Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1802-12-02

about humanity, and piety, and Often a.
bou, fomethiog they call inhdelity, aFt.
they hnifh with ths chorus Of eyxeiy hin,
craei5y him. am become 70 famous a
mong them they cannot eat G: drink with
out me. ] ferye them as ffanding din, |
and they cannot make =, a bill osf4re:.
am not in II.
But there is one dr. and that the
choicef Of all, they have not yetprsfert-
ed on The table, and it is time they
illould. They have not yet aetalra PR
v;6euee If ixJfdsliy. Yet according 10
their outrageous pie,y, lhe NUT be as bad
as Thomas Paine; Che has projected him
is all his dangers, patroniled him in al
his undertakings, encouraged him N all
his ways, and reverted him at iaR by
bringing him in fafety and in health TO
the promiied land. Ih;sis more than &c
did by the Jews, the chofen people, that
they tell Us Che brought out Of The land Of
Egypt and out Of the houf- Of bondage
Tor theysll died in the wilderaels ana
Notes too.
| was one Of the nine members that
competed the 6rf committee Of conHitp-
lion. Six Of them have been deitreyed.
Seyiss and myielfhsve furvived. He By
tending Within times and Iby not berd-
ing. The other iurviver joined Robel
pierre and Ggned with him The warrant
for my aSreitation. After the fab Of Ro-
be{piere he was feixed and imrrifoned in
his turn and lentenced to transportation.
He has fince apoiigifed TO me for having
iiqned the warrant, by iAying, he felt
himfelf in danger and was obliged 70
do il.
EIerault Sechelles, an acquaintance OF
Mr.. Jefsrlon and good patript, was
my Ju5pli0ut a, member Of the committee
Of contribution, that is, he vas TO fuppiy
my place, If had not accepted or re-
Ganed, being next in number Of votes TO
me. Ee was irnprhoned in the Luxem
burg with me, was taksr 10 the tribunal
and the Guillotine, and |, bis principal,
was left.
There were bat two foreigners in the
Convention, AnarchaIGs Cioots and my
lelf. We were both put out Of the Con.
yention by the fame vote, atreRed by the
fame order, and carried 10 prilon together
the fame nighs. He was taken TO the
Guiliotne and ] was again left. Joel
Barlow was with US when we wenr 10
Prifon.
Joieph Lebon, one of the vilea cha
ratters thar ever exited, and who made
the Rrects of Arras run with blood, was
my fuPp!ianr as member of the Conven-
tion for the department of the Pes dc Ca
lais. When was put out Of the Con-
yenlion he came and took my place.
When | was liberated from prilon and vot.
ed again into the Convention, ne was ient
to the fame prifon and took my place
there, and he went to the GniIlo.ine in-
Read of me. He fupplied my place all
the way through.
One hundred ard ixty eight perfons
were taken ont of the Luxemburg in one
night, and hundred and 6xty of them
Gulliotined the next day, of which now
know | was to have been org and the
manner eieaPed thar fare is curious and
his all the appearance of accidlnf.
The room in which | was lodged was
on the ground floor, ard ore OF long
rasge of rooms under a gallery, and the
door Of it opened outward ard fat againtt
the wall 10 that when it was open the
iniide Of the door appeared outward, and
the contrary when il was fhut. l had
three comrades, fellow pfiloners with
me-, Jofeph Vanhuile Of Bfuges, iince
PRECEDENT OF the municipality OF thar town,
Michael Robbins and Batiini Of Levin.
When peiions by fcores and by hun
dreds were to be taken out of priiln for
the Gulliotine it was always done in the 4
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