Gazette Of The United States And Daily Evening Advertiser

FRANCE:

Yesterday afternoon we were favoured with PARIS MONITEURS to the 24th of March, received by the ship Iris, M'Call, arrived at New-York from Nantz: from which we have extracted the following interesting intelligence, by 14 days the latest from France.

[AURORA.]

NATIONAL CONVENTION.

March 15

At the end of a very lengthy report by Boissy D'Anglas, containing grounds of alarm on the score of a scarcity of provisions in France, which is attributed and justly, to the oppression which, under the reign of Robespierre, weighed heavily upon the merchants, and also to the plans of the combined courts-and after a very warm discussion, the following decree was passed.

Art. I. The distribution of bread by the bakers will be made as heretofore, on the exhibition of cards-delivered to each citizen by his section.

2. Each citizen living by the work of his hands will receive a pound and an half of bread; all other individuals, without regard to age or sex, one pound.

3. The distribution shall be superintended by commissioners named in each section by the civil and benevolent committees united.

4. These commissioners will attend at the bakers before the distribution begins.

5. They shall remain in place for the space of one month, and renewed by thirds each decade.

6. The committee of public safety, that of general security, and the commission of provisions, under the superintendence of the committee of public safety, are directed to take every necessary measure for the execution of this decree.

7. The present decree and report to be published in Paris, and inserted in the bulletin.

The discussion on this decree was continued for some time. In the course of it Merlin de Thionville made the following observations:

"Representatives of the People: I declare it to your enemies, I have my eyes open upon them. I am possessed of the thread of an immense conspiracy, which I shall unravel in proper time; and were I to fall amongst those generous citizens, who at the first signal are ready to make for you a bulwark of their bodies) Yes, res, exclaim a great number of citizens sitting on the petition bench and in a majority of the tribunes, waving their hats at the same time; the left tribune alone remaining silent.) Yes, were I doomed to perish, I will combat your assassins; let them not believe that our resources are exhausted, they are immense."

A citizen in the tribune cries out, brave.

A woman in the left tribune exclaims, Bread. (Violent murmurs in the assembly and other tribunes.)

Merlin continues: "I do not seek for applause; but I owe the people truth; I will declare that truth without fearing the hisses or vociferations of the seditious Yes I repeat it, the country is strong enough to crush the vile reptiles who now crouch in the mire, after having bathed themselves in blood. (Warm applauses.) After five years of revolutionary labours, after a stormy passage, would you be ship-wrecked in sight of the coast. Your union and courage will dispel the tempest prepared for you. Woe to those who wish to make the revolution take a retrograde step; the day on which in their perverse breasts they are resolved to lay their sacrilegious hands on the National Convention, that day will be their last."

I move for the order of the day upon the second proposition of Romme. I u-