I fe>(|zgfe of§ A NATIONAL PAPER, PUBLISHED WEDNESDAYS AND SATURDAYS BY JOHN FZNA'O, No. 34, NOPTH Fl}iTii-.6TRF,ET, PHILADELPHIA [No. ir 9 of Vol. IV.] Foreign Intelligence. V 11 A N C E. NATIONAL CONVENTION, May 1 A DEPUTATION from theFaux bourg St. Antoiue, teftd the plan wliicli they had adopted for recruiting the army, and for mak ing a pro«ifinn for those citizens who had Sniffled. This plan was, that every citizen who had more than 2000 livres of annual income, fhotikl carry the half of the excess to the Treafiirer of the diftridl, if he had no children ; and that those who bad children flioolcl be flowed to dedurt jcio livres from the ex cess. The spokesman of the depu tation said, " We come, Legislators, to tell you severe truths : but we come likewtfe to tell you how to save country. Employing y-our felves for a laltig time as you have, with your own perfon&l interests and palfions, and divided as yoti have been, declare to U3 what you have done 1 [Violent murmurs.] " You havg promised every tiling, and kept your word in nothing. Our defenders have been left desti tute of every neceflary ; and you have engaged to regulate the price of the necefiary articles of life, to relieve the necefficons— but in no one inltauce have you kept your word. " The people have madeevery f.i crifice to Liberty ; and do you in your turn forge: who you are, pro prietors and farmers. Imitate the pwpie in their facrifices, and efta biifh a limitation of tlie price of prowifjtins " *Ve reqtielt of yon (hat a price way be fixed tor provifio'ns, and that you will adopt the iiieafure-i we have proposed. These are the means we think nrceflarV for Caving our coun try. ff you do not adopt them, we, who wish to save it, declare, that we are in a state of insurrection ! Those who unite with us in our demands, are at your doors. We requett leave to file off through tlie hall. We are 111 number 8000—but ail unarmed." The Convention was thrown into * violent agitation by this har rangu'e, and Mazuier moved, that this petition should be printed and ienc to the departments ; and that all fiibfiitutes of the deputies fliould be ordered to aflemble at Tours or at Bruges. PhilipeauX wifiied that the petiti on might be rejected, and that the p£rfoil who read the address (haulii be put under arrest. The Preftdent now read a letter from t lie inhabit ants of. the above Kiuxhourg, Rating that as they had learnt with grief that their petition had brought on an unfortunate dif cuflion, they had fentanew address, signed, '• The people who wifli to de fend—no;to destroy the Conven tion." The difc.uflion cant inncd for fame time, and Onnton at length moved the order of the day, as the petiti oners had difilaimed any incivic j and that the petitioners ill oulci tie admited to tbe honors of ibe fitting. Way 2 Twb depnries from the rfepart aieot of la Loire rnfeiieure ap ■|»e»r«d at ilie bnr, and drew a moll <ii(heßriei)ing picture of the rapid progT«ft of the royaTrft*. They trembled, the) said, for I heir native <■*17 ; and avlded, that nearly two lhoufind pntriors had been flawi in their neighborhood ; and at Ma fhecoiil alone, five hundred and fif ty- With»m a very powerful arm ed force, ihfy were convinced Nantz fali. :i e infr.rre<ftion,which was at firll but a were spark, a* it " y T were, and which promised :o be in stantaneous and local only, had ac quired Tuclv iicetigth ;v.k! ewnli.ien cy, that uniels circumfcribetl, it was to be dreaded that by degrees it might become general'. It was announced that the depart ment la Manche was threatened with famine. Barrere in the name of the Com mittee of Public Safety, entered in to a detail of the present li; nation bf the Republic. Every thing ac cording to his ftatetnent, was as well every where as it possibly could be ; and Francs in all her points ivai impregnable. This faithful portrait the mem ber contrasted with another, which represented the Powers united a gainli France as in the rnoft poHibl<j state of diftmion and difc«rdance. As all this was mighty consolatory, Barrere's Report was crowned ft'iih applauses. Mat 8. A Deputy of Indre and Loire was admitted to the bar. I come, said he, to demand the fpeedieftand molt eflfeiftual succours. The National Convention appears to have been abuled on the realiry of our dangers. The Western De partments are 110 less agitated than ours, by the too common calamity of treachery and coutuer-revoiutioii. A war more difaftrnus that) that we wage against Francis or Frederick William dfefolates and threatens to annihilntethe Republic. The coun ter-revolutionary traitors prefeut themfelvea in several points at once, in columns of from ten to twelve fhonfand wen. I demand of yet:, Legiiiiiors, by what fatality it is the Executive Council has left us two jnonths without arms and with- out men ' " By what fatality have the bat talions ordered to us been counter manded ? If the end of these schemes have been tofavor the insurgents.to open their way to Paris, it is fulfill ed. The territory of Indre and Loire is fubjecfted by the traitors ; the city of Chinon is now, perhaps, in their hands, and they have seized on DietTuire, Tours, and Loudun ; the latter of which places, alter throwing down the Tree of Liberty, did not scruple voluntary to open gat e " On the receipt of tliis intelli gence, Legillators, the .Adiiviniltra ors resolved to repair to Chinon, .vhere all the citizens were mufter ;d in the name of the law, anil futn inoned to follow. This rampart of our fafety is, however, far from im pregnable : and unless you instant ly fend us men, arms, and ammuni tion, we cannot answer for any the fmallell chance of the public fafety. " I therefore demand, in the name of the department, that the Executive Council instantly dispatch for C hinon and Tours,all the troops at its disposal ; that to expedite these succours, the battalions which lhall be thus collected be embarked on the Loire, as soon as they can reach the banks of that river ; and that all the disposable final) arms,as well as cannon, (lores, and ammu nition of every description, follow them. Six hundred thousand livres, at least, ought besides to be sent to the Department." Bentabole demanded that alarm guns fliould be dilcharged inftani ly, the tocfiu founded, and all civil mat ters suspended. He proposed that each individual, having a male do mcllrc, fhonld supply two men arm ed and equipped. Thuriot demanded that the ter ritory of Liege fliould be united to the French Republic. It was lug gefted that the inhabitants ought to SATU RDAYj JULY 20, 1795. M»y 3. 473 } " ; '' ■ foe confalter! : couriicl was >iver-awed—jthe Union •**«»djpcresf| 4 ' and tfte pro)>ei^CiJiJttrHkt'eo ctiargp'v \ to traine an Act for that purpose. MAy IT. A letrer from Talien, commission er in the departmetlis of lndre et Loire, and Loire et Cher, dated Tours, May ] o—dating lhai falfe and alarming news wasdaily (plead ing by the enemies of t he Republic, reCpecfting the fuccefles of ihe infur geiHs; and that an a gent of Dumooricr, had, after the example of his patron, betrayed the iriterells ov his country, by opposing little refinance, though he had scoo men under his command,, to the forces of the rebels. It was even (aid, that he had induced his foldi eis to fly before them. Talien ad ded—that Loudun was evacuated ; that the enemy would perhaps be in pofleflion b£ it that day, and that Here were only very tew troops to copofe them. It was however hop ed that a small army could be col levied until the new battalions, so long promised, should arrive. Letterfrom Citizen i)evauliverd, to Citizen Talien, dated Chinon, May 8. " We have heard the uoife of cannon all this morning, which makes us presume that Ligoniei' is engaged. I hope that he will be more courageous and less a traitor than Qoetineau, the ci-devant adju tant ol fiumourier, who, infteadjnf fighting as he promiled before me, Ail-rendered with goco nun ail arm ed, whom he had in ihc tow n of Thoiiars. Tlie brave Marfeillele •.'-■rug merit praise—they tore down the white flag which had been hoifl:- ed j combatted like true republi cans, and, though reduced ailength to the number of fix, flill fought till every man of ihem was cut ro pieces. They formed themselves into a square, and when their car tridges failed, ihey fell furiotifly on the infurgems with their fixed bay onets. Had all the red of the troops at Thouars followed their example, it would have been (till free." The Convention, after bearing a report from the committee of pub lic fafety, decreed that of the 2r ,000 men, making part of the levy of 300,000 decreed on (he 24'h of Fe bruary, and now aH'einbied at Gre noble, 8 battalions ihould be imme diaiely organized to inarch againfc the insurgents. A letter was read from 3oi(T'et and Moyre Bayle, Commidioners of the Convention in the Department of the Bouches-du Rhoine They an nounce that all the nieafures which they had ordered at Ma.rfeilles to fecpi't the public welfare, had been carried into execution with much tranquility, when in :in inltant the scene had changed—that the fedti 011s of Marseilles, which had con stantly kept themselves within the fii ft bounds of their duty, had cxer cifed, and were now exercising pow er without limits ; that they bad created a popular tribunal, and had anthorifed it to purfne all offences ; that the constituted authorities were by this means etnbarrafled in their proceedings. One of the fecftions deliberatt i upon lending a deputa tion to the commirtioners j they came to them in the night, made them get out of bed, and forced them to break open a bureau, of which their secretary had the key. They did this to examine their cor respondence, They ordered them to depart in twenty-four hours, un der pain of being arretted. On their arrival at Avignon, they had nearly been mallacied. The Commiflioners made a dccree, of which the following is the f'ub- n' ' '■ V. [Whole No. 44 I.] (lance : 11 Considering that The fcr- Jlions of Mirfeilles, comoflfed to:' f finne ri rne f)Ttt*i>l*fnCixet't ed perfous, manifHied all evident 1 end en cj" to fedei'alifni, ilifv uecieed iss follows - id, I'hat ihc Popular Tribunal grftahlifhed :it Mai'feilles is a-mmlied. 2d, The "Central Committee ett - blilhetj to rceeive secret vlcnuuciaii o»s is aiuuilled. gtl, The Presidents of ilie fedti oiis aie (rtrfonally responsible for the criminal decrees wliicli may be made. 4111, The Commissioners sent from Marseilles, Aix, and Toulon, shall ' be''denounced and prosecuted ac cording to law." After a very long difenflion, the Convention suspended 1 he execution ariet. ur.til afier tlie.ieport of the Com mil see of Public Saferj. l,el'erfrom Citizen Gafpariti, Comnilj/ioner Nortkcrir/frity, dated Otthies, May Q. 41 1 herewith transmit you a report of the af fair of yeflerdav, which has been just now sent to me by General Lamoliere. I can warrant the truth of it, as I never quitted him a moment fihee our departure from Liilc, and as I have fees every thing he did, and all tlie jprivate ac counts which he received. What he fays re fpe&ing the firmnefs of the soldiers of the Re public is ftri&ly agreeable to truth. " In an expedition in which all the wants of the troops could not be supplied at the mom nt notwithflanding the attention of the General and the Adminiilrators, our bravs defenders te ftifitid no tineafinefs, except on account of the enemy not being near enough that they might engage them. In the concise account of the General, I find that he has forgot to mention, that at ten yesterday evening, as we were retir ing to headquarters, we oblerved the Abbey of Vigogne in flames. It was set »n fire by our howitzers, and as the flames raged violently, I an>induced to think that rhc of the enemy must be consumed ; and I have no doubt that we {hall be mailers of them to-day. "P. S. Prisoners taken at Vigogne arccon tinually arriving. There area great many Eng lish amongfl them. In the lafl convoy there were 14 of Englifli, all wounded." Report of General LamorUere. " The affair of the Bth has been mod glori ous for the arms of the republic, and proves in the bell manner the dignity of the cause lor which we are fighting. At fevcVi in the morn ing, for such were the orders of Gen.Dampierre the commander in chief, the different corps of which my small army is composed, attacked the advanced polls of the enemy. The firingj was commenced by the division under the com mand of Gen. Defpourches, who was charged to dislodge the enemy from the Abbey of Vi gogne, and from the differerif entrenchments which they had in the wood of St. Amand. The Gen. and our brave brethren in arms presented themselves with unexampled courage and intre pidity. They overcame incredible obstacles, as 1 at every Hep they found entrenchments, from which they drove the enemy, who were every where far superior in number, notwithstanding batteries of 17 p unders which they continually employed againlt us. " Defpourches had taken post on the platform of the Abbey of Vigogne, where he entrenched himfelf, and kept up a brilk fire from a quarter past 7 in the morning until 9 in the evening, ( fuccefsfully sent him a supply of provisions and ammunition, which he in vain expedted from Valenciennes. This General Officer used all his efforts to have his right wing covered by the left flank of Gen. Hedonville, who attacked Rhemes at the fame time, but he could never succeed, except in regard to the few chasseurs. It appears that the enemy lott a great number of men, we had also some brave foldieib killed. " This division lay on their arms all night, in the wood of St. Amand, retaining their porti on, and will this morning continue their at tack, which cannot be made v/ith advantage un less they can unite on the right wing with divisions ordered to dislodge the enemy from the wood of Rhemes. " At tlie moment when Defpourches attacked with my advanced guard, I marched against the enemy encamped near St. Amand in two differ* ent points. " They made a more feeble defence than they did the preceding evening, and endeavoured to draw me ne»r the town or the causeway ; but having determined not to take poff-ffiofi of it till they should be driven from Rhemes and Vi gogne, I occupied them in different point* and ar different times, to render my diverlion more ufeful. " I dire&ed several attacks on my left, both against Leccllea and against a mill where the enemy were potted, andfioxn which they were Ppo
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