The Portland gazette. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1818-1824, 1823-11-11
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Liberal, at Brus--.-li--
NJ Arnanlt is already well known BY mary
nns.ilofious works IN literature, as well MS by the
pohtleai par which he has played In his own
Souh'Ey, re was born at Paris, IN 1906 of
respectable family and at the are 81 ID. BE-
came secretary TO Madame. Two wears after
wards be purchased the patent place of paleF ~
tehaHbre 10 Monsieur, now Louis XVIII, which
ne lost upon the fight Of that prince His for
tune thus considerably crippled, he turned his at
tenuon 10 literature and, ia 1871. produced Al
tragedy, entitled Narius Maturgsss: ana soon
after second, called Laorees The revelation.
oil which he had al first been a nartizan. now be
came 20 alarming, that he was forced 10 take re-
iinge In England, and afterwards at Brussels Re
turning INTO France, he was charged by Bona.
parte with the organization Of the government
Of the Ionian Islands I; and, on the eypeditior ~
Egypt, he accompanied that general 10 Malta
Ills brother In law, M. Reenault de Saint Jean
dAngely, being compelled by sudden Illness II
return, AL Arnault accompanied him, and was
TAKEN prisoner by an English vessel but detain-
ed only eight days. Once more In Paris. be was
elected member Of the Institute. and appointed
i by Lucien b onaparte to the direction Of tbe
public instruction. IN 1908, the Emperor ap-
pointed HIM counsellor, and general secretary
of the university
4 On the return of Louis XVIII. M. Arnault lost
all his Offices, although he submitted 10 the
king. When Bonaparte came from Eliza. he
Joined lis banners; aud upon the second defeat
of his master, VI. ArRault was exiled In 1919
the king sigHifed his permission for him 10 re-
turn, and ordered That the pensions to which his
Il long services had entitled him should he rsstor
led The tragedy Of Germoncus, which gained
q greater popularity than il would otherwise
lave enjoyed, owing to the uniustfhable attacks
upon i by party Of indiscreet Young men. i
the last substantive work Of this author His
best production Is volume Of moral and pohti-
cai tables. He is at present employed in ia, BIZ
ogrophie dss CotempOrGins, a party work. and IN
a Life Of Bonaparte
We now proceed to give some extracts from
the volumes before US
i THE CUDGEL:
IN Historical, Moral, and Philosophical Essgy.
cudgel is piece of round wood, long.
not flexible, OF an equal diameter, and may be
handed at every part
Have you 20 govern animals Provide
yourself with a cudgel properly prepared, & YOU
lbecome shepherd, general, bishop, king,
or drum major, according to the sort Of beasts
Iyou have TO direct and whether YOU happen to
be at the head Of a troop or flock
Sceptre, crosier. crook, staff Of command.
staff gilded or not gilded-all are made Of wood.
and Of the same sort Of wood
Three days older than the world. and three
days younger than man /; on the third dav the
ltrees, OF which cudgels are part were made /;
while il was on the sixth that man was made, in
1.-THE image and likeness Of God. $3.50
In the old heroic times, Hercules superin-
a tended the police of the world with thick cudg-
! el, which he occasionally laid about him and a
terrible justice sf the peace he was.
:. All the ancient republics bowed TO the au-
:. thority of the cudgel AT Rome, where bv the
lazy it was forbidden TO appear armed in the pub
nc assemblies, more than once was its authority
called IN to decide between the pleb.ans and the
patricians Furor anna minisfrat. every thing
became arms when folks were enraged. In the
forum, bench, in the hands Of scipio Nasica.
was the weapon with which he put 10 death the
elder Of the Gracchi. Men are always ingenious
in finding means Of killing each other; and. If
you prevent them from cutting throats fhev
take TO knocking on the head **~*
The empire Of the cudgel IS more ancient
than that Of civilization, and has not been dis
turbed by it. In Europe it reigns over more
than one civilized people, and, thanks TO the
IL extend
its sway over all In China, where civilization
began several thousand wears before the crea-
tiOn of the world, the paramount jurisdiction is
that of the cudgel. There, even among the
mandarins, each has the right to administer 70
his inferior the discipline of the bastnado which
his superior may retOrt upon him. and an this
done with scrupuious politeness. There every
shoulder is subject to the stick. except those 81
his imperial majesty, the source Of All distinc-
tiOns and TO whom, as in other wen constit,i-
ted states, the stream Of justice can never rea-
scend.
ain Turkey, where the jurisprudence Is almost
as perfect as in China, men are subject 10 the
cudgel from head to foot, all intermediate parts
of the body being therein comprised. The quail
lty of cousin of Mahomet, Of whom indeed there
lare no small numbers does not exempt Won from
it. 1t is true they do not belabour a relation of
the prophet, until they have first taken off. with
levery mark of respect, the green turban which
marks his eonsanguinity, which turhan they also
return to him with equal respect after the eere-
lmOny. cadi never fails in this for, in Turkey,
las elsewhere, they have much deeper considera-
ton for any thing not man, than for man him
self
To thrash Roman citizen, was 70 dishouor
him: the moderns are in this respect true Ro-
mans TO beat a man l. 20 inhict upon him the
greatest possible dishonour
tnsOlence and basenes often gotOgether
stick can alone do justice TO this association il
is the power which the madman Cvrano de Ber-
gerae employed against MontAeurv, whom he
had under his thumb. One day this comedian.
who was enormously fat, displayed less dociIity
than usual to the caprices OF the Gascon poet
/ g because it takes a whole day 20 beat him, -
said Bergerac, q the rogue thinks have given On
making myself obeyedH
4 Rautru. who was a wit In the cour4 Of Anne
Of Austria, received more than once store Of dry
blows a reward for MS epigrams forget what
lnobleman il was, who. meeting him with stick
in his hand, said, e BsHtru reminds me N 81
Lawrence with his gridiron he cannot separate
himself from the instrument Of his martrrdou7 Il
Actors do not scrtpie TO give and take blows
upon the stage, and this shocks certain fastidiuus
persons. The Preach academy required az No
here, before they would admit him, that be
should. il he would not rea0uure the stage. AZ
least give up those characters in which he used