rare, citizens, that our indignation be hot lott to the public. Whoever reflects upon what pafles, has rea son to laineut how many persons suspect and detelt, who, if they were acquainted, would mutually esteem each other. Here men, the mod oppolite, equally wilh well to free dom j however, they mutually re gard one another with an air of sus picion. [A Member here called out, in a time like the present, the feeble ought to be silent, and leave to the more courageous to speak.] 1 do not believe, continued Petion, that this discourse is addreii'ed to me. [Several voices called—it is.] It is not, relumed Pet ion, an alli ance between the friends of liberty and thofeoftyranny which 1 lie/ire ; the alliance is impossible ; 1 demand freedom of opinion, tranquility and confidence ; I demand that there be no denunciation without proof. If there is any man in this Aflembly, who can advance againlt me any thing, at which a man of honor ought to bluih, let hint advance—l dare him to the aflertion." Talien—" You are reproached ■with having insulted Pelletier in your printed opinion." Thuiiat—" Qn the second of Sep tember, the Legillative Aflembly feirt a deputation of twelve mem bers, of whom I was one, to the Mayor of Paris : we remained till ■two •'clock in the morning, without Petion informing us one word of wbat was passing.'' - Collot d'Herbois—" I reproach yoti, Petion, with having calumni ated in a printed opinion, the Elec toral Aflembly of Paris ; of having printed a thousand faMhoods, in which J would have detetfied you, if I had not b«en absent upon acom tniffion. You are a vile slanderer." Petion—" I am fatisfied that the system of calumny levelled agsinft me discloses itfelf in a manner equal ly open and (candalous. I have not ft>r feyeral days mounted the tri bune. For a whole week, he who has perhaps done some services to the city of Paris is threatened with losing his head. 1 declare for the iirft and last time, that I have often exposed tnyfelf for the public, and that I wijl do it still. Astothefaft citcd by Tburiot, I am aftoniflied that he did not mention all the cir cumstances before the deputation reached my house; the mifchief was irreparable and already known to all the world. The fatft quoted by Collot is equally incorrect. I have not printed vague calumnies, my opinions still remain. Collot may attack them. There are still other accusations to be made against roe ; 1 know that two members of this Aflembly have been fufficiently abandoned to spread a horrid re port ; I expect irom them a denun ciation without fear, Returning to the still more important difcullion, in which we are engaged, I vote a gainst visiting private houses, calcu lated to terrify the inhabitants of a city already deserted." PROCLAMATION Of theProvifional Executive Council, January 20, 1793, Second Year of the Republic. The ProvifionalExecutive Council deliberating on the mealures to be taken for the execution of the de crees of the National Convention of the ijth, 17th, 19th and 20th of Ja nuary, j 793, enacts the following regulations : irt. Theexecution of the sentence ©f Louis Capet, fliall take place to morrow (the 21 ft of January.) 2d. The place of execution, fliall be L a Place de la Revolution, ci-de vant Louis XV. between the Pedcf tal and the Champs Elifees. 3d. Louis Capet fliall set out from the Temple at 8 o'clock in the morn ing, so that the execution (hall take place at noon, - —* — 4th. The Commjlfioners of the Department of Paris, the Commif lionecs of the Municipality, and members of the criminal tribunal, jhall assist at the execmion, the Se cretary Regifler fliall draw up the minutes, and she said Comniiflionei s and members of the tribunal, as Coon as the execution is over, (hall come to give an account to the Council, wbo" fliall continue in a state of per nianent fitting, during tlie whole day. By the Provisional Executive Council, ROLASD, CLAVIERE, MOUSE, LE BRUN, GARAT, PACHE. The Proclamation of the Provisi onal Executive Council, relativi to his execution, bad hardly been no tified to Louis before he requeued perniiffion to confer with his family. The commiSsioners testifying tlcir embarraftinent at this requett, jro pofed to hiin that his family lhould be brought into his apartment, to which he agreed. His wife, hiifif ter, and his children accordingly came to bim and they conferred together in the room in which fie was accudomed to dine. This in terview laded two hours and An half; their conversation was tery earned. We may conceive what must haTe been the nature of .the scene—but a narrative of it is impoflible, for we do not take rhe Commil{ionei;s { of the Commune to be very faitbfol or very feeling historians. Rumour, however fays, that the Queen had been for lome days ip a (late of dif fraction—that at times her mind was totally absent, and fliewastobe roused from lethargy to a sense of her sorrows. All that we can fay upon this authority is, that the King, after this interview, waited for. his fuinmons without the least symp tom of dismay. The King wiflied to cut off Hs hair; fciflars were refufed him— they took away his knife.—" Fools! (said he) to think I would bafelf turn my hand againft'my own life ! His famijy asked, whether the' might not fee him again in the morning? to this he made no an swer, and Madam Elizabeth saw liin no more. Louis cried out of hit chamber, " Oh the murderers ! th< murderers !" Addreffingherfelf to their fon,An> toineite fa id—" Learn by the uilf fortunes of yonr father, not to » venge his death The Princess, whose critical age, joined with her fuffei ings, had bi o'l her into the inoft pitiable state, re ceived, as we understand from one of the Paris Journals, the facramert on the fame day ; and ber life was despaired of. Our readers will raj* that we can only give these parti culars on questionable authority. Arrived at the fatal fpor, the un fortunate monarch mounted the fcaffold alone, tlie Commilfioners, the Mayor, and even his Confeffor, remained at the foot of it. He had on nothing but a white under waift coar, his neck and bread open, and his hair rolled up as the Abbes wear theirs. As he placed himfelf upon the Guillotine, he raid, " I commit n>y foul to God." LONDON, Jan. 38, The purport of the commnnicatir. on fro,m the Spanish Envoy, whiph ilie French Convention refuted to hear, before pronouncing sentence on the late King, was to entreat the Convention to suspend the judgment of Louis 5 and to offer,if the Envoy were allowed time, to fend a couri er to Madrid, to obtain a promise from the King of Spain of becoming a Mediator between France and her enemies, and to engage them tpdif arm and acknowledge the Republic, on condition that the life of the head of the house of Bourbon should be saved. Thomas Paine, it is said, had po fnive inltru&ions from President Washington, in America, Co infill on the fafety of the King's person, and that if the French would not permit him to remain in France, to. fend him there, as they could not forget the kindness be had fliewp , them. .At Lyons, a few days part, twelve Priests were beheaded. One of them made a temporary efc pe, by run ning into a river ; hut was dragged out and inftyijtly executed. Letters from Madrid, of the 7th inft announce the intelligence, that 20 fliips of the line and ten frigates are ordered to be got ready, with all pollibls expedition. 358 Philadelphia, April 10. The Roebuck Britijh Packet, for Fe bruary, arrived at New York lafl Friday—l he litters and papers by her, were received at the PoJI-Office Saturday evening. The J allowing is an yfbjfraii of European Intelligence ctntained in the Britijh prints, to the \t,th February. THE King of Prufiia has fentan army into Poland in three divisions, which are to form a cordon—the whole under the command of General Mollendorf. The object nl" lhi» ar mament, according to the King's declara tion, is to prevent the propagation of French Democracy—for it Teems that clubs and revo lution focittfes have been eftablilhed theie, wko make open profelfion of their' principles, notwithstanding all that the Empress has done to counteract th«m. The Prufiians entered Poland about the end of January. The prin cipality of Monaco, has thrown off its allegi ance to its Prince, and thrown itfelf on the protection of France. Paris account' fay— " Gen. Bpurnonville is appointed Minister at War—Of 600 votes, he had 356. Dumou rier had one only. It was decreed the 2d, Feb. by the Conven tion, that bounties and recompences Ihall be granted to the corsairs who lhall bring into the ports of the republic, the enemy's vefijels hiden with provisions, and other ufeful ar ticles. The Convention daily exprefles its appre hension of new aflaflinations. They seem to entertain no doubt of plots being 011 foot to revenge the death of their murdered King ; and the War they now wage, may in this light be considered as a meafisre of policy, tending to ensure their own personal (afety. It has been determined to address the En glish and Dutch nations. Citizen Chambon, Mayor of Paris, has re fignedtbat appointment to the Council Gene ral, under pretext of bad health. The National Convention has palled a De cree to authorize their Generals to execute all the Decrees of the Convention in tlio'e countries where their armies are, as well as in those into which they may hereafter enter. Paris, who stabbed the Deputy Pelletier, was taken at Forges; at the moment «fl)is apprelienlion, he blew out liis brains with a pistol." On the 13th of January, the pedple of Rome maflacred Bafleville, Secretary of Legation l from the French Republic ; the house of a French Banker, and the Academy belonging to the Nation, were burned. On the follow, ing day, the quarter inhabited by the jews was attempted to b4 set on fire : they weri supposed tobc friendly to the French Revo- iution. The Convention is determined to execute a summary vengeance on the inhabitants of Rome, on account of the above tranfaftions. The Marine Minister is charged to explore the Forests of Corsica, and to transport all the wood he can find to Toulon. Eight hundred millions of Aflignats are to be created. The Minister of Justice has twenty five millions at his diTpofal, for the purchase of corn in Foreign Markets. The Court of Spain has engaged to afiift Grteat Britain. A French veflel captured a Dover packet-boat.—The crew of a French gnn-boat landed on the coast of England, and pillaged a house, the beginning of February. The William Penn and George Bar clay failed from Gravefend on the 1 ith of Fe bruary. An attack on Jersey and Guernsey was much feared. English stocks declining at the date of the last accounts. Several ships reported to have been captured by the French. Orders were given for fix frigates to fail from Plymouth and Portsmouth, to cruize in the channel for the fafety of homeward bound fht£>s. Dumourier, it is thought, will firft attack Maeftricht. Lord Auckland promised the afliftance of 12,000 Engliih troops to Holland within eight days after the requisition. Du mourier arrived at Antwerp on the 2d of Fe bruary. The Poles at Warsaw a"e resolved to oppose the entrance of the P ruffians by open force. It is reported that the Prussians on the 24th of January, in vetted the city of Thorn, and forced the gates. That Choczim will be Of fered to the Turks, on condition that they reject the new French Minister. On the person of Paris, the affaflin of Pel letier, who shot himfelf when taken, a paper was found to the following effect: u Molest no one, I was alone the fortunate execu tioner of the villain Pelletier, I had tasked myfell to a yet nobler action, the rcgicide, the pat'icide, thp parricide Egalite should have fallen by my hand Molest no one, the French are now a nation of savage coward l ; ! I leave them with these lines (in poetry,which piay be thus tramlated) Ye people, (tamped with unprecedented crimes, with calmness, with pleasure I abandon life and you. It is only with death that I escape the imputation ot that infamy, which is written in the fore heads of all Frenchmen with the blood of their King." This paper is signed Paris the elder, late guard of the King, murdered bv his people. An a&iou took place at Aix ta-Chapelle in January, between the French under General Bournonviiie, and she Auftrians untfev Gene ral Clairfajt—the fotmer it is fald loft I2DO men, and rhe Anftnans 15-). Tranquility js entirely reiiored at Stock holm, by the mild meafiires of the Regent. - - - > N N i> T.ie Br.tiß, iJoiift ct Common, mourning f„ t rtS laf*K. .?° Orey » f.«| be H* W)ly not. ' *» md footed five years imprifoment, the term f 7 which lie wa, confine''., was hrm,,*. . Conrt by the keeper *f *ZVj "SU"] b»l for hi s f„u,re good c. A , ,;, d r .t h,s being difrharged— !mt tl e C,,,* „ 0 , co ftdering the bail fufficie.it, lie w. s re ! Tl back to prison. ' s """'"id By the proceeding, of the National r n „„. "on, of,he I2d January, « t tw„ depot es Irora Frankfort wlere kt V,' berty. The Diplomatic toi,„ ]iim . repoi ted that the phargv* Hjuinft the ...i . tuts aOYankfort bad tot bj t ed, nor the law of nation, violated >>» tw»" kerfauir, Manuel, DuftJli a*tx and'RoW " ,the All the play house? in Pari, were opered .. usual on the night of that day i„ which L us ' 16 was beheaded. " The report of the diflraftion of t ), e O lie .„ of France isxontradifled by the author*?" Pans. At the request of the Oueen therom he r'fo m ° Urni " g ,or fcer «"< in all the Roman Catholic Chapels in Lo„ the congregations were almqll univeifaily in deep mourning. ' The London Gazette ofFebruir* ir ~l tains an order in council for fliips, property, and fatjeftj of The French National Convention' h ,w pafled a decree for augmenting their to 502,000 men. Meflxs. Condo'-cet, Paine, and Barbaras were appointed the committee to <Jiaw address to the ncnnle t i-'|i ' The Ruffian Mioifter at Coblenti lia- for ma'lly recognized Monsieuk, the eldcff h'o tber of the late King, as Regent of F ance. Great commotions prevail in I, eland which It is feared will not terminate without fatal confeqnences. A National Convention i' the great topic of cocrerfaria'n. In the Britilh House of Common! a warm debate took place on the'Jii ft of Febriurv— in which Mr. Fox reprobated the confede. racy against France, and the policy of tar war on the part of Great-Britain. Some of the Britilh prints (late, that the sailors had armed themselves, and were de termined to oppose the press-gangs at the risk of their lives—other accounts contradict this. EwnfcM* w,, born Augnft 23, 1754—he began h,s reign S , 1?74 , au() rei d 10 years and 3 months, recin...; n£fo tf, f f August, 1792 —on the 14th of which montii he was imprisoned. The French fleet in the Mediterranean, under M. Trugnet, was dispersed in a violent storm, ar.d much damaged—the ihip, of 80 guns, escaped, difinafted, into (he" bay of Naples—aud two other (hips of tke line were loft. A war between Rnffia and the Porte Wcon fidentially talked of. General Dumonrier has resolved to plant the Twe of Liberty in Arafterdam and London this fprin<» nnd summer. The bank of Amfterd*m contains three mil*. Hons fteiling, the exclufjve property of the Dutch. The aflignats in France are now at the ex change of fourteen 3 eighths; or in other terms, four-pence farthing English will purchase half a . crown of Frcnch money. Lloyd, the attorney J flood in the pillory U the Royal Exchange, for one hour, purfuaht to his sentence in the Court of King's Bench, for flicking up inflammatory bill* on the watts of the Fleet prison. The Lords Laofdown, Lauderdale and Derby, have entered a protcft against the war wiib France. On the 21ft January the Frcnch fleet, confid ing of 44 fail, appeared on the coast of Sardi nia, not far from Cagliari, and endeavored nfioi debark. The 1 (landers allowed about 1509 '0- 7 land, who, on coming ashore began the air, C* ira ; these formed the line of battle, and the 1-ft were about to Follow them, when a great num ber of the Sardinians descended from the moun tains, and attacked them. In Jcfs than half an hour, these 1500 men were killed or madepri foners. The Iflandersthen pointed their einii against their ships, and kept up such a quick fire, as obliged them to retire to a distance fiop shore. Lord Hood is appointed to command thr Biitifh fleet, ordered to the Mediterianeau, and •Lord Howe to command the channel flet. The Duke of Clarence is created an Admtr?:, to serve under Lord Ho#c. The Duke of YotV is to command the Hanoverian forces defti-nfd to act with the combined army against France. Prince Ernest son) to serve under the puke of York. The Prince of Wales is appointed to the command of the toth regiment of dragoons. Five of his Britannic Ma jetty's sons arc now in the naval and military service. The armaments go on with great vigour. In London wheat was $f] per bu file I, and in the counties 4/11. A letter from Dublih T dated the 30th januirv, fays—** The Catholics, lam happy to inform you, are to be" partakers of our excellent const:- tution without any exception. On this or u- Son every liberal heart fcems to be filled wikb joy." Col, Joseph Neville ij* ele&ed a Reprefinfa tive in Cnngre fs tor the Counties of Hampft' rc » Hardy, &c. Slate of Virginia.—This comply* the delegation from that State—eighteen n-me* having been already publifiieH. A duel was fought the 23d ult. 3t ville, between Mr. Jennifer and Mr. Oal&* way, two officers of the arroy-*thc lattw. <pa ' : kiJled.
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