The Mirrour — Concord, N.H., 1793-06-05 00:00:00, page 2

on General Dumourier, and all
those, who like him, wished to les
sen the national authority. "In
vain," laid they, " are attempts
it was much to be apprehended
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 Anglo is.
• A deputation from the Munici
pality of Paris, request freely justice
Necefficy of his presence at the
. War Office ; 2d. The bad State
of his Health. The Committee
MONDAY, APRIL I.
-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, weie
obliged to evacuate the city of Mons,
during the night of the capitula
tion of Gen. Maraffe, military
commander of Antwerp, who by
that method, though not the most
honourable, yet indifpenfibly nec
essary, fayed a body of 10,000 men.
In these letters, Dumourier des
cribes the 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,
consist only of old men and chil
dren, who, so far from being ufe
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
ipthe other, continue to direst
and military operations,
loft ; he, declares that
Wah i small number of brave
entrenched themselves with 36
'Founders, and had erefted Batte
ries. They had, however, been
-attacked —two hundred of them
were killed, and 300 who had been
made Prisoners, were massacred by
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 /be infeaious air
of courts —let the beads of all the
guilty roll at tbe bottom of the fcaf
fold."
the Patriots. After thia the In
surgents returned in much great
er Force, and took 85 patriots
Prisoners. The Letter added, tha
en or eight Days to save his Coun
try from Danger ; and that his
Assistants would attend to the Btf
finefs of the War Office.
Match 31. Melinet, read rt
Letter, stating, that from Ingrand
to Mauro, the left Bank ot the
Loire was covered with Insurgents,
who, to the Number of 3000, had
replied, that his Health would al
low him to take a Journey of fev-
Arriv'd at Falencienu,,the, learn
ed that Gen. Dumourier was at
Tournay.
They repaired there, and found
him with Madame Sillery, with
Pamela, Egalite,and Valence. He
was surrounded. with deputations
from the diftrid of Cambria. The
interview was violent, Dumou
rier expressed himfelf in terms of
invedive against the Jacobins.
" They will rain France," said he :
But I will save it—though they foould
call me a Cesar, 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 difeover 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 yol
unteers were poltroons —but all
their efforts would be in yaib.
As for the rest," added he, ''there
i ftill remains a party— the Jacobins
have only to cover with their bodies
the farvivors of the Royal Family,
and to dismiss the Convention. If
the Queen and her children are
threatened, I will march to Paris ;
it is my fixed intention ; and the
Convention will not exist three weeks
longer." The Commissioners ask
ed him, by what means he would
re-place the Convention ? Hi, an
swer was, The means are already
formed.
^ Do not you with to have the
Constitution ?
A. It is a foolifh Conftituton :
I expected better from Condorcet ;
the former, with all its imperfed
ions, was preferable.
Q Do you with to havea King?
A, We most have one.
Q And from what quarter would
you take him ? 66 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. I have along 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 prif
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 Royalists!
A. No matter. Must I again tell
you I I will be at Paris in three
men, would bury themfelvei 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 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 protection of the House ot
Austria!
Here terminated the interview
of the Commissioners. They quit
ted Tourney on the fame evening,
on their return to Paris.
A member announced, that sev
eral committees 'had fat all night
to extrad the different plans of
Constitutions sent by the depart
ments.
Marat laid, it would be time
enough to think of the Constitu
tion, when Dumourier and the
other felt-chofen statesmen Should
be known and punished.
Biroteau moved, that without
regard to the national reprefenta
tionand the inviolability of mem
bers, every member fufpeded of
conspiracy against the publick fafe
ty, Ihould be put under ageft,
This was adopted unanimously.
Cambaceres, after reading Gen.
Dumouriet's letters, and giving an
account of the conyerfation 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 agent,
and that several performs attached
to the house of Philip d'Orleans,
commonly called Egalite, were ve
hemently fufpeded of being con
cerned in it. He announced as a
measure of fafety, that all those
supposed to be conne&ed with Or
leans, or co wish for royalty, ought
to be apprehended. Philip Egal
ite himfelf and Sillery would have
been apprehended but from refped
to the national reprefentatiOn, of
which they were members. Being
brought before the committee,
they bothanfwered, that they wou'd
confider it as their duty to submit
to whatever precautions the pub
lick liberty might require, and in
voke the most scrupulous examina
tion of their conduct.„
A. My army, if I choose, shall
be an army of Mamelukes. With
12,000 men I will take Paris, 01
compel it to surrender by famine. .
^ But may not you, perhaps,
be stopped 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 1
shall be received by them.
Dubpifton then proposed to
communicate to him a plan of a
counter-Revolution.
Veeks! and I will then be able 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 must have
a King.
^ Do you think we ought to
abandon the French territory to
the Enemy ? How would you in
ftal your King ?
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,ho wever,entered into tome
explanation! of his own conduct,
ind expreffi d his indignation at
the treachery of Dumourier.
Lafource laid, that Danton a
bandoned Dijmourier only becaute
he saw his perfidy unmasked. The
precipitate journies of Danton ; bis
tefufal to appear in the committee;
his efforts to raise the people io a
body ; and the immense sums he
had (pent 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
firyrae, and Paoli, should be print
ed and sent to the army, and that
an address fhoulcl be prepared to
explain to the French people the
misfortunes of their country.
wards proceeded] —Ton reproac h me,
,ou whofa on the Mountain, with
not exerting all the energy of ,tbar
aßer which nature hath befewed upon me.
You accuse me of weaknejs. Very w c ll ! I ,
confess my error,&proclaim before all F rance,
that those who through weakness or fluidity :
meant to withdraw the tyrant from the fworsl"
of the law, are the fame men who indulge in
the inJolent praaice of calumny. I cm re,reach
ed with not repairing to the commits e at the
moment of my return from Belgium. Hew could 1
I? overpowered with fatigue, after pffrg
federal nights without rtf, was it rM^htura,
to yield to thisfrf call? Scarcely bad f obtain
ed a few hours of repose, when 1 repaired to
the committee, and I call to witnejs ail who ,
were ferefent,what were m,frf words, 'Du- I
mourier mufl be watched.—Fie is a traitor.—
He has saidf aid that the convention confift s ?f 300
fools, led by 4.00 ruffians.'
" But Dumourier wiJbes for a
King, and Danton if fu/peAed of
having been his partner in his auda
cious, this criminal idea. DantoQ
who, if Ima, fa, so, led Ibe tyrant
to the fcaffold. But let as cease to
impute to innocence a crime of which
those only who bad the wickedness to
keep terms with Louis can alone be
reafonabl, JaJpeaed.—Tboft who
wished to pu,ijb tbe civifm of Paris,
b, arming the departments again& it ,
-r-Those who at clandestine [uppers
concerted plans' of con/piracy with
bim. I defy the traitor to produce ,
4 Jingle line of mine that can com- \
promise me with him. If be can, let j
my bead pa, the forfeit." He con
concluded with a proportion to lev, I
fifty tbonfaod men for the proteaion ]
of Paris ; and that the commission
above decreed fbould take cognizance
of all the deputies face the opening
of the Convention, and of all publica-^
lions against the unit, of the Repub-*
lick, &c. &c. l
CONCORD,'I
WEDNESDAY MORNING, 10 o'Cl.§
• Lust Evening, bis Excellency Erefdent
Bartlett, arrived in Town ; ftorted $
by a Number of the Members if the Hon. Gen,
Court, and the rejpeaable citizens of the town,
who met bis Excellency at Pembroke.
This day, the General Court are to c^vere.ft
Boiteau denounced Fabre d'E-'
glantine as having propoled the
re-establishment of royalty.
Delmas moved, that these de
nunciations, which at the pielent
moment might ruin the publick li
berty, be referred to the commiflion
proposed by Lafource. Decreed.
Danton—" the patriots are op
prefled by the aristocracy. It is
meant to murder them, b, making the
people believe that the, have been
tampering in Dumourier's plot. [He \
was interrupted by a vehement agi
tation of the Convention, and after-