The Columbian informer, or, Cheshire journal — Keene, N.H., 1793-09-18 00:00:00, page 1

Particulars respecting the in
ternal POLICE.
[No. 25. o,Vol. I.]
NATIONAL CONVENTION,
Saturday, JukeS.
^ ffl ^HE order of the day called for
the difeuflion of the report on
the conduct cf the constituted
authorities of Paris, and on the
deputies under arrest.
BarRER £ defended the proposal cf the
committee of public fafety, to fend hosta
ges to the departments, to answer for the
the fafety of the arrested deputies. He
concluded by moving the re-eitab'rifhment
of the'free circulation of letters; and
thought that the revolutionary committee
ought no longer to be allowed to hop the
departure of the Couriers, to suspend the
journals, and to examine the particular
correspondence of the legislators.
Lejeune—" From this tribune have
been scattered ail the germs of discord ;
and several departments have already co
alesced to bring about the projeded
schism.. Others are concerting measures
to afiemble our substitutes, and to convene
the primary assemblies. Ladly, the im
age of frighuul anarchy appears every
where on the ruins of public erder. There
is but one infallib'e measure to avoid fe
deralism, which is; to declare trailers to
their country, the faithlefs or counter-re
volutionarv administrators, to place them
without the Belter of the law, and to de
liver them up to the executioners within
four and twenty hours. You ought also
to out-law all who Ihali have the audacity
to preside over the primary assemblies no
convened by you. If you neglect the
measures I propose, you may bid adieu to
the republic. I have further to propose
to you, that the armed force may be cal
led out, not by the convention, which
would be a monstrous and defpotical usur
pation, but by the requisition of the com
inittee of public fafety."
Lejeune demanded, that all fufpeft
ed foreigners Ihould De expelled from
France.
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Barrere—" The Convention ought
to adopt energetic measures, so as to rtrike,
by one blow, at all the ads of federalism,
particularly those which may produce the
exigence of two National Conventions, oi
the affcmbling of the substitute Deputies.
I demand that nothing may be pronoun
ced until the report of the committee of
public fafety to morrow." —Decreed.
Real submitted a plan for the sub-di
vision of the loan for 1000 millions.
Several members demanded, that the
committee of public fafety ihould present
the plan promised yesterday, upon the
measures to be taken to make certain the
lion-interruption, of the post service.—
This difeuffion brought on a determina
tion very opposite to the views of those who
provoked it : For the Convention decreed,
that in every fitting the CONSTITU
TIONgfhouId be difeuffed, to commence
at one o'clock in the afternoon ; and that
other matters Should cease to be spoken of
at that hour.
Sunday, JUNE 9.
Turiot moved, that the price of meat
should be taxed by the administrators of
departments ; that the French should be
invited to obferv^ a civic Lent for the
month of August, to lower the price of
provisions ; and that the venders of cattle
should be forced to fell them at a price
proportioned to that of meat. Referred
to the. Committee of Public Safety.
Monday, june to.
Herault Sechei.les, in the name
of the Committee, presented the Report
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on the Constitution.—The plan was Yom
poled of only twenty-four articles, in fub
fiance as follows :
" The Republic is one and indivisible.
The French ' people are distributed, for the
exercise of their sovereignty, into Primary
Assemblies ; they are distributed, for ad
ministration and justice, into Departments,
Districts, and Municipalities. Every man
born in France, of 21 years of age ; every
foreigner who has attained the age of 21
years, and who has lived in Franco, upon
his own labor, for a year; every foreign
er who has resided in France for a year,
who has acquired property, or who mar
ries a French woman, or who adopts a
child, or who supports an aged man, is
admitted to exercise the privileges cf a
French citizen. The Primary Assemblies
cannot be composed of less than four hun
dred voters, nor of more than fix hund
red ; all citizens brought up in a difirid,
or whomsy have resided in it for three
months, Shill have the right of fuffrage
in the Primary Assemblies ; no one in
arms can assist at them: The fuffrages up
on laws Shall be given by Yes and No. —
Deputies Shall be feet to tne Legislative
Body in the proportion of one Deputy to
50,000 fouls. The Eledoral Assemblies
thall name the candidates, among whom
the Legislative Body Shall choose twenty
four citizens, who Shall compole the exe
cutive Council. Half of this Council
Shall be replaced every year ; it can only
ad in virtue of laws and decrees ; it Shall
name agents and fall negotiate treaties,
which must be ratified by the Legislative
Body. A Grand Jury Shall be formed to
protea citizens, who may be oppressed by
either the Legislative Body, or the Exe
cutive Council. This Jury cannot apply
the law, but mull fend to the Tribunals for
that purpofe.' '1 he National Conventions
must fit within twenty leagues cf the Le
giflarive Body. The French people de
clare themselves the friends cf Free Na
tions ; they will not interfere in the go
vernment of other countries, and will not
feffer other nations to meddle with theirs.
They declare that they will grant an afy
lam to Foreigners cp,refled for their at
tachment to Liberty, but they refute such
protection to Tyrants."
This plan, which Robespierre said
wasJhe most feperb monument of human
reason, was ordered to be printed, and ten
copies to be given to each Member. It is
& %o to be sent to the Departments, and to
the armies.
A letter was read from the Commiflioh
ers to the Army cf the North, dated the
Bth, cf which the following is an extrad :
Letter from tee Comm flowers <wiib the army
" June 8.
" Yesterday a body of 6000 Austrians
encamped in the plain cf Tourcoin, and
another of 4000 advanced between Lan-,
noi and Roubaix. Our advanced polls
were attacked at the fame time, but the
enemy gained no real advantage. We are
very well fortified ia oar advanced poll,
but we want cannon, and above all, car
riages, which ought to have been sent us
from the arferial of Paris. During the
temporary calm which we have enjoyed,
we have been prosecuting those k^vifh
Contractors who ruin the nation, by ma
king it pay twice or thrice for every ar
ticle. The responsibility cf Bodies is very
much cmbarraffed. There still pfevails
in this army a kind of anarchy and disor
der, which will soon cease if you decree
the incorporation cf the troops cf the line
with the volunteers, the happy effects of
which a kicked faaion caused to be sus
pended : If you itill delay, we announce
to you with grief, that the efforts of the
army will be of no avail."
(Signed, &c.)
After some debate, the Convention de-
THE FRENCH CONSTITUTION.
in the North.
WED N°E S D° AY, September 18, 1795.
creed, that the troops cf the line should
be incorporated with the volunteers.
Wednesday, june 12.
A letter from the Adminiftra:ors of the
department of La Gironde, dated Bour
deau lune B,ftated, that a violent ccm
metion had almost taken place in that city,
on intelligence being received of the ar
reftation of the Deputies, by the party of
Marat, gad that the inhabitants were so
much incensed, that they wiffied to detain
by force Yehon and Dartigoyte,two mem
bers of the Convention, who ,were prepa
ring to fat out for Paris.—The municipal
ity, however, havir~ received intelligence
of this proceeding, pursued such effedual
measures, that tranquility was restored,
and the Deputies fuffered to depart.
The Convention decreed, that this let
ter sh uld be inferred in their minutes;
A deputation of the Council-General of
the department of Paris, being admitted to
the bar read the following decree, which
they paff%l on* the I.2th infant :—
The Council -General, after hearing a
letter read from two of their Members,Na
tional Commissioners in the Departments
disturbed by the Insurgents, dated the
10th, and in which announce that the
Royalists have^taken Saumur:
Deliberating on the dangers which
threaten Liberty, and confidcring the im
mediate necessity cf employing every pef
fible means to check or annihilate the mif
fortanes occasioned by fanatics and coun
ter-revclutionifts :
Considering that the department of Pa
ris, as the only answer to all the calum
nies propagated against it, ought still to
give a new proof of its love and attach
ment to Jfoerty, and of its ardent desire
to fee that peace and union which ought
to prevail among a people who are breth
ren revive in every part of the Republic,
decree as follows :
The Council-General Shall immediate
ly proceed to the Convention, to requell
them to decree—
I. That a body of a thousand men, ccn
fifting principally of cannoneers, Shall Set
out ficm Paris within twenty-four hours,
with 48 pieces of cannon, furnished by the
factions.
11. That the recruits destined for la
Vendee, and not yet let out, Should join
this corps.
111. That all the work-shops in Paris
Shall be converted into manufactories for
making aims, cannon,mulkets and pikes.
The Convention approved of this de.
cree, and charged the Committee of Pub
lic Safety to piefent the mode of carrying
it into execution.
The following letters which puffed be
tween him, and Lord Grenville, immedi
ately on his arrival in London, may net be
unacceptable to the public.
Trarfation of a letter from General Dumou-
rier, to Lord Gr^mjiUe.
" Saturday, June 15, 1793.
'' MY LORD,
'' I charge Monsieur de Lacofte, a
merchant of Brtfeb, to deliver to your
Excellency this letter, and two pafyorts
from the Arch-Duke Charles ; the ore un
der the name of Charles Peralta, the cth
er under my real name. I found great in
convenience in travelling through Germa
% without this precaution ; and it was
by^he advice of Messrs. De Metternigh
and ide Mercy, together with theii friends,
that J took an Italian name.
" Aly intention is not to flay in London,
being two well known thereto make my fit
uation/agreeable ; 1 feekahoufe atadiflance
from London, where I can remain quier,
and wait the end of the troubles of my un
fortunate country. If the greater States
man in Europe, Mr. Pitt, and you, my
ENGLAN D.
LONDON, lulv 4.
GENERAL DUMOURIER.
" Your Lordlhip will fee that it was
necessity alone that made me change my
name when I came to seek an °.fylum in
England, I helped the laws. The fiction
l made use of when at Denver, was merely
local, and I hasten to repair it by a
true declaration cf myfelf.
" If my requell can be granted, I will
comply with whatever the prudence of the
Minister, fhdll require of me. I have the
honour to be &e.
Lord, will agree to this, so neceffa^y for
my fafey and my repose, 1 shall remain in
tie greatest privacy.
'' My Lord Ashland will acquaint your
Excellency, cf what the Chevalier de
Miulde informed him during the negocia
tion. M, Lord Gower will also give you
an account of my condufl towards Defend,
during my MinUry ; but it is not for these
that I cairn the generosity of the Enghlh
nation.
"Whitehall, June 16, 1793.
" I received, Sir, this morning, the
letter you did me the honour to address to
me. It is the EufineG of the Secretary cf
State for the Home Department, to take
the orders cf bis Majesty relative to the
residence of firangen within this kingdom,
and to notify the fame officially; but
as it is to me that you have addressed
yourfelf on this occasion, I could not do
otherwise than to acknowledge the receipt
of your letter, and answer the demand
contained therein.
" Four Ray in Etfa^will b&fubjed to
tco many inconveniences, to make it pos
sible for the Government cf this country
to permit it. I cannot bet regret, that
ydu have het gained information in this
particular before you came to England.
If your wish had been made known to me
before ,cu undertook the journey, I w. uld
have informed you, without reserve, that
it would have been a useless one. It re
mains now for me p Joint cut to vcu my
opinion, that you mutt conform, without
delay to the decision I have been under the
necessity to communicate to you by this
letter. I have the honour to be &c.
(Signed) 66 GRENVILLE."
M. DUMOURIER.
Advices from Paris, of date the 26:h
ult. received byway of B.uffels, state,
that the new Constitution was concluded
that day, and decreed amidst the loaded
applauses.
By our advices from Paris received this
day, we learn, that M. Egalite has not
been executed or mafficred, as was report
ed. Hi is dill a prisoner at Marseilles,
where he is mere closely confined than
ever—even his demeflics being denied ac
cels to him.
Yeflerday evening arrived a Messenger
in town from the allied armies before Va
lenciennes, with dispatches to rgoerr
ment. He brings the news cf the armies
down to the 29th uh. at which time Va
lenciennes had not surrendered, although
the town was completely destroyed ; fcarcc
a house was to be seen landing.
The messenger failed from Offend on
Monday morning, and was 48 hours at
sea. He came from T)cvcr yesterday
morning.
Before the Messenger left the camp, the
Governor of Conde had sent a message to
the Prince cf Saxe Cobourg, acquaint
ing him that he meant to hold a council
of war, the purport of which was to de
liberate upon a capitulation; the refelt
of the council he would communicate to
the Prince.
Dumourier was still at Ofend on Sat
urday Isft, anxiously awaiting his fate—
the Messengers whom he had dispatched to
Brtfb not having then returned.
Lord Grenville's answer.
(Signed) " DUMOURIER.”
FRENCH AFFAIRS.
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