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observe.', " I am not infallible, and might
po'libiy have mistaken his inteiitions."
After cne above expressions; Mr; Nichol
fon f.iid, '• As Mr. Hani, had made theft
declarations at a time when he might have
1 Hen, •• he now declared he did not believe
that Mr. Harris intended tobribe him,"
It is to be obfen'e J, that the above expref
did not fall from either Mr. Harris or
Mr. Nieholfon with any expectation, or de
lire,of an accommodation; nor would they
agree to 'nay 1 terms of accommodation
until they were repeatedly allured by ih
gentlemen present, that the above were
perfectly honourable to each party.
SAMUEL WRIGHT,
JAMES HOUSTON
JAMES WE E.MS, M. D.
Attending Surgeon.
George-Town, March 17, 1793.
foreign intelligence.
LONDON, Feb. 40. to—March 7.
Copy of Mr. Fox'_s motion in the House ol
Commons, on Slond y the iSih Feb.
lit. " That it is not for the honor and
interest of Great-Britain to make war up
on Fravrce, on aceount of the intern il cir
cunlta ices of that country, for the purpose
of either suppressing or pit lilhing any opin
ions or principles, however pernicious ir
their te ulency, which may prevail there,
or of eltablifhiug among the French peo
pie any particular form of government.
2d. " That the particular complaint!
which have been ftarcd against the condufl
of the French government, are n;>t of a na
ture to ju'tify a war. in hefi. it lftance
without having attempted to obtain redref
by negotiation.
3d. " That it appears to this house ir
the late negoci tions between his majesty';
mini.ters and the agents of the French go
vernment, the said ministers did not take
such measures as were likely to obtain re
dress, without a rupture, for the grievance;
of which they complained, and particular
ly, :h t they never stated diftinSly to the
F ic ,»vernhieht any terms and cpndi
tio.is, the accession to which on the par 0}
Trance would induce his majesty to perse
vere in a fyftein of neutrality.
4th. " That it tloes not appear that the
feciirity of Europe, and the rights of inde
pendent nations, which have been Hated a
grouads of war agamtl France, have beer
intended by his majesty's minilters in the
cafe of Poland, in the invasion of which un
happy country, both in the late war ani'
more recently, the molt open contempt oi
the law of nations, and the molt unjuftifia
ble f,)irit of aggrandizement have been
m inifefted, without having produced, a:
far as appears to this house, any reinon
itrance of his majesty's ministers.
sth. " That it is the duty of h?s majes
ty's ministers, in the prefe.it crisis, to ad
vise hi« majesty against entering into en
gagements which may prevent Great-Bri
ta'ri from making a ijeparate peace, when
ever the iitereft of his majesty and his
people nav render luch a measure advife
abl , or which may countenance an opin
ion wi .urope, that his majesty is acting i
concert with other powers, for the 11 ijufti
ti ible onrpofe of co mpelling the people of
Fr ; 1;e to sub lit to a form of government
not a iproved by :hit nation."
she previous question was put on th.
four la It.
Poof Paine (in effigy) has fuffered uni
verfal'ma-tyrdom—at parish and corpora
1 on itleitings he has been condem led by
bell, book, and candle—and punished with
fire and faggot I all which he has fupportec
with the phiiofophic patience of an arc'i
Ki moo —in snort, 110 primitive martyr could
h ivc borne a tittle of the hanging and burn
i.i-r he has <Tl>ne I—in one parish he was
burnt for being a Prelbyterian—in another,
for being a Jacobite —in a third, for being
a Popish Jefuit —and in a fourth, for beitu'
nothing less th in the Devil hiinfelf I —Tho'
we do aos fnbfcribe to so black a charge at
the latter 1 , yet we cannot help thinking he
mull be fomethirig more than man, who,
at the close of the eighteenth century, can
work such wonders limply by the magic
incantation of a---goofe-quiH I
An equivocality in the conduit of the
Ottoman porte had been for some time
,perc ptible by several of the foreign minis
ters, after they discovered that the Turkish
miniflry held secret communication with
the French emissaries of the predominant
party. These suspicions were at length
fully verified in the conduit of the porte
towards M. de Choifeul ; his person was
e-tpofed to the cruellelt insults ; and it is a
fact, that hi", person wpuld have been ar
retted if he had not been apprised of't in
time, and saved himfelf in the house ofM.
Gurftow, the Ruffian minister.
Since this period the Ottoman ministry
have made 110 secret of the valt project
which they attribute to the French, viz.
that of re-eftahlilhing the ancient empire
'of the Khans of the Crimea. At lealt
whether the Porte will appear in this, af
fair or not, there is no doubt bur that they
w il! jrant a free paflage to a French fleet,
who are to ast against Ruflia, as one of
their enemies who assist the league of kings
. > n't the new republic. However un
founded ar\y ps these reports may be, it is
certain, that the dlfpofitioii cf the Turkiih
court i; at prefenc higiiiy in uvour of the
French.
PARI S, Feb. it.
As the opening of the campaign ap
proaches, otir attention is tur leii from our
internal aninlofities to the external enemy.
The molt vigorous efforts to recruit the
army are maki.ig both by the miniftersand
hy individuals. We may be beaten, but
ive (hail not be out-numbered. Europe
iVill foot! fee with what unanimity those
inns, which, when left to ourfclyes vv.e are
jut too ready to turn againlt one anorher,
a ill be turned against the common enemy-
The committee of le°;i{lation proposed
his morning, that those persons in cultody
"or being engaged in iiHurrections on ac
.ount of the dearnefs of lhouid
>e released. After some debate, tile Con
tention decreed a general a'mnefly for all
jffeHces of this description previrysto the
execution of the late king, murder and
turning honfes only excepted. Merlin ob
Mined an exteniion of the ajnnefly to all
offences committed in oppohtion to claims
if feudal rights. *
The ( onvention is now debating the
ilan of the military committee for recruit
■lg and nationalizing the ar is.
putting an end to all distinction betweei:
troops of the Ine and volunteers. Both
Puche and Roland are talked of for the
Mayoralty. The former is said to have
obtained a majority ot the votes in fevers
Pe&iuns.
The citizens of Marseilles have made a
contribution of I'pecie of a million of li
tres for the support of tliß war. General
Biron is on his way to take the command
as the army of the Var, in the room ol
General Anfelme. He will probably viiit
Toulon and Marseilles, and give additional
iftirity to the naVal armaments at those
ports. As he pafied through Avignon,the
procurator of the commons, in an address.
alluding to the execution of one of his an
:eftors b/orderof Henry IV. said, "none
snew better than the Birons, that the molt
lirtuous of kings Was a sanguinary ingrate.
We are flattered with hopes that none ol
La Touche's squadron foundered in the
Mediterranean; the most of the fliips and
ranfports have joined Truguet ; and thai
he object of the expedition, the couquefl
>f Sardinia, will soon be atchieved. Sucl;
it lead is the fnbftance of our account
from Nice, which add, that the Piediuon
tefe have been very active in attacking the
Trench polls, and give details of various
Ikirmilhes, in which the latter w£re vic
torious.
We have areport that Dubuc and Clair
fontaine,agentsf'rom Martinico and Guade
loupe, have concluded an agreement with
:he Britilh ministry, for putting these ill
ands under the protection of Great-Britain
n trnft for Louis XVII. and that Bonilh
is to be furnifhed with transports aiul a
:onvoy to carry Boooemigrants to St. Do
mingo, where he is to a flume the title ol
Governor General of the French Well-
India Colonies.
\DDR.Essfrom the Prince de Conde, tc
the French Nobility, on the 14th
January, 1*793.
"In the time of the public calamities to
wards the end of September, it was-par
tin table to apprehend they were without
1 remedy.- In the bitterness of my heart.
1 \va- deeply afflicted at the dreadful fate
which menaced the French nobility ; anc
I conceived it as my duty, to foften it ti
the ntmoft of my power. ,
"I entrufied the Duke de Ricnelien wit!
a letter to the Empress of Rullia, vvhereii
I requelied of that illuftrlous fovereisrn
whether in cafe ot the absolute wreck"ol
the French nobility, some Aire afyium ir
Tome temperate clime of her dominion
might not be found.
" The magnanimity of Catharine footi
decided on the conduct (he ihould adopt,
and I have jult received the molt flattening
answer for myfclf, and the most jult and
the most honorable towards yoj, which is
replete with fentinients that must impress
all Europe with your courageous perfeve
rence, and your attachment to the most
unfortunate of kings.
" It is unnecessary, gentlemen, for me to
fay, that the profpetf which the beneficence
of the Empress opens to our view, ought
not in the lead either to diininifli your
grateful aknowledgments for the favour;
you have received from the Emperor, 01
your ardor in seconding his troops in that
noble plan, which he has doubtiefs formed
in re-instating the king of France upon
the throne.
" Should we fncceed in our views, our
wiflies will be f 111 tilled ; fliould we have the
misfortune to fail, which may God avert;
all those who have trod in the path of ho
nor, of whatever condition they may be,
wiil find an afyium, aflitlance, pofleffions se
cured to them, their families and their te
nants.' '
For National Gazette.
V/j"R- FOX intimates in one of his late
- 1 speeches, that War is the natural pas
sion otmen, and (he feared) would always
continue to be lb,—lt may well be quel-
tioiud, however, whether this propensity
Is not rather artificial than natural, and in
troduced thro' the vice oi governments ra
ther t'y.in iintill eci into the human constitu
tion ihr<;' the imoiedisUre deflgn <> the fcre
. tor. Man is naturally unprovided with
dangerous offenlive weapons.' The ha ..
v/as evidently designed for the works of
peace, the efforts of industry for the sup
port of life, the operations of beneficence,
and not for he dels ruction of tlie fpccies.
" God has made man upright, but he has
fought out a variety or inventions." We
may observe in several Qaccies of the brute
creation native propensity winch some
philcfophers fuppuife inherent in man. A
young bull,or a goat,for instance, will per
lorm their mode of military exercise with
the head, before there is the leuftappear
ance of those oftenlive weapons, the horns;
and a whelp-lion will go through all the
formality of roaring, tearing, anc rending
I efore the claw has firmhefi or lharpnefs
enough to inflifl the l't all puffible injury.
But in the young of the human species, we
observe 111 their general temper luMocenie
of heart, finiles, gratitude, benet olenpe,
and affecti'on,which continue till such times
as they become corrupted by faile princi
ples of education, and faife motives of ac
tion, \v hich pave the way for their tui ning
mouifers to cach other in rijwr years, un
der t!ie discipline and example of the great
Ichoolof royal government.
The very virtues of monarchy haye all
a cruel and fariguinary tendency, and ex
cit<? the human mind to perpetrations oi
mifchief and horror. An extravagant o
ver-partial love of country is hi ft inculca
ted; ambition, emulation, and super-emi
nence are made the incitements to nffion ;
a lavage revenge of injuries, artfully pro
voked by court-magicians, against one 01
the other country, is encouraged and re
warded by the crowned sovereign. Mon
archy originated in murder, violence and
robbery ; what wonder then, if in all ages
its violent adherents have been and i till are
111 eftect, murderers and robbers, and that
kingly government, from the nature of its
prerogative's, I'ooner or later, winds up in
afcene of horror and tumult. Monarchy,
or the monarchical principle ioifled into
republics, is the fuel that supports the flame
as discord in this world, tnat set; man a
g -inil man to their mutual definition, and
operates that seeming degeneracy in hum.,
nature which is by lome fuppoltd to have
originated from a particular event in a re
mote period of the history of in. 11. Upon
the whole, we may fafely conclude thai
man is naturally good, but that his fpecic
has been vitiated and debafcd bv prepoTte
i-ous modes of government, which have
well nigh effected a ferond nature, through
so long a fuccefSon 01 ages. Whether a
yltem of pure democracy, universally dif
iifed (after the heads of all kings are lop
jed off) will work the desired reformation,
.s an experiment yet to be tried ; but il
:here is virtue enough among mankind
:o give it fair play, it will molt probably
"ucceed.
April iS.
For the National Gazette.
Mr. Freneau,
pROM the condui* of some foreigner.
among us, J should be led to suppose
hat Pennsylvania was a British Province,
ind that British opinions and British mea
ures were the oracles of our country—
ieer houses, taverns, and places of pub
■c resort are filled with their panegyric:
upon the measures of the British admini
stration,and our good allies the French arc
jranded with every felonious epithet In-
Jecent liberties are even taken with some
us our jnoft patriotic characters ;- liberties
perhaps less libellous than brought the 1111
fortunate Lloyd to the pillory, in-the very
h..ir.ai:e government of Great Britain—
The toleration of such abuses is a disgrace
Co'our national character, more efpeciallv
« they arise from men who were enemies
to our independence, and would have con
tributed theirfull measure of afliftance tc
fix the yoke upon our necks with which
they wiln to oppress France. What were
\ve during the war, in thepolite language
of Englifhinen but --rebels, fq/cals,rabscal
tions,murderers" —What are our allies
now but men of the fame flamp, and this
character is not improbably given to them
for the afliftance which they gave us to
break Britijh fhac/tles—Why should the
fame king bean object of their sympathy
and commiseration now, that they execra
ted but a few years ago, and whose .fami
ly and government they would have extir
pated from the face of the earth ! Their
enmity to France is invincible, and the
caule of that inveterate enmity mayperhaps
be traced to their alliance with us But
whatever language Britons may use in their
own country, and whatever conduct they
may pursue there to gratify their malice
against their republican neighbours, the
gratitude and spirit of Americans revolt at
such indignities here*—We owe France a
debt which we can never fully repay, it i»
the price of our liberty, and ought ever to
impvefs 11s with as much attachment to
her as abhorrence to Great-Britain, for
her merciless condutt to us during the re
volution—Shall it already be blotted from
our remembrance that the ,'rei.cii and
American armies united befn/cYorktowit
li l;e a band-os brothers to arrest the rava
ges and crueltiei of Briiijh exrcalh-.crs >
SiiailAve cirefs the nation' -vliti invented
new epithets to disgrace, and new torments
0 afflict ns, to tiie prejudice of the gene
rous and humane people wfio ftreTchtd
out their friendly hands to flop the inbtt
iiian faerifi'cesiof Britons ? Where is the
generous ar.d grateful ardor which anima
ted Americans alter the reduction ofCorr
wallis ? Not transfer'd, I truit. to a nation
who have (lamed the ermine of luimanitv
witlrthe foulett crimes, and have frolicked
ove.r the miferie* of a people ftrn for
tkeir birth.right ! Ihai a 'I it- '■
ne<s the execrations ofßritoftt Wf'our,faith
ful aliie-s ; fli .il it bear te'.iniony ; > t e
bitterilt invectives,fuch as cut throats,rob
bers, murderers &c. without that manly
indignation and rebutment which fueh at
trocious insolence merits? Briton, bew are,
Americans are grateful andjuft as well as
holpitable, their contempt u.ay be conver
ted into rage, and the reward of vonr in
solent temerity may at length Acrtake
you.
AN OLD SOLDIER.
April 17, i 79 :.
NEW-YOKK, April 15. \
S 1 " 1 to the 'in-.-s of the friends V
of J., u .rt ut- rdly ball*men, pro
tectee! by tile 1; .... 0 f a plentiful re
pubiicau cour..- v. ci. ,Ie forward ill public
company, arte. : L -e, enlightened, and
generous people, whoso ro H ijtry hereto
loie flowed with the blood ol H'arren,
l>' 7 the relt o; the htroes and
American worthies, who ginrieuflv Ml
In opposing the unlawful claims of a king ;
lay i: all the refute oi the human spec «,
1 ie enemies of man (I mean the friends
..lid advocates of kings and despots), dare
Higmat'ze the French nation in the hearing
ot American patriots, with tne cruel epi'-
thets of murderers, afiaffins,fli<diiien, ,e. i
cides, and the like, fcr Louis
,v\ I Do these ignorant prejudiced
wretches not remember, that the French
nation's moderatioa and p.-.rtialiiv for
Lours exceed every thing that "111 reason
could have been expected from a people
emerging from the vilest ft; te of flaverv,
(in which they-had been kept for a«es pail
by king-craft : nd_prieft craft tinifcdl to
the pinnacle of importance and power ;
nave they not fuffitiemly proved then* at
laihmeiit to him, byerafmg from theirinc
mories the remembrance ofthcir late bon
dage and part grievances under a brood of
kings, and confirming him in the regal
power? In forming, their conflitiirion,
have they not given him fufficiejit author}-
ly ami fuppurt ? Did they not make tie
crow 11 hereditary his faimlv, if ihey
would prove themselves worthy ? Was
there any thing neceifary lor the honor
andl dignity of the king of a free people,
(it such can c xift under a king) but was
granted him ? How has he requited them
for their predilefliou in his favour? Did
he not bn . k tne folcmn oaths he had taken
and (acred vows he had made, to be faith
ful to the nation, and govern it agreeable
to the conilitution he had accepted ? Did
he not openiy despise the love of the nation
lor him, 111 attempting repealtdly to fly to
the enemy ? Did he not support the emi
grant princes (rather.davil.s_j and their ai
my composed ol .1 species of beittir:, not far
chltant from the brute creation, raised in
the principalities ot despots, with an intent
to enter France with fire and Avoir? Pa
tience vvomd fail me, indignant horror
would overwhelm me, and 'the callous
heart of a Hessian, or an uncouth S n,
would Ihudder to enumerate all the art.;,'
hypocrisies, perjuries, murders, con-
I piracies. i-.c &c. that Louis and fc.s bale
adherents have been guilty of, to eftla a
counter revolution in favour of defrmtifm,
" hich he well knew could not be done but
by the elFufion of blood.
O ! cuffed third for 'absolute power
ou offspringpf hell, and companion of
Kings, how deceitful are thy i'alfe charms
to swerve men from their duty to God and
mail : but, nothing is plealing to God,
which not ufeful among men, conse
quently in Louis, (for the lirft, was vri
hed an old Proverb, " Evil ro him, t h„t
evil t.nnks, 111- m other words, he that de
vifeth the blood ot the innocent in his
heai t, (as Louis did) ihail fall by the J word
of the jtilf.
It is laid by some.that Loui; w as the be It
Icing the French had lince He> -
ry IV— granted, but that doe* 'not ~r ov 'e
him to have been a good cue, for (a:: of
100 arrant vil ains, one no doubt is "nu r
humane than the felt, though all vcrv I. u . <■
Did'he not know there was a bafrile
engine of terror to awe hit fubjea ; ? v'.'i, y
rlid lie not demolilh that fabric r.f cr , ■ ~
the grave and receptacle of innocent me,l
doomed to dellruJion, perhaps u en torn
from the arms of" a beloved wife and the
offsprings of afFeffou ?In word, we th'i:.:;
Louis has provtd himfelf unworthy <>f
honor the French in;ended him, that is, of
being their king. And let fame of their
base caltimniatorr rerccinh- r, that 1: is
more honourable to put a king to death for
good and fiifficient reafoiis, "'tl .11 to fell
him foh 4d. a man. And let fine more
of them think that but a few y*ars ago,