The Gazette

BIOGRAPHY.

[The following account of the infamous MARAT, is translated from Bounville's Portraits. It may be well to mention that the disorganizing GALLATIN, is a native of the same place, and that his political principles are quite similar to those of that sanguinary patriot.'—
How long shall this seditious foreigner disgrace our councils?]

JOHN PAUL MARAT,
BORN at Geneva in 1743, Physician of the Haras of Count d'Artois, deputy to the National Convention, poignarded by Marie Charlotte Corday the 13th July, 1793.

He was, as was said by Gorzeis, a monstrosity, whose physical and moral existence was an outrage to nature, and to nature's laws. To have an idea of him, we must imagine every thing the most intemperate—the most vile—and the most shameless : but to those who have seen him, or his picture, it is unnecessary to say any thing ; and if any one, on seeing him, has not experienced a spasm of horror, it is because he has never felt his heart fail him at the sudden and unexpected sight of a toad or a serpent. This nevertheless is the Being who has covered France with incurable sores. This Mischievous Stranger would not perhaps have been without talents, had he desired only a moderate and honest celebrity ; for he had some knowledge in medicine, and some ideas on physics and light. But his low and vile heart was calculated to deform both his mind and body ; and like the reptiles who love only to live in mud, a revolution was necessary to drag him forth and fill him with poison. At first, under the orders of Mirabeau, and in the pay of the Duke of Orleans, he had the task set him of depopularizing all those, who joined to the purity of patriotism ; the love of true liberty ; the experience of revolutions—and the national confidence. For this reason he entitled his paper the French PUBLICIST; or, The Friend of the PEOPLE !!! It had all at once the influence of a libel ; and being every day carried about in secret, was sought after with avidity by the people, who still imagined themselves in those times when prohibited papers were worth something. Emboldened by impunity, Marat dared more. The number of his proselytes increased, and with them his pretensions and his impunity ; for he abused even those whom he had paid to abuse others : and when he had excited a storm, when the vessel of state was about to perish, he pushed himself forward to become the pilot. Every day of his life he demanded three hundred thousand heads. ONE MILLION fell by means of the Guillotine !—and the people said : Marat truly foretold us so. What a prophet is the executioner who foretells the death of his victims! This monster had still perhaps eight days to live in the rottenness of his debauchery, when the immortal Corday restored to its primitive nothingness, all the filth of which he was composed. Although the poignard of the virtuous Corday ended his physical existence, still he lived politically : for his apostles took new life from his assassination. They called him the martyr of liberty ;-they paid his debts and his obsequies from the treasures of the state, as they had paid for his paper ;-they hunted out the remains of Mirabeau from the Pantheon, to give place to his, and this was after the fall of Robespierre. The events of the 4th Prairial were necessary to demolish all the monuments of adoration which the furies of the hell of Jacobinism had erected, in honour of this diabolical fiend—This imported Friend of the People.