% A NATIONAL PAPER. PITHTISHi ~ 1 — AND """BAYS'., Ko. tB , LiI)ILfH ,; [No. 54 of Vol. IV.] Foreign Allaire. VIENNA, Sepr. 12 WE iearn by letters From Semlin, dated the 4th inlt, that the Turkish inhabitants of Belgrade, who had withdrawn from ibence during the war, after having afieuibled to the number of 2000 men near Se mendiia, and provided themfielves in their route with cannon, on the gilloflart: month marched under the command ofCarra HafTan before Belgrade, where they fummaned the Pacha to grant them a free entrance into the city, and to re- establish them in their former polfeffions. Their demand having been refufed, they prepared to obtain it by force. On the morning of the 3d of this month they aflaulted the city, and obliged the Pacha to retire with his garrison iiw» citadel, which, at the de- parture of the courier, was menac ed by the rebels. FRANKFORT, Sept. 17. The two daughters of the heredi laryPrince ofßaden-Durlach,Loui fa- Maria, aged 1 3 years and a half, and Frederica-Dorothea, aged 1 r years and a half, palled through this city 011 their way to Petersburg ; we are allured that these two princeiTes are dellined as consorts for the two el dest (ons of the grand duke of Ruf lia,Alexander and Conftantine ; that they will complete their education at Petersburg, and that they will be ioftrudied there in the Greek reli gion. PARIS, September The coinmilfioners appointed to fttparintejid tha Royal PriJ'ouets ill the Temple, have informed the Council General of the Com-mons, that three or four hundred people ti'oinetiines assemble in the night, iliear the tower where the king lodg es,-and calling out fometiines Vive It Roi. Meafuree have been taken .by the Council to prevent such af -femblages in future j and tliev have proposed to take frotn the king his red ribband and other insignia of royalty, as feudality which iliey fay ought not to be fuffered. The Cominonsof Paris sent to the Convention an inventory of the sil ver plate found in the lioufes of the brothers of die King. Carobon—•• I mole that all the filler plate found in the different churches, and in the houses of the emigrants, be immediately sent to the mint.".— Decreed. The Commons of Paris wrote to tile Convention, that the three mil lions afligned to them fo r the pur- J)ofe of liquidating notes iflued by the Bank of Aids, were expended, f hey therefore requefled two mil lions more, that they might be ena bled to liquidate the whole of these Dotes. This occasioned a long debate, in which la Croix and Cambon com plained that the Commons of Paris demanded new funds, without (hew ing to what purpose they had appli ed the former grant. Ihe President quitted the Chair, tojultify the Commons, and said, tl\at when their accounts fhoold be '"IpetSed, no caule of blame would be tound againit them. Ln Croix and Chauibon moved, ''that the department ofParis fliould, in three days, give in an account of the purposes to which they had ap plied the three millions formerly granted ; and also a particular ac count of the present Itate of the pri vate Banks of Paris which have il fued noies—Decreed. The Conuniffkijiers of the Execu tive Power wrote from Lille, dated September stating, that the jtlace was regularly besieged ; that Wednesday, D :zmber 5, 175)2. :tu- cccmy wrrf in force, and the garrison very weak, but that ths courage of the soldiers and citizen; gave ihem reaCon to hope that the enemy would be repnlfed. A deputy of the Department of the North declared, that the coiti miffioners were mifinfornied ; for lie knew beyond a doubt, that the garrison confided of s,sooinfantry, and 600 cavalry.—There was no evening fitting this thry. The position of the armies is still the fame, anil the Pruliians are in as much diltrefs as ever. It is well known that there have been private conferences between the Dukeof Brunfwiek, Lucchrfini, and some Frencfy olficers : and it is sup posed these conferences are intend ed to bring about fame accommoda tion between the contending Pow- ei s." General Kcllerman'i Cmnp, Sept. 25. " Since the affair of t lie 20th, no thing has palled between the two armies. They are always in fight of each other. That of the enemy has advanced upon our left ; by which means they occupy the two routes of Chalons and Rheiuis, and have blocked up both these conimu i)ications. They ravage all the neighbouring villages, but they will all loon die of hunger, for the pea l'ants have carried ofFall their cattle. " At present there is a verbal sus pension of hoftilitjes. SomePruflian officers have been to dine wiih Ge nerals Kelieiman and Ounumiier.— M. Heyman, an emigrant officer, at present a Major General in the ser vice of Pruflia, wai among the num ber. 'There have been foine private conferences, bat they have produc ed nothing. The proposals present ed by the Prussians are, that the King fliould be re-eftabliihed. You need not doubt how these were re- ceived " Yesterday the King of Prussia's fir ft Aid de-Camp dined with Geri. Dumourier. His name is Manftrin, when the Nation, and the health of the King of Pruflia, were given as toasts. " A conference was just going to be held, when intelligence arrived that Royalty had been abolished in France by a decree of the National Convention. "All that I can fay is, that the Pruftians are in a deplorable fixa tion—the affair of the 20th has (hewn that the soldiers of "Liberty are fu perlor to those of Despots." Tbe volunteers of the diftri& of Bernay, have fix fine pieces of can non, taken at the battle ot Bergen, from the fame Duke of Brutifwick, who now leads an army in France, and given by Loui-s XV. to the Ma refchal Broglio. Eight hundred Marfeillois, chosen from tbe molt eager patriots in the place, are upon their march to Paris, to replace those gone to the fron tiers of Spain, ana to defend the ca pital. They are provided with pis tols, sabres ahd mufquets, and have each an affignat of five hundred li vres, the gilt of their fellow citi zens. Two hundred horse entirely equipped accompany them. The procurer-Syndic of,the de partment of La Marne, and the Polt- Master, have fled from Chalons, up on perceiving fonie suspicions of their treachery. The tumults at Rouen have sub sided, and thecoirtmiflioners return ed to the National Convention, have declared, that, during their whole journey, they perceived themoft ar dent fyiuptoms of patriotism in the people. The street St. Ann, in Paris, in which Helvetius was born, is order ed to be called the street ol Helve tius. 213 «« unarfimoufly declared by • ! National Convention, in the fit ' '"g°n Tuesday, that '• the French republic is one and indivisible." I he fame evening the aflerably abolithed the high national court of Orleans. Peace is reltored at Or leans by the presence of the coin mifhoners from the National Con vention. M. Cazotre, who was involved in t<he j lans of the court, was con demned and executed in the place de Greve, on Tuesday last. He went to the fcaffold with much fijfnnefs. The bridges of the Marne" have been cut to prevent the Prussian d£ tachments from puffing them for the purpofeof obtaining forage. A lecond convoy of cannons from thefoundery of fndrer, arrived at Paiis on Tuesday night. Jacobin t'iujf, 26 Chabor revived again his motion to bring Louis and his wife to trial and to force the Convention u> or ganize tlie government, and to de- Uroy all intermediary administrati ons between the execuiive power and the people, except the munici palities. It is not the convention ttiat we must petilion for this it is the sovereign of the convention,the people. Let the sovereign order, and their representatives must obey. It has been said, that one miniller cannot correspond with 44,000 mu nicipalities. I inean to propose 80,000 municipalities, to correspond with whom let there be 30 or 40 mi nisters. [Murmurs.] A letter was read from the Abbe Kauchet, juftifying himfelf against thr accufaiions upon which he I.ad been expelled the society, but they persisted in his expulsion. Chabot's motions were resumed, and another very warm debate took place, and again Perion, and his friends who wereprefent, procured the adjournment, without trying their strength in bringing the in flammatory quertions to vote. NATIONAL CONVENTION September 30. Citizens Robert, Mayor ofVancq, and Benier, Re<ftor of that Commu nity, being admitted to the bar, ad dressed the Convention as follows : " Representatives of the French people ; we here addrefsyou in the name of seven or eight hundred ci tizens, to Whom nothing remains but the alhes of their habitations, and their fidelity to the republic, and who, for their attachment to * the laws, have experienced the ven geance of the enemies of liberty. " On Monday, the 24th of this month, the Municipality ofVancq, in the diftric't of Vouzieres, and de partment of Ardennes, received an order in the name of the ci-devant Marshal tie Broglio, coiuinandiiig a body of Emigrants, whose head quar ters were then at Vouzieies, tofup ply his army with provisions. The Municipal Officers faithful to their duty refufed to comply. In the course of the day a second summons was sent, with threats of military execution, and setting fire to the place in cafe of refufal, but the Mu nicipality (till returned their for- mer answer. " In a moment the flames consum ed our whole crop both of wheac Ariel barley, with our barns, stables, horses, and nearly 200 houses which were about a third of the whole number in the place of the Mayor, that of his brother, a deputy ofibe national convention, and the church were also destroyed. " Their rage was not yet Hirisfied they maflacred wi-.hout diltin«fti on, «W men, women, and children "r—'(hey prevented a mother from en- tering her house cof.i\e her thiee children,who perished in ihe flames. They offered a pardon to anv pei foil who would deliver up , f." c Mayor and the Rector, but luckily we found means to lave «iurfei*c<, by routs luikuovvfi to the wonftcfts who are thus ravaging our countiy, " The emigrants faiiated wiih carnage, and covered wit h the blood of their fellow citizens, at length retired ; but they tied to the tairt of their horfen some of the inhabi tants, whom tltey carried off with them to ferye as a trophy of their infamous triumph. " We requelt an aid of 50,000 li vres, to relieve the urgent wains of our community, as rhe loss we have fullained is ettimated at mere than 500,000 livres." On a motion made by M. Lacroix, the convention :lece«J, " t hat t!:t above sum fiiould be aifigned to the Minister of the Home Department to relieve the village of V'ancq, and that it should be taken from the money produced by the sale of ef fects belonging to the Emigrants." A number of members, amonp whom were Cambon, Manuel, ami Collot d'Herbois, moved " that all the effects of Broglio should be im mediately fold." The lull member moved, "that the punishment of death Ihould be inflicted on every Frenchman who fcou)d quit his country, 10 go and inhabit any country now at war with France." A number of other propofitiors were also made, but afer a little discus sion, they were all of them referred to a committee. ACCS'SATIO NS Itt. THE HiClO'i.l On Tuesday, on a proposal made by M. Merlin for alloting a guard to the National Convention fiorn lie eighty-Flnee departments, a long debate arose, of which we (hall only endeavor to give a gtner*l idea. M. Merlin said, that a dictatorial party had been denounced to him in the Aflipmbly ; he demanded to have this party pointed out, that he might poignard the firft man who should arrogate to himfelf the pow er of a dictator. M. Lafource made a very able re ply. He had not fpaken of a dic tator, or a dictatorship ; but he hatd alluded to a dictatorial power, which some men of intrigue and ambition might aim at. At the conclusion of his speech he referred to the au thors of the late dif6rders, and one or two members mentioned M. R6- bercfpierre. M. Oflelin denounced M. Robert fpierre. He accused him of being connedled with several other mem bers of the department ?.f Paris,in,a league for eretfing a tribunitial pow er, that was to role and govern the republic under the name of n Jri umvirat: or diHature. ** - M. Barbareux, a deputy forMar feilles, affirmed, that one 01 Robert fpierre's si tends (M. Pains) had pointed him out to the Marfeilloi* as a proper, and indeed the only person to fill, or at least to head the diftatorfhip ; but they had all ex claimed, " That ha-.ing never bow ed their necks beneath the tyranny of a king, they would not acknow. ledge the despotism of a public ma gistrate." M. Robertfpierre recalled memory of his public fei vices, at a man of letters, and a uieinber of the conftituenr aflembly. He dis avowed every idea of personal am bition ; and at length formally, but rather equivocally, denied tl h» charge. The house [Whole No. 576'.] CONVENTION
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