National gazette. — Philadelphia [Pa.], 1793-10-23 00:00:00, page 1

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il Inafnuch as ye did it not unto one of
the leaf} of theje, ye did it not unto me."
Matt. xxv. 45,
"yE rich ! who ba(k in tfie fun-lhine of
ease and affluence . whole fpiendid car
riages wait at y >ur command, to roll you
to the the* theatre, to fceues of plea
sure and gay fellivity, look round you, and
canfider the liaiatlo'i of heiplefs widow:
and orphans, whole hulbands and father!
have been torn from them by the deitruc
tive pestilence—
To you they call,
And with a pleading voic£ —
to save them from hunger, cold, and na
kedness : Pitv, Oh pity the diltre lTes of ma
ny ofyour fellow creatures* who have novi
no friends, ro relations to a (lift & prote£]
them—spare a little of your fupeKfluou
expences indrefs and e juipage, and at lead
fuller them to pick up the crumbs that sal.
from your tables—Find out objects worth)
of your compafliou, and relieve them—the)
will, with love and gratitude to you, ac
cept your charitable donations, and bleO
their generous benefactors Remember
that you can do nothing which can so truly
rvul eminently ex.dt you; and the happiness
you will feel from benevolent actio.is,
will be a fufficient reward —For surely it is
Tile greatest p'eafure tnat the heart can
know,
To ease the widow's and the orphan's woe.
Let not the precarious pittance bei owed
onthelei idigentcreaiui e by tiiofe who c. n
hardly arford to give at ail, fitisfy you—
Be among the number, for your own fakes,
that condescend to enquire into the cir
cumstances of the poor ; not to intuit their
poverty, but to (helter them from distress,
and let them not fay ofyou, that they were
hungry, and ye gave them no meat, they
were thirsty, and ye*g«rve them no drink,
ft rangers and ye took them not in, naked,
& ye cloathed them not, lick and in prison,
and ye came not to them. But if, regard
leis of all humane confederations, you re
lufe to exercise the noblclt privilege of
your Itation in life, reflect what may hap
pen to yourselves, notwithstanding the
prejent security you seem to have of a lonjj
enjoyment of your wealth, for such is the
uncertain condition of things, that your
children, the dear pledges of your so .dell
affection, may one day (land shivering witli
cold and hunger at the doors of others,
begging tor a morsel of bread.
Oaob. 21. X. Y.
Extracts from French Papers.
Rochelle, f u h *8. The declaration ol
theßightiof Uan, & the Con itutional a£l,
has produced the expected effects j that i?
to fay, the Republican constitution has beer
received with all that enthusiastic ardoui
that characterizes men deserving of liberty.
After this very iutereltinj' proclamation, z
universal cry of Long live the Republic,
wis heard, arid the Marfeifles hymn
concluded the ceremony. It was observer!
in na-y neighbouring towns, that no with -
standing the cold indifference oi a numbei
of the inhabitants, t.;e gener dity appearet
perfectly fatisfied wit i the couflitution.
which wdl very probably be accepts, d ever)
wherewith eagernefsand joy.
Paris, July 24. The Revolutionary Tri
bunal pa fled sentence of death yefierda)
upo-i Joseph La Mazeliere, gentleman
31 years, a native of C iltel-Jaloux
department of Loire and Garonne ; he »va
found guilty of mrving migrated in Janu
ary and in July, 1792, and f having re
turned in April and November, of the/arfit
year. He was sentenced to fuffer death tlx
fame evening.
About a year ago a decree was proposed
declaring the banifliment of all re ration
priests to French Guyana, in South Ameri
ca. A mode of carrying this dtfign int<
„execution is now to be fixed upon. The
existing circumstances of things render ii
difficult. Breard, in the Convention, ha
given his opinion, that we ought not tc
fend such pests among our brtthren ol
Guyana.—Danton thinks, that as our port
are for the inoft part blocked up, the fleei
conveying these priests would be taken bv
the enemy, who would land the Deltilenti
al crew again on our own shores." Other?
proposed that the herd oi refra£tory pried
should be transported to the Pope's terri
tories. This measure appeared to Cairibon
and others as unavailing as the fending
them some time ago to the islands of Jersey
and Guernsey; where they were set on
Ihore priejlsi and have returned generals
oi armies in \ cntiee. A member obfcrv-
Numb. 103 cf Vol. 11.] I? Ji DNBS DA r, Oaobcr 23, 1793. [Total Num. 207 ]
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Ed that if they were baniflied to Italy, the
maritime department of the Alps would be
invaded ; it was better to (end them to Al
giers to convert tiie Turks —Other propor
tions have been made refpe&ifsg the pritfh,
but nothing determined on.
August 4. The BritHh government, after
vaunting itfelr the prote&or of Liberty,
has at length become its moll dangerous
oppreifor. This boaded free government
now countenances every poflible crime,fuch
as corruption, alfaffination, conflagrati-on,
treachery, spies, and treason, in order to
destroy tiie liberties of France. The Na
tional Convention accnfes the Britilh go
vernment in the face of the Britllh people;
France denounces it to all Europe, to all
mankind—& hi (lory itfeif accuses it to the
world at large. This is thegovernment that
in .the war with I ndia, coiiiigued the In
dian nations to al! the horrors of f.imine.
i hey have tried the fdme game againd us,
and have seized upon the high ocean thole
articles ot fublidence which a neutral com
merce afford us.—This is the government,
which in Bengal (hut up the productions
of whole provinces in magazines and
iiore-hor.fes, (whofi? gates nothing could
pen but all potent goid). By this means
thonfands were defiroyed, that the im
portunate dilirefles of the remainder might
bring thele perilhing wretches under lilt
yoke of abject slavery.—This is the go
vernment, that,in the American war, hired
German soldiers, mere armed machines, to
be sent away like a purchase of beads, to
hed the blood of the free citizens of Ame
rica.— This is the government, that gave
1 premium t<-) the lavages for every scalp
of American freemen that they fiiould
bring in.—'i his is the government which
bought American officers in the fame man
ner as they .paid the German soldiers; they
purchased Arnold there as they did Du
mounief here. — This, finally, is the 'go
vernment which employs the treasures of
India to enslave Europe ; turns the blefl
ings of commerce to the dedriution of
liberty, and the advantages of social inter
courie to corrupt mankind, and spends the
taxes extorted from the people, in cutting
the throat?-of the French. Pride and mi
sery are the two gi-eat effects of the Eng
li(h commerce ; but such criminality can
not go long unpunished ; its reign mult
disappear before the rising luminary of
freedom. Kingly authority, by pafliuginto
the hands ol miniiters, is visibly progressing
t ° its own dedru&ion ; and the bloody war
they againd Liberty is fortunately
nothing more than the suicide of kings. It
is not strange that the Britilh are the Aloft
active and crafty of ail our enemies : they
are ever faithful to their own principles,
and endeavour to corrupt where they can
not conquer : a i'illy vision influences their
despotic monarchy (disguised under the
malkot liberty), and Pitt fondly hopes, anc>l
expects, soon to set an Englishman upon
the I rench throne. This young (lave of a
lunatic king ought to recoiled, that in cen
turies pad his coutrymen have at different
times invaded three fourths of the French
provinces, and tho' often attended by bril
liant victories, which feeified to prom (e
un(haken,everJading dominion, they never
failed, in the event, to be difgraceftilly dri
veil from our territories.*"
A number of papei s have accidentally been
di (covered, and transmitted to the Conven
tion. It is learnt from them that the En
giifli government has been extremely busy
in (ending fp.es, emiflaries and agent., tl.ro'
the Republic, efpecialjy into the sea port
towns, to the frontier towns, and into Pa
ris. It is alio dilcovered from them that
n indigated by the Englilh
minilter for burning our magazines and
public stores, by means of phosphoric
matches; blowing up our parks of artil
lery, &c. &c. 1 hole papers also fontain
innumerable plans of aflallination by the
hands of women and refra£tory prieds.
One fait is after taii-ad beyond contradic
tion, that the inhabitants of Lyons have
received from Pitt, by way of Geneva,
tour millions in ready cash, in order to
support their revolt. . The English have
been the principal indigators of this civil
war among us, it is supported by the En
glilh, and the expences of it are paid by
them. This is the honed ule their mini
der makes of those millions of pounds der
litig granted by his parliament, under the
name of secret service money. It is to be
lamented that neither Marseilles or Tou
lon have religiously flaut their gates againd
Bri illi gold, <or their ears againd danders
to the prejudice of the National Conven
tion. Intrigr.e has been employed there
100 fuccdVfuUy ; fa lie patriots, salaried a-
gents, and Grangers have corrupted the
public mind of fciiefe two cities,hitherto so
famous tor their love of liberty.
FOREIGN NEWS.
PARIS, August 4.
The Repreferitatives at the army of the
North, at present at Cambray, to the ar
my, dated July 25, 1793.
Republ } can Joldiers, our Brethren ana
friends,
THE National Convention have put
CuUine in a slate of arrest ; the fame pa
triots who have denounced La Fayette and
Dumonrier, have produced to the com
n ttee of fafety, papers and proofs con
cerning the cendutt of rhat general.
Remember, republicans, to what dan
gers the country has been expofcd, by 1101
uiving in time, taken prompt and vigorous
■"ie ifme^againll Dumonrier; confideron
>' the public latety ; t!ie lot aof man origin
•or. to iutereil you fa; ther than is confiit
nt U ith justice ; it will be done in regarc
0 Cuftine; if he is innocent his enemie;
vili be confounded ; if he is culpable
you will applaud the firmnefs *>f the Con
• ention, which cannot separate the fafet)
:>f the country from that of the army ; in ;
e; übiic, :he yreater the military tal< nts oi
• miirt, the more watchful we ought to be
>1 his conduct; it suspicion falls upon him,
e ought to juftify himfeJf; let us wait
:.ien, with patience for his juftification.
PROCLAMATION ofCoBouRG, en h>\
entry into the town of Conde.
THE city, fortrefs, and diitritf of Con
i!e having been obliged, by the brave troop c
u liich i have the honour to command, te
übmit to the emperor and king, I declare,
jy the present proclamation, that I take
JOiielHon of it in the name of his imperial
and royal majesty, and that I grant to a!!
the peaceable inhabitants of the conquered
country, ever y security and prdte£fion ; 1
declare further, that I will employ the au
thority with which I am inverted, in virtue
of the right of conquelt, in maintaining the
public order, and the security of pe Tons
and property; and wishing to take the
inoft efficacious measures, to obtain tholt
important objects, 1 declare also, that I ex
pect that all clubs or aiiemb!ies,, not autho
rized, whatever they may be, (hall dif
(olye immediately ; beiri£ in the firm reso
lution, to cause them to be difi'olved or re
prefild, by every means in my power, and
to cause to be baniftied ft verely, n ilitaii
ly, and exemplarily, all rhofe who hole
:!iofe afiemblies or clubs in their honfes.
thole w ho excite them, and those who afii't
at them; those \v ho, by word o 'action, infuli
or injure any person whatever, and in one
word, all those who, in any manner what
ever, diftnrb the public order or tranqui
lity.
Given at Head-Quarters, at Herin,
July 23, 1793.
Anfwerto the Proclamation of Cobourg, b>
Dubois Lebais, Representative of the
1 rench pt 6ple, c.attd July 24.
You f y. that y< u take poffrfllon of tin
city, loi treis. and oiftrift c. Conde, whici
have fubmitttd io the power of your cm
peror and g, by the brave troops which
> ou command.
This impolhi, e is, indeed, worthy of,,
(lave, and a vile supporter of defp.otifm ;
lor it is not your valour which has put yon
ni pofleflion of it, you owe it to the mon
iter" Dumuurier, who prevented the fupply
iirg it; ii you had had no other alliltanct
than your iToupag^your Satellites would
never have foiled that place ; you ma>
convince yourfelf of it, by the hunger
which those brave republicans who defend
ed it, have fuffered so long before they sub
mitted.
\ ou speak of maintaining the security of
property, and you violate the most essential
and sacred of all, by disallow ing clubs, and
subjugating even their thoughts; for men,
who know the price, and arc sensible of
theii own dignity, there exitts no property
without that ; thus the order and public
tranquility which you promise at that price,
are no more, properly fpeakiug, than the
dark and cruel repose of slavery : already
the unhappy inhabitants of Conde hear
around them the frightful found of chains,
which you are preparing for them; but
under their grievous burthens, they pre
serve freefpirits, and their unhappy breth
ren will net lor.g fnffer them to bear pati
ently the odious yoke which they at present
groan under.
Behold your blind satellites struck down
before the wails of Valenciennes; lee the
brave republicans of that citv dare the
thunder, and despise innumerable hords of
brigands, who come from ali parts of
Lie.and of iiaves, to conquer them ; you
wi.l soon learn from them, what depend
e./ce you can have on yonr courage, and
what yon ought to expect, frbm the invin
c.ble courage-os freemen; dare to advance
niruher in this land of liberty, and your
uelciuaion is certain; an indignant peo
ple will rue together, crush by their
veight alone yv,ur whole army offlwes.
n'"ki la£e ' asla "''»l as unextin
guilhable, purge the land of tyrants, ard all
tlicir yile supporters ; notwithflajiding
your delpicable commands, the French na
tion Wl.l preserve their liberies, and give
1 whole world an example of what u
people call do, who are resolved to be free,
(-.lory Gobourg, 111 your conquest, which
he iTft C ° 1 a S r '" n of powder, nor
treason p3r t,cle . ot blood » owe it to
The on I y °a afcrlbe hto valour:
band nf V C 'u ?" e t ' vvbkh >' nu and >' our
own I h ' li3Ve a ri * ht tu "II your
its end, gr h VC . J eVery day y° u fathonz
Its depth; each day you offer up victims
Who are devoured by it, and in propS
as you advance upon the Fiench territory,
you approach it. Tremble! a:;d be convin
tec., that such will be tne end of fan
quinary and impotent efforts.
. ♦ .
- ORK, O&ober 15.
. New (papers Irom Paris of the begin
mug ot Aug 11ft, fay, That France by a sole
decree, has ordered seventeen hundred
millions of Royal Ailignarsto be deflroyed.-
a Ins c.eed, which has been celebrated I y
all the French people, strikes with numb
neu cue combined powers, by the profpeft
Lie re is of tne immense finances of the
New Republic; the motive of this decree
has been the difeover> os-he conspiracy in
which Put directed all the interior
noeuv res of the nation ; his prcjefts-, his
correfpondeuce, and the names of the most
>art ol his agents have been discovered bv
etters intercepted at Lisle, and in many /f
the sea port towns--Alio, by declarator*
of diaries chief ot the rioters or rebel* an
Lozere. It has been discovered that one
hundred and twenty millions oflivres tl a^-
this minilier had voted for his private and
ieciet expences, and the enormous sumS
he had borrowed, ierved only to encreafe
the royal affignats, and that he made use of
these allignats to pay the rebels at la Vendee
to (pread animosity in the French armies'
and to excite civil war at Calvados,
Bourdeaux, at Lyons, and iMarfeilles Ic
lias been discovered, that England had in
many French towns, agents, (as well a in
the country) who were to set on fire the'
ltores and provihons of the armv I, e
papers found, ft ate, at the sam- tine tie
means easy & inevitable ro burn them w ■ h
phosphoric matches, these words were no
ticed, " You will endeavor that i; reTai
ijnations be made with prudence—Pi - \
dilguifed, and women, are the most t>rn\ cr
pei sons for this bulinefs." The K;<uii
newspapers have not mentioned tJifi
covery : O ! ye Americans ! these are the
men whose agents have ft ill influence hi
your territories J
i he following are he decrees proposed
by Cham ban and Barriere ; and by which
the National Convention, always just a id
firm, has fruftrated the infamous' projects
of the enemies to liberty :
ill. TJie royal allignats Mbnve too livres
shall no longer have a fore.a course lor
caffi; they fiiall be received as payment
for contributions to the national fund, for
He rii.irJa.grrow tj} for what
s owed to the nation. " j
v e 100 Jivrcs fl ail fcjj
exchanged lor Republican affignats. O 1 til
% m g • —^
ill of January, 1794, there flialJ no longed
ex lit royal affignats. b
2. I here shall be formed between Paris
and the northern army, a camp of 300,c00
iTrif" the f arrifoil Mayence lliall ppft
hr Vendee. The population, ihe
houses, the harvelt of the rebellious de
partments shall be destroyed. The wo
r^ e^ dren ' f' ,d shall
•u u r ,nt ? the interior, where they
will be ftipported and treated with huma'
nity. The property of the rebels f! all be
coifiifcated, and a distribution made to in
demnify the faithful inhabitants who /hall
have fuffered loss in theirproperties.
3. All strangers of foreign powers at
war with the Republic, shall be ftopt, and
tneir papers sealed. Thegates or Paris
iivali ue Ihut, and the guards augmented iri