National gazette. — Philadelphia [Pa.], 1793-06-01 00:00:00, page 1

Norths n iTMi, printed at
Belfait, Ireland .J
"cUCH is the miserable tyranny now ex
iOing in that country, that men dare
not utter their thoughts on ih«" ailairs of
tiie public, except in parables and alle
gories "]
I believe it is acknowledged that there
is a connexion between our thoughts, in
the day time and our dreams at night ;
we dream when we are neither aflee,
nor awake, but in some middle state, and
hence it is that dreams are often very con
futed things, and there is very little ftrtf
in general to be laid np&n them. But
sometimes they have been of importance
and truly prophetic ; I cannot how ever
call my dream a prophecy, it does not
seem to prognofiicate any thing ; having
been in tha habit of thinking, though at
present I do not think it fafe to speak free
ly concerning political matters, it is very
natural to suppose that I flionld dream of
them ; and as it is my opinion that I can
not be punished for either thinking or
dreaming, and though I might be prosecu
ted for publilhing my thoughts, yet as
dreaming is perfectly involuntary, I think
I may venture to publish my dream, but a
friend of ini :e told me that though dream
ing is involuntary, the act of telling or
publishing the dream is voluntary, and
therefore cognizable ; I therelore laid
aside the thought of publishing my dream,
till I mould consider maturely whether
there was any thing in the dream that was
actio ia!>le ; and afier the mofl scrupulous
investigation, I found that it was no mat
ter what the d. earn was, provided it did
not relate to tin's kingdom,our rulers,
our glorious constitution, our mild govern
me t, and truly upright and immaculate
administration. Here I must give a kind
a <1 urefill caution to my fellow;-citizen
not to dream, if pollible, about state as
fa : rs ; but if th ydo dream and cannot
iiefj* it, i ifr- htm s o contr»v£**wf]'y
and means to have the f ene at a great dif
tar.ee from home ; I have pursued this
plan myfelf, and I can dream about poli
tics with the greateit ease, and what is bet
ter, with perfect security. My method is
this, whenever 1 fufpeft that I (hall dream
upon politics, I immediately take up Ro
bi.ifon Crufoe,or Cooke's voyages,and 'ad
about the celebrated ill ind and kingdom
of the former, or the valuable difioveries
of the latter ; or if AnfoVs voyage is not
upon the bigheft fhelf of the library, I
. read his description of Juan Fermandes, or
of Tinian, four times over, by which
means I become perfectly miniated, and
what is more, the island, which is the scene
of my visions, is quite unconneited with
Great Britain and Ireland, and whatever
I may dreain has no relation to any thing
that exists in these regions of knowledge,
peace and liberty.
A few nights ago, the Symptoms of
dreaming were very flrong, and therefore
in all halte I took up Anfon's voyage, and
read the description of Juan Fernandes,
quoties fufficit, that is to fay. four times,
and then putting out the candle,l fell asleep
and beginning to dream, I thought 1 was
on board the Centurion. I saw the beau
tifu. cascade described by the commodore's
hiflorian, and fancied I could have drank
a Scotch pint of it ; indue time I got on
shore, a .d rambled into the woods, leav
ing my cou itrymen occupied at the shore.
I thought the island was inhabited and
soon found myfelf present at a meeting of
the yeomanry of the island, which had
been previously called to decide upon
some political affairs. All of a sudden, I
heard agr at cry of, put out that fellow,
he is an alien. I told them that was my
jnisfortnne, not my fault, that an indivi
dual could not do them any injury, and
that I was altogether in their power be
titles, that I was a citizen of the woi Id and
considered all mankind as brethren—upon
this I was allowed to"be a fpeftator and an
hearer, hut it was determined that I should
not vote or speak in the meeting, yet a
promise was made, that if I should live ic
years in the island, behave peaceably, and
prudently, and acquiretvvo hundred coc
kle (hells per annufn, real cftate, or two
tnoufand ihells in property, and pay all
taxes, &c. I (hould then be enfranchifed.
Well, the debate commenced, and an el
derly gentleman with an enormous wig,
m ule of goats hair, read some resolutions
expreflive of their high veneration for the
Fernandian Conflitution. He acknow
ledged indeed, comparing the faicl confli
tution to a three man, that two of
Numb. 62 of Vol. ll.]
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the legs were very much fuelled, and t!ie
other leg for.ew hat withered; but, fays he,
it is better to have this conflitution with
all its faults, and if it had many more,
than to have recourse to physic, efpeiiallv
as the phjficof the island was rather dr-t -
lie, very apt to gripe the bowel;. and
fometimcs brought oil the pile:—He there
fore concluded a tiring o resolutions,
with the following cbferv tior, uau.elv.
that to plump up the withe. Ed leg, it would
be proper to administer cordials, strong
filh broth, calves feet jiliy, &c. —and ii
these medicines fliouid be ineffe&ual, he
advised that the deficie:icy and deformity
be remedied, by drawing on a great num
ber ofilockir.gs, which would make the
legs look well enough ; from some circum-
Aances I was led to suppose, that the
small leg was the democratic part of their
conflitution.
When this man had done speaking, and
the firft resolution was moved, a.,d the
motion seconded : a little fel ow with a
leal (kin bonnet, rose up and opposed what
I took to be the general ienfe of the meet
ing ; he said, molt rashly and impertinent
ly, that there was no conflitution in the
island of Fernandes ; upon which he was
immediately called to order; but he fail!
iie could prove his aflVrtion, and accord
ing y was permitted to proceed, though 1 I
pcrceived that inoft of the old people ii
the afleiiib y were highly provoked at him,
and called him a puppy for presuming to
;loubt what they believed from th« ir infan
cy ; they said they had n ade up their mind'
upon the matter, that they won.d not al
tei their opinions, and that if they had no
confluution it was better for foeie y to be-
e that they had one, and that it was a
gijod one ; now this I highly approvtd of,
nut Squileito. that being the name of the
little jackanapes, said that wherever the
i uling power is absolute, there can be no
conflitution, unlef the will of the filler;,
he the conflitution, and then it lnuft be si;
aucfi- i i.lcr many realoris,
nat it coulu not de ene the name of a
oonftitution, becfiuCe every time the rulino
powers chaiged their Rii d,the conflitution
•■vis changei: al.o if then,fay* he,the form
of govei rimenain Fernaiules is I'o organi
zed, that the feverai power - can < heck and
balance each other ; this is a business be
tween themlVlves—aril when they have
fetrled these ir. ..ter to their faii.sf.,£lion,
ano have jgreed to make and exeiute eer
tain laws, and to impose and levy certain
taxes; then, continues Sqiiletto, the peo
ple of Fernandes are ab oh tely fubji it to
the decilioii of the three branches of their
legillature, and ii there are nu botnds pre
scribed to the power of these th ee bran
ches acting i.i concert, if they can repeal
lawsmadefor the public weal and enatl
whatever they please, the government of
Fernandes is as absolute as that ol ( 011-
llantinople. Now was not this an impu
dent little fellow? what he said would
have been palled over in (ilent contempt,
as no doubt it deserved, had it not been
for the zeal of Glumdug, who thought
t!,at such words were very improper ; he
observed that one of the branches of the
legifiature wascompofed of the represen
tatives of the peoplesrights, and that there
never w is an inflance known of their be
traying their sacred trull, that in their
hands the rights of the people were prr
feftly secure, th .t if it cou.d be fuj p ifed,
(he begged pardon for the very (uppofui
on) that the other two branches of the le
gifiature had any delign 10 encroach upon
the liberty of the kibp-ci, the reprefei.ta
tive body, would, eve.y man of them, lay
down their lives rather than betray their
conflituents. What, fays he, will any
man dare to fay that we have no conflitu
tion, because we have no written instru
ment agreed upon by the people, either
by themfeives or by their representatives
as a constitutive aflembly ? if the people
have never made a constitution for them
selves, what then ? there has been one
made lor them, and a better one than they
could ever have made, or ever can make ;
this conflitution is written on our hearts,
and we w ill maintain it, and we w ill not
reform any of its abuses ordeftfls if it has
any, because this would be too great a
coiidefcenlion, and would encourage the
people to go further from time to time,
and where this would end no body know
At this time an officer with a guard, ar
rived, and took Squiletto into cuflody,
and one of the halberdiers turning round
gave me such a thump upon the nose with
the end of his halbert that I awoke, and 10,
it was but a dream.
S A T U R I>A Y, June i, 1793.
N. B. The Britifli have eftablilhed in
Ireland, a horrid and damnable coiirt ol
Inquilition. " The peralle. (f«y they) be
tween the dreadful court of Inquilition in
he plemitude ol its terrors, and a certain
n«"vv created tribw-al, is remarkably Un
king ; the one was ipftituted for suppres
sing the freedom of thought, in religious
m.itters.the other in political-, the one em
ployed a number of spies, ca.led familiars,
who iolinuated thenil'elves into all compj
uies, discovered their sentiments, ajie:
marked out the victims devoted to de
ttru&ion ; the other hath also its spies for
the like purpose ; the .one tore from the
bosom of his family the fuCpected person,
and dr.igged him without any legal proce
dure before their tribunal j ■ the other
does the fame ; the one tried by interroga
tories. in fecrct, anil condemned without
vvitntfiesor jury : the other proceeds ex
acliy in a limilar manner ; in fine, the only
d.tference between them is, that the for
mer made uf<; of torture during the exa
mination, which we believe is not, as yel
employed by the latter, in as much a? thai
horrid mode of extorting confeflion ha<
been in disuse in this country for more thar
a century.
Yelierdaya person, after having under
gone interrogatories belore the secret com
mittee, was committed to Newgate.
Extratts from French papers—March 20
Paris, March 28. r. There is not an afl
of baienefs but arillocracy has recourse tc
n order to strengthen her party in Lon
don. Pamphlets, hand-bills, fpies,fawning
gold, inquifitioiis and perlecutions art
alike applied to for this purpose. Your
good l.nglii: men thus explain the vorc
equalityb current among the French.—
1. It is a universal plunder of all
by mobs.—2. An equal divilion ot lands,
that is to fay, an agrarian law. Acqui
sition of pi vpetty l.- vin the irottbiesHjf ifie
times, rather than from labour and fruga
lity. ffy lucb inclinations, the creduloui
Knglifii are led to beiieve that no such thing
as political equality can exilt in the world.
It is aftonilhing the pains that are taken in
that unfortunate island to subdue the spi
rits or the inhabitants—An arbitrary au
thority can now arrelt any person whether
walking or Handingftiil, whether lilent 01
speaking ; • hether in town or couutry.
ill the fime ; tyranny leaves no corner
unexplored. No more liberty of the press.
and man's difafieflion or alfeition to go
vernment i.; couftrued from the very ges
tures of his bidy. Even the right of peti
tioning is new withdraw 11 from the peo
ple.—We have it alio from the very firll
authority, that London is at this moment
in the lituatipn of Paris in 1789, and thai
a general explosion w ill foontake place.
2. Every thing indicates a speedy revo
lution in England. This cannot be rect -
oned Orange if we take a view of their
political condition. From the year r6Sf
the Engjifh have been governed by a con
vention of priests and 111 bles, under a fori
of feuoal contrail which they miscall con
stitution. Educated from their cradles r
ar. opinion that they are free, they have
flunibered for more than a century on the
pillow of this iliufion. The French revo
lution has awakened them from this idle
dream. They now blufli at their creduli
ty, and wifli to recover the rights wrefled
from them by those immortal knaves, king*
nobles, and prielis, and that scum of go
vernmental servility which floats 011 the
fiirfac eof every nation on the globe. The
people ftippofe themselves free because ai
every return of those periodical farces
called elections, they go publicly tc
give their votes for candidates previoufT>
fixed on by the government, and are al
lowed to utter some foolifh jokes again!!
the minifler, or to draw caricatures, poll -
liticaily tolerated, the better tofnbje£l the
fouls and bodies of the governed to the
will of the governors. Notwithttardinj
all this, how ever, the political situation ol
the people in England is not exaitly the
fame with that of the French in r 789- In
I France the clergy formed alone a power
| f ill body, utterly detached from the people,
and therefore the more dangerous. In
England the toleration of all religions has
multiplied feels, and cf consequence the
miniflers of all poflib'e creeds. Self inte
rest being the ruling motive with these
vicegerents of the deity, as well as with
other men, and as priests will in every
country be neither more nor less than
p>riefts, an inveterate scheme has l&uj, pre-
vailed in England, between the votaries of 1
tlie effablilhed church and the dijfej.ttrs.
I he teachers of the latter, being fupportexl
by their followers, 2nd both deprived of
all political rights and piiMie-emploj ment»,
are the determined opponettfs. of <V religi
ous, a roy 1, and a parliamentary aristo
cracy; The priefthuotl ajid the people
being thus divided against itfelf in Eng
land, clerical and royal tyraflrfy may possi
bly not experience to sudden a downfall
as in France.
' 3., A republican government fhmild be
fatinded upon »he .human virtues and the
aflive fpint of patrionfm. The general
argument against repilblicanifin in France
re,, the want of virtue in the people, to
fuppqrt that Species of government' But
(conlidering theftate to -ctnirti tii French
have beeivdegratled by tyfaraiy) how is the
natipitto 1;j renovated to a fenfe'of virtu
ous principles, except by tlie violent efforts
ol a political revolution ? The continu
ance of defpotifin would have funk us still
deeper into the gulph of ignorance, arid
had the Bourbon race continued to reign,
every faculty of the human mind would
have been degraded lower and lower and
at length loco motion b^enalone permitted;
and not even that but for the mercenary
purpoles of tyranny. Tlie revolution
then, m«li beget a gradual tendency to
wards republicanism, as knowledge ii crea
ks, even if the monarchical fyliem, b> the
union of tyrants, should be for a time for
ced upon the nation. We did not abolish
royalty to leave its restitution 111 the hand*
of falfe republicans. Whatever our .re
butments may be supposed, kings have
only beendeflroyed in France, to p.eferve
the sacred rights of man. In many thing*
we have bfen wrong. In imitation of
Athens we for a while eftablilhed the ostra
cism : but this was not fanftionec! by the
voice of the people ; and Atiiti.s was only
a small republic. France, on the contrary,
conltytm£.s a republic, \i Inch altho'imtaenia
!fill requires unity of government. 11l
Athens the people generally governed by
themselves directly; 111 1-ranee the go
vernment is by representation. Athens,
by reason of her infigmficance, feaied the
i fluence of a fugle individual, and there
by meant to prelerve Liberty and 1 quality*
Hut filch a fear, once admitted into the
French councils, would overthrow the
rights of man, and destroy equality,
~ Fremthe New-York Journal, ofMayij.J
WHEN the brig Orange lefi Bristol,
(April 12) it was reported (hat Da
mourier had gone to Paris at the head of
his army, for thepurpofe of declaring the
dauphin king, be, Pumourier, having beta
worried out withthe abujes of the conven
tion, and being convinced, that none but
dejpots could govern Frenchmen, & c . <^ c .
A letter to a refpeflable merchant in N.
York, intimi tes, that a speedy peace is
expected, and that the inducement to that
belief is, the late conduct of Dnnioufier
but the writer does not mention what that
conduct is. The inference would seem
to be ffuppofing the desertion of Dumott
rier and a general dtfeftion) that defpotifnt
will soon be re-established, and war cea.'e 1
London papers are received to the 10th
inclusive, in which there is not one official
account of Dumourier'sdefeif on. 'j here
is a variety of reports, purporting that
all France is in a terrible fati of coniufions
various debates in the Club, in
which, it is f3id Bournon-nille was impeach
ed, and many other emhuliartic measures
entered into - In the Sun, of the torh of
April, which is the lateit paper received
the follow ing paragraph appears :
" It is now rumoured, tha.Dumcltrier
havingfound reason 10 fufpefl the sincerity
of a great part of his army, in the promises
they had gnen to support him in si s plan of
marching to Paris, and placing young Lc u
isan the throne, had left his army, ,it tie
head of a regiment ot caval.y, and gone to
the Austrian army. We give this merely ai
a r port; we may howeyer add, that no
official intelligence of any such even: has
been received."
This account is nearly the fame as the
one via Cape Francois— and bv it ard the
other accounts, the public mv.ft be convin
ced, that some 11 omentum defections have
taken place in France, much agaii.fl the
republican intercfl— but the particulars of
these defeflions are net yet developed "or
difgorgt d from that abominable niafj D f
political 1 uniour and intrigue, which in
creases by deception, and conlolklatps by
bejijß #tij)tiii)i;tlly heaped upon. *
[Total Numb. 166.]