The Repre£ent«tives of the people at
the head of 50 fufiieers, now entered
the hail. At the fame instant, a citi
-7.C0, wlx> marched at the fide of L..
13out don, was knocked down by the
weight of the body of young Jvobcfpien e
who h*d ihtown himfelf irom the win-
Jmw. Tint citizen was called Claude
>„"habru.
tMI/i w>
Vvo travoifcJ the great hifl» whtnct
the coufpiratuK were fled. Upon en
tering that of the Secretary, the elder
RtJulpitiTc (hot JilmCelf in the month
with » pistol ; ?t the fame instant he
t treetved a fecund ball from a Gens d -
Arme. The tyrant fell baihed in his
Uood. A Sans Calotte approached
luin, and with great eoolnefs iaid—
THERE f* A lUHIEME MING?
All the other conspirators, as cow
ardly in their lalt moments as they had
bcai insolent before, hid tlitmfclves in
the molt obscure places. One was drag
ged fron) a chimney, another fiom a
pre&. J-ebas, Itabbed in feverjd pla
ces, fa in a wood-hole ; Couthon, al
so wounded, was behind a delk. 1 hey
were all arretted, in the utmofl quiet.
Humanity has nothing to mourn for in
th-r execution of this national jultice.
A puuch (llamp) with the iinpifffi
ou of a fltu -Jc-lys, was Jouiid in the
desk, and carried to the Convention
immediately.
The citizens watched themfeWs over
the papers and deposits in the hall.
Citizen Abarede, member of 1.1 le de
putation. Dining the bufniefs, a mail
entered, having the watch word at the
gale. 1 demanded what he wanted :
he replied, •« Redd this paper, and yon
will know my business." I read as fol
lows :
PERMANENT SITTING OF THE
J4COZWS.
qih Thermidor.
«« The. popular fj fteoi decrees, that
i» mambvra, ukeri frefcn among them,
and pointed put by twme, (hall go im
mediately to the Cotfimmie, 'ami take
part iu jheir proceeding.
(S«gncd») "VIVIER, Prrfident."
A pcifon pie Cent fuatclied the paper
from We, *Ad said he would take it to
the popular ReprefenWtive Le Bour
don., A* fi**ce then I Vave heai d *o
tlidg more of it, 1 mention it for {ear
the defignrog fhooM hfave/upprcfled the
:ircinnftance the knowledgeuf th<
,
- "««ir
I communirated tills in the morning
of the foiii Thcrtnidor to Merlin ii
The Convention ordered tlicfe details
tot>e inserted in tiie Bulletin.
In the fitting of AugulV 2, both Rof
fienol and David were ordered to bear
relied, upon liinilat pleas with those
which arretted Lebon.
LONDON, Augufl 18.
DEATH OF ROBESPIERRE!
{[Upon a fuhjefl of filch vast import
nnce, as the dcftiu&ion of two tyran
jiical committees, and the National Con
tention of France recovering its autho
rity, we cannot oe too minute—we (hall
therefore publish, seriatim, all the parti
culars of out different Correfpondcnts,
not attempting at present to reconcile
the discordance of their narratives, but
leaving each to be confirmed or refuted
liy future communications.}
PARISIAN INTELLIGENCE.
Guilt has received its punishment.
The regicidal tyrant is fallen from his
thione of blood ; the guillotine has
done an aft of juflic« ; Robcipicric is
no more.
It was on the 27th of the month,
[July] that the thunder which deftroy
cd, brj(an to mutter over his head.
The tribunes of the Convention and of
of his tyranny ; theprofcriptions of the
committees ; the degradation, contempt
and weakness, into which the National
Convention had fallen.
In the nights of the 27th and 28th,
Barrere and Collot d'Herbois difcovcrcd
to Tallien and Billaud de Varrennes all
thefeciets of Robespierre, and his two
mioillers, St. Just and Couthon.
On the 28th, Tallien and Billaud de
Vaienocs, having united all their party,
j;ot pofiefiion of the tribunes of the
Convention in great foice.
pierre, who heard the threatening norm
w.is foi absenting himltlf. St. Jult,
Couthon, and Diunas, was of the fame
opinion ; but Barrere and Collot d'
Ilerbois, who had betrayed him, ridi
culed his terrors, and drew him moll
reluctantly to the Convention. By the
fame art* the confpiratovs ftduced
Caesar to his deftrudion, in fpiteof the
fatal prcfeutiments of his mind.
Robespierre had fcarctly entered the
hall of the Convention, when Tallien
announced that the commandant of
National Guard, Kenriot, had been '
arretted. He then addressed himftlf
to Robespierre, drawing a dagger from J
Ink bofum,
• /I-
"Tyrant, this dagger is destined for
thee, if the nation doe» :iot cause thee
to peri!h on the fcaffold ; I aitefl the
fsered Lull of Brutus, which you now
behold; the terror ot all tyrants. I
have not condemned my King to death
to become the slave of Rohefpierre."
The tribunes (houtcd with the molt ea
ger applause.
Robefpieire at fir ft turned pale ; but
recovering his usual audacity, teckon
ing upon his afcendaney, his creatures,
theteiror he iilfpiied, and his populari
ty ; lie raised his voice and commenced
his apology. He had spoken but .a few
words, when the whole Convention
arose, and with an unanimous Jhout,
thundered in his ear—
'/ Down with the 'Tyrant
His lirmnefs forfoolc him. In vain
lie called upon Barter?, St. Jufl, and
Couthon. Billaud dc Varennes ascend
ed the tribune, and proposed agamlt him
20 fevcral heads of angulation.
Barren: followed liirr.. Hi. tead an
address to the people, in which he un
veiled all the crimes of Robefp'.erre alul
of the committee of public fafcty. He
gave tliem proofs of this, and accuied
Orllot d' Hcrbois and himfclf of hav
ing been their accomplices.
He exenfed this by pretending that
without this nteafure, they could not
have been mailers of their fee rets, nor
consequently have revenWd tl«rm to Ta
lien and Billaud de Varcnnes, a« the)'
had done, the night gone by. He con
cluded by demanding the arrelt of the
two RobefpierreS, St. J n't, Couthon,
and Dumas.
This decree was patted unariimoufly
amidll the applaufc of the tribunes, and
thev were arretted immediately.
But those who betray are never mill
ed. Tallien fearing that Barrere might
profit by the fall <>f Rohefpierre, to
raifa himielf into his place, sent in the
night to arrcft him, as well as Collot
d'Herbois.—Upon the arrival ot the
officeis, B-itrere {tabbed himfelt. His
a (Toe rate elcaped, but the vengeance of
Heaven will vet overtake him.
The Revolutionary Tribunal pro
nounced icntcncc ot on the two
Robefpicrres, St. Jntt, Couthon, Dumas
and Henriot. The people with incon
ceivable fury liilhed upon the younger
Robefpiene, and ftabWl him at ihe
gate ot the pnlon with a' hundred dag
gers.
It war. with difficulty that the guil
lotine peiformed its function for the ML
At length t'ue 'people were fuHiciently
appeased to luffer their being ltd to exe
cution. On the way thither,'Rubei
pieare had his llioulder broker with a
musket ball. In this agony he was
dragged to the fcaffold to fuffcr all the
pains of death under that guillotine by
which he had muidetcd his lovereign.
When his bead was (truck o(F, the
infuriated tabble, whose idol, and whole
terror he was only the day before, mill
ed upon his body, mutilated it with a
thousand anil carried the bleed
ing members in triumph through the
city.
Such has been the fate of this famous
difiator.
The mefTenger, who through Bade,
brought this intelligence to the Hague,
was rewarded by the Britirti anibafiador
with a purse of ducats.
On the 29th the municipal officers
sixty eight in number, who had collect
ed themfelvcs in the hall of the com
mune and declared for Robespierre,
were executed ; as was also a deputy
who had been a commissioner with the
army, and was couvifted of being aceffa
ry to the plots of Robefpieire. A
general officer was alio guillotined at the
fame time.
But Few lives were loft and these
chiefly such as (hewed an inclination to
refill, or who did not heartily support
the deputies of the Convention, who
were dispatched to the different quar
ters of the Capital to fee the orders
of the Convention carried into ef
fedl.
Several accounts fay the people of
Liege fought very obflinately on the
tide of the French ; the latter after an
obstinate adtion on the morning of the
27th, made themselves matters of the
Gate of St. Margaret, when the light
being carricd into the town, by the co
operation of the citizen?, it became flill
more desperate. At the bridge, to
which the Auftrians were driven, the
citizens of Liege, who formed the French
advanced guard were of especial service
as the Aullrians, after muny attempts
to fuflain themselves, wete obliged to
take refuge under the cannon of the
Chartreuse ; when the French made
three attempts to carry theit batteries
but were beaten off in their turn. It
appears that some of the Liegois, that
fired upon the Auftrians, being made
prisoners, were carried to Cologne,
i A letter from Rotterdam of the 15th
ind. fays that the rnagiftfatfs cf that
city entertain so unfavouiable anopini.;n
of British soldiers in their iddivid 1 :al
capacity, that th.-y have cumc to a fur
mai leiuiution not to lulier any of them
to enter it.
It is said that Kofciuiko has left the
Poliftj army, tuid that the city of War
taw has opened negociations with the
Prufiiar.s.
From Paris Papers, up to the 9th oj
Augrxji.
These papers bring an account of vic
tories obtained by the French over
the .Spaniards—The bombardment of
Fontarabia—The orginization of the
new revolutionary tribunal—A lift of
neaily 200 persons who have been
. guillotined fmce our last accounts.— «■
.Lift of prizes taken from the com
bined powers by the French—the
mortality which prevails in the Ffeneh
army in Flanders, j&c. &c.
from our correspondence it appears,
that the Frtnch have made wonderful Anauft 17
efforts to take Sluys, which has as yet
relilted witli glorious effect the defpe- .Sortie few days ago, the Carmagnole
rate assailants, The number ol beiieg- were molt com pleat el y enfnartd. Gen
ers, appears from our Flushing letter, Vander Duyn, in the evening, orderei
amounts to i7,c00 men ; but they were a large quantity of faggots and othe
in such a fickty (late, and so seriously fire-wood lo be heaped together in thre
attacked by a dangerous epedemic dif- different parts of the town, not fa
fuccefsful sallies and stratagems of Van which he set fiicto; at the fame tim
induced to believe, that the French ere ramparts.
now thought it advilcable to abandon At nine in the evening, the whole
their pioje£t. In one grand assault, horifon fcemed to be in a blaze, and th<
the loss of the latter amo tinted so 1800 j lire from the town flai kening, every 011
men. I imagined it Was in flames, and lookc<
The Dutch have purchnfcd of the ;on its fall as inevitable. During til
King of Prufiia, a large quantity of the fcrts at intervals fcemed ti
heavy cannon, which has been deliver- ' burn with lcls vehemence, and one wai
ed from the fortrefs of Wrlel, and car- t entirely extinguilhed.
ried down the Rhine to Holland. A J The FiemU kept up a heavy fire al
vessel, entirely laden with ordnance, is 1 night, and towards morning fired en
now delivering her ( uigo at Delft* tirelv with red hot fliot ; and threv
Yesterday Government dispatches bombs and fliclls into the town from e
were received at l.oid Grenville's office, : very fide.
from the Earl Spencer at the Court of ' As day light approached, the Com
Vienna, which Lord Grenville forward- ; mandant ordered two more files to b<
led to the King at Weymouth. j lighted, the gates opened, and tin
draw-bridges let down ; cealing, at tin
Augufl !§■ fame time, to fire from the ramparts.
It appeals that the Allied Armies Th e French on this advanced in great
under Prince Cobourg, on the Meufc, nl)mbers to tak , po( lelf,on of the town,
and under Prince Hohcnlohc and Gen. before ; t reduccd to a heap ol
Moellrndorf on the Rhine, are again ; ashes . and in a most coiifufrd and difor
moving forward, in confequencc of the j , manner> c)offed U,e inundations
ina6i,v,ty which lias prevailed through- ll|ewau . r waß furdable
out the French armies for the last fort- , whfn \ haJ adva)lced as near al
night. Ihe commotions in Pans have Commandant wished them to come,
evidently parah/ed their movements, th v ., rt> to thcir urtfpejikable ado
and has given time to the Allies to take Bifhment) s aluted wilh a fhovver of grape
the neceflary steps for attive operation. fllot flom a jj t |^ Runs on t ),, ramp; , rtS]
n J . 2 .°\ ~ . I and trailed in the feverett manner dti-
We yesterday received the Momteurs, . vctrot . They loft on this
printed at Pans down to the Kh nit ant. occasion near 1800 men , who were
Ihe Committee or General safety c £ t j ier killed or drowned ; and near 300
lias been cho fen by a \ote o tic bounded were next morning brought
vention. The new, members are ; Ef- intQ R
farcherceau, the cider ; Breard; Lolloi; The F| . fnch d ; d not fire a flngle
Thuriot 5 Tallien, and 1 rerllard. ilie ( j ur j ri g t | ie jh r4e following days, and
old members who remain in it, are Car- now ed w ; th lhe atell circum .
not, Bar re re, Collet d Heibois ; Bil- fp C^jon < Lejng pietty well convinced
laud Varennes; Pneur and Robert . not obtain Slavs so easy as
Linder. One fourth of the members ' obtail , ed Bre:la Uft '
is to go out every month by rotation,
and the Convention has determined that
this regulation shall be adopted in all
the committees.
Lettcis from Cologne mention, that
General Piehegru arid Jourdan have
each refufed to obey the orders of the
new committee of General Safety a'
Paris.
The siege of Sluys is raised ; and it
is (aid that the French have loft in their
attack of this place by death or Cck
nefs, near 4000 men.
The garrison of QnefndV has been
forced to surrender at difcretiorr to the
French. Valenciennes and Conde (till
hold out ; and have occasionally made
some forties against the enemy.
It gives us very great concern tolearn,
that the mafTacres have been renewed
at Geneva. The Revolutionary Tribu
nal in Council had previously suspended
their fitting for fix days ; and several'
refpe£table persons having been released,
some favorable hopes were entertained
that those scenes of horror should have
terminated. We find however, by let
ters received yellerday from Geneva,
that two of the moil refpeftable magi
strates were feledted as the firft victims
of the renewed vengeance of these devils
incarnate; viz. M. Fatio, formerly a
Syndic ; and M. Navitle, the attorney
general. But so high was the charac
ter of the latter, that 17 members out
of 21 of this bloody Tiibunal acquitted
him, on condition of his emigrating the
territories of Geneva, and having his
propei ty confifcated. The fovcreign
mob however would not acquiefee in
this decilion ; but forced the prison
where he was, dragged him out, and he
was immediately (hot.
The Tribunal hr-s given notice it
would try all the other prilouers con
fined immediately'
W< are sorry to learn ttiat Treves
has been trk.cu oy storm. A lc- ter from
Cwblcntz, the 12th inft. gives th? K>l
lovviiijj accounts of this aii'atr.
" General Ivlichaud having received
orders from tile Convention to take
Treves whatever it itiight cost him,
marched thither in consequence on the
Bth inft. A French column forced one
of the intrenchments lituated before
rhat city, in spite of the molt vigorous
refinance. The Pruflian corps in the
[neighbourhood advanced with gK*at halt
but not in time to save the city which
the French entered on the 10th. The
Aultrian troops retired in good order
towards Mayence. General Kalkreuth
is arrived at Mofcile with I J,oop men,
but we are assured that the number of
the enemy exceeds 50,000. It was not
■till the fourth aflault and aßer a great
loss that the Fhench carried the entrench
ments which covered Treves. By the
capture of Tieves the city «>f Coblentz
is much exposed to the enemy.
FLUSHING,
SPRINGFIELD, M. October 7.
The famous Capt. Hull wa« tried by
the Supreme Camt,at Northampton,
on the last week, for pafiing counterfeit
money—was convicted on leveral in
didtn.ents, and sentenced to stand in the
pillory one hour, and to pay a (hort
visit to CalHe William—for the term
only of—eight years.
William Whiting, late Speculator in
the publick cloathing in thi3 town was
convicted of sundry thefts. He received
the discipline of the cat, on lalt week,
and will ad as an aid to Capt. Hull, on
the Cattle: through )•:a dellined cam
paign.
Extr< Bef a letter from Hartford to a
per/on in'Mi town, dated the 4th of
tint month.
" You will doubtlcfs bear various re
ports with regard to the fickntfs i.i this
city. Dr. Hubbard of New-Haven
came here lalt Monday afternoon un
well and died on Wednesday, of the
yellow fever, and was buried the fame
evening. No other person has died of
that cllfotder in this city."
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 13.
Verbal !>nd written accounts from
Amfierdam by the Adriana, ftatc, that
the people there are in great alarm on
account of the French.
We are aflured that bills on Cow's
unfold, arc not accepted by the mer
chants there and that vcflVls are in
great demand to transport peuons and
property from that place.
For the Gazette of the United States.
Mr. Fenno,
It is aflerted in the General Adver
tiser of this morning, that the present
opposition to the Speaker of Congress
is owing to his " voting against the ex
tenfioii of the excise." This statement
is an artful attempt to mifiead the Pub-
lie Mind.
The truth is, that this gentleman
signed an appeal from Congreis to the
State Legiflattire, in oppolition to a
sacred Law of the Land, ardat a very
critical moment of Infurgehcy.
This was an attack on the Constitu
tion as well as on a fupretne law of the
Union, which to lay nothing of the
gentleman's tilling the Speaker's Chair
at the inoruciit, was a very cxtrtiorUina
ry step : How much the inftilt is in
creased by this cpnduft of one of its
Officers, Congreis may judge for them
itlves—and so v iil the Citizens, who
have votes for true federal Characters
only.
Mr. Fenno,
A rcijieflable number of citizens have
had the following ticket in contemplation.
They confidtr thei'e men as suitable and
worthy perloßs for the important trull they
confide in than. It is their requelt to
have tlitm ptiWilhed in ytmr paper for 1
more 'general confederation of their fel-
lowcit->cns.
Congreft—Thomas Fitziimons.
Senator* —Vv'm. Bingham,Robert Hare,
Nathaniel Ncwlin, Jo.'eph Thomas.
Aflciiiljly—Geo. Latimer, Jacob Hiltz
heimcr, lietij. R. Morgan, Hcnrv Kam
merer, Sam. M. Fox, Francis Gurhey.
At a general meeting of the citizens
ot Philadelphia, held on Saturday the
i ith of Oftcber, 1794, at the City-
Hall, for the purpefe of nominating
(uitable perlons to he inserted in a tick
et for the tnfuing clc&ion J
Charles Bicldle, Esq. was appointed
Clvaii rtiati—and Mr. John Hallowt.ll,
Sect etai y.
The following gehtlemen were agreed
on, as ■'ropei' petfoas to fcrve in the ca
pacity mentioned—viz.
Replefentative in Congtefs.
Thomas Fitzfimons.
Senators for the State.
William Bitigham,
Jofdph Thomas,
Robert Hare, and
Nathaniel Newlin.
Members of the Hotife of Rcprcfeiita-
tives of this State.
George Latimer,
Jacob Hiltzheimer,
Beiyamin R. Morgan,
Lawrence Seckcl,
Robert Wain, and
Francis Gurnry.
On motion,
Resolved, That the Secretary be di«
ie£led to caufc the proceedings of this
meeting to be publilhed.
By order t,f the meeting,
Charles Biddl6, Chairman.
John Halloweli, Secretary.
ARRIVED,
Ihit day a few pipti of tht frjl quality
French Brandy,
Fourth Proof,
Esteemed equal to any that has been in thi«
city for a number of years,
ALSO,
Forty Hog/beads of JirJl quality of
Sr. Croix Sugar,
And a few Tons of
Good Black Pepper,
FOR sale Br
Levinus Clark/on,
No. zi6, south Water street.
oa. 8 d
Old American Company.
THEATRE—CEDAR STREET.
THIS EVENING,
Ofiober 13.
Will be preferred,
A COMEDY, never performed here,
called a
Bold Stroke for a Hufban d.
Written by the Authoress of the Bellos
Stratagem, &c.
To which will be added,
For the last time,
A Grand Serious PANTOMIME, in 3
Afls, called
The Danaides.
With new music, drefies, fctnery, and
decorations.
In the course of the Pantomime, Monf.
Qucnet will dance a Peti de Dtux ; alio
dancing by Madame Gardie.
In a£t 3, a Grand Combat, between
Mi firs. Marriot andPrigmore.
The Pantomime is coi..pofed by Mom
Qi cnet.
The MuDc by Mr. TVlifu-r.
And the feenery executed by Mr.Cice
ri.
A CITIZEN.