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; .rr;,-, --r- 7 AND R A L E I G H A D V E R T I S E R. .- . . . " .ili : 1 ', "r - ' 1 'V1" " " j" " - . i r. fr; f EI ? tfc-Pt7BLI8HED EVERY A Vol IV. t" i -i : WJJRjSuJ)JA October t i 4 NORTH ' . . FOREIGN INT &LLIGHNCE. ' Society of thk Mahege, July 15- Deftretn opened the fitting by a fpecch in honor of the 24th of July, itr whichhe afTured the political fo cicties tht the legiflative body would maintain the conftitution of the third ycari He 'declared that the legiflative body (aw with gratitude the unfliaken devo tion jojthf real nend hberty, and that it would not ceafe to make a common caufe with the political ' , l74tockiU to. lonff wifdom arid Yocrzy Vere the bafia Thii fpcech was frequently interrupted by applau- les anamc lociciy oraerea it to be printed. -The Report of the committee of presentation read a lift of the citizens who had been admitted. The com mittee declared that they were fcarcely able to attend to all the applications for admittance, but that they roud emplogjjay and. night m performing that duty. Among the candidates were marked the names of de puties, generals and citizens of ever y dtfeription who are dcarcuV to liberty.'- " The n umber of members now admitted crceed Soo. F. Lepclletier oppbfed th's. He faid that thc.ab Curd 'calumnies which had for fome day bten cicu la'ted of the profped of a convention, and of the overthrow of the conditution, have fixed the attention of the legiflative body ;and that t!;ey had believed it ' aecelTafjotakeji-ne 31iirjdS ourage of the legiflative body which had overthrown the tyrtinny-of the ttioTvirs. They owed it to their affo&ion 4;Let us imitate it and take an oath' to the fonftitution of the 3d !" 3;1JJ hats rwerejmmedi at'ely tJirown up, and the atrtakehntlKci'ofthe . jrreatcft apphufesJJ " I -move, faid Lepclletier,' the formation of a committee to prefent to you rr.eafures'of public fafety worthy of the facredjule'cf being- f u b -mitted to the legiflative body." Great applaufej . The Regulator put Jhe queflion on the pi opofition f Lepclletier :li was'a clop ted and referred to a com jsnlttce of -in-ft.tuclion.-- '.rrvV 4 ' ; J'y 1 ' r . The reprcfetnative Arene mounted the tribune and Tfpokd to the f6l!ow7ng""efre&:-- . --. , " .Citizens, brothers a"nd friends! The Council of Five Hundred hive this day received nlncial details of the trea'fon which has put into he, hands of "the t nemy, the imprejnablefortfef9 Ittrat fcaartofr-tanridgesebntai' pow-'; rier, the reft, being made up of mere dtid ; tlmt .the muCcet cartridges were made in the fame manner, and that the bals'c6nfi(lcd only of wood thinly 'covered with lend fo that rmifkct balls went only to the distance of ftfty paces, and the lar;:e Ihot no .further tian twenty fie Such weis thc"Soidy means of defence which onr brave army had under the command of. the infamous Scnercr of execrahfe memory, (Murmurs of j.ndigni tion) Brothers and Fijends jjt IS)at- a time when the Irg'iflative body morderto refcue the palpitating rem . r!its of our utifoi tunate country Irom the hands of belchers, and. to te-aniniate the public fphit, ha3 a--iirt opened the pu-Wic foe" ieties ; , that Journals hired by dilspidators, point you tint to the Royalifls, A ittp'ng.thefe is the 'Amides Loix, which reprefents ym as a vile horde of aflaHI is, thitlting for bhod and pit 4ge. friends and Brothers ! Can you enteitain any concealed purpofc in your breaft ? (No ! No.! exclaim, e.lltl the members, the con i -tut ion- of the third year ! tKat the direclory and the 'councils have the lathe tn ten tion s Lct us zcalou (I y aid their effo rt s,- a nd the crimes which the pretended Ami des Loix imputes to you, will Toon fall on own gnih y head." ( A" member then afccmk'd the. rplrum, and called the attention of the club to the neceifr y of addrfiing tne diteclory oh the- official ariffer acyTwhich infedi all tht : rninilterial departments, but particularly thofe of the wa'r the interior and foreign- relations.... It was timf ; to 'give a movement to the revolution of the 30th Prai- rial,' "(June 1 8 ) a!V4iitlt? riXOh " This propofition was adopted. - v A member mentioned' fcveratfacls irT accufation of Ramelwho'rnfthTy this ""moll deadly enemy ef the republic. . , ' . ' : ; amojig-whorft were d men were palling. through fotne i quarters of the town. They feemed to fecit fot eatb other as if they had hof tile iriteotipnsk but all remVioed calm. We know oot what conftfqueocei thefc meetings may have; but prudence and duty Require that the govern ment fliould prevefltiWron headed pcrfons j'rom pro mo.ting divifions tn aris hlcfa-will but t6QXafln..fihJ. imitatbrs in the other parts of the "republic. . ? 4r?' ? July-1 J. ": "! ! ' putiMiiicu yuciuy. iic sccompanicu me copy winch he fent io the dtredory, "with his refignation. Vvc .knovrnot if it be accepted. A roanufaclory of pbrguards has been difcovercd at Paris. ''..' 4-.;'Y" , Championct is gone tb i the army of the Alps, "with the neceflary funds for putting it in aclivity. J' - - ' . - J-l----- The confenptg ; of the Co tie; dOr, have ; retaken the impottanf pouV of BeivJd'efroni whehcethe Auftrlaot' threatened Mount St. Bernard, General Suchet is nominated chief of the ftaff of the army of. Italy, . General Muller is charged with the organization of the armv and appointed ptovifionally tp command it. Gen Baraguay d'Killiets is appointed chief of the fame time, the decree of accufatioh which had tcea btought againft me. . tf ryi "But it Is a Iked fey mfactufcrs, What are the mo tives which catifed the National Conventiop to ceafe the-name of. Talleyrand ? ' The anfwer however, iV fimple, and undoubtedly decifive. 1 was fen t to llon don for the'TcconUlime1," b- iKTProvifional Executive, Coii n-t lie 71 h of September," ! 79; I have. d7T my polTjnon.the original paflpott 4c)ivered to me bp (he. Council,-.and Which is fighfd by fix of its members Ltbrun, PntoH, Scrvari,Calviere, llolaod and Mong propet to take my cafe into confederation, and I wu : produ.ee it tb any perfon defifous of feeing it." Talleyrand denies that he wore the ; white cockad in America and at Hamburgh and appeals, to the teftU mony of the Envoy and Couful at that city, . With rclpecl to th reproach of having fufferei! the r rjew-Coalition-to be foirmed r be-Tindrcates hjimfclf bjrr tjuoting his opinion, which was decidcdy given in fa vour of an honbtabTe peacepind. mak$s the following obfervations: when it is conlidered thatvihofe wha dare to accufe me of wifning for the" continuance of; -war are the very perfon s,ho ftirrtd tip the fire of.dif cord, invoked with the moft ardent prayers all the fu ry of war, were eager to excite revoluttonary move ments in every part of the world, abufed every power " ! . iisiiiS'i-"' "JT 1ARIS, July 14. ity, YcRerday evehing there was mucli agftation, in this Crouds were colkctedat the M :":The:trialf RS.::H and the generals ordered to Paris. Yellerday was tranquil. " There .vas neither during the. fete, nor in 1 the evening,; any diilurbancc3. ; Jt is faid that Lucien Buonaparte; Mai hot, Chou-d-eit and Bordas belong to the fociety of the Manege. The Prefident is called Regulator, the fecretaries, no-" tators,- '. . - ; On the t id MtfTidor, July 10. cbefeis houfe .at. Meudon, was farrounded by gens d'afnte but he wa'3. not found. - . General Haty, who commands pur troops on the frontier8of Piedmont, has written, that they have been in the mod abfolute privation fince the evacuation of "Trvy, without tlostha and pay,. Mtafurcs have been tiken to remedy th.:3 grievance. Citizen Tai'eyrapd has jud puKliihed a" vindication of his conduct, Tn anfwer to the accufationi preferred ;agafnfthimjn.ifeveral' pamphlets and journals- -He be gins vwith remarking, that ir"hisacciifer'a.fe""li:hem- felvea either Ex-PrieltH or Ex-Nobler, and even prVn-H ces or foreigners, who having firlt introduced thtn!- f Ives to notice with cunning and dexterity, foonaf ' fumed", with audacity, the privilege cf inftructsng us how vf (hould be free from our b;wn country. " What thert.' continues Talleyrand, do . thele iroen-Hrge, who re not Frenchmen, or thofe 'among Fienehmcn whofe integrity they have fuccceded in corrnptinsr -That I have been one of the Conllitu- ent ?.Tembly ! Yes, I was fully convinctd that they could never forgive thofe whofe names are illafbious among the Founders of liberty. I was fully convinced that me n who had never .experienced' i he fif fl fallies ot ti e French people, in T 79, who indulged In niame- fu! raillery on the luhlirae enthiifiairh of the nation, and who, unable to prevent the Revolution, exerted themfelves to render it odious; were ':;in .'fecretlenraged againft the afTenriBly which! firft proclaimed -the decla ration of, the rights of mahf and wer'e mot'e favorablfiio ihe antiyre affembly than to the part which produced the revolution-. ' But I was ig. Tiprant that they would carrV,. their audacity fo faras publ'cly, and without any malk, to reproach a Citixcrj with h.rvirig beeh a' Memberof the Conftituentr-A lfcrh bly. And yet this is cjnc of the hutnerp'us accufations" preferred Againft me in -thesr favourite Journal. V In the prefent agitation of the public mind, tKtee fuppofitibns are alone boflible. The Republic will conloTidate its ft reihgth in the mid It offo many event.s ; welhall be overwhelmed in the confufioh, and deuruc T;ib;1of everykind of jaulthiBftty tot Royalty will be reftored to oppref us with increfed ,fury and tyranny. Every other fuppofition is to meL hjmirfa, and I have iinqueftronably given fufficient pledges of my zeal againft the" two laft' fyftems. Tlie fate allotted to m,e, by both the one' and the, other .of them, is fnfficiently known, f as well as the kind Pt-''-'fr-would grant to me. It Jiaa been a thoufand times de 1 . t - 1 the neiahboutnood 1 ' 9 Tnae t hi u fual excla m at io n s, 1 poftcd in the garden intimidated them all and prevent ed any difordCrs from taking place ; f b' fides it rained. and aS Pcthon once obferved, tnere are never any dif tuibances in Paris durin? bad weather. Meanwhile files BLvqinj;jncjaiid..atLgr-.p ftaderi ted in the public Journals thcaUcrtion fo fatal to the tranquility of Europe. .. "' . . ' The Rrpnblics and Kings arc necelurily in a dace bf hoiVility ; when it is confidcred that 1 have been con finntly engaged injpalring-the-mifchiers produced by To many inconliftencics and follies, and in calming the; apprchenfions of the Envoys of neutral and amicable, powers, every one rhui be truck with a.ftooifhment that thefe men mould accufe me of cd operating in pro ducing the coalition, and that, they (hpuld' themfelvis beignorant on how many accounts the accufation ap plies to ther own condudl. I have alfo, in a detail which has been noticed oy the Legiflative Body, point er! out the principal and moTeT immediate caufes oi the Coalition, and I may be allowed to obferve that my obfervations have been received by the National Reprc- , fentation, with a degree of inteieft which it only cop fers on acknowledged prccifion and truthv ."., .t ( ." It is known that Auftria, even fpm thejignioj . of the treaty of Campd Formio", however favourable :: that treaty might have been to it, havmg recovered fiom the terror infpited by our arms, began to medt- , tate projects of greater ambition, ; that it was then en-, t cou raged by England and Ru0ia 1 that the; events in Rome and Switzerland became .new motives and pre tences for. its anions; and that ft fonght every :wnrfr fiom that time, for hew allies, which it did not 6nd ditTicult to ohtaih, in coi.fcquehce of the principlet of the Repre Tentative fyrtem which ft rtck at all ariftocra- , tic eftablifnm'ents,. or by the natuiat cfFrA bf the op-, prcjfi.o'ns exercifed by fome of the French agchts, Un- " worthy of that name, even in friendly countries, or f principally in confequence of the impreflion made by , the engagement at Aboukir? which, m giving us an additioual enemy, revived the audacity and hopes of . others. . .". . ,". -.: -.'" '!; . " "; At the commencement of laft Brumsife, the end , of October, when Gen. Joubcrt fet out for. Milan, a bout five months befotetiie RulHahs entered Italy, I- ; Jhid ihcgoodortonetcifoctire thrplanTof attickT which had been combined between the Ruffians and Auftrians, and I give it to him myfelf, He'has fmce -deciai edi that it proved highly iiftfuno hTs pperatpona, Every thing relative to the grt at changes in Switer-, land and Italy was neter either difcufled or decided by . the 0iieftory in Twy prefence. The alterations in the Cisalpine Republic are totally without my knowledge. : 1 -was merely acquainted with them in.cohreqtie.hce of their execution, fo much fo, that when Citizen Rivaud was fenr A mbaTador to that Republic, . 1 was applied; tojojr blank letters of credeace and thus I was totally uninformed witK refpeel to his tmbafly until he had been employeofdr a confiderable time. .Here I know, it is Dblecled to tee with -1c vet ity r that I (hould ol i . c . . i , . t . ..L.?.-' 'A J tiave neutateq to nave given in my rengnauon, au, it is imagined that I was not diipoiid to that mealure f . cati it b-ibought that fuch an idea wis gratifying te my independence ? but Lconfefs, .1 was preveoted-by : irrardefirenhal indefatiaahle hone- btJbeace. trom ----- - -r---0 - - , . aneere. ana in I monltrated that I ran hir nn othrr riefiri? hi that nF 1 WkielintkhMWi4r oower an d e (l abli Hi i n v the trlorrof I fJrilv in that OntimentJ and to that i facrificed mT. )Mt aJlronff armed force I the RctjodHc.'": ?L did not indeed exnee. to Ki rrAtu i rrfntSal Mwaftft: ht v. tvnnernanrfi '" at an individual ' - J-mfed";irotirill lifts df EmTgfahtSj and repealed, at the ced tb the necefiity of proving, in the. 7th year of the I am.accufed that an attack was not made on Por-. Republic, that I am not an Emigrant. . A proof ren- I tugaL But if fuch an attack had taken place and had dered unnecefTary by the unanimous declaration of the 1 been violently- opsofed by Sbain. would they not . have nangnu v.otitcikior wnicn crncrea my n,ame to oeitnougnt.tnemiivcstuttine j would have irritated this latter power) whofe alliance :-. -.-ic--,. -.' - .;''-. -''"T--" ; '"'-'', --v'.'-'V". '' , v:-'-:.- '...--.''.';(.;'V.-,'-!. - . :"'::; ' '' ,'. ,;. -; ''''-''."' .' -':-: ':.'- . ':::Hr ". 1
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