Star. — London, England, 1816-08-08 00:00:00

I T k i' among though ~ been productive ployed jogs, V the measure ptopoled tually restivhsini'the ithportation.of fresh - .lases into thosoloniesi, sorl. Pie amelierating die condition of their existing population. It unity thereto,* be im portant to tabs st cold* view Of the timbre and .beatbys t lirtahapproccurreace. •• It by ;the opponeais of the forregis . tering tlielleirectit the Vest ladies, that its intro &Men 111111Perligitient petitioned the late Insurrec tion ; the sheets baitiag beaded toconceive, that man . cipation was intended by that measure. Now, even if this woe a trete representation of the ease, who would be to blame ? the West Indians who havit uniformly and clamorously maintained, that the real object of • the Registry Bill is emancipation, or the friends and • supporters of that bill Who have cnostantly denied Mail it has any such object f It the slaves its the West Indles.have indeed been led to mono that registra tion would involves.= • who bet the West India planters, and the {West iadia Qlanters alone, excited that false and delusive .1 It celaittly dues not Ikea, it Grit sight, strange that an insurrection of slaves should hive taken place in one of oar slave colonies. Such wealth have, in all former times, Seen common; and - the historian of J.anaica expressly admits. that, in tbemery visi dials of colonial bondage, there% enough to account for such OCCUITINICOS without the necessity of tracing them to any more emote and hidden cause. The real nature of Wis bondage has often been clearly explained. In no part of the British demi nions does this unhappy state of society 'mist in a more 'unmitigated form than in the Island of Barbados'. When, in 1802, Lord Seaforth proposed to the As sembly of that island, that the murder of a slave, which, according to the Barbadoes law, was compen sated by a fine off 1 14s. sterling, should be made felony ; the Assembly resented theproposal, and ap. ' pointed a Committee to prepare a message in reply, which should be calculated to -repel this insult, and :shOuld evince diet the House undentood iii inierests and its rights. We will shortly lay before our Readets i a horrid exemplification of the deplorably oppressed and degtaded state of the Negro Slaves in this parti cular bland, as it existed in the year 11105. Since that period the only change which the Barbadoes Le. . • gidature has even affected to snake in their condition has Wert the enactment of a law, whereby the mur. der of a slave, if perpetrated tututietill i aaficies4 and' widow mg proefteiists. is punishable with death. This law, however, while it bean the semblance of a nascent sense, among the legislators of Barbadoes, of • the claim which their slaves have to legal protection, is no mote than a gross mockery of justice. In every otter colony, the planters have deemed it right, of late years. to frame a bind of sew Cue Nair, in which, to the English ear at least. many important insprovenaeats have been introduced. How tar they were sincerely meant to remedy' the evils of colonial bondage, maybe inferred from the declaration of Governor Prevost with sopa* ta the Meliorating. Act of DJortialeal s ... 0 I C h appears," he says, al to have been considered, from the day it was pained until brie hour, as a poli. - tical measure, to avert the interference of the ildf:ther Country in the management of slaves." The clauses which bad given a promise of better days, we are . told by the same high authority, bad been %%luny' , neglected. la Barhadoes, however ' 'they sullenly re-' fused even this barren professioe of reform ; end their Cads Na remains onalsered.efeept by the single en- SWUM already mentioned, which levee the murder of i negro still punishable only with a fined stll 14s. =t; except when it can be. clearly proved (for eas must be interpreted strictly) to the satis faction of a Barbadian jury, that the murdei was sessilltsed wantaily, and that tho.lnuiderer had not • received tees the 'slightest degree of provocation. The wads are, " Without Oiy provocat ion. " • If we &aside ditii circumstances, and review the loroofs exhibited is 1806, as they appear in the an • Sexed peak:Adam aerating the state of lading asking file! Whites in abides* towards their slaves, we •Adttet thiehitlisange, hoe:ever deeply we siafae •,plare . tilts sewn, that an insurrection should have - taboo glum. • The planters have at aU times professed to fear that *sir gauge wduid be erased to insurrection by Par. fiery discussions in this country. But their own eendect, throughout the whole of the abolition cop. - emvarey, fled, oentradicts that profession, and proyes it isobars t tor these very discussions, of which - the , slaves could sewer bear without their help, haveheen vegulerly gebrasbed lot *valueless in the Colonial Itlorspagers. : _ .. _ raulswwzme a Amain Gazette of March. 1816, she 1tt= 1110110,16114 4 107 arraigned as founded ea wit • • wirsdutimurry bud; and Oticuhrted to 'predate hoserrectiim i sad it is 'held out as so mai cable so Arra ib desuorthe lives and propeytut of tte Whitembilikants, that It is alleged to bi dressi ness% practiceastfedingad the White colonists to re. *sit ell 'the lawn they can save to taigland and Anoka, osvrpsweision for the worst &Sifter Imp pen. • Oe almoner oteasion. when de ?quail f ood andiutfoteded. elarrioar bad been .... st the ,o= 6 reolhaserstiot disetweion of the : - M . • agni/instoiseirsection, the Assam* of ) is VariArbitioslif their thorn pretested Am, .printedis their owo °tomtit a repots which stated at amide,- eggelength, and arith great ptecisites, the *means by which a 1 lesonuctiess on gispnost succeed - idly be tog . among she :dives ; ' and furnished cam plete and:demiled Information as OD the plan of op l'46olls lis ultieb du insurgenti might infallibly be.. sane mown ef , thr island. We Meld mohiply strii lar iodate:err Dot' only in put yeas, but to timed even of recent date. Elm in the newspaper: ei Bar-, b A does, formal Resolutions of die Msembly were published only three or low mends: before the bar rection broke oat, denouncing the Registry Itill as a plan for the emancipation tithe dam S ure ly, if then Were any truthin the elimmus of the pliuntrs, on the subject of Parliamentary discussion; they would never have been so infatuated as to make their own new papers, which Circlilate freely throughout the islands, the vehick of such oM:went& 1 - "Mat tan be a mote irrefragable proof that tbe planters theiturtivii did aloe in a -whisper, 401111 - whia vee sink at tbeiltek astute of 6,000 =Bas s et slavery is ths West Indies.— But in the ;blandest, find, instead of 'this eirresse caution, 'a most Wanton .publicity and noise no she 'subject. We say. emerstepl because there, all being of uhe mind, newspartir illieussiOns are atlestisperfeetlp useless. And yet i an* man desires In see thestessest thingstah at hare ever been said ht Parliament against the colonial system. thethings most eapeble l ol besot re- presented as pointing atgeneval eitfranehlsemeell s , lye may find them in the West Iltra gazettes. the liaein= surrection must therefOre be traced, not to the ilkiebe.' sloes which have taken place on the subject Oder Re. gistrk Bill, but to the evils Inherent in a OM= of slavery, and to the conduct of the slave grimes. , any one read the .following pitrticniarts and belt* Only. wonder that the Westlfidjes should ever WIN any tither than a state. of inkntrectkm. kn some papers lirtliented to the Haw of deitil mesa oh the 25th of ribrnary, 180;5, is amiable' letter from Lord Seafotth, the Governor of Ba does. dated 13th November, JBO4, in which ha writes to Earl Caradeni , .-. " I enclose four papers enntaining. from dike*, quarters, reports on the hm rid murders I mtp, in. some fanner letters. They are selected frogs:* great number, among which there is not one in con. trad.ction of the horrible facts, thOugh several of the letters are very concise and defective. The troth is, 'that nothing has given me more trotible than to get lathe bottom of these businesses, so horribly absurd ate the prejudices of the people." (not °foster two, or of a few individuals, but of the Ne t tie). , . • To a subsequent letter, dated 7th January, 1905, his Lordship thus writes—" I enclose the Attorney General's letter to me on the subject of the °ernes so must wantonly murdered. lam sorry to say se. veral other instances of the same barbarity have oc• curred, with which I have not troubled your Lord : ship, as I only wished to snake you acquainted with the subject in general." The letters to which Lord Seaford* refer* andl which accompany thenisove extracts, are from of the most respectable individuals in the island of Barbadoes. viz. Mr. Ince, the President of the Coun cil Mr. Coulthurst, the Advocate General ; Mr. Berries. the Attorney General; and the Rev. Mr. Pil These Gentlemen alt agree in the material facti'Ef the cases which they state. It would, there. fore, be an unnecessary repetition to transcribe the whole of their letters : it will be sufficient to give the substance of the statements which they contain. I. Oa the 10th of April, 1804, a militia man, of the acme of Halle, of the St. Michael's • regiment, remain g from military duty, overtook on the . road seas Negroes who were going quietly home from *air Labour. ' When be came mew hecalledoebthet he would kill them, and immediately began to run After them. The Negroes not supposing that be really Minded to dollies) any injury, and imagining that he was in joke, did not eudratoot to escape, but merely made way loc. Sim. The person nearest to him happened to be a wontan, the property of a Mr. Clarke, the owner of Sinsimons's estate, who is stated to Limbers a valuable slave, the mother of five ev six children, and far advance d in pregnancy. With out the smallest provocation of any kind, Halls coolly and deliberately plunged bis bayonet several times into her body, when the poor creature dropped and expired without a groan. Two Gentlemen were eye witnesses of this horrid action. One of them, Mr. herding, the manager of the Codrington s College estate. went up to Halls and spoke harshly to Mu, slid said be ought to be hanged. for he never saw I more unprovoked. Murder, and Abet he would cer tainly carry him before.* magistrate. aillsils it iily is very remarkable. ea For what?" said 1w (with the utmost indifference as to the crime)—" For what ? for killing a negroll1" This is a short but a signifi cant sentence, strongly confirming an important truth which has frequently been' asserted, viz. that the Ne groes are regarded by their white-skinned oppressors as an inferior, order of beings, and, under . the inan. trice of this sentiment, are naturally enough dialed the common rights of humanity, and exclnded from the pale of that sympathy which a sense ofs common nature and a common extraction is calculated to in. spire. Mr. Hording, hOwever, greatly to his credit, was prpei against the force of Fialles compendiaa reaioneng ; and havimi procured assistance laid bold of has, and envied hirn before Mr. Justica , Willeane Mr. hake Wilkein, it itould appear a , was soot indie- posed to Ow tbikainhurity with which. he was vaned in 'Winging falls to juptice; .but.k.fountti theVg. kp. his 111114(1011 as a magistrate, ..the law of the island gave ; him no juris diction c authority ores him," sea, in short, that bathed no right to commit him. ‘ln this dilemma, Mr. Walton applied to Mr . President Inc.. a I id Mr. Walton, * says the President, in hiclouer to hoed Seafortb, is that I regretted with real concern, the deficiency is our lair ; bui thai there . was a penalty doe to the King in such cases, (viz. the shvagasaulifrar shillew 1) Ma that, as Mr. Harding . bad sufficiently substantiated the fact, I wrield'order him to be committed. till he paid the forfeiture : . nt a ,shit should be commenced against liiin."—Arcerd- Joey be wit sent to prime. . .2. The Second iotantit ' , produced by I,;o4.2eefiob . . le net Wrier in atrocity to the.first a A Mr. Coltieek, who flies oversew On Cabbage-tree plantation, in St. Lucy's parish, " iii hark a ass Niro lki tow lige. f aid," (meaning the slave yard. where Nio . l4lp*re 'exposed mnk, In tite*thie niannir as the cattle and' Any be Sanithtleld Miarbsit),' and tarried Nos hoe*: Collsestit a Wig to the boy; hes took Mit-int° to blissful Riediblas wak actable.' Mr. Critic: . do dooreeer of Lewes estate, *high is near td cootig. pee idantalime; was lathe habit of visiciottfc: Ca bask, had sward she hey aid bow Mai lad/. • A fro -happening ass nisht in the seighboorboodredbeok went . to gave his assietnose, aid the heriellowed bin. - Colbesk, On his rettweelteste, nit boy 1 'who bad lost biceray pread- as be didiemeetahit'hi appearance the out day, be seat around to bit` eight _rater Como) near to Intro ' s estate n n isi number _rater .Negroes. were soon astemhled abnet the place.-.- tbe boy tiaterellylmatified- with the tbreats,theaulee, and the appearance of so many .people, revenged into lob* Wit rock,, having a stongjo his hand, for the probably, of defeetCe: — Weibte time Crime; mg other white penona l bad' Come up. By eiiiraiden a fire was put to-the hole where the boy lay, who, _when he began to be scorched, ran from bidA s Pleee into a pOol'of water which was near.. kb* Negroes ptirsned him into the pool ; and efto bby, It is said, threw the stone which he held in his hand, at one of them. On this, two of the White osen,s ; Crone and Hollingsworth, fired at the boy several times with shot, and the Negroes pelted him 'with stones. He was at length dragged out of the pod in a dying condition ; for he had not only re esti,ed several bruises from the stones, but his breast' was io pierced with the shot that it was like a cul. lender. The White savages (this is the language of Mr. Attotney•General Beccles) .ordered the Negroes to di g a gnaw ... wvet they were digging it, the poor creature made signs, of begging for water, which" .was not given to him ; but ;04000 as the grave was flag, he wits thrown into it and:covered over, and, as it,is believed, ',A& ,yet oat* Colbeck, the owner of the.boy, hearing' , that a tiepin had been killed, went to Cane to inquire hate the troth of the report. Crone told hilt, that a Negro had been killed and buried, bat assured him it was not hit,' for he knew his well, and he need not be at the tveoble of open. ing the grave. On. this, Colbeck went away satisfied. Iteeeivfng, however, further information, he returned and ka4 the grave opened, when he loond the mar. . Negro to be his own. Colbeck brought his actioa, of damages in the Court of the Island against Crone and Hollingsworth. The 'cause was ready to be tried, and the Court had met for the purpose, when they thought proper to pay double the value of the boy, .tnd ift2s for the use of the Island (being ,e 5 less than the penalty fixed by law, of aelfi cur. reney each), rather than wire the business logo to a hearing....*" This, I am truly sorry to say," ob serves the AdrocatoGeneralo. B .was the only punish.. meet which could be inflicted for so barbarous and atrocious a Crime." • This horrid recital (which is giveh almrst in the words - of the Report, merely avoiding repetitions) seems to require little coundient. One .circumstance of it, however, may not strike the minds of some rea ders dish its force, although it appears to be the most affecting part of the while case, Colbeck, it is said, on hearing that it - was not his slave who bad been murdered, went away satisfied 1 0 most op probriout satisfaction! Thstleeceding part of the narrative had prvpared us to.tattect in Colbeck some approximation to European feeling. But what is the fact ? On being coolly told that a Negro had been )tilled and buried—told sn by hik neighbour, she sour= derer—is he shocked ? Does be. express' any horror or indignation on the occasion ? No ! be goes away . satisfied ! ! Let the reader gin its due *eight to this one circumstance, and he must be convinced that a state of society must exibt in the West-Indies of Which, as. an inhabitant of this happy island, he can scarcely form an adequate conception. Suppose, instead of a Negro • Slave, that it had been a horse which bad been thus killed ; Colbeck, had his horse happened to be missing at the' time, would have pursued exactly . the same .steps, and would gave been affected in the .same way as in the present instance. FWe' may also learn, .fronithis impressive circum stance, the value of West-Indian' testimony when even in favour of West-Indian humanity. The moral perceptions and feelings which prevail in that (pm terof the world, it will be perceived , are wholly dit fereqt kens those on this side ottheAllantic. It may be unity:red that these men mean what they say, when' they ; give each other the praise of humanity. But 'examine their standard. Who is this man of huma nity ? It is one, who, bearing that a fellow creature bad been cruelly and wantonly muedeted, gee: away ritirfied, because he himself has sustained no loss by the murder i An exception may be admitted in fa .vouy of a few men of enlightened minds ; but the re ark applies to the petiple— . to the bulk of the corn munityr whose prejudices are stated by Lord Sea ford) to be so hottribly absurd, as to resist all measures for remedying this areadful state of things. Bin, not to detain the reader any longet with reasonings on subject, let us preceed to the third case commu. • led by Lord Seaforth, and which, if possible, is worse Ana either of the foregoing.. . • S. A mutt of the name of Nowell, who Eyes hi St. aireer's perish, bad bees he the habit of behaving' .brutally towards hie wife, and one day went so far as to lock her up in a room, and confine her in chains. A negro woman belonging to this at in,,totsched with compassion for her untortuoate mistress, undertook privately to release her. Nowell found it nut, and in border to punish her, obliged her to put her tongue tbroigh a hole in a board, to which he listened it on the opposite side with' a fork, and left her in 1114 situation-for some ! He-afterwards cut out het .tongue nearly by thereat, io consequence . of which 'she almost instantly died ! Ntk puhihment followed this Won:trans . act df barbarity f 1 .It will, doubtless, be argiied. that indiridual in stincts of cruelty like those Which have been cited, are no proofs of several inhumanity. any More than the annals, of the ad Bailey cap. be considered ils eihibiiing afa iiT s ievicipur aationatcharActer. There is, ht tieasit , Al f eery rentarVab il l . l difference in the two Were; i difference *hitt hits 3 to the argument . In thiaceentry, when we-seed of crimes, we read of their . ...followed by just aetribution ;by severe :and .. .. y punishment.. Is. the West•lndies, on tba c , we not only bear of the greatest crimes .seeping with itipanity, but we find the laws theta-. selves coagpising to shelter criminals from justice ; we 6nd•the most respectablwand enlightened part-of the immunity . sanctioaing the perpetration even of mur der, by tholt,refuspl recognize the commission of it is a feltinions m rat Slave T'rodi. 1806 ; Aohnisise: , . ,• , 3 , - .... • • .1- '. —4 `, • . i 7 -7 , ' . ma y ` •-..-, . t. - rna •, I. ~.. • - r . 0. - 4 • ' . • * ' • , I A- . . ... •-4.:' ' , - • • • bon a eLk odi vl.i.re itialivr, 110 0110t a r b t d ie att rtif icit ed"Plarir bd 811114- ..e. 1111,04 d 6 : . Iflen fi °t• ‘: . lAN ritE - bits ußßEcntirt EX BARBAblpa. b e. . - T .•V* '. , • . • = . 16141, l a Inrekt be , "1"i.... • _• . - iigbi*Oil l ialtalablite 1014 a . • • 41 / 4 The intelligenew of an •insagrocuonlit7 a : tha ioniftnrer tha i tlo s astMer Sidtrighilltr • a 4. •,:i s mg we jig...q ne s t . - 74 among the dares in thol4and of BabitilMo • . . • .41atisours, . turiokat kat as. ti. ihl ll4 / "_ • • ....strure bas) i ds sen d ig i a bow. , a though it was speedily 111lawnd, Wok • . ,as)sny thing : the king could be. to pea r sia be Z eide 1001 been productive at exterl "mischief. bas bees em ,, t hic o insnreactiun lln Eng' land, indeed: for 09 1 0 1 aagoin i te ed. A la d e all a L re d*P ri gi ti r g o : th e arb r ae Ininat Ardyt; bll. the " t . I ployed ,Jibe West.lndia.p t wty to throw dime& on of effect in • argument, they ieelitift dwell Soothe mum* was dheaveratt. is a . ily (de d eep d the measure twirled* Mr. Wilberfoece. for drab dime, of even *dwelling t? the so*Olße' W. MO P c" . i t i mna i n i s i t i, /ti m e s e l a t e i ci ii4 a amber i i - in_ -_-....1.*-2--.171.- :.i............:—• ...e 11..... L '.l .••••• 2..•••• • . • c - atlr • '., , • OttCyf :ft` t iP'tß Y. • the . •:'ipt i ropueable IPARIS .w 4 sill; continuin g , th e v scers : oes i grat a l b. chopterot Paris have ordered addiskinal prayers 1," be put op foritin e days i n ail the &etches bf the capital: • A letter from Corfu, which ieache Paris rester. day. states. that a ship just arrived there had bron g t it t h e contradictory news of t :nsassination of Day of Algiers, of the European Consiik, o f ,1 1 t h e EngliA who were in that city. We m usc h oik , t h at oat h horrible intli s genee 'will not receive e.,,‘ &notion. At the sa tutseltpaaish vessel 10;4 left, gran has on its part sal t Carthagena, the 'Vey of Algiers had been massatred, and English residents arrested ; and in those barbaro. countries there is in general only a sop b etwtr , arms and massacre. 11. proceedings against the • prOinoters of tfa troubles which took place at Cabtres on the ISth antl 144 Of July, have commenced before the Prerow Court of that town. It is remarked, from the minuta s of the examinations, that none of the prisoners app e ,. to have held insulting language respecting die 1t.,,).! Family. Yesterday no less than seven persons, for 'aria% offenses, were pilloried at the Conciergerie. LAUSANNE, JULY 27. • The waters of the Ithine cause dreadful havoc i n the canton of St. GOl. 'and in. that of •Grisous. Th e !bridge of Tardis has been partly destroyed. Tine Rhino has overflowed in the neighbourhood of M.l. lens, and rendered the road ft= s!aiyeateld to C one impassible. The bordersof t h e Lake of 'Menne are ove r fl owe d is evreval,places ; and the island of St. Pierre is als o a pm to theme ravages that the neighbouring count I it% - • PROCLAMATION • . cis lux BRIGANDS, CALLED PATRIOII Or 1816. - SECRET OROANIZATtON. HONOUR ! --CtStniTitY I—UNION a We ere arrived at the term of oar misfortunes. True friends of the people, of whom we form a part, we.have read in . the souls of our brethren the horror excited by the equally stupid and cruel proceedings of a family, which ought to be fur ever erased from the catalogue of Kings. Not one of its members is worthy of reigning amongst us. We are weary el seeing our prisons daily crowded with the most worthy of our fellow.citizens. We. are weary of seeisg banishment pronounced against several of them, and the assassinations by which our tyrants endeavour to consolidate that throne, of which they have the alas. city to style themselves the sole heirs. 64 The foreigner, in order to bring back these rel. caste. has laid waste our harvests, destroyed nut pro. perty, massacred and dishonoured our famiNes.— • Further and greater evils yet await us: we are na the brink of ruin. Alas I the most flourishing State of Europe, the bravest and most energetic n tarsi, is on the point of being precipitated into an abyss dug by foreign hands. flue brave defenders of the coon. try art humiliated and .reduced to mendicity. betty is about to expire : her existence is comps. mised, and all hope of - happiness is irretrievably lost. Ah ! we shall for ever lose the right of conNolisining of our oppressors, if w e be base enough not to infict os them the 'chastisement which their crimes merit. Si it not sanctioning guilt to leave it unpunished? 64 Having assured ourselves that . the love of the country, far horn being extinguished, has now a force beyond :hat which distinguished it in the ea:ly periodi of the fteirolution; we have hastened to alset the most prudent and the most certain ineCntrti for the fall of the Bourbons, and for preemies r!,e slightest trace of our proceeding from coming to ti.e knowledge of the Inciiiisitotiat•Police, sysiCh seeks to dismAy us. Let the Patriots of the -intet;,-r be tranquil, and the proscribed be re-asured. 'Se watch over the safety of our success is cert.iia; we ale impenetrable.. We can even defy the sa sites •of the most odious tyranny. We r liUptinSU the existence of traitors _ among the cet.1;..0. nines of our glorious labours : should one be sound. his doom is pronounced. He will be iolfu.svesl anti punished wherever he miy go. The greatest c.Aition is. however, indispensable; the slightest imprtulence may Conspromsre a good citizen. " Let net love at the general welfare be a rrriive of levity and inconsiderateness with any of us. Speut only of possible means, and to sure persons whose character is well known. Let your proceedings wisely combined, and thus there will exist between friend and friend an indissoluble chain, by whielt means advice and ref! Taos) may, without danger. pass from you to us and from us Wynn. Astor our. selves, whatever reports the Anti-French may circo• late, you may he certain they will never give usany concern.—Recollect always, that w.eareimpenetrabir. 66 The day which is prepering is the-real triunnei of hiplines,. Our object is gemsead independence. the union or all parties, the retorin of all arbitrary *tays; "the abolition ortanatiCisin g - a - andpt!rely spiritual religion having its.morality taught 41 , 4 tbr wise and enlightened fslisosteti hot• above amt, liberal Constitutien, suitable to the French 1) 04 4 4 . There must be a Chief of the State, but he ouLlit to lw so by the choice of the nation. The pf ople alore have the right of .election, and not the bayonets of foreigner s. " Consider, that the mere manifestati n of op:!.i.ei is not sufficient for the stiznity of mar. Opinion is every thing, but it is nothing when sof in actiov. Actions can alone mike opiteions known an 4 the :soundness of heart and the security of print Va l " ` ,O Evety Fienchman syls . shall concur in the deli. verauce of the nation will be entitled to its gratitude. Benefits will nor be par:ilia-al by the cupidity of mite. and he who t. 11411 deserve well of his enentry Mai be n ie ev iea r r o d c t e d a . sed to certain honour and independence; you whose grrerous see- F in rete b ll r m in e g u. in :l ) :6 '3ii h 3 ac c e lY timents ate well known to us, and to whoni'we wneld have sooner appealed, had we not awaited the beret - . able season; hold yourselves in readiness, soon will your arms be tianted. 46 As to artillery, we know where we can End it, and the blow which is destined to restore to France her splendour and her . rights is already-half stre:!k. The provinces wait for us, our'coilduct will regulyl .their's. Some even with a noble iniptiente ).4e •: given us the Redouble your zeal and .: • civil a as well to loci nee the number of our bretil..a