The Columbian informer, or, Cheshire journal — Keene, N.H., 1793-09-25 00:00:00, page 2

J'oTC^ ^7^//^ C7IC6.
FRANC E.
DECLARATION of the FRENCH
Agmbicd un.ier tug command of General Gaf
tou, in the Departm nts of Vendee,
Maine, Loire, and Loire luferieure.
DENOUNCED 'by the Assembly,
ensuing iticlf the National Convention
of France, as Traitors to our Country,
and Reoe&t?iu Laws, we ought, as our
duty, to declare to all loyal Frenchmen,
and all the loyaills of Europe, the mo
tives whuh have hi herto directed our con
cuct, the principles which fuall f^r the
future regulate it.
Whet fird t.e sff mbled in February
Jaft, iu the d fen^e of our lives, of our in
cividuH fafety, of our religion, of uur
liberty, and cl our property, rhe ^eateu
•of crimes was committed — the head of
Loot XVI. was brought to the fcaftold.
From th. t fime, nothing could oe ex
petted from the new order cf things that
arose up in F anve, under the name cf
Republic, butenfafion, robberies, acd
anarchy, every day gave birth to a new
fa&icn ; and it these robberies fometimer
appeared divided among themfe vrs in
opinion and intrrell, upon two principal
points they terminated their difference,
viz. ufarpation and pillaging of propertv,
maficreing and imp ifoning gobd ciu
zt'.i, who refuted being accomplices i*
their enormities.
For more han three years the rights of
perfous and property have undergone in
France numerous attempts ; violence hin
dered us from tn. free exerciteof the relig
ion of our fore fathers. But, there re
mained to usa King ; and though he w::s
Gripped of that part of his autho ity h
lice flkry for the maintaining a great mon
archy, we were did in hopes that the
breach people would yet acknowledge
their true interests, and that order would
be re-e^ablifhed without coavudious, and
without violence.
We were deprived of this left hope when i
we saw our fellow citizens, truly groaning
under the yoke of a final! number of fie
cions, hut making no effort to liberate
; ' te 2, uruCK witti consternation at
viewing our ki*g dragged ra the place of
e< ..^r. ; bur keepm; 'Fence through
^ourfelves tc
refe " .;r. & dluthcs of his execu
tioners.
Under such dilemmas, what were loyal
futjefls to do f —either accomplices or vic
tims was to be cur portion ; but we would
be neither the one or the other ; we have
affnmbled, ^e have arm'd ourselves ; and
hitherto Heaven has crowned our efforts
wi<hfuccefs.
We are not the aggreff;rs ; cur inten
tions are only to defend our perlons arc
property ; As Men, we have the right tc
resist oppredijn, as poffefiors cf property,
we oppose its Gevaftation ; as Frenchmen,
we will have a King ; as Christians, we
will have the religion of car fathers ; as
Citizens, we will have fixed laws, under
cover of which we may again find peace,
la fine, we are weary of being the (port
and victims of the factious.
This is neither the time nor place to
declaim on political opinions : we have no
the smallest pretention to govern France
Individual fafety, property, liberty of
religious worship, and a King, are what
we demand; for that it is we contend ;
and we will not disarm till we have ob
tained them.
We invite all people, whatever may be
their palit cal or religious opinions, to
unite themselves quickly to us ; it is their
molt pressing interest ; fr every man who
is not a robber is on our fide ; ifany ci.i!
zen has not a land property to defend, nl'
• have at least their personal property (and
personal liberty is Ihamefuliy viola ed by
our enemies) all are inttrefted in enjoyr^
in prace the fruit of their labour and in
duftrv. all are interested in living securely
Ft h me, and to have their houses for an
asylum—This is what we demand for
car fellow citizens, as as well as for our
fdv,s.
Our enemies unmercifully punilh with
deaththofe of us ;hey make prisoner of war.
It is the interest of all our powers of Eu
rope to futhin and proted us ; for eur en
emies are such as wiihed to ovethrow every
K ng and every Throne.
it is the inte r est of all people to fend
us help: for our enemies wished to dif
tu-b the peace and overturn the laws of all
people.
COMMERCE oftb c UNITED STATEf
The Envoy of the United States allo
d^marided a suspension of the decree which
permits the privateers of the Republic to
ata r ican ships :In consequence,
the C . H ee proposed the following de
cree ;;
11. The American ship, Little Che
rub, Shall be immediately given up, anc
rhe minister of the Marine, shall fix th:
indemnity which may due, either with re
gard to her departure, or the lofi fuffered
on board.
111. The Minister of the Marine (hall
inform himfelf of the family ot the fecund
Lieut, of the American vessel. Little
Cherub, to determine the indemnity which
the Republic ought to mike it.
IV. The Minister for Foreign affairs is
ordered immediately to notify this decree
to the Envoy of the United States, and
to the Minister of the French Republic in
America." The Convention adopted
this decree.:
We declare,before all Europe and France,
that we have net used, and we will not
afe, in this refped, death for death.
The cause which we defend is that of juf
iice and humanity ; and we will never dis
honour it by efts of barbarity. They
threaten to crush us by number; and the
factious announce, that they will attack us
with all the forces they can assemble. We
await them determined,for we have on cur
fide oar courage, and the justice of our
clufe. We have the God of armies, who
will fight for us ; the God of Clovis and
of St. Louis, who did not permit formerly
the French monarchy to be overthrown,
and who miraculously {attained the throne
of our Kings ateort destroyed under
Charles V. under Charles VIL and under
Henry IV.
At last, if, by one of thole Strokes of
Providence, which the human mind can
neither calculate nor foresee, we are over
come in the defence of a cause so just, we
Shall at lead have the glory of dying, in
6ghting for cur God, for our King, and
dor our Country—thousand, will arm
themselves four.er or Inter to avenge us;
for the French people will at last be wea
ry of their heavy yoke of anuchy; and
[even cur defeat itfe.f will serve to hasten
the fall of our tyrants. Befidcs, let them
not believe us so cceah as we are laid to be
it th? Bar, and at the tribune of ,heir As-
Vmbly, where they place us between vic
tory and purofhmeot; for they are always
thong, who have no other alternative but
to coxarar or did. (Signed) GASTON,
bar myleif and m, brave fallow Soldiers.
General Head-Quarters.)
acarFontenay lacomcC/Z^h May,1793 )
The President gave the fraternal kill to
an old Negress, 114 years of age, and
mother to 11 children. After whicr
She was refpedfully conduced to an arm
chair, end feared by the fide of the Presi
dent, amidst the loudest bursts cf ap
plause.
IN the name cf the Committee of Pub
lic Safety, Brre e said, that fl! American
vessel the Petit Cherubim, had brought to
Havre some Frenchmen, whom the Span
ilh Government had expelled. They left
that place on the 3d, and on the 6:b
June, rear Dunkirk, they were taken by
he privateer True Patriot, and brought
in 0 that port. These seamen weje ill
treated, r.nd one of the crew cf the priva
teer fhot,'he Second lieutenant of the Ame
rican veffrl. The Envoy cf the United
States had demanded f&ti'fffiion cf this
violation of the Rights cf Nations, the
punishment cf the assassin, and the - deli
vering up of the vessel. In copfcquer,ce,
the committee proposed the following
decree :
I The Minifler of lattice is required tc
c*ufe to be immediately taken, the neces
sary information about the murder that hi.
been commuted on the 6h June, a; Dun
kirk, upon the person of the fecend Lieut,
of the American vessel, the L'tde Cherub,
and upon the condud of the crew of th
True Patrv t, and the Logger, Argu
which belong to the Republic, against the
Captain and crew cf the said America
Clip, and to fend these informations im
mediately to the National Convention.
UESDAY JUN£ 4.
A bandpT blacks, of both sexes, amide
the found of martial music, and efeorted
by a great mob of Parisians, came intt
the hall to return thanks to the legisla
tors, for having railed them to the rank
of men.
NATIONAL CONVENTION,
Monday, JULY T.
" MY military talents have been ca
lumniated: I have posterity and Europe
to be the judges of them. I too much des
pise those who would villify them, to give
them any answer. Besides, if you are of
the fame opinion with my accusers, I am
eady to give an account of my disposi
tions, to prove that in fad Gen. Fertierei
did net do every thing he ought to hive
done on the 17th of May. Jf, as I desire,
,ou decree that this General and 1 be put
to the proof who it was that conduce
himfe/f ignorantly, I engage to prove to
a dementiration, that he is convitled cl
wart of conduct. Let the orders I gave
on the 17th be made known to you, which
a s e entered in the Orderly Book of the
army of the Rhine—l: will then appear
that mv difpo,ion was good. I know nc:
what will be the fate of those aflions of the
troops of the Repubic which 1 now com
mand, for who cen aofwer for the chance
of war ? But this I am fare of, that nei
ther I ncr any person whatever, can make
any order of battle which ought more to
ensure success, than that of the 17th of
M^y, and that it is iro,offibie, for reasons
Ifhall give, and which it would be im
prudent to make pub ic, to have formed a
disposition more ablurd thin that which
that Officer had made, who wished that
be '-hole army (hould march beyond Laa
dau on the 17th of May.
"My morality is attacked. It is
'cund out that I have a woman for my
Aid de Camp. Without pretending to
ie a 'Jojepb, 1 know too well how to ref
ed n» lelf, and the laws of public decen
y, ever to render myfelf guilty of such an
xbfurdity. I found in the array a woman
>nder the uniform of a volunteer bomba
d'er, who, in fuelling that duty at the
Gge of Liege, had received a mufaue^
ball in the leg. She presented herfelf to
he National Convention, desired to con
tinue her military service, and was admit
ted to the honors of the fitting. She was
afterwards sent by you, Representatives,
to the Minister at War, who gave her the
rank of Aide-Major to the army. Oamy
arrival here, the Representatives of the
People, Commissioners with this army,
had dismissed her. Her grief was extreme ;
and the phrenzy of her imagination, and
her love for glory, would have carried her
to the last extremity. I solicited the Re-^
prefentatives of the people, to leave her
that rank which her merit and wounds had
procured her ; and they conferred to it.
This is the truth. She is not my Aid-de-
Camp, bat attached to the Staff as Aid-
Major. Since that time, I have never had
any public or private conversation with
her.
" Say, Citizen Representatives, to
those men,' hired, perhaps, by the Cabi
" The # National Convention deGrous
to maintain the Union established between
the French Republic, and the United
States of America, declares, That the vel
fels of the United S ates are no: included
in the dispositions of the decree of the gih
of M uch, according to the 16 h article of
the Treaty made on the 6.h February,
1788."
SITTING OF JULY %
Read a letter from General Cuftine,da
red Cambray, June 30, in which he very
loudly complains cf the calumny sf the
J cobins,and particularly Marat's jour
nal.
“ The new Constitution ought to be
the admiration as well as the dread of our
enemies; but the Republic mutt have
Ministers cf integrity and talents, and
eonfequently vey different from those we
have already fecn. Then will the French
Republic Stand on solid basis, and plant
with glory the triumph Tree c f Liberty.
(Signed) CUSTINE."
He concludes by the following post
script :—
“We have just learnt, that 12,c00 Ruf
fians have been embarked hcmPetrjburg.
1 his completes the coalition of the Kings
of Europe; but these hardy folders Shall
not terrify the republic. Our fuccei's will
be certain ; for Liberty will make us tri
umph over our enemies, it the choice of
-he nation falls on men cf talents ; if in
trigues are banished from your councils,
and if a War-Meiller of talents and judg
ment is choice, who is able to direct the
plans of the Generals, and ;o make them
refpeHed and execu ed.
From General CUdTINE, to the National
This decree was also adopted.
'' Cambr^y, June 14, 1793.
" Reprefematiies,
CsTOvention.
LETTER
When falfe reasoning assumes the. ap
pearance of truth ard wisdom, and by its
painted complexion impedes the current of
true reasoning, it is sometimes requisite to
eppofe it with animadversions, that truth
may appear in all her beauty.
f\ OBLE aspiring minds are Simu
lated by a propensity for knowledge,
truth and virtue.—lt manifests a good
disposition in a disputant, to give up a bad
cause when convicted. "As a miflaken
set out of" Mr. Zenex (using his own
words) " has led him on in a blind path*
and landed him, not only in the vocative,
but in the ablative case—it affords me no
small fatisfaaion to find him io flexible.
The Duke of Clarence, having declared
his disapprobation of perfiding j n a
war, in which the people cf th s country
can gain nothing, but increase of debt,
and taxes, will find the diluting prag e
of the treasury papers converted into
abufr.
Dy Mourier has prepared a new Me
morial addressed to his iLjefty's M nilt-°
*rs, in which he means to set forth th
claims to their favour, and prove that ic
pufferies all rhe virtues that ought to re
commend him to their protection. “ Have
i not,"fays he, " deferred mr own par
ty ; have I not abandoned my friencs ; nay
did I not deliver up a number of niy mote
intimate companions of & enemy? Whac
then, with all these virtues wfoch they
love, can be their objection to me in par
ticular#
As we are to pay the King of Sardinia
200,000!. a year, and also feed him a
fleet for defending his own territories, the
Empress of lofya my, perhaps, require
that we will pa, her part of the expence She A
has incurred in fettling the perce cf f^/.."
and, by taking the greater part of it to
herfelf.
It cannot be gratifying to the Cabinet
Ministers to fee that their confidential
clerks boast of their official treachery.
Such is the consequence 0; entrusting half
witted agents with the execadQa of a prof
ligate talk.?
LONDON, June 21.
The trea, with the Kng cf Sardinia,
binds as to pay him 200.c001, a vear, to
to enable him to keep open army —for
what purpose ?—to protect h; 5 oun domin
ions ! —We are to employ cur flee; in the
Mediterranean also, 00.uch service as Shall
te muiualy agreed on between the two
courts —So that our fleet cannot be employ- \
ed on a„y service, with mt the concurrence
of the King of Sardinia.
Ihe treaty with R&jfa, obliges us to
continue she War as long as it Girl please
the Empress of all the iTJfa"' ^go on 3
tolerable pulped this Affords u 3 c f a
speedy peace.
Our treaty with the Prince of Hfo
C<fcl, is in the ulual way of bating so
many human beings to set on ngain+ their
fellow-creatures at so much per life.
'] hefc Treaties were made in the months
Oi Maich and April last, and were n.ji
laid before Parliament until the lad w^ckl
ofits fitting,and now the piloting of them
is refuted.
nets cf St. James's, Vienna and BeFfo,
who seek to uilgul! me, and oblige me to
abandon the ucfence of my country, that
they will never succeed in inch an attempt.'
Tell them, that in fpi ecf all the efforts
of Calumny, 1 Shall preserve the confi
dence of ihe foldie-s cf the Republic. I
will never abandon the pott the' Republic
has confided to me, except under two cir
cumflance.- —the £ 11. when the Agents of
the Executive Council foal! c^uuteiad my
proceedings in fuci i a manner as to en
danger the fafety cf the a my errrufted to
me—.he fecend, when, having loft the
confidence cf the Representatives cf the
people, and cf the Army, I can no
longer be ufeful: Bat all the rage vo
mited by heil to low diffcntion among
us, should they be all united to vent
00 me alone the pofm of calumny, I
fliall behold wish terenity, and shall cent
bat with the fame ti-mnefs their impuf
tures, and the enemies of my country.
Be effused J my entire devotion ;o the in
terest of the Republic.
(Signed) "CUSTINE.”
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