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A NATIONAL PAPER. PITHTISHi ~ 1 —
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[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had withdrawn from ibence during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.
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«« 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