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P H I LA D E LP HIA ,
. WEDNESDAY EVENING, Octobh» 4 .
■ .-^■»^,.... wfc , --■ r iT-wrribi—im wi i
At a mett?riEC of a numt-erof the citizens
•■ ; Philadelphia, held at the' Union School
!i --il'- in G>rmanto\vn, on Saturday, the
jot'i day of September, 1797 :
It was agreed unanimoufiy, to recom
mend the following gentlemen as suitable
ch;'rafters to the offices which precede
their fefpeftjve names :
1, hmber of~itJ>e_ Snate of the slate of Penn
sylvania, for tht dijlrift cvmpafed of the
c'Ujf and county of Philadelphia and county
t>f Delawa.c :
Benjamin R. Morgan,
ji Umbers of the House of Representatives for the
City ps Pbilndehhia.
■ George Latimer Robert YValn
Jacob Hiltziieimer Lawyence Seckel
Joseph Ball Francis Gurney.
Members of the Select Conned of the City of
Ph 'dadelphia :
Godfrey Haga Henry Pratt
James Read Francis Gurney.
Members of the Cetnmon Council cf the City ■
of Philadelphia :
Matthias Saddler Michael Keppele
James Todd Walter Franklin
Thoma» P<>rkcr, Thomas All'bone
Ottorge Pennock Ja,mes S. Cox
Edward Pennington, Henry Drinker, Jun.
Iter.ry Wharton, Cufpar W. Morris
Jcfepjji Hopkinfon Thomas P Cope
Tiif;m;s Greeves . Levi Hollingfworth
Conrad Gnhard Lawrence Herbcit
Gideon H. Weils George Fox.
Publiflied by order ps the Meeting,
HENRY PRATT, Chairman.
JOHN HALLO WELL, See'ry;
7HE TTRANNT OF DEMOCRATS
llss become proverbial evfery where : but
it is in At.xrica that it has dared to break
forth with peculiar virulence and malignity.
Not content with persecuting pAtriolifm,
virtue, aod every species of orthodoxy, in
every shape, it is here that it has, witji the
mod aba.iduncd malevolence, organized it
f»'lf into a regular corps for purposes of
persecution ; and it is here that whoever at
any time can muder up hardihood enough
to walk uprightly, .mud previously fortify
h<mfdf againfi all the moftdefperate assaults
from batteries manned by the united force
of the whole horde of ruffian-looking de
mocrats.
In this course they have but too long,
and it mtid be confeffed, but too fuccefs
fully perfevcred. The time is come when
an united effort of all friends to rational
liberty to cry ft this formidable hydra, is
loudly caft-d for by every tie which allies
the mind of man to poffeflions, without
which life is of no eflimation.
In pursuit of this abominable and mod
abandoned career, every principle of honor
and every tie that ever has been held sacred,
have been facrificed and set at nought.
Distinguished merit, the mod didinguifhed
and mod difintereiled services, indead of
being a proteftion, have served as fignal
marks for tile dircftion of their attacks—
and in the general chafe, good qualities
taqmfelves have been alike hunted down ,
with their possessors.
But, when a brother has chanced to be
glanced at, in repelling with the weapons
of felf-defence, their malignant and affaflin
like assaults, the whole nest of vipers is
indantly set in motion, and " profccute
liim, break him up, cut him in pieces," is
the general cry. Tyranny, thjr name is
Jacobinism.
1
Francis I. of France, became the scan
dal of Chridendom, for concluding an alli
ance with Sojyman, the Magnificent, Em
peror of the Tarks. But the butchering
fans-cilllotes who have murdered his de
fendants, can fraternize with the bearded
disciples of Mahomet, without fuffering the
flighted imputation. For, in faft, such is
the reverie of things, the shame and dis
grace now lies wholly on the fide of the
Turk. The Turks are in truth pretty ex
pert murderers ; but their skill is seldom
exercised out of the finall fuch as
lopping off the grand vizier's head on the
loss of a battle, and fo-forth. They have
hitherto fuffered mui lcr—But if the ruth
less Gaul is once let in atr.ongft them, they
will be faught higher lejfons even than that
of Ifmailow.
From the NEIV-YORK GAZETTE.
CONCLUSION
" Of the Hi/lory of the conspiracy of Louis
Ph 1 l 1 p pe-Jos e phd'Orlean s, fir named
Egalite, page 229 of vol. Third
Tranflatedfor this Gazette.
"If there is* a fpeftacle worthy of being
profoundly meditated, it is that Nvhich em
pires offer at the moment of their fall,—
These great bodies have not,, any more than
individuals the privileges of immortality.—
All here below is fubjeft to change—to dis
solution—to death ; the Deity »!one is un
changeable.- One nation is born, grows
Up, raises itfelf to a/ great height," then falls
and perishes : this is,the circle, traced by
the finger of the Almighty to societies of
men. Among the multitude of nations who
have by turns covered this globe, there are
foitie, whose names even are swallowed up
by time,
" But it is impofllble to the legislator to
preserve his inductions from the ravages of
time, it out of the power of the maders
of the world, to give to the great family
whose prefervatiqn is confided to them, a
high degree of fortune, to give it even the
duration of the world. There are ( in efFeft
remedies for all difeafiJ of the body-politic ;
it is a regimen which, in cnertrfmg its
drength, in nu'.rrifhiiig'its health, prolongs
its life, and in finding it out, coafills foltly
the art of governing. ,
'• To out th'.i regimen, we mud a
bovtr all examine study her leffous,
enrich ourfclvcSTiy the Apevience.of pad a
ges, draw wisdom from the,errors of gene
rations-which have passed away, and in con
templating those horrid causes which break
the foeial ties, learn to preserve the people
from the convulsions of anarchy. It is in this
refpeft that hidory, according to the -ex
pression of Cicero, if the light of truth and
the rule oflife.
" We are going to read the causes which
have dedroyed a monarchy, which fourteen
ages had fixed on a basis that was thought
immoveable. This phenomenou happened
in a ftort space of time, from a train of e
vents the mod intereding, and which have
succeeded each other with such rabidity that
the eye cannot without, difficulty follow
them Shall the p:3ure of these events be loft
to pnjlerity f Is the hidory of the: late di
faders of France only a vague tS'efiry of
government which every one may cenfiire or
approve ? Are the truths which it presents,
only abftraft political maxims, which the
statesman is forced to ahandon because they
have for foundation the Jiumari puflions,
which vary eternally ? No, it is a generati
on calling around herfelf all generations,
and by a sincere avowal of her errors and
her crime .5, points out to them the path they
. ought to take,not to lose thcrnfelves in the a -
byfs of anarchy. To make this voice heard,
I have 110 need- of giving up myfelf to my
senses—to abound in reaTonhigs. Prin
ciples discover themselves easily when fafts
speak, and 011 the which I have writ
ten, all red on fadls. The aftors who have
appeared on the Theatre, have pulled off
their rr.afks ; we can read the mod secret
thoughts of their fouls ; we can follow with
, the eye all the windings of their hearts.—
On this Theatre man appears not as he is
painted by writers of by poets and
by philosophers, but as he fliews himfelf na
ked and undi'fguifed, where his weakness is
deprived of the double support of laws, hu
man and divine. What mpre proper to re
cal to his mind what he owes to his fellow
creatures, to his fellow-citizens, to the maf
tet of the nniverfs, than the fiiameful i
mage of this nakedness ? What course of
morality is more edimable than a faithful re
cital, where all the illusions on the true in
tereds of societies, of their chiefs, of their
members, are dissipated, where we may fee
every species of pafiian afloat, aft without
cortdraint—overturn thedronged barriers—
break down objefts in appearance insur
mountable.
" You, who read this hidoi-y, in whatever
age heaven has given, or may give you birth,
forget not that he who wrote it, was a wit
ness of the events therein recited ; he was
the contemporary of those men, who, some
through wickedness, others through impru
dence, engendered or precipitated those e
vents ; he lived with some of the workmen
of the dissolution of the fined empire of Eu
rope ; he read their confcienccs as easily as
he did hii own; he knows all the empoisoned
sources from whence flowed so many scour
ges. It was on the wrecß of this unhappy
country, in the midd of carnage, of blood
and of deadjsodies, in the noise of the groans
cf innocence, and of the hideous roarings of
executioners, that he sketched these pages.
He is ignorant of the epoch when he may
be permitted to publish them, terror dill
chills our fouls, and the name only of this
liberty of the press, which a lying philoso
pher so long complained againd, only to ap
propriate it to himfelf, frightens anew those
whom it is very necessary to enlighten. The
time when this book wis written, is a fuf
ficieat proof of its authenticity."
, " If the author of this work has escaped
so many dangers, if he has outlived so many
victims, the price of so miraculous a preserva
tion, shall not be a cowardly abandonment
of principles, the return of which in France
can alone indemnify her for her innumerable
losses. He proteds theD, thit in devoting
himfelf to write the hidory of the crimes of
Orleans and his accomplices, he had no other
view, no other ambition,than to convince men
of every age and of every country, that we
ought (as isjudly said by a great politician)
to regard as infamous and detestable those who
diflroy religion, who overturn kingdoms and
republics, who male war again/l virtue againfh
letters, and againjl all those ufeful ads, which
reflet} honor on the human race. These are the
true enemies of mankind ; these are the innova -
tsrs againjl whom, all polijhed societies Jhould
league, and leep themselves incejfantly on their
guard. Without this frmnefs, without this vigi
lance, there is no tranquility for Epipires, there
is na-fecurity for private property
REMARKS.
rinofe Lift lines in italic;, ho'.v true ! how ad
inirabSe ! l ew justly applicable to our Wmcsn
innovator*, " e\clufive patriots" aad Jacobins !
Yes. my countrymen, we fhouM take an instruc
tive lesion from unhappy Princ:, where an hand
ful Ot u.tcofnmpnty violent friends to liberty—a fell'
toohes i*ifleet's cUaibing, have ilelujred one of the
i.nefl countries in Europe wjtfc MooJ, rapine, and
ci-fil d fcord, and appropriating to thtmfelves the
property of those they murdered, have left the
great body of the poor, igncrant people of France,
not even the means of gaining a fubfiltence by la
bf-i—nor the confutations which dafpair and mile
ry draw from tho hopes of hippinefs hereafter—
the inPitotions cf industry and religion having been
burled with almost yvery oth:r vei'tige of civiliza
tion, in the tomb dug for them by the apostles of
anarchy and infidelity. Whoever
reads onr Jacobin prints, will find them difcover
injt the g'eitell uncafm- f«, a- pe.irin.g to he under
llrorg f:; rr, least the truths should be told, which
havc'akea place in France du"irg the revolution.
I'll t. nvy phi'.anll/rapifis, appear they trust,
will, and ought ! Ves.thofj horrid ti'urhsare daily
kr.o*n—they will f.rv ■ as a btacon to the
"pivfsnt mid fulr.re generations to avoio thatghaftly
fiend revolution, under the Specious lorni of innn
vati'cn, whi h, when- the niif.ry produced by it in
Frame, becomes wellJinown, nations will ihuu as
afcil ene.xy to human happi"rfs, .Cre net the di
aHoli .il views of Cur ali?rchiftVglaririg. in vvilh
iiig ta prevent the publicity of the horrors, which
have been committed in France by t'.tir tiutlieifir
it )ctty —tluir " rxetirfivtpKlriiti™—their Jacor-ins ?
Yr\i viu'iueus patriotic Au eric-ti".?
be i- nera't rf their wicked icbcn.ci in wishing to
cloatt.e (hrir Furd-hke idol .Anarch), inthe-1 vc y
,a|!)laei tc gfrb ef benevolence, in order to invite
all the r.aticns nl the earii- to fthbiace her : ! : ut 1
hep.e tl::.t Fiance will cct timie to tell us, 1 s the
i!oes every day by new pul-fcc-.tions, that the em
braces of suaithy an Death—that her tench «
VforiJef. j w ;g, (g give my fellow citizens a pro
+ kl'horrf-'iiL' of tvrjtah) menhir." a'taclifd so uh -
""a-jTurv innovations in iHe efla'nliflicd 'jrdir of
things; fenfiblc that we have much more to fear
from anarchy than defpotif'm, I (hall uniformly op
jwle that {■ ,<■ whose. infuliou* approaches arul d«-
ceifffcl appearance maltc him more fa:;;l!y <lang;er
°u«. Our Jacobin papers lijsiw; me for puhliffiing
Ix t tv.6l s from French publications on the Uevolu ■
lution, hut, " mindl»f« of their grin, I will IV. er
on, convinced, that all-ru'inp; delliny will either
chsnye rajre to awe, or bhift their powers to
'he deeped root."—The friflids and abettors of
fr<(Jucr.t revolutions may ranfuck French writrrs
(of whom 1 am strongly inclined to think there are
none «r we ihou'd cert iuly have heard of tham)
in favor of the revolution and the monOers by
whom it Ras l ecn' conduced : for my part,- as in
general 1 am an enemy to revolutions, cfpeci il'y in
this country, 1 (hall continue to drrfs out CITI
ZEN ANARCHY, TWIN BROTHER. OF CI
TIZEV Rr-VOLU na:J, IN every bloody,
frightful and Diversified garb ap-
FOtnFD ME BY lig.MODF.RN WARD
ro:;e of ctaKce, hopes of defe^r
-INU MV PKUtOWiCII-nZENS FROVI THE
FR or -RATHER INFORMAL
tiUG OF FHI-; FOE TO HUMAN-NATURE I
Late Foreign Intelligence.
VIENNA, July 26.
On the 24-th instant, about nine in the
morning, the marquis de Gallo arrived here,
and immediately after repaired to Engendorf
where he had a long conference with the
emperor. On his return to this city, he
went to the minyter of ftato, baron Thugut,
with whom he had another long conference.
It was remarkedthat neither the marquisnor
the perfone. about the Court had very plea
sant countenanced. The negociations for
pesce in Italy meet with great difficulties in
their further progress. \
The Freneh requite that Mantua (hall be
united with the Cifilpine republic, though
it was iftipulated in the preliminaries, that
the city (hould be restored to Austria. On
the part of the French, it is said, on the
other hand, that the emperor having given
his confent'to the establishment of a new Re
publia in Italy, its very existence depended
on having Mantua for a frontier fortref*;
the Emper&r, therefore, mult tacitly accede
to the crffion of Mantua, for which he re
ceives a fufficicnt indemnification inlftria and
Dalmatia,
As thele and many other difficulties have
arisen and the House of Austria cannot be
expt&ed eaiily to abandon its great interests
in we are not without our fears that
hostilities may again recommence.
His Imperial majesty intends going about
the end of the mouth to Stein, where he
will review the army of the Hungarian le-
V- -
As there is no danger of hostilities on the
Bohemian frontiers, the emperor has or
dered that the fourteen battalions of rcferve
in that kingdom (hall march immediately for
the army in Italy.
General Mack, who has been sent with
strong reinforcements to the Italian Army,
is already arrived at Gortz,
On the 15th inft. thefirft Dalmatian (hip,,
of 8 gups, failed from Zara, under the
Austrian flag.
MILAN, Jvly 18.
Since the Cisalpine republic has been pro
claimed, the Government at Florence has
taken every precaution against the partizans
of revolutionary principles. The Grand
Duke has raised a body of i2,0r0 men, who
will be sent to the frontfers of the neighbour
hood democratized Provinces; and if is said
that theTufcan towns on the fide ofMode
na and Bologna will be more strongly for
tified.
At Genoa the Doge has renouneed his
former title, and is now only called citizen
president of the Provisional Government.—
The public is no longer styled the republic
of Genoa, but the Ligitrian Republic; Lig
uria being the ancient name of the country.
The archbishop likewise has already intro
duced the appellation of Ugurian'republic
into the liturgy.
July 22.»
Buonaparte is still here, and it is fuppo
f«d will not go to Udine, as we had a report
*hat the peace was finally concluded there
on the 14th by general Clarke: but the truth
of this is greatly doubted. (And with rea
son, as the Vienna gazette of the 26th of
July makes no mention afit—Note of Ham
burgh Editor.) v
The province of Romagna was on the
12th united to the Cisalpine republic, on
the motion of citizen Belmonti of Rimigi.
Another conspiracy lias been discovered
at Roine, which was to have been carried
into execution in the night between the Bth
apd the 9th instant. Two of the conspira
tors were promised indemnity on condition
of making discoveries. Many persons have
in consequence been arretted.
The discontents of Naples incresf-. It is
said that the French envoy, Canclaux, will
soon leave that city. His firft Secretary of
Legation, Trouve, is not cordially received
at Court. He is known to have been form
erly editor of the Moniteur.
ITAL T, July 22.
The King of Naples hat ejhiblijhed maga
zines cn the frontiers of the Papal territory
for an army of 50,000 men.
The brother of General Buonaparte is soon
expecicd as French Envoy at Rome. The health
of the pope mends daily.
It is believed that a part of the French Ital
ian army will soon march for France. General
Majfena, it is said, will in a short time go to
Paris. A great part of the troops at Milan
have left that city. The frontier towns of
Piedmont, Tortona, Cuneo and Alexandria,
have been placed by the French on a war ejlab
lilhment.—Mantua and Palma Nuava, which
lie on the other fide of the Cisalpine republic, I
have lihevafe been more fortified. At
Brescia, all the artillery has been carried away j
but the Auflrians have not yet entered the town. \
The bank of Venice now pay again as before.
FRANKFORT, July 29.
It is reported here, that the tneps of the
French Savin end Mtufe army on the oiktr
Ifide of the Rhine, have received orders, in con
i fqcinte of thip efent circnmHances of France,
j to break up in five days, and form a camp be
! hind the Mettfe : according to others, they will
immediately march for the interior of France t
! d pr.rty of the army of the Rhine Vjill tale thi,
pnfition of these troops.
SJVITZERL -ND, July 29.
' The passage of the French troops through
the Vllais has been unanimously refufed to gen
eral Buonaparte hy the Swiss, 'on the ground
that it might five the oceafion tofimilar demands
in future which mujl be detrimental to the con
federacy. Zurich has addressed a juflifi:at«, y
, memorial to the dirctlory on this fiibjeQ.
PAR,*S, August: 12.
Some of our prophets have been mistaken.
The Fete of the icth of August was very !
gay and splendid, and the greatest order
prevailed throughout. The races were ad
mirably managed, and the concourse of peo- i
pie drawn together at the Champ de Mars
was immense.
We have already announced the arrival of
citizen Vifcounti of Milan, as miqfiler ple
nipotentiary from the Cisalpine republic to
that of trance.' In confequente, citizen ■
Sopranzi, who, on the entry of the French !
army into Italy, was sent by the people of :
Lombardy to treat with the Dire&ory rela
tive to their being formed into a republic, is
preparing to quit France. He has been j
named in his own country, member of the I
council of elders.
An address of the invalids to the army of \
Italy appears in the Journal dis Hommes j
Libres. It begins thus :
" We too comrades, have been struck 1
with the truth of the piclure which you have
1 drawn of the present situation of the repub
i ' !C * - . /
" What! (have we cried) so many great
and generous facrifices ! What ! five years
of the most glorious viftories, of the molt j
rapid success, and the most honourable tri- j
umphs, have still left them some hopes of!
giving us a master. Friends !it is but I
too true, and we shudder at it : the govern- '
meht has been vilified. Even within the |
walls of the legislative bedy, the emigrant, '
unpunished rekindles the of civil war, '
and supported by the impostor and rebel- [
lious priest, (hakes around him the torch of
fanaticifm. The defenders of the country,
the old patriots, and founders of the repub- !
lie, are driven from their homes, proscribed,
degraded and maflacred. The generous
friend of his country, who took up arms
for the defence of property, now infirm rind
mutilated, pines in the most frightful indi
gence without the means of existence, with
out pay, and crushed by the insolent luxury
of the unpunished stock-jobber. The pur
chaser of national lands is looked upon as ari
usurper, the sacred principles of liberty and
equality-called robbery ; the philosopher,
and whoever is not a catholic, marked out 1
as impious and an atheist ; the name of citi
zen even become an affront ; in short, from
the North to the South of France every
thing presents a distressing fpe&acle of a de
solated Country."
It concludes thus—" Our brave brethren
of the north, Italy, the Rhine, Sambre and
Meufe, rely upon us. Comrades ! we have
still strength and blood enough, and more
courage than is necessary, to humble thde
cowardly supporters of tyranny. Should
they dare to take up arms in order to exe
cute their plans Norfhall it be
said that 600,c00 soldiers, the conquerors
of all Europe, joined to their friends and
relations, and forming the purest mass of
the French people, have expressed an ineff
e&ual vow to live free or to die."
(Signed by more than 3000 invalids.)
The following letter has been sent to the
editor of the Sentinelle, from Leborgne,
deputy for St. Domingo to the legisla
tive body.
" Bayonne, Aug. 5.
" To escape from the Englifli, and get
out of the prison, are two pleaftires I have
iften experienced ; but now I feel them in
a more lively manner, as I am drawing near
my family nnrd friends. In short, four of
us have arrived this day from St. Domingo,
being the deputies of that colony to the le
gislative body. Vergniaud, coufin-german,'
to the great and good Vergniaud, is of the
number. His zeal and moderation tvill re
mind you of the virtues of his illustrious re
lation. We have left St. Domingo in a
happy situation, and nevertheless capable of
improvement. I can give you no details on
that fubpsft, but must defer them to my ar
rival at Paris.—The courier is setting out."
THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.
EX CUTIVF. DIRECTORY.
Celebration of the Tenth of August.
The following is the speech of Carrot,
President of the Directory :
" Frenchmen,
"On this day, five years ago, the thun
der fell upon the throne. Its splendor was
extinguished, its foundations /battered tmd
annihilated. But a fingL' lustrum has elaps
ed fmce this great epoch ; yet, such has
been'the rapid succession of events, that al
ready we are feparfttcd from it by ages.
M During this short interval, what mem
orable events have crowded after each other !
what triumphs ! what tragic scenes ! what
combinations of sublimity, and of wenknefs !
how many prejudices overthrown ! what
great talents have, been cut off ! what efforts
combined to destroy infant liberty ! how
many billows broken against the national
will ! how many base arts employed to ex
tinguish the republic ! how many vipers
cru flied in her giant arms !
"Woe be to those who fhoul3 conceive
the idea of re-establishing the thrrtne ! What
absurdity to believe tbat those who crushed
it to afhtps, will labour for its re-eftablifii
ment—that the founders of the republic,
forgetting their glory, and plunging them-,
(elves into the mire, will become the vile in
struments of a liberticidal faction, which
will eonfign them to the collefled rage of
i those vvb.o w;lh. to Jear them ju pieces!
" Where if the man among you, Hi -ten#,
Wiio, it not actively co-operated iti ijie over
throw of monarchy, has not decidedly pro
claimed within his own circle the imprescrip
tible rights of the people ? Where is the
man who can submit-to bargain with kings •
who, having vanquished them in the merid
ian of their power, will humble . llimfelf be
fore them when they arj conquered ?
" No > Frenchmen ! you will not forget
what it has colt you to be free—you will
not rifle the fame catastrophes, or confcquen
ces still more dreadful, again s tohe-fla.ves.
" Ah ! should the abvfs irito which the
madmen who consider the return of royalty
as an bbje6t offport, endeavour to plunge
you. Have they reflefted tipon the punish
ment which is prepared a* their reward ?
Do they know how much blood would b?
required to quench the thirst of the barbar
ous matters whom they recal—what harraff
ing forfeitures would be necessary to fatisfy
their avarice—what degree of oppr fßon
would be Sufficient to render them secure
from the dread of a uew effort of the peo
ple—what cares would appear to them-ade
quatc to extinguifn the last sparks of that
philosophy to which they ascribe the firft
impulse of the French to liberty ?
" They would persuade you, that it is ea
sy to substitute the hereditary government
to the conltitutional system ; and they never
speak either of the deadly war which the
just refiftanceof the desperate republicans
would produce in/a thousand quarters, or of
the difficulty of re-cftabhihiftg that inequali
ty of conditions and those feudal inftitutrons
which constitute the bails of monarchy, or
the difficulty of wresting the national prop
erty from the hands of thole who have ac
quired it under the fan&ion of the laws, or
of the fangiiinary conteil which would arise
between the competitors. Who. does not
fee that a whole age would hardly finifh
the single dispute between the Dynaftien
contending for the crown ? Who. does not
fee that a king could be delivered from his
disquietudes when he hid /hed the last drop
of the blood of Frenchmen ? Should you
have filled any employment in the repubKc,
you would be proscribed. Had you flown
to th< 'rentiers to defend it, you would bf
piof-ji V. Did y OU pofTefs any talent,you
wouf ibe proscribed. Should you have pur
chafcd a national estate, you would be pro*
Ccribed—you and your children. iYeg!
you would allperiih, except thole immersed
in absolute ignorance, who would be referr
ed.to cultivate the foil of their lord, under
the iron rod.'
" To obtain your pardon from the new
tyrant, in vain would you produce the proof
of some base service* secretly performed in
favour of the monarchy, and of your tresrh
ery towards the republic : you would die
with greater ignominy. Yourfperfonal ene
mies would soon difcovf crimes to lay to
your charge—others would be eager to de
nounce you in order to save themselves
Such, at every time, and in every country
has been the cruel policy of exiled kings,
who, by means of baseness and hypocrisy,
havefucceeded, themselves or their descend->
ants, in recovering the throne. Can you
hope that you would experience them less
revengeful or more humane ?
" Yes! we swear liy the sacred deposit
which the constitution has for a limited time
entrulted to our care, every attempt to
overthrow the republic shall be in vain ;«nd
those who endeavour to accompli(h' this
purpdfe of iniquity, shall meet that death
which they prepared for the republicansi
The chief magistrates of the republic may
differ in opinion as to some of the means
by whicji its liability is to be promoted*
but they will ever be found united in its
defence.
" They will do more, and will exert
themselves daily to love it better. They
know that war is the weapon of despots ;
that ljve and confidence alone are the in
fhuments of. popular governments.
" Agitation will cease, when men cease
to disquiet themselves by the apprehenfioitg
of royalty—others by the menaces and
threats of anarchy. Peace will be realized
when the enemies of the republic shall be
convinced, that they will find no point of
support among us—when each of us shall
be thoroughly fatisfied that the happiness
of the people consists in the extinction of
all parties—that they are desirous to eflab
lifh tranquillity—that they are tired of be
ing the dupes of the pafiions, and the vain
promises of the faftion;, by whom they
have been alternately misled. The people
compare their situation to what it was twen
ty months ago ; they feel h,ow much it is
improved ; they feel that it will be still far
ther meliorated, when the ideas, which
have been almofl entirely absorbed, which,
to fay no worse, are unreasonable, are at
length exclusively applied to the means of
internal prosperity and political economy.
From this they conclude that the constitu
tion, Wiiich difpenfcs such benefits, is good,
and become wife by their own fuflcrin<rv
they respect the government which they
have chosen : they defpifc, "they hate those
who would lead them to tear their vitals
with their own hands.
" Cease then, Frenchmen, to pursue
Chimeras. Let this day, the
«.)f that day on which the republic was
founded, diflipate vain alarms ! Feel, a«
yon behold its splendor, that you ara under
the fame banners—that you defend a com
mon enufe—tliat none of vou have auv
mercy to expert from those whole tyranny
you have overthrown. Do not resign youi
felves to difeprd, when you only to
enjoy the fruits of your labours and the
greatness of your defliny.'?
This speech was heard with the molt pro
found attention, and followed with utmcr
fal shouts of Vive la Repa'ulique.
causa r, of pive hvxdred.
23 Thermidor, Aug. 10.
At two o'clock the president adurefied
the council as follows:
" The cannon of the tenth of Anguty
will t;found through futare ;tg;s. It crush