frontier; of Holland, amount* to Forty
thoufanJ. ?
FRANCE.
N/ITJON/tL CONTENTION,
20 Therniidor, August 7.
Barrc-je, in the name of the Com
mittce c 1 Public Safetv.Citizms, treason
was t(ic order of the day in the Antilles
Und on the Continent, at one and the
fame time. The Republic has been
betrayed in the colony of St. Domingo
by arillocrafs, who invited thither the
En-rllfh aiid the Spaniards. French
emigrants in London sequestrated St.
Domingo iiito the hands of George,
from St. Domingo intrigued
at New-York for the ruin of our colo
nics. Emifiirirs from the ariitocratlc
colonies transmitted to us details which
we could neither controvert nor cdnfide
in. In this Date of things, public opi
nion fluctuated respecting the corilmif
fioners sent to St. Domingo, against
whom the Convention passed a decree
of accusation. The deputies from St.
Domingo, however, bore testimony to
thecivilm of the Commiflloners.
In the mean tim.*, we received news
of treasons by some >f the commandants
of the Windward Iflauds, and we took
the firft favorable opportunity of fend
ing a faithful and active matiner to no
tify the decree to the Commifiioners in
St. Domingo, and to proclaim liberty
to the blacks and commifiioners to de
fend the Windward I (lands. Both these
millions have been fuccefsful. The
commifiioners of St. Domingo arexow
giving us an account of their operations.
Citizens, with our fuccefies on the
Frontiers we will retake otir colonies.
The Republic is chiefly on t'lie conti
nent ; the Republic is in pur marine, in
the courage of our armies and our fleets ;
the Republic is in the energy of the
public spirit, and in. the iinpofing atti
tude which the National Convention has
affmned in the eyes of Europe. He
conduce 1 with reading a letter from the
commifiioners of the Windward fflands,
Oi which the following is an eittraCl :
" The conquest of Grande Terre,
Gtiad tlotipe, is alinoft a prodigy, and
will make an epoch in the annals < - li
berty. On coming in fight of land, we
Warned that the Republic had loft her
American colonies, that traitors had
delivered them to the English. We
harangued our brothers, and ,we at
tempted a buccaneering enterprise. We
disembarked 1000 men without any im
plements of siege but our bayonets, and
the fame night foit Fleur d'Epee, de
fended by 9000 men and artillery, was
carried. Tluee months before, when it
was occupied by 1 10 patriots only, ge- j
Grey & one of the sons of Geoti;e,
with 3000 men, did not get pofTeffion ]
of but with much time and labor. The
English, panic ftfuck by the rapidity of!
this conquest, evacuated the hve other
fort 3, leaving us mailers of their maga
zines and -ighty vessels. We released
the Patriots, whom they had imprifon
cd."
A Member. When I left the Wind
ward Islands, all the Republicans pro
mised to conquer or die in fighting for
liberty. The accounts you have just
heard prove that they had kept their
word. I move that the Convention
decree honorable mention of their con
duct, and that of the patriots who join
ed them to retake Guadaloupe. Decreed.
Extract from the Regiflers of the Com
mittce of Public Safety, August 3.
1 he Committee of Public Safety,
considering the meal of rye, from which
only fifteen pounds of bran per quintal
has been taken, affords less fnbftantial
and less ceconominal nourishment than
meal more cleared from bran ; that the
al ■ rdance of the harvest allows the
means of pioviding for every necefiity ;
that the supply of bread being allured,
it is neceflary to procure bran, which
has beeß wanting for some time, and
which must in part supply the scarcity
of oats, orders,
"That the administrative bodies, the
municipalities and the citizens, who
ihall make rye into meal, may take
from it 25 pounds of bran per quintal;
" Charges the administrative bodies,
and the municipalities, to watch over
the conduct of the Bakers and the Mil
lers. This order Ihall be inserted in the
Bulletin of the National Convention,
and sent to the Commission of Com
mcrce."
Letter from the Representatives of the Prided in their council.
People stationed with the army, to T" V' C ca P uc^'n! did not wish to ri/k
the Committee of Public Safety 8 war ' fontarabia fur
,Vl? rendered at half an hour after fix o'clock
Fontarabia, a Span,(h oVy, , 5 ,h the fame evening.
I herjnidor, Second year of the THF r a PtTT aTrnv
Republic, one and indivisible. „ 7 ,7
««W. a n name of the French republic.
~Y e / e T >' eflcrda y at four « We, the Reprefcmative. of the
° ' . 'cu ; a g UCB ' y° ur letter of French People and General in Chief
t oth iiift. informing ug, that Ro- of the Army of the Weflern Pyrenees,
e, his brother, St. Just, and on the demand of the Commandaut of
- - id placed therefelves in the rank Fontarabia, to have 24 hours in order
of conspirators, and m;i)ftated the ruin
of the people, over whom they wished
to tyrannize. Be tranquil, dear col
leagues, refpefting the brave army of
the Western Pyrenees : it does not be
long to any individual: It is entirely de
voted to liberty and the Republic,
The only fentiraents which animate it,
are the love of one's country—the ha
tred of tyrants, and refpeci and attach
ment to the Convention. Such an ar
my can never belong to a di&ator, what
ever his talents or even his services may
be; and so far from combating for, it
vauld poignard him.—lts wilhes and
our own are, that prompt pwiifhment J
'should be inflicledon all the traitors: it
is neceflary that the laud of liberty ba
purged. The Generals and officers
think the fame as the foldirrs—were any
one to endeavour to profit by this event,
and occjfion tronbles, speedy juttice
should overtake hitn. You may reftaf.
fured that the enemy will be unable to
have any advantage from this event,
whatever hopes it may afford.—Health
and fraternity.
" Cavanac
" Garrau."
Barrcre—" How gloiiovs is this lan
guage in a victorious army, and how
vorthy the Convention to print and
roops of the Republic ! It will confirm
tvery thing that the citizens expect from
heir courage & fidelity : ihey will thus
each to the tyrants and to the duke of
ifork what they aie to expetl from a
lation of tyrannicides and of armies,
;heir testimonies of attachment to the
" But I have not as yet, recounted
ill the fucceffcs of the army of the weft
:rn Pyrenees, for 1 have not informed
you, that a city fatuous on account of
the siege it fuilaincd iq the time (if the
14th Capcf—>that a city whose foitifi
.'HUons have been Itrerrgthcned and aug
mented since that epoch, and which
coll t he Marefchal-dukeof Berwick 8000
men, and a long attack, was taken al
most inftantancoiifly, and that too) by
a detachment of the army. Fontarabia
merous inhabitants, and caferttates to
guards the entrance into Spain, is at
;his moment in the pofiefiion of the Re
public. The particulars of this signal
Tuccefs are too lingular to lie omit
ted here. On the (evening of the fame
Jay, (t4 l h Thermidor,) Garran, Re
prefeutatire of tue people, marched a
jainft Fontarabia with 300 men, all
arave soldiers. Lemarque, assistant to
:he etat Major, and Captain of grena
diers—in short, the citizen whom you
Tec at your bar, with the Spanish co
lours in his hand, led on this Republi
can band. He assumed a position above
lliower of grape (hot, which killed three
soldiers at the fide of Ganau. On be
ing mailer of the height, he instantly
summoned the city to surrender, and
Lemarque, who entered with a flag
threatened an immediate afTault, in cafe
of refufal.
" The council of war immediately
afiembled : it was eompofed of two ca
puchins, one pricft, the commandant,
the town-major, the principal engineer,
and some other officers. The capuehins,
at firft, infilled on defending the city:
they invoked God and all hit holy faints,
hours time, in order to deliberate. La
roarqe, on this, produced the following
laws of war, the French,had aright to
count of their intermedling in civil af
fairs, if the surrender did not take place
within the period fixed by the Reprefen
tatires of the people :
" The commandant of Fontarabia is
hereby summoned to deliver it up to the
army of the Republic : the space of
liberation : that period elapsed, no capi
tulation can be granted, but he and the
whole gartifon shall be put to death.
" From the redoubt of the capu
chirs, this 14th Thermidor, fe
- ccnri year of the Republic, one
and indivisible.
'Signed) " The Representative of the
"People, GARRAU."
" fhere were 800 Spaniards in th<
<4\
to deeide as to the delivering tip the
fame to the army of the Republic, re
ply, That the army, which in conse
quence of its vi&ories, finds itfelf able
to give law to the City, the care of
which is confided to him, will not grant
him any .longer time, than until five
o'clock, in order to accede to the fol
lowing terms:
Article I. The garrison (hall march
out with all the honors of war, ground
their arms before the Republic, and
surrender themselves prisoners of war.
11. All the magazines, artillery, See.
&c. (hall be delivered up to the French
nation, in the fame Hate that they
ate in at this present moment,
ill. No covered waggons (hall be al
lowed.
Given at Fontarabia, this Gift day
of August, 1794.
« VINCENTDE LOSREYER
Commandant of the Placc.
MULLER,
General in Chief of the army of tbfe
Republic.
" Pinaet, fen. reprefenatives of
Cavignac, (the people with
Garrau, r the army of the
J western Pyrenees
Barrere—"Let us not remain insensible
of this exploit: let us recomjience the cap
ture of Fontarabia by a vote of thanks :
and let ouranuals no longer talk of this
city so boaftful of its situation and inviola
bility—but only to remind tjs of the glory
of the of the Western Pyrennes. It
belongsto it to separate Spain from the
Coalition—to diiftate the laws to the Capet
who yet reigns over a superstitious people
and to make the inqnilitors and monftcrs
of Madrid tremble. Eighty republicans
etily fell on this occafior.: thus audacity
abridges danger, and courage preserves
armies: in political and military revoluti
ons, death is always the lot of the coward
and the slave. What, think you, were
' the exprefiions of the fokliers, in the midll
of their victories ? "They now talk of us
in the Convention, they will perhaps order
a report on our condudl." This is truly
republican, and they (hall experience the
reward they so justly merit.
He concluded with proposing, that the
convention should declare that they had
deserved well of their country —Decreed
arnidft unanimous plaudits.
PHILADELPHIA,
OCTOBER a 7.
We hear the President of the United
States is expected in Town to-morrow,
01 next day.
He left Bedford on the 24th inft.
By an exprcfs arrived this day, ac
counts are received that the Army had
marched forward from Bedford, on the
23d instant.
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(& Many of the Eastern newspapers
due on Friday last, were not received
here till this day—and these, particu
larly the Bolton papers, were in such
a wet, torn and mutilated condition
that it was impossible to make extra&s
from them—had they contained any
thing important.—The New-York pa
pers, notwithstanding the violent storm 1
of yesterday, came to hand in good
order.
•i .i • 1......
In a London paper under the head of
August 19th, there appears an arti
cle, purporting to be an extract of a
letter from Paris dated July 31ft,
this extraS contains a detail of the
events which took place on the fall
of Robespierre and his party—On
that occasion twenty three persons,
distinguished in the Government, were
executed, besides sixty eight others,
muuicipal officers of Paris——and yet
the extradl concludes with observa
tions from which it is inconteftibly
evident, that the proscription of one
party failed, while that ps the other
actually took place—that it was a
personal contest for power, with which
the interests of the people for the
moment, had no connexion.
" Thus has Paris escaped that scene
of profenption and blood shed which for
some time had been preparing by Ro
bespierre and his aflociates, and which
was on the point of being carried into
execution. It was forefeen on the 10th
■ of June, the day on which the inviola
bility of the deputies was set aside, by
a decree allowing them to be carried
before the Revolutionary Tribunal, on
the accusation of the Ctfiiimitree of
Public Safety, which was known to be
compofcd of creatures fubjeft to the di
rection of Robefpierrc. From that
period Tallien, who, on that day, had
the boldr.efs to oppose the decree, and
who can fed an amendment to be added,-
" that the deputies /hould firft be ac
cused by the Convention," has been
fuccefsfully busied in contriving plans
to ruin Robefpierrc, or, in other -words,
to save himlelf } for it .vas not pofiible
that both could continue to live. His
party was strong but timid ; nor could
I any thing have made thenr aft, even
I when they did, but the certainty, that
if forty-eight houri had been allowed to
pass over, not a man of them would
have escaped thr. blow aimed again It
them by Rokerfpierre, and which was
just ready to falL
" in proportion to the fears with
which the sanguinary proceedings of
Robespierre filled the minds of all men,
so ate the execrations with which his
memory is now loaded. It is impossible
to conceive the general indignation now
expiefled again 11 him, without wonder
ing at the address and policy of a man,
who could contrive to keep a whole
people iu fear, and make them not only
fubfervieut to, but in appearance, to
approve of measures dilated by one,
jvhom each individually execrated in
his heart."
On Monday evening last departed this
life, in the 58th year of his age, Mr.
Jam es Reynolds carver and gilder, of
this city ; and on Tuesday evening his re
mains, attended by a number of repedla
ble citizens, were interred in Christ
Church burial ground, Arch-Street. His
children have long to lament the loss of
a kind, indulgent father—his relations,
and acquaintance, a faithful friend—and
society, an acflivehoneft man.
By this Day's Mail.
PROVIDENCE, October 19.
Last week patted through this town, on
their way to Philadelphia, Sieur Ibrahim
and Mahomed Ben Ali —two fubjeils of
the Dey of Algiers—the former late a
Captain of a Frigate, and the latter his
lieutenant. They are at present soliciting
permiflion of the Dey to return home ; it
being dangerous for them to return after
having been taken, although by a fupqpior
force. They are gentlemen of refpedla
ble families, and from the gratefnl and
very affe&ing manner in which they re
ceived the attentions paid them here, there
13 no doubt, if they ftiould receive the de
sired permiflion, they will be of lervice to
our unfortunate countrymen now prison
ers in Algiers.
NEW-HAVEN, OR. it, 1794.
The Committee to make weekly report
of deaths and ltate of the sickness in this
city certify—That Mr. Nathaniel Jocelin
aged 73, who died laftevening, is the only
person since their last report —he had been
sick with the Putrid fever, which left him
in a declining state.
They certify that there are only three
persons in any way affedted with the fever
one of whom i« dangerous, .the others reco
vering, that those sick of the fever are in
the Newtownfhip.
They further certify that the families
which left the city on account of the sick
ness, have many of them returned and
others are daily returning.
NEW-YORK, October 24.
ARRIVED.
Ship 8. Carolina, Sheffield, Charleston
Schr. Seaflower, Arnold, Richmond
Captain Dekay, from Lisbon, fays the
ship Camilla, Boyce, was to failfroin Opor
to the 30th October.
The Success, of Philadelphia, arrived at
Lisbon id September.
BOSTON, oa. 18.
The Circuit Courtbw confirmed the
decree, of the Judge of tKe DiftriS*
Court, in (he ease of the schooner Sue;-
cefti illegally cap»ured hy a post fan
he Coneorde frigate.
-* A .
Samuel Rogers, tried at the Circuit
Court, was found guilty of illegally as
sisting on board the above boat, in the
above capture. He is not fentcnced.
The executive of this commonwealth,
has appointed Thursday the zoth Nov.
next, as a day for a Public Thanklgiv
ing, throughout the fame :
" Save us from all desponding fears;
Now may our trust in God be Itrong,
While full Thanksgivings (hall aiife,
And Hear'n-born Peace refold the
song."
Near one thousand Bears have been
killed the present season in the counties
of Washington and Hancock ; a cir
cumstance unprecedented in the annals
of the country. Their approach to
wards the sea is owing, it is supposed,
to the froft in June having killed the
berries, fruits, See. on which they sub
sisted. "
J. M. Bakt,
Ao. .170, North Second Street,
IlefpeAiully informs the Citizens, that lie
intends lo open an
Evening School,
Frfim SIX to NINE o'clock, beginning
nrxt Monday, Inft. where lie will
ti ach the
French £s* Italian languages
Arithmctick and Book-keeping'
On' the mojl reafonalle Terms.
A ilri t attendance may be depended
upon by jfcofe who wisl lavoar him with
enißio; merrt.
ca. zj d
Joseph Weeks, Master.
To fail in four days. For pafiage apply
to the Captain on board, near Chel'nut
ftreet wharf, or
No. 81, South Water-Street.
Who has just received by said veflel,
a quantity of the best
PICKED MACKAREL,
And a few barrels of Liver Oil.
He has aifo
Salmon, Beef, Pork and Butter,
MolafTes, ;
A quantity of Men's and Women'*
Coarse and Fine Shoes,
French Brandy,
Flax,
Mould Candles,
50 Hhds. Maryland heavy Tobacco,
Whale Ben;,
Dry 1 ilh,
iooo Barrels Superfine aild Common
Flour, 4
4000 Bushels Lisbon Salt,
Ruflia and Salem Duck,
Hyson and Souchong Tea,
Cloves, and 13 cwt. New Cordage.
o<n. »7 d4t.
Three tracts of Land,
LYING in Cn'pepper County, Virginia,
on Moun tail/Run ; one tiaft is within %J,
the other two, 30 mi lei of Ffedcrickfcu'g,
on Rappahanock river. The tract that is
within 85 mile*, contains about 1400 acres
50of meadow land, in two fepaiate plan*
'rations ; on it is an extervfive' two-fti ry
dwelling lioufe, 4 rooms below, ant! four a
toove, with 6 fire pljce?, a large bji r, (ta
b'e, and othtf a grift and faw
miil, witha large hdufc, which can very ed
fiiyand with liitle expense, be turned in
to a. manufactory mill. A large quarry
of liitte ftonr, very easily Come at, which is
very profitable, as there is rone of any ac
count within 40 milesuf the place-
The other tradl has a good dwelling
houle, 2 ro; ms below, and 2 above, a good
frame barn, and other out-houfes, and a
good orchard on each place.
The ofht-r two r ra<sl*« one of which con
tains 4,56, the other i 66, only, the said rua
oivtdes them : are in a fine situation,
and afford beautiful , there are
good dwelling houies on each, one has four
rooms below, the other two, and other out
houses, some fruit trees, tew acres now in
grass on one of'the tradb, and a stone diftifc.
lery house 20feei square in the clear.
ALSO,
A Small Traß of
Lease Land,
For two Lives, lying on Rappahanock ri
ver, 2jmiles fiom Frederickfourgh, with
a good mill cu it.
Apply to
Joseph Roberts.
Fiedsricksbur;;!!, Oft. 12 3t
Forty dollars reward.
¥
RAN AWAY from the Subfcribci on Sa«
turday night the nth inft.
A Mulatto lad,
named BilJ, gerrrally called Bill Madden,
about 17 o' 18 y *rj of age, J fee! 7 or 8 in.
chej high, of a slim make, has strait black
hair, wh ch h« f; metimes we s tied, but
generally lose; h„- has been accustomed to
wait alt ge her 111 a house, and having been
much indulged, has become too idle to work
for a support. He took with him a brown
fuflian double bieafted long coat, one drab
coili coat, with red cuffs and cape, the
pocket flnps and Ikirts trimmed with red
edge,a fuflaiH waistcoat.a pair df buckskin
bi ecches, a pair of red striped trowler j,
and several other cloaths, also a pair of
boots, halfworn. It is probable he has a
forged pafj, and will endeavoui to pass as
a free man. From every circumstance, I
am led to bHieve he went off witlta whit*
woman, and that they.had taken their pal
faj»e in a vessel bound to Philadelphia.
The above reward will bepaid to any
perf'on delivering me the said servant, anfl
teafoiiablc charges for bring n » bim home.
Daniel Carroll.
Of Duddington.
City of Walbington, Oft. to
Oft. 57 *3taw2w
Old American Company.
THEATRE—CEDAR. STREET.
.wilToats,
r-i»M
Strolling Gentlemen.
To which will be added,
For the only night this season the celebra
ted Grand PANTOMIME of
DON WAN i
The Libertine Deftroy'd.
As performed upwards of one hundred
nights in London,
With aH th' Music, Songs, Dances, Jcc
CC/" PoJlponcd last Saturday evening
on account of the u eather.
For BoJlott y
The Schooner
PHOENIX,
yOHN WELSH,
For Sale,
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Or, the