Gazette Of The United States And Daily Evening Advertiser

PARIS, October 22.
From the "Orator of the PEOPLE."

THE Jacobins have been the absolute masters of France, and of the Convention since the 31st May, 1793. Constantly talking of liberty, justice, virtue and probity, they have established a tyranny so monstrous, that the history of revolutions, furnishes no example of it; they have caused thousands of citizens of every age and sex to be destroyed, merely because they did not belong to their destructive party, or because they possessed talents which they dreaded; they have pillaged public and private property ; they have prolonged and nourished the war of La-Vendee, though every day, they announced to us that it was finished, and they have made of it a source of embezzlement and robbery, which has already cost the Republic many hundred millions. They have annihilated commerce, arts and sciences. They have prostituted almost all employments and public places to ignorant or unprincipled men, such as those who composed the last Commune of Paris, the Jurors of the old Tribunal, and the Members of the old Revolutionary Committees; they have poisoned the society with informers, and hired villains; they have destroyed public morals, and substituted in their place barbarism and ferocity.

* The " Orator of the People" is edited by Freron, a celebrated member of the National Convention.

In short, they have done more mischief to France, than Pitt and Cobourg wished. We can with justice, attribute all these horrors to them, because they have been committed by members of this society, who were also members of the Convention, and who oppressed, in concert with their adherents, who were all Jacobins. Has this society ever opposed itself to so many abominations?' No! On the contrary it has supported and protected them with all its strength. It has received with applauses Lebon and Carrier, on their return from Arras & Nantes, where they had, under the pretext of punishing a few guilty persons, caused torrents of innocent blood to be shed, and given up property to pillage and destruction.

The Jacobins drove among them, and pushed even to the scaffold, the unhappy Camille des Moulins, whose only crime was, having wished to unmask this detestable faction ; and when on the ninth of Thermidor, (July 27th) it was found necessary to exterminate the principal chiefs, what did the Jacobins do? Some in their den excited the people of their tribunes to revolt against the Convention, others in the sections and in the streets, proposed to the citizens to do the same, and to join the Commune, which had taken the conspirators under its protection, and which was in open rebellion. Since the 9th of Thermidor, what have they done?

They have tried to make terror again the order of the day, and save the accomplices of Robespierre, that is, their own. Accordingly we have seen Billaud Varennes, propose to continue the execrable Fouquier Tinville as Public Accuser in the new tribunal; we have seen the popular societies of the departments send to the Convention, addresses made in Paris, and which have evidently for object to throw us again into that abyss from which we emerged on the 9th Thermidor; we have seen the Jacobins print these addresses and send them to their sister societies, to the armies, and to the sections of Paris, as if to bribe the National Convention, and establish their power on its ruins. After all this, what can we expect from such a society ? Is 't not evident that until it shall be indeed purified, we shall be devoured by anarchy, and that it will be impossible to consolidate our republic?