From the Bojion Centintl. MOORE's JOURNAL. Mr. Russell, The Journal of Dr. Moore, in France' during the moil iuterefting period of the French revolution, has attained to much celebrity.—'Though the Do&or was not in favor of the con du£l of funic of the French leaders, and has condemned the unnecefTary meafurcs which frequently have been taken, his veracity nev«?r has been doubted ; and his opinion of men ar.d their motives, has been confirm ed by pofleiior events. The follow ing account is given by him of the two celebrated chara&eri who now , appear at the head of the ruling powers in France, Robefpierte arid Barrere. ROBESPIERRE, Is a native of Arras. This great luminaty of the revolution not only renders Arras more conspicuous, but has thrown a iay of light on his bro ther who lited there in obfeurityy but is now chosen a deputy to the Conven tion. Robespierre is a man of frnall ftze, and a difagreeablc countenance, which announce more fire than understanding, in his calmest moments he conceals with the hatred and malignity which isfaid to exist in his heart, and which his features are admirably formed to ex press.—He diftinguiihed himfelf in the constituent assembly by the violence of his fpeechej, and much more since in the Jacobin Society by the violence of Ms measures. His eloquence is employ ed in invectives against tyrants and aris tocrats, and in declamation in praise of liberty. His fpeeehes are barren in ar gument, but forrvetimes fertile in the flowers of fancy. Robespierre is considered as an 4n enthufiaft rather than an hypocrite; some people think him both, which is Dot without example, but to me he seems to be tci6 much of the firft to be a great deal of the second. He his always refufed every office of emolument ; his passion is popularity, not avarice; and he is allowed by even those who deleft many parts of hischa . rafter, and are his enemies, to be in corruptible by money. In the Chrotfique de Paris of yester day, (a paper conduced byCondorcet) is the following curious article, vrhtch I (hall insert, because: it shews M. Con dorcet's idea of a- man who has made so much noise in this country, particular ly of late } " It is fometiirfes asked, how it hap pens that such numbers of women are continually attending Robespierre, wheiever he is,- at his own house, at the galleries of the Jacobins, of the Cordeliets, and of the Convention ? " It is because the French revolution is considered as a religion, of which Robespierre is the leader of a feft. He is a pried who has devotees. But it is evident all his power is en qucnouille. Robespierre preaches — Robespierre censures—he is furious, grave, melan cholic, affeitedly exalted, followed in his opinions, and in his conduct he thundered against the rich and the great —he lives on little, is moderate in his natural appetites—his chief million is to speak—'but he speaks forever-—he rcfufes those offices in which he might be of service to the people, and choos es those in which he expects to govern <hem. rfe appears where he can make a figure, and difapp«ars when the scene is occupied by others—He has all the clwrafteriftics, not of the leader of a religion, but of the leader of a feft. He attempts to establish a reputation of nufterity which points to lanety. He mounts'on forms, and talks of God and Providence. He calls himfelf the friend ef the poor and the weak. He makes himfelf be followed by women, and gravely accepts of their homage and admiration. He retires before danger, and nobody is so conspicuous when the danger is over. Robespierre is a po ren, and never can be any thing more. " One of the incidents of a week is the accusation of Robespierre, by a rnau of great understanding and talents (Louvetj but whose imagination is more extensive than either. The ac «ufer and the accufcd have both been heard, and both have proved, that it is jmpollible to make a dictator of Ro bespierre." BARRERE. Barrere, deputy from the depart ment of High Pyrennees, who was a member of the Constituent Assembly without being much diftinguiihed, be gins to be thought of more import ance in the Convention. He has not hitherto taken a decided part with ei ther party, but I am told is sourted by both. The inc'uLnlt related in the following ex trad arc Jingular, and firrmjb mutltr for moral t'cjlctlion and enquiry. ' I was prefrnt, fajrs Dr. M. when RuKI, whom t formerly irwntioned, in ormed the Convention, that being in :!ie commiflion for examining certain letters in the German languige, which lad been intercepted, he had found c s .ie from a corporal in the P. utllau a. my to 'lis wife in Silesia. In this letter he 'aid there were many expift (lions of conjugal love and paternal sffedtion, while in the fame letter the French were painted in the blackelt colours. " This poor corporal," continued Ruiil, " has had the perleversuce and genera lity to lave two ducats out of his pay, which he inclosed in the letter to his wife, who, it appeers, was then ill child-bed. 1 defir?to be anthorifed to transmit the money, with what additi on I please, to this honed .corporal's wife, with a letter assuring her that the French do not deserve all the ill names $hich her husband gives them." ' Ruhl is a man about seventy years of agi ; there is a great appearance of naivett in his mapner. I happened to mention this dory of the corporal to a Frenchman of my acquaintance j " Le conte ejl bent/," said he, " et ne manque que hi vrai fefiblance pour le rendre inter ejant."* " He had tfre letter in his band," said I, " how you doubt it ?" " If he had letters," replied the Frenchman, I /trull doubt it, be cause a Prufiian corpo'fal is generous in nothing but in coups de batons ; and it is not in the nature of it man who is distributing these from fe'prrmig to night, to have tender affettiorft of any kind. Such opposite and diTcbrdant qualities cannot innabit the fame br'e?ft." 4 The incredulity of my French' ac quaintance I think unrcafonabfe; and I will here insert an anecdote, although it is friuch more exposed to his criti cism, because it comes from a quarter which leaves no doubt on my mind of its tiuth. ' Monsieur de Bert rand, chevalier de Make, and brother to mor.fieur de Bertrand de Moleville, late minilter of thfc marine, Was arr'efted and confined in the pi ifon of the Abbaye, foori aftei the ioth of August. This gentleman was brought at midnight on' the third of September before the dreadful tribu nal in that prifoh. He h a man of gieat coolness and fiimnefs of mind, which was of infinite fervicg" to him this emergency ; For alt ho" the fyrhp tbms of fear ought not on such occasi ons to have been considered as a' pre sumption of guilt, yet that construction was put on them by the judges, and, without any other preemption, they fometimcs, proved fatal to the prisoner. " When Mr. Bertrand was question ed, he answered with an undisturbed voice and countenance, " that he had not the least idea of what he had beer artefted for, that those who arretted him could not lnforrft him, that nobody had informed him since, that he was con vinced he had been taken up by mis take." i ' Struck with the cool an ! undaunt ed manner in which he addressed them, and having no particular accusation noi proof of any kind against bim, the judg es ordered him to be released " Two men covered with blood, whe had keen employed in killing the prison ers, and attended in the expectation oi the signal for dispatching Mr. Bertrand seemed surprised but not ai the unusual order. They conducted hin through the court of the Abbaye, ant on the way asked if he had any relatior to whose house he wished to go. " He answered, he had a fider-ia-lav to whom he intended to go directly. " How very much surprised and de lighted mull Ihe be to fee you 1" fan they. " 1 am persuaded Ihe will," replie< Mr. Bertrand. " One of the men then asked the o ther if he (hould not be gljd to be pre sent at this meeting; to which he ea gerly said he should : And ed they had a curiofrty to be witneffe to the joyful meeting between Mr. Ber trand and his sister-in-law. " The gentleman was astonished am embarrassed: He represented that hi relation being a delicate woman, thei appearance might very much alarm her particularly at such an unseasonable hou: that he could not think of giving then such unnecessary trouble: and addec whatever he thought would diveit then from so unexpected a proposal. " They urged that they would wai in the parlor until he had advertised tin lady ot their being in the house, to pre vent her being alarmed: That so fa from being a trouble, it would giv< them great pleasure to accompany him * The tale is agreeable, and only nesd probability to make it interesting. That they wished to have a relaxation from the work in which they had been so long employed, and they hoped he would not deny them the fati.sfadtion of feeing the meeting between him and h:s friends. " Mr. Bertrand die not think it pru • dent to refufe fisch peti roiteis any longer 1 he therefore affcnted ; they accompaar 'ed him to the house. He lent the £er ! rant, who opened the loor at the found • of the voice, to advertise tire lady that ;he was arrived, and well. He after i wards went hijttfelf and informed her ot j th* strange fancv of the two men T who • waited in another roem. The Tady had ■ arisen arid drefli'd herfelf hastily on her ■ hearing' of his arrival : Every body in j the family had done the fame, and had ! flocked around hmr with expreflions ot joy. The two men were admitted, and were witnesses to the happiness that all manifefted : they seemed much gratified and affedted at the fight; it formed the ftrimgeft contrail with those they had so lately seen. Mr. Bei trand offered them money, which they would on no account accept, declaring that they were already paid for accompanying him irt the o-:ly way they desired. After remaining a considerable time, {hey took their leave, wishing the lady all happiness, and thanking Mr. Bertfarid for aljowing them the pleasure of being witnefTes to so pleafirig a meeting. " No body c»n be more aware than lam of the inconsistency, which from this narrative appears in the difpofitiorts of the fame individuals. That two men so unfeeling at to be adtivelv engaged in the relfiorfelefsfcenes at the prison fhotild have the fenfibiiity to wish to be witnef fts of the meeting between Mr. Bertrand and his friends, and behave on the whole as these two men did, is what no per son, who has ttudied the usual analogies and combinations of the human difpofi tions, would have expected. The firft turn of mind seems incompatible with the second: I know no theory by whirh they can be reconciled ; 1 attempt no explanation ; I repeat the fadts as I have ! them from authority to which I cannot refufe my,belief, and because they form a new instance of the astonishing variety, and even opposition of character to be found irt that wonderful creature, Man." — , ...i111 ■ LAW OF THE UNITED STATES. An ACT maitng certain alterations in the act for ejlaulifhing the judicial courts, and altering the time andpLice of hold ing certain courts. See. 1. T) E it enaßed by the Senate I 1 and Hdufe of Reprefenta fives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the diftridt judges of the United States be autho rized to appaint acommiffioncrorcom miffioners, before whom, appraisers of (hips or vessels, or goods, wares and merchandize, feiz.ed for breaches of any law of the United States, may be fvrorn . *r affirmed ; and that fueh qualificati ons made before fucn commissioner or . commissioners, shall be, to all intents . and purposes, as effectual, as if the fame were taken before the said judges in , open court. Sec. 2. And be it further enaßed, " That the stated terms of the diftridt courts of Massachusetts, Penrifylvania, , and Georgia, be changed, and that, in , future, the said courts in Massachusetts [ fftali be held on the third Tuesday in , March, the fourtlv Tuesday in June, the second Tuesday in September, and , the firft Tuesday in December; in Pennsylvania, on the third Mondays in . February, May, August and November; j and in Georgia, at the times and places following ; in the city of Savannah, on j the second Tuesdays in February, May and August, and in Augusta, on the . second Tuesday in November; And . that the circuit court of the diftritt of . Delaware hereafter commence on the . second Monday i» June, instead of the s twenty seventh day of April, any law . to the contrary notwithstanding. Sec. 3. And be it farther enaßed, j That the state of North Carolina (hall s be divided into three diftridta, in which r the diftrift court of the said state shall t be held at fueh times and places, as are - already ascertained by law, that is to , fay; the diftrift of WHmnigton to in j chide all the counties of the state dif j tridts of Morgan, Salisbury, Fayetteville and Wilmington :—the diftrid of New t hern to include all the counties of the . state diftridts of Hillfborough, Halifax . and Newbern ; —And Edenton to in r elude all the counties of the district of . Edenton : and that all process, pleas, . adtions, suits and other proceedings, originating in the diftridta, refpe&ively,- shall be returnable to the fefiion of said court to be held at the place diredtcd by law, within the fame ch'ftridt, where the cause commenced, and there to be kept with the record thereof, until the final end and determination of the fame. And, to the end that suitors, witnefTes and all others concerned, may have no tice of this alteration in the said courts, the marshal of the faiddiftridl of North. Carolina is hereby reqniied to make the lame known by proclamation, on or be fore the firft day of Al.f~r.ft next. Sec. 4. And be it further enaßed, That any person living within either of the dittiicts aforefaid, who hereafter shall be arretted, by »irtne of process is suing out of the court of either ot the said diftridls, other than that in which tie (hall so refrde, shall be drfchaiged therefrom, on his entering his appear ance, and giving bail to the a&ion, in the court of tke dfftridt in which he {hall so reside, in like manner, and to the like effect, as if the said process had otiginally been issued out ot the court within the said last mentioned diftridt. Sec. 5. And be if further enaßed, That all process, adtions, pleas, suits and other proceedings, which have been commenced and returned to the separate several fefftofis of the diftridt court, at fuph places appointed by law for hold ing thereof, shall he tried at she place in each diflrict, were tire fame were firft mide returnable. Sec. 6. And be it further enaßed That the clerk of the said diftridt court, Mil, at each of the places aforefaid, keep a diftindl docket and record of fuclr business, returnable as aforefaid, or which may be returned to thefeflion to be held at the said |daces, refpedtively, at which places of return, the said busi ness (hall be finally heard and determin ed as aforefaid. Sec. 7. And te it further enaßed, That so much of the aft to establish the judicial courts of the United States, as is, or may be construed to require the attendance of the marshals of all the dif trifts,at thefuprertie court, shall be, and the fame is hereby Repealed : And that the said court shall be attended, during itsfeffion, by the marshal of the diftridt only, in which the court lhall fit, unless the attendance of the marshals of other diftridts (lull te required by the special order of the said conVt. Sec. 8. And be it f 'irtl.tr enaßed, That from and after the last day of Sep tember next, the diftridt court for the state of Kentuckey, shall be held in the town of Frankfort, any thing'in any former afi to the contrary notwithftand rr —r--^.—^ Approved, June the nitiThy 1794. UNITED STJTES. NEWBURYPORT, July 19 On Tuesday last Capt. Nathan Poor arrived here from Martinico, in 21 davs —he informs that the French took pos session of Grandterre, Guadaloupe, on the 4th of June. The English fleet, confuting <yf the Vengeance of 80 guns two 74's, one of 40, and a sloop of war, paiTtd Fort Royal the Bth June,to attack Point Petit. Capt. P. was not permitted, to take any produce from the island, owing as Admiral Jervis inform ed him, to the following Circumstance. Tile Arittocrats, in ordef to regain the property they had left lir the islands, pe titioned the court of Britain to fend out a fleet to take poffeflion of them, offering to defray the ex pence, which amounted to 520,000 livres, to be pro portioned as follows : Martinico, 220,000, Guadaloupe, 200,000, and St. Lucia, 100,000. The commifiion crs appointed to colled! the fame were seizing upon all the property they could, without discrimination. Capt. P. in forms that Admiral Jervis had not 400 well men ,in the fleet, when he left Mar tinique. The following is extracted from the Log Book of the brig Mary, Captain Moulton, arrived here on Wednesday last, in days from Oftend.—June 2, hit. 48, 07, at 4 o'clock, a. m. saw a fleet of 27 fail, standing to the East ward. They had four of the fleet in tow, oifmafted. At 10, a. m. saw 32 fail ftandmg to the wellward, which is supposed to be the French fleet from the Chefapeak, and the English fleet from Portsmouth which failed in pur furt of them.—From which wi conclude they mult have had an engagement pre vious to the above date. , DOVER, (N. H.) July 12. From a Correspondent. Rochester, July sth 1794. Yesterday being the anniversary of the American Independence, was celebrated by a tefpedtable number of gentlemen in this town. The day was ufh-'red in by firing of a cannon, and hoifting'the flag of the United States. At halfpnft twelve a lengthy porctfron moved from Major S. Per kin's, to the meeting house, under a military escort, where a pertinent and elegent oration was delivered by joseph Clark Esq. preceded and fol lowed bv mulic. After which tile pro cession returned to Major Perkin's where a number of getlemen with the officer* of Major Fuber's battalion partook of of an elegant dinner, at which the fol lowing Toasts were drank under a dis charge of cannon. I. The United States of America may they long continue the brighted constellation in the political hemisphere. 3. Washington—the patriot warrior —the virtuous llatefman—may he long continue Columbia's pride and boast. 3. Tlfe day we celebrate; may its blessings be handed down uncontamina ted to the latetl posterity. 4. The (late of Newhampfhire ; may her citizens be dillinguifhed for in duttry, frugality and love of freedom. 5. Our countrymen in slavery at Al giers ; may they soon be reftoied to the embraces of their anxious friends. 6. The Indian tribes j may the great spirit foften their ferocious minds, and to dispose them to a faered observance of treaties, . 7. The Frencti nation ; may they be ■as fuccefsful in edabl!filing a free govern ment as they have be.nin dcftroving ty ranny and repelling the attacks of com bined despots. 8. The Marquis ae la Fayette, may he soon be liberated from the darkforne dungeon of despotism and restored to life, liberty and happiness. g. Commerce; may the American Flag be seen .flying and refpefted among all commercial Nations. io. The arts and fci'etices; may they be excercifed for the aftabliftiment of of the freedom and happiness of man. 11. The Heroes, who have fought bled or fallen in the glorious cause of freedommay their memory be em balmed in the breads of America's sons. 12. The Vice President; may his Pa triotic exertions in the cause of liberty never be forgotten by Americans. 13. The Polanders, may they be freed from the Ruffian and Prussian yoke, and enjoy in peace the rights of mankind. 14. Thomas Paine 15. Allsiankind, may the time soon arrive when vice fliall be extirpated, and virtue and happiness triumphant throughout the world. PHILADELPHIA, JULY 26. SArf A Correspondent. There are many doctrines advanced at the pfelent day which are pregnant with all the miseries that a people can fuffer from a slate of disorganization, and law less liberty. One is that " the people have all power in the : r hands" —whenever this aflertion is made with reference to the peo ple in diftinflon from, or opp ifiuon to theif government —it is a folecilm, un!cfs it means that too powers can exist at the fame time. The only correct republican idea iff, that all power is inherent in the people. The government is the creaiure of tnis power ; the administrators the or gans of the public will —So long therefore as the government exifts,the power of the people is delegated ; and the moment that power is resumed by the people, the go vernment is extinil. To fay that " the people have all power ill their hands, but this is not the power of the bayonet or of the sword" is to fay that the whole, is not equal to all its parts. That an excise was odious in some parts of the Union is true —Vint it will be found equally true, that it is odious in thofc parts ouly, where every species of taxation is 0- dious. That the Government of the L'mted States has attempted to enforce any of its laws by rigorous means, in any part of the Union, would puzzle the molt invete rate of its enemies to prove : there is per haps no better way of accounting for the late outrageous opposition to the excif in a particular part of the wilderness, than from the lenity, patience, forbearance,ana lojig-fuffering of the Government with some daring offenders, who are pulled up with the doiftrine that all power is in their hands. Surely (aid they, the day of reck oning (;an never come. Tranjlated from the Courier Francois of this moniitig. Some pafTengers arrived here yesterday from Martinique, which place lh<y et the 4th inft. report, that notwithftanunig all the precautions taken by the Lnghsii lO hide what pafles at Guadaloupe,they leaiiu that the French had fifteen hundred iionps of the line and two hundred cannomeia -t Point a Petre. Thai the Engiiih hat. i-r.t .< times lent to Martinique for relief ; a their forts were almcft totally uufumUh ed ; that the English, having a J battery of three mortars on A ( whence they bombarded Point a Petre, the | French, after two iinfuccefsful attacks, car • ried it the third time by assault, t any other amis than lworda, surprising . - e Euglifh while asleep, at about 1 o cloc in \ the. morniiig, killed all they founu, a®
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