for the Gazette of the United Stales. Mr. FENHO, WE have among 11s persons who leonfider the prevailing varty in France as always right till a stronger party cuts off their heads. Then the new party are in the right. Be it fife Even tlii unsteady rule of right will antwer tlu purpose to put down the namc-caHinp impudcnce of our clubs. It is now faiu that Pobefpierre, lately the demi god, waß juflly put to death, becanfe he was a cruel tyrant, a di£Utor who had usur ped the sovereign power. This may be so ; for many true patiioti held him in abomination long before his fall. E- Vents have confi;itwd, not changed their notions of his conduit awl authority. But what made him a di&ator, a ty rant? He was a puny little fellow, who was so for from being able to bind tlic- French nation with cords of slavery, that he was rrot a match for a Jinglc fifhe! mar;. He had means, however, which enabled him for a time to earn' his point. The clubs obeyed his will Thro' them, he ruled Parij, and deciclr 1 whether a citizen Ihould enjoy his own estate, or wear his own head ; through them, he awed the Convention, and made the ileyolmionary Tribunal his blood-hounds. § He nude the lawfpeak or hold its glib tougue. He could flretch his knife out from Paris to the frontiers. In short, no king of France is pretended to have been half as bloody, or half as arbitrary. Let us learn wisdom from the fuffer ings of Others. Shall we cherish clubs in Our country as the friends of liberty, wh -n all parties at last agice thsy iuave — (rfiafliTTsTn France? Mr. Genet, v vj brought the eggs of these venomous reptiles to our shores, has put us 011 out guard against their flings. His was fliort ; yet al tho' it was too long for oilr repose and our honor, it la (led long enough for warning. It is afTerted, and it seems to be cre dited, that a snake will not live in Ire land. From the prcfent auspicious ap ■-pearances, it will soon be our more fdu tary boast that anarchy clubicaitnot cx ift in America. C. Continued from Thutfday't Gazette.) .. How fluctuating is popiHar favour, iid on what tr:v;al circutnllanceg and inknown variations in the humours of nen, do great affairs depend ! the co'rti auneof Paris, the armed force of Pd is, the Jacobin dub at Paris, ramified nto every part of France, and hitherto he arbiters of the public coWncHt ant' - rtune, were alt on the fide of Ro'oef >ierre. Bift a spirit of bold patri'otifh vas quickly spread by powerful fymp'a hy from certain individual* in the M» ional Convention tfi&Sughout all clailes I " Parii. A force VVa'i quickly provid-j ■d for guarding the National Convention j ' rom violence ; the courage ahd firmnefs | 3 )l the Parisian guaids were not rallied by the intrepid oratory and ex ample of Henriot the Comrtione o Paris that had at fir ft promised an afy., lum to Robespierre, taniely gave him up i the municipali y and the feiftions o! Paris congratulated the Convention on his ni reft—and all the people ex preflid immoderate joy at the execution J f *'I»V who, but A few days' before, h-d beei thei# idol. But had rlie com- InteJjigence. tnurfc of Paris, arid she rriunfcipal guards, ° ' ; hcoh firm to their engagements, thj T ovnoiTc I Convention might have been furrouud ' Sf pt- 2 >-• ;ed befoic they had time to ft, ike a blow. It i# rumoured in Holland, that Ba- The Courage of that affeinbly m«S on Van Gk'u l:c« « at ihis time em- have beetles ft' down, and tf««t «»'.s£& >loyed on a plan ot general pacification,- - T«nilint«ipw(Ju.llUH.J!Hy exalted." The jetween the Alll'. i Cowers and the late of hung in fulpenfe oil the French Republic, it is alio reported «j«cftion who fliould strike the firft blow; hat the French ate demolishing the ' was to be'determined by the toss-up ortification of Shiyi. [ of a halfpenny. The Couit of Portugal, it appears, ' 3• was perhaps otving to the con ire equipping the whole of their naval fideiice they placed in the jacobin*, and "ice, and alio making gfeat exertions the municipality of Pa-;s that Robef n the land u-rviettjjtt. join the forces of pierre, his brother, Coutho;;,- St Juif, Spain. &<:. in thjpSetnmon cause o f the "thers, behaved with such undaunt :o.ilefced powers againit Fiance. ' *d coma<;e, when Robespierre nas de- Letiers received from Switzerland, ) nounced i.i the Convention. There ay, that the troops of the Cantons are . ivas ; however, a noble i'riHpricty in lai! v arc daily augmenting on the fide ' their conduit. They did Sot fiirink >f France; and all the inhabitants are \ from theit friend in the critical moment novement of the French. From Pied- his principles and cause, and clung, as nont it appears, t.hat the French are ft were, to his person. To fay the lill retreating. truth, the French in this dreadful rev®. All letters and accounts from' Italy lution, have displayed innumerable i,i- Jy the Flufhir/j mail almost agree in j ftar.ces of heroism. Never wa» there a bating the gradual and entire retreat of greater contempt of death, or prodiga he French from Italy, and that this '' l y °f I'fe—But, night be perfor<£gjl with greater feeu- That which chiefly intercffs afcftnd ■lty, in rainy place*, their tents have a " the neighbouring nations in xea left Handing. ™ catnftrophe at Paris, is, itr pdJmlfcl Numerous accounts from Spain down conferences. We, itt Britain, have o the date of the 3d inft. agree with not > perhaps, (wren fully ienhble, how •ur late reprefentationg refpe&ihg the general the spirit of liberty had become •heck with the enemy have lately fuf- France, and hoW deeply rooted. We fcined in the province of Guipufcoa ; have been prone to hope that the csufc >i?t it does not appear that St. Sebatliaii oF tnoriaiehy would draw i'ome advan ind Fontarabia ate yet retaken. tage fiomthe pievalence of certain men A severe and general fever IwS been a «d sett of men and the fall of others, ■aging in the illand of Cotftca for some Various ups and downs, however oi imepaft. this kind have taken place: and '(till An accoint was yesterday posted at 'he French go on in their wild career. Lloyd's, Rating that the Hennikejythe }Ve are apt to look at men and perfonai Expedition, the Thames, and the Sa- influence j the French to principles, to ■ah, with 23 others, being part of a f'eedom. to the elLblifhment of a re- Wet of upwards of 10 Tail, vugjfefail. public. Even if Robespierre and his id from Spithead for Corunna, under faction had gained tlje advantage over ■onvoy of a Spar.ifh 74, and two sri- the Convention, it is not ptobable that rates, had been captured by a squadron 'heir al'cendeocy ; the ;f 10 fail of French men of war off they might have bound'tKe nation in fct- C»JW Ortegal. v ter» for a time, and prepared the way foi A letter from on board <B|6evcrn various events never now to happen, nan of w»r, off Cape Ortegal, bearing By the overthrow of thatfaaion which S. by E. nine or ten leagues, dated Au- aimed to give law to the Convention. full, :sth, 1794, fay». "At seven the authority ot that aflembly will be A. M. the 22d August, the Carysfort confirmed ; and the tide of affairs flow frigate, chafed a large Dutch (hip *nd mor e nnd more iu the channel of repub took her : (lie w*s loaded with 560 licantfm. Tallien may undergo the fats hogsheads of fngar, 300 teeth, indigo, °f Danton and Robespierre, but othei frj. had been taken by the French nine heads will spring up ; and thus this tur .lays, there were nine of these vessels bulent state, like a race of men, mai aken by eight Frenth fiigates." be continued for a time, nmidft deatl Awututi received fro* the djfierent a "d a»d ■, h ipw forms ; tin Foreign parities in the ifland'of Jamaica a! con tain the flounlhing and luxuriant state jf the growth of the bread fruit, and other plants, lately- introduced from the South lea idands : a very large number if plants of the bread fruit have been added to the original flock by layers; tnd in the pari(h of Trelawny, there re fevtral trees growing luxuriantly iom cutting.—The price of rum is lowered to 3s 6d. p.;r gallon. Letters from Copenhagen mention, that 450 torn of saltpetre from Bengal have been lately fold there at the eitor no'.is price of 2001. per ton, for the use of the French ; the Municipalities of which country, without aay reference or communication with each other, had imprudently given orders to different merchants in Denmark to buy sos them ! these merchants bidding against each other, occafi(j:icl this rife"; saltpetre felling at this time in London at about s 21. per ton; This seems to prove, that the French do no: make such vast quantities of saltpetre in their own coun try as they have boasted. Fttm the Enffijb Revutv, to Septem ber, 1794, , OF FRANCE. their family, Ske pirates and robbers, will probably be of fliort duration. It ( maj be here objc£ted to this prediction that nations of men have in character, and vocation of robbers, enjoyed a long and splendid exigence. Witoefs the Arabian tribes, the dates of Barbary, intermixed with Arabs, and tin6tured with Arabian customs ; and; above all, the Roman founded in ideas of rapine, and by ideas of rapine cairted to the highest pitch of power and glory. But the circumliances under which the iArabian and Roman Hates took root nto the earth, and those of the present time are moil eifeutially different: and thercfoie it is not reasonable to infer, that what wits produced or permitted by the former, will also be produced or permitted by the latter. When the A rabians, but especially when the Ro mans; laid the foundations of their pow er, the world in gfrieral wu funk in lg noranoe, rivetted to (he foil by habits of hunting, and the occupations of a griculture ; confined to narrow spheres by the tyranny of fupcrftition ; and en gaged only in the petty warfare of plun der or passion : the firl't extremely li mited in extent, the second in duration. In the pi.efeht Etge (it science, com meree, and extended intercourse of na tions, no political revolution in one country is regarded as a matter of indif fereoce in another ; but a revolution tliat threatens to cut up by the roots si lubordination and good order, on which ali improvements and comfort depend riuift, in it 3 piogrefs, be oppuled by al civilized nations. Hitherto the Euro pean nations, from a narrow and short lighted felfilhnefs, have thrown thecbie burthen of the contest on the Empero aftd the Englilh.' , arju. i i|C , But ffiould the French cross the • Rhine, and other barriers, nations more ' remote would be brought into play ; and the horizon of their vi&o'riea' mint , always be furrotindtJ by a wider hori zon of refinance; until, at la It, their Itrength be enfeebled by diitanci* tvrecn the source of owtion and the centre of percuflion'. Thus then, it ! seems certain, that the present order of ! affairs In France cannot he lading. If . the French continue their attacks all a- , round them, they will weaken their itrength by dilatation, and provoking a wider and wider confederacy aj;ainft them. If, on the contrary, they should attempt to confine themfrlves, in peace, within their own borders, then their ! government must fall to pieces for want; ' of external, WW That prefnrelJ was iudf** at nrlt, vriy mrprmrmf f 1 forCST upon them. Their neighbours} * may, however, fee their error, and leave] * the French to themselves. But the ru-, e i le's of that unhappy people, iri such a ' c ease, would be reduced to-the nectffity j c of provoking hostility ; for their repub- 1 lie is a kind of salamander that can exilt ) only by fire. c Although reasoning ftom ancient : o ' modem times has fowielimes been car- f ried to pedantic extravagance, we can, in some instances, trace fimilaiitics of fituatfofi between ancient and modern nations, which, human nature being in all ages the fame, may juitify certain general anticipations. The Roman wa3 but an ill-balanced state, confiding of only two powers; that of the Senate, ! and that of the people. The enmities be tween the two powers, on manifold occn- were carried to extremities ; but when thiy were just on the verge of battle, some patriot always found means to effect a coalition of parties by pro voking a foreign war < under the dan ger of which they were compreffcd by the common enemy into internal unif#n, at lead a suspension of internal violence. But Rome going on conquering and to conqutr, and wanting at lenght exter nal enemies, near enough to serve as a balance for her internal agitation, fell back ttpon herfelf, and perished in her own fire. The French demagogues have Greece and Rome too much in their heads not to be fenfibls that peacc would be fatal to their turbulent state ; which mull therefore die, now that the sword has been unhappily drawn, not ] by a plethora, but by exhaustion. It ! seems now impossible, to continue the phraseology of physics, to lessen the ac tion of the democracy without lessening its power. Translated for the Aurora from the Paris Monitsur. NATIONAL CONVENTION. September 11. Bernard of Sainles President. The President—A letter in Engli(h hasjuft now been delivered to mc ; the tranllation which was joined, announces that the Miniftcr Plenipotentiary of the United States of America fends a ttand of colours, in order to be plaeed in the hall of tiie National Convention, on 'the fide of the Frencfc colours. It is brought bjr an officei of the United States. - The Contention oiders him to be admitted. The American officcr enters the bar amidst univerjal shouts of ap plaule : he carries a ftandatd, the co lours of wiiich are the fame as those of our standard of liberty, with the only difference that a blue field is interspersed with Stars. He prefentcd the two following pieccs, which were re:id by a Secretary. The Minister of the United States of Amtriea to the President of the Na tional Conventi' i). Pa.is, 23d FruftidorfSept. II.) the 2d year of the French Republic one and indivisible Citizen President, th« Convention having decreed, that the colours of the American and Fvcnch Republics should be united and itream together in the place of its fittings, ?s a teflimony of the union and frieiidiln'p, winch ought to fubftft forever among the two nations, I thought that I couli not better ma nifeft the deep impreilion which this decree has made on me, and cxprefs the thankful fenfauon of my eon.'lituents, than by procuring their colours to be carefully executed, and ir offeting them in the name of the Americat) people :o the representatives of the French nation*. I'havehad jd them dene in the form, late- two certain armed v - y decrerd by Cengrefs,and have trusted about twenty-five tons burthen ; one of hem totCapt. Barney an officer ms dif- them called the Sans Pareil and the inguifhed merit, who has rendered us other railed the Seignior a, the;, and there jrcat services by Sea, in the cmirfe of 'owned by persons to the libelants un. >ur Revolution. He is charged to pre- j known ; and afterwards, oa the thir ent and to depose them on the fpntjteenth day of Augnft, A. D. 1704, vhich you (hall judge proper to appoint {the said brig was brought into the dif. or them. Accept Citizen President, jtiidt afore laid, under the eare of John his (landard as a new pledge of the fen- j BaptiHe Bernards, at matter thereof • ibility, with which the American peo-f and afterwards, on the eighth day of jlealivays receive the intcreft and friend- j September inft. the said brig and cargo hip, which their good and brave allies ; were fold by order of said John Baptiile five them ; —as alio of the pleasure, and jße manic, at said Providence, ful a large irdorwith which they seize everyoppor- sum, viz. five thousand and twenty unity of cementing and consolidating eight dollars, and the proceeds of the he union and good undtrttaoding bet- sales of said brig and cargo were after veen the two nations. (Applauded.) wards paid to William Peck, of said Providence, Esq. Marshal of laid dif- Speech of Captain BJroey, bearer of trift, and are now remainging in his the colours • hands, to be riifpofed of as to law and Citizen Prtjideitt• -jit ft ice (ball appertain. And the laid Having been directed by the Minister that since the sth •'lenipotentir.ry of the United States of - 19 *' America; to carry to the N,n"- fi j (V... the _%'H nlora »« ™ rerQ r ° , l force of said armed vefTel cal'ed the San, laei under the am ices ot which I had r> -i ,• i , k , r . . n Jrareii was cncrealed and augmented, v ne honor to tight-*gai mi our common *, r , J , . v ° ft. rr % * <*diling to the number of guns and gun ■nemy during the war which has allured carr : Qn board the fa at t . * >ur Liberty ana Independence, 111 if-1 Q p Char , e ft () ,, ; n the dittrid of South barge this dmy with the r w • . ♦ t £l v 1 r • c n* 1 1 v • Carolina, with an intent to be employ nott lively iatwrjction, and deliver it to * • c c.. D w- c tj r ir r i i i r i ' ccl in tervHfc of the Republic of f 011. Henceforth iufpendeo c»n the fide jr n r , r i r- 1 r» »7- -it I trance, to cruize and commit himili u that of the Trench Ktpublic, it will f 4 » r, . „ c , • c . r , , r. v ' .. . t ties upon the fu'necis* ot the king of become the lvmboi or the union wn ch tr» , m . p • • • x x .» T1 •, a , ira 1 ' 1 • I CxieaUcntain, wttu whom the United lubfittg between the two nations, and' o f „ . , i n T 1 . t r 1 i states are at peace: and on the lame l' li OP i' u g 3S i freedom, ? twenty-seventh day of July, A. D. « in t .ej lave ,0 c °nquere , , T there v.a& on board the said arm and so wifely confohdated. { ed'veffels, called the Sans l'areil, and Seigniora, as marines or mariners there )f, divers citizens of the United States, 10 ivit, on board the Sans Pared, twelve ; and on board the said vessel railed the Seigniora, twentv-une; all >f whom were entered on board the f ime vefTels at said Charleston, since the said fifth day of June, ;uid were aiding ind affilting the taking the said brig U the lime aforefaid ; and that no person m board said vc(Tel«, Called the Sans Fariel and Seigniora, was, on the fame 1 wenty-feventh day of July, duly com ar.y manner whatsoever, rc> attack and take into cullody the said brig and her' , cargo aforefaid, nor hath the said John Bap'trfte Bemarde, 01 ai y other person belonging to the fsid vefTels, called the Sans Parcfl, and Seigniura, lte'en since duly authorized to d. tain the laid brig arifiug from the sale thereof, from the said Jer.nings and Veuner, the owners tln-reof, in manoer as before Hated But the fame ought, by the laws of nS rcd to the said Jennings and Venner. Wherefore, as ti;is is a matter withia the jutifdiftion of this honorable court, the faiil Jennings, for Inmfelf and the said Vcuntr, praya the advifemeut of the court thereon ; and that the fcw e brig and cargo, or the proceeds arifmg bom the sale thereof, n ay be adjudged N . The citizen who just spoke at the bar is one of the most diftinguilhed Sea-Officers of America. He has render ed great lei-vices to the liberty of his coun try, and he could render the fame to the liberty of France. I demand that this obfervalion be referred to the examin ation of the committee of public fafety.— and that the fraternal embrace be£iven to to this brave officer (Applauded. The officer went up with the flag to the chair of the President, and received the fraternal embrace arnidft the unani mous acclamations ari l auplaufcs. Mathieu.—One of our Colleagues in rendering homage to the talents and ser vices of that officer, tcld you that he could bt ufefnlly employed by onrKepubFc. I fe cor.d the refer, n-c of his observation to the committee of public fafety. •' Decreed. Bulletin on the state of Health of the Re- wtfervttfr've of the pcole Tallien, 26th 'TinfV.dor (Sept. j 2.) The Phliftonda are eifaced'; there is m appearance yet of a n. : fture about the efcher, the fiate of which is always the ijijie, the oppression end pains have been trifling since yeflcrday, there is no figr of a fever, and all the fundlions of th Vifeera go on in a fat is lactory manner. (Signed) Navier Default, Cbah To the Printers of the Pro'ouicnce Ga- alet It. In the present unsettled state of judicial proceedings, with rcfpefct to the in terference of American citizens in the European war, it is though* pro ptr to puMilh the following pafe on that fuhjeft, which came on before the Hon. Henrv Merchant. Efq Judge of the Diftria Court in Rhode- Island diilriift. Jennings and V-nr.er, libellant-, *». Brt% Pcijeverance, Sic. Rhode-Ifla«d DfftHa, f c . To the HGHcrable Henry Merchant, Esq. Judge of the DiJlria Court in faj BE it remembered, That Tu of New-Brunfw.ck, m the dcrr.inior of the king of Great Britain, merchant • owner of a certain brig called the P cr ' feveranre, of about one hundred and e.ght ton. burthen, and one of the OVM , ersof the cargo lately lader. b „ a ,. d the lame brig, which confiM of tl, e aiticl?9 mentioned in the fciiedule here, to annexed, and for Mmfcli'siid J o l in Venner, of the said St. John's, met . chant, the other owner of the t;)r . go, and for whom the said Jcnniwg* it agent ; libels, propounds, and gi vl - 8 th: B honorable court to undetftand a. ] informed, that on the twentv-icventh day of July, A. D. 1794, the Lid Jennings was owner of said brig, an( J the said Jennings and Vender were owners of said cargo, and the said Jen. nings was then on board the famo brig, as supercargo thereof, and the said brig was then on the high seas, and was wholly navigated by fubjefta of the said king of Great Britain, and w;.s duty purfuinrg her voyage from Turk's-lfland in the Weft-indies, to said St. J ..tin's in the province of New-Brunfvvick ; and then and there, on the high seas. ?hafed, attacked, and taken iato cufto ly, by the matter, marines/rid mariners, t- eacimf )antau• to be reftorcd to them; and that thf said William Peek be compelled to give caution ro pay the money arifmg fro" 1 the sales <tfur?faid, now in his hands, to the said Jennings and Venner, if refioi*" tion (hall be in inannt r a fort* said. DAVID L. BARNES. jitt.for the Libel!ant* September, J794. 1 U •>' ■r-'r—
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