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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