The Columbian informer, or, Cheshire journal — Keene, N.H., 1795-03-17 00:00:00, page 2

. Feb 'fr
A bill relative to compensation to cer
tain officers employed in colfeaing the du
ti?s of Import and tonnage, was read $
third time, the blanks filled up—and the
bill pafled.
It was then moved, and fecofaded that
the house fhoald resolve into a committee
of the whole, on the report of the com
nutter, on reducing the national debt,
whie'a was done accordingly, Mr. Cobb
in the chair. The resolution was then read.
then head" years#" Mr. '<'o°, |.
troduced bis amending with fam re
mark; delivered in rather a low tote of
vci te e. After a lengthy debate, the ques
tion was called for. Ayes 70. The com
mittee rose; the House agreed to the re
port of the chairman,and ^Committee was
appointed to bring in a bill.
she report of the committee on fortifi
cations was read and ordered to be print
ed.
ON Satord *, last, the General Assem
bly of thia state adjoarrteo.
We undirftand that our Governor has
received information from the Command
ant of New Madrid ; of the murder of
C<P'. Oven, o„he Ohio, and that the
murderers have erne to this fta<e.
Feb. 4.
The bill authorizing an allowance of
drawback on part of the cargo of the fhi'
Miterprize was read 1 third time and pas
fed.
Mr. Sherboorne from the committee to
whom was referred a bill from the Senate
to amend the Poft-office law, made a re
port, which was read a firft and second
time, and referred to a committee of the
whole to-morrow.
It was then moved that two members
ihoul I be added to the felea committee to
whom were referred the memorials of the
ra?nuf^jres of cordage, of chocolate and
of paper. This was agreed ?o.
The house, on the motion of Mr. Heath
went into a committee of the whole on th
report of the fetea committee as to the
progress male in fettling the accounts o'
balances due to the old government. —
This was accordingly done, Mr. Cobb in
the chair.— she report was read.
The firft revolution in the report was
that further and more adequate provifior
ought to he made for recovering of debts
due to the United States.
PITTSBURGH, Nov. „.
O' hurfdav laft,Judge Peters an^Mr.
Rawle, the attorney for the United states
Mr. W Smith, moved to go into a
committee, on the report of the fele&
Committee, on the alterations requisite
to be male, in the duties on fnuff.
The House accordingly went into a
committee. They agreed to the report.
The Chairman reported to the House and
a committee was appointed to bring in a
bill.
The refolations were agreed to with a
mendineitts, and reported to the House
The galleries were then, at half past on<
o'clock, ordered to be cleared for read
ing of the communication from the Pref
idcat.
There was a m ? frge from the Pre*
dent with a letter from the Secretary of
An aft for erecting a Light House a
Georgetown in Soathearolina was read>
third time, the blanks filled up, and th
bill puffed.
There was read a report from the fe!e&
eommitteerelative to the falarirs and num
bar of clerks in the public offices. The
report was referred to a committee of the
whole house, and ordered to be printed.—
The house then went into a committee on
tire unfinished bafinefs of yesterday; the
amendment of Mr. S. Smith was before
them for striking out the second resolution
in the report of the fele& committee on
she means ofi reducing the national debt ;
Mr Cobb in the chair.
Mr. Tracy spoke for some time, in fa
vor of the duties on fnuff, Loaf Sugar &c
and several other gentlemen against them,
g^fe-ott'cwxm&ottxt eofr: o%>OMoootcoOTocM^eoteCTOoTOaett^^
gOomej/to J%td/&ptrt&6.
[On this fubjed the debat s became ve
ry general, and th-ir copioufiefs renders
it impossible for us to %ive them a place.]
Scute.
LEXINGTON, (K^ad,) Dec. 27.
F^. 5.
The Georgian business is of the mofl
claiming nature. If it is net put a flop
to, war, not only with the Creeks, but
with the Spaniards, is inevitable. The
ale of the Weiiern Lands of the United
States, will be totally defeated. Thus an
encreafe instead cf a reduaion of the pub
lic debt; an execution of humilities with
the moll powerful Indian Tribe, instead
of peace—and the loss of several millions
•fdOiLrr, by the inability cf the United
States, to fell their lands, will be the
fruits of the grafting and infallible fpecu
at.ons of a few individuals. An esquire
nto this business is indrfpenfab'e ; a&d if
rhofe who ought to cherish the tranquility
of the United States, and who are among
he pcal^r ga.rdiios of it# welfare and
eace, are concerned in i:, they ought tr
forfeit their Nations, and their country's
confidence.
On the gift of January laft,„e follow
ing perfohs fi^pt together in one bed, in
the town of Union, State of New-York,
viz. One grand father, one grand mother,
two fathers: two, mothers, three brothers,
two fillers, four uncles, two aunts, four
children and two confine ; and but seven
perfens in the whole.
BOSTON, March, ~
Extr&a of a Irter from a ref, enable house
in Cadiz, dated she 27th uit. to a mer
chant in Philadelphia.
“ There was fomeime ago talks of a
rapture between the Emperor of Morocco,
ind the United States ; but we are happy
0 advise you that the best harmony is like
ly to subsist between those powers. The
ALGERINES are fairly blocked in the
Straights ; and while the Portuguese,their
natural enemies, continue to guard the
Gut, as they have done constantly since
the late affair, the American flag in thfifei
seas, may be considered the fafeft tf'all!
othe^" ~
MARCH; 6. \
J NEW RELIGION^ ,
A Paris paper of the goth Nov. relates,
on the authority of are port of the Repre-.
featatives, Charlier and Pechalle, made
to ths Convention, that although sbe eiti.
for this diAria, Holed & enmiutiou
cf the per fans apprehended in this country
said to hav, been active in the late inform
region —tome were difeharged, others held
to bail, and the following named persons
sent under guard, to Philadelphia, for tri.
al, viz. John Hamilton, John Lockary,
M. Curtis, Thomas Barney, John Cobley,
W. Crawford, John Barret, James Ste
wart, Robert Porter, Caleb Mountz, John
Black, James Kerr, David Bolton, Isaac
Walker, T. Sedgwick, Esq. Joseph Scott.
About 9 o'clock on Thursday evening,
the chimney of a wooden building, in Ro
hinfon Breer, opposite the College in this
ity, took fie, wlih burning, let fire#
the house and consumed it, communica
ting the flames to the adjoining buiMiog,
where the fire was happily arretted b,
he great exertions of the city fire-men:
>ut not until it was rendered entirely ufo
efs by hooks and flames. One of the
loufrs was owned by a Mrs. Robinfon.who
veing fide, was so burnt that the expired
ion after in agony. The other was occu
pied by Mr. Fox. Much furniture was loft.
Unfortunately at the commencement ol
this fire, either from some one calling that
the fire was out, or other circamftance/he
bells flopped ringing,& many citixefts,&bf
were on the wing, retired home, by which
acans the firft house was nearly confamen
before the engines were ready so play.—
This circumstance, so unhappy for the peo
ole who have Offered, ought to operate as
. future caution.
Fee. 26.
Extras of a letter from a gentleman in Mar
tinique, to Mr. John C. Shaw, of tki)
city, received by the Jloo? Maria, Captair
Tomlinjon, in 40 days from Martinique^
" A fleet of isfail arrived eff Guafi
loupe the 3d Jan. with 5000 troops on
joard. Ten of them got into Baffaterte ;
one having on board 30,000 Hand of arms
4.00 engineers, and al the artillery, war
.iken by the Bellona frigate, and carried
into Martinique: The above 17 fail can
idling of 6 frigates and 6 armed (hips.—
Capt. Faulkner, of the Bellona was kill.
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. it.
From a Corref,o.ident.
NEW YORK.
MEW YORK, Peb. 21.
fol of Lyoni were generally pe&ffed of
the principles of justice and liberty, yet
the country people are infested with fana
ricifm. A new fed of religionists ha
fprung up in the diftria of Montbrifon.—
They are a compound of Judaifts, Chris
riins and other feds. They are remarka
ble for their extravagance ; the, quit their
honfes and fields to go to Jerusalem.
It was found necessary to take measures
I to retrain this new species of emigration.
Their assemblies have been defolved, and
they seem to merit pity rather than indig.
Alien. They were to be conduced by
one Moyfe, a notorious woman of ill fame,
who had intimate conneaions with a priest.
Aaron, Jacob and Isaac were alf)of the
party ; the better to seduce the unhappy
peasants they had given their fell a consti-
tutional form.—The, rciolved to have
neither kings nor priests. They laid the,
were about to establish the Republic of
Jefes Christ. Marriages were frequent
aio^g them, and Moyfe kad the charge
.of celebrating them.
This vagabond race was suppressed as
foun as known.
One charge again* the old committee
of Public Safety is, that during the fort,
days that Roberfpierre absented himfelf
from the Committee immediately reced
ing his fall, there were guillotined in Pa
ris, four hundred MORE perfens, than
, had ever been guillotined before in the
fame space of time.
dec. 10. All is tranquil in this city ;
we continue to progress with confidence
under the standard of the Convention, since
it is no longer governed by the factious,
and to ffrfue with ardour those Villain:
who have covered France with mife/y and
cruelty, and who yet pretend to excuse
their crimes, by faying they a&ed sander
an authority, which it is known they held
in chains ; As if there could be any pow
er in the world which had the right to per
mit the<e affaffinatione. plunderings end
obb fries of every kind, of which eur
country has been the theatre ; as if sere
could exist any authority, which had the
right, to immerse a whole people inter r
bath cf blood, (Bain de Sang) to ovenarr
he troed laws of nature, and to replrage
it, ab it were, into that Chaos, frost
whence the great governor of the enivedfe
firff drew it.
The crimes of which the members of .he
-evolutionary Committee of N nt# hav*
^cen guilty, have depopulated a conGder
ible part of the French territory ; The,
save caused to perils in the midst of tor
nents, patriot citizens and virtuous men ;
The desolated Bands of the Loire, witucfi
again* them, and hiflory will tranfciit
heir names with horror to posterity„ if
these execrablecrimes remain uapusifked,
we have only to draw a funeral veil over
.he altar of Judice, and io mourns fi
fence, wait the diffdation of the Repub
lic, and the return of servitude.
He is accused of having wick
edly, and with criminal designs,
strangely, and in every manner
prevaricated in the functions of
his office, of having leconded
□and favored the liberticide and
Hunter-revolutionary projects
"and plots of the enemies of the
people and the republic, and
of having, himfelf, conspired,
as author br accomplice, against
the interior fafety of the Rate,
and the French people—of hav
ing consequently aimed at the
dissolution of the National Re
presentation, the deftrudtion of|
the Republican government, and
the re-eftabliihment of royalty
—of having fought, by murder
and terror, to produce an arm
Antoine-Quentin-Fouquier-
Tainville, aged 47 years, born!
at Herouan, district of St. Ouen^
tin, Ex-Procureur at the Chate
let, Ex-public Accuser at the
Revolutionary Tribunal in Par
is, has appeared before his judg
es.
REVOLUTIONARY TRIBUNALS
DECEMBER 18.
March, 7.
Tranflaged for the Centmel.
PARIS, Dec. 6.
ing of the citizens, one against
the other,and excite a civil war.
He is accused of having caus
ed to be condemned and execute
ed many perlons, without pre
senting an a& of accusation a
gainst them,or observing in their
favor any formalities, ordered
by the law.
In many cases he substituted
one perlon for another, so that
persons who were never tried
or condemned, were yet put to
death, and many who were con
demned, are now at liberty.
One article of the accusation
mentioned a citizen, whom he
condemned and executed for
writing to him to demand his
liberty. It appeared to Fouqui
er, that the petitioner was in
haste, and that he ought to be
fatisfied. Thus lie amuled him
felf with misery and by a refine
ment of cruelty, sent this vic
tim to the fcaffold, with a cart
full of assassins, and habited like
them in a red Ihirt, though he
never had been charged with a
ny such crime.
Having Several times order
ed one of the Sergeants of the
hall to take out of prison for
trial, a man whom he named,
and being told by the sergeant,
that there were several of the
fame name in the fame prison,
he answered, " then bring them
all." They were accordingly
all brought out, condemned and
executed, without any,accufa
tion against cither of them.
A Secretary of the tribune de
clared, that he one day, saw
Fouquier Tainvillc, int e% b
by with the Jurors, Thc j were
puffing jokes on the £4%, e
and the guillotined. F quier
said, so many a day, th^ will
give us from four to fix : hil
- each decade, andthe Jurors
applauded.
After the affair of Dar.ton,Ca
mille des Moulins, and the rest,
began the custom of arraigning
sixty prisoners at once, but it
was not fully adopted, until Ro
berfpierre,and his partilans tho'g
proper no longer to driguife
their horrible intentions. At
that epoch Fouquier caused to
be conftrufted all round the ball
a number of benches, rifing~on|Q
above the other, like the gallery
of a theatre, up to the cornice
of the ceiling, so as to receive
a 'greater number of vi&rms,
at a time. They were usually
[taken without diftindion from
all the prisons, and the number
commonly tried and condemned
at a time, was, from 60 td 70.
The evening before, or the
'morning of the trial the a& of
accufatien given to some of the
prisoners ; it was often never
lignified to them at all, no wit
ness questioned for, or apinftA
and no official defender allowed
them./
Often, for want of a reiaim,
some innocent fpeftatir was
seized in the hall,placed instant
ly among the accused ! fad con
demned !/
After they had fprtad the re
port, that an attempt had been
made to assassinate Roberipierre ,
and Cdllot d' Herbois,they pick
ed up about 80 perlons for trial*