raids of stocks '* 6 pt- Ctrt'n 1979 3 (>ci Cent* i xji Deferred 1 3/9 (ionk of the \Jifitcd States 38 Poßiif/?vanla 37 North America 4 J WANTED. _ AChiir« miiii, CO Attend a Lady ort a yifit to New Vork. En 'juirt of tic Print r. May <1 l r . font SALU, Uifwi-eH nine an.! 10,060 Acres of L'rmd, Situate in she <ouuty of Frederick, anil ft .its a: Virginia, being tl«e greater part of Greenway Court M:uur. Part of this traCl lies oa the river Slier.oadoah, between thirty and forty miles above its junction with the Potowniack. Th_ Sh-nondoaii is ctpahlo of being rendered navigable, and the navigation of t.ie Potswmack is in a fair way of being completed to tide water which circumstances osflr 111 a few yean a water carriage to the fiourllh'.ag towns of Georgetown an'd Alexan dria, and to Ui: City of Wai'ningtoß ; from all which places the said trail is diltant bet ween feveiity and eighty rniles by land. The f.ourilhing Borcmgli of Winchcdei? i» o.iiy twelVe or fourteen miles Irorfi it. Between three and foilr thoufajnds acrH of the land are leafed generally for terms not exceeding twenty one years and many of the ter.ns have anty.fhtort prriods to run Tlie remaining quantity being near fix thouland acres, eonlills of the moll valua ble part of the tra A ?xtremely ricK limestone i.tnd, fifnilar in quality to the verv fertile country in Lancalter and York counties of t'.is fiate, and in Frederick county of Maryland. An indifjiutable title will be made to the purchaser. This traifV beirig (united ill a melt heaUiiy fertile country, offers a most advantageous investment of„n;oney ; as 110 pcYt of America can exhibit a more rapid Settlement and improverreut, and coufe qufently a nr.ot'e rapid increase in' the value of real efiatc, , It would be particularly' advantageous to a company of fcttleTS as the part not leafed, admits of being divided into farms of any lize to suit the couvtnieitce of the parties concerned. One half of the purchase money mult be paid at the time of sale, and the remain in!; half at easy instalments with interest. Further particulars are deemed unnecelfary as it is probable the land will be viewed, by tiny person disposed to buy before h_ purcha fea. The price for the whole tra<st m»y be known on application to the hon. Thomas Hartley, Esq. at Yorktown, to the hon. John Wilkes Kittera, Esq. at the town of Laticaf- j ter, in this Itace, to Charles I.'j, Esq. at A lexandria in the state of Virginia, or to the fttbf-ribcr, at No. 29, north Second Rreet in this city, who wiil treat with any person or persons d'ipol 'd :o pv.rchafc till the fifteenth day of June next. Richard Bland Lee. Philad.' Afiw 14. tu & fitn James M'Alpin, Taylor, No, 3, South Fourth Street, Returns his grateful ack low/cdjeiner.ts to his friends and the l'iiblic for th'yir.lite ta! K.icon< Agerijent,'ami' itave rcf pe"ctf» : ly iu h»Jicic a Co»»tiiitian' , c of their Favoo r '. Ar his GentlemrnC*n be furnifoed with rhe bed urareriaitaV andf h*ve fhym utadc up ;.ntl si lifhed in thdr neartcft and most faili'o<iai»le mariner. thanlct'iiUy »ecc've any ord<:rs & pay aprompt a'.id jMifcWal alient on to th'Tn. ?5 2Aw tf For JLIVBHPO'OL, the AmcricniY* Shij^" DIANA, Gfokgk CiAi Comm/intfer. She 13 nearly a new veflfel, well fitteci, and a constant trader. She is intended to fail in the courle o\ the month, and to re turn an early Fall Ship. For Freight or paff ag.', tipply to PHILIP NICK LIN & (P). Who have for Sale, Landing from ori board faidVelfel, 5- *a r T S Cutlery, Copper in Sheets and Bottoms, Drop Shdt alforted, Red Lead in caflcs of 7 a 8 C\vt eacn, While Lead in do. of 3 eA'ch. Tbry are also Landing from ibe Sloop Georges Luke Hammond mnjler, from 'Jamaica; laying at Cbepiut Street IVbarf JO Puncheons JAMAICA RUM. Andfrom the Bnjlon. Paclet, Captain hurnt from Liverpool-. 22 TONS «f PIG LEAD. They have also on , R ; eh Mountain Wine in Quarter CaHcs, Fine Old Port Wine in Pipes and' Hoglheads, ,'rrii:fh'Litjuorice Ball, in Loxesof 2 Owif each crude and iv-iiir d, Men'n English faddle#/ fail Canvass- affortctT,' 150 Crates Queen's Ware. Grown Window Glals 8 by 10, and A- Quantity of Mahognhy. d Muy 8 GEOn c K Cla RKson, CONVEYANCER, HAS opened'his Office at No. 120 Sprr.ee Street; where he will kc happy to at tend to avij bufint.ii his friends may put into his hands. May 8 tu th $ tf "" r CONT IN J ATI ON of the lath St Foreign Advices, By the Ship Diana. FRANCE. ; National convention. Hxculpa!srj Speech of H rbAi. Monday, March ». " The rcfleilions whicli have jult been m—tie by Barrere, were made necefl'ary by 1 a we ilid not- expe<sl Cer tainly if, in the report which,has jult been fliade, any idea had been given of the an swers we have made to Tome faefs in the Report, it would have been ufelefj to pro long the lifting by.any reflexions. The neccflity of not ftiliering the continuance of that crowd .of prejudices has induced 1 one of us to fueaic, but I think he has not j laid every thing; he has neretthelefs di refled himfe'f to the right object, he has ' attacked those prejudices with whicli we are opp'e/Ted in the publ'c opinion, he has ; . entered the fai.-cluary of yoivr conlciences 1 he has applied to your justice.—Citizens, 1 it is to principles, and to principles alone, • that we ought to recur ; we (hould afiply ' tfcera to the several movements of. the re volution, for it h in these principles that , we uiuft rc-ft our dcter.cc. Ai for you, you ought to compare fnftj with the cir cumflance* which gave rife to them ; you • ought to conlider, that those to whom you gave the direction of the vefTel during the ; (torm, could have no fnpport but from 1 your power ; for, as Barrere has said, you ' ■ are the animating foul of Government: 1 its action only rilides in the Committees. ; This was infeparabie from you and the People. The precautions of Government | arose from the dangers of the Country, 1 those dangers which diftatsd the mea sures taken,' and which cannot at this time ] be objetSled to,' because they were made ' nccefl'ary hy the public calamities, and ilif appear with them. " The firlt principle to which we ap- 1 peal with confidence is this, that every ' arbitrary adl, every extraordinary mea- 1 sure, notufeful for the preservation of the 1 country, is highly blampable; but that ' whatever is neceifary. mult be lawful, o- ' therwife the pals is nothing, the present is < nothing, and the future will be notiiing ; 1 the Revolution no ionger inspires confi dence; what was right the lali year, mild 1 be deemed criminal now; what is right i < this ytar, will be condemned th« fycceed- j I ing. | < " There is yet another great principle, j ] a principle frdutary in Democratic Govern- j ' ments, which we mult applaud, notwith- i • itanding our painful fcxperience of its con- ! 1 feqnenccs ; it is, that those who have been I inverted with extensive power mult necef- j 1 farily fall into disgrace : it i 3 the nature of ' Popular Governments to be jealous, and i power is closely followed by unpopularity. 1 J This tfcould excite neither astonishment ' nor complaints; but it is neceflary to make 1 some fafeguard to defend the person who 1 governs from the refcntmcnt of the ene- ' 1 mics of the Republic ; how else can a Dt- • mocratic Oovcrnment fubfiff ! — < " A great example is called for. Be it 1 so ; let our conduit be examined ; if we I are culpable, let us not be pardoned. We 1 have been deprived of our rights ;we have 1 fuffcred, without complaining ; but, Citi- ' zens , in the name of Democracy, exa- ' i mine impartially what we have done. Ro- j I colledt, that a great number of citizens in ] the pneient Republics have died victims < of faction, who have lucceeded each o- ] ther in turn ; refiefl, that if these accufa- ; tions, which history teaches us, had not • been so prccipitat.-, their cotemporaries • would not have had the regret of facrifi- 1 cing men who have served tli*m faithfully. 1 "If we had not fixed under the «olours • Of the Republic—if we had not suppres sed the enemies of the People—or if we i had partaken of their plots, we might , well fear the crowd of enemies who now | harrafs us. But the accusation brought j against us is absolutely contradictory. If , the powers you confided to us were above i our force, if we have been led altray by their extent, let us be putiifhed, to serve for an example to those who (hall succeed us. But we (hall console ourselves for the pains in?.i£ted on ns, by reflecting that we lhall have no other reproach to ourselves, than that of error. I now resign ltiyfelf in obedience to the Decree of Arrelt." VVedntfday, March 4. I The President ordered the following tetter to be read, Viz. A Letter from Letoumeur, Representa tive of the People, with the Navxl Army of the Mediterranean and the Army of Italy, dated Fort la Montagne, Toulon, February 20. This Letter states, that at . the memorable feftival in h nour of L> ! befty, a few seditious voices were heard in the crowd; but that the firmnefs of the officers had fupprelfed these movements. Every thing at prcfent announces unani mity and patriotic spirit. The writer af luiesthe Convention that no confideralion (hall turn hirn from his duty ; that though he ihall be guided by the principles of jus , tice, yet he is resolved to (hew no longer indulgence for criminal intentions orcom pliafance for bad Citizens. Hi also remits a Letter fcnt to him from some French Refugees at Philadelphia, who give an account of their celebration of the feftival t of the f_;th of Airguft, and an addref* to I the National Convention. h REPORT BY CtTRTOIS. t IN THE NiiMF. OP THE COMMISSOH AP- f POImTED to examine the papers f StIZEITIN THE HOUSE OF C ROBESPIERRE. r ll' principles are the basis of every v Republic, virtue, beitig the praflice of r principles, is their cement.. Under its p appearance Robespierre succeeded to im- a r * pose upon the multitude, amf to ufuvrp .tn enormous popularity. Whoever had grown rich by the loss of his creditors, or of his country, hid but to entitle , liiniTelf* a Jacobin., To become a man eileijtiaUy nonest —to weep for the loss of a father, a huiband, or a friend—was a conspiracy; and, as if public happinels could be com posed of other ingredieuts than those ol private felicity, in order to render men fortunate en majje, they were individually } tormented ; in the fame, manner, they were reduced under the yoke of the molt abject servitude, to rni'te them collective ly free. To caul'e liberty to be loved, it is neceftary to render it amiable and en gaging ; but Robefpie. re, who aimed nothing but tyranny, did every thing to render it odious. Ihe father feared to find a denunciator in his so was a grtiter security in a foreit, along-side of a wolf, than in a city in the neighborhood of a itua. Tim > the conspirators founded the reign of terror. It cou!d p.ot last long ; but they meant to reign, and they reigned. As the tyrants place themselves above laws they have no protection to ex pert from them. These tyrants arm a gainst all; all ought to arm againlt them. Those truths, presented to the timid Ro bespierre, would have made him tremble; but he was inspirited, he was intoxicated into the crime, by the vilest adulation. — There is nothing so ridiculously pompous as the praises conferred upon him. A po pular society durit not communicate its ideas to the Convention, before its hav ing iubmitted them tq Robespierre. The administration of other societies fluc tuated between his virtues and his talents. Sometimes a citizen thought it hugreateft happinels to look at him only once ; some times Robespierre was even told —Clock- ing blasphemy *thatthe Supreme Be ing was indebted to him. All our victo ries were fiid' to originate in' his plans— his genius was the ge-nius of the Republic —a society had given his name lor a watch word. Thus he was termed the incor ruptible, the virtuous Robespierre, whose eloquence Tiipported the cradle of the Re public : and according to otherblafphcmers he was called the New Messiah, sent from Heaven to regenerate mankind. In short, there was a Committee that order dered Te Deum for Robespierre ! What was the Convention ? what the Republic ? " Long live R >hefpierre I" Such was the only cry of the fanatics—lf l'uch a devil had some treasures and places to squander, such a devil wouid have his courtiers ! Proceeding then to explain the j principal features of the character of Ro i befpierre, the reporter said, the caul'e of j all the vices and crimes of Robespierre | was to be found in his intolerable vanity, j If in a more humble sphere, his talents j might have atchieved a refpe&able emi nence, perhaps, he might even have been fatisfied -pith it ; But situated as he was, to his eyes rivals were always hi* bitterest enemies. His fears rendered him a ty rant ; and such was his hatred of his ene mies, that, if pofiible, he would e i ven have arretted their ghosts, to fend them also t»«ie guiHotioe. Cicero Ex.- -- confiU, having published something un pleasant to Caesar, the latter refuted it ; then, it was better to make a bad work than commit a bad adtion. As to Robef pieire, he refuted not: he guillotined the writers : and indeed fays the reporter, it is easier to kill men than to kill truth. i But was Eobefpierre alone the colofius of power? No j certainly. The history of his execrable tyranny may be divided inot 3 parts —1. The crimes of Robespierre ; 1. ; Those of thcCommittees of Government —and thirdly, The crimes of the agents. Some crimes were common between Ro bespierre and his agents ; but evey where, we find equally crimes in the governors, and misfortune and diltrefs in the govern ed. The War in La Vendee, a revoluti- I onary army spreading tefror every where, 1 indifcipiine in the soldiers, diforganizati , on of the armies, permanent guillotines, I extinAion of riches, total ruin of com j merce, and rtfgoctantijn denounced more i severely than royalifm. It was his chief j aim to cover France with the bones of more than the half of its inhabitants ; to employ everv means to execute it, such as drowning, (hooting, famine, and refufing from the American merchants a proposed contratt for 103,000 barrels of flour. It was his delight that ignorant and corrupt ed men (hold enjoy all the places j the vir- 1 tuous and learned (hould be excluded ; that spies should be introduced into all fa milies ; thar a thousand Baftiles (hould be filled with innocent victims. He was fond of enslaving the people by terror ; of deftroyinj* the Nat onal Convention, by fti ipping it gradually of all its powers to usurp afterwards the sovereignty. He said and repeated in all hi. publications, that France wanted a " f.ngle <will," " une vol out" —such were Robespierre's crimes as drawn by the reporter. Those means however, were common to the leaders of the Committees, and to Robespierre ; the firft used them to perpetuate the decemvi rate j the second to revive royalifm. The misunderstanding that burlt between the despot and his fatellities, produced the re volution of the 9th Thermidor ; and the Republic was saved. The Common Coun cil of Paris being almott only composed of men of vitions & disgraced tharadlers,had been considered by Robefiperre as an in strument lit forhi9 pnrpofes : it was in its bosom he fought an alylum the 9th of Thermidor. The National Convention being an ohftacle to the liberticide purpo ses of Maximilian, it was necefliry to de stroy it; andtopreclude the members frQm crushing his designs, the mod aiftive, means w,ere employed. Two Committees \Pere inveftedwith the absolute power; the most energetic of the lieprefentatives were put in irons, or dragged to the fcaffold, and butchered without even being, heard ; 11' an itifurrtsSion tr." planed agai.iil the o d thers, by the aiiittance of a ronfpirinj i;- Commune ; and the armed force comman lf ded by a man whom Robespierre himfelf y hid saved from the guillotine. Here the a reporter gave a of the character of ; Robespierre. When a child, he wiihed 1- to domineer over hi* fchoolfellows j when ,f a man he wiihed to enslave men ; and he n fuffered his rivals to live only when he y could not kill them- He would have lov y ed the arts and fcier.ces, it be alone could ft exer»ife them. •- Some letters were read here, and efpe it cially one to Couthon, dated the 9th of 1- Thermidor, and a notice of the directions it given to Henriot for securing the luccefs 0 of that memorable day. 0 Robespierre had written with his own hand the plan of the conspiracy; it was, ,1 ,1. To procure money. d t. An address to the Departments, ft 3. Couriers to be sent to the Repreftn i' tatives of the People with the Armies. s 4. A Federation between the Communes of Marfeillet and Paris. 1. 5. Suppreflion of all the Counter-revo -- luticmary Papers and Journals. 6. Change of the Ministers, and a change in the Polt-Office. s 7. T° arm and pay the Sans Culottes. 8. The suspension of all labour and com s merce till the country was saved. 2. To char.ge the place of the Sittings e of the Convention. ;. The last article was proved by the cen- V fefiion made by Elie La Colte, the nth of - Thermidor, that, fix months before, Ro bespierre had proposed to the United Com - mittees to suspend the fittings of the Con - vention, and to remove it from Paris. By the extracts of a roll written by Ro : befpierre, the reporter explained his whole li system, deftrutflive of the national authori ty j and the motives which caused the fa e crifice of Philippeaux, Camille Defmou - lins, Bilhop Gobet, and Weftermann. s Many letters were then read, where the t tyrant was counselled to strike rather than 1 to speak ! To destroy all f The dead only - never return ! In these letters the follow t ing plan for his escape was remarked: ? " You have been railed to the throne of s the prefidence ; tremble to drop down to a the grave. C ome here, the fuml.« you a have sent already M'ill be more than ade s quate to your wants and the exigency of ' e your agents." The reporter mentioned the place occu f pied by the ancient tyrants of the Con- i e vention ; on the firft lint, are the leaders , . of the Committees; on the second, the 1 Members of the Administration* ; 011 the - third, the Revolutionary Committee and ' 1 Armies, the Clerks of the Foreftallings,and ' , Popular Commifiions. " Sacred truth!" | 1 I exclaims the Orator, " I will be your or- ; - gan, whenever I ftiall be your mailer, if - there -*T-cr-c «fT«o*tiiators, there \yere too - leaders, directors of aflaffinat' us 1 They i fit amongst us ! Your tyrants had chofcn ! - them to revile u» 1 Then he takes a re - view of all the proceedings and millions of ' ; Carrier, at Nantes; Maiguet, at Avig- ' < non ; Collot, at Lyons; Joi'cph le Bon, '- in the departments of the North, &c. He e explains the powerful and wife means pro t posed to the Committee of Public Wel fare for a speedy termination of the war f of La Vendee; that Committee, aiding s in concert with Roufin, opposes their ex -3 eeution ; the correspondence between Jo . l'eph le Bon and the Committee of Public , t Welfare, proves the complicity of one . with the other. Le Bon, tearful himfelf - for the wanton enormities he had perpe- ' , trated at Aras, entreats the Committee 10 , approve of his condudl 1 That approbati - on is confirmed by his correspondence, and 1 - the Committee, far from accusing him be , fore the Convention, bellows on him, on - >he contrary, its praises. Lebas was wri , ting at the fame time, that the Commit - tee wished to be able to make a tribunal 1 t with each of them, and give each of them f * frontier town to handle, (a empoigiier). 1 f Bourdeaux, Nantes, Orleans, Lisle, Ly- 1 > ons, Arras, Stralburgh— every populous s town in the Republic had a Revolutiona ; ryTribunal: each of them had its Du- ' 1 mas, its Fouquier, and its Juries, after ' t the model of Paris. Then he proceeds to the enormities ' ■ committed by Collot d'Herbois at Lyons. ! It is neceflary, ,J said Robespierre, in • one of his letters, " that Lyons lhall *x- r : ill no more—it is necefrary that your de- p J. fig" °f erecting a column on it* ground be not an idle one. The difpei lion of the inhabitants of that rebel Commune being > executed, Lyons shall be no more. Be- c I fore all, Collot uses the Guillotine ; but : tnat bloody engine not dispatching with a t ' f«™cient speed, he causes the inhabitants r 1 to be shot by hundreds ; those that the I deadly blow had not reached, are struck g t with fhovcls and pick-axes 1 A multitude BI fe precipitated into the Rhone. So periihed 7000, and not, as i : it was believed, 1500 citize is II !" The following anecdote is horrible :— barbarity of the Representatives sent : on millions, applied even to the peaceable 1 ■ and virtuous citizens. ' Let them be pus , t,le f e bloodhounds, fpr not si I having emigrated !' ■ The Reporter concluded his speech bv j ■ the following apollrophe: "Yc tyrants, who hear me, your anions have been e- a ' l ua,l y wicked with those now described • ' you began by terroi, and yoii end by t tear. You wished for nothing but bloody u deeds, humanity never touched you j but I, you will learn that the hmd of Justice ' j. j „ not c )' our enormities unpunifh- The Report was ordered to be printed. 1 and tranfm.tted to the Departments, and a to the Armies. p Diffo/ition, tfnd ih,- (idrtm/fnd of the i French .{iriui.s, laid before the Con* " venliou March 4. Dubois Cranee, in the name of the (■ committee of public fafety—" Citizens, j The fuccefles which the Fi'cnch troot>» 1 have obtained in the lift campaign, make c a new diltribution of the republican ar " mies necessary. The denomination <>f j the army of Ardennes, and the army of 5 the Moselle, mult be fupprefFed ; since, exccpt the city of Lu&cmbtrtgh, wliicit p may be coniklered as a prisoner of n »r , in France, we have no longer any ene , my to contend with, from the sea to the Rhine; and trace tire army of the 1 North, which lali year coveredCaintnay, , now occupies Groningen. " The army of the North ought to protect Holland ; that of the Sambre . and Meufe, and the army of the Rhine, united to that of the Moselle, (hot'M j cover the Rhine, and repel 011 that bar. rier, the efforts of the combired pow ers. In vain would these poweis le claim some property upon the left branch , of this river : nature, the wish of the people, and the interest of the French republic, require that thiscourrtry should t email) forever a conquelt to 'liberty It is upoD these foundations that your committee of public fafety has ptepar ' ed new- laurels for our brethren in arms, and thinks iifelf fulfilling your intemi . oils and its own duty. We believe there is not one good Frenchman who will not appl. ucttin's me'afure ; and the coti rageof those republicans who have braved the rigors of the feaftm to drive the ene my from this territory, insures its suc cess. " The generals whose talents and military knowledge have so far fortu nately concurred iw the conquelt of these countries, ought to preserve the com mand in them. Ami if the new orga nization of the armies obliges the gene rals Michattd and Desjardins to enter into the rank of major-generals of divi .fion, your committee owes them the juHice to fay, that they have perfectly fulfilled their duty, and have not ceased to deserve yottr confidcnce. The two aimies of the Alps and of Italy were 'alt year united under the command of Kclktmaftn. Your com mittee thought to have given him a new mark of elteem, by entrulting them again to this experienced Gent-raL 111 thr Pyrenees there wilt be ->c change ; and though we hope immedi ately to announce to you, that bu, Vendee is returned into tlic m/jiimW the great family, the aimv of iht Welt and the ruatl of Brett mult nevertheless be prcferved and united with that of the coalt of Cherbourg, to protect ourboun ■ | daries on,this fide from any insult of the Lnglifii, or to threaten their territory if you should command it. The following Is the plan of decree we propufe to the coniideialion of the afletnbly : The National Convention, after hav. ing heard the report of their cotT.mittce of public fafety, decrees : t. The army of the Rhine and that of the Molelle shall be united under the name of the army of the Rhine and' Moselle. This army shall be under ths command of general Pichegru. 2. The army of the Ramble and Meufe shall be commanded by general Jourdan. The army of the by general Moreau. 3. In cafe these three armies should have to ad in concert, the general com mand is confided to general Pioliegru. 4. The two armies of the Alps and ' Italy shall he united under th* command of genfral Kelloi ma no. 5- The army of the Eastern Pyre nees shall be commanded l>v general Schcrer. 6. The army of the We Item Pyre nees ITfall be commanded br general Monccy. 7. The army of the Western Coafls shall be com nun dec by general Can cktux; 8. The army of the Coafls of Brefl, to which that of the Coafls ofCheibourg fliall be united, shall be'commanded by general Hoche. This plan of decree was adopted. Sitting of the 2d of V (Februa ry 20.) Carnot. v " I copre, in the name cf the committee of public welfare, to pie fent you With a report concerning our fituatiou in the United Provinces. Some members have thought that we had not derived from so brilliant an expedition all the advantages we might, and that the victorious seemed to have received the law from the vatiquifiiid. It im ports the Convention not to fuller such lufpicions to be propagated. " Holland and England are natural rivals. Gratitude made it a doty to the Dutch to join with Frarct, which hfd afiilted them to re-eftalillfo tlvir inde pendence; but they threw themfe'ves
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