The American herald of liberty — Exeter, N.H., 1794-02-25 00:00:00, page 2

B^raß from French Papers, brought by the
French Corvette, the Brutus, from BreK
and the (hip Potomack Planter, Capt.
t)orfet, from Bordeaux, arrived at Nor
folk.
national Convention, nov. 7
A DEPUTATION from the Popular
Societies of Versailles was admitted
to the bar—The Members competing this
deputationwerfi dressed in pontifical robes.
They informed the Convention that the
Bifhcp of Department of Seine and O es,
• was dead. “ Will you, Legislators fuffer
his Bishopric to be filled ? Will you, who
have destroyed a throne preserve the c?no
pv—will you cherifti the crozier ? The
Citizen and the Legislator should acknow
ledge no other worlhip bat of Liberty-no
other Altars but those of the Republic—
no other Priests bat Magiflrates. Legifla
wra! imitate the Jcws-*def«nd from the
the Sound, itruck on a rock called
rhe Shovel, where ihe lay about
half an hour, but with the afiift
ance of boats from the ships in
the Sound, and ftom the Dock
yard, (he was again got off, with
out any damage ; Ihe is going up
Hamoaze.
This day at noon, arrived here,
the Vanguard, of 74 guns, Capt.
Stanhope, fiom Earl Howe’s
fleet: She loft the fleet on Tuefday
night the i^h ult, during the
chair after the French squadron ;
and on Wednesday morning the
only foips of the fleet that were in
fight, were the Phenix, Latona,
Pheton* and two other frigates :
and far to windward of them, the
Bcllerophon, of 74 guns, was very
near four fail of the enemy’s line
of battle ships, from which foe was
crouding fail to get off; foe soon
after joined the Vanguard and
frigates.
Those foips, at day break, were
very near the French coast, and
finding they had no chance of be
ing reinforced by any other of
Lord Howe’s fleet, thought it
moll adviieable to make fail from
the enemy’s ships, then to wind
ward, being of very inferior force
to them ; two days after the Van
guard and others fell in with a
French frigate from Brest, called
the Blonde, of 24 guns, which .
they captured and sent into Fal
mouth.
Spanifo caflle. The Algerines
continuing the perfuir, force foots
were fired from the foore, which,
obliged them to stand to sea. la
vailed myfelf of the opportunity
to make this port. The enemy,
however, kept in fight the whole
time, and on my entering this bay,
followed me and came to anchor
along fide of my vessel. There )
are now two others in the bay, and
seven cruizing from Cape Spartel
to Lifoon. They have taken
several American velfeh, and 1
much fear will prevent the few
that remain from ever cro fling
the Atlantic.
When at Malaga, 1 learned
that the Spaniards had, in conse
quence of these drafts made from
their army in RoufiHon to Toulon,
so reduced thcir force in that pro
vince that the Republican troops
had gained several important ad-
vantages.”
The Vanguard, in coming into
By Friday s MaiL
Plymouth, dec. 3.
FRANCE.
Baffetelrre, fait. 1.
We are informed, from good authority,
that an American 'privateer manned and
commanded by Americans, was to have fail
ed the Ift inst. from Gaudeloupe to cruize
against the English. The crew of the a
bove privateer got naturalized and admitted
French citizens.
The example of the above vessel will, we
apprehend, be followed by many Ameriam
in Tort Lewis, captured by the allied ar ms,
there were found, 112 feces of ordnance,
1 5 waggons, and four theufand prisoners.
The combined forces was commanded by Gen,
WUtIMStR '
The King of Spain hat ordered the ra'Jing
of 60,000 men to reinforce his army : He has
aljo taken fix thoufond S'wi/s into his service,
4 regiments of which he is to keep in peace,
THE ROfALISTS
Os La Vendee, who have so frequently
been said to be exterminated, have marched
in two columns, crojfed La Loire, and frong
ly attacked Dol, Avancees, St. Maloes, dhd
Granville. Lhe Representative of the Peo
pie of La Carpentier, writes, that the in
surgents have taken Dol, and were firength
ening it ; and that on the xy th November
they attacked Granville, and were repuljed.
Letters from St. Maoes, read in the Conven
tion, announce that town was surrounded.
\_Accouhti by the British Packet, mention
that the Earl of Noh a (formerly Lord
Rawdon) with 13 000 Brttijh troops were
at Guernsey, eppofite Se. Maloes, waiting
for finals from the French coast, for a des
cent thereon. Three Gun boats, which car
ry carronades, 68 pounders, have been built,
and are to cover the landing of the Englilh
troops.]
The Empress of Rufta, it is said, upon
the requisition of Aufiria and Prussia, will
fend into the allied army, the next campaign,
20,000 men.
Philadelphia, Feb. i.
THE Captain of a veflel arrived this
Week from Ireland brings word, that
half of a corps of tBoO horse whichwere
landed at Oftend from England, were cut oft
by the French two days after their arrival.
The Captain hitnfelF fold horses to those
who were sent to supply the deficiency oc
cafioned by their loss.
The Swift Cantons are determined upon a
perfect neutrality, in the prejent European
confidl-
All the news from London agree in their
accounts of a general fermentation in Eng
' land : they can publish nothing but under
reftriXions,their mar ufaXories are flopped,
no person pays, nor is paid ; z at the fame
time the body of idle mechanics increase ;
prefling and enlisting is eXercifed with un
heard of violence and does not appease the
hungry multitude. To calm the minds of
the people, their government ought to boail
of feme fuccels; but they have nothing but
defeats and losses to tell. Gardner repuls
ed—the Duke of York beaten —Lord
Hood covered with the odium of unneceL
fary cruel tj^— Pi it accused of all crimes, de
nounced by Justice and the National Con
vention to the whole universe—Granville
quite ashamed of having fullered dismem
berment of Poland; of having alienated the
Americans, and loft forever the trade with
France—Dundas, the English Levrillere,
is tired of signing letters de Cachet, With
what countenance shall this group of foxes
and tygefs, when taken by snare, appear
before English people? And notwithstand
ing a demand of twelve millions sterling, is
about to be made for the continuance of this
execrable war^. if oppofiticn is not defer nd -
ed to a phantom, it mull arbufe the whole
nation to the afllftance of its minority: And
that minority must increase the moment
John Bull shews his tee h. It appears that
these reflexions have flruck the ministers
tbemfe’ves, now many of them, dreading
the tempest that is riling, hope togainfhel'
ter —Richmond is retired—Grenville and
Dundas are preparing themselves for Am
nelly, by an appropus difmiflion ; but Put,
in ailing the Jesuit, and King George in
exclaiming What ? What ? What ? &c.
&c. are approaching with an irrefiftable
current, to the last judgment of the people
and to the Revolutionary Guilkr.ine.
mountain, brake (he golden calf to pieces,
and let the Ark of the Confutation be the
only Idol of the French.” —Ordered to be
icferted In the Bulletin.
American Intelligence.
LONDON, Det. 7.
The Frenth Minister, Mr. Genet, has
at last called upon the Execu'ive of the
United States to fulfil the article of the
treaty in-which the United States have
guaranteed to France her pofleffions in the
Weft-Indies. This requisition is accom
panied with fame dispatches from the
government of Gaudaloupe, representing
the danger to which that island isexpofed,
from the British force. This demand
fee ms to be the fini/hing ad of a precon
certed plan, which has been, steadily pur
sued by that Minister, for dragging A
merica into a war with Great-Britain and
Spain. Those who know the insidious
proceedings of that man, would not be
for prized to difeover hereafter, that he sent
to Guadalonpe for the purpose of procuring
such representations of the danger of that
colony, as might be necessary to enforce and
jurftify this lift requisition. On this as on
every other occasion we places great confi
dence in the integrity, prudence, impar
tiality and firmnefs of our rulers. At the
fame time, circumstances of this kind make
us regret every connexion with foreign
nations, that can expose us to the calamity
of (haring in their quarrels; Every day
gives us new reason to abhor the (yftem of
treaties, offenfive and defenfive; a system
perhaps necessary in Europe, but one that
would prove a perpetual scourge to this
country.
ExtraS of fl letter from a gentleman in Paris
to his friend in Philadelphia, dated OSo
her 21, 1793.
" Aifar as my judgment extends, I
Louis the XVlth. was born on the
24’h of August, 1754, St. Bartholomew^
day, flained in the annals of French hifto
ry by the massacre of the Hugonots. Ma
rie Antoinetta was born on the 12th
of Nov. 1755, called in the Callendar of
the Reman Catholic Church, “The day
of the death,” and Louis XVllth, was
born on the zytkof March, Easter Sunday,
or day of RefurreXion. The Romans, who
believe in lucky, and unlucky days, would
not have failed to draw from those differ
ent bir'h days, aftrolcgical reasons to de
termine the fate of that unfoitunate family.
BOSTON, Feb. 19.
It is confirmed from several quarters,
that the British have given orders to their
privateers to take all American vessels from
any French port with such articles as were
prohibited under the old government.
Thi» is an additional instance of their ty
rannical vfurpations over the empire of the
sea, which they maintain uncontrouled by
justice or thelaw of Nations.
** The National Convention declares it
to be their constant resolution to Ihew
themselves terrible to their enemies, gener
ous to their allies, and jitjl to all people.”
** The treaties now subsisting with the
United States of America, and With the
Swiss, shall be scrupulously executed.”
TheNetiohal Convention, Nov. 17. on
the report of the Committee of Safety* de
creed as follows:—-
Lal evening arrived here from Monte
ChrifS (Hispaniola) Capt Coates, of the
sloop Independence, belonging to N- Pro
vidence, Rhode-Ifland —He left Monte
ChriHi the 9th of January. He informs,
that Cape Francoise was blockaded by a
Spanish fleet, of seven fail, under the com
mand of Gabriel TErie She Staeba— that
the fleet was much in want of men, so
much so, that they could do little more
than to prevent vessels, from running in
to the Cape.
Extract of a letter from a gentleman in
Montjerrat to his friend in this place t da*
led 31st Dec, 1793.
“ I have nothing new to advise you, ex
cept the condemnation, this day of the
brig Maryland, belonging to Baltimore, a
new brig and loaded with fogar and cof
fee : All the property of Stewart and
Plunket. The judge condemned the fug.
ar and coffee as, French property and the
vessel as American for aiding and aflifting
the French by carrying produce to Bour
deauJ. The brig and cargo are worih j
10,0001. fterljng. It is now the general
opinion that every one in this road (about
ten) #ill be condemned.
•«- • * ‘<-.1 wr— •
veßely, in which case Great-Br’tain has no
aiternati' e, and must of coiirfe declare war
against the American States, or fating her
fubjeXs found in arms.
N E W-Y O R K, Feb. 10.
February 20.
NEW-YORK, Feb, 13.
A letter from Savannah, January, 20th
mentions, «• No doubt you have heard of
the attempt made by the negroes in some
part of this state to rife ; it was in Augus
ta, and its vicinity ; on the ijth of Dec.
there Was hot a negro to be found in the
town, they having all aflembled privately
at some houses in the fubnrbs, all armed ;
but something of it being fufpe&ed, Gov.
Mathews ordered out the militia, and he
at their head dispersed the Negroes, and
Patrole d the town a whole night; by
which precaution nothing alarming ww
affeded;
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 6.
A GENTLEMAN lately arrived here^
fays, that before his departure from
Canada, confirmation arrived, that the Na
tional Convention was convinced of the
calumnies which for four years have been
unceasingly spread concerning the colon;
ills, at the very time that they were af
faflinated and burnt; that it tow perceives
more than ever the utility of its Colonies,
and principally of St. Domingo. That
the National Convention has revoked the
general liberty granted to the blacks by
Polverel and Sonthonax ; that it has an
nulled its decree for the abolition of the
negro trade, which was the fruit of the
faife philanthropy of Briffott, for afluredly
haflening the ruin of the Commerce of
France. This gentleman lastly reports,
that it was decreed, thar twelve ships of
the line should immediately fail for the
continent of America, and from thence
without doubt to St. Domingo.
Liberty of the press in Poland, annihilated.
The refpeXable editor of the Gazette
de Varfovie announced in his paper of
the 28th September, that he is obliged to
dole his labours. It is not compatible
with the pure and wife government eflab
lifhed by the Emprels of Ruflia in Poland
that a free newspaper should exist in that
devoted country. A resolution has there
fore been made to grant an exclufave right
to one chosen person to print and publish
periodica] papers in whatever language he
fliallchufe : And the reasons for this mono
is, ** That the crowd of writing of all kinds
the authors of which seeking to antici
pate each other, and even anticipating
faXs and time itlelf, continually deceive
the public, by notices of events often falfe,
and sometimes contrary to the maxims of
a wife government.”
To remedy this defeX, one unsullied
journal only is to be permitted, under the
immediate infpeXion of her imperial Ma
jesty’s miniflers, and this journal is nd
doubt to take the title of the True Pole.—
From thii moment, therefore, we shall
hear only the. wisdom of the Government
of Poland, and of the happiness of the peo
ple.
I think America cannot do Better than lend
I Commiflicners to Europe ; and so far as
I the freedom of commerce may become a
I fubjcX of conference, it ought to be done.
I It may be a means of terminating a war, for
I it is necessary that some power should be-
I gin. England is in a wretched condition
I as to her manufactures and to her public
I and private credit. The combined arm-
I ies make no progress. My opinion is that
I they cannot agree among themselves, and
I that he objeX of the English government is
to get poffeflion of both fades the channel,
which certainly cannot be consented to by
the Northern powers, ft is not ihe En
glish alone that has pofleffion of Toulon ;
the Spaniards have landed more troops than
theEnglifh as if to keep an eye upon them.
I Holland does nothing—-She must wish to
be out of the war. If you fend Commis
sioners, Holland will be the best place for
them to arrive at. They can there make
known their credentials to all the resident
Miniflers. It will not do to appoint Gov
ernour Morris upon that business-—His ap
pointment here has been unfortunate— -He
has done more harm than good—All the
Americans will give you the fame account.
I wish much to be in America, were it on
ly to press the fending Ccmmiflioners. I
think it is a plan in which all parties a
mong you will unite. Were you to ap
point two or three Comm.flioners from A«
merica, and direX them to call Mr. Pinck
ney to their councils, I think it would have
a good efleX. The contents of the letter
from a citizen of America to the citizen of
Europe, show there are many fubjeXs for
conference that do not appear at firft fight.”
By this Day's Mail.