I * sf ate paper. ne'Stm* of Hoi Jnd and Weft-Frie'"- landhsve publifhjd the PROCLAIM \TION. " THE States of Holland and Weft. FrielUyid, $ic. make known, Whereas, the circumltances of the war, so utijuft ly 'declared by the French government again ft the' Republic, have again taken such aturn, that the frontiers of the State are exposed a second time to the violence of the enemy's inyafion, which can be no wife refitted than by employing the most Vigorous means : to this effect, ani mated by the sentiments which his most Serene Highnefsthe Prince Stadtholder, exprefled, iji his address to the States- Gener.il the 14th of lad month, we have firmly resolved to facrifice our properties and lives in defence of the Sta», particularly of this province, and in prote&ing eVery thing that is dear to us in this country. We have judged it necefiary, and our duty, to in form the good citizens, of these our seri ous intentions and views; and, at the fame time to declare, that we are very far from despairing of the fafety of the State, tdgether with all its prerogatives, both religious and civil, in cafe that the means which Divine Goodness has given and preserved to us, are employed with that cordiality, concord, and true pa triotism, which have at all times charac terized tne free-born Belgic nation. It is with this view, that we exhort every citi zen, Who is not totally, degenerated from the virtues of his ancestors, to renounce, at this time, when the country is m dan ger, all party fpi'rit, and to unite heart in hand for the preservation of their own interests, and to remember that every man in his own fpherc is obliged to co operate, fincc there is not a single perfou who would not lose, in the fall of the state, his own personal liberty, and his ujireftrained means of subsistence ; but above all, let every one think, that this obligation becomes greater, in propor tion to his pofleflions, or other relations •ip this country, so favoured by Heaven. « That amongst the means we judge may,and oughttobeemploytdwithvigor we reckon the local situation and the na tural force of the country, strengthened by forti'effes and by inundations,by mean* of which our enemies have been so of ten driven from our frontiers, as likewise the augmentation and tne abundant stores with which the army of the State is pro vided, encouraged as it is by the immortal glory it has acquired in the two last cam paigns. But neither is it to be diffembledi that in order to put every thing into the most respectable situation it is capable of, considerable sums are wanted. For these wants, we have endeavoured to provide ill time, as well by rcfolving upon different means, as by irnpofing a tax after example of like circumstances in the year 1747 ; three proportions of which we, with all other wcll-intentickled citizens, have al ready paid, being obliged, by our he celfities, to anticipate the last proportion a month before the time. Nevertheless, all the means of supply hitherto furnifh cd fall greatly fhcsrt of the neceflities of this expensive war, more especially at the present moment, when the fafety or the fall of the Republic defends upon the prompt furnilhing of coin. « fn the mean time we with pleasure learn, that many good citizens, who have the power of doing so, have declared them lelvfis ready to succour the country effi caciouily with all their powers, atthis con* juncture, if a general call be made to this effedl, and if a loan be opened on such conditions as agTee best with the present value of the interest of Money." Purluant to the directions of the Law tor incorporating the lnfurance Company of North America, a Meeting wil' be held at the Company'! Office, on Ths> (il»y the day of November «nfu inp, when Two Directors are to be Ciiufcn lor the emaindef ot' the present yeu>, to l'up ( )ly the places of two Oontlek nien who have been Hefted Direftois of a nother lnfurmce Company. The Votes may be given by the Stock holders either in person or by Proxy, but no:e may vote " uolefs the (lock, (hall have ftond in rheir names at leall three jnonths preceding the time of Election." JSv older of the Ptefident and Di'eftors Ebenezer Hazard, See ry. (jft. a 4 tuß^ti^N Ptfl-'QJfce, Philadelphia, Sept. 22, 1794 The mail for Lancaftcr, Yorktown, Carlisle, Shippen(burg, Chamberfburg, Bedford, Greenfburg and Pittfcurg, closes every Saturday precifaJy at half pall 11 in the morning. The Mail for Heading, Lebanon Harrilburg and Carlisle, closes every Tuesday at 3 o'clock in the afternoon. ® i<« miritrA. To THOMAS OKEF.NLE.Af and JOHN PS.L- lotrtijnr. When yon rcpublilhed Rabaut's history of th* revolution in France, you gave a re»l pleafurc t'oall loversof truth and re publican government. The high literary chiraclier of thf author, which was known in America, had prepared the public for a f.ivni able reception of his work This work you numbered as the firft vo lume of a hiftoy, which, you informed your readen, you intended to publtfh ; aud many people supposed that they woe to be favoured with a second volume from the fame pen. On looking into what you have numbered a* your second volume, we find the titto page announces a very different wolrk—."An Impartial H'ltkory of the late re volution of Fiance." This word Impartial in the mduthscf rank party meti; and a ti tle which the modest Rabaut had not affum- Ed led rtie to fui;'£ as illiberal abuj t : Therefore I have taken the pains to com-i pare a part of your copy with 'lie original history in the Annual4*egi-ll as dignity, but treated *their conrtitation with contempt. Yet this reflection on the Aflembly you have thought proper to suppress. Original, page 124. Copy 34. " The '.of the Royal veto on this occasion (the decise of Nuvtftjber 9th against emigrants) was certainly an imprudent (}ep ; though there is no rea son to aUtibiitt-kto any perfidious mo J tive, or to-acttsunVfor k on any ottjer prin \ ciple r thon thai' getiileriefs of difpojltion, I that t'tidertufs if character, by iukuh this unfortunate monarch was so rr.wh dijlin '/I / " guijbcti. .Here you omitted a very natu ral rt flexion of the hiftovian, and one that is warrantid by the known charac ter of the late king; and the omission, ail candid men will attribute.to a pitiful desire of hiding from the world even virtues attached t6 Royalty; With Jacobins, every thing in and about a Prince must be vicious—they stem to think that a kfog or a noble or a prieil cai.not pofTef3 a virthe ; and it is not fufficient" to adhere to that excellent maxim de thoftuls nil nif: bonutn ; but a king, must not have credit for virtues ! which, lie actually pofTefled. Original, fame page, copy 34. " In contemplating the hiltory of 'this amiable atid unfortunate manarcl.." —Here you ,have omitted the epithet amiable ; for wliat reason, you bed know. Same pages—" and their innocent mnna!ch would never have fallen a fa' crifice to a relentless moh"—Copy « and their monarch Would nevir have fallen a facfifice." It seems you cannot hear a word in difappvobation of mobs, as they are favorite instruments of go vernment io the hands of Jacobins. Original, page 126. Copy 38, " And to complete the diltr"aCtion, this body [the clergy] was poflefTed of an influence over the minds of the jko ple» which it was not easy to suppress. In fad, the non-juring clergy were pof fejfed of all the popularity, of all the cre dit of the order. Their chapels were crouded, while those of the confiitutional or conforming clergy -were utterly deserted." Here you'have fupprefied a most ma terial fact j'one that throws great light upon the tjanfaftiohs in France. The attachment of the people to the non juring clergy was evinced by their re sorting to their chapels—this attach ment of the people to the old supersti tion was probably a principal cause of the clergy's refufing 16 take the civic oath—the taking of this oath was at that time unpopular—and these facts (how the difficultly which the revolu tionists had to encounter, and probably go far to account for the civil wars of La Vendee. But you are incapable of making reflections and dedu&ions like these, and your want of inlelle&uals competent to this purpose may peflibly take off a part of the censure which must otherwise fall upon the intentions of your hearts. In the feme page, you have omitted several featencqi, containing some im portant remarks on the severe decree, baui(hing the non-juring clergy. Original, rage 127. " To these decrees, after some delay, the king, from apparently the mojl hu mane and confcienfious tnvtives, opposed his veto, andthus unfortunately increas ed the clamor which was inftdioufly ex cited again ft him in every pait of the kingdom." Copy, page 40. "To these decrees, after some delay, the king opposed his yeto, and thus unfortunately increafcd the Amor which WM indvjlriovjly ex- cited against him in every part bf- the ki sr g t;, P *.>?. Tta'<*»"f important paragraph u wholly omitted. •' The haPty difmifiion and impeach ment of miners, in confluence of inflammatory ha.angues from popuUr orator., and without any hearing or m veftigation, may be accounted among the principal causes of the calamities of France. The rapid fucceflion of mim fters allowed them no time to remedy abuses, or to make the necessary arrange ments for the defence ot the kingdom>! the fear of impeachment rendered them cautious and timid, and directed their attention rather to the arts of acquir ing popularity, than to the performance of their duty: rather to .ntr.gu.ng with the defpicabk Journahlts who go verned the mbb of Paris, than to the aflual service of their king and coun- try." ( , This paragraph throws odium and infamy an the Jacobins and tHf leaders of the Paris mob ; and this is realon enough with you to suppress it, how ever important the facts and ftmarks it contains. , . in the fame page the original htltory applies to Mr. Bailly, the Mayor of Paris, the epithets of judicious pa triotic, which you ha\e omitted—for this reason do'.ibtlels, he would not go all lengths with the Jacobin club; he was denounced and became unpopular therefore you will not give him credit for virtue*, which he d'iplayed during his administration. In relating fa&s refpeßing the Jaco bins, you have carefully fupprefTed eve ry expression that tends to cast reproach on them. In speaking of their oppc fers; you have as carefully fupprefTed exprefiions tending to their credit. Ihe original history speaks of the fuillans, as some of the mod aflive and rc/peßa ble members of the Conttituent A (Tern- bly ; tli? words mojl refpeSable, you have fuppreiTed 4 although Rabaud, the av'thor of the Sift volume of your his- Ujry, is one of the members mentioned. Rabaud'was a mighty good and refptc• tabic man,' till be opposed tlie Jacobin club ; then, in your view, he defeived no cfcdit nor reputation. Original, page 130. " The Repub lican party and the Jacobins could not behold this new aflbcialion [the society of fuillansj without secret disquiet. It was evidently formed to disconcert their confpimcies, and to open the eyes of the public to their true intetejy" As they defpairedof vanquifhinV it by the force of reason and truth, tifcy deter mined to employ that blind aip desper ate inftruflient the fflle guidance of which they had long be?n laboring to acquire." That is the Mob. Copy, page 46, after tliefirft fent«nce, 1 '• It was evidently formed to disconcert, | their measures, by endeavoring to render them odious to the people. They were tberfore determined on its delfrudtion." —■ Here is a total alteration in the sense of the have uniformly given credit to this hillory in the Annua! Register, when it relates fadts that you like—but when it relates things that throw a scandal on the Jacobins and the Paris mob, you either omit the relation altogether, or what is worse, you change the pallage and give it a meaning that you like. Ihe lail ientence you have omitted as tho' you meant, and probably you did mean, to ap prove of the conduCl of the Jacobins in fending a body of armed ruffians to dif £erfe their oppofers, the fuillans. Original', page 137. The following paragraph, of the death of Mr. DelelVart, which fee ne opened the bloody tragedy in France, you have also omitted. " He was the firft viilim to that desperate fadiion which since deluged France with blood, and the Afiembly passing a decree | ps accusation against a citizen withmitlirft hearing him in lus own defence, having fixed anS indelible blot upon their records, and afforded a fatal fpecimenof that prompt and hasty punilhmeiit which has since ex hibited the judicial proceedings of that na tion as an object of detestation and con tempt to the world." NeYer were remarks more just or better merited ; yet they fix a stigma upon the ruling fa&ion, and therefore you omitted them. In page 141 of the original, yeu have omitted a column, containing I'ome excel lent remarks on the absurdity and fatal confequenees of admitting the populace to the galleries, and permitting them to ap plaud or censure the speakers—a pra«3ice from which has flowed half the calamities of the French nation. In the paflage, page 141 of the original, refpeiSling the indecent fccne of the bifheps. you have fupprefled this line—many irreli gious allufiwj vre indulged in. In the next page the following sentence is omitted—" Such at least we are allured was the opinion of Mr. La Fayette, whose judgment appears in general to have been found, and vhofe patriotism, none, but a violent and desperate fadlion, has ever pre sumed to queltion." The omilfion of this fa£V, so highly honorable to La Fayette, could proceed only from a violent and des perate No cai.did man ever yet impeached the integrity or patriotism of that unhappy man, and to suppress a fa£l or lentiment, beoaulc honorable to bits, is the efTedt of poor, pitiful Contemptible jealousy. In llrifl pursuance of your impartial plan of hiding every thing that dilgrarti the Jacobin* and the mob, you have ne gledted to insert, from page 145, the hor rid proceedings of the enraged foldieiv near Lisle, immediately after the murdi'r of Mr. Dillon. A party of the royal crs vate, a regiment of cavalry, rulhiiig pre cipitately towards Lisle overto ok Mr, ij rr _ thois, an officer of Engineers. Some of those traitors." They instantly fell im r .„ him, he received several (hots, fell fc on> his horse, and the body being fulpended from a lamp iron, every soldier in the par ty discharged his piece at it as he palled. Why is this fa£t concealed ? Why hash not a place in your impartial hiu tory ? Answer this question, and blulh for your daring attempts to impose on your readers. Blush also for your care leilhefs, which, in this very paragraph, which mention* the word prifontrs, in a way that can be explained only by the preceding part which you have omitted. In your zeal to suppress all difgraceful facts, you have left this part of jour history without connection and unintel- ligible. But in no part of the work have you found such difficulty, as in relating the mafiacres of the ioth of Augult, arid 2d and 3d of September. As the hor-, ror» of those scenes w«re by your favorite Jacobins, and were at tended with such deliberate and outra geous violations of all law, of decency, of humanity, and of all virtue and jus tice, that you have found it perplexing to carry through a tolerable narrative of the events, without intermingling some reflexions on your dear friends, the ruf fians who perpetrated the murderous deeds. To save the instigators of these horrid njaflacres from their merited in famy, you have chopped and mangled this part of the history in a molt (hame ful manner; and finally so great a part '■ of the narration in the original became a 1 elation of the (hocking barbarities of ! your friends, that you were compelled ). _ A 1 D __ J t_ _ your friends, th;.. , t to quit the Annual Register, and havi recourse to some defpieable Journal, and ■elate a few events in the form of a Di .rv. Your favorite plan of relating aft* only on one fide, here rcduced you o the necessity of omitting the moll im jorta'nt, the most interesting narration n the whole history ; and finally, for jvant of talents to compile a hiftoriral ■elation out of the materials you poflef ed, your history, in the midst of th? noil interesting foenes that have marked he revolution, and those which diftin juiihed its crisis, finks down into the "orm of a broken, pitiful Journal. I have not examined the whole vo ume. 1 am so much disgusted ai the vork, and so much displeased with the :ditors, that I have no patience to wade hrough the whole performance. I have lere told the world the truth so far as ny ftriftures Extend ; but in the 140 examined, there are proLably fix imes as many omissions, and mutila ions as I have recited. The samples lere given will fatisfy the public, as to ,-our motives and the demerit of the pub ication ; and men will hereafter be on heir guard against any attempts of yours o impose on them, under the title of mpartial, the most partial and imper eft history that any man ever had the rfFrontery to chriftcn by that dignified lame. Let me then alk you how you dare jretend to be friends to the rights of nan, when you thus attempt to impose >n his understanding ? One of you is a Printer, the other a Bookfcller, and both have command of :hannels by which informatior. is com •nunicated to the public. What confi lence can even your friends place in ■our publications ? If you can thus chop o pieces a very well written, and so far is we can judge, impartial history, to erve the purposes ot your party and ■our prejudices, who can tell whetner, -ou do not the fame in every booh or e 'ery paper you publish ? Have not the nemoirs of the late Queen of France >een publilhed in the fame mangled con iition—a wotk, the truth of whieh is mfupported by authority or proof too ndecent in the original for the eyes or an of common modeftv, and .mutila ed and chastized as the American cdi ion now is, yet altogether oflcnfive to lelicacy and pernicious to morals -low long will you be fuffcred thus to )roceed in spreading the poifoii of the nofl deniable doctrines and op.mons . ,Vhen will you ceafeto mislead the pub- But you are Democrats —members >f the society of pure patriots, who •lofet themselves for the purpose «'♦ fl uffing the conduct of rulers, and prea ling political information. Is this Impartial bjhry then the wo.k >f democrats—friends to the equa rig >f man ? Is such the information that Democrats diffufe among the peop * • Do you ejpeft to aid the cst'.fc of yova