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branch: Let us place it in the
mid ft oflhe laurels which we have
gathered. Kings themselves are
not ignorant how to make peace
with Republicans. 8c Republicans
can understand the proportion sot
Kings, when they are just, rational
and glorious. Far from us be
the thought of carrying every where
/ire and ftame, as rs liberty could
not thrive, but among bloody cin
ders. If it is permitted to us to ,
pray that liberty may extend her .
reign far and wide > we fboufd be
madman* to precede her with car
nage and death.
of Europe! You have
nothing: more co fear from us, but
I
PEACE is at this moment the
objed of public meditation,
and the general wish. After hav
ing prefenced co the world the
Ipedacl? of a war carried on with
so much glory and success it will
be gratifying to us, to grant re
pose to vidory,,almoft weary of
our fucceflcs.
Perhaps jt was alowable for o®,
in the firft delirium of liberty, to
wish to sow the feeds of it Over the
whole earth. This fnchufiafm
was the presage of so many mira
cles; but it is glorious to fee a
people, whose astonishing fuccefles
might without doubt inspire bold
thoughts, restrain their courage,
and heathen only to the voice of
wisdom and justice.
It was in the nature of things,
that we could not overthrow our
tyrants, without arming against
v* the in ter efts and the paflions
of the courts of Europe. The
experience of the war, which we
have maintained against all our
• neighbours, has foftened their pas
sions and modified their interests.
Europe now holds out the olive
greatest politeness and even gene
rofitVj that it (hould be guilty of
; such a high-handed robbery as
the late captures appear at present
to be is extraordinary. Except
this we have no news stirring here.
APRIL. 9*.
** The President is taking
the most efficient means to obtain
fatisfadion for the Baltimore vef
fds lately taken. Several ru
-mours and conjedures are in cir
culation; but whether the specie
on board, was French or Ameri
can property, the damage is the
fame. The condud of Mur-
Kay’s squadron has been unac
countable ; while it has treated
fame American veiTds with the
a large fam of money for this city
and Baltimore* Application has
been made to the British Minister
on the fubjed, and a veficl will
depart for Halifax to morrow
This, and the capture of two other
vtfTels within the capes of the
Chefap^ake, is considered as the
most daring outrage offered by
those Brkfh plunderers i who at a
time When the government is hold
ing out the olive branch, are rob
bing our merchants without the
Jeaft pretence. A fapply is order
ed to be refufed the Britiffi ffiips
at Norfolk* To add to the vex
atious circumstance there are three
Bermudian privateers that infeft
oUr fobrhern coast from wfieoce
’few vcffds bound to the CHefa
peake can efcape.*’
By Wednesday’s Mail.
PARIS, FEB. 2.
OF PEACE.
our great example I—But alas!
How little, hitherto, have you
had occasion to dread that 1 How
much tighter has the frightful
Ipedacle of the intestine troubles
which have agitated us, drawn the
chains of nations! The diverse
fadions which have succeeded each
other amongst us, in covering our
country with blood and crimes,
have rendered us an objed of hor
ror to the people of other coun
tries: They have believed that
liberty was a man eating monster \
they have rallied around the
thrones,and we have only present
ed to their eyes the dazzling blazp
of war like atchievements, instead
of the mild and atsradive fpltndot
of domestic felicity.
It is thus that the exampit
which we ffiould have given to
the world, is changed into a hi*
deous scandal, which has put back,
very far, perhaps, the liberty of
nations I But since we fear not to
own these truths, the moment is
then come,when France will Ihew
to Europe, a fpedacle—worthy
of herfelf! The moment is come
when we will no longer give as a
pledge of our promise and our
faith, metaphysical abftradions,
and great words void of sense, but
a moral character, pure and solid,
and a government wifely constitu
ted ! Some cry, Who can fay that
new fadions will not be formed ;
who can fay that the Jacobins will
not again spring from their affies ?
Perhaps there is even now forming
in secret, other Heberts, another
Chaumette, another Robespi
erre. Do not you fee how ma
ny intriguers are at work to dis
solve the National Convention ?—
How many perfidious insinuations
are spread abroad to provoke the
primary aflemblies ; how many
wi iters under a varnUh of Iqve
for principles, are jailing rival
authorities, and silently, sapping
ufefulreputatidris ? Ah ! All these
objedions are very weak, compar
ed to the evils the people have
faffered, and to the experience
they have acquired. No, there
will be no rhore Heberts, nor
wounds and thy blood, shed in
such profufiori ; I call to witness
those deep and devouring wounds
of which the fears will long re- ,
main the seals of thy wiidom, the
dread of conspirators.
In defiance of intrigues and in
triguers, the Convention will con
tinue until the has railed and es
tablished the colums of the repub
lican edifice. Inftru&ed by the
enormous abuses which have aris
en from the unlimited power that
the nation has confined to/her ;
inftrufted with the miseries which
the fadiohs who opprefled her, I
have made her occasion, she I
take care not to separate, before '
the has built dykes to reftri£f and
arrest the power of those who ftiaH
succeed her; the will take care
how the nation is delivered up 40
the mercy of another afiembly e
qually indetertninate in its power,
and the fafety of the liberty of
France exposed to the storms of
an indefinite and wavering teg illa
tion, full of ntw dangers and to r .
mented by new paffions^ She will
^aindown the revolutioo under
ChaumitTes among us; tht
blood of Robespierre is sterile,
and the race of the Decimvirs,
will be ffiortly extinguiffied for*
ever.
France, F call to witness thy
thefaelter o#a dutabfe rohßitts
tion, which intrigue may attempt
to destroy, but can never over
turn 1
O you, .who Should diflolve the
Convention, who undermine its
exigence by preposterous insinua
tions, either yOu are traitors* or
you know, not what you wiffi !
what a never ending anarchy would
follow the diflblution of that af
lembly! What! another revolu
tionary legislature ? That is to
fay, delivered over, abandoned to
all the caprice of fadions, to all
the viciffi Udes of the various
passions, placed perhaps in its
turn, in the circle of Popiiius, by
an imperious and powerful party,
and forced to search for its duty,
which would be no where prescri
bed in the will of the ftrongtft.—-
Pitt would certainly be right, to
fay we never ffiould have a* gov
ernment if the Convention sepa
rates befote having marked out
the constitutional limits within
which, the next legislature, ffiel
tered from the blast of fadions,
and the /urges of brigandage* and
immorality, ffiall confine itfelf.
But it is to you, that we apeal,
renowned Engh/hman-\- whose vig
orous and republican eloquence
has resounded amongst us, and
which seems to proceed, not from
the parliament of England, but
from the tribune of the French
Senate ; fay to your fellow-citizens
deluded by a subtle ministry, that
France has a government, that (he
has inftruded herfelf in thefchool
of misfortune, and that ffie is wor
thy of vanquilhing by her genero
sity and greatness of foul, those
whom ffie has already conquered
-by her arms*
Country of the Hampdens and
Sydneys, be worthy of pofleffing
in thy bosom the tombs of those
great men I Contemplate the desti
nies of the world, and fee how
low thou arc about to be degrad
ed. Haft thou risen above the
level of th# ocean only to be rhe
quidefands of humanity ? Better
had it been for the uciverfe, if
nature had condemned thee to be
only the haunt of Jharkt and oth
er mofifters of the deep! Thy nar
row policy ffiuts the ear against
the manly and courageous accents
which freemen cause to echo thro*
thy isle I—When all Europe fra
tern lies with. ps,thou alone wouldst
mar this touching concert of fa
cial virtues!—Thou alone insult
. est humanity ! Thoualone wouldst
yet ffied torrents of human blood ’
Thou alone would detach thyfelf
from that gtand chain which is
going to unite all nations !— Et
penitus lota divi/os orbe Brittanos,
FRERON.
THE HOSTAGES.
Prince Philip, the 1 lid. son of
the Prince ot HeJJe Hombourg^ and
the Prince \Neid y were both taken
prisoners at Sluyce, in Dutch
Flanders.-—They were removed
to Paris, and are confined in the
palace of the Luxemberg, where
they are to remain as hostages,
fdr the French General Bourron
vitLt, and the three National
Deputies, whom Dumourier for
merly delivered up to the Austri
ans;
W* Robbery conveys but « faint of
the world .. *
f Mr. FOX it Hcr« unqueftwasMy ia
laatd.
PROV DENCE, April it.
Bv Cap . Whipple, who arrived he*
on Thuriday evening in 7 days from
Charleftown. We learn, that on the evening
of the sth instant, eff Charldhmn bar, a®
action took place between the French
privateer brig Gen. PotAsXi’a mounting
16 Cx pounders, and the Bermudian pri
vateer (hip Sir C«ables Gate, mono
ting 18 twelve and 2 fix pounders. The
brig had a valuable prixe Ibip in tow from
Jamaica for London laden with 300 bol
theads of sugar, <O6 hogsheads of rum,
a quantity of coygn.—After a severe en
gagement, the republicans 1 beet off the miy
notwitnftanding her superiority h» number
of gopa afid Weight of mecal, and got the
prke into Charlcfton; the tetter however
loft her masts on the bar. TM brig had
manned nine Prixesprewni to this attiod,
and waa preparing 10 tell immediately ite
qgeftofihc Bcrmud*** rW
The French National Conven
tion, in every particular adopt ad
oppoine condud to that of their
vapid pretended friends, the late
Jacobins of America; For not
withstanding Mr. Jay’s treaty,
and its contents, have been pub
liffied and commented on in Par
is, that Body has recently announ
ced to Mr. Morris, the Ameri
can Ambassador, that “ they will
carry into full effect t the Treaty of
Commerce betue^n the two Kepub
licks ** While our French allies
are adopting this magnanimous
condud, the Jbam friends to the
French, in America, are denoun
cing the treaty by bell, book and
candle. They, good fouls, feel
more for the French, than the
French feel for themfelves;*
If one might judge from the
sameness of the abuse which has
been poured on Mr. Jay’s treaty*
(or rather the preliminaries of a
treaty) at Norfolk, Philadelphia,
New-York and Boston, at nearly
the fame time, a conjedure would
arile that the antifedera) fcnblers
had been put in a state of rtqui/ition
and had received orders from the
fountain-head of Jacobinilm, to
commence the attack all at once,
and endeavour to blast it before
its period of birch. Prudence,
perhaps, may have didated the
measure, as the infeds may have
not a word to fay against it, when
it is ratified zrdpublijhed.
Among other novelties of the age, Mr.
Hajwul, of Bennington, ad vert ifes 7he
hifory of Redemption, on a pla® xw* j
tiaely new.—Possibly, on this new
plan, bimfeH and coadjutors of the Ver
mont and other Democratic clubs, are Mi
escape the penalties of their original fin ;
conceiving the old plan cither not tenable, i
nor extending to their order. The Society
are probably indebted to Old N-i afor
this novel febeme : The creature being a®
adept in wind and water proj^U, thia
new plan may procure him and his frieoda
the favour of Charon, when hurried inu®
the boat.
•• 1 have (een Mr, Jay but cnee fined
my arrival, on account of my having much
to attend to. He informa me. that AM
PLE SATISFACTION WILL BE
M ADE FOR ALL AMERICAN PROP*
ERTY UNLAWFULLY CONDEMN
ED BY THE BRITISH.
“I dated to him our cause which be
thinks is very clear, and advilea me to ap
peal immediately; and fays, that aa foo®
as the Treaty which he has made,is ratified,
Congrcfs will appoint too eommiffionera
and this court the famc—who wist appoint
tn umpire and decide all cajet that is cap
off by the court of appeals, that the captort
•will be obliged to re-Jund the property—those
that are infuffeitnt, GOVERNMENT IS
BOUND TO MAKE GOOD.”
NEW-YORK, April
Mr JAVi TRE ATT.
ExtraS of a latter from Mr. Jamet Codwifa
to hit J other in tbit ciiy» Sated London,
Dec. ii.
MMMUMCrtfoNS.
Important Articles.
LITCHFIELD. AFML I£.