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Germinale, March 24..
PROCLAMATION.
The Convention approved of the follow
ing proclamation to the people.
“ At the moment when the nation isri
fing by victories to its destined glory ; ar
the"moment it is preparing for new con*
fii&s against the tyrants of Europe, their
vile agents., difgeifed in the midst of you,
were on the point of assassinating the pre
cipitating people into slavery.
The plan of a B:oody counter revolution
was prepared ; the national representation
was on the point of disappearing under the
ftt el of assassins ; the blood of patriots was
to be shed by the fury of confpiruors ; the
Republican government was to be annihi
lated,- to substitute tyranny in its place;
the armies were to be delivered upon the
uncertainty of events, or to th^ perfidy of
some chiefs; and as soon as tyranny fhonld
be established within, the foreign armies
were to have confumared the enterprize.
“ This horrid conspiracy, profound with
regard to the means employed, and immense
in its ramifications, was conceived at a for
eign coart, and organized within our own
bosom. The success of the conspiracy
was confided to the common enemies of
the Revolution, to the criminals in our
prisons, and <0 hyprocrites, who deceive
the people by pretended patriotism. In
' one day, in a few hours, at a signal given
all the counter Revolntionifts were to be
reunited, all the villains armed, all the pris
ons opened, all the aflaftns unchained,
and the Convention was to be on a sudden
Lrrounded wi h ruins, with the dead bo
dies and blood of patriots.
“In va n had our efforts sustained the
Revolutionary government. On one fide
a fatal inertness was impressed on its op
erations ; on the O' het, Cuufater Revolu
tionary measures prevailed. For some days,
the theatres and public places had been fil
led with aristocrats, and the streets with
confpiraiors. The wopaen insulted the
•public misery by a mad and foolifh luxury ;
and the varacit; of the egdtifts raised a fam
ine within, while the ftipendiaries prepar
ed it without. The winds from all quar
ters blew the florm against the National
Representation and the Patriots: while ca
lumny and treason inundated the depart
plunder and rapine, their principles hive
been greedily imbibed by the Arabs, who
were lirong enough last year to defeat an
army of 40,000 men laid against them by
the Seriff ot Mecca and the Pacha of Bag
dad ; The latter is said to have a plan for
their entire fuppreflion, which has been*
approved by the Divan.
The difeentents among the people here
are Rill very high. Divisions also exist
among the troops, and a short time li.ice
the Cannoneers and the Janissaries had an
engagement, in which many were killed
on bo h tides. And nbtwithftanding this
tumult was appealed, a new explolion is
much dreaded, which cannot fail to be
terrible.
[Received by An arrival at New-York, from
Ireland ]
CONSTANTINOPLE, Feb. io.
COMMOTIONS among the TURKS.
r~ipHE infurrettion in Arabia ftili con
/ tinues. The rebellious fed are cal)-,
cd the Vchabi and have nothing Jess in
view than the sapping ot the whole foun
dation of the Mahometan Religion, which
•they are taught to look upon as the grossest
idolatry. Their opinions? however, are
by no means new, being to be traced 60
years back to their original propagator, an
«minent ocheich, cf the name of Moham
met Ibn Audul Vehab. What they par
ticularly inculcate is the deftruttion ot the
tomb of Mahomet the Santtuary of Mecca
and all the religious ceremonies recommen
ced in the Island.—Thus recommending
THE diplomatic debates between our
Minister and the Ruffian Ambailador have
assumed a most feiious form, and their con
ferences are more frequent than ever. In
the mean time the Porte makes dilpofitions
for war : He is already ingaged in very con.
fider-ble preparations, particularly in Eu
rope. The greatest activity is displayed on
the confines of the Crimea, and towards
the banks of the Dineller. Already they
talk of putting cut a numerous fleet to
sea. Thele measures appear the more
receflary, as Ruflia is also making very
cor.fiderable preparations. We have e
ven received intelligence that already an
army of almost an hundred thousand men
is afiembkd on the donfines of Moldavia.
Foreign Intelligence.
We the fublcribers commanders of A
merican vefiels now in this port, and rea
dy for sea, having received intelligence that
a Spanilh fleet of 4 (hips of the line and 2
frigates would lail from' here for the Welt-
Indies in a few days, have thought prop
er to make application to the commander
of said fleet to take our vefiels under his
convoy and afford us his protection ; we
received for answer that application should
be made by our Consul, and when told we
had no Consul here, his answer was that we
ought to have, and a fleet to protect ou.-
feives, for he could afford Us no protection;
In conlequence of which weare under the
djfagrecable neceflity of declaring we in
tend to remain here until we have a fuf.
ficient convoy granted us, as there is now
out on a cruise 17 fail of Algerine corsairs,
the least of which 12 guns; besides a great
number of boats armed with fwivils and
mulkets, and each boat carrying from 18 to
25 men: and should we fall into their
hands we have nothing to expett but per
petual flavery,as the Tyrant of Algiers has
declared he will not ransom an American
on;any terms whatever; we have intelli
gence daily from Algiers, and learn that
our countrymen there are treated in a cruel
and Ihocking manner. Peace is conclud
ed on for Fifty years between Portugal and
Algiers, and if we have not a fleet to pro
tect our trade we u»ay expett the moil ferr
ous confequencfcs, as the Algerine corsairs
have gone to the Northward, and have de
clared" they intend to pay a visit to the A
merican coast, in the summer. They have
already fitted fomeof the American prizes
for cruisers, and are fitting more.
Cornelius. Merchant, Boston,
James Parrock, Philadelphia,
Wm. J. Plummer, Boston,
* Joseph Girdler, Marbelhead,
Daniel White, Boston,
Edward Lewis, Marbelhead,
Daniel Hathorne, Salem,
Edward Brock, Philadelphia,
William Bbrrow, Boston,
John "Beckford, Salem,
William Younge, Bal imore.
ments and the armies, with fa’fe news/
In one, news was publilhed that the ene
my was within fix leagues of Paris; in a
noiher it wav aflerted; that thedefign was
formed to mount the white cockade; and,
in the more dittant departments, it was
said, that Paris was surrounded by foreign
troops. At Paris it was insinuated, that La
Vendee was in full force, and the apprehen
sions oi the people received at every iaftant
impressions fatal to liberty N
Defection of the King of Pruff a.
Frankfort, March 27,
The sudden beparture of the Arch-duke
Charles from Brussels for Vienna, was oc
casioned by the dispatches received at Va
lencieuhef by the Prince of Cobourg, from
Berlin, containing the King of Prussia’s
letter to that genera!; in which his Majesty
declares bis intention of now withdrawing
the greatest part of his troops.
The objed of the Archduke** journey
is, to endeavour to conciliate, if poflible,
the differences subsisting between rhe Em
peror, his brother, and the Cabinet of Ber
lin. The Prince will have arrived at
Vienna yesterday or this day. He travel
led with the utmost expedition, having been
only forty hours on the road from Bruflels
to Frankfort.
He flopped here about a couple of hours
to hold a conference with General Kalk
reuth, at the issue of which a Courier Was
dispatched to Berlin, with the motives
which induced the Archduke to repair so
unexpectedly, and.with such (peed to V en
na, in hopes of persuading the Emperor, his,
brother, to overlook every other confidara
tion, for the moment, and to take into con
fidcration the impending deftrudtbn of the
Empire, should his Prussian Majesty persist
in his present plan.
On the other hand, the Diet, alarmed at
the danger that threatens the empire, has
• . S' ' a • *
Yeflerday Mr. Hankey received a letter
from Bruflels, dated Saturday last, Hating
that the Arch-Duke Charles, in consequence
of an Express, set off, on the evening of the
19th for Conde. He there met with a boy,
to whom he paid particlar refped. He
brought him to Bruffeis on the night of the
21 ft, and on the morning of the 22d they
departed together for Vienna. That boy
was foppofed to be the young King of
France. This letter Mr. Hankey (hewed
to the minister.
AIN.
CADIZ, March 18.
LONDON, April 8.
P ARIS, March 20.
Hebert's Conspiracy.
Every thing is tranquil, and that right
of infurreftion, which has formed a part of
other constitutions. as well as of the present
republican constitution of France, has not
yet been exercised.
The recent events, instead of convulsing
the public mind, have communicated to it,
new energy and vigor, and one sentiment
of attachment to the National Convention
seems to pervade and animate the whole
mass of the people. All ^he feftions, and
all the popular societies, have assembled,
and have unanimously resolved to lupport
the Republican Constitution, and the Na
tional Representatives.
It it difficult to know with accuracy what
the projects of Hebert were, and what ef
fetts he expected would result from them—
without attaching to them such complicated
guilt as St. Just, who asserted that they im
plicated the diflolutiori of the National Con
vention, the assassination of those members,
against whom Hebert had so long and with
such fury declaimed, and the massacre of
the persons confined in the prisons of Par
is, we are induced to conjefiure chat they
tended to produce an infurrefiion in which
it was imagined that the obnoxious mem
bers might experience the fate of the Brif
fotines, and that Robespierre, (to whom it
is certain that Hebert had a personal dis
like) might be involved in their fate. If
such was his plan, it was unwisely conceiv.
ed/and was certainly too vast to be carried
into execution by a man of such a moderate
portion of abilities, Hebert appears to
have always rated his influence with the
people too high.
It may not perhaps be unexpected to our
readers to present them with a brief narra
tion of the difeovery and diftrudion of the
conspiracy.
The designs of Hebert were known to
the Committee o( Public Safety, soon after
they were formed, and the Committee, and
particularly Robespierre, seem to have at
tended to and watched them, from their
formation to their execution—For when
Hebert firfl began to declaim against Phil*
The precipitate and unexpetted depar
ture of his Royal Highnels, the Arch-duke,
for Vienna; has just put us into surprise.
A thousand contradittory, and even ridicu
lous reasons, have been afligned for it; but
the cause is believed to be fimp'y this.
That at the General Council, held at Ath,
where the plans for the operations of the
campaign brought by the Count de Had
dick, from Vienna, were submitted to the
Generals, one of the fettled parts of the plan
was, that General Clairfayt should com
mand the advanced army over the Duke of
York. To this his Royal Highness positive
ly objetted. A difeuflion of the most fieri
ous nature took place, and two meetings
were held at which Prince Charles and
Lord Elgin assisted, in hopes of fet
tling the affair, but without success. The
Duke of York persevered in demanding to
have the chief command of the army in
Flanders, under the direction of the Prince
de Cobourg. The debates were extreme
ly warm, and a personal altercation rose,
it is said, to a violent height, inforauch
that the Duke of York, in consequence of
fame words between the Prince of Saxe
Cobourg and himfelf, declared that me
Bri ifh troops should not att, until he had
taken the direttion of his Court ; and Lord
Elgin, after a long conference with his
Highness at Courtray, set out for England.
Prince Charles had appointed 9 o’clock in
the morning of Friday iaft, for his depart
ure, but it was retarded until midnight, on
account of his Chamber in, the Count de
Werterlaw not having returned from Va
lenciennes, whither he was sent out on a
special million to M. de Cobourg.
acceded, to the King of Prussia’s" de
mands relative to the supplying his army
with provisions. It remains for us now to
learn {and that Ihortly will be known)
whether the Court of Vienna will lower its
tone, whether <he very prefling representa
tions of Marshal MofiendorfF, for whom
the King of Prussia has the highest regard,
thole of several of the greatest Princes and
circles of the empire, “the negociations of
the mini Hers from London and the Hague,
which letter cannot be indifferent to the
alarming, conduct of this monarch, whether
all these united, will be iufliciently power
ful and persuasive to effeft a change cf re
solution in a monarch so firm and decided,
that when he has once taken a determina
tion—no power on earth can make him
recede. •
Disagreement among the Generals.
Brussels, Much 25-
° I am eager to infirm you, that it is
my intention to give orders to my Field
Marshal Moellendorf to leave behind a corps
of 20 000 men, under the command of
Lieut. Gen. Kalkreuth, to withd r aw with
the rest of my army from the environs of
Menfz, and to March towards Cologne.
I request you for that purpose, to take the
necessary measures, that the retreat of the
most considerable part of my troops do not
turn out advantageous to the enemy, but
that the fortrefs of Meniz and the Empire
in general, remain covered against hostile
invasion. It being in other refpe&s neces
sary to make arrangements to procure to
the troops who put themselves on their
march, the necessary provisions on the road
to Cologne, their departure will not follow
so rapidly; and those troops shall not file
off at once, but by divisions. You will,
therefore have time fuficient to make the
necessary dispositions. I hope, at the fame
time, that you will have the goodnfcfs to
take such measures, that when Field Mar
shal Moellendorf shall have finifhed his
preparations, and when by virtue of the
orders received, he shall have informed you
of the days on which the troops shall depart,
the execution of this resolution do aotjfaf
fer any obstacle.
. ( (Signed) William Frederick.
Potsdam, March 11, 1794.
Articles corroborating the above-
Frank fort, March 13. The negocL
ations between the Austrian and Prussian
Ministers at Vienna, are entirely broken off
—The former having decidedly declined
acceding to the demands of his Prussian
Majesty, tho’ warmly seconded by the
British minister. The cdnfequence will
be, that the Prussian army against France
will be only 20 000 men, the contingent
of the Elector of Bradenlurgh, instead of
100.000. —
Brussels, March 26;
The French, it is pofitive!^ affertedj
ippeaux, Camille Defmoulins, and other
members of the Convention, Robespierre
was prepared to defend them ; and Cam
ille Defmoulins, protetted by Robespierre,
immediately published a journal for the a
vewed purpoles of counterattiog the designs
of Hebert. Foiled in this attempt, Hebert
confined himfelf for some time. to writing
against the obnoxious members in his jeur.
nal, called Pere Duchcfne. Availing him
felf at length of the opportunity afforded
by the re^ nt scarcity of provisions which it
is laid he had been inflrumental in produc
ing, his party obtain'ng the afcendency in 'he
Cordeliers club, prevailed upon the mem
bers to throw a veil over the Rights of Men;
and though he took the precau ion to be ab
sent from the club, on the day on which this
event occured, it is not to be doubted that
he was the cause cf it. This was to be the
signal for the people to rife.
The committee of Public Safety imme
diately resolved to check the lunhcr pro
grels of Hebert’s defigps, and for that pur
pose previous fear ch was made by the
armed force, for fevertl of the inferior
membersol his party. These were imme
diately examined, and full information
having been procured, Hebert, Vincent,
and other members of the Municipality,
his adherents, were ordered to be put un
der arrest.
They underwent this morning (the 20th
of March) a secret interogatory. At the
fame time Chabot, B*Zir, and the other
deputies, were conveyed before the Ruvo
lutionary Tribunal. The Commit ee of
Publ c Safety, Ins appointed Cellier and •
Le Grand to the fiuation formerly held by
Hebert and Chaumeue.
The evening of the zotb of March.
The most important information has re*
fulted from the examination cf Hebert and
Vincent. The committee of public fafety
has been employed night and day in^he
examination of witnefics. The club of
Cordeliers is put under the ban of the
Jacobins, and no correfpondtnee is to be
he’d with them by the latter until a ftnft
ferntiny of the memb?rs has taken place*
B O S T O N, June 4.
Yeferday arrived h^re the brig Polly, Cait.
N orton ,from Belfajl^ (Ireland) 49 days.
By this arrival vue have received Relf all
and Dublin facers to the I ith April—
trails therefrom follow.
Os the ceceflicn of Prussia.
—Official. —-
The KING or PRUSSIA.
TO THE
PRINCE of SAXE COBOURG.