The Newhampshire gazetteer — Exeter, N.H., 1792-08-17 00:00:00, page 2

[From a London Paper.]
The following paper was read by Mr.
Grey, in the kloufe of Commons on the
29th February, the Ruffian Amend
mint under conf deration. The mem
ber who presented it, fated it -to be the
anfiuer of the 'lurki/h Grand hz?er
1, Sir Robert Ainslie, the British
Minifler at Constantinople, during the
Ruffian Negotiation.
< g ■ 'HE Grand Sjghipr wars for
J himfeif,and for himfelf makes
peace—he can trull his ownflaves,fcr
vants& fubje&s— he knows their faith,
has experienced their virtue,& can rely
upon their fidelity: a virtue long since
banilhed your corner of Europe. If
all other ebriftians tell truth no reliance
is to be had on England, she buys 2nd
fells all mankind. The Ottomans have
no connexion with your King, nor your
country —we never fought for your ad
vice, your interference or friendship ;
we have no minister, no agency, no
correspondence with you ; for what 1
reason offer ye then to mediate for us
with Raffia : why seek ye to serve an
empire of infidels as ye call us Muf
fu!men ? we want not your friendfhip,
aid or mediation. Your Vizier of
whom you speak so highly, must have
some project of deception in view,fome
oppressive feheme to amuse your nation,
whom we are told are credulous, ser
vile, and adorers only of money. A.
varice, if we are well informed, is your
chief charafteritlic —you would buy
and fell your God—Money is your
Deity—and all things is commerce
with your ministry, with your nation.
Come you then to fell us to Ruffiaf
No, let us bargain for ourselves : when
fate has spun out the thread of our
good fortune we must yield : what has
been decreed by God and the prophet
of men must and will come to pass,
We Ottomans know no fineffe. Du
plicity and cunning are your chriftian
morals. We are not alhamed to be
honest, downright, plain and faithful
in onr Bate maxims. If we fall in
war, we submit to the will of heaven
decreed from thebeginning. Wehave
long lived in splendor the firft power
on earth, and we glory in haying
triumphed for ages over chriftian infi
delity, mixed with all forts of vice
and hypocrisy : We adore the God of
nature and believe in Mahomet. You
neither believe in the God you pretend
to worship, nor his Son, whom you call
both your God and your prophet.
What reliance can there be upon such
a sacrilegious race ? Truth you banish
as you do virtue, from all your conduct
and adions with each other ; read the
catalogue of the complaints, manifef
toes, declarations, and reraonftrances
of all the chriftian Kings, Monarchs
and Emperors, who have lived and
warred with each other ; you find them
all equally blasphemous, equally per
fidious, equally cruel, unjust and faith
lefs to their engagements. Did the
Turk ever forfeit his promise, word,
or honor ? Never ! Did ever a chrif
tian power keep an engagement but
while it suited its own avarice or am.
bition ? No ! How then do you think
we are to trust you, a nation at this
moment, if told truth, ruled by a per
fidious administration, without one
grain of virtue to guide the machine
of state ? The Grand Signior has no
public intercourse with your court ; he
wants none. If you with to remain
here either as a spy, or, as you term
yourfelf, an ambassador for your court,
you may live with those of other chrif
tian nations, while you demean your,
felf with propriety, but we want nei
ther your aid by sea or land, nor your
council br mediation. I have no order
to thank you for your offer, because it
is by the Divan deemed officious. Nor
have I any command to thank you for
the offer of your naval assistance, be
cause it is what the Porte never drea
med of admitting into our seas. What
you have to do with Russia we neither
know nor case ; our concerns with that
court we mean to finifh as suits our
selves, and the maxims of our laws and
state policy.,
your double dealings— you have no
religion but gain—avarice is your on
ly God and the chriftian faith you
profefs is but a mask for your hypocri
sy—we will hear no more from you—
therefore you are commanded to make
no reply."
[lt is to be lamented that, in addition
to the above, it was not noticed that, to
the dijboner of the Britijh,and jome other
chriftian powers, they, 10 this day, are
tributary'noi only to each other, but even
to the contemptible state of Algiers.—
Nations pretending to decide the fates of
empires & continents,^ at the fame time
meanly truckling to a net? of Barbarians,
could not have failed adding a ludicrous
feature to the gloomy pi&ure drawn by
the indignant Turk.)
PARIS, May 22.
ADDRESS
OfM. la Fayette, to his Army.
" Soldiers of the Country !
" THE legislative body, and the
I kingin the name of the French
people have declared war. Since the
country, by the constitutional organs
of it, will call us to its defence, what
citizen can refufe his arm !
“ At the moment io which we firft
obey the oath, pronounced upon the
alter of the federation of the nation in
arms, I wiffi to inform you of my in
tentions, and remind you of my princi.
plea.
" Convinced by the experience of a
life devoted to liberty,that it can exist
only among citizens fobmitting to the
laws, as it can be defended by troops
consenting to subordination. I have
served the people without flattering
them, and, in my constant opposition
to licentiousness and anarchy, have de.
served the hatred of all the ambitious,
and all the fa&ious. Now, that the
army experts of me not pernicious com
pliances, but an inflexible difcip(ine,it
is by rigorously fulfilling this duty,that
i fhali juftify the affedion which it
grants, and the esteem which it owes
me. But when I fubje& freemen to
the imperious will of a chief, we fhali
all know, General, Officers, Soldiers,
that, in this war, becomes a deadly
combat between our principles and the
pretensions of despots—the rights of
every citizen, and the fafety of all are
involved. The constitution to which
we are sworn, the sacred cause of liber
ty and equality are involved in it. The
contest is for the national sovereignty,
under which there can be no comprb
mife with any combination of strength,
or with any dangers, without be,ray-
If you are not the most profligate
Christian nation, as you are charged
to be, you are undoubtedly the bolded,
in presumption andjeffrontery, io of
ferfog to bring such a power as Russia
to terms, such as you and some other
trivial ebriftians united, fancy your
selves equal to command —we know
beiggr, and therefore this effrontery of
yours amounts rather to audacity, and
to an imbecile dictation, which must
render your councils at home mean
and contemptible, and.your advice
abroad unworthy of wildom, or atten
tion from any power, much less the
regard of the Porte, which on all oc
casions wherein its ministers had list
ened to you, have experienced evil,
either in your designs or in your ig
norence—His Sublime Highness can
not be too much upon his guard against
the attempts and preemption of a na
tion so perfidious to the interest of its
fubjefts (or colonifts)—but it is the
usual way of chriftian Princes to fell
and cede over their fubjeds to each o
ther for money. Every peace made
amongst you, as we are well informed,
is made favorable to the King that
bed bribes. The Ottoman Minidry
have too long and too often given ear
to European councils, and as often as
they so did, they either were betrayed,
fold or deceived —away then with your
interference for the Porre with Russia.
" It has been your aim to embroil
all mankind, and thereafter to ptofit
by your perfidy. We aflt not, want
not, nor desire your commerce, because
our merchants have been facrificed to
Ing, not only the French people, but
all humanity.
" Soldiers of Liberty! to deserve
these blessings is not fufficient to be
brave. Your General ought to forefee
and order ; you to obey. Be gener
ous ; refpea the enemy when disarmed.
Troops which always give quarter ard
receive it not, will be forever invinci
ble. Be disinterested ; let not the de
grading hope o; pillage ever fully the
nobility of our motives. Be humane;
that our Sentiments may be admired,
and laws bluffed, wherever we may go.
Be, in short, like your General—resol
ved to fee the triumph, liberty, or to
die !
'' Soldiers of the constitution fear
not; that the may cease to watch for
yot',while you fight for her ; do tot be
lieve, that while you are gone forth to
combat for your country, inteftiee
commotions will disturb your homes—
The legislative body, and the King
will doubtless unite themselves inti
mately in the decisive moment, to as
sure the empire of the law. Perfons'
and property will be refpefted ; civil
and religious liberty will never be pro
faned,the peaceable citizen will be ref
peded, whatever may be his opinion ;
tie guilty will be punished, whatever
nay be their pretexts ; all pretexts will
be dissolved ; and the constitution will
prevail alone both over the rebels, who
attack it by open force, and over the
traitors,whom in disgracing it by their
tile pallions seem tc have fwornto make
it feared at home and fufpe&ed abroad.
Vies ; we fhali have this price for our
abors and our blood. Let us adhere'
then, with confidence, to the chosen
representatives of the people,who have
fworh not to avoid the duties of the
conftitution,as we will not its dangers;
to the hereditary representative, that
Citizen King, whose throne the consti
tution has placed upon an irrefragable
foundation ; and to all the other depo
fitaries of the powers delegated by the
constitution.
" They all know, that the use of
that authority is a duty for them, to
whom the constitution has deputed it,
as obedience is for those whom (he has
submitted to it ; & thatthey may trans
gress the laws, by not doing what they
prohibit. Let us adhere to the Na
tional Guards, whom the rising consti
tution in danger will find always ready
to defend it, and whose patriotism will
render glorious the calumnies which
may be shared with them.
“ As for us,bearing thc arms which
liberty has consecrated, and the decla
ration of rights, let us march to the
enemy.
(Signed) "la FAYETTE."
A letter from a gentleman in the
Territory South of the Ohio, dated A
pril 6, informs, that a number of the
Creeks,and all the Chickamogga In
dians, have, some days since, declared
war against the settlements of Cum
berland, killed twenty-two, and took
two prisoners. "We are at a loss to
know whether they will turn out on
our frontiers or not. One of the
Shawaneie has been lurking about the
neighbourhood where I refused for
some time, and (to fnew thvr natural
propensity to barbatity) yesterday,
while I was attending general muster,
an express came to town with the
melancholy news of bis having,
within fifteen miles of this place,kli
ed and scalped three children. The
father of them was chafed a confidera
ble distance, but escaped. The mo
ther is foppofed to have been taken
prisoner.
PHTLADELPHI A,Auguft 3.
Extract of a letter from Albany, Dated
^l7.
" There can be no doubt, f rom a
concurrenre of circumstances, but that
the British at the posts, as well, as the
Indian tribes, influenced and directed
by them, have been a&ive in recom*
mending peaceto those nations adjoin-
COLUMBIA, July 10.
American Advices.
I ing the frontier of the United States
I more southerly. Nothing seems no^
I to be wanting to make a firm ft fierp
of rarefication with the favages,bot a
fixed line of honest demeanor towards
;the'hoftile Indians, treating them as
; we ourselves in their circumftanccs &
Situation would wifb to be treated.
I As it is more than probable a treaty
will be formed ere long, the preferva.
tiouofit must depend upon the vigor
of government in feeing the terms
Icarried into execution, and the 10-
Ifringers thereof punished."
IThe letter of M.Andre Chenier,ex
hibits a dreadfol portrait of a people
whose government is in rhe hands of
two independent bodies-—one ading
under the laws, and the other fupcri
or to law and the conffituticn.
The British Packet, Halifax,Caph
Boulderfun,arrived here on Wedreday
last in 49 days from Falmouth, bring,
ing papers to June 9. There appears
but little intelligence in these papers,
and even that little we cannot even
compendumize this day. It would
seem by the gross, that, effecting a
counter revolution in France is not the
foie objed of its surrounding armies.
The period for great actions are net
yet arrived. The Fierch behaved no
bly at Florennes, against double their
force, and obtained the field of battle,
notwithflanding detraction ;—fo fays
La Fayette, and this we echo with ex
ultation.
The duelling boufe cf aMr Broch,
near fobnjlown, nas lately defrayed by
fire —when three °J his children perijhed
in the flames, and the whole of hi, houj.
held furniture,^ wearing apparel mas
confirmed — This very melancholy affair
happened in the morning, when neither
Mr. Brock or bis wife were at home —
Jbe had gone about a mile diflant, to
milk her cows, and when foe returned
the house was nearly conferred.
The dwelling boufe and blackfmitb's
Jhop, of Mr. Nathaniel Burt, afo near
fobnjtow n, was likewije defircyed by
fire a foort timeface, together w itb hun
dred dollar; in bank bitts, which he had
a Jew days before obtained, by mortgag
ing bis farm to the laanoffice, and all bis
boufbold furniture, wearing apparel and
working tools, except two or three articles.
Yesterday Capt. Paine arrived here
in 17 Days from Cape Francois. He
informs that the Decree of the Nati
onal Afembly, making theMulattces
of the Island cf St. Domingo a&ive
Citizens, had been received ; that the
white Inhabitants of the several Ports
in that Island had consented thereto,
except those of Port au Prince ; and
that a number of armed vessels, with
troops had failed from the cape for Port
au Frince ; to enforce a Compliance
The citizens of America fnct!d be
reminded, with a view of confultir,g
them rcfpe&ing the propriety of com
memorating the Columbian Centvary
Anniversary. On the izth of October
next,oil! be completed three centuries
since the immortal Columbus put fcoc
on the new world —already the light of
the old. It is the true asylum of the
Oppreffed —the nurse of Genius—and
the School of Liberty.
Extract of a letter from the Command
ant of tbe Jjland of St. Peters and
Miquelon to the consul of France,
in Boston, dated the 24th of July.
" As we are absolutely in want of
provisions, I wife ycu would be so kind
as to endeavour to perfaade the , meri
cans to bring us livexen,Jbeep, poultry,
%. They will surely find a market for
tho% more especially with the frigates
which have the cafo.
''l cannot conceive what has prevented
the Americans from bringing us boards
tbis year. They would have fold them
well, for we are absolutely in want of
them.''
PROVIDENCE, July 28.
NEWYOR K, August 4.
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