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THE LOUISVILLE GAZETTE; AND REPUBLICAN TRUMPET. f VoL. ll.] GEORGIA, LOUISVILLE: Publithed every Tuefday, by AMBROSE DAY & [AMES lIELY, at 3 dollars per ann. payable halt yearly :-Where Effays, Articles of Intelligence. Advert,fcmerUs. &c. &c. are thankfully received, and PRINT ING in all its variety, is executed with ncatnefs and dilpatch. PARIS. funeral Oration on Washing ton, delivered in the temple of Mars, h Louis Fontancs, the zsth Pluvoife. Feb B—Tranf- Jatcd for the Epitome. France, unbiased by thofe narrow prejudices which exift between nations, and admiring virtue wherever it be found, de crees tfcis tribute of refpeft to the manes of Wafhington. At this moment (he contributes to the difcharge of a debt due by two nations. Ko government, whatever form it bears, or what ever opinions it holds, can re fute its refpeft to this great fa ther of liberty. The people who fo lately ftigmatized Wafh ington as a rebel, regard even the enfranchisement of America, as one of thofe events confecrat cd to hiflory and by paft ages. Such is the veneration excited by great characters. The Ame rican revolution, the cotcmpo raty of our own, is fixed for ever, Wafhington began it with energy, and finifhed it with moderation. He knew how to maintain it, puriding always the profpetity of his country ; and this aim alone can juflify at the tribunal of the Mod High, en terprizes to extraordinary t o (peak the eulogy of the he r oe of America, requires the lublimeft eloquence of the frrft r - orators. 1 reflcft, with fen timents. of admiration, that this temple, ornamented with the trophies of valor, was raifed up an age of genius, an age which produced as many great writers as illuftrious comman ders. Then, the memory of heroes was entrufted to orators ivhofe genius gave immorality, j military glory fiiines with Ure [eclat] ; and in every country the glory of the fine ■ms are fhrouded in darknefs; * * ''oice is too feeble to be heard on atl °ccafioa fo folemn and jnornentous, and fo new to me. K ur as f hat voice is pure ;as it ' J nevar flattered any fpccies of granny ; it has never been ren y red unworthy of celebrating ' iCr oilm and virtue. , funeral and ° UOr * fpeak to all hearts ; !ief ds not the aid of fpeech, I * r k| te ftrong and undifcnbable I “ The mourning which •, le conful orders for Kington, declares to France n Walhington's example is oft. i t j s J e f s f or t y, e )Us general, than for the bene ■' and the friend of a great I P‘e that the crape of mourn -3 noiv covers our banners* and TUESDAY, |uni 3 , 1800. LIBERTY IS OUR MOTTO AND TRUTH OUR GUIDE the uniform of our warriors. Neither do we prepare that un meaning pomp fo contrary to policy and humanity, in which infults is offered to humanity, contempt to venerable ruins, n<l calumny to the tomb. Every exalted idea, every uteful truth, is Teen in this aftembly. t fpeak before warriors, the hono rable praifes of a wauior firm in adverfity, modeft in viftory, and humane in every of for tune. Before the minilicrs of the French republic. 1 fpeat the praifes of a man whom ambition never fwayed, and whofc every care tended to the welfare of his country; a man who, unlike othcis have changed empires, lived in peace in his native land ; that land which he had freed, and in which he had held the higheft rank; and died as a fimfple individual. . An affecting piece afterdates the (hade of Franklin with the eulogy of Wafhington, and de calls to mind the amiable vir tues of that fage, ft) celebrated in France, whom pofterity will regard as the brother of the hero of America. In that piece, the orator finds tints of a finer hue, to paint the virtues of the hero. ** Wafhingten, fays*he, offers examples not lefts worthy of imi tation. Amidft all the diforder of camps, amidft all the cxcclfes infeparable from a civil war, hu manity took refuge in his tent, and was never rcpulfed. In triumph and in defeat, he was always as tranquil as wifdom as fimple as virtue. The finer feelings of the heart never aban doned him, even in ihofe mo ments when his own intcrcft would Teem to juftify a recur rence to the laws of vengeance. This I call thee to atteft, O youthful Afgill f thou whofe misfortunes have inte»efted England, France and America ! With what affiduous care did Wafhington endeavour to delay a fentence which the laws of war would have precipitated f Me expelled that a voice, then all powerful, would have been heard acrofs the expanfive ocean, and demanded a per Ton which could not be refuted That voice, fo conformable to the feelings of his heart, was heard and felt; and the day which faved an innocent viftim ought to be inferibed among the nioft glorious of viftorious and inde pendent America.” Here the author teems to ele vate himfelf, or rather to tear with the great men, whefe ne csltery courte and inevitable defliny he fo admirably de feribes. . “ It is thefe extraordinary men who appear at intervals on this Vaft feene, with characters commanding and illuftrious. An unknown and fupetior caufe tends them when it is fit, to lay the foundations of new, or to build up the iuins of old em pires, It is in vain that thefe men ftcpalidc, or mingte in the crowd : deftiny le?ds them on ; they are carried from obftac.le to obflacle, from triumph to triumph, until they arrive at the fubmit of powet Something fupevnatural animates all their thoughts; an irreliftable move ment is given to ah their enter prizes. The multitude ftill leek them among tbemtelves, and find them not; they raife their eyes, and fee in a fphere, daz zling with light and glory, thofe whom their ignorance and envy would call ralh. Wafhington had not thofe high and com manding traits wineh flnkc eve ry mind : he uifplayed more or der and juftire, than fore and elevation in his ideas. He pof telfed above all, m a fuperior degree, that quality which f >me call vulgar, but which very few poffefs; that .quality not lefts ufefal to the government of ftates than to the conduft of life, and which gives more tran quility than emotion to the foul, and more happinefs than glory to thofe who poflefs it:—it is of good tenfe that I fpeak.” “ Audacity dellroys. Genius elevates,, good tenfe preferves and perfe&s. Genius is charg ed with the glory of empires; but good tenle alone allure* tbr.i fafety and repofe." So manv interefls arc here United with the pleafurc of once more finding French eloquence, that we are fure of the attention of our audience, by multiplying quotations, u Ills end pounrayed ail the domeftic virtue^—as his life had been an illuftrious example in war and politics America regarded with refpeft the manfion which con tained her defender ; from that retreat, where fo much glory dwelt, fage Counfcls illued, which had not lefs weight than in the days of his power ; but death has (wept all away ; he died in the midll of thofe occu pations which fwreten domeftic life, and fupport us in the infir mities of age. " From every part of that Ameiica which he had deliver ed, the cry of grief is heard. It belongs to France to echo back the mournful found; it ought to viberate on every generous heart. Ihe (hade of Wafhing ton on entering 1 beneath tliis lofty dome, will find * Turenne, a (hidnat, a T or,do, all of whom have tixed their habitation here. II ihelc illuitrious warriors hive not ferved in the fame caufc during life, yet the fame of all, will unite them in death Opi nions fubjeft to the capiices of the world and to time ; opinions weak and changeable, the inhe ritance of humanity, vanilh in the tomb ; but glory and virtue hvefor ever. When departed fiom this llage. the great men of every age and of every place, become in fume meafure. com patriots and cotemporaries. 1 hey form but one family in the memory of the living; and their examples ar' renewed in every fuccefiive age. t ] bus, within rhefe walls, the va'uc of Wafhington attracts the tcg.tid of r onde ; his modefty is ap plauded by I uronn ; his phi lolophy draws him to the bofom of ( atinat. A people who ad mit the ancient dogma of ft tianfmigration of lould, will of ten con fds that the foul of Ca tinat dwells in the bofom of WafiringtoD, Ihe voice of rcpublicamTrn which refounds (torn every part of thefe walls, ought to pleafe above all, the defenders of America. Can they ngt love thole foldie:s who, after their example, repelled the enemies of their country ? We approach with pleafurc thole voteran.% whole trophies add luflre to thefe walls, and lome of whom have gained laurels with Wafh ington, in the wilds of Carolina and Virginia.'—“ Hut therein fomethmg more due to the me rnoiy ol Wodungton ; It is the union of Fiance and America, ic is the bappinels of each ; it is peace between both nations. It now feems to me that Wafli ington calls Co all France from the very fubrnit of his dome— “ magnanimous people !” you u ho know fo well how to honor glory, I have conquered for in dependence; the bappinels of my country was the reward of that victory. Imitate not the hr 11 hah of my life; it is the lecond that recommends me to pofteritv. Yes, thy counfcls (hall be heaid, O Walhingfon ! O War rior ! u I egillature ! (Hituen without repio ch! He who while yd young. , luipallcs thee in battles, fhail, like thee with his triumphant hands, heal the wounds of his country. Even now we have his hilpofition, his charadcr for the pledge; and this warlike genius, union u- [No. 70.