read the projeft. requeded he might be al lowed forne time before he made lip his mind on this fubjedt. He was also deflred to withdraw, and being arretted in the gallery where Barthelemy was taken, he attempted to draw his sword. Barrns, who Jiad left the room with an intention of following Carnot, cam: behind him, and stabbed him with a 1 his back. His body was immediately tnken away, ats buried in the vaults of the Luxemburg!). The triumvirs then fin idled their game, and began thi revo lution . Gaptali Cotes has been hitherto prevent ed, hy the want of a paffpdrt, from visiting Paris, in his new capacity as agent for the exchange of prisoners ; and it is now be come a matter of doubt, whether, in the pre sent disposition of the directory, he will ven- , lure to trust himfelf there. Government, we underdand, havecomt to a determination not to permit any French officer, of the rank of captain, to be ex changed, until the liberation of fir Sidney Smith (hall have been assented to. The known tendency of the conqueror of Italy to rhodomontade, is infinitely t;xceedtd , on a late occasion, by Moreau. General Buonaparte can only find a solitary plot in a port-folio, while the commander of the army ' of the Rhine and Moselle, can, 011 the emer gency of the moment, find proofs by wag gon loads. In the Spani(h fiiip which is prize to the Raven, is a coffin, containing the body of a grandee, that was sent from the Havan-1 nah to be interred in Old Spsvin. The jack tars infid upon over-hauling the old gentle man, as they fufpedt he has got the dujl with him. General Thureau, the author of the his tory of the war of La Vendee, is again em ployed, and is gone to the army of the Sam bre and Meufc, to serve under Hoche. The Sans Joaqliim, Santa Cruz, Trini dade, Modena Delz, Truenzo, Piadade, Roa Nova, Patrouina, Alegria, Carolina, Boa Fi, Bernardo, and St. Teraza, from the Brazils to Oporto, with eight or ten other ships, from the Brazils, are taken by the French ; and also a (hip from Liverpool, for Mir tinique, and one from for Ja maica. The America, Tucker, from Wifcaffet to Liverpool,*has been taken by a French pri vateer, and retaken by the Bellona man of war. HARWICH, SEPT. 20. This morning was brought into this har bour a French lug-fail privateer, captured on : the Dutch coad by one of his majedy's frigates. She is a remarkable fine vessel, on ly fix months old, pierced for 16 guns, which were thrown oveiboard in chace—her complement of men 63. This veffttl fails very fad, and during her cruize of five months, has taken 14 Englilh (hips, and funk two, and mod probably would not have been captured, had it not blown a gale of wind. / _____ FRANCE. EXECUTIVE DIRECTORY. Mrjhge to the Council of Five Hundred, on tie 4th Complementary day, sth year. Citizen Representatives. The executive direCtory has received the twb me.Tages which you addressed to them yesterday, concerning the exceptions propo fetf to the dispositions of the law o? the 19th Frftftidor, relative to emigrants. You will find annexed the report which has been .nvde on this fubjedt to the direftory by the min ider of general police, to which the diredto ry refers you. v L. M. Revelliere Lepeax, President. Legarde, Secretary General. Report to the Executive Dirt dory. Citizen Diredtors, The law of the 19th Frudtidor, occafiou ed by the dangers to which the royal con spirators have " exposed the conditution of the republic, bears the marks of that fpint of grandeur and of wisdom, which has di rected the progress of the two powers in the late circumdances ; it has heen received with transport throughout the republic ; the Ftench people have received it as a solemn pledge of the loyalty of the legifhtivebody, and thanks be to it, hrttory will uot have a single excess with which to reproach so re markable an epoch. The execution of thi3 salutary law will deliver the republic fromitsgreated enemies, the emigrants and turbulent prieds. • Its dispositions are fimpie and humane ;it calls not for the blood of men who have only signalized their return to the territory of the republic,' but by trouble, revolt and af faffi.lations. It expels them only .rom a country, to the laws of which they refufe to submit thepifelves. The advantages of this measure are »m ---menfe, inappreciable ; its inconveniences light and partial. You a(k me, citizen direftors, what are the exceptions which it will be possible to make to the dispositions of the 15th article of this law. You inform me, at the fame time, that the kgifature have proposed to except from that article the persons men tioned in the lid of emigrants by the admi oidration of foreign departments, and that, the council of five hundred have sent back to you the petitions of two soldiers who com plain that they have been unjudly profen bed. To make this circumdanee an exception, would be to dedroy the principal law. Doubtless well founded complaints exilt ; doubtless some citizens, public funaionanes, a fmsll number even of the defenders of the country, may find themselves included in this law ; but th<: magidrates of a great na tion, the legators, cannot facrifice to the intered of a few citizens that of a whole na tion. It is this day demonstrated that the rebel emigrants and prieits ought to be ba niflied from the French foil, or that the constitution and the republic must be•"pol ed to the hazards of a civil war, all i-s In Vain will it he fa id, that to except f»iim this law,fijch or such a class of citizens is not to agree to dedroy it ; exp'rience h;is (htvtn us that wken a principle is once at tacked, intered and malevolence know how to profit l»y it, so as to render nu'.lthe mod j severe law. It is with similar exceptions that but : lately we had nearly recalled the emigrants, as fugitives of the Lower Rhine, as fugitives j of Toulon, and as fugitives of the colonies. ; Citizen Diredtors, the mod constitutional j law is that whieh drives away emigrants • from the republic. How easy it is to deceive on qued/ons of. emigration, by captious reasonings, and by apparent authentic proofs ! Have I not re cently made known to you the frauds prac , tiled by a great number of emigrants, by corruption, have got their names fubdi tuted in the place of republican volunteers, usurping the glorious title of defenders of their country, and claiming the merit due to such. How many other's, if the propos ed exception fliould be adopted, would e quivocate as to the spot of their residence, and would by a thonfand pretences elude the provisions of the law. By such an excepti on all the emigrants would remain. Yes, Citizen Diredtors, I hesitate not to declare to you, that the fafety of the repub lic depends upon the drift execution of the law of the 19th Frudtidor. The partizans of royalty and accomplices of the late conspirators, are far from believ ing themselves vanquished; already you . know, that they affaflhiate in ftveral depart- j ments, republican functionaries; important communications which have lately come to ' your hmd, have developed to you the vad plan of dellrudtion and death, which, by the nxrafurcs of tSe 18th Frudtidor, you 1 prevented the bloody execution of; and when, to arrest so many misfortunes and 1 crimes, the French nation contented itfelf | by removingfrom its bosom its acknowledg ed enemies, ii is feared to exercise this grand act of jiiftice, becauff, by doing so, they may the intered of a few citi zens i The mod equitable law is that which j contains the lead of injudice. None more than myfelf, Citizen Diredtors can bear witness of yourcondant solicitude to diftin guilh the innocent from the guilty. I have to the utmod of my power sup ported this principle of juttice, and every day lince the passing the law of the 18th of Frudtider last, has been marked by the con viction of a great number of citizens, that either error or malevolence had enrolled on the lid of emigrants. As to any thing else, the legislative body may be easy, you have in your hands, and have already made use of the means of go vernment which will alleviate that in which the vigour of the law might appear rigid, and which will prevent the innocent from being included with the guilty. As for my part, I must confefs to you,-I look upon the entire execution of the law, to be as just as it is indispensable. By it, you cut the thread of those dark plots which have been formed againd the public tran quility,; by it, at length, the republic throws off, without any effort, those who were tearing her to pieces. Dedroy this law, and you compromise the fafety of the conditution, even to hesi tate to maintain it, is a public calamity. SOTIN. By this day's Mail. • BOSTON, November 17. Latejl Foreign Intelligence. PARIS, September 24. BUONAPARTE CENERAL Iff CHIEF. Head-Quarter?, at PalFenano, 25th Fru<£lidor. SOLDIERS, We will celebrate the 1 d Vendemairc, the epoch mod dear to the French : it will be ;; day mod celebrated in the annals of the world. It 's from this day that the foundation of the Republic, the organization of a great nation,* the call of a great nation to aftonifli and console the world by its destinies, is dated. Soldiers—separated from your country and triumphant over Europe, they were pre paring-chains for you j you knew it—you have spoken ; the people awaked and mark ed out the traitors, and already they were in irons. You will hear, by the Proclamation of the Executive Diredtory what the private ene mies of the soldiery, and particularly of the divisions of the army of Italy, were con spiring. That preference does us honor— the hatred of Traitors, Tyrants and Slaves will be in hidory qur best title to glory and immortality. We return thanks to the courage of the F;rd Magidrates of the Republic, to the aimies of the Sambre and Meufe and of tht Interi or, to the patriots, to the representatives who have remained faithful to the dediny of France ; —they have done by one blow what we have been doing for the country thef» fix years. BUONAPARTE. LONDON, Oclob?r 2. Mr. Vick did not carry dispatches to France as was so industriously reported on Friday night j but carried papers for lord Grenville in the usual way in which that no ble Lord tranfadts the public bulinefs. No proposition has been made to the French ; and it is expedted that a date paper, or a collection of paptrs, will speedily be made public, giving an account of the conduCt of the negotiation at Lisle. The principal a gents have been daily employed in the pre paration of this maniftdo for some time pad. Camille Jordan is said to have been im -1 prisoned at Middlebourg soon after his ar ■ rival in Holland. Suard, editor of the ; Nonvellc Politiques, Padoret, and Boiffy rd'Aitgias are arrived in Switzerland. October 3. Ycftcrday evening a French fog ef trace arrived at Dover, by'which a M. Ivfetiue, a French courier, brought a dispatch from the commiffioncrs of the directory, ad4re(Ted to lord Mai me (bury. This difpatcli was instantly sent off by a fpe«ial meffenjjer to London, where it arrived at two o'clock this morning. We cannot take upon U3 to state the nature? of this communication. It may be merely the answer of the com miflioners -to tl»e- Ittter written by lord Malmefbviry, which Ins been so much the | fubjedt of discussion ; but to which minis ters have inid, they expefled no favorable answer. Tliis d.iy will prove to us, whe ther the French diredtory have relaxed from tn% dMsette* PHILADELPHIA, FRIDAY "EVENING, NOVEMBER 44. SUBSCRIPTIONS. a ■ Amount of fubferiptions receiv ed, for the use of the Sick Poor of the City and Liber ties of Philadelphia, continu ed from the 2nd of November 1797. Dlls. Cts. 3086 91 Received since, Ofjohn Redig*r liis fubfeription 3 o OfMatthewClarkfon,late May or of Philadelphia. 35 o OfHny Cr.Vanvagenen of New ton Long Island, his Ditto. 50 O Of Thomas Leacock and Tho mas Parker '3 33 ' Of Joseph Haberfhara Esq. re mitted liim from Portsmouth New-Hampshire, viz. The fubfpriptionsof sun dry inhab!tantsthcre 220 o Ditto of a small religi ous focietycalled In dependents, of the fame City. 44 25 Ditto the donation of / the south Parish of Portsmouth. 50 o 3H 2 S Tatal received from the 2nd of November to the 23d of No vember 1797, is 3492 49 Published by order of the Committee. SAMUEL COATES, °I ksjsoker. HEALTH-OFFICE, 23d November, 1797. Resolved, that the thanks of this Board be presented to Mr. James Smith, late of New-York, for his voluntary, difinteiefted, and benevolent services during the late con tagious fever, and that thefame be publilhed. By order of the Board, SAMUEL HODGDON, , Chairman. Ex'irad of a letter from'a gentleman in Hol land, to his friend in this city, dated Sep tember 18. " The two envoys from the southern and middle pans of the United States ar rived here to day from the Hague, at which place they had waited a fortnight for the arrival of Mr. Gerry ; they are now on their way to Paris, hoping to be joined by that gentleman either on their route, or soon af ter their arrival at that city. " Three of diredtory, viz. Rcveilliere Le peaux, Barras, and Rubel,by means of the armies, (who were induced by mifreprefen tationa to believe that the legislature were concerned in a plot for the re-eftablilhment of royalty in France) have seized one of the other members of the diredtory, Barthele my. Carnot, the remaising director would slave been seized also, had be not made his escape ; fifty four members of the legisla ture have been seized also—the great gene ral Pichegru is among these. " In effedting this revolution the consti tution has not been in the least regarded ; the diredtory sure of the support of the ar mies, have trampled it under foot, arvd yet Have had the address to make those armies believe, that it was the only way to pre serve the conftitHtion. "If you will .read the 69th article of the French constitution, which forbids the marching of troops within twelve leagues of the feat of the legislature, you will fee how that has been violated. " After the feiznre of these men, an ac cusation against them was sent to the rem nant of the legislature, assembled in a haity and unconstitutional manner, and without being heard dr fuffercd to appear in their own defence, were sentenced to banilhment (where the diredtory pleafed)—by that le gislature, the constitution has expressly for bidden to pronounce any greater punilh ment shan reprimand, arrest during eight days, and confinement during three days.— Wny not fend them before that court ex pressly pointed out by the constitution their trial ? it could not be doubted hut that this court would also have been fuffi ciently overawed to pronounce the will of the diredtory. But why not fuffer them to be heard before the legislature ? that pros trate legislature which returned thanks for its own humiliation. The fadt is, the accu sation was supported by such flimfy teftimo py, they were afraid the appearance of these men would (hake it off. It does not ap pear that testimony was produced against any but Pichegru ; and as he is mod fear ed, that against him is produced in full length : it is a conversation which is said to have passed between Pichegru and an emi 'gjant, while Pichegru was at the head of his army. This emigrant has told it to a se cond, who told it to a third, and this third emigrant is said to have put it in writing more than a year after he had heard it— and this writing is said to have been found by Buonaparte, (who is an inveterate ene my of Pichegru Y) To the firft Pichegru is made to unlofom hiinfelf in his firfft conver sation, without having ever before'feen him, and without his being able to advance any thing, to prove he was not a'fpy from the Jacobins, to whom this general is extreme ly odious, but who merely told him that he came from Conde. The conversation was relative to a restoration of royalty in France, and Pichegru for a stipulated price was to proclaim it at the head of his army. " Would you as a magistrate have receiv ed this as testimony on the trial of a warrant for a (hilling. " But the plan is said to have failed, be cause Pichegru wished toaffociate in the plan the Auftruns, and Conde objedted to this, becaufc the Auftrians by this means wo ild have a (hare of the honor of effecting the counter-rcvahlticn. Would Conde have re jedted the .plan on this account becaufc these very Aulri: l ;.; with wLpmhc Im<'i a