oft 1T is, GER
tainly, no violation Of justice TO conflne an in
cendiary chose liberty threatens the ruin and
destruction of community. What a differ
ence, besides,'is there between the treatment
France receives from the allies, and her gen. |
eral conduct towards every nation that had
the misfortune TO be reduced by her arms I?
The allies, certainly have treated her with
the utmost lenity. Their only object has
been the security their respective countries,
and the peace, happiness, and tranquility of
the world, which can never be effected but by |
reduction Of the former strength of that
country. Should France be placed in her
former condition, Europe must be again in
VOWED IN wars, in troubles, in ruin and mis-
fortunes. Every rejecting person must smile