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. fflo, the Constituent Assembly after being \
t ourageous again!! despotism, proved weak against\
the faQtous. After (hewing themselves ,1m
the departure of the King, tee, 1791, ,°
them reduced by his agents after his return ; others
were intimidated by the clamours of a club ; and
from this mats of probity and intelligence, there
proceeded only a work without folidny—, Weak
' abortion, which bore within it the feeds of its ap
proaching deftrudion.
The work of 4793, the execrable code of anar
chy, only (truck terror into France, to which it
was the presage of every crime. At length came
the Cofiftitution of the 3d year. (1795 wh *cb now
exists an longer}—for how could that maintain
itfelf, which created a legislative body which teuft
of necessity either govern, or be oppressed by the
D The Republic, in the fourth and fifth years was .
maintained by the victories of our had
particularlv by those of Buonaparte in Italy. It
was on the eve of periling in the 6th year thro
intrigues of the Hhyalills. Then the legislative
Body, milled and deceived by some of those con
fpiratori, was about to overturn the Directory. —
It was saved, however, by the 18th Frußidor ;
but in faring the Directory, the 18th Frußidor
annihilated die constitution. It did mifchief to
Society at large by the (hock which it gave to the
representative fyttem. It did to France an injury
not yet repaired, by destroying all refpedt for the
conftiturional Code, which, in this instance, had
been trampled upon with impunity. From that
moment all the difoofitions of this Code have been
either artfully eluded, or audaciously violated.—
The Executive directory fashioned their conduct
on the model of absolute power, and created con
spiracies only to exercise their authority in rt
preffing or extinguilhing them. Their odious wa
vering policy was incessantly kept in play, and by
this they contrived to precipitate into the fame a
byss not merely the actual Royalist, and the real
Terrorists, but all those who had incurred their
hatred, and whom they ranged alternately under
one or the other of those descriptions.„
It was thus that political liberty was destroyed;
representatives and citizens were arbitrarily plac
ed upon the lifts of the proscribed, at the dictates
of hatred and prejudice. It was thus, that on the
22d Floreal, the choice of the people was outrage
ously rejefted. It was thus that in contempt of
the principles of a Representative Government,
the Direftory appointed, with the members chos
en by Iciffons in the Primary Aflemblies, which fcif
fons they had themselves provoked, and with a
final! number of honest and enlightened men who
/had truly served their country, aud whom they
did not dare to reject, all those on whole servility
or imbecility they could rely for the easier fubjec
tiem of the two councils. _
It was thus that in the year 7, the Directory sent
to their Commissaries in the departments lifts of
' those who were to be elected, and money to pay
for the choice of those whom they had command
ed. It was thus, that in defyite of civil liberty,
the right of banishment was fuffered to rest with
the Directory against the Journalists, the Prlefts,
and all those who had the misfortune to displease
them. It was thus that the prisons received, kept,
and devoured a number of victims, confined in
dungeons, without knowing their accusers, and
who demanded in vain that judgment, which the
curffirtocien orders that they mould have within
twenty-four hours. It was thus that the power
of inferibing names on the lift of emigrants was
absolutely decreed to the Directory ; and that
even the name of an Ambassador was there inscrib
ed, merely because he had displeased one of our
tyrants, by refuting to crawl before him. It was
thus that, notwithstanding the laws of the Consti
tution refpe&ing the Treasury, the principles of
order, and the refpoufibility of all the branches of
its administration, have been violated, the mod
scandalous watte lias been practised to pay flatter
ers and villains, brokers and valets. It was thus
that Judges, the guarantees of property, and the
administrated elected by the people, hav^ been
unceasingly changed or removed, on the denun
ciation of knaves, or by the ambition of fools.--
It was thus that the bpveft officers were dripped
of their rank, removed fhamefully from their
places, aud configoed to misery, as a return for
the blood which they had flied in the service of
their country. It was thus that, by progressive
imports, the right of property was violated, tho'
consecrated by the Constitutional Code, always in
voked, yet always outraged. It was thus that
every year saw a bankruptcy come forward under
the title of an arrear of debt ; and that the Direct
tory were fuffered to annihilate as a power the
obligations they had cohtrafted as a party. It
was thus that the unfortunate Annuitants, were
compelled to beg io vain their subsistence at the
Sates of the Treasury, which was exhausted by
iforder and folly. It was thus that civil war was
provoked by the detestable law of hortages, which
punches the innocent for the crimes which they
could not possibly prevent, and by which the gov
ernment seemed to revenge upon the Nation its
own want of power to protest it against robbers.
It i$ by these culpable violations of 'the Conllitu
tion that the coafefffil Kings from Without, and
their Agents within our territory, have been ena
bled t 0 push the Republic to the very left degree
of diforgan zation, of misfortune, and of guilt.—
It is thus, in fine, that we are left without a Con
flitufion or a Government.
We wish for both the one and the other.—Wife
men; brave men, whole union we applaud, Sieyes
and Buonaparte—will you give us these, and when
\ you have given them, will you assure them unto
th?—if fbeh is your resolution, begin to execute
it. The whole people will (urround vou, during
your labours with power, and with refpeft. They
will reward you with their gratitude and etteem,
when those labours are brought to a close.
France wishes for something great and durable.
It is taxability that has ruined her ; the now rails
upon you for tomething fixed and fettled. ®e
does not d for royalty, for that to proscribed $
but she withes for unity of action in the power
which is to execute the laws,— She wife for a
leginative Body, free and Independent, but with
out the spirit of jealousy or of ufuipation. Si,
withes that the Refrefentatives may protest,with
out agitating the station. She wishes that they
may be peageable proteßora, not turbulent inno
vators, She wife, to fine, to gather the fruits ot
ten years of facrifice— (he withes for Liberty and
Peace•
Do what Is necessary to enfare these to France,
and jury awaits you at the end of your career.
By an arrival at New-York.^
FROM THE HAMBURGH MAILS.[
BERLIN, NOV. 16.
-Negociations for peace, under the mediation of
, OUT court, arf now the general topic ot converfa-.
• . ^ 1 ' NOT. ~
It is flill said, that negociations for peace are
carrying on, under the mediation of Prussia and
Spain. The Spanish ambassador has hid several
conferences with Baran Thuget, which ,e suppos
ed to relate to negociations. To these reports it is
added, that an armistice had already been agreed
upon between the two armies.
tion. - It is likewise said, that General Buonaparte
will arrive here, and some of our politicians have
even fixed the day of his arrival, which, they fey,
will be on the 16th of next month. Though that
report is very improbable, yet it seems to have
gave gained some strength from the llatements in
some public prints, that Buonaparte would go up
on a diplomatic million. <
HEILBkONV,NOr.S. r
On the 31st tilt. we were invaded a third time
by the French. , The brave Palatine Colonel Dei
Wreden, in concert with some Aufttian troops,
kept them off for some time, and had several en
gagements with them, after the left of which# near
Gittengen, lie wM forced to give way to superi
or force, and retreated. On the 31st of October,
in the afternoon, the French, &>ut >O,OOO in
lumbers under Generals Marquonier and Courtier,
arrived before our town, which a ita,, division
of them entered, at a time when moffof the in
halants were employed in the fields, tyd with
their vintage. Next day the greatest part of these
troops joined General Ney, whose headquarters
were then at Brackenheim, from whence he
marched up the country, into the duchy of Wir
temherg, beyond Bietigheim. Here he fell in
with the military of of Wittemberg, whidl, fr
conded by the Saecklar hussars, catraffiers, and
and Latour dragoons, was determined to make a
vigorous resistance. Several fkirmiffies took place
on the 2d infant ; hot on the 3d the attack be
came general a few miles fotith of our town, a
long the Neckar, in the neighborhood of Deafen,
when the French were repaired with the loss of
1300 prisoners, and between a and 300 men killed
and wounded. The engagement was very forte;
and the fields from Kirctem on the Neckar, unto
B-eligheim and the neighborhood of Brackenheim
and Guiglingen, were covered with the bodies
of men and horses. Latour dragoons mid: a
dreadful havoc among the French, dispersed the
enemy's infantry, and took the greatest ff of
MADRID, OCT, 23.
Two negotiators, an Aufrian and a Prutfian,
are said to have arrived here, and propo@ a batis
for a general peace. Several councils of date
have indeed been held for some time paftab Aran
juez, in presence of the prince of peace, but they
are are said to relate not so much to negociations
for peace, as to the Bate of our finances, [%-
VIENNA, NOT. 6.
The report that the French government had
made proposals for peace to our court, is still in
circulation ; and it is faiA that an armistice of 4
months had been concluded, during which period
negociations are to be carried on. Apartments
are preparing in the imperial palace for the recep
tion of the Archduke Charles, who is shortly ex
pefted here. Since the report of an afmiftice,
and of an approaching peace, has gained gr6und,
the public funds have risen five per cent; but,
from the measures which our government are tak
ing, there is no reason to hope for any change of
affairs, the warlike preparations being continued
with the utmost activity.
BERNE, ^/.'l
The marching of troops, which has continued
for several days, almost without any interruption,
gives us reason to expert some important occur
rence on the frohtiers. The enemy's forces in tlje
Grifon country are said to encreafe confider^y.
Near Bafle the Andrians are very numerous, and
in the neighborhood of Zurich they ,thr,ea§em to
cross the Rhine. General Maflena has ordered, his.
troops behind the Thar to march partly ag^ ft
Billing, partly against St. Gaul. Confiderablc bo
dies of troops are marching through Zurich, to
wards Baden and Wintenhur. The troops M Zu
rich and its neighborhood confifl mostly of grena
diers : they are to be increased to 8000 men, and
it is said that Maflena intends them for a secret ex
pedition. The fortifications bf Zurich are repair
ing with the utmost a&ivitv. Yerterday a violent
cannonade was heard near Stem.
FELDKIRCH, NQhfc
In the Grifon country, the French have pene
trated as far as Reichenan, Feld burg, and Kalden,,
dein. The regiment of Brechakwille, which made
a brave resistance, fullained some loft on its re
treat. The imperial troops have now taken
en a strong position near Mayenfoul, and quitted
Chur voluntarily. Notwithstanding that retreat,
however, the French have not yet attempted to
penetrate farther into the Grifon country, partly
on account of the extreme scarcity of provisions
in the quarter, partly on account, of me Arch
duke's formidable position near Schaffhaufen.
ASCHAFFEteBURGH,NOV.B.
Lail night,at ten o'clock, official confirmation
was received here of the victory gained by the
Austrians near Ladwigiburg. The French are
said to have had 2000 men killed. Thecommand.
er of Chamboram hussars was killed, and General
Ney is also said to havq been wounded. The
French were again attacked on their retreats by
Colonel Wrede, which was greatly impeded by
him. Ah imperial captain of cavalrf, whom the
Archduke had sent to lead the peafaets in the 0-
denwold, has marched with three thousand men
to cut off a column of the enemy, but it is not
known whether, lit has Aicce&led, Plilipfburgh js
relieved ; and, in the present situation of affairs,
no other return seems to remain even for the
French than through Manheim, where they have
only a flying Bridge. The French prisoners fay,
that the Aufirians advanced against ;hem from all
quarters, and that their army- would, have fuffer.
ed considerably more, hid not the French artille
ry been fuccefsfully employed.
RATI3BON, not. it.
On the Sth inflant, the imperial decree of rati
fication of the 31st ult. concerning the Diet of the
6th of September, granting 100 Roman months,
and the furnishing of the quintuple contingents,
was laid before the assembly of the Onpire. His
imperial majesty speaks in it of the measures of
the French government taken for the deftruftiqo
of Germany and its constitution, and calls upon
the members of the Empire, in virtue of his impe
rial dignity,- and in the name of his country , lirift
ly to fulfil all their duties as members of that bo
dy, and also to promote the organization of the
inhabitants, whose efficacy the subjects of Mentz
have so lirongly evinced.
PARIS, Nor. 8.
Fete to Buonaparte and Moreau.
The Fete given yerterday by the representatives
of the people to Buonaparte and Morean was ex
tremely brilliant. The temple of Victory (ci-de
vant the Church of St. Sulpice) where it was held,
was decorated with magnificence, ornamented
with the fiueft tapertries, and with an innumera
ble quantity of Standards taken from the different
enemies of the Republic. There were neither la
dies nor fpeftators admitted to the banquet. The
number of covers was about 750.
The President of the Council of Elders was at
the head ot the table : at the middle to the right,
the President of the Directory ; at the left, gene
ral Moreau; then the President of the Council of
500 and General Buonaparte.
The following were the toads.
>By the President of the Elders.—" To the French
Republic.”
. By the President of the 500 —" To our forces,
Land and Marine.
By the President of the Directory.—" To
'Peace.”',
By Buonaparte.—" To Union among all French
men.
By Moreau.—" To the Faithful Allies of the
Republic.”
By the Spanish Admiral Maffaredo.—" To the
Liberty of the Seas.”
Kofeiufko was present at this banquet, which
began towards fix o'clock, and was conduced
with the utmost order.
At the bottom of the Temple, and under what
was formerly the great Altar, there was an in
scription surrounded by trophies—
-1 Be united ; you ball be conquerors.
An excellent band of music. The Organs still
remain in this Church, and they were touched by
Couperin.
BALTIMORE, JAN. 28.
Capt. Salisbury, 2, days from Curracoa, informs
that the Governor of Curracoa, still countenances
rhe French ernifers out of bis port ;—that Capt.
M'Neil, of the Portsmouth, enterta,td on board
his Ihip the Govenor, and the captain of a Spanish
frigate lying there ; that capt. M. assured them,
that no veifel should enter the port, but such as he
would overhaul ; and that in case the fort should
attempt to protest prizes he would pour a broad
side on the town. The Governor assented to capt.
M'Neil, intentions.
HAMBURG, NOV. 4.
ITo day our prices for sugar begin to revive—
Good merchantable coffee may be called here i^d.
a pound. Cotton, firft quality Surinam, 64 groats,
about 3s. tod. sterling. The House of Hope, for
merly of Amsterdam, has been peculating on the
finer kinds of indigo, which has raised their price
Jo 20 per cent, more than it was in the spring.—
The Dutch market is 30 per cent, higher than ours.
By lart mail our exchange with England was 295.
but liad many symptoms of riling.
them prisoners, so that the French general of di
vilion, Ruffin, who had orders to fall on the rear
guard of the Auffriaus, was unable to comply
with them ; and in the night of the 4th be retreat
* ed precipitately through ourtown with fix pieces
ot cannon, and a limiter number of the ammuni
tion waggons. In consequence of that engage
ment, the French left our town and neighborhood
on tl>e morning of the 4th. They selected 11
young merchants as homages, but left them be
hind, though they had only received an inconsider
able part of the contribution which they had im
posed upon our town. The Latour dragoons
made a considerable booty ; and, according to
their testimony, the soldiers of Wir temberg fought
with great bravery, particularly the infantry—
Thus has the attempt of the French to penetrate
into Wirtemberg, byway of Laufen, been mollef
teftually frustrated.
The fubferibers, appointed managers of the Ci
ty association, will meet to-morrow evening at
fi&clock>t the office of the Baltimore Insurance
Company, and will continue to meet each succeed
ing evening, at the fame hour, until further notice
be given, when they will receive applications in
writing sor 1 loans on goods,or docks to be deposit
ed. The applications to describe the kind, quality
and quantity thereof.
The following are the articles on which only,
for the present, loans can be made:
United States Stock.
The flock of the different banks of Philadelphia
and Baltimore. „..
Coffee, Sugar, Cocoa, Cotton, Cochineal and
TO^mtatrfon, Robert Gilmer,.George Sears,'
Archibald Campbell, Hugh Thomson, Mark
Pringle, John Striker, William Mlfa,James A
Baltimore. Jan. 15, 1800.
;PHJL4SELPHU,34N. 24.
Gov. Mita4s°a Intemperate abuse is producing
its natural effect, disunion and turbulence in Qe
WILMINGTON, JAN, 29.
One of the most deliberate murders ever heard of
was committed on the night of the 24th inst. by
Andrew M'Beath on the body of his wife, Martha
M'Beath, near this town. 0 .
At 5 o'clock A.M- he awakened a neighboring
woman, and informed her that his wife was dead
—foe went up flairs with him, and found her dead
and bloody, with her arms tied behind her back.
An inquest was held, and the verdift of the jury
was -wilful murder.
She was stabbed in several places—her back was
scarred from her neck to her hips—and to com
plete the ad, he had tied 4 cord round her neck,
and Wrangled her! , ,
He is now in Newcastle gaol.
The Directory have ordered the embargo on
several vessels, & particularly on the John and
Richard, an American Vessel to be taken off.
On request of the Consul of die United States
the Minster of marine after having confuted with
that of the Interior charged'the Commiflary Su
perintendant of the Marine to set at liberty all A
merican prisoners detained in the Prisons of the
commune, who Ihall be claimed as natives of A
merica or as naturalized Americans. This meas
ure, founded on the hope of an approacing Treaty
of Alliance and of Commerce between the govern
ment of the United States and that of the French
Republic, isa mod happy omen for the speedy in
terchange of that' immense commerce which form
erly enriched both countries.
Domestic Intelligence.
h T -.- . frocaße^ux, wera. it.
NEW-YORK, JAN. 21.
Extrafl ofa letter from a Gentleman in Hamburg
to httrerrejpondent ^Baltimore, dated Nov. 8, '99.
', Our toft, of the 18th of Oft. gave you an ac
count of the fad and dlftrefsfnl circumstances un
der which the trade and credit of our place la
boured ; I thank God, things seem now co mend
fometliiog, at least we have Since eight days ago
no failure of any note : rel having onrfelves re
ceived large quantities of bullion fiom England,
the 45,000 dollars are now made ready for ygur
Ship ; She has been coppered, and Shall be read,
in about eight days to proceed on her voyage."
Capt. Franklin, of the febr. Lucky, from St. Se
bastians, informs us, that about 14 days before he
failed,the Ship Woodrup Sims, HodgSon, was cap
tured by the Hereux French privateer, of Bour
deaux, mounting 22 French 12 pounders, & 230
men, after a very gallant and well fought aOion,
which continued from half past to, AJit until. 2,
P. M. the greatest part of which time they were
nearly board and board. At n,(A. M. Several
of the Woodrups Sims' guns were difmouoted, but?
by the intrepidity and bravery of the crew the,
were immediately remounted ; and th prevent a
nother accident of this nature, the after trucks
were cut away.
The fuperiorfty of the privateer, in. metal as
well as in the number of men, obliged the brave
Americans to strike, after supporting the honour
of the American flag with almost unprecedented
bravery for more than 3 hours, againit one of the
fineft privateeers out of France. The Woodrup
Sims had the 2d lieut. and ; men killed, and 4 or %
5 wounded. The private# had 2 killed, and 4 ur
5 wounded. The privateer had arrived, but her
prize had not. Capt. Kelly, late of the Birming
ham Packet, and a Mr. Carter, were pafleugersin
the Woodrop Sms, both of whom particularly
distinguished themselves on the above occasion.
The Woodrup Sims was from London, bound
to Philadelphia.
FCTVOrn.
A brig from Bremen, for New- York, laden with
brandy and bale good#, was loft of <l, fontbOde
of l^ong-lfland on the tfsh ult. the body of the
captain was found (teffit day, and interred.
" The sentiments you announce, and the mo
tives which you profefs in relation to the high and
responsible cruft committed to your administra
tion, are such as have afforded fatisfaftion, and
claimed the refpeft of the Senate of Pennfv Ivanja.
With principles thus correft, and views thus
laudable, we had a momentary hope that a cor
responding condutl would have followed, and
that by a manly and noble policy, the spirit of par
ty and political difeontent, which now divides our
Bate and threatens its peace, would have been re
moved, and tranquility again restored. Under
these impressions, and with dispositions to relin
quish personal considerations when the public
good required, we were willing to forgive and if
possible to forget the language used by you in
your answers to sundry addresses on your election
as chief Magifirate. You there bellow on those
who oppose your election the most opprobrious
epithets, and ascribe to them the molt wicked de
signs. We tincerely lament, that the fame spirit
which dilates these answers has marked your of
ficial coudua. A great number of refpettable
characters have been removed from office against
whom no other blame refls than the exercise of
their rights,as freemen in opposition to your wish
es ; amongst these are a number of the moil meri
torious officers and soldiers engaged in the estab
lishment of our independence. They were lelett
ed by our patriotic predecessor, as deferring their
country's favour and gratitude. The final! re
wards bellowed have for the exercise of a right,
which their lives were risked to secure, been by a
single breath, destroyed.
" Affe&ing as these considerations are, the op.
eration which a system of this kind must have of
the principles of a republican government,has pro
duced still greater concern. Our confutation Se
cures the right of fuffrage ; and it will be to no
purpose that our laws are framed to guard against
undue influence in our elections, if fear on one
hand and hope of reward on the other, be fuffered
to govern in the exercise of this right. If oppo
sition to a fuccefsful candidate be considered a Suf
ficient around for the removal of an officer, and
zeal in 111 s favour regarded as the qualifications in
a successor, there is much reason to believe that
this evil exists.
" Whilst our oaths, our honor and our interest
impose on us the sacred duty of co-operating in
all measures tending to the interest and happiness
of our constituents, they also impel us to bear this
public testimony of our disapprobation of a meas
ure which in its consequences will be deflru&ve
and ruinous to republican principles."
[Got. McKean's Reply in our next.]
Jan. 30.
To the Editor of the Gazette of the United States.
Permit me to correct a miltatement in yester
day's Gazette, of an event, which occurred on the
evening of the 27th iuft. in which it was said an
infant was found alive in the jaws of a hog—The
following are the fads.
Two young men going up Moravian Alley, be
tween , and 8 o'clock, observed something lying ,
under a gate, between the firft and second houses
on the weft fide of the Alley, which they appre
hended was a cat ; without taking much notice
they palled on but returning the fame way a few
minutes afterwards, curiosity prompted one of
them to a nearer examination ; it was wrapped
up in a cloth, they carried it across Mulberry-itreet
to a lamp, when unwrapping the cloth, they were
at once astonished and terrified at the fight of a
dead infant (and an uncommonly fine new born
infant it was) —at a loss what hep to take they
went into a house in the neighbourhood for infor
mation, and coming back immediately, found a
hog with either the child or cloth in its mouth,
the latter it is presumed, as no marks of violence
were apparent on the infant. An inquest fat on
the body, 'whofe verdiß was, that the mother or
some other person, unknown, had been acceffary
to its death by exposing it to the inclemency of
the weather.
While it is hoped every mean may be used to
difeover the perpetrator of the diabolic a&, every
humane foul must revolt with horror on reflecting
to what a climax of didrefs and despair an unfor
tunate female mult be reduced ere foe could possibly
be guilty of so unnatural —so abotpinanle a d^dY ~
ONE OF THE INQUEST. .
Legiflattire, and enmity between the citizens. As-d
ter branding 35,000 free electors with every Scur
rilous epithet his irritated fancy could invent, he
has no claim to confidence, dignity or refpett
The Senate <if this State have properly relented
his ^bufe ; wad are determined to mete to the Go
vernor the measure he has meted to them : The
following is their answer to his Speech, at the
opening of the fellion :
“Sir,