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Mr: Fevno,
There are few persons of .good sense
who hope to fee liberty prevail in France,
who have not been (hocked and discoura
ged by the rncafures they have adopted to
abolish religion. It is not merely the Ca
tholic doJlrilie that is attacked—«t is the
Christian religion. The head and founder
of it has been treated with a degree of ir
reverence, which in this country will
pass for incredible. Bigots in politics
may if they please, attempt to suppress
the natural feelings of wonder, of disgust,
of alarm for the coitfequences of this un
heard of profligacy of manners and princi
ples," which considerate persons will deem
more dangerous to the liberty and happi
ness of France, than the combined armies.
A clergyman whom I do not know, but
v who bears the character of a man of sense
and virtue, exhorts his congregation to
beware of the contagion of these mon
strous examples. What minister would
not betray the cause of religion, of morals,
of heaven and earth, if he fufTered the
threats, or the newspaper abuse of bigots
v and perfccators in politics, to deter him
from the discharge of this obvious and ur
gent duty ?
Yet a writer, who calls himfelf " no
Pharisee," and who might as properly
have fubferibed to his jargon of illiberal
abuse, no Scribe, has arraigned Mr. A.
for preaching against the irreligious pro
ceedings in France. What ha 6heto do
with France, fays the Pharafee—What
has he to do. with vice and irreligion, is
the real question—He has to do with them
as a preacher of religion, to expose them
to his hearers A—he has a right, and is bound
to enforce his exhortations by the exam
ples of the Jews, or Romans, or French.
" No Pharisee" mistakes the time and
place. Our churches are not yet to be
(hut up, nor the Bibles burnt. Our cler
gy are to be respeCted and beloved. The
attempt of " no Pharisee," to libel a mi
nister, and to suppress the freedom of the
pulpit, is a proof of the progress that li
centiousness and irreligion are making. I
venture to predict, that when it lhall be
come the general practice of America to
vilify and peifecute our clergy, there will
hot be left, Liberty, Law nor Religion.
NQ CLERGYMAN.
CONGRESS.
House of Reprefcntativcs.
Friday, May 2.
The fullfwing olfervations were made by
Mr. Smith of Maryland, on the propos
ed tax, on fnujf and manufactured tobac
-10 :—The house in committe of the -whole.
Mr., Smith considered the observations
of the member who had just fat down, as
amusing, and ingenious, but not fatisfac
tory. To him, it seemed a very odd
Scheme to crush American manufactures
in the bud. Men of capital and enter
prize advanced large sums of money in e
reCting fnuff mills. After long exertions,
they began to reap the reward of their
expetices and their labor. At that em'titi
cal moment, the government souses down
upon them with an excise. In his opini
on,. the resolution before the committee
comprehended very great injustice to the
manufad&ujers of tobacco. He understood
that a fnuff mill required a capital of five
thousand pounds to begin with. We are
going to impose eight cents per pound on
fnuff, which was more than double the
price of the raw material. Here Mr.
Smith inferred, that it would be necessa
ry for the fnuff maker to posses an additi
on of double his present capital; so that
instead of five thousand pounds, he muff
possess fifteen thousand, before he can
lupport his present business. After pay
ing so vast a duty, house rent, the wages
of journeymen, and a multiplicity of other
ca(h disbursements, he is to give credit to
his customers for fix, nine, or twelve
months. There was another hardfliip
he mutt keep accounts of his sale. (The
words of the report rtferved to by Mr.
Smith, are as follows : "he (hall enteijo
to bond, with fufficient security to render
a faithful account every three months, of
the quantity of tobacco or fnuff fold or
sent out, within that period. Previous
to taking any tobacco, for the putpofe of
being manufactured, he (hall notify the
fame Jo the office of inspeCtion, and (hall
keep a book, in which (hall be entered
daily, the quantity of Jobacco or fnuff
fold or sent out ill each day.") This re
gulation may often prove a very great ]
hard(hip< It will require an extra clerk, 1
at ao eSp^nt-eof thrle, four, orfh'ehun
d(£d ffollurs per annum. For the manu- t
facturera of fnuff, this might be practica
ble : but, at lead in hl> part of the coun
try. (Maryland) : tobacco-spinners are 1
poor, work theinlelves, «»nd employ ttoys
to fell, many of whom, cannot so much'
as read. How are they to keep accounts,
or how are they to escape perjury, when
you bid them do what they cannot pofii
bly do ? Bclides, tobacco is frequently
fold not by weight, but by the yard. It
had been (aid, that this tax was hot more
exceptionable than the excise upon
This comparison did not hold.
By the tax on distilleries, the agricul
ture of the United States was greatly
promoted. Land that would out bCar
wheat, was, in confeqilence of that ex
cise, and the encouiagement, at the fame
time given to this manufacture, covered
with crops of rye. Hence there vVas no
jult resemblance in the two cases. But if
we are to excise every thing, Mr. Smith
said that the committee might excise, as
properly as tobacco, those ltrings of oni
ons, that were sent from ConneCticut all
over the Union. They were the staple
of that state, as tobacco was of Virginia,
and were equally fit to produce a revenue.
He expeCted that we (hould next hear of
an excise upon nails. Protecting duties 1
had been laid for the encouiagement of
that manufacture in America. Progress
had consequently been made in the bufi- 1
ness ; and now there was nothing want- 1
ing, but a smart excise duty, to knock it 1
on the head, under the pretence of railing 1
a revenue. Printed cottons, linen, paper, 1
were also articles that we (hould no doubt
saddle with a (tamp duty, as had been the 1
cafe in Britain, and thus crush that infant 1
manufactory. In the cafe of the present
tax, it would be said that the manufactu
rer must lay it on his cullomers. Yes.
But will his cultomers advance him a ca
pital double to what he had before ? Be
sides the tax, he must havevilits of excifs
men, which are in themselves, extremely
troublesome.
In fine, he considered this as a dange
rous precedent. It commenced a fyltem
of taxations on internal manufactures,
which would intimidate men from adven
turing their capitals in manufactories, sub
jeCt to be saddled with excises, the mo
ment they begun to be profitable—or
whenever they were enabled (as in the
cafe of fnuff) to exclude the foreign arti
cle. Tobacco and fnuff were, good arti
cles to begin with, for few, except the
manufacturer would complain ; he consi
dered this, as the opening wedge, and
(hould vote againlt the measure.
Foreign Intelligence.
BRUSSELS, February 28.
We are allured, that the plan of the next
campaign will totally differ from the lalt. It
It appears certain that the Prufiian army
considerably augmented and joined by the
contingents of the Circles of the empire will
be exclusively charged with the operations
on the Rhine, and that the Austrian troops
now there will join the trmy under Prince
Saxe Cobourg. It is hoped, this latter
inafs will be fufficient to pulh with vigdur
our conquests in French Flanders and Picar
die, and, at length, to give the lalt blow to
the anarchy, which, at this moment, defq
lates one of the fineft kingdoms in the world,
NATIONAL CONVENTION.
Sitting of March 6.
Goupilleau announced that Catalinieres,
the intimate friend of Charettc, had been
seized at Nantes.
Proclamation of Tureau, General in Chief
of the Army of the Weji.
Nantes, 28 Pluvoifc.
" Citizens,
" The time of deceiving is past. I pro
mise you the naked truth, and it is as fol
laws:
" 1 he march of the columns ordered to
traverse the Vendee country, has been the
means of destroying 6000 rebels, who
were scattered about, the retaking of a
very important post in the interior of the
country, and the capture of an immense
quantity of baggage. The banditti who
had the audacity to enter Chollett, by
striking terror into the garrison, have tit
the dull:. They have been (lain by a di
vision detached from the army of the
north, commanded by General Cordelier,
whom I sent in pursuit of them.
" Another division, wider General j t
Duqiitfnoy, has put to flight t! ( e main 1
body of Charatte's army, in the thicket,
and killed eight or 900 of them. On 1
the 26th Pluvoife, General Cdrdelier.put i
ij or 1600 banditti to the bayonet, near >
Beaupreau, which has very much weaken- r
ed La Roche Jaquelin's army. r
Three hundred of the rebels have just 1
been {hot in the sorest of Pince; and b
many other advantages have been gained J
by General Haxo. t
" The trifling ill fucee(Te» we have ex- e
perienced, and which have been so much ]
exaggerated, do not deserve notice.— 1
There are still some numerous parties in <
Vendee, who are so much more dangerous, (
as thev alone occupy the right bank of (
the Loire. My predecessor has allowed 1
them too long a time to repose. We t
must yet make very strong efforts to ter- 1
minate this war; but if the soldiers will I
only fight courageously, and the princi- <
pal officers second my orders, if all the i
constituted authorities will join me, and t
if the patriots are not milled, I {wear that c
all ft all be well." t
March 4. i
Barrere proposed, that from the 10th t
instant, and- during the war, every (hoe- {
maker shall be obliged, under a severe pe- £
nalty, to furniih every day two pair of r
(hoes, for defenders of the Republic, who,
during the winter, had saved 50,00 a pair 2
of (hoes by going bare-foot. 1
March 5. }
A numerous deputation from the feftion <
of Marat entered the Hall, yuith drums 1
beating, bringing with them large lumps 1
of falt-petre on platters. Being come to '
the Bar, Monmora said, that it was an 1
offering fronj the fe&ion to the nation, t
After exprefling very ardent wifties for 3
the welfare of the Republic, and the over- '
throw of tyrants, he observed that the 1
fe«£lion of Marat possessed a falt-petre kind 1
of morality, the source of which was inex- t
hau liable, and whose expressions had very 1
frequently served the cause of Liberty and 1
tranquility. This remark was very loudly 1
applauded, and the address was ordered to '
be inserted in the minutes,
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LONDON, March 13.
From Paris, under date of the 7th inft. t
we learn, that the Brest fleet was to be ;
ready to put to sea with the firft fair wind
after the sth inft. On Saturday last, syr
the firft time for two or three weeks pail,
the wind came to the eastward—the pro
bability is, that the enemy would avail
themselves of the opportunity, and are
now at sea. The precise number of (hips t
of the line composing the French fleet,
we believe, is not at present clearly afcer- 1
tained. 1
The manifefto of the king of Prulfia has '
given the lie direst to all the insinuations, j
all the declarations, and all the aflertions
of the party writers, who have again "and {
again positively affii med, that the king of.
Piufiia's concuirence in the general cause
was not to be relied on, and that he would
take the firft opportunity of retiring from '
the confederation agairift France, when he 1
could promote his private views of arabi- '
tion and interest.
A Paris paper of the 6th inft. dates, s
that the Brest fleet had hoisted fignels for
failing'on the 23d ult. and that one hun- 1
dred vefTels had arrived fafe in Brest wa- '
ter. The Sans Culotte, the Genereaux f
and Languedoe, three ships of the line,
are fitting out, besides a number of fri
gates, all of which will be ready to put
to sea before April.
The duke of Richmond intends imme
diately to make the Tower impregnable, 1
as the rats have undermined that celebra- 1
ted fortification, and rendered it in rather 1
a tottering situation. His grace deserves
much praise for his (kill in fortifying it last
winter, and having those breaches repair
ed, which were made by such mischievous
VPrmin
■vermin.
COLONEL MACK.
The following Ihort account of this
Austrian officer, who is just arrived in
London, will, we hope, be acceptable to
our readers.
Col. Mack is a native of Wurzburg,
and son of a tradesman of that place
He began his military career as acormnpn
huiTar in an- Austrian regiment, but his
uncommon talents for military drawing,
his unwearied application to this art, and
his extraordinary 11; ill in laying down plans
loon raised him from obscurity, and in
troduced him to the-notice of Maifhal
Laudohn. His dillinguifhed conduct at'
the affair of LifTa ■ still more ingratiated
him with that great commander."
Field Mai ilial Laudohn had made all
his disposition for crofflng the Danube,
and attacking, that place. Mr. Mack,
■who had formed the plan of passing the
river, as well as that attack, went the
night before to the Marshal to receive his
lait prdcrs ; -when this General informed
him, that he had jail received intelli
gence of the Turks having been reinfoi
ced at JLiffa by a corps of 30,000 men,
and that of course he had given up h-=
project of an attack, as, after having
palfed the river, in cafe of meeting witii
any difatter, he should be at a loss how tq
effect his retreat.. Mr. Mack did not
credit the report of the reinforcement,
btit could not prevail on the MarJhal tc
execute his intended attack. Mr. Mack
left the Genera], crofted the Danube in a
boat, accompanied by a single Hulan,
and stole into the place, got certain
information of the supposed teinforcetner.t
not having arrived, took a Tu'rkift
officer prisoner ,in the suburb, re-passed
the Danube, and at 4 o'clock in the mor
irfg informed the Marfaal of his expedi
tion. On this report the Aultrian army
passed the river, and took LifTa, the whole
garrison of which place, confiding of
men, were made prisoners of war.
In the present war, Col. Mack; ftp.!
attached to the Staff, has much contri
buted to the successes obtained at the be
ginning of the campaign, especially the
attack and capture of the camp of ,Far.
mars, for which he made all the neteffa.
ry difgofitipes. 111 this affair he reiceiv
ed a wound, the cure erf which obligee
him to repair to BrufTets. He expt£tec
to be made Quarter-Matter General o]
Prince Cobourg's amy, but this place
having fallen to the (hare of Prince Ho
henlohe, his wound afforded him a pre
text to retire to Vienna. Called these t£
the conferences held with respect ta the
plan of operations for the enitiing cam
paign, he has caused a system to be adopt
ed totally different from that which hai
been purlued in the prececding campaigns
This he has laid at Bruftt's before th(
commanding Generals of the confederal
troops, and he is to communicate the
fame to our government. We learn thai
every where it has met with the fu|kl!
approbation.
PHILADELPHIA,
MAY 5.
A letter from a gentleman of refpe&ebili
ty and information in Liverpool, dated Marc I
3d, to his friend in this city, fays—" Thai
in his opinion, Peace is a». event which i.
not very remote. —The writer eSs this iettei
had been in Scotland and Ireland, and in tat
principal towns in England, and co'lecten
from all quarters that the current of the ge
neral sentiment would very shortly set Lrre
fiftably in favor of peace.
Says a Corrcfpondent,
It is recommended to a certain affernblj
to establish some rule, if they have none al
ready, and if they have to enforce it, for the
fuppreflion of impure and coarle allusions ir
public debate. Obscenity is not wit in pri
vate company ; it is liiexcufable in a gieal
afTembly.
If such instances have occurred in the hiir
ry of speaking, the delicacy of lentimeni
which character ifes the members, will lug
geft every reflection to prevent the repetition
Extract of a letter from England, datec
Feb. 17th, 1794, and received by the Wil
liam Penn.
" The business of Congress is very im
portant! I hope they will have wisdom giv
en them from above, equal ta the matter
that may come before ihem . The President
conduct and speech are univerfa Uy admired
you will meet with Fox's panegyic upr
him in the debates in the houle of Commons
he might have been called to order, had i
not been for that saving exception, his pre/en
Mtyefty, or something finiilar—-Genet's folly
though high'.v censurable, has done mud
good : —the dignity of the American govern
ment, and the cool, prudent firmnels of th
President, will give the United States a de
gree of importance in the eyes of Europe.-
The prosecutions that have been carried c
in Scotland agaii'ft the friends of reform, an
the severe fentenees that have been paftsi
upon several persons will only encreafe flr
easinesses inltead of caufmg them to subside
the measures of government will probabl
only add fuel to the fire, and oceafion ii
bursting out with greater violence. 1 hav
no expe&ation of the war's ending whi
minifler3 can find money for carrying it 011,
but should the allies be no more success.!
than they have been hiterto, the difiatisftli
tion and difficulties will in all likelihood b
so great that in two years niprtnyceffity
fece those at prefeat ;t the helm tc qui.