National gazette. — Philadelphia [Pa.], 1793-06-22 00:00:00, page 3

The gjppw:. true, that the
French general Da::ipierre lately
an exchange ol'prii'j.iers with thepriuce <ie
Saxe Cobou,rg, viz. the royal priloners in
the temple, for the co •nu'.lhuners of' the
Convention now in cultody, provided the
prince would grant a ceilation of humilities
to give time for a regular tiegociation for
peace. The prince de Sa;;e Cobourg re
turned for answer, that he had rio objec
tion to the exchange of prisoners, but he
would not listen to a truce.
General Dampierre, now conlrnander in
chief of the French army, had the title ol
| Count before the revolution. His father
was a marquis of the firft and moil ancient
nobility in Champagne. His family and
that of Brieuae, were very intimately con
nected ; the archbifnop of Sens, and the
earl of Brienne his brother, ware, the one
tirft minister, and the other minister of
war, in 1787.
He was eleited prefidcnt of the depart
ment de I'Aubc in 1790, and entered into
the army in the beginning of the war.
When he was told two months ago, that
his army was attacked near Aix-la-Cha
pelle, he cried ont, " Well, well, so much
the better, we (hall gather new laurels."
He is about 42 years old ; of a (trong
constitution, very active. calm, and un
daunted in the midll of danger.
Declaration of Gf.n. Dumouxier.
" Having learnt thatfufprcions have beer
excited again'.! my intentions, on accouni
of a pretended connection supposed to exill
between me and Philip d'Orltans, a Frencl
prince, too well known under the name o
Egalite, and being anxious to preserve tha
eiteem of-which I daily receive the mof
honorable teilimonies, I take the earlief
opportunity of declaring that I am ignoran
whether there daily exists an Orlean fac
tion ; that I never had any conn«£tior
with the Prince who is supposed to be a:
the head of it, or who is the pretence foi
it; that I never elteemed him ; and thai
(ince the fatal epoch when he tore afundei
the bonds of blood and offended agaimt al
known laws, by criminally voting for the
death of theunfortunateLouis XVI againfl
whom he declared his opinion with atruciou
impudence, my contempt for him has beer
changed into a jull aversion, which leaves
me no other deiire than that of feeing him
delivered over to the severity of the laws.
" With regard to his children, I think
they poliefs as many virtues as he does vi
ces. They have perfeitly served their
country in the armies which I commanded,
without ever (hewing ambition. I have a
great friendlhip for the eldell, founded up
on the best merited cfteem ; and 1 am cer
tain, that, instead of ever afpiringto mount
the Throne of France, he would fly to the
end of the world, rather than be forced to
It. In (hort, I declare, that if, after the
crimes of his father, or by the attrocious
results of the sons of faction and anarchy,
he (liould find himfelf in such a (ituation as
to wave between the virtues which he has
hitherto Ihewn, and the bafenef. of taking
advantage of the dismal cacai'trophe which
has plunged the sensible part of the Nation
and all F.urope in mourning, and that if he
(hould then be ever so far blinded by am
bition as to aspire at the crown, I would
devote him to eternal hatred, and enter
tain for him the fame contempt which I
have for his father.
(Signed) "DUMOURIER."
Frankfort, April 20, 1793. [£■ Paper.]
For the National Gazette.
Mr. Freneau,
A MONC the many murders committed
by the Paris mob, in the course of the
present revolution, that of Madam Lam
balle is the inort affecting: and which with
out any reason, has given the friends of
despotism and monarchy, such cause of re
flection on the whole nation.
To ascribe however, such an occurrence,
which can beconlideied in no other light
than as the action of an enraged and
opprefied multitude, to the grand coun
cil of the nation, as has been done by
many, is the greatelt absurdity. And if it
be asked why were not forae attempts made
by the police of the city, to prevent the
commiffiau of inch an action, I answer that
they as well as every other person knows,
the difficulty and danger of oppoling a mob,
and that it was certainly far better to let
them have their own way, rather than
risque those greater evils and general
(laughter which would have inevitably fol
lowed. I would beg leave to remind the
Englilh nation, who have made the greatest
noise about the matter, of the mob in Lon
don in 1780, which all the military that
eould beco.lected could not prevent them
committing far more numerous and atroci
tus actions than ever were done in Paris,
and from pulling down the house and burn
ing all the valuable property of one of the
kighelt men at that time in power; viz.
Lord Mansfield. Let them alio remember
the more recent affair at Birmingham, a
rot unequalled in hiflory, and which was
countenanced by government, when it
might have been quelled 111 time—F-lfe why
were not some effectual measures taken be
fore three d ivs had elapsed, during which
time the mob ravaged without oppolition,
and were flittered to destroy the iioute
br sry, and valuable philolophical apparatus
of Dr. PrielHy, a nun to whom Engl® ll "
nwes the greatelt part of her fame among
;!ie nations of the world, for the numerous
and important discoveries in pliilofophy and
:hc lciences In general ; and whole luU'es
ivill forever remain a /landing tnouinnent
if di[grace to the Briti/h nation.
But to return —Although Madam Lam
bille's death will no doubt be lamented
from the circumstances o»/y which attended
it, (for cohlidering the intiigucs 2nd mon-
Itron; extravagance of which (he was guil
ty, her life was rather a cnrfe than a prWfit
to the nation.) Yet to (hew how little
principle (lie pofleifed, I fend you a letter
written by her, ridiculing the venerable
Doifor Franklin at that time, our ambafta
:'or at Versailles, 011 his firft introduction to
the qneeri at her leVee, and which is only
on 1 par with that profligacy ot manners,
and life of which (lie was notoriously guilty
—lt is extracted from a number ot other
letters, which were written in France, and
intercepted and pub'illied in England.
JACOBUS.
fhilad. June 20, 1793.
TO MONSIEUR DE SARTINE,
Verfaiilei, 22d March, 17; 3.
Sunday Evening.
My DeAit Friend.
T Am but just returned from a tedious le
vee of the queen's, where your Ameri
can ambafladors had their tirft audience —
a sincere head-ach might plead my txcufe
for not fulfilling my promise of writing—
But I know you are anxious to hear how
their Excellencies are liked,or rather tole
rated—Conftdering all then, pretty well!
—But indeed you mwft thank the countess
Jule de Polrgnac and nie for it—for it was
no easy matter to perfuaile her mnjelty to
endure them The countess and myfelf
Hood very dtJfe to her by way of precau
tion. Unluckily, madamoijelle Berfin had
been with her all the morning, and you
know luivv tne milleners abhor an Englilh
war.—She had ridiculed these ambafladors
so humourouflv. that, when they made
their entree, her rnajefty was very neat
laughing.—The truth is, my dear trierftl.
they were villainouflv drelTed ; and I don't
know how it happened, but none of tlieni
looked like gentlemen. It was all in vain
to talk of simplicity of manners ! of great
ness of mind ! and contempt of forms !
" Ma foi (d:t la reine) it faut avouer ce
tfeft que de la ca' aille /"f However, I
pointed to Dr. Franklin's white hat, as the
emblem of innocence ; and the countess
of Polignac to his fpe£tacles, (one of which
was broken) as tnat of oeconomy. As
suredly, said her majeftjr, thisdodtor Frank
lin is " bien fingulier en toutes chose.' !
We lauged at this turn, which put ker in
good humour: and the duke de Cnigny,
who was (landing by, allured her niajefty
that this singular doctor, with his white
hat, and broken fpeftacles, could never
theless bottle lightening, and uncork it a?
fatally as Pandera opened her box, or
Ulyfl'es's friends untied the boraccio ; at
which we all laughed ; becanfe none of us
understood it. In (liort, we have contrived
pretty well for the present; but do, my
dear friend, fend these barbarous ambas
sadors some taylars and hair-drelfers, and
pray encourage his excellency, the dottor,
to have his fpe&acles mended. Adieu.
LAMBALLE.
t It would be injustice to her majefiy, to
attempt any tranjlation of Jo inimitable an
exprejfion.
No. V.
COOL REFLECTIONS relative to
the FRENCH REVOLUTION.
TXfHATEVER may be the ifTue of the
present awful contest for liberty in
France, it has "produced one effect here
that ought not to be overlooked, or soon
forgotten. It has been the means of try
ing—though not the fouls—yet the princi
ples of men ; and thereby clearly ascer
tained who have been friends, and who
have been enemies, to the progress of li
berty there ; and eonfequently who are
real friends and real enemies to it here.
The line partially and faintly drawn before
Dy other circum(tances< has been traced out
fully and clearly, by the infallible signs of
triumph and sorrow attending the alter
nate fuccefles and misfortunes of the arms
ofliberty. There is hardly a man of any
consequence among us, who has not exhi
bited himfelf in his true colours, In this re
spect. And it is a fair and sure conclusion,
that thoje who have uniformly been again It
the French revolution, or wtjh well to the
de/pots employed in overturning the new
republic, are at heart inimical to liberty
and the rights of the people in their own
country.
As to the unprincipled trimmers and
time-servers, it is of some importance also
that their chara£ters have been brought
fully to light. And as to the timid and
uniteady, driven to and fro by every vague
rumour, and every turn of fortune, the
lead they can expect is, to be regarded as
very weak, rather than wicked, members
of society.
The influence of events on the opinions
and sentiments of mankind, is an old and
important obfervaticn, and too ninth oc
calion ior repeating it lias been afforded
among ouifetver, during the French revo
lution. And yet it feenis furpriling that
ihe ordinary rare of underflanding, lirm
nefs, and integrity of the people of this
country, fimuld not have mc.de the remark
inapplicable to our fltuation. How obvious
is it, to reflect, that force is noteft of right,
and confeqtfeiuly that whether the French
succeed in their struggles for liberty, or be
overpowered by the tyrannical confederacy
against tliem, the nature and merits Of the
cause in which they are engaged nuift re
main the faine. Had America not suc
ceeded in her struggles—had the powers
which Great-Britain now joins against
France, joined her in the war against us,
and had been able to crulh our liberty in its
birth—or, were liberty to be exterminated
entirely from the face of the earth, it would
not alter the nature of things. It would
'lot make tyranny less an evil, nor liberty
less a blefllng, than they riow are; nor
could the opinion or inclination of any ra
tional mind be changed or influenced by so
deplorable an event. For my own part,
whenever my imagination, looking for
ward to the great scene of poflible events,
prefects to me new fuccefles of tyranny —
the chains of France rivetted on her —and
liberty hunted out corner of Eu
rope—theeffeit is far different on my mind.
Instead of changing my opinion concern
ing the nature of that blefling, or being less
anxious to nourilhit and preserve it among
otirfelves, its value feenis to rife morepre
c'ous in Hiy eyes, and I feel a more anima
ted anxiety that it may be watched and
guarded 011 every fide, and against every
danger.
PHILADELPHUS:
June 18th, 1793.
PHILADELPHIA;
Saturday, June 22.
The late accounts from Franee, contain
upon the whele favourable appearances
relpefting the cause in which they are en
gaged—There have been several Warm at
tacks made upon the advanced polls of the
Repablic by the Auftrians and Prufiians,
in which they have beengenerally repulsed
with conliderable loss—The Brufieb and
Oftend papers, even mention in terms of
ftirprize and regret, the objiinate reliftance
made to the operations of the combined
armies. Gen. Danip>erre is busily employed
in organizing the army which Dumourier
by his treachery had in some measure put
in confution, and from the number ot
recruits daily coming in, there was every
appearance of his collecting a fufficient bo
dy effectually to oppose the inroads of
the enemy, and perhaps in due time to
drive them from the frontiers.
ASpanifli Register (hip, from Lima, in
South- America, with fixtee.i cherts of mo
ney, 7 of gold and the reft plate, and ma
ny other valuable articles, has been taken
by a French privateer, and re-taken by
the Engiifh and carried into Portsmouth.
She is said to be the richest priz» ever
carried into England, and is valued at
1,300,0001. sterling. The Engiilh captors
it is reported will only be entitled to sal
vage.
The commercial credit of Great Britain,
from the war it is engaged in—the want of
fufficient circulating medium—the nume
rous bankruptcies—and the impediments to
the sale of its maiiiifaaureS, has recently
fuffered a severe fliock. To remedy the
evil, an ast palled the Rritifli Parliament,
for the loan of Exchequer Bills, to the a
inount of five millions sterling : on the de
polit at the Exchequer-Office, of goods or
other securities. Twenty Commiflioners
are cliofen to put the act into execution. —
The finalleft sum to be advanced to any in
dividual, \fcill be 40001. and not more than
50 per cent, will be admitted 011 manufac
red goods, and 60 on raw materials.
Mr. Fox, the champion of oppolition, has
aid, that although lie had no hand in plung.
ng tha country in the pernicious war tha
lad occasioned the mifchief, he did not
.vilh to be reproached with oppolingthe re
nedy, now the mifchief had arrived. In
onfequence of these late failures, and the
iagnation of public credit, upwards of one
iundred and Jixiy thousand men, women
md children, formerly employed in the
:otton manufactories in Scotland, have been
lifmiffed, and are in great distress. On the
accuracy of the above the public may rely.
The Court of Admiralty of this state has
determined yesterday, in the taufe pending
-efpeiting the capture of the (hip William
and the brig Fanny, priies of the schooners
Citizen Genet and the Sans Culottes, that
t had no jnrifditt'ton to decide the legality
jr illegality of the said prizes.
Extralt of a letter from a gentleman in
Baltimore, to his friend in this city, da
ted June 14.
" I have just arrived here from the Ha
ranna, which place 1 left on the 6th June.
L)n the 23d of May the declaration of war
,vas proclaimed against France at the Ha
/anna, and on the 2 sth the cxpulfion of the
French from rhr territory, in eijht days,
.va? publilhed.
" On tlie 4111 of Jure an extraordinary
packet arrived, and in the newspapers
brought by this veflel I read the account ot"
an attack made by the inhabitants of Biscay
on the town of Bayonne, which they took
with the loss ot f»ur thousand men, and put
three thousand Frenchmen :o the (word
and I also read that the Catalonians had
taken great part of Roufillon."
Extract of a letter from Belfajl, dated
April 2?, 1793, to a gentleman in Bal
timore.
"You can have no idea of the state of
things in this country ; tlie linen manufac
tories and every species of business entirely
knocked up ; nor can I fee any profpett of
matters mending while this war continues.
The Protestants and Catliolics joined.—
When government understood t/lis, they of
themselves relieved the latter from the
grievances complained of, and the latter are
now fatisfied, and daily returning thanks.
Our volunteers dare not meet or appear in
arms now ; their cannon is taken from
them, and the army pouted down upon us;
no less than a regiment of foot here, and
the neighbouring towns all full. Our pat
riots deserted us, and changed fides in the
House of Lords and Commons, and in con
ference of the unfortunate turn affairs
have taken here, I believe if there were a
dozen American (hips In our harbour thej'
would all, in less than a month, be filled
with pafl'engers, many of them ot the tirit
relpeStability and property.
However great the deftruitioii of the
human species has already been, inconfe
quenceofthe French revolution, it will
appear trifling, compared with the scenes
of future carnage which the tefgiverfatiou
of Dumoiirier will almof.'certainly occa
(ion. for we are i.iftrufted by the historic
page, that to change the form of a demo
cratic republic by coercion, nothing less
than a total extermination of the people
will be required. What an example of
thisdid the Athenian republic exhibit when
Ihe refilled the immense hosts of Persia.
with territories scarce so large as one of
the departments of France ; nor was that
of Rome less glorious, when Porfenna—
when the Gauls—when Hannibal, were at
her gates! Now as a nation derives its
character dnd almsft solely from its
form of government, and as the fame
caufeswill ever produce the fame eft'eft.it is
impolGble to conceive, after what has hap
pened in France, that the French will agaiit
submit to be governed by a child, a
the iniftrefs of a fool, or a tyrant.
GERMANTOWN MEETING.
As it has been surmised that the pra
ceedings of a late meeting at Germantou 11,
as published in this paper, were not Itated
with accuracy, the editor is authorized tc>
declare, that the said publication is a true
copy cf the minutes of the meeting, as pro
cured from Thomas Dunga:i, chairman,
and in the hand-writing of Mr. Franks,
secretary to the said meeting —Whatever
merit is due to l*4r. Forreft for his two
resolutions, we find he can claim no merit,
for the third resolution ; the sole object of
which was to make the proceedings of the
meeting public.
PROBATIONARY ODES:
ODE V.
Tea Truly Great Man.
" Jtlltum et tenacem propojiti nimmV
HoR.
GEORGE —on thy virtues often have I
dwelt.
And still the theme is grateful to mine ear :
Thy gold letchemifts ten times over melt,
Fromdrofs& base alloy they'll findltclear.
Yet thoii'rt a man—although, perhaps, tha
firft ;
But rflan, at best, is but a being frail ;
And lince with error human nature's curst,
I marvel not that thou (hould'lt sometimes
fail.
That thou haft long, and nobly ferv'd the
state,
The nation owns, & freely gives thee thanks:
But, fir ! —whatever (peculators prate,
She gave thee not the power t'eftablidi
Banks.
No doubt,thou thought'll it was a phoenix
neft,
Which Congress were so buify to build up.
But there a crocodile h-ad fix'd his reft.
And fnapp'd the nation''s bowels at a flip.
Th e greedy tnonjfer is notyet half cloy'd,
Nor will he, whi Ift a leg or arm remairis ;
These parts the last of all flioultl be de
ftroy'd ;
The next delicious morsel is her brains,
I trust thou'ft seen the moilfter by this
time.
And haft prepar'd thy knife to cut his throat;
Hisfcales arefo damn'd hard, that in thy
prime,
'Twould take thee twenty years to make
it out.
God grant thee life to do it! Fare thee
well !
Another time examine well the ncft.
Thoogh.of Arabia's (pices it faoGld fmelfy
Lc may produce some foul infernal peftv