The J" Vpll' *n* article written more than
year Ji-.tcemay not be u.feafonable at the , ); ,j
present time. Irone
Mr. Fun no, mats
AMONGS i t:ic disadvantages atten- the {
dinglniy? an ' tMtfyulo'is c ties* perhaps the .viii
'calamities ariling from tire are not the very
Ica.L Liuial. Though the eltabldhment of is rio
infuriate oflics may in part secure rich or i
nruividua's from a io£i of property, yet to ijapj
the poorer part of the qoffuntinity tnucn fire!
dills cis may Strife, and to all mu h ineon- city,
reui«iice and clifatfvaimae accae fro»n the •litne
"pf-i-iicfs of ilii» definitive ek-iritn;,. fulta
Any hint however inadequate and iraper- the <
fe<!t iu itleif, which has a probable ten- Icco
dcncy to mitigate the diladvautagcs arising poi'e
from and neiongin;: (o a llate of focietv, upoi
can not fall to excite attention and re-■ • haps
ctive the neceflary improvrmen's from It:- J plies
ghistwes which (ar> th: j y fpruig from the ! vhis
people) possess the will and the power to j so rr
provide far the public interells in the moil If
co-npleat manner. i P™'
[jj the fir It colonization of a pew conn- j the i
tv tiie abundAnre of timber and thenecef
-1) y of eteffing habitations in the fpee
diefl mode operate as conspiring motives
_i;-ion the new fettltrs and lead them to an
unlimited use of materials which they land
a: once easy to procure and well adapted
to accorapltflj Jhtir p'.irpolio. But in pro
portion as population encreafes, in the J
fivae proportion the influence and cogency an °
of these reasons may be Fuppofea to <ii- aul
minifti. Custom however, w hithjn all in- ' lch
P. antes has too much power, seems to pos
sess its weight in this. Of this the no- ' ew
merons frame buildings of late ercffedr.nd 1 cc(
.still creflmg in and near, the brgeft cities- P"
oT the United States, and in parts of the " 3
country the belt peopled furniih abundant ~e' l
proof. That the erection of these and the w •'*
covering of houses with lhinglcs may be at
some time attended with mifchief of a fe- atlt
rious kind in some of the large towns, is can
not merely within the limits of possibility tlor
hut of probability. But though the ex- do,
tent of the danger may be granted, it may con
he aiked " in a free country how will you y ou
" prevent or mitigate that par: of it which PJ"
" arises from buildings already compleat- >« }
" cd, and how can you restrain people Clt:
" in future from making use of whatever . -
'• materials they suppose to be most for |_ wt
" their advantage ?" To this it may be * e P
Snfwir'd that in a state of society the good '
of the whole frequently requii es that the j
interest of individuals ihould be facrificed | a !
to that of the whole and that (compenfa-' u ' r :
tion being made to the fufFerers) they fuf. j on
taiti no injury, but receive their share of J)«
th« common benefit. As to the latter part
of the question the reply is obvious, that
civil liberty does not require that evei y in- J
dividual Ihould have the power of doing <
what he plcafes, but only that he ihould LC
net he retrained from doing whatever the
majority does not suppose to interfere with
the rights of others, at.dth.urettramtsihculd
operate equally upon all. linen these
principles a bill might be fram'd 'o destroy co;
a'J the frame buildings and but houses in Vn
towns containing more than a certain mim- his
ber of inhabitant;, and in certain cases to dit
forbid the use of shingles and the eredtion
of such buildings in future, without the
ftnillelt infringement upon the rights of
iny. Lc
Untit maybe faidthattho' fuchameafure in
might containno injultice,y<:t no advantage ire
t o:iId afife to the public equal to the dif-' iifl
advantages which would be incurred in sri
the prosecution of it, and that for that Ifl
rfafon the attempt would he impolitic.— rei
To obviate this objection it will be necelfa- M
, ry to conlider the amount of the expence th
likely to attend it, and of dif- ca
advantage likely to be removld, that is, of aC
advantage to be gained by it. ToeiUmate pi:
the former, it would be neceilary to ea
consider the extent of the plan, which
<f propriety must be left to the wi
iudgvnciit^f"thofe whom leisure, abilities ha
and occupation have best qualified for the an
pnrpofe, viz: the members cf the legilla- qi
tures of the different flatesi In order how- Ci
erertoform some eflimate, I must take ag
Jbme certain extent of the plan. Suppose T
then that in or near all towns containing so
inor# than 10,000 inhabitants, all the hi
frame houses and out houses ihould be de- co
fiioyed (a recompence being made to the w
proprietors), that in such towns and in all (h
others where a market waseftab'iiihed, the so
eteiflion of such buildings, and the use of
shingles Oiauld be prohibited in future. — L
The ihingles of all houses finifhed before ta
the time, in which the bid ihould take ef- di
fe& might be fuflered to remain, as in pi
cases of danger these may be removed.— ai
In the forming cf new towns where thn- In
ber would be cheapelt and lead hazard a!
incurred, the use of it would be thus per
mitted ; whiift in older towns the compa- o
rative cheapness of such materials is di- ft
minifhed if not entirely vjniihe i, and the u
danger to be apprehended is encreafed, the ; u
future application of it to these purposes I
would be prohibited. In the largest pla- ,ii
ces the additional precaution of destroy- j p
ing the old buildings would be taken per- j n
haps after considering the neceftty of fre- • c
quently repairing and comparatively Ihort ; a
chiration of frame buildings, the advan- jo
tages supposed to be derived from cheap- 1
lieis of cortftruition may be found to be I
imaginary—possibly in the largest towns \
the ereflioii of brick houses may be most t
for the interest of the proprietor. But I
supposing this to be a flatcment of the cafe i
not perte&ly fair, still it is to be considered r
that in proportion as the encreafe of po- )
pulation in the United States i 3 rapid, in . i
the fame proportion the advantages (whe#: ]
any exill) obtained by individuals will di- -
nuniih, whiift the dangers arising to the i
community will increase. Most probably !
however individnals would riot fuffer even c
at present, so that the only disadvantage
sustained would be the expence incurred
by the refoeilive Hates, and would consist
: R ihe pun-hale o'f the frame building; in j "
i \tv*'-Yf>rk, Philadelphia ami otlK-r princi- "
pal places. The amount arter deducting the
from ittue proceeds of the tales of the old
materials could not be great. In viewing -
the .i.advantages likely to be remov d it £
wiil be allowed that though circumftaness |
very diftreUing nave not yet occurr d, this
, s no proof that they are either impose |
or improbable. In Philadelphia fires _ ij
happen not unfrequently. ouppofing a
fire :o commence in a certain part ot the
city, a strong north weft wind at the lame ,
-.irne prevailing, the pecuniary damage '
sustain.d in a night might tar overbalance ,
the excence which would be kneprred m | W
jrccoinplifh ng the whole of the p p.o
posed. But pecuniary damage wilt i
upon little cQnlideration be thought per- ,
■ihaos to bear no companfon to thole com- •
i plicated scenes of dillrefs and confufion a l
: ! which would'bo occasioned by a calamity .
: so much to be deprecated. ;
If thefS luggeftions .inould happen to (
prove of the leall utility in any reipec ,
■' the end of the author will be answer t.. '
HOilJ.
aba
— lin,
Dy this Day's Mail. C a
a hi
; NEW-YORK, May 29. '
Yefierdav, at one o'clock, our beloved att
and m 'ch refpedled Citizen JOHN JAY, "
arrfved in the Ship Severn, Capt. Good- a,K
rich, in 41 days from linftol. An ira- ' 01^
menfe concourie of Citizens were in a 1
iew minutes alfembled on the wharfs, who ru
1 received and conduced him amidst re- via
peated acclamations to his "houie in Broad !
1 Way ; when Mr. Jay addre.Ted them, as
j nearly as we recoiled!, in the following tec ;
wards:
t " Fellow Citizens, these marks of your |- n
. attention to ine are highly grateful—l ''
s can never forget them —and the recollec-.
tion of them will give a new motive to !e:
. do, What (hall be agreeable to you, and tw
■j conducive to the general wt-Uare. 1 thank
j you for your kind reception, and am hap- m !
i, py to be again in my own country, and alt
in the millflof you, my friends and fellow an
e " citizens." <
r Acclamations of cordial app'aufe an- , ■
r fwered the address; and the A ifembly )
e separated with mutual congratulations. lcr
H At fix o'clock a joyful peal was rung a "
e | from the belli of the city ; and at feveu ne
■1 j a federal salute was fired from the Bat-
I tery, which was returned from the fort P r
■ i on Governors lftind. .'
* I . ru
f By the SsfriMtf, arrived ytjlerdry from
' Btiflol, we have received London ar
papers to Jtpril 10, from which we ce
give t'oe following :— ti<
d LONDON GAZETTE EXTRAOR- <: '
e DINARY. ar
h Tuesday, April 7. ot
d Admiralty Office, April 6. j
C- A dispatch, of which the following is a w
ry copy, was this Evening received from
n Vice-Admiral Hotham, Command <r of
1- his majesty's ihips and velfels in the Me
:o ditsri ancan : t
in Britannia, at Sea, March 16th, 1795.
SIR. ; . tc
al You will be pl-afed to inform their
Lordlhips that on the Bth init. being then
re in Leghorn road, 1 received an express
;e from Genoa, that the French fleet, con
if-' filling of fifteen fail of the line and three
in frigates, were ften two days before off the
at Ifie of Marguerite, which intelligence cor- •
— refpoudirfg with a signal made frora the
a- Mozelle, then in the offing, for a fleet ; n g.
ce the north weft quarter, I immediately w
if- cavft'ed the fnuadron to be unmoored, and ( j
of at day break the following morning we j,
te put to sea with a strong breeze from the
to eatt north ea!l.
:h The Mozelle previously returned to me,
he with the information, that the fleet Ihe
es had seen were steering to the Southward,
he and supposed to be the enemy ; in confe
la- quence of which 1 shaped my course for g
«•- Corsica, lelt their deftir.ation Ihould he
ke against that Island, and dispatched the p
)fe Tarleton brig to St. Florenzo, with orders
ng for the Bei wick to join me with all pofli
he ble expedition off Cape Corse ; but, in the
le- courfip of the night, ihe returned to me
he with the unwelcome intelligence of that
all (hip's having been captured two days be- \
he fore by the enemy's fleet.
of To trespass as little as possible upon their
— Lordlhips time, I lhall not enter in'o a de
ire tail of our proceedings uritil the two ("qua- q
el- drons got light of each other, and the
in profpedl opened of forcing the enemy to
— adion, every movement which was made
in- being direisled to that objeift, and that t
trd alone.
er- Although the French (hips were seen by j
pa- our advanced frigates daily, vet the two
di- l'quadrons did not get fight o{ each other
the until the 12th, when that of the enemy
the I was discovered to windward. j
'fes I Obftrvir.g them on the morning follow
>la- j jug still in that direclion, without any ap- '
oy- j parent intention of coming down, the fig
>er- i nal was made for a general chafe, in ihe <
fre- | course of which, the weather being squally,
tort ; and b owing very frefh, we discovered one
an- j of the Line of Battle Ships to be without
ap- her topmpft, which afforded to Captain
be Freema nle, of the IncoTiftant fri.cate, who
ivns was thfn far advanced on the "chafe, an
loft opportunity- of (hewir.g a good proof of
But Britiih enterprize, by his attacking, rak
cafe ing, and harrafiing her until the coming up
:red of the Agamemnon, when he was most ably
po- fecon 'edty Captain Nelson, who did her
, in so much damage as to disable her from
aesc putting herfelf again to rights ; but thev
I di- were at this time so far detached from our
the own fleet, that they were obliged to quit
ably her, as other (hips of the enemy were
'ven coming up to her assistance, by one of
tage which flic was soon afterwards taken in
rred 1 tow.
I tW I.«n»v &sp« <fi3 nM J*Z •
1 | ,tTsad£a to furto upon cea
: S; lafboard line of boring,*. winch or- an.
i der we contmueu ior tue mgu • j
At day iight the next morning „ f
bung about fix or tevcn jcagues to ot
fnuth weft Of Genoa, we obfrrved the ene
s my's dilabled (hip, w.th the one tha ha _
. her in tow, to be so far to leewa. ,
; separated from their own fqur.dron. as
j. afford a probable chanc eot our cu g
. them off. The opportunity wrs not 101 l ,
all fail was madl to ess.a that purpolc, qu
„ I which, reduced the enemy to the aiterna
e tive of abandoning ihol'e lhips, or coming
' I'° Although the latter did not appear to to
U ; be their choice, they yet came down, on
! 1 the contrary ta.k to which we were. wKh as
j the view of fuyporting them ; bu. .he rec
I," Captain and Bedford, whbfe RgnaU.were de
" made to attack the enemy 6 disabled (hip pe
' and her companion, were so tar advanced,
0 j and so closely supported by the other flnps vo
, of our van, as to cpt them off equally
' from any alfifUnce that could be given he
them • the confliS ended in the enemy s to
abandoning them, and firing upon our po
line as thev pafll-d witli a light air ot wind, jei
The two lhips that fell proved to be the ott
• Ca-Ivr, formerly the Couronne, of Boguns, ni
and the Cenfeur of 74. 1
Our van {hips fuffered so much by this lei
j attack, particularly the lilullrious and th
" Ccurageux, having each left their main pe
,[ and mi/.en masts, that it became impoliible lia
for any thing further to be effeaed. ot
a I have however good rcafon to hope,
10 from the enemy's fleering to the West
ward, after hiving faffed our fleet, that,
i whatever might have been their deiign, p c
L their intentions are for the present fruflra- th
~ ted. e "
° The French fleet were loaded with m
" troops ; the Ca-Ira having thirteen hun- an
_i died men on hoard, and the Cenfeur one pr
~ thousand, of whom, by their obftin ite tie- »r
t0 fence, they loft in killed and wounded be- te:
u i tween three and four hundred men. lei
The efforts of our squadron ta second he
1 V my wiihes for an imthediate and effeaual th
|'j attack upon the enemy, were so lp:rrted cr
, and unanimous, that I feci peculiar satis-
W faaion in offering their Lordlhips the cor- nt
n dial commendation of all ranks co'.leaive- or
, " ly. It is difficult to fpecify particular de- in
i'ert, where emulation was common to all, . fr
and zeal for his Majesty's fcrvice the ge- T
e ®- neral description of n;e fleet. g<
lt '_ It is, however, an aa of justice to ev it
press the sense 1 entertain ef the services of so
Captain Holloway, of the Britannia: du- 101
ring a long friendfhip with that officer I ec
"" have had repeated proofs of his perlonal in
'on anc l profeflional talents ; and on this re- jol
'X'e cent demand for experience and informa- j bl
tion, his zeal afforded methe most benefi- si:
cial and fatisfaaory afliftance. bi
Herewith I transmit a lift of the killed rr
and wounded on board the different lhips bi
of the squadron, and have to lament the ft
lot's of Captain Littlejohn, of the Berwick, j
s 3 who I understand from some of the men v
that were retaken in the Ca-Jra, was un- p
. fortunately killed ih the morning of the C
Ihip's being captured ; by which misfor- a
tune his majesty has loft a moll valuable tl
and experienced officer, and I have only N
to add, that he has left a widow and four i h
eir frnall children. j n
"" I am, Sir, If;
Your most obedient humble Servant, I J.
W. HOTHAM. | c
ree P. 3. laclofed are lifts of the fliips that v
" ie com'pofed the two squadrons on the 14th t
T inft - . . b
ie lam now on the way with the prizes to r
' n St. Florenzo, but doubt much whether it j
e y will be poflible to get them in, as they are
dismasted, greatly lhattered, and very lea- c
ky, particularly the Ca-Ira. , I
tue Return of the officers and men killed and t
wounded on board the different lhips of t
r 'f' tke Squadron under Vice-Admiral Ho- t
e tham's Command, in an aaion with '
r ':' the Frcnch fleet off Genoa, the 14th of t
,!t "" March, 1795. t
" r Britannia, Capt. Holloway, 1 seaman kil
e led, iS ditto woiinded.
lie Princefd Royal, Capt. Purvis. 3 seamen j
killed, 7 ditto w i:n led, I marine or
, ' 1 " fcldier wounded. *
'' f St. George, Capt. Foley. Third Lieute- 1
I^' e nant lit. Honeyman wounded, 4 seamen 1
' at killed, 11 ditto wounded. I
c Windsor Castle, Captain Gore. Firftlieu- 1
tenant Thomas Hawker wot*aded, 4 sea- .
men ki'.hd, 28 ditto wounded, 1 mari
de" ner or soldier killed, 2 ditto wounded. 1
Captain, Captain Reeve. Mr. William,
the master, and firft lieutenant Wilson Rath- '
bone wounded, 3 seamen killed, 17 dit-
to wounded.
" dt Fortitude, Captain Young. 1 seaman kil
led, 4 ditto wounded.
1 " Illuflrious, Captain Frederick. Mr. Samu
tuo el Moore midshipman wounded, 15 fea
le! men killed, 63 ditto wounded, 5 mari
:my nes or soldiers kilted, I ditto wounded.
Egmont, Captain Sutton. 7 seamen kill
ow" ed, ai ditto wounded.
P 1 errible, Captain Campbell. 6 seamen
"3" vroimded.
llie Courageuij Captain Montgomery. Mr.
'"y» William Coleman midshipman killed,
ollc Mr. John Mackinzie master wounded,
10Ut % seamen killed, 11 ditto wounded, 5
ta ' n marines or soldiers killed, 11 ditto
" ho wounded.
Bedford, Captain Gould. First lieutenant
11 o 1 Miles wounded, 6 seamen killed, 14 dit
rak - to wounded, 1 or soldier killed,
? U P 3 wounded.
Agamemnon, Captain Nelson. Mr. John
ner Wilson master, and 12 seamen wounded
from Diadenj, Capt. Tyler. 3 seamen killed,
the y 7 ditto wounded.
l °ur Inconstant, Captain Freemantle. 3 seamen
<i u " killed, 14 ditto wounded.
were f ancredi, Le Chevalier Carracioli. 1 fea
le Ot man killed, 5 ditto wounded,
uin Total 75 killed, 180 v.-ounded.
W. lIOTHAM.
IVJ3LIN, April ?•
The i>iliilts to Lord Can den d j iot col
ceale, and. public Indignation feen*deeper yj,
and more decided. Ine rellows and iic 10- p| t
lars of Trinity College w.-nt up to the Cat'-
tie, according to cuilora, uJ>on the arrival
of a Lord Lieutenant, with an ad lrefs: Hi*
when they had arrived in the yard of the wil
Castle, the Scholars' gave three groans and rcs
immediately went away, leaving the Fel- aHC
lows to present the address by themfclves. fur
WARSAW, March 4- anc
Two Nobles, deteaed in publishing paf
quiuatles, have lately been arretted. P ei ,
The King, it is laid, will proceed from
Grodno to Kevel: It is generally under- txt
flood to be his Majesty's par # ular delire tio
to end his days in Italy. last
Several of the Foreign Ministers, as well are
as the Swedifi) Charges des Affaires, have —r,
received intimations to continue their refi- .
denci in this city. The Empress granted ;"»
1 pensions to the ladies of l'everal ol our fee
, Nobles who have fuffered by the late re- tha
i volution. _ Bil
A stria order has also been issued upon j U( j
1 her authority, commanding the inhabitants a|(
i to observe a peaceable and moderate de
portment, as their eondua will he the ob
led of the ftriaeft scrutiny. The Polish div
• officers that are obliged to leaye Warlaw wn
, me4t with a welcome reception in Turkey', he;
Ten thousand Poles taken into the Ruffian as
service are marched into the interior of j* ee
[ that country. The Ruffians having a fu
-1 perfluity of'ftores, &c. in their magazines,
; have fold to the Prussians to the amount P e(
of 100,000 rix dollars.
, MENTZ, March 16. tio
Extra/1 of a private Letter.
t lt General Count Clairfayt has received
positive orders to exert his utmost effort to
. throw provision and ammunition into Lux- .
embourg, and his army Is already on its
1 march thither with a large train of carts
- and waggons, laden with ammunition and to
; provisions. The General is fully lenfible of
- ol the great dijGculties attending this en
- terprize, but his di'ftinguifhed miliary ta- p a
lents, and great experience, allow us to
1 hope that he will be able to surmount
1 them, and that the expedition will be
I crowned with success. a '
" Although the city of Luxembourg is Co
- not large, yet the 'linesfof circuinvallation, a n
- on account of the advanced works stretch- bo
- ing every where, to half a leagues dlitence
, from the town, are of an immense extent.
- This distance of the body of the place, to
gether with the difficulty of approaching ol
r it, arising from thfe works being cut in a ha
f solid rock of stupendous height and bigness ftii
-1 en which neither mines or the belt direc£\- p e
I ed artillery can have any effea, render it
1 impoffihle to reduce Luxembourg by any
:- other means than a long and vigorous
- j blockade. Several Newspapers have long "J"
i- since announced that the Republicans had 1°
: began to bombard that fortrefs, but you or
d may be sure that 01) the 4th inft. not a m
is ' bomb had yet been thrown, or a carinon t b
e shot fired against it. j;
:, j " The Austrian Army is perfeaiy reco-
n vered from the fatigues of the lalt cam
-- paign. The removal of some suspicious "
ie Officers has restored the former harmony fc
r- and mutual confidence in the army; and fe
le the impression which the success of the f 0
y Republicans at the end of hft campaign
ir j had made on the minds of the private
j men, is completely worn away. Mr. Froif-
I sard is succeeded in the important poll of ' K
1 ! Adjutant-General by Mr. Grimm, an offi- P 1
1 cer universally refpeaed and beloved. The ei
at whole army ardently delires the return of v<
:h Major-General Mack, but it is mucji to 0
be feared, that the influence of his ene- j,
to mies will prevent his being again em-
it ployed.
re The secret negociations with the Nati- w
a- i onal Convention of France, which the ,r
Emperor had set on foot, are broken off, \\
id that Prince having soon been convinced of a
of the abfolate impossibility of treating with Ci
o- the aaual government of that country. —
th Those of the King of Prussia are continu- >
of ed at Basle, and a Prussian agent, farther
tainted with Jacobinism, is still at Paris. "
il- LONDON, April 4. H
IT appears to us, after a perusal of
en several German papers and letters, tljat h
° r the French are unwillirg to cemtend
te . with the Pruiliatiß for she barren diftrifl 1
en of Weftpkalia, and are withdrawing to <'
the livers and fortrefTes of Holland, the 0
■U- defence of which is too important to t
;a " them to be undertaken other wife than a
n " in the most advantageous positions. f
m The return of the Dutch commiffi 1
oners from England, without an ack- 1
lit- nowledgment of their powers, is men- t
tioned with much rcfentment in the
Amsterdam prints. f
Another conspiracy is said to have '
been difcoverefl at Naples, in which the
lr ;_ Duke de Medici, a pcrfoti of the firll
ej. consequence, and governor of the city, »]
ill- is said to be involved. Whether this is 1
any thing more than the trick of some 1
ten prevailing party, endeavoring to sup- I
press their opponents, is to be learned 1
ec) ' from future communications.
Ed) April 6.
, 5 We Hopped the press on Saturday 1
itto last, to (late the arrival at noon of messrs.
East and Major, two of his majesty's
messengers, arrived in town wiih dif
led ~ patches from the Continent. The firft
came from Vienna ; the last from Han
ohn ove r & Bremen ; at the latter of which
led. places, the British head-quarters were,
led, The Pruflian head-quarters were at Of
naburgh, into which 4000 troops of
nnen that nation marched on the 28th ult.
f ea _ advanced guard of an army of se
venty thousand.
The British infantry were to embark
1. at Bremen on the 2 gth and 30th ult. |
■ 4 v. - *» . ' ' |
count of a very fcrious riot in
The mob attacked the carriage . ■
Fitzgibbou, and threw a itoi.c ir, !o ;,
of seven pounds weight, whit
his Lordship on the head. T
wife attacked the-houfe of yoi •
resford, intd which it is said the
and in a few minutes demoli he.-;
furniture. Here one person v
and two wounded. The mob v
perfed by the military.
We give iu our paper of this ; ;
extradf ot the proceedings of t
tional Convention, from the 2
last month to the 28th induiive.
are chiefly taken fiom (he Rep
Francois, a paper in higher
in Paris than the Moititeur. it
seen from the fittings of the com < r >
that on the 29th, Collot, Barre
Billaud Varennes, io far from beic£
judged, were on the contrary to undergo ~jj|
a long trial, the charges a'gaind them
being to be difcufled according to the
diVillon made by the cominifTi;m of 21,
which had arranged them under many
heads. They defended themidves witti
as much address as' energy, as will be
seen b>r Barrere's speech, in which he
sometimes throws the odium on the
people at large, sometimes on the Na
tional Convention, and even 011 the fee.
tions of Paris.
The issue of that trial is likelv to
cause a movement in Paris, as appears
from a date of that city, given in the
lad but one of our French Journal*
Some fedtiuns had declared ihemfelves
to be in a date of infurreftion—the 28th
of March, a great nurnbtr of women
had.joined Tome seditious pefffttw t'n the- •
Fauxbourgs, and threatened the Con
vention with dissolution. In some places
they had torn out the tri-coloured cock
ade, and exclaimed, " Down 'with the
Convention." It was with difficulty the
armed force could keep them within
bounds ; and martial law was to he pro
claimed in Paris. The arrival of fub
filtences had failed, and the distribution
of bread, fixed atone pound per dav,
had heen reduced to half a pound ; HI
ftior t woie a very melancholy al
pecf on the 29th.
In admitting that order may havebeen
redored in Paris by the preftnt govern
ment, it fcems doubtful whether the
four accuftd deputies will be condemned
or acquitted. Their supporters are nr.-
merous and zealous ; and Lecointre,
their principal accuser, having in a croft
difctiflion attacked T < '
rondrfts, both parties 2 - .nnv>;
treated him as a fool :iea' a
scoundrel, and ami • •■•e-> 'at
seals should be put ;; -
forger of falfe deed
We underftjnd by ,w.v ; •
ports, that Barrere had got rid ot his
• accusation, by abandoning his two com
panions, avowing many of their private
enormities, and declaring to the Con
vention, that on the days of the 31ft
' of May and ill and 2d of June, there
had been a project to murder 300 mem
bers of the Convention, a projedt of
which he had prevented the execution,
. in facrifictng only twenty-two members,
, who had been guillotined with BrilTot;
f and that Ifnard, summoned by him to
I coniefs what he knew about that fnif
pose, was obliged to speak in favor of
Ban ere on that head ; so that it was
thought Barrete might escape, whil*
the others would fuffer.
f Stofflct, it will be seen, is dill at the
t head of an army of Ruyalifts in Arjou.
3 We have - received the acc(>ur<t Gf his Ifr-
terview with Chaiette, for the purpose
5 of confnlting on the proposed anmelty
e of the regicides. We have received too
0 the narrative of the entry ot Charette
n and his' companions into Nant7. Stof
fiet has iffyed a proclamation, which is
[ said to be a very rigorous or.e. e
. hope to be soon able to communicate it
i- to our readers.
e The trial of Fouquier Tinville, be
fore the new Revolutionary 1 ribunal,
c commenced on she 27th March.
c The Churches have been opened m
II Paris, and in a great nuroherof the De-
Apartments, for the exercise of public
is worship. The anti constitutional prirl s
lc were contemned as much as they di
3. served, and the MatTes celebrated hy
d the infermen;ed priests, i. e. those who
had not taken the oaths to the conft'tu
tution of 1791, were attended by crowds
iv of people of every description.
s*. April 7. .
' S The French papers lately received,
if. have proved beyond a dilpute the i•' .
rft million of the royalilts in La Vendee to 4
n- the laws of the republic, without any
; h stipulation in favor of royalty. I \' e
•e. of the Chouans have already fubmitte ,
)f. and there can be little doubt but 1
of the meeting of the 30th March* »
It. their leaders had agreed to attend, wu
fe- reunite them to the republic alio.
is a cutious fact, however, that inc' e
,rk the royalists made their peace, mon-y
has been actually paid by ourtnitutters