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de Ctarejpondnct of tle French Republic
^th Foreign hat ions,
i iS. The Flench people is the friend and
Wural alt) of every free people. . ,
j 19. It does not interfere in the govern
’rent of other nation . I c does not foffer Q
<her nations to interfere in its own.
120. It gives an afylutn to foreigners, baii
ifhed from their country for the cause of li
berty ;
It refufrs it to tyrants.
121. It dees not make peace with an ene*
any, "vbar'cccuptt s its territories.
Os the gvordnlee of rights,,
522 The Coniliiu ion guarantees to all the
French, equality, liberty, fafeiy, property,the
Public debt, the free exercise of worthip, of
common indrudior, public fuccours, the ic
'd. finate liberty of the Press, the righr of pe
tition, the right of meeting in popular focie.
ties ’ he enjoyment cf all the righs of man.
125. The French Republic honors loyalty,
‘courage, age, filial pietv, misfortune, -It puts
the deposit of its cor.ttituuon under the guard
or all the virtues.
124. The declaration of the rights and the
coriLturicnal aft are engraven on tables in
the hall of the Leg dative body, and in the
public fquarcs.
(Signed) Collet d’Herbois, Prfdtntt
Durand-Mailjane, 1
Ducos, I
• heptanes.
Ch. de la ClO x,
Goffu i n,
P. A. Laloy.
Foreign Affairs.
ENGLAND.
tokooM, Q ANTERRE, the brewer, has
Ju^E2o.O been denounced by the Marat
iden. In his mil rary command, he is to be
( c l 'ceded by Henriot,who pointed the cannon
egaind thb Conventtdbon the 31st of May ;
for w hich rft of m’ghty valour he has been
rewarded by the office of commander in chief
cfrfe national guards.
Weflerman has displayed much ze^L cour
age and (kill, in his operations against those
uho are termed Rebels—lt is a pity f°ch ta
tents were not employed in a better cause.
THE ROrAL i RJSONERS.
The present Ufarpers of France, to 611 up
the measures of their enormous iniquities,
have lately ordered theDsuphin from the fem
p'eihatliis Royal Highrefs might be more
immediately, tinder their diabolical jnfpefticn
— Itisimpcffible todefcribe the agohy of the
Queen,when her beloved Son^the dear image
ct her murdered hufoind, was torn from her
rffeftionate embrace! 1
Her majesty, in thrfe trying moments is
said to have emphatically exclaimed—“ And
m< if ’be partner of my forrbws be taken from
me ? Mutt my innocent child also yield up
his tender throat ’—Remember, boy, thot
i-hou art a King I”
Ibe Dauphin was then (on the 4 h inst.
forced Font the temp'e, and committed to the
<arc cf citizen Simon—We bread the confe
o’jerce.
Marat', as a prelude to the intended tragedy
zddreffrd a letter to the Convention during
their fit ing of the 6th rs July inftant,defiring
that a reward might be ottered for the heads
of Hl the Capet family I I ’
B »rere infilled on Marat’s perfohal appear
ance, if he had any thing important to pre-pofe
cr communica'c-
FRANCE.
DECLARATION °f the FRENCH,
Afimfled under the command of General^ afton,
in the Departments of Fendee, Maine, Loire,
end Lrire Inferretire, ,
Denounced by the Assembly, entitling it*
feff tee National Convention of Fiance, its
' Traitors to opr Country, and rebels to its
Laws, we ought, as bur dtry, to ceclare to
1,11 loyal Frenchmen, and all tH* loyali^s at
Europe, the motives which hr-Veihitherto di
rc«rd bur conduft, the prihcip’es which frail
fry the futute regulate it.
Wien firft we assembled in February last,
in the defence of our lives, of our individual
fafety, of our religior, of our liberty, and of
o, r property, the gre test of crimes was com*
<njtud — the head of Louis XVL was brought
*0 the fcaffold.
Fromchat time, nothing coo a be expected
from the r.ew order of things that srofe up in
France, under the n a th4 of Republic, but
C^nfr^on, robberies, and anarchy, every day
eave birth to a new fadion ; and if thtfe rob
bers fomedmes appeared divided among
in opinion .nd iM.reß, open two
principal points the, terminated tbeir differ-
Lee »’». niorp.tion end pill.gwgof propdr.
t ., maffacreing and imprisoning good Cn -
who reMed being .wtnphce. t« theit
more than three pear, the rigfita of
n.-iors and property have undergone tn
F.,«e «»»««>•• “'“’P" ’ v “ ,le ““ d
• ed us from the free exercise of the religion cf
cur fore fathers. Bur, there remained to vs
t a King ij and though l.e was stripped of that
part 0/ his authority so necessary for the
main raining a great monarchy, we were still
in hopes that the French people would jet
acknowledge their true interests, and that or
cer would be re-efablifred withetit convul
ttons, and without violence.
We were deprived of this Taft hope when
we saw our fellow citizens, truly groaning
under the yoke of a (mall number of factions,
but making fro effort to liberate themselves ;
ftrock with corillernation at viewing our
king dragged to rs fe place of "execution ; but
keeping fiience through tenor,and not daring
to arm ourselves to reicue him from the clutch
es of his executioners.
Under such oitemmas.whrr were loyal fub
jefts to do ’ either accomplices or viftims
was to be our portico ; but we would be nei
ther the or.eor the o her ; we have assembled,
we have armed ourfelves,and hitherto Heaven
has crowned our efforts with success.
We are rot the aggressors ; our intenticns
are only to defend our perlons and property ;
As Men, we have the right to resist oppref
fioni as possessors of property, we oppose its
devaflation ; as Frenchmen, we will have a
King; as Christians, we will have the reli
gion of our fathers ; as Citizens, we will
have fixed laws, under cover of which we
may again find peace. In fine,we are weary
of being the sport and viftims of the fac
tious.
This is neither the. time nor place to de
claim on political opinions*e have not the
smallest pretension to govern France. Indivi
dual fafety, properry, liberty of religious
worfrip, and a King, are what we demand ;
for that it is we contend / ard we will not
disarm till we have obtained them.
We invite all peopfr. whatever mry be
their political or refigicus opinions, to uni e
themleives quickly to us ; it is their most
prefling interest ; for every man who is not a
robber is on our fide; if any citizen has not
a tend property to defend, all have at least
their personal property (and pcrfonal liberty
is framefully violated by our enemies,) all
are enjoying in peace the fruit of their labour
and induflry, all are interelted in living se
curely at home, and hare their houses for an
asylum—This is what we demand for our
fellow citizens, as well as for ourselves.
It is the interest of all the powers of Eu
rope te sustain and protest us ; for our ene
mies are such as wifred to overthrow every
King and every Thione.
It is the interest ts all people to fend us
help ; for our enemies wifred (o disturb the
ptace and overturn the laws of all people*
Our enemies unmercifully punifr with
death those of us they make prisoners of war.
We declare, before all Europe and France,
that we have not used, and we will not use, in
this refpeft, death for death. The cause
which we defend is that ol joftice and human
ity ; and we will never difronour it by afts
of barbarity. They :hreaten to crufr us by
number ; and the faftious announce,that they
will attack us with all the forces they can a(-
femble. We await them determined, for we
have on our fide our cdorage, and the justice
cf out cause. We have the God cf armies,
who will fight for us ; the God of Clovis and
of St. Louis, who did not permit formerly
the French monarchy to be overthrown, and
who miraculously fuflained the throne of our
kings almost destroyed under Charles V. un
der Charles VIL and under Henry IV.
At last, if, by one of those ftrekes of Provi
dence, which the human mind can neithercal
culate nor forefee, we are overcome in the de
fence of a cause so just, we frail at least have
the glory of dying, in fighting for our God,
for our King, and for cur Country-—thousands
will arm themfelvCs sooner or later to avenge
us ; for the French people will at last be wea.
ry of their heavy yoke of anarchy ; and even
our defeat itfelf will serve to batten the fall of
out tyrants. Befidfes, let them not believe is
so weak as we are said to be at the Bar, and
at the tribune of their Assembly, where they
place us between viftory and punifrment ; for
they are al*lys strong, who have no other al
terna.ive but to corquer or die.
^Signed) GASTON,
Fer myfelf and my brave
fellow soldiers.
: General Qjirt«r?,neAr 1
Fontenay la Comte >
’2sth May, 1793. J
I july 16. There is likely to arise a very
1 serious queition between this country an< l A
t, mC'ici, by the undiferimihating effefts of our
’ impress. Protections are granted to Ameri
. can sailors upon affidavit of the Captain, that
; they are natives of the United States, fn ma
» fry inltences, however, Ameriw«s have been
. detaioed>frffon<hi even after a habeas cote
. pus was issued for bringing I ham-.before •
. judge'. / ' . , ~ .
Two Americafrl were prfeffed * month ago
at Wapping. The Captain with whom
f they had failed had made affidavit before the
i Loid Mayor, of their being natives cf the
* United Ste'es, and proteftion bad be^n gr*«r
ed them. An habeas corpus was granted t*y
Sir Nafr Grofe, three days after, to bring
their bodies before him, to afeertain the faft
of their being Americans or not, but the writ
ha’S not been obeyed, and they are still kept
on board. Affidavits of theie fafts have been
transmitted to America ; and their cases cf
falfe imprisonment is t® be brought, in the
mean time, before a jury.
There is something very Angular in this
fort of proteftion from being impressed, .that
are now granted to the American iLmrn of
the American ships which trade to the port of
London. 7he writer of this paragraph was a
tew days since aboard an Ame<ican vtflel cow
lying in the river, ard was told by the chief
mate, that his pretefton (ihovgh he has a <er
tific; te frem the American Secretary o? State,
declaring that he is a native of that ccuhtry)
did net pretext him in any ether place then
the yeffel of which he Uas aboard, and thft
he was obliged to fend for his tairor to mea
sure him for clothes aboard, because he was
in danger of being pressed if he came to Tow.
er-Hill; and yet this mate has property to
the amount of many thousand pounds, and
will probably be appointed to the Command
of a yefftlin lels than 6 months.
E^UjLiTr in the CHURCH.
A Right Rev. Bifliopi we are told, lately
gave a dinner at his house in London, to a
large circle of Peers and Commoners ; where
every course was served up to his Lorfrip’s
guests on silver. And the General Evening
Poll of the 12th uh. contains the humble pe
tiotis of a poor Curate (the Rev. William
L’tfkey of Trevalca in Cornwall) praying re
lief for himfelf and his starving family, in the
following plhin but pathetic terms ;
” To the Clergy and opulent Laity ol thte
kingdom. Your pttilioner.the Rev. William
Lafkey, ofTrtValca in Cornwall, humbly
freweth, that through extreme neceflity, he is
obliged to make ihis application to the hene
vulenr, in order to extricate himlelf and nu
merous family from their continual and urg
ent distresses. His Wife was la ely brought
to bed of Tier 1 sth child, and having no prof
peft of preferment, or the least pecuniary aid
from any relation, and his living being pat
under ftqueftration by his principal creditor,
cannot provide neccffary provision and cloth,
ing for his family. Makes every pcflTbleex
eraon towards a maintenance, serving two
parifres, several miles distant, and travelling
on foot every Sunday, frequently through rain
and snow to perform his duty, and on his re
turn wet and weary, finds his house deftituie
. of every comfortable refrefrment.
How happy would one of these Blfrop’s
silver difres make this poor roan and his fa
mily 1 •<
Sir James Murray gives to John Bull the
consoling information that the capture ofCocde
is a conquest of the utmeft importance,becaufe
“It facilitates any future operation. The
profpeft of future operations iwheld out to an
exhausted country as a pleasure. Conde is, it
Teems, of no ether value than as it opens the
way to other places. The fame thing will be
said of Valenciennes, and of Lisle—is the pre
sent campaign foall be long enough to get so
far ; and when these to^ns are taken, the
march of the combined armies is to com
mence-
Preparations for rhe next campaign are al
ready determined oq. The War Office has
given notice that as soon as the other regiments
from which draughts has bten made, foall be
completed, new regiments will be railed, and
they have fortunately received a number of
offers. Titey do net expeft to get them, as
heretofore, from the Highlands of Scotland,
The wildernels'frf the prcfent day, is a manu.
fafturing town.
The condufton of the paper, fuppoited
jointly by public money and official treache
ry, blunder sometimes on the truth. They
yeflerday told us that 8000 Hessians bad arrte
ved to fill up the gaps. By which we are
given to understand that the lives of 8000 of
our fellow creatures have been already facri
ficed in jhe ditches.
NATIONAL CONVENTION.
7* uefday, "June 4.
A band cf blacks ot both lextfs, amidst the
found of martial music, and tfcoried by a
great roob of Parisians, came into the hall to
return thanks to the i«\g’flaws,for having fai
fed them to the rank of men
The President gave the fraternal kifr to «n
old Negrete, 114 years of age, and mother <o
n children. After which foe was refpeftlully
conduced to an arm chair, and ieated by the
fide of the Piefideot, amidst Ue loudest burfta
of apphufe.
A Late London paper has the following pa.
ragrah :- a »“ Among the daffies of Paternoster.
Row, which are reprinted fat America, and
never heard of in this country, are two with
cunoua iMei^Tbomds TayloPs ^dcob's aortf^
ling ’with God' ** VtnHing s Th ngs
•worth thinking oni” What are these titles
to « Hooks and Eyes fbk Selievers Bretches”
—or, *• A spiritual Boofl to heavy moulded
Chrifliam V < *•* 1 ‘ '
r 4 'r' ',; idr a j *’ ■ i - i X* '*: 4 fa'
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American Intelligence. ■
MARYLAND.
Baltimore, A Correfponoent inform* that
sept. 9. XX the Cap.ain, Lieutenants. ■
Surgeon, &c. of the privateer Sans Colette, ’■
lately cap ured by the Orion 74 gun Britifrfhip, ■
are confined on board the laid foip, in an iron '■
cage, which modern Writers term a •war jacket, fl
So much for privateering ’ It is the ardeuc de- fl
fire of every true American, that all the crews fl
of the New. Providence pirater, & Btidfo plun
derers of every delcriptioo, may meet wiih a ■
similar fate.
VIRGINIA.
WINCHESTER, SEPT. 2.
Extract cf a letterjrtm a cot rejpendent uf’vtrati^
ts, iO\sbe td.tur hereef, ca ts German-Creek s si
Territory South of the Ohio, Aug. 16,1793. ■
O.i tre 4th inst. Col Daugherty, of' ■
Jefferfon county, whh 180 men, crcffed the
Tennefie, to the valley Indian towns, killed 9
fellows and 2 squaws, took and brought in 7
ptifoners, burnt 20 towns and villages, and de- ,1
ftroyed vast quantities of vegetables. The I
whites had 5 men wounded. The inhabitants I
on the frontiers are in close forts, expeftinga
visit from the Indian!, when the volunteers
are tired of harraffing them. Indeed the fpinc
of volunteering seems to be on the decline ; on
ly 40 men paraded on a signal for an expedi
tion, a tew days ago ; though 1 think a large
company might be raised, under the fanftion of
government; and it is abfoluttly necessary to
give them a severe flogging, in order to bring
them to a sense of their duty, and teath them to
pay some refptft to treaties.”
PENNSYLVANIA.
PHILADELPHIA, SEPT, fl.
DEPARTMENT of STATE.
I HEREBY Certify,that 1 have received offi *
eial Eommuoicadcn of a Decree of the Nation
al Convention of Fiance, whereof the follow
ing is a trsnflation :—
“ Decree of the National Convention of th®
23d of May, which declares that the vessels of
the United States are not comprehended in
rhe purvieu Os the decree of the 9th ct May,
“ The National Convention, after having
heard the report of i.s commitie of public (afe
ty, wishing to maintain the union eftablifocd
between the French Republic and the United
States of America, decrees that the veffeL of
the United States are not comprehended in [Zw
difpof ions~\ the purvieu ol the decree of the 9th
of May, conformably to the 16th article of the
treaty executed the 1 sth of February, 1778.
A true copy : .
Le BRUN;
Given under my hand, this 9th day of Sep
tember, 1793-
TH. JEFFERSON.
As it may be fatislaftory to the citizens, to
be informed what number of persons have been
uken eff by the prevailing diforder.be pleased
to inform them, that from returns which have
been made to me, which I confider pretty ac
curate, from the firft death which happened to
the second inst. inclusive, the amounts does
not exceed one hundred and forty.
se ptember. 13. On Fridav last, the 6«h
instant, departed ■ his life, Doftor James Hutch
inson, in the 41st year of his age—This gentle
man is one among rhe many mournful viftims
who have.fallen a prey to the prefenc malig
nant fever raging in this city.
NEW-YORK.
Alb a nY, Sept. 9. Friday afternoon ar
rived in this city, from their miflion to the
Wcftern Country, the Hon. Beverly Ran
dolph and Timothy Pickering, Efquiret,
two of the Commiflioners ot the United States,
appointed to treat with the hoflile Indiana ; and
on Saturday they proceeded on their return tn
the feat of Government.- Gen. Lincoln, the
other Commifiioner, is on his return by water;
We are lorry to learn, th;t the Commiflion
ers have not succeeded in their attempt to makn
peace with the Indians : Who, we under
hand; infilled that the river Ohio foould be the
boundary line between them Ind ihe United
States ; which, considering the large purihifea
of lands; made cf them at public and solemn
treaties by the United States, and the extenfi«e
fettlemencs by ouf citizens, on the N. W. nf
that river, was obvioufty not admiffib'e. The
war of pourfe mutt continue until the lavagee
aie brought to re«lon.
We at tee fame time have gocd reslce te
believe that the Six Nations will continue ii| *
fr cndfti'p with the United States.
new YORK, Sept. 16. Lift Friday, the
court of Oyertnd Terminer held for this State
in Wefti’Chefter county—psffed lentetce of
death on Jabw Ryar, foi* the murder of If^ac
Snub, late depn y Sheriff, in said county.-"--
He i* to be executed on the second of October
next. ; ■
11 Information by • gentletmn from Philadel
phia. Friday morning the fever ftillcontinued
wi h. great violence ; About one hundred were
buried cm Thurf<hy. Thia gentleman faya, he [
rode from one end of ihe town tb thb othet on