i: .a* of aiy of rti? fubjeSj belonging to bis Maje&y, to or for tite difpvjki of per fjns relider.t iti Frartce, u ndcr the power , of the persons wh» exerpife the present Government hi J i Mice, and for preferring the produce of such property to the Indi ridual owners thereof. The question was put and carried. PLYMOUTH, January 22. „ Yetterday the French celebrated at Mill Prison, as a civic fete, the anniversary of . the execution of Louis XVI. The pro -ceflion went round the square of the prison, formed a circle, and then sung the Mar feiilois Hymn, Ca ira, &c. They then began to ihout, threw their capj in the air, took a civic oath, and put a red cap upon j a pole. | NATfONAL CONVENTION, Tuesday, Jan.'ji. The Jacobins of Paris came to the Con vention, and made a speech »n the anniver ' fary of the death of Louis the tyrant. ' Re presentatives of a free people,' said the ora- I tor, ' this day is the anniversary of the legal death of a tyrant. So grand a day, which recalls to Republican fouls an a<st ordained by reason and by nature as the firll step to wards the happiness of all human kinds fhouldbe celebrated by every man who knows how to estimate his own dignity. The So ciety of Jacobin* with fouls that burn for liberty, have in a mass consecrated this grand day, to felicitate anew the true Mountain eers, on the courage of whom as the organ of the French people, they exterminated the monster that devoured them. Tho Society invites you, Mountaineers, to make a decree that this anniversary (hall be regularly cele brated and consecrated to liberty: continue your labours with that firmnefs which be longs to free men ; be the terror of the ty rants of the glebe, and the hope of fuflfering humanity. By and bye, through the exam ple of Frenchmen, all nations will (hake off the yoke r.nd break their fetters ; and then, , if thefuhlime atchievement of a people, whpfe organ you have the happiness to be, (hould . serve as a model to all nations, your civic I virtue and your courage (hall serve as a les son to their representatives. " There is no equality, no liberty, where ther<S is a king ; there is no happiness without liberty; you have destroyed a King, and you have thereby (hewn your desire to efta .Hifh equality and liberty, that is to fay, the happiness of the people ; you have therefore deserved well of your country." Anfw»r of the President.—" The anniver sary of the death of a tyrant, which is a day of glory to the French people, is a day of terror and of mourning for despots and their supporters.—This memorable day announces • the re-y akening of a deeping people, and the massive weapon of the revolution is rea dy to crufli the monsters who hold nations enslaved ; and the glorious Tree of Liberty {hall not peri(h, while their impure blood (hall nouri(h and fructify its root. " Citizens, the feftival that you are go ing to celebrate, ought to animate the cou rage of the Sans Culottes, appease the manes of the vi&ims maflacred under the flandard of tyranny, and avepge human kind for the outrages that they have fuffered for more than fourteen centuries. It is on this day, it is at this hour, that the head of a tyrant falls—it is before the statue of liberty that you are going to found the last hour of crowned freebooters, and all their satellites. The National Convention will take into con federation the petition you have made, and invites you to the honors of the fitting." These two speeches were ordered to be sent to all the Popular Societies, to the De partments, and to the Armies. -Sort Louis, new named Fort Vauban. is secured to us. Fort Vauban is ours, said the corrupt emigrants in their intercepted letters. Wait but a few days, said the Committee of Public Safety, in its last report on Landau, and the slaves of Pruflia and Austria will no longer defile our territory: the prophecy is fulfilled, and Fort Vauban is at this moment occupied by the troops of the Republic. " Cowards are always cruel and destruc tive. The banditti have disappeared like ma lignant meteors. They have set fire to a part of the Fort; have laid waste the vari ous houses of the town ; have placed mines in all parts, some of which are sprung and have carried ofF the,cannon. " Alfatia is wholly preserved; but the Austrian, after ruining what he could not preserve, has prudently put the Rhine be tween himfelf and the French Republican, We have loft houses and fortifications, but ive have an invulnerable rampart, a Republi can army. The place has not cost us a single man, and according to fcientific men, the recovery of Fort Vauban by liege, would have been a loss qf j or 6000 men to the state. We (hall rebuild the necessary Forts, and as to houses, in fortified towns, they have always been rather injurious than ufe fui. Beside, what have we to regret for places that either have the cowardice to in "vite or to receive the enemy ? " Do not imagine, however, though Aus tria has avoided battle by cowardly flight, that there has been no trial of patriotism ho jiorable to the French soldier. The powder > ntiagasdae* were undermined, and matches were prepared through the whole town to r , , bi ™ * the habitations ; v but our brave vo lunteers flew on ail fides and snatched up the mat« lies, defpifmg danger, with ihoft admi ► rable courage. u the mal contents spread a rumour that the army of the Republic had been defeated at Worms. The enemy at tempted to make a movement, but the Repub licans loon recovered their position. Worms [ is at present ours, where we have found im mense magazines of corn, leather, and cloth. " In common wars, after fuccefles so nu merous, peace has been fought for and ob i tamed. The wars of kings only san guinary tournaments, the expences of which were defrayed by the people, while tyrants insolently aflumed all the pomp to them selves: but in a war for freedom, there is j but one means, that of exterminating def- j pots. When the horror of tyranny, and the inftin#.of freedom, have armed the brave, they will only Iheathe the sword by dictating peace. The coalition has harnessed twenty one nations to the corps of defpoti'm, the inhabitants of which still are {lumbering : the people of England, Scotland, Ireland, Holland, Hanover, Brunfwick, Hefle, Prus sia, the Imperialists, Auftrians, Hungarians, Bohemians, Belgians, Ruffians, Piedmontefe, j Sardinians, Parmesans, Florentines, Romans, j Neapolitans and Spaniards. To enumerate ; them is but to give a lift of the vanquiflied. " What campaign was ever more glorious, j presenting as it does, the Spaniards and the j English flying from Toulon, the Pruflians beaten at the Mozelle, the repaf- ' ling the Rhine, and the Dutch chaced from Dunkirk ?' " Some voices however, already are heard declaiming on the advantages of What man of understanding, what lincere patriot will dare to mention peace, without dreading to compromise freedom ? Who then will speak of peace ? Those who hope to adjourn the counter revolution for fb\ne months or some years by giving foreign na tions and tyrants time to breathe, their people, provision their magazines; and recruit their armies.—Who is it that calls i for peace ? Brunfwick, Cobourg, Pitt, Hood, and Ricardos. The deceit is too grofe, for it is our cowardly enemies themselves who mduUrioufly difieminate this opinion, and have the folly to hepe it will prevail. " Let our popular societies seize every means of developing the crimes of the Bri tilh government, and of proving that its minifier has familiarized national despotism, and in a pompous manner has substantiated the royal tyranny. It is the forms of this < government, which you ought to destroy." LONDON, February 7. The French are making altonifhing ex ertions to fit out their navy ; and fgr this purpose, every seaman in France is'put in a Hate of requilitfon ! Letters from the Continent, by the Flanders mail of yesterday, bring the in teresting intelligence, that the French have re-occupied the important heights of Op. penheim, and have pufted their advanced posts within two leagues of Mentz. On the other hand, the army of 32,000 men, intended for the siege of Fort Louis, has polled itfelf before Manheim. They .have brought up the heavy artillery jfod pontoons, and batteries aieerefted, not only for the purpose of bombardiug the town, but of covering their paflage over the Rhine. The accounts of the demolition of Fort Louis, ate true only in part. Two bas tions, or rather diftinft forts, looking to ward Alsace, having been completely de stroyed ; but the French entered the toivn withaftonilhing intrepidity, and werethere in time to cut off the fuffees which led to the powder magazine and the other works. Our Letters from Basle, in Switzerland, dated Jan. 30, fay, that aFrench gentle man had arrived there, in ten days from Nantz, who states, that at the time he Ift that place, there cxifted not the smallest trace of the army of the Royalists. I For the Gazette of the United States. Mr. Fenno, , To , brin S about a war, the ground must be taken carefully. The people are irri tated, but decidedly opposed to hostile ineafures. Those who hunger and third; X" b ecause they will hunger and thrrft nil there is one, have a plain game to play To irritate the people more and m ° re ' r tlme or an y relaxation on the part of Great Britain ftiould be likely to ? ' e the genial rage, it must be heated by some new fuel. It must be established as a rule, that a man's patriotism is to be meaiured by his fury. To ad against the general movement is hard work, like row ing agatnft a strong current: But to go as the public is going, and to persuade them o go alter, to find tliem angry, and to exafpmte thsm up to a pitch to ast as s well as threaten violent things, Is aot the 0 mod difficult thing in the world. From words to blows is but one stage iti pafTion. What was attempted la(t summer ? War. What is iu train at this moment ? Look ! at the refolws of our factious Societies} [ at the style of certain newspapers. There is another place where the mod outrage ' ous language has been used. Let our pru ' dent thinking men examine the whole of this way of proceeding, and doubt, if they possibly can, that some persons, whom it is n<St prudent to mention, intend to have war: That others who perhaps do not precisely fee what they arc about, are joining the violent party and are getting along towards hodilities a step at a time. Thus we shall findourfelves in three months at the edge of the pit, and wonder how we came there. It is time, if it is not too late, for real Patriots to take their Rati ons, and to keep the violent paflions, which are always the forerunners of war, from taking the lead. Thus far the ef fcdf of our newspaper and speech-making and refoldtion-making rage on our own citizens has been hinted at : but let usex ; tend our views. The tendency of many : things that have been said, and of some j few that have been a died, to exasperate ! the people of England so as to make them run into a war in support of the unjust j proceedings of their ministry, is felf evi dent. What would the feelings of our own citizens he if the newspapers of Eng land, and the debates of Parliament were as outrageous against our country, as their proceedings in the Weft Indies have been opposed to the principles of j lift Ice ? Would it have been possible ta have kept those who are now so violent, within any bounds of neutrality ? Let our Farmers, our Merchants, our Tradesmen who must bear the burdens of the war, pay due at tention to the movements of those who seem to be so ready to make it. For tie Gazette of the United States. The " Democrat," acknowledges the receipt of an admonition in the Gazette j of Wednesday, and proceeds to apply the general doflrincs it contains. If the " ex ercise of sovereignty engenders a <wi/h to usurp," it certainly behoves the people to watch over this unlucky human inclina tion, unless it be proved, that it is unna tural to the modefl spirit of aristocracy, or the meek temper of men in office, and the cxclufive property of democracy and equa lity. And that those who quaff deeply of wealth and power, are less liable to " intoxication," than citizens abftra&edly employed in discussing and disseminating the principles of liberty. The democrat in fad condolence, sensi bly feels the truth of the position, " That when secret combinations diredi the choice of repiefentatives, the Republic ceases to be free." Whether it is most pertinent to the paper combination, or to the de mocratic societies, the reader must himfelf If to the former, then his Ipirits revive up to the congratulatory pitch, upon reading, « that Clubs are the forerunners of reform in a bad govern mentor in other words, that they tend to reform, whatever is bad in government. Thus applying the position, the Republic " hasceafed to be free," according to the principles of the paragraphs, and though the Democrat, admires the foundation, and proportions of the edifice, he confeffes that he is not delighted with certain carv ings and cornices, which have been tacked to it, since it came from the hands of the architect. From the General Aduertifer. Mr. Bache, As the division in Senate refpetting Mr. Jay s appointment has been publiflied with unusual industry and with a view to conceal the principles upon which it took place,* I have procured and beg you to publifli the fol lowing, which I have reason to believe will explain the motives and juftify the conduct of the minority to the fatisfaflion of all true republicans. th t T SVimc loVVing refolut!ons were moved in to Ihr Re^ IV f'V That any communication to the court of Great Britain which may at this time beneceffary can be made through anH TA" C ° Urt With e l ual and effect and at much less expence than by Jh Vr e T S an Env °y Extraordinary ; and that iuch an appointment is at this junAurc inexpedient and unneeefiary. 2d. That to permit judges of the supreme ' court to hold at the fame time other offices emanating from and holden at the pleasure of the executive is d«ftruclive of their inde 1 pendence, and to expose them to the Lflu- j ence of the executive, is mischievous and Im politic. lam informed that a majority of the Se. Bate appeared to be infentiment with this last resolution, but the friends of Mr. Jay urged that his delicacy and sense of propriety would certainly induce him to resign his office of chief justice when he lhould accept the o ther, and no question was taken upon the re futations ; but they went off, either by a pre vious question or upon motion for postpone ment, ip to 16, The minority ftippofed that more was to be feared from Mr. Jay's avarice than was to be hoped from his deli cacy or sense of propriety. The event will shew who werf right. The divifton was up on the principles before stated, and not upon the man, tho' cogent objeaions might have been urged against him, particularly as hav ing publicly and officially juftified Great Bri tain in holding the polls and carrying off the negroes. * As the publication alluded to, origina ted in this Gazette, it may be proper to fay that the motive herefuggejled, never exifled in the mind oj the publisher. CONGRESS. {N SQNJTE, Tuesday, April i. A message from the House of R eprf . fentatives by Mr. Beckley their Clerk ■ " Mr. President—The House of R e . prefentatives agree to the amendments of the Senate to the bill, entitled, « An ast to provide for placing buoys on certain rocks off the harbor of New London, and in Providence river, and other pl a ! ces." And he withdrew. Mr. Foster reported from the commit, tee on enrolled bills, that they had exa mined the bill, entitled, « An ast to pro vide for the erecting and repairing of ar lenals and magazines, and for other pur- ' poses"—-The bill, entitled, "An ast transferring, for a limited time, the ju rifdiftion of suits and offences, from the diftrift to the ciicuit court of New Hamp shire, and aligning certain duties, in ref peft to invalid penfioncrs, to the attorney of said diftrift"—and the resolution to carry into more compleat effect the resolu tion ditiefting an' embargo," and that ' they were duly enrolled. A meflage from the House of Repre sentatives by Mr. Beckley their Clerk : " Mr. President—The Speaker of the House of Representatives having signed two enrolled bihs and an enrolled resoluti on, I am directed to bring them to the Senate for the signature of the Vice Pre sident"—And he withdrew. The Vice President signed the enrolled bills and the enrolled resolution last report ed to have been examined, and they were delivered to the committee, to be laid be fore the President of the United States for his approbation. The petition of Elkanah Prentice, praying compensation for military servi ces, and that he be placed 011 the lift of invalid pensioners, wasvprefented and read. Ordered, That this petition be referred | to the Secretary for the department of war, to consider and report thereon toth* Senate — The Senate adjourned to 11 o'clock to morrow morning. Wetlnefday, April 2, 1794. The Vice President laid before the Se nate a letter from the Secretary for the de partment of Treasury, enclosing a memoir of Mr. La Rocque on the politicks of the United States refpefting their public debt and agriculture. The Vice President laid before the Se nate a letter from the Honourable Antho ny Morris, Speaker of the Senate of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, together with a certificate of the election of the Honourable James Rois to be a senator, to represent said commonwealth in the Se nate of the United States; which were read. Ordered, That they lie on file. Mr. Foster reported from the commit tee on enrolled bills, that they had exa mined the bill, entitled, "An ast o pio vide for placing buoys on certain rocks off the harbor of New London and in Provi dence 11'ver, and other places," and that it was duly enrolled. A message from the House of Repre sentatives by Mr. Beckley their clerk : " Mr. President—The Speaker of the House of Peprefeiitatives having signed an enrolled bill, lam directed to bring it to the Senate for the fignature.of the Vice President"—and he withdrew. The Vice President signed the enrolled bill, entitled, "An ast to provide for placing buoys on certain rocks off the \
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