The American herald of liberty — Exeter, N.H., 1794-05-20 00:00:00, page 2

P ARIS, Ftb. 27.
Tn the markets of the 25th and 26th,
there was an entire want of fcveral ol the
iAdifpenfiMe articles of life. Some of
the fed one made a proclamation by the
found of trumpet, inviting the citizens
to leave the batcher’s meat for the sick,
women in child-bed, and wet narfes.
Und<r the old regimen, more than half
the kingdom was supported by filh du
ring tent, accordfog to the rites of the
di dev ant religion. Nov, when an at
tempt is made to introduce a cohformi
ty to this regulation, it is found to be
impofiible. because the peafonts, from
the very commenccmentof the revela
tion, having been allowed to cot through
the banks of the ponds and lakes, Hine
have no longer been kept up, and tife
fifo, that abundant fouren of fopply, so
consequently destroyed. This djtficiti^cy
mull be Supplied by meat, and this be
comes one of the mstfy caufcrof the pie
font icarcity.
Xu. wiotfs. j,
Tn an add efs pfefented to the Coni -
mune, the Scftion of indivisibility has
made the following fl»teme»c refpettbig
ihe situation cf the-pidfons.
“The prifops Acg ho other than so
many pleasurable rtwdtbcei. Choice
entertainments, the moM exquisite food,
iTclicwusuwines, maHc, epneetjs pityt'
promenade^; fofpicious aflemblages,
lawful conversations-—loch arc the e ”-<
joy ments and amatemeots of the priSofl
ers —They have evtß contrived to con-
a rime, be made fit to stand a
gainß the F»endi, who have for
rwo years past had little else to
attend co than militaryevolutior,:
he lays the eforei AUn tte fact
had better pay hUdemands, and
cruft to his well- appointed and
dikiplined army j ^and bis En
voy, Baron Goetts-, has intimat
ed, that perh.aps the terms re
quired for The march of the
i'ruffian trc/jps may be alltviat
ed, and m,ade more acceptable.
We muii wait feme time to
learn, how this great question
may be determined; but in the
mean while the French’Com mit
fionerSj who came firfl to May
ence, and then went on to
Franckfort, ftili remain there ;
and have such long arid freqnent
communications with the Prof
fian Gen, Kalkreutb that people
there lulpcd some secret mach
inations between them for a
fcparatt peace; and many let
ters mention an apprehension,
that the Pryffian forces may soon
be drawn homeward.—-From
thefc circumstances many advic
es from Germany and Holland
intimate great likely hood of a
speedy peace.
No Ids than eighty-seven
Parish manufacturers, per Sons
of property, embarked on the
river Taft week, for America ;
among them are fcveral bai^e
makers from Suffolk, where the
woollen manufactory is totally
at a stand.
<3 K R MAN r. >
VIENNA,-^. iS.
THE aSped of aft airs between Ruf
fis and the Porte, become more
Serious daily. Poland atSo Seems again
to have at traded the attention of the
Em press, and frelh military preparations
a.e making in her Empire. M. de Stev
ers has been recalled from Warsaw.
.By Friday's Mail. ,
FRANCE-
From CaMBSAY*
Letters from Chambray flste, that the.
armies of the Republic will be Speedily
in motion, and that the polls between
Chambray and Buuchain have been re
inforced by a conCderablc number jtf
troops.. There Seems to be .an idea of
fo-eftablilhing the camp of CaeSar. They
add*, that the enemy have not advanced
their petioles, insomuch that the road to
St. Quentin was entirely free; end that.
they hope to fee soon the tri-coloured
‘ flag on the walls of Valenciennes, QucS
noy, and Conde.
have cemented the basis of our holy lib
erty, can obtain thefc articles of fopport
-at no price whatever, or if they do pro
cure them now sbd then, it is not until
the trader, as counter-revolutionary as
our open enemies, has insolently com
plained of the maxircum. To these gocd
people the butcher’s Ihops are Ihut.—
The pork-feller has no longer any meat
to dispose of; the grocers have neither
'pH nor fogar ; ncr do the cows, as here
tofore supply milk for use, or for the
mailing of butter; the hens have ceased
to by their eggs; and finally, the earth
no longer yields up her fruits and her
produtliona.”
- c SALISBURY March 12.
The change that ba* taken place in
the appearance of the minufaftuting
towns in Wildhire, but more particular
ly in the villages around them, within
the last two or three yean, could i^ be
viewed by the promoter* 'of the v^ar, .
would most feelingly reproaeh them, Sia.
lei* their continence* are feared. Every
individual in those villages, from the
father of the family to the foiling chcr
ub of seven year* old, waa employed in
fame branch of the cloatbing bufincfs j
pow, not a wheel of a loorp is going.—
Those manufa&urers who do any bofinefa
employ a few men to manage the ma
chines, by which the wot k i* now dpne
which ufrd to support these poor crea
tures, The male inhabitants of these
villages have contributed largely to that
rapid supply of the recruiting fcrvicaof
which the minister had the affrontery to
boast; whilst many of the women and
children have encreafed our poor rates,
and become, the broken hearted tenants
of oar miler able receptacles for pauper*,
called work houses. Strange; that such
should be the proteAion afforded to these
wretched objefts, who have at ail times
flood most in need of the tellering hand
of government.
■r.
L O N D O N„ March' U-
A cobler was apprehended and taken
before a magistrate, upon a charge of hav
ing maliciously and irreverently CpokAt
certain lediciou* and (candafout whbtfl ’
Right Honourable William Pitt. t J
The charge exhrbtted against the
Rr was, thaPwbile'he whs « wort it;
hit Sail hh d-4—d the King’s foul, apd ^
threatened to give Mr. Pkt a leathering.
The word* were proved by a balifFi
follower. f
Tire prifoffer in hi* defence fatdthat he
only meant a man by the name of King•
Wfeofefole, be had beaded, bat who M
never paid hhn a farthing for hb labor s
and that one Pitt fe«d recommended King
to him a* an honest man.
, The Magistrate dismissed the co«-
plaint, with a recommendation to the
coble/, never in future to repose any
Confidence in Pitt, or undertake totnead -
the Ms of Kiogrr
; itALIciN
The government of Florence hart pub
lished an edift ordwmg all Eranchamen,
vey in'o the jails, cattle, game, tame
fowls, &c. It is lor them alone, chat the
nourishing fhedshis blood, while
the Sans Culottes, who with their blood
Letters from the Rhine mention, that
the pruffians and Au ft ria ns mean to aft
wholly on the defenfive at the com
mencement of the Campaign. This
meaSure is rendered neceflary on account
of.rhe lofts fuftiined at the close of the
lift campaign, which have not yet been
repaired. '
ENGL A ND.
The Emperor, it is added, will find
it impofiible to fill up the loan he has
opened in Amsterdam ; for by the cap
ture of Batavis, Holland must be ruined.
This news will be equally disastrous
to Englang, for the French being maS
ters of the important strait of the Sound,
can easily possess therafelves cf the Mo
lucca Wards, in which case the return
from China must be completely ihut a
gainst the Englilh veflcls.
CAPTURE of BATAVIA.
i The conquest of the important Settle
ment of Batavia, belonging to the Dutch,
, w^s lately mendohed in some cf the Par
ia papers. In theft wh : ch we yesterday
received form thence it is thuscircum-
Ramially re-tilcrted, and we give it to
the public* without annexing to it any
other credit than what may be fappoted
to belong to such authority.
The conquest of Batavia, where the
Hollanders have So long reigned, was
undertaken by two French merchants of
the Hie of Frsnce* named Bovchet the
Letters from Switzerland confirm the
report of an uncommon armament in that
quarter ; and by other accounts from the
continent it is laid, that all the opera
tions of the Prussian army are actually
Suspended till the Diet at Ratifbon has
determined upon the King cf Prulfia’s
late propofol.
From Brandenburgh fcveral circum
-11 antes are mentioned, as indicating that
the King cf Prussia will go no more to
the Rhine, to which it is added, that ac
cording to all reports, that Monarch will
not Suffer a single recruit to go to the
army, till the fubfidies*which he has de
manded are forth earning.
-PHILADELPHIA,^/ 2.
ExtraS «f a litter from* gentleman in
London to hit corre/pondent in tbit city,
received by the William Penn;
"tTTEare here not a little tried in
ourcommercial concerns,both
by the bankruptcies and the efieds of
the ruinous and most bloody war, in
which this nation has unwisely and un
jnftly plunged itfelf, and of the termi
nation of which we fee no present prof
pedt 1 (hall be glad to hear that you
may be preserved from (haring in the
terrible quarrel which desolates Europe,
the poliiiduof which seem to 'threaten
the peace of the whole world.*’
Extras of a letter per the Jhip William
Penn, date d London, Feb 27, to a friend
in Philadelphia.
*• I guess you wi 1 class me among the
true whigs. 1 admire America ftrog
gling for liberty—f admire the French
equally, on the fame ground j and how
ever the combined crowned tyrants may
disguise their feotimentstheobjea they
are fighting for is dear—it is to preserve
their crowni, their uforped dominion
over the persons and purfea of their
-I hope it is tbeit laftftrnggle,
and that mankind will (bon joih inone
univetral idea, that virtue and talents,
(hall foonbe the foie qualifications to
dignity and honor.” . '
Sy recent intelligence from Canada,
we can assure the public, that they in that
quarter are not making the least prepar
ation for war,
; ;On the sth of Feb the National Cofi*
tention decreed, f That fa-very io
ijhed io all the French Colonies f* on
which the convention rose in a body hod
received thefratetnal Unbrace from the
St. Domihgodcpotiev*
1D LB T (T T^May id,
At the annual General Eleflion in
Wti W, on Thnrfday fill His Eicel
fX^iSfiUEL HUNTINGTON,
EU. Was ehofea Governor, and His
K?nor OLIVER WOtCOTT.Efqoire,
Lieu tan ant-Governor of thia State,
’ * c ? f -Z -» .* -
elder,.and Joseph Cbove, and we are well
allured that thoSe brave Republicans
have Succeeded.
of what diScription soever, who cannot
prove their rcfidence in that Dutchy ev
er since Jan. j j, 1793, to quit the TuS
cm territories in the space of a month
from the publication of the edid.
Domeffic Intelligence.
Th PRUSSIANS.
The captain of this company declared
himfelf agent for his brother, the 6 •
ting member. It is said by Virginians
that this is not worse, than Virginia c<
leftions in general. Candidates there
advertise and go round and get the voters
drunk, and make long fpeeche* to them
to solicit votes. It is not ftrarge that
those men so elefted, should love Corfu
fion in Cong’refs; but it is ftraoge that
any honefl man in N. England, should
be deceived by their pretences to zeal
dor liberty. Virginia has caused most
our present troubles. By refuting to
comply with the treaty cf peace, which
provides for payment of British debit,
they have afforded the Britifli an excufa
for keeping the poss a* Now the fame
Virginians are praftifing every art to
puih us into a war, and urge this very
retention of the pofl* as the cavte.
Their. Britifir creditors now mourn'their
judgments against them ih the federal
courts, and therefore they , hate the
General Government. A war would
flop this, and therefore they wi(h for it.
This is tht plain Englilh of all their
Democracy and tore of equality, h b
hardly credible that men. .of the most
profligate morals, and bartatoUs in the
extreme to their Negrtws whofn they
view a* cattle, ftouldgt*ady exceed our
Eafterfa men in good principle* and love
of liberty. Liberty with, them means a
power to do wrong with impunity j to
be' above the laWe of God and man.
To avoid pay ing xheir debit they arc
fond become gc^bt*^ Every fobcr.
man who oppofea (hem in this care«jJ^|
cried down for ah Ariftoctst. ‘ TheyW
joined here by all the foreign vagaboM
in this place, and have made to mu«
noise that the real American*.of fobeW
live* and opinions are almost afraid to^
* - ' f; ■ , . ■*
■' ■ '»■'. A- -w ' ?
Extrafl of a letter from a gentleman of
Majjacbu/etti, new in Pbiiadtlpbia,
da td 26 Aprils 1794.
J this day at ended Congress. They
Were on a disputed ekdion from Vir
ginia. It appeared that a company of
troops, commanded by a brother of the
fitting Member, paraded round the
houfc where the electors met, and at lad
took poflefiion of it, and threatened, and
beat fomfc who intended to have voted
The French h.ve demanded cf the
Dey of Algiers, to deliver up the Ame
rican prisoners, and not tbcapture any
more of their {hips: having f light
squadron of fwift failing Ihi^s to scour
the mediterranean of those pirates.
for the other Candidate. Tbete was
a battle between the troops and citizens
and some guns fired. Indeed the day
Seems to have been Spent in fighting and
other outrages. The candidates agreed
that boys Ihoeld vote in direct violation
of the law, &c. Set.
Saturday arrived the brig Dolphin,
Barker, mailer, from Montserrat. ax
days.—He fail’d from Saint Petit laden
with Sugar and Coffee, was captur’d by
• Britilh Cruiser, and curried into Mont
fcrrat, ind there acquitted, with five
other veffefo.—Paying Charges.
Capt. Barker informs that it was re
ported there thet the Britilh W. J. Hl
ands are tobeaflclTed to make rest it ct ion
to the Americans for the dam ige done
to them by the capture of their vtHels.
BOSTO N, May iz. I
Extra fl from tit Speed! of Mr. Utt quo 'J
a member of tie Lrijh parliament , /JI
^ary 5, 1794.
We love the HouSe of Honour j but iJ
that a reason why we /hall fight thd
French until they love the Houfc oil
Bourbon, which for centuries had been!
the oppressors of the people ? We hav«
had our bloody days—and had the fame
combination attempted to punilh the
murder of Charles the First, the fame
disorders and mslucrees would have ta
ken place, which begun with the maai
felloes cf tie Duke of BrunSwick. Why
did not AMERICA DRAW THE
SWORD FOR LOUIS, who fo-ght
for her and against us and who Hilled
himfdf her deliverer ?—Because A>
MERICA ACTED WITHOUT PAS
SION, and though in an infant Hate, has
GIVEN LESSONS OF WISDOM
AND CAUTION TO OLD EN
GLAND.
MAY tja