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if . IS TEH f i t X -V 1- ' i Ouri axe the Plant of fair delightful Peace, ." UawarpM by Party Rage to live lifcie Brotbert ' Tuesday November i, 1799. Vol I. 1 Miliar CAROLINA WEEKLY ADVERTISER. NO RTH ,. -1 . - - . , . , i .Rs. . a. . y us . IMPEACHMENT. Of THE The follawing fs autl and correft ftatement ' of the charjei broubt againft the four F.x Diraors, Rewbell, La Revelliere, Mer lm and Trielhard : CHARGE I. They have violated the Right! of Nation.' 1. By atUcking, without any previous ' manifcllo or declaration, without the concurrence of,theLe giQativeBody, ttie Ottoman Empe ror, our ally,: by the invafton of Egypt, country under his domi nation, and that at a time when the Ottoman Goverrfment, fo Far from ,beihg in a ft ate of imminent or commenced hoftilities, or of threats or preparations of war againft the Republic, hadftill, on the contrary, an ambafiador amongft us i- 2. By invading Switzerland yith out a previous manifeftd or declara tion, and without the concurrence of the Legislative Body, when the Helvetic Government was , neither in a ft ate of imminent nor commen ced hoftilities, or of threats or pre parations of 'war againft the Repub lic; and while the wrongs, or com plaints whichwp had to impute to them, mieht be redreffed. cither bv fuch changes as ! the operation of public; opinion prepared in that State, or hy fucii atrahgements as our fituation and the force of trea ties had given us alright to propofe ana expect. ; ; CHARGE II. . : ' They have refufed to 'acknowledge ' the' Sovc 1 -. reignty of the Ptople." i. By modifying by the means of violence only, he conititution which the Cifal pines and Batavi- ans had accepted aqd fworn to mai-n-tain, immediatelyfon the recptyry 4f their liberty ; by caufingCfcbe enforced hy violence, and in . the ?mc of the French Republic, "tKe changes introduced into the cdnfti--tution of a people declared free, acknowledged as independent, and as our ally, : ; i 2. ! By 'fubjeaing the General Will of the Roman People, who had been declared free and indepen dent, and who had an ambafiador amongft us, to the will of a Com mander in Qhief, or a Commifiary: and by forcing that people to accept of a conftitution, thc36"oth article of wmch ianctioncd our ilavery. CHARGE III. " They have violated out coalUtutioH." 1. By ufurping the legiflative au thority ; bifJuing decrees, ordain sing thaj; fuch or luch law hall be executed, as far as it is not modifi ed byfuch decrees ; by ilfuing de crees wlliirh" rririnirJ n- i-n11 nugatory tnolaajid thus ' fe- Muucu tuQ,auiiiiin,raors.to tne al ternative, either of beine depriveS of their places, if they did not obey the law, or of being profecuted for contumacy, it they; dilobeycd the decrees ;' -.; . ,-;': Y:$:, 2. By neglefting to lay before the councils fuch accounts, and fuch information as they called for. cither refpefting the finances or the ntuation ot the country, which conftitutes a formal refufal to obey tlie will of the conftitution. , " ; CHARGE IV - " They have endangered cur external fecurity." , 1. By raifi nean additional enftmv againft the Republic, namely, the Ottoman. Porte, and compellinff it Jo unite with the coalition of. the North. . " ' r 3. Joy neeiectine to take anv eafurc during' the peace with-the ""ciorana mearmiitice witn tne Empire, for keening the armies on a refpettable footing, for filling the Vacancies, mbvidincr the ffavalrv and artillery with horfes, or for jurniming ttte tortihcd towns and -magazines of the army. 2 Bv nrnnnfi n r fn tl-i 1 ni( five Body to declare war againft the King of Huncarv and Hahemia- when the Fren ch armies were either ciiorganifed or fpread out to an im rnenfe extent of territorv. at rcrln ced to a; number infinitely inferior 10 ine iorceswruch all the report of the Generals announced at march ing againft us; by deceiving the cguiayve JSody by.ialUcious itate ments of ouf military force, and bv Heading up Wards of an hundred theuiand men in the interior of the Kepublic, CHARGE V. . xhey have endangered the internal fecurity. l. By arming the citizens agajnft one another ; by expofing the true republicans to proicription unaer the defignation of Anarchifts, ci ther in Direttorial proclamations, or thexircular letters of their Minif- ters, acknowledged by them, m3f- much as they did not cenfurc them ; andby provoking and encouraging, by means of thefe defignations the removal ot KepuDlicansrromaupuD- lic functions, and mitigating to their affaflination. By difmifling at the famertime. and that in the moll fummary man ner, an immenfe number of public functionaries apparently at a mo ment when the operative influence of the laws became of the utmoft importance to facilitate the perma nent improvement or the new taxes, the perfefton of the old ones,the departure of the French for the; de fence of their country, andirabove all, the repreflion and punifhmcnt of robberies and aiTauinations. CHARGE VI. ' They hav refufel to acknowledge the fove reigQtyf the Trench People." i. By fending into the depart ments of the Republic, agents toin fluence the elections by forcing pro miles by means of threats, and by emplSying every art and feduiori to en t ran tVi. vnk of the -ClH&ens in favour of trjf-Jwho were poifN ea out Dy tnoiergents. 2. In neglecfefjg or refafing to punifh the agentswho had taufed to be aprefted Eltftors and refi dents of Primary AfTemblie and tjiofe who were denounced to them, foHaving, by their intrigues en deavoured to annihilate the fuffra- c .i.-. ' CHARGE VII. " Th ey invaded the liberty and fecurity of Citizens." i. In arbitrarily imprifoning ci tizens, in detaining them Dy ultrts-de-cachct. Among thefe citizens, Guv Vernon, whom they drove from Italy, and exiled from France. 2. In perverting xht 24th article of the law of the 10th Fruftidor, year 5, fo far as to tranfport citi zens who could . not be comprehend ed under the law. CHARGE VIII. ' They attempted to deifroy the National Repre sentation." In propofing to' certain military Commmanders to arreft a" number of the members of the Lefziflative Body; in coniulting its chiefson the poflibility or difHculty of the mealure. CHARGE IX. 'They have diflipated the public revenues, and permitted pillage and peculation." 1. In taking no fteps to prevent or punifh dilapidation, robbery, cxccfsvtolehce, defpoti fm and vjsx aion of every kind, by which the people on whom they pretcn'ded to; beftow liberty, were overwhelmed, and in having done nothing more than lllue decrees, which proved their knowledge of thefe crimes, lind the impotence of the meafurcs a dopted againft them. i 2. In profecuting Gen. ham pi onet, becaufe "he oppoied the arbi trary proceedings and depredations of one of their Commiflaries, by wnicn tiiat agent drove to lufuc? rection againft the army and the French Republic, a nation difpofed to receive with Gratitude the Li berty we offered. -Thus did they 1 i .:-m - . bring death and deltruction upon an army of French heroes, againft whom a people driven to deipair, let loo fe their vengeariceAs reprifals ior mc tyranny, oppretiion and violence of the agents of the Direc tory SECRET CONVENTION Entered into on the 5tlrAugufti 1794 at jicmn, ociwccn nj9 Majeuy ine rwing o Pruf&i, tad the Frenda Republic, v Animated with the fame defie: feeing the unfortunate1 War under which Europe groans, brought to" a termination," and entertainine tne fond hopes that the time rs not liar, diftant when this ftutary wifli fjiall be accomplifhed, his Majefty the King of Pruflia, and the French Republic, have thought it neceffary to enter into-an amicable Treaty;- His Pruffian Majefty, in purfuance of the declaratioo,made by him at the Peace at Bafie, has not . withheld the wilh which his own dignity as a State of the Elmpire, and his bound en duty pointed out to hiiri$ namely, That the conftitution and bounda ries of the Empire might be pre ferved in their full integrity. In hike manner, his Maiefty confiding in tlje French Government, has dif cloled the wifh of the Hdufeof O range, that his family might be re in fta ted in their former rank and dignity in Holland, under fuch juft modifications aswiight be agreed upon. His ftlajehhas alfo made ulc of everyj Vnicable means which he conceiyecirreccflary for accom plifnin this' objeft ; but as the Frenclt'.Republic perfifted in the opinion tfiat cirbumftances did not permit them to-participate in thole wiibes, oj to favour theirj comple tion ; therefore, both parties have entered into a farther Agreement with each other, through the medi um of their Minifters, M. Chriftian Henry Curtz, Count dc Haugwitz, Minifter of State to hisjPruflian Majefty, on the one part, and MV Anton. Bernard Caillard, Plenipo tentiary of the French Republic, on the other part. Thele have agreed to the following eventual Capitula tions : 1 i LA jthe French Government expreuecrja with tnawtne Kepuoiic of the United . Netherlands, by wayA of compenfation for the territory J given up to France, might receive that part of the bilhppric of Mun- iter, which extefids from the place w he re t h e Em $ eiftttrs Ea it- r ne ila nd , and up this rjver k Varcs Wintrup, rrom thence in aoireci line over Hevden. ahd alontr thei boundaries the Duchy of Cieves, to the poifk I where it meets the borders 01 Wpl -land ; his Pruffian. Majefty declares, that in order to give the; French Republic an affurance of his. amica ble ientiments, he will not oppofe fuch a meafurewhencver negocia tions fhall be entered into concern ing the ceflion of the right 'bank of the Rhine to France ; and becaufe the principle of fecularization is un avoidably neceffary i for indemnify ing the temporal Princes, wfho muft fuffer loffes by fuch a difpofition, his Majefty confents to the adopti6n of that principle ; and accordingly, as an indemnification for their pro vinces which lie oh the left; bank of the Rhine, including the territory of Sevaner, which in fuch a cale will be ceded to France, hisi Majefty will retairjfrthe remainder of the ter ritory of the bifhopric of Munfter, with the country i of Rechlingfhau fan. His Majefty, however, irelervcs to himfelf the right to claim fuch farther additions as may appear beft calculated to afford him i complete indemnification ari objeft concern ing which the two contra&ing pow- m entertain an amicable un1 derftanain 2. The 2d article ofthe Treaty of Bafle, of April'5, i795emains in full force; consequently the French Republic: accepts themediationof the King- of Pruflra in favour. of other Princes of the Empire who might wifh to enter into negociati ons with'Frapce. 3. In the ftatement et forth in the article concern inge cffion o the left bank of the Rhine to France, and concerning tlie adoption of the principleof fecularization, his Pruf fian jMajefty and the FrenclajR-epub-lic pledge 'themfclves to ule their united endeavours to effeft in favor of the Princes of the Houfe of HefTe, Ifthe fecularization of theecclefiaftical ftatei,; which fhall ferve as, the mcft convenient compenfation tb them, in lieu of the lands and" property which they may lofe on the left bank of the Rhine ; and alfo fo procuci the electoTial dignity for the line 01 ncue Uauei. ; v 4. His Majefty the King of Pruf lia pledges himfelf to maintain the cities xf Hamburgh, Bremen, and Lubeck, fin their integrity ind pre fent independence. f i 5. If, at the future pacification, the reftoation of the; Houfe of O range to its rank ahid dignity in HoHahdJ fhoiil be deemed inad- mi flible, tin thacafe : his Pru ffi'an Majefty and theSFrench Republic pledge themfeivei that thy will ufe every mMationan mcjr uoct; 10 onngaDoutjiproiyertjCcoramoaacion OCIW- therjnees ofK Conditions kirauOrge,the if tycftalllbe, oh the ofie part, a renunciation of. all claims to the adiimitv Of Stadt- holder, as well as to all the immov able property of thofe Princes, oh the left bank of the Rhine and in rhe Belffic Provinces : On the other fide,, the Batavian Republic fhall make a compenfation to the Princes ot Orange, equivalent to what they had poffeffed in the United Provin ces, and in the Dutch Coloriie?, un- eis the Batavian Republic would rather give up to the Houfe of O range the immovable property juft mentioned, in order that they might hemielvts agree upon afair exchange of this property, or fuffer it to be done by an Arbitrator chofdn by both parties. In order to effect this ac commodation, the French Republic pledgesitleif ltill farther, thatitwiU do its'utmoft endeavours to promote the advantage of the faid Prince of Orange, and his male heirs J -to effect the fecularization of the bilhoprics of W urtzburgh and Bamberg, and make luch an arrangement, that the reverfions of the faid bifhopricks fhall be fettled on the Houfe of Brandenburgh, in cafe the male branch of the Houfe of Orange fhould become cxtinft. 6. The prefent fecret Convention fhall be ratified by the contracting parties; ana tne ratmcation ihall, withjn fix weeks; or fooner if it can be done, be exchanged at Berlin. in, teitimony of the fame, this Con vention has been figncd and fealed bv the under-named Plenipotentia Jjps. pone at Berlin, Aug. 5, 1796. LfinJtian Henry Curtz, Count dc Haugwitz; Anton. Bernard Caillard. THE. CITY OF ACRE. This city, anciently termed Ac- cho, Acco, Acre, andby jhe rench bt. John ot Acre, on account ot its being; the refidence of the Knights of Jerufalem, which they. defended agamit the Saracens, is the la it 'and moft fouthern city in the time of the Ifraelitifh Judges, fince we find that the tribe of Afhcr could not drive out its inhabitants. Judges, ' Si- It having, in procefs of time, been enlarged and beautified by Ptolemy 1. was called from it, rtolemais though the Greeks, among whom the lait name was molt commonly ulcd, did not forget its ancient one but fdftened it jinto Ace and called the place indifferently by both names, till falling into the hands of the Turks, it relumed its Phenician name of Acre, by which it is now called. 'After being in polieffion of the Emperor Claudius; it fell into the hands of the Arabian Turks, who kept it till the Holy War, when it was retaken by the Chriftians, in the year 1104. the .lurks took it a fecond time, under Saladin, and it was wrefted from them in 1191 by Guy, King of Jerufalem, Ri chard I. King of England and Philip, King of France. It was then given to the Knights of Saint John who held it about too years, with jfreat bravery ; but the Chrif tians difagreeing about the ppfleflion qi ii,, ouuan ivieiecn ocrar, with an army of 1 50,000 men, obliged the inhabitants, in the year 1321, to give up the place, and retire to the ifland of Cyprus Acre was immediately entered and plun dered by the Turks, who 4Bade a horrible-flaughter of thafetyho reraained in the cify, and deftroyed all its noble edifices, as if they never could take a-fufheierit revenge upon it, for all the blood it.had coft them, orfufficiently pre vent fuch flaughters for the future; Acre, by, its excellent fituation leems to enjoy: all the advantages to oe defived from fea and lah$,eing encompaffed oh the eaft and hort fides, f by a fpacious fertile plain, on the weft by the Mediterranean, and on the fouth by a lare bay, extend ing itfelf from the city to Mount Carrnil. . . : : It was in this city, thatXdward I, (then a Prince) received a wound with ;a poifoncd arrow, which his wife Elinor cured, by fucking the poifon out of it. . It was'here, .alfo, that the Abbels pf a Noble Nun nery- nnaing tnatrtrte city .waff 'upon thA eve n.nby-ihxhi ,caljelpUr erjN u" us? and exhorted them tb disfigure and mangle them felvesY a the only way olTprelerv ing their chaftity from being: vio lated, which advice was followed with luch zeal, that when the'fol diers; broke into the Nunnery and they expefted, only a dreadful fpec tacle of mangled andnofelefs faces, they took a full revenge for being oVfappointed of their luftl and put :Vii it - e: i . r tncmau lomeiwora. PAANCE. ; From a Ijsndon Paper 0 Sept. 4. THE ROYALIST ATM.- Head.quarters at Ceinte GiVello thit itth Aug. 1795. VIVE LA RO I LOU iS XVIIt. SY THE KING, It is ordered, that all brave Loyalifts do unite themfelves ; with me. 1 pledge myfelf nevdf ib aeicrt tnem. ine news from Tou.-; louie ttafes s I hey are perfectl- f fVi-, A v :- ...:it t'V v nwi vwi guuu axitiie w 111 knowiedgcd by all provinces-of the; ; south. :LE COMPTE DZglh'LOx ' General of the Prorii edxC I - The infurreftioni .wlii ch liavo appeared in France', vi'eifit"-snore than eyer the leraous attenii'n.or thofe who confiderlthe-eVeufs of the prtfeht feaMirioWS'leis accelerating thaotid je'4 towhicli is the earneft dcttof ;kU 'Eyrope, The whole infuri'efeooi SiWevr dently the complexion "of .fvOyaltr. 'f: vi t r 1.1 1 si--..- fw2ss. nave ma view of viuD iq tne iwc ae naeq, and ino verrunning in the Council of Five v Hundred, the fuperiority which was Oppoied to them. Rut rh fafts upon which the Meffage of the uircciory Dears, are too incontro vertible to be called in queftion t they are of fuch a nature, that the fituation of the Republic to us ncJ n w ia1 i. ! Y The infurreaions a rip encouraged f by the fucceffes of the coalition J hut lfthpv haH Kon AitXlA L.lt s 5 aomcis or tne Allied f owers, they. "uuu wi-iiiiy xia.vc Deen aelayec to the time when it would havi been poffiblc to have afforded effeof tua fuccour to the infurgents, bfe opening a communication wti them, as was the cafe in Piedmont A j - -.w.. jrvwvaurx did.not then take place, till Mar i iimiiirrrinn rr ifi:n J i lnal-Smwarrow had arrived nn t frontiers of the Kingdom of SajdU nia; by the rapid march which de emed an the iucceffes of Italy. ; Some people have believed that the-J" lniurvea.ons which took place al- ' moft. at the fame time in the Souths Weft, and the North, were tlieef fefts of a general plan concerted a mong the infurgents. I ill is fufficient to read jthe Paris papers attentively, to fee, that thefe fimultaneous infurreaions, proceed from one and the fame caufe, which, acied at the fame time onevery pjace 4 within the circumference of theRe public, and of which it cannj t an altoniihinw. tu-f fliould be uniform. Thi caufe iia the law which forces the conferipta tomarch.1 The con ftraint provoked refiftance and the refiftance rofe to infurreaion. But as a rallying fig. nal is neceffary for infurreaion, ihat of Rcfyalifm was chofen as the orcr ' of the day, becaufe jt was founded (as fays, the Edror of the L ondon Minifterial Print) upon th'e general opinion, upon the uniyerfal wifhes of France. : ' 'S '--krlt(. If the Coalefced Powers retain any doubts as toi thii difpbfttioQjF the great majoritof the French a tjon, thiseyeristlufBc 'pate them ' ThublerveJ;it in 1 an Aprefstp tlieArchn'h Ma rflSuwrro w j - fhyitininm;.' to the aid ofthat numerous and loyl ' part of the Natioh,which rcpe'as LMC1J it-DC handi when the PrefamnivVHeV: --s Kif the- Crown -will rearn4r -:" V.' fromiet of theEaftlavIththevii i 0 wuu4 - j it uu f i a nqy -luppor; itt oti c I J lr i 1 i - - the right by,theYot.I!ir? cFtho Rhine vand nrnthe lef eKwi a. S' r V fc 1 f I : W 5i 1- . 1 t Ii.' .rvrz - - t "T-Tt ' r-i- w x - v -V vo ' 4' S . . .; ' ' -- .1 - - . . - .- . ; - v - - - -- . a. , - nt 1 1
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