DECLARATION of the DUKE of BitUNSWICIC. [Read to the French National Convention by M. HRJSSOT.] WHEN their Majeftics, the Emperor and the King of PrufiVa, in confiding to me the command of t'ie armies which thele two allied Sovereigns have caUsed to uiai ch into Fiance, made me the organ of their intention , let forth in the two declarations oi the 25th and 27th of July 1792, their Majeities were far from conceiving the pofTibility of thole scenes of horror, which preceded and brought on tbe imprifonmentof their Majeftics, the King and Oueen of France, and the Royal Family.-— [This gave rile to some murmurs.] [M. Briflot here obJerved, that the only anlwef he should make to this manifefto, was that Gener-d Duinoui ier had it printed and distributed in his army; the good eifefts of ■which were found in the increased courage imd provoked indignation of the soldiers. He proceeded in the reading of it.] Such attrocious a&s, of which nations in the least degree civilized have not yet (hewn an example, were nevertheless not the ex treme bounds, which the audacity of certain £i6tious men, who had contrived to render the people of Paris the blind initruments of their will, had set to their guilty ambition. The fupprellion of all the King's function*, which had been reserved to him by that very conditution, which has been so long cried up as the vow of the whole nation, was the lad crime of the National Aflfembly, which has brought upon France the two dreadful scour ges of war and anarchy. [F»efh murmurs.] BriiTot.—l request silence, if it be only through pity.] To perpetuate these evils, there remained but one step to be taken, which could be dic tated only by that mad spirit, the fatal fore runner of the fall of empires, whicfi has seized upon those men who didinguifh themselves by the title of deputies of the nation, chufen to confirm its lights and happiness, upon the mod fnbftaiitial basis. The fir ft decree which they p.afied in their AflTembly, was the aboli tion of royalty in France ; and the senseless acclamation of a small number of individuals, of whom even several were strangers, claimed the right of overthrowing the judgment of fourteen generations, who have filled the fourteen centuries of the exidence of the "French monarchy. This proceeding at which the enemies of France alone should rejoice, if they fuppoftd that it could have a lading effect, is in direct op position to the firm resolution, which their Ma. jedies the Emperor and the King of Pruflia have £aken, and from which those two allied Sover eigns will never depart, to restore to his Mod Chridian Majedy his liberty, fafety, and royal dignity, or to wreak a judand ftgnal vengeance on those who shall date any longerto violate or infringe upon them. For these reasons, the undersigned declares to the French nation in general, and to each parti cular individual, that their Majcdics, the Empe ror and the Xing of Pruflia, invariably attached 10 the principle of not medling in the interior government of France, (a pealoj laughter) perfid nevertheless to require that his Mod Chridian Majedy, together wuti all the royal family,fhall be immediately fei at libeity, by those who pre sume to keep them imprisoned. Their Majef lies also infid, that the royal dignity in France ihall be, without delay, re-tdablilhed in the per son of Louis XVI. and his fucceflors : (another and louder burjl oj laughter) And further„that this royal dignity (hall be secured from any such af front in future. If the French nation has not entirely lod fight of its true intereds, and if, free in its resolutions, it is desirous of putting a dop quickly to ail tnc calamities of a war, which exposes so many pro vinces to all the evils attendant upon the march of an army, it will not delay an indant to de clare its opinion in favor of the peremptory de mands which I make in the name rheir Ma jedics the Emperor and the King of Pi uflia ; and which, in cafe of a refufal, will inevitably draw down upon this kingdom, hitherto Co flourifh ing, new and more terrible disasters. The part which the French nation may take, in con'eauence of this declaration, will either extinguifli or perpetuate the fatal ef fects of calamitous war, by removing, in the fuppreflion of royalty, the means of re edab lifting and keeping up the ancient connexion between France and the powers of Europe ; or may open the way, by negociation, to the restoration of peace, order and tranquility, which those who call themselves the deposita ries of the national will, are the mod interfil ed to render as prompt as it is neccflary to the kingdom. (Signed) Charles F. Duke of Brunswick Lu NENBL'RG. Head Quarters, at "Hans, Sept. 28, 1792. These papers were referred to the Com mittee of public fafcty. COMBINED ARMIES. PruJJian Head Quaitcrs at Vouliers, Ofluier 1. We have retraced our steps to the place in ■which we were 15 (lays ago. Wc have been 10 days in prelence ot the Ftench army without an aftioo, or a cannon shot on either fide. The "time has*paflVd in negociations. Baron die Brctcuit r epan cd t o Vetd r. 11. 1 o ihisMiniftcr it was, thai the King o; Piufliaand tSic oilier Primes chiefly g.ivc ctfdit, after the tetieat ot M. C,d..-nnt ,to whose bad calcLi !a: iul it a'c imputed, and, as appears, wiih re»ft>n,_ ail the notions hafillv 1 ak.cn up and ili netted, on whici. o' prompt a ( id cheap Incccfs were too rc.idily rmrrlt'ucd. But for it,eft fj|tjc ; ous •ifljiiances, the entraiuc in o a c.mintty planted vith'loiiteir.-s Iruni L 1 it-r m Rutin:, would not have been a: ictnpu <1 ; or it a<. cm p' t'd . would have IICI.II To wttii means. M. ck Rk tcuti •s-a.cheri event< at V.-rdnr, Hpcci.'.llv while the French army wjs furrcunacd aimoft o fides by the alius. CONGRESS. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. WEDNESDAY, December 2s. A bill providing for a reimhurfement,»fra }c*n made of the Bank of the United States, was ta ken into consideration. Mr. Steele moved that the firft feAion be (truck out; this occasioned a debate. Mr. Steele said he made the motion, not that he was opposed to the general object of the bill, but on a persuasion of the bad policy oi borrowing. He remarked, that with refpe&to an individual it had been considered that he was generally in the road to ruin, in proportion to the facility with which he could borrow, and the fame remark would probably apply to pubr lie bodies. He had an aversion to the whole fyllem of borrowing; he had therefore made the motion in order to try the principle, how far we were to proceed, and ia hope# that a more full difcufiion of the would pro- duce an abandoning of such a fyflem. Mr. Madison enquired whether any informa tion had been received if» consequence of the re solution passed or\,Monday, directing the Secre tary of theTreafury to report the date of the fo reign loans. The Speaker said, he supposed the time had not admitted of any return from the Secretary. Mr. Madison then said, he should bfc to be informed what were the difadvamages whj*.h would accrue from defering the bufiuefs a few days. If it should appear that any lot's would oc cur, or the credit of the government fuffer, he should mod heartily agree to proceed in the bill; but as it did not appear that this wis the cafe, and much important information was want ing, he hoped that no precipitation would take place. . Mr. Sedgwick replied to Mr. Madison; he adverted to an exiding date of fa&s, in relation to a sum of money now laying tifelefs, but ap propriated for a fpccial purpose—he observed, that one objedt of the bill was for the govern ment to avail itfelf of this sum, by making a a loan at a less rate of intered than a now paid to the Bank of the United States.— The design, said Mr. Sedgwick, is not the gentleman from North Carolina has said, to e»- crease the debts of the United States, bu&to di minish those debts, and this has been the cafe in refpeii to every loan that has been made since the exidence of the present government. Mr. Madison observed, that he had heard no thing to induce him to suppose that any rtecefli ty exided for a loan for the purpose of y the. hill— *It is dated that there is a sum of money laying useless : he knew, he said, of no motives df deli cacy or propriety which should prevent tfie ap plication of this money to paying the loan made of the Bank of the United States. If anV iuch reasons existed, he was ignorant of thenl, and therefore Ihouldbe glad of further information : he supposed he was not alone in this refpeA ; many of the members, he believed, were equal ly in the dark with himfelf. Mr. Baldwin, after adverting to the several aAs authorising loans, inferred from their amount their appropriations, and the surplus of thole loans now on hand, that there was no neceflity for a new loan to discharge the loan made of the Bank of the United States. Mr. Gerry gave an account of the several loans, the obje&s to' which they are appropria ted, and from this statement ftiewed that there was no such surplus as the gentleman stated, to be-applied to the present object without inter fering with appropriations already made Mr. Gerry observed, that the design of the bill was, not to increase the debts of the United States, it is simply to provide for diminilhlng'lhfe inte rest now paid on a debt due from the govern ment —That this will be the operation of the proposed loan was demonstrable; and (in this principle the bill is moll extremely eligible. Mr. Williamfon said he hadjnard one substitute hinted at, for the fe&ion propfcfed to be struck out ; and he fliould not vote for strik ing out, for that. He fliewed that the felling of the (lock in the Bank, belonging to the United States, would have a most inauspicious effeA— It would fall into the hands of foreigners; he could have wiftied rather that the United States owned the whole of the ilock. He doubted whether the government could, in juftijre and found policy such a sale of flock as to- af fe& the value of the property, as fubfcijiptions from individuals arose in part from the govern ment being interefled; it would operate some thing like an ex poll fa&o law. He - added 1 some remarks, to Ihew that <no hnmediatb neces sity exilled for a new loan—he thought we could do without one at present. Mr. Madison replied to Mr. Williamfon—he remarked that this was the firft time |ie had ever heard it intimated, that the property of the United States, in the Bank, was unalienable — with refpe'dl to the money appropriated, and now laying useless, he was of opinion that it ought immediately to be applied to the original purpose, i.e. to pay our debt tp France. lie tho't that now was the time to discharge our obliga tions to that country ; and To far was he from confulering the present poilure of affairs as a reason tor withholding payment —he could ra ther wilh that the fumdue was wafted to them on the wi»gs of the wind. He added, that if he was arguing from miflaken principles,, he Vihed to be set right. But the reason for | -withholding payment from our generous allies -2 46- ic did not thijik fufficient: the ittfori fuggeft ■d was that the United States, by paying the i money at the present time, might be liable to ~y it again, in cale of change in the govern ment of France. .. Mr. Giles denied the necessity and the policy of making a loan of two million of dollars, to provide for the payment of an inftalmen 100,000 dollars to the Bank of the U btates He {hewed by an induction of particulars, that it was at lead extremely problematical whether there would be any saving by a loan at J per cent, when the charges and douceurs were taken into the account. At least, said he, it wi re quire a considerable time to elapse before the profits talked of will begm to accruc. On the whole, considering the imperfect ttateof the in formation in possession of the House, receding the loans already made, their amount and appli cation,-he thought tfie business Ihould be post poned : he therefore proposed a resolution, re quiring from the Secretary of the Treasury, a more particular statement of fads, refpeSmg all foreign loans, than was required by the reiolu tian of Monday. . Mr. Findley obferved—from the various sur mises which had been made in the House, he feared there was a general want of information, in refped to the whole business; and therefore was in favor of the bill's laying over till the re quifite information was obtained. For his part, he never would vote for the clause till this in formation was received; and if the bill is not postponed, he ihould vote for ftrikmg out the feition. . , Mr. Boudinot remarked, that as the United States need the sum now to be proviued for, and were paying an interest at 6 per cent, the only question was, whether we (hall borrow a sum at S percent, to pay it off, and thereby make a saving of 20,000 dollars annually, er continue to pay the 6 per cent. He remarked, that the only objeaion which had been mentioned, was that which had been offered by the fefitfcmSn from Virginia, that little or no saving would be made, owing to the douceur, charges, &c.— Mr. Boudinot said, that it must be understood, that 5 per cent, includes the charges. Mr. Fitzfimons observed, that the gentleman who had brought forward the motion, had (aid he did it to try the principle, whether we were I to go on with the pernicious practice of loans.-— Mr. Fitzfimons said he did not think that this would try the principle. None of the loans mad? by the present government have added to the debt of the United States; they were all made to discharge other loans, and have been so applied to the great benefit of the Country — and this is the objed of the loan nlw proposed to be made.—Mr Fitzfimons stated sundry par ticulars, to shew that a loan at 5 per cent, would in the present cafe be an annual saving to the United States of 16,000 dollars per annum; even calculating on the douceur, stated by the gentleman from Virginia, which is the highest that has ever been mentioned.—Mr. Fitzfimons added I'ome obserVations refpe&ing the neceility of making immediate provision, as the<biftal ment became due next week. Mr. Madison adverted to the different grounds on which the bill had been advocated; and now the support was narrowed down to the firnple idea of the exigency of making immediate pro vision for the mflalment. He hoped, therefore, that the bill would not be precipitated, but lay on the table for further consideration. Mr. Dayton opposed the bill's laying on the table. Mr. Steele offered sundry reasons to induce a postponement. • Mr. Venable observed, that according to the statement which had been mentioned of the dou ceur on foreign loans, the United States in the firft i»ftance would encreafe their debt by bor rowing at- 5 percent, to pay off loans on-which , 6 per cent, was now paid : it would require a number of years to elapse before they would be gin to realize any advantage; so that at this mo ment the debt of the United States were in fad encreafed by the loans already made—and it would take four years to place the country in exaitly the fame ilate in which it now is, in re lation to the loan of the Bank of the United States, in cafe a foreign loan at 5 per cent, is now made to pay the bank. Some observations were made in opposition to Mr. Venable, in which it was asserted that the advantage of the proposed loan would be gin immediately to accrue to the United States. Mr. Steele's motion was at length determined in the negative by ayes and noes, which are as follows: Mess. A<hej Baldwin, Findley, Giles, Greenup, Grove, Lee, Madison, Moore, Mess. Ames, Ben son, Barnwell, Boudinot, S. Bourne, B Bourn, Dayton, Fitzfiraons, Gerry, Gilman, Goodhue, Gordon, Griffin, Hartley, Hillhoufe, Huger, Jacobs, Mr. Madison then moved to strike out of the firft fe<stion, the words two millions, and insert two hundred /.Sciz/Wi, before the word 1 dollars.* AYES. MelT. Parlcer, Schoonmaker, I. Smith, Steele, St urges, Sumpter, Tredwell, Venable. NOES. MeiT. Key, Kitchelb, Kittera, Learned, Livermore, Murray, Milledce, Niles, Sedgwick, Sylvester, W. Smith, Thatcher, Tucker, Wadfworth, White, Williamfon, Willis. 34 The Ayes arid Noes being otto motion, are asicllnw : AYES. Mess. Aihe, Baldwin, Findley, Giles, Greenup, Gregg, Griffin, Grove, Key, Kitchell, I.ee, Madifoiv, ■Millcge, Moere, N 0 Mess. Ames, ■ Barnwell, Ben fun, Jacobs, Doudinot, Kittera, S. Bourne, Learned^ B. Bourn, Leonard, Dayton, J'ivcrmor^ Fitzfimons, Murray, Gerry, Sedgwick, Gilman, W. Smith, Goodhue, Sylvcller, Gordon, Thatcher, Hartley, Wadfworth. ai The Speaker voting in this cafe in the ncga-- ive, the motion was loft. Amotion by Mr. Williamfon, to amend the fe&ion by adding a clause, to reftri# the pre mium on the loan, to 5 per eent. per annum, including all charges, was.unaninionfly agreed to and thcnHoufe the adjourned. MONDAY, Dec. 31, Mr. B. Bourn presented the petition of the corporation .of ColLy, yayttig reparation for the damages done to said College during the war, by the Americauand French a rmies* and for rent for the fame—the College wa# alternately used a- a barrack and an hospital to the said armies Read and refer red to the Secretary of the Treasury. Mr. Thatcher presented the petition of Isaiah Thomas, Printer, of Worcester, in MafTachu fetts, praying that the article of Printing Types imported from Europe, may be exempted front duty ; and that bonds given by the petitioned for the duty on a large quantity of Types im ported by him, may be cancelled. Read and referred to the Secretary of the Treasury. A bill to amend an a«sl entitled, an a& for e ftabling a mint, and regu'ating the coins of the United States, so far as refpe&s the coinage of copper ; reported by, Mr. Williamfon,read twice, and referred to a committee of thef whole for to-morrow. The bill to ascertain the fees deman 'al)le on cases of admiralty proceedings in the courts of the UnitetlStates, &c. was brought in engrav ed, read the third time, the blanks filled up. Qn the queltion, Shall the bill pass ? Mr. said the bill appeared to him to be efientially defective ; one leg was cut away, and it limped very badly on the other; he wished therefore it (hould not pass. He wished that the judiciary fyflem (hould be generally a mended ; this uas the desire of his constituents, who, under the regulations now existing were exposed to innumerable difficulties; and with relpe& to seizures, they had almost ceased, ow ing to the perplexities thrown in the way, by the regulations of the courts of the U. States. Mr. W. Smith acknowledged that the bill was not so good an one as he could have wished —-he remarked that he could not conceive how any thing could limp on one leg. But its mutl? lated state, said he, may be attributed to the gentleman who now opposes its passage. Mr. Smith said, the gentleman had not, in his opini on, give any fufficient reason against its pac- ing. He further remarked, that it originated oft a petition from upwards of 60 refpe&able mer chants of the city of Charleston, who complain ed of the enormous fees they were fubje& to in that state. Their petition has been thought just and reasonable. The hill will afford them re lief, without doing injury to any other parts of the union. He hoped, therefore, that the bill might pass, as a temporary relief, until a gene ral revision of the judiciary fvftem, (hall tal;e place. No further observations being the bill was passed. The report of a feledl committee on the pe tition of the inhabitants of Vincennes, praying to be released from the expences of re-surveying their lands, was read, which was in favour of the petitioners ; the report was accepted, and t committee appointed'to report a ht\K * Mr. Gerry presented the memorial of the offi cers of the Maflachufetts line of the late army, in behalf of themselves and the privates of the said army. Read and laid on the table. Mr. White called up a motion which he laid on the table, on Friday last, which was, that a committee be appointed to prepnre and report a bill co explain the a& eftablifhingthe courts ol the United States, in refpe& to taking bail in criminal cases. This motion being agreed to, Mr. White. Mr. W. Smith, and Mr. J. Smith, were ap* pointed as the committee. Mr. Goodhue, from the committee appointee for the purpoft,reported a bill relative toda*** l ' against the United States, not barred by any of limitation, and which have not already Veer adjusted. Read twice, and committed for Tfiurf day next. Ordered that 100 copies be printed In committee of the whole, on the bill makiuj appropriations for the year 1793. Mr. Sedgwick in the Chair, The committee made some amendments; then rose, and reported progress. On motion the committee of the whole was difchaTged, an* the bill recommitted to the felevSfc committer which reported it. tiiit i . Mill'. Nile! Parker, bchoci.-.maker, I. Smith, Steele, Stur^cs, Sumpter,' litSdwiH, T utker, Vcnuble, White, Williamfon, Willis. 3j, Mcfl. h «^ * vv
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