The Portland gazette. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1818-1824, 1823-03-25
TITLES.


Those who are so clauoTous about harmless Off
cial titles, will be delighted with the following
moroccan
A man who wished to pass one Of the barriers Of
Paris in 1898 was required to give his name, sc.
10 the persons on duty. Il am Monsieur lie Mar
ouis de St Cyr.' Citizen there are no Mon
sieurs now very well, then lie Marquis St.
Cyr' sYou ought TO know, citizens, that there
are neither mobiles, titles, nor .Uarquisats.' In
that case, de St. Cyr, if you please DE is not
used now Then say simply, St Cyr' All |!
but all Saints, you know, have been abolished
We'll, fit must be so, write Cyr.' No, citizen,
there are no longer any Sirss,' 1.-THE pronuncia-
lion is the same.) Thus piece by piece the un-
fortunate Marquis was stripped by the Revolu-
ton, til he found himself at the barrer Of Paris
without name.
The Students at Yale College have had riot.
in which Grse hundred were engaged, and some
bruised limbs and bloody noses was the result.
Many of themhave left New-Haven.
Centennial Celebration A. Haven,
Jr Esq. is appointed to deliver an Grafton, al the
celebration in Portsmouth on the 28th Of Nav
next. of the commencement of the third century
from the first settlement of New Hampshire
Oliver W. B. Peabody, Esq. is appointed TO de-
liver Poem on the same ocCa sion.
Cqnals-The state Of Delaware and Mary
land have subscribed $4,000 dollars towards the
Delaware& Chesapeake Canal. Virginia has in
corporated company to improve the navigation
d the Potomac with capital of S2,5OO,00O,
and engaged when three ffths of the stock is
subscribed for, to take the remaining two hfths.
A plan is in contemplation to connect the wa
tiers of the Potomac and Ohio, TO which this is
n H. l.
the waters Of the Chesapeake and Albemare
sound, has been completed by North Carolina.
EMPORIUM,
The Governor Of New Hampshire has appoint
n Thursday the Sd of April to be Observed in
that state as day of Fasting and Prayer.
AIeppo, in Syria, was nearly destroyed by an
Earthquake, in Aug. last, and the Earthquakes
continued there on the 18Th of Nov. the day ON
which Valparaiso in South America, was destroy
ed.-Aeppo is in ion. 81, 90, E. lat. So. 45, n.
Valparaiso is in lon. II, 90, w. lat. 80, SO, 5.
A difference of more than Ia degrees of longi-
tude, and 60 OF lat
The London Traveller, speaking of Louis the
f8th's speech, says
An nfrIn old man, lettering on the brink of
the grave, rolled into the Louvre ON casters
--untaught BY twenty-five years of suffering,
prepares TO inhict upon two great nations the
most horrible of suiierings, and oHce more TO try
the endurance OF people to whom, more than
to all europe besides. he owes his elevation to
the throne. To see such being permitted to
WELD the force of 80 millions of people to see
the armed force which was directed against
Spain to destroy the dynasty of the Bourbons,
now rushing upon the same devoted country, TO
restore of those Bourbons to absolute power
to see mass OF thinking beings moved in sue
cession for such purposes, makes one shudder at
the facility with which wickedness or imbecility
may trfe with the well being of mankind
The principle on which the war against Spain
isconducted is plainly ayowed: Let Ferdinand
VII. be free TO give his people institutions which
they cannot hold but from him." This liberty
of kings, the liberty of swearing or forswearing,
ofgiving constitutions or taking them away, the
liberty of making people wretched, this is the
principle in favor of which be impiously insokes
& the God Of St Leuis.7