[No. 1 8,.0f Vol. IV.] TRANSLATION OF M. ANDRE CiIENIER's LETTER } Publijhed in the "Journal d£ Paris," 9 f lc of May. Citizens ! on this day when a deplo rable and Ihameful eveut, at ihe commence ment ot 'he war, has severely admoniftied us of the value of wisdom and rcafon, let us guard against that ficklenefs ol mmd which has always appeared so be the ch uicV rillic ot our nation.—The leaf! success elevates our hopes, to a degree borderi.v on soliy :—The leall repuife plunges us into del fp.:ir.—Buv. it in the midit of a well-minded grief, we are willing at last to examine maturely the mis fortunes which have just befallen us, and firmly »ppl ; y those certain remedies which these misfor tune tin ms ivrs point out, we shall have no realon to oe discouraged. Let us only open our eyes let us icmfniht r iiat fortune and chance arecmpty founds : —That success is the rewaid of good con duit ; that the rcveite is the chastisement due to imprudence.—Since we have negle&ed thecounfel of wisdom, let us at lealt profit by the errors or which lhe had lorewarned us. Lei the pafl cor reti the ♦uiuie ; and then, not only tne melancho ly fcencs which we lament, will cease to bean un lucky omen, but they will rather be a beacon placed at tne entrance ot a dangerous channel, to caution us to quit it oS soon as poflible. Till now. A.i men who saw with terror the re laxation ot discipline tn our armies, who saw dif ooedience and n volt reduced to system and become our rniii.at y code ; the foldlery encouraged to Im biue in Clubs the molt dcteftable principles— or the rr.oft pernici' o and talle conclusions from true pi uciples ; 11:(. Generals difgulted 111 a thousand ways—mful ed, chaled, struck, alldllinated with impuniry, and always condemned unheard ; —the foidiers always excused, juftified without inquiry, applauded ai.d rewarded when they ought to have been pumihed—r hose whs have Jeen with terror such things, who loudly lamented them, and who wou'd have had us look then fatal consequences in the face, p fled (if not for traitors} at least for men governed by old prejudice.-, incapable ot ex panding theii minds to our new plans of Govern ment, or of rifmg to the he ighth ol a Revolution', But on the conrary; thole men, infulced every day by a crowd « i merct naiy wretches, were,and always will be, friends of their country, friends of humanity and of the laws ; who infteod ot at tempting by furious declamations, to flatter the paflions ot a ; -y and ignorant multitude, employ the.r ieifure and their r-tle&ion in Audying history and the nature ot things. They know that when men arm d and embo died are not confined within the rules jnd limits of exact discipline, debauchery, thoughtleirner.s, , and a contagious indolence, loon enervate their minds and their bodies,—They know that want of luboi dination in armies, partakes of the essence of delpolic empires ; in which the foidiers, at least sometimes, revenge the wrongs of the people, but aiways do lo by producing evils still greater ; and that free nations,who have done greater things than others in war, have obtained their fuperion ty by the rigid auiteiity of their discipline.— You may quote as an example of the contrary, those very enemies agairtil whom we now fight. But have thole Germans received the military art from their fathers, or have they borrowed it eliewhere ? Do their armies resemble thole of the ancien: northern Hordes, or are they governed by jule. to thole the Roman armies ?—Let no one then treat the German or PrufTian discipline with a deiilion equally itupid and proud ; and let them .earn to imitate despots in thole things, in which despots have imitated free people. Let us then, since it mult be so, cast a glance up on the horrible and fharoeful event with which we have stained the commencement of this war. I do not remark that French joldicrs have fled; lor the circumstances which followed were such that one no longer thinks of reproaching them with their flight. They have alLflinated their chiefs ; they have mallacied unarmed prisoners.— Do lucii horrors compote the history ot Jree peo ple, or that of eafterri tyrannies ? It is in the latter that armies resemble thole wild bealts which they tame 111 the fame countries, to prepare them for the chafe ; but which, when they are in want of prey, return furious and lhike tin ir keepers with tenor. '1 is there that Generals are butcher d, that prisoners are cut to pieces, that prisons and ftiong caltks are the or*iiy asylums to which Am balladors and peaceful Urangers can fly for ihel. er, a gain ft the violence of an enraged populace. Is it there we would look for example? And are french tioops becoming Janizaries f If any thing can yet farther excite the •f evtry truly patriotic heart, it would be the tune and dilcou.lt* of all thole odious fanatics, of all thofr vile turbulent demagogu. s that fill tiic clubs, whom the evil genius ol Ftaiue has railed and fup portsagair.lt tier.—Thcnu have aii our misfortunes proceeded. There, have I.een 'onu-med and want ofdifapline. Tnere, has rebellion ben lawful authorities; hatred to every virions ttyn ; prnteaion to all mali-faito.*. They have alrendy out on the tomb of tile unfortunate DILLON', and the companions of his tall, atrocious and bafc ; which, for four yean pafl, are the only expiations which na»e followed the murder of so many victims la cuSced by the friends and retainers of these fociev t ' e j- Dcuht not that the authors of so manV dis orders let every inßrumeot at work to prolong them • doubt not that they will contend for revolt •nd '.[under. As for their altars arid fire-fides nouut not they will afcufe the Rights oj Man as a' Preteit for , rocutn.g impunity to thofc who de. sad malfaci* their Generals. Doubt opt (hat A NATIONAL PAPER, PUBLISHED WEDNESDAYS AND SATURDAYS BY JOHN FENNO, No. 69, HIGH-STREET, PHILADELPHIA Wednesday, August i, 175)2. those fa!fe atid ferocious p us, which insult their country by calling themielves patriotic* will la bour and lliive, after the firft transports of our grief fhail bepuft, to intercft us for the fate of sol diers who could make no oLher use of their arms than in assassination ; and to tell us, that in truth it was only an trior, but that the chiefs were aris tocrats, and that the aimy was fold. It will not be for want of their efforts, if we do not hear some buffoon pieparing a Triumph to those cowardly murderers. Allyewhofe fouls can feel what is honorable and good ; all ye who have a country, and who r.nuw what a country is; who knew what you laid when you swore to defend it, and with whom to " live or to die Jrcc" are not words withodt meaning ; Oh, French citizens, alt ye who have Sons, Wives, Parents, Brother s* Friends, with whom and tor whom you wish to conquer ; with whom or before whom you arerefolvcd to die, how long {hall we talk of our liberty in order to remain Haves to impious fa&ions ? Raise then your voice, shew youi selves, let the nation come forward, and annihilate all those troops of ideols who usurp its name ; and w.ho, commanded by knaves, will destroy us if you <so not all put forth your hands. This is the only moment that re* mains, this the pfccile moment in which we are Co dccide the future. Evil (hall it be to us, it we (hut the car to the fir it warning that war has given us. If our condutl 15 courageous and wife; if our re presentatives display, on this occasion, the grand charadler of equity, constancy, and vigour, worthy ol them and of us ; if those regiments of the line who have acted with French courage, if that bat talion of spirited National Guards, whom the city ol Paris shall have eternal honor in having given birth to ; in a word, it all the warriors who be haved as good soldiers, as good citizens, as free men, are commended and rewarded as they merit —if those who abandoned their General shall be chafed with ignominy, deprived for ever of the ufc of arms and ol the rights of citizenship ; —if the muidercrs of their commander s shall meet con dign puniffiment ;—if the villains who mafTacred I unreiiiting prisoners are given up to thfe hostile na tion— in Ihort, to let all Europe know that the French people disavow this right borrowed from the manners of canibals, and that they have not recovered their liberty in order to make war like barbarians ;—if the law invest our Generals with all the power nece-flary to prelerve in their armies a Hi i£l difciplin , and punish them for improper tenderness rather ihan for rigour ; —ifjuftice be al ways attainable, and the immediate confenuence of the crime ; —it tne intolerable audacity of tht fe usurping fraternities be reprefFed ; —if the proje&s! of our Generals, the march of our armies, the pians of attack,before their execution, cease to be objects ofdifcuffion in clubs—the present evil may be easi ly »epaircd—our Generals may recover confidence and our troops regain their own eftcetn, as well as that of foreigners. The loft oja pojl is a matter of uidiftcrence, but the honor of France has been more brought mqueftionby these detelfable adtions than it had been for ages part. II m place of this, our Legislature (hall be indo lent and weak, where juftjee and firmnefs alone can lave „s, what officer, having a foul and talents, would wish to remain in such an army?— What General wilh to command troops capable of affaf- Jinating tlie man whom they have previously dis honored ?—Where is the citizen that would rot to makewa, ori an enemy to whom unpu nilhed massacre would give a right to make retalia tion, linlefs they choole to conquer us by generosity and virtue ? And what people would not confidt r theniltlves just in defpifirig another, which, in be coming free, lor gets ihe manners of civilized life and diwefts themfc lvei ul humanity ? Behold then what every Frenchman ftiould fay to nimfelf, and fay to his fellow Frenchman, in repelling with lhameand igoominy all infamous '"""'l ™ ho to render a useless example ol ihis hi ll lelTon of misfortune. Ye to whom .he withes of your fellow-crizen, have trnfted the deftly of the empire, it is nme to lee and to found the pr ctpice toward which we drive W'th such great ftridc*. You have too long lillcned to those who call a hatred ot all Cub ordination patriotism, the impuniiy of all crimes liberty ; who have futernal feelings for thole a looe who are banditti or murderers; and who iek 01 tne reputation of humanity in their pity v'i'lai ns, wh ch is an insolent derision of all :;ood men. Rcrollefl that nothing i s more hu mane, more indulgent, more delightful, than the Ivere inflexibility oljuft laws ; nothing more cru el, more unpuiable, tnan clemency to criminals • that there is no liberty which is riot held undei aws, nothing as despotic or as fangulnary as Legislators ! France has undertaken, with courage and alaciiiy, a war, the fu cess of which jhallfecurc its own liberty and that oi Ejrcpe at ice. I, is for France to furnifh its army, hut it is you is to orgai.ize it, and in order to this you mull both creaie and repair. -t is your duly—you are charged to prevent rrenchmen from having made a frivolous and vain oatn, when they swore to defend" their liberry against all its enemie-. Foreign Dcfpots, at the lame time that they lellusthey do not wilh to m u.war dare.odia.teto refptfiing the kind ol Coultuution under which it pleases them that we (hould live-tegiOatou! it is for you to decide wheticr thcie contumelious proportions shall have the force ol laws, or whether they (hall mere 1> Ik come ridiculous bravadoes. Recollect that an undisciplined army 14 terrible only to its own country. ANDRE CHENIER, 69 From a late Englifli Paper. EPISTLE, Fiora Napper Tandy, in Dublin, to Tommy Pain e, in London. I3eAR To 4 ;f my this comes from the ifiand of Saints, Where Nappe i is making a thou land complaints, 'Gainst Law ar„i Religion, Vicegerents and Kings, And Bishops anil Judges, and such odious things ; And happ) he is not alone to complain, But in concert to growl with his dear Tommy Paine. You have heard how Ichalleng'd a Manof the Law, And efcap'd by a Trick from the Messenger's Paw, How they took me again, and refufmg all Bail, Sent your poor Napper Tandy difgraceful to Goal. But ecod I'll be up with these Great Legifl.itors, And make them submit to our new made Diftatdrs. You ' now Who I mean, and how easy the way lick, The jacobin Club that alembic at Daly's. Please God ere its long, every Man in the Realm, Shalt each take in his turn and dire£l the State Helm ; And your Do&fine no longer be any man's scorn, For you know, my dear Tciti % 14 We arc equally born," And that he who this moment is ploughing the land, Has a right in his turn our Helm to command. Nor is the day distant when you, Thomas Paine y Of the Government of England (hall hold the chief Rein ; And I, Napper Tandy, (hall joyfully sing, " I'm greater in Ireland than Viceroy or King"- So keep up the Ball—and write ilrong as you can, In favor of France, and her new Rights of Man. P. S. As I've loft being Sheriff, next Michaelmas dav. I mean on your fide the water a vifir to pay ; And my Wife fays (he'll go, her fancy so itches To fee if (he knows the Combujlible Breechcs ; Those Breeches, Oh, Tommy, how dismal the tale ! That just in the critical moment (hould fail Those dear Galligafkinsthat had they been burn'd, Your whole Constitution must be overturn'd : tfor your Lords and your Commons would cer- tainly fall) And the four Courts of Justice inWeftminfter-Hall. To the tunc of ca in, the Mob would all Dance, And England be just such a Country as Francc. OF Q_U AC K DOCTORS. AN EXTRACT. From the Bojlart Independent Chronicle. ' T 75/ itA degree of knowledge can be rea- V V lonably allowed this kind of" practiti oners, .vhen fix or eight months are the extent of time devoted to physical studies. Without any other kind of knowledge, they turn over many valuable volumes, written by the ableu pens—and in the course of their pernfal,acquire a number oi oid Latin phrases, and hard techni cal terms, and then dole their books forever. .Thus stored, in their opinion, with a fund of uleful knowledge, they commence man-flayers. Well might such men wear swords by their'ides to ihow they have a commifTion to kill. Alex ander was a celebrated warrior, who, through his martial spirit, fheel rivers of human blood. j.n like manner, £)uack Doctors, through their ignorance of the force of medicine, and of its operative effects upon the constitution, are 110 less diftinguiflied for man-flaughter. " A lingular instance of this vice, arising from this order of men, took place not long since in the slate of New-Hampshire. A young iad is thrown from a horse and wounded. ' The be ft, as was thought, of the eight or nine doc tors lefiding in the town, is called. While the tender youtn, by an exprefiive wilh in his coun tenance, asks a respite from pain, and relief from his irioft distressing situation, and nature w..its. patiently for human aid—the famous doc tor arrives. He has the knowledge, as well as the weeping parents, that something the youth ails—But what it is, and the remed v, are equal ly unknown to him. As something mail be don?, he applies . Having given his learned prescription, he mounts his horse in great haste, to be gone. The anxious patents .beg he would tarry a few moments. But to avoid exposing his ignorance, both of the com plaint of the youth, and its removal, he answers " He will do well, I mufl visit another patient'' Thus the youth is left expiring, and made a fa entice to the gross ignorance of a fa'lfe phy sician." [Whole No. 340.] r I U R I f], April 25. Notwithstanding the paci fic afliirances given by this courc in respect to the affairs of France, there is every leafon to mifliuil its obscure policy. A whole year ha» now been spent in completing the troops of the line, and belides chefe the provincial regiments are arming. These regiments form in the whole an army of i$ or 16,000 njen, and are so organized that the whole of tlieni may be collected in a lew days. The garrison of Nice is considerably aug mented. Considering the exhauiled (late of our treasury, however, there is reafou to think that all these pre parations may be fylely meant tor in ternal defence. MARSEILLES, April 9. The true patriots in Marseilles are a majority of" its inhabitants ; but: they are timid, and the primary af feinblies have the affiirance to inti midate their antagonists who are hoc friends to anarchy. Whoever is not a republican and anti-royalist is,with them, an aristocrat j and this word, like the head of Medusa, petrifies all minds. GIRONNE, (Spain) Jan. 12. ADDRESS TO THE KING OF SPAIN, Written by a gentleman of Traga, wha travelled into France with the famous Count d' Aranda. Charles ! thy august Father gained the affections of the Spanish nation by a government founded 011 modera tion : his reign was marked with blefhngs, the memory of which will never be effaced ; he bridled religi ous despotism, and mitigated the ho ly bai bariry of the intjuifhion. We expecfted of a Prince, whose senti ments announced philanthropy and philosophy, that he would perfect ihefe glorious beginnings : but, Charles ! thou haft deceived the hopes of thy people ; thou haft fuffered them to languish under the iron sceptre of monachifin, and the pride of Spain feels the insult. Our allies, the French, are free, and the report of their glorious revolution hath struck thy ears like a peal of thunder, and made thee tremble on thy throne. The (late dungeons, which thy au gufl father had fhu c up, ha*e at thy command been put to use, and thou haft spread fear and diftrull; through out thy wide domains ; the age of Philip the Second is revived ; bur, Charles ! listen to the voice of a des cendant of Cortes, listen to the voice of Spain entire ; restore to thy peo ple those rights which God and na ture bellowed on them, if you desire not to fee them seize on them by lorce ; fnut up forever those gloomy mansions of de/olation, where sacer dotal vengeance offbis up its human, lacrifices 10 a God of mercy ; give us up the liberty to fpeafc and think ; none but a tyrant can dread the truth, and surely ihou canst not desire that so execrable a name should descend linked with thine to posterity ; con template the miserable condition of our lands, bj nature the nioft fertile in Europe ; tuj fleets bring into our ports the gold of Mexico and Cufco, but thy peeple are poor and without industry ; within these ten years three great nations have atchievecl their liberty, and Spain rests llill in slavery ; we have driven away the courageous Moors, and fuffered our selves to bemaitered by the monks Oh ignominy ! oh shame I—Charles, thoti art the richest monarch in the univer/e, be also the 1110 ft glorious, the must just, the inoft beloved ; (new tltyfeif worthy of commanding the Spanish nation, of reigning over ft eemen ; think on thy true intcreft, think 011 the energy of the nation, „.1 _ .
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