The American herald of liberty — Exeter, N.H., 1795-06-04 00:00:00, page 2

A SPIRITED Decree for
the distribution of bread,
palled. It occasioned a (harp de
bate ; in which the fcarciry was
by some declared to be artificial—
by others the effect of the Robef
pearean tyranny. [Th« distribu
tion is to be one pound and a half
per diem to labourers-—and ■ one
pound to others.J
Cadroy writes from the mouth
of the Rhine, that the efled of the
system of moderation, was the ar
rival at Merfaiffes of ico veffcls
with provisions-
March 16.
A deputation of wounded sol
diers from the army of the Eastern
Pyrennes, brought to the bar 24
Spanish and Portuguese colours.
[applauded | They received the
fraternal embrace, and the honors
of a fitting.
March 17.
A riot refptf&iog bread occupi
ed part of the attention of the
Convention* —The deputation of
the rioters was sharply rebuked by
the Prefidenr, and the tumult
subsided.
Morec anounced the Capture of
25 new prizes.
March 18.
Cartel^ Minister Plenipotentia
ry from the Grand Duke of Tus
cany, was admitted.—«He thus ad
dressed the Convention
“ Citizens Reprefentative^
‘‘ Chosen by the Grand Duke of
Tuscany, to reside near the repub
lic, and to endeavour to restore a
neutrality, always prized by the
Tuscan government, but whkh
unfortunate circumstance had for
ced her to suspend, contrary co her
wish and interest? 1 tftiofate this
public million, the fir ft 1 have
accepted, during the course of
a long life, as the most honor
able to a friend of humanity, of
my country, and of France.
4< The day on which 1 signed
the treaty of peace wit h the French
republic, was the most happy of
my Use» and that on which lAat
treaty was received in- Tufcanyiwas ]
finnalized by genet 4 rejoicing*
% Grom of tha sentiments of
my country, fortirmtely destined
by mW ux n 0 P 3Pt **
Other accounts mention their con
demnation,. and execution :—But
on these last we do not rely.
The celebrated Abbe 8 eyes is in
the Executive CoSmiffion of
France. Me was theauthor of the
French Declaration SRights, and
of a pamphlet in opp<nion to Mr.
Paine, He was an advocate for
the Confticution of 1791.
We have read the Ipeech’bf Mr.
Ax, on the 24th M^rch “ on the
ft ate of the British nation” as re
ported in the EngHfh papers. It is.
extremely lengthy, and although
such as to draw from Mr. Pitt, an
euloaium, that it was “ one of rhe
most eloquent speeches ever deliv
eted in Parliament,” we fee little
in ir, except what relates to Ireland,
that we have not already giv'en in
his former speeches on the fubjeft
of the present war. As usual he
furvevs the conduct of the present
ministry, and proves their turpi
tude and incapacity'
[By the Iris arrived at
NATIONAL CONTENTION)
MARCH, 15.
French Affairs,
“ If in the city of Paris any vio
lence shall be offered to the national
representation, and the Convention
be obliged to disperse, the mem
bers shall hold themselves ad
journed,to re-aflemble ar Chalons,
fur Marne ; and the reprefenta
tivps on million in the different
departments (ball aflemble in that
city.
This decree was adopted.
It was also decreed in case an
event like the above shall take
place, that divisions from the ar
mies of the republic shall be order
ed to march to protect the nation
al reprelentattVes, and to avenge
their country.
CONSTANCE, (Smit.) Jan. 15.
Since the party of moderates have gain
ed a decided lupefiorhy in France, thou,
fends of Emigrants have returned in’o that
counntry, and without the lesft trouble
Have been reinstated in their eftate’-. Oat
of isdLignefc families that fought (helcer
“ That all incitements to roy
alty ; all infurreftion against the
national reprefencation ; all sediti
ous writings; all attempts to re
lease the prisoners in the Temple
[the children of the late Kin^ and
all correfponoence with them, shall
be held criminal. Any person
convicted of any of the above
crimes (hall be banished.
“ That every attack on a re
presentative of the people, in the
exercise of his functions, shall be
punished with banishment.
“ That whosoever (hall offer
any violence against the national
representation, shall be declared
outlawed.
Ramel writes from the army of
the North, that the army had
gained new successes in Groningen
and Friefland.— The Eaglifh
were driven to the lea, and three
islands, with art important fortreis
taken.
Si eyes < in the name of the com
mhuec of government, read a re
port, on the means to protect We
national representation, from the
attacks of the enemies of liberty :
and proposed the following de
cree :—
quarrels of great powers, it is very
grateful for me to allure you, that
the government and inhabitants of
Tuscany, have ever preserved for
you, nctwithflanding the course of
events, all the ientiments due to
so powerful a hation.
For my part I Brill he aflid
uous to cement more closely, while
1 remain here, the gocd -un ?er
ftanding which ought to lubfift
between the two countries.
“ May the peace which we
have just concluded, be the har
binger of other treaties mere im
portant to Europe, wMot greatly
needs tranquility *, an.d may I, who
have found you covered with lau.-,
ref st acquired in the fields of war,
soon fee you reposing in the.falu
tary made of the Olive Tree of
peace.”
The President returned an af
fectionate and pertinent answer.
The Mmifter was received in the
usual manner, received the frater
nal embrace, and was recognized
by a decree. -
March 19.
It was anounced amidst appiau
fes, that 20 ve^Trls laden with pro
visions, had arrived at Bourdeaux,
from Boston, and other ports of
the Umud States of. America.
z March 20.
NEW SUCCESSES.
March 21,
«« AT a meeting of the Roman Catholics
in Dublin, on the 27th of February last,
they agreed to an address to Mr. Grattan,
thanking him for the services he had ren
dered them ; and exprtffiug their grief at
the rumour of his departure from power.
To this Mr. Gratian has returned a very
energettic answer, Which as it tends to
throw feme light on the exiting difpu'es
between the Brhifh cabinent and Earl
Fi Zwiiliam we fta e at length.
“In supporting you,l fuppert the Pro’cft
ants; we have but one interest & one hon
our; and whoever gives privilege to you
gives vigor to all. The Protestants alrea
dy begins to perceive it; a late attack has
rallied the scattered spirits of the country
from the folly of religious fchiftn to the re
collcdion of national honor and a nation’s
feuds are loft in a nation’s resentment.—
Your emancipation wilt pass ; rely on it,
your emancipation most pass; it rhay be
death to one viceroy ; it will be the pease
offering to another ; and the laurel may be
torn from thed»ad brow cf one Governor
to be craftily converted into the olive Os his
fucceflbr.
“ Let me advise you by fi® mtans to
postpone the cchfideration of your fortunes
till after the war; ratner let Britain receive
, the benefit of jour zeal during the exigen
cy which demands i:, and you yourselves,
while you are fighting to preserve the bles
sings of a conftituiioir, have ready and bona
jih those blcffings. My wish is than you
ihould be Irre 00W. There is no other
policy which is not low and little. Let us
at once rnftartly embrace, and greatly e
mancipate. On this principle I mean to
introduce your bill, wt h your permifliotr,
immediately after the re6ffs.—You are
pleased to fpeakof the confidence and pow
er With which, for a moment, 1 was sup
posed to have been possessed. < When his
Msjefly’s Mini Iters were pieced to fefort
of the mforibnate viftims of that town
to their families ; but this aft of justice
has not paffd the Convention. A partic
ular name is ordered to be given to such
perlons as have betn driven out of the
country by the system of ter?or, vii. thole
known by the name of Fugitives, which
denomination distinguishes them from all
other emigrated perlons called Emigrants ;
and measures, totally different, have been
adopted relative to them ; yet a great
number cf emigrants have re-entered
France mixed with fugitives—The Con
vention knows, but winks at it, and its
Commissioners Teem to have secret inftruc
tbns for that purpose, since it is the inter,
est of that a trembly not to oppose the re
turn ct tho e, who it knows would readily
embrace its cause against the faftion of ter
rorists.
Tne Commissioners of the Convention
at Lyons, have pub’ifhed a refolurion pur
porting shut no fugitives should be Suffered
to reclaim their property alter the last day
of February next, but it has not been ap
proved by she Convention ; it is therefore
hoped ;iUt it will not be put in execution.
The fugitives of Toulon return likewile by
way of Marseilles. We learn from Leg
horn that twenty or thirty of them fre
quently embark at the fame time, and are
received in Prdtfrence in the fame kind
manner as thole of Lyons, Aifaee J & France
Comte, in thdr rcfpeftive provinces.
Every account we receive from the inte
rior of France confirms the present misery
ot that country, and excites the most ala
ming fears tor its future fate.
Ac Lyons, as well as in in the fedfhern
province’, net half a pound of bread can be
had without the greatest difficulty, ifnd the
fame quantity of corn, wh ch before the
Convention fold for 21 livers, costs at this
time 150 livers. For want of candles and
lamp Oil, people go to bed at the close cf
the day. A measure of wine, which for
merly was fold Lr 14 livers,cannot be had
for 100. Soap, Coffee, Sugar, Oil Mdk»
and Butter, can only be hadal the most
exorbitant price. Thirty five (Ous are paid
for washing a shirt ; and a peifon lately
arrived from Lyons,, was obliged to give 14
livers for an tvor^ comb. The Swils being
now in earnest to cramp the exportation of
provisions into France. They are afraid of
peiifhing with hunger in the midst of the
treasures which they have heaped up by
means of their pretended neutrally, and
they are become more kind towards the
French emigrants since the moderate iyftcm
has ipread and gained strength in France.
in this fflec-e, no more than fen l^tnain
here; and all the others are gone back to
Lyons and its vicinity. All the widows,
of those who were (hot, guillotined, or c-
Nierwife perished in that to*n, recover
the.r rights and properties, without being
ob’dged to prove thenon-emtgiration cF their
fans. Some members of the Convention
proposed rhe full refto'ation of the estates
IRKH ROMAN CATHOLICS.
Extra?} of a letter from a gentSe*
man in Ei(bon^ dated 3d
1795, to Mejfrtt J, Calhrailb,
& Co.
0 Ycfterday Mr. Church receiv
ed an express from Cadiz, inform
ing him of (he Dey of Algiers ha
ving declared war against Spain,
ado of ah action taking place in
the Mediterranean between the
French and Engliih, in which the
former loft two flhips of the line,al*
though the day before (hey had ta
ken one from the English. The
fleets consisted of 14 fail of the
line each;
•« The Portugyefe have Order- '
ed all their ships, except one ship
of the line, 2 frigates, and 2 brigs,,
to be paid off and hauled up—thit
“ I fhould.have expected that there had
been a wisdom and faith in some quarter of
another country, that would have prevented
such a caftrophe; but I kffew it is no proof
or that wisdom to make the taxes continue,
the abuses, damp the Zeal, and dash away
the affections of so important a member of
the Empire as thh people of Ireland ; anti
when this country came forward, cordial
and confident f witb the offering of her trea
sure and blood, and refo’ate to stand or fail
with the Bdtifh nation, it is, 1 fay, no
proof of wisdom or genorofity, to feleft that
moment to plant a“dagger into her hearty
But, whatsoever shall be the event, 1 wilt
adhere to her interests to the ^aft moments
cf my life.”
“ In the service of government, under
his Excelle ! ncy*6 administration, «e direst -
ed our attention to two great obj ft? the
kingdom and the empire, We obtained
certain beneficial laws ; the discovery and
reformation of certain abuses, and were in
prcgLfs to reform more ; we obtained a
giear force and a great supply, with the
consent and confidence of the people —-
These were not the meafurea of Courtiers ;
they were the measures of Mincers.
“ His Excellency Lord Fitzwilliam
may boast that he offered to the empire
the affeftions of milliaffs, - a better aid to
the war th-^ his enemies can furnifh, who
have forfeited these affeftions, and put
themfelvcs in their place.
«< So decidedly have the measures cf
Ireland served the Empire, that those who
wete concerned in them might appeal from
the cabals of the British Cabinet to the
sense of the British nation. 1 know of no
caule afforded for the difpkafure of the
Fingh/h Cabinet; but if fervic«s done to
Ireland are crimes which canot be attoned
by the exrrtions for the Empire, I must
lament the gloomy profpefts of both king
doms, and receive a difeharge from the
service cf government, as the only honor
an Eiighfh Minitter can confer on an Irifli
fubjeft. I conceive the continuance of
Lord Fitzwilliam as necessary for rhe prof’--
perity of this kingdom ; his firm integrity
is farmed to corrcft, his mild manners to
reconcile, and his private manners to dis
countenance a progress cf vulgsr and rapid
pollution : if be is to retire, I condole with
my country ; formyfelf the pangs on that
occasion, 1 should feel,on renderng up.my
small poition of Ministerial breatlT, would
be little, were it not for those gloomy prof
pefts afforded by those dreadful guardians
which are likely to succeed. I tremble at
the return to power of your old te&-matters
—that a combination which galled the
country with its tyranny, insulted her by
its rapacity, and flandsred her by
its malice; should such a combination at
once inflamed, as itmuft be now by tha
favor of the British court, and by the rep
robation cf the JriHi people, return to pow
er, I have no beiitation to fay that they will
extinguish Ireland, or Ireland most remove
them; it i? not your case only, but that
of the nation. I find the country already
committed in the struggle, I beg to be com
mitted along with her, and to abide the
issue of he? fortunes.
to our support, they took fls with the ifi-,
cumbrance of our reputation, and with all
our deb s and mortgage^ which we owed
to our country. To have accepted a fliare
of confidence and councils without a view
to private advantage, will not meet, I hope
wi h the disapprobation of my country;
but to have accepted that (hare without any
view to public advantage, would have
been refinement on the folly of ambition*
Mcafures. therefore, public measures and
arrangement?, and that wh ch is nowdifpu.
ted, were stipulated by us ; were promiled
in one quarter, and with affurancts they
were not refitted in another.
PHILADELPHIA, MAY 22.