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from the Columbian Centinbl.
.^ CENTINEL ATLAS,
Being @r agmtq/ tbe Political Stale ^ the Elder
World, the^d&ofSept. lase.
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^NOTWITHSTANDING this anfoer,
it was find, the siege of Warsaw was
continued, and feme of Gen Kofeiofko's re
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both Ruffiansand Prutfians exists in its ori
ginal force: A!1 fCourtarid has determined
to make a common eaufe with the Polish Re
public. The circle of Liebau alone furnifh
es 5000 men, besides opening the ports to
afford the Poles a communication with their
friends, many of whom they have in Sweden
andJDenmark;
We cannot close this article without giv
ing out readers' the following sentiments of
Gen. Kosciusko, on the subject of some of the
excesses mentioned above, It seems, that,on
the 9th or loth July, that five persons had
been hung, and several banished, without the
formality of law.. On hearing this, the Gen.
expressed his abhorrence of such proceedings
by the following proclamation, .which had
the desired effect :
"At the moment lam employing all my
care & solicitude to resist the enemy, I learn,
that an enemy more terrible than the foreign
troops, menaces us, raised within our own
intestines. What passed yefierday at Warsaw
has filled my heart with the bitterest sorrow.
The desire of punching the culpable was|
right and praiseworthy ; but why have they
been punished without the judgment of me
tribunal ? Why have the refoeaand fan^ity
of the laws been violated , Why has he who 1
was sent to you in the name of the Jaw been
maltreated, insulted, and covered with
wounds? Why has a public officer, absolute
-1, innocelte, been fhamefully deprived of life
at the fatal time with the accused perfonst
Is this the behaviour of people who have ta
ken up arms to re establish legal liberty, the
faptteme authority of the law, and that dur
able happiness which can spring from these
£:es alone? Citizens, confider whether
te not the work of secret and artful fe- :
&Who, being in intelligence,with the
enemy, have fed you affray, and filled your
hearts with harfnnefs; and who with to have
no government, in order that your ardour
may.fpur you on to trample uponjuftice, the
law, and all foetal order? They have rip o
thettendfa view than to pave the way to the
overthrow.of your power and + your force, in
fr midst ofdifeTd er ,nd conM?f Wh,
no one is fureof his life, no one will have ftf,
ficient confidence to take in hand the pub
lic interests, and watch over your fafety and
, well-being. Then will you perceive, but too
to tint They have deceived you ; th, will
you fee the artifice and hypoerrfy of the po
polar flatterers who lurround you; who, en
gaged by the enemy, endeaverar to purfuade
you, that a legal government is not necessary,
in rfMtat in reality there may be none
when it fell be overthrown, and destroyed s
by your own hands.
“ As soon las ever the military cares per
mitnie to be Abfmt a moment from my post,
lintend to vifit,ou: Perhaps the fight of a
soldier, who expotes his life every day for your
fakes, will be agreeable to you. But if you
would havener jov rcuttMf, I define that you
would not aßtin-foead the clouds of new
■:e ;:: My presence
1 you to reason,
trong but by con
>nly, not by vio
to enjoy social fe
doms in'Eto^, h^Xffmd rochin thlt
commerce by the depredations of the bellig
aitotf r To obtain fMHtnrioi^*9
have equipped, and have ready for sea, a for-
F R I D A Y, December 5, 1794. ,
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what answer has-been given, , The Papes
have riot as yet made a fimriar demand. but
it is expected they will follow the example of
• Sweden ; and in case of a refufal, will mske
their spoilers feel what the defeendents of
Frotinoras and Charles XIL can do at the
" last reasoning ofKiogs.'* .
TWGerman Empire,
Next demands attention. The
Monarch of thtijtaportant fart of
Europe, from motives of fear, or
tie# of feonfaoguinity, wai the firft co.
engage in the war against the French
Republic. Every one can recoiled
the gr^at exertions of this Prince in
the crafide ; and all acquainted with
the hiftory of Brunswick, Cobourg
and Clairfait, know with what ill
fuccefi. These exertioni have great
ly impoverished the treasury OT Vi
enna ; and the "always auguff” Em
peror of Germany, has found himfelf
I reduced to the pitiful necefficy of ask
ing a fobfid, from the fubfichzer of
Prussia. The request has been com
plied with on the parts of England
and Holland, and two millions of the
hard earning^ of the fubjeM of the
State# General, and of George the 111. I
are to be paid to one hundred thou-1
fahd Auftriaas, to animate them toI
difeharge their duty. This force, $1
long passive, it is said will now take
an aftive offenfive part in the war,
and the attack upon Treves (an an-
Idart and important city of Germany,
lately taken by the French) is to be a
specimen of their future exertions,
The force of this power, now in armt,
are laid to be near 200,000.
While thus engaged with the Re
publicans on one fide, the defence of
I Sardinia, and engagements with the
• King of Pruflia, to assist him in the
:rediffibnof Poland, call for large di
:vifions of these forces, and weaken
much their operations. Add to this,
;ihat " all is not well" in the interior I
.parts of the Empire. A coofpiracy|
I of an alarming nature has lately beenl
difeovered in Vienna, and in several
of the Circles, and many chiefs have
been apprehended and committed
to prifan. The extent of the difaf
feaion is not affertaioed, and Old
Katmtite, the Prime Millifter, has ex
pressed his opinion, that rhe Empire
has not''been in so critical a fituatibn
for some centuries past. The num
ber of conlpirators apprehended, are
said to be 300, the chief of whom'
the law will strike. The Emperor,
it is feid, will relume bis command of
the army in the Low Countries. He
has declared the giernment of he
Netherlands dijfolved^
Oj Pruffia.,^
We have already taken a view of
the cooduft of Frederick William in
the affairs of Poland. Since then we
learn, that the Poles have u flown to
arm>" in numbers not contemplated
by their usurpers, and the effect has
been, the railing of the siege of War
-4H by the Prussians. , fcver the
charged ro a
;ainft France,
:e its jokran
it the combi
eto„by Ecg
o preserve to
tetetots_tet__^^
furling, for which Prussia wairto fur
fflh sixty. odd thousand troop/,, .tat
notwkhftanding the money has been
paid, the Prussian Monarch has thew'
it expedient to decline fulfilling his
part of the bargain, and we have not
ieen any account of a Prussian being
in the vicinity of the French lines.
IWhat Addison fa of mank444, ap
plies with peculiar force to the pref-
| ent Monarchs of Europe, whose ap
!parent triendfhips '> are confederacies
; io vice, and leagues of treachery." In
ithe interior of Pruffis, all is tranquil.
I _-~=t,
;The United Netherlands,
J are on the point es losing all that im
, menfe wealth, which, for centuries,
they have explored every element to
accumulate. A very formidable army
^ was on their frontier at the date of our
,accounts, whose General, it appears,
[meditated an entire corqueft of Hol
j land. No force (efficient to oppose
; the defiga of the French has been as
sembled. , The keys of %he United
; Provinces are said to have fallen al
§ ready, and Breda and Sois-le-duc add
ledI ed to the conquest heretofore announ-
| ced. Os this lift particular we are
I not certain. What it certain, is, that
even at Amflerdam little hope re=
mained of escaping subjugation. The
most opulent merchants were remov
inglßufineG i was deranged, if not
entirely at a Hand, and the patriotism
which had been smothered for feme
time, by the afeendency of the Orange
party, was burning forth with redoub
led energy. However, in order to
retard the conquest of the country,
the Dutch battalions were rapidly re
cruiting, and a referable navy was
manned and ready for sea. The En
glish army, under the Duke ,of York,
amounting to about 40,000 men, ap
; pears to be the only barrier the Dutch
Ihave any reliance on ; for of the ar-
Imy of the Prince of Orange we hear
but little. „ numbers we have not
ascertained ; but as they do not at
tempt any resistance, we conclude they
are but few. Wh,t there is of them,
when engaged, fight well, although
they cannot resist the intrepid enthty
fiafm of the Republican ariWants.—
And the Duke of York has lately met
with two severe defeats.
Os the French Republic.
Before we carry our readers to the
exgenfive frontiers of France, and
mark the progress of her teelve to
dred tboufand men in arms, we shall
take a view of foer internal Police rind
Government. The liberal world has
been.pained, at the a^moft innumetar
ble facrifices, which in the course of 4 x
years have been made to the inexoft
ble idol of Robefpiecre, the Guillotine. ;
They could not perceive the joftice
of that policy which required the im
mo^ion of so many ftate(men, phi
lofqphen, civilians artifa, mechanics,
hufandmeri, and women ; and while
their hearts applauded the principles
of the Revolution, their tongues wer6
ofed to,^ the fangfor, ,
*Thfiul
cinmern, ano giounaia, x^icy, 1
however ennfoted themselves that
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be thanked, ghiMimfitaafoed.,,
rev@ttynfo favour of H^Mmry,hM
been effe&4, a °d R^be^ve is to
more! Since his hit, this cremen
^6w machine has been fqt^s% and
" justice to all degrees a^ Additions
of citizens,' has been the ^derpf
the day. ,4° evidence ofghi,, is to
te fou^ia ^ unwimpi^ ^cquiu&t
of the seven members of the commit
tees of general and public fafety, who
were denounced by one of & most
eloquent members of the Convention,
who had matured his 26ffiw@% and
who had been promised the fuppoit
of §M denouncer of Robefpiecre. —
Had one of these charges been m^de
in the days of the tyrant, by one of
hit fatdlites, it were (efficient .to effect
an immediate decollation of th; accus
ed. The proofs of this are to be found
in almost every page of the hiftory of
;tbe revolution for two years. The
National Reprelentatives now dfa/f
principles : :In the tyrant'# days, the
committee# reported, and the decrees
paged. Eten Lecointre, who denoun
ce the seven members, though in
culpated, has beep suspended from hit
funaions. A new organization of the
Executive has taken place ; and the
era is filled the firft year of Modera
tifm. To mark the temper of the
times in France, we have extracted
from #he proceedings of the National
CoAVention, of Aug. 26,the follow
lowing particulars. They better er
plain the nature of the Revolution,
than any (ketch we can possibly offer.
“ Liberty of the Press.
, Freron inquired liberty to (peak
on a motion of order. The principal
object on which Freron endeavoured
to concentre the attention of rhe con
vention, were the guarantee of liberty
to the Republic,- and of perfect free
dom of Speech to the national repre-
Tentative#. He afterted that the lib
erty of the press, and a police pure &
vigilant, were the means which meft
conduce to the permanent prosperity
of the people.
" Freron entered firft into a view
of the difference between the features
of the last revolution, and the three
others that preceded it. The firft re
volution annihilated the Ariftocracy'
and rhe Hierarchy. The constituent
assembly decreed that the People
should be free, but they did not pact
fire such meafurea as were necessary to
carry the decree into execution. The
10th of August created the Republic,
but Liberty was not decreed. Fede
ralism raising her hideous head, stretch
ed her arms over all France : She was
destroyed on the gift of May, by the
Mountain, who proclaimed the dog
ma of Indivisibility. In these three
revolutions we had to combat enemies
who fought in fe.Qret— An enemy who
is known is half conquered.
“ Freron then took into view the
bloody foof Robefpterre; >
“ After bearing tor five years the
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