National Gazette

NEW-YORK, October 15.

New papers from Paris of the beginning of August, say, That France by a solemn decree, has ordered seventeen hundred millions of Royal Assignats to be destroyed. This deed, which has been celebrated by all the French people, strikes with numbness the combined powers, by the proof there is of the immense finances of the New Republic; the motive of this decree has been the discovery of the conspiracy in which Pitt directed all the interior manoeuvres of the nation; his projects, his correspondence, and the names of the most part of his agents have been discovered by letters intercepted at Lisle, and in many of the sea port towns.—Also, by declarations of Claries, chief of the rioters or rebels at Lozere. It has been discovered that one hundred and twenty millions of livres, that this minister had voted for his private and secret expences, and the enormous sums he had borrowed, served only to increase the royal assignats, and that he made use of these assignats to pay the rebels at la Vendee, to spread animosity in the French armies, and to excite civil war at Calvados, at Bourdeaux, at Lyons, and Marseilles. It has been discovered, that England had in many French towns, agents, (as well as in the country) who were to set on fire the stores and provisions of the army. The papers found, state, at the same time, the means easy & inevitable to burn them with phosphoric matches, these words were noticed, "You will endeavor that the assassinations be made with prudence—Priests disguised, and women, are the most proper persons for this business." The English newspapers have not mentioned this discovery: O! ye Americans! these are the men whose agents have still influence in your territories!

The following are the decrees proposed by Chambon and Barriere; and by which the National Convention, always just and firm, has frustrated the infamous projects of the enemies to liberty:

1st. The royal assignats above 100 livres, shall no longer have a forced course for cash; they shall be received as payment for contributions to the national fund, for a sum borrowed by force; and for what is owed to the nation.

The assignats above 100 livres shall be exchanged for Republican assignats. On the 1st of January, 1794, there shall no longer exist royal assignats.

2. There shall be formed between Paris and the northern army, a camp of 300,000 men. The garrison of Mayence shall post itself in La Vendee. The population, the houses, the harvest of the rebellious departments shall be destroyed. The women, the children, and the old people, shall be conducted into the interior, where they will be supported and treated with humanity. The property of the rebels shall be confiscated, and a distribution made to indemnify the faithful inhabitants who shall have suffered loss in their properties.

3. All strangers of foreign powers at war with the Republic, shall be stopped, and their papers sealed. The gates of Paris shall be shut, and the guards augmented in our sea ports and public places. The Convention confirms the nomination of Billaud de Varennes, and of sent to Calais, to stop the English conspirators; the Convention denounces to the world, and to the English themselves, the atrocious and cowardly conduct of the British government. Ye Americans! Free and allied with the French, 'tis to you in particular that this declaration is addressed; base calumniators squander their money to dishonor and blacken the character of this great nation; nevertheless, you have observed on this important subject, a silence which at once betrays a guilty conscience and the shame of being thought an accomplice.