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Foreign Intelligence.

Official Account of the Insurrection in Paris.

Received by Capt. Neal, in 60 days from Bordeaux, and translated for the SALEM GAZETTE.

PROCLAMATION
Of the Convention of the French People, at the extraordinary sitting in the evening of the 4th of October.

One of the greatest Conspiracies, of which the French Revolution can preserve the remembrance, has been upon the point of execution. For a long time the Royalists had laid their plots, published their inflammatory libels, and employed their corrupt manoeuvres, and all the means of want and oppression. They hoped to seduce the defenders of the National Convention and of the Country. Not content to scatter the seeds of War, they even attempted to divide the Representatives of the People.

At the meeting of the Primary Assemblies was the time they chose to accomplish their projects. The Nation had well known that they had usurped its rights, and effectually tried the patience of the People and of their Representatives. They had not considered that patience might be exhausted. The National Convention, calumniated, abused, proscribed by some sections, superior to personal insults, but perhaps too indulgent to the insults offered to the public, by the decree of Oct. 2, granted to some sections four days to close their elections.

They promised to the most refractory the pardon of their disobedience to the Laws already proclaimed. They have abused its clemency; they have provoked its justice. The time given them for repentance, they have employed to aggravate their guilt.

On the 3d of Oct. they continued to publish the most outrageous Proclamations. They have clamorously demanded CIVIL WAR. They have armed to commence it, and have assigned the hour. Having been commanded to lay down their arms, and submit to the laws, they have resisted. A Central Commission is established under their bayonets, and in their fury. they have elected as the President of their Commission one of the most daring writers of Royalty. They have established an Army, named their generals, and ready to begin again the horrors of the 31st of May. We have seen on the march, in 10 sections, several of these bands of Parricides. We have seen, as on the 2d of June, some intriguing desperates deluding the credulous mass of their followers.

They have marched nearly Thirty thousand. They have come from all parts to extirpate the Representatives of the people at the place where they assemble.

We could yet hope that they would stop upon the brink of the precipice. The defenders of the Convention had acted every insult, and to avoid by every possible way, the effusion of the blood of the Citizens.

But foreign perfidy, and the fury of Emigrants, with their natural accomplices, have determined them to consummate their Crimes. They have commenced by the most inconsiderate violence.

Their perfidious band approaches. They point their cannon, give a shout, display their standard, and give the word, at which they were to unite, and at the instant when the Leader of the Sections embraced the Commanding Officer, they made two discharges of musquetry upon the Soldiers of Liberty, and twenty-three soldiers fell. Instantly the action begun in several places. Frenchmen, between the conquerors of Fleurus, of the 26th of July, and 10th of August, on the one part, and the Satellites of Louis XVIII. The engagement could not be long. The avenging Cannon, whose roar we yet hear, notify the Brother of the last of our Tyrants stationed near the Bay of Bourgneuf, that he waits in vain movements prepared at such a distance, and that this Vendean roar, that in his foolish hope he saw open even to the gates of the Convention, is now shut forever.

Frenchmen, the National Convention are contending for the Constitution, that the hypocrites embrace only to destroy. And as there is no calumny so absurd, that the rage of factions will fail to assist, they accuse us of a design to establish ourselves in our functions at the moment when we hasten the convocation of the Legislative Assembly ten days sooner than was at first decreed. And, tho' we proclaim the pardon of injuries, and oblivion of past errors, they dare to repeat the charge, that we intend to raise the scaffolds of Terror. No, never, never shall the terrible plan of Robespierre oppress our country. Who can have more interest to oppose it, than we, who have so long been its victims, and now are its conquerors!

But it is time that a fear necessary for the public safety should enter the hearts of these wretches, who have prepared under our feet, the tomb of the Republic, and the sacrifice of all the friends of liberty, who have been persecuted under various pretences.

They shall be punished. They who are interested in their projects shall be suppressed. In defiance of all their efforts, we will maintain here the safety of person and property. We will snatch yet again this great community from their fury, and we will oblige at last all who now disturb us, to acknowledge, that in all parts of the Republic the most perfect equality must prevail.

Frenchmen. The National Convention will preserve for you the precious deposit of your new Laws. It watches over your dearest interests. It recommends to you to forget all hatred, but to be vigilant against base men. It invites you to peace and union.

DECREE.

The National Convention decrees the insertion of this Proclamation in the Bulletin of Correspondence, that it be fixed up in Paris, and that it be sent by immediate dispatches to the Departments and to the Armies.

ANOTHER DECREE.

The national Convention decrees, that the General of Brigade, Barras, Representative of the People, is General in Chief of the armed force of Paris, and of the Army in the interior parts of France, and that all civil and military authorities are bound to acknowledge him in this character.

The Representatives of the People, Delmas, Gousilleau (of Fontenoy) and Laporte, are joined with him in the Commission.

The present Decree shall be instantly proclaimed and fixed, up in Paris, and inserted in the Bulletin of Correspondence.