rcj ~s a rival authority and power." (Jn^val. —These Gentlemen claim a kind of NobleflTc in patriotism. Girod The Jacobin 3 rose in open rebellion against the Contention ! their leader* leaked amosg us,, marked out their vi&ims. (Several voices they are Itili in rebellion.) Several Popular So cieties icfufed to acknowledge the Nati onal Reprefcrrtation, and others would deltroy it. Those of Nhrfeilles, D.jon, I demand the order of the day.—Adop tCii. Sitting of Dec. 30. Mailfie—" I said, in the Sitting the 28th, that a Frenchman, who de manded a King, was not a man, but A tiger, ami a-toe to hunhniiy. The E-' ditor of the Journal of Debates, make 3 m; add to rhofe expressions, the follow ing—He it <t Turk. No doubt the Convention would have risen, to demand my punishment, if I had dared, in so rude a manner, to insult the Ottoman Porte, the Friend and ally of the Re public. €hir Foreign enemies, who attack tfo liberty of the French, we will cettainly pittfoe, till we (hall*be able to dictate an honorable peace ; but, at tke fame time, we will never cease to fefpeft tlie laws of ncntrality. The Conventi on and the People of France, hive, in tlje conltituti'onal aft, solemnly decla red, that they will never interfere in the domestic concerns of foreign govern ments, and never will they depart from ♦his principle, founded in the sacred rights of < nations, and intimately con nected with the fafety and tranquility of other governments." The Convention decreed, that this declaration should be iriferted in the bulletin, and a copy of it sent to the Ftench Ambaflatlor at Constantinople. • Brival obfcrved, that the decree, which prohibited the Republican armies from giving quarters to the Britilh and Hanoverian, and Spanilh troops, was in open open contradiiftion with the law of nations, and moved for its repeal.— Decreed Moutmavau informed the Convention, that Lacroix, the author of the libellous publication, denounced in the fitting of the 28th, had been taken into cuflody, on his return from Versailles, and that a mong his papers had been •found a letter addrelfed to his bookseller, wherein he said, that it was his intention to dedicate his work to the Convention, and that this -jneafuie would greatly increase its sale, .ince it woul l be noticed in the bnlletin of the Aflemblv and all the newspapers. Severa 1 peiitioners appeared at the bar, whose prayers were diredled against afls of violence * and oppression, committed under tlic reign Jtuti them were some extraordinary Deputies from Bred, interceding f>r the discharge of a number of feanun, who had been confined since the recapture of Toulon— Mazer converted their request into a motion ; and the Convention decreed, that the above teamen Ihould be set at liberty. Sitting of December 31. Boiflier, in tlie nymes of the Commit tees ot the Marine, of Colonies, and Pub- Ik Welfa e —" Our nival foreo are al! ariSqiied by the fame fp'.rit ; they all dif p!ay rite lame energy and ieal in the de fence of the Republic j theybura with de- Jire to con viucc the Englilh, those tyrants of the main, that they are worthy rivals of our land troops, and, like them, strive to beat down the pride of those insolent lnanders, who but beenfuf fered to violate the molt the inconteltible righs of tilt Maritime Power*, A late e vent is well calculated to prove to the En glilh,that their flag will be forced to link in the fame manner before that of the Repub lic, as their colours and icandards bow be fore that of the Republican banners; and that it is no more difficult to conduct their 1 tie of battle ihips into our ports, than to exterminate their battalions and squadrons, by the valour of our armits. It is time you should the moredevote your mofl seri ous attention to our navy, as henceforth from the Marine of the Republic, you must chiefly expert the humiliation of our ene mies, the prosperity of our trade and com merce, and the superiority over all other nations, which the French People ought to derive from their external relations.— lou must eftablila naval institutions on the fame plan, and nearly under the fame f'rr.is, as those that have been enacted for the fabricatiorf of falt-petre and gun pow der, the result of which has aflorded the Republic advantages which exceed all cal culation." By these, ami a great number of similar observations, Boiflier introduced the projefi ot a decree, confiding of eighteen articles, relative to the jtfltabfifh ment of Revolutionary Schools of Navi gation and Maritime Artillery, which the Convention adopted without the least dif cullion. On the report oF Scellier, the Conven tion Wpprefied the privileges of the free ports ot Dunkirk, Marseilles, and Bayone. Several fetfions appeared at the bar to I congratulate " e AfTembly 011 the rigor Ultra apainft Lacroix, the teacher of Royal- Jim. On this occasion Andre Dumont ob ferv?d, that the Convention Ihould take c.ire not to be deceived bv those, whocri t »out the loudest againlt Royalifm ; that tneir only intention was, to lead astray the Departments, by making them believe that, Pars _is full of Royalists. " Royal iit?, he laid " are those who aire at u fiirpinj the sovereignty of the nation ( VppUjles.) I abhor blood. (Plaudits.) in my opinio 1, all forts of capital puniih ment-i sb >uld now be abol.fh.d, except a ga:nftß.-y.:tiils. Isat alfcitizens to be lorwarned of the poison, which ill difpof edperfons attempt to diffufe through the Departments, and the peo pelhould be told, that a Republican does not shed blood with pleasure. ( Burlts of Applaufc) Lejune,—" There certainly exists a Royalift/adtion. A Pamphlet entituled A Chrijimas Gift for the Friends if the Good Old times, is every where hawked a bout in this metropolis, which openly preaches Royalifm. I move, that it be re ferred to the Committees, and they be charged with taking the necelTary measures against its infamous author." A member observed, that proper means were already adopted by the Committee of General Safe:v, to (top the farther circulation of that anonymous writing. (Plaudits.) Lecointre Puyravaux—" It is worthy of remark, that thole who committed the greatest attrocitirs under the reign of ter ror, .were Royalilts 1111789. Thus, Roy alists under the reign of Cabet, tyrants 11 v. «ler that of Robespierre, they now em brace »gain the former cause. The Royal ist pamphlets which have poured upon us within these last days, are the productions of men, who have been deposed by our colleagues in the Departments. (Shoutsof applauie.) I demand, that all those, who have loft their places, be ordered to leave Paris within a short time." Clauzel—" One and twenty milcreants among whom was a member of the in famous Commons, who defended Robe spierre there till midnight, exhibited last night the molt - scandalous scenes in the seCtion ofßonnenouvelle. They proposed an address, wherein they inveighed against Royalifm, but at fame time demanded that no farther mention (hould be made of blood-fuckers, and terrorists, since these terms had been applied to the belt of pa triots. Citizens, a good patriot ne ver Iheds blood, he never robs or plun ders ; the above terms therefofe cannot apply to him. Great criminals seize the columns of the temple, in hopes, that I ke Sampson, they shall be able to (hake It downonthe heads of the Convention.— I demand, th.U all the blood-fuckers late ly arrived at Paris, to afiift the great cri minals in it, be ordered, withont the lealt delay, to leave the metropolis." Duhem —" When I mounted this tri bune to denounce the work of Lacioix, I did not suppose, -that faflion and intrigue would dare to reprefeut me as a Royilift. (Violent murmurs.) It appears to me that the system of terror has merely chang ed its name. (.Violent murmurs..) True fans-culottes are not allowed to avail them selves of the liberty of the press to con found their numerous slanderers, and we, who do not poflefs the treasures of Madam Cabarrus, we ."(Great noise) Tallien in lifted on being heard. Levafleur de la Sarthe demanded leave also to denounce that system of terror. J iveri^' of Philipeaux. (The A/Tcinliiy re mained sometime in a violent agitation.) Dwhem demanded again the liberty of the prek, and the freedom of opinions. Tal lien afkecl for the henor of the Conventi. on leave t« anfi»er, Levafieur raised his voice in the tumult. The Convention de creed at last, that Tallien lhould be heard. (Repeated plaudits.)' Barras—" The Convention ought to put a period to this indecent and oua'conduit. We must not attend to a few miscreants, whose interest it is to inter rupt our deliberations, that they may be able to ri-tftablifti terrorism. Tallien—" A woman has been menti oned in this Assembly ; I did not suppose that the would have become the objefl of the deliberations of the Convention. The daughter of Cabarius has been narrted.— '.Veil, I herewith declare file is hiy wife, f Shouts of applause) One of the aflaffins of Philipeaux was going to accuse me.— He would never forgive the injury wilh which he mfulted that generous and illus trious viiftim. I was acquainted with Madam Cabarrus at Bourdeaux ; her vir tues and misfortunes claimed my esteem. She arrived at Paris under the reign of terror, and was thrown into prison. An emifiary of the tyrant promised her imme diate discharge, and a paflport for foreign countries, it the would write a letter, slat ing, that lhe knew Tallien to be a bad ci tizen. She spurned at so vile an offer, and among the papers of the tyrant a memo -1 randum has been found, which devoted her to the fcaffold. This woman, citi zens is my wife. plaudits.) Laignelot- " The Committee of General Safety was informed before hand |of thefeene, which we have witnessed. llt was premeditated. (Plaudits from eve j ry part of hall.) Several members—" That is true : — look at the women, who are crowded in that gallery." ! A member—" Well, Worthy supporters '■ of Duhem, have you nothing to fay J" Laignelot—" I fee no other patriots here, but among the majority of the Con vention, who would fix their attention on the happiness of the people, hut for the scandalous scenes, which are concerted be fore hand, to intterrupt our deliberations. (Applauded.) In those men, who have domineered over France, who have filed ftrcams of blood, prote&ed the molt cri minal dilapidations of the public money, who called in to their afiiflance all the cri minals that have been difmified from their offices by our colleagues in the De partments, I clearly discern the Royalists." plaudits.^ Laignelot—All the commotions in this place and in the fe<slions take their date tronn the momemt, when the three Com mittees.declared, that there was room for enquiring into the nndu<£l of men, w'hor.i I dial I not prejudge. (Applauded, j If they r.re, innocent what mean all the!* commotions ? What eife can be their aim, than 'o vilit'y the Convention, and to forct the people to lay that there exiits no lonrj ger any national dignity, majesty, aiid representation. 1 demand that the Con vention no longer admit vague inculpati ons, and that every member who lhall in sult his colleagues, be lent to the Abbaye prison. The Committee of General Safe ty keeps a watchful eye over all intrigues and manoeuvres of the enemies of she pub lic welfare, and but for some men whom the public charailer, with which they are inverted, places beyond its reach, all com motions in this metropolis, would long lince have been at an end. Andre Dumont, St. Just, and Lebasj sent into the department of the North, had express orders to arrest, without ex ception, all nobles and people of property tofend,them to the fcaffold. blithe Na tional Agents in the Department, which I have vilited, were ordered to fend in lilts of those inhabitants, whose contributions ex ceeded twenty livres— (movements of hor -or) without minding the objections, which the Keprefentativcs of the People may think proper to make, or even with out communicating to them thi? above or ders. I demand that the Convention enail a decree purporting that every mem ber who insults his colleague, shall be sent to the Abbaye prison. Adopted. Breard—" There exids more th■:n one fyltem to overthrow our liberty. Fanaticifin has railed every paffijn ; Royalifm has not yet given up its hopes aid ferrorifm feels bolder than ever. Committees are excited, that some great criminals may escape public judicc, and every day attempts are made to arm us one against another. People whom we meet in the (Ireets, relate to us every word our colleagues have said against us. ' Soured by their reports, we enter the as sembly, and inculpations and commotions arise. The Committee of General Safety ought to be constantly on the watch, and to fend back into the departments all tfeofe just ly suspected persons who have no business here." In the courfl* of this fitting a letter was read from Nantes, dating, that the inhabitants of ia Vendee who had taken up arms against the Republic, and offi cers of the army of Charette were daily joining their brethren, full of confidence and gratitude towards the Convention, that they meet with the mod friendly reception, and that their favorite toads now arc, Vive la Repullique : Vive la Convention ! The letter was highly ap plauded and ordered to be inserted in the bulletin.' Philadelphia, April q. ►own "with the as- " A Correfpondor lays it is probable that tbe Editor of the Aurora, will not be requeu ed to re-publiih the 7th number of the Cutting Stri&ures of Franklin—for like a child wbo plays with edge tools this Cutting writer has therein cut himfelf most confoundedly. The late Secretary Jefferfon fays that Great Bri tain did not wish for a Commercial Treaty with this Country because her trade with u s was on a good footing already—but this cut ting, or cunning Franklin fays, ive fought a Treaty because cur Commerce with Great Britain was as good in law, and better in fa& than that of the most favored nation. What a pyramid of arguments has this cutting writer raised on this solid basis ! The latest Boston papers do not con tain the rcfult of the contellcj election between Mr. Dexter and Mr. Varnum. Rejoicings, 011 account of the late European intelligence, have taken place in New-York, Boston, &c. The prin ciple appears to be, not that the French, but that the Dutch have taken Holland. Cenclufim of the Declaration of the Em- P re s s °f Rnjfta, fubltjhsd in yejlerday's paper. " With the fame rapid progress of the troops in Lithuania, several corps fentcffby General Field Marlhal count Romanzow Sadunailby, who had pene trated farther after the defeat of the in surgents, united undei the command of Gen, field Marlhal Suwarra Rimintzki and triumphed several times over t-he insurgents, especially at Brezecz, on the Bth of September, where their numerous army was deltroyed. On the other fide the Ruffian corps, which, since the re treat of the Prussians, from Warsaw, had been stationed beyond the Vistula, ! under the command of Lieutenant Ge neral Von Ferfen, crofled that liver, notwithstanding the obstacles which the enemy threw in its way, attacked, on the icth of O£tober, near Mackow icze, the chief of the insurgents, Kofci uflco, with his chofcn army, defeated him completely and took priloner that chief himfelf, and many others. The Ruffian generals profited by such a de cisive advantage, and hastened to extend it farther; in consequence count Su warrovc Rimnitzki direded his march, Warsaw, united himfcif with the corps coming from Gruel.a;.d tiialyliock, who had rcireratciy dek it ed the enemy, as likewifc with ih .fe troops who had eroded liie Vistula; and after having defeated the P.jlilh Vanguard reached, 011 the .261 h of Oc tober, Praga, the fubutb of Wavfaw, situate on the right bank ef the Vi/lula, Jtrongly fortified, provided with .a large train of artillery, and defended by a cn ftderable army. Here the valor of th. RuJJian army, so beloved by its command ers, conquered likevAfe all difficulties. — Praga -was carried by Jlerm on the of November ; and the defeat which the enemy experienced on that oecafon, made such an imprejjion upon il',ir],iw, as /• compel that city to crave quarters, and lea ve its fate at the dfcretion of the con querors, to luhem il fnrrendercd. " Thus has the infurreuipn been quel led in Poland: thus have tht fnarts of the traitors been dtflroyed. Acknowledg ing therefore, tl>: Divine favors which have crowned all the enterprises <and a its of her Imperial mijefly without interrupti on, during aj-eign of 3.3 years, may all her faithful fubji'&s reiuru due thanks to the «Almighty, Scoffer up their molt fervent prayers, that the almighty may grant his molt holy aid, in the com plete termination of this affair, to the benefit and gtory of tht empire, and IB the eltablift'.ment of the lading tranquil ity and fafety of her frontiers in time to come." *** The lines in flnlici 0- milted in yejlerday's Gazette. By this Day's Mail. NEW-YORK, April 8, The Charleston City Gazette, of March 25, fays—" On Monday laR, in the court of admiralty for this didrift, judpe Thomas Bee decreed, that the libel exhibited againd the brigantine Betsey, and John B. Sargeant, be dis missed, with colls, inasmuch as it ap peared that the plea to the jnrifdidlion of the court, under the 17th article of the treaty with France, was relevant in this cause." We find in a Charledon paper of the 2lft March; under the Savannah head of March 12, the following paragraph : " Lad Thursday a decree of restitu tion of the brig Evterton and cargo, cap tured on-the 3id of December la I ', on ;, er voyage to Liverpool, by the Ega 'te privateer, was given by the federal ■lidrift court, in favor of John Wallace, Esq. vice-consul of his Britannic ma jedy, libellant of the said brig and car go." PARIS, Jan. 5. 1 The following interesting account has been publilhed of the Death of Con dorcet : After the 31ft of May, 1793, Con dorcet was obliged to conceal himfelf with the grcatell care for the purpose of avoiding the fate of Briflot and the other Deputies who were executed. He did not, however, attempt to quit Paris, but concealed himfelf in the house of a female, who, though ftie knew him only by name, did not hesitate to rifle her own life for the purpose of preserving that of Condorcet. In her house he remained till the month of April last, when it was rumoured that a domicilia ry visit was to be' made, which obliged him to leave Paris. Although he had neither passport nor civic c*rd, he es caped through the Barrier, and arrived at the plain of Mont-rouge, where he expected to find an asylum in the coun try house of an intimate friend. Unfor tunately this friend had set out for Pa ris, where he was to remain three days. During all this period, Condorcet wnn dercd about the fields a. din the \*oods, n«t daring to enter an Inn, on account of not having a civic card. Half dead with hunger, fatigue, and fear, and fjcarcely able to walk on account of a wound in his foot, he parted the- night under a tree. At length liis friend returned, and received him with great cordiality but ; as it was deemed imprudent that he ! Ihould enter the house-in the day-time, ] lie returned to the woods till night. In j this flio t interval between morning ! and night his caution forfook him, and he resolved to go to an Inn for the purpose of procuring food. He went to an Inn at Clamars, and ordered an omlette. His torn cloaths, his dirty cap, his meagre and pale countenance, and the greediness with which he de voured the omletfe, fixed the attention of the persons in the Inn, among whom was a Member of the Revolutionary Committee of Clamars. This man con ceiving him to be Condorcet, who had effe&ed his escape from the Bicetre, aflced him whence he came, whither he ?iad a paflport. Trie connifed mar.ner in winch lie re plied to thtie qnellions, induced t!:e member to order him to he conveyed before the committee, . \v!io, after an examination, sent him to the ciftrifl of Bor.ry la Ueinc. He was there inter- .loain, and ihe wifatisfadtqjT anfweri that he gave determined the di rc&orsof the diftrift to fend him to pii foil on the succeeding day. Diiing t e night he was confined in a kind of dun geon. Gn the next morning when hi* keeper entered with foi»ie bread and wa ter f»r him, he found him (lietched'on the ground without anv signs of life. On ififpedling the body, the imme diate ratife of, his death could not be discovered, but it was conjectured that he hail poiloned himlclf. Conuorcet indeed .always earned ,a dose of potfon in hi* pocket, and be said to his fraeinl. who was to have leceiytd him into his house, that he had been oflen tempted to make-, ufe.ef it, but the idea of a wife and daughter, whom he loved tcp'dcrljt retrained iiim. During the time that he was concealed at Paris, he wrote a h'flory of theProgrt fs of the Human Mind in two volumes. • BALTIMORE, April 6. *, Arrived here on Saturday lait, from Teneriffe, the schooner little John,. Capt, M'Qwd, of this pot. March 15, in lat. 22,.25, long* 64, Tpoke tlie- Bellnna, letter of marque, from Liver pcjpl, boyjid to Jamaica, the captain of which 1 informed capt. MjQqM, that or-, dere had been ifined by the Englilli, in consequence of the French viftoiy over. Holland, Or tat her the Dutch revolution to 11 op all I)uteh veflcliin their power that they met with an.i fend them into. English ports. March 23, in lat. i 7, 43' }° n g« 69, to, spoke the fchoou r I'olly, Capt. Newal, of this port, bound to Port-au-Prince—a'l well. Capt. M'Qm'd also informs that the ship Hugh Frazier, fn.m St. Barthole-, mews, was taken by the Leiti frigate, and after an examination permittee to fail on. Capt. M'Quid favv a number of square rigged vcffels bound up the bay Arrived here on the fame evening, b-'K Hope, Capt. Kennedy, from Ja-. maica, out 28 dajs. Off the capes was boarded by the Africa, 64 guns, and detained a few minutes only. Arrived, yesterday morning, fdhooner, Polly and Betsey, Capt. Nye, 8 days from Nevvbern North Carolina. PORT OF PHILADELPHIA. ARRIVED. a y s Brig Mofc Miers, Williams, Norfolk 15 Barque Ceafar, Sporfwood Brest 77 ■ Brig Minerva, Snell, Havre d? Grace 49 Pomona, Anderftm, Jamaica 20 Polly Gardiner, Boft«n 8 Alfred Frazer, Jamaica 20 Sloop Sally Hefs Gonaives 9 NEW THEATRE. TO-MORROW EVENING, April io, Will be Presented, Not performed this fcafcn, a COMEDY called THE JEALOUS WIFE. Mr. Oakly, Mr. Green Major Oakly, M r. Whitlock Charles, Mr. Cleveland Ruff. tt, Mr. Wignell Sir Harry Ee.igle, Mr. Chalmers Lord Trinket, Mr. Marlhall Captain O'Cutter, Mr. Harwood Paris, Mr. BliiTett William, Mr. Darley'jun. John, Mr. Warn 11 Tom, Mr. Francis Mrs. Oakly, Mrs Whitlock Lady Freelove, Mrs. Shaw Harriet, Mrs Fr n:i» Toilet, Mrs. Rowi'o.i Chambermaid, Miss Wiilems End of the Play, a new Comic Pantomimical Dance, composed by Mr. Francis, called RURAL REVELS, Or, The Eajier Holiday. The Music composed and fele#ed by Mr. De Marque. The principal characters by MeflTrs. Francis, Nugent, Mailer Warrell,Dar ley »jun. BliiTett, Mitchell, So lomons, Price,& Warrell; — Miss Milbourne, Mi's Wii lems, Miss Rowfon, MlisOld field, & Mrs. De Marque. To •which -will be added. A COMEDY, in two a<sls, calhd THE L Y A R. Old Wilding-, Mr. Whirlock Young Wilding, Mr. Cl.almei s Sir James Elliot, Mr.Cievelaid I'apiflon, Mr. MarfLuU Waiter, j/lr. BlilTett Servant, Me! e - W rr 11 M : fs Grantham, M s Fran i» "Miss Godfrey, Mrs. Clevela: d Kitty, Mrs. Row.oa I.UX one Do] ar—Pitt J ol' a lJol'ar-a id Gal'er) £ a dolbi. *"w ' 'tz
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