Louis. The Conftitution left me the free fanction of the decrees. Prefident. You wrote a Letter, expreffive of fanction, to your guard after it was difbanded, and continued to keep it in pay. Louis. Ion'y did this, till it fhould be newmodeled, as the decree imported. Prefident You retained the Swiss Guards, contrary to the Conftitution, and at a time when they were ordered to depart 1; the Legiflative Affembly. Louis. I executed every decree relative to this fubiect. Prefident. You have employed in Paris particular perfons to wind up the springs of a Counter-Revolution; and given them penfiens out of the Civil Lin Louis. I knew nothing of their plots, and I never conceived the idea of a Counter-Revolution. Pfident. You endeavoured by confiderable fums to feduce many of the Members of the Conftituunt and Legiflative Afiemblies. Louis. Many perfons prefented fimilar fubjects, but I rejected them all. Prefident. You made no exertion to demand farsfaction for the injuries fuftained by Fr.nce from different Countries of Europe. Louis. The Diplomatic Correfpondence will prove the contrary. The reft concerns the Minifter. Prefident. You reviewed the Swifs on the 10th of August at five in the morning, and the Swifs fired first upon the Citizens. Louis. I reviewed all the troops who were collected near me; I even requested a deputy from the Convention to come thither, and afterwards I retired into its bofom with my family. Prefident. Why did you colle&t these troops from the Caftle? Louis. All the conftituted authorities were apprized of it. The Cafle was menaced, and I, as one of the constituted authorities, corceived it my duty to defend myself. Prefident. Why did you fend for the Mayor of Paris to the Palace in the night between the oth and roth of Auguft? Louis. On account of the rumours which were circulated. Prefident. You have fpilt the blood of the French. Louis. No, Sir, it was not I. Prefident. You have authorised Septenil to trade largely at Fiamburgh in grain, fugar, and ceffec. Louis. I do not understand what you fav. Prefident. Why did you put the Veto upon the Decree for eftablishing a camp of 20,000 men? Louis. The conftitution gave me the uncontrouled exercife of this power; and, even at this very period, i propofed a Camp at Soiffons. After thefe interrogatories, the Affembly prefented to Louis the original writings on which the procefs was grounded; the principal parts of which Le difarowed, as not living any knowledge of them, referving others which wore fome httle appearance of authenticity for farther explanation; and he rejected others as anterior to his acceptance of the Conft turen. After reading thefe particulars, Louis withdrew into the Hall of Conference. Afterviolent debates, wherein the Legiflators, to ufe the Prefident's expreffion, appeared mere hike gladiators than legiflators, the Convention ecreed, "that Louis fhould be permitted to chufe a Counfel for his defence." Before Louis appeared at the bar, the Convention decreed, that the wives and dughters of the French emigrants who left France fhould futter the fame penalties as their fathers and boibands. (To be continued.) FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. "The National Convention, after fitting near 34 hours, has juft voted, that the punishment of death thall be inflicted on his Moft Chriftian Majesty. "This judgement was carried by am joity of rather more than 100. Fifty of this number, though they voted for death, differed in opinion from the reft, in refpect to the time when it should be inflicted; fome thinking it should not be put in execution till the end of the war; and others propofing that it should be poftponed till the fenfe of the people thould be taken. Petion, and many of the leading members, voted for death with thefe reftrictions. "Amazenient and terror appear univerfaily to prevail; and the confufion of those who are known to be attached to the Royal Prifoner can more eafily be imagined than defcribed. So great was the general terror during this long fitting of the Convention, that many of the members, who went to the Holl on Tuefday morning with a positive refolution of faving the King if poffible, found themfelves compelled, by the most urgent motives of perfonal fafety, to vote against him. "There undoubtedly was great reason for this apprehenfion; for a noft formidable mob was collected, which openly threatened by name many of the members, to murder them on the spot, if they did not vote for the death of the King. "I cannot exprefs the horror which was painted in the Countenance of every individual in the National Convention, when the Duke of Orleans gave his vote for the death of his King and Relation. "The King is perfectly reconciled to his Fate. The fituation of her Majesty, Madame Elizabeth, and the Princefs Royal, is me lancholy indeed!" Poland. The General Confederation of Grodno has iffued orders to arrest, and bring to punishment, all agitators; and alfo to pre vent the affembling of clubs for the difcuffion of politics. The Marechals of the two United General Confederations have written a letter to the King of oland, ftating, 1. That they propofe to diminish the number of troops in the Capital. 2. To le ach the regiment of LiDainan Foot Guards, and the regiment of Infantry under the commandef M. Dzialvniki. And, 3. To diminish tas nuraber of Merary Quarters in the neigh oorhood of W, riaw. The conclusion of this Letter is as follows: "Your Majefty must acknowledge, that the fictions, who by means of their machina107 P nced the Revoletion of the 3d of Mav, dinol ved all the b fes which ferved for the fapport or the Republie, and of its Civil and Political Liberty, having degraded the Republic, under the yoke of Monarchical Defpotifm. It is in confequence of this principle, that the General Confederation of the Ivo Nations is convinced, that not only your Majefty will no give any oppofition to these meat res, d'étated by prudence; but that you yourself, born a noble Pole and a freeman, an, withing for nothing but the happinefs of a country, which is common to you with the reit of the Citizens, will not fpare either pains or efforts to render the Government of this Republic, which you are connected with by fo many ties, at once moderate, free, and durable. Such, in fact, is the only ambition which is permitted to a King, who ought not to confider himfe'f as the Maler, but as the Chief, of the State confided to his care. Given of Grodno, Nov. 29, 1792." The Emperor is making very active preparations to repair m. lofes of the 'aft campaign. He is arming 170,000 men. The Imprefs of Rafa, who had counte in nded the march of her troops, has recalle that order The States of the Germanic Emp re have agreed to for ith their tupe contingency. The Landgrave of Helle Cartel is to command the latter troops. The King o. Pruffia as made fome large gratuities in mong to the Hellan troops, for their brave conduct at Franfort. To fome of their Officers he has bestowed honourable marks of his approbation. The Dutch are extremely bufy in placing their marine on the most refpectable footing. Several line of battle fhips and frigates have peen Itely put in commiflion. found fabres, poignards, and every fpecies of destructive inftruments, many of which, being made in a fingular manner, terified the fpectators. The officers of the police immediately put the Captain of the veffe into irons, as well as the merchant to whom this ftrange cargo was addrelled; and they feized the whole. Some days prior to this, a French hair-dreffer had been stopped, who was hawking about, as a pedlar, papers of an incendiary nature Thefe letters mention alfo, that two other hair dreifers from the fa me place were taken up at Madrid for a fimilar offence a few days before. Billoa, Dec. 15. The Freich Jacobins had attempted to introduce weapons of alfalination into Spin. A vef from France arrived there, laden with a great number of chefs, which the Captain declared were full of fcythes to be used in the woods. One of these chefts having fpt from fome of the people, who were unloading them, broke by its fall, and a quantity of fword-blades fell out. This difcovery led them to open the others, where, inftead of feythes, they There have been two fevere forms at Hanburgh. In the first the shipping fuftained the principal damage; but, in the latter, all the feeples of the cf urches, and other buildings, were more or lets damaged. The ftreet were nearly filled with ruins; and it was with difficulty that the corn-magazine was preferved. The damage is faid to be incredible. WEST-INDIA INTELLIGENCE, Deputies from the islands of Martinico and Guadaloupe have lately arived in London, who folicit the protection of our government to thefe two lands from the plu derers whom the French Republic is difpofed to fend there, in order to place the inhabitants on the fame footing with St. Domingo. It is well known that Martinico and Guadalonpe have driven away the Jacobin Rochambe u and his 3000 men, who were deftined to reduce them to the fame ftate of anarchy with the reft of the French fettlements. Cape Français This ill-fated ifland is in a melancholy fituation-murders and maffacres are without namber; the canes, on one plantation or another, are fet on fire every night by the Blacks, with whom are joined great numbers of the Mallatoes, between whom and the Whites, joined alfo by the Malatoes and Blacks, are continued fkirmithes and battles. The prifoners taken are put to the moft unheard-of cruel tortures: one favourite revenge they practife is, the preffing or fcrewing the unfortunate perfon fo taken between two boards, and then fawing them into small pieces, beginning either at the head or feet, as cruelty or chance dictates. The week before he left the inland, there was a fight, in the town of Cape François, between the Aristocratic and the Democratic parties, wherein fix of the principal merchants were facrificed; one of whom, fuppofed the richest there, and a warm friend of the old form of government, was mangled and cut into fmall pieces, which they ftuck on the point of their fwords, or fixed in their hats, and, fo decorated, paraded the town in triumph. Want of order and fubordination reigned alfo or-board the men of war in the harbour, the crew having command, and the oflicers being fubject to their caprice. Mar Martinique. The Governor who prefides over the affairs of the colony, with the general approbation of its inhabitants, understanding there were 1800 troops, and three Commishioners, deputed by the National Affembly, on their way from Old France, difpatched a frigate from the road of St. Pierre, to meet the fleet, and acquaint the commanding officer, that the inhabitants of the iland being at length, after a struggle of two years, in a state of perfect fecurity, and having forgotten all political animofities, were determined that no intrufion from France, in her prefent fituation, fhould subject them to a renewal of former diforders; that, when France should he capable of governing herfelf, it would be time to acknowledge her fupremacy; and that at prefent not one would be fuffered to land. In confequence of this miffion, which was actually executed, the fhip iteered for Hifpaniola, and the 1800 troops are now in Cape Nichola Mole. AMERICA. Pittsburgh, Virginia. We are informed that the Cornplanter, New Arlow, and fixty of the Chiefs and warriors of the Seneca nation, have fet out for the Miami Town, to Counsel with the hostile Indians, and to exert their influence to bring about a peace between them and the United States. SETTLEMENT OF SIERRA LEONE. On Saturday laft advices were received at the Sierra-Leone houfe, from that fettiement. dated Oct. 20, giving a favourable account of the farther progrefs of the colony. An amicable meeting, or palaver, had been held with the Chiefs on the fubject of the diftribution of the lots of land, of which a regular furvey was begun. The rains had cealed, and the health of the Nova-Scotia Blacks was much improved. It appears alfo by the returns, that the mortality among them had not been to very great as was apprehended, only 98 American Blacks having died, from the time of their landing to the 20th of October: the number of them remaining alive was 10:6. Somewhat more than 60 Whites appear in all to have died, the chief of whom were of the lower order living on shore. The Company's Accountant, who returned on account of his health, died on his arrival in England. Information has been received, by the Harpy, of the Colony's progrefs up to the 20th of November. The Company's brig Catharine, of 140 tons, which was dispatched home with fome of the adventurers to Bulam, and brought the difpatches of the 20th of October, had been loft off Bideford in a form, and one boy perished. From the report of the phyfician, it appears, that the difeafe which troubled the fettlers moft was a remittant fever, and that by administering bark, at as fhort intervals as the ftomach will bear, immediately after the first paroxyfm, it changes it into an intermittent fever, which may be then cured with as much certainty as the common ague in England. The Doctor attributes most of the mortality to thofe caufes which are common to all new colonies, and fays, that the climate, as far as he can judge from his short experience, is very good. Of he 1190 free blacks embarked at Halifax in January, 1792, the following is a return of the deaths up to the 2d of September, 1792, which in the men and women have been principally old and infirm, and many of thofe who died on fhore were landed in a difeafed ftate. On their pallage 35 men, 18 women, 7 boys, and 5 girls: total, 65. Since their arrival, 28 men, 23 women, 21 boys, and 22 girls: total, 99. General total, 164. IRELAND. Carrickmacrofs, Dec. 31. Laft Sunday, a numerous and armed mob, called Defenders, paraded through this town, and hence proceeded on the road towards Ardec. Nerman Steele, Efq. a magiftrate, having been apprised of their meeting, and intention to commit depredations, fet off with a party of the army across the country to meet them. On coming up with them, he humanely endeavou ed to perfuade them to difperfe quietly, but to no purpofe, for in a short time they furrounded Mr. Steele and his party and fired on them. Mr. Steele, in his own defence, and to fave the lives of thofe with him, was obliged to read the Riot Act; during which time a great number of shots were fired on the Magißrates and the foldiery. At length he was compelled to dire the army to fire, and feveral of thefe unfor◄ tunate men were killed and wounded. Immediately after, a party of the light horfe arrived from M.naghan, and happily, for the pretent, reftored tranquillity. Thursday, Jan 10, 1793. This day His Excellency the Lord Lieutenant went in ftate to the Houfe of Peers, and o; ened the Sction with the following Speech from the Throne: "My Lords, and Gentlemen, "I have his Majefty's commands to meet you in Parliament, and to exprefs his fatis faction is reforting to your counfels in the prefent fituation of affairs. "His Majefty feels the utmost concern that various attempts should have been made to excite a fpirit of difcontent and disturbance; and that appearances thould have manifested themfelves, in any part of this king om, of a design to effect by violence an alteration in the Conftitution. "It is an additional ground of uneafinefs to his Majefty, that views of conquest and dominion fhould have incited France to interfere with the Government of other countries, and to adopt meafures with regard to his Majesty's Allies, the States-General, neither conformable to the law of Nations, nor the pofitive ftipulations of existing Treaties; especially when both his Majefty and the States-General had obferved the strictest neutrality with regard to the affairs of France. "Under thefe circumstances, I have ordered, by his Majesty's commands, an aug mentation of the forces upon this establish ment. "By the advice of the Privy-Council, meafures have been taken to prevent the exportation of corn, provifions, and naval stores, arms and ammunition. The circumstances which rendered thefe meafures neceffary will, I trust, justify any temporary infringement of the laws, and will induce you to give them a parliamentary fanction. "It will afford his Majesty the greatest fatisfaction, if by a temperate and firm conduct the bleffings of peace can be continued; but he feels affured of your zealous concur. rence in his determination to provide for the fecurity and interefts of his dominions, and to fulfil thofe pofitive engagements to which he is equally bound by the honour of his Crown, and the generals interefts of the Empire. "Gentlemen of the House of Commons, "I have ordered the national accounts to be laid before you; and I have no doubt of your readiness to grant fuch fupplies for the public fervice, as the honour and fecurity of his Majefty's Crown and Government, and the exigencies of the times, may require. "My Lords, and Gentlemen, "The agriculture, the manufactures, and particularly the linen manufacture, the Proteftant Charter-fchools, and other public inftitutions, which have fo repeatedly been the objects of your care, will, I doubt not, engage your accustomed regard and liberality. "I am to recommend to you, in his Majeffy's name, to adopt fuch measures as may be most advilable for the maintenance of internal tranquillity, and for this purpose to render more effectual the law for establishing a militia in this kingdom. "His Majefty has the fulleft confidence that you will, on all occafions, fhew your firm determination to enforce due obedience to the laws, and to maintain the authority of Government, in which you may depend upon his Majesty's cordial co operation and fupport: and I have it in particular command from his Majefty to recommend it to you, to apply yourselves to the confideration of fuch measures as may be most likely to ftrengthen and cement a general union of fentiment among all clailes and defcriptions of his Majefty's fubjects, in fupport of the eftablished Conftitution. With this view his Majefty trufts that the fituation of his Majefty's Catholic fubjects will engage your ferious attention; and in the confideration of GENT. MAG. January, 1793. this fubject he relies on the wisdom and liberality of his Parliament. "I am truly fenfible of the repeated teftimonies which I have received of your approbation; and I will endeavour to merit a continuance of your good opinion, by ftrenuously exerting the power with which I am entrufted, for the maintenance of our excellent Conftitution in Church and State, as the beft fecurity for the liberty of the fubject, and profperity of Ireland." Dublin, Jan. 1. The accounts from the County of Louth, with refpect to the proceedings of a banditti, calling themselves Defenders, grow daily more alarming; near forty houses have been attacked belonging to Proteftants, for the purpose of plundering them of their arms, and most of the attacks have been fuccefsful. Among those whofe houses were attacked was Mr. Owen's of Roxborough, Mr. Henry Brabazon, Mr. J. T. Fofter, of Stone-house, Mr. Blacker, Mr. Hanlon, Mr. M'Clintock, &c. At the latter place they met with refiftance, and were beaten off. This banditti were linked together by an oath of fecrecy, and they have their regular leaders and captains; they train themfelves by night in the practice of firearms, or execute plans of robbery. Laft week thefe daring infurgents are said to have met in Dunleer in very great numbers, perhaps from 1500 to 2000, fome armed with guns, fome with pitchforks; but it does not appear they had any fettled object. The army were immediately difpatched from Dundalk, and on their approach the mob difperfed. On Saturday morning about thirty of thefe men were, about the hour of fix, fighting in the streets at Caftle-bellingham when the Mail Coach arrived there from Drogheda, and the Mail Guard, having left the poft bag at the Poft-office, was returning to the inn, when he was violently attacked; but having his piftols in his belt, he imme diately fired one of them at the mob, and effected his retreat to the inn; however the door was foon forced, and overpowered by numbers, he was robbed of his pistols and cut and otherwife abused, infomuch that his life is defpaired of; however it does not appear that there was the smallest intention on the part of the rioters to ettack the Mail, as fome of them told the passengers in the coach that they took the Guard to be a military man, from his dress. fure; , and Country Towns and the quantity of tar found was When the about an English pint and a half. tar fo found was tried, it burnt in fire like common tar extracted from fir, but had not the fame (mell; it was foft, and became Auid in their fire. The rock in which it was found is a white free ftone of a good quality.-There was no fi te joint in the rock in which the tar was found nearer than three feet. The quartiers are of opinion it has proceeded from a fpring in the North-weft fide of the quarry. This fpring leaves a black Any fubflance like tar; and this fubftance, they imagine, oozing through the pores of the rock, as produced the mafs above mentioned. Edinburgh. An eminent manufatuier in this town has juft filled two elegant gownpieces, manufactured from Shetland Wool, the one for the her Majesty the Queen, and Highnes the the other for her Royal Dutchess of York. They have alf just finishe a very hindfome and uncommonly fine velt piece for his Royal Highnefs the Prince of Wales, and a beautiful gown-picce for her Grace the Dotches of Gurdon, both fem common Scotch Worfted. Encouraged by the patronage of perfonages fo highly diftinguithed, we may reafonably hope toon to fee the woollen manufacture attain a degree of perfection hitherto unknown in this country. A gown-piece, fimilar in pattern to that of her Majefty, has been ordered for the Empress of Rufiia. The PORT NEWs. Orders were rePlymouth, Dec. 26. ceived this day at the dock-yard for the artificers in every department to work double tides; the shipwrights worked till half The greatest exertion paft feven at night. he Boyne is ufed to get the thips ready. and Windfor Catle. 98 guns each, and the Egmont and Culloden, 74 guns each, are getting ready to be commiffioned. Nautilus of 16 guns, was commiffioned yesterday, and ordered to be fitted for fea immediately. The Alarm, of 32 gens, (having undergone a thorough repar) is brought down the harbour to be got ready with the utmost dispatch for committion; the Syren only waits for a fair wind to proceed to Spithead to bring round the St. George's feamen, fent on board the Orion and Hannibal, as the St. George is ordered for Spithead immediately. As foon as the fails, the Admiral is to hout his flag on board the Powerful, 74 guns, Capt. Hicks. Jan. 4. Capt. Barlow and Lieut. Mends, of the Childers floop of war, are arrived from that floop, which was left at Fowey. The particulars brought are of infinite importance at this crifis. The Childers cruized off Breft harbour, and laft Wednesday afternoon, at two o clock, the Childers flood within threequarters of a mile of three batteries in Breft . Her colours were not then hoistad; the Battery on the far-board fide fired a fhot, which paffed over her. The Childers then hoifted the British colours; and the Fort hoisted the National Colours, with a red pendant over the enfign, which was anfwered by the other two Forts. The Childers was then driven by the tide of flood within and Capt. half a mile of the Forts; Barlow was obliged, it being calm, to have her oars out, to keep her from driving too far in: immediately a crofs heavy fire began by fignal from the batteries. Fortunately a brecce of wind fprang up, and the Childers made fail. She being a fmall object, only one hot hit her, which providentially ftruck one of her guns, and fplu it in three pieces, without injuring a man. The pieces were collected and flung; and the thot weighed 48 pounds. The Childers arrived fafe at Fowey. Capt. Barlow fet off for London exprefs; and Lieut. Mends waited on Admiral Cothy with this interesting intelligence. The thips of war in Brett water, with their fails bent, were one of three decks, one of two decks, and five fout frigates. Jan. 5s This day was commiffioned His Majefty's fhip Egmont, 74 guns, and the command given to Capt. A. Dixon; alfo the Alarm, 32 guns, Capt Robertfon. Orders were received in the Dock-yard by this day's Polt, to get ready for commiffion with all poffible difpatch, the Captain, Coloffus, and Illuftrious, 74 guns each; and at the fame time the caulkers were fent on board the Royal Sovereign of 110 guns, and London of 98, to forward them with the utmost expedition, and to prepare them for fea-fervice. COUNTRY News. This afternoon, beLiverpool, Dec. 22. tween the hours of four and tix, we had a very dreadful ftorm of win! which, we fear, has done confiderable damage. Amongst other matters, are the following: the hip Charlemont, Pindar, for Africa, lying at anchor near the Slyne, was driven on fhore at Kno's Hole, but will be got off Ittle damage: the Peggy, again with M-lroy, from Newry, that arrived on Sa turday evening, is on fhore near the tidemill, but will be got off again without damage. One of the turrets and vane were blown from the freeple of St. Peter's church, which broke through the roof, near the organ-loft: no fervice in the church yesterday in confequence. Two large trees in the North Walk were torn up by the routs, feveral others nearly dislodged from their native earth, and a confiderable part of the paling blown down. A man walking near the copper-works was taken off his feet by the wind, and had his leg broke in the fall: he was immediately carried to the Infirmary. The upper part of the ftone work, which top fupported the thip's weather-vant, on the |