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not beefl out of Paris, and is it this prefer.t moment in a state of requisition, to make Ihoes for the soldiers. « GENERAL PICHEGRU, Commander in ChieJ of the Army of the North, to the SOCIETY OF THE JACOBINS. Brethren and friends, as soon as 1 liad re ceived my appointment to the command of the northern army, I resolved, to come among you for the purpose of repeating the oath which i 9 engraved on my heart, and of ai furing you that I will defend to the last drop of my blood, Liberty and Equality and the unity and indivisibility of the Republic. Orders, however, which have been tranf irtitted to me and which command me to set off initamly for the army, deprive me of the pleasure which I had proposed to myfelf. " I fly to my brethren in arms, determined nevr to separate from them till we have bowed to its b?fe the column of despotic power.—l glory in the fucceiTes of the army of the Rhine, and I am convinced that the soldiers o£ the army of the North have equal courage and eqml patriotism. A French Re publican fighting for liberty must be invin cible. " Founded on the rights of man continue to propagate the love of the Republic, while we are fighting in defence of it. " I fo'emniy swear that the arms of the Republic (hall be triumphant, and that either the tyrants (hall be exterminated, or. I will my life in the ccnteft. My last words (hall be Viye la liepubliquc !—Vive la Mon tugnc ! (oigned) . « Pichegru, Commander in Chief of the army of the North. . '. ' February ix. \ Barrefe raids a report on La Vendee, not Hot to alarm the Convention, not to speak of MfurnetSionof X-3 Vender, a refurre<£\ien i'iipoffiMe, though much desired by bad citi zens and the partizans of the. foreign pow ers, Some midak.es h? # been co nmitted in 1/3 Vendee, which had given freflj hopes to the remnant of the banditti; feme bodies of them had collected, but the troops of the re public had alrca4y dispersed them in fereral place*. He prppofed several measures which were adored, and-a monument ordered-to be ere£led*o. the memory of young General Moulin, who killed himlelf to prevent his felling into the hands of the royalifls. The convention decreed, that the tnemory rtf General Moqlin behig dear to the repub lic, a monument ihould be ereifted over his grave with this mfenption—" Republicans 1 he destroyed .himfelf that he might not fall Irving into the hands of the ruffians!" The Representatives of the People with the army at the Weltern Pyrennees to the Convention. , " Lan S fa" the republic !—Chawvins-dra- ganj, Pluvioje 17 (Feb. $.) " This morning we were attacked by five colunns of Spanish troops, cornpofed of about 15,000 men. Their intention was to fire the barracks of the Sans-Culnttes, and to pene trate into the interior; but we have van quiihed, and forced the Spanish General tc retreat, after having loft about- 1200 men Our Iof? cor,lifts in 60 killed, and 150 wound ed. The battle iafled eight hours. This i one of the moll glorious days of the repub lie. The French, attacked on all points nave triumphed every where." February J9. Barrere, in the name of the committee of public welfare, made a report refpe<fting lome frefli viiflories gained over the remains of thp royalists of La Vendee. " I hope," , said jlarrere, " this will be the last time that 1 lhall speak to you of that difgraceful part of the Ktvuulic." He firft read a letter from the Ri-prelentatives of Saumur, dated Feb. i.Uh, announcing, that the royalists were re duced to 7000 men at moll, who were not even all armed—that the division ofCharette conliited of not above 4300 men, and that of Laroche Jaquelin of 3000. Genera! Haxo wrote' from Nantz, Feb. 15th, that General Cordelier, after the vic tory of Chollet, purfuetl and overtook the banditti near Montrevaux j the combat last ed two days ; the banditti were completely put to the rout; 1500 remained dead on the held, and ijoo drowned themselves in a ' neighbouring river. A young woman, who leemed to command the rebels, has also been killed. This vi&ory has been obtained o«r the remains of the army of La Roche Jac quehn. J Fepruary 15. Letter of the Representatives of the Peo ple at B reft, dated Feb. 10. The sword of the law begins to strike the guilty heads. The Revolutionary i ribunal has just condemned to deatth three naval officers of the faction of the infamous Larivicre, who delivered up our /hips to the enemy in the Leeward If- Jandi. They were convided of having ho-.fted the white flag, and of having brought to the fcaffold the patriots of those countries. In confequenre, Mont eclair, Robert Rougemont, and Kercou all three ex-noblea, have been dispatched' here, amidtt the shouts of Vive la Repub liqiif. " The fleet is excellently difpofcd : it : applauds the.cond& of the Convention, ill having rejected all terms with the despots. The commonalty of Brest some time ago contained men, who wanted to lacerate their country with the daggers of federal ifm, but now it only contains men worthy of liberty ; and I, can allure you that will for ever belong to the Republic. " P S. I forgot to inform you, that we hold here in the castle, converted into an house of arrest, the ex-deputy Giroud, of the departmyit of Eure and Loire. He difappearedirf the convention on the 15th of June lilt. ; he probably overrun the: rebellious Departments. We found upon him falfe passports, and he hovered about among the miners of Poullaoien, some liftle mutinies among those miners are certainly his work. We write to the committee of Public Welfare, to know if he has not been out {awed. " Insertion in Bulletin, Oudot, in the name of the committees ofGeneral Safety and Legiflaion, madehis report relpeding Chaud-it, the Notary, under fentencr of death. He read several pieces which served to convifl Chaudot, and analized the defence made cf vhis public fuftionary. He allured the Con vention, that they had been milled refpect i»g his affairs. He urged that Chaudot had received sentence, not for having figrv ed, as a secondary .agent, the loan opened for the Prince of Wales, but becaute he had been convicted by a Jury of being an accomplice in the plot which exilted to favor the foreign enemies of the Republic, by {applying them with specie. He con cluded by moving, that the decree by which the execntion of Chaudot was sus pended, be revoked. CufFroy, member of the committee of General Safety, demanded that the sen tence of the Revolutionary Tribunal be annulled— and quoted many instances to prove the patriotism of Chatidot. The Convention decreed, that the re spite of the sentence of Chaudot be re voked, and himfelf left for execution. Jeanbon Saint Andre presented a re port in the name of committee of Public Welfare, refpefting the claim of a priva teer who had taken an American prize bound to England ; the privateer who car ried his prize into Havre-de-Graee, was there fined for having brought in that capture- The Reporter demanded, that the claims of the privateer be disregarded. —Dec reed. UNITED STATES. NEW-YORK, April 29. By recent intelligence from Canada, we can aflure the public, that they in that quar ter are not making the leafl preparation for war. The following Copy of a Protest entered on the Minutes of the Council of Appoint ment, has bsen communicated for p'ablica tion, by A Correspondent. DiSCOVERING soon after the appoint ment of the present council, that a majority of its members entertained ideas of their ■ powers repugnant in my opinion to the con llitution, I took an early opportunity of ex plaining to them my conitru&ion of their constitutional powers, as fanftioned by the uniform practice of the preceding councils. They notwithftar.ding proceeded to en-' crease the number of Civil Magistrates in several Counties, and without a hear ing or any adequate cause assigned, to dif p.ace many officers. After cxpreffing my disapprobation to them of such proceedings, I was at firft content that it Ihould only be in forced by others from my omitting to fub knbe the minutes in every cafe in which I deemed the a&s of the council exceptionable but as I co»ceive it my duty to bear testimo ny in the moll explicit and unrefer'ved man ner against every departure frem constituti onal principles, I now deliver in writing, my reafonsfordiflentinrfrom the measure pur fuedbyUe councl, left my silence on the fubjcdt Ihould be construed to fantfion a pre cedent detracting from the powers of the executive, and injurious to the intercft of the Jl Miut . ion vests « the governor, the supreme executive power and authority, and Sfnll t0 f T that tbe laws are faithfully executed to the belt of his ability • also auchomes him, by and with the confjni ?L«thT nC l' f ° if>point 3,1 officers > o^er n , H 1 redil ' e<Sed t0 be no manner ' but neither exprelsly nor impliedly, empowers the council to in crease or uiminifh the number; on the con toatrhe 3 Go e CXeCUti °" . of the is confided to the Governor, his capacity of Supreme Executive, and as in the exercise of Tat very elTential and important trust, a propor ,onal degree of refponfibiHty is is to be forcibly inferred, that in every ih afceruineri b l ' hC ° f ofßcers is aicerUined by law, the power of determin- ing what number is neeeflary, was intended by the constitution to be lodged in him. For it this conftruition is not admitted,the coun cil has it in its power to weaken and perhaps prevent the interposition of the executive in enforcing the laws, either in a direfl way by refufing to appoint such officers as are requi site for their effectual execution, or in an in dued! manner by appointing more than is neeeflary, and thus degrading the reVpeitabi ty, and diminilhing the energy of the maeif tracy. The constitution declares that all of fices, the duration of which is not particu larly afcertaincd, ihall be held during the pleasure of the council. By the pleasure of the ConncH is intended in my opinion not a capricious, arbitrary pleasure, but a found rational difcretioft to be exercised for the pro motion of the public good ; a contrary doc trine renders the constitution unfafe, and its admimftration unliable, arid whenever par tie? exist, may tend to deprive men of their office, because they have too much indepen dence of spirit, to support measures which they suppose injurious to the community and may induce others from an undue attachment to office, to facrifice their integrity to impro per confederations. (Signed) GEO. CLINTON. In Council of Appointment, Albany, 27th March, 1794. PHILADELPHIA, MAY I. Extra&of aLetterfrom Cowes,(England) dated 18th February, 1794. I' ma y be depended on as authentic. " 1 have now to inform you that Govern ment has iflued an order to their collectors of the cultoms, to stop all Ihips having on board pot or pearl allies, and to prevent their departure till further orders ; in con sequence of this the Iris, from Boston, ar rived here on Sunday, is ftopt for the pres ent, as her cargo consists in part of the a bove articles." In the debates in the Britilh Parlia ment, the conduct of the government of the United States has been brought for ward with diftinguiftied marks of approba tion, as well by members of the adminis tration as by those in the opposition : The following pafiage, occurs in a speech made by the Marquifs of Lanfdowne in the House of Lords against the war: " The conduit of the Republic of A merica was worthy the emulation of every other power. The Americans could not brook the insult offered by England, and while the spirit of the people was willing to meet the misfoi tunes of war, the wii dom of that great, that good and wife man, his Majesty ( I mean General Wash ington) called them back, and they una nimously agreed to accede to his recom mendation to preserve their neutrality. If it were argued that they were in want of money, he would alk what was the fitua- tion of Holland? Its credit was so low, that it could not borrow money at five per cent, and her debt had accumulated so much, that (he could not borrow money in future, at the most exorbitant interest. The king of Prussia was in a worse state, and the Emperor was reduced to the expe dient of encouraging private donations, which did not promise by any means to replenish his coffers. The noble marquis intreated his majafty's miniiters to beware how they incurred a war with America : there were various reasons why the mea sure should be most cautiously avoided ; and at the present it was well known to ■ miniiters, that Jamaica was obliged to open her ports, to receive heavy timber, and other important articles from Ameri ca. There was a tima when the Weft- India islands were valuable to this country, but that period, in a great measure, had pasTed away. The French had given free dom to the blacks, and the spirit of liber ty was not only diffufing itfelf in St. Do mingo, but throughout all the Weft-ludia islands. The Weft-Indies will become so many money traps ; and though the mo nopoly may be advantageous to them, it cannot longer be an advantage to this coun try. If ministers were of a different opi nion, why not conciliate America, as the belt and most \ifeful ally in that quarter." Lord Grenville in his speech in support of the war—has the following remarks : " As to America, which the noble lord had said was disposed to go to war with us, his lordship said that he had reason to be ot a different opinion; on the contrary, he was persuaded, that if she departed from her neutrality, it would be on the fide of her allies. " He declared that he wished well to America—was desirous that the utmost harmony ftould subsist between the two . • ■ t ■ , ■' » , countries, and earnestly wiflied to obliter ate an 3 wipe away, by every act of good will and friendly intercoufe, that animosi ty, which the unhappy contest with this country had last upon the minds of the people." His Lordship here said, that there was one thing which had fallen from the noble Lord, refpeaing America, which afto ni(hed him beyond measure, and gave him the utmost concern, namely, that it had been the policy of the British gov ernment to excite the savages of Ameri ca to commit h'oftilities against the Ame ricans. This was a charge of so detesta ble a nature, and so unwarrantable an as sertion, that he thought it his duty to declare it was a gross falfehood : so far from ftiniulating them to war with the Americans, the Britifti officers and the governors of Upper and Lower Canada had interfered and negociated, and done the utmolt they could to fettle their dif ferences, and to bring about a lasting peace between them. By this Day's Mail. NEW-YORK, April 30. arrived. Snip American Hero, Macey, London Capt. Macey, of the He o, spoke, in lat. 32, the ship Active, of this port, and parted with her off the Banks of New fonndland. The A&ive is full of paflen gers, many of whom have the small-pox j a young lady, passenger, died on board the Active, and her body was commited to the deep. BALTIMORE, April 29. A gentleman who arrived here from Norfolk on Sunday last, informs us, that a Danish sloop attempted to fail from that port—that Captain Blaney, in a schooner manned with volunteers, imme diately pursued and overtook her—and that on their return they saluted the French frigate, when a swivel burfted and killed one of the volunteers. Our infor mant adds, that on the schooner's arrival at Norfolk, a person (being made acquaint ted with the melancholy accident) expres sing a wish that every one who affiled in saluting the frigate, might (hare the fame fate, was tarred and feathered, and led throngh the principal streets. foreign intelligence. PARIS, February 13. . the 3 1 ft °f January the whole di vision of Maubeuge was almost barefooted, and without Hackings or boots. ■A. letter from Morlaix, dated January 32, states that three French Frigates, in. eluding the Carmagnol, had carried into that port 30 vefiels bound to England. The head-quarters of general Hochc are now at Saarlouis, where the army of the Mozelle has collected in great force. It is said that it will Ihortly attack Treves in three columns. There is also a consi derable army colleding about Thionville, The House of Representatives of the Unit ed States has been principally engaged for ltveral days in discussing the report of the committee on the ways and means The (hip George Barclay come up to the city this day. THEATRE. NEW '■/■■■l TO-MORROW EVENING„ May 2. Will be performed, A TRAGEDY, called OTHELLO, The MOOR of VENICE. Duke.of Venice, Mr. WigneH Brabantio, Mr. Green Grationo, Mr, Warreil Lodovico, Mr. Cleveland OtheUo, / Mr. Fennell Caffio » Mr, Moreton iago, Roderigo, Montano, Senators, Mr. Chalmen Mr. Bates Mr. Harwcod Meflrs. De Moulin, Blif fet, &c. &c. Jefdemona, Mrs. Morris Mrs. Shaw i o which will be added, & COMIC OPERA, written by the Author of the Poor Soldier, called Peeping lorn of Coventry. Boxes, one dollar—Pitt, three quarters of a dollar—and Gallery, half a dollar.