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CONCORD, (NEWHAMPSKIRE,) PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY ELIJAH RUSSELL AND MOSES DAVIS. ^ ,
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FromaLondon paper, Aug. 19.
The Fall of Roberfpierre.
1° HIS event, which for several days has en
gaged so much of the public attention, can
not be clearly understood from the details
that have been given in any of the newspa
pers. We think we can bring the important
circumstances more, clearly into view in the
way of Narrative.
It has been generally supposed that the
contest was between the Convention and the
Committee of Public Safety, of which Rob
erfpierre was the sole dire&or,the other mem
bers being only his instruments ; and that
Barrere, with some other members of the
Committee, saved themselves by deserting
their leader in the hour of danger, and con
tributing to the vi&ory of his opponents.
From a careful perusal of the Moniteur, a
French paper, that contains the fulleft and
most authentic accounts of the debates of the
Convention and the Jacobin Clubs, &c &c.
we are enabled to Rate—
That the contest was between Roberfpier
re and the committee of Public and General
Safety
That Roberfpierre, in concert with Saint
Just and Couthon, all three members of the
Committee cf Public Safety, had formed a
plan to seize into his own hands the whole
power delegated by the Convention to the
two Committees, and that having prepared
his means, he was the firft to begin the a't
tack.' \
For fix weeks he had absented himfelf
from the Committe of Public Safety ; that
. is, from the time he found that he could not
maketbe other members adopt whatever he
thought fit to propose. During that period,
both he and his agents were buly atthe Com
mune, at the Jacobin Club, and over all Pa
ris, in vilifying the two committees, and
hiding forth the neteffity of another revolu
tion, and a new purification of the Conven
tion, in other words a new proscription of
the members : Hence Barrere's cohfrant de
clamation in the Convention, whatever event
he had to announce, against the conspirators,
who were attempting to dissolve the ' Revolu
tionary Government, by attacking the Com
mittees of Public and General Safety.
On the 26th of July, Roberfpierre, think
ing himfelf secure of the Jacobin Club, the
, Mayor and Commune of Paris, and above all
of the armed force, the commander of which
was his creature, came down to the Conven
tion, and delivered a preparate speech, in
which be arraigned the condud of the Com
mittees of Public and General Safety, of the
Committee of Fidince, and the whole fyf
rem of the government.'•
- It was moved that this speech should be
printed and distributed.
Barrere, Bniaud-Varreones, Cambon, Va
idler, and dther members .of the Committee, ,
faio, they wished the speech th be printed,
for the people had a right to know the whole
truth, and when they had ir&d the charge
they should have an opportunity of reading
theanfwer. They told Roberfpierre, that if
he had thought fit to attend his duty an the
Committee of Public Safety, he would have
known that many of the allegations in his
speech were falfe ; that many things blamed
in it had Seen proposed by himfelf; that he
arraigned the system of Finance because it
had deprived persons whbm he thought fit
tp prote&of ^e means of making fortunes
at the public expence ; that he had often
proteaed men from punishment when they
were really guilty, and denounced the fame
men when they had committed nocrime but
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that of incurring his displeasure ; that the
Committee of Public Safety, when they k
came to a resolution contrary to his opinion,
had often found that, the execution of it was
rendered impossible by bis influence; that
municipal officers appointed by him had in
tercepted supplies of ammunition on their
way to the armies; that he had set spies up
on individual members of the Committee
of Public Safety^ and of the Convention ^
that he aimed at governing every thing;
an,d .that while he was intriguing with the
jacobins and the Commune, the men whom
he accused of intriguing were day and night
at the Committee of Public Safety, prepar
ing the viaories of the Republic. After a
long debate, the order for printing and dis
tributing Roberfpierre's speech, which had
been passed in the firft instance, was revoked.
On the 27th, St. Just came to the Con
vention with a speech to the fame purport
with that of Roberfpierre the day before ;
but as he began by stating that be spoke in
his own name, and not in the name of the
Committee of Public Safety, the Convention
[efufed to hear him. It was stated that the
tother members of the Committee of Public
Safety knew of this speech; that they had
remonstrated to St. Just upon it ; that he
had promised to submit it to their considera
tion, and cerred such errors as they might
point out ; and that now he came to deliver
it without having done either,
* Billaud Varennes and Tallien, denounced
Roberfpierre, who attempted to speak, but
the Convention refufed to hear him, and call
ed upon Barrere. 'Barrere, in the name of the
Committee of Public Safety,corroborated the
charge, and stated the measures taken for the
defence of the Convention.
Couthon, Roberfpierre the younger, and
Lebas,on their own motion, were successively
included in the decree of accusation and ar
rest, as was also St. Just. Roberfpierre him
felf, far from being dismayed at finding every
voice in the Convention raised against him
and bis four associates, in repeated attempts
to obtain a hearing, made use of the most
coarse and insulting expressions.
In the evening Roberfpierre, and all those
who had been arrested as his accomplices or
agents, ,were refeued. The Jacobins, the
Mayor, and Commune of Paris, declared in
his favour. The greatest part of the armed
force, especially the cannoneers, by the in
fluence of Hanriot, the commander in chief,
were induced in the firft instance to take the
fame fide. Merlin of Thionville, was taken
prisoner by Hanriot, as he was going to the
Convention, but released on Rating the case ;
to'the guard in whose custody he was left.
Other members were flopped by municipal
officers, and a plan seemed to have been form
ed to prevent their assembling. Hanriot, as
he was running about and calling to arms,
Was taken into custody, but soon after refcti
ed and carried off in triumph. The Com
mittee of General Safety was furrounded,and
the doors forced open, but the members hap
pened to be all in the Convention.
In the mean time the commune, to which
Roberfpierre and his associates had repaired,
were deposing and appointing public officers,
issuing others to the feaions, arresting thel
messengers of the Convention, and exercising
various other fundions of Sovereign power..
The department of Paris, and the forty eight
fedions, declared immediately for the Con
vention. The Committees of Public and
General Safety a&ed with promptitude and
vigour. The measures they proposed w<re
instantly fanaioned by the Convention, and
in a few hours the people every whefe pre
pared to defend their representatives. The
armed force Scion followed their example, ex- j
cept the cannoneers, who (urrounded the
commune. They remained undecided till'
some members of the Convention appeared
among them. Yet but a few hours before
Roberfpierre' was retaken, it was difficult tp'
fay whether he or the Convention would pre-1
vail. So confident were he and his party tit
the 'commute, of success, that they had be
gun to organize their new plan of govern
ment ; appointed a general of their army ; 1
produced a'feal of Rate, the imprefyn ?.@i
gle Flower de Lys ; and, as Was said by Bar-;
rere in his general report, had givetr orders :
for forcing the Temple, in order to get into)
their hands the unfortunate Son of she latel
King.
"At ttireeih themorning of the 28th July,!
as we have already stated, these imaginary ;
Sovereigns were prisoners, and in the even-|
ing of the fame day were executed.
The following are the names —The two
Roberfpjerres, Couthon, Lavalette, St. Just,
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L. Payan, Bernard, F. Hanriot, commander
of the armed force, L. F. Dumas, President
of the Revolutionary Tribunal, „. Vivier,
President of the Jacobin Club, Simon, the
Preceptor of the ci-devant Dauphin, N. A.
Gembeaux, Flenriat L'Efcot, Mayor of Pa
ris, Delauby, Warmer, Guennet, N. J. Gu
inn, Cochefor, Dourgon, and d'Hazard.
On the 29th, th- :municipal officers, 68 in
number, who had collected themselves hi the
hall of the commune, arid declared for Rob
)erfpierre, were executed ; as was also a dep
uty, who had been a commiffionef with-the ^
army, and was convicted of being accessory
to the plots of Roberfpierre. A general of
ficer was also guillotined at the fame time.
But few lives were loft, and theie chiefly
such as Shewed an inclination to refill, or who
did not heartily support the deputies of the
Convention, who were dispatched to the dif
ferent quarters of the capital, to fee the or
ders of the Convention carried into effect.
{The Debates in the National Ajembly, at the
moment R ^erjpierre was arrested, were free and
uncontrouled. We have extraded the following _
as the most interning. ]
Billaud Varennes —"You will Shudder
with honour, when you are apprized that
the armed force of Paris is entrusted into par
ricidal hands. Hanriot was denounced by
the Revolutionary Tribunal as an accomplice
of Herbert. What was the consequence ?
One man alone had the audacity to support
him. Need I name who that individual was ?
Roberfpierre. Lavalette, one of the chiefs of
the armed force, the only noble who has been
retained in a military trust, Sharpens the
poignards intended to inflict a fatal blow on
the representatives of the people. Under
whose auspices has he been protected ?—
Roberfpierre's. I might quote many more
proofs of the Tame audacity, on the part of
Roberfpierre, and of his infamous designs a
gainst liberty ; among others, I need only
mention that he has been the author of the
imprisonment of the members of the Revolu
tionary Committee of the feßion of indivifi
bUity—men of the most unsullied integrity,
and of the most diftinguilhed patriotifra. I
accuse him qf having withdrawn himfelf from
the Committee for these four last decades,
Since the decree with refpeft to the Revolu
tionary Tribunal, passed on the zzd Friarial
(June iq) which he alone devised, and which
was badly received.
Thus he intended to drive from the Con
vention every impure man ; that is to fay,
every person who did not please himfelf, or
whom he might fufped to be possessed of fuf
ficient discernment to deted, and integrity
to oppose, his ambitious views ; and as a
preparatory step to the establishing himfelf in
that Dictatorship which has so long been the
object of his wishes, he would have left none
in ;he Convention but his creatures and de
pendents, men as vile as himfelf, and ready
to forward all his detestable views. But his
designs were difeovered by the very means
which he took to carry them into execution.
From the fads which I have briefly Rated,
his intentions to corrupt the military, to en^
Slave and to degrade the representation, ap
pear plain and uncontrovertible. Are more
facts still necessary to substantiate the charges
against him ? I accuse him of havingfereen
,ed from justice a Secratary who had robbed
the public of 4.0,000 livres. —-Such is the
foundation on which ftarids his pretensions
to disinterestedness, which were only affirmed
to conceal the deep-laid projects of his ambi
tion, and to deceive those whom he after
wards meant to enflare. I accuse him of be-,
ing surrounded by a band of ruffians, among
whom, it is only necessary to mention the in
famous name of Daubigny. With all his
affectation of probity, Such Were the associ
ates whom alone he could admit into his
con fidehce, dr trust for the completion of his
designs. I proclaim-! proclaim the tyran
ny cf Roberfpierre !" —, — [Loud and repeami
bursts of aftlauje refunded from all parts of the
Q. J -—-Roberfpierre'attempted to speak,
but after different efforts, found himfelf 0-
bliged to desist, in consequence of the most
vociferous exclama ions from every quarter,
of DdCDa tvith the tyrant ! Down with the T,-
rant .
Tallien—" In the house of that guilty in
dividual, who now stands humbled with,be
confeioufnefs of detected guilt, and $ over
whelmed with that disapprobation which his
infamous designs against liberty have fojuft
ly merited, were formed those lifts of pro
scription which have, Rained with so much
(blood the altars of nfing liberty : imitating
the example of the detestable Sylla, his pro-
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feriptiems were intended Only to pave the way
for his own power and the eftabiilhment ofa
perpetual dictatorship : happily, however, his
designs have been difeovered, before he had
time to execute them, or to add to that stream
of blood which has already deluged France.
His long success in villainy made him at late
lay aside his wonted caution. He had ad
vanced with such rapidity in the career of
lawless ambition, that he had already con
ceived himfelf arrived at the accomplishment
of his wishes, and that, like Cadar, the name
^of King was only wanting to him, for the full
establishment of his power. Was it to fub
jed ours. Ifto so degrading and so abject a ty
ranny, that we brought to the Scaffold the
last of the Capets, and lavished so rr^uch blood
of French citizens ? Was it to acknowledge
so petty a d^fpot, that we declared eternal
war against Kings, and swore to eftablilh lib
erty at the price of life ? No:—The Spirit of
freedom has not funk so low : the sense of
that duty which virtuous men owe to their
Country is not yet extinguished. I invoke
the Shade of the virtuous Brutus— [fixing bis
eyes upon the hurf] —Like him, I have a poig
nard to rid my country of the tyrant, it the
Convention do not deliver him to the sword
of justice. The French people, always just,
are attacked neither to Roberfpierre nor to
any other individual—Liberty is the only ob
jed of their affections, and whoever forms
any designs against it, becomes that moment
their enemy. That liberty we will ever pursue,
amidst the intrigues of domestic traitors, and
the opposition of foreign despots. The Re
public is to be established not only by the vic
tories of bur armies, but by the vigilance of
our councils, and the justice of out punish
ments.
il^llfli lIMIII II IHI ',■».■.!I,IIIUKIIKI»
Domestic Articles^
. —ramr
From a Philadelphia Paper.
The leaders of the French revolution have,
like other politicians, been sometimes in the
right and Sometimes otherwise: but the fi
delity of the soldiers to the Standard of the
Republic has been diftinguilhed by circum
stances unexampled in hiftory.
To arrest a vidorious general, at the head
ofhis troops, woyld, even in the purest days
of Rome, of Athens, or of Sparta, have been
a very dangerous experiment. The army of
the common wealth of England degenerated
into a military machine, conducted by Crom
well. At his command, they literally turn &
ed the legislature of their county out of doors.-
The annals of every domestic couteft are full
of such stories. It is quite needless to men
tion any other instances.
In France Fayette possessed the confidence
of the people./ He was a man of talents and
of virtue, arid known to be such. But in the
moment when he begah to oppose the. Con
vention, or rather ^he popular party in it, bis
influence with his Army was annihilated.
Himfelf and feverat of the principal officers
were forced to fly.
If there has been ohly one general in mod
ern ages, who deserved the attachment, the
veneration of his soldiers, Dumourier was
that man. With a body of raw forces, and
by the mere dint of superior Skill as a field of
ficer, he repulsed the veterans of the great
Frederick, though twice as numerousas his
own army. He afterwards conquered Flan
ders, the greatefbacquitition made from the
foundation of the French monarchy. He
would have also conquered Holland, if his ar
my had not been ftaryed by the perfidy, as he
alledged, of a faction In the Convention.
His men fuffeied hardships that cannot be
related without horror.) Thousands died;
thousands defected back to France pb^twe
never heard of a mutiny. ,'
At last, he determined to defat the cause
ofthe Republic ; he affirms, perhaps with
reason : that the Convention h^d,previoufl,
determined to murder him. Something of
his difficult fituarion had been understood by
his troops. They differed him to escape,
but, a handful excepted, none of them de
ferred with him.
Cuftine also, another viaorious command
er, was upon very odd grounds, arrested, ,
ed, condemned, and executed. ' No 'tnilita
ty murmurs trifued. 1 Nota man mutinied)
Houchard, just after a very great viriory,
at Dunkirk, was arrested in the midst of his
own 'camp, at altime when arreftment had
become equivalent to death. He was tried,
condemnedvand executed, without mflfoofy
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