know any thing more of Hi* private character, than that hit morals are good, and his foul truly honorable and honed. I view him only as a public man. Remote fiom public (cenef, devoid of ambition, with but little, yet witnout a want, my life passes fwpetly, sometimes rru>ft delici 01.fly in the alienate exercifes'of Audy, recrea ton and domestic endearments. This declara tion is due to thole who fee how high the Secre tary t» in mv esteem. So miich ot me, it may be well to know, that if may be seen, that not only thofc under the influence of government, but many who derive nodircft emolument from it—not only the satellites around the throne, our visionaries have themselves created, and now •with noble patrioiiftn attack —but multitudes in every pars of the Union do greatly admire and will Arenuoufly support Our unparalleled constitution' and Our virtuous administration.— No, Mr. Fenno, it is not by the minions of power •nly, as they have been maliciously ftiled, that administration is approved. Such an inlidious and unjust refle&ion has at length overcome my pait relu&ance, and has induced one to publish his fentimenis, whose situation in life would, if known, be a faiire upon the suggestion of his being dircflly benefited by, or conne&ed wiih government. Bent filed by it we all are—sos it is the fountain of our political comfort: con t.cfled we all are, with it, as the body and limbs are conneffed with the head. Chiefly a love to others, a defuc to make fomc return amidst too much popular ingratitude to those who are waiting their strength for me and my children, together with at the imprudence, if nothing worse, in some pub lic characters, have excited me to transmit my thoughts to you for publication; and I verily believe, tho' I sometimes meet with the jealous and wilh fomr who call your's a ministerial paper, the great majority of the people will join me in what I am now uttering, and do coincide with the current sentiments of your Gazette.— The enemies of our peace would have their af feitions disproved, would be overwhelmed with a jtjft indignation, if the thinking and upright part of th« community, at a diflance from, as well a« at the featof goveriimont, w«re to publish, as I now do, their sentiments and their feelings refpeCling our public men and their measures. I judge of the Secretary from a careful perusal of his official productions, and a careful attention to his official condutt. The prefent,l deem an important asra ; and while I leave a G—s to that praise and gratitude which some may halten to give him, I would strive to bripg my fellow, citizens to a just appreciation of the merit of Mr. Hamilton —of that merit which the late accusations have made not merely conspicuous, but truly resplendent Let then confidence in him be henceforth unshaken ; and let the federal measures, of which he is the reputed auihor, be hencefoith considered as largely partaking of his ■wildom, energy, order and ufefulncfs. A CITIZEN. Foreign Intelligence. FRANCE. NATIONAL CONVENTION Monday, February 4. A DEPUTATION from the fac tion des Lombardes prerentcd an address, thanking the Convention for having struck off .the head of the tyrant, r >d for having declared war againlt Great- Britain and Hol land. They proposed that ' each municipality should be obliged to furniih a horseman mounted and equipped. This address was order ed to be printed, and referred to the committee of general defence. Tuesday, February 5 A petition was received from the people of Ghent, requesting that they might be united to France. A petition wasalfo received from the friends of Liberty at Bruff'els, requelting that Bruflels might be u jiited 10 the French Republic. Both these petitions were referred to the Diplomatic Committee. General Bournonville appeared at the bar, and delivered a speech on bis being appointed Minister at War. " There exist great evils," said he, " which are the result of past infidelity. Great remediesare necessary, and the time is fliort. It is only by multiplying our means and efforts that we can triumph over those obflacles which oppose our success. The armies wilh only to conquer. Give them proper sup port, and we (hall 'soon reach that equality, liberty, and happiness, which oughr to be the obje<ft of our Minister m War. I accept this im portant office with a resolution of returning to fight against the enemies of my country, with the brave soldiers I have quitted, if after all my efforts I cannot accom pliih that end which you propose." PARIS, February n " To the Editors ofal) thejournals STRUCK with horror, I de clare as a plain French Citizen,that in my opinion, the sentence of the National Convention which con. demns to death the ci-devant Louis XVI. is an infamors iniquity. I think that the public will might free me si ora the obligation of that oath which attaches me t6 the Con stitution, but to aJt contrary to my oath, would only be perjury. I re monstrate against the impunity of the niaff'acrea of the month of Sep tember. <« What I have here faid,my con science tells nie, is a duty that I owe the public. I vvilh to transmit it to all my cotemporaries, and from generation to generation to the lat est posterity. " Done at Paris this Thursday " Evening, Jan. 17, 1793- (Signed) "Francis Odrsdi'.hhsle,' " of the Ifleof Rhe." BRUSSELS, Jan. 5 The intelligence of the execution of Louis XVI. has been received here wiih aftoniflinient and horror. It has occaiioued a violent fermen tation in the army ; and desertions begin to be very considerable in consequence of the King's death. This unfortunate event is likewise the fubjedl of animosity and quar rel throughout the army—several affrays have taken place ainongfl: the military, in which some have been killed and wounded. LONDON, Feb. 18. The elctSors of Liege,to the num ber 9,700, were aflembled on the 28th of January, to determine upon their union with the French repub lic, when their new attachment proclaimed throughout the city by the found of a trumpet. The Duke of Brunfwick is resolv ed to make every attempt to efface the stain cafl upon his character as a General. The King of Pruflia has the fame intention. He goes along the ranks of his soldiers, addrefles all the companies, and endeavors to encourage them whom he calls the companions of the Great Frede ric. " Shall these men (fays he) who were accuft'omed to conquer, return with ignominy. Shall the succeeding year pass over without gaining any advantage to honor your bravery ; and fhalj ye. again retire without collecting one sprig, of laurel ? Soldiers ! fuffer not Eu rope to forget that you are Pruffi» ans." The spirit of loyalty has been so much kept up in Wilt/hire, that ire a little village not five miles from Devizes, the Fidler was burnt in effigy becaofc he would not play " God save the King," at the burn ing of Tom Paine, The language of the King of Pruf lia is insulting in the extreme, as he informs the Poles, " That he ch'e rilhes a hope from his pacific mea sures, that his troops will meet with a favorable reception."—How ami ably pacific, when he means to in vade and enslave the country ! if England goes to war for the Bog, to preserve the balance of power, what will Die not do, when a whole country is seized by two despots ? Petitions from every borough in Irelan.d are received by the Irilh parliament, praying for a more e qual representation in parliament. These are received with a degree of attention suitable to their im portance ; and instead of being thrown under the table, as was the cafe in former sessions, they are now referred to a committee, and the consequences will be such as, we trull, this country will not be avei fe to emulate. The portrait of Egalite, in the cblle<slion of the Prince of Wales, is to be removed from the Lumber room at Carleton house, ro any auc tioneer who will knock it down. As a proof of the flourifhing state of the Botany-Bay colony, a letter has been publiftied in several pa pers, flaring that they hare titt itfi inenfe extent of excellent land, but no corn ; palturage in abundance, but no cattle ; and that the climate is wholefume, but the people jickly. A gentleman in office, beingi ask ed why ministers were laviftiing so much upon this settlement, said, it was vety natural for men in perilous fituarions to be providing for a fnvg retreat. The late alarm at Paris, cf an at tempt to renew the horrors of the second oi September, was occasioned by a crowd of idle people, in the court of the Conciergerie, afleinbled 374 to fee the execution of a man con demned for forging aflignats. A woman,callingherfelf the nurse of the late king's daghter, lent a let ter to the commons, praying admis sion to fee her fofter child, and of fering to remain confined in the temple with her as long as tbey fliould think fit. The commons palled to the order of the day, on the ground that the person in whose name the letter was written was not known to them. Ic is somewhat Angular, that one of the most strenuous oppofeis of a general repeal of the laws against the Roman Catholics of Ireland, ihould be the lord chancellor (bitz gibbon) who is the firft of his fami ly that was educated a Proieltant. His father was a Roman Catholic, but conformed, that he might be qualified to pratfi'ce the profefiion of the law. Many, indeed moftof our modern writers on political fubjedis, might with great propriety adopt the lol lowing motto from Smithfon's ami ablenefs of candor and diffidence : " Though I have examined what all other authors have written on this affair with great impartiality, yet I cannot eonceive that any of them have the lead merit ; nor do I find one man that has treated the fubjeift sensibly, except jnyfelf." 1 hat deservedly popular air,' God save the King,' was composed in the reign of George I. by Mr. Carey : and it obviously applies to a warri or and a patriot Sovereign. When firft sung, some parts of it were not understood exactly in the fenfethat they are at present. Thus, ' con found their politics,' alluded to the politics of the pretender and the adherents of the Stuarts, as support ed by the despots of France.—We need (carcely mention, that these were divine, indefeafible rights of Kings, the sacred inviolability of their persons, paflive obedience, non-resistance, &c. with other ex ploded dotSrines, which would hard ly be admitted even at the Crown and Anchor. Portrait of PHILIP EGALITE, Ci-devajit Dukt of Orleans. His whole life has been the scan dal of his age, a swindler and de bauchee in his youth, he eorrupted and destroyed the Prince de Lani balle, hisbrother-in-law,with a view afterwards to accuse, allaflinate, and plunder the Princefs,his wife,whom he stripped of an iminenfe fortune, and reduced to poverty. He carries in his bosom the pesti lential germe of corruption ; and after dishonoring his own bed, he dishonors that of another, and blasts what little remained of the family of the celebrated BufFon, whose daughter he made the instrument of his debauchery. Proprietor of that celebrated gal lery of pictures, collected at a vast expence by his anceltors, who were an honor to France,he has mutilated and dispersed those chef d'oeuvres of art, whose value he had not the talents to appieciate. If he was ever in battle, it was when he hid himfelf upon the ap pearance of the enemy's colours, and acquired the ironical surname of l'Heros d'Ouellant. If he parti cipated in the crimes of the Revo lution it was to fly before la Fay ette, and demonstrate that he was equally the scoundrel and the vil lain. If he made an effort to build the Palace Royale, it was to plunge thousands of families in despair, who had the credulity to entrust him with their property, which was swallowed up in that fraudulent bankruptcy, which he committed with the mod cynical impudence. f hefc ueafures and his fortune have been employed to pay the crimes of the sth of October, the ioih of August, the 2d of Septem ber, and the 21 It of January. Thus has Heaven been lavjfli of its favors, only to lender vice more conspicu ous. He was educated in dignity, that his villainy nnght be more pro' minent ; he was 1 irh and powerful, o«ly that his vires might be more numerous and d-fpifed ; he was fla tioned lu-ar the ! hrone, onl\ to overturn ii ni n,o.e public dis grace, and ,ff er a ten ible lef -1011 to natic « :jd to kings. His friends and hi<t agents were homogenial with himfelf, La Cl 0« the author of the immoral romance' called Les Saifons Dangereufes ■ —Genlis Sillery, a man the mo st deeply perverted in iniquity of any other of the present age, and the hero of the annals of debauchery figured away in his councils, iucoiw junction with that execrable mou (ter and atl.eiftical priest, who at the end of the 18th century jjf. graces the name of Perigord. Adj to these, we may reckon thatgrace lef's wretch La Toitche, and Biron enlarged from an E»gli(h prison.to appear at the head of the armies of the Revolution. Such were the worthy colleague* of Philip Egaliie ; I'uch were his coadjutors in that series of guilt, which wanted only to be completed' by calling to his ailiftance Le Gen dre, the butcher, and the nephew of Damien, Roberfpieri e, and the nialefadiors of every country. Such were his secretaries, his dire&ors, his Chancellors, his familiars, and his bofoni friends ! ! ! Miracles of General Dumourter. The seven Champions of Chris tendom—Guy, Earl of Warwick— St. George and the Dragon—Joan of Arc—Jack the Giant killer, and the Mailer Cat or Puss in Boots, ne ver performed fucli wonders as the mighty Dumourier means to accorn plifh in the eitfuing campaign. He is to make all Belgia tree a gainst the consent ofthe people,and with the discordant voice of unani. mity, force them to confels them selves happy in the midst ofraifery. He is to have a triumphal entry into Amsterdam, make all Dutch men throw off their largt galligas kins, become Sans Culottes, and in dead of fmoaking Canaster, ling cs ira and jig the Marfeillois dance. After disuniting the United States of Holland, emptying the bank, plundering the inhabitants, lending the Dutch fleet to Brest, and laying the Provinces fir ft under contribu tion, and afterwards under water, he is, with the Prince and Princel's of Orange as part of his suite, to throw a bridge offlat-boitomed boats from the Texel to Dover, and march his troops into Great-Britain. During this expedition, the Na tional Convention are to pass a De cree, commanding the winds to cease so that there (hall not be one breath of air to fill the fails of an Engliih ship of war. He is by a new preparation of Philosophical Chemiitry, to petrify the whole Militia of England, stag nate the Patriotic fluid in which the hearts of the people so long ha»« fwam,and transmute the mind of a Briton into that of a Frenchman. He is to plant the tree of Liberty in St. James's Park, (this he averred to Lord Lauderdale when they last dined together) to fend the Royal Family into exile, to wash away all the Coronets in the kingdom, be head all the Bilhops, hang all the other Clergy, make {tables of the Churches and Chapels, dismiss both Hollies of Parliament, elcCt the Con stitutional Societies into a National Convention, make Home Tooke, Prefidem, Mr. Rous, Mayor of Lon don and Westminster, and give the command of the army to Citizen Sen) pie. Having conquered Great-Britain and got polleflion of her ininienfe fleet, he is immediately to f a >' for China, and plant the Tree ot Liberty at Pekin ; tender the Civic Oath to the Mandarins, and make that great Empire an eighty -sixth Departuient to France. In confequeiice of these atcl)ie ve " ments the reft of the world miift im mediately fuhmit ; and this great General having difpoffd of the Empress of Russia's grey hairs, the House of Prussia and Austria, the Kings of Spain, Portugal, &c. & c ' he will return to Paris as Csefar did to Rome, and obtaining a triumph, he will receive a dagger. Such are the suggestions of h' s wild imagination, nncnritrouled by reason, unchecked by probability, and rioting in the idea that ms« 111onld acknowledge no God but lu s own Will.
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