Gazette Of The United States And Daily Evening Advertiser

Foreign Intelligence.

NATIONAL CONVENTION.

Mathieu, in the name of the Committee of General Safety—I come to contradict in the most formal manner, the following calumny inserted in the Courier Universel of the 26th of November.

"The son of Louis XIV. will also derive advantage from the revolution of the 27th of July. We know that he had been abandoned to the care of the shoemaker Simon, the worthy follower of Robespierre, whose punishment he has shared. The Committee of General Safety, persuaded that, for being the son of a King, one ought not to be degraded below humanity, have appointed three commissaries, men of probity and knowledge, in the room of Simon. Two of them are charged with the education of the Orphan, and the third is to take care that he want not common necessaries as formerly."

"To refute this fable of Royalism, it is only necessary to recapitulate the measures which your Committee have taken. After the 27th of July a new guardian was appointed at the Temple by the Committee of General Safety. It was afterwards thought by the Committee of General Safety, that a single guardian was not sufficient. The Committee of Police was desired to recommend a citizen of approved Republicanism, as an assistant to the former guardian: and as the continuance of two persons in the same office might be thought to afford an opportunity for seduction, it was ordered that the Civil Committees of the forty-eight sections of Paris, should send one of their members in turn to do duty for twenty four hours with the two constant guardians at the Temple, and secure as much as possible the detention of the children of the tyrant. The Committee concerted measures with the military Committee, for the due performance of the military duty of the Temple. Thus you see there was no intention to mitigate the captivity of the children of Capet, or to give them instructors. The Committee and the Convention know how to strike off the heads of Kings, but not how to educate their children. For several days it has been rumoured, that the assignats declared citizens, have recovered some degree of credit.

There can be no doubt but these rumours, the one relative to the offspring of an abhorred race, and the other to signs of royalism, withdrawn from circulation, proceeded from the same source, and were intended for the same end. But in spite of all plots and expedients, the national credit will be established on the most solid basis, the public tranquillity will be maintained, and the son of Capet as little restored to credit, as assignats with the Royal Head."

Cambon—"I too must contradict the rumour circulated over all Paris, and perhaps over all the Republic. It has been said that the National Treasury is buying up all the gold and silver, and paying 100, 150, and 200 livres in paper, for 23 livres in gold or silver. I declare that since the law of the 8th April, 1793, prohibiting the sale of money, the Treasury has purchased neither money nor Bullion."