Interview was violent. Dumourier ex pressed himfelf in terms of iriveflire a gainst the Jacobins. " They will ruin France," (aid he : " But I will save it, though they (hould call me a CsefaV, a Cromwell, a Monk." The commission ers carried the conversation no further. They departed, and returned next day, determined to dissemble, in order the bet ter to discover the extent of his views. Encouraged by their overtures, D imou rier no longer kept any bounds. He said that the convention were a herd of ruffi ans, whom he, all, equally, htld in abhor ance. That all the volunteers were pol tioons ; but all their efforts would be ih vain. " A3 for the reft, added lie, "there Hill remain* a party —the Jacobins have only to cover with their bodies the survi vors of the royal family, and to dismiss the convention. If the queen and her children are threatened, I will march to Paris ; it is my fixed intention ; and the convention will not <*xift three week 4 lon ger."—The cortimiffioners asked him by what mt ans he would replacfe the conven tion ? Hisanfwer Was, that meartfcare al ready formed. Do not you wish ro have the constitution ?—A, It is a foof ifh constitution : IfcXpetfled better from Condorcet; the former, with all its iWi peifettions, was preferable.—Do you wish to have a king ?—A. We mtift l>aVe one.—And from What quarter would you take hrm—A. ' Of What fc6ii'fe quence is it whether it be a James, a Lou is, or a Philip ?' It Is a tieW outrage of the Jacobins to call me of the Orleans party.—said Proli, How w6uld ybii contrive to cause your new constitution and your king to be A. 1 have along with me all the Prefidenfs of diftrifts ; besides, I am busied to restore peace to Prance ; I have already entered into a negociation with the prince of Co bourg for an exchange of prisoners ; and for the purpose of withdrawing from Hol land those eighteen battalions who are on the point of being cut off.—Btit your negociations with Cobourg, and the peace which you wish tp procure to Prance, will npt have the effedt to metamorphose republicans intp royalists ? No mat ter. Must I again tell you ? I will be at Paris in three weeks ! and 1 will then be able to prevent them from going on with their projedts of liberty and a republic. Since the battle of.Jemappe, I have wept over my success in so bad a cause. France must have a king.—Q. Do you think we ought to'abandon the French territory to the enemy?— How would you inffial your king A. My army, if I choose, (hall be an army of Mamelukes. With twelve thoiifaiid men 1 will lake Paris, 6r cotrfpel it <0 furfender by famine.— But ridy not yOu, perhaps be ftopt in your proje&s ? A. I defpife'the Con vention'; it Will soon 'be reduced to the Bailiwick of farls. Besides, my hftitfc will soon carry me the AtlftriArrs. They efleem trie ; 'arid I shall be redeited By them. Dubiiißon thHiprppofed to communicate to him a plan of counter revolution A. It is hot practicable. Mine is"better. I mean to'invade Belgi um, of which I will malie the cohqueft for myfeif and of which Twill render my felf chief, under the protection of the House of Auflria !—Here terminated the interview of the commiffioflers. Tfiey quitted Tournay on the fame evening on their return to Paris. It was decreed that acommiffion Iho'iild be formed to examine the conduit of the Belgic cornmlffioners. April 2 A letter was read from the administra tors of Maine and dating, that there was every reason to hope that the insurgents would soon be dispersed, artd that those of them who had been taken had been tried by martial law,"and irrinrtt diately executed. To this letter was ad ded a copy of the examination of one of the < insurgents, named Cartiho, from which it appeared that the insurgents as sumed. the title of the Qhriftian Army, and'that their signal for rallying was Vive le Roi", la Reine, I' Arillocrat ! It was ftattd also, that they had declared for a king—that they at fit (I amounted only to fifty, that they had afterwards encreafed to 12,000, and that they had twenty-five pieces of cannon. Referred to the com mittee of general defence. The. mayor and procureur of the com mune of Saint Arnoud gave an afccount of the difinal situation of that diftrifit for want of provisions. Referred to the com mittee of commerce. Debates refpefting General l)i3mourier. In ihe beting of March 30th, after the convention had decreed that geneial Du* mourier ftould be brought to thi bar. Marat moved, That the minitter at war should remain at Paris, where he would be more ufeful than on the frontier* infpett ing the army of the north. Camus said, that tlie miniftfcr hafd yt?- terday made tw» obje&ions to the com mittee— ill, The neceflny of hit presence at the war-office ; 2nd, The bail Rate of hii health. The committee repf!rt?d, that his health Would allow him to take a journey of seven or eight days to save his country from danger j and that Kis aflift ant would attend to the bofinefr'of the war-office. In the fitting of Aptil id, a nVeAibe'r announced, that several committees had fat aH night to extraA the different plans of confutation sent by the departments. Marat said, it WftTj'ld timfe inough to think of the ionfti'tutiori, when Du mouricr and the other felf chosen states men should be known and punished. Ciroteau moved, t+nrt without regard to the national fibrtftritkllon, and tlie inviolability of members, every member fufpedted of confprracy againit the public fafety, should be pot undlrr aireft. This Was adopted iinanirtioufly. Cambaceres, after reading g&n'c'rkl Du mourier's letters, ancl giving an account of the tonverfation which had passed be twfeen hrm and the commiffiono* at Tdtir najr, concluded the report made by hi/n, in the name of the committee of public fafety, by observing, that there was a grand conspiracy, of which Dilmourier Was the principal agfcrit, and that several persons attached to th"e bbtife of Philip d'Orleans, commonly called Egalite, were vehemently fufpe&ed of being concerned in it. He announced as a measure 'of fafety, that all those supposed to be cOn ne&ed with Oileans, or to wifhfor roy alty, ought "to be apprehended. Philip Egalite himfelf and Sillery would have been apprehended but from refpeft to the national representation, of which they Were members. Being brought before the committee, they both anfweied, that they would consider it as their iluty to submit to whatever precautions the pub. lie liberty might require, 'and invoked ffie mod fcrupurdiis examination of their con du'ft. Several,members wished to speak on the condudt of Dumourier, but it Was ob served, th'at it Wouldbe better to wait till hfs arrival. Danton, however, entered into some explanations of his own con duct, 'and exprefled his indignation'at' tile treachery ofDumourier. Lafource said, that Danton abandoned Dumourier only because he few his perfi dy unmasked. The principitate journies of Danton ; his rffofal to appeir ir. the Committee ; his efforts to raise the'people in a body ; and the immense fuins which he had spent without producing any'ac count, proved clearly that he wis in con cert wirh Dmmbufiir. He moved, that Sillery and Egalite should be put under arrest ; that a commifiion should be form ed, to examine the conduct of the com miffiorters in Belgium ; that the'miniite add/effed by DnbuilTon, Patiryfae, and Paoli, should be printed arid fen: to the army ; and that an address should be pre pared, to explain to the French petiple the misfortunes of their country. Boiteau denounced Fabre d'Eglarttine is having proposed the rc-eftablifhment royalty. Demas moved, that these denunciati ons, which at the present moment might ruin the public liberty, fhanld be referred to, the commifiion proposed by Lafource. —Decreed. Danton—" The patriots'are oppreflcd by the aristocracy. It is meant to mur der them, by making the people believe that they have been tampering in Du mouiier's plot. [He was interrupted by a vehement agitation of the Convention, and afterwards proceeded} You reproach me, you who fit on the Mountain, not exerting all the energy of charadter which nature hath bellowed upon me, You accuse me of weakness. Very well! I confefs my crior, and I proclaim before all France, rhat thofe,who through ftupi pity or weakness meant to withdraw the tyrant from the sword of the law, are the fame men who indulge in the infolept pra&ice of calumny.; I am reproached with not repairing to the committee at the moment of my' return from Belgium Howcould I?—overpowered with fatigue, 420 after palling several liighrs without reft, was it not riatural to yield to this firft call ? Scarce had I obtained a few hours of ripofe A'hfcn I re'paited to the C6m mittee, and I call to witness all who were present, what were my firft words—" Dumourier must he watched. Ditmour itr is a traitor. Diimourie'r has said, lhat the Convention cortfifts of three hundred fools, led by four hundred ruffians." " But t)umourier wilhes for a king, and Danton is fufpefted of having hem his partner in this audacious, this crimi nal idea. Danton, who, if 1 may fay so, ltd the tyiant to the fcaffold. But let us cease to impute to innocence a ciirne. of which these only who had the wicked ness to keep terms with Louis can alone be eaTonably fufpefled.—Thofe who endea voured to exasperate Dumourier the popular societies—Those who wished to punish the civifm of Paris, by arming the departrtfiehtfe iigainft it—Those who at clandestine suppers concerted plans of cotifpiraty with Turn. I defy the triitor to produce a single line of mine that can compromise me with him. If he can, let iny htad pay the forfeit." He con cluded With fir6'po(ihg to levy fifty thou fahd men sot the prote&ion of Paris { and that the Commission above decreed {hould take cognizance of atl the deputies since the opening bf the Convention, and of all publications against the unity of the Re public, &c. Obfelin, from the Committee of Sor reilance, announced that a great number ofdeferters was flocking to Paris. He read a Declaration of the commandant of the light cavalty of Calvados, denouncing Dumourier and his Aid-de-Camp Baptille, formerly his Valet-de Chambre. The Convention passed a decree for apprehend ing at the barriers of Paris all military men who (hould not produce leave of ab sence. Decreed that Baptifle be put utitter at r'ell. SITTING OF THE JACOBINS. Monday, March 25. A vible'TTt debate "arose on the quefti'dn, whether the society ought riot to fend commilfioners chosen from its own mem- ! bers, to accompany those of the Conven tion into the departments. Drtlielrtc said that the fiharic'fs of the jj society in a very deranged state. Marat treated this as a frivolous excuse, ' and said that the society ought to fend ' into the departments trully persons, who \ might fcci'etly fdund the public Opinion. ',j This, added he, would be the Only means to save your emiflaries from th'e poignards • of aflaflins. Bentabolle communicated to the foci ety fhe'bsd ffews leceived fiom Belgium ; 800 millions of expences, and 150,000 men conducted to (laughter. These are the fruits'of all our conquests in the Ne therlands ! Marat.—" Dumourier pretends that : the cause of all our misfortunes ought to be ascribed to the diforganizers who exist in his army ; but thei e are no other difor ganizers except the chiefs whom he him felf has chosen." An administrator of the department of D£tlx Sevres, after mentioning the trou bles by which the ten itoiies of the Repu blic are desolated, cried out, —" Rife, your enemies are in the midst of you crufli them, or they will cru(h you ! The people can only save themselves. Let them, then, it is time ! Remember the icjth of August. March 1 you have not a moment to lose !" Hebert.—" The counter-revolution is in the Convention. Your legislators are your tyrants ; they are in concert with the generals and the executive power.— Let the people then rife. The Conven tion, inltead of saving, mean to betray us." [Several voices from the galleries here cried out, " No more quarter, let us rife and strike !"J Another member.—" Let Us proceed to the Convention. Let the' Mountain be in force, and let it fay to the people, here are your friends, there-are yogr ty- rants. Thia infurre&ian fmift be' the lad, for filch stocks exhaust the machine ; the blood of your enemies mull run in large streams. fame hour, on the farrte day, in aH ;he 'towns," in all the villages, all the haftllets, and in all the cottages throughout the kingdom, the heads of conspirators mud roll in the dult." [Ap plauded with much tranfport.J Wen** resit, March Marat.—■*" Tile prop It of P«fi» OtiMi'.U furrotittd the Cormtitien, and druian4 whether it will of can sara the puM* catlfrj and ought to porfue meuiurei ao cotdiitp; to rile artfwer they may reeeite."* Robetfpi<ri*re.-*-«' The ortly mean* if fatiilg ottrMve* an? t<v dedare war again it dw etiemi<v, si tftey hate delicti war against ua. Let ui remember the I-atlv <>f Aagait. Let ui mn go t« ad; vtie Corvteiftion whether it w<ill five us. Yea, it will, but w* malt fecoud it. I propoJc thsrt, tWat all fcAaighi.il br (smithed, (ill the agents of the cabinets of Vieni*s mk| Bei&i > all firfpe&ed p*rfoß». You will alk me how tbey are to be dift«w«iedf Let a revokitkinacy committee, cbOipofrd (if warm patriots, be eftabhftieH in «»ch fettmn. Baitifh ftttfn theft fediow tti the ci-devanl nobles, prieib, dcc." Af>plau<?*fl. Dufourm propelled, thst Fo difeoter evil-ttinded persons, every landlord thotHa bfe obliged X 6 post up&ti his doore, rt* names of the persons who lodge m their hoiifts, with the time of theft" residence and their occupations." Adopted. Several members proposed differtrM meatures of general fafety, but all agreed on the nece'fiity dFa new infurreftion. Bo [tel.—" As the law is not executed the people mull: dojuftice to fhemtelves." TetafTon.—" When we always speak and never a&, it is no purpose. Let ua begin by diferming the arittocrats, and we (hall afterwards proceed faither. The committer of general defencc is corrupt ed, and the executive council to b< watched ; in the mean time let ua exe cute." [Here the c»icd out Bravo !J A member.—" Datitsn hire been the apologist of Dutnouriw. Let him be called to this b»r, -to wcplain (he reafou of tlle.jfraifesgivento gen. cal; and if he Tefufe, let him b< Mnfi. dered as a trait<t», aw) UteateJj a« faoh." Adopted with much .applause. VinalPs Arithmetic. r 7T > iIE Second Edition of this wo'k, with im- X provements, wilj speedily be put to pe'f». The rtipid br the 'itfhdfs T»ngnr«r -ertcbufagfcs him to»printa itteond c&tMpfe. He intends 10 have it printed upon much better-pa per than the former, and with a ne-w type, Thofc Booklcllers who'wfth to fake -a *ndm <?opi£s in 'fillets, are r«<<ju cited'to apply to d»e airtHor fonp^rtieoiars. * toco fopies. At a of t-he School 'CottM&Ttai, h,,, j 793. Tlfetofrvtaiitfee,*ip'ptoirlr<?cl" to'ex*mi*e ,r Ttoe P;tfieptor's"A(Jjftant, orStedtnt'*Guide,"betag a fyftetnatioal treatise <*f .Jo**** Vi nal l, teacher of the Math'-matici & Writ ing, in'Bollcn, reported, that theyhave attended Hrat f£rvi£«,'arid bfe of optnrdn, thie the wofk 'teexediifed With judgment, a*id 4s»'a-s will aadcu )ated for theufe of fcHools,-counting k:»ufrs t rartd private families, as any of the farae compaf* that has hitherto been differed to the public. Voted, That (fieahotfc report be accepted, rfrvd'rtftt' Mr/Vftf a l l be fornifhed-vrith aCdpy -6f it, whenever he /ha!) desire it. Copv of the Records. Attest, CWAR'LBSBUL'FIVcM, Sec'ry. The following character of the above Olork, ,J fs'giten tnlhe'Rfrview of <\\t'Mdj]athvfetts Ma gazine y ior J*n. i? 793 : u This U a very ufeful work, and is no ill proof of thejudarment and indullry of the au\hor. The &re laid down wtoh propriety, "tHe ert&rAplt-s are fdfficieni for fcheir <1- li/ftration. One part of *he work delervcs-par tirulir commendation. We* mean that which the author flilca «• Mercantile % Arithmtic u -It occupies a considerable portion of his book, but trot more than'ft* irrtportiftctf Will jtfft'ify. We would* rfceorhmend to the yotti?g»Ar>*hm*t«ician to pay a particular attention to this brauth. He will firld its princioles well e*ptained And fhould'he m«jß.e himfelf mafterof thdm, he will feafon 1 ttf acknowledge his obliga tion to the jJdicidQs .fad 'labweus author. "We canrjoftbut congratulate *he r-ffinggeneration on account of the many ufeful produ#»ons which have lately appeared ; arid in which their ?m ---' provritfent hfcs be£n c#i*rncipalfy CttnfoltM; — "Arrrbrtg thfrfe produ£tions *we r ilToft pf>Cfl*his treatise of Arithmetic. We (TnouJd be»wanMng in justice to the author, fhoulck we not acknow ledge that his work is in reality that which its 'title itfiports—The Pa Assist a Ht, tjr'Stft/otfNr's GuiDt." P O S T - R O AJ) TO THE GENESEE COU^TRX. r T" T HE public arc hereby informed, that the X Post-Road from Philadelphia to Reading, is continued to Sunbury artd Northumberland I Whence up the Weft Branch iof the Stffquehaffnah ■as "far ■as-Lkoming ; thenre-to the Prfinted Post (>n New-York state, near the forks of the Ti/»ga) thence to Bath fn-tirwirlaid-out on the Cohofton Brtfirrh of the Tioga) thfnce to-Williantfburg, at the forks of Genefec River. Letters for th»s new route will be Trot from the Philadelphia Poft-Office every tVetf.nefday morning, at eight o'clock, with the mail lor Reading. A weekly mail will a-110 be ear lied from Bethlehem to Wilfluibarre, in the couniy ot Luzerne. jtfe? 'General Pojt-Office, Apriib, 1703. Afr'S. r. c, a.
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