V:
fcr tnt CAzrrrt.
V
I
MK. FiMf>o,
1 r »» d to the public spirited c
i ut n$ to Htabtfk a Robinhood debarn; So
cetj— potnU of legsflatiofj cow.d t-.c
icit'.td cheaply at a tivt iYi-i-Doub r s could be un
f2 veiled, and the threads of fnphifcry iwfifrrled.
wine would.produce genejoua toalta,
ard banish the fordid fpliuof calumny and de
traction. Ihe oiators, after having ventilaied
ihdr iunjpby dilcimging ihe fpflammable air
in fpeechtt agaiuft the abuses of our vile go
vtri.rncm, the gambling money fchcmes, ihe
bank, fpcculaiions, courtly corruption* and pan
ccinoouli aboruiuauons of ihe crew in office,
rouid fit down to reft tVir weary aod d.fgufUd
virtue * ilh a «übt/ tat luhift. This debating fo
<ietv would th«i» piomoie the cause ol republi
can purity and frnipWciiy ot mariners, and bind
the true brotherhood more closely together. It
would aid lwe eloquence and make it dreadful
to an milters, by d.fllitog it frequently tor the
combat—The fym phonies of Btdlain, the fern
dou* screams, the eat-ptercing yells could be
nicely prattif d over bclprchand, like the re
hear sal of **f*ge.d)W&ut m these exhibitions a
yuan really ball crack-brained would out do any
nimic. By intrc*duciug whijl after the debater
of <he Society,# tawne amusement would be
fiu wiih severe duty, that the dcciaimers
agjuili gambling and fptculation might thip>. v if
the card*.*ere favorable, pick their wages out
*£ i'mcir wot k. It is no small advantage (or any
fcherrc t<* pay its vray r and execute ulcM a* ihia
docs. Tbcre is no need of fines to compel at
tendance. TKe reformers would throng to the
taretiflo>< eTpec'aUy towards the close of the de
bate*. °Thrfe are ihe chief recommendations of
tfie fchcrre. In time there may be ft ill greater
Advantages derived from it. Congress has been
a diligent fir ait going body iu times past, wh re
all wts brotherly love and harmony. No time
was loft -.n attempts to embarrass necrifary mca.
fur es—ignorance never prated there, and malice
wever boiled ovet—Bur if it fbould hy?p n here
after <hat a knot of ten or a dozen faitlious am
bitious men, not caring a straw for <he uitertft,
honor, or peace of the nation, but rtg.ng against
two «r three public officer®— (Hott'.d embariafs
every thing but do nothing themfclves—fhould
ftari enquiries to make the people fufpiciousaud
angry without any grounds, and then take spe
cial care to prevent ihcir coming to any decision
— fbould bawl for information which they have
already got, and flop all the common toufinefs
of the treafuiy to fend them volume# of copies
of documents, to prove what every one well
knew before—fo that a whole fcflion of Con
gress should be wafted, and the great buftnefs of
enafling a plan to fink the public debt should be
portioned.—Surely if this ftiouW ev ; r be the
misfortune df this country, it would be wife by
way of prevention, now to establish a separate
society, where all this mock business could be
tranfa&ed— Sham motions could there be made
more cheaply for the public, and with less rifle
of ihegmeral peace and harmony than in the
House of ReprtCcntatives—For this sluice would
let off the meant fl and moll maliguant pamons
of the human heart, and the fa&ion having thus
diftharged iheir gail, could appear decent in a
public affirm foty. Ii would be a kind of wane
gate to carryiiie fiothy torrent harmlelsly away,
without endangering the mill-dam.
Philactelphians, good men and Ii ue, you are so
happy as to read and hear the orach s of wisdom
deliveredYy the haters of the constitution, the
minister and fu. ding system— the word-mer
chants who fhuffle and cut in your city, the hux
ters and hawkcis of cant phrases about ariftocra
ty and corruption io the administration, and
who kecDa (hop to distribute grievances to the
people, rtiew that your city if worthy of its rank
as the metropolis, and do some good to your
country by letting up and supporting such a fo
cierjf, which hot-after in degenerate times may
favc our money and our union. For if it should
happen that our pure-virtue should run low in
spue of all that ojr gamblers and the ambitious
bawiers. who cry, do something for the
people, (meaning th mfelves) can do to keep
the ftoc-k good—The Congress house would cer
tainly iank below the dignity of a bear garden.
Half a dozen men who would flick at nothing
after the death of virtue, would kjeep the coun
try in a flamt —They would circulate any story
no nut er how fAfe— declare that the edmini
ftration is corrupt, and such as would " disgrace
pandemonium''—and yet fit down fatisfied with
big words, without proving who is corrupt, the
afl of conuption, ond the circumstances which ;
would turn the officer out and bring him to
punishment—Since eloquence disdains fa6fs,like
her filler poetry* the would be tame if she was
acearatc—and tike her (iflcr, she is the moil
sublime wvten fbe is ?he mad 'eft. To proceed
. with the terrible Change that Congress may un
dergo. It may happen hereafter, that enquiries
wili be begun and kept up as long as jraloufy
and rcfentmeut can be kept alive by means of
them. Paper, may be called for to make ihe
people believe theie is a great mystery in these
affjui*, and a cheat of five millions found out.
This half-dozen party leaders would pretend
that they have a great deal of merit becnufe they
do all in their power to blacken ihe fame of the
jiift and able fervanti of the people, and when
the calumny should be refuted, and their base
arts and ignorance confounded by a complete
account oi all the ttanfa&ions of the adminiftra-
t&e'y wiil not be ashamed to fay, all we had
in view was tiulh and the good of the people,
who ought io be made acquainted with the true
due of i4»ci# «— U.. u ♦
Human affi-tiis are liable to many changes—it
isibe prrt of prurience to guard against luch e
vents bcfo.re ihey happen. Oihciwifethe most
profligate unprincipled fafhon inay teai the
peace and quief.ot this countiy 10 rags. No.
thing is so promising a prcfervative as a debat
ing THoV who make speeches, rot
Jaws, who do all thev can to prevent Hieir being
made, and who fpeaX not lothc House but to
thi* could not objcfl to performing all
this in the dub or focieiy. It is no objection
that the club would hare no legiflitiveautboruy
to fin: Hi bufinefs—fqr that would exactly fait
tbofe whose labor it is to hinder it« being done.
Tbey wouM enjoy every other advantage. The
debates of :he focieiy could be publilhed, and
the work of defaming the offitcis of govern
ment, and o! kindling jealosies, fufpiciuni and
d«-«3ty r<rti4*in >he community, nrrd not stand
Aill • RitniMr, Bcfidii, th* rnto wh" w.tchfor
ii>cp<opWm rreorrr the willi-'O*- wHich I ff
imi|n»(hi« bemWched o«i«f thefl'vj lx<*»
would naiut.Hy »fv"*r» fctenMs wht* 1 tntt
totfu mifcblrf-m»ker» the firtf nf» «f- their *4-
vtnuge*. »iid >o ihr pu Wic the fut. d»ll»««
i ilftyln iddiuoo to »H ibis msft V Bepcnti
to be derivtd from ihc we hat>e » tttjijiig
ettiibple to our b»adi of the advantage* arm rip
to the people fi«D etabi W govern th«£o?ertet«
of a coMMr ft . . - ■ -
FOR THE GAZETTE.
ELKANAH to JONATHAN.
[se* A'al. Gaz. June tjl.]
Oh, Jonathan ! and art thou grown
So wor.d'ious fond of place,
That not content with one alone,
Thou fain would'ft have a brace.
Interpreter of unknown tongues
Thou long haft know* it—
fn verse too would'ft thou fl r ain thy h»trg«
With lie* ?oh «n»feM» Fbct-! * )
To many a lie in humble profc
Thy voice is won* to fweir;
And once, to shame thy pat ion'* foes,
Did'ft lie before the May'r.
Thy pittance for that lie wai fmal!,
Thv b'owels yearn for more ;
And M ! to- great folks, one and all,
ThOu offcrtft thy stare.
And yet the gif itfollti to thyproffer,
I tti nk will nor be warm,
Bmufr (hey ffMom t»kr»n offer
Which can bat do rhera haim.
Yes, friend 1 iho' hurijty W thy 4i*,'
Tliy fuU will be reje&ed;
For who would heed hit fir» « ftriwy
heifituW* ■. ' a
■ - ■ eUt'ANAH,
FUR rut GAZE ME.
Q. C'.'l. F.
WITH every'righttous government »t odds,
I swear by all the goddess; s and godt,
Thai whercfoever laws and justice fend me, {"
A restless disposition thall attend me.
The foil that gave me bnth X found too hot,
And many a legal threlhing there I got.
My mind a ftorro, 1 nevei could be quiet —
My only fuftcnanie was mobs and riot —
Until a pack, with wigs and gowns.and bands,
And arms so long, none could escape their hands,
To check the boiling of my patriot fury,
Condemned ine by that bane of rouues, a jury ;
But thank kind fortune, I efcap'd a jail,
And gave them tor fecurity—l-g-baih
Free from their cursed to this blest (bore,
A friendly bark my precious carcase bore.
But here, alas, I'find it to my cost,
That all my virtuous deeds are labor loft ;
The people fiee, and happv, and well fed.
Can't be peifuadcd that they have no bread.
Or, that for plundeiing there exists a caufc,
So long as truth and jullice prop the laws.
And tho' th' indubious live in p aceand e»(c,
SomeJclks I find can't do just as they please i
Courts, judges, Juries, Lawyers,and such things,
Contrtv'd (or logues, are here, altho' no king*
This will not do—the Devil whom I f.-ive,
Knows, if the times are tranquil I mutt ftai vr»
My plan itthorefoie laid—when more at leifute,
I'll tell you what success attends each measure.
Foreign Intelligence.
LISLE, April J. ' ' ;
Yesterday, fix cowardly <je-'
i'erters had the honor of be
ing ihaved close to theihoulders, in:
thejiew machine, by order of Gen.
Feuaud. !
BERLIN, March j-
A few days since, several French
deserters presented rheinfelves to
the Duke Frederick ef Brunfwick,
who received them kindly, gave
them a few crowju, and ordered
them to a particular station to try
them. They had hardly begun to
do their duty but they tried to ex
cite the Prulfian soldiers to desert.
They weie immediately coiuluded
to to ihe fortrefs of Wefel. It was
observed ihat these loldiers still pre
served the fin of liberty, for they
addreiled the Duke of Brimfwick
with "my General"—which allo
nifhed German ears accustomed.to
the titles of Highness and my Lord.
PARIS, April 8.
Sitting of thp. Jacobins.
Jpril 6.
It was propol'ed to fend a deputa
tion from (lie Club to accompany
the CommiHioners of the Ooiiveiui
on into all the departments, tudif
feminate the " holy morality of the
Jacobins." This ineafure was op
posed by all the leading nietn&MS ;
•for two excellent icafons, jftr te
caufe the "fraternal debt" of the
Club was, already so great, that tbey
could not bear any new expences ;
and 2dly. that their deputies would
ccriainly be maflacred, for the Ja
cobins were held in thegreateft ab
horrence through all the depart
ments. That they were regarded
by the whole nation (the Sans Cu
lottes of Paris excepted) as a band
of aflaflins, who with Marat at their
head, were wantonly fpiliing tke
blond of the purest patriots. Thel'e
aflertious were proved by letters
462
■ from a ll repnoije.—iwa
i at faul.ciie had decc.ve.l
' ih. ■»«»«». ,f tfc *^ ei,ch '
had withdrawn th C|r confidence
from the Jacobins they were ail
lO ~jW-B.— A deputation of the fee
tiotrof Boncor.feuil.read an addrels,
which t'.iev were going to prelent
to the Convention. The following
is an extract: " Legislators, An in
fernal faction influences the Con
veution—a gang of villains are plut-.
lingand executing a countei-revo
i lutiun. We demand in the name ot
the law, in the name of the people,
that the Guadcts, the Vergnianx,
the Briliote, the Buzots, the Barba
rous, the Pctions be driven from a
inong yon.. Mountain of Sinai! on
thee the Mod High reposes himfelf;
in thee alone is founded our hope;
then wilt thou deliver ns from our
enemies; but how long wilt thou
fuffer those Catalines in thy bolom ?
Ministers of an avenging God ! de
liver to the justice of the people his
unfaithful mandatories !—And thou
people !__ rife and cruth the traitors
who are in this aflembly." (Long
8c loud applause.) " Yes my friends
and brothers, continued the orator,
the people nittft help ns again to
cleanse the dung hill of ariltocra
cy."
Albitte.—l applaud with all my
heart the patrioiifmuf those citt
lens ; but while Uriving to serve us,
rbey will enibarrafs us; it is not iut
ficient to deihaifd the punifliment ot
traitors; we mult know them be
fore we can judge them. —At thele
Words, the tribunes, and all the Ja
cobins rose in a fury, crying.—' We
know thein ail, and will kill them
all.'-—After much confufion in the
Club, Albitte recommences with his
lall sentence ; but was ftopt again
by loud murmurs. The Vice-Pi eli
dent begs them to hear Albitte with
moderation, and then refute him.
—What ! cries a hot patriot, foam
ing with rage, hear a moderate with
moderation ! Albitte continues, lam
not a moderate, 1 fublcribe to every
thing you propose. it is true there
are traitors in the Convention, hut
our denunciations ought not to con
demn them ; they mult be judged
by the law. For my own part I will
noc condemn Briflot and the relt on
a mere suspicion. He was again in
terrupted by a cry of " down with
t he moderate."—Ho rose once more,
and laid if he was wrong, it was by
excels of zeai ; promised to conform
to the decisions of the Club ; was
wow convinced theaddrefs was good,
and deelared he would fiipport it.
This repentance was now too late ;
a general hiss proved to him, that
to ait from reason was an unpar
donable crime among the Jacobins.
Dellieux supported the petition
with all his might. He pretended
to prove that Petion, Briliot, &c.
were the agents of Dumourier, and
that they, with the other modera
tes, wanted to facrifice the virtu
ous Egalite because his foil Was a
traitor.
St. Ju(l Paid, 1792, 1 told you there
was but one man that ftopt our pro
gress, his head is fallen. We had.
better Iwim to liberty through oce
ans of aristocratic blood, than to
fee a single patriot receive a scratch.
Albitte talks of forms and laws—as
if any were to be observed in such
a crisis. We mult have blood, the
country is in danger; Dutnourier
is gone but his fatallites are among
us; they mult be delivered up to
the revolutionary tribunal, and to
the National Razor. (applauded
with transport.)
NATIONAL CONVENTION.
March it.
M. Garuier.— Citizens ! one of the
greatelt Counter-Kevolutioniits of
St. Domingo, M. Blanc litrlantle, it
arrived in Paris a prisoner—he is
charged with the blackeit crimes—
he lias made it a pratftice to vex and
perlecute the patriots; he caused
one of thsin named Borcco to he
seized, and was ferocious enough to
cause his satellites to col him to pie
ces before his face. He has been
known to go about, with his sword
drawn, and with his own hand to
inallacre infants at the bieafts of
their mothers. I demand that M.
Blanchelande be arraigned before
the revolutionary tribunal,"
jure '
'By the Bug lndo&ry, Cam. I'ratk,
A -tp*d*A at tlfii.poi t,on Wedntfd<y lad
'* from BtlftrS, hound to Bolton, we
Wvet favivyed with a Bristol paper of
May 9, from which we have extradol
part of,the following .
Late European Intelligence,.
VIENNA, (Germany,) Apiilao.
H ER Impel ial Majcfty was yeftcrday
delivered of a Prince, who wasthi,
day bapfized l>v the naioe» of FERDI
MANI>, CHARLES," LEOPOLD*
JOSEPH, FRANCIS, MARCEL-.
' LIN. I His Sicilian Mnjtr fly, repi- (eatrd
by hia Ambaffidor the Marquis of Gallo,
was the sole sponsor. Afier the ceremo
ny there was a coort, when the Nobility
and Foreign Minifteis had the honour to
pay their rrfpe&s to the Emperor, and to
congratulate his Imperial Majrtty on ths
birth of an heir.
PARIS, April 9.
AT four in the afternoon of ycfterday
the following Bulletin was cfcfiVerea ia
the convention :
" Ye Herd ay morning Philip Egalite
was conveyed to the prison la Concierge
rie, where he occupies the appartment
which was once destined for the too cele
brated Cardinal dc Roban. It is said, tint
on entering this apartment, Egalite fan
cied he perceived some partiality, Tome
paiticularattemion towards himtslf whifili
might hurt the feelings of his fellow pvi
foncrs ; and that he in corifequence de
manded for Citizen Egalite, the apart
ment ala Pifto'.e ; It will do doubt be
granted him to-morrow.
" By the apartment a la Pistole is
meant a particular room for which tea
livres are paid at entrance. The furoi
ture of this room consists of a table plac
ed before a-window, fccuredby iron bars,
a chair of walnut wood, and a bed fur
nilhed with a bundle of straw, and o»cr
that a mattrafs of the thickness of a pan
cake that has not swelled in frying! At
one of the fides of the apartment a la Pis
tole arc two beams, the fupcrior fnrface
of which is ufualiy (lored with moifclsof
black tripuldy bread, left there by male,
factors condemned to the gtlleys, the
gallows, or the wheel. The apaitment
a la Pistole looks into a superb fqnare, iii
the midst of which riles a magnificent
poll that has appended to it a coHar of
superlative beauty. [By the.dtfcription
thfs would appear to be a kind of pillory]
This collar is uot like that of the cardinal
de Rohan, enriched with the spoils of
Golconda and Vifapour ; but in the eyes
of Egalite poffeffea a pre-eminent merit j
that of being fitted to all, of being alike
calculated to adorn the neck of the de
scendant of St. Louis, and the son of a
coachman
NATIONAL CONVENTION,
APKII. 24.
A body of Citizens, petitioners, appea yd
before the AiTembly—they announced that
Marat had been acquitted by the Triiur.al fx.
traordinan, and they begged per;niff t on to de
file through the Assembly, to (hew to the Re
presentatives of the people tktirjty to fr.'i Ma
rut inrccrvt ' __3Li
Pertvrflinn being granted, they entered
without arm 4, in great number*, of both
fexe% and as many as couM took potleifcoa o
the unoccupied feats, the Tribunes and Citi
zens crying loudly, " Long live the Repute
—Long live the Nation —Long live Marat.
At the head of the Citizens were the Gen
darmes, and the Municipal Officers.
At length Marat arrived, and proceeded to
take his feat ; he had on his head a crown
which he took off; he \vas embrace
by all the Citizens, Women, and Deputies;
after which he mounted tie Tribuue, an
made the following speech :
4< Citizens, ,
•< You fee a Representative of the pcop.e
whose rights have lieeen violated, but jut> te
has been done him. I (wear a-new ro efpou '
the caiife of Equality, L bertjfj and "> tfte
Paople."'
He was loudly applauded. _
The Ci'ti irtit, or minotity of the AwWOlyi
had entixel)' left the tiall.
LONDON, May 9. -
ExtraSl of a Utter from Paris, April it
" Letters from Lyons announce ; hdt c,, y .
be in a most dreadful state ps confulion, an
those from H-itanv contain )ntclligf° cc f£ l Ul ''
difag«eeablc. The 6a parifties encamps ? l
rimieres have, in answer to the third prooaw
tion of the Commissioners of the onve ?7° r!
publifhcd a dectaration, in which the) 21 re
themfclves to the Commifljoneis io the nam e
the true and only God whont the lattei h& v£ a 'J u
in this pjete ihty let fouh their Hun e,, " n ,
on Providencer in confequcnce of the juUnc .
ihctr caufc ; ,£T pro bate the' dcfiglfc and
$hem and then conititucnrs ; a«»d <ieip*
will ilpvt-r, wiulft they breaiiic K fobaUt to 1
laws, or feck p.rotc&ton fioru them.