The New Hampshire Gazette

Translated for the Centinel.

From French Papers.

PARIS, December 16.

Let the people of France learn wisdom by their past sufferings, and never again fall under the empire of tyranny, of which more than one species, is even now trying, constantly, under the appearance of a perilous popularity, to fix on us its claws, and its chains. Can it be possible, that after having been so horribly tormented, the French will ever again become the dupes of those political jugglers, who are yet seeking to delude them. No! they shall not succeed in their attempts; we will no longer listen to them. The laws shall be our only masters, our only guides. We will spurn with horror; we will crush without mercy, any individual, any private authority whatever, who shall attempt to substitute their will in the place of the law.

Loch et, chief secretary to the Committee of General Welfare, who was sent to Nantz, to collect the witnesses against Carrier, &c. deposed at the tribunal, that on his informing the citizens of that place, of the intention of the Convention to punish the authors of their misfortunes, they rent the air with shouts of vive la Convention,--vive la Republique--vive la Justice! These good people thronged round him, and attended him in crowds to the spot where the function boat, and Carrier's galliot lay aground. They conducted him into the holds of both, and shewed him the hooks fixed in rows round the inside, to which the miserable victims used to be tied. Not far from these, is another large boat, still sunk, which they assured him was yet full of dead bodies.

The Commune of Nantz is taking measures to restore the confiscated property of their fellow-citizens, who fell under Carrier's tyranny, to their heirs.

Dec. 20. Addresses from all parts of the Republic, congratulating the Convention, on having terminated the reign of the cut throats and thieves, are every day presented at the bar.

With how much art do the creatures of our late inquisitors take advantage of every trifling circumstance, "Will you" said Merlin of Douai, in a late sitting of the Convention, "have it said, that you have shut the doors of the Jacobins, only to open those of the Fanatics."--Hardly were these words dropped, when behold all the Jacobins were in motion, making that to prevent the crowning of the little Capet, it was necessary again to open their den, & so fall into the gulph of Charybdis.

Fools and Madmen! We will neither be governed by the Capets, nor by you; and it is in vain that one of your echoes, the journal of Charles Duval, catching at the fugitive expression of Merlin, is trying to produce some lamentations over the tomb of the Mother Society, (societe-mere) to pity her dear Jacobins, and to insinuate in the Departments, that they are excellent patriots, who are persecuted by malevolence. But the wounds made by their poignards, are yet bleeding; the evils they have done their country are too cruel--all the remembrance which ought to remain of them, is that of their crimes.