National gazette. — Philadelphia [Pa.], 1793-07-06 00:00:00, page 4

French St. Domingo Affairs.
[Continued from our lad.]
ADDRESS of the Commune of Cay;:,
and the adjacent Parj/hes, to CittzEn
Polverel, National Civil Commijjtoner,
Citizen Commissioner,
THE Commune of Cayes and the
pariihes in its vicinity, feel them
selves jullly alarmed on account of certain
Tepeated adts of fevgrity, such as the ar
rell of their citizens, without affigningthe
motives, which gives us reason to fear ihat
we cherish the word enemies among our
fclves, and from whom we have more to
dread than from the utmoll efforts of the
insurgents without. The molt infamous
flanders are propagated, we are over
whelmed with grief, and at the indant
when mutual confidence should be revived,
attempts are made to divert our attention
"from the public interest by exciting ajspre
henfions for our own personal fafety.
Freely do we fay, Perish the authors of
these dedrudtive and murderous plots—
Perish tliofe traitors who spirit lip and
feed our enemies. Be they who they may,
or were they inverted with the highest of
fices of the magiltracy, they have richly
deserved death. But, assuming as we do
the glorious charadteridic attributes of
French republicans, we take the liberty to
tell you, that you are prohibited by the
law from overlraping it in any instance,
except some particular circumdances may
render it indifpenfibly necessary. We
•will further tell you, that all refinance to
oppression is legal; and if the "National
Convention have fuc!ceeded in breaking
the lad chains of despotism, if they have
succeeded in railing the cap of liberty over
the wrecks and ruins of royal tyranny,
they cannot confidently delegate powers
to you, beyond what are limited by law.
Citizen Commillioner, we will hold up
toyourview the seventh article of the
Declaration of Rights—" No man can be
accused, arretted, or detained, except in
cases prescribed by law, and agreeable to
the forms it has laid down."
The law, which ought to be adminis
tered with equal impartiality to all citi
zens, and did not adapt the word rcfjrmji
lility as a useless term, anathematizes all
those who dare make attempts upon the
sacred and unalienable rights of citizenship.
We reipedt your authority, but we know
our own rights ; and vre beseech you in
the name of the public fafety, which is in
danger, to return to those conciliatory
principles that give authority to your
'million.
The Commune, before a final rupture
"with you, expreffts its wish for a re-union
of all individuals in defence of their homes
and property, which are now a prey to
the Brigands—it willies that the (word of
the law may fall only on the heads of the
guilty. They alone ought to tremble.
The Commune has also taken into earned
-conlideration the sudden embarkation of
citizen Matfolai, and (he critical circum
ilances of those citizens under sentence of
deprivation. The Commune is of opinion
you mud have adted under some mittaken
idea, or that you would not have proceed
ed to certain adts of authority the lengths
■you did, unless againd such only as had
been accused of real crimes, or found
guilty. Inthe firrt cafe you ought to have
manifeded your religious forbearance in
hearing what the accused had to fay ; and
in the second place you should not have
carried your orders into execution, ex
cept upon authentic grounds, and such as
ensured to each individual his life and li
berty. We expedt from you an explana
tion of the motives that induced you to
ast as you have done.
(Signed) ROLLOIN, President.
Esnault and
Cotelle, Secretaries.
A citizen then rose and demanded,
Whether it would not be proper to take
advantage of the re-union of this afTembly,
in order to declare the ft-nfe of the Com
mune tefpedting the nomination of dele
gates to form a Colonial AfTembly, and to
appoint deputies to the National Conven
tion.
DECREED by the Afferrbly, that a
Colonial Congress becomes daily more and
more indispensably necessary, in order to
do away those scandalous abuses which
exid in the civil adminidration of this co
lony—that it is rrquifite that deputies be
sent to the National Convention to implore
its protesting aid.—<
JHere Follows a great number of figna
tures.j
(Signed) ROLLOIN, President.
Esnault, and
Cotelle, Secretaries.
£Next in order comes t|ie Proclamation
of the Civil Commiffiotier Polverel,
a translation of which shall be given in our
ensuing number.]
Translated from a Paris paper, of April 16.
ADDRESS of the Couneil-Gencral of the
Commune of Paris, to the Citizens.
IT is no longer a time, citizens, for
weak minds to hesitate between liber
ty and slavery, the fetters of despotism
and the cap of democracy- Liberty or
death is now the motto of every true
Frenchman, and no other Can be pertinent
to our adtual situation. When ail l?d
it will be no time to treat with tyrants.
We mud either triumph over the ruins of
subverted thrones, or perish together un
der the wrecks of our revolution.—Citi
zens 1 there is no medium, and our fate is
in our own hands. A single retrofpedtive
look would be our ruin. Our career is
gloriously opened,, and evident marks of
fear are prevalent among our enemies.
They have fled at the fight of our armies,
and scarcely a day passes without an in
stance of success—but let us notwithdand
ing be tipon our guard ; one fhameful de
feat may ruin the fruits of a celebrated
vidtory : like certain animata of prey,
whose pradtice is to attack a traveller at
the moment of his fall, our enemies are on
ly waiting for internal divisions, to seize
the helm of government from the hands of
revolutionary authority, and then to rush
upon us at once, and bekr us down with
their rage and numbers. What we do
not fear from their courage, let us appre
hend from their treachery. A constant
bloody druggie of four years ought by
this time to have made us acquainted with
the enemy we have to fight. They pay
no regard to the mod sacred rights ; and
our adts of good faith towards them, and
even our favours, have always been answer
ed by new enormities and the basest re
turns on their part. In vain however
were their oaths to trample us and our
[ new code of laws underfoot—Their wrath
has been confounded and their jiride difap
pointed. But their pride is not annihi
lated, nor their rage calmed. Despotism,
at her lad gasp, roars aload, and myriads
of slaves rush from every corner of the
earth, who with themoddupid tgnorange,
think it their glory to fpHl their blood in
the cause of the royal tigers, who are ne
ver fated. It has been the wish of France
to make them free like herfelf, and their
aim is to enslave her as they are enilaved.
Citizens, dained as they are with your
blood, they think they do you a favour in
offering you chains much more weighty
than it has ever yet been your lot to wear.
Your miseries are a fead to them ; alrea
dy in imagination they partition thecoun
try in which you breathe—and you,
Frenchmen ; you, generous republicans ;
you, whom these monders are driving to
plunge once more into the abyss of slave
ry ; you yourselves are reckoned a part of
the booty they cxpedt to find in France.
It cannot be, that patriotism, liberty,
and virtue are mere empty names 1—
Frenchmen, can you bear the thought that
herds of ferocious soldiers lhall take posses
sion of your habitations, and snatch fiom
vourpiouths that bread, wh ch our intes
tine divisions have in some degree embit
tered to you, but which it will soon be in
your own power to render sweeter than
ever in the bosom of unity and peace.—
Would you abandon to the difcretioriary
vengeance of a vindidtive conqueror, your
parents, your wives, and your little ones ?
Can you content not to transmit to pos
terity (that impartial judge) that liberty
which you have asserted for them as well
as yourselves ; or, jud emerged as you are
from the chaotic darkness of the prece
ding ages, would you almod as soon en
tomb yourselves in the contempt and ab
horrence of future times?—No, no—as
we have but one part to take, there is but
one word for us all—To arms !—Only lis
ten to the howlings of the enemy, who
now aided by treason and traitors, have by
such means, and not by bravery, advanced
to the verge of our northern frontiers —
how aptly may they be compared to
bears and panthers 1 Let us cfedroy them
since it is impossible toglut their appetites!
Let France rife at once like one man,
from north to south, from ead to welt,
and like a volcano whose flame has been
long (mothered, let her vomit forth against
all hostile nations, her ships, her soldiers,
her philosophers, her law 3, terror, death,
knowledge, happiness, and peace !
And you, our much refpetted female
citizens, sex amiable and sensible, remem
ber that the love of country is alio the
voice of nature. Far be it from us to
blame you in the lead degree for your con
jugal tenderness, or your r.ffedtion for
your children—but take care that your
love does not degenerate into weakness,
and, by a fatal consequence, prove the de
(tru&ion of those whom you hold so dear.
We are surrounded by enemies who threa
ten our deftrudtion ; remember too that
they aie enemies cruel and pitiless : should
yon keep your offspring with you, in vain
will you expose your own bosoms to defend
them from the fword3 of barbarians. If
Nature has found them rebels to herfelf,
surely they will not relent at your tears.
You will perish under their murdering
weapon f, and upon yourftill panting bo
soms may fall your expiring offspring, at
once the vi&ims of your own blind affecti
on, and the vengeance of foreign conque
rors.
You tremble at such a picture. Ye
husbands and mothers that encircle us,
tell lis what is to prevent its being realized
unless by afling the firm part of republi
cans, and adopting every manly virtue,
you set them at defiance ? Train up your
offspring in the path to victory, array
them in the military habit, arm them
with your own hands, oblige them to
fweai that they will never return till the
combination of tyrants is conquered—
and should the news arrive to your ears
that they have per 'iJJicdfor their country ; let
your answer be,lt was for this that ive gave
them birth ! And let the generou9 exam
ple of the mothers inspire in the daugh
ters a resolution not less heroic —let them
universally enter into an engagement not !
to receive into their arms a lover who (hall j
not in our glorious cause have manifefted
a contempt of death, and opposed tyrants
in the field of battle.
Young citizen soldiers, what further can
be said to excite you to arms in your
country's cause? In rulhing to batt'e you
obey the voice of your country, and the
"voice of honor.—This is your whole and
only duty
When the city of Paris sent forth her
firft heroes, (he astonished all Europe,
and rivalled all the departments ofFrance.
It was to the determined bravery of tliefe
elder sons of liberty, that this great capi
tal has now the honour of dealing the firfl
mortal wound into the bosom of tyranny,
and of being the cradle of the revolution.
The task of supporting the honour of Pa
ris is transferred from them to you. De
fenders of the fame caule, it behoves you
to learn how to fight and—Die like them
As to ourselves (the council general)
our official duties confine us to thi& spot.
Ours is it, to ihaintain within that tran
quility which it is yours to support with
out Our hearts and our belt wishes at
tend your exertioijs. We (hall sympathize
in all your diftrtffes and rejoice heartily at
your luccefs. Till vidtory (hall bring you
back triumphant to the bosom of your
country, you may reft assured that no caie
will be wanting in the magiltrates to pro
vide for the wjnts of your fathers, your
wives, and your children ; a duty that
will be ever sacred in our view of things,
and the nearest to our hearts.
e- , PACHE, Mayor of PaYis
Signed, CO LOiMBErtU,.Wrar)>.
Shrewsbury and Philadelphia
STAGE.
THE Shrewsbury and Philadelphia stage,
will commence to run regularly, ill Thurs
day the fourth of July, to leave Philadelphia on
thatday, after which time, during the month
of July, it will start from M'Kean andVanEm
burl's wharf at Philadelphia (the next wharf be
low Arch street) on every Sunday and Wednes
day & proceed to Bcrdtnton—the land stage to
proceed on the next morning to Edingtov, and
to return on every Tuesday and Friday. In the
month of August, itwill leave Philadelphia on
every Sunday and Thursday, and return on ev-ry
Tuesday and Saturday.
Fare for Pafiengers from Philadelphia
to Edington - - two dollars &an half,
For goods ditto - ditto pr. cwt. one doliar
VAN EMBURGfc? M'KEAN.
SAMUEL FORMAN.
Bordenton June 29, 1793-
For freight ur pafiage, apply to the matters on
board, or tc
M'KEAN & VANEMBURGH
Who b2\e fpr sale vjual at their stores on said
wharf, pork, hams, flout. lard, butter, rye and
indian meal,, cheeie, bar iron &c. &c.
July 3, 1 aw. x m.
METEORO LOGICAL OBSERVATIONS.
June 1793.
D. H Barom. jTher. W\ni. Weather
TuefJay, 25. 6; 30. c 67 S. C7o«</y
3I 3O' * 74 S. S. E. /? a;».
Wedntjday, zO. 0, 30. c bb VV. "loudy^"
30. ] 6q N. Rain.
TturjUay, 27. 6 ( 30. ij bb calm Clt/uuy.
3i 30. 15 So VS. W Fair. ■
briiay, 6 30. 15 71 .V. Cloudy.
I 30. 1 85 S. W Fair.
Saturday, 29. 61 30.1. 7- S. Vv. -l.uay.
3! 30. 11 S3 W. do.
Sunday, 30. oi -o. 12 74 W. /•air.
3', 3°- "t. 00 rfn. , do.
Monday, 1. 61 29. i 77 W. Fair.
3' 29. 75 81 do. Sbovicrt
FOR SALE,
Thirteen Hundred and Sixty Acres
of excellent
Farming or Tobacco Lands,
LYING in the county of Amherft, in the
state of Virginia, on one of the principal
b.anches of James River, within fix miles of th«
latter, from where it is navigable for boats of tea
twelve tons burthep.— Befjdcs the advantages
of these lairds, for the farmer or cultivator of to
bacco, they are fuppcfed, from a small though
fuccefsful experiment, made by the late celonel
Chilwell, to contain an abundance of metals,
which, if not of a Drecious (as has been ever*
supposed) ate certainly of a very valuable kind.
Tne better, however, to ascertain this fa&, and
place the purchaser on a fafe footing, in so haz
ardous a business, as all those subterraneous te—
iearches, without the utmost certainty of an
abundance of the desired ore, is supposed to be m
every reafonaole and nereflary afliftance or indul~
gence will be rendered ihofe inclined to make the
experiment, as well as«very other necefTary in
formation given by the Editor of this gazette, ia
Philadelphia, or
JOHN NICHOLAS,
Charlottefville, Virginia;
Jure 8, 179}. iawow
For PORT AUPRINCE,
The fact failing .Ship
BETSEY,
AEED READING, Master •
"DURTHEN two hundred and fifteen tons: Sh®
has beenjuft hove down and is in complete
Has excellent accommodations for paf
lVngers,and will fail by the 15th of July next.For
h eight or paflage ' apply to the Captain on board,
->r to Mr. Jehn Dunkin, merchant, No. 105,
South Water-street'
June 29. 3t
Pour le Port au Prince,
Le Navire LA BETSEY,
Capttaine Reed Reading,
DXJ PORT de deux cens et quinze tonneaux r
tres bon voilier ; a ete fraiefcement ra
douoee, et en le meilleur etat pour U mer. Le
Betftv eft bien accommodee a prendre le« pafla
ers, ot partira fur le quinzieme jour da mois di
Ju i I let courant. Ceux qui voudront y pafler on
charger a fret s'addrelferont ale Capitaine fur le
bord, ou a M. JEAN DUNKIN, negociant.
No. 105, Rue de Teau (Water-Street) de Sud.
a Philadelphre, le premier de Juillet, 1793
I Have claims to about two hundred an<£
fifty thouland acres of LAND in the state of
K, cn tuckey, in different parts of that country,
some of which 1 know to be equal to any 5 alt
of which I am inclined to dispose of, either by
entire sale, or by admitting ene, or two partners,
t<> whom the agency on the whole will be com
mitted.
One fourth of the contrast will be required in
hand, either in cash, merchandise, or such afletw
as may be converted to a-dlive use, the residue
may be apportioned in convenient inflalments.
The purchasers to give security, on the J«nd y
or otherways,as suits them.
Knowing that there is a prejudice against the
titles of land in that state, which is, more general
than just, i am willing to stipulate in the con*<
tract, that a discount, or dedu&ion, /hall be
made, where any land may be loft, by reason of a
defe&ive title.
Any person inclining ro such a p-Jtcnafe, is re-,
quested to write to me by post, in answer to
whom, more particular information will be given*
HENRY BANKS.
Richmond March 20, i"9> 2aw td»
—MJ
TO THE PUBLIC.
tttHERE AS ah attachment at the suit of Sam
uel Imiay and Nathaniel 1-mlay, executors
' of the testament and last will of Peter irnlay, de
ceased, has ifiued out of the Supreme Gour c(
Judicature of the rtate of Nec*. Jersey, against the
iands of Garret Voorheis, late of the county of
Middlesex, and state aforefaid, returnable to the
firft Tuesday in September, seventeen hundred
and ninety-two Notice is hereby given to the
said. Gariet Voorheis, that unleis he appear audi
file special bail to the said a&ion, judgment
will be entered against him, by default, and the
lands so attached fold for the fatisfadion of such
of his creditors as shall appear to he jultly entitle#,
to any demand thereon, and (hall apply for that
purpefe, according to the form of the statute ia
such cafe made and provided.
By order of the Court,
17. law. ly HOWELL, Clk.
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