National gazette. — Philadelphia [Pa.], 1793-01-19 00:00:00, page 2

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FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
PARIS, Nov. 14.
SPAIN still arms, and we still infill on
arming and fending to sea-twenty (hips of
the line. Who can believe that the Cou
lin of Louis XVI. is willing to become the
ally of the French Nation ? Who can for
get the long intrigue that the Spanilh Mi
nister had with the Empire, Russia, Prullia,
and th.; King's brothers ? How can it be
concealed that all the South of Europe has
intrigued againlt us by the croj's, as the
North has intrigued by the blazon ? —The
more then our Revolution gains footing be
yond our frontiers, so much more the
kings whom it menaces will unite their
powers to attack us. If we do not pre
vent them we (hall have war at tiome in
the spring, and let us recollett the fuffer
ings of Lisle, for in the south we lhall have
110 Verdun. Here then is the life of 20
Ihips of the line, accompanied by fifteen
frigates.
Three frigates to support Paoli in Sardi
nia.
Nine (hips to make a descent on Oftico,
and from thence an army to penetrate to
Rome, and to bring off the chief of the
League, or to make him decamp with his
Montfignori.
These nine (hips to go afterwards to Na
ples, to hold a Conference with the Gros
Bourbon, who feeds there.
Two (hips to cruise between the coast of
Africa and Cadiz.
Then we (hall beat liberty topurfue our
plan against iMinorca, and from thence we
(hall proceed to Conllantinople, where the
Grand Turk will receive us with open
r>rms, in spite of all that the Englilh can do
to prevent it. Then we may support the
Tartars in an infurreftion against Catha
rine, and conclude with a visit to Trieste.
Extract of a letter from Worms.
"To describe the terror and anguish
which pervaded every breast at the en
trance of the French into this city, would
even baffle the powers of conception. No
thing was to be heard but confufed cries
and moans. The gates were immediately
shut, and nobody durll either pass or re
pafs. The enormous contribution was ex
afled with threats, and no one durll fly,
under pain of death. General Cufline de
clared that if the contribution was not
raised and paid when the clock ilruck
twelve, he would plant his cannon in all
the ftreetsand batter the town into a heap
of ruins. AH the Magistrates, women and
children, fell at his feet, and craved mercy
and compallion ; but the general seemed
inexorable; yet he lamented, he Paid,that he
had orders to act with such severity. Every
one brought what he could raise in money,
and offered to pay the deficiency in effects
of value. But Cuftine said, he wanted no
thing but money, which he must have. It
being an entire impossibility, he took the
hostages with him.
His men durll not commit the finalleft
excess. He ordered thirty of them and a
captain to be (hot at Spires, and one of
them bad only eat a grape. We cannot la
vi(h too much praise 011 the French sol
diers, who mingled their tears with ours
at the inexorable rigor of the General.—
They all declared loudly that they would
not obey the orders to batter the town into
ruins, though we had been represented to
them as their mod inveterate enemies.
The officers advised us to write to France,
and that the Convention would make resti
tution. The French took with them 15,000
tents which the emigrants had left in
pledge here, and all the provisions and am
munition belonging to the Prulfians and
Auftrians. The value of what has been
taken by them from hence to Spires, is
estimated at twenty millions of Rix dol
lars."
LONDON, Nov. 20.
The king of Prussia has (hewn himfelf
but a weak politician. Those who have
paid mod attention to the history of Euro
pean politics, asserted before he took the
field, that it could not polliblv be true that
he meant to join Austria in the war ; they
were led to this opinion by the evident bad
policy, which the king of Prussia would
manifeft by lending his aid to aggrandize
Austria, and to humble France, which a
lone could serve as a check to that power;
and the natural jealousy fublilling between
Prussia and Austria presented so many ob-
Itacles to their acting in union, that it must
be admitted no found politician could have
believed it possible, till the event proved it,
that Prussia could have (hewn so much
weakness.
While he was thus carried away by a de
sire of legislating for France, he allowed
the influence of Russia in Poland, which it
had been the work of many years to abridge
and annihilate, to acquire a preponderance
and liability which all his power and influ
ence will not be able to overturn again for
many years to come. For this he was pro
mised a reward by sharing in the spoil, and
in this he (hewed also his weakness. A
courtier or a king giving implicit credit to
a promise is a phenomenon in politics.
The king of Prussia has purchased a lit
tle experience ; and it is probable that the
jealotify which formerly existed between
him and the House of Austria, will receive,
from the events of the late campaign, frelli
food to maintain it.
What have been the consequences ref
peiting France ? Vi£lory ! Confidence! fi
nely ! The armies which last marched a
gainll them were great and powerful, but
before such another force can be brought
td oppose them, they will be able to bring
into the field a much more formidable ar
my than they have yet been able to Ihew.
Already departing from their defenlive fy
(lem, they are carrying on an olfeniive war
not only against their open enemies, but a -
gainst all those fnrrounding states, who,
calculating upon the impolfibility of their
being able to refill the combined armies,
were not fufficiently cautious in hiding
their opinions, orthedifpofitionsthey were
making against them.
In (hort, calculating from the present cir
cumstances, there is every probability that
Pruilia will not again take the field against
France, and thar, it an aftnal alliance do
not take place between that powe* and
trance, the Constitution of the latter will
be acknowledcd at lead by the former, if
not, also by England and Holland, before
the end of another campaign. Is this
strange ? We have seen stranger things—
the independence of America acknowledg
ed by Great Britain.
The Elector of Mayence, now drove
from his poll'ellions by the French, is 1b his
73d year.
The Auftrians now fay that the plan of
the campaign in France was ill-conceived ;
and if be true, as is confidently aflerted,
that it was the work of Bouille and Hey
man, now both in the Prussian fervicej to
them the other emigrants may impute their
present fufferings.
The king of Naples, apprehending a vi
iit from the French squadron, has fortified
the fine bay of that place, withfeveral bat
teries for throwing hot balls.—These how
ever, it is suspected will not avail much a
gainst the impetuous attack of 20 French
lliips of the line :
Monks, mitres, and rags will fly in the air,
When once t'/ey have brought their bull
dogs to bear.
The gentleman, who not long lince re-!
ceived one hundred guineas, to return one
guineaper day until the Duke ofßrunfwick
arrived at Paris, has ottered one thousand
guineas to be off the bargain.
Mr. Burke spends molt of his time in in
glorious retirement at his feat near Bea
consfield. Every account of the French
successes is death to him ; the degradation
of Louis a Mart that pierces his vitals } and
the exaltation of Payne, a phenomenon he
never dreamt of—The age of chivalry is de
parted !
The French are as generous as brave—
they will difieminate their principles of le
gillation through all uuregenerated Europe,
and there never \tfas a season better adapt
ed to this end. The funlhine of reason has
eclipsed the feeble rays of royalty—the
people no longer gaze upon the bauble with
that veneration it heretofore impressed ;
they have already laboured too hard under
the iron hand of oppression ; they now
know the authors of their affliction; and
have the mode of redreft pointed out to
_them. But while we contemplate the
prospect of their future happiness, we are
led to lament the degradation of human
nature. How base, how pitiable mult be
the condition of that man, nay a whole na
tion, who have been brought to believe that
an individual, and he perhaps an ideot, has
a right to dispose of the lives and property
of thousands, merely 111 confederation of his
forefathers, or himfelf, having by some un
juftifiable means obtained a crown ! —a no
thing.
For the: National Gazette.
Remarks on the Indian War.
[Continued from No. 125 of this paper. ]
TTAVING advanced some arguments to
demfinftrate the extreme mildness of
Congress and pacific measures pursued by
them, to avoid war with the Indians, which
if rightly considered, will cleir them f rom
all ralhnefs, in the eyes of every impartial
reader, and Ihew that it was their indif
penfible duty to raise an armed force a
gainst them ; I lhall now give my senti
ments refpefting the causes of the present
Indian war. But all myobfervations mult
be confined to the country north-weft of
the Ohio, for I am not acquainted with the
northern orfouthern nations.
I do not know any fubjeft so misrepre
sented as that which refpe£(s Indians, and
our frontiers. Some might be led to think,
from certain publications, that our fron
tiers were composed of a set of men, who
neither feared God, nor regarded man
I have often heard them represented as
worse than the Indians, and more to blame
than the savages for the wars which have
happened for. many years past. These
persons generally have known little more
of Indians, than the wild geese do of the
mathematics : they pick up some old sto
ries of their conduct in the firft settlement
of the cohntry, when they were under no
temptation of conducing themselves as at
the present time. They have seen some
Petts down in our cities, who in that situ
ation, call us Brother ! Brother '.—But
when they are at home, and out of bur
power, the appellation is changed, and we
are spoken of in very different terms, even
'' white fans of bitcheswhich I heard with
my own ears, when I was among them.
I would firrt premise, that we have ne
ver had real peace with them, notwith
standing all our treaties and treasure spent
to no purpose. I met afriend of mine at the
Ol}io, who h also a true friend to the Uni
ted Sta es, and now lives with the Indi
ans, and was there in time of our war with
England; he said, we might call it peace,
it we pleased, but asmanyfcalps were car
ried through his town, as tifually were in
time of war. I could give his same, only
this might fubjett him to disadvantages;
and I would caution all persons againlt gi
ving the name to the public, of any per
son from whom they receive information
of this kind, as the consequences might be
fatal. s
I (hall now proceed to give the real cau
ses ot the war, according to my judgment,
which is formed from my own observati
ons, when among them, and the belt infor
mation received in my travels ill the Ohio
country, and at Kentuckey.
When peace was concluded between
France and England, the French were o
bliged to abandon the western country, or
become fubjetl to England; the Indians
soon joined the ftrongelt party, and became
the profeffed friends of F.ngland : but
there were a number of Mingoes, who
would not agree to any real peace ; they
withdrew from the other Indians, and li
ved on Deer Creek, which is the next
creek to Paint Creek, which empties into
Sciota about 70 miles above the mouth.
The town consists perhaps of 40 families
They were a banditti of robbers, feared
even by the Shawanee Indians themselves.
These were frequently guilty of plunder
ing traders, and nothing but fear kept
them in any kind of regularity, as they
were few, and the other Indians nume
rous. The number of this banditti was
encreafed by a number of other bad Indi
ans joining themselves to them. In this
state of affairs war commenced between
F.ngland and America. The British em
ployed them against tis, and supported
them with men and arms to murder the
helpless people on the frontiers—but they
were not lo fuccefsful as they expected-
Game grew scarce, and the Indians found
that they could make more by killing
white folks and stealing horses, than by
hunting. They watched the Ohio and
took many boats, generally killing the
chiefpart of the crew. They love fine horses,
and their natural inclination to stealing was
encreafed by finding a market at Detroit
I am not certain that the purchasers"knew
that the horses were stolen ; but when we
conlider what kind of people are settlers
there, we may conclude, they cared not
how the savages came by the horses.
It is a very great miltake, that any of
our people have encroached and fettled on
lands not fairly purchased ; for I never
heard of any instance of that nature. We
are not fettled in many places within 100
miles of the line, and in no place over it.
When I was in Kentuckey, I enquired
whether in any cases we had been the ag
gressors, and I found Very little pretence to
any thing of that nature. I believe it was
said that some young men had once tried
to make reprisals in horse stealing, but
with so little success, that the business was
not pursued. I know not for what rea
son, some whites are disposed to aggravate
the conduct of our own people, and al
ways excuse Indians ; but so it is, and I
think much to the fliame of them who
make the report; yet this falfe represen
tation gains easy credit among too many in
Philadelphia..
In my next, I (hall mention some other
Causes of the Indian war, and then give
my opinion refpefting the best method of
carrying on the war, and obtaining as lad
ing a peace as may be expected from In
dians, while in an uncivilized state.
DAVID JONES.
Philadelphia, Jan. 14, 1793.
T0 the Officers of the Philadelphia Militia.
Brother Citizens,
A MONG the articles of your agreement,
publiflied some time ago, 1 observed
one which does not breathe the fame spi
rit of independence that always character
ized your conduit—lt speaks the language
of courtiers instead of the bold eloquence
of freemen, and is not in unison with that
manly republicanism, which bore you tri
umphantly thro' a perilous revolution ; you
seem to have forgotten that you also bore a
part in conducting America to her present
independence and peace; you seem to have
forgotten, that there were more agents
than one in navigating the states thro' the
tempestuous ocean of warfare ; you seem
to have forgotten that in ascribing all the
honor and glory to one ?nau y you deprive
the heroes Warren, Montgomery, Mercer
and others, who have offered up their blood
upon the altar of freedom, the statesmen
who have grown grey in your service, and
the brave warriors who are scattered a
broad to figh,over their fears, groan over
their pains, and lament the indigence 0 f
their military labours, of their portion 0 f
renown ; you seem to have forgotten tliat
that gallant nation, who has since profited
by the example of freemen, also laboured
at the oar of revolution, and bore a diftin
guiihed part in your achievements ; you
seem to have forgotten, that there was a
providence who superintended your cause
and that, if homage isneceffary, it ought to
be rendered to that being who is the ftipe
rior and not the equal of man, and with
out whom all human exertion is vain—a
freeman ought to homage no one but his
I G °n l ~; T } ,e evenin s of idolatry ought to va
ni(h before the morning of reason—God
and liberty alone merit our homage and
the birth day of that liberty is the only an a
which ought to be consecrated to gladness
and feftivity—keeping birth days, and link
ing bii thday odes may well suit the present
meridian ofPeterfburghor Vienna ; but, as
the moon interposed between the fun in
tercepts the radiance deftinedfor the earth
and veils him from our fight ; so they in
tercept the pure an A general effulgence of
liberty—shall the brave warriors yho
fought and bled at Bunker's hill be rob'd
of their [hare of glory ? Shall that illv,Un
cus body, who broke the fetters of subjec
tion, trampled upon despotism, and avow
ed in the face of an admiring world that
they woald guaranty the freedom which
they hnrl declared with their lives, their
fortunes and their sacred honors, have no
day consecrated to them, but have the trii
bute which is their due wrested from then
and Ihowered into the lap of one afling un
der their appointment ? Shall the valiant
band who atchieved the conventionof Sa
ratoga, which gave us a confequer.ee a
mong nations, and secured a French alli
ance, be considered as naught in the scale
of admiration and affeaion ? Shall the he
roes of Red-bank andfort Mifflin be undis
tinguished by freemen ? Shall the bloody
contefls in the Carolinas be blotted from
the records and the days of patriotifii, ?
Shall that venerable sage (who has since
gained another immortality) "that vast and
mighty genius, to whom antiquity would
have raif. cl altars, and who, for the advan
tage of human kind, embracing earth and
heaven in his ideas, tamed the rage of
thunder and of despotism ; shall that phi
losopher who molt contributed to extend
the conquests of liberty over the facc of
the whole earth, 17 whose labours have en
lightened mankind and added to their por
tion of felicity,(hall he be consigned to obli
vion, shall his inefHmable services Le writ
ten in water, shall their fruits be monopo
lized by another and amid the joys for
our political happiness, fliall.his /fade bear
witness to our ingratitude ? No illuflrious
Franklin, and ye gallant fouls who have
braved danger and every species of inhu
manity in your country's cause, freemen
cannot drop the curtain of indifference up
on your services, bestow the plaudits which
you have dearly bought entirely upon one,
and rob you of a glory which even your e
nemies will i tteft ! Shall it be said of the
officers of the Philadelphia militia, that
they have descended from the dignity of
freemen, and have become levee hunters ?
Will they by their example' countenance a
custom which monarchy ulliered into being,
but which the principle of republicanism,
equality, revolts at ? Who i 3 the monarch
of u free country ? I answer, the people.
Shall the sovereign then become the fub
jei>, <h?.l! the creature be exalted above the
creator ? i urn your eyes my brethren, to
France, and (he will afford you an exam
ple well deserving of your imitation—there
you will fee none but citizens, nothing but
Equality, the substance and not the shadow
of democratic spirit—are there any levees
in France since the downfall of monarchy ?
Are there any birth day celebrations and
titles of office there ? Does any officer of
her government refufe to mix with the ci
tizens ? Does the pomp and (plendour and
distance of royalty cloath any officer atting
under the republic ? France has thrown a"
way her rattle, and we have taken it up—
our republican vigour feenis to have forfa
ken lis and we are degenerating into effe
minacy—we are about pawning our birth
right for a mess of pottage, ant! you, my
fellow citizens, are lending a helping hand
to ravish a blefiing which the treasure and
the blood of our country have been expen
ded to acquire.
Jan. 18, 1793. MIRABEAU.
Reflections on Balloons.
1. WHEN one considers the flow pro
gress of art, and the very tedious process
that has ever been observable in bringing
the inventions of human genius to perfec
tion, it b surprizing that Balloons (hould
be so ralhly pronounced, as they are by
many at present, mere childifli baublen t J
and at bell but obje&s of curiosity, and
incapable of ever answering the pu'rpofes
of real utility. Prejudice has ever opera
ted againlt original invention, and the re
cords of antiquity afford us inconteftible
proofs thnt the noble art of navigation
once had its oppofers, upon the idle suppo
sition that tlje sea was an element upon
which the human race was naturally pro
hibited from intruding—
1 impia
is on tangenda rates tranfiliunt uada.
; And,' with regard to Balloons (for these