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Xy attending Roberfpierre, wherever he is,
Mhucivn house, at the galleries of the
Jacobins, of the Cordeliers, and of the
Convention ?
'' It is because the French revolution is
canfUered as a religion, of which Rober.
fpiene is considered as the leader of a fe&.
He is a priest who has devotees. But it is
evident all hi# poweris en auenouille. Robcr.
preacheißoberfpierre --cenfures—>he is fu
rious, grave, melancholic, afFeaediy ex
alted, followed in his opinions, and in
bis conduct he thundered against the rich
and the great —he lives on a littlejs mod
erate R his natural* appetites—'his chief
million is to (peak—but he fpetks forever
•-he reful those offices in which he might
be of service to the people, and chooses
Ihofe in whichhe expe&a to govern them.
He appears where he can make a figure,
and disappears when the scene is occupied
by others—He has all the chtfa&erigics,
net of a leader of a religion, but of the
leader of a fed. He attempts to establish
preparation of auftcrity which points to
tact,. He mounts on forms and talks of
MR. RUSSELL,
Z-foHE Journal vfDr. Moore, in France,
during the mod interesting period
of the French Revolution, has attained :o
much celebrity. Though the Doelory,
not in favour of the conduct of some of the
French leaders,and has condemned the un
necessary mediates which frequently have
been made, his veracity never has been
doubted; and his opinion of ^ien and
their motives, has been confirmed by pof
tcricr events. The following account is
given by him of the two celebrated cha
rafters who now appear a: the head of the
Ruling Powers in France, Roberfpierre
and Barrere.
ROBESPIERRE.
IS f. native of Arras. This great lumi
nary of the revolution not only renders
Mirras more conspicuous, bat has thrown a
lay of light on his brother, who lived
there in ebfeurity, but it now chefen a
deputy to the Convention.
R3B €RS?I£RRE is a roan of final! size,
2nd a difi greeabic countenance, which an
nousce mire fire than understanding, in
his calmed moments he conceals with dis
fealty the hatred and malignity which b
said to cxl& in his heart, and which his
ffeu"'^ ^'* d'Lii:"'*bif f„rnid ** ta^tr#
p-He diftingubhed himfelf in the Confti
tiunt tfcmbly by the violence of his
speeches, and much more fo.ee in the Ja
cobin Society+y the violence cf his mea
sures. His eloquence is employed in in
venires against tyrants and aristocrats,
and in declamation in przife of liberty.
His fetches are barren in argument, but
fot'itsn fertile in the flowers of fancy.
Roberspierrb is considered as an ec
fhafiaft rather than an hypocrite; ferns
feeble think him both, which is rot with
out example, but to me he seems to be too
much of the firft to be a great deal of the
fecund.
He has always refufed every office of
emolument; his paffiou is popularity,
not avarice ; and he is allowed by even
those who deleft many parts of his charac
ter, and are hisenemics, to- be incorrup
tible by money.
In the CLronique de Paris of yesterday,
ft paper conduced by Condorcet) is the
fallowing curious article, which 1 shall in
fot, beccufe it ihews M. Condorcet's idea
of a man who has made so much noise in this
country particularly of late :
66 It is fometimesafked, bow it happens
that such numbers of women are continual.
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Columbian Informer;
rU£ S Z)J1794.
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The two great maritime powers are
England and France. Deftray either of
these, and the balance of naval power is
destroyed. The whole world of com
merce that pages on the ocean would then
lie at the mercy of the other and the
ports of any nation in Europe might be
blocked up.
The geographical fixation ofthefe mar
itime powers comes next under considera
tion. Each of them occupies one entire
fide of the channel, from the ftreits of
Dover and Calais, to the opening intothe
Atlantic. The commerce of ell the nor
thern nations, from Holland to Raffia,
must pass the straits of Dover and Calais,
and along the channel to arrive at the At
lantic. This being the case the systemati
cal politics of all the nations northward
of the straits of Dover and Calais, can be
afeercained from their geographical situa
tion ; for it is necessary to the fafety of
their commerce, that the two tides of the
channel, either in whole or in part,fhou!d
not be in possession either of England or
France. While one nation possesses the
whole of one fide,sad the other nation the
Tounderftand this part of the fubjem
it is necessary, in the tirft place, to eds
an eye over the map of Europe, and ob
serve the geographical fixation of the seve
ral parts cf the confederacy ; for how
ever Wrongly the passionate politics
of the moment may operate, the politics
that arise from geographical Situation are
the most certain, and will in all cases final
ly prevail.
The world has been long amused with
whatis called the “ balance of power ;"
but it is not upon armies alone that thi>
balance depends. Armies have but a
final! circle of action ; their progress is
flow and limited. But when we take
maritime power into the calculation, the
scale extends universally : It compre
hends all the interests conneaed with
commerce.
IN the firft iff, the confederacy is
not of that form, irfcif oriynTy
by concert or corfent. It has been forced
together by chance ; an heteroger.ee as
mat's, held only by the accident cfthe mo
ment ; and the instant that accident ce„
rs to op^u^he parties will retire to tnefr
former rival Gups.
I will now, independent of the im
pradicability of a partition-project, trace
out some of the embarrassments that will
arise among ths confederated parties ;
for it is contrary to the intcreft of a major
ity of them, that inch a project Ihould
succeed.
Ilarrere, deputy from the department
of High Pyrenees, who was a member sf
the constituent AiTembly without being
diftinguithed, begins to be thought A
mere importance in the Convention. Hr
his oct hitherto taken a decided part with
either party, but I am told is courted by
both.
OF THE PRESENT STATE OF EU
ROPE, &ND THE CONFEDERACY
AGAINST FRANCE.
By Thomas Paine.
*' One of the incidents of a week is t .e
accufaticn of Roberfpierre, by a man of
great underfeeding and talents (Louver)
but whole imagination is mere extenfoe
than either. The accuser and the accord
have both been heard, and both have
proved,that it is impofdble to make a dic
tator of fiobt rfpierre."
God and Providence. He alb himfrtf
the friend to the poer and the weak. Fe ;
makes himfelf be followed by the women,
and gravely accepts their homage and a.i
miration. He retires before danger, ard
nobody is so confpicious when tne danger
is over. Roberfpierre is a Poren, and nt -
er can be any thing more.
BARRERE.
From the N. York Daily Gazette.
Mr. M'Lean,
Being, when in the City, a reader of mos of
the public papers, and basing obfirved,
that while you avoid every approach to
scurrility, you nevertheless maintain the
Freedom of the Press, 1 cannot doubt that
you will readily give the enclcfedfatement
a place inyour paper.
To the Republican Citizens of
the United States.
MR. HAMMOND, rhe British
Ambassador. in his lerterof the zzd of
May last to Mr. Randolph, while endeav
oring to joftify Lord Dorchester's reply
to the Indians, after having quoted a pas
sage therefrom, proceeds thus :—" From
the context of this whole pillage, it is
manifeft that Lord Dorcheftef was per
suaded that the aggreffios, which might
[The information contained in the fol
lowing is foch as, (if founded on fact) ev
ery individual ought to be acquainted
with.]
Should a conference of the neutral
| powers take place, these obfervatigas will
' at lead serve to generate others. The
whole matter will then undergo a more
extensive invettigation, than it is in my
power to give, and the evils attending ei
ther of the projeds, that of restoring the
bourbons, or cf attempting a partition of
France will have the calm opportunity of
being filly difeuged.
On the part of England, it is very ex
traordinary that she fnouid have engaged
in a former confederacy and a long expen
sive war, to prevent the FAMILY COM
PACT, and now engage by another con
federacy to preserve it.—And on the
part of the other powers, it is as inconfitt
ent, that they should engage in a Parti
tion Prejaft which, could it be executed,
would immediately dellroy the balance of
maritime Power in Europe and would
probably produce a second war, toiera
edy the political errors of the firft
THOMAS PAINE.
(Author of Common Sense, &c.)
Applying these cases to the project of
a partition in France, it will appear thut
the project involves wim it a dellruaion
of the balance of maritime power ; became
it is only by keeping France intire dad
indivisible that the balance can be kept
jup.—This is a case that at firft fight
Ilies remote, and afood hidden but it 10-
:terefts all the maritime and commercial
Inations in Europe in as great a degree as
jany case that Las ever come before then.
I—ln flwrt,it is with war, as it it with law.
llnlaw, the writ merits of a calo become
left in the multiplicity of arguments ; and
l in war they become lek in tKcir variety of
[events. New objects strife that take the
I lead cf all that went before, Rod every
;thing affsmes a new afpett— fhie was the
case in the I,ft great confederacy, in
what waj culled the icgcehioa war, and
molt probably will be the case in the pref
ect.
Again, while the Englif, navy contin
ues,it is neccEary that another navy glQulci
exist to cquoul the universal (way the
former would other.&jfe have over the com
meice of all nations. France is the only
nation in Europe where this balance can
be placed. The oativeaefthe north were
they fufticier.tly powerful, could not be
(anciently operative ; they were blocked
up fix months in the year, Spain lies too
remote ; bolides'which, it is only for the
lake of air American mines that she keeps
up a navy.
other fide, the northern nations cannot
help feeing that in any situation of things
their commerce will always find proteaion
on one tide or the other. It may tape
times be that of England, and fonieiime.
that of France.
2d. In the fame year and month, the
Attorney General of that Hate underftind
ing that a certain Patrick Coaro„refiding
within the aforesaid town of AUburgh,
had, for some time, cxercifed therein the
office of a Justice of the Peace, wittout
any legal commission foe-shat purpose, if
filed a writ ordering hideto appear before
the nextfupreme Court, which was to ft
in that County. 4
A difoute arose, either about the fir
vice of the writ, or about farcething rela
tive thereto, end dependant thereon ; the
confeque.ee of which was that, the Deputy
Sheriffemployed in this business, was taken
by. force; aalfcnt prifoaer to Montreal,
iff. His Excellency the Governor of
Vermont in May 1792, 'hot^ IftcTng
the fear of the Government of Great Bri
tain before his eyes, but inftigaied by
pure patriotic and conftftutiOTal motives,
expressly ordered the magifrates redding
in the town of Allburgh, (the whole of
which, it is not even disputed, lies with
in the state cf Vermont) to call a Tewr
meeting, which order tLey complied with
and legally purfood thole purposes, tot
which town-meetings are generally feu
mooed.
I do not mean to insinuate that Mr-
Hammond has committed, intentionally, ei
ther the one or the other of these impro
prieties ; he may perhaps have been im
posed upon by those frdm whom he receiv
ed that intelligence in which he so positive
ly confides.
From the above quotation it appear#
that Lord Dorchester's expectation of an
approaching war, in the opinions of Mr.
Hammond, arofeprinci pally from the light
in which his Lcrdfhip viewed the ccndu&
of the Rate of Vermont, and the inhabit
cants thereof, which had been fueb, as to
juflify bi, Lordlhip in declaring that
a war would probably soon take place
between Great Britain and the United
States.
As Mr. Hammond has not, in the let
ter above alluded' to, particularized the
" encroachments' 'hr so heavily complains
of, I shall take the liberty cf doing it for
him.
eventually lead to a state of hettility, had
proceeded from the United Slates ; and
so far as the ftnte of Vermont, to nebieb g
Jrefame bn Lordship principally aiiaded
was implicated. I Bin convinced that that
persuasion was not ill founded: For, not.
withstanding ^e positive alforances which
I received from your predecessor of the
9th July, '1792, in answer to ray letter
of the 4th of the fame , month, of the de
termination of the general government,
to discourage and repress the enCroa^h^
meats which the state and individuals of
Vermont, had committed on :3c territory
occupied by bis Majefy's garrisons, 1 afftfe,
with confidence, that not only those en
croachments have never been in any meas.
ere repressed, but that recent infringe
ments in that quarter,& in the territory,ih
its vicinity have bcencummitted. Judged,
if this affcrtiun of mine could require any
corroboration,! would remark that,cho' the
fpacc of 5a days elapsed between my let
terofthe 20th of March 1794, upon this
fubjeft, and your answer of Ae 19 ;h of
April, 1794, you did not attempt to deny
the fs&s which t then stated, end which. [
now explicitly repeat."
Though fame may deem it exceedingly
improper, and impertinent, in any indi
vidual to intermeddle with a bufinefa in
volving in its confeqaences matter of
such immense magnitude as this does, £
nevenhelef, am determined to rifque the
public tenfure, convinced, that it is net
only a right inheritant in caeh member
of the community but a duty positively ito
CTflAtot rn him ;p pMSV.e^ v^h-w#
in his power, the public mind from being
milled, by an artful miftatemcot of fads,
or a wanton aflertion oi absolute fall
hoods.
[Whole No. 70.]
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