cotton of the arret iflued by our collczgue,
feftore the arrested persons to their func
tion, and further fend the petition to the
Committee of General Safety." Decreed.
Gauthier moved, " That all persons im
jprifoned by order of the Revolotionary
Committee, newly organized at Bclley,
should be liberated, except Nobles and per
forms cotorioufly fufpedtcd." Decreed,
unarrmoully.
The Popular Society of Mennecy, in
the Diftridt of Corbenil, offered all the
Ornaments of their Church, and declared
that they did not want any Curate. They
wished that the Parsonage-house fhoilld
be Sold, and that the Church (hould be
converted into a placc of Aflembly for
the Popular Society, in which the busts
of Marat and Lepelletier should be fublti
tuted for the statues of Si. Peter and St.
Dennis. The Convention pasTed to the
order of the day on this report.
A deputation from the Popular Socie
ties of Versailles, was admitted to the bar
—The members compoling this deputa
tion, were drefled in pontifical robes.—
They informed the Convention that the
Bishop of the Department of Seine and
Oife, was dead. " Will you Legislators,
fuffer his Bishopric to be filled ? Will you
who have dellroyed a Throne, preserve the
Canopy—will you cherish thecrozier? The
Citizen and theLegiflator, fhonld acknow
ledge no other Worship, but of Liberty
—.-no other Altars but those of the Re
public—no other Pritfts but Magiilr&tes.
—Legislators ! imitate the Jews—-defend
from the mountain, break the golden calL
to pieces, and let the Ark of the Consti
tution be the only Idol of the French."—
Ordered to be inserted in the Bulletin.
Situation of Nantes.
Members of the Commune of Nantes,
presented the following address to the
Convention :
" We would fain be the MeflTengers of
good news—but perfidious Admiftrators
have done every thing to dellroy Liberty
and the People, in these diftri<?.3. The
successors of these Administrators, found '
neither grain nor any provisions to nourish
the laborious and indigent class of citizens.
" Several persons sent to procure pro
visions could not obtain any, on account
of the large supplies sent to the armies.—
Without doubt, the armies must be fup
plicd, but the poor of Nantes ought also
to be prevent**! from starving.
" We throw ourselves upon your pa
ternal juttice, which will not fuffer you to
forfake your children."
• The petition was sent to the committee
of fubiiftence, which was ordered to pre
sent an immediate report on the fubjeft. t
November 8.
Fouche, of Nantes wrote
Nevers, Nov. 3.
" I had nothing but pleasure to gather
for you in the department of La Nievre.
—You have imposed on me more painful
labors at Ville Affranchie, (Lyons) but
1 accept this million with courage, con
scious that if I have no longer the fame
bodily ilrength, my heart at lead retains
all its fornaer energies.
" The offerings on the altar of the
country still continue to abound at Nerves.
I fonvard to you a fourth collection of
gold and silver, amounting to several mil
lions.—The contempt for fuperfluities_ is
such here, that those who poflefs them,
consider themselves as worthy of reproba
tion.
" The admiration of republican customs,
and austere habits,has penetrated every foul
since the people are no longer corrupted by
the priests: some of these impostors are still
desirous of playing their religious farces,
tut the Sans Culottes watch them, over
throw all their stage tricks, and erect on
their ruins the immortal tree of liberty.
(Signed)
" FOUCHE."
LONDON.
CORRESPONDENCE
BETWEEN THE
PRINCE OF SAXE COBOURG AND
GKNERAL JOURDAN.
Letterfrom General Jourdan, Genetal in Chief of
the army of the A'orth and Ardennes t to Genu a!
Cobourg, dated OBobet 30.
**■ 1 am full/ informed, that it has been re
ported in the Army which you command, that
all the French who may fall into the hands of
your S >ldiers are to be inaffacied. lal o know
that t lis a<ft nf barbarity and cruelty, of which
History fumi flies no example, has been com
mitted upon lome dilmounted Chaireurs, who
were made prisoners in the rencontrne —
which lately took place in the village ofMon
tigny.—l write for an explanation ot' the
manner in which yon mean to carry on the
War. Until the present momon', we have ie
lpej&ed tl»e on fortunate who have fallen into
our hands; we Have given them meat and
drink when they had occasion for them ; they
have even been fumifhed with money to pro
cure rhemfelves f'uch thmgs as were neieilary
for them. This cotduft on our part ought
to make us hope for the lame from you > how
ever, we are convinced of the contrary To
complete our horror, our pi ifoners are obliged
toferveiu the Legion ot the Emigrants, in
those paracidal Troop# whose very name tills
us with horror, I will add no more, Gener
al ;and wait with impatience your answer,
that limy regu'ate my future conduit by it-
ANSWER.
He/J Quarte'f, Frida\ y A'ov> t, '703.
u Although you fay, that you are pert'e&ly
informed of that which you have ndvanced in
your Letter, there is not the lead foundation
for the imputation. So far from ordering the
massacre of all the French whom the chance
of War, has made fall into our hands, there is
a ftand.ng order to treat ihem with humanity
and kind-iefs from the moment th«*y were pri
soners. However r:*.(h and unbecoming may
be your manner of judging of our
and of acquainting us of it, we have not wait
ed for your remonstrance, far less for your
example to learn what we owe t < prifomrs.
and the unfortunate. In ipite of the 1 igid and
positive orders which have been given to our
soldiers on this head, it is polT:ble, that in the
heat of battle, they may have given place to
those sentiments of revenge and indignation
which the lajl atuocities conrritted /.• brar.ee have
produced in their minds—However, a very
recent example proves, that y« ur imputation,
affirmed so positive ly, is entirely void of foun
dation. The day before yelterday, we took
2000 Prifor.ers at Marchiennes. They are. al|
alive, and under the sacred p«"otedtion of the
Laws of War and our Loyalty.
44 We have, in all about 25,000 French Pri
soners in our ; they aie paid, not in
paper, which would not produce the half of
th cir pay, but ill lilver ; they are well fed ; we
w'll give them up when exchanged. We have
not kept them near a year after the term in
whieh, by the mod solemn Cartels and agree
ments, they were to have been exchanped.—»
We do not oblige them to serve in the Emi
grant Legions; if they are admitted into them,
it is by a voluntary enlistment, in which we
use no influence, as we have before us a strik
ing and odious examp'e ot* the injufticc and
danger of preding Soldiers into the fervice.^—
44 Above all, Sir, learn to know us, and par
ticularly how you ought to write to a generous
enemy, bravery of the General of an
Army ought not to conllft in the terms of a let
ter. However, lam too much above such pro
ceedings, and such language, to be offended at
44 I wrote, some time ago, to the Command
er in Chief of the French Army, to request him
to inform me, if the Lieutenant Colonel, of
the Regiment of Cobourg's Dragoons, who
was wounded and taken prisoner on the i6ih
< f O&ober, was yet alive, wbe r e he was, or if
he was dead of Ins wounds. Such information
is never refuted •' in all limilar cases, I have
given and received it ; but on this occafioh,
I could get no answer. I agam repeaUoyau,
Sir, the fame demand.
(Signed) " PRINCE COBOURG."
UNITED STATES.
BOSTON, January 18th, 1794-
The Treasurer's report on the fubjeft
of the debt of the Commonwealth, refer
red to him at the June Session, was read
in the house of Reprcfentatives, at the
close of this day, and committed. The
report was lengthy, and we are not able
to furni(h such an abflraft of it, as we
could wi(h. It appears that the debt of
the Commonwealth, unprovided for, with
the arrears of interest, to the ift of July
next, will amount to I. 6.
The report contemplates a loan to be
opened at 5 per cent interest, to be paid
half yearly. The annual interest on the
balances due from the United States, the
annual dividend from the subscription to the
Union Bank, and the annual interest on
money loaned to the United States, will
amount to £.22,251. 8. 3. leaving only
£. 12,236. 11. 9. to be raised by an ex
cise or a tax on polls and eftafes to pay
the interest on the propol'ed loan ; the
money due for the eastern and western
lands which have been fold, and the inter
est of the debt, which may be from time
to time redeemed, it is proposed to vest in
the hands of commissioners for the pur
chase of the debt. Supposing the debt
to be purchased at 18/. on the pound, so
much will be redeemed by the year 1801,
that the interest annually due from the
United States, and the Commonwealth's
dividend in the flock of the Union Bank
will then without the aid of a tax, pay the
interest on the residue of the debt and
leave a surplus of jf.3369. 2. o. annually.
We congratulate the public upon this
pleasing exhibition of our finances, which
appears to be well founded ; and when it
is considered, that a tax of two (hillings
on the poll will at this time raifethe dtficit
236. 11. 9. stated above, and
also raise a sum fuflicient to defray the an
nual expences of Government,the creditors
of the Commonwealth, we trust, may now
promise themselves that jullice will be ren
dered to their claims.
ALBANY, Jan. 9.
The inhabitants of ScheneCiady (fays
a correspondent) are at length riiiug into
a spirit of enterprise, by beginning to fee
and feel the advantages of their command
ing and pleasant lituation. Witness
within a few weeks, they have eltablifhed
a museum or more properly a chamber
for social intercourse, where they propose
to receive the public papers from every
part of the union—this will tend to wear
off the rough edge cf that unsociability
which has thus farchara£teri/.ed Schenec
tady ; Besides which they are about throw
ing a bridge over the Mohawk opposite
the town—and they have also appointed
a committee to confer with the leading
characters in this placc on the fubjeft of
eftabhlhing by law two diflinck roads be
tween the two places, each one to be de
fignatcd for all persons travelling the fame
way.—Within a few months at the fame
place they have eftabliflied a poll office
and a daily (tage which plies regularly to
this city.
NEW-BRUNSWICK, Jan. 16.
On Sunday last Capt. Sedam marched
from this place for Albany, with a party
of recruits. Enfitrn Voorhees remains at
the Barracks in this place for the purpole
of recruiting.
NEW-YORK, Jan. 28.
In the Log Book of the Hunter, Capt
Hackcr, we find under the head of Nov,
18th, the following :
At day break we saw to the eastward a
French fleet which soon gave us chafe,
came near us, and sent a tender on board,
and examined our papers ; at which time,
the Enghfh fleet hove in fight at leeward ;
they were superior in number to the
French. Whether an engagement took
place or not, they were not able to tell—
but Capt. Hacker informs, that he since
heard that some of the English {hips (those
which were the best failcrs) pursued the
French, and came up with them, when an
engagement ensued, which terminated in
favor of the English The French had
an Engli{h brig in poficfiion which they
had captured.
For the Gazette of the United States,
WHEREAS ttie Government of the
U. S. from which the people were led to
expect great and manifold blcffings, hath
now been nearly five years in operation—
and whereas the public expectation hath
been entirely disappointed and defeated in
respect to said government—by the conti
nuance of anarchy, confufion and discord,
among the people—by the prostration of
the public credit, and the decline and con
tra&ion of commerce—the discouragement
of agriculture, the depression of mechanic
arts—the reduction of the value of {hips,
houses, lands, cattle, lumber, grain and
other produce of the farming interefl—by
the stagnation of domestic intercourse,
particularly the embarraflments on the
coasting trade—by the deftru&ion of mu
tual confidence between man and man—
by the apathy and indifference which hath
seized on all the enterprizing faculties of
our citizens, manifefted in a total derelic
tion of all plans for the improvement of
our roadi, and facilitating by bridges and
canals, internal communications—by ' the
total defection of all the tried patriots of
the U. S. from those principles which ac
tuated them " in the times that tried mens*
' fouls"—by placing the administration of
public affairs in the hands of men, who,
tho' they have braved death in every form
to secure the liberties and independence
of the U. S. are now loft to every feufe of
the blessings they fought and conquered
to obtain : and from being patriots, are
transformed to parricides. • Therefore, for
remedy of all these, i>id many other evils
seen, felt and groanrd under from Geor
gia to New-Hampshire—be it known, that
one general and universal change ought to
take placc—revolution is the word—Re
volve, revolve and revolve,till all the pleas
ing, comforting, heart-confolingand exhi
lerating delights of capsizing, topfy-turvv
ing, undermining, disjointing and over
throwing all the fyftims, principles and
practices of this wretched country, are
fully realized and enjoyed—Until
Those who are in,
No longer (hall grin ;
And those who are out,
No longer (hall pout.
PHILADELPHIA,
From 4 Corkbspokdfkt.
We fliall fee how much the principles
of liberty and equality are really prized,
by one w 110 has prattled a great deal about
them—and who no sooner landed in our
country, than he enlisted a rabble of half
witted and less than half principled incen
diaries, to blow the sparks of war into a
flame. The chaiafter of this country h;.s
not been spared by the virtuous band of
scribblers, who advocated privateering and
foreign influence. It has bocu represented
at no longer free. The head of this pa
triotic fraternity, surely will not flay in
a land that is not free. How will it suit
his fancy to go home to that happy regrbn
oflibeity and equality, where it does not
depend upon law or constitution, whether
a man lhall have his head on his own
(houlders or on a pole ? He will shew the
lincerity of his attachment to that fort of
liberty, by afhially going heme to enjoy
it. Let him take with him his club, and
all thole purified and fublirnated fouls, who
hate this corrupted government and it's
fordid Caves. Their own exalted standard
of morals and political principles, ex id al
ready in France. They would be at home
there. It will be a lo::g time before we
(hall order these matters as well as they do
: in that country.
Died, in this City, a few d.'.ys since,
Mrs. Hannah Hawkes, consort of Captain
Hawkes.
In the Weft-Indies, after a (hort
illness, Mrs. Abigail Prrfct, in the 19th
year of her age—wife of Capt. Benjamin
Prefcot, and daughter of the late Pierce
Long, Esq. Her death happened on the
fame day with that of her filler's (the wife
of Tobias Lear, Esq.) who died in this
city, the 27th July.
(Jj* The petition presented by Mr,
Murray, as mentioned in the proceedings
of the Koufe of Representatives of the
28th inft. was from two French citizens,
Mefirs. Gaurain & Lewis Dubourgin
behalf of their unfortunate countrymen n
lone—the object of the prayer is eacprefsly
confined to women and childreH.
Good Hope, Sharnock, N. Prov. lo
Schr. Dairy Maid, Hommel!,Ciirracoa, 60
Weymouth. L'Hcmmedieu, N. Y. 14
Dolphin, Watson, ditto.
Sloop Tiger, Pearce, N. London,
The Qlipt Peggy, Captain Elliott, and
Liberty, Miller, outward bound, being
injured by the ice, are come up to refit.
Friday last arrived here, the brig Fair
Hebe, Captain Brown, in 73 days from
Cadiz.—Beiides the following American
vessels, Capt. Brown failed out of Cadiz
Bay with a Spanish 74, a frigate and a
small convoy for the Havanna.
Ship Creetiway, Cnpt. Amos Oakmarf;
Nancy, John Smith ; Rookfby, Nathaniel
Jones ; Commerce, Joseph Loring ; la
duftvy, Perry of Philadelphia.
Biig Cruger, John Alibon ; Dolphin,
Live Stutfi.n; Aurora, Thompson j Polly,
M'Kain, of Philadelphia; Goat, Elifh
Huntington.
Schr. Dispatch, William Wallace.
Sioop Ditto. Pray.
Several of these were to be protested
by Spanish ships of War.
Exlraß from tie Log-Book, of Jloop Stork,
Isaac Chirk, majier, from Guadalovpc,
to Boflon.
November ao. Lat. 28, 30. long. 68.
was brought too by the pmsteer fchcober
Louisa, of Bermuda, Opt. Allboy, who
sent his boat with the Lieutenant to ex
amine Capt. Clark's papers ; after care
fully examining, and being falisfied no
French property was on board, he wiflied
Capt. Claik a good palfage to Bolton.
Capt. Clark, was then sick, and confined
to his ftate-rootn, and C?pt. Allboy, sent
his boat along fide, the Stork, tSe fecend
time, with all the Fowls he had on bc-rd,
and half a dozen bottles of wine, vhich
he begged Capt. Clark to accept. Capt.
Clark, received them with thanks, and the
Fowls in particular were very acceptable.
CO* The Subscriptions for this Paper art
rapidly rncrtafing. Upwards of Five Hun
dred are Jtruei iff daily.
jidvcrtifun fa vors from tht friends and
patrons of toe PubUoatior., are. ref^ilfulij
IRON reus.-
folicittJ,
JANUARY 30.
SHIP NEWS.
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