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The difeuffion on the declaration
of Rights being resumed, the fol
lowing articles were decreed :
Art. 11. Equality consists in
this, that every one may enjoy his
rights.'
111. The law ought to be equal
to all, whether it rewards or pun
ifhei ; whether it protects or re
presses./
IV. All citizens are admissible
to all places, employments, and
publick functions. Free people
know no other motives of prefer
ence in their choice than talents
and virtues.X
V. Liberty consists in doing ev
ery thing that does not hurt an-
NATIONAL CONTENTION.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17.
BERTRAND entered into a
dissertation on the Rights of
Man, and proposed a new Decla
ration.
Salles said, that the Conven
tion should confine themselves to
the Declaration of Rights, drawn
up in 1789, by the Constituent
Assembly.
Isnard supported this propofi
tion, and added, that it was of the
utmost importance that the discus
sion of abftraft principles should
be abridged, in order that the Gov
ernment might be organized al
soon as possible.
Ducos said, that the discussion
ought not to be checked, and that
the Declaration of 1789 should not
be taken for the grounds of it, as it
was not free from errors. He ob
served, that itwas an error to sup
pose that a division of powers is a
condition necessary to liberty,
though this might be true in regard
to the Separation of the Legidative
from the Judicial Power.
Barrere was also against adopt
ing the Declaration of 1789. He
moved that the Declaration drawn
up by the Committee, after a care
ful revision of that of 1789, and
in which the errors of the latter
had been avoided, should have the
preference. This proposition was
adopted, and the Convention, after
a short debate, decreed the firft ar
ticle of the Declaration of the
Rights of man, in the following
words :-
[We forebore inferring in the Centi
nel, the late proposed- CONSTITU
TION of the National Convention o(
Franco, feeling confident, that as it was
to be lubmitted to the People, for altera
tion, of ratification, it must undergo
amendment. Our predictions have beeti
verified—The amendments of the People
have been submitted to the Convention
—and thefa^h Constitution was issuing
from that body at the date of our last ac
counts. Part ofit we have received,
'which follows— The whole shall find a
place when it arrives.]
" The natural Rights of Man,
in society, are equality, liberty, fafe
ty, property, the social guarantee
and re fiftance to oppression;
NEW CONSTITUTION OF FR INCE
From the Columbian Centinel.
Volume I."
FRIDAY, APRIL 19.
Published by ELIJAH RUSSELL, at his OFFICE, nearihe Meeting House, in CONCORD, Newhampshire.
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other.. It rests upon this maxim.
6 Do not to another what you
would not wish done to yourfeif."
VI. Every man is free to mani
est his thoughts and opinions.
Vil. The liberty Os the Press,
and every other means of publish
ing one's thoughts, cannot be in
cerdided, suspended or. limited.
[The Committee proposed as an Bthj
Article, to declare every man free in the
?xercife of his religious worship;
On this article Vergniaud called
for the previous question; as it ranked
among the social duties, an objed entire
ly foreign to it. -'
Danton supported this motion, and
said, let us at length prove to the world
that we are cured of the mania of Priests.
This observation was applauded, and
the discussion of the article was adjourn
ed.]
>IX, Safety, confiffs in the protec
tion granted by the [octet, to each
citizen for the preservation of per
sons property, and rights.
X. No one can be prosecuted, ac
cused, arrefled: or detained, but in
the cases determined by the law and
according to the forms it prescribes.
Ever, citizen projected or fazed by
authority of the law, must immediate
ly obey : By refiflauce he renders
himfitif criminal.
XI. Ever, aa exercised again/la
mon contrary to the terms prescribed
by tbe law is arbitrary and null, and.
he against whom it is exerci sed has,
a right to repel force b, force.!
Xil Tbofe who may foe publife
fan, execute, or cause to be executed,,
such arbitrary aas, ere criminal and
ought to be punijhed.
, XIII. Ever, man being prefumed^
to be innocent until be has been de!
clared guilty, if it be declared indifa
penfibl, necessary to arrest him, al^
rigour not requisite to Secure his per-\
son ought to be fever el, reprefled b,
the law.
XIV. No one ought to be punish
ed but in virtue of an efab li(bed law
promulgated previous to the crime,
and legally appliea ; the law which
should punifb crimes committed before^
its exigence, would be an arbitrary^
aft;
XV. The retroaHive effect given
to a law would be a crime.
XVI. The law ought not to decree
punishments but flrial, and evident
ly neceffar,. Punishments ought to
be proportioned to crimes, and ufeful
to society.
XVII. The.right of property con
fills in this, that ever, man is master
to difpofe^ according to his own will,
of his property, capital, revenues,
and tnduflry.
XVIII. No kind of labour, com
merce, of agriculture can be forbid
den to him ; be may. manufacture,
fell, and transport ever, kind of pro
duaion.
XIX. Ever, man ma, engage bis
Services and bis time, but be cannot
fell bimfelf : His pers on is not ali
enable property.
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LISLE, Aprils Teflerda,, fa
cowardly de/erters bad the honour of
being (hived dole to the (houlderi,
in the new machine, by order of Gen
eral Feuand.
France.
NATIONAL CONVENTION,
March it. M, Garnier. " Cit
izens ! One of the greater counter
[revAutionaliffs of St. Domingo,
M. Blanchelande, is arrived in
?Paris a prisoner : be is charged with
[the' blackest crimes, be bas made it a
tyrffltce to vex and persecute the pat
ri^, be caused one of them named
-raJbco to be ffeed, and was fcro
'cious enough to cause bis satellites to
lent him in pieces before bis face.
He bas been known to go about bis
7word drawn; and with bis own
band to massacre infants upon the
breasts of their mothers. I demand
Itbat M. Blanchelande be ar
raigned before the revolutionary tri
bunal."
SACTING OF THE JACOBINS,
April 6. It was proposed to fend
a deputation from the club to accom
pany the commissioners of the Conven
tion into all the departments, to dif
/eminate the '• holy morality of the
Jacobins". This measure was op-l
posed by all the leading members —for
two excellent rea/ons, ift. becau/e the
" fraternal debt" of the club was,
already so great, that they could not
bear an, new expenses—and 2dl,
that their deputies would entirely be
massacred, for the Jacobins were held
in the greatest abhorrence through all
the departments. That they were
regarded by the whole nation (the
Sans Culottes of Paris excepted) as a
band of assassins, who with Marat
at their bead, were wantonly fpillin,
the blood of the truefl patriots. Tbefe
offertions were proved by letters
from all parts of tbe Republick.—
Marat/aid tbe Briffotins bad de
ceived tbe nation, and that if tbe
French bad withdrawn their confi
dence from tbe Jacobins, they were
all fools.
April 8. A deputation of the
eElion of Borconteil, read an ad
dress, which tbe, were going to „©
lent to the Convention. The follow,
tug is an extrafl. " Legislators!
Prvfi
BERLIN. March 5.
A FEW.days face several Freneb
deserters prefeuted themselves to
the Duke Frederic of Brunswick,
who received them kindly, gave them
a few crowns, and ordered them to a
^particular ftatton to ft, them. They
bad bardly begun to do duty but they
tried to excite the Prussian soldiers
to defers. They were immediately
conduced to the fortrefs of Wefel.
It was observed that the soldiers fill
preserved the fa of liberty, for they
addressed the Duke of Brunswick
with '" m, General" —wbicb afton
ifbed German ears, accuflomed to the
titles of highness and my lord.
NEWS !
Flanders.
Jn infernal faffion influences the
Convention —a gung of villains aft
plotting and executing a Counterrev
olution :We demand, in the n. me of
the law—in the name of tb& people,
that the Gaudets, the Vergne
aus, the Brissots, the 2uzots,
the Barbargux, the Potions ^
driven from among you. Moontain
of Sinai ! on thee the Mofl High re
poses bimfelf ; in thee alime is found
ed our bope—tbou milt deliver us
from our enemies ; but bow long
wilt thou fuffer tbofe Catalines in
th, bosom ? Minifler of on aveng
ing God ! deliver to thejufhee of
the people bis unfaithful mandatories!
And thou people ! rife and crufo the
traitors who are in ibis affembty."
—(Long and loud app'auk.)'' fres,
my friends and brothers," continued
the orator, " the people must help us
again to clenfe tbe dutybill of ariftoc
rac)?'\
Albitte. I applaud with all
my beart, the patriotism of tbefe cit
izens ; but wbile striving to serve
us, they ^ill emba rais us ;, it is not
fufficient to demand the puntfoment of
traitors ; we must know them, before
we canjudge them " At tbefe words,
the tribunes, and all tbe Jacobins,
rose in a fury, crying '• We know
them all, and wil kill them aH?'°
After mueb confufon in tbe Club,
Albitte recommences with bis
laa Sentence ; but was flops again,
by loud murmurs. Tbe Viceprefdent
begs them to bear Albitte wills 1
;moderation, and then refute -bim'— °
What ! cries a bot patriot, foaming
with rage —bere a moderate, with
moderation ! — Albitte continues
I — I am not a moderate, I fub/robe
I to every thing you propose : It is true,
there are traitors in tbe Convention ;
but our denunciations ought not to
condemn them ; they must be judged
by tbe law. For my own part, I
will not condemn BrissOt, and tbe
rest, on a mere suspicion. He was
again interrupted by a cry of " down
with the moderate.". He ro/e once
more—and said, if be was wrong,
it was by excels of zeal—profiled to
conform to tbe decfaws of tbe Club
—was now convinced tbe address
was good—and declared, be would
Support it. This repentance was how
ever too lets—a general bifs proved
to. him, that to aft from reason was
an unpardonable crime among the
Jacobins.
Deffieux supported the peti
tion with all his might. He pre
tended to prove that Petion, Brif
fot, &c. were the Agents of Du
mourier, and that they, with the
other wicked moderates, wanted
to facrifice the virtuous Egaliee,
because hit son was a traitor.
St. Just said, " In 1792, I told
you there was but one m^,
ftoptour progress—^radi; fallen.
There are now a hundred thousand
confpiratfo : their heads must all
fall We had better swim to liber
ty through wave, of ariftocracic
blood, than to fee a tingle patriot
receive a scratch. Albitte t,lki of
[Continued to tbe last '"S']
[Number 38.)