National gazette. — Philadelphia [Pa.], 1793-06-05 00:00:00, page 2

The narefcha! prinre of 0 AXE-CcfSOURG
general v>i v• . ui.i icier i,j li;.#■ of Uk
armies ofii.smijeU) the c inpe- ar, a.ii
of the empire, o Tu : i
1 ae drciaratuitjNvhich I made I', im nt*
hs/a.! quarters at'Mons. dated ilie jcii o
•April, i 93, is a public celtiiiiofy of ni)
personal I ntLnents to reft-d*e, is fbou
P >(Rble, peaceaiul tranquility to Fur-ipe
l ilt I ma.ufel'ed, in a limere and oiie
m - finer, my particular deiire that th
1 vnch nation might have a foiid and dura
ble government; rounded oi tne u liiaice
bails <>t jit'tice and humriity, which
e larepeice to i.urope, and happmefs t
I' ' ice.
Now that the refulr of this declaratioi
is so ip,niJae to tile eft' cts it ought to hav.
produced, a >d which p oves bu too plain
iy tliac f»e feiitiments which have dittacec
it, have been mi u.iderltood, it only re
fiitioafor me to revoke it entirely, and c<
hectare formally, mat the llate of wa
xvhlch subsists between the court of Vien
na and the combined powers, and France
ss fVom this m mieni unhappily renewed
I si )d myf ; if, therefore, forced by the
predominating influence- of the 'circuin
itauces which ihe molt guilty m n perlift ii
directing to the overthrow and deltructioi
ot their country, to annul entirely my for
mer declaration, and to make known, tlia
a state of war, so unfortunate, being re
Hewed, I have given the necessary order
for re-commencing it, in concert with th.
allied powers, with all the energy and vigo
of which victorious armies are capable.
Thccefl'ation of the armiltice is the firl
hostile step that the unfortunate combina
tion of events has forced me to take
There u ill, therefore, only subsist, of m
former de laration, the inviolable engage
nient, which I again, renew with plejliwe
that the rao.'l ex ill difciplirie will be obfer
ved and maintained by my army upon th
J-'renth territory, and that every breac
thereof will bepunifhed with th* utmol
rigor.
The sincerity and loyalty which at al
times ha'e been the principle of my aiti
ens, oblige me to give to this new adder
to the French nitiou, ail the publicity o
which it is fufceplible, to leave no doub
of the confequem.es that may result frou
it.
Given at my head quarters at Moiij, thi
9th ol April, 179,3-
The PRINCE DE COBOURG..
Gen. DUMOURIER's LKTTFR
to the French Nation, dated Baths of St
Ama'id, Aprils, 1793.
SINCE the commencement of the revo
lution I have devoted myfelf to the main
ten tnce of the Liberty and Honor of thi
Nation
The services I renderedin theyear 1792
are the 1110 ft memorable. Miniller of so
reicn affairs during three months, I elevat
ed and fuffained the dignity of the Frencl
name chronghout all Europe. I was ca
lumiiiated by an odious cabal, by whom ]
was charged with having plundered so
jniliio'.js of livres deft in ed for secret fer
vices. I have proved, that of this fuin ]
did not expend half a million.
Hiving quitted the career of politics to
wards the dole of the month of June, 1
commanded a fmali army in the depart
ment of the North. This department ]
xvas ordered to quit withmy troops, at tlx
very time the Aultrians entered in forct
that part of the repub. ic. I disobeyed tht
order, saved the department, and an at
tempt was madeto come on me by surprize,
for the purpose of conveying me to the ci
tadel of Metz, where I was to be condemn
ed by a council of war to fuffer death.
On the2Bth of August, I took upon me.
in Champagne, the command of an arm)
of twenty thousand men, weak, and with
out either discipline oj" organization. 1
arrested tht- progress of eighty thousand
Pruflians and Heflians, and toned them tc
retreat, after they had facrificed the one
half of their army . I was then the favioui
of France ; and then it was that the moll
wicked of men, the opprobrium of French
men—in a word, Marat began to calum
niate me, without any mercy. With a part
of the victorious army of Champagne, and
some other troops, Lentered, 011 the jth oj
November, the Belgic Provinces,,where I
gained the forever.memorable battle ot
Jenappe ; and. after a fncceffion of advan
tages, entered Liege and Aix la-Chapelle,
towards the close of that month. From
that moment my deltrnftion was resolved
011 ; and I have been accused of nfpiring,
now, to the title of Duke of Brabant, now
to the Stadtholderfhip, and again to the
Di£tarorfhip. To retard and crush my fuc
cefTes, the Minister Pache, supported by the
Criminal faftio.n to whom all our evils are
to be ascribed, fuffered the victorious army
to want every thing, and succeeded in dis
banding it by famine and nakedness. The
eonfequence was, that more than fifteen
thousand men were in the hospital, more
than twenty-five thousand deferred through
misery and difgult, ind upwards of ten
thousand horses died of hunger ! 1 1
I transmitted to the National Conven
tion very ltreniioU3 remonstrances, which
I followed up by repairing in person to
Parts, to engage the legislature to apply
& remedy to the evil : they did not even
condescend to read the four memorials I
delivered in. During th« twenty-fix hours
I fp< ! t i-1 T"j>iis. I t emd (luring night
wands of pretended Federates demand ny
Head; and calumnies o every deli iption,
as well as uviinccs and intuit l -, foliowed me
ven i.jtu tlie country house to which I re
tired.
Having delivered in my resignation. 1
was retained in the ferviie ctfmy country
bec-nife it was proposed to me to negociate
ine fuipenhoi of the var agaiutl England
and Holland, which I had conceived as in
fpeiifiblc to the fact ty of the Netherlands.
W.nt't I nejjociated, and that luccefifully,
the national co.ivemioa itfelf battened (o
declare war, without making any pi epara
rations, and without either puutr 01
means for its support.
I was not even advised of this declara
tisn, and learned it through the medium of
the gazettes only. I battened to form a
fmali army of new troops, who had never
("tight; and wilh these troops, whom con
rirk nce rendered invincible, 1 made myfelf
ma'ter ot three strong places, and. was
eady to penetrate into the middle of Hol
land, when I learned the difalter of Aix-la-
Chaprllr, the railing of the liege of Mae
stri, tit, ana the fad retreat of the army.
Hy this army I was loudly summoned—l
abandoned* my conqueds to Hy to its fuc
c<mr ; and coufidered that we coukl be ex
tricated irom our difficulties by a speedy
luccefs only. I led my companions in.arms
to the enemy. On the 16th of March. I
hid a confide I';.ble advantage at Tiriemont.
On the 18th, 1 brought the enemy to a. ge
neral action; and tin centre and right
wing, untier my charge, were victorious.
The left winy, after having attacked, im
prudently Aid. O■< rhe 19th we retreated
honorably with the brave men th« were
lelttogether ; fir a part of the army dis
banded itfelf. On the 2i(t and 221), we
fought with the fame courage ; and to our
firinm fs was owing the preservation of the
remains of an ai my which breathes folcly
so true liberty, for the reign of the laws,
and for the ext.nction of anarchy.
It was then that the Marats, the Rohe
fp;erres, and the criminal fe£t of Jacobins
ofPiris, plotted the fall of the generals,
and more especially ot mine. TbcCe vil
lains, bribed with the gold of foreign pow
er to complete the disorganization of the
armies, caused almott all the generals to be
' rrefted. Thev keep them in the jails of
Paris, to Septemb. rize them ; for thus it
is that thele monitors have coined a word,
to hand down to polterity the remembrance
of the horrid mafl'acres of the firit fix days
of Septs mher.
Whittt 1 was employed in re-composing
the army, in which employment I labourtd
night and day : 011 the ift of April (yefttr
day) four cwmmiflioners reached me with a
decree, purporting that I (hould be brought
to the bur of the conventioH itfelf. The
war mmi<ter Bournonville (my pupil) was
weak enough to accompany them, to suc
ceed me in my command. The perfom
who were in suite of these perfidious emit'-
faries, informed me themselves, that ditfe
rent groups of afl'affins, either fugitives
from or driven OHt of my army, were dif
perfed 011 the road to kill me before I could
reach Paris. 1 spent several hours in en
deavor ng to convince the coinmiflioners
of the imprudence of this arrelt—Nothing
could (hake their pride ; and I therefore
arretted the whole of them, to serve me as
hottagei against the crimes of Paris. I in-
Itantly arranged with the Imperialists a sus
pension of arms, and inarched towards the
capital, to extinguith as speedily as possi
ble the lighted embers of a civil war.
My dear countrymen ! it is expedient
that a true and brave man remove from
you the veil which covers ail our crimes
and mi -fortunes.—in 1 "S9, we made great
tffoits to obtain liberty, equality, and the
tbvereignty of the people.—Our principles
were consecrated in rhe declaration ot the
R gilts of Man ; and there have resulted
from the labours of our legislators, ift,
the declaration which fays, that France is
and [hall remain a monarchy—2<lly, aenn
ilitution to which wefwoie feaity in 1789,
90. and 91. '
This oonflitution might, and indeed must
have been imperfect; but it ought and
might have been believed, that with time
and experience its errors would be recti
fied, and that the neceli'ary (trite between
the legislative and executive powers wogld
eltablilh a wife equilibrium, which would
prevent either of these powersfrom seizing
the whole of the authority, and attaining
defpotifin. If the despotism of a tingle in
dividual is dangerous to liberty,liow much
more odious mutt be that of seven hundred
men, many of whom are void of principles,
without morals, and who have been able
to reach that supremacy by cabals or crimes
alone 1
[Remainder in our next. J
N®. 11,
.To the PRESIDENT of the
UNITED STATES.
SIR,
TN countries where the people have little
or no (hare in the government, (as in
Great Britain for inftancc) it is not un
common for the executive to a£t in direst
oppofi-tion to the will of the nation. It is
to be hoped that the practice of apeing the
absurd and tyrannical fyttems of Britain,
though already carried to an alarming ex-
tent in this countfy, will never procced fa
iar, as to induce our cxetiiLive to try the
vain experiment of officially oppolinj; the
national will. An atceu.pt ot tins kind, at
present, would be ftcuiicd with defers eil
contempt, and bring rnin on its author ;
mill filth mu.t continue to be the cale, 1111-
ief's government lhal; be able to eliablilii so
liucli corrupt influence as, with ihe aid ot
-ayonet-logic, will be fnflicient to lnpport
t, in defiance of the people.
Had yon, Sir, be* ore you ventured to ifluc
a prociama ion which appear* co have given
much unealinels. confuited ths general fen
tinunts of your fellow-citizen-, you wou.d
nave lounil tkein, from one extremity oT
the Union to the other, firmly attached to
the cause ot France. \on would not have
found them disposed to conlider it as a
" duty" to forget theirdebt ot gratitude to
the French nation ; or to view with uncon
cern, the magnanimous efforts of a faithful
ally, to baffle the infernal proj;£ls of those
delpots w ho have confederate d for ihe pur
pofw of crufiling her infant liberty. Neither
would you have found them so tar divelled
of the feeli.gs of uien, as to treat with
" impartiality," and etjuul " friendfliip,"
thole tig«s» who so lately deluged our
country with'the blood of thousands, and
the men who generoutly flew to her rescue
and became her deliverers. No, Sir—had
even no written treaty exilled between
France and the United States, stilt would
the ffrongert ties ot amity have united the
people of both nations j Hill would the re
publican citizens of America have regarded
frenchmen, contending for liberty, as their
brt ihren ; (till would they have sympathized
with them in tl.eir misfortunes', and have
exulted in their success. Such, unques
tionably, is the difpolition of the generality
of the people of the United States with re
fpeft to the French revolution. To fn-i.li
a people it wou.d have been a pleasing or
umffance. toil ivebeen able to discover in
the proclamation a recognition of the trea
ties with Frniice. That so little attention
has been p.iid to the clamours which have
arisen on this lilbjecf, in various parts of the
Union, is to be lamented by every friend
to the general government. Had you. Sir
confide led the importance of retaining
your popularity,you would, perhaps, nave
lutened to the murmurs of the citizens ;
and l\a>e deigned to give tfcem fucb expla
nations as might appear nectfl'iry to cleai
up the doubts which yet distract their minds
If this would have becnde/iindi/.g too far,
the fecretarv might have been author.zee
to fatisty the dou&ts or correct the mittake:
of the people.
It ought never to be forgotten by but
magistrates, that popular opinion is the
balis of our government ; and that whei:
any public measure w not well uiultrftood,
it would be by no means degrading to the
authors of that measure, how ever exalted
their Ration, to explain. Let me intreat
you, Sir, to deal candidly with the people ;
and, without loss of time, to remove their
anxiety, hy i iforming them whether it is
intended that the* treaties with France are
to be observed or not.
I an aware, Sir, that feme court-fitel
lites may have deceived you, with refpefl
to the sentiments of your fellow citizens.
The lirft magistrate of a country, whether
lie be called a king or a prefute.it. ft Id o*l
•<now s the real ftateofthe nation, particu
larly if lie be so much buoyed up by official
importance, as to think it beneath his dig
nity to mix occasionally with the people.
Let me caution you, Sir, to beware that
you do not view the slate of the pub Jit
mind, at this critical moment, through a
fallacious medium Let not the little
of the aristocratic few, and their contempt
ible minions, of speculators, tories, and
British einiffaries, be milfaken for the ex
ulted and general voice of the American
people. The spirit of 1776 it again roofed;
and (oonfliali themulhroom-lo; dlingsoftiie
day, the enemies of American as welt ,is
French liberty, be taught that American
whigs of 1776, will not furfer French pat
'iot. ®t t792, lobe vilified with impunity,
>y the common enemies of both.
VERITAS.
June j.
PHILADELPHIA..
Wednesday, June >.
Last Saturday, an elegant civic fi??fV was
s' ven by the citizens ot Phil ulelphia. at
Hotel to citizen Genet, minif
:er plenipotentiary from the French Re
mblic to the United States. Upwards of
:wo hundred citizens partook of this en
rertainment. The following toath were
drank :—l. '• The people and the law. 2.
The people of France : may they have but
one head, one heart, and one aim in flip
port of the righteous cause of liberty. 5.
I he people of the United States—may li
berty only be their idol, and freemen only
be their brethren. 4. The Republics c'f
I" ranee and America—may they be forever
united in the cause of liberty. 5. May prin
ciples and not men be the objeifs of repub
lican attachment. 6. May France be an
example to the wor.'d, that tile balances of
government depend more upon kniAvlec. l e
and vigilance than rpijn a multifarious
combination of its powers. 7. In coni
plsiping of th? rcrrporary evt!: J. rev«:u-
tions. may we n.rver farjet ftiat the greater
eviis of monarchy aid ariflocraiv a reper
petnal. 8. 1 lie spirit of fc-venty fix and
ninety-two—may the citizens of America
and France, as they are equal in virtue, be
qua] ill fucctfs. 9. May true republican
Im.plicity be the oniy 01 nainent of the tua
: ill rate in every elective government »o.
Confufion to the councils of the confede
rated despots, and difm y ro their hofb—
may they never be able 10 form a certre cf
11 to .01 ofaflion. it. May France prove
a political Hercules, an<l exterminate the
hydra <1' despotism from the earth. 12.
f. ace, liberty, and independence— inay th«
tyrants ai d traitors of' all cotintrie» be pu
nilhed by the elfabliiliment of the happine-ft
which they wiih to betray or dellroy. 13.
May the iyiicms of the United States be en
tirely their own, and no corrupt exotic be
engiaftcd upon the tree of liberty. 14.
May the defection of individuals teach us
tu place our hopes of the fafety aivd per
petuity ot freedom', on the whole body of
the people, ij. May the clarion of free
dom, (Vunded by France, awaken the peo
ple of the world to their own happinefs
and the tyrants of the earth beproft; ated by
its triumphant founds."—Fifteen rounds of"
cannon were fired for the ift, Bth, 3nd lalt
toalls, and three for all the reft. Several
volunteer toasts were afterwards given by"
citizen Genet, the governor of the State,,
doctor Hutchinfon, Sic. and a number of"
songs sung, adapted to the occasion. The
cap oi' liberty w as placed at the nead of tbe
table between the American and French
colours, and about nine o'clock the ton —
pany broke up in perfect good order and
good humour.
o.n Saturday Kill (the ift of June) ar
ri\ed at New-York, the lhip William,,
capt. Ander 011. in 41 days from Liver
pool 1 his v> fiel brings London news u>
tlie iSthiof April, tlie particulars of which
will be given in our next. — The film of her
accounts is, that Portugal hail joined in the
league againfl France : That a French jm
baU'ador had arrived at Lifboii, who after
two days flay„was ordered to leave tie
kingdom immediately— that an infurreflioji
had taken place ill Pat is, wherein 30.c00
persons 101 l their lives—that all the Bour
bon family, except the queen and the pri
fonersin the temple, were to be confined
at Marseilles, and to be held as holtages
lor tlie fafety of the tommiflioners, \* lioiu
Duinourier's treachery had delivered 1 p.
to the Auftriaus.— The foregoing, will*
m.iny others, are Hr 1 tifh minilferial ac
counts. From the minutes-os tlie National-
Convention proceedings, and other Pari*
documents to nearly the middle of April,
the republic was in fafety,. tji« ini'urgents
on the decline, and a certainty e.sifted that
Dumonrier, witha troi pofhufi'ar cavalry,
general Valence, young Orleans, and s ie\v
otner officers had gone over to the enemy,,
but that the army remained firm, and wa
re-organizing anclre-er.liff mgrapidly under
general Dampierre ; I(i unfa lids of recruits
were coming in every day, and the north
eni army growing to fucli a lize as to pro
mise in a ihort time to be able to re-com
mence active operations the despo
tic forces m a 11.011 time.
"The Traitorous Correspondence biP (fays
a letterfrom London) has paifed tiie Houie
of Commons, and will also. the House of
Lorrls—The American merchants ecu Id
not fnccsed in their applications for Ame
rican vefiels to be exempted. It checks alt
interconrle v\ith Frau-ce, even in neutral
bottoms. Infurames hei e 011 all veliels,
even American to France are void, though
from America direct with provisions of e
very dtfeription. No vefiel touching here
andifor a market can go to France.
" It will be followed tip bv ail the F.ll
- courts to check ail political ant?
commercial intercotirfe with France."
•' The Congress at Antwerp have deter
mined an active vvaragainll France, wit It
all tile combined furies by Tea ai.tl land."
1 he frigate l'Ambufcade failed from the
port of Philadelphia 011 Saturday morning
'ast, fuppofi d Oil a cruil'e ; but her deltiua
t on is not certa.,.ly known.
The fliip Hero, one of the F.njylilh mer
chantmen that engaged the Sans Culottes
atf the Capes of Chel- peke, had her quar
ter and flern Hove i t by the severe fire from
the ppiv jteer. The lull Ihot that the Hero
fired at the Sana Culottes, was accompa
nied with tlie captain's arm and ra.'iner of*
[he-cannon (the cartridge having taken lire
111 the act of loading )
The example of Humounei '.! treaeherv
(hould put people 011 thrift guard ajainffc
tonlling ME N. J his perfidious officer hats
been toalled near a thoiifand times in A
merica in public entertainments, and as
length turns out an arrant Arnold.
" It is worthy of remark, that the com
mittee who had the arrangement of tin
civic feaft, on Saturday lalt, determined to*
celebrate it in the true republican stile, and.
to regard principle', and not men. as the
übjeflt of commemoration ; in the opinion,-
t/.at principles alone, are immutable and in
ternal, but that men ureliable to changs."
An English squadron from Nova Scotia. ti; -
Jer Commodore Affleck, has taken St. Pe
ter's, a small ifiand belonging to the French
11 the neighbourhood of Newfoundland.
I t-is said, they proceeded from thence to
;.'je iilard of Ml-iueiou, c» An sams