Gazette Of The United States

FRANCE.

PARIS September 11.

The Terrorists, expelled from the Primary Assemblies of Paris, have taken refuge in the galleries of the Convention, for the purpose of applauding, as during the reign of Robespierre, the very revolutionary motions, which have been made of late in the Convention. The 30 or 40 placards, with which Government at a very great expense daily cover the walls of this commune, have not prevented the decree of re-election to be rejected by almost all the sections of it. These placards set forth, that the Terrorism with which the Convention is charged, is a term void of sense, and that it never has existed. "In this manner," says the Courier Universel, "immense sums of public money are daily spent on behalf of some ambitious fellows, who affect to suppose that the destruction of their capricious power is unavoidably connected with the ruin of France. No! the French People will never believe; that Pro-consuls who have devastated the Departments, and carried death and despair into every family, should alone be able to make them happy." On the other hand, all printed bills, destined to unmask the ambitious and interested views of Government, are at night time torn down by its satellites, and several of them who were apprehended in the fact, and conducted to the guard-house, have produced for their justification the orders of the police, to take down all placards, which are not in favour of Government.

"What a spectacle," says the Courier Universel, "do we now see exhibited by the Convention! Deputies entranced with joy at the acclamations, with which the Jacobins in the galleries shake the hall. Madmen! these shouts of applause, which they now lavish on you, also resounded in praise of Robespierre, whom they afterwards sent to the scaffold. Are you determined to close your career in the same manner you began it, by rearing about you a bulwark of the vilest refuse of society, and the dregs of human kind? Neither our misfortunes, nor your own have taught you what you have to expect from the horde you are cajoling, and calling back to you. They caress you to-day, and stab you to-morrow. If you throw yourselves again into their arms, you will lose the only asylum left you amidst honest men, without securing the favour of a ferocious multitude."

The following is the resolution of the Committees of Public Safety and General Security, relative to the ci-devant Duchess of Orleans It is supposed that it will be followed by several similar ones in favor of the once privileged class to which she belongs:

The United Committees of Public Safety and General Security, considering that Louise Marie Adelaide Bourbon Penthievre has been deprived of her liberty as a simple measure of general security, and in consequence of the revolutionary circumstances which called for her imprisonment; that no charge has ever been brought against her principles, her sentiments, or her conduct, which have been invariably conformable to what might have been expected from a French woman obedient to the laws of her country; considering that the public tranquillity, far from being interrupted by the declaration of the perfect freedom of a woman become still more interesting by her too long sufferings, and by the derangement of her health, would be consolidated, if that were necessary, by such an application of principles; considering, lastly, that the decree of 22d Messidor last seems to announce the approach of the epoch, when the members of the Bourbon family, still in France, will enjoy all the rights of citizenship; and that the crisis, to which the negociation relative to the exchange of the daughter of the last King of the French is arrived, gives reason to think that no political relations will be detrimented by the act of justice which the situation of Louise Marie Adelaide Bourbon Penthievre demands.

Resolved, at this present, that Louise Marie Adelaide Bourbon Penthievre, widow of Orleans, shall from this moment enjoy her full and entire freedom, with permission to retire to the Chateau of Armainvillers, or to any other seat she may make choice of. Paris 24 Fructidor, third year.

NATIONAL CONVENTION.

Evening sitting of Sept. 8.

Cornilleau announced, that the Committee of Decrees had already received 136 protocols of Primary Assemblies, which had all accepted the Constitution, and most of them also the Decree for the re-election of two thirds of the present members. Some of these Primary Assemblies had even requested the whole Convention to remain at its post.

"This dastardly adulation" says the Courier Universel "was loudly applauded by the Mountain, and the Jacobins in the galleries."

Among the number of the Primary Assemblies, which were announced to have accepted the Constitution, was the Commune of Rouen; but whether or not it has also accepted the aforesaid decree, is not stated.

Manuel.- "The three Sections of Langres, in the department of Upper Marne, have gratefully accepted the Constitution, as well as the decree of the 5th of Fructidor."—Pl audits.

Several citizens whom their Primary Assemblies had refused to admit, on account of their having been disclaimed as Terrorists, appeared at the bar, & complained against the pretended tyranny, which excluded them from these Assemblies. They called themselves patriots of '89, and gave some broad hints, that if they were allowed to form a particular Assembly, they would accept the decree for re-election of two thirds of the present Assembly which is so strenuously opposed by the citizens of Paris.

They were applauded, and treated like brethren. The President told them in his answer, that the Convention was sorry for the late persecution they had suffered by some anterior decrees, and came almost ready to beg their pardon. He promised them, that their good wishes should certainly not be rejected. "Look," said the partisans of the Mount, "these are the patriots whom you disavowed because on the 1st Prairial they intended to murder you, along with many other good citizens. Look, how they return to us!"

Sitting of Sept. 9.

Genissieux opened the sitting with several observations, tending to prove the necessity of completing the Civil Code, which were referred to the Committee of Eleven.

Maunot, in the name of the Committee of Finances, proposed a decree, that the bonds of the first Lottery should be admitted in the second, as well as the democratized assignats with the Royal image—Adopted.

Thibaudeau, in the name of the Committee of Eleven, presented a plan for the organization of the Ministry. He divided the Ministerial Administration into six different branches, viz. of justice, finances, war, navy, foreign affairs, and the interior; at the head of these six divisions is to be placed an Agent or Minister General. The Ministers are to be responsible for every attempt to infringe the Constitution, or to violate the internal or external security of Paris, and for all dilapidations of public money. The executive directory alone possesses the right of prosecuting Ministers; every Minister is to have half the salary of a Member of the Executive Directory, except the Minister for foreign affairs, who is to enjoy three-quarters of that salary. All the Ministers are to be found in lodgings and furniture at the expense of the Republic.

Ordered to be printed, and adjourned.

Daunou laid before the Assembly a project concerning the form of Elections, several articles of which were decreed.

The Member who presided ad interim, declared that the sitting was raised. But the Assembly wishing to continue it longer, Chenier took the chair.

Several patriots complained of their being excluded from the Primary Assemblies by stock jobbers and royalists, who lorded it over the sections.—They were received with shouts of applause.

Their address is to be printed; but on the motion of Legendre, some personalities are to be suppressed, which concern La Harpe, La Cretelle, Serizy, Reeder, and Renaud de St. Jean d'Angely.

Sitting of September 12.

The commune of Valenciennes, as well as the garrison of Luxembourg, have accepted the Constitution and the decree of the 2d Fructidor.

Lehardy, of the Lower Seine, announced, that not only the commune of Rouen, notwithstanding the efforts of royalists and anarchists to represent its being infected with aristocratical principles, but also nineteen twentieths of the department of the Lower Seine, had adopted the Constitution and decree of re-election.

On the motion of Monnot in the Committee of Finances, the Convention decreed, that the National Treasury shall pay the following sums to the Committees, viz.

To that of the Civil Administration of Police, 25 millions; to that of the National Revenues, 80 millions; to that of the Public Conveyances, 50 millions; to that of the Navy and Colonies, 60 millions; to that of the Organization of the armies, 600 millions; to that of Public Instruction, 3 millions; to that of Succors and Relief, 50 millions: 4 millions to that of the Inspection of the Hall: and one million to the Committee of General Safety; making in the whole, eight hundred and seventy-four millions.

Daunou, in the name of the Committee of Public Welfare, proposed a decree, purporting, that in the ports of Brest, Toulon, and Rochefort, Juries should be established to decide the differences arising between the civil officers and those of the navy.

The section of Mont Blanc complained, that in an address presented a few days since in the name of the army of the Sambre and Meuse, the inhabitants of Paris had been accused of having formed a plot to arrest the Convention.

"Thus," said the speaker, "the tocsin has been rung against Paris, and you have not prevented it. We are surrounded with dangers, and it seems that terrorism is to be restored. If a civil war is kindled, France and all Europe will know, that you did nothing to prevent it. Out of 1466 votes in the Section of Mont Blanc, 1463 have accepted the Constitution, and three have rejected it. The decree of re-election has been unanimously rejected."

The President, Berlier, said, that the Convention should reply to calumnies merely by the calmness of its deliberations.

Garran declared, that the speaker of the section was a calumniator; he showed the original address of the army of the Sambre and Meuse, which he stated to have been actually drawn up in the midst of that army. The Convention passed to the order of the day.