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lence and his grief, his silence on feme
points and his excess on others, it is dif
ficult not to believe that Mr. Burke
is forty, extremely ferry, that arbitra
ry power, the power of the Pope,and the
Baftile are pulled down.
Not one glance of companion, not
one commiserating reflexion, that I can
find throughout his book, has he bestow
ed on those who lingered out the most
wretched of lives, a life without hope,
in the most miserable of prisons. 1c
is painful W behold a man employing
his talents to corrupt himfelfi Nature
has been kinder,to Mr. Burke than he
is to her. [He is not affixed by the
reality of distress touching upon his
heart, but by the showy resemblance of
it striking his imagination. He pities
the plumage, but forgets the dying
bird. Accustomed to kiss the ariftocrath
cal hand that hath purloined him from
himfelf, he degenerates into a composi
tion of art, and the genuine foul of na
ture forfakes him. His hero or his he
roine must be ^tragedy vi&im expir
ing, in show, and not the real prisoner
0 mifery,flitting into death in the silence
of a dungeon.
As Mr, Burke has passed over the
whole tranfaflion of the Baftillc (and
not, some account of the circumstances
which proceed that tranfa^ion- They will
serve to shew, that less mifchief could
scarcely have accompanied such an event,
when considered with the trecberous &
hottile aggravations of the enemies of
the Revolution,
The mind can hardly pißure to itfelf
a more tremendous scene than what the
city of Paris exhibited at the time of
taking the Bastille, and for two da%&• be
fore & after, nor conceive the poffibiljty
of its quieting so foori. At a dißance,
this tranfaaioa has appeared only as
an ad of heroism,, Handing on itfelf ;
and, the dole political connexion it bad
with the Revolution is%R in the brilli
ancy.of tfe achievement Bat we are
to confider it as the grength, of the par
ties, brought man to man, and contend
ing for the issue. The Bastille was to
be either the prize or the prifom of the as
sailants. The dpwnfal of it included
the idea of the dowafal of Dufpo> ism ;
and this com pounded ima°e was become
as figuratively united as Bunyans
Doubting- £,ftle and Giant Dffpair. 1
The National Aff^mbly before and at
the time 0/ taking the grille, was fit
ting at Versailles, twelve miles distant
from Paris. About a week before the
siting of the P^ri fians, and their taking
the Bastille, it wasdifeovered that a plot
was forming, at the head of-which was
the Count d' Arrois, the King's young
est brother, so: demolishing the National
Assembly, seizing its members, and
thereby crufbing, by a coup de main, all
hopes and profpea, of forming a free
government. For the fake of humanity,
as well as of freedom, it is well this
plan did not facceed. Examples aie not
wanting to Shew how dreadfully vindic
tive and cruel are all old governments,
when they are fuccefsful against what
they call a revolt.
This plan must have been, some time
io contemplation ; because in order to
carry it into execution, it was necessary
to colled a large military force round
Paris, arid to cut off the communication
between that gty and the National As
sembly at Vertolko. The troops defi
ned for this service were chiefly the fo
reign troops in the pay of France,
and who, for this ferviee were chiefly
the foreign troops in the pay of France,
and who, for this particular purpose,
were drawn from the distant provinces
where thev were Rationed. When they,
were colleded, to the amount of between
twenty tye and thirty thoufaud, it was
judged time t 9 put the plan into execu-
Jam than a prison, it is unworthy 2 ra
tional consideration. It was a madman
that libelled—and that is fufficient apo
logy ; an d it afforded an opportunity
for confining him, which was the thing
that was wished for : But certain it is
that Mr. Burke, who does not call him.
felf a madman, whatever other people
may do, has libelled in the most unpro
voked manner, and in the grossest stile
of the most vulgar abofe,the whole re
presentative authority of France ; and
yet Mr. Burke takes trie feat in the Bri
tish iloufe of Commons ! From his vio-
bis silence is nothing in his favour) and
has entertained hrs readers with reflec
tions on supposed fads distorted into
real falfhoods, I will give, fiace he has
tion. The ministry who were 'then in
office, and who were friendly to the
Revolution, were instantly difmiffed,and
a new ministry formed of those who had
concerted the p ojed ; among whom was
Count de Broglio, and to his share was
given the command of those troops.
The character of this man, as described
to me in a letter which I communicated
to Mr. Burke before he began to write
his book, and from an authority which
Mr. Burke well knows was good, was
that of "aa high flying aristocrat ; cool,
and capable of every mifehief."
[To be Continued ]
dated September 24.
" We have had a most horrid murder
committed about 20 or 25 miles from
this place, on the Potowmack, called
Port Tobacco, by a young man of that
place, who had been brought up in a
counting house. He left town.aFriday,
and went to fee a friend in the country,
from whom he had a power of attorney
to manage his eßate, and on Saturday
morning shot his friend as he lay in bed
—locked him up in a chest, and burned
him on Monday night in the y,rd: during
which time his mind was in such a coir
fufed Rate that he could not tell a strait
story. First he said he was gone to one
place, and then to anolhet.—He was, at
lift fafpeaed. They fetched for the
HAMBURGH,[Ger^J AUG. 9.
ON the 21st ult. a fifherman, 3 miles
from Helgoland, found a bottle at
sea, containing the following Letter,
which was forwarded , without deity to
its direction,by a merchant of this place,
viz.—
THERE being no hopes left of ever
feeing you again, myfelf and seventeen
fouls besides, preparing for our fad fate,
compel me to write to you, in hopes
that my letter, conveyed in 2 bottle,may
come to you, hand, through the care of
fame humane finder. During the pre
ceding night, our vessel sprung a leak so
as to leave no poffibilicy of saving her,
Qurteng boat being dashed to pieces,
the bottom of the sea, therefore must be
our inevitable doom.
The Rev. Mr. Dobie, at ZaglefcamMear
Glasgow. Ou board the Arab, from
Leith bound to Italy,on th eve of faking.
MY DEAR FATHER,
'" I am eify in my mind, trading io
the mercy of the Almighty for forgive
nefs of my fins, andon my beseeching
you for God's fake, to take care of the
infant Bttfy Black fathers on me-—
nothing remaining of your unfortunate
son :--Rememb r to proved the child,
as I intended doing.
American Advices.
PHILADELPHIA SEPT. 29.
L'ANGUIELE, on the Wabash, the
Indian town deftrofed by General
Wilkinson, has remarkably distinguished
irfelf as a nest of robbers and murderers,
and is the only place upon the Wabalh
where our prisoners have constantly been
put to the most horrible tortures.
The two fuccefsful expeditions against
the hostile Indians cannot fail of making
the most furious impressions upon them,
2nd produce solid peace, which is the
sole object of the United States. Indeed,
since General Scott's expedition in
June, a number of French inhabitants,
who were fettled at feveraf of the Indian
villages on the Wabalh, had repaired to
post Vincennes; and about 3000 Qui
atanon orWea men,women and children,,
Indians who have hitherto been hostile,
had followed their example, and have
fettled themselves within about 8 leagues
of Poll Vincennes, and declared them
selves at peace,and under the protection
of the United States.
" Accept my bluffing for my dear mo
ther, and affore her my heart beats with
gratitude for all her tenderness towards
her unhappy son.
JOHN DOBIE."
NEW-YORK, OCTOBER 3.
Extraa of a letter from a gentleman in
Alexandria, to bisfriend in Philadelphia,
By Yesterday's Mail.
Foreign Intelligence.
“ SEPT. 9th,
"'IN a former letter I have commu
nicated some particulars of the firft
riling of the Negroes. The example,
like the effect of epidemical disease,
communicated itfelf throughout the
quarter of Limhe — and in a few hours
that immensely rich and flourishing
country, exhibited one feene of horrour
and devastation. Many of the propri
etors and overseers, with the whites on
the estates, made their escape to the
landing, and tock passage for the Cape.
Those who were less vigilant or active
in their exertion) fell a prey, and were
butchered with all the-extravagance of
enthuaftick barbarity. Bayun de Li
bertat, (who you know) was among the
latter—his wife and daughter are cap
tives and slaves among the blacks.
“ On the 24th ult. an alarmwasbeat
at the Cape, and all buiinefs was sus
pended. Mr. De Blanchelaude, our
Goveanoar-Ge neral, was named Com
mander in Chief of the regular and pa
• triotick troopst . The out-posts of the
town, with Petit anje, and Haut du-rap,
were immediately put in a Rate of de
fenfe, and a very confidarable detach
ment ordered to guard those two im
portant avenues to the town. The Fau
uflte Roop of war defended the load
from the ferry tq Petit anfe, and protec
ted the St. Michael eßate from deßrudi-
OU.,
'' On the 28th the band from Ltbbe
-advanced intb this neighbourhood. The
whole quarter of L'acal exhibited one
general blaze. On the Marquis Galli
fault's estate, five miles from town, the
negroes of the plantation assembled in
a body and affaffiaated the too confi
dent and unCfpefting procurer M. au
Delac, a man cf fortune and refpeda
bility. They afterwards set fire to the
buildings, and having glutted their
hellish rage at home, extended their
ravages, murder and devaluation as far
as Lemonade. All the beautiful and
productive estates in the Q^rtirer Morin
were deßroyed ; and the negroes disper
sed or compelled to march with the in
fergentsp It has been a practice with
those people, wherever they have com
mitted their ravages, to seduce, or o
blige the negroes on the different plan
tations to join their party. Many, how
ever, fathful to the interest of their
masters have fled to town,anddemanded,
their protection, Those whodifeover
groves, ,
Pluck their own fruits, and woo theirfable
BOSTON, OCTOBER 19.
Further particulars of the
Hispaniola Infurreaion—
In a letter from JAMES
PERKINS, Esq. resident at
Cape- Francois.
body, and found it. The head was very
much bruised. The perpetrator by this
time had fled : but was pursued, and
soon overtook. He confeffed the fad,
but said it was accidental. His trial
will come on in a few days; and his
friends exped to save him by pleading
insanity. — —
The late accounts from the Weest-In
dia islands present the most gloomy
fpedacle that has ever ,been exhibi
ted on the theatre of the globe. To
reflea on a handful of people (compa
ratively speaking) being absolutely in
the power of an immense multitude of
blacks, untaught and uncivilized, whose
sense of injuries has been constantly re
ceiving an additional keentfs of its edge
for ages, must harrow up every feeling
of humanity, and though there is some
thing in our natures which revolts from
slavery, and every generous American
must ardently with to fee thap period ar
rive,
Yet as the new system of the world, is
gradually ameliorating the condition of
our fpecies/t is rather to be feared, that
the period when universal freedom (hall
be enjoyed, must be retarded, rather
than accelerated by such horrible at
tempts. On the principle therefore of
universal benevolence and philanthropy,
if impelled by no other motives,the go
vernment of the United States is bound
to afford the most prompt and effectual
fuccour and thiief 0 their allies.
kPhen Afrit's Jons fall freely range their
loves.
" This attempt is not the firft iu
flance of their audacity—they have re
peatedly advanced in view of our camps,
but have always retreated with a con
fufed precipitation when attacked by the
infantry or artillery. Some foraging
and reconnoi ering parties of dragoons
have fallen in with and engaged the tri
at different times, but though always
fuccefsful, have thought it imprudent,
in final! bodies, to purfuc their advan
tage.
"The alarm-guns diftribnted throuh
out the plain; have fallen into the hands
of the blanks.—ln several of their at
tacks they have been supported with
artillery—they are miserable engineers,
and every discharge is but a wafie of
the little amunition they possess—a pri
soner taken yesterday has declared that
their artillery is, in future, to be fsrve&
by nine white men, who they furpriftd
a few days paR in the neighbourhood ofr
Petit anfe.
''From every observation we have
been enabled to make, and from what,
information has been extorted from the
prifoners,there are but a final! proporti
on of those people who are armed with
mufquets —the others are provided wi h
bill-looks fixed on poles, and wooden
lances. Weapons which can have very
little effect when opposed to even a well
armed militia.
"For the defence of the city Cbevau*
de freite have been planted in all the,
ravines ; and a chain of hard-wood^
pickets, extending from the ferry to the
faufette, and from thence round the
mountain to the Arfenat; from a line of
circumvailation about the city. Some?
few arrangments, which it is foppofed
will be immediately completed, cannot:
fail to render us perfectly secure fron>
an attack without.
" On the 9th inst. at night an alarm
was given at Haut du Cap, and it was
found the enemy were advancing to an
attack. The main body of the assail
ants -attempted the plantation, Breda
pppofite the village, on the Well fide,
while a detachment on the Eafl ffde of
the river, endeavoured to cfK ft a diver
sion at the new bridge. The latter
was immediately difeovered to be a feint,
and its end defeated. The main defiga
was equally fruftrated by the indiscreti
on of the party, who advanced with
their native war-whoop and spread the
alarm-the cannon which were judici
ously difeofed on the height cf Brada,
and on the main road leading to L'ac&l,
by a will dire&ed difebarge (under the
guidance of Mr. de Toufard, Comman
dant of the port) favoured by the light
of the fire, which had been put to rhe
negro houses produced a total rout, and
effected considerable slaughter. Serre
few were made prisoners—the dead were
principally carried off—twelve only
were found on the field.
" SEPT. 17.
" Preparations for the grandfafe
have been making., and it was expected
the army would have marched yefterda,
to a general attack ; but we are again
disappointed, and matters remain much
in ffie fame position. A detachment,
however, was ordered from Haul de
Cd, yerierday morning before day ft
“ Several forties have been made
from Haut-du Cap and Pitit-arfe, with
little loss on our part —the blacks have
fuffered very heavily, and numbers of
them captured—all who have been
brought in, have either fallen an im
mediate prey to the enraged populace,
the gibbet, or the fcaffold.
" In order to the prolusion of the
country around Lemonade, the Marquis
de Rouvray assembled the dragoons and
militia, to the amount of 5 or 6co, and
marched as far as the Grand Savanna,
de Lemonade, where he established his
camp, and flopped the progress of disas
ter. He is said to have defrayed about
500 of the enemy, who approached the
boarders of his encampment.
" Mons, de Fontange, Major-Ge
neral in the King's service, with a bo
dy of malitia, and 150 regular troops,
have set bounds to the depredations be
low Limbe. Several fuccefsful attacks
have been made in the neighbourhood
of Port Margot, arid we are confidently
assured that from iz to 1500 of the ban.
did have been slain in that quarter.
ed a reladar.ee, or refufed to follow and
aflift in their designs, were cut to pieces.
" SEPT. 11.