. confutation a* folic! at tht peace, the
terms of wl icb it (hall didlate.
We (hall know how to shew mercy §t>.
error, and flrike crime* ; be inexorable
againlk immorality; the immoral man
mull be catt fr«in fpciety as a dangerous
dement, corruptible from its nature, &
always ready to rally to the fiiftion of
Con fpira tors
Do not mistake for those who have con
stantly supported the eaufe of liberty, those
to whom disorder it a want,and confufion
a means of acquiring riches : listen to the
tirlt avoid the httcr.
Your representatives will not fuffer that
the public functions be exercised by any
but true friends to the people ; they will
keep at a distance all those perfidious
beings, who speak of the rights of the
people only to rel'erve to themselves the ex
cl u live exercise of them.
xla ving expreflcd their, solicitude, mani
fefted their thoughts and intentions, the
National Convention recalls the French
people to sacred principles, to eternal
truths, round which all citizens (hould
raliv.
A nation cannot be governed by the de
ci lions of an inconstant will, which bends
taevery paiTion ; it is by the authority of
laws only it ought to be governed.
The laws are destined t» guarantee the
exercise of the rights. Jt is that import
ant guarantee which men look for in po
litical aflociations, and they find it by the
aid of government which holds the citi
zen within the circle of his duties.
All that oppoles the exercise of those
rights is a crime against the social organi
zation.
Individual liberty (hould find a limit on
ly at that point when it become! an in
fringement on the liberty of another ; the
law should recognize and mark out those
Property ought to be sacred: Far be
from us thofc systems dictated by immo
rally and (loth, wkieh foften down
the crime of theft, and fix it upon prin
ciple*. Let, therefore, the law guarantee
the right of property as it guarantees all
the other rights of (he citizen.
But who are to make the laws ? The
people only, by the organ of repre
lentatives,. to whom they have delegated
that power.
No part icular authority, no aiTemblage
of men is tht people, none hive a right
to speak or a<3 in their name.
If the daring hand ftiould attempt to
seize the rights of the people on the altar
of the country, the Convention would
fliew itfclf the more ready todevelopea
gainft the usurper of the power with which
they zrf cloathed, as they are to render
an account to the people of the attacks on
their sovereignty.
Tho' firm, the Convention will never
lose fight of prudence; they will listen
attention to the complaints addreiTed
to th,sm ; but they will nor fufi'er that the
right to inform and advise become a means
of eppreflion and degradation, not that
voices fcall ever be raised louder than
that of national reprcfentation.
They will aflume again ft intriguers, a
giinft those who can yet regret royalty the
uioft decisive meai'ures. They will main
tain the rneafures of fafety which the pub
lic good requires j but they will never
content to Tee them arbitrarily extended
ind that bare fufyicion be a source of ca
In a word all the a<f>s of government
sear the character of juftire ; but that juf
i.:e ftzli no longer be exhibited to France
n'iih blood, as lfie was dcpi£led by the
rile and hypocritical conspirators.
Frenchmen ! —Couiider as your cne
l.ies a', who would wilh indiredtly to at
ack iibt.ty, equality, the unity and indi
ibility of the Republic.
Avoid th;.fc who constantly speak of
Dlood and i'cafiolds, those who pretend to
t monopoly of patriotism [ -'atriots ex
'hiffs~\ thole men of exaggerated princi
:herevolution, who fear the fcrutinv of juf
:ice, and who expert to find fafely in anir-
Esteem, search for those laboriom and
modefl men, those pure and good men
who avoid public stations, and who prac
tues.
Never lose light of this truth, that if
rapid and violent movements are necelfary
to prodnce a revolution, cahn prudence
mult be left to terminate it.*
Unite, therefore, at a common centre ;
love and refpcA for the laws.
See your brave brothers in arras give
you the example of their sublime obedi
ence by their submission, Their glory
it to acknowledge the voice of their
chief* ; they bless constantly the de
crees of the National Convention ; if
they fufFer, they atti lbute the cause to
unavoidable circumllance? ; if they die,
tlieir last breath is for the republic.
And you, in the bofoni of cities and
mented by useless difpnteß : You throw
into your aflemblies oMtrudtfons which
will retard the triumphant progress of
the revolution!
O Frenchmen! wbat grirfh to o»
what our entmfc% W
fee
ternal cwmmc* Joe* inernaUf t'
fbey ft»B Bfrfonger
fkaforr, h«
done in *
♦lirbefom eft heß«£»»bfe.
Watlike virtues produce heroes, <lo
ueli'c viitues form the citizen : and it
i* ihcfe very -virtue*, fupportcd, ftreugth-
Evincible attachment so re
publican principles, that perpetuate ih
a generous nation that facied fire, that
great character which makes the French
People rank at the firft nation of the
Uuiverfe.
It is then, that all agitation being
disconcerted, all parties will be seen to
fall, and become extinguilhed ; for, in
all parties thetc are men who make a
noise far the pleasure of m.ikmg it ; and
do evil without even finding an interest
in it : likefo many winds in opposition
to each other, which, without afiifting
the pilot, only prevent the management
of the ship.
Citizens; all the virtues mud con
cur in ellablifhing a republic. Y»u
have have alternately exerted strength
in overturning the bastille and the
tluone, patience in bearing the evils in
feparablc from a great revolution, cou
rage in repelling the barbarous ene
mies who would force your frontier ;
the time is come that you must con
quer your enemies by tirmnefs and vvif
doin. The ealm mult fuceeed so many
tempests. The veflel of the republic,
so long tofled by fttirms now touches
the happy shore ; take care you do not
drive it back among the rocks, fuffer
it to arrive in portj by gliding in a hap
py course through an obedient sea, in
the midst of the transports of a free and
happy people.
(Signed) C*mbaceres, Preffdent ;
Laporte, Lozeau, Pele of Lozcre,
EfchafFeriaux, the younger, Boiffy,
B. Guyomard, Secretaries.
18th Vendemaire,(o6t. 9.)
The National Convention, having
heard the reading of the address pre
sented by then committees of public
fafety, general security and legislation
united, agreeably to the decree of the
ilthinftant. (Oft. 2)and unanimous
ly approved of it, decrees :
That it be printed, sent to 1 the ad
ministrations of departments and dif
tri£U, to the municipalities, commit
tees of fettions, to the armies and po
pular focietiss:
That it be published by the munici
palities : palled up in the places for
aflembling on the decades [fa/let die a
daires~]and read in the afiemblies of
communes and fe&ions :
That it be distributed to the mem
ber*, fix copiei each, and Iranflated in
to all language* :
That the diftrift adminiftratior.s
caufc it to be re-printed, and that the
national agents do fend it to the inftruft •
ors of youth, to be read to thcii
fcliolars.
Canlbaccrca, President; Laporte
Efchafteripux »ud Boilfy, Sccrcta
ric».
AMSTERDAM, Oft. 6.
On Thursday last, Colonel Tiboel,
late Commandant at Crrvecoeur, being
at Bommtl in the house of his fitter,
received the order for his arrest, and was
conduced prifonet to the Provost Mar
shal: he was immediately conveyed in a
carriage, accompanied by two Officers
to the Hague, where he arrived the
fame day. On the way it was neceflary
to take precautions to prevent him from
falling into the hands of the populace.
His highness the prince ftadtholder
has visited iB person the whole diftrift
between the Waal and the Lek, fiom
Nimeguen as far at Culletibo urg. Af
terwards the prince inf;>cfted the dyk*
of tilt Lek, on the fide of Gueldres,
and ordeied cuts to be made in the dyke
in seven places, which his highness
pointed out himfelf, for thepurpofeof
forming an inundation, in cafe the
French should unexpectedly advance
farther ; which inundation, at the or
dinary height of the water in winter,
may extend from Wizeningen to
Schoonlioven. All the inhabitants of
Gueldres are ardently occupied in the
defence of their pofieffions. The prince
also made a short tour along the dyke
of the Lek on the fide of the province
of Utrecht.
O&ober 7.
The affcmbly of the states of the pro
vince of Gueldres, which was to have
been held at Nirntgucn, has been tranf
ferred to Arnheim, where it was open
ed on Tuesday last. Prince Frederick
of Orange afiifted at the *fTemblr, and
afterward* set out for Gormichnn. The
head quarters of the British army it ftijl
at Grofbeck.
By a letter from the the city of Guel
deri, we arc informed that a (Irong pa
trole of French had been in the Prussian
village of Veenray, on the other fide of
the Meufe, where they exafted a quan
tity of grass, oats and llraw, for their
horses; and while this was collecting,
they enquired how far dillant they were
from the Prussian territories. Being an
fweied that the village they were in wat
Prussian, they iwmediauly counter-
DECREE.
manded their order, and would ee»
pay lor whit h*d b>;eu already deliveed,
as having received no order to go upa
tlic Pruifian terriioiy, or to air
thing from thence. Tbit it mprabili.
MUNSTER, Seftimitr 30.
We hire heard nothing here of thesp
proach of a Prussian army, so mvich talk
ed of, for the relief of Holland ; but itap
pears certain that General Mollendorfj is
preparing to advance yrith an arrar of
is or 15,000 men tofuccour the Auftri»n»
near the Lower Rhine.
LONDON, Ocloher 13.
Mr. Drake has beea appointed nani
fter from the Briiilh court to Miian.
By the Corunna mail, which arrived
on Saturday, wc learn, that the rich
homeward bound Mediterranean fleet,
tinder the care of admiral Colby, and
to intercept which, it Ufaid the Fiench
have sent out several -a jre ilfft , failed
from Gibraltar or. the ;ijl!
Ou the roth i!i. itiiflfiir.i! ! rd Hood
Tailed from in \ c Viflory of
too guns, to ihe vi vai-i of that port:
his lordfliip fuL artd by the Bri
tannia, of 100 gum, admiral Hotliam :
the Agamemnon, of 64 gunt, captain
Nelson, and a frigate of 24 guns.
On Saturday news was received in
town of the fafe arrival of the grsateft
part of the homeward bound Jamaica
fleet.
The sum neceflary for the completion
of Carlton House is eft imated at iPD,ooc]
The latest intelligence from Warsaw
mentions the secure Hate of that city,
which is well provisioned ; the works
are fully repaired, and all the booty-left
by the Prussians brought fafe in.—Te
D eum had been sung on occafioo of the
infurrcAion of the wholt of Great Po
land. Kofciuflco, it is reported, has
•marched at the head of 40,000 men to
South Prnflia, to make a diversion in
favour of the infurgenrs.
General Clairfayt is like a /rum,
never hear of him but when he is beaten !
Higgins, Lemaitre and Smilh, three
of the perlous apprehended on the in
formation of a conspiracy to assassinate
his Majelty, are committed, not on any
charge refpe&ing the. pretended con
spiracy, but on the chaige of tieafon
S3 membeis of the London Correspond
ing Society. Upton the informer, and
as far a» appears, the inventor of the
conspiracy, having prevaricated in his
evidence, and been conttadifted in ma
terial parts of it by witneflea of unim
peachable character, is also committed.
We have dated that Bayley and Bar.
ker, t .m of the pevtbng taken into cus
tody on the supposed <;pnfp!racy, were
dilchargtd. Inflead,ait Barker,vve (hould
have said Burks. .
One Taylor, who was a principal
evidence again ft Watt and Downie, in
Edinburgh, and had just travelled up
to town, to become a witness againli
the persons confined in the Tower, was
committed on Friday night, to New
gate, on a charge of Bigamy.
UNITED STATES.
NEW-YORK, Dec. 8.
The Comptroller of the Treasury in
behalf of the Secretary) hat reported the
Eftimatei relative to Appiopriatians for
the year 1795
By which it appears—That making pro
vision for deficiences in former grants; and
for sundry appropriations as detailed in
the Eftimatea—The following sums are
neceflary .• For the ciril lift, or the sup
port of government, including the in
cidental and contingent expences of the
several departments and offices the sum
of 43 J> »49 53
For the sup port of light-houses,
beacons, buoys and public
piers, and for fatisfying
certain miscellaneous claims,
the sum of
For the department of war,
comprising the following
general objects of expen-
The iupport of the army in
cluding expences 4 n the
hospital, ordnance, quar
ter-master and Indian de
partments, the defenfive
protection of the fron
tiers, contingencies, and
to corapleat certain for
! tificitions, the sum of
t For the piy, support, and
I expences of the militia
i ordered into service in
[ the year 1794 the sum
m
1 For the naval depart
ment the sum of
For the paymentof mi
| litary pensions, the
sum of
To til estimate for the war
department
Amounting together to dols. 3,407,909 40
He adds —
The funds out of which appropriations
may be made for the foregoing purpoles
ira ift. of 600,000 dol
lars of the proceed* of duties on imports
slid tonnage, which will accrue in t^e
year 179 ;, which is annually rcferved tor
the support of government, by the ac.
'entituled " An act making provision ft t
the del)t of the United Suits and id.
The furplua of revenue and income which
willaccrue totbeendof the year 1795, af
ter fatisfying the obie&s for which appro
priations have been heretofore made.
Anil that—
It may be expe&ed, that the revenue*
of the United States will prove adequate
to the ' expenditure contemplated ; but
owing to credits allowed by law, and tl<e
urgent nature of certain demands which
have arisen during the prefrnt year, it ap
pears to b$ necelfary, that the appropria
tions fhoyld be accompanied with an au
thority to borrow the amount.
Brig Providence, Palmer Isle of May
American Hero, M'Dougali, Ma
deira
Mary, Oporto, Ifle.of May
and Norfolk
Sehr. Eliza, Smith, Philadelphia
Sunbury Packet, Hirrifon L'Archaye
PHILADELPHIA,
NOT heroes in triumphant can,
With trophirs gain'd in foreign wars,
Where vi&ims pile th' encrimfoa'd
plain,
And plaudits rife from millionsflain—
Bnt law and freedom's virtuous band
Who made fell discord fly the land,
From bloodless scenes of glory come,
Theirbeftreward4 peaceful home.
This day returned from their tour Mc-
Pberfon 's volunteer battalion of blues—at
the Schuylkill they were received under i>
discharge of artillery by a detachment
which went from the C ity for that pur
pofc—from thence they were escorted into
the City by Captions Dunlap, Singer, and
M'Connell't Horle, in full uniform—their
companions in the late truly glorious, fue
cefsful, and bloodless expedition.—The
concourse of citizens which Ihoutcd a
welcome to their return was immense—e
very eye beamed gratitude and pleasure-
As they pafied the President's Hoiile, who
was at the door, the band played j the Father
of his country, exprefled in his counte
nance mere than can be defcrihed.
By this Day's Mail.
TRENTON, December 9.
His Exeellency Governor HOW
ELL, accompanied by about 90 horse,
arrived yefteiday in this city from the
Western Expedition He wa» met
some distance from this place by a num.
her of citizens, and efcarted into town
—On his ap> arance he was welcomed
by the discharge- of 15 cannon, from
Capt. Gee'l company of artillery.
PORT or PHILADELPHIA-
Days.
Snow Liberty, Young Charleston 9
Brtg Diana, Mason Jeremie, 17
Betsey. Hathaway Jamaica 40
Friends Adventure, Meaf: St.
Domingo, 16
Schr. William and Mary, Dunton Vir-
ginia, 5
Sloop Nancy, Hubbard New-York 5
Nancy, Tice Virginia 10
A brig from the Weft Indies, and a
(hip from Boston, names unkown, were
seen yesterday in the Bay coming up—be
sides a ship which lay at the Fort lafi night
not yet known whether outward or in
ward bound.
The brig Jefferefon, Morris, from St.
Croix was seen under way this fide of the
' 3*»004 »3
point.
A Philadelphia sloop from Guadaloupe
ii arrived at the Fort.
Captain Suter, of the Ship Aurora,
56 days from Hamburgh, informs that
J the (hip PreGdent Washington, from
Chaalcfton, and the British {hip Esther,
a Liverpool letter of 10 guns, from
Virginia, were both arrived in the Elbe,
on the fame day that he came down,
which was the 6th of Ottober.
i»s«i>97J »?
Brig Adventure, J. Mtafe, junr.
matter, 16 days from St. Domingo, on
the 16th Nov. on the east end of Hif
paniola, bearing N. spoke the Resoluti
on of New-York, Wm. Whiten mas
ter, 17 days from Curracoa, bound to
Amsterdam, all well.
1,112,569 01
*t9ili4eAO
Lat. 32 N. long. '72, 30, W. spoke
the Brig Industry of .Salem, 15 day«
from St. Croix, bound to Salem, all
well.
The brig Nymph, Webb, of and
from Philadelphia, is fa ft arrived at Je-
8J.357 °4
1,940,655 74
remie.
On the 3d of Dec. between 30 and
40 fail of outward bounrf redcls were
seen under Porto-Rico in irons.
ARRIVED.
DECEMBER 9.
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