The Columbian informer, or, Cheshire journal — Keene, N.H., 1793-08-21 00:00:00, page 2

Vefome world quietly, without danger,
'and in the naxt— (Here the preacher will
conclude bis fermon —The Metabafift will
conclude his essay by promising to all poor
people, who will be diligent in their call
ing and avoid spirituous liquors, a share
of this world's goods, (efficient to make
them comfortable and referable in life;
the preachers will tell them what they may
expend in the next.
Recommendatory Orders to the Twentieth Re
giment of MILITIA.
1 HIS Regiment is newly formed,
lately organized, and soon to appear in
the exercise of military duty. And as it is
much easier for any society or body of
men, to prevent the intreduftion of bad
pradifes, than to eradicate them when they
have once taken /cot; 1 therefore, take
this early opportunity to recommend most
carncftly to the officers and soldiers of this
Regiment, to exert their influence to dis
countenance and prevent that unfoidier
like cutters which has heretofore be^n too
ranch pradifed in some parts of this State
—that is, for Soldiers on nights 'and morn
ings preceding davs of exercise, to repair
>-? the h^ufes cf Officers, and to fire a:
theirdoors ; and for Officers to treat then
on fu:h an cccafior, If the disturbing
efaged people, and the frightening of wo
men and children, is not to be regarded,
it is attended with many ill, and feme
mill dreadful confequ^nces. Betides, the
Officers are put to unneceffxry expence,
and the soldier buys his out of-feafon
dram, very dear.
I wish not to be underßood that I d+fip
prove of Officers treating their soldiers ;
but ! w.lh it to be done wi,h proper eco
-7 ?my, at suitable times ; so as to promote
that mirth and chearfulnels, which is in
spired by a temperate u^ of the bounties
of Heaven ; and to avoid that tumult and
ciforder, which are the consequences ol
their abuse.
" The aristocracy and the coalition cl
kings, who tremble at their inability t
Inatch from us our liberty by the frce 0:
arms, are now preparing to defiroy it by an
intrigue carried on by gold. These wcrefh
days appointed for the execution of thei #
plot ; & what puffed yefierday & to day i
the hall are only preliminaries to it. Thi:
confpitscy has oren formed for t'^ fame
purple as that of the ioth cf May, they
wilh to defray the convention by isfurrec
tion, and this is their plan efexteution.
" The conftirators after having for a
long time prepared the minds of the peo
ple by crafty ipeedhes clothed in patriotic
language, have railed tl^e members of
the popular societies, cf ^e conf.i:u:cd au
thorities, end even of the Convention it
felf, so as almost to have persuaded them
that to save the country a new infurreftion
was Dtceffary. This infurrediion has been
organized by elandeftine committees
Every thing is p-econcerted and arranged
The uifordcr which they have created is
the Convention, will serve as a pretext
for their projected riot. The women toe
lend their assistance, many of whom have
been formed into regiments for their in
iquitous undertaking-— at the moment
when their miftuided arms are uplifted
for the defrudirn of their country, they
endeavour to persuade us that they are
employed in faring it.
" A great majority of the Citizens, it is
true, have not been seduced; but our
enemies have succeeded in making fana
tics of that credulous part of the people,
who, more rcmakablc for their virtue
th?a their understanding, are easily mif
fed. They have a!fo attempted to persuade
th: Volunteers, who are going to Vendee,
" THE fcsndalous feene which has just
palled in ;h: tribunes, convinces ms of the
truth of a coufpiracy which has been re
vealed to me bv many good citizens, who,
fearing the poiznards 01 the dhllin, have
refilled to make their names public. J
shall row develops this plot! L^gifl.tors
people, be attentive !—you: fifecy is con
cerned !
Q^Q 1
M^e by the President cf the Na
tional Convention to the French
Nation.
AMASA ALLEN, Lieat.
Cel. Commandant
Cal,ch, Aug. 16, 1793.
J'oret^n, JntcUty^ice.
" Citizens,
FRANC E.
PARIS, Mav ?z.
DECLARATION
" I love the people too well net to dfe
my utmost endeavours to save them from
the effedsoftheirow..madnefs ; andifin the
excelsoftheirblindneisit fhocld be, that in
this chair I fhculd receive their attacks,
covered wi,h wounds I will Rill offer upmy
prayers far their happiness, and my lali
words inali he, " C God, preserve my
country, and pardon those murderers,
they know not what they do."
(Signed) ISNARD."
In my letter of the 20th,1 announced to
you that we were here in the momentary
expectation cf an awful and tremendous
crifis,and never was the state of this metro
polis fj critical as it is at the present mo
ment. By the address of the President cf
the Convention to the people, you will
perceive how matters are circumflanced,
and in addition to this ftatemert, take the
following particulars.
The populace assemble in great bodies,
and become more and more riotous and
mportunate. They express their detefta
ron of the present Rate of things, call cut
for laws and government, and in the hall
of the Convention the Icgflctcrs arc at
a ra h fitting insulted by the galleries.
Yesterday two thousand cf the rioter:
▼ere apprehended by the atm^d force—
i measure which appears to have rested the
citizens cf all ranks,who find an immediate
cecifon necessary.
Boulanger, the new commandant gen
tzl, has refined, forefeeing too much
danger and difficulty, at the present crisis,
^the pott cf honour aligned to him.
The departments arc ina date Sttlr
better than that of:he metropolis. Mar
seilles fams to have renewed the plan ofa
f derative fyllem of the southern provin
ces. The lesions ofthat city have got
the better of the adverse party, & co-oper
ate with thole of Bourdeaux ; many of the
dozens have fled, and a great number are
arc apprehended and imprisoned.
It was yesterday announced in the Con
tention that M. de St. Croix, fact on a
diplomatic miffior. to Constantinople, had
been apprehended on his way by the Ba
ihtw cf Bosnia.
The success of the Spaniards on the fron
tier of the Pyreunees has been rapid.
They have made a second irruption in the
lower department cf the Pyrernees, have
possessed themselves of St. Jean de Luz,
and threaten an attack on Bayonne, in
die vicinity of which city, it has been
fr/ed in the Jacobins, they have made
heir landing good to the number of
ten thousand. They have obtained a
compile victory over the troops of the Re
public, at Saars.
" Citizens, this is the abyss into which
you are about to be precipitated, if, r.ot
withltancing all that you have jolt ^eard,
you cerfift in following the initigauCTs of
those who mifuad ycu. I call heaven to
witness, it it for your welfare that I speak
—if you could fee the bottom cf my heart,
you would there drfeever how much I ab
hor slavery—how much I adore liberty.
It is the who at this moment inspires me.
" I owe to my country the declaration 1
have made—l have difeharged my con
feience, and, firm at my post, I wait the
event.
“ The insurgents are to execute, on the
members of the Convention, and other
citizens, the proscriptions which have been
ordered by their leaders. The persons pro
scribed will necessarily find some defend
ers ; a combat will ensue, and such mem
bers cf the Convention as shall have been
led astray, will be themselves massacred.
The National Representation will then be
destroyed ; the Hames of civil war will
break forth, and the departments and the
armies will be divided.
that they ought not to depart until after
the execution of their project.
“ A prey to anarchy, there no longer
remains to France any rallying point.
During these intervals, all the armies at
the fame time attack oar Frontiers, the
Aristocrats shew themfelves,and the Coun
ter-Revolution is effected.
NATIONAL CONTENTION, may 13.
GEN. Santerre appeared at the bar,
and made this address:
"Weare ready to set out for la Vendee ;
and to-morrow, and the ensuing days,
twelve or fourteen thousand men will set
out. We have eighty guns, and abun
dance of ammunition.
" To make oar successes more certain,
I propose to you to decree ;
" ift. to all the battalions of volunteers
who are not inferibed, an experienced
officer foil be annexed.
" 2d. All the citizens of Paris who have
fcrviceable mufquets, ffiall deliver them
A letter was read from General Keller
main to the commander in chief Lam
arche. It fiates, that the General had
just returned from an expedition useless at
teaft. The French had loft the effeft of
all their late conquefts,through the fault cf
the 19th battalion of Charente, which had
fuffered itfelf to be surprised, end had
thus loft the principal pel
June 8. By private letters from Oftend
we hear the important information, that in
a paper of the Moniteur, of the 31st ult.
it is stated, that on the 26th, Gallon, at
the head of the Breton Royalists, had
gained aver, decided advantage over the
Republicans in the neighbourhood of Fen
tenay, in consequence of which it was ap
prehended that Rochelle must fall into the
hands of the former.
to those who are to set out. The War
Minister shall recompence them by fa
fils to be repaired for that purpose.
" gdly, Santerre is authorized to com
municate to the members of the Com
mittee cf Public Safety, the means he
has devised for the activity of the feivice
of the artillery.
" 4thly, The War Minister shall have at
his disposal fix hundred thousand livre#
for the repair of fufils, and five hun
dred thousand for execution of the pre
ceding article."
The General concluded by fuggeftirg,
that
Augzis, a national deputy, fitted,
by a letter dated at St Maixent, May 11,
that he had repaired to the departments
bordering on thole in a fiate of revolt, to
demand iuccors. Three thousand armed
citizens,terrified by the exaggerated state
ments of the force of the revolvers, had
retreated to St Maixent, and afterwards
to Nyort, many others following their ex
ample. And exclaiming as they retro
graded, that the design was to conduct
them to Daughter. He had collected to
gether a body of men, and told that the
rebels were only two leagues diflant.
ENGLAND.
LONDON, June 3.
Extras of a letterfrom Magdeburgh.
" I can effare you that the account is
ferted in several journal: cf M. La Fay
ette's being ctad is fahe. He is Ihll
nere with th Alexander Lameth,
and their companions ia misfortunes, in
is good health as con be expeded, in a
orison very ciofe and unwholcfome. 1
nave not fetn them : for they are allowed
to fee nobody ; they are net even permit
ted to Communicate with one another,
l shall fay little upon wha: I feel upon this
4 ubjed; but I cannot help thinking that
the atrocities of the Jacobins have been
guilty in France, in moments of alarm and
tumult, are more pardonable than the de
liberate injustice which these honourable
ram have been compelled to fuffer—How
:fer this Can many trust to the moderation
of the combined powers r”
'June 7. The Earl cf Carlife is ap
pointed secretary of State for the home de
partment, in the room of Mr. Dundas.
By dispatches arrived yesterday by the
L'fbon mail, there is advice that the Spa
niards have been on the French territory
in the Pyrennces ever since the 17th of
April ; that in several adions they have
defeated the French, and taken several
cannon. The Spanish fleet, cenfifting of
25 fail cf the line, was in Carthegena,
waiting for Lord Hood, under whofc or
ders they are to a&.
Several Eaglifh gentlemen in Paris
have lately been denounced at the commit
tee cf fafety, for having been more
free in their cendud and conversation a
gainst the present order of things than was
prudent ; amongst the number is Captain
Grimfton, of Yorkshire, fomeriy of the
guards, and now an half pay officer. He
would have been guillotined some time
ago, had not Thomas Paine (who was the
person whom he chiefly reproached) in the
most liberal manner exerted himfelf to save
his life.
" After the Counter-Revolutionifls
fhail have been subdued, an hundred
thousand men may really make adefeent
on England,there to proclaim an appeal to
the Englilh people on the present war."
Referred to the committee of public
Safety.
TEUSDAY, MAY 14.
Several Deputies from Tboulcufe appear
ed at the bar, and demanded arms and
artillery for the treops to defend the fron
tier cf the Pyrennees against the Spaniards,
and alio the institution of a Revelutiona
ry Tribunal.,
THURSDAY MAY 16.
The number of Bankruptcies in England,
from 'January {ft to May zS, amount to 6|z.
Paris was tranquil the 20th May. Marat
has denounced Le Brun, the French Minifler
at War. The prifen of the Abbaye is again,
filled. Gen. Miranda it acquitted. Gen.
Miacxienfti, and Philip Devaux, one of Du
mourier's aids de camp, are guillotined. Gen.
Faience is in London. The army of the eafl
irn Pyrenees is commanded by Gen. Dellers.
Count a' Artois has been in {"gland, but has
not succeeded in bis negotiation ; which, it is
said, was to prevail on the Engif to pay
f5,00C R uffans to le employed cgair.fi France.
Embarkation of troops, horse a^d foot, conti
nue to be made from England. The trial of
M. d'Orleans commenced at Marfeiiles the 3d
of .May. The Prussians have beet; again
driven from Deux Ponts, which is its pofyffio],
of the French. Ail communication with fo
reign slates is forbidden by the Convention.
Attempts were lately made in Dublin to af
faffnate Lord Mountjoy and Lord Bellamont.
One of the largf manufaaoring boufes in
Manebefer has again fa to work the hands
that bad been djinfed. Two Dutch regi
ments were defeated by the French before Lfc,
and cut to pieces, the few prijoners taken were
carried into that city ; the Dutch fought with
dejperate bra-hery. On the 31^ May tie
French farprized and tock tbefortrefs of Fur
nes, garrisoned by 1100 Dutch and Aufriau
troops, and drove them prom thence ; tb<y
took peffrn cf the town and all the military
fores, carried iffthe Bailiff and Magifl rates,
plundered the town, and raised a contribution
of too oxen, jbeep and borfes, and then eva
cuated the place, to which the Dutch returned
in greater force the next day. Advices from
jbe combined armies under Prince Cobourg, 10
the yrb June fate, that nothing of importanceJ
had transpired since the 20 May, except'
breaking ground by the Englijb within cannon
foot, before Valenciennes.—The batteries cf
the allies before Mentz, are brought so near,
that iz pounders carry into the citadel.—A
propoftionfor opening a negotiation for peace
with England appears 10 have been made by
the French Minfor cf War. Several letters
on that fubjea have been published in the Eng
lijb papers, addressed 10 Lord Grenville, but
no refuli appears.
The accounts of Geq. Curine's late move
meats appear involved in much centradiaiore ,
and obfeurity—for while the paragraph wri
ters fay that be has an army of 120,000 men ;
is carrying all before him — and that the fege
of Mentz will certainly be raised in confe^u^nie
of bis vißory on the \6tb May.—Neither bis
own letter, nor that of the Commiffoners g
ving an account of the aaion of that aay re
present their success as complete, but rather the
reverse. The taking of the camp of F^aix,
took place 7 days after Cufine's attack or tre
army before Mentz.—A letter from Frankfort
of the 21st May,fays that the French were dc-L
seated on the 16tb in an attempt to pass tht
Rhine near Gefferen.
The letters from Holland, brought by
the mail which arrived yesterday, mention
that accounts were arrived there from
Paris, that the Counter Revolutionists,
under their chief Cafton, had advanced as
far as within 45 leagues of Paris.
I'lIE detail: cf French affair: in the
Engli/b papers received by the Packet, are
very imp eft& —particularly refuelling Paris,
and the internal commotions—ibis may be ac
counted for, from the interruption of the inter
course between England ana France.—At the
time of the Packet's failing, or the date cf the
loft papers, no If; than 21 French mails ap
pear to have been due. The address of M.
Ifaard, Prefdent cf the Convention, to the
people, alluaes to fame excesses, accounts of
which do not appear in the Enghjb papers.
The rfolutions of the Club of the Cordelier: b
may have given rife to it—they proposed found
ing the Tofu in all the Departments, Csc.
Cie.
Decree of the National Convention, on the gth'
May. . i ,
French ships of war and privateers may ।
stop, and fend into the ports of the Re-<
It is confidently said, that the farcity
of grain is so much felt in some parts of
Spain, that they have been obliged to
grind the shells of nuts, as a fubditute for
bread.
EUROPEAN INTELLIGENCE,
received by the Britilh Packet, which ar,
rived at New- York, on Tuefday last, in
42 days from Falmouth.
Hornedto %^//^%cc.
PENNSYLVANIA.
PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 3 .
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