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rtot exist long. He makes a kind of ex
ception to the government of Connecticut,
and alliens for a reason, the purity of the
morals of Conne£licut ; but when we fee
the morals of a people depreciating ( as is
always the cafe in propertiOn to populati
on and luxury) then it becomes the true
lovers of the gov'ernmertt, to watch the
liberties of the fame, moie narrowly and
critically, and to g'uard against every thing
that tends to weaken it. 1 dare allure my
lellow freemen, that if they will ddigently
atte ;d all public ele&ion-meetings, and
vote tor men of abilities, probity and can
dor, for governor and alliltants, and men
void of intrigue for representatives, thole
who fear God rather than man, who will
difplate intriguing party-spirited men from
our feats of justice : then will our gov
ernment flourilh and prosper, our republic
will last as long as time, and justice will
run down our ltreets as a rtream, and righ
teoufnels as a tiood."
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
Vienna, Feb. n. The imperial troop>
deflined to ait against France, are divided
iuto four armies. The total number ol
battalions ot infantry for these armies i'
127 —of divisions of cavalry 67, and one hall
battalions.
Frankfort, Feb. 15. The two brothers o;
his late molt chritlian majesty have lent of
fitial notice of their brother's death to al
the courts in Europe. They have pro
claimed the dauphin king of France undei
the title of Louis XV 11. Count de Pro.
vence is declai ed regent of the kingdom
and Count D'Artois lieutenant-general
The regent has sent Colonel Van Roll to b<
ambail'ador at *he head quarter? of hi:
Prudian majefly. The king of Prussia ha:
already acknowledged the new king, th(
regent, and the lieutenant-general o]
France.
Feb. 26. Monsieur of France has publish
ed a proclamation at Ham in Wellphalia,
which mentions the late murder cou.mittec
on Louis XVI. and declares that the 'Dau
phin Louis Charles, born the 27th ot Mart !
1785, is king of France and Navarre, undei
the name of Louis XVII.' Monsieur thcr
declares himfelf to be regent, and that he
aflumes the reins of govei nmetit conjointly
with the other princes of the blood royal,
of whom the Count d'Artois is appointed
lieutenant of France. The proclamation
is dated •' January 28th, under our seal,
which we made use of in the ligning of so
vereign acts, under the seals of the king
dom, deltroyed by the reigning faction, are
re-made, in the year 1793, and the firlt of
the reign of Louis XVII."
A definitive reparation has taken place
between Monsieur and the uounc d'Artois.
The latter was jealous of the title of re
gent, winch his elder brother has formally
auumed. There was also a itrong differ
ence between their plans ot government,
ill cafe they should be able fuccefsfully to
re-enter France. Monsieur was for a li
mited monarchy, but the Count was for
re-eftabli(hing the former government,
with abating a little of its molt odious pre
tensions.
Monsieur, the late king of France's eldest
brother has received fix thousand pounds
sterling troin the king ot England, as a
present.
London, March 2. On the Bth of January
lall, Lunardi ascended in aballoon at Mad
rid, in the presence of their catholic ma
jellies, the royal family, and a great croud
of people of all ranks. He changed the fi
gure of his aerostatic globe to that of a
temple in the clouds, adorned with columns
and ltatues, afterwards he changed it to a
Chinese building, with arches and statues,
then to half temple and haif Chinese build
ing, and call anchor at twenty miles from
Madrid; he then proceeded to a vail height
(almost out of fight)—at four o'clock he
calt anchor again, at 38 miles from Mad
rid, where he llripped his balloon of about
700 ysrds of the linen with which he had
made the above mentioned changes ; he
then set fail and at (111 Ik landed near
the city ot Orcarco, 56 miles from Madrid.
His aerial voyage iaited five hours.
Madrid, Feb. 14. The molt extraordi
nary and energetic exertions take place in
all our ports. The officers of the marine
have all received orders to repair to their
ports with all pofiible speed. Our naval ar
mament will be ready for sea in 8 da\ s. The
public voice points out M. Langara, d'Ar
tizabel, and Mazaredo, as the 1110 ft eligible
for the command of it.
The indignation of the people upon the
firft intelligence of the death of Louis was
extreme. The French resident here were
obliged to conceal themselves, to avoid the
popular fury ; and their indignation was,
if pofiible, encreafed, when they were told
that the Convention had refufed the king's
mediation.
Extract of a letter from the French Camp
near Maeftricht, dated Feb. 12.
" Since my lad letter, we have twice
changed our encampments, the more close
ly to invert Maeftricht. We keep that city
blockaded, have ftopt many carriages with
grain, and taken some prisoners. We some- J
times interchange salutations with the en-1
emy's patrol.
" The garrison propose to refill ter
rable bombardment with which we are go
ing to entertain them. They arc incessant
ly at work on their intrenchments. We
are within a quarter of a league from the
city, patrol night and day, and Hop all who
go in or come out of it. There are a num
ber of emigrants in the city. Cannon
loaded with broken glass and iron are plant
ed in every street, in cafe of resistance from
the inhabitants; but I hope the red cap
which I wear will be placed on the tree ol
liberty, and that this glorioiu tree will be
planted on the ramparts of Maeftricht.''
Hague, March 6. An officer arrived liPre
this evening with an account of the capi
tulation of Gertruydenburg, to the French
after three days bombardment, on the fame
conditions as those given at Breda. The
garrison confiding of a Swift regiment, and
an 160 cavalry, to evacuate the town to
morrow, with the cannon of the battalli
ons, all the horses, and to march to liois
le Due.
An officer is just arrived from the prince
of Hefle at Maeftricht, with intelligence,
that on the 3d ififtant, the prince de Saxe
Cobonrg obtained a molt complete vi£lory
over the French, chaling them out of Aix
la Chapelle as far as Liege, with a loss, 011
their part, of 4000 killed, 260 prisoners,
and more than 20 pieces of cannon. On
the fame day prince Frederick of Btunf
wick took fonie batteries at Zwalme, kil
led 1300 of the French at Brugge, and took
700 prisoners, and marched to Rureinond.
The French retired from before Maef
tricht with precipitation, a:.d left some bag
gage and cannon. They had thrown above
6000 shells into the town.
London, March 9. The following par
ticulars of the defeat of the French before
Williamftadt, utre communicated to a
refpeftable merchant in this city, brought
by the mefi'enger arrived yesterday from
Holland. It is with an honest pride that
we have to (late, that apart of ourconntry
were actively engaged in so glorious a bu
finefi.
Capt. Manley, of the Syren, having pre
viously concerted the business with the
governor of Williamftadt brought his ship
to bear luccefsfully on the French army.
The French made an attack, in which they
were much annoyed by the fire of the E-n
---jjlilh frigate.
This, as it was unexpe&ed, Dumourier
was unprepared for. The garrison made
x rally, and 700 of the French were killed
by the fire of the garrison, and the Syren
together.
The French fell back, but returned a
gain to the attack—At this moment a fluite
was opened which had the delired effect—
upwards of loco of the enemy were killed
iy the fire of the Syren, the spirit and vi
gour of the garrison, and the cft'eft of the
inundation. Dumourier iound it in vain
toperfift. He abandoned his works, and
retired to the dillance of a league, up to
the middle in water.
The people at Auifterdam and Rotter
dam are in the utmost coufulion. They
liave packed up all their valuable moveables,
and are preparing themfeives on a mo
ment's warning for flight, but scarcely
know which way to take themfeives. Se
veral have endeavoured to obtain a pafiage
bv the packets, but there was no room—
others hired veflels which are to be in con
stant readiness to fail.
Netherlands, March 2. Official dispatch
from the Aultrian Gen. Clairfayt, dated
March ift. at Aldenhoven.
" This day has been perfefHy fortunate
for the imperial troops. Last night we
:i ofl'ed the Roer, and drove the enemy
Dotn from the quarter of Duren, and that
jf Juliers, to the distance of one league
Did a quarter beyond Aldenhoven. The
loss of the enemy in killed and wounded,
ncluding prisoners, to the number of 600,
imounts on the whole to 2000 men. Twelve
:annons, thirteen ammunition waggons, &
tlieir military chest fell into our hands.
" His royal highness the Arch duke
Charles attacked inperfon, this afternoon,
with the advanced guard, some batteries
.vhere there were 9 cannons, and took pof
"effion of them.
" Our loss amounts only to ten killed
Hid forty wounded. We particularly re
;ret, among the former, Col. dc Pfort
seim, and Capt. Mefmanchers.
" You will be so kind, General, as to
ommunicate this account to his Serene
Highness Duke of Brunfwick."
Dublin, March 12. The Lloyd's lifts of
helaftßritifh mails continue to give a dif
igreeable register of veflels captured by the
?neniy; the distress occasioned by which is
iut poorly afl'uaged bv the taking of three
merchant ships and half a dozen paltry pri
vateers by his majesty's ships of war in the
Rritifli Channel.
Sixty merchant ships under the convoy
of two frigates from London down the
channel, having lain to, in the night of the
14th of last month, underthe Isle ofWight,
two French privateers flole in among them
and took several by boarding them.
Paris, March 3. We are now in the most
profound tranquility. The plans of the in
nrgents, or more properly of their instiga
tors, are completely defeated, at least for
iheprefent. The examination now rigo
rously going on, will probably bring some
of the latter to punifhinent.
March 5. Letter from the Minister at
War to the Convention—" I think it my
duty to inform you, that I learn by a l etter
from General Valence, that the Fruflrans
to the number of 25, or 30,000 men, have
advanced to the Roer, to relieve Macil
richt, and that the movement of the enemy
induced Gen. Miranda to suspend the
bombardment of the place. This event,
of little importance in itfelf, may only o
blige us to attack it in form, and retard us
tome time longer. Such is the precise truth
of intelligence, which may be conlidered of
more importance than it delirves, and on
which it is my duty to fix the opinion ot the
National Convention."
On the 15th of February the Senate of
Hamburgh received orders from the em
pire to dismiss the minister of the French re
public within 48 hours,& from lower Sax
ony within 6 days. In consequence ofthis
step an emt argo is laid 011 all lliips of the
Hanfe towns in French ports, and orders
ili'ued to capture t hem wherever found.
The enemies of France have described
as a complete defeat the flight check of an
advanced port, which a finall part of the
French experienced near Aix la Chapelle.
The French made a retreat worthy oi
themselves, and the cause they defend :
they at present occupy an advantageous
polt, where they wait tor the junction ol
the two armies under Miranda and Va
lence (40,000 men) whoare rapidly mar
ching to support them.
For the National Gazette.
Mr. Freneau,
pROM the bitter complaints uttered in
the General Advertiser of the 26th ot
April, and in the National Gazette of lait
Saturday, by an Old fellow Soldier, I am
convinced he is wholly a flranger to the
principles of our people in puwer, or, in
other words, our peopleof tali.ion.
This, however, has nothing surprizing
in it ; and in such matters ignorance is
excufeable in a defender of liberty. We
soldiers, in fact, have very little know
ledge of any thing except fighting, and are
mere simpletons in the cunning arts ot
court intrigue. As my present (ituation
has perhaps afforded mt better opportuni
ty than the Old Soldier to make my obser
vations onthe polite world, if he will pro
mise me not to tell any body, I wiil entrult
him with a great secret. lam obliged to
take this precaution because I would not
choose that all the world ihould be ac
quainted with the principles of w hat are
called the well-bred, and likewise because
I am under fomelear left those, called by
certain gentry, the people, should take it
into their heads to ridicule them. Now,
as it is a rule with me to pay refpetl tc
all so far as they are really refpeifable, and
no farther, I will speak my sentiments ii
such a manner as to be underllood only
by those who have a right to underftar.c!
me.
Let me tell you then, my good friend
that yoii Ihould have cooked up a little dis
simulation with your complaints. Difli
mutation is the only virtue that pleases the
great ; for they abhor Jincerity, which ii
one of the principal faults they blame it
republicans. It is therefore out of season.
But let us return to the obje£t of youi
complaints.
You complain that certain people are
unwilling to give to citizen Genet, the
reception he deserves ; and conclude, that
if a salute of artillery was fired for a herd
of savages, who have scattered death and
desolation over our western frontiers, we
ought atleaft to pay the fame compliment
to the representative of a nation that has
lavilhed its blood and treasure to set the
United States free from the fliameful yoke
of Engiilh tyranny.
As you cannot be unacquainted with the
prodigions refpecl for, and attachment ol
some persons among us to royalty, I am
alloniihcd that you was 'so brief on this
fubjefr. In general, the ambassadors of
the Indians are commiflioned by kings, and
very often too the ambassadors themselves
are kings. You ought not to be surprized
then, if they are featted & pampered while
here, and if when they grow tired of the
capital, their majeflies are sent home la
den with wealth and royal presents.
Ifgreatguns arethe ultima ratio regum,
certainly, they ought only to be used to
announce the future arrivals of their moll
gracious tawny majejties. On such a prin
ciple, it would be absurd so far to mis
use the state or federal artillery as to sa
lute the representative of a nation, who,
like ourselves, dared to fay in the face of
the world, that men ought to be free and
equal, thatjovereignty re/ides only in the
people, and that the people are the foun
tain of all power.
Such do&rines, however, are at this
day, by many in the United State-s, reckon
ed mod abominably paradoxical.
My dear Old fellow Soldier, if I recol
lect rightly, yon fay something about GKA-
TjTujje due from independent America
to France, as a a nation. Alas, my wor
thy veteran !—Gratitude is not a plant of
this day's growth.—ll is absolutely a word
without an idea, a mere unmeaning found;
• r, if it does at all exist, it means that our
acknowledgements arc not due to the ita
tion that Hied its blood, and expended its
treasures even,to profusion, for our libe
ration; but to tlit king, «ho Signed ihe
official mandate.
I am flrongly of opinion, and I know so
much of the late couit 01 France, as si in
ly to belic\ e, that the king, in ligning trea
ties with the United State.-, knew nut what
he was alout ; for if he had been in
his senses, he would have been cautious
how he lent his liipport. \\ h ell was at that
time the upport ot the nation, to an en
raged mob, or rebels, (a the Americans
were then represented) who afpiied only
to be ranked among men, and conlVquent
ly could not otherwise than exhibit a dan
gerous example to those 26 millions of en-
Saved beings, whom Louis ca.lcd his sub
jects. .
My brave companion in the toils of war,
take not 111 evil part this lioneft remon
strance from your old corporal , and if at
our time of 1 fe we think it 110 longer pro
per to assume the pollil;ed and hypocriti
cal language of courts, be at least content
ed, with me, to drink your pint of small
beer Jans ceremtm/e, if you have any far
thing of money left, after paying taxes,
excites, and intert'ft upon certificates that
we were obliged to fell at 2s 6d in the
pound, to those v 110 have iince reaped
their harvest from our miseries, and now
have the complaisance to despise us.
AN OLD CORPORAL.
Philad. April 27. .
For the National Gazette.
Mr. Frenead,
C'OR Tome time part I have had it in my
mind to convey to the public, thro' the
channel of your paper, an iiiftorical lift of
the perfens who have been mafl'acred
ay command of those Eur< pean tigers,
who have the assurance to call themielves
:he lords and fathers of their people. And
this 1 do, in part, for the amujemert of
i/iofe in this country, who teem so highly
enamoured of royalty, or to fptak more
properly, of defjotifm.
No sooner, however, had I fairly enter
ed upon my talk, than 1 was convinced,
from the multiplicity of ro)al crtn es, that
whole volumes \\ oulci be nt ctilarv to ac
complilli my purpose. It was originally
my tlelign to proceed regularly back from
the age in which we live to those ren ote
times when hiltory mingles with fable;
beginning with the jVlachiavelian king
[Frederick II ] who brought the military
art to perfection ; and afeendi ig gradual
ly to the times when flour'flhed the fierce
Nimrod, the Frederic* <>t his age, [said to
be the firlt who invented the infernal art of
conducting men to (laughter, to the ca
dence of drums and tifir).
Finding it impraflicable fully to accom
pliihmy purpose, I fiiali content inytelf
with recapitulating two facts which are
too recent to be called in question. The
firft is extracted from _the works of the
late king of Pruflia. It appears f rom the
model! calculation of this- renowned mili
tary butcher, that avar of seven years,
that is to fay, a war from 1756 to 1763,
cost Europe eight hundred and sixty fix
ihoufand men ; and that duringthe long
reign of Louis the 14th, no lef> than fif
teen millions of men 1 ell victims to royal
ambition. Itis as utelefs then as it is end
less to follow these despotic barbarians
thro' ail their ambitious wars, with a
view of juftifying the French of the pre
sent age in cruihing into the dufl one of
those monsters, of a race stained with hu
man blood and carnage.
They find their thror.es in a 1110 ft tot
tering condition, and are exerting their
last efforts to prevent the total fall of def
potilin. In vain will they heap vifrims
upon victims—fall they mull—and their
deftru£lion will be accelerated by the very
resistance they make.
Let us then leave this monster, defpo
tifin, in that gulph of annihilation where
(he must soon forever remain, and unveil
the murderous acts of fanaticifm, that
monster with Medtifa's head, who has pal
lied all the human virtues, and transform
ed benevolent man into a ferocious mon
ster; who has engendered ignorance, the
most hideous plague of our species :—
Let us break that magic charm which ! as
proved so fatal to the world, and which
tho' perifning has flill ftrengtli enough
to afflict mankind. By exposing its baneful
effects let us render it odious to those \\ ho
may still be exposed to be led astray.
All enumeration of the crime? tommit
ted in the name of the God of peace h. s
been not very difficult to make 1 et. His
tory, for a long time back, is clear in this
matter ; whether it has been that religious
wars have teemed more odious than o
thers in the eyes ot despots themfelvcs, or
that the proscribed and perlecuted sects
have been more afliduous 111 recording the
history of their fufferings for the hei elit
of their posterity. I know not. Itis ike
ly however that by so circumstantially re
cording these bloody extravagances, they
were not without hopes that their dt fcen
dants would one day profit from the er
rors of the past, ?.nd avenge the blocd of
their ancestors.
I (hull now proceed to particularize the