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By J'. FRE N R AU : (at No. rop, Market Street) Publijhcd Wednesdays and Saturdays, [Three Dollars per annum.]
Numb. 85 of Vol. ll.] WEDNESDAY, Auguil 21, 1793.
For the NATION \L GAZETTE.
Mr. F.ieneAu,
''pHKK.: : are in you'- gazette, of the 27th
of |uly two petes which •agin
to fix the attention of your readers ; thy
Ji;it is the proclam itioii of S »'»ti»>»nax and
Folverel, the civil commiilioners ot Sr.
]11 ingo, by which they duel ire. that
4 * the wil! of the French republic, andtn.it
o.'iis delegates, .3 to give liberty 10 all the
r 'ij/'o warriors, w 10 will fiy,lit for [he re
|> ibic, under tad oders of the c- r J<lc >- nnif-
Ji inert the feco id is that so perfHionffy
p ibinned, u.uier the narpe ot the Frencn
refugee'. from Cape-Francois, bv which
they themselves seem to decree t ie trium
jj ;ai crown to their eJtterminutors, b\
throwin/. upon the unfortunate Galbaud,
ail the bfome and atrocity of that inelau
clioly event. Such fcandilous machinati
« ys are no new thing i 1 the French revo
) ition ; and ihofe wno think to get fucii
j ,*eat adv mtage from chem. believe, u<f
i ty funpofe, tn »t they are lpegking only
t . t tnat.es, who have rej cited every feitti
ji ?nt of hum-mity, or to a ttupid and a
b.ifed people, witn whom all crimes are
v . tue.H. Let iu analyse, However, thefc
t •» piece* vviili the lights ot good fen fe a -
)( te ; let irs examine Vn few words, what
ri 4lly inigat have been the wiil of the re
p ibiic.
It is fnperfluou" here to invefligate the
p.biic or private rights of nations, to learn
chat the French people, in ivneu/ing thfi
fu ia! compatl, had no ot er ' iglit over the
d Ferent part* of the aft* >ciation. than that,
v iich was g ve4 to them, by their new a
g dement. They ha % 0 themselves fel
b »u»i<U to all lawful authority in their tie
c irat on of the rights of men in foaefy.
N'j nation, however powerful, has more
r ;hC to an unlimited authority, than an
individual ; and it can no more act tyran
n cally with impunity. Thi tyranny would
b To much the more dreadful in that, like
t > the hundred headed hydra, it would not
e/en leave a hooe of its extm&ion, with
tie fall of the tyrant's head. But the
Trench republic, which corre&ec! the firfl
declaration of the r ignis of men, only to ex
plain the sacred principles in a Hricter feufe,
did then acknowledge, that her power anc
will could not, legally, be further extend
ed.
What now is the confeqtience ? either
that the French republic ought to ndmil
t le coionifts under the fame guaranty oi
persons and property, prom fed and gnar
s ityed to ail the members of the new a (lo
cation; or • that it had no right to d f
p >fe of their property without their con
font, and without previously making their
a fatisfattory indemnity or, in fine, il
h id no ether power, than that ofexclu
dng them from tiie new allbciatiou. A
more powerful consequence, which we
0 nght to ascribe to these principles, is, thai
their violation, in refpe& of the Frencl
V/eft-Indies, has no less broken all the re
ciprocal rights and duties of the firit alio
ciatio 1 , k under which they took their rife,
than tli* fame abuses and outrages, 011 th<
fi.le of England, towards the United State:
of North Ai erica, has juffcly effected thei;
1 {dependency. Thus, that ridiculous ac
c ifation, so often, and so profufely throw 1
< it against the unfortunate''French colo
l ilts, with the view of robb-ng them will
i npunity, is only an additional outrage tc
ail the others of their oppreflors ; anc
I ley would have been julkiti.ible in pro
claiming their indcpendency, if they had
liail the power of effecting it. We do no
fear then, nor scruple to aflerr, that if fuel
fce the will of the republic, 4 to give liberty
to our (laves, as has been afierted by thofn
p.efum'mg delegates, it exercises only tn<
r;ghc of robbers, I mean that of force." Ii
f ict, have tiiey not already violated .nil tht
rights of civil society, in feuding to 11s
II '.der the title of civil commiflioners, no
only fiery despots, * but blood-thirfly taj
gatherers, who levy their extortions upoi
us, with arms in their hands, and goven
i' > according to their fierce and favagt
wills?' What! could it poffib'y be the wil
of the French republic and its delegates
that more than an hundred thousand fanii
lies dispersed throughout the islands, Oiouic
be exterminated by sword and tiie, anc
driven from that unhappy country, or
compelled, ihwuid they remain, to prolong
an exiOence, itill more wretched ! we ma>
veil exclaim with a corempoi ary writer,
4 what monstrous despotism has hrd such
wretched effects I O ! Rome, how do I de
test thee !' Let our republic once more
f lory in having tor its founders the molt
ai dent lover* 01 humanity! b^vjlcitt
Ravnal, wben thou didfl prophecy to the
wu»te< of tile Welt Indies, tlif dreadiul
'•'enifjnte of the negroes, thou did I nol
cxpeit mat it would he excired by whites,
with fouls blacker and mi.re exasperated
than thole or the wretches whom they pro
fefs to reve'. -e. !
Hut I nid ilii- refledinn brings me back
to thr fecoprl piece I mentiwned above) is
it portible to conceive, that the furious and
wild proceedings of tlu-fj K.ench deiroin
of deftrtfttioH. (liould si d aptiioiiiU even
'ii this comment ? Would they atteinpr to
cultivate here the maclii .. : li.. i maxim,
tiiat, t(ie arbitrary wills of i dividual*. in
si ne cases, uiay fuppiyibc pl.ce ofexiitin,;
polirive 11'.v ! and il this maxim has al
r ady taken so deep root in France, wh;.t
will _h-: wretched iihabiut Is ofth.it cuun
"i y have (rained by their b jailed republican
c inditir ion ? forme, lv il ives to a ki'.g.
i:d .it pr felt flavis to a fell ite, a thou
sand times more despotic. would not this;
be their fid horoscope ? J n effeel, t!*e
nie;;ns which are practiced to !• cure the
iiii|inniiy of the connnilfioners,
ail ; Polv. rel, fufficient'y teltify, (liat tilcy
have only acted from the iilltruciions of
tholV, w i<> un-mirnin themfei.es to be
p.iiielled of the fate of tiie republic, dic
tate their own wills for hers. These in
llruetions. which proceedeil frovn 0 me
chief.*, eafv to be known, without n>m
i"g them, llill teflify that the "will'
us this powerful cabai, is to be refpefted
as the will of the nation. We have n >
reason to doubt then but the fame hand,
which directs here, all tne official accounts
which tend to lelfen the horror of that
coirfprracy. which will co(V France its belt
and Nrjr.elt poll'elfion , in the Weft-Indies,
we cannot doubt, I fay, but this hand is en
gaged in this abominable my.lerv ; it is this
hand, which has written the second piece,
which cli lrges the general Gaibaud, with
hiving "een thcauthor of the ruin of Cape-
F raicoit.
We fee, in tb» : r proclam itiort, the com
mifiioners, Santhonax and Polverel, put
ri ig very ridiculously, and when we con
l ie- them as republicans, we may add
very aukwardly. rheir o vn v. til on a level
a'iih that ofthe republic. Their
tines (till more, he puts it above; but with
out examining if general Gaibaud had
been well or iil appointed, where is the
other decree which con'tirutes the tom
niifßouers. Santhonax and Polverel. judges
of the proceedings of the executive
:onncil of the republic ? Where are
are their powers for depoflng this ge
lerai, lent to infpefl their own ton-
Jndt? Cromwell laid, that he preferred
the proteclorlhip to royalty, because, said
lie, the Engiifh know w ell the extent of a
lei ig s authority, but not that of a proteft
jr. When wili the French u iderftand tlie
rounds ol the authority of a civil com*
miliioner ? on a fuppohtion that the rival
hip between general Gaibaud and the
ommiffioners, Santhonax and Polverel, in
?xerci(ing their refpeftive functions. has
>een the principal cause ofthe cataltiop.,e
it Cape- Francois, juflice preferred to the
writer ofthe above piece, the duty to con
ider. that tliofe last were as culpable. as
he former. But his manifeft partialitv
nakes him to reject all other accounts of
his melancholy diltrefs, which come out in
unification of general Gaibaud, who was
lot able to suborn witneiles in his favour.
>r purchase a venal and corrupt account of
:hefe m '.Iters ; and hence it reltrts. • firft.
:hat it was the mulattoes who provoked
:he sailors by tlieir outrages ; and fecond
y, that it was the refufal of the coinmifli
>ners, Santhonax and Polverel, to lilten to
he remonttrance ofthe French admiral on
:his fubjeft, which occa float d the dreadful
u'liou, the consequence of which has been
the definition of that city In fine, it
mofr certainly was thecommifliouers, San
thonax and Polverel, who called to rhe'r
iliiltance the twenty five thouland black
brigands,' by whose means this opulent
city has been burned, and who obtained
from the commilfioners their liberty, as a
reward of these meritqrious services.' Ah I
nave Frenchmen ever been fnbjedted to
such atrocious extortions ; have tneir cities
■ver been plundered and burnt in so bar
barous a manner, under the reign of Louis
the XVI th, beheaded as the last tyrant of
France, as they have lately been, under
che jurisdiction and iw the name of the re
public ! But let us not calumniate the
French republic in admitting such to have
neen its w ill ; tor where is tie decree in
which this \\ ill is declared ? If il does not
exist, it is altogether the w ill ©f the com-
Miffivmr, Santlicnax awlJPvlyftei, ami ut
the infernal factum, which they serve.
The national convention will befufHciently
blameabie in having delegated an abl'urd
diJ-tatorlliip to such ha.ids.
A REFUGEE.
Philadelphia, Aug. 6, 1793.
For the National Gazette.
To Mr. E ,
" On the wings f mighty winds" republl
can-i m ■' ride /"
Six,
AS 1 underftmid you are making prepa
'* r irons lor your 46 h serial flight, tf
rue te.. it.al regions, and having aw irrefift
lhie d. lire to contribute to the utntoO ii
ny iM.wer towards tbeliiccefs of your tau
ufcle a id (to us) novel expedition ; 1 fenc
. ouincio;. d a letter, which I beg yoli wil
ielnei vvitit your osvn hand,—it may bt
it ast to you.
As I Imvebeeu an aflronomer, art astro
ger,-and a;i aim mac-maker, lor theft
orty years pall, n.y correipondence wit!
:;id Kin; wledge of" the world above, art
re.nle .neatly very great; as hath oftei'
ieen .. knoVflt dgrrf l»y lunft ol the bri;'hu(l
uiuintu ieion earth. and 1:1 a mort par'i
ular ijianrrci", by tliat prince ol' aftrono
nets Mr. R 1 himfelf.
I vvnl there!ore take the liberty of giv
•ig you a few (triple direfliohs : At the
>cgi:>:n :ig ol your diurnalevolation, after
.ou have palled li.e perigeum, and pro
eedtug through the different windings til
he zudiae-cirrle, be cautieusof approach
ug too near Scorpio.
Hy a i means avoid the Sun's H rtt, »s ir<
'eat will ue too vehrmeac, and may l'turcli
our ftiken tabernacle.
1 aiij gre <t care or the Dragon's tnil ,
iery a id po.for.ou3 eiiljvia iflue from U
1 ell ?>lai s, our go d and potent any, ti
lifplay his ting and hurl his thunder bolt
j.. t.ie heads ol the combined despots; ,el
li'ii there's aimolt an universal combina
ion ot the foils of gun.powder in this ter
aqueous globe, ag .inlt France and liber
y; tell hun tiiat in spite of them, Francs
•vill (till iiold up her heal and be trinni
jhailt ! and tell bim the tremendous and
mdoubtable hero! the Brvnsw ickean
Quixote, is difcomfirted and lunk l.kc
i lnllen (lar, to rile 110 more !
Avoid Venus, flie is a coaxing fiat, and
fxceedingly fond of lilk petticoats. Creel
lie Planets, faliue tlie Moon in your paf
age, and enquire of lier, what mean thoft
pots on her dill: ?
Whether they be beauty spots, silver
nines, w, ter, earth, vulcanos, or the bin
cen fragments of on old solitary, decayed
h orld i
Whether !he be a maid ? (if so, (lie mud
ie a very old one indeed, and I'll have 110
:liing to do with her) if not,
Whether the Man in the Moon, (as i?
vulgarly expressed) be her hlilbund i if not
Whether (lie be a widow ? if so, and Ihe
:ia:h any inclination to ei ter into a conju
gal (late, I'm her man : and the next trif.
7011 take, 1 will accompany you, and 11c
.lou! t, v. hen f);e beholds
phiz, we (hall instantly agree upon a match,
to ours ai d the worlds mutual advantage;
wr,as I am at lealt 5376 years younger thar
he ; I have the vanity to think, I can adc
ullre to her charms, and double the milli
ner of ft.jr.s in the firmament.
If yon fee Enoch* Elias, Moses, Lazarus,
VlahOmet, Deftartes, Galileo, John Clare'
I"oin Jacobs, Tom Godfrey, or Sir Ifaat
Newton, (for they were all balloon men,
iray present my compliments to them,. nc
,) they have any thing to communicate it
.he almanac-way, 1 liiali be imnitciy o
oliged.
Again, when yon have ascended as higl
is Caffiopoea, and mounted the Bear's-tail
endeavour to find the opening of the Ca
iaxy, (the entrance into the third heavei
through which tliey fay St. Paul p.,fled!
for, as that Milky-way ii compc fed of ai
innumei able number of half-Ooru liars,
like fhad-r&es in embryo) that touch eaci
other, there willbeno pofli'oiiity ofptiCi,..
through, nrilefs through hat aperture'
You need not ascend so high as the Geoi
gium Sitlus, that being a royal emigratu
itar, and you a French cit zen and re >11 •
lican, perhaps you may quarrel, and 01' ie o
both of you be decapitated, or a-la-lan
terned.
Neither soar so high as Saturn, as he will
receive you but cooi.y, (it at all) he'll net
so much as otter you a drink ol whiffcev
he's a dull, leaden headed, melancholy!
phlegmatic old flubberdejjuliion. and t>
iilii\ aiuiotiat.
[Tota] Numb. 189]
Beware, above all, of running foul of the
star Wormwood, as mentioned in the bonk
of Revelations $ 'tis a bitter itar, and you
ni?v rut it.
bnould you conftniihed to tdk£ up
your lodgings and, aoiiie a night, or lb, and
V otitis And you can't agree, on moderate?
terms, (as she v\ i 1 i expert, doubtless, an
extravagant price for her favours)—-fhntl
her * and try to hnd out jolly old Bac
clius's quai ,ers, who, Til warrant, will
r- ce vr y< a with joy and hofpitn'iry, !rnr!
you one ot his molt favourite nymphs, ca
roqze with von the whole night, and fwini
iii nectar and ambrosia.
bhouid you find your balloon likely to be
ex.iauiteft ol dephlogiftic ited air, apply to
Boreas, who will fupp y you at firrt * oft,
it his wind (hop ami-original ware-house,
at the fig.l of the Bellows, somewhere a
bot c the nor h, or north-weft corner.
Now, as I am luil as well acquainted
with St. ? aui with St. Patrick*
the former, on the receipt of tlie above
mentioned letter, will ro doubt furnifh
you Should there be occt,(iou) with his old
><et, as he hath long since left off catchieg
riih, to wrap ruund your balloon to fct lire
it fro 111 accidents, and Miouid a ilorm a rife,
° «> ill ?!fo opn *1 Me rho irr ~ou.
J s ut liiouid you fail in tiiis, as his net is
>robably, by tins time, worn out or IoU,
14col> will Jend you his ladder, if it be not
aroken, and fUould that be the cafe, you
null men cry aloud for father Abraham*
ivho will take yon m b : <? benevolent bo
om, balloon and all, ai.d wait you fa-e to
Joke's fplei did palace*
Wishing yon an agreeable ascent. and
inxioufly waiting your fate reruin, I am,
Hi, your moit obedient unknown friend*
'•"d humble fe?"*'*n f.
Ail old ALMANaC-MAKER.
P- S. Pray enquire of Sir Ifnac. what
iua, beton e vi [fi t Comet, we fd long ex
dnd whof? ?nnfaranc?, as Me cal
culated from his tables and logarithms,
would be in the year *789 ?
We alh onomers have been
•nt in our chronology, and are laughed at
and caiied loggerheads by every one. )
lin terribly afraid it will hurt the sale of
my next year's ainianacs—do id me know
low it i*.
Whether there has not been some unac
countable revolution, or wars in .ne pla
netary fyletn i
W lietlier Comets ever sleep, or £et tir
?d ? or*
Whether lie has not in his rapid course.
left the beaten track, and perambulated
through unknown worlds and dreary re
gions , (hitherto unexpiortd, nor even
contemplated Uy Jupiter himl'eif) loft him
relf, or been flopped in his career, by some
llrange, unknown, uncorht, umr.eiho
rlized, Uncreated body, far
m.ghtier than hm-ifelf, and in a dreadful
ronH.ct, have been tranfmu:ateii, I\\avow
ed up, or cruihtd to inviiibility !
A. O. A. M.
Philadelphia, Aug. 16, 1795.
To the EDITOR of tke NATIONAL
G :\ZETI£.
S I R,
W H L a " tHr r::Trr ? n e /!: ' fr - c nr'fiiner
ot 1- ranee tor faying he would appeal
to the people? I 5 the President a Ui.te
iraui charaiter, that an appeal from his
decilinns mnd be contidered criminal : or
are t te people in a (tate ot monartliii a! de
gr;: .atiorij that to talk of cpnfiiltii c them
be conlidered as great an litem e as if
we \vere under a dominion equal t. that nf
the old monarchy of Frame? What i* the'
legtflature of the Union but the peopi k
tiiCoigreJi tumbled, a , dis it already an
onence 10 appeal to ilieiu in cafe ol a con
ceived wrong by the President ? Should
opinions of tills fort obtain already in our
infant government, dre.rv indeed has be
come our profit it of liberty—lf this is a
governinent ol the people and not of ir
il'vidnal will, tliey oupht to be confultcd,
Uay they, and they alone, ought to deter
mine every momentous qoeltion j and en
qtiellion tt'hich refpeflcd their tranquility,
no helitation ought ro be discovered in ta
king their opinions. The backwardiiffs
which has been difeov°red incor.fnltliitf rl:e
reople ia their rcpri'fentatives, lias opened
' large Held of conjetiure j I hive heard
fever al members of Com res ex'jrcf: irucli
i urprize at it. and indeed they were totalis
ata lofstd comprehend its mrsninj
It there is a difference of opinion be
tween the executive an.' th • ■••ii "'Vr of
rr ince on the treaty, wiio to oeter
ulne tliu wfieicuce uut Uic jkvjik > xji?

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