The American herald of liberty — Exeter, N.H., 1793-08-06 00:00:00, page 4

1 AM but just returned from a te
dious levee of the queen’s, where
your American ambassadors had their
Hrft audience. A severe head ache
might plead my excuse for not fuk
filling my promise of writing •, but
1 Enow you are anxious, to hear how
their Excellencies are liked, or rather
tolerated-confideringall then, pret-
our Ambaflador at Versailles, on his
Hr (I introdudbon to-the Queen at her
levee, and which is only on a par
with that profligacy of manners and
life of which (he was notoriously guil
ty* —It is extraded from a number
of other letters, which were written
in France, and intercepted and pub
iifhed in England.-
JACO B U S.
Philadelphia. June zq^ 17^.
- To Monsieur de Sartine.
Versailles, 22 March, 1778.
My dear Friend,
Fiom the National Gazette.
MONG the many murders com.
mined by the Paris mob, in the course
of the present revolution, that of Ma
dam Lamballe is the molt affeCting;
and Which, without any reaion, has
given the friends of despotism and
monarchy such caUfe of lefledicn on
the whole nation.
To ascribe, however, such an oc
currence, which can be considered in
no other light than as the ahtion of
an enraged and opprcfled multitude,
to the grand council of the'nation,
as has been done by many is, the
greatest dblurdity. And if It be alk
ed, why were not feme attempts made
By the police of the city to prevent
the com million of such an aCtion ? I
anfwcr,that they,as well as every oth
er perlon,know the difficulty and dan
ger of opposing a mob ; and that it
was certainly far better to let them
have their own Way, rather than
rifque thole greater evils and general
Daughter which would have inevita
bly followed. I would beg leave to
remind theEnglilb nation, who have
made the ^reateft noise about the
matter, of the mob in London, in
1780, which all the military that
could be colleded could not pre
vent them committing far more nu
merous and atrocious aCtionS than
ever were dbne at Paris —and from
pulling down the house and burning
all the valuable property of one of the
highest men at that time in power,
vtz. Lord Mansfield. Letthem al
so remember the more recent affair at
Birmingham; a riot unequalled in
hiltory and which was countenanced
by government, when it might have
been quelled in time—elfe I ’ why were
not some effectual meafurCs taken
before three days had elapsed ? dur
ing which time the mob ravaged
without opposition, and were fuffer
ed to’delhov the house library and
valuable philosophical apparatus of
Dr. Priestly, a man to whom En
gland owes the greatest part of her
fame among the nations of the world,
for the numerous and important dis
coveries in philosophy, and the icien
ecs in general ;and whose lofles will
forever remain a ft adding monument
of difgracem the HntiGi nation.
But to return—although Madam
Lamballe’s death will no doubt be
lamented,- from the circumstances on
ly which attended it (for considering
the intrigues and mbnftrous extrava
gance of which ffie was guilty, her
life was rather a curse than a profit
to the natron) yet to Ihew how little
principle the poffefled, I fend you a
letter written by her, ridiculing the
venerable Dr. Franklin/at that time
Peleg WatefJpontjNzs by birthright
a horse jockty of the fir ft fort—He
could drink new rum,chew tobacco,;
add tell negro stories—He bought
Old Continental horfes/at thirty
{hillings a head, at the close of a
compaign, that were broken winded,
fpaven’d, fore-backed,and ring-bon
ed—kept them till spring, and, with
the aid of his honest father, fold them
to the fame hands for good and
young His cheats were known—
but what of that ? *twas the universal
cry, PeLeg fells cheap—— He then
commenced merchant,full blooded—
Every old maid in town visited his
(tore—*t was a New Store— he
trufied till after harvest, and he fold
cheap -Harvest after harvest, but
no harvest came for Peleg— the
bugs had eaten the wheat four years
in advance^P^ goes to Vermont
ty Weil I—But indeed you must thank
the countess Jute de Poligme and
me for it—-for if was RO easy matter
to persuade her majesty to endure
them. The countess and myfelf
stood very close to her, byway of
precaution. Unluckily madam-al
iclle Bertin had been with her aft the
morning, and you know how the
milliners abhor an'Englilh war. She
had ridiculed these ambafladors Io hu
meroufty, that when they made rhe>t
entrance, her majesty was very near
laughing—^The truth is, my dear
friend, they were villainously drefTtd ;
and 1 don’t know how it happened,
but none of them looked like gentle
men. it was all in vain to talk of
simplicity of manners ! of greatness
of mind 1 and contempt of forms 1
** Majoi (said the queen) il fout a
vouer ce nest que de la canaille !”*
However, 1 pointed to Dr. Franklin’s
white hat, as the emblem of inno
cence ; and the countess ofPolignac to
his fpeCtacles (one glals of which was
broken) as that of economy. Aflu
redly (said her majefty)thisDr.Frank,
lin is very singular in every thing.
We laughed at this turns which put
her in good humour; and the duke de
Coigny, who was (landing by, aflur
ed her majesty that this singular Doc
tor with his white hat, and broken
fpeCtacles, could nevertheless bottle
lighthing/and uncork it as fatally as
Pandora opened her box, or Ulyfles’
friend untied the beraccio ; & we all
laughed, because none of us under
stood it. In fhorr, we have contriv
ed pretty well for the prelent ; but do,
my dear friend, fend these barbarous
ambafladors some tailors and hair
dreflers, and pray encourage his Ex,
cellency the Do&or, to have his
fpe&acles mended. Adieu,
LAMBALLE.
THIS faying sets the world a
gadding —girls and boys, old
women and all, for the New Stdre. —
Timotby Chowierhead, who is too lazy
to hoe corn, goes to Newyork, and
gets a hogshead of rum, a few fans,
gauzes, buttons, buckles, tapes, rib
bons, &c. &c. on a credit of fix
months. Tim. is now coaxing his
cousins, and every idle dunce, to'
purchalt' ^when any person who
wears half a head, might know they
won’t pay for them in fix years— but
he fells cheap Tim. Cbowderhead
will, perhaps, by a deaconifh (lory,
and fair promises (which he knows
he can never fulfill)get a new recruit
next fall-Rafter which,friend Timothy
may have leiftire to wind up • his
bobbin, and leek a retreat in Canada
or Vermont.
*lt would be injuflice io her majesty
io attempt a tranjlaticn!
From the Western Star.
HE SELLS CHEAP !
“In conformity to the orders 1
have just received? I am eager to no
tify to the Government of the Uni
ted States, in the name of the Pro
vifionary Executive Council charged
with the Admiiniflration of our Gov
ernment, that the French Nation has
constituted herfelf a Republic.
“ This notification would have been
accompanied with frefti Credentials,
if the basis whiich ought to be estab
lished on this head had been finally
regulated, and if the Executive Coun
cil had not chosen rather to manifeft,
ds soon aspoffible, the resolutions ta
ken by the whale nation, of declar
ing the abolition of Royalty, and the
creation of a Republic in France,
Independent of the interest which
this great determination of a nation,
that has given her concurrence to the
defence of Liberty, and establishment
of independence,ought to inspire her,
it Will doubtless also beconfidered by
the United States:, as a new pledge of
the close friendfh ip which lubfifts be
tweeri the tWo nations. In this per
suasion, the Exec utiveCounfel of the
French Republic has charged me to
aflure your Government of her dispo
sitions, which are ilikewiTe those of my
nation, to rivet the ties of our friend-
Ihip with you, and to multiply be
tween the two nations commercial •
connexions of reciprocal utility.
“ I congratulate myfelf upon be
ing able to transmit to you the ex
preflion of sentiments in which,! par
ticipate to the uenjoft extent, and of
which my cohduX (ball never cease
to bear an invariable testimony.
(Signed) “ ternant.”
N. B A justice ofthePeacehas solici
ted a post next th order to DoCtor
Felix -however, as the measure of
his iniquities remains as yet unfilled,
he must (land by for the present.
Berkshire. July .12, »79z.
and turns preacher and he fells
cheap \ No taxes' ;no falary—-wh6
would not go to hear Pelegs
he is a jack at all trades—Ee can fay
a little of every thing-’-he can read
without fpelling*-iell stories and
almost work miracles diink
new rum—.chew tobacco, and tell
hegroe stories— -he dees it cheap.
Peter ^Threthabout^ is a sturdy lad,&
might do honour to a broad-hoe, or
a ditcfiing’fpade- Peter has been
sailor, soldier, fiddler, and petty fog
ger, and has twice entered the stone
jug as broken merchant But
Peter always fold cheap.
Felix Mercury, mounts an old flan
king hag of a mare, with old saddle
bags fluffed with nostrums and bolufles,
and Ilies forth a Dodor at all points
—the catiker rash and belly-ache
are vanquilhed only at the smell
of him : but Felix trades cheapo —if
an old maiden chances to have the
heaves, ’tis nem, con. dignified with
a polypus upon the heart- - if a
girl has flimfy ancles, and turns her
toes in, it is; to be fore, St, Anthony’s
dance, and (he must befalivated-
Felix Mercury's conundrums are all of
his own preparing; and if they don’t
quite make the dead live it is thought
they will, and often do, make the
living dead— and he Rill fells cheap
— Felix is a man of tolerable
bodily abilities, and wields the bladder
with a good deal of eclat ’tis
conjectured; that if Felix could be
persuaded to confine his genius with
in a proper fphert,he might cur a
refptCLblc figure at a plough-tail—
But he is cheap.
From the Minister of the French
Republic, to the Secretary of the V
nited States of America.
Ph|ladelphia, Feb, 6, 1793.
Second year of the Republic.
LETTER
course on principles as friendly to
natural right and freedom as are thole
of our government.
1 am, with sincere esteem and re
fpeCt, Sir,
TH. JEFFERSON.
I HAVE laid before the President
of the United States your notifica
tion of the 17 th instant, in the name
of the Provisory Executive Council,
charged with the administration of
your Government, that the French
nation has conftitmed itfelf into a Ke
public. The President receives with
great fatisfadion this attention of the
Executive Council, and the desire
they have manifefted of making
known to us the resolution entered
into by the National Convention, e
ven before a definitive regulation of
their new eftablilhmenc could take
place. Be allured, Sir, that the Gov
ernment and the Citizens of the U
nited States view with the most sin
cere pleasure, every advance of your
Nation towards its happiness, an ob
ject eflentially connected with its li
berty, and they confider the union of
principles and pursuits between our
two countries as a link which binds
still closer their interests and affec
tions.
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JESSE DOW.
Chicbefter, May 27, 2793.
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