.t -vrr*v TWfpmwi . l OiIE.GN INTELLIGENCE. -Li : _. F 11 A N C T.. COUNCIL OF FIVE HUNDRED. 25 Thermidor—Auguft 12. Giiittenmrdet complained of the citlay in r''? printing' of the report of thp committee infp'e&ors. Aitbry fa!d, that the committee thought •t tlieir dilty to confine- tliemfelves to an ex trajft of the documents, without p-.ibltffoing the fgntfmtm ; beeavife, dotibtlefs, it was' not the intention of the councils who ccm r.romife, to expose the parties to any dif gra re. Johranyme moved, that the council fTiouliT Confine itfclf to printing the report ; and if -.'. Ny member wished to consult the docu ments, the Committee will communicate them. , OsriSr said that the report without Ac documents was useless; ; he wiflied to print the whole or none. Triffael declared, that the documents might belong to those by whom they were coramunicittd, and that they were independ ent of the report He therefore opposed printing of the documents. ? lontrnajor contended that the documents ought to be made public. Vladier called for the repeal of the decree which orders the documents tp be printed. Thi? proportion was adopted, after two appeals to the council, and in spite of the most violent opposition. But the council pasTed to the order of the day upon the pto pofal to repeal the order for printing the re port. Aubry rend the definitive provisions of the resolution concerning the organization of the national guard. The article relative to the formation of the corps of cavalry and the company of artillery, by which the guard was to have been augmented, experi enced new difficulties. As it would require many months, perhaps, to call from ttoe iftflerent coqjs of the arrmes the horse and the artillery, the reporter prcpofed to take the-a out of the 47th division. Ta'ot asd general Jourdan insisted upon the literal execution of the article, ant} pro- ] posed to have the service continued by the ftrft company of artillery and the firft. regi- ' inent of dragoons ; by whom it had hitherto been performed. This proposition produced debates. At last, however, it wds adopted, with an amendment of Le Normaod, to the effedt that the artillery and horse (hould be fubjeft to the rule enadied in the last resolution. Willot, in the name of the military, pro posed to enaft, in addition to the resolution of the 10th Thermidor, that the disbanding of the Genfdarmerie, ordered by the law of the 25th Pluviofe, should extend to all the oßcersof the corps appointed since that pe riod, and that the directory (hould give an indemnity to such officers as had been at any expense in changing their situation. 26 Thermidor I —Aug- 13.- The long debates on the tranfa&ions of the commiiTaries of the treasury with the company of Dijon, in which the former are charged with making bargains scandalously 1 improvident, were this day terminated.— ! The council closed the difcufiion, and de clared there was no room for deliberating on the motion made for hearing the com miflarics at the bar. The council declared the urgency, and adoatfil .the—arcyedk of I'l.l'. -—a-'.i. TW_&»«r former commiflSrleS" are difmified, and are to be immediately re- ; placed ; the dire&ory fhallcaufe them to be prosecuted before the tribunals. Bourdon de l'Oife complained that some soldiers pafling along the Boulevards, had , Hepped out of their ranks and aiTaulted some | citizens, on account of the colour of the col lars of their c©ats. He said that as the ex perience of the revolution had proved that similar conduft had always been the prelude to civil difientions, he moved that a meflage (hpuld be sent to the direftory to desire them to take measures of police to prevent : the repetition of insults by the soldiers a- ! gainll the citizens on aacount of their drefi. Adopted. 27 Thermidoj-, Aug. 14. ! Metz rose to speak on a motion which flood for the order of the day. He an- ] nounced, that the enemies of public tran- 1 quillity do not ccafe to put in praftice every 1 thing which may tend to spread alarm a- ! mong the citizens, and to inspire them with a mistrust of the paternal intentions of the legislative body. In the department of the ' Upper and Lower Rhine, faftious persons overrunning the country, spread the report J that the legislative body feck to establish a reigning religion, to make another Bartho lomew's Day for the Protestants. They 0 then prevail on them to sign petitions which they do not understand, filled with declama tions against priests and emigrants. The 0 orator then related asa ft not less important. " Although the legislative body has declared that the pay of the troops fliould have the prefer"" :e, the troops do not however re ceive any thing, and they are told to resort to the legislative body. He moved, that a meflage be sent to tho directory, requiring information refpe&ing the delay experienced ( by the troops in the discharge of their pay. Adopted. * The municipal adminiftratio* of the com- - mune of Saintes transmitted to the councih some new details, relative to the troubles attempted to be excited by the anarchists t in this commune on the 27th and 28th ult. at the fame time a copy of several orders ~ and proclamations which serve to maintain public tranquillity. They conclude by af furirig the council, that they may rely on their attachment, as well as on that'of all good citizens, who will remain faithful to _ the constitution of the 3d ye?.r. Duranty denounced an inftilt which he had received frSm an officer of the guard of the legislative body, who, notwithiland- / ing his being a rcprefentative of the people, he ordered his tjoops to arrtft him, and, on ■ their refufal to obey this illegal order, h;d : can fed 'them to be puuifted. This denunciation was referred to the . committee of infpediors. FAR I^7July i 9. From the C/'f du Cebinet. n The public mind is not become entirely s tranquil ; for the divisions between the dif ferent powers Sill exist. We hope, how j ever, that the ccmmiflion named to make the report relative to the meflage of the di ,r rc&ory, and which has chosen Thibaudeau 1S for its chairman, will be able,to remove the , 'alarms of the public. In the mean time, f. another peace has been signed, public spirit is improved, and the last Pete has given d 1 courage to the true republicans. The hopes If of the royalists and anarchists vanifli, and the per# e begin to be more attached to e their government. From the Republican Francais. e The report of the removal of the minif t ters, and the names of the persons by whom t.iey arc to be succeeded, is confirmed. ;s Ine minister of general police is difmified, c and is succeeded by citizen Aftier, formerly I member of the central bureau. The mi j nifler of marine, it is said, is-fucceeded by citizen Gourland, formerly direftor of the . East-India company. General Brune, who has a high reputa c tion with the patriots of the south, has been appointed temporary commandant of Q Paris, in the room of general Chanez. c Ihe report of the infpedtors of the hall, jj read the day before yesterday in the fecrct _ committee of the council of elders, has for _ ,ts objeft to inform the legislative body ot the aftual situation of Paris, and to autho ,f rife the com million to take measures of fe , curity. The fubjeft was difcufled, but e nothing resulted from it. e fion of jnfpeftors tended to offer the pro . j °f an organic law on the io2d Article t of the constitution, conceived in these terms • fh 2 Council of Elders can change the j rehdence of the legislative body. In this c cafe it {hall point out a new place, and the time on wliich the two councils are there to 1 aflemble. The decree of the Council of _ Elders, on this fubjeifl is irrevocable." Af 'ei_' 'he day on which the decree is passed, _ J neither of the councils can afiemble or de -5 liberate in the commune where they previ. ! ou fly The members who (hall contin- ue their funftions, Ihall be guilty of an at- tack on the fafety of the Republic. Such are the formal provisions of the [ constitution. We do not positively know whether the Council of Elders, as reported, is employed in the difcuflion of this fubjeft ; • we eannot lee in the present circumstances . the advantage or the necessity of such a dif r cuflion "which seems to us calculated only to alarm ar.d difgud the city of Paris, and to increase the chances of danger to the legis lative body. If it is threateaed by any per ils, they do not arise from fitting in this commune, the immense population of which if, on the contrary, a security calculated to impose upon its enemies, and where the force of opinion by it is surrounded is a bulwark still more powerful. j LONDON, AUG. 19. Although it is pretty generally under stood that ministers are acquainted with the articles of the treaty of peace between France and Portugal, we do not find that ■ can throw a/ldilional light on ilie nature, - •wtcirt, or value of the facrifices mutually made by the contrasting powers, and the situation in which the event immediately ■ plaeei Great Britain. A few days must make us acquainted with those momentous arrangements, and enable ns to judge with some accuracy of the degree of influence they have on the general politics of Eu rope. The objedl of the king of Sweden's jour ney is not known, nor even guefled at, by the politicians of the North. He left Stock holm suddenly, after having entrnfted the administration of his kingdom to the Count of Wachmeifter, Baron Sparr, and Baron Douglas. 7he preparations for this depar ture have been so secret, that on the very eve of it, the circumstance was doubted. From Stockholm he went to CarlfcroH, where be embarked for Stralfund. Hav ing reached that city, he made no stay, but went forward into the heart of Germany. On the 2d of August he was expefted at Hamburgh, having crofled the Elbe. A person on board the vefiel which brought the last Paris papers from Calais to Dover, was seized immediately on landing, and detained in custody; but it was not known on what account. ej- University of Pennsylvania. QSoler 27, 1797. THE different Schools of the University will he opened on Monday, the 6th of November ; of which, all who are concerned, are requeftcd to take notice. By orJtr of ibe Faculty. Wm. ROGERS, ISecretary* ] ' POST OFFICET~~ Philadelphia, oSober 26, 1797. THE Poft-Office will be removed t« No. 34, South Front Street, on Saturday the 28th inft. at half past 12 o'clock, p. m. and on Monday, the 30th, the letter carri ers will begin to deliver as usual. N OTIC E. . THE Offices of the Department of War are far 'the pr sent rer.iove<} near to the Falls of the Scuyl kill, on the Ridge Road. September 4. dtf The Health-Office IS removed to the City-Hall, and is kept open < night and day, where persons having business may apply- Wm. ALLEN, Health-Officer. Sept- 4- dtf 1 A Wet Nurse wanted. A Healthy V/omnn, with a young 6rea(l of * milk,'who can be wel! recommended", may ' hear rf a place by inquiring of the Printer. • OSt. 23, iw t %]jt <o&sette* PHILADELPHIA, SATURDAY EVFMNCI, OCTOBFK 18. " —■ .nnw^-muU'i— lyrrm, .. ,i . \ Continuation of Latejl Europtan Nrtus, received by the It r iHiam Petin. ROME, Ju'y 24. u A courier arrived here a few days ago, e with a letter from the directory to the pope, in which are mauy strong expressions of ef t teem and refpedtfor his Holrnefs. The di n re&ory has also expressed its concern at s learning that feme French agents had, since j the conclusion of naacc, levied arbitrary con -0 tributions in Ombrfa and the Marche, and therefore directs thata diminutionofyoo.ooo crowns shall take place in the payment of the contribution agreed upon by way of in demnification. We hourly expeft the fiew minister of France, Joseph Buonaparte, brother to the general. LONDON, August 25 —28. Storace and Braham have been very un fortunate in the firft duet they were engage*! in out of this country. They were imme diately sent to prison on their arrival at Ca f lais, in their way to Italy. The joint me lody of their fafeinating drains could not supply the want ps a passport. tn the late quairels on black collars, r which have now entirely fubfidcd, the in , habitants of Paris did not take any part. A curious developcment has taken placg in the American legislature, on a very ex- traordinary fubjeft. It appears that Mr. .Blount, a member of the senate, and others, entertained the design ofinducing the Brit ish and the Indians to attack the Spanish [ fettlemcnts in the Floridas and Louisiana. Some fay the objeft of this enterprise was ' to furnifh a pretext to the Spaniards for re ■ fufing to give up to the BritiHi certain posts ' agreed to be evacuated. But the political parties, which run very high in America, ' pretend that the projeft had 3 very different purpose in view. The English party in A merica fay, it was entered into in hopes of 1 embroiling either France or England in a war with the United States ; and the French party affirm, that it was promoted by the English fattion to aggrandize this country, at the expence of Spain. Each charge the odium of the measure upon their oppo nents, whom they accuse of being bribed, the one fay with French, the other fay with English goIU. It is very manifeft, that if the Spanish settlements had aftually been attacked, the tranquillity of the United States would have been endangered ; and, whatever might have been the obje&s of the plan, it certainly was abase, treacherous un dertaking. The disclosure of it has aston ished the Americans, by whom it is univer sally reprobated ; and the mercantile inter est in London will, no doubt, rejoice at the failure of a plat, which, at this time, would have given a terrible blow to our commerce. Mr. Blount has been expelled from the sen ate, and impeached. We shall give the proceeding at length in our next. The late lord Mountmorres was one of the most rigid and systematical economists living. His manner ofpafling a day in the winter time was nearly thuß : Equiped with -» Water proof boots, and an umbrella of huge diameter, he bade defiance to the inclemency of the season, and whiled away the mornings in visiting the new shops in Piccadilly. He took his dinner five days out of seven at the Piazza coffee-houfe, and regularly appeared at about half past eight at one of the theatres, but if the even ing loured, tie found his way under the cheap and convenient shelter of the colon nade, t« one of the stage boxes at Covent Garden. With these peculiarites, there is , reason to believe that he did " more good by Health," than many who had five times his fortune. The posthumous works of Mr. Burke, which are to be laid before the public in the ensuing winter, consist of another pamphlet on French affairs, and a Journal kept by Mr. B. for many years, entitled, " His own times which contains many details ref pefting the political scenes in which he was an aftor, as well as an observer. To these the Editors, Drs. King and Lawrtnce, prefix a life of Mr. Burke ; which, if wor thy of the fubjeft, cannot fail of adding to their reputation. The whole will make a large quarto volume. It appears by the last letters from Rome, that the Pope has of late passed some time at Monte-Cavillo, to recover from the con ferences of an apoplt&ic fit he was lately seized with, and which, added to the drop sy in his chest, announces the impending difTolution of Pius VI. Peaceable citizens feel the more uneafiuefs on the approach of this event, as symptoms of revolutionary commotions begin already to appear, and the moment ofthe Pope's death is anxiously ( waited for by Buonaparte to unfold and , execute the grand proje&s he has said to , have. All perfens able to leave Rome, de part from thence to avoid being present at the cataftrophc they dread. PARIS, August 21. " LIVE FREE ! OR DIE ! The officers and soldiers of the army of the 1 Rhine and the Moselle, to the executive 1 directory of the French republic. ( " 24 Thermidor—Auguft 11. " CITIZENS DIRECTORS, , " Profoundedly affli&ed by the evil heap ed upon the republic, and by the progress • of royalifm, the army of Italy has presented < addresses, supplicating you to adopt the < proper measures for consolidating the con- ' ftitution, which is now fllaken .to its basis. 1 Witnesses, and in a manner, the vift'iis of < the affinations committed by tlje murderers 1 of the fonth, the coiiqnerors of Lodi and 1 Areola befeeched you to protest their rela- j tions, daily immolated by the daggers of ( those atrocious ruffians, who are armed by the priests and the fuppor.ters of the antient tyranny. " More patient, Vhe army of the Rhine and Moselle has not hitherto communicated to you the grief which it has felt. But, citizens directors, there is a time for every thing, ntid the measure is now full. We have heard the eppeal which the divisions of Angcreau, Joubert, &c. have made to you —we fuffer like tbem. If, deeply interested by the dangers of their country, they be ready to march into the heart of the repub lic, to flop the effufion of the blood that in undates it, you may. be/ a (Tared that we shall not remain indolent fpe&ators of their labors. "With the refpecfc that is due to the Gift magistrates of a free people, we supplicate you to do justice to our claims, to tfiSJa? them known to the patriotic members of both councils, that, in concert with vou, they may consider of some remedy which may be instantly applied. " Having conquered two-thirds of mili tary Europe, how could it be conceived that enemies should dare to ?magine they had gained their cause ? They have, however, obtained a great part of what they demand ed. In a short time, the monarchy would have been established. What a dreadful profpeft is presented to us by the firft pro ceedings of the prsfjnt legislature ! " Citizens directors, notwithstanding your folicitudcs, the children of the republic, its supporters, are vilified in the interior, and ! are destitute of every thing upon the frontiers which their courage alone has given to their country. The obje&s which ought chiefly to have fixed the attention of our legislators have been put aside ; and far from following the' line of eoflduA which the happiness of the people prescribed to them, they have dwelt upon the most frivolous topics. Many of them have been exclusively employed in gratifying the most odious passions. The public good, which ought to be the order of the day, has been replaced by a thirst of vengeance. All that love of liberty that charafterifed the former assemblies of the republic, is extingnifhed. The constitution and the sacred rights of the people are no longer refpe&ed—Who knows but, one of these days, they -will order us to go to mass ? —-they have already made us fajl ! " Our finances, so much mismanaged, were almost exhausted. A civil war was scarcely terminated in the weft, when ano ther recommenced in the south. Foreign agents endeavored every where to mislead the public mind. What has been done to reme dy these evils ?—More than twenty fittings of the council of five hundred have been employed on hearing reports on priejis, on bells, and on emigrants !—Emigrants and Priests ! Those who delivered Toulon to the Englifb, and A face to the Imperialijls— thofe who have involved us in the war, and all its miseries, have been recal'ed by a decree, wel comed and honored.—The bells most be re cftablifhed, while no plan of finance is adopt ed, and though the defenders of the coun try should want every necessary. The pay of all the armies is several months in arrear, and no clothes are delivered to them. The hospitals are not attended to, and our lick and wounded brethren die for want of pro per support and assistance. Are the civil hospitals better supplied 5 What are the bells to us ? " The conquerors are naked, and defect has been profitable only to the vanquished. In feveralquarters provisions have constantly and totally failed. If the troops have sub sisted, it was only by depriving the inhabi tants of the countries in which they were, of some of the articles necessary to their ex istence. What would be thought, then, if we should speak of the Milliard, which was promised us with so much ear neftnefi when our services were wanted ? None of us can any longer rely on the pay ment of it : and it even appears, that the only reward they reserve for us is shame and contempt. " But private interest would still be si lent, were not the honor of the country concerned. How have the defenders of the country been treated in the interior? Worse even than the soldiers of Conde, whom they have beaten, They have been vilified in one place, proscribed or assassinated in another, and every where infnlted, when they appeared in the most refpeftable uni- 1 forms. No, citizens directors ! we have 1 not renounced the honor of being French ' citizens : we know what is due to us—de- 1 gradation belongs not to our charadter. ] But even the legislative body, in debating ] for five days upon the march of the troops which passed within 12 leagues of them, have proved that they viewed us only with terror, we may fay even with horror ? Are . we then, foreign troops, or enemies of pub lic liberty, that they treat us with so much severity ? We founded and we maintained that liberty, and no power in the universe shall tear it from us. Ought we not to be 1 astonished when we are declaimed against in ] the national tribunal by emigrants, the pre- c tended representatives of the people whom < they detest. t " Royal terror has been substituted to 1 an anarchical terror, of which we are equal ly the enemies, Such are its effefts, that t the tribnnals every where acquit assassins z and conspirators, while they ftriice f pity all wliq are fnfpefted of patriotism, of t being purchasers of natioaai property, or t merely of being moderate friends of the t constitution. In support of wjhat we ad- t vance, we refer to the judgment pronoun- a ced in favor of the conspirators Brottier, a Dunan, and Lavileharnois, the known a- t gents of Louis XVIII. and that in favor 1; of the priest Poule, who attempted the life of the representative of the people Syeyes. c The purchasers of national estates are every ii where plundered, and excluded from offices d of trust ; while the emigrants, recalled by f new laws, exercise almost every public furic- f tion. So great indeed is the effedl of this t royal terror, that when the law upon politi- si cal and literary aflVmblies was presented to v | r the council of five hundred, it was paffcd t I without the necessary forms being observed. , One member only offered to speak against z ! that violation of the liberty of the people, 1 j but he was not heard ! It belongs to the , . present period alone to have produced fucli f 1 examples. e i "Ten thousand officers, who have no f j reward for their services but the wounds i • which, they are covered, languish in thein -1 , teiior, without support and without fuc : ' cour. - I « What fate, then, awaits those whose - j zeal has so long and (till detains them under : the standard of liberty ? We know already, r that several officers have been replaced by men who are not known in the republican t armies, others will soon be,replaced by -• those emigrants whom they h ve combated rf Our enemies no longer disguise this plan, f which they have begun to carry into effeft. , In the debate upon the Gendarmerie, did i not several members of the council of five hundred declare, that it was necessary to - place at the head of that corps all theoffi t cers who had served in it before the revolu -1 ; tion, whatever might be their opinions ' > We are then about to fee the aristocrats - f androyalnls reiWd to their command—all ' those who fled to the different courts of Eu -1 rope, a/feing alms of the enemies of their • country ; those, in fine, whom we have for fix years combated. It has been said in • the tribune of the council or" the ancients, | tllat all those who pojfejfed virtue and talents waited only for thepropitious moment in -which i they might return to the fa-vice of their country. ■ What then do ivcpojfefs ? Wounds ! If, then, • we boast no titled anceffry ; if we have nei . ther gold nor affeftion for king; : it is not r kT r" 5 16 j e " J ,° y he b!effin S s of peace ! No r bie lcoundrels who concealed rhemfelves du ■ ring the war, are about to replace us ' ' "We had reason to expeft, from the , French blood that had been every where t jhed, and the innumerable facrifices that we ■ have made to our country, a fulid and crlo. : rious peace : but what enemy will treat, with : us while they fee us agitated by a powerful ' ta^ lon > which they are convinced will de ' 311 meanß of continuing the war, , which disgraces us, and would even deliver r our frontiers to their cohorts; when hence forth no plau can be formed until the utility of it is discussed at the tribute ? No ' un , der these Orcumftances we cannbt have i peace. " F^ e / e n we doubt not, wiflt that the lafb of us should remain upon the frontiers, and expiate, by his death, the crime of having vanqsifhed the kings, their protestors. O country! O defenders of the country ! you are then about to be de livered by those detestable being, to the fa telhtes of tyranny. The despots whom you have so often humbled, are about to put their yoke of iron over those brave heads which have been covered with so ma ny laurels. Perfidious wretches ! they speak of their attachment to the constitution, which they undermine—which they tear leaf by leaf, while they continue to invoke it. No, citizens direaors ' we will not ' endure this. We require other pledges than hypocritical protestations. We are fatigued with vain promises !" Mejfage of the executive direßory to the cottn "f fiy hundred. 28th Thermidor, (Aug. 15.) " Citizens Reprrfentatives, You have desired the executive direc tory to acquaint you with the measures a. dopted agamft the author of an article in serted in No. 581, of a journal entitled the Kedafteur," to cause him to be prose cuted and brought to condign pumfhment. I he executive diredory reply to your message, by transmitting to you a copy of the report made on this fubjeft by the mi nister of justice, in purfuanee of their or ders. " This report terminates with general obfervrJions on the necessity of ftemmiW the torrent of disorder and corruption, pro ceeding from the licentiousness of the preft The direftory have thought proper not to separate these remarks from the report, as they fully coincide in opinion with the mi nister of justice on this head. The dire&ory have further thought fit, citizens representatives, to inform you, that the journal of the Redafteur is one of those public prints which are most in the habit of publishing the ads issued by government, yet the e&cutive government take neither the lead part m the conduaing of that pa per, nor do they either direaiy or indireftlr pay its authors. 1 (Signed) " CARNOT, President. " LEGARDE, Sec. Gen." Report of tht mhifier of jujlice to the executive dlrcQory. " 28th Thermidor, (August ir.) " Citizens Directors, « You have direaed me to examine in a legal point of view au article inserted in the Redadeur, No. 581, refpeaing which the council of hvc hundred sent you a ineffao-e on the til instant (July ,8) and to make , report on this fubjea. I ah. going to ful, fil this duty. 6 " The council of five hundred had judged this article to be contrary to public orcL, and to v.olaie the refpea due to the nation al rtfprefentation ; but it is not this imputa tion, however serious it may be, and what ever weight it may derive from the author,', ty which prefers it, I am here to enquire in. to : I must confine myfelfto discuss, pursu ant to your orders, whether there exist law» again ft the abuses of the press ; and oafe they do exist, whether the article under con sideration is to fall within those laws. " You are not ignorant citizens direa ors, that there is nothing more excites the indignation of all good citizens, than the daily abuses of the sacred right, conquered from defpotilm, and one of the most precious fruits of the revolution, to express and mul, tiply our thoughts, refcycdfrom the inqui litonal fetters of cei.fure, and to exercifc, with refpea to the depositories of p„bli p
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