The Eagle, or, Dartmouth centinel — Hanover, N.H., 1795-10-12 00:00:00, page 1

03 MM MgFRANCE.
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;&the Committee of Eleven
U ONtHE
N^CONSTITUfION,
” Mfffdor — Injure.
.(Continued f rem oar Ltf)/
# I member of the
CounciloftheAncient^
7toan must be 40 years of age, either
married orri widower; he must have
li,cd in France 14 yea,s, and hive had
a certain portion of landed property
for One < ear.
rs The members of the Council of
the Ancients and the Council of the
goo, shall be nominated every two years
by halves, and flail be r:-eligible once
onbT Nd person shall be nominated
a second time until after an interval of
two,years.
14. The elections shall be made irr
iriediamr by the Primary Assemblies.
15. The Council of the §OO and the
Council of the Ancient °@ assemble
in the feme Commune.
16. 10 be eligible tothe Council of
SOO, a man muff be a French citizen,
30 years of age, pt&.ffcd,For one year
before,} pf a certain portion of landed
property, ahd he mutt have been an in—
hbirant of France for ten years.
17. Every citizen, who shall be con
tifad of having fold his yoje in the
Primary Assemblies, shall be condemn
ed to 20 years imprifenment inirons.
18. None of the Sefiionspf the Leg.
illative Eddy, fh#ll delegate any portion
^A&m£#pxfen&ffltoHpe€, i¥fl£ "Qi
bets, c^rcgate^
J 19. The Councitof 500 ffiall delib
erate upon ever, project of a decree :
there (ball, nevertheless, be laws of ur
gency in certain cases.
20b The Council of the Ancients
half not deliberate upon any project
which shall not hage been preyioufl;
difcufcd (according to the forms pre
scribed} in the Council of goo.
21. There mail also be forms ofdif
euffien for the Council of 500.
22. The Executive Power Ihall nei
ther seal nor publish any (l,ing that
Ihall not have been previously difeufled
in one of the two Se&iote in the man
ner prescribed by the Convention,
25. The Council of the Ancients
fhaU adopt or reject in amass the result
of the deliberations of the Council of
§OO.
24 The Lepflative Body shall have
a departmental guard of 1200 men.
The Legislative Body shall not assist at
any public ceremony. The factions
ofa Member of she Legislative Body,
and any other public function are in
cpmpatibie.
The EXECUTIVE POWER.
Lefag? of the Eure de Loire now as
cended the tribunes and read that part ;
ofthe new Constitution relating to the'
Executive Power. T^e following is
the substance of the articles of it:
1. The Executive Power is delega
ted to a dire^ory of 5 Members nomi
mated by the Leg: fiaove Power.
z. Every Member df this directory
TIM be not less than forty vears of age.'
The Members of the Legislative Body
frail not be Members of the directory
until two tears after the expiration of
the irgifative function.
T^. These directors shall remain in
office for five years. One shall go out 1
by ,oration every years—They shall be
appointed by the legiflarive body out
tof a lift °f candidates made by the
Council of the Ancients. _
4he remainder of the articles of the
rorflitution relate to the organization
of the conriituted authorities, the Tribu
,lls, the High Court of Juliice, the
Afettiblies of revifim, &c
The reading cfthe report occupied
three hours. It yds frequently inter.
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POLITICS, ;ANb THE BELLES-LETTRES.—-
QUID ▼ brum, atqvz ntcins, cvßo.—lmfarrial Truth and Ufcfalncfs wc S:udy.
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rupced by the londeft and most general
borfts of appbofe.
After the report had been read ; the
Convention ordered it tn be printed
and distributed to the different mem
ber?, anddecreed that thedifeuffion of
it should be opened on the 16th of Mef
fidor, (4' h of J<Hv,) #
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VICTOR HUGHES.
Charaßor of Victor Hughes, Cem.
mandant at Gaud&loufee, ^written by a
gentleman, nvh)tons forte time in that
fykrd, bvt is rt¥w in Charlton, and
publifad at hi, requefl.
" rHIS extraordinary man, of whom
I,manv have fo^en, but who all
appear to be biased by prejudices, was
born in Marfeilte^, in the year 1765;
his father keeps a dry gqodlltore there.
Hi,hnving refined 20 years in the
; Weft Indies, indicates that he must have
16ft his native country very young.
He followed the fen during the Amer
ic^fear, as a merchant—for he is no:
a fr,ipap ; he afterwards carried on the
baking bu6ne(vat Ported- Prince, with
fomeTwccefi ; for by his own account
he loft, when that town was burnt, 400
coo livres currency. In the beginning
of the troubles in the Weft Indies,
when the brigands appeared in aims,
famgegimenra arrived from Fhcet
to"Hflf%ppemd rd ne inactive in thy
town, Victor Hughes, with his accus
tomed asperity, mentioned it in an as
sembly of the inhabitants ; some of rhe
soldiers retorted, and asked why those
who fpokc did not go against the Bri
ginds. That night Vidor Hughes
rook ab,ut twenty men who were at
tached to him, went out and before day
light.brought 50 heads of the Brigand l ,
which.he laid in the Maker place. Ne
one knew who had done it, until in the
assembly, the following evening, he
made known that he had done it. Af
ter that the soldiers did better. It is
not kaown how he acted in France ;
for he was sent there, with many others,
the viftims of 'hofe infamous monsters,
Polverel, and San<honax : but he was
public accuferat Rreft. From whence
the committee of Public Safety, sent
him Gommiffary for the nation to the
Windward Islands. His inflations
were composed of eighty articles, fe
venry-five of which he assured the com
mittee were inutile. They refoived to
; give him a ca*te blanche ; but upon his
responsibility he was to give an account
of his condudand trauLaions, month
ly, to the committee.
On his arrival" at ' Gandaloupe he
found it in pofal^a of rhe Britifn.
; On the third day after he caused them
' lo be attacked, and tock Fort Fleur
d'Epee, which is on a very high hill,
by affiult. The British had a ft tong
camp formed on St. John's, which is
oppofreto Point-;, -Petre, and distant
about half a cannon fho; ; the French
ships that were betwixt the Point and
their camp ; they hove ftiells and fired
on the town day and night. The En
glish sent a flag oftruce to demand the
child of an officer which, in their flight,
they left behind them ; a colonel ot
lengineers w>s the bearer of the flag.
I Victor Hughes was not the dupe of it ;
he ffiewed him all the troops he had,
the fori, batteries, &c. and told him
to affore the British general that he
would soon cress over' and attack him.
The British officer laughed, and said,
you joke, you do not mean it. XesJ
said Hughes, (wearing an oath, hold
yourselves advised that I shall do it in
less than forty eight hours, in canoes
and small crafts. He was as good as
his word; but be met a severe check
ia,fle attempt ; it is said he loft §OO
men, but while the British and French
arifocrais were exulting in their fuc
eefs, he made a new attack and compel
led them to surrender to a quarter part
of iheir numbers. The British aban
do^^wirh facility the French traitors
who had taken arms for them : they
capitulated for only 24 of them being
sent away in covered boats. All the
French found in the camp, at least 400
in number, were (hot the next day, and
buried in a ditch they had dbg the very
day before round the camp. .
Iris by this rigorous condor that he
has brought the liland of Guadeloupe
to be by f i r the fafeft and most tranquil
ofaifihe Iflandsin the Weft Indies,
without exception. The troops are
sober, polite, orderly, and better dres
sed than any others: they are regularly
paid every decade, well fed, and can
ibntly employed in military mactei
vre% No mm can boast of influence
with Vidor Hughes, not even his
f%,l fellows. Abilities, merit rank,
birth or fortune, are all alike to him;
he judges men b, th<ir actions; if be
does not difeover the good citizen, the
true Republican, nought else will avail
withhim. No orie dare to speak in
behalf of another, unless he irrequrfted ;
"£&a£ cmu * P'"' his ° w ° ""'''
him. All fearmim, many esteem him,
f-w love him. Nothing escapes his
penetration ; his memory is tenacious
a^ retentive ; the urmoft ambition of
those whom he has placed in office is,
not to be blamed.
I will relate an anecdote I had from
several persons who were present when
it happened :—A woman,, whose hus
band was killed in affniltirig Fort Fleur
d'Epee, was accused of admitting to her
bed an E.nglifh officer, a prisoner ;
Vidor Hughes heard of it; he sent for
her to the popular club, and addressed
her thus—Behold a woman, who, for
getting what (he owes to the memory
of her hu{b4W,deftitste of the fenti
menrswhich (hould animate the breast
of a French woman, laying aside the
pride of her sex, admits into her bed an
enemy, perhaps the very murderer of
her husband. Woman, does not the
bloody ghost of thy husband haunt thee
,in thy guilty embrace ?It is only in the
colonies such crimes are perpetrated.
Woman, the laws have not fixed any
punishment to thy guilt ; if they had, I
would cause it to be inflided. I have
therefore brought you before the tri
bunal otthe public opinion, that you
should not go altogether unpunished.
Be gone from my tight.
Vidor Hughes is of the common fixe,
has grey eyes, yellow complexion, car-„
ries his head on his left shoulder ; his
finger, are always iri-motion.
Although Vidor Hughes has not re
ceived any reinforcement, yet he is
bold enough to go and attack the Brit
ish in their own ill mds, and that, while
they pretend to block up the ill and of
Gaudaloupe. In f<d, the English had
' a 74 gun (hip and three frigates failing
round the iflaod, when Hughes sent
troops to St. Lucia, with one of his col
leagues, citizen Qbyrand a man aged
about fifty, and generally beloved, who
effed^J the redo&ion of that island on
on the third of June latt. The British,
according to their laudable custom,
took cate to have alift of the names all
the French, wherhad (worn fidelity to
them, in rhe fort.
St. Vincent is attacked, as well as
Gfeneda and Dominica, by troop, sent
from Gandalou^ by Victor Hughes.
St. Martin's and S;. EaSavior, have
4—;, ra lit 1
been in pofleffion of the French a con
fiderabie time.
In Gaudaloupe, rfo plantations (con-
P r °P ert y) ft now in the high
est stare of cu ffiyatioh, making sugar,
coffee, cotton, &c. for the benefit of the
the republic. The public stores on ev
ery part of the ill^d are full of pro
duce ; the stores in town full of provi
sions, ammunition, &e. to which the
enemies of France contribute largely,
prizes being sent in daily. The trea
sury is equally full of money, to the
certain knowledge of the writer. Thus
while the British are exhausting them
selves at home, by fending continual "
Supplies of troops, provisions, ammu
nition, &c. to their islands; Vidor
Hughes, is refitting and arming every
vessel at Point Petre, and means to load
them with produce and fend them to
France. A humber of Bririfh prison
ers, feamen,having applied for permis
sion to caulk, repair and load the veflels
of the republic, they are employed and
paid for their labor.
I have heard many Americans com
plain of Victor Huger, but I think
without cause. The, know the is not
free ; I do not therefore think it right
for a stranger noblalpe the measures
which a foreign government may fee
proper to adopt for its own fafetv. As
to individual Americans, I have often
hfard him give the most positive orders
toufe them well; not to deal meant,
with them, for the republic was not
poor, nara merchant ; but to difpateb
them, and give a little cause as possible
he . neither courts
nor cifcnwany, nor his lie ever invited
one to the national table.
When his interprizes meet with foe
cefs, he is gay and cheerful. Hearing
of an embargo in England, he fiid,jok
ingly, " What tricks they play me!—
Here are all my vessels expected from
London, Bristol, Dublin, Liverpool,
Cork, &c. are stopped.
One morning, at breakfaff, an officer
asked him for hats for his soldiers—We
have none, said he, but I expect hourly
a prize that will bring some. The fame
evening, at fopper, a prize- master came
and announced a Liverpool brig, with
hats, porter, cheese and potatoes.
It is a fa& that his enemies dread
him, and that his name is a terror tof
them.
MDE.LA FA7ETTE
RELEASED!
The Courier Universal, a
Paris paper of the aoth June^
hats the following article—
" The German Gazettes have
announced that the king of
Prussia has caused the French
prisoners at Magdeburg and
and Spandau to lie releafcd.—
M. de la Fayette and his com
panions in misfortune, Bureau
de Puzi,and Alexander Lame*,
were in one of these fortreflesz
Have they been included in this
aft of justice and humanity ?
We know not; we shall only fay
that we know of none but the
Jacobins, and such men as the
Countd'Enrraigucswhohas late
ly published a phamphlet in as
high flying terms upon the old
French system. as if there were
yet a possibility ofreftoring that
system.
On Sunday, the „th of Aug.
ABSALOM JON^S, a free
African, was ordained minister
of the African church lately es-
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OCTOBER- 12, 1795.
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