Gazette Of The United States And Daily Evening Advertiser

From the Columbian Centinel.

Translated for the Centinel.

The Editor acknowledges his obligations to Dr. Jarvis, and Mr. Codman for the loan of the Paris papers from which the following articles are translated.

NATIONAL CONVENTION. Dec. 8.

The Consul General of the Commune of Avignon, writes, "that it would require whole volumes to relate all the horrors committed by the most detestable villain who ever appeared on the earth by one of those monsters which nature sometimes produces to scourge mankind by the infamous Maignet, the friend the correspondent, the co-deputy of Couthon. Justice! Cry all the citizens of the department of Vaucluse,—Justice, Representatives, against the tigers who have torn out the entrails of our fathers, our wives, our children, and our friends! Justice! against the Cannibals who have drenched themselves in the blood of the purest patriots, and who, if you had not arrested the course of their crimes, would have buried the Republic under heaps of ashes and the carcasses of their fellow-citizens!

Reubel, in a debate concerning shutting up the hall of the Jacobins, spoke as follows:

"Where has tyranny been organized? Where has it found supporters and satellites? At the Jacobin Club. Who has forced terror and despair into the hearts of all the citizens? Who has covered France with Bastiles? Who has rendered Republicanism so odious that slaves have rejected it? Have not the Jacobins done all this? They will not have the impudence to deny it."—(Applauded.)

"If you want the courage to speak out, I announce to you that you will have no Republic because you have Jacobins."—Applauded.

9th December.

Thibadeau. We have just exercised a great act of Justice in favor of several of our colleagues, but it yet remains for us to do justice to a man who has been one of the chief authors of our Constitution Thomas Paine—That man who has done so much for liberty; he was driven from his seat by the intrigues of an ambitious faction under the specious pretext of his being a foreigner, though he had become a citizen of France, by naturalization. He still exists, but in the most extreme misery. I propose that we declare he is not included in the decree which prevents foreigners from holding a seat in the Convention.

It was hereupon decreed, that Thomas Paine is not included in the above mentioned decree, That the Convention receives him again into her bosom, and that he is entitled to receive the arrearages of pay due to him as a member.

(Lively applauses.)

Extract from the address of the Public Accuser, to the Jury of the Revolutionary Tribunal, on the trial of CARRIER.

The late administrators of the revolutionary government, which was formed to establish liberty, have almost annihilated it. Their despotism defied all principles—all that has ever been held sacred in all ages of the world, humanity, truth, justice, modesty, nature, have been trodden under foot. Oh disastrous! Oh horrible days! When from one extremity of France to the other—resounded this fearful cry—"Terror is the order of the day." The land of liberty was covered with prisons and scaffolds; bands of villains spread themselves over its surface. Property was laid waste; the most infamous robberies were consecrated under the name of revolutionary taxes; the public employments were delivered into the hands of knavery and ignorance; monuments of the arts were destroyed; the workshops of industry were made silent and desolate; the riches of the churches were stolen from the nation; the most absurd and disgusting scandals were prevalent; weak and honest men were shocked by the vices of those who should have enlightened them; infamous priests openly boasted of their long hypocrisy, and publicly declared they acknowledged nothing but nature. Atheism was proclaimed; the Convention, indignant, proclaimed the Supreme Being; his name was instantly abused to consecrate the tyrant and tyranny. The virtues and justice, said the monsters, are going to reign; and they established the reign of the most frightful and unbridled crimes. Hordes of spies hovered round every commune, the citizens constantly trembled for their liberty; confidence was banished from Society; friend mistrusted friend; a word, a gesture, became a crime. Hardly did we dare to appear by day light; and when during the silence of night the noise of a carriage was heard, every man supposed his executioners approached.—The father was torn from the embraces of his children; the husband from the arms of his wife; all together were often precipitated into a dungeon, there to languish in sorrow, the damp earth for their couch, a pestilential air, unwholesome food and barbarous treatment! What was their crime? their fortune, their birth, or having displeased some villain.

In a report late made to the Convention, respecting the Vandalism of the late Jacobin tyrants, we find the following Anecdote—"The celebrated Lavoisier, the most benevolent of men, and the most learned Chemist of our time, requested of Dumas, late Judge of the Revolutionary Tribunal, that he might be reprieved only fifteen days, so as to complete some experiments in Chemistry, useful to the Republic: The Republic has no longer any need of Chemists," replied the barbarian, and Lavoisier perished!!!