The Columbian informer, or, Cheshire journal — Keene, N.H., 1794-06-24 00:00:00, page 2

tne heart of the firft Dominator wh> thill
lay a parricidal hand on the statue of Lib
erty. Virtue and probity are not idle
words.—There are hypocrites in virtue as
well as in patriotism ; but they (hall be
unmasked. It is not to men that we mast
attach ourfeives but co principles which
are invariable. Let every man in pub
lic trull know that he has only to choofc
between a civic crown and the fcaffbld."
Carnot.—" In the name of the Commit
tee of Paolic Safety, 1 propose the aboli
tion of the Executive Council, which you
have already felt to be incontinent with
Republican government." The Hall re
sounded with applause.
'The fix Minitiers are to be replaced by
twelve Commissions, attached to the
Committee of Public Safety, to whom
they are to givea daily account of their
operations. Each of these commissions is
to b:compofed of two Members, with an
a^itlant, except the Commission of Fi
nance, which is to be composed of five
Members ; that of he Marine, which is
to be composed of one, with an affittant ;
and that ofEoreign Affairs, which will also
be composed of one person oc'y, and with
out an affidant. These who compose these
Commissions will be refpoilisle far the
tranfadions of the Commiflions. They
will have 12,c00 livres salary, and
their affidavits 8,000. Toey enter on
office the ift day of Floreal, at which
epoch the offices of the present Minify
will cede- *
Letters from Genoa, zz3 March in
form, that the French Minifler in thatci
tv had received dispatches from Ballis,
(Corfo) Though their contents wet
not known,, yet we have intelligence, that
Lord Hood, after having collided his for
cos before Bbftia, had given orders to hit
troops united with the £Qrficans & under
the command of the celebrated Paoli, to
attack the place, at once by sea ard land ;
but that the enterprise had failed of fuc-
The French and Corsican £arpfon cf
Baffin not only flood the attack, but in a
fem • which they trade,obliged the united
P itifh and Corsican forces to abandon their
reign, with the loss of force pieces of
cannon. Paoli's nephew, it is Ibid war
wounded.
It is also said, that the red hot balls fired
from Baflia, defrayed two British men of
Sitting or April Z.
The commencement of this fitting was
entirely taken up by addiefics and con
g-atu'ations on the difeovery of the grand
<onfpiracy. The buri of Chalier was pre
sented to the Convention by citizen de
3r ine, a deaf and numb fculptcr.
Several Members of the Revolutionary
Committee, ofthe Section of Marat, and
rm.y o hc r Peifons have been arretted b
<Jer of p re Committee of Public Safety.
Ono^ Vanals, A Belgian, threw himfelf
out of a three-pair of flairs window, and
was killed..
The names of these twelve C^mmiffion
ers will be—l. Os Police and Tribunals.
—2 Os Public Inftrudijn.-- 3. Os Ag
ricwture and the Arts'.—4. Os Commerce
and Navigation.—§. Os Public Works.
—6. Os Public Succou —7. Os Trans
ports and Public Putts.—B. Os Finance.
—9. Os the M. cements of the Land For
ces.—lo. Ofth~ Marine and Colonies. -
It. Os Adus, Powder, and Minery.—
12. OfFo eign Adairs.
The ab)ve cammiffions will be named
by the National Convention, upon the
prcfentaticnof .he Committee of Public
Safety. It will also be in the name of the
Convention that all offices will be given
by the Cora4nil.ee.
Or Piris papers received yefterday,en
able us to give at length the proceeding
c f h:convention, by which it appears that
Dinton, Lacroix, and other prisoners Wert
at once condemned to death because the
refuted to answer to interrogatories with
out being confronted with their accusers.
They were executed on the evening of the
fhinft.
A Congress of all the Italian States it
opened at Milan, to concert measures for
the common defence ; as the deputies had
arrive:! except th? Neapolitan Ministers —
their object u the raising an army of 40
coo men. Venice refutes to join the coali
tion and Parma will not grant any contri
bution towards the war.
The number of prisoner's is 6,823,
The city is perfectly quiet.
ENGLAN D.
LONDON, April/.
war ; and Gen. Paoli is slated to have em
-Ibarked on board the Englilh fleet.
April 15.
Extras of a letter jrom fefej, dated March
3 l -
I “ Oar apprehensions from the enemy
fee'm jutt now to have much subsided.
Yeftcrday fe'nnight, however, we were le
rioufly alarmed ; one of oar citizens re
,turned from the coast of France, with in-
Itelligence that the enemy's Beet was under
fail, and bearing for this iflamd ; he re
ported, that more than 100 fail were off
Concale Bay, and that he was chafed by
fume of the fleet. We have since received
Ipretty authentic intelligence, that the ene
my have landed a part, if not the whole
!of their troops ; thtir artillery is also put
lon Chore again, and 400 horde which were
emoarked. The occasion of this is laid to
'be some advantages gained by the Royal
nils in La Vendee, and that 4.000 of thole
troops defined for us, are marched to op
pcle the Royalifis. It is even reported,
;that the peasants about Remes had risen
and taken arms.
The a-rest of Danton, according to ac
counts received yellerday from Faris, is
likely to occasion more civilian in that
capital, than has occurred from the exe
cution of the Briffctiaesur the Hebertifts.
rpat partizan has dill a po#edul aid both
in the Convention andin the Clubs wiih
jat doors^—He is believed to oe incorrup
tible, and this circurtiftaace alone wtl
make it highly dangerous for Robespierre
and the Committee of Public Safety, to
provoke io bold an appeal to the popular
opinion:
The King of Premia is still gradual!,
withdrawing his troops from the north
rail frontier of France ; yet thole who are
paid for deluding the people of this coun
try, still alledge that this is only for the
furpofe of lending his troops into Flan
ders. These writers evidently fuppefe
the people of this country to be as deficient
in Geography as they are of Modify !
The present filiation of Danton, me
the probable conleqcences of his arrtf,
are fufiicient tojuftify the general curiosi
ty relpedting that perlonage. He ua man
of blunt mannersand boisterous eloquence.
—“ His form," fays Dr. Mocre, “ is
coarse & uncommonly fjouft—his manner
fierce and rude—he (peaks with the voitr
of a Stentor, declaims on the blellings of
freedom with the arrogance of a tyrant,
and invites to union and friendship with
.he frowns of an enemy.
The force in Concale Bay at this time
is quite problematical ; one account lays
fix, another eight, and another twelve
Ihips of the line, betimes frigates. The
t^ a give credit to is fix ihips of the line,
and two Trey gun foips cut down and
and mide ftatiig batteries, which have
been taken for l}/s of urn line,"
Mr. Pitt has agreed, that the French
Emigrant Regiments (hall not be embodi
ed in this country, nor introduced into t,
, rithoutrhe confix tof parliament. Thi>
is an evident conceffun of the p inci^n
which he maintained on the introduction
f the Heffi n troops. This was all that
was alked tn. the latter laitance, and nei
ther thelaw of the land, nrthe reason cl
the people, can defer, any difference be
tween# these defcrift^ns of force, whole
use is only justifiable on the fame principle
of reteffity.
M. D* Aranda, one of the ablest slates
men in Spain, has been sent an exile to
his ellate in Andalusia, for having said
that the combined powers in the present
war were influenced more by passion iha^
bv reason !—The intelligence of the de
fection of Prussia had not then reached the
Court of Madrid, or they mull have seen
and argued that one of the Powers at lealt
was actuated by reason, when feeing
hat no feafible purpose was to be at
tained by the war, he properly demand
ed to be paid ad valorem for his affiftance®
There is a rumour that the Emperor of
Morocco, gained over by French money,
means to attack the Spanish settlement on
the coast of Africa. This will be a ve
ry troubiefome diversion, al hough at this
moment the Marine of Spain is in good
conditions to repress the piracies of the
Moors.
. torn the GENERAL. AD TERTISER.
Th^t the defection of Bruffia has be
come certain, admits of no doubt. The
silence cfMr. Pitt, when interrogated in
the Hoeft of Commons by Mr. Grey,
KING of PRUSSIAN DEFECTION.
APRIL :o.
:Th' Emperor had proposed the dinger
ous expedient of arming the mass of Ger
man pcal'.ntry. The Courtof Berlin ob
^e&d. Both memorials were adJreffQ
o the Diet ; and both were'in a'peremp
to:y tone. Such is the rope of fanu
that binds together the tyrant's of Ea
!rope.
Had' the report of this been fslfe, Mr.
t'itt would not have waited tor the que
ries ofMr. Grey, before he control tec.
it; and far less would we have (offered
such a tufpicioa to rife, by his reserve, in
?□ suspicion.
Am:r .ans, who have not been in Eu
'r pe do ribt comprehend the alarming con-
Sequence of such tumours, when they be
gin to receive crecit.—The fall of the
docks, is certain to follow. England
owes at least two hundreds eight millions
Itarling ; and when thev fitk only one per
cent, there is a loss to the public creditors
of two millions and eight hundred thou
fod pound' in the funds, which at twenty
five per cent, of difyunt is equal to two
millions and one hundred thousand pounds
sterling.
It is at the fame time to be observed,
that public credit is the tingle butefs
that props the English government from
Iperdition. This credit has survived ma
ny a terrible shock. The pitcher goes often
;to the quell, fays the proverb, but it alwajs
I breaks at lafl.
solves the problem. The fame filenee was
observed by Lord George Germaine,
when Colonel Barre firft enquired of him,
io the fame place <wbat bad become of Bur
goy's army at Saratoga ? It teems, that
the Britilh Mifilter intends to substitute
French Emigrants, for Prussian battalions.
—This is the meaning of his notice to
the House of Commons, mentioned in our
sass.
What poor JOHN BULL is either to
fay or do, on this dread falling ts, Om
nifcience only knows. In th: debate on
the tobacco bill Mr. G.llon obferved,thai
" No nation is more indolent in profperi
tv, or mere humiliated in adversity."
Os Enghfh insolence we have during ma
ny years fuftaired an ample specimen.
We sincerely hope; that the period is now
appproaching to feverfe the medal.
That this definable event would take
place about this time, has ofiate becom
very probable. The Emperor and HON
EST Frederick William has already beer
engaged in a fort of piper war, before
\hc diet of Ranson. The very feene of
this dispute plainly told all the world, that
confidence between the two loveeign
themselves was extinguished. So litdc
does either of them value, this very diet—
that the late Frederic,, in his memoir:
printed, by the prefect King, compares
its members,? to a parcel of curs barking a.
the moon.
If there could ever have been a ques
tion, in what way the conspiracy of crown
ed beads against France was to terminate,
the late intelligence from England mull
be granted as decisive. Supposing that
the King of Prussia, in his capacity of a
German Prince—fhouxd itil support his
contingent of troops in the German army,
acircumftance, at beftpery doubtful, Bill
his calling off the far,to forces, which
were hired by England will prove an ir
reparable ftreke to the cause of tyranny.
The deduction ofpirty,forty,or fifty thou
sand men from the forces of the combined
powers, is, in itfelf, equivalent on the
French fide, to the gaining of three great
battles. Add to this, that they are, in
this way, purchased without the loss of a
tingle man ; and that so vast an advan
tage muft.augment, to he utmost pitch,
the confidence, impetuosity, and ambi
tion of the republicans.
" It is not the number of our (lain,"
fays Voltai e, " but the terror of tbe Jur-vt
^ort, that gives the finishing broke to vic
tory." It is not merely the retreat of for
ty ihoufand Piuffians that mud now force
the scale of %ittocracy to kick its beam.
It is the confufion, the derangement, th<
universal annihilation of confidence in
Ipircd by this royal ad of treachery, that
must Ihake through every nerve the firmed
of the Auft:tan veterans.
[The following was publifad in a Hand
bill in London, on the I th Maneb. It deve
loped the mos horrid circumfance, that ever
afoniJhed a newspaper reader]
HORRID PRACTICE DETECTED.
Tofuch an alarming pitch
has the practice efftealing dead
bodies arisen, that repofc and
They were committed to prif
oh/ The mob broke the win
dows of the house front top to
bottom, and woul'd have gone
to further acts of violence, but
the officers appealed them.
, But what renders this offence
against humanity more horrid, #
is, that there is great reason to
think from die date in which'
some of the bodies were fou^d,-
that they did-not die a natural'
deaths some ofthe flefh being
quite firm- and fat, and frefh a^
if just killed. It is hoped prop
er inquiry will be instituted, to
bring the perpretators of lucl>
(hocking crirtles to condign pun
ifhmeriti
whole; there was nearly Forty
Skulls' discovered; and Limbs
,and Bodies in proportion. The
man and woman who, lived in
.the house were taken into cuf
kody by the deicers, and were
with much difficulty conveyed
in fafety to the Police office, so
exasperated were the mob that
had there collected.
, In the course of their exami
nations, they said they had re
ceived the bodies from Sur
gcoes, in order to prepare for
Skeletons..
To which the several parts of
the Human body is applied, b,
thole who deal in Carcases.
Os the bones they make skele
tons, and lamp-black ; of the,
fat, tallow for candles) and otto
On Monday noon d hackney
coach was by some persons -ob
served to flop at the door, and
a hamper and a sack being re
moved from it, drew their at
tention ; when one of them saw 2.
human hand hanging out of the
latter. Immediate information
of this circumstance was given,
at the Police Office,White Chap
el. Tn eonfequence of which
Several of the officers searched
the house ; and entering the
kitchen found in two coppers 2
number ofhuman limbs boiling,
and the flefli nearly offthe bones ;
in a back parlour,fome tubs were:
filled with lime water, in which
were a number of skulls ; and'
in the roonis abbve, fevers! hol
ies and human /.i^ r.
security is not to be found even
in the grave.
It was but the other day that
Lambeth Church Yard was rob-
bed of more than two hundred
bodies, as appeared by the emp
ty coffins dug up. Laftfummer,
it may be remembered, three
cart loads of human bodies and
limbs were emptied in a field
near the Gity Road, to the great
offence and danger of the inhab
itants of this city : As from the
extreme heat of the weather,
and the putrid state of the ffefh,
an infeaton was to be feared.
About the fame time two cart
loads were emptied at Pancrafs.
The following^re all the par
ticulars yet. discovered, con
cerning the present offence.
Near Mile End Turnpike a
man and his wife have for some
time resided, who, by the inhab
itants of that neighborhood,
were fufpe&ed of receiving dead
bodies into their house.
ACCOUNT of the USES;