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take a cursory view of the three nation'
w.i c'l are the inoft frequently mentioned
or . hided to in the course of this mvelti
gation.
France, blest in a happy lituation, cli
mate a.id so.i, has.al ways, fro 11 the tiuie
that it aa > iirii knownlto tjte Ro:nans un
til the p. efeut d iy, made a very coilfpicu
ous ngure in . hdtory of Europe; her
so i t io' natur.iliy brave and fcrtiible, tho'
fonie.ime* the repeliers of the invaders o'.
tiie ,s r » la id o the South, lay l'or many
ages cie prey o' internal diviiio.is, of a
bin I relyio 1, nd of unequal laws ; edu
cated in prejudice, they idolized their king,
and gl pfitii i i thei chains; bur being at
last umtea, they beca tie a Herculean peo
ple holdi ig the diltatt of Omphale.
T ie i VubiCa lisot Britain, a neighbour
ing na:i >n though f r enough reuiovec!
from a full poH'eflion of their natural rights,
liad caught a spark from the altar of liber
ty ; buttle) ailumed to themfeives a de
gree of perfectio i in this respect to which
th?y had no just claim; and defp f d, ha
ted tne French, as bigots in re. gion, ant;
lltves of a despotic government.
We, the citizens of the United State .
mo:t)y fpr'ung from Britiih a.lcetVors, who
retained many of the prejudices of their
native country* particularly agiinlt the
Pre ich, valued durfelves upon a fuppoliti
on that Englishmen. with whom we ac
cou ited ourselves but as one people, w re
the only free, generou>, and hum aepeo
ple in the world : At length we perceived
th it much ofour boafled fiperiority was
ideal, that what we actually poffl O <1 was
like t.i be taken away, th.it tne Britiih na
tion and court, were co rupt, avaricious
and i.ifolent; that reliftance to opprellion
was lawful; that the true sovereign of a
country wa the people; and th it »'kiiig
■was unneceflafy. The B iti.li ridicuied e
very idea if p ■ fe.tio 1 >eyo id their town
con'litution of ki ig. lord- and cmnimim ;
c'i '<1 us with being teachers of impracti
cable theories, murderers a.,il matlm ieii
o '* : g ling charaftei s, ilc yet, we
believed Ma voice of reason, we declared
tn.. e vould relilt violence. we put our
Ihouliiers :o tiie wheel, we called upon the
French Hercules, he came, u c fought the
Briti li centaur, and wo became free.
Wiiiift the favour was recent our grati
ttlde wa warm we declared that we
\v •>■. I ie ive to th ■ Fre en like b. others,
for that they had so behaved to us; in
their marching and countermarching tnio'
on - jutltry, in pr urbanity aid th irt dif
cipiine were such. that the enemies of li
berty could only tjharge tiieni with finiftet
views. which they d.d, from a certain
knowledge, as they pretend d, of the pro.
je.t o tie Frenc i court: But wh never
might b? the intentions of the court, we
experience of the prop e, wt
tlTj'.ight them worthy of freedom, andoui
wi.hes vere, that they might enjoy ir.
And in fa t, as, according to the ancient
ftyry o Greek Vlyttio.'ogy, the arrows
With which the son of Alctnena fl w th.
nionfter Nefsus, ;o .n mi
bnfom, a poison that inlinuatcd itfelf even
to the marrow of his bones, from AiiuV
not ling con Id redeem hint but the funerai
pyre; which, confu ning al that \i .i
earthly, left nothing but th ' p.|re spirit re
nTainitig; so the haiidiing"* , '. l t.i. arrow?,
with whi.'h was pierced tne BfitUi Centaur
of tyranny. com nu licated into the bosom
of France a subtle slime. vn ch has incor
porated it el with every member o*' the
body: VJiyitiitim confu ne every par
tide of oppreflio i leaving nothing but the
pure fpir r or'reafon and virtue.
Aire idy it has become a furnare. meltrnc
down a I monarchical, ari tocratic I, anr
Inquisitorial principles; the heat of which
is so great, that all Europe io too small foi
those nia iarch; t iriftocrats. a d iK|ii;li
tor . to breathe freely: Even our America!
heroes, intoiica e l with power and riches,
cannot bear th tell of its fiery ordeal —
At ft. I they pr fed the properties ot lighl
and of heat, then becoming red-faced a
with guilt, tuey turned their backs, and
extolled the oblique rays of the Britiih Sun
—it lad. becoming frantic with rage and
pun, they roa. like Phalaris in his brazen
Bull: — Vet their roar is not the roar ol
despair. for we di'tiniily hear these words,
" Oh, ye ( tjrfed teachers of impracticable
dortrines'.—Oh, ye French rebels, murder
ers, madmen !— i)h. Franklin, thou de
ceiver. Thou enemy of the Heft of men, the
inrtdioufn'efs of thy deligns* will Ihortly ap
pear, &c."—Repubii ans. do you luff.r
such to rule your country ?
That there-is a very considerable party
in the United State?, extrtdely mimical
to the principles ot the American and
French Revolutions, is generally believed ;
and if we in y judge from tlie Ie ees. the
form of doing bulinefs, the numerous ap
pointments, and other foibles and extra
vegancie" of government —together with
th - exprelfions so current, refpefiing the
ftr.uggles of Frenchmen, decemined to be
free we have no reason to doubt it. In
deed. I have been informed, from good
authority, that it was aftonilhing to hear,
\vh it sentiments were dropped in the Con
VENTion, held in Philadelphia, in ft!;.
refpe;Yi ig government an<l equality : then
if there were at that period ailonifhinp
* See a Inter direfla !to B. F. Bache
»'/ the Gazette of the United States, of Fe
bruary 2 $d.
proposals for monarchy and fervilitv, as I
umlerftood it, it is nut altogether fu. r ri!i:]jv
tnat ai,.r live yearo apeh... the m<vmers U
u'lit.ments theßritqh ciTurt, tuere&iouid
b.' many W hi> are in neari'aver IV from tne
political tenets 01' tne Freiw-h republic ; be
cause the pur tv of their creed is greater
than ou. s, siid in fonie rejects w'ounth
tne pride of each ind.viduaj, Specially ;f ne
is rich or in oihce, u,,ie.* he is deeply in
tiue iced by the precepts 01 a meek religion,
or nas thorougniy nnbioetl the fp.rit of a
natui at and government, oi
actually lilt the iron liand of opprefiioii.
tioin my own obfervatioas, it is clear tc
uie. thai tiie simple appellation of (.j . i -
zen, lubificuted in tiie room of Air, oir,
Eiq. &c. is so ga.l.ng co the pride of 'many,
thaL tor this aflroiu alone, they would wn
''"o'y facr.fice tile irecdo/ii of milium. ;
and a. chef , ench iiave 111 tiiefc particulars,
remounted to the i'ource of reafun, the\
have thereby made enemies of a numerou*
throng of tiifle, s, wiio now catch at tut
uec.-.jjitacioii ot the late king, ill order tc
vent, uncler t!ie semblance of pry, then
hatred of natural and pnilofopnic manners.
( i o be continued.)
To the EDITOK »/ the >iATIONAL
GAZETTE.
never was a foreign fubjeel
l which agitated and divided the mind
"t the people of this country more than tht
revolution in France, a'ld perhaps never
were more linjull concluiions cfpawn res
pecting that revolution, and more pains ta
ken by mi lilteria! writers in Great Britain,
ind tlic enemies of France here, to diilort
the .conduct of the French patriots* a:.i.
to .jure up every phantom of iiorror and
carnage to alienate the affections of Ame
ticans from them.—Without enquiring in
to the truth or talihood of the many char
ge againit tin . nation ; without trTfcin;:
: le misrepresentations to the jealous tin
e lvions and malignant authors of thetli a
. rofs the channel ; without even an at
:empt to prove them unfounded ; I /ha I'
Jirely co llider the revolution in itfelf, c
-lS object, without an attempt to difJ>rovt
ts attendant tircumllances. It will ho
foubt be conceded that oppreflion wist •
-aule, and liberty the end of the revolt!
ion ; and here I might enquire if it wt r
,'olfible in the nature of things, that a ti an
ition from despotism to r ecdom Ihoul
..ike place, without coiti.ion arc] blood
lied : —A revolution may ch, lge the ft;".
i>ut cannot immediately change the natur
al man, and no great national change evt
rook place without the greatell diforder
l i revolutions which have fortneir objec
he pol tical happintfs offociety, we ougli
0 regard the end more than the means,
lie principle more than the aflidn ; iV -Z
:':e great Sully well observes, "in all im
-ort mt affairs which tend to the gener,
;<>«d ic is to the canje only, and not to tin
>erfan«, we mull he attached : for the for
Tier pref nts but one lingle view, where-::
ie lat.te. is fiibje£t to change, and present:
lull a variety of hateful objects, that dole
y to coi lider them would give us difincli
'a.ion 10 tiie inolt iifeful and necefl ry en
erpriles." It is a common thing with ma
iy amnrg us to execrate the revolutioi
jecaiife di for tiers hive happened ; or i:
ither words beca:<fe tie French are tne;. ,
t would be a new and an astonishing phoe
; menon in the hiflorv of human nature
1 it could have happened without many o
he dn'orders which are attributed to it
'tit do they change the natnre of the thin
for, or make it less desirable ?
say that many of the leaders of the revy
ution a"*e infamous, does it therefore fc»l
ow that the natidtiU unworthy of libertv ?
say that a mob in Paris has beea "tiilty oi
uitrages, niuft this condemn the whole na
tion to feivitude ? Say that a majority o)
lie convention have condemned the kinj
° death, even unjuflly, is his lile to be pn;
n competition with the happiness of mil
ions? Many violences were committee 1
luring the American war among us, bat,
lecaufe of them, ought we to have been
:ondemned to British fetters? This is a
node of reafoniag deflructive of a change
n governments: for. a degree of licenti
lufnefs and temporary monarchy mull ever
efult from civil commotions, and a tranfi
ion from such extremes as servitude to li
>erty. The human mind tannot at ontt
it tommod 'te itfelf to sudden and !
.hanges in its condition—time niuft be sl
owed it ; and an abllraiflon of the caufe
if fermentation, before it can be fettletl
lown into a reflecting calm. Irritated con
fantly by the enemies of the revolution
■vithin.&ifimulated to violence by thecon
lu6i ot the conlederatetl tyrants without,
he French have not hat! a moment of tran
luility to organize their government, am'
>urfne a plan of conduct in correspondence
''■ith tine I'ober dictates of their own natural
;ood sense. or of prudence. Their revolu
tion is an experiment unprecedented inhti
man anairs—the if?ne is not yet known, ant'
it argues raflmefs, or malignity to pro
nounce upon it without allowing a lull op
portunity tocarry it into ctfect. °That des
pots and their fatellitesfliould inveith with
mtternefs againll the Prench, is not in the
leaf!: surprising, as they are warring again!!
tlieir very exiltence ; but that men Ihould
be found among as who fhonlcl wifli iil to
'iieir cauie, because excefics liave take.i
place apicng them, is to me a fubjeft of
wonder, and I can reconcile it in 110 other
way tnan by iuppoling, th : i: ,-y 're/eitner
c::e.;iies to our government, cr ene.mies to
' .ie people ; en i n.'s to our governmer.i
from rnetr attachment to the tiritith go
vernment, or enemies to the people from
a clciire to lee a I u1 e miscarry winch li i
the eqvol Yig/itt aiiihapipinejs of the people
tor its object.
An OLD SOLDIER.
May 8, 1793.
0 the Editor of the National Ca-
ZETTE.
jN the Nr.tional Gazette of Wedoefc! l )
-• xr'*' * a piece (igned kt a Citizen
of Newcaltle County," in which it is at
tempted to brow the difgrhce co'nfeqnem
on the omiflJon of ciuty, in not opening tin
Circuit Court at New-Castle in time, or
Jud3e Iredell, But Sir, th'.sis an imf. ir a 1 <1
nncamlid llatement of the;friatter; and;
think that I can make it appear, that tht
move refppftabie magistrate is not in tin
lead chargeable with a breach of dirty. Tht
federal Court which fat in this city, die
'iot break lip until late on the Saturday
preceding the Monday when it was to havt
been opened at New -Castle. F.verv one re
collects the very bad weather which pre
vailed on that, and Lhe fy.ccceding dav
when run, St when being Sunday
the Judge might not think it fx proper t<
travel. The next day however, lie ft.
out, and got as far as Wilrmngton; v. here
the stages flop, and where he was obligei
to wait until morning, as the weather . n<
roads were dill io bad, that a Jiorfe an
chair, which he must have lih'i din order t<
pioteed, could not travel. So far, there
fore, from Judge Iredell's " having no pro
per excuse," it mull be evident, that he ha
e\sry necelFary apology to make for no
attending in time. I w ill not retort upoi
the Citizen of New-Castle countv," ;• r
fay bow far the marjhat of the Hiflritl, wa
inlpable in omitti g to open the com t 01
the day appointed by law. when it migh
nave been adjourned, and the bufinefspro
•eded 0:1 the next day, and the pco,
: hereby prevented irom going home wit
■ lit any bufinep- bring don- ; ,1 I only wil
o (hew that Judge Iredell was not t<
blame.
J- M.
May 10, 1:93.
EXTRACTS
1 From 1 ate trench papers.
Florence. Itb. 15 —The news of tin
pretend d difp rlion of the French
d'on in the Mediterranean has great v
el. vatecf the sprits of the pope :he all<
' ounts mmh upon the icceffion of Grea
Br tain to the ail ed powers. The holy
■ <ither h,|s the vaniiy nd io'ly to imagine
■ ';.it with 10or 12-ocogowned miiitia-uitn
tie can make bead ag.unft the troops o,
■ ranee. The French emigrants, and th
aunts, hanging about his court, have
inliilled opinions into him that will one
day prove more fatal to him than af> hifin
i.l the church. As to hi' means of-\\ arlart
with tht French, he has a few ruliy gothi,
cannon, bat not a lingle engineer or gunner.
'O that it i. plain he makes 110 dependence
in his artillery, but lelies on a faftr de
fence. viz, iiis miracles, the fu erftitiou
Ipirit oi the modern Romans, and St. IV
ier. Theft are his flores, bis resources.
a .dthi his general. Nothing but abso
lute conquelt can ever m t >ke Rome free.
Piie neck of the people s coii'pletely un
■ ler the pontifical yoke,anil tveu themonkfr
hf the 1 zth century were nut a whit more
fanatical and ignorant, and there is not a
ra.e of men 0.1 earth, Sam >iedes, Laplan
ders Negroes, or Patagonians more eftran
?ed from the nc.tur..l dignity of man.—
I here was a few day- ii ice a report at
Rome, that a fori oi the king ol Great
Britain was on his way thither to take
command of the papal troop; agaim:
trance; and from thence some peoplc
irgued that George the 3d. inte ids ro
-redt England into a Catholic ki. g lnm !—
It isnot only the people in Rome!.that art
laves to fupei Itition the v. hole tityis in
' olvi d in tile* mod deplorable tl r ..'1:
nd there are not 20 peTon-, iiicludino the
rjrdinals, who do not wori. Ip the pope
Ind believe in thw exiiceiKf of S > ->n- To
rtablifh a government in filch a place up
-m the great principle of the Frer,. ii. the I
vereigHty of the people, would be impofii
ile, and Equality would be an unintelli
jiiile word before wretches who dare no:
00k even the prince of Bop-Jiefe in tht
!ace. The only rational plan then fre
rrance is, the definition <1 t)e
:emporal power, and the reft will fail oi
:ourfe.
Paiis. Feb. 19. —Th? holy Inquisition
it Madrid, have at last finiflted the r p-c
l ess upon the da-wttable books publitheo
m i g2. The number is immense, am
they hive given a lift of the 111. What i
reman able is, the two I• ft bull ol the pope
are included in the n;iniber, under pre
tence of being forgeries.
March 4. —The English court are faiilv
embarrafit il for the means of carrying o:
the war against us. Pitt is counting npo
a loan of 12 millions fterling,f. om. privatt
iiiercbants j but it is a fait that it ii not i:
their power fq. fippV-him. T a;-,, •
cipjt.u aiu i-i'i,o(B «..,c ' . vrli ,g
i.potts to V «y ilie'ex,i.Mi'e.o' a Sp,.,jfh
iriu .irji-nt,.bji from i. „ ar , , >,
tin lurplus has ;,,.,, J . a
v hal taxes or dime can tim, lav' to
tace the loam. th .t ;. ?
llltk aiici o hi. »> ~ i it r e
the war the government 'i, s fiddl-d on
1 ' nanoii is ol a nature; d,-in{t from .11
lorjner ones, mil that if
ci r I'aiKe, ilie mu r. .5 e c u j., ( j
• I'd inevitably become .... . ... „ Pr The
Jjreat bankers dare not joh even to f- f - ti
i.ite upon the loans cIL red them, anil the
iiiimlter i- trying to (t L,,. n the cre .
anUty of the nat.on by j, g patriotic
,i;ts, a l.i.ce wlncfi n d fonje 'mall fnc
efs at Vienna, but proved ,touu the n„-
verty a n weaKnef, ofthei, cnt.
lo give it countenance in > : K |.,r.d feme
gtea. banking houf.a come for,v.-,rd w.th
iiicii contributions, alio the v have fume
Hopes that John Bull wil, \ r
example.—Ml ch is ejyjecied from an al
i,»v* r V 'r 1 rf 1 ot ' ,Vl *' • but we
have rt ~f .n lo thn.K that.tiie I iw'ifli v ill
bectuped, and the youna (lake <-r Aleut'a
p . ,b e t-° "cunning for the old ioxes of
Buckingham house.
Mar J, 5 — The American papers men
tion the continuance of the bloody v. or
l i'^ l f EG i £tl ' lf "t« & the interior Indians.
Ihe li.iKl.ern tribe* seem aifo to be io>iiin<r
the general league, chietiy owing, we are
alltirul, to .Spanish intrigue, which will
..otctafe to liarrafs the United Stares, in *
vheiame manner a>:tdid the French in
■ i ... o.a. i hof. 1 Itaieo are rapidiy re
loi trd tobyaf. t or men who will u'ot fail
l ° , corn, » ,t tndr republican p ircn-les ;
1 a,t the emigrant. !rum St. Dominpo.
i hey tarry uitli theni their slaves, their
" (l their vices, which are by no
means few in number.
It is observed by phyfHaus that from the
philanthropy of Cu d of natui e, cer
t i c!ilea.es which formerly tormented
.j ankii-d have dimppe; K d wholly, or in
,reat part, from the world. May'we not
•on hope that th. di| ( ,f e of mon.rchv,
o. fetnan alt the plr £l!e? of Lgypt, is alio
-pnliy verging toils per,od?
1 he convtnrion are forming designs a
nnft Rome that no fubtnijfions or fuimli-
Y 1,00:1 the High I'ontiifwill let ai de.
. he republic that hurls vengeance npon
ings v.iio wear not the tiara, will aifopti
nlh 111 an cxeirpl .ry manner, the pritft
:ing of the Romans—her vengeance will
.ot be J.itisfiic! t.!l Rome itfelt is laid in
' uins. It is hi;.], t.n e ihat tins ancient city
ii:otild b hui .bled to the chift, uev ho
as t« n.poru: y or fpn irualiy tyrannized
Over the won., in a.i ages, .mo which the
trench havt* at iaft hi m, n
..in.nrs of ancient-:: t : ; h m t-prot'ec; her
—they Will i). iian p,ried to Nue and Sa
voy, that new la.no of l.berty, where tra
vtliersin a purer ; tmofpl e.e, iv.ay con
i en .plate the relics of Jt ;terstitim and def
p t]•:.■, ovtrrurncd uy our trnis in oi.e ;n.d
ihe lan.e ir.llam.
Horrid as it may fecm, a man of the
gown, a preacher of peace, at Cologne, had
ifie cruelty to propefe, upon hear iVg of the
decapitation of Lt.nis. to liave all ihe
1" fnch in that capital, feize'd ai.d facrifin <1
on the gallowr to the gholt of Louis the
1 6th— an offering th t wetlld ha\e heen
v. orthy the divinity :hcy : dore— defpotili; !
I'he propohtion met vlith'conten pt. a, d
the on.y a. vantage gained by the preacher
was tile i cpUtatiori of bi i:ig a C .0(1 r yah St.
1 he duke c 15. uni'w I. k\ is if a
moll critical ftatt ; ailho' his phj/ician
Hickman, gives him hopes that he is yet
worth a doz.n dl ad men. Many area! o
lilhcd that he had not rarhtr eniplovcd
Dr. Willi-;, the famous phyncinn of George
th? 3d, and the queen of Portugal.
I he private p:j ers cf Lotis the i6th,
found in an excavated apartment in a wail,
are lickening to human nature, when con
trailed with hi- former oaths to the nation,
and hypocritical bihavfonr on !,is trial.
Alt ho' containing an imperfect hiflory of
'is plots against the p cp!e, contrived by
liimffcif, the royal family, the emigrants,
>nd the foreign despots, there is encugh to
convince us that the lowest vilcnefs of hu
man natu e exists in kings. Almoll all
tnefe writings are veiled in the darkest
ill ide of myi.eiy; fr»c(Uent!y in rymbolic
chaiv.£le-rs—Plans of de.,th bi. nn that can
not be traced—conlpiraeies Without end,
a d none coinp e.tly projcf.ed*; and aJmeft
a.l in the king's own hand writing ; a con
vincing proof that kings are bv ha it de
.eivers, traitors, monlu-rs, art 1 murderers.
Among others of tbefe ftopri -iug papers is
, let ter Iroin Gen. Bouille, mvi. r disguise,
0 Louis i6ih, dated Mentz, ? erembsr 15,
1 ■ 91. at a time w hen 110 one inn gineil any
hi ii correspondence cot,id have exiifleel.
it ontains an account of the (uins paid by
Louts to Bouille to elt.b'ill. a camp at
Mon.medi. and is extremely, interetfling,
j>ii ti.ularly as it contain ihi names of the
■gents of the conspiracy hci> !i..ic!,ijig ; and
more so ftiil, hecanfe among there we find
everal who v.ire very cc...picuous in the
. (Fair 0+ the Thulller'e- i about
hietin e ' ney received considerable rums
deifined to fi..'.llar pnrpa t•. .i' fr.bftanc*
f Cen. Eomile's If r r ' as r .'?'evw:—
"Received from the ! ; "<r nfij-nats,
in.l ._s — Uie- ...111 ued to