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American Herald of Liberty*
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Substance of a late report made re
fpeSing the political Jituation of
ib^ Republcs of France, by Citizen
Robert (pier rt, in the name of the
committee of public welfare.
We now solicit the utnfoft at
tention of the National Convention
towards the greatest interests of the
country. We come to lay before
your eyes the Gtuatton of the re
public with regard to the divers
powers of the earth, and above all
with regard to the nations whom
nature and teafon attach to our
cause, but whom intrigue and
perfidy seek to range among the
number of our enemies.
Emerged from the chaos in
which a criminal court had plung
ed government, the French legisla
tors ought to fix their political
principles towards the friends and
enemies of the republic.
To unite the monstrous league of
powers against France, it required
the politics of two courts, whose
influence swayed all the rest; it
required even the alliance of the
King of the French, and of the fac
tion who carefTed and threatened
him by turns, to govern under his
name, or to raise a foreigner upon
the ruins of his power.
letter was received from Le
qriinio and Laignelot, commiffion
ersat Rochefort, intimating, that
a plot of the Engliffi to procure
the iurrender of Rocheforr, L’O
rient, Brest, St. Maloes, Bour
deiuk, and other ports of the o
ceiiT, had been leafonably difcov
eitd. That there had been on
bdard a vessel called L’Apollon,
i^hich had been sent to Rochefort
for the purpose of debauching
the people; a nurhber of papers,
iVhich gave the molt complete
evidence that a diabolical plot
Was in agitation to procure the
Surrender of all these ’places, as
they had procured that of Toulon.
That an engineer on board the
Apollon, being detected had
blown out his brains, which bad
prevented therh from drawing
from him thb secrets with which
he was evidently entrußed 5 that
a veflel sent to Bourdfeaux for the
purpose of Birring up rebellion,
had been wrecked near Rochefort,
chat the guillotine had in conse
quence been ereded, and had re
ceived the new name of “ The
people’s just ice,” ■which is Written
over the fatal national axe ; and
that from morning till night the
ruffians, federalifts, &c; who had
Entered into conspiracy to fell their
Country, were expiating the crime
with their lives, and feeling the
flfoke of “the peoples juftice.”—
Applause.
[Volume VIII.
National convention, nov. 26.
Foreign Intelligence.
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FRANCE.
It is now untverfally known that
the politics of the court at Lon
don, contribute a great deal to
give a shock to our revolution.
Pitt’s plan was i m men fe-M he ex
ecution of which was to havefecur
ed to England the three great ob
jects of its ambition or jeiloufy:
Toulon, Dunkirk, and our colo
nies. Pitt endeavoured to part
the South of Frahce, from the
North. This plan was bold, but
the genius who formed could not
find means to*put it into execu
tion. Pitt wanted to sport with
the French nation, but he has been
thunder struck —His notions re
fpeding our revolution are grossly
erroneous. His views have been
crofted, and barbarism could not
be reflated. Pitt saw dilappear
Neckar, Orleans, L aFayette;
Lameth,Dumourier, Custi^e,
Brissot, and all the pigmites of
the Criflbtine faction. It was in
vain for the Girondift fadion, and
all the cowardly emissaries of for
eign powers to pretend to excite
civil war and hydra of federaldm.
The genius of liberty Icreened the
French, who unanimously with to
be free.
Since the year 1791, theEngliffi
nation perceived there was a strong
Republican party in France, which
would not fide with tyranny. The
people themselves were chat party.
Theaflaffinations of the Camp de
Mars and of Nanci, were hot deem
ed fufficient to deftrov that party ;
and they resolved upon war.—
Hence the monstrous alliance of
Austria andPruflia,ahd afterwards
the league of all the powers arm
ed against us. It would be absurd
to attribute that phenomenon to
emegrants, or to the credit of the
late court j It was the work of
foreign politics^ supported by
the power of fadidns who ruled
France.
To have led the Kings to this
step, it was not enough to have rep
relented the form of government
as odious to the majority of the
people, and to have added, that
the nation wait for them as their
deliverers : It was enough to have
corrupted the Generals ; <but to
juftify the attempt of the Kings
before the eyes of their fubjefts it
was even found necessary to save
them the trouble of declaring
war. You all know the Michia
velien address with which this e
vent was brought about.
The sincere partizansof the Re
public thought quite otherwife.'
Before they broke the chains of the
world, they Intended to secure the
, liberty of their own country, by ex
■ tirpacing their' own tyrant, and in
culcating the notions of universal
liberty.
Such was the charader of the
falfe patriots •, such the conduct of
the emissaries pensioned by the
foreign courts*
TUESDAY, March n, 1794.
The moment had arrived when
the Britiffi government after hav
ing excited so many enemies a
gainst us, chose itfelf openly to
join the league. But the wish of
the party of the pppofition milita
ted against that projed of the
Ministry : Brissot caused war to
be declared against England and
Holland at the fame time : And
soon after war was proclaimed a
gainst Spain, because we were not
prepared then to combat that new
enemy, and the Spanish fleet was
ready to join that of England.
With what base hypocrily did
the traitors avail themselves of
pretended insults committed up
on the Ambafladors, which had
been preconcerted between them
and the foreign powers? With
what indecency did they attest the
dignity of the nation with which
they thus inful tingly sported.
The dastards ! They had saved
the Prussian despot, and fattened.
Belgium with the purest blood of
the French,& delivered up to the
enemy our treafures,our magazines,
our ptovifions and our defenders.
This was npt enough,our Journal
ists werefubOrned to vilify.there
volution, and to render the French
name contemptible to all mankind.
They chiefly endeavoured to op
pose the opinion of Faris to that
of all the rest of the Republic,
and that of the Republic to the
prejudices of the foreign nations.
They also armed the hand of
fanaticifm against us by a new
artifice. Dumourier in Belgium
excited the national volunteers to
strip the churches and to play
with the silver Saints, at the fame
time the traitor published religi
ous manifeftors, worthy of the
Pope, which vowed the detesta
tion of the Belgians and of man
kind upon the French. In the
fame manner the traitors from
within, declaimed here against the
Priests, while favouring at the
fame time the rebellion of the
South and.theWeft.
Mean while France was left by
herfelf, combating for the com
mon cause. Allies of France,
what became of you ? Americans,
were you only the allies of Louis
XVI ? Did not the French na.
tion, by her arms and armies,
help you to (hake off the yoke ?
No, Citizen Allies, the French
have not abjured their fentimenr,
but if it depended on the fadlion
which governed Frenchmen,
they wo*uld now be among the
number Os your enemies.
By aver/ fingujar fatality, the
Reprefentativds of the Republic
in America, are the Agents of the
1 traitors whom she has punished—-
The brother in law of Brißbt is
Consul General with the United
States from France j another man
of the riame or 6^enet, ferit by Le
' Burri and Bri&f, #hh the charge
of Plenipotentiary Agent, resides
at Philadelphia, and has faithfully
fulfiled their designs and inftruc--
tions. He has made use of the
most unaccountable means to ir
ritate the American Government
against us; he afttdled to speak
without any prefance, in a menac
ing tone, and to make proposals
to that Government equally con
trary to the inrereft of both na
tions ; he endeavored to render our
principles fufpedted or formidable,
by exceeding them by the molt
ridiculous applications. By a ve
ry remarkable contrast, while those
who had sent him to America,
persecuted at Paris the Popular
Societies,denounced as Anarchists
the Jacobins, courageously ftrug
ling against tyranny,Genet atPhi
ladeiphia, made himlelf the Chief
of a Club there, and never ceased
to make and excite motions equal
ly injurious and perplexing to the
Government. Thus the fame
fadion which wanted to fubjed
the people in France to the aris
tocracy of the rich, endeavoured
in a moment to set free and arm
all the negroes to deftfdy our
Colonies.
The fame manoeuvres were
employed in France by Choiseul
Gouffier, and his successor.—•
Who would believe that cldhs and
primary aflemblies have been
holden at Constantinople; Such
proceedings could be neither bene
ficial to our principles nbr topur
cause; but they could perplex and
exasperate the Ottoman Court.
The Turk, the neceftary enemy
of our enemies, the ufefiil and
faithful ally of France, flighted by
the French government, circum
vented by the Engliffi cabinet ob
served hitherto a neutrality more
prejudicial to his own interest than
to that of the republic.* It ap
pears, however, that he is ready
to awake ; but the Englifti cabi
net dired the Divan—he will not
bring his forces against Austria,
our common enemy, brit against
Russia, whose power nhay once
more prove a rock for the Otto
man arms to split upon.
There is another nation united
to our cause by tie^ not less strong
—I mean the Swiss. The poli
tics of our enemies have drained
all their resources to turn theSwifs
against us ; imprudence supine
ness, and perfidy, concurred to
fuccour their efforts foniC viola
tions Os territory,*fame ufeful chi
canes, some libels inferred in cer
tain Journals, and a very adivc
intrigue carried on at Geneva,
Mont Terrible, and in fo^he dark
committees holden at Paris and
consisting of bankers, foreigners
and intriguers, all have been tried
to strengthen the line of our ene
mies. Helvetic prudence has
withstood all the felicitations of
the Foreign powers.. The Swiss
[Number 36.