The American herald of liberty — Exeter, N.H., 1794-12-27 00:00:00, page 1

FT^ HE Popular Society of Caen,
are we calumniated ’ When will
the cruel be fatisfied ? They ftrll
wilh to fee (he (hade of Robes-
PIERRE hover over our heads, but
it is in vain : Terror flics before
justice and probity.
Reprefentauve/ of the Peo
ple! Over the whole furface of
the Republic, the faftious are bu
sy; like to those vipers, which
raise their heads from out of the
mire, which covers them, they
are preparing to sting the true Re
publicans. Strangle them I They
would devour their country ! Sink
them into their original nothing
ness 1 You are our Legislators !
We acknowledge none but you for
the Chiefs of the State ! We own
the National Reprefentativcs as the
only point of rallying, and the
People alone for Sovereign. We
reiterate to you then the oath w?
have taken: We fware to be al
ways faithful to the Convention.
We will regard as the enemy of
the people, every man who would ‘
rouse, near you, arty rival, injolent
and ufurpin^ authority. 1 '
The fourth battalion of Mont-
Blane, forming part of the left wing
of the army of rhe Eastern Pyrefi
nes, congratulates the Convention
op the tall of the tyratj? ^lobes
pierifc and his accomplices ; af
fares the Aflembly of their devo
tion, love and refped flwear to
exterminate all the ambitious, who
do not jefped the people in tbeir
Reprefeiitdtipn, and to annihilate
the tyrants and their faiellite^. The
battalion also makes vows forthe
deftru&ibnof Albion, that haunt
of every crime.
\ The National Agent of the dif
tri& pf Libreval, department Or
du Cber, informs the Convenuqftf
that ihe fifth Sani Culoude was
celebrated at Ltbreval, with joy
and fraternity j that on that day
the triumphs of the arms of the
Republic were sung Ut the altar of
the country, in the mid ft of a nu
merous' aflembly ; that to termin
ate th^feaft, sis was
cast atjbe foundery lately eftab
tn that gommune, with
great success, tn the prefehfe of the
£eprefeotajj^ people Fer-
MfiW every mind by
h s eoergetic discourse, relative to
the circumstance. The^ent adds,
that the inhabitants, pf the above
diftpdt are all dcvqied to the cause
of liberty.
The Revolutionary Committee,
newly deded, for, the diftrift of
Carpentras, department of Vau
diferiptiqn; that the most danger.
[Tbe following a*tides are tranjla
ted from the Official Bulletin of
the Convention, of Oft.
Volume IX.]
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ous are those, who walking in the
steps of Robespierre, are striving
to domineer over the conftkuted
authorities, which they ought to
obey ; to bring into contempt those
magistrates who are too inflexible
to bend their will; to ruin the belt
purposes, by wanting to give to
popular societies a ch ar aft er of re*
presentation, which they da not pof
fefs ; that they are using every ef
fort to deprive the Convention of
that confidence among (he people
which is neceflary to lave the Re
public. In Ihor t, that they are in
terrupting the progress ot revolu
tionary government, by Ihie|ding
criminals from justice who may be
subversive tp their designs. Yes,
Rcprefematives ! (continues the
committee.) We dare fay it, the
French people love liberty, but
they are not yet free. Is there a
Angle commune which is not in
fluenced by a few individuals, who
though they were yet better pa
triots than they really arc, cause
to be republicans, and become en"
emies of equality, in attempting
to regulate opinions? Vote in op
pofitidn to them to-day, and to
morrow they note yon on their re
cords and with the firft opportuni
ty avenge themselves like tyrants.
Have we then overthrown the/i/W
tyrw, only to lee an infinity of
little despots (hare.his power, Who
in amass crulh the good man be
neath them ? We hear it continue
ally rung incur ears, that terror
is no longer the order of the day.
No, certainly if is no longer so for
thoic good citizens whose only
crime was having difplealed some
party leader. Justice has taken its
place,and gives courage and confi
dence to alj whose confidences are
void of reproach. Buc justice does
not cease to infpireto the enemies
of the revolution, whoever they
may be ; and we will not fail *toj
Iharpen againlt them the sword i^|
the law, Ihould it be found n/P
flack in cutting them off from the
toil of liberty.”
The above Committee assures
the. Con vention of its entire devo
tion, and active luperintendanco y
invites it to execute the decree
which ordains that all public func
tionaries (hall render an account
of theur fortunes, and beseeches
the Aflembly to purify itfelf of
apy Members who may be unwor
thy of aplacein its bosom.
The Convention ordered the a
bove to be inferred in the bulletin.
TheßepreJenXatiyes of the peO
ple, delegated to the department
Du Gard, L’Aveyron, L*He
rault, and Vaucluse, to the Na
tional Convention.•-r-** We hasten
to announce to y ou, that the trou
bles of Marseilles, have hadz,*^
effeft in these departments : ThA^
great body of the people are eve
ry wher^ excellent, and do jufticc
to the Convention, to which they
are invtolably attacked. But it is
our duty to mfofth you that some
'SATURDAY, December 27, 1794.
| the public opinion at Beaucaire j
you have no doubt, perceived it
by the stile of the addresses which
have come to you from the fame
lociecy. As these leaders were
public funftioners, and as they
have been feprefented to us, as a
busing their authority for the pur
pose of Ihacfciiftg tbe public opin
ionjwe have stripped them of their
employments and haw caused the
law of the 17 th of Sept, to be ap
plied to them.
“We will negleft no means
proper for maintaining peace and
tranquility in these beautiful re
gions, In vain, you will be told
that aristocracy is railing its head,
(the ordinary stile of the public
disturbers) —We swear by the au
thority which you have confided
to us that we will repress both A
ristocracy and Moderation, and
cause good citizens to enjoy that
security which alone can consoli
date the interior peace of the Re
public: We will doour utmost to
revive agriculture, commerce and
the arts. z
“ We have seen with pain, that
certain men, under the mask of
ardent patriotifm,have persecuted
with bitternels many merchants &
artists, to whom however we have
since done j ustice, for we have not
neglefted to^ut in praftice the
beautiful theory developed in the
report of Robert Lindt j the
principles of which, being immu
table as the star of day, all men
whoadherQto them, will forever
be united. Health and Fraterni
ty. (Signed) PEBRIN,
- ; GOUPILLEAU”
LONDON, OCT. 10.
Tip HE mail is not arrived, but
I we have received by a priv
conveyance, letters from the
continent, which afford us reafqn
co believe chat our intelligence ia
yesterday’s Courier, relacive to
General Clairfaytt correct. Ait
our letters are replete with
counts of the confufion and con
ftefnation chat pervade the Prov
inces of, Holland, Utrecht, and
Guelders. .
" Accounts receded
ftonj Copftantiiw^ wn
rival of a French A^nc^fMlhe
name of Lafoife, emrufted with »
special eomi^ifiiprt widi^e|?e^t to
Poland. It is added, chat this a
gent was foots after arrested by M.
Defchorches, who charged him
with traducing his charafter.
By order of the Court es Mun
ich, the payment of half of every
^penfion add {alary inthe^PaiaCinate
exceeding three hundred florins, is
suspended on account of the exi
feocies of the prefenc circum
antes, ■ .
According to accounts from
Genoa, a third Representative of
tfie Frcndi people has arrived at
Foreign Intelligence.
The Imperial Contingent of
Salzbodrg, consisting of 1500
men, were all ent to pieces in the
late aft ion near Liege, except 15
meo, who are now at Jujiers,’
Nice, with the precise and definite
inftruftions for proleCuting the
campaign in Piedmont. He fee
out with M. Abitte, for Loana,
where they are to wait forSalicetti,
and afterwards proceed to Garc
fio. ’ —■.
Advice* from Constantinople inform us,
that a part of the Ottoman empire has late
ly been visited by an earthquake.
On the third of July, three towns war*
fwollowed op between Angora and Efdruna
in Natalia, formerly known by the name
of Alia Minor, situated something more
than 290 miles S. E. of Conftantinoplej,
vi^, Tchogrym, which conflftcd of about
5090 houle*; Amalia, the capital of the
government of that name, which was still
more exteafive and populous, and which
is famed as the Birth place of Strife; end
Ergtem, which contained between three is
four thou fard boufes.
The population of these three is eftimat"
ed st 10,000 feuls; and besides these a
number of villages in the fame terri rpry,
were likewise destroyed, fearcely a tenth
part of the inhabitants having efeaped the
dreadful o«athophc»
The accounts from Poland become daily
more alarming tcuhe plunderers of that fair
country^ The infurre&ion not only gains
ground in the province* lately difmcmber.
ed but has found its way into Gallicis, Li*
votia, and Lithuania.- The inhabitants of
thole counfries want nothing but the flight,
est prafpcd of fuccefe to attempt {halting ofF
the foke of Auftria,Ruffia and Pruflia, and
dedaring openly for the principles of the
Palea.
. V
When the messenger left the army, the
duke of Yor k had not changed his profiti
on j hut the defeat of Gen. Clairfsyt ren
dered his fituadon far from being-a fafe one;
and we expert our next advices will inform
ns that he has crofled the Waall which rune
into the Rhine, or perhaps the latter river.
The heavy baggage had already been re
moved as a matter of precaution, across the
Rhine, near Emmerick, and the cordon of
Hanoverian? and Hcffians, nhich had been
Rationed upon the Maule, bad joined the
main body. The Eledor, brother to the
Emperor, has quitted Bonn, on the Rhine
and with hit court, ba? fled to Mergcathe-
It has been said that in confe*
quence of the Prince of Wales*
intended marriage with the prin
ccfs of Brunfwic, the Duke of
Brunswick her farther,is once more
to take command of the allied ar
mies, and that the Duke of York
has lignified his readiness to serve
under him. The Duke of Brun
wick, had the command in chief,
the firft campaign, and the plan
may perhaps, now be to fighc all
the commanders over again, and
tfien Da Copo. We do not hear
that the French have yet proposed
recalling Dumourier. their com
mander in chief for the firft cam«
paign.
The Pruflian army, in their
flight from before Warsaw, aban
doned themselves to every excels
of licentioufnels, and set fire to
several villages through which they
pafled. It is said that they left all
their camp equippage and a great
quantity of ammunition on their
retreat.
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