The Newhampshire gazetteer — Exeter, N.H., 1789-10-17 00:00:00, page 2

MY heart was yet bleeding at the
loss of a Prince, to whom I had
given birth, when it was assailed by
sorrows of a much more distressing na
ture, All France was in tears, groan
ing under the weight of oppression :
The horrors of an approaching fam
ine had nearly reduced the people to
despair, and I heard my name menti
oned with murmuring and impatience
--Suddenly I was informed that all
Paris was in arms, and that fire and
sword were desolating the capital-
In a moment I saw my court dis
perse and fly far away from me. My
Royal Consort battened immediately
to his good city, carrying thither at
least that internal peace which the
purity of his principles has always
made him enjoy, and which the con
feioufnefs of his love for his people
made him certain of imparting to
them ; but nothing could quiet my
tender felings, alarmed for the citi
zens of Paris, and for all France,
whose universal desolation filled my
heart with unutterable distress.
Thus forfaken and [reduced to the
most deplorable situation, I (hut my
felf up with my children —1 pressed
them a thousand and a thousand times
to my bosom—l mixed my tearsand
bitter cries with their infant wailings
—in their tender and innocent careil
es I could find some alleviation to my
own misfortunes, but those of the
nation left me inconsolable.
A princess, whom heaven has form
ed and bellowed on mortals for the
happiness of all those to whom her
cares may extend, and for the fatis
fadion of all who know her—the most
tender and affectionate of women—
came and mixed her tears with mine.
Ye Frenchmen ! file is my coufin—
the Duchess of Orleans (with the live
liest gratitude I mention her name,
the found of which is as grateful to
your ears as her amiable person is dear
to your fouls.) The Duchess of Or
leans opened her heart to me—What
an incxhauftible source of riches and
consolation was there ! O what a
powerful fapport against misfortune,
a woman, nay, even a reigning Prin
cess may find in a virtuous friend !
May this holy truth be forever deeply
engraved in the heart of every mortal
woman who is destined to fit upon a
throne—lt will teach her, how diffi
cult it is, from that exalted feat, to
make a proper choice of friends ; it
will lay open to her the falfehood
and treachery of courtiers, and pre
serve her from the dangerous poison
which infers every court.
As sincere as (he is tender, endued
with courage equal to her sweetness
and generosity, this true friend, in the
effufion of her foul, could not dissem
ble from me, tiiai x wuj ^J<, :;c^-
fed by the nation to be the author of
its calamities—How lively and mov
ing were her expressions ! What a
language they spoke to my heart ! It
was oppressed—it was torn with grief
Nothing less than the affectionate
and unwearied cares of that Princess,
could have made me bear so rude a
shock without expiring&ith grief.
O ye, whose wife difeernment has
never fu'ffered you to remain long un
der any error ! Ye just and enlight
ened nation ! Ye Frenchmen ! whose
names alone is the eulogy of your,
minds ! Ye people, cherished by the
Princess who enioys the inestimable
advantage of reigning over you, and
who now nddreffhs you with a confi
dence that is due to you on so many
accounts ! Ye models of love for your
Sovereign as well nt for j°" country . I
MARIA ANTONIETTA ofAuftria,
European Intelligence.
QUEEN OF FRANCE.
TOTHE NATION.
PARIS, JULY 17,
ADDRESS OF
• France.
Ye heroes ! whose great and valiant ।
fouls have made you so often ihed
your blood for those Sovereigns as
well as for that country 1 Can it then
be possible that you have not known,
that you have forgot your Duchess,
who possessed all your tenderness, and
who ever since has so sincerely loved
you ? Ever since the alliance which
has united her to the Prince who has
afterwards become your King until
this melancholy era, when her misfor
tune compels her to juftify herfelf, (he
never ceased to cheriih you—she had
adopted you from inclination, as she
had your august Dauphin. Yes, ye
Frenchmen, in allying hiyfelf to you,
I had placed all my felicity, as well
as all my glory, in one day iharing his
throne, and reigning over your hearts.
In the testimonies of love which I re
ceived from you with so much fatis
fadion, and the remembrance of which
will be ever infinitely dear to me, be
fare that you exprelied no more than
a just gratitude. Ever since the
crown has been placed on the head of
my Royal Consort, my heart never
ceased to be filled with those senti
ments ; they are invariable as their
nature —as their principle :—I will
preserve and cherilh them until the
Divinity is pleated to call me to his
bosom ; here let me renew the solemn
promise, to which I swear by the fu
cred and precious #rle of Q,een of the
French.
But I will confirm to you with my
mouth, this promise so pleating to my
heart—l will go into the bosom of the
capital, and there expand my foul in
to-that of the nation : I will let them
fee all my grief ; and I sincerely with
that fame nation may bring back se
renity and joy. My principal with is,
to per fuade the people, that it will be
the important business of my whole
life, to promote th©ir felicity with all
my power. Ah ! May 1 one day make
them forget, ihatideceitful courtiers
—ministers without honour and with
out: faith—publick plunders of all
kinds—in Ihort, an odious, cruel and
bloody junto had prepared their ruin!
O ! How happy I shall then esteem
myfelf ! But 1 fnall never enjoy either
tranquility or fatisfaflion, until the
moment when 1 Ihall have carried in
to the mnds of that most amiable and
most loving nation, that degree of
convi&ion which will restore and en
sure to me forever the hearts of all
my dear Frenchmen.
Let us dissipate our alarms and our
fears; let us Lengthen, by frefh
mutual assurances of reciprocal ten
derness, the bands that unite us to
each other ; let us render them indis
soluble ; let all the unfortunate apply
to me with unbounded confidence !
They will find my heart ever open :
I will pour into theirs every consola
tion which beloved children have a
right to aspect from a tender and af
fedionate mother whom they love:
I will be eager to give them all the
assistance in my power ;—I will be
their patroness and their support ; —I
will love to weep and grieve with those
that grieve and weep ; —I will find an
infinite sweetness in wiping off their
tears —and I will place my happiness
in drying up the source of them.——
Placed on the throne of France, my
ambition still prompts another fond
wifh,which will fully fatisfy my Eearc
It is, that all Frenchmen may confi
der me as their belt friend.
A wife and economical minister is
restored to u&: The rellarer of affairs
is coming : perhaps he hears me at
this moment : Our misfortunes are
then going to vanish ;We may rely
on his zeal and care, as well as on the
love of our King for his people.
Aug. 6. The Conspiracy against
Brest—the intercepted Letters —the
Gun-powder Plot of Franche Comic
—the monstrous wickedness of cutting
the green corn,'&c. &c. awakened
:he nation afrefh to the necessity ft
taking some steps to fatisfj rthe vir
tuoui citizens, and infare the promif-
FRENCH ELOQUENCE.
ed panithment of State criminals in
the present fufpenlion of the ordinary
Courts of Jultice. —M. Duport,
with the simplicity of genuine elo
quence, opened the matter iaft Friday
as follows :
" I lose no time in communicating 1
to the Assembly the sentiments whichl
animate my,whole frame,& the trouble'
thatagitates my heart. My faculties do
not allow me to express them to you
with the energy, the triumphant force
of the great orators who fit among
you ; but I need only the expreflion
of my heart.
" 1 pass to the important objeft, an
object on which it is impose too
long to dwell,
" Yesterday your time was taken
up with a question of individual li
berty in the person of two fugitive
Members of this Assembly ; it ought
to be sacred ; every citizen it was
observed, Ihould enjoy the preroga
tives granted to man by nature; he
fhoul.l enjoy his liberty.
" But general liberty, th? liberty
of society, is that a less interesting ob
ject ? But it is menaced on every
quarter. Here,itis a conspiracy to de
ttroy the harbour of Brett ; there it is a
band of robbers strewed over the coun
try to lay waste our properties, toiurn
our houses,& to push their barbarity to
such a pitch as violently to wrest from
a People exhausted and harralied by
the miseries of famine, even the very
hope of frelh fubliUence. The land
ing harvests, the sole reliance of the
unhappy French, are falling under
the barbarous heel of a herd of pur
chased villains.
" In circumstances such as these,
our filenee were criminal ; we mull
fulfil our duty ; we muff endeavour to
trace the evil to its source, in order to
block up the peftiferous channel.
" We Ihall learn dreadful but in
difpen fable truths. Here you will
pardon me for avoiding entering into
particulars. Who has invited these
conspiracies, these execrable atls of
vindictive mifchief ? I Ihall make no
application ; but there exists aprime
Mover — you have once named him —
and your sagacity has suggested to
you his associates —but what matters
the communication between Trianon
and Vcrfailles, between fugitives at
foreign Courts and the loftieft pre
tenders to internal power r Let ns but
do our duty, and watch over the pub
blic welfare with unremitting vigi
lance ; let us open a watchful and
a&ive eye on every fide; ana then,
let what will happen, let us not fear_
to seal, to cement with our bleed, the
Liberty we are about to bellow upon
our happy Nation, I propofc there
fore a Committee of four persons to
be especially employed in examining
into the affair of Brest, and generally
into all state crimes and conspiracies ;
to receive papers, and to call for wit
nesses, and provide for the detention
of criminals provifionary, and until a
legal tribunal Ihall be constituted to
judge them."
The motion was seconded with ir
refiftable eloquence, and almost una
nimously carried, with the amend
ment of Iwelve instead of four mem
bers of the committee.
WE learn from Braga, that the
workmen employed in making
some excavations at St, Michael, dis
covered the remains of federal tem
ples, towers and houses, which prove
that the above place was anciently in
a state of extensive population. In
some of the monuments were found
instruments of a particular conftrudi
on, which were formerly in use a
mong the Carthagenians.
By last Evening's Mail.
LISBON, JUNE 19.
Portugal.
Extract of a letter from Paris, July I§,
'' Ihe Grenadier who scaled the
outer hairier of the Batile yeiterday,
has had a laurel crown decreed him :
An old officer who was witness of his
bravery and danger, tore from hi;
own bosom the cider of St. Lewis,
and gave it to the grenadier in that
moment, and said, take this, thou art
more defre^g ts it than 1. Decora
ted with Hi, and the Cross of the
Governor of the garrilon, and the
ccraen lice, he has palled the iheets
«nd tho fqcare of Palais Royal twice
—once supported by two grenadiers
of his own corps (the Guards Fran
cois) ^nd the next time mounted.—
He is a fine soldier, and bears applause
like a man of good sense and great
fortitude."
Ev&y Person of humanity muff pi.
ty the rancour with which the great
struggles for liberty has been carried
on among the French ; but though
affairs may at prelent be fad to be in
a date described by Milton, of
" conjuflon avorje confounded," yet if
the eliorts of the National Assembly
can prevail, out of this confufion, or.
Jer mull loon arise,& France at iaft be
crowned with that freedom, which the
noble exertions of her sons, in so glo
nous a cause, most richly deserve.
In this view the Assembly, aided
by the Marquis de la Fayette at
the head of the armed citizens, are
endeavouring to prevent the further
effufion oi blood, and for that purpose
have issued an order, that no person
hereafter 1b al! be put to death with
out trial; but that all against whom
there is any charge iyll be delivered
up to the arm of jultice, in order to
be heard in their own defence.
The riots in Paris have done more
to open the eyes of the people to cue
interests of the country, than all the
florid speeches and declamation of
the Count de Mirabeau and the Mar
quis de la Fayette. The public have
now tried experimentally which is the
most proper obje& of their choice, to
be ruled by a sovereign, whose actions
must be confined to the laws of the
country, and whose interest it is to be
just, or be amenable to the tyranny of
a few ambitious persons.
All advices from Vienna agree that
the revolutionin France has entirely
engaged the politicks of the Imperial
Cabinet, and a speedy peace is now
the general expectation ; the flame
of freedom is spreading sass in the
Low Countries, and it is high time
for jofeph to look at home,
Paris at present swarms with Ame
ricans, who have been pouring into
the epical,both from their own coun
try uni the aidant provinces in France
for these fix months past. ,
The present commotions in Franca
forebode very serious consequences to
more than one description of people :
To the Monarch of that country, the
consequence mutt inevitably be—ei
ther the obtainment of an absolute ty
ranny, and a confirmed despotism, or
the acquiescence to a rational partition
of power with those, who maintain it
with the sweat of their brow, and with
the dearest blood of their veins. To
the People, nothing more can be
Aid, than that the present moment is
the crilis which mult for ever decide,
whether or not, they are to be consi
dered as ufeful members of a great
community, or, merely as beasts of
burthen. To the Nobles, they have
n< w to chufe, whether they will (in-
Read of maintaining ah equal balance
between the Throne and the People)
be servile dependents on a corrupt
court, or nobly aid the People in the
recovery of tneir rights, by which
their own will be rendered inviolably
secure, To England—Humanity
and Christian Charity bid us pause !
But the truth most certainly is, that
the Emancipation of France might
eventually prove the Deflruaion of
THIS COUNTRY.
tuft Publifeed,
England.
LONDON, AUG. 12.