The Newhampshire gazetteer — Exeter, N.H., 1791-10-07 00:00:00, page 2

Letter from the OFFICERS in M. de
BOUILLE's army to their Comrades in
France.
"V"B French !—relatives andfriends!
of all ranks, of either sex,
and of al ages! know ye, we have been
employed in following the measures a
dotted by oar General, and in using
our endeavours to give efficacy to the
efforts made by the Marquis de Bouille
to five the Royal Family, and to break
the fetters of the best and most unfortu
nate of Kings !
'• The infults.which we have been o
bli,cd to submit, are not to be described
yet we have the courage to bear them
all with patience ; because we flatter,
ed ourselves with the pleading hope!
that we fcould at some time or other,
reap the fruits of our moderation and
prudence.-^i/
" One frole word, bne raft Hep,
might have ruined all our attempts to
fee our King at liberty, and to restore
him to his exaled state in the nidft of
those his fobjeds, whose loyalty rewians
unihaken
“ Nothing has been able to cool our
zeal ; our attachment to the King has
remained firm amidl linfelts, outrages,
ad perfections of all kinds.,
"The momentefo long willed for,
and which has been so prudently provi
ded for—has arrived ; but unfortunate
ly ic has been productive of fatal confe
queuces to the French nation—or rather
to all true Frenchmen.-—Our proje&s
are all frustrated ; our hopes h^e vanifli
ed into the air ; our fouls are full of
bitterness and anguish ; and we mould
be at this Moment, a pray to .difair,
were we not convinced, that our mili
tary brethren .and" all otter true French
man now in France, who have been pre
vented from treading i^ the steps of the
Marquis de Bouille, will adopt our pro
feffion of fidelity, which we now trans
mit to ail the corps frill remaining, but
^lmoft at the last gasp, of one of the
inoft galliant armies in the Gniverfe.
''The outrageous, infilting, and bar
- beroos manner in.which the French na
tion—became ferocious—watched every
step of the most unfortunate of Princesses
—the departure of the King—hrs subse
quent arreftation at. Farrentes —•his for
ced return to the capital ; —all these
circumstances prove, to all the world the
crimes of a faction, and the captivity of
our master
'•We, therefore, consider every thing
which the joi difant National Assembly
has done, as null and void'.
''We declare that we Ihall never fub
mifto.any other government than that
of a monarchy.
'' We demand a free King !—We
demand our King !
^S the railing of Indian corn
is no small part of the im
provement of the farmer, and
as- the corn is often hurt with
'^bfroft, Iwould remind tbofe
who wifb to secure their crop,
that it is necessary to take the
firft ripe ears for feed, w hich may
he 'eafil, done, by ob/erving your
field,when itfirf begins to ripen
—you will then fee here there
an ear,-all over the fields turn
ed white, which ears fbould be
plucked off, hung up & thorough
ly dried. If if be neglected a
Jew days, or if there comes a
fmallfroft, they cannot be known
from the rest of the corn. Prac
tifing this method,your corn will
be ten days or a fortnight ear-
lier in the feajon, and Jo escape
the early frod. From nt, own ex
perience, Ibelieve that fraaifoig
the above method, there would
be tboufands of bushels more of
found corn raided in a year, in
one /ingle county.
A Friendto the Indufirious,
From a Country Correspondent.
FRANCE.
Infantry, de Lausoun, Hoffers de Schons,
berg, Dragoons, de -Nafau, Chaffeurs de
Cevennes, Corps Royal of Engineers, de
Monfeur Dragoons, de Royal Dragoons,
dee Monfignieur, le Comte d'Artois, &e,
^c.
" N, B. Inffead of each individual
signature, it was thought (ancient to
name the regiments to which the Offi
cers now with us belong.
'• Theyhave requeued me to make
their fenriments known, and to authen
ticate them with my figoaure ttill' all
Europgsmay be -acquainted with them.
<< Signed DEJOTEQX.
'' Adj General to the Marquis de Bouille,
Approved— Le. Marquis de Bouille.
Luxumbourg, June 27, 1791.
WHEN the French King
was on bis journey to Verennes,
be frequently flopped to take a
little of the" good creature."
Againfl this the Q,een objeHed,
observing that be was not aware
wbat such frequent delays would
cofl him.’’ Ob! my dear, replied
louis foiling, and fixing aglafs,
" let us drink on, for the most
it can cost is a crown."
earth —who iofuic the best of Kings —
ar.4 who blindly lead to every excess
and outrage, a nation, formerly diftin-
1% faear, upon our honour, (the on-1
lv thing which remains to us) that, we
will die for the deliverance of our King;
—that we (hall educate our children
in these principles—that we will perfu
fo long as we live, the factious leaders
who have insulted bur king ;—or who
(ball declare to touch the persons of their
Majesties ;—and we ffrall confide; eve
ry military perfoh as infamous who
foil refufe to take this oath.
^ Neither fire nor fwprd, neither
flames nor poison, nor the massacre of
our relatives, of our wives, or of opr
children—nothing, in one word, (hall
m^ke us forget the firft oath shich we
have taken in favour of out King.
"This is the only ligitimate oath
we can take, and for its inviolable pre
servation we are ready to die.
'': All ye inhabitants of the earth !
and attye French people of either sex,
and of all ages ! — ,e will applaud our
courage. You will fay to your children
—" Misfortunes were their portion ;
" but, though they fell victims to sac
" trous fory, they preserved their ho
" nour."
" Such is the profeffion of loyalty
made by all Officers who remain faith
ful to their King ; and this profeffion it
is the duty of all true Frenchmen to
make.
'' Signed by the General Officers,
and Aids-de-Camp of the army
of M. de Bouille.
" The Officers of the following regi
ments join their fignacures with ours.
" Royal Alkmand, Ko,al Champagne, \
C'oafcur: de Champagne Chafeurs de
Neuftrie. de Royal of Bargainee, de Conde,|
lity, formally famed for loyalty— it is
the duty of every French soldier to fly
to the relief of his King—to tear him
away from his p.-ifon —to facrifice Our
lives and fortunes ' tor this unfortunate
moharch—to pursue to our latt moments,
the monster, who have wrested the fcep
tre from his grasp, and have placed it
in hands blafied with cririr, those mon
sters who have dared to insult the ten
derest of mo.hers ; —a mother, in whose
veins flows the no^^ft blood in the u.
niverfe!
guifhed for generous sentiments and the
rubbled actions.
" All those, who still remain loyal-,a
their King, and to the French monar
chy—;all those who are friends to man
kind—must rid' the world of those mon
gers who iefek the fined kingdom upon
" Ye French Officers ! hear the oath
We are going to take, and repeat it at
the fame time wi<h us! ~
" We are resolved to live, and to die,
profeffing the religion of our ancefters.
" We therefore fwear —and our oath
will be applauded by the whole world
—t^at ue will transmit to Our chrildren
—co dur neighbours —4O our friends —
the molt implacable hatred againlt all
factious perfoas, who live on rapine and
murder.,
" It is the duty of the French nobi-
ROYAL PUN.
The following Letter is extraUed from the
Liverpool General Advertises, — a; it
ma, income meafare explain the fracas
at Birmingham it is inpried.
Mr. P inter,
AS I find that many gross fal(hoods
have bedn circulated through the
country, in order to inflame the minds
of the people, concerning the meeting
held iaft Thursday, to commemorate the
French revolution. I will beg leave to
state what 1 myfelf have had occaffon to
know refpe&ing that fubjed. Some
gentlemen in Birmingham had proposed
by an advertisement in the news-papers
to hold a meeting of the friends of li
berty and of mankind, at the Hotel, to
commemorate the French Revolution, in
the fame manner as was done in Lon
don, and many other parts' in the king
dom. Two days before the time, ap
pointed for this meeting, a very refpec
taple gentleman called on me,& said he
crime to tell me that it was the general
with of those uho intended to meet, that
lihould be their chairman on the occa
sion. 1 accepted the compliment & pro
mised to come to Birmingham to attend ;
never conceiving a peaceable meeting
for the purpose of rejoicing that 26 mil
lions of our fellow-creatures were refeued
from despotism, and made as free and as
happy as we Britons are, could be mil
interpreted as being oftifive to a go
Vernnlenc whose greatest boast is liberty,
or to any who profefs the Chriftiaa reli
gion, which orders us to love our neigh
bours as ourselves. We accordingly met
and dined with the greatest peace and
harmony,and after drinking some toasts,
expressive io the ffrff place of oar loyal
ty €0 our own king and constitution,and
in the second place pf our joy at the
happiness which the &ei(h have acquir
ed by tli'eir new Constitution, we dissol
ved the meeting entirely, in the greatest
order, between five and fix in the even
ing, and quitted rhe Hotel, every man
separately to his home. The meeting
in London was conducted with the fame
decorum, nor has there been an inffance
as far as I know, in t4e rtUny meetings
throughout England', of the least irregu
larity. Now as a&ions are the best in
terpreters, it is evivident these meetings
[were not intended' to disturb the peace
and government of die country. I have
heard,that we drank disloyal toasts. The
firft was 'the king and the conftitution.'
I do not know any words more expref
-five of loyalty.
A second repeat is, that fofticeCarle,
was infulfed and turned out of the room.
•He was nbcin the room.
A third that a ' seditious and truly in
famous hand-bill 'had been distributed,
but by whom written or distributed is
not known. It is to be hoped the per
sons be difeovered and phniflied. Soon
as the gentlemen of Birmingham, who
had concerted the Commemoration
Meeting, saw thia hand-bill, they per
ceived that the efe& and perhaps the
intention of it was to inflame the mob
againff them, abd they immediately
publilhed in the Thursday's Newspa
per, an advertisement declaring their
disavowal of this hand-bill, and their
own loyal attachment to the Kings, Lords
and Commons.* They also sent hand
bills, with copies of this advertisement,
ell over Birmingham. It was not pos
sible for them co. do any thing more ef
fe&ually to prevent any bad effects from
this fedkibus paper or to rescue them
selves from the calumny of their being
the authors of.it.
, The lall falfe report that I have heard
* Birmingham Commemoration of the
Frenchßevolution. Several band.billf
having been circulated in the town, which
can only be intended to create difruft con
cerning the intention of the Meeting, to
disturb its harmony & inflame the minds of
the people, the Gentlemen who proofed it,
think it necessary to declare their disappro
bation of all such band bills, ^their igno
rance of the authors : —Sensible themfives
of the advantages of a free government,they
rejoice in the extension, of liberty to their
neighbors; at the fame time avowing,in ibe
most explicit manner, their attachment to
the conflitution of their own country, di
hefted in the Three Elates of the King,
Lords & the commons s—Surely no free
born Englishmen can refrain frdm exulting,
in this addition to the general mass of hu
man bappinejs ; it is the cause of humanity,
it it the cauje of the fflU;l
NOTE.
,?^rf^ Graaff
NEW-HAVEN, AUGUST „.
A few days since, the wife of Mr.
Plumb,cf Milford, was deliver
ed of three Sons, who were named Abra
ham, I faac, and Jacob, Jacob forvi
ved his birth but a short time ; the o
ther two are said to be healthy children.
Within a few &eeks previous to the
above mentioned births, three women
in the fame town, were each delivered!
of twins. Fine fubjeas to fettle a nevi
country I - -—'
France has had a most tremendous re
volution.—Heads cut off and elevated
on poles were as plenty there, at one
time, as snow birds in December, Mar
quiffes, Counts, Cardinals and Curates'
were levelled with a jerk.—England
saw such things with fear and trembling,
and her chief engineer charged himfelf
deeply, intending to fink the whole na
tion at a mot.—He went off with little
execution, as Paine and^Prieftly tell us,
who have examined his ammunition,
and find that it was wet and unfit for
ufa though it is expefted, his laudable
attempt wilt intitle him to a lordfap.
The French king and family, at an
early stage of this contest, were made
prisoners, and continued thus till a few
days ago, when, fired with rage, he
summoned all his fortititude, and with
great presence of mind fate,t into a coach
with bis dear little wife and run away,
arid doubtless had been running yet; but
a couple of yeomans arrested his Majes
ty and carried him back to Paris—No
injury has happened, excepting that her
majesty loft a feather out of her capband
two china jars of damsons were broke all
to pieces
relative to that meeting, is concerning
Dr. Priellly's behaviour there.— To
this I fappofe it will be Sufficient to an
fiver, that Dr, Pref 1, quas not present.
1 hefe are all the reports which 1 have
heard, but I doubt not there may be
many others, the tru:h of which every
man of common fenie, will judge from
what I have said, of those which have
come to my knowledge. Nevertheless
theft falfe reports are all the pretences
for the late horrible riots ; but the event
(hews that they were only pretences, and
that the Dissenters were the true object
of the fury of the mob, as many of those
gentlemen who have fuffered from the
riots, were not prefenc. For the com
mention Meetings had nothing to do
with religious dUtioflions, and were in
other pares composed of churchmen, ca
tholics, dissenters and quakers, Ie is
true, that in Birmingham, the majority
were dissenters, but it is evident tha^
they did not wish to be diftinguiffied a$
a party meeting, when they did me the
bonder to choole me as their chairmans
who, it was evident must have confirm
ed, „in order to qualify myfelf for the:
commissions which I have held in the
army, to all the formalities prescribe&
by the test ad, and was never present i±
a dissenting meeting aboreonce @r twice
in England; although I have the great
est regard for the diffening individuals
whom I know, among whom are several
of the late unfortunate victims, men as
peaceable, refpedabl% and as loyal as
any in the Kingdom.. But as the fub~,
jed of the commemoration Meeting was
quite unknown to the ignorant part of
the peepfe, it gave an opportunity of
raising any lies that were unneceiLry to
inflame the mob to execute their horrid
purposes. But the proceedings of the;
meeting were innocent, peaceable and
honorable, and also free from every fub
jeft relative to religious parties, I fa
lemnly affirm.
HARTFORD, SEPT. 1%
On Saturday last a powder-mill in
East Hartford, belonging to Mr. Elisha
Pakin, jan. containing about a ton of
powder, accidentally took fife and blew
up. Three perlons, of the names of
Evans, Corning and Brown, employed
in making powder, were inffantaneouf
ly killed ; Mr. Jabez Norton was very
dangerou^y burnt—one man had his
arm broken, and several others nightly
wounded, by this unfortunate explofmn.
The mill, and two adjacent buildings
were entirely demoliflied, and proper
ty to a large amount destroyed.
James kbir.
Wefl-Brumivick, fob 20. 1791.
American Advices.