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Foreign Intelligence. <-•;
By the Jhip Active, Captain Blajr.
BRtJSSEI-S, June 6.
The dAy before yeßerday the (late*
of Brabant delivered tutl\e Emperor a g
*ifclution, hy which they engage to
rait"- 25,000 men immediately, the itates (f
to nominate one half oi the Captains
and Lieutenants. Those trpops are tci
serve during the war for the pioteflion r
of the Motherlands.—The Hates of Bra- t ;
bant and Flandeni have alio engaged to Q
raise 10,000 men within fix weeks, to [(
recruit the Walloon regiments. n
LONDON, June 26. ,j
We yesterday gave it as our opinion h
that the teport of the afTaflmatioii or n
Robespierre, and tlid other ihemberi "hi
the committee of Public 'Safely, and of ti
a counter revolution having been effec it
ted at Paris, deserved not the fmallef- ;
decree 01 credit—We repeat that opi- p
mom Those who circulate the report,
cite the fracas that took, place between e
the comnittee of Public Safety ard e
Bourdon de 1/Oife and lailien, in y
proof of the probability -of it, With j
us who know that neither of these de-1
piities ever poffeJTVd much popularity i
or power this circumllance h3s no 2
weight ; we know of no overweening ]
influence which Bourdon de L Oite and 1
Talli'en have in the Society of the Jaco-l
bins, and we fee, that during the fracas t
in the Convention they were wholly;
and all the members of the committee
of Public Safety, and indeed any roan
may be affaJTinated, we are ready to al
low, but while we concede this, we are
certainly not prepared to assert, that
the minds of the people of France are
so dilpofed as to render a counter-revo
lution a very easy operation.
It is generally believed that the
Duke of Portlaitd 1 ias accepted of
situation in the cabinet, and that Earl
Spencer will be appointed Lord Lietl-!
tenant of Ireland in tl»e room of the"
Earl of Weftmoretand. j(|
To-mofrow Lord Grenville gives aj,
grand entertainment to Mr. Jay, and l- (
levelal of the Corps Diplomatique.
Netherlands. , £
ADDRESS 0
' the Netherlands. T 1
Tlie Emperor afld King,
Reverend Fathers iir God, Nobles, in
dear ami liege Vassals, dear and well
beloved ; by our royal d-fpatch of the
30th of April last, was announced to j
you the motives which induced tis to
have re<;ouife to your Zeal } the mo
tives which our Conimiffioners have
since dilclofed to you,' concern your
selves as much as they concern us. Since cc
that period the mass of the enemy, dt
which has precipitated itfelf on Belgi- tit
urn, rendering y;mr danger more pref th
iing, it bt-comes more necessary to em- m
ploy all the means in your power and
to check the operation of that mass by th
all the force wh'ch it is pofiible to col- ha
k£t and combine. e „
Our armies have fuffered, and stand tCi
in need of a large number of recruits oo
and although we have seen with as
much fatisfa&ion as gratitude, the fa- fie
crifices which yoii have evinced a with cit
to make, in order to excite our fubjeSs or
to enter into voluntary engagements, P 3
we cannot conceal from you that, as this ar >
resource has been hitherto unproductive y°
and unavailing, our army will perhaps ljk
be no longer in a condition to employ
againll an enemy who makes such ef.
forts to invade these provinces, that re
sistance and those offenfive measures
which have hitherto preserved them.
It would be fuperfluous to recall to
your recolfcftion that hitherto our He
reditary States have furinifhed the major
part of those who defended you, and!
undoubtedly our Belgic provinces, so
flourifhing, so populous, and so inter- 1
efted in the success of the war, which jnf
unhappily may be attended with their dei
annihilation and total ruin, will not be
backward in furnifhlng men to afiiit in
defence of thbfe provinces.
It is at the present moment, while
the period is not elapsed, that we ad- 1
dress ourselves to you for an object ,
more important even than that contain
ed in our dispatch of the 30th of April :
we d mand for our army, from all the
provinces, a levy of men, and we are
persuaded that, penetrated with the ne-tim
cefiit.y of fatisfying so just a demand, one
you will only pause on the mode of car-pril
tying it into execution. We do not and
heutate to propose to you that which is con
- jmofl conformable to reason, to jnftice,.
and to the general int'.rells and exigen-t
cies of the moment, viz. an equitable;
assessment on all the d.ltrifts, each ot 1
which ihall be directed to furnith one r
man in every hundred, as far ai regards 1:
j'.s general population, and five men iii c
very hundred capable of bearing ar:n».
; ' s it is to this demand that we immedi-;:
9 attly expect your consent, and your molt 1
" efficacious concurrence,kaving however, t
to your choice the beil means of latisfy 1
l!> ing it, at the fame time informing /on
0 that this extraordinary levy is so necef-;
•" (ary and lo preffingthat it in the exreu
a" tion of it you should Hand in need of >
0 our sovereign authority, we are dispose.. 1
to grant it you in the molt exteriUNt. •
manner. \ r - '
You have, it is true, offered fevt.;n I
times to raise some new corps, but We •
511 have considered that it would take too
pt much time to organise them, and Ira'itt
ot thehi to the military exercise and evolu, •
of lionS; while on the other hand men '
e mingled among soldiers will iininediat*. '
-fl iy render us that ieivicc which we ex- 1
ripest from them.
You cannot diflerable-i—your future
en exirtence depends perhaps on the speedy
nd execution of iuch an increale ot rorce -
in you fee your enemies multip'y at at!
ith points of your frontiers, while our ar-'
le- ;nies moulder away by our victories, anil
ty by those glorious contests which they
no are forced so frequently to maintai'.
ng Besides, the efforts that you will m.-.lit
nd in this refpedt, cannot be a grievous
-O-burden to a country so populous, anc
:as on a nation formerly reedgnized as bravt
lly and warlike.
tee To our Reverend Fathers, 3cc.
J (Signed) FRANCIS. '
ire
.at UNITED STATES.
ire ,
'o- RICHMOND, August u.
(CIRCULAR.)
4 To the different Captains.
ill Richmond, id, 1792.
H-J Dear Sirs,
| The approbation cxpreffed by the
[Governor of the conduct of the militia
•j in their late effort to preserve from vio 1
1 * lation the laws of their country, and 1
he requests Ihoukl be conveyed 1
you, cannot be more properly com- '
municated by trauiniittmg you a 1
copy of his letter on that fubjeft. a
. r It is with crfeat r>l-afe-» T -» c
'—wrat'trrr cori 1 iifanui ngnfce'r 6T T^rrifa^g«
is impressed with the fame opinion of (:
your condud which is entertained by f
s, fnyfelf. r
11 With great regard,
'• I am, your obed'ent servant. 0
J. Marsrall. ''
>- Council Chamber, July 30th, 1794. 11
c Sir,
r - With very great fatisfa&ion do I *
!C comply with the didates of my official 2
• duty in fignifying to you my approba- (
I tion of everjj»art of your conduct, in "
f the late necenarjr interposition of the* 3
1- militia to support ihe civil authority. C
d The exemplary temper manifettcd on h
y this occalionj cannot fail to produce the
I- happietl effeils, as it carries with it un- 0
equivocal testimony of the general de- d
J termination to' maintain inviolate the Cl
s constitution and laws of the people. ft
s I entreat yon to express to the of- h
. ficers and soldiers, detached from this
i city r , and irom Pettrfburgh, under your
| ordeis, how very much I admire the
lf patriotic example exhibited by them, B
s and how fincerttly 1 am gratified by ai
e your report of their orderly and fofdier- w
s like demeanor. tl
With great regard, ti
I am, dear fir, tc
Your obedient servant, ft'
3 HENRY LEE. at
■\ ' W
; PHILADELPHIA, ot
I I AUGUST 22. i:'
>]
" In the Pittsburgh Gazette of the i«th w
1 instant, the last (paragraph of the Prefi
• dent's Proclamation is pubtithed.
! P<
, ————— , n
On Monday last, Judge Peters deli- P l
. vered the following Charge to the 31
Grand Jury of the Court of the U-J
nited States fortheDiftria of Penn-d(
fylvania. m
Gentlemen of the Grand Tury S '
m
AS your being called on, at thisut
time, as Grand Jurymen, was occafi- tii
oned by the particular circumstance of a lei
pufoner, who has been long confined ; vvi
and, (except the cafe in which he is fr<
concerned,) I know of no bufrnefs like- ev
e,ly to come before you. I thall not de-t lei
i- tain you with a lengthy ciifculfion upon the
le your duties. These aie so well under-con
>f Hood, that it is, in general, unnecefla-exi
ie ry to dwell on them. I ftiall content mu
Uinyfeif with a general account of thepe
ji crimes which seem to be 'cognizable nere. t re.
s. The laws, on this fubjedt, are not fogre.
i- accurate as it is to be hoped, at lome j 1
it future d ly, they will be made. Ihtto e
r, crimit lal tide of this Court is confinedlw n
,• in its juiifdiction to the less offences; nid
~id i» foinewhat similar, as to crimes mil!
f- against the laws of the United States, con
i- and the laws of nations, which are a ter
>f pArt'bf theui, to the courts of quarter- mut
:c i'eifions in the (tate; save that by the opii
effcel of the disjunttive or, in tiieju-was
dicia-.y law, 110 crime is cognizable it b
.u here, to which a doubk punishment is lilta
, c expressly annexed. This will appeal byjtyra
io a recital of the words of the judiciary mar
; M aw, wlu'ch ielate to the powers of this com
Couit, ot' its criminal tide. "T heand
!i •' D/rfrict Courts (hall have, exclusively and
"of the courts of the federal itates, I
x- " cognizance of all crimes and offences by o
•< ihat Ihal' be cognisable Under the aU-v!dli
xi " thority of the United States, com- fay i
h, " mitted within their refpeftire districts, is r,
_!« or upjn the high f«as, where n& o-belii
Ji' u ther putiifhment than whipping
ir " exceeding 30 stripes, a fine not ex-lanc
id '• cecding one hundred dollais, or a term fit's,
ej-«' of imprisonment not exceeding fix do j
r. " months is to be inflidted." But of ;
kt where multiplied punishments are not dep
us in expi ess terms annexed by Uw to a,com
Be crime, but it is left, after convidiion by ed,
vt 1 jury, to tie discretion of the court, enoi
0 affli; one <r more puniffiments under citi:
at he limitationsbefore mentioned, I con- I
■ • -rfrmiwt a criuw;, <t(ider- tliit iitualion, an d
nay be properly tiken cognizance of in fefl
:his court- by
Assaults, batteies, and falfe impri- whe
fonment committd on the high seas or be i
n ports or havetn in this dillrift, to of a
which the Admiraly extend?—confpi- thei
racies against printe persons; or the d.si
authorized meafuns of government —wen
.nifdemeanors of various defcvipliops wit I
—and generally, every offencc im- of t
peding the coutfe of the law, and.and
prejudicial to the welfare,'of fociety,ting
~ are objefls of enqu'.iy and punishment fuel
ia "ere, if committed on the high seas, orjfrar
navigable waters out of the body of a pari
id county, or in forts, gavrifons, or pla-diffi
■cj ecs und'ji the immediate government of sou;
j. the United States. Some of these and the
a other offerices, if committed on land, this
and efpeciallv those opposed to the le-be 1
• measures of the general government, **•'itl
,f on, are also cognizable here, if the our
y fines and punishments arc within the li- adli
mits before ftate'd. & n
1 include not, among the mifdemea- thei
01 s cognizable here, the crime of in- daa
lnrre&ion and impeding or resisting, enri
with an armed force, the laws of the f
. uuion. Levying war against the Unit- telli
cd States, or adhering to their enemies, zeal
I we declared by the corillitiJtioh, to be dize
lj Treason. A crime of too high a 'na-theii
. ture and of too deep a dye, to fall love
, within the jurifdrffion of this court attai
eAn offence, compared with which the the I
Crimen Ufn Majjiatis against single and tcfqi
, hereditary rulers weighs lightlv. chaj:
e What is an offence against the person govt
.of a despot, who is but an elevated in-can
. dividual, to one against the peace, the of ec
« conffitution and laws of a great and defp
free people. Hereditary governors itfelf
'.have too generally interefls feparatethe
s from their fubjefts ; and if they have the j
r them not by original right, 'they, too But
- frequently, assume them by usurpations. is al
, But in a republic there is but one great virtu
r and leading interest, to wit, that of the law
_ whole nation. And in our republic, requ:
the majority of our national reprefenta- to pi
tifes are the judges, legally authorised the j
to declaie, under the guards in the con-thinj
llitution what this general interest is felf.
and how it shall be directed. Local cies.
interests and particular convenience must entrt
yield to this." The parts must make fa-verm
criiices to the will and to the ordinances serve
of the whole. These local and tem-been
porary facrifiees are fully corapenfated of ir
by the proteciion and general advan- hatec
tages received from the gevernment, in there
'which every one partakes, and has as lore
"great a weight as it is entitled to. The
paits are no more jo the whole, than of th
individuals in society, who must give up vernt
portions, both of their personal rights the ;
,|and peculiar advantages, to the com-envie
mumty °f which they are members, and <
here is an end of all government un- of th
■ der a republican form, if the minority vent
undertake by violence, to controul the by o
general will, when conftitutionaHy pro- hicrh!
mulgated. If any measures are thought conti
: unequal and to press severely on any par- of th
ticular defenption or difttift of citizens, oortt
et them decently yet firmly remonstrate, oarti
write and speak against them, with th V 0 ve
freedom they pofTefs, and I hope wi iienc
ever enjoy. Let them, so far as very
le- them lies, change the representation in <
on the government, by all peaceable and j
er- constitutional means. But while a law i
fa-exifts warranted by the conftituion, it 1
nt mull be unequivocally obeyed and rel-1
heipe&ed. If it be inconvenient or bur-1
re. thenfome the merit of obedience is the i
so oreater. But let none of our citizens, i
jie by warring against the laws, endeavour i
ht to extinguish our mofl important rights; i
ed Which they lose light of while blinded t
■a; and bewildered by local, and perhaps r
ies mistaken interelts or prejudices. lft
es, conllituyonal exertions to repeal or al
a ter general measures, fail, the minority t
zr- mult fubniit—Whatever differences of £
he opinion there may have been while a law {
ju-was in progrel's, when it is completed'
jlc it becomes the of the whole. Re- a
isliftance is an attempt to establish the I
byjtyranny of the few, over the will of the
ry'many. Actions such as this, palpably <■
liscontradidl ail profeffions of patriotifrt) v
he and regard for liberty, in its ialutary c
:ly and legal lenfe. i
es, It is possible that laws may be made i
res by our legislature, bearing hard on indi- J
u- viduals or imm ,'er of citizens ; tho' 11
n- fay not that they have'done so. For it e
ts, is not, without due confide rat ion that I c
0-believe, that where partial evils are fuf i
ot fered, they are more than counter-bar
:x-lanced bp either general or local bene a
•pfits. If the government cannot at once*
fix do justice to the claims of any portion f
,ut of the nation, and especially where itif
lot depends on circumstances not to be t
i a commanded, a patience rmift beexevcif-<
by ed, sometimes mortifying and difficult <
it, enough) yet the bounden duty of good '
[er citizens.
in- It is better tci bear temporary evils, i
hi, and wait forchange conliuutionallyef t
in feited than to tear up all government i
by the roots. The condition of those f
ri- who are really agrieved, if any such there
or be is never hopeless. It is in the nature J
to of a republican government that all havi
ji- their turn. If measures are extensively (
he dTagrecablp or mfchievous, thole who -
— were for a time in a minority, become, f
ps without public convulsions, by the fore; !
m-of truth and conviction, of the jnajoritj '
nd and, sharing the power, a Hilt in regula 1
■y> l ' n g tlle ltate of things. In a country of j
■nt such extent, it is lcarcely possible to,
or frame laws exactly suitable to every \
' a part. Perhaps, in a general fyflem j
la-different laws, or the fame law, may be i
of found disagreeable to different parts of
nd thfe nation. But if each is to resist on
id, this account, our code of laws, would
le- be reduced to nothing—and thus while
it, with our lips, we are celebrating the he
he our revolution, wc should blast by our I
li- actions, its choicest fruits,and reap fickiy 1
& noxious harvests from fields, 'jvhiah
;a- they have sowed under difficulties and '
in-dangers, and which many of them have)
g, enriched with their blood.
he How fhnmeful would it be, if the fa-a
it- tellites of Jefpotifm should outdo, in f
:s, zeal for the pcrfonai interelts or aggran- ;1
bedizementof a monarch, republicans in f
a- their attachment to their laws. Our
dllove for the laws should absorb all other c
— attachments. It is the corner flone in c
be the temple of Republican virtue. Mon- \
id tefquieu has long ago told us, in his t
chapter on education in a Republican 1
>n government, That " it is in a Republi- 1
n-can government that the whole power [
le of education is required. The fear of v
id despotic governments rises naturally of|
rs itfelf amidst threats and pttntfhment
tethe honor of monarchies is favored by- 1
re the passions, and favors them in tnnv
io But virtue is a felf renunciation, which
s. is always arduous and painful. This 1 '
rt virtue may be defined the love of the n
le law and of our country. As this love "
:, requires a couftant preference of public a l
1- to private intereil, it is the source ofall t(
d the particular virtues ; for they are no- b
i- thing more than this very preference it
is felf. This love is peculiar to democra- C
jlcies. In these alone the government is
ft entrufled to private citiecns. Now go
i-vernment is like anything else; to pre
serve it we muff love it. Has it ever
i-been heard that kings were not fond
dos monarchy, or that despotic princes a<
i-hated arbitrary power? Every thingti
n therefore depends on- effablifhing tfewcii
is love irr a republic."
e We are among the very few nations tc
n of the earth who enjoy a legitimate go-os
pvernment, founded, without alloy, on ri
s the authority of the people. We arebi
i-envied On this account by multitudes,'ar
i. and even cordially disliked by not a few d
i-of the devotees to other fyftcms of go-fc
y venment. These, as they are mortified w
eby our unparalled prosperity, would be vt
)-highly gratified by our disgrace—let usoi
it continue to disappoint them—The eyes it
r- of the world are upon us—At this im- n;
i, portant crilis in nations, it fn
particularly behoves us to support our w
government, and let an example of obe- -
lience to law, recommendatory beyotic !q
i very thing else of its form, and evincive o
not its energy. T -isa, o; tfle ! J
d prefled of «y!l countries will cow„ ;llf j'„
: v% to us, ,f they do not perceive o,
it laws trampled on ; and thereby all si
I- for person and property deftro,
r-ed Should we verify the proguo(tjj t
e of the enemies to free government, ( wh
S , fondly dwell on our diforderi and m a ,
ir ntfy our failings) by the Hem
d the goodly fabric we have raised, h ov
>s mtferable would be our deitiny } 10v
f bitter, yethowjuft, ou, r ep ro;«h i
!- But no ill advised and partial opnofi
ytlons can produce a rcfuk fc ruinou
A and deplorable. The intereii a „d hap
v pi nets of the friends to Law and orde
d in this dillrift, as well as in the riatior
r- at large, impel them to support tlu
ekws, to which they af-e fully competent,
e rhey will be animated by a grateful re.
y collection of the atehievements of those
h who effected our revolution—a rtvoluti.
yon which yet beats warmly in our bo
ioms—-let none of us nufeppty t i !e ; r ]au .
e Jable motives, by enliain, th£ u„der
- the guilts banners of '1 hey
I have couilamly affo -!ed us the blight
t example of fupp rng liws made by our
I own authority, wh c they refitted man
dates, attemp ed t be foijcel on us, by
| men who were not iur reprefeutatives,
and who (unlike those of ouV choice)
e would nave reaped ad tan t ages, withc-it
n sharing burthens. Heanen has Lcuignl)
it favored us with one of its choice)! gifts
eby affording us the lingular oppoitimit]
[".of forming a conllitinion for ourselves,
[t on enlarged and falutaiy principles,
d Thcfe principles art thofc of genuine
freedom and liberty well de6ned., As ii
i, is our duty, so may it be our good foi.
f- tune an_d our_pride, to transmit them,
it untiitlied and ummpaiipd, toourtesd
e posterity.
e If the foregoing oh fenrtions are proehicei
t by recent drcumftances, which i can in ly
' fay, I ha-.eaftiorg rdifpo».t: nto&piort
than to aggrVate, they flow afei.ie ',{
- duty in this court, which is charged, on
° another fide of it, with the cognizance of
breaches of many of the molt important
a laws of our country ; and among them of
y that which has, given' rife
j to feme late unjiiftifiable, difgraceful, and
j much to be lamented disturbances ; which
T indulge a sincere and anxious hope may
yet pacifically composed. If they are not,
)' our character, if not our exigence, as t
3) free people, depends on the exertiom we
< make, with our whole power, to quell a
,f spirit so deft.ru cstive to every principal of so
n cial order and government- —attended with
. consequences so fatal to our peace, fifety,
and happiness, and calculated, as well in
it felt, as in its mischievous example, to in
volve not only those who are the cfojeft*
a ,Am. . .mx .ma xiroi.nutn t trut
ir the whole community, in desolation, anar
y chv, and ruin.
1] If by these remarks, in whid r ■' ouh>
j I have been anticipated by ever ,v„! «
tizen, I have trefpalled too in ;< -n ,vn
1 patience, I cin only offer, as n itji.ic :-r
my Zealand love for the laws— svy 'utv,
i-and my reverence for a conftiut.oa '«kJ
n government, founded on the a
i- a people, of whom I e/teem it i
ri happiness to be one.
1 THE Grand Jury for the ctif
r of the United State#, inandfor
a of Pennl'ylrania, being deeply impreflei!
- with the truth and excellent doflrine ton
<, tained in the charge delivered to them yes
n terday, by Judge Peters, think it their da
_ tv to give this tefljmony of their approba.
tion thereof. At the fame time, they bej,
'to be favored with a copy of the charge,
' with liberty to publish the fame.
M By delire of the Grand Jury,
** MOKDEC .M I,EW iS- Foreman.
[Philadelphia, Augujt 19,
'
, By the post arrived yesterday fiot>
s the weft ward, we learn that the coin
, millfoners sent by government had mel
. some delegation of the insurgents, whe
: agreed to appoint a committee of feveiv
| teen to meet the commifTioners at Fittf
. burghj on the fubjeif of their miiTion.
_i
. Copy of a letter fupptfed to le written 1]
; a Refugee in to a flaming De
mocrat in
My Jbear Friend,
! You, (of the few in our fee ret} have
;a&ed your part gloriously, —pray'coii-
tinue to find fault with every meafurt
los your government, especially with
Banks, and (till moiethe Funding Syf
tern ; (ior could we once get the credit
of the United States much injured «i
ruined, half our work is done; but a
*bove alf exclaim loudly against Impoi 1 ..'
arid Excises —Excise! Excise! horrid
dreadful!—O that is a rare watch-worii
for your party, and our interest: cculd
we onee diminish and destroy their Re
venue, tohat could they eifeft
our secret views and plans? How ll fUl<
it totally cmbairafs your governpc nt —
nay, perhaps bring about ourm lll
fired change, then you and your.fnepi:
would a;et the powei in youro\vn liaOi>»
—and let you alone to manage the
utnents—and what a pity is it that i ,eß
of our abilities should want botl^/