The Columbian informer, or, Cheshire journal — Keene, N.H., 1795-01-20 00:00:00, page 1

GEOGR^PHr.
OF AMSTERDAM.
rm our Alius, th French, are ^
near, or in this city, thefolding deft. |
tion of it may be agreeable tej^ne oj our
customers, who are not in @„Gfi ^ books
Efficient to inform them.
/AMSTERDAM is the capital of Hol
land,& of all the united Rates ; it is Situa
ted on the river Amdel,at its conflux with
the river Ye or Wye, which forms a port
capable of receiving a thousand large ves
sels ; it is about 2 leagues from the Zuy
der Sea; it 33 leagues N. from Antwerp,
56 N. N. W. from Aix-la-Chappelle, 25
N. from Bergen-op-Zoom, 19 N. N. W
from Bois-le.Duc, and 112 N. from Par
is, In 1675 it was surrounded by a wall
and a large ditch £0 feet wide,full of run
ning water ; the walls were fortified with
26 bastions ; there are 8 gates towards
the land, and one towards the water; it
has 290,000 inhabitants, and is without
doubt one of the richest and uof flourish
ing cities in the universe. Its situation
being in a very marfliy country the fobo
dation is entirely laid on piles of timber
drove into the earth elofc ro each other,
and clasped together with iron. Ihe form
) is semi-circular ; the Greets in general are
well paved ; there are 3 prodigious sluices,
ahd a great number of hone bridges over
the canals which ctofsthe city in many
parts,and ruder the Aree^ clean and pea
sant ; the canals are deep ; their files are
lined with hewn stone, an hrve generally 1
rows . * trees planted ech fide. Theirl
tg • Jowfoft^ldfr ^j^ £&»=^l^'
is formed by the waters ot the Amftel ;
this canal has fevcral bridge the pi ci
pal is called Pont Neaf, or ^w Budge,
600 feet long and 70 broad, with iron ba
lustrades on each fide; it has 36 arches, &
from it there is a grand propped both of
1 the city and port.
The Stadthbufe, where public business
is conduced, is edeemed one of the fine#
ftruftures in the world ; it is a fauare buil
ding of freeftone, Whose front is 282 feet
long, the depth of its fid's 22§, and 90
feet high in front, and 116 to the top ot
the cupola ; on a marble pediment in front,
is carved in r elievo, a woman holding the'
arms of the city, and supported by £o li
ons,with an olivebranch in her right hand
—on each fide are sea nymphs, who pre
sent ter with a crown of pilm and laurel,
and two others prefacing a variety of
fruits. It has no handsome gate, but se
ven doors to anfw^r the number of prov
inces : The great hall is paiticu arlv mag
nificent ;on the floor are reprefeited a
terrestrial and celeflial globe, each 22 feet
in diameter, made of black and white mar
ble, inlaid with jasper and copper, with
many grand pieces of painting. Under
the house is an extensive vault, wherein
^ are kept the riches.of the bark of Amfter
dam,the doors ofwhich are said to be can
non proof; and are never opened but in
the presence of the burgomasters ;'attbe
bottom of the Stadthoufe are the priibns,
both .for criminals and debtors, and a
guard room for the citizens where the
keys of the city are depefited every night.
The second is a large magazine of arms,
and on the top of the building are fix cif
terns continually filled with water,that by
means of pipes can be conveyed to any
TOenl in the house in case of fire, to pre
vent which, the chimnies are lined with
copper. This immense fabric, like the
rest of the city, stands on piles, 14,000
being employed forthat purpose only.|
The Exchange is another fine building
f ~- that stands onzbeo piles ':its length zo&
feet, its bifadth 124 ; the galleries nre/
supported by 26 matble columns on which
are the names of the people that are to
meet there ; they are all numbered, arid
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there is a place fixed for every merchan
dise ; under one of the numbers on the
right fide of the gate,is a superb flair-cafe,
which leads to the gal^rtes, on one fide
of which arc fcveral (hops, on the other.
Iplaces to fell ready made cloaths. There
are eleven Churches belonging to th ef
tabliffied religion, one for the English
Presbyterians, and two fvnagegues The
Rasp House also, so called from the ori
ginal punifliment being that to rasp wood,
is a work house for men ; if they will not
perform the talk allotted them, they are
put into a cellar into which water coeftant
ly runs, and will most assuredly drown
them if they do not pump continually.—
There is also a Spinning-House for lewd
women, where they are completely paid
for their folly.
GOO 0 O^OOTGOC* GOO
3'oretyn J^e/l^eyz^.
STATE OF FRENCH POLITICS. 1
From the fall of R>>erfpierre to the %h:
November.
WRITTEN IN FRANCE, AND COMM
NICATED BY CAPT. BRADF^r
JUST ARRIVED FROM LOrIRNT
£ HE denouncing es Rrberfye
was an event that affected -hr Freeh ।
rirn, as much as th* ceru o^ cf 4.
18-fti %cr the cepcti g u': ir K —2
I he2Bh JTy r%, vas ^ ec a w r
I alien a: Pai the 14th ju.y 1789, l
!^he .0 hA% u# 179 *
fix and nirtv hours, and the right be
cernthe 27. h and z3'h the city of Pit
's law two hundred rhouiand men in s'm^,
eady to fall upon they did not know
who.
R^berfpie r re, with his accomplices,
Cobthon and St. for, had been tt from
the National Convention under arreb ;
but the keepers cf the prisons, were all so
much in their interest, that the woud
not receive them, and during the confu
fion they escaped their guards, and fought
a fanftuary with the Municipality of the
city, who were nffemb'ed and ready to
"receive and protea them. In th 00 1
f this Assembly, all their friends, h,»
*ere again arretted,at 12 o'clock a: nigh,
by two resolute members of the Convex -
ion, accompanied by only a few ^+
d'armes, or national guards. TH iite
pid bard rushed into the hall where &
Commute were assembled, c& :iiar- |
ged thtir pifloH it, and wounded
the traitor. The bolcnefs of this attack,
together with the fall of their leader, to|
intimidated the rest, ihatihey nude no;
remittance, but a; faft possible db^rfed.
A few hours more brought these principal
trailers to the fcaffold—and the day afer,^
Caffinal the Mayor, Henriot the Comarn
der of the aimed force of Paris, and thej
greatest part of the Municipality fTow-)
ed, to lay their heads at the fame fri^.
Thus the form which had gathered with I
the fuddenrefs, and threatened to be fol-1
lowed with the deftrodion of the most vio-1
lent tornado, soon happily abated, acd a |
calm and peaceful feere ensued.
After 'he deftruaion of this new ty
rant, the National Convention rffured a
milder plan of government. Le Carve
de la Loi found some respite from its before ,
continual labors—the people trembled thit(
hev had so lcng blessed the hand that op-j
I preffi# them ; and thti'r execrations of;
Ithis Nero were every where equal to the [
'blind, adoration which they had befoeb
paid him ; but the general horror which
ihid pervaded all rank?, as well in the
Oravention, aswitliout, from the contin
ual afton of the guillotine, began now
toTtobfiae—liberty of opinion and fpecchl
TUESDAY, J NUAKY 20, 179,
^ws^Q^O^^tf ^ vin*^fa tynv^fae^„&sm%„,, Q^ft&
r^re renewed, and that confidence be
t|een man end man, the basis cf focia
Lppinefs, which had been destroyed by &
L,g train of bloody proceedings, revives
;h this f> flem of terror abated.
I. After trie Convention had cleared awa\
rufbifh of this conspiracy with the
^ ds of the tyrant and hie a«omptiees,
P / began to purge their commtue-a —
T. e Committee of public Safety was new
organized, fevcral of its former members
eluded, end a decree palled to have
their members renewed, a quarter
pfc, m nthly, and some of their pov.
el were abridged, the decree aniolle^
vflhh authorifea taem to arrest ne„u res
Tie bloody decree cf the 22 Poral
v@ revoked —this decree refpv&ed prin
chilly he Revolutionary Tribunal, and
^A puffed by the i fluence of Robert
erre, whole sway was absolute—by it,
d^ath was to be the puniihment of every
rime,& the accused robe allowed no cutin
!• or attorney, but a ptibi: Ac uer was
;Übllhed to convia, f) that few or none
w±i were brought to this bar, ever re
[,. red tc their families or friends again,
'a, tr^r 3} the t,rtnt had compoiec
^'-Judges, ei her in his inteicß,
a agaiu^it and thus, whd
'#''' u 'hhi to destroy were only
F? } before this tribunal, and he guil
:*¥ffi,oi p r t-hed them—net efe than thir
|u, ! ;. viaiais 0 this machine of
1 r , icnoo he flge daily at Pari:
'h tr^'t'^ bloody mandates pro
c..i.e Henes in diftenni put of the
ic his tribunal was new diffolv
a<:a r ~ & f rttird, upon a more
I are ri rinent, the accuf
art. -1 0 ciicii, ra the
■r"™= AeJr- ''" had fur.<
tend 5 '.v,' cn ^Hiec as
it ds.."r<A.tJ^Bat- :_£ ^ "'d^nr
fOB hfclb co led by thein ri, u^-fl^ta,
te*a "inkncwingly again!!'h ~ rinep'e.so'
hereto utirr—betv' on Ich ard the realj'
e:emhr.cf thc Rei u bc, ; ; was the wish of I
rhe Convention to ancrininate. Ihe 1
armed fo'ce of Paris which had hitherto I
been under the command of one perfon,l
and whithat this cnfis had neily proved 1
fatal to the Convention, by the cemn an- i
der, H nriot being of Roherfpierre's par
n was -pw thought tec d. ngerous- to be
grided tv a figle individu I —this cem
s heretore, by a decree of the
' or ti n, to he invented in a cuwmil
fcr re Members.
1 be z£h August, Barrier, in the name
r the Comm Him, created the i:th, to
new erg^nize the committees cf the Con
hert c, nact a report, which was ad<p-.
zc " rhatrh^e (hall be sixteen C'in
"nitrea cf the National Ccn^entk n."—
I About this time, a quarrel began be;
pweun the Naticra: Convention, and the
'Jacobi's. Th i s society, so preud and
'powerful received a humiliating thek- 'in
fcoverthrew 4 f Robespierre wh m they,
'v at lenU a part of them, endeavored to
/the left, to support. Their nhetiogs
,ce^frdfor feveial lavs—they at lai ic me
togethe , ard with buta- ill grace, felic-|
foated the Convex vin open the fortunate
idifcovery o' the conspiracy, an d tate 0. the
L),{„ t —ard declared themselves ever
leveled to the p'incip'es cf Te Revolts
iton, and re^d, at all titles, to iupport
the Convention, who, upon this trying
oc -fuw, had proved themfel<es the guar
] ana and faviorsof the R public.l This
ffhow of frienr ship however, had but a
;fhort duratior—they h d loft their popu
larity, and the Convention had gained it
' this wafrfufficient to give place to envy
;—and they took the firft opportunity to
b'nd fault with the proceedingsof that to
dy, which they wished to rival.
The Convention, amorg many other
i& to feften the rigors which had marker
r the proceedings of the late faction,, hac
,opened the prison doors, and set at liber
-1
f V great numbers of persons whem Roter
pierre had caused to be arrtked; and who
n}y waited thtir return to bleed at the
guillotine. At this ad of lenity, the Ja
cobins began bitterly to com^^in-they
declared that the enemies efthe Republic,
»ere roftored to liberty— h&t At Hoc racy
Ind Mdcratilm, began every where to
aife their audacious hra&: ; &tnve ghc4
gaintt the Convention, for dfe ntin&iag
thole severe, but salutary mealurcs, which
had conouded the revolution thus far,
'^hich kept m enemies in due fu jedion
and which atone could five the republic.
They addressed the other Popular S cietiea
'r, and about P^ris, and called upon
hem to be upon thetr guard against thef#
noderate measures, and pretty boldly in
mited that, 'here was a new titticn for
ming in the Convention, which under the
pretence of rooting up the feeds of the 0 d,
were in fad endrav uring to eftabhih a
worfc upon its ruins—and that they had
adopted this mild plan, as the meft likely
to serve their ends, whilst the pailiors cf
hr people were warm against that par ,
wh hd moved in the oppefite extreme —
sh„ received, or pretended to receive,
and publish'd addreff/s from a great num
ber us foeie ies, in different p.rts of the
Republic, which declared th?mfclves de
voted to the J'C obins, and joined with
them in prettying, that the new pro
ceedings only favoured the Aristo
crats, and that thele began to opprtfa
he Patriots—they were however ac
cu;en of framing there addresses them
/elves; Ou the other hand, the Cerven
ion were daily receiving the thanks if the
re pie, from -I Iparts, in addresses, for
their vigil nee, in discovering, and a&ivi
y, in fupp-effiag :he moi ftrous confpira
-01 ..> t %&/ ^?;b/ug&''^,fix>
ind humanity ©f the new plan of proceed
ings the, bad adopted, particularly com
mending their prompt attention to the
iL&riogs of thafe of their fellowcitizens.
Jrn!Rß|£2 nnv °' 'he late confoiratora
had drag„tfyTrwfrrend declared
themielves ever d voted to the rcepretcr.-
tarives of rhe nati< rt . —that the Convention
was their only poi c of raUiment, and de
fying them to remain at their polls, der
i^g the R. volution.
It mutt be noted that a number of the
Members cf the Convention were also
Members of this society of Jacobins, and
these forming a part in the Convention,
h d denominated themselves the Mountain.
Ri berfpierre was the head of this party,
and the Jacobin society its fupportere, and
bv way of derision they called the rest 0
the Convention, the frogs cf< he mud
cuddle, or of the morals ; so much were
they belong the Mountain. The fall of
R berfpierre h d reverted the Icene, and
; this oppressed part of the National Affem
'bly, bee ma the most powerful—^and in
order tn harmonize the members among
rhemfelves, the Convention decreed there
sh old be no diftin&ion of parties in their
body, and that the name of Mountain
sh ud net hereafter be mentioned. Ihe
Jacobins however, begad to rail, round
Ithe Mountain, which they were decent
ed thould not be so crushed-and hill ri•
culed the other party under the name of
the frogs who they foid were faifing thetr
heads above the mud; but it was only
that they might be the ea&er cutoff. Bar
rere and Collet d'Herbois were fufpe&ed
of being parties of the late ccnfpiracy,a«4
several hints had been thrown out againit
them in theConvention —at latt laCointre,
de Verities, publicklv accused thpm,and
brought forward an ad of denunciation a
gaintt them with four other members of
the Convention,Billaud Varennes.Vadier.
Amar and D vid—hi. aecofation contain
ed 27 artic es ; nrne of which ,he Ccn
,notion thought were supported, and thele
members were acquitted, and the accafa
t on decreed calumnious.
About ibe firft of September, tae ,%
[Whole No. 95 ]
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