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ANSWER
To the Proclamation of Cobourg, by
Dubois Debais, Reprefantatiwe of
the People, dated Maubeuge, July 24.
YOU fay, that you rake the pof
fefiion of the city, fortrefs, and dif
tridt of Conde, which have submitted
to the power of your Emperor and
King, by the brave troops which you
command.
This imposture is, indeed, worthy
-of a Have, and a vile supporter of
defporifm ; for it is not your valour
which has put you in poflelfion of it,
you owe it to the monster Custine,
who prevented the supplying it ; if
you had no other afliftance than your
courage, your facellites would never
have foiled that place; you may
convince yourfelf of it, by the hun
ger which thole brave Republicans
who have defended it, have fuffered
so long before they submitted.
You speak of maintaining the se
curity of property, and you violate
the molt essential and' sacred of all,
by disallowing clubs, and subjugating
even their thoughts ; for men who
know the price, and are sensible of
' their own dignity, there exists no pro
jnerty without that ; thus the order
*nd public tranquility which you pro
mise at that price, are no more, pro-*
perly speaking, than the dark and cru
el repafe of slavery : Already the un
happy inhabitants of Conde hear a
round them the frightful found of,
chains, which you prepare for ;hem ;
f HE city, fortrefs, and dlltridt
j|_ of Gonde having been obliged,
by the brave troops whit h 1
have rhe honour to command, to
submit to the Emperor and King, I
declare, by the prcfent proclamation,
that f take pofftfiion of it in the
name of his Imperial and Royal Ma
jefty,and that I grant to all the peace
aole inhabitants of the conquered
country,every security and protection;
F deciare further, that I will employ
the authority with which I am inven
ted, in virtue of the right of conquest,
in maintaining the public order, and
the security of perlons and property ;
and wilhing to take the molt efficaci
ous. measures, to attain those impor
tant objeds, f declare also, that I
exped that all clubs or afiemblies,
not authorized, whatever they may
be, (hould diflblve immediately ; be
ing in the firm resolution, to cause
them to be diflblved or repressed, by
every means in my power, and to
cause to be punished severely, milita
rily, and exemplarily, all those who
hold those afiemblies or clubs in their
boules, those who excite them, and
those who assist at them ; —thofe
who, by word or adion, insult or
injure any person whatever, and in
one word, all those who, in any man
ner whatever, disturb the public or
der or tranquility.
Os Saxe Cobourg, an his entry into
the City of Conde.
FKA NCE.
NATIONAL convention.
Late fl European Intelligence.
Given at the Head Quarters at Herin,
July 23, 1793.
Volume VIII.]
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PROCLAMATION
august 24.
Px.tr aft of a letter from the Royalijl Ar
my, dated Angers, July 29.
“ At length 1 have the pleafu^:
of communicating to you the mod
pleasing events. We have fought
several days successively, and the ac
tion of the 18th completed our joy
and gratitude towards the Supreme
Being. The Christian and Loyal
Army has entirely destroyed that of
the Athiefts. They have had fix
thousand killed, near the fame num
ber wounded, and three thousand
made prisoners. The remainder are
so dispersed, that they will not appear
again. All their artillery ammuniti
on,waggons, baggage and provisions,
are in our possession.
“ God has blessed us with a com
plete victory.-—His aid also manifef
ted itfelf towards us on the 24th in
stant. We had heard that the bridge
of Ce, was guarded by four thousand
men, we in consequence approached
within a league of it on the 23d, and
the next day at three in the morning,
we ranged our fmali army in order of
battle to attack it at day break.
“ The enemy fuffered us to ap
proach within cannon (hot, and then
difeharged twelve pieces at us.—We
immediately cried out, the sword of
God, and Louis his follower, and rufb
ed like lions on the four thousand
men, put them almost all to the sword,
and took all their artillery.—-There,
on the bridge dyed with the blood
of enemies of God, we made the air
itfound with the praises of the Lord
“whose exterminating angel undoubt
edly marches before us.”
“ After this last victory we enter?
but under their grievous burdens,
they preserve free spirits and their un
happy brethren will not long fufrer
them to support the odious yoke
which they at present groan under.
Behold your blind satellites (truck
down before the wails of Valenciennes ;
fee the brave Republicans of that city
brave the thunder, and despise innu
merable hords of brigands, which
come from all parrs of the land of
fiaves, to conquer them ; you will
loon learn from them, what depen
dence you can have on your courage
and what you ought to expert, from
the invincible courage of freemen ;
dare to advance further in this land
of liberty, and your deftruCtion is
certain •, an indignant people will rife
together, cruffi by their weight alone,
your whole army of fiaves, and in
their rage, as lawful as unextinguifh
able, purge the land of tyrants, and
all their vile supporters j notwithstan
ding your despicable commands, the
French nation will preserve their lib
erties, and give to the whole world
an example of what a people can do,
who are resolved to be free.
Glory, Cobourg, in your conquest,
which has neithcoft you a grain of
powder, nor the least particle of blood;
you owe it to treason, and you ascribe
it to valour ; the only conquest, which
you and your band of satellites have
a right to call your own, is the grave 5
every day you fathom its depth ; each
day you offer up victims, who are
devoured by it, and in proportion as
our advance upon the French terri
tory, you approach it •, tremble I and
be convinced, that such will be the
end of your sanguinary and impudent
efforts. Bravo 1 M. Debais.
TUESDAY, November 5, 1793.
IRELAND.
Dublin, aug. 9. A more affeCling
picture of human misery was never
exhibited, than that which was drawn
by Mr. Claud Beresford, some
daysfm<e in the house of commons.
Mc-Beresford' went himfelf through
the liberty, in order to afeertain whe
ther the alledged diftreffesof the ma
nufactures were real—and he confef
fed that he found it dreadfully ver
ified. He stated, that in some streets
there were upwards of seventy fami
lies in the last stages of disease-—ari
sing fiom famine 1 and that several
thousands of those unhappy people
were kept alive with the bread of
charity ! Yet have we not heard of
any body of men in the higher, mid
dle, or lower ranks of life, who have
been induced by this unexampled
wretchedness of their countrymen
and fellow creatures, to resolve on
wearing only the manufactures of
their country. Where alas ! is fled
that spirit which some years fl nee.
stepped forward and gave such effici
ent relief to the industrious artizen in
times of similar distress, by confining
the general consumption of wearables
to the native manufacturers Is hu
manity, as well as patriotism, extinCi;
and (hall there be found among us
to approach that city on the 4th of
August, in order to give the alarm
•on that lide, but to undertake nothing
until we (hall be ready ourselves to
make the attack on the other fide.—
Bravo !
ail the ProvinceMft /bijou. We have
just dispatched a Courier to order
the column of the Royal Army, Ra
tioned beyond* the bridges of Nantz,
London, aug. 20. It was a part
of the beneficent project of the war,
to starve about twenty five millions
of people, and a cordon was drawn
round all France Er this purpose.
We entered into treaties for the pur
pose of engaging all the Princes of
Europe to join rhe confederacy, and
our ambafladors have bullied such of
the Princes as have had the infamy
to secure to their (objects the bless
ings of peace. What effects has this
wile and generous measure produced
in France 8 It has taught them repub
lican manners •, it has reduced them
to find fubfticutts for every article of
foreign produce and manufacture ;
it has taken from our merchants,
not merely for the time, but probably
for ever, so many millions of custom
ers ; and it has united all hearts a
gainst the confederated Kings, whose
fouls could entertain so horrid a pro
jech
The patriots of France have done
more than all this ; they have a
bridged even their common indul
gencies. They instituted in Paris,
which quickly spread every where,
tin caremepolit i^ue, a political lent,
which is to conclude on the toch of
August, and during which they have
rigidly abstained from fle(h meat,
that the armies in motion, who wan
ted it more than the citizens at home,
might be effedually iupplied. Such
is the impulsion that the cause of
liberty gives to a nation, whose levity
we have been accustomed to revile.
ed /Ingers, where the white flag is
flying on all sides, as well as almost
ENGLAND.
no vestiges of private feeling, as there
certainly are none of public fplrit ?
SCOTLAND.
EDINBURGH, AUG, IJ,’-
Pe tit ion far Peace to the King.
MAY IT PLEASE YOUR MAJESTY,
WE your Majeftv’s meft dutiful
and affidtionate fubjeds, the Mer
chants, Manufacturers, Traders, and
otiier Inhabitants of Paifiey and its
Neighbourhood, humbly beg leave to
approach your Majesty in the prefenc
awful and alarming crisis, to make
known to your Majesty the multipli
ed grievances under which we labour
—that we are at this moment lan
guifning beneath the most heavy and
distressing calamity, the terrible con
sequences of which if not speedily re
medied, no human comprehension
can calculate, or pretend tofet bounds
to. We fee with the deepest concern
our trade ruined—public credit ex
hausted—every arricle of subsistence
raised to an extravagant, and almost
unprecedented price; and our com
merce and manufactures, by which
alone there could exist a possibility of
supporting such accumulated hard
(hips, shaken and funk to wretched
ness, while our country is bereaved of
its blood, treasure and provisions, to
feed and nourish the very evil that
threatens us to complete its universal
ruin. Emigrations from every quar
ter are daily taking place, and nothing
deters vast numbers from abandoning
their native country forever, but want
of means to carry them hence Our
long and expensive pursuits after those
improvements, by which our man
ufactures had attained to such un
rivalled perfection, have now been
wafted in vain—thousands of indus
trious individuals, with the helpless
families, deprived of every means of
subsistence, and yeduced to the most
pitiable and forlorn fituation,'are pin
ing in hopeless poverty, without'the
most distant profpeCt of relief from
the Jaft approaching horrors of abfo
,lute want.
• Fully convinced that the present
unhappy and ruinous war is the source
of all these unsupportable miseries-—
that nothing but a speedy re-eftab
lilhment of peace can ever restore our
manufactures to the lace prosperous
and flourifliing situation from which
they were so unhappily precipitated,
and when the foie avowed purpose
for which, on our part, hostilities were
commenced, is now fully accompjiffi
ed, when our enemies are driven from
the dominions of your Majesty’s ally ;
our manufactures and prosperity ver
ging on ruin, and when nothing but
a long, dismal period of bloodlhed,
desolation and expense, presents infelf
tp our view, we cannot look forward
without the utmost horror and alarm
< to the continuance of such dangerous
and deftruClive measures—measures,
.we humbly apprehend, calculated
only to swell the tide of human
slaughter, to fhuc up every refburce
of trade and commerce, to weaken
and diflblve that mutual affeCtion,
which alone can bind the fubjeCt to
his sovereign, and to hurry to the
most dreadful extremes, a starving
and desperate people. '
We, therefore, your Majesty most
faithful fubjeCts, deeply affected with
these alarming profpeCts, and having
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