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fie important details which follow
we do not recoiled to havefeen in
the English or American papers—
We extrail them from Paris pa
pers,
Accounts from Mui
heim, Clairfayt’s head-quar
ttrs, dated Feb. 8 th, mention that
the French have eroffed the Rhine
near Rees, attacked the Austrians
Rationed on the right bank of that
river, defeated them in two succes
sive bloody engagements, which
happened on the 26th and 27th of
January and advanced within can
non (hot of the Prussian fort refs
of Wefel. The right wing of the
Austrian army being now tutted,
all the Austrian troops Rationed
on the north of the Lippe, fell
back, and were ordered to form a
column on the bank of that river,
extending from Wefel across
Dorften, Lunen and Lippftade to
Paderborn, The new petition
presenting, in confederation of its
extent but a feeble obstacle against
a serious attack of the enemy,
Clairfayt ordered the emperial
magazines at Durfburg on the
Roer, which is 20 miles S. E. of
Wefel to be transported towards
Dietz, oppose Cologne, This
x^fder has already been executed
and the baggage of the troops,
who are still remaining on the
banks of the rivers Lippe and
Roer, have already been sent back
towards Milbrocke, where general
CLEON, one of the Democrats of A
ihens, by his noisy harangues, and having
Neither honour nor confcienct, worked him
felf ih<o office. To expose his impudence
and vanity, Aristophanes, the domic poet,
intoduced the /oilowing scene into one of
his plays.
Demosthenrs & the Sausage-Maker.
Dkm —Hail, right honorable pudding*
inan 1 Happy ate we to fee the deliverer
of the Republic.
S. Maker..—What is all thief What
d’ye mean by giving me all these titles ?
Dem.—Lily aside your trash and mind
me.—You shall be flatefsnan and politician
to-morrow.
S. Maker.—How can that be, when
I am but a pudding-maker ?•
De m.—Because you are bold and wicked,
and have no ties of honor, friendjhip or
confciente.
S. Maker.—Yet I dont think tnyfelf
worthy of such a poll.
DeM.—Not Worthy 1 D’ye think your
felf a good or a bed man ?
S. Maker.—-Bad enough by all the
Gods.
Dem —That’s right ; for oiir cbtnmon
wealth is tired of your virtuous, righteous,
uncorrupt men— Don’t dcfpiie what the Gods
have decreed.
S. Maker. The oracle flatter* me:
How shall I have politics enough to be a
public officer, and manage government. ?
Dem.—As easy as to fluff a gut, and
manage a sausage. Politics and Saufage
making are exceeding alike. You are to do
what you used to do before ; mix, jumble
together, make a hedge podge, dijiurb and
confound every thing. Then you must ca
jole the people to swallow your politics,
as you uted to do the mob to swallow your
sausages : you have a rare talent for this.
A falfe tougne ; wicked cunning $ a little
{mattering of law s—in short, you have ev
ery thing neceflary to make a very good
politician. To priferve your place, always
put on an air of familiarity—take the pop
ular fide in all dispute?, however wrohg :
after that you may ride the people as you
please.
FOREIGN MISCELLANT.
try whole measures equally com*
mand the approbation of those
who are hoftiie to each other ?
Ninety-nine times out of a hun
dred, the war system is wrong ;
nine hundred and Mnety nine
rimes out of a thousand. the paci
fic neutral system is right.
Ftora the (Philad.) Aurora.
E XT R ACT^
VIL* Ail prisoners refpe&ively
made during the war, (hall be re
stored to their country,* in two
months after the ratification of
this Treaty.
Done al Bafte^ March between
the Minijiers Plenipotentiary of the
French Republic and the Kin^ of
Pruffa,
ship and good understanding be
tween Pruflia rnd the French Re
public;
11. In consequence, all hostili
ties shall ceale between the two
they advanced towards Hanover,
the Austrian general in chief is de
termined to abandon the lines of
the Lippe as well as the advan
tageous position on the Roer (in
Westphalia) and will certainly fall
back on the river Lahn ; for, the
roads round Franckfort are much
better, and the navigation of the
Mayn would enable the Auftriaos
to supply their army with every
neceflary, which is utterly imprac
ticable in the mountanious and i^-
hospitable countries they now oc
cupy. *
Late From FRANCE, S
B^* By the arrival of the brig Neptune,
Cape. ^Crocker, in 42 days from Nantz, we
have received Paris papers; to the i zth A
prif— thirteen days later chan before re
ceived—From them we translate the follow
ing INTERESTING ARTICLES.
NATIONAL CONTENTION.
Report of a TREATY with
PRUSSIA.
SESSION OF IITH APRIL.
REUBEL; in the name of the
Committee of Public Safe
ty, aicended the tribune; he laid,
Your Committee has followed
your intentions, refpe&ing a Par
tial Peace ; they prelent for your
ratification, the TREATY con
cluded with the King ofPrujfia,—
We have not, for a moment, for
gotten, that if the withes of the
French people were favourable to
Peace, that it must have been such
a Peace as was glorious to them,
and which cannot injure the inter
ests of the Republic. You will
judge by perusing the articles
submitted to you, how far they
have attained thole objeds.
VI. Till a Treaty of Com
merce shall be established between
the two powers, all commercial
relations shall be re-established
upon the fame footing as b^fote
the war.
powers, from the ratification of the
present Treaty/ and neither of
them shall furnifh against the oth
er any fuccours, in men, horses,
money, contingent or warlike
stores.
111. Neither of the two powers
shall grant paflage over its territo
ries, to the enemies of the oth
er.
IV* The Republican troops
shall evacuate, within 15 days,that
part of the Prussian dominions
which they occupy on the right
Bank of the Rhine.
V. The Republican troops (ball
continue to occupy that part of the
dominions of the King of Prussia,
situated on the left Bank of the
Rhine. -
Ciairfayt’s head quarters will soon
be eftabhfhed. This is a proof?
that if the French should really
intend to puffi their conquests at
the fame time towards the Jouth,as
PRINCIPAL ARTICLES,
1. There shall be peace, friend-
’ • One of the members ftid, who ire these
patriots, whose liberation is demanded !
I’ll tell yon, they are the blood-drinkers the
Cenorifts the fotteUicei of Rtbtjpitrr^
This Treaty was received with
the most lively applauses. Was
ordered to be primed, and the
difeuffion of it, adjourned for five
days.
(The affaire of France approached to ah
* alarming ciifis, on the ift April—when the
last efforts of the jacobins were made to
refeue Birrere, Billaud, and Collet de Her
bois from their impending fate—Some par
ticulars ol it follow. J
national convention, april 1.
The fitting of this day was
marked with tumult. It was
moved, that a lift of those in con
finement, with the causes of their
arrest Ihduld be printed. This
was.the signal for the friends of
Barr ere, &c. to rally. Several
motions were made, which though
disguised, had this object; but
they were dispensed with.
Bpi£y D'Anglos made a gener
al report on the means of supply
ing subsistence for the people j
but was interrupted by a great
noise from without: A numerous
body of citizens, of a sudden, en
tered the hall, crying vive la Re
pMque. The President put on
his bat. The cry of il Bread,
bread, vive la Republique” was
continued. Merlin, alked, if the
People came with evil intentions ?
No, No,'* was anlwered. Do
you demand the Constitution of
*793 ? —And, cried one
of the Jacobins, (t The liberty of
the Patriots I”—This was consid
ered as a signal, and the croud
immediately cried, “ Bread, bread,
and the Liberty of the patriots.^
The citizens crouded so faft over
the balustrades, that they drove
many of the members from their
feats, who were forced to pass
through the barriers, and ' escape
by the bar. [The President and
several other members continued in
the Hall.’] An orator of the mob
addrefled the Convention, in the
most impudent manner.—He
charged the present government
with ail the evils which ^waited
France-, he demanded that the
“ brilliant army of Freron should
be filenced and calling on the
Jacobins, Laid “ Mountains, it is
you must save the Republic. Rife,
then, and. dissipate all obftacles.”—
After much confufion, on being
aflured, that measures were in
operation for fuppfying bread to
the people, the mob left the hall;
and Boiffey continued his report.
[This report gave the Committee
power to raise an armed force to
conduct the provisions to the capi
tal. The Scarcity being so great
in several country places, that the
waggons carrying grain to Paris,
had been flopped, and pillaged.]
Ifabeau moved the following
decree. “ The Convention de
clares to the French people, that
there has beep this day, an attempt
against the freedom of their dif
cuflion?< And that they charge
the Committee of General Wel
fare, to difeover^ and deliver over
to the criminal tribunal of the de
partment of Paris, the inftiga
cors of the attempt.
Thibaudot said, that he should
not seek for the authors of these
troubles in a minority of noblefle
refugees in England. This con-
Ipiracy minority exists in France.
THE CRISIS I
The commune of Macon, and
nounced to the aflembly, that
whiift the Jacobins, the terrorefts,
the royalists, and die evil dilpofed
of every kind were agitating Par
is* they were also fomenting trou
f This deputy Was arrested for having'
ibid, that the present government had’ be
trayed the Republic and had paid the
guards who protected them with the gold
ofEagland.
Freron denounced the existence
of a secret committee of infurrcc
tion, at whole head were the Re
presentatives Leonard Bourdonan Sc
Choudieu. He demanded their ar
rest, Other members denoun
cing others of the fame club, the
Convention decreed, that Charles,
Choudieu, Fofiedoire, Hauget, Leo
nard Bourdon, Ruamps,^ Dubem,
and Amor, be arrested, and tranf
ferred to-the castle at Ham, [about
40 miles from Paris, where there is
a cajlle with a tower whose walls
are ^6 feet thick] and teals put
upon their, papers. The Conven
tion having thus purged itfelf cf
the reliques of Robespierre, aflum
ed a more tranquil progress. They
were informed by Barras, that
they were surrounded by 50,000
faithful armed citizens, with fifty
pieces of cannon.
Numerous deputations felicita
ted the Convention on their firm
nefs; and a member informed that
all.the deputies ordered to Ham,
had submitted to the sentence, ex
cept Bourdon, who had fought a
fylym in the fe&ion Gravilliers.
Gen. Pichegru immediately march
ed to the fe&ion, and Bourdon
was given up. A vote of thanks
was pafled on Gen. Pichegru, and
the Paris guards.
While the Convention was em
ployed in the above proceedings,
the eity of Paris was violently agi
tated, the toefin was founded, the
general beat, and the citizens of
Paris flew to arms. Though sev
eral attempts to aid the decimvirs
were made, the^reat body of the
citizens remained faithful to the
Convention? at the Bead of these
Pichegru appeared. An attempt
was made to flop the carriages
which contained the exiled mem
bers ; and int he Yencounter to fup
prefe it, Genw Pichegru was dis
mounted three times, and Gen.
Raffet wounded.
On the 4'h Canibon resigned his
office, as chief financier; and the
Convention proceeded to name the
Committee charged to report laws
for putting in operation the con
stitution of 1793. They were
Cambaceres. Merlin de Douay, Tbi
fiaat, Syeyes, Mathten, Lefage, of
Eure and Loire, and Craujet Cet^
touche.
If the Convention betrays weak*
nefs, it is loft.
Andre Dumont followed him*
Do you know, said he, why the
people are raised ? It is ftecaufe
there are feme who would wiffi to
save the three public robbers!
I^t us then instantly terminate.the
trials, which has caused us to lose
so many precious moments. It
seems that we wifti to abolilh the
punilhment of death; let uk de
cree then, that BILLAUD, COL
LOT, and BARRERE be exiled.
[Decreed by a great majority. ] The
minority fat up a loud cry, and
about forty one members signed
a prdteft against the judgment.
Gen. Pichegru, being at Paris,
was directed to take upon him the
command of the armed force at
Paris.