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Since then, citizens, we cannot differ on
these principle*, it will be e»fy to convince
the virtuous patriot that the fyftcm we have
adopted in our Affcmbly, kin efftft the
enly one that agrees with the interests of
the country. . . .
Let u* begin by preferring to your view
the great end- of every honest man, and a>
, hove all,< every citizen entrufled with any
public authority, ought to propose tqr him*
Ml. This end ought to be, to fettle this
tevolution uponthe moil improveable foun
dations to the end that all the inhabitants
of the land 5 may feel tba permanent bcm-<
•fits cf faciei Hfe, under an administration
founded upon* the principles of freedom
.; «nd equality. See hcre.ciizens the great
and that a good mart ought perpetually to
have before his eyes; and he, who has
Other views,, whether be be placed in the J
I The Grand Duke oFTuf
cany revokes every aft of adhe
sion, content or acceflion to the
armed coalition against the French
Republic.
IJ* In consequence there (hall
be peace, friendlhip and a good
tinderftanding, between the French
Republic and the Grand Duke of
Tuscany.
111. The Neutrality of Tusca
ny is re-eftabli(hed on the footing
upon which it Rood before the Bth
of 061. 1703.
IV. This Treaty (hall not have
effect till after being ratified by the
Convention.
Done at Paris, at the National
Palace, the 21 It Piuviofe, pf
the 3d year of the French Rt
public. One and indivisible
(Feb. 9, 1795, of the com
monsera.)
Real Moderatiftn.
[Notwitbftanaing we have admired the
nervous eloquence of Freroh, Fatten andoth
irs, we have our dohbtt of their humanity
tend moderation, fmce the exculpatory defence
of B^nere, and cann t rejift cintrafiing
their late Phillipick with the folowing^
Proclamation.
LIBERTY, EQUALITY, FRATERNITY.
Citizens,
TH E Aflembly of Provisional Repre •
fenta ivts of the com®«ne of Am
fie.dam having received from time to
time, and on the part of different citizen#,
demands, (ending to the embracing of
xneafures. which uonld put into a Rate of
arrest, in genera!, the former members of
the now abolished government, and other
fufpefted perlons; the Aflembly has not
only been conftandy of opinion that it ought
not to embrace such tncvfures, but it also
thinks itfeif obliged to explain to all its
Compatriots in general, and to the inhabi
tants of Amsterdam in particular, wham
it reprefeniSj what is its manner of think
ing on a iutijeft of such importance, and
what are the principles on which its opin
ion is founded.
We (hill fct out, citizens, with declar
ing, that we neither could, nor would, for
a iingle moment fuppofc that the repeated
instances of a part of our feDow-ciuzens
to make us take rigorous measures, could
proceed from any motive of hatred or re--
venge. The Du;ch, from the very mo
ment when they firft brpke their chain*,
gave to aftonifard Europe, too grand an ex
ample o' geuerofity and humanity, to let
us believe that they would fully that glory
in the moments of tranquility, by avenging
themfeives on a fct ot humbled despots,
deprived of all strength. He deserves not
to triumph who basely abuses hie victory.
He alone can promise himfelf the constant
agreeable fruits of vidlory, who nukes his
vanquished ices biufh by his justice and
generosity, and convinces (hem that they
are the per fans who have chosen the worst
fide of the cause to defend. Citizens, gen
erofiiv, and justice carry with them irrefif
table force. Nothing can save the cause
of our country, but a constant adherence
to these virtues. Theexercife of revenge
may afford a tnnfitory pleafare in the mo
ments of pa&on end delirium, but it# con
Sequences arc commonly fad and fatal,while
the exercKe of equity and generosity leaves
nothing but agreeable sensations.
Such citizens, are our (entiments * fach
•ught to be yours. Real guardians of
Freedom and Equality, you are capable of 1
perceiving their value and their force-—-
And woe betide the country, if this dodt
rine (hall not become the universal destine
of the nation.
" , -i t . Js
sWte,Whethbr he labour in ano.her fpWriß,
or whether he be in a private situation,
(the most in viable doubdefs of all fitetions)
plays under the mafic of patriotism, the part
of a hypocrite, and a deceiver of the f£op ! *«-
Bar how to attain this end ? No method
more likely than to shew on the on* hand,
grandeur and, generoficy with refpeft to the
pall ; on the other to be severe and inex
orable to all arempts against freedom
and the fupretnacy of the people. Citi
zens, philofopbers.of all nations and ages,
have invariably judged that when civil dis- ■
fentions are over, the conquering party has
always been guilty of injustice, when it has
thought worthy of pun fh/nent ■flions which
the chief of the conquered party have done
to maintain their cause, and has, in con
feq je.ice of these principles, let on foot a
general perfecuion. A&oni, which are
at all times criminal; actions whieh are
morally bad independently of all political
relations and by confequenee, always £ua
ilh ible. are cuenthe only ones that can, ac
cording to the principles of juftce, be
taken into consideration. Their are alio
the only iftions which a righteous judge,
whose judgment ought not to be directed
by any influence of political pafli ns, will
esteem criminal and worthy of punlhment;
and not those aft ions wiich we at prefect
most justly confider as highly pernicious,
but which have been committed und-er the
eyes, and with the plenary approbation of
the preceding government.
If we reject these principles, there is no
longer security for atty human aflion ; and
let it not be drifemb^d that he who preach
es a con;ray aodriqs, proclaims in effefl
the right of the ftroisgeft and confcquently
the favourite of tyra^s.
Let none imagine, ptizens, that the true
inteieft of the nation can either in this
point of view, or inany other, differ from
the rules of juflice. Neve do the true in
terests of a nation exet he flighted devia
tion from the rules fit justice and good
filth, under whatfoeyer. pretext. Our
country will support itldt or be crufbed, as
it (frail adopt or reject ihefe truths. The
fyitem of terror, already quite banished
from, the French republic, cannot be tole
rated a Angie instant on that spot of the
eanh v/nere we live j it ^ould fink us in
ruin forever, our political confthuuon, our
local filiation, our commercial relations,
are all circumstances too delicate to sup
port repeated fccnca of violence and polit
ical shocks.
Cart your eyes, citizens, upon the state of
the finances of your country, of your ci
ty. Wdi it not require all the zeal,
all the elasticity of a commercial nation,
to fill your exhausted coffers? But is (his
real and this elasticity, compatible with a
lyftem of terror I Doubtless not: in bring
ing to perfection this Revolution, one fort
ot terror only ought to be tole.atcd ; Ter
ror to those who have the hard meh and
malice to undertake any thing against the
Revolution. The most Severe penal
ties against fach men will be fa much the
more equitable, as cur condudt with ref
pedt to the past faal' be noble and generous.
It is a great mistake, citizens to compare
the citizens of France in the course of her
revolution with ours. It was not in France
a ipirit of revenge for the crimes commit
ted under the old government, which oc
casioned thoie repeated feenes of terror;
but the violent opposition to the rcvoulurion
itfelf which occasioned the necessity of a
proportionable vigilance to crush all con
{piracies. But what opposition, citizens,
have we to exp-dt ? If a wife and just ad
ministration completes this revolution, n
not the daftrina of freedom and equality fa
amiable of itfelf, fa deeply graven in our
nature, that it will soon penetrate all hearts
with irresistible energy ? Will not all who
have been milled by court artifices return
from their error ? Let us ihew, by fade,
that* desnocrxtical government, wall or
dered, is not only possible, but that it is
the Me form of government that accords
with the dignity of man ; and soon will
this order of things be established by uni
versal content, upon the fare ft foundations.
L*t us prove the falfebood of all the ru
mours that have been spread among the
multitude,whether they proceed (O faame 1)
from the chair, or from the boiom of'
Councils, and soon wiM the multitude it
felf dbfpile its feducera. Slander painted
the doftrin* of freedom and equality,
as the immediate fatirce of confution and
the grave of religion—-But citizens where
will tfmder now hide her head, when eve
ry citizen is protend in his person,
in his property ; and when the ga^s of
the Temple are open to every one, that h^
may adore our commoa Father in (he m%«-
Wto which he is prompted by the fdel- /
ings of hit heart ? \ , '
These are the lively tffefts of a Wtfeaod
pbtlofophie policy, Which can Mid ought z
happily to accompli fa thia revolution, all/
the politic?*! difieutions, *ll the
that hkveukea placein this S^e> fiflkx
’ A . . / ' / US -■ . f. ‘
May fB.
Yesterday afternoon arrived
here, in 40 days from Greenock,/
the ship Amsterdam Packet, Capt. ,
Martin. The London papers by
her are to the 28th March, with
which the Editor ha* been very
obligingly fa vored. Such mater
ials as require publicity, ihall be
more fully detailed iff future Ga
zettes. / /
Though there is nothing in the
paper* tha/requires extraordinary
exerdbn/yet the Editor will barely
gi^e aMetch of that which appears
wonny of notice, a
MtU Courier, of March 26, it b
/ 'T'.
; Thataccounts have beenreceipt
/edin town; that thetranfportSj and
other vessels, which werd on their
yoyage to bring away the British
Infantry from the comment, have
been diverted in a gale of wind : /
Some of them have put into Hull
and pther ports in she North of
wor
In
its origin nu’fh before so interreftiag a re
volution as the prefenr. They were only
disputes between party and party ; trials
of (kill for the most part between knaves
dhd knaves; in which the people had no
parts co play but the parts of the dupe.
To-day is the cause of the people itfeif, in
which wn labour in which yoo all ought
to labour. To-day, it is not a faftioa, but
(he nation herfelf who is victorious. We
must direst our views, not to the welfare of
a few delpo't, but to the happiness of the
whole nation
According to letters from the
capital of Austria, the Emperor
applied to the Pope entreating the
Holy Father to open in his favor,
the treasures of the church. The
Pope always jealous to support
powerfully the cause of the true
believers, granted most gracioufiy,
for his contingent a jubilee and
solemn prayers ail over the holy
Roman empire, in order to obtain
from the good Sabooth who is
known to be the god of war, the
benedidioh of heaven over the
Piuflran and Austrian cavalry,
infantry &c«>
Let us (hen always, citizens, confidar our
Revolution under this important regard.
Let us endeavour to give it such a direst ion
that it Iha 11 be in vain to seek to foment new
political diflenfioas; let the example of our
deposed delpota, be to us a leflbn to avoid
the bale a, well as impolitic faults they have
committed, fiave their fenfelcfs perfecu
tions made the prisons of this country cry
for vengeance, and the complaints of the
Dutch, become fugitive in all parts of the
world, call forth curses upon their Admin
istration ? Let us make it our glory to can
vince Europe, that it ia the Dutch nation,
and not a fadion that now triumphs; that
it is the cause of Freedom and Equality,
not the spirit of reVeng* and deftruftion ;
in short, that found policy now reigns on
one fide to make a cardial offer of the right
hand of feilowfliip to her stray brethren,and
not to drive them to despair i on (he o:her,
to hold high the sword of punishment, in
order to strike the firft traitor that h enceforth
shall prelame ttr oppole the freedom and
iupremacy of the people. For though the
firft par^ of the alternative, be (he (rue end
of the real friend of humanly, the other
ought no less to fix the attention of the se
vere republican, that those who lie in am
bush against freedom, may fee, even from
afar, that their aftions are carefully watch
ed, and that the nation, which so generapfly
pardons is ready toinfbft exemplary pun
iftiment on criminals the moment her free
dom is attacked.
Such, citizens, are the motives of the
condufil we have pursued ; such is the rule
of our aftions. We believe that a fiim ad
herence to this system, is the only method
of completing the Revolution, and of fixing
the universal naiijnal happinels on the
foil of Batavia;
Decreed the 1 xth of February, 1795, the
firft year of Dutch Liberty.
Puhlifhed the i^th February following.
By order of »he Reprefanfatnes.
G. BRENDER a BRANDIS, Sec'ry.
Extra fl from the Gazette National
new-york, may 17.
de Paris.
England; but many have not yet
been heard of.
That Mr. Fox's speech, on
Tuefday, aftonilhed even those
who have been in the conftahc
habit of attending for years to the
speeches of that great man. A
speech more replete with incontro
verfible argument —more various
and profound in its reafonins—.
more compr*henfive in its range
—and more clear and luminous
in its arrangement, never came
from the mouth of man.
That Mr Pitt's fptach on the
day ot Mr. Fox's motion, was the
worts he ever made; it was infolenc
and impotent; haughty, without
being dignified ; and dogmatical,
without attempt at argument or
proof.
That there are Paris papers in
town of the 10 h, nth and 12th
inst. They make no mention of
a decree ofaccufation having puff
ed against Barrere and his accom
plices.
In the SUN of the fame date t it is
said.
The Earl Fitzwilliam does not
seem in a buny to return to Enr
gland.
precluded by a direct refufai on
rile part of our Govermem,to rd’.
* cognife the authority from which
the Gommiffioners derived their
powers.
Thar there rs a squadron of fix
fail of the line, and another of eight
frigates, now on a cruise from
Brest.
The Glasgow Courier of the
24th of March, contains a Re
trofpedt, which, aS it touches cri
the situation of the polkitcal hem-r
ifphere of Europe, cannot be un
acceptable to our readers. Tbd
writer proceeds thus “ The'
last week has been rather barren
of political events, nor haVe those
which it has produced compen
sated us, by their importance, for
the paucity of/ their number.
“ The prefect situation pf Ire
land aS nearep. our hearts/ and as
perhaps involving, eventually, the
best and deardt interests of tbit
' J .// r s
... .a ; I . . ‘ ... j
That there were 13,000 soldiers
marched into Breit about three
weeks before the above date, and
are laid to be deftiqed to the Weft-
Indies or the Cap£ of Good Hope.
1 hat a' vast number o flat bot
tomed boars are at Brest, as well
as orher sea ports, indeed, it is said,
for an expedition in the lummer.
That ten fail of the line were de
tached from the Frerlch fleet while
at sea, on a lecret cxpedition,wbofe
destination is to keep a profound
secret.
That a convoy was required for
the packets, between Yarmouth
and Cruxhaven.. The answer of
the ado ir J:y was, rha no (hips
could be (pared from more txptn
five services.
In the 'telegraph of March' 2B, it is
fad.
That the Earl Camden left
London the day before, co ,take
upon him the arduous office of
Lord Lieutenant cf Ireland. He
bares with him the secret ihftitu
tions of Mr. Pict.
In th^ Chronicle of the 28 of March
it is fad.
That the Dtt-h ComrrJflioners
left London y^fterday evening, or*
their return to Holland. We
understand that not one of the ob
je&s of their mission are accom
pfifhed; and that, all difeuflionsi
On the nature of these objects, was