The Mirrour — Concord, N.H., 1793-06-10 00:00:00, page 4

March 3 1. Melinet, read a
Letter, stating, that from Ingrand
to- Maurc, the left Bank ot the
Loire was covered with Insurgents,
who, to the Number of 3000, had
entrenched themselves with 36
Pounders, and had ereded Batte
ries. They had, however, been
attacked—two hundred of them
were killed, and 300 who had been
made Prisoners, were massacred by
ithe Patriots. After this the In
surgents returned in much great
er Force, and took 85 patriots
Prifoners.' The Letter added, that
it was much to be applbheqded
that the English would take ad
vantage of these Disorders, for the
Rebels who were commanded by
experienced Chiefs, were continu
ally shouting out, Vivent les Anglois.
A deputation from the Munici
pality of Paris, request freely justice
on General Dumourier, and all
those, who like him, wished to les
sen the national authority. “In
vain," said they, " are attempts
made to calumniate our generous de
fenders, the soldiers who compose the
arm, of which he is the head. Give,
Legislators, to that army a chief
worthy of it—a plebian chief, who
has never breathed the infeflioUs air
of courts—let the beads of all, the
guilt, roll at, the bottom of the fcaf
fold."
Marat denounced the three
hundred Deputies who had joined
to form a Committee of Publick
Safety, as conspirators, who were
entirely under the influence of
Brissot, Gaudet and Vernio.
La Source replied, that Ma
rat was an impostor.
Cambacebes, in the name of
the Committee of Publick Safety,
read a letter of Dumourier to the
National Convention, of the 12th,
and another of the 28th of March,
addressed to Burnonville, in which
he gave an account of the retreat of
the body of the army under the com
mand of Generals Neiully and Fer
rand, who, by the desertion of a
great number of volunteers, were
obliged to evacuate the city of Mons,
during the night of the capitula
tion of Gen. Maraffe, fflaty
commander of Antwerp vino by
that method, though not. the most
honourable, yet indifpenfibly nec
effary,faved a body of 10,000 men.
In these letters, Dumourier def
cribesthe army as in the greatest
disorder and not having provisions
for more that ten days : He fays,
that the pretended fuccours of men,
from the departments of the North,
canfift only of old men and chil
dren, who, so far from being ofe
ful, serve only to increase the con
fufion and consume the provisions.
He declares, that if order and dis
cipline, be not restored —that if fif
ty authorities, each more absurd
than the other; continue to dire&
all political and military operations,
France is loft ; he, declares that
he, with a small number ot brave
Necessity of his presence at the
War Office ; 2d. The bad State
of his Health. The Committee
replied, that his Health would al
low him to take a Journey of sev
en or eight Days to save his Coun
try from Danger ; and that his
Assistants would attend to the Bu
siness of the War Office.
MONDAY, APRIL I.
Arriv'd at Valenciennes, they learn
ed that Gen. Dumourier was at
Tournay.
They repaired there, and found
him with Madame Sillery, with
Pamela, Egalitl, and Valence. He
was surrounded with deputations
from thediftrid of Cambria. The
interview was violent. DumoU
rier expressed himfelf in terms of
invedive against the Jacobins.
" They will ruin France." said he:
But I will save it—tbougb they should
call me a Czfar, a Cromwell, a
Monk." The Commissioners car
ried the conversation no further.
They departed, and returned the
next day, determined to dissemble,
in order the better to discover the
extent of his views. Encouraged
by their overtures, Dumourier no
longer kept any bounds; He said,
that the Convention was a herd of
ruffians, whom he all, equally held
in abhorrence. That all the vol
unteer! were poltroons—but all
their efforts would be in vain.
" As for the rest," added he, " there
fill remains a part, —the Jacobins
have only to cover with their bodies
the survivors of the Royal Family,
and to dismiss the Convention. If
the ^ueen and her children are
threatened, I will march to Paris •,
it is m) fixed intention ; aud the
Convention will not exif three weeks
longer." The Comtniffioners ask
ed him, by what means he would
re-place the Convention ? His an
swer was, 'The means are already
formed.
^ And from what quarter would
you take him ? "Os what conse
quence is it whether it be a James,
a Louis, or a Phillip ? said Paoli.
A. It is a new outrage of the Ja
cobins to call me of the Orlean
party;
• g How would you contrive to
cause your King to be accepted ?\
A. , have (long with me all the
Presidents of 'diftrifts; besides, I
am busied to restore PEACE to
France ; I have already entered in
to a negociation with the Prince of
Cobourg for an exchange of pris
oners ; & for the purpose of with
drawing from Holland those battal
ions who are on the point of being
cut off.
,^. But your negociations with
Cobourg, and the peace which you
wish to procure to France, will not
have the effeft to metamorphose
Republicans into Royalifti!
4. No matter. Must I again tell
you? I will be at Paris in three
^Do not you with to have the
Constitution?
men, would bury themselves under
the ruins of their country. Du
mourier concludes this melancholy
representation of the state of affairs
by faying, I have always affirmed,
and I repeat, that a republick can
only be founded on virtue, and
that freedom can be maintained
only by order and wisdom.
Cambaceres, after having read
these letters of Dumourier, gave
an account of the proceedings of
the Commissioners of the Execu
tive Power.
A. It is a foolifh Conftituton :
I expeded better from Condorcet;
the former, with all its imperfect
ions, was preferable.
Do you wish to have a King?
A, We must have one.
^ Do you think we ought to
abandon the French territory to
the Enemy ? How would you in
ftal your King ?.
^ But may not you, perhaps,
be flopped in your proje&s ?
A. I despise the Convention ,
it will soon be reduced to the Bail
iwick of Paris. Besides, my Horse
will soon carry me among the Aus
trians.— They esteem me ; and I
shall be received by them.
Duboifton then proposed to
communicate to him a plan of a
counter-Revolution.
A. It is not praCticable. Mine
is better. I mean to invade Bel.
gium, of which I will make the
conquest for myfelf, and of which
I will render myfelf Chief, under
the proteaion of the House of
Austria !
Here terminated the interview
of the Commissioners. They quit
ted Tourney on the fame evening,
on their return to Paris.
A member announced,ihat sev
eral committees had fat all night
to extract the different plans ol
Constitutions sent by the depart
ments.
Marat said, it would be time
enough to think of the Constitu
tion, when Dumourier and the
other felf-chofen Statrfmen should
be known and punished./
A. My army, if I choose, shall
be an army of Mamelukes. With
12,000 men I will take Paris, or
compel it to surrender by famine.
. Biroteau moved, that without
regard to the national reprefenta
tion and the inviolability of mem
bers, every member fufpeaed of
conspiracy against the publick fafe
ty, should be put under arrest
This .was adopted unanimously.
Cambaceres, after reading Gen.
Dumouriet'a letters, and giving an
account of the conversation which
passed between him and the com
missioners at Tournay, concluded
the reports made by him, in the
name of the committee of publick
fafety, by observing that there was
a grand conspiracy, of which Du
mourier was the principal agents
and that several persons attached
.to the house of Philip d'Orleans,
commonly called Egalite, were ve
hemently fufpeaed of being con.
cerned in it. He announced as a
taeafure of fafety, that all those
supposed to be conneded with Or
leans, or to with for royalty, ought
to be apprehended. Philip Egal
ite himfelf and Sillery would have
been apprehended but from refped
to the national representation, of
which they were members. Being
brought before the committee,
they both answered, that they wou'd
confider it as their duty to fobmit
to whatever precautions the pub
lick liberty might require, and in
voke the most scrupulous examina
tion of their conduct.
Several members wished to speak
on the conduct of Dumourier, but
it was observed, that it would be
better to wait until his arrival.—
Danton,however,entered into some
weeks! and I will then beable to
prevent them from going on with
their projects of liberty and a re
publick. Since the battle of Jenap
pe, I have wept over my success in
so bad a cause. France muff have
a King.
explanations of his own conduct,
and expressed his indignation at
the treachery of Dumourier.
Lafource said, that Danton a
bandoned Dumourier only because
he saw his perfidy unmasked. The
precipitate journies of Danton ; his
refufal to appear in the committee;
his efforts to raise the people in a
body ; and the immense sums he
had spent without producing any
account, proved clearly that he
was in concert with Dumourier.—
He moved, that Sillery and Egal
ite should be put under arrest; that
a commission should be formed to
examine the conduct of the com
missioners of Belgium ; that the
minute addressed by Dubiffon, Pa
(iryrae, and Paoli, should be print
ed and sent to the army, and that
an address should be prepared to
explain to the French people the
misfortunes of their country.
prefled by the aristocracy. It is
meant to murder them, by making the
people believe that they have been
tampering in Dumourier's plot. [He
was interrupted by a vehement agi
tation of the Convention, and after
wards proceeded] —You reproach me,
you who Jit on the Mountain, with
not exerting all the energy of cbar
aaer which nature hath beflcwed upon me.
You accuse me of weakrejs. Very well ! /
confefs my error,&. proclaim before all France,
that those who through weakness or Jlupidity
meant to withdraw the tyrant from thejword
of the law, are the fame men who indulge i*
the insolent praaice of calumny. J am reproach
ed with not repairing to the committee at the
moment of my ret urn from Belgium. How could
I? overpowered with fatigue, after puffing
several nights without rest, was it not natural
toyield to this firjl call ? Scarcely had I obtain
ed a few hours of repose, when 1 repaired to
the committee, and I call to witness all who
were present, what were my firft words, 'Du
mourier muff be watched. —He is a traitor.—
He hasfaid that, the convention conffs of geo
fools, led by 400 ruffians.'
" But Dumourier wiJbes for a
King, and Danton is fujpeHed of
having been his partner in bis auda
cious, ibis criminal idea. Danton,
who, if Imay fay so, led the tyrant
to the fcaffold. But let as cease to
impute to innocence a crime of which
those only who had the wickedness to
keep terms with Louis can alone be
reasonably fufpeaed.—Thefe ,wbo
wished to punijb the civifm of Paris,
by arming the departments againff it
—Those who at clandefline [uppers
concerted plans of conspiracy with
him. I defy the traitor to produce
a Jingle ' line of mine that can com
promise me with him. If be can, let
my bead pay the forfeit." He con
concluded with a proportion to lev,
fifty tboufaod men for the protection
of Paris ; and that the commission
above decreed foould take cognizance
of all the deputies face the opening
of the Convention, and of all publica»
lions against the unity of the Repub
lick, ^^ 1 !
CONCQRD,
JUNE §. Notwithfanding the Intelli
gence contained in the firft and fourth Page of
this Paper, appeared in a Mirrour, extra, on
Wednesday last, its consequence claims a general
circulation; ^e therefore insert it this day,
that ourfriends may all fare alike.
Boiteau denounced Fabre d'E--
glantine as having proposed the
re-establishment of royalty.
Delmas moved, that these de
hunciapons, which at the prefenc
moment might ruin the publick li
berty, be referred tothe commission
proposed by Lafource. Decreed.
Danton—" the patriots are op-