The Mirrour — Concord, N.H., 1794-09-08 00:00:00, page 2

corruption and the Inexperience' of the in
fancy of our Revolution, fcarcely'permiued
us to tonuder as poftible. I have seen an
Assembly invested with the power of the
French nation, marching with a rapid and
firm step to the gaol of public happiness, de
voted to the faufe of the people, and to the
triumph of equality ; worthy to give to the
^ whole world the signal of liberty, and to af
ford an exampleof all virtues.,
" Complete, Citizens, complete your sub
lime purpose : you have placed us as the ad
vanced guard to sustain the firft attack of the
enemies of human nature —We will render
. ourselves worthy ofithis honour—We will
mark with our blood the road that (hall lead
you to immortality : May you always em
ploy that unalterable energy, which is so ne
cessary, to strangle the monsters of the Uni
verse conspired against yeu ; and may you at
last enjoy in peace the blessings of your coun
trymen and the well earned rewards of your
virtues 1”
8 Praireal, Wednejday May 27.
A letter was read from a popular society,
announcing the difeovery of 600 marks of
. fiber in a cave, belonging to an emigrant.
A decree was passed, by which a month's
fuccour was granted to the citizens of the
countries conquered by the enemy, and to
such as have been sent into the interior from
besieged places. This decree, however, con
tained a pfovifion, by which persons of the
latter description were only to be entitled to
the benefit of the decree, on condition that
they were good patriots and without for
tunes.
A report of the situation of Geoffroi, who
had been wounded by the assassin of Collot
d'Herbois, was read, after which the Con
vention—decreed, iff. That Geoffroi should
receive a pension of 1,500 livres; 2d. That
l a daily account of Geoffroi's situation should
■ be presented to the Convention ; and 3d.
That the examination of the assassin Adme
ral and the sentence passed by the Revolu
tionary Tribunal, Should be printed and
translated into all Idhguages.
/ '' —=m_
REVOLUTIONARY TRIBUNAL.
8 PRAIREAL 27 MAY.
Admerel being placed at the bar of the
Revolutionary Tribunal, was questioned as
to his name, age, quality, and profelfion.
He replied, that his name was Henry Ad
mere l, and that he was fifty years of age ;
that he left the place of his bir/n at the age
oftwenty-fix, that he had lived with several
persons and had been employed in the royal
tottery.
President of the Revolutionary Tribu
nal. What masters did you serve ?
Bertin the Minister, the Abbe,his broth
er, and the female Belleflie, his sister, emi
grants.
Pres, Were you not employed by the
Tyrant at the Thuilleries with the grena
diers,
I was there every time the general was
beat.
Pres. Where were you on the roth of
* August ?
At the Thuilleries, with the battalion of
the Pilles St. Thomas, and I considered it as
my duty to obey Taffin's orders.
Pres. By whom were you appointed to a
fi ua ion in the lottery ?
By M. de Mauzy,Chamberlain to the Em
peror, whom I saw for the Gift time in Odo
ber 1789.
Pres. Whom did you keep company, with
at Paris, and have you not seen Anjubeau ?
I was intimate with no person ; I was ac
quainted with those who used to be at the
coffeehouses. I did fee Anjubeau; I pre
dicted to him that I Should Toon die, and said
to him that I Should die as a man.
Pres. How long ago did you fee Anju
beau ? On the day of my arrest.
Pres. What arms did you carry, and how
long did you carry them ?
A firelock given me feme time ago by the
Captain of my company. I had also a pair
of pistols, which I bought of a hawker in the
Oreet des Petits Champs. The President
obferved/that hawkers never fold pistols.-
Admerel made no reply to this observation.
• Pres. Why did you purchafethefe pistols?
To execute a project which I had formed,
Pres. What was this projed? To assas
sinate Roberfpierre and Collot D'Herbois.
Pr es. What attempts did you make to
assassinate them?
For three days I fought an opportunity of
assassinating Roberfpietre. Yesterday morn
ing I went tothe Rue St. Honore, near Rob
erfpierre's house, and asked a fruiterer at
what hour Roberfpierre went to the commit
tee. The fruiterer direded me to the end of
a court, which I went into, and met a female
and a volunteer with his arm in a fling.
They told me that Roberfpierre was busy.
I then went ^0 the Committee of Publick
Safety, and waited at the door for some time,
I afterwards breakfafted on the Terrace des
Feuillans, where 1 proceeded to the Con
vention.
At the end of the fitting I retired under
the porch which leads from the Hall of the
tonvention to the place where the Commit
tee ^^^^ t ff^,^
ing for Roberfpierre, and of difeharging a
pistol at him. I saw several deputies pass
whole names I asked. Not perceiving, how
ever, Roberfpierre among them, I went to
sup at Duffil's.
I afterwards went home to my lodgings,
/ at No. 4, in the Rue Favait, and formed the
resolution of assassinating Collet D'Herbois.
{I waited for him, and hearing him knock at
the door at one o'clock in the morning, and
feeing Collet's housekeeper open the door, I
snatched up my pistols, and throwing myfelf
upon Collef, snapped both of them at him,
but they miffed fire. I was afterwards tofd
that one of them went off, but of this I have
no recollection. I then returned to my own
room with an indention of putting an end to
my own existence, but having failed in this
attempt, I heard the watch called, and per
sons coming up flairs. I called out that I
would murder thefirft who entered. I was
however secured, and conduded to the Corps
de Garde.
Pres. Why did you with to assassinate
Collet D'Herbois ?
Because T was urged thereto by my con
science, I repent that I failed in the execution
of my design. It would, indeed, have been
a brilliant exploit if I had succeeded, for I
should thereby have saved the Republic, and
have excited the wonder and regret of all
Frapce. /
Pr. Whence did you derive those resourc
es that enabled you to enter into expences,
which your situation did not'feem to afford ?
From ©economy and sale of my effects.
Pres.' Did you not wound a citizen ?
On returning to my room, I loaded my
arms, opened, shut, and opened my door a
gain, and difeharged my firelock on the firft
person who approached.
Admerel having declared that the above
-examination was ihidly true,.figned it.'
'MUNICIPALITY 9 f PARlß.—}v UE 9.
After a (hort difeuflioo on the in
utility of the armed force, at the feafts
celebrated on the decade#, the Coun
cil General resolved, that for the fu
ture there should be no armed force
at public fetes, nor in places where
the people affembled 4 That there
should only be a simple guard of vi
gilance in the interior of Paris, for
the purpose of checking .the opera
tions of the difaffeded, who attempt
to destroy the harmony and the gen
eral joy of all good citizens.
PARIS, June 9.
-Grand Feftiial, dedicated to the
SUPREME BEING.
On the ißch irift. (Decadi 20th
Prairial) at five in the morning, a
general fummuos was made through
out Paris.
By this summons, all male and fe
male citizens were invited instantly
to decorate their hoofed with the
cherished colours of liberty, either by
displaying new flags, or embellishing
their old ones with glands of flow
ers and greens. They then repaired
to the principal rendezvous of their
refpe&ive feetions, there to wait the
signal for setting our. , ,
The men were all without arms, if
we except the youth# of from 14 to
18 years of age, who were provided
either with (words and fufils, or with
pikes.
In each (edion these youths form
ed a square battalion, marching 12
in front ; and in the midst of them
were placed the streamers and flags of
the armed force of the fedion, car
ried by those to whom they ufudly
entrusted..
- Each adult citizen and each youth
held in his hand an oak branch ;
while the matrons and young girls,
arrayed in the colours of Liberty,
held in theirs, the former bouquets of
roses, and the latter baskets of flowers
To occupy the mountain, elevated
in the field of La Re-uoioQ each fec
tioo feleded 10 old men ; 10 mat
rons ; 10 young girls, their age be
fetyeen 15 and 20 years ; 10 youths,
their age between 15 and 18 years ;
and 10 male infants, their age below
8 years. The ten matrons, feleded
by each fedtion, were clad in white,
and carried a scars of tri-coloured rib
to, textending to the left fide from
the right shoulder. The ten young
girls were also in white, and with sim
ilar fcarfi ; their hair was interwoven
with flowers The ten youths were
harmed with fibres. By each fedion
I a commissioner was appointed, to lead
to the (pot fixed on for that purpose,
the fifty persons, felefted by the fac
tion to be Rationed on the mountain;
and to each of them, as well as to the
commissioner, was delivered a card,
which was worn in a co^fpicuous
way. All the inhabitants of Paris,
4 were provided with branches of oak,
bouquets, garlands, and baskets of
flowers, and were ornamented with
the colours of Liberty.
;When the proceffian reached the
national garden, a depuration announ
ced to the convention that, every pre,
paragon was made to celebrate the
feftival of the Divinity.
The convention, preceded by large
bands of music, then repaired to the
pavillion of unity, and placed them
selves on a superb amphitt&te,
when the president afeended the tri
bunal, and displayed to the people
the motives of this fotemn feftival,
inviting them to honor the great Au
thor of nature. - During the perform
ance of a symphony, the president,
armed with the torch' of truth, de
feended from the amphitheatre, and
approached a monument, .ereded in a
circular b»fih of ftene, representing
the monster of Atheism. From this
monument, fee fire to by the presi
dent, Wisdom fpracg up.
The president again addressed the
people • ,and at this moment a second
beat of drums announced the depart
ure for the field of La Re-union.
When arrived at the field of 14 Re
union, the musicians performed a
hymn to the Supreme Being, and af
terwards, a grand symphony. Seve
ral airs, composed for the 'occafion^
were fang, and a general discharge of
artillery made amidst the fhou^ of Vi
ve la Republique.
This concluded the ceremony ; and
the procession returned co Paris.
LONDON.
Eng/ijb Naval Victories.
Barrere Uys that the French fight
better fioce they have got rid of their
" virgin nobility." . To prove the
contrary, we just mention, that Ad
miral" Hawke, in 1759, took one ship
of the line, fupk two, burnt two oth
ers, and disabled a third so much that
the afterwards funk, making 456 guns.
Admiral Rodney, in 17821 took §fr
fail of the line, blew up one, and funk
another, io all 598 guns. Whereas
Lord Howe, in 1794, has taken fix
Chips of the line, and funk two others,
making in all 604 guns. So chat if
the French do fight better, they lose
more. % #
French and Englifo Fleets.
In the late battle, the French fleet
confined pf 4 ships of 120 guns ; 10
of 84 ; 15 01 74 ; 2 of 56 ; 401 40;
lof 32 ;I of 28; and 2of 16—in
all 2783 guns. The English fleet
consisted of 3 ships of no guns ; 4
of 98; 2ofßo ; 17 of 74 ; 20f38;
4 of 32 ; 1 of 44 ; I of 28; and 2
of 14 guns—in all 2464 guns.
Domestic Articles.
PHILADELPHIA, AUG, 19. Captain
Eggar in<he fchponer Maria,, arrived
at the Fort, left St. Mark the 27th of
July, confirms the account of the
massacre at Fort Dauphin, and men
tions further, that a few days before
he failed from that place the Brigands^
had attacked the English fort, with
terrible impetuosity, and had been
engaged three days constantly. The
commander of the British troops had
two horses killed under him, and eve
ry man in the place was doing milita
ry duty, there being but about too
regular troops, and the Brigands up
wards of 6,000 strong. The colledor
at St. Mark told Cape. Eggar, that he
I did not think the British wcu'd be
ble to keep that;or any offierpc£ 01
the Islands, and tty in^ few d^ys an
embargo would be laid upon all the
vessels in port, tocarry off the inhab
itants who were preparing co leave the
place. Every thing in the Cuttom
houfe was already packed up. Many
of the American vessels were return
ing with their cargoes, finding it im
poffibl^ to leU.
From the Star, a London paper, of the
4^ of 7"% 1794
Os the number of British ships
Which, wi:hin these last fix months,
have been taken, by the French, it
would not be caff co give an accurate
lift ; but in that period, it may be re-
Hed on as a faft, tfc cur court of ad-
I miralty have not condemned more
than 10 French vetfels.
They write from Jeremie, that the
embargo brought those Hrants to their
feeling#, and had it continued, they
would have felt its effects more sen
sibly, for,he soldiers retefed to do any
du:y on account of short allowance,
and in alhot time they would have
eaten one another—that the British
are determined not to leave the ifhnd
for the most p^rt of them ere already
under ground, and graves are digging
for the rest as faft as possible—that the
mulattos have taken Fort Dauphin
and several other places, and will toon
have the whole i^nd.
•C.-T t^t, — li^«.
Political Summary.
FROM A PORTLAND PAPER, AUG. 2g.
<Zs@ iZ ILZ
The fcl'ouing account ^as received fy the brig
Harmony, arrived here cn Monday last in S 3 da^s
from Brrft, and from inch authority as may be de
pended ox —dated 'Jure 27, 1794.
Situation of the FORCES of the Republic of
France, both by land and sea.
THE army of Italy has,iff a over the Alps,form'
ed all the Sardinian fortifications, and taken them,
in vobicb were all kinds of warlike fares and ,ro
vifans, together nub a large number of prisoners.
O# the Pyrenees they have invaded Spain, from
each extremity cfs be mountain's. They have taken''
Collieure, Ypres, Nituport, and Port Vendre, and
a very largefeundery, with an immenje quantity
of metal for cuf/kg cannon a^d bullets.
About th middle of J.r.e, there was a decijhe
battle between the French and Spaniards; the lat
ter were entirely routed, after a dreadfulflaughter
—One corps de referee, of 7 coo men, laid down
their arms, and Jurrendered themselves prijoners
to the French Gen. Dugomier, who, after obtain
ing this victory, took bis way towards Barcelona.
The French were no lefsfuccefsful in Bifeay, the
weflern extremity of Spain. On the Rhine, the
Republicans are making continual progress, being
maflers of all the country in the neighbourhood of
Manheim, Spires and Mayeuce, threatening their
towns, and keeping the ewny fcatter^. In Flan
ders, they are masters of all the Weft, as far t\?
the river Scheldt, on which they fur, rized on the
ißtb June, a considerable convoy belonging to the
enemy, of which they destroyed what they could not
take along with them. They laid their head quar
ters at Courtray, and cover all the country from
Tournay to the environs of Ofend —which was
said to he taken & the „rt defrayed —6poo Auf
triage, it irfaid, were madeprifoners.
Asfoon as the French take possession of any con
quest, they seize upon all public property, which
they fend to Life as a referee to pay the expenses of
the war. They lay a heavy ranjom upon the weal
thy inhabitants, from kxbofe treachery they have
Jo severely faffered. The King of Prfya declared
las March, to the combined bowers, that be could ;[
not bear any longer the whole expense of bis forces,
in a war which wgs not personal to him. In can
fequence of which taking of England took 30,000
into pay on his own account, and Austria took the
like number into,ay. The King of Prussia left bis
army to repair to the Southern provinces, to pre
vent the „ogress of the Polijb revolution. This re
volution takes a favorable turn to the cause of
liberty. They have entirely routed the Ruffians,
and annihilated the Ruffian army in Poland. This
affair Was conducted with the greatest fareey b
when Poland appeared entirely calm and unmoved.
France bas been rather unjuccefsful in to fleet
by,a' ,bat fuccefsful in taking prizes,jo much so,
thattbe Fresh bports are absolutely fwarshing with ,
, them. European produce and goods of all kidds, as<
well as of the Evfl arid Weftindies, are exceffvel,
colhaed in the French ports —and orforeigner, to
view this aftoriilbingc&Rion ofall kinds of mer
chandize, &c. would think France the emporium
of the world. Aricb Ds^cb convey of z 6 mer
chantmen, and a frigate,ba©e arrived in French
ports. The engagement with the Englifhfleet bits
been dreadful to thl utmeft, oribotb f&s; the) fa
ther discovered fury than courage—The French
were 26, out tfvjbich 7 were aot engaged; the -
Montagnard leftibe fleet thfday 'before the hatth,
andjoined tbeCbeffoconvey. Th. &jh bad
v ^.ftufo.f.^i<b^,,^k, ra -