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Soldibp.s '
Dumourier Ins betrayed his country ! This.
Conspirator, under whom vour valour once obtain
ed triumphs, of.which he attributed to hinfelf the.
glory, seeks no longer but to make you sustain de
feats, aftd to attribute to you the Ihame of them.-?—
Ue tries to turn against Liberty, the arms you took,
up only against tyranny. You, Frenchmen ! threat
en your country ! Yon march against yous brothers;
your wives and your children!-—No—yon are not
capable of this most attrocious ofcrimes ! The Sol
diers pf Liberty have not become so fudde.nly the
despicable satellites of an ambitious villain.
Ah ! was it not atthecall of your country in dan
ger, that you marched and conquered ? Is it not she
who still demands the aftiftance of your arms ? Her
sacred voice will resound in the bottotn of your,
hearts .You will rememberyotirtriumphs,and you
will burn to obtain new ones.
I hus the Representatives of the Nation, judge of
you whose confidence andcfteeni you enjoy intire*
They know you better than the perfidious Chief who
deceived you, to disgrace and to ruin you. His au
dacious hand has violated the sovereignty ofthepeo
^! c ’? n those of its Representatives whom the
National Convention had sent to you. His crime is
known ! he would give you a King ? His name is
devoted to infamy—his head to the fcaffold ! Re
treve your glory, and revenge your country ! Deliver
up the traitor, and a cjvic crown is the reward which
awaits you.
Soldiers of Frame ! If there couhl be among you,
men, whom the detestation of treason cannot conti
nue faithful, let them learn to be so by the terror of
pumlhrnent ! You are but the advance-guard of the.
nation. It is all behind you, ready by its power to
protect those who remain true, and to crufti with its
thunder all who would dare to be rebels.
The traitor Dumourier has calumniated Paris
to irritate you against this city which was the cradle
of Liberty and is now the supporter of it Paris
is tranquil, and watches for the fafety of the Reore
fentatives ot the people—refpefts the laws, and is -
ready to pour forth her republican battalions to fuc
cour you.
- . has represented to you the Na
tional Convention as divided into two factions He
has taken advantage of feme debates, which the ar
dour of Liberty, ever fetvid, and more so in revolu
tionary times, has necessarily excited among men
charged with theinterefts of an immense people Re
publican Soldiers .' It is in your General a -reat crime
to render you the blind inftrtiments of annihilating
the Convention, and of the re-eftablilhment of rov"
aity. Ine National Convention is as the nation
We will maintain the unity of the Republic ACa
are rallied round the lacred standard of Liberty!
We will bring it if necelfary into your Very ranks !
And as one, we now, with uplifted hands swear to
exterminate all conipirators—-all tyrants and their
fatelites-* - - .
PARIS, APRIL J.
DvMOBRitR in- one of his letters to Bovrnon
ville, fays, he designs “ one part of his army for
the deliverance of the found’ part of the Conven
tion.” M. Brissot who is not Only a found but a
moderate patriot, and who does not wim. to fee the
republic fail before Brunswick nor DumoVrier,
thus apnoftrophifeS, “ deliver the found part of the
Assembly ! Pray whn charged, you with this duty,
Dumourier ? and fttppofe the Aflembly was’ not
free, where is the republican who would owe his de
liverance to a Rebel ? Where is the republican who
is not persuaded that if any one man could “deliver"
the Convention to-day, he could not also enslave it
to-morrow. Take care, Du mou rier ,if you march
against the Mountain, the whole republic will become
Mountain —and I, who have braved the daggers of
oiir little Cromwells, am ready to present my
breast to the bayonets of Monk. Do you reallybe
lieve, Dumoukikk, that we are so reduced as to
choose between our tyrants ?”
It would be difficult to paint the indignation
which kited on every mind, at the reading of Du
TRENCH NATIONAL CONTENTION.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 27.
Robert/pierre moved, that al? the relations of the
Jate King, except his son, ftould bebapifhed^froirt
/rance, within eight days ; and that the late (J>ern
should be,tried for her life,before she revolutionary
tribunal. The Convention, ajnjpft unanimously, pall
ed to the order of the day. *. < . »•
OFEICIAL ACCOUNT.
By the Prince de Saxe Cobourg, of the proceedings
of the ImfetiaLArhy; fuffeyuent to the 22a of
^^Head-Quarters General at Bierbec, March 23.
“ This day the army reftec.
march 24., ,
« The army filed off through Xoufain.^vA encam
ped before that town. General ClairfayVs body of
reserve remained at lontmet ‘"
“ Intelligence having arrived; that the enemy had
also evacuated Mechlin, Colonel Baron de Myltus re
ceived orders to go and take poffefttonofthat town.
The inhabitants of Louvain received the Imperial
troops with inexprefiible joy, the iivelieft and re
peated acclamations. .. -
MARCH 25.
“ The enemy being obliged, by the victory oftlie
• 2d, to retire altogether , toward Tournay, in the
greatest disorder, our army pursued them this day
beyond Braffs, into which his Royal Highness
Prince Charles made his triumphant entry, amid
the acclamations of an immense concourle of peo
ple.”
Th'ere are letters received froth Poland, by yester
day’s Dutch mail,and confirm the report of a parti
tion of this kingdom, whose alienated territories
will be incorporated with the dominions of Pruffid,
and Ruffin, in tefs than fix weeks. The Polilh ar
my is to bd reduced to 16,00 c men, and the
King’s journey to Grodno f is, to sign the cession of
his domains.
“ PournonviHe, General of the ariiiy bnd Minifteb
at war, Alemoire, Captain of Huflars and Aid-du
Camp of the Minister, Villeneuve, Secretary Com
missioner of the War-Office, Camus', Member of the
Convention, Mamarque, Quinctte, and Henry Ben
cai, ditto.— -Paucard, Secretary to tht Commiflioti
crsl”
“ Advices are received that General Dun^vrier
would this day set off with the army for the interior
of France, in order to restore peace and tranquility
to the kingdom.
“ We believe that we (hall give pleasure to our
readers in giving them the lift of the pnfoners of
war, sent over by -Dumourier.
ADDRESS bf the NATIONAL*
CONVENTION.
To the ARMY of th NORF fl.
BRUSSELS GAZETTE EXTRA?
LIST OF PRISONERS.
movrier^s traiterons letters in the Convention ; It
was thus C^sar wrote when he marched against
Rome ; he also pretended to re-eftablilh peace, and
destroy tyranny ; he affected not to aspire to thcSji-^,
premf Authority.Dumourier ! Dumourier*”
ciied-M. Brissot, “ I have compared theeto C/E
--sar—it is enough to fay. Brutus, waits for thoe.”
After a difeourf^of Thjjßiqt’s, in which the
Convention heard with pleasure an eulogium on the
departments, for their love of liberty, order,and the
laws—it was decreed upon his motion, “ That Du-
mourire was a traitor to his country—^—Thai he
was no longer General of the armies of the Repub-
Z be—l hut it was forbidden to all soldiers and func
tionaries to obey him—-That his head was set at a
price, and one hundred thousand crowns w'otild be
LONDON, APRIL 4.
The extraordinary news from France, may,
perhaps,for a moment furpriie politicians ; but
to thole who reflect a little, either on the
hiftory of revolutions in general, or on the
charafter of DumoUrier in particular, this event
will not appear aftonilhing.
While the confutation of 1789 prevailed,
Dumourier, though pretending to be one of the
molt zealous partizans of the constitution, ne
vertheless presen ted to Lovis XVI. several pro
jefts to bring about a counter revolution— —
When the event of the 10th of August had en
tirely destroyed that ephemeral constitution,
Dumourier immediately became the most active
general of the new republic. The checks he
lately received in the Netherlands,and the vast
preparations of the powers leagued againtt
France, not leaving the least hope of success for
the republican party,it was perfectly natural
that he should abandon that party, when he
found it impracticable to fupportit longer.
As ambition has been the main spring of all
his aftions, Dumourier is too intelligent a man
not to perceive, that the French, incapable of
governing thtmfelveS,have occasion for a pow
erful chief to restrain and direst them ; as, in
short he might forefee the designs of the coa
lefed power for the dismemberment of France,
he might conceive it neceftary for his projeds
to deciare himfelf a counter-revolution! ft,at the
very moment when he might stipulate honour
able conditions fps himfelf ; at the fame time
he must entertain a hope of connecting his own
fafety with that of his lawful Sovereign, ere it
was yet too late,
APRIL 12.
The following itelligence may be depended
upon as being correft .
tne recompence of whoever should kill hirn.”
On the 2 sth of Marche the patriots engaged a bo
dy of counter-revolutioniils near Pannes, routed &
killed near 400 of them, who appeared by their
dress to be peasants ; but upon a closer examination
they were found to be men of very delicate shapes,
white skin, and foft hands. This faft proves what
we have fufpeflcd, that a large number of emigrant
nobles have entered the country in dilguife, and are
the only counter-revolutioniils we have to fear in
the interior parts.
ENGLAND,
SHEFFIELD, JAN. 18.
Anecdote of the cause of the Judden retreat of the
Pruzan army from France.
The present enlightened sovereign ofPtuQia
is one of the.fefl called Jllumins, or Believers
in Apparitions. Some French Democratic
politician knowing his belief in the predifliona
of future eVents by spirits, by money prevailed
upon a certain aflor Os one of the Theatres
of Paris, who resembled very much the late
King of Prussia to withdraw himfelf from
Paris and come to the camp of the Prus
sians.—Soon after he Was there, he was one
night introduced into the King’s tent, when he
was awake in his bed, and the most solemn
tone of voice, and in the most impressive and
affefling mariner, he denounced to him the ru
in of his kingdom, and the rebellion of his fub
jefls, if be perfiited to aflift (he cause of Louis
the Sixteenth, and the French Emigrant Prin
ces'. Nearly the fame trick was attempted to
be played upon Villiers Duke of Bucking
ham, in Charles the Firft’s time, by
his mother. See Lord Cl are n don’s hiftory
of the rebellion,£ook the firft.
A whole Department has denounced Marat, &
declared that his head mus fall, or the public tran
quility cannot be restored.
If our infont liberty stands the present stock,
we may bid defiance to all the despots of the Uni
verse. Aiiftocrats, PROTEus-like, assuming the ap
pearance even of patriotism itfelf—‘infernal traitors
in our very bosom, and the most implacable ene
mies without, all united, and moving Earth and
Hell to accomplilb their purpose it is a con
solation that the great body of the people are de
voted to the cause of liberty, and wifli for nothing
so much as the firm eftablilhment of a well-organ
ized republican government. The soldiers who
compole oui armies also, to a man, notwithstanding
the repeated instances of treachery in their generals,
Continue firm, and abhor their bate example.
The whole province of Brittany, except
Nantes, is now in arms. The Paris papers
Bate the number of revolteri at 40,000, but o*
ther accounts by private letters make them a
mount to 90,000 men. It is supposed thai
the reafoh of their flopping the mails by the
way of Calais, to prevent its being known in
England, left assistance should be sent to there
vokers. They are in pofleffion of all thd
country round Brest and Rochelle.
A fetter from Gen. D'jJbouquf.t, commanding
the army of the Pyrennes intheablpnce of Servan,
informs us, that cur troops have gained an advan
tage over the Spaniards', who had commenced hof
tilitjes in the Val-d' Arron. We, have made eighty
prifoners—takeh sixty mufqliett and 6oc cartouches.
We have loft only two Chafeur:.
POLAND.
OSTEND, MARCH 31.
APRIL 8.
April 5.
ny of the National Volunteers. He endeavour
ed to rally his forces, harangued his troops of
the line in particular, in a very pathetic man
ner, c xpofing to them the villainy of the Na.
tional Convention, and that it was impcffible
for the government to exist much longer. He
said it was a disgrace to serve luch a caufe.*
Young Egalite, who ranked as a General in
the army, is returned with Dumourier, and
has resumed his title of Duke de Chartres j
the consequence of this, will probably be, that
as soon as the Convention heart this news,they
will take his fathar into custody, and all thole
who are nearest attached to him,on suspicion of
being acceflary to Dumourier’s treason.
APRIL 17.
Various letters have been received in town
by the James, most of which mention a prol
peft of a speedy peace. This idea, we pre
sume, proceeds from a supposition of universal
crujh of the republican plan in France 4 but as
we cannot fnblcnbe to these teneu, we do not
expeft a speedy peace. Ageswill dot effeftuaHy
crush the principle; and if temporarily so, it
will burst out again ; and we venture to pie
dift, that all future Kings of France will
be early fubjefted to the fate of the
^MASSACHUSETTS.
BOSTON, MAY 29.
On Toefday, 21st inst. arrived at Philadel
phia the Brig Sally, Capt, Cochram, from
General Dumourier, at the head of about
13,000 men, had reached Cambria, a town of
con fide rab’c strength in the French Nether*
lahds,and miles S.W.of Valenciennes,on his
mlsrch towards Paris, In the course of the
>6th inst. he observed foine difafleflion in his
army, an<T having aHived at Cambria, he ob
served his artillery desert him, as well as ma-
NEW-YORK.
NEW-YORK, JUNE 3.
By the proceedings ot the National Conven
tion to the Bth of April, which appear in the
London Morning Chronicle of April 13, we
fihd, that that important body were delibera
ting with calmness and precision—that indiv
iduals are pointed out to be held as hostages
for the good treatment of Bournonville, and
(he rest of the Commiflior.ers, who were abfo
lately sent prisoners to the enemy by Dumou
rier—that young Egalite, having joined Da
mourier in his traitorous plot, the Duke of Or
leans was joined in the proscription of the Ca
pet family—that the prisoners at the temple,
(late Queen, &c.) had not been molested, as
was laid in Englifl) papers.
Accounts from the btar and True Briton
Ministerial papers ofApriln wear the most un*
favourable afpeds of French politic*. They
state—That the Congress at Antwerp, of the
allied despots, was, to determine whether the
combined armies should, now that the French
are driveni nto their own country,leavejo them -
selves, and to the efforts of the royalists within
France, to fettle their government upon a lia
ble footing ; or whether the combined armies
should enter, and alii ft in this ; that Congress
had actually planned a&ive operations against
France; that this plan was,to lay siege to all
the garrison frontier towns, and to penetrate
into the interior of France, and let the royalists
fight their own battles, while the combined ar
mies Band ready to ttrike if occasion offers.
It ie a curious circumstance, which has not
hitherto been noticed^ though it may be de
pended upon,that as far back as the middle of
January, last, so,oool. stock was purcha
ied for General Dumourier in the English
funds : How the General came to be pof
iefled of luch a sum in England, or should
at that period choose such a iecudty, is not
readily accounted for. It is not pcflible that a*
ny of the secret service money for 1793 could
form part of this sum.
PENNSYLVANIA.
PHILADELPHIA, MAY 20.
LAST Saturday afternoon at 2 o’clock
Mr. Genet being introduced by Mr.
Jefferson Secretary of State, produced his
credentials to the President ; he was recei
ved and acknowledged as Minister Plenipo
tentiary from the Republick of France to the
United States of America.
A corporal of Cuftine’s army accused that
General of ignorance or treachery, and request
ed that the command of the troops should id
future be entrusted only to Sans-culottes.
Lafaye informed the society, that the Mar
feillefe, after disarming all suspicious persons,
had thrown them, not into a prison, but into
a burying ground.
An ambiffador from the French Republic
arrived here a few days since, and demanded
an audience of the Secretary bf State, to pre
sent his credentials. After waiting two days,
he received direflions to quit the kingdom di
re&ly. A small party of horse was ordered to
condufl him to the frontiers, to preserve him
from the fury of the populace, who are so u
nivtrfally exasperated against the French, that
had hot this precaution been used, he would
without doubt, have fallen a facrifice to their
resentment.
American Intelligence.
LISBON, APRIL 2.
♦ Cape-Frarcci?. She left the Cape on the
9th inti. The following intelligence hss been
collected by converting with faveral passengers
on board the Sally, refpefling Dumourier’s
desertion.
The fatte that has awaited some of the firft
and best Patriots of France— which has exiled
a La lly*Tolleldal—a Noailles—and
many others whole names must rest in the me
mory of every one- ■ which has witnessed a
Fayette in poverty and in chains—has at
length befel the Republican General, Patriot,
and Hero, DUMOURIER. So fay the last
accounts from-Fer^e. This General, not-'
witbftanding his exentricities, was the pride
and boast of the armies of France ! But
*• Th’ events of politicks are dark and intricate,
0 Puzzled in mazes, and perplex’d with error.”
CAPTURE OF sr. PETERS;
On Monday arrived here the brig ‘l'u.o Bro
thers, Capt. Rcsse, from St. Peters. The
Commander informs us. That on the r^h inst.
a Britijh armament of two frigates, two Hoops,
and a tranfporr, arrived off St. Peter's, (New
foundland) and immediately made preparations
for landing the marines and troops; who,meet
ing with no fififtance, took poffellion of the
Island : That on the landing of the troops,
Capt. Rosse, cut his cables and flipt to sea :
And that there was one American veflel there,
a schooner of this port, Capt. Barker, and a
bout 20 French fifhing-veflels. The Britijh
fquadfon was commanded by Commodore As.
f^eck —the troops by Gen. Ogilvie.
Dumourier rea|ly. went over to the Auf
trians feme time in the beginning ofApril. He
tampered firfl with the old commiflioners
to Belgia ; informed them that he now found
Frenchmen unmanageable under a republic,
and (hat they required all the rigour of mon
archical energy to keep them in a proper de
gree of fubordinatron. He next communicat
ed his change of ffentitnent to the convention
by letter, (who probably received the infor
mation from the commiflioners as soon at
least,) and explicitly declared to them that
France must have a king.
The passengers in the Sally, do not appear
acquainted with the circumstance of commif.
froners being dispatched by the enjaventien to
apprehend him ; but mention, that Bournon
ville was lent off to take the command of the
arjny. ,
Dutncurief, they fay, before he quitted his
poll, made known fiis sentiments to his army,
particularly to a body of about 12,000 most
attached to him* These latter hehtaced a mo
ment whether they should join him, but at
last determined to remain firm. , His etat Ma
jor, feme paflengers affirm, others mention,that
a great number of officers accompanied him in.
his difgraceful flight, ,
The strange conduit of Dumourier, has been,
attempted to be accounted for, by luppefing
that some great change in the complexion ot
the parties in the Convention may have occa
sioned the adoption of some violent meaiure
against him, that his enemies laying hold of
the circumstance of his rapid retreat may have
obtained a decree of accufaticn agiintt him
and a consequent order to arrest him. To avoid
this, and the fate of which these proceedings
were only preliminaries, he was obliged to
fly as the unfortunate La Fayette had done be
fore him.
But we are to believe the fad of his decla*
rations to the comroiffioners and to the Con
vention of his having changed his fentiments'
as to the fundamental principles of the revolu
tion, and this fafl is as well authen icated as
any in the whole business, for the account
thrcughLondon gives it as well as that thiough
Cape Francois, and that diredlv from Am
sterdam infers it, then it is evident that the
change is nor in the convention but in Du.
mousier himfelf.
After such a change, the convention no
doubt wifely adopted decisive measures relpefl
ing him, and these may have ultimately caul
ed him to deOamp, tho’ his treachery was the
primary cause.
How this prodigious change of sentiment
may have been effected is another question of
importance. From the character cf the man,
it is much Jess probable that it is owing to sin
cere conviflion, that he wasfirft in the wrongs
than that he had been bribed to a change of
condofl by Austrian gold.
Dumourier’s communicating to the conven
tion, his change of sentiment, and telling them
there mult be a king, was probably with a view
of intimidating them and bringing about ar
counter-revolution : This attempt no doubt
his bargain which the Austrians bound him to
make, as well as his subsequent endeavour to
seduce the army.
Dumourier’s popularity with the army, His
consequent influence with the convention, may
have led the combined poweri to imagine, that
it he could be gained over the day was won.
They reasoned like despots, and shewed therii
felves green in their acquaintance with >epub
lies, where the care of public weal rests on the
shoulders of no one man.
It may flill remain a doubt whether Bour
nonville, and the commiflioners sent to appre
hend Dumourier, may not have been carried’,
off with him ; but ot a’moft important fafl wi
may rest aflured, that not one private followed'
the difgraceful example of their general.
MISCELLANEOUS fr.