Imperial Majesty to comply with, and
witch other States did alio not approve.
Moreover, this proposal gave rite to an
crceptiorc, which, after so many and me
ritorious actions, such unparalleled facri
ficcs, which his M.ijelty had already made,
be, in troth, had no rt-fon to expert,
and on which his Majeliy, not without
much sorrow, finds it his duty to make
lome remarks.
The inmmoning of the fix circles, by
theeleftorof Mcntz, has been represent
ed as irregular, though in fa ft it is ftriftly
ccnftitutional. Measures there were pro
moted 1 precifeljr contrad'.&ory to the nego
ciations for the fubftifence, and the uni
itrM arming of the peafahts was resolved
on, though it is plain, that such a mea
fuve is as inefficient as dangerous, and
compfeatly adverse to the objett proposed
—inefficient against ati enemy who prefl'es
forward in a mass with an insanity of
Fury, approved Tafticks, and a numerous
Artillery—Dangerous, tecaufe, when the
Peafaatis armed, and brought away from
h ; 4 ordinary mode of life, the enemy may
easily become his moll dangerous seducer,
and finally adverse to the object proposed,
becaule fuck an armament is wholly incorn- I
patibfewith the fwbfiftence
of diiciplined armies. These reasons,
which flowed from the molt sincere con-
Tiftion of uis Majesty, have been represent
ed in the molt odious colors ; and the molt
falfe and scandalous motives have been at
tributed to him, for his diflcijt. to this
meafnre ; —and, in order to prevent the
arrangement of the subsistence, ptojefts
of extending his Dominions, of feculari
zrng eccleliallica! territories, and of op
pi effing the emp-i e, have beed rumoured
to have been by him iii contemplation ;
«.r:d of which his Majeftv's known Patri
ot ism, and acknowledged virtues, will
form the be Li contradiction.
After what :» past, every hope of the
Subiiflencc being acceded to, being tioiV
vamfhed, " His Majesty does now re
" mince the fame, and also every Refn
" lution of the Empire and of the Cir
" cles relative thereto. His Majesty has,
" therefore, taken the Resolution no lon
■" ger to grant his Protection to the Ger
" man Empire :•—But, to order his Ar
" my, (excepting twenty thousand Aux
" illaries, according to different treaties)
" instantly so return to his own domin
" ions."
At the fenae tmt that his Majesty finds
himfelf f,impelled to withdraw a portion
of his Troops from the defence of those
f States, for which they have already com
bited with so much glory, he exprefies
the most earned wilhes, that those con
ferences he lias above alluded to may not
take place, but that the exertions of his
Imperial Majesty, and of the Empire,
may eventually insure to both a full indem
nity, and a general and honorable Peace.
To his Majesty remains the i'ti(f confuta
tion, and permanent glory of having on j
Ids part made such facrilices to the de- j
fence and fafety of the Emperor in the
present awful crisis, as certainly few
States in Europe, or Members of the
t 'eraianic Body, could, without much
hefi'ation, have reiolved upon.
Berlin, March 13, 1794.
PHILADELPHIA,
JUNE 5/
PORT OF PHILADELPHIA.
ARRIVED.
Schr. Trial, Davis, c«. r.t,.,,
fr 1 h \s! P hn fiu,ke, y> a Portuguele ship
and a Da nidi ihip, besides a
ino^r an:ived ,n the Dekwa -'™
Arrived at New-Tori the yl in ft.
lonJon. mbUS ' Carma "' « da > B
1 he Nancy, Butler, is arrived at Falmouth.
Extradl of a letter from Baltimore, June 1.
ftonu'?® u hat the tran q uil 'tv of your city
friritn 7 bee " disturbed - P«ieularlyby
i■;. L 0 an °ther {late—such conduct is
highly unwarrantable, and never will mee t
g ° od P e °P ,e ' wh ° '°ve
Ki? ord 7'/ nH «
have m r red '^ S ° f the in j"™s they
foot • hln? similar was on'
ZneTt'nJ, ° ng,nate from the
SfSLxSTS
employ, andfomt that had loft their velTels ;
4
I j so that I believe nbt & firfgle ve/Tel lias been
| ileiained ia confeaueilce of that affoci&tion—
j an !it v. ili doabt'ef;, fooh die awav\ Atrat
) tory £df of vslTels have c! ared for the ll
i lan s lince the embargo was ciT—others
that loaded before, and went down to Nor
| folh and Hampton may make the number,
fift,;-. —Many others wait for more favorable
intelligence before they go out. Last even
ings polk brought accounts from your city of
the King of Prafiia having withdrawn Ins
forces from the allies, and that Spain was
about negotiating with France. I liiicerely
hope this intelligence may prove to be true,
as it may be a means of procuring peace to
Europe, and of course security to the com
merce of .this country.—For terrible would
b the firoke to us, to be plunged in war at
t' is time—«nd I join with you in opinion
tl at ti'ofc who wifli it cannot be real friends
t' the United States. —Air. Jay I hope may
be fuccefsful, and as Cougrefs will loon rife,
yo« will not expect any obftruftions to his
| negotiations by those ia opposition to the
, pacific party, many of whom doubtless were
I ends to peace, altho' they differed refpec
tmg the means of obtaining it."
THEATRE.
OBSERVER No. XXI.
Mr. Fenno,
THE Theatre, at Mrs. Marshall's benefit,
last ttetiirtg, was more thoroughly; filled,
than it ever has been, since it was opened,
Mrs. Marshall in Juliet, and Mr. i ennel
in Romeo, did great justice to their parts. —
1' Ir. Chalmers, rather over acted Mercntio;
to cxprels the spirit and.fire in that charac
ter is extremely difficult. Mr. Chalmers's
tuition has heretofore so well accorded with
the Qbfe'rv r's taste and opinion, that he
;nore freely hazards the above remark.
t he Obfervcr- has hitherto gratified the
feelings of his own heart, in noticing the
beauties of performances - and performers,
rather than their faults : he has been happy
tp fee many inaccuracies corrected. Some
actors, who might have been reprehended at
firft, how deserve commendation .and ap
plause, and all are improved since the 'New
Theatre was opened.- -'.those performers
who have not been mentioned by the Ob
server, will umlerfta*<i, as »,gcneral rule, the
;il?nce, is meant as an admonition, this is
how ver true, with some exceptions, which
'hall be detailed, in future numbers.-—The
txrfocmafMse of Rcmeo and Juliet, last even
ing, was not, when taken in all its parts
jood; many scenes Were lir'elefs, especially,
that when Juliet is discovered in her bed,
A'llh the appearanee of death.
Tlie Funeral procefiion, and Dirge in sth
Jpcnt the highlit applause; nothing of
the kind, has exceeded it.—The vocal per
fgnpers in the Dirge, all did well, but Miss
Braa:!hurft, excelled—the iijie of her part,
was happily accommodated to the unrivalled
excellency of her voice, and method of per
forming.
Mr. Finch was justly forgiven, for want
of recolleiStion last evening ; it is to be pre
! Sc . "Ot faon want the exercik of
aifimilar indulgence.
. Tlie well known plays of <£ Every one has
his fault " and "No fqng no fuppe*," are
to be up on Friday evening, for Mr. Dar
!ey s benefit ; his deserts are too much rivit--
ted in the minds of all who have heard him,
to need a comment—The plays and enter
taii ments, are of the firft description, for
the lovers of Dramatic excellence,
■ —Mrs. Whif&ck, Mrs. Morris, Messrs.
1 ennel, Chalmers, Moreton and Whitlock ;
are the pnn '?al performers in the Comedy',
and Mr. Bates, in a different call of charac
ter, from that which has generally delighted
his audience. After naming this group of
performers, the Observer cannot add an in
<du':emetit, to attend on Friday evening.
June sth.
' '
By this Day's Mail.
NA TIO N AL CON PENT 10 N.
Monday Match 31.
Decree of accusation againji Danton.
.1-.EGENDRE. "I our of our cblleagoes were
arretted last night by order of your commit-
The celebrated Danton is one of themj
I know not the names of the other three. If
they arc guilty, I will be the firft to call for
their pumlhment j but you ought to hear
them. I am pure, and believe Danton to be
as pure as myfelf."
He was interrupted by noise—A member
called to the President to keep order. The
President laid he would not fuffer freedom of
speech to be infringed ; that this day would
. b - glomus to liberty ; and that the people
and poftenty would judge the Representa
tives of the people.
IfCgendre resumed. He feared that private
animosities were going to facrifice men, who
nad rendered great services to the resolution.
He spoke of his own connections with Dan
lo" ' °f what Danton had done in 1792
| when rainifter of justice ; andcon eluded with
moving that the deputies arrested last niirht
ftopld be heard at the bar. This motion was
heard with some applauses.
Fa yam thought there ought to be no ex
cepts to general rules : and that the laws
ought to be the famfe to Danton as to elhc-r
persons. Men were to be tried by the whole
of tjieir conduct, not by their conduct at par
n utaf periods. T»-e committees were fcwrfH
to report the cautes of arreit within tv jnty
t four .'.ours, arid .h. rti'ore Ik ir ov.ed thai Jic
partus Brreftcil (ho>_fd n'ot-oe Jieaid
i Roberfjjierrt—" From these diAurban
- ces, for a long time unknown to the as
; fembly, it is evident that a grand inter
_ eft is in question, viz. Whether certain
men (hall be more powerful than their
j country ? Why else is this motion, which
; was rejected when made by Dauton in fa
vor of Chabot and Bazire, now applauded
■ by some individuals ? I repeat it, the ques
tion is, Whether or not certain ambitious
men- shall be stronger than Liberty ? What
then ! shall we have made so many facrifi
ocj only to fall under the yoke of intrigues?
.Little do I regard the eulogies which peo
ple beltow oh themselves and their friends.
No more; do we alk what a man has done
at this or that period; we aflc what has
been his conduct during the whole of his
political career. Legendre pretends not
to know the names of the deputies arrett
ed. Knows he not that Lacroix his Friend,
is of the number ? He affedts ignorance,
becatife he kapwji he cannot express the
name of Lacroix but with shame. He
chufes rather to fpeakof Danton, the in
timaie friend of Lacroix, because the
name of Dauton is less offenfive. We
lhall now fee whether or not the Conven
tion can break in pieces an idol. Could
not all that was said of Danton be said of
BufTot, Hebert and Chabot ? They were
at certain periods, the defenders of Li
berty : Why then fliould Danton be al
lowed a privilege which was denied to his
companion Fabre d'Eglantine ?
" Attempts are Made to alarm you on
the abtife of power : What have you done
which you have not done freely, which
has not contributed to the salvation of
your country, which has not drawn down
upon you the blefiings of the people ? It
is feared that individuals may be facritked.
Do you then dittruft that justice which
constitutes the people's hope ? I do de
clare that whosoever trembles at this cri
sis, is.guilty.
_ " Me too they have tried to intimidate.
The friends of Danton have ivrjtten, that
if Danton be overthrown, I mull perish
under the stroke of the aristocrats. They
have imagined that connexions might in
duce me to divert the course of justice.
What fignified to me the dangers that
might threaten ? My life is my country's,
my heart is free from reproach, and above
all fear. .
" I was also the friend of Petion, of
Roland, of BrifTot; they betrayed their
country, and I declared against them.
Danton wiflies to take their place; Dan
ton, in my eyes, is only the enemy of his
country—The guilty are not so numerous
as they would have us believe—the molt
criminal are those who would raifc up idols
and domineerers. To propose a course
with some members, not allowed in behalf
of others, is an insult to liberty. The
cajufeof the guilty can be pleaded only by
their accomplices. 1 move the previous
question on Legendre's motion,
Barrere represented the necessity of
having only one measure for the punifti
ment of traitors. If the deputies arrett
ed were to be heard at the bar, the Con
vention vrill be only an aristocratic senate.
Such Verfallity of principle would be a
direct censure of all their former proceed
ings. _
The previous question was put and car
ried.
Report of the Committee of Public Welfare.
St. Just —" The Republic is not in
Men, but in 1 hings. There was a fac
tion in 1790, which had for its tendency
to put the Crown on the head of Orleans
—"-there was another, to preserve it on the
heads of Bourbons—there was a third, to
beltow the Crown upon the House of
Brunfwick—there was a fourth faction
that bade defiance to all, which now wan
ted money, then power, and'conduced
the Revolution as theatrical intrigue.-
Fabre was at the head of this fa&ion ;
he' (ported with feelings; he ltudied men,
and spoke every man in his own language.
Each faction had its creatures, and their
general with was the difTolution of the
Convention, and all gtfod patriots were
cast off. This fly faction waited to pro
nounce between viitue and crime, till the
[ victory should have been decided. Chau
mette . sent at firll 30,000 livresto his fa
ther, arid told him to purchaie neither any
national property, nor any other effects
to hide, his money, and nothing with it
There has been a faction winch wanted to
i untio the national reprefen tatioti,eithJ! by
' » I
i renewing or difioking it. What! Sin
- Eu rope does not doubt that Danton and
Lacroix have stipulated sos liberty, should
we difl'olve it ? iJanton, thou hail conspi
red witli Mirabeau, Lameth and Dumou
rier: After the death of Mirabeau, tliou
only artpearedft in the mafTacre of
the Champ deMars: Thouback
edft the petition of Laclos; the zealous
patriots opposed it, and thou helpedft to
digest it. Fabre, thou faidft, compound
with the court; and he who could be guil
ty of such a crime, could be no Republi
can : thou didst aflbciate with Lacroix,
who, for this long time pall, has been
known as a corrupted man—-he never
spoke once the truth within these walls..
Sure, Danton thou hail praised Du
mourier ; thou halt taken his part in this
Tribunal; thou would ft listen to any par
ty ; thou ga'veft advifce to undo liberty.—
1 hou didst fay that thy heart could not
bear hatred ; ait thou not guilty of not
hating the enemies of liberty? Haft thou
Hot sent an Ambaflador to Petion and
Buzot in Calvados ?
Letters addrefled by the Spanilh Ambafla
dor to the Duke of Alcudia bear, that thou
waft fufpeifted of having had conversations
m the Temple with wife and the daugh
j ter of Louis Capet; the foreigners learned
their interest. The fame Ambaflador wrote
at another time, " The renewal of the com
| mittee is a plague to us." It has been said,
that the Revolution, like Saturn, devoured
all its children—No, it lhall only devour its
enemies ; it ihall not facrifice a single Patri
ot—it <'iall only immolate conspiracies. Those
men already accused us of wilhing to dis
solve the national representation. Did they
deem it a crime, for having prosecuted and
immolated the BriiTots and Chabots ? Be'
therefore inflexible j prosecute severally all
those whom I denounce: they have never
j Been patriots—they were aristocrats, and
more artful than those of Cohjerltz; you
W1 teach people to be modefl, and to hate
vain ce&brity. Frenchmen j be happy and
free: hate the enemies of the Republic, but
be in peace among yourfelyes. You will,
learn by this example, not to run after re
nown ; be like the Supreme Being which
.harmonizes the world without shewing it
felf! The public welfare is all; those whom
I denounced, never had a country—they
grew rich by crimes.
By vote of the two Houfel, pruTsd this
day, the adjournment of Congress is further
postponed, till Monday next.
«.Wi ' ———MMW
NEW THEATRE;
Mr. Barley's Night.
TO-MORROW EVENING,
June 6.
Will be presented,
A COMEDY, called
Every One has his Fault.
Lord Norland, Mr. Whitlock
Sir Robert Ramble,- Mr. Chalmers
Mr. Solus, Mr. Morris
Mr. Harmony, ' Mr. Bates
Captain Irwin, Mr. Fennell
Mr. Placid, Mr. Moreton
Hamn#ohd, Mr. Green
Porter, Mr. Warrell
Edward, (find time) Mailer Warrell
Lady Eleanor Irwin, Mrs. Whirfoci
Mrs. Placid, M'g. Shaw
Mils Spinlter, Mrs. Bates
Miss Wooburn, Mrs. Morris
End of the third acl a humourous vocal Pa
rody, on Shakeipeare's Seven Ages—will
be sung by Mr. Bates.
End of the Play, a chamfteriftic Pat.tomi
rnical Dance, called
The Sailor's' Landlady ;
Or, JACK-IN DISTRESS.
1 o conclude $ath a double hornpipe by Mr.
Francis and Mrs. De Marque.
To which will be Added,
For the time at this Theatre, a COMIC
OPERA, called
No Song no Supper.
Frederick, Mr. Ma,-lhall'
S<>P. Mr. Darley
J; Mr. Harwood
; ; ' Mr. Bates
William, (with the ballid of Black
Eyed Suian) Mr. J. Darley
Sailors, Mcflrs. Warrell, Bliifet, Lee, r "
Bason, Dc Moulin, &ic
Dorothy, Mrs. Shaw
Louisa, Mlfs'iJroidlmrft
Margaretta, Mrs.Oldrr.on
Nelly., Mils WiHems
Tickets to be had of Mr. Darley, No. 68, -
north Eighth ftrtn.
At the uiual places, and of Air. Fv.inklin
at the Theatre, where places may be taken. '
On Monday next, an HuftoricaTpiay, cal- *
led The BATTLE OF HEXHAM ; Or
OLD, with The DEUCE IS
INHiM, for the benefit of Mrs. MORRIS
,Mr,WHITLO C K's Night will be or»
We unelday next.