The Columbian informer, or, Cheshire journal — Keene, N.H., 1794-12-23 00:00:00, page 1

Respectfully informs
the public, that he now
occupies the (hop formerly own
ed by Mr. Stephen Chafe ;
where he carries on the business
of BLACKSMITHING, in its
various branches. All persons
who may please to employ him,
may depend upon having their
work done to their fatisfa&ion,
on as reasonable terms as by any
Smith in the place.
Keene, 12th Dec. 1794-
TOTESOLD,
A GOOD place for a Blacksmith, ly
ing in Marlborough, on the main
road from Keene to Boflon, containing
two acres and an half of Land—a good
House and Shep, a good cellar, well and
garden, and zo acres of woodland lying
half a mile dirtant.
All persons having accompts with the
subscriber, arc desired to make immediate
settlement.
JOSEPH WILLSON.
Murlhor&Q Dec. 13^, 17%.
7r<HE f^fenber hereby inform, the
Fabric that he carries on the bu
firefs of
BLACKSMITHING,
more exteufively than he ever yet has
done.
All kinds of articles in that line, are
manufactured at his works, and constantly
kept for fate.
He will ihoe OXEN, at nine (hillings
per yoke—HORSES, at five Shillings
each, and every other kind of work in
proportion.—Cenftant attendance given,
early and late, and a year's credit if re
queued. Q,
He likewise continues the business of
MAKING TINWARE,
in all its various branches.
ALSO,
Just received a freft assortment
•f
ENGLISH & WECT-INDIA
GOOPS, ,
which will be fold as cheap as as any Store
whatever.
ABIJAH FOSTER.
KAN, Doc. if, 1794.
Far Jala at the Printing-Office in Keene, the
foltowing BOOKS.
THE AMERICAN Preacher ; or a
cclle&ion of Sermons from some
of the inoft eminent preacher, now Jiving
in the United States. Sterne's sentiment
al Journey. Vicar of Wake field. Young'r
Might Thoughts. Odiorne's Poems. Fa
miliar Dialogues. Life of Jofepb. The
Redeemed Captive, returning to Zion.
Devest Exercises of the Heart. The last
Solemn Scene, a Sermon. The Hiftory
of Tom Jones. Travels to the West
ward. The Rights of Chrifliins Pope's
Efy on Man. Piefent to an Appren
tice, by a late Lord Mayor of London.
Recovery from Sickr.efs ; a prefer to one
lately raised from a dangerous diforcer.
A choice drop of Honey, from the Rock
Christ. An Historical Catechism. The
Old Bachelor's Reasons for Celibacy.
A small Essay on the signs of Chris's te
cood appearance. The Toy Shop. Pro
digal Daughter. Divine Songs for chil
dren, by I. Watts. A dissuasive from the
Sin of Drunkenness ; and a great variety
of Pamphlets not here mentioned.
The above BOOKS will be fold cheap
for Cash, Country Produce, or Rags.—
Great allowance made to Pedlars, who
purchafd hy che quantity.
[No. 39. dfVoL. ll.]
Jamwel JCcuriTDell,
^oo^^
Or, CHESHIRE JOURNAL.
PRINTED and PUBLISHED by HE NRr BLAKE, & CO. in KEENE, New-Hampshire.
Columbian Informer ;
F RA
ASSASSINATION (foWAL
NATIO NAL eQ^VENTION.
(24th EruCtidor—Sept. 10.)
BeNTABOLE rose.—Re
port tells me, that this night
Tallien has been assassinated. I
do not believe the Convention
will remain indifferent upon this
fubjeft. I demand that the
committee of General Safety
shall be charged to give us the
details. (Adopted.)
A moment after Dubarrin as
cended the Tribunal in the
name of the whole committee.
Citizens,faid he, I'allien this night
has been affallinated, the Com
mittee of General Safety took
immediately the necessary steps
to difeover the author and ac
complices of this attempt.—
They will render you their ac
count of the affair —1 he fol
lowing is the letter written to
us by the Commissary of the
fe&ion of Indivisibility.
" Citizens, Ihaften to inform
you, that this night at a quarter
past twelve o'clock Tallien be
ing in the Rue de ^ua tre Fils,
about to enter his own house,
was attacked by a man in a fur
red riding coat and a round
hat " Come, villain, (he
cried,) I have staid for thee a
long time. Thus speaking, he
Itruck him with his fift in the
breast, and then fired a piftel at
him, which penetrated his shoul
der and he fell, several citi
zens came up, the affadin escap
ed ; the 'Representative of the
people was then borne into his
apartments, and the necessary aid
administered. From the report
of the officer of health, it ap
pears that Isis will not be atten
ded ^. a %^r serious consequen
ces t Tallien." (Applaujes.)
Bentabole faid —We must on
this occasion do justice to Tal
lien. When Le Pelletier was
assassinated, it was said ar
istocracy then reared its head.
They now fay, moderatifm has
been raised, and Tallien is af^
faffinated. It is therefore erro-|
neoufly that they accuse him of
being the chief of the moder
ates. I demand that the Con
vention do not fuffer longer
public opinion to fluctuate, and
that a report be made on the po
litical situation of France within
24 hours.
Merlin of Thionville. It is
time that the Convention, meet
ing the question, and fading the
precipice down which they
TUESDAY, December 23, 1794.
T Hri
This accusation publicly renewed, cre
ate.! very long and tremendous debates
until the President was obliged to put on
hit hat to restore tranquility.
The accused were heard successively,
and they all testified their aftunifhzent
that they should be feperated from their
%9prt colleagues Carnot, Robert, Lyn
det Fricur, (de la Cared'or) with whom
they had contiantly deliberated in the
committee of Public Safety, upon the
measures cf government, and they called
for their teilimony to explain the condud
of each cf the accused.
Carnot and Prieur declared at the tri
bune, that Barrere, Billaud Varennes, and
Collot d'Herbcis had conttsntly voted
*iih them against Roberfpierre, and that
in all circumstances, they had not hesi
tated to sign with confidence the fame a&s.
If my Colleagues, said Carnot, are cri
minal so am I ; and I will not divide my
fate from theirs. I shall fay only, that
when I urged the denunciation of Rober
fpierre to the Convention, they accused
me of violence and too much precipitation.
Butin that their intentions were pure.
The testimony of Carnot and Prieur
produced a great effeft on the assembly and
all explanations ceased.
Merlin of Thionville propefed the for
mation of a CommiOion for the purpose of
examining the different accusations.- —
There was no further debate on this fubjed.
Then Breard called for the order of the
day, which had already been rejected, but
which was adopted definitively on his mo
tion —Applauses.
The Representatives, Trehourd and
Faure, in commission at Brest and L'O
riant communicated the following fad :.
An English vessel, a prize to one of our
frigates, funk at a great distance from
shore. Five of our fellow citizens at
tempted to save themlelves in a boat
after experiencing, for many days, the
horrors of almost certain death, hunger,
thirst, and every evil incident to such a
situation, the, met an American vessel
bound to Bourdeaux from Baltimore.—
Captain Robin, who commanded her, fur
nifhed our brethren with all fuccours in
ill power in clothing and provisions; and
changed his <ourfe and put back into
Brest. Thm Captain and his crew, ac
companied shis a& of virtue with the
most sincere expreflions of attachment to
the French Republic—(Applaufei.)
Guezons proposed to declare that the
Captain and crew of the American Blip,
Legendre excited a warm discussion by
denouncing nominally to the people
and Convention, Barters, Collet d'Hcr
bois, and Biilaud Varennes, as canfpira
tors. He reproached them with having
concealed from the assembly the crimes 0/
Rooerfpier:e, ~hich had been known to the
committee 01 Public Safety for fix months,
as Billaud had said, under a pretext that
they were afraid of producing a fchilm in
the committee.
would precipitate us, should
take one step backward, the
better to strike its enemies.
Citizens, exist there continu
arors of Roberfpierre ? [res!
Tes ! was exclaimed from all
parts.] This question then is
decided the blood ofpatriots at
teds it ! The people, who ac
knowledge only two authori
ties, wills, that the reign of as
sassins be finidied. Would those
who have dragged Roberfpierre
to the bar, continue liis system
of terror ?
Oaober 4.
DENUNCIATIONS.
The number of Pamphlets every' day
published in this city, does not diminish
—they are remarkable for the oddity of
their titles. Here they cry, " The infer
nal Clubs," there " Well Jacobins !-^
What will you do about it ?" A little
farther you hear, " the deep despair ct
the Jacobins, departing in amass for Ln
Vendee."
Camboa announced, officially, the ar
rival at the National Treafary of twenty,
nine waggons, loaded with gold and tilver,
in coin and ingots, being part of the con
tributions laid on the 18 Cities of Belgii&
and amounting to the sum of 13,169,^1
livres. " It was not thusin Dumourifl
time," said Cambon. " He drained
France of specie, and the Representatives
of the People fend it into France. He
starved us to feed the armies, and the Re
prefeotatives of the People now fabfift the
armies entirely from the foil of the ene
my." The total of the sums imposed up
on the above cities, is 60,290,870 livres.
Os this fam, 14,447,360 livres have bees
id doarine in question, under good and fare
guard, to the Committee of General
Welfare.
The da, before yesterday, a great num
ber of waggons arrived,from the Nether
lands, loaded with precious metals. We
are assured that the National Treasury was
never so full of specie as it is at this mo
ment. There is also another kind of rich
es which we have drawn from the Low
countries, that is a colle&icn of the £ueff
Paintings of the Flemish School—the,
will soon be exposed to view in the Na
tional Museum.
The tragedy of Mahomet, was lately
presented on the Theatre of Equality, Ci
devant, Theatre Francois. The public
applauded with enthusiasm, every time the
following lines were repeated.
" Exterminer, grand dteu, de la terra 00
nous Jommes,
" l^iconque toe plafr repand le fang des
hommes,"
Great God! exterminate from the earth,
whoever takes pleasure in fadding the blood
of his fellow men.
The Representatives of the people now
in this city, have denounced, in a proc
lamation, the following maxims, which
were .tel, declared to be incoatefti
bte principles by the popular society of
this place.
" The fovervignty resides immediately
in the Popular Societies. The public o
pinion is drawn from the will of each
Popular Society."
We did not expeft their pretentyna
would go quite fokigh as this. Do el
things proceed from the whim, and folly
of the societies ? It is better to think so,
than to imagine .they aim at a domination,
a hundred meg more abominable and
a surd, than was ever meditated by the
ambitious disciples of Loyala, (the Jefu-
have deferred well of the French Re
public— (Decreed.)
its.)
Notwithstanding the representations of
every rational being in the society, the
printing and posting up the (hocking dog
mas, was ordered and executed. But
the Repreftotatives Charlier, and Pochol-
It, have entirely tranquilifed our minds.
They have in their excellent proclama
rion, declared the principles of the popu
lar Societies to be deftruaive of all social
order, and have uncovered the fnarc, laid
by anarchy and villainy.
They have also adjourned the fittings
of the societies, for the prefect, and sent
the orator, who firrtbroached the hor-
COMMUNE AFFRANCHIE.
(CI-DEVANT LYONS.)
Sth Vendemaire.
. [Whole No. 91.]