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Miscellany,
I V
Prom Cclumhian Cen * inei>.
Brief Hiftory,
Os the RISE and PROG
RESS of the recent MOBS
RIQTS. : • ,
COMMUNICATIONS RREPACTORT.
CITIZENS I
THE late Mobs in this and
other towns, mult from
their repetition and the man
ner in which they have been
conducted, have had a singu
lar appearance to our brethren
in the country ; and the ingenuity
of report, will no doubt have tend
ed to rmllead and deceive those
who reside at a ddtance, by giving
to the account of them, afpeds
and embtJhlhments foreign from
truth. But as these riots,however
irregular in their appearance, and
kemmgly accidental in their origin
and progress, were really the result
of previous arrangement, and part
of a fyltem adopted by our Jaco
bins, to produce political effeds
thing like a* just notion of, the vile
, end infamous attempts of our Jac
obin diforganizers, to throw us in
m confufion, to obftrudt the opera
tion of our constituted authorities,
to fvpprefs all decent and regular
exprrfnuns of femimcnts, individ
ual or coliedive, which do not
— /r- * *
coincide with their own* by threats
and intimidation. If this be not
done, by stating clearly and con
cisely the eflential fads, as they
occur^d, and by (hewing tncontef
tibiy the principles and views of
the incendiary promoters of the
—Riots; the public mind cannot
feel a just indignation at their con
dud ; nor will it be readily believ
ed, that we have among us such
base imitators of Marat and Ro
bespierre, who, like them, in their
nightly cabals, are always hatch**
Ing treason and rebellion, and un
der the mafic of wild democracy,
are unitedly labouring to tyrant
iie over even the government ic
fclf.
In attempting such a display of
the conduct and pursuits of our
hypocritical diforganizers, we (hall
certainly state nothing which we
do not really think to be true, and
in general we shall fobjoin the ev
idence of the fad* But it mutt
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ment ot the Union as they were
in fact, excjud. a.ed supported by
our Jacobin leaders ; and by them
viewed as a strong, and a natural
engine, to oppose the government
of the Union, and to counteract
the measures of the executive, re-
lative to the Treaty with Britain :
It is important that the public
fhouid have a more correct view
of this infamous bufmefs, than
mere vague reports can exhibit.—
Ik is important, that our brethren
in the country, Ihould have fotne-
injurious to our country, and an
efficient mean to oppose, and e
vcntually to destroy the govern-
PM/hedon Thuifdays, ^Samuel Winslow, in Main-Street, Exeter, (New-Hampjhire) at i Doll. & 25 Cents per annum.
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miry, were they to retire from
their dark recedes. In the day
they are occupied in preaching se
dition at the corners, and in the
market,in declaiming upon liberty,
equality and the rights of man ;
and in the night, they assemble to
form their arrangements for tramp
ling on thole very rights, and for
counteracting and subverting our
existing government. They are
vile cdpyijls of Marat and Robes
pierre; they imitate them in the
basest traits of their charader; but
they are incapable of their bold
nefs in design and execution, or
we ihciuld ere now have been a~
domed by streams of crimfongore.
In bafentfs and depravaty, they
are equal to those worthy models
they have attemped to imitate;
but thanks be to GOD, he has
not given them nerves or talents
like those of their patrons, or we
fhouid have seen the fame dismal
feenes here, which they produced
in France.
Should we, in the course of our
work, have occasion to introduce
any particular perlons, as among
the efficient agents of sedition, we
hope they will hear patiently the
truth, and permit us in turn to fay
a few words for equality's f*ke.—
But left they fhouid get into a high
toss, as upon a late occasion they
did, and insist upon fighting not
only the world at large, but each
citizen of our own, who will not
bawl out in concert with them, in
our public streets, a creed which
no fool can believe, and principles
which even fatan would blu/h to
avow. Be it known to theie pre
* tended Democrats, that we have
retained a set of expert performers
in the differents brane he of mod
ern warfare, who (hall be always
ready for their good, and the pub
lic amu Cement,to perform any fears
at which they are most expert, be
they what they may.
We may indeed have occasion
to iubjoin to this work, byway
of a fuppkment, to elucidate and
confirm our ideas, an analysis of „
the political characters and . con
dud of our leading diforganizers,
and fotne other worthy dema
gogues, fellow labourers with
them in the work of sedition.—
Men, who are known by all the
Jacobins, by the cant phrase of
“ ’75 men? that is, good fellows,
who are always ready to attack
and pull down governments and
introduce corfufion. But these
sons of riot and sedition arc as op
posite to the real enlightened par-,
riot of ’75, as is vice to virtue, or
daiknefs to light. The latter ex
erted himfelf to free his country
from foreign bondage, and to se
cure to each‘Citizen a free exercise
of his pcrfonal rights; but the
of the men, or their doings, when
they and their treasons are always
covered by the veil of midnight
darkness. Conscious that the pub
lic would Coon difeover their defor-
ocelli’ to,every one, th a' it is not
easy to acquire, in many caits,
more than circumftanrial evidence
THURSDAY, October 22, 1795.
“ Deal, Aug, 19.
On the 15th in ft ant, at eight
o’clock in the evening, the Spider
fefl h) with, and was cha-
Cedt on the North coast of Hol
land, by a Dutch Fleet, consist
ing of five men of war, fix frig^
ates, four cutters and brigs, and
One galliot,
“ On the 17th inftanr, the Squir
rel, and her convoy, fell in with
the fame fleet, in conlequence of
which they made the best of their
way tor the Humber, where
then took refuge.
“ The Dutch squadron was
bearing south-east, and had no:
very long failed from, the Texel.
The following ships are said to be
going in quest of it ; the Vener
able of 74 guns, Calcutta of 50,
Jubiter of sb, Leopard of 50, the
Circe la Ba bet, and fix Ruffian
men of war.
former arc the hireling tools of
foreign demagogues co embroil
our country, to subvert our gov
ernment, to destroy our liberty,and
to render us dependent upon the
will of the tyrant of the day for
<>ur nominal cxiftence as a nation.
In the modern cant-of our Jaco
b fiTt leaders, a man at *75, ,01
one who has the Ipiric of ’75 is
one, who is always ready to over
turn government, to introduce
general confufion, that such choice
fpiriis, as thcmlelves, may have a
good opening for rapine and plun
der ; and by the aids of fequeftra'
tions and other Jacobinical regu
lations, may poflels themselves ot
the property of others, much eafi
cr than co earn it by common oc
cupations and purluits.
We however would allure these
would be patriots, in appearance,
that w$ Ihall not theddle with their
private conduct or perlonai charac
ters. his more congenial with
the fpiric of cur religion, to con
ceal, with the veil of chancy, their
follies and vices ; and it is cer
tainiy the pare of wisdom and paC
riotilm, to hide from the public
view, ’thofe depraved examples,
which can tend only co corrupt the
morals and principles of others.
But as it is a main point in their
own creed, that official political
conduct and public measures are
fair game, and much good may
result to iociety by luch an analy
sis; we may take the liberty of
flapping them of their borrowed
fltins, that the people may fee
tqr themselves what dull and de
famed animals they are.
WHAT wasfarefeen by ma
ny a long time ago, teems
now to be quickly approaching —
a state of aCtual hostilities between
this country and Holland.
That the Dutch have a fleet at
sea, is now fully confirmed by the
following notice which was Yest
erday stuck up at Loyd’s Coffct-
House.
War with Holland I
LONDON, AUG. 22.
tton. t
But when private foe ieties, fclf*
formed and unknown to the laws
of the nation, usurped the powers
of government; when clubs con
certed in private under the direc
tions of ambitious demagogues,
the means of controuling the Con
vention ; when a noily populace
from the most licentious parts of
Paris took their feats in the galler
ies, and ruled the debates, threat
ring the legal reprefenratives with
affaHination for oonkiemibuHy
diicharging their duty; Then we
separated the geednefs of the cause
•from the vtlenefs of the means ;
while we gloried in the success of
the French armies, against the ne
iaireus league of princes; we rep
robated the fadions that divided
the interior of rhe nation,and filled
that country with violence, tyrant
IT is a source of the highest fat*
isf act ion to every other citizen,
that the French nation, after hav
ing combated with half Europe,
and defeated the infoient attempts
of the combined powers to model
their own liking, have attacked and
probably crldhedthe hydra of defa
potifm which was efiablifhed in the
Jacobin and other popular socie
ties.
From the commencement of the
revolution we have made a distinc
tion between the cause and rhe
manner of eondutting it. White
the work of regenerating the gov
ernment of the French nation, was
carried on by the legal authorities ;
it had the approbation of all re
publican Americans. We rejoici^l^
at the downfall of tyranny, civil/ji
feudal, and ecclefiaitical. Ws^
gloried in the day when feudal ser
vices, monopolies, church estab
lishments, opprefiive taxes, defpo*
tilin'and its train of degrading in
stitutions, were/wept away bv the
•will of the nation. At the fame
time, we reprobated the interference
of foreign powers. We have un
iformly and incefTantly exprefled
abhorrence of the conduct of Aus
tria, Prufiia, England and Spain,
and a detestation of a combination,
formed, for most unwarran r ah^e
purposes, and calculated to eftab**
] sh a precedent fatal to the fell
government of every civilized^a-
Deal, Aug. 20.
This day Admiral Duncan put
to sea with the following ships un*
det his command :
Venerable 74 I ; Admi ” 1 Doncan,
[Capr. C* Hope.
Aria -7. f ßear Ad -
Qapr. J. M. Dbu
4 ^gali,
Calcutta - 54 Capr. Bligh.
Leopold - 50 Capt. SwaffiekL
Jupiter - 50 Capt. Lechmere.
Dtedalus - 28 Capt. Halket.
Black Joke Bugger.
The Ruffian Men of War failed
at the fame time, under Admiral
Duncan’s command.—This fleet
is going in quest of the Dutch
Iquadron, said to be at sea.
From the New Tork Herald.
[Number j 6.