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l niinuatior. oi I.atf'ft Foreign Intelligence,
traiiflitrd for the Xnv- York Gazeiti,
from Paris papers, by the Fair Amiki
can, from Xantz.
PARIS, 16th Prairial (June 4.)
EXAMINATION of BABCLUF.
This sift day of Florcal, in the 4th year, be
fore ns Charles Cor.hon, was brought Citizen
Balnruf, of whom we alked the following
qudbons, his name, age, profeflion, place of
imtivity and ot residence.
To which he answered, he wax named Grac
chus Babttuf, aged 3j years, born at St. QiJen
fin, in the department of I/Aifne, editor of a
newfpaprr. generally dwelling in Paris, No.
vi. r.ir clu faxbourg Honore, tn the fertion of
the F.lyfim fields, but latterly in several differ
ent parts Inf the Commune ol Paris. 1
y What is the title of the paper you have
lately edited ?
A. “ The Tribune of the People,” bv Grac
chus Kabdrnf.
Q. How ninny numbers of this journal
have you. pnhJifbed ?
A. Since the month of Vcndemaire, to this
day, I have published from No. 34 to jg.
On what day did No. 3c appear.
A. ‘i iie ijth,.Florcal.
O. Have you not preached in your journals,
the re-eftablifhineut of the constitution of iyyj,
and the annihilation of that of 1705.
A. 1 always preached in favour of Liberty,
and agninft Tyranny.
Q. Was ir not yotir wish to overthrow the
pri tVnt government ? And was you not aifoci
ated w ith several persons to effort it ?
A. Convinced that the present government
was opprefHve, I woald have don- every
thing iri my power to overthrow it—l was
allociated with all the Democrats of the Repub
lic, but it is not the part of an honed man to
iwune them.
y. Do you acknowledge that the foal of
Lral.s fiiiptd in the form of a longfquare, with
a handle of black wood, and on which 3 level,
and the words “ Public Safety,” were engra
ved, s\as found in your house when you was
nrrefted ? Docs this seal belong to you i
A. It was the sign known in the corref
poiulcnce of the num*rous coalition ot the
Democrats, who all detest, like myfclf, the
dreadful opprellion under which the French
people groan.
Q What were the means you intend to
employ For the overthrow of the present gov
ernment ?
A. All the means which might be lawful
J F uinft tyrants.
y Was it not your intention to cause the
murder of the members of the two legislative
bodies of the executive directory, and of the
constituted authorities ?
A. I have no details to give on the means
rhich might have been employed—besides,
ftrv did not rest with me alone, I only had a
ste in the council of the Tyrannicides—the
eftrurtion of the opprrffivc government, mur
♦rr afidr, would have been fiiffcient.
Q. Arr yon acquainted with the citizens
tieord, Laignelet, Robert Lindet and Vadier,
-members of the convention ?
A. 1 have no answer, no information to
five on any circnmftance that does not individ
llly re I pert myfelf.
Q Do you not know the citizens Roffig-
Jol, Man lard. G.trmain, Darfihe and Didier ?
A. My answer is contained in the one made
to the preceding qudlion-.
Q Where was you the evening beforelaft,
at half pad q o’clock ?
A. Ido not recollert
Q Was you not in Honorc-flrcet, in a
house near Vendome-Square, in company with
feme of the citizens above named ?
\ I do not know why the man who in
terrogates me, supposes me so weak of under
ilanding as not to be capable of perceiving the
i lfidionfnefs of this queilion, and that it repeats
toe preceding qurllions. which on fimilaf ones,
1 ad declared I ftiould not answer, becaufr I
think I ought not to explain any thing that
sloes not perfonallyrelate tome.
O. Had you noi fixed on to-morrow, the
9 2d, as the day on which the infurrertion was
to break out ?
A. It did not belong to me to fi\ the time
n which any infurrertion ought to out ;
had it depended on my with alone, the firft
fa vocable moment would have hern fej zr d for
the overthrow of Tyranny, and delivering the
people from the miseries that overwhelm them.
” e then presented him a paftehoard box,
tied with Urings, fealrd with th- seal above de
frribed, and having called op him to declare,
if he acknowledged this box as his. and wheth
er the seal on it affixed, is the fame that was
set to it in his prefenct, at the time he was ar
rested He acknowledged that the box was
his, and that the seal was entire, lie then
broke the hud seal.
IV e then alked him if lie acknowledged the
papers, juclofod in the said box, as belonging
to him, And to have been found in his room
” C tlr , r * C °^*' s a, teft. He acknowledged
them as his, and to have been found in his
room at the time afotefaid.
y. Among (Hole papers, are there any
written by you ?
A. T his will appear in a proper time and
place.
y. Did you compose any other pieces be
sides the “ Tribune of the People t“
A. No.
ihe present interrogatory having been read
to him, hr has declared his answers to be true
and sincere, that he pcrfifls in them—and fign
rd with us. (Signed)
GRACCHUS BABCEI’F.
1 he Minister of the General Police.
(Signed) COCHON.
Additional Examination of Raboetrf.
On the szd Florcal, we have caofed Babceuf
ci e brought from the Abbaye, and to appear
before u s Mini (Ire of the Police.
vrtWT br9lM! i h - fcal ‘ vhich i,afl been fixed
S and f ““mediately proceeded to the
box mii n ° ft , le P a P cr > c °n a ned in the said
kS C PrefcUCe 01 the ™i*en Ru-
In the firft place we found 47 printed pa
pers and journals, by different authors, which
were marked and noted by uj and the said
Uiooeut.
* then found a printed notice, entitled,
Columbian jHuftum, Sc,
“ The Infurrertional Committee of Public
Safety to tlie peopli-,” containing tt articles.
On beingafk- and it this paper had been compo
sed by liim, and printed by his diredtion i
He answered “ No.” We then asked him if
lie would sign it n: varietur , with us—lie an
swered “Yes,” and immediately affixed there
to the initial letters of Ins name.
(Signed) COCHON.
Ptern found in the f'JJ'eJfion of the Con
spirators, lattly arrefied m Paris, and
publijhedby authority.
The Infurrertion Committee of Public Safe
ty, considering that by the infurrertion of this
day, all civil and military authorities cftabiifh
ed by tyranny, arc no more.
Considering that it is ot the uttnoft necessity
to put m adtivity all the brave defenders of
the rights of tiie people, to watch over their
intcrells, and keep their enemies within clue
bounds.
Decrees as follows ;
Art. 1. The Revolutionary Committee are
rrftored, as they were on the Bth Thermidor, 2d
year. The citizens who compoled them are
held to atlemhle themselves immediately at
their former places of meeting ; and they will
give an account of thmr inllallation to the In
iurrertional Committee within an liour.
2. Citizen ,is appointed our Gene
ral agent of Police, in the place ol the Bureau
central of the Police of thr Commune of Paris.
3 The Revolutionary Committees fliall
correspond withihefaid General Agent—who
(hail do the fame with the Iniurrertional Com
mittee, from whom he will receive his order.
4. The Infurrertional Committee nomi
nates Citizen ~, General in Chief of
the army ol tlie interior, and of the armed
force ol Paris.—He is ordered to put bimfelf
at the head of the troops and of the peopie in
itantly, to execute the orders of the Committee.
( True Copy.)
‘The Minister of the General Police.
(Signed) COCHON.
PRINCIPAL INSTRUCTIONS.
The Manifefto of Infurrertion fbews general*
1 ly the moil dfential operations : Wc have how
ever thought it nccellary to give you feme in
ftrurtions on the details which you will com
bine with the military plan, and that of the
general execution.
As it is said in the Manifefto : At. the very
instant of its publication, the assemblies of each
diilrirt shall meet at the place of general as
sembly in disorder, and by the foud ol the
toefin (alarm bells) aixl trumpets Under , the
.conduit of patriots, to whom the Infurrertion
al Committees shall have conhded banners,
with the following inferiptions—•
V Constitution ot ’93.
• p r f Equality;
sit banner. > T 4
( Lnx-rty.
j General Hnppincfs.
) Thole who usurp the Sover
jd Banner. > elgnty, ought to be put to
) death by Freemen.
The Generals of the People will be distin
guished by three, coloured ribbons, floating
visibly round their hats^.
To have the gates and the river well guard
• ed ; and not to fuifer any person whatever to
> depart the city without a formal and special
order from the Committee of Infurrertion.—
Conveyers of provisions are to be proterted.
To Seize the Directory and the two Coun
cils, and judge them cn the Ipot.
To take polleffion of the National- Treasury,
. the Mint, the Poil-Otfice, and all public or
. private Magazines ot Provilions or Military
Stores.
To seize the Ministers, the General of the
Interior, tlie temporary Commandant and the
: Staff.
To kill on the spot every Dirertor, Achnin
irtmtor, Deputy, Judge, Officer or Public
Functionary whatever, vim mav come forward
to give orders, or to exercise any authority.
1 o arr.-ft every Deputy or Dirertor, who
ratty appear in the rtreets, and to conduct him
to his poll for immediate trial.
To exterminate all oppofers ; alfothofe who
might beat the General: as this is a Government
’ call, tire People (hall not use it—only the toefin
and trumpets.
To exterminate also rvriv President, Secre
tary, Commandants of the Armed Force of the
Conspirators of Vendcmaire, who in like man
ner may be found in tlie rtreets.
All other exterminations shall be made
known by new orders.
(Certified to be a true Copy.)
[SrgnedJ The Minister of Police,
CQCHON.
The Late Ctfpiracy.
Drouzt has addrefied a publication to the
Legifl.itivr Body, which is attacked by the Edi
tor of L'Eclair, who wishes that no lenity
whatever flionld be fbewn to the authors or
accomplices of a conspiracy, direrted, not only
against all property, hut againftall government
and social order ; which in its fyccefs would
devour France firft, and ultimately all Europe
A conspiracy. the natural auxiliaries of which
are all the patholls of ignorant men, the cupidi
ty of the indigent, and their unextinguifhabic
hatred to all who possess at present the favors
of fortune, or the fruits of their own industry.
Barotuf. he fays, wants no more for the com
pletion of iiis designs than the power of pub
licly addrelling himfelf to the paihons of the
multitude ; and as to Drouet, he refers for
his principles and views to the publication al
luded to.
Dkoust, in his Memoire, betrays that his
head is Idled with rhe writings of Roumeau,
M.vblv, and Ravnal, and urofelfes himfelf
to have been, from the age of lb, an cntliufiaftic
lover of liberty and equality.
He dates, that on the 21st Floreal, at 11
o’clock in the morning, he was arrcftcd, with
five others, of whom he names only Rico as,
Laignelot and Darthes,ina house where
they were at breakfart. for the purpose of con
ceiting a denuiiciation against the Direc
tory.
“ What was my furprize (he fays) in emer
’ ging from my captivity, and arriving on tlie
frontiers of France, to behold the new order of
things which was eftabhfhcd in my country.
Have so many facrifices been made, exclaimed
I ? Has so much blood been (lied, that we
Ihould revert tv a fyft-rm after tie model of
our moll cruel enemies ? Wc have already a
high chamber and a low one. All that is
wanting is a King, which England will, no
doubt, furnifti us with, after its own image
and likeness.
41 Such were my opinions when I arrived at
Fribourg ; but on entering France they were
confideralrty daggered, when I observed, that
the heft patriots were the firft to accept it, and.
that it teemed government was endeavoring to
raise itlrlf from the annihilation it (unk into
since the nth Thermidor. For a long time I
continued to think well of the Directory,
until I observed, that energetic Republicans
were never mentioned but with odium, and
that the moft virtuous man in the world, if he
was heard to declare in favor of liberty, was
branded as a saimllcr.
Ihe observations I made in the different
departments confirmed my inquietude in find
ing that the bias of the government v/as tow*-
aras Monarchy, or at least towards aristocracy.
1 inning myfclf unable to oppose the retro
grade march from the Revolution, I prepared
to resign, and was only waiting for the money
winch was owing to me by Government.
For thefr eight days pall I fhouid have been
upon my road, inllead of being in prison.
“ 1 and,) not pretend that I never spoke agaii.ft
the Government. On the contrary, wlien I
perceived them afting in opposition to the
public good, I always criticifed its operations.
Not Contented with speaking, I aiio wrote,
and amongst my papers will be found ninny
manuferipts to prove what I now advance.
‘‘ I have also formed plans and projects
which may not plrafe all the world. I men
tioned them to my particular friends, and
weary with hearing the complaints of the 1 Pa
triots, I spoke of them publicly. Weary of
feeing them outraged, reduced to misery, and
spit upon by those who were wallowing in the
riches of the Republic, I fcarched round for
the cause, and for the bell means to be employ
ed before the evil was at its height, and noth
ing left to zealous Republicans but despair ;
yet lam accused of conspiracy! Meconlpire !
Yes, indeed, I have sometimes conspired, hut
it was boldly, sword in hand, arui against the
enemies of the Republic.”
Drouet proceeds to take a view of the
causes of the decline of the influence of the
Patriots in the public opinion ; this he aferibes
to the number ol Egotists, who, thinking of
nothing out the security of their fortunes,
squat themselves down and wait for the. event.
On the contrary, generous fouls, impetuous
spirits and tranfetndent talents present thein
fclves boldly to the florin, direct the move
ments and fleer the helm of affairs.
But, thele. (fays he) struggling in the midst
of perils, frequently finiffi their career in the
field of combat; and when their number is
exhauiled aud their strength diminished, when
the vessel has righted and is ready to be fleered
into port—then come the swarm ot Mode res,
issuing from that nullity to which in t he cribs
they chose to be concealed, and, like ravenous
crones, fix upon the hive, drive away tlie bees
and divide the spoil.”
Such he maintains to he the situation of the
Patriots, who have little besides their merit,
and their reputation, to oppose to these op
pressors, who were glad to-nide themselves du
ring the flortn of the Revolution. Yet the
number of those Patriots he affirms to be great,
aud thinks that it they do not regain their in
fluence now they will never forego their at
tempts to regain it ; and Krance may continue
to overflow with blood tor thirty or forty years
to come, that is, tiil the present generation of
men ts utterly extinguiflicd. To remedy this
he fees but two ways.
Fuji, that the Government fhou-ld rally round
it all the true Patriots, and let them freely re
t ive the cry of “ Anjlocrates !” and “ Royahjls /”
By giving them fair play they would loon have
proofs of their energy and vigour.
His Jcccnd plan of emigration to Rome, and
I ererting there, as conquerors, the fyilern of
Jacobiniim, he acknowledges to be such as to
many may appear chimerical, but which he
would propose to be adopted, if the Patriots
ftiould fail in a decuive effort to regain their
ascendancy. He thus explains it :
” hen ariflocracy shall, more firmly, have
eilablifhed its proud dominion : when no
more fatisfaftion. or advantage can be hoped
for in France by those proferibed patriots who
produced the Revolution ; they must rife/ba/-
taneou/ly, they must take with them tlieir
moveable cflerts, provilions and arms, they
mull bear away along ivith them their wives
and their children—they niufl precipitate them
selves upon \hc frontiers of the Republic—and
abandoning a country which detefls them, they
mull pour themselves in amass like a devour
ing torrent upon those fertile lands which are
occupied by the enemies of the mother coun
try.
u It is there they may eflablifn themselves
as conquerors and as legislators. It is there
only where they may truly found the trinity
of the Democratic Creed— equality, lib
erty, and fraternity. They fhouid car
ry before them that sacred Palladium of the
sovereignty of the people, and presenting in
one hand the coufeciated code of reason, and
in the other a terrific feymetar, force the van
quished to humble themffclves belore the di
vinity ol their conquerors.
“ On quitting the foil of their country, they
Ihould shake the dull Irom their feet, never to
re-enter it again, and efface the marks of those
(hackles, which chained them under the pow
er of the Franks. And to erase that name for
ever from the vocabulary of the new colony,
they fhouid resume the name of their moft re
mote ancestors.
“ Thus it is, I desire, that the defeendants
of those Gauls, which shook the mvjcfty of the
Roman Republic within lis very walls, fhouid
hasten to avenge the rights of lovereign people,
outraged in the person of an affaffmated Am
balTauor, and eftablilh the worship of liberty
in the capital, rterted on the ruins of the throne
of fupcrllition.
“ Phis projrrt, however chimerical it may
appear, seems to me likely to conciliate the
general interefl; the Patriots will thereby be
enabled to withdraw themselves from the do
mination of their enemies, and their numbers
will guarantee their fafety in a foreign coun
try. The bulk of the nation will find itfelf
relieved from the fuperahundsnee of J turbu
lent population, which will torment it a long
time, and will be always an impediment to the
defigrs of the Aiiltouaies. The Sovereign
People, without coding them any trouble ... ,
fi..J themselves avenged for the outr.i ■- and rs
tainea at Rome, and the country will (>-*
fatisfaftion its children relieved from ti
torrents of tears it sheds on their dell,mi ‘
“These are thet projects I h . v * fe,
on which amongst my friends I often
with pleasure ; this is the whole of
piracy, and I may fay with truth, that I “a
the oVily conspirator iin
“ I his projert however, is not new. T t - v
ifts in the minds ot all the opprelfrd .
wh„ m , havnen, ,n ,Wi
and who, expertmg the arrival of ,h a . fJ'l
moment, when there shall be r.o further sass v
for them mthe country, may be forced to n J
what they call a Republican— La V (n d C! *
From Paris Parers.
Operations ol the Republican Armies on the
Rhine.
At the date of the accounts Communicated ft,
tins day s. paper, the Auilrians had been defeat
ed in two engagements on the Sic*, an j
Altenkirken; the arch-duke Charles n folvJ
•to fall back behind the river Mvin. and
don a 1 the north of Germany to the v irtoriou,
republicans ; tre f.orirefs of Ehrenbreitflen, has
a,ready been lurroundcd, and Nfayence : . s , 0 j
as b’oc.kaded. All this was effefted by fittj ■
more than two thirds of th? left win-’ of I
dan’s army, that is. by the troops polled
E 1 be r fie Id to the mouth of the Win per
from Cologne to Coblcntz. ‘ ’” 1
As general Kleber advances towards the
r'ver Mein, the republican tipops ituioned on
the left bank of thy Rhine, w ill cross the latter
river, and follow the virtorious advanced “.mar,!
into the heart of the German cmpftf
3000 men quaitered between Cologne Ja
Cob lent/, had already crofted the Rhine at
Bonne and’ Nieuwiccl'; the ;jo,oco republic
poftfd between Coblentzand Bmgen will I, ‘
crofted the Rhine at Caub, Iwwcen Biiwen
and Rimefeb ; 1 lie greatest part of tj, e C nrrc
of the republican army, compel-d of 00.000
men, and led on by jiourdan and M'.raau
will follow the fame road; the intrepid Mo
rcau. at the head of 80. COO men, will f„ rtT th
paffage of the Rhine, above Manheim, near
Keltffi. and by this nianatuvre he will briir’
the Auilrians between two fires. The rrpub
lican army assembled in the vicinity of H ftie
will attempt to invade Suabia, by croflinsTtiie
Rh.ine under cannon of the forirefs of Hun
liingucn; and the important result of ail these
operations will be peace with the German em
pire and the emperor, on the term 1 ; dictated bv
the Ff’ench republic.
TREASURY DE PAR f MENT,
J/v 1 gth 179 ft.
(CIRC U L 1 R. )
To the Collectors of the Customs,
SIR,
THE. endofed aP. for the relief and protefiion c
American femnen, puffed at the lajt Jtffion of cot..
grefs, hiving neither if art lined what proof c f
citizen/hip fliall he m. an\ case dennedfuff.cient, nor
how such proof shall be authenticated . to author ife a
delivery of the certificate of citizen/kip. in that a A
preferibed ; the president of the Crated States has
thought tt expedient, to tfiS end. that there maybe
an easy, certain and uniform mode of executive the
law in theft particulars, to give fount general' tn
ffruchovs upon the fubjccf. ivhich lam by him di
rected to communicate to all the collectors, for their
rule and government. They are as follows. Per
fins of the following deferipticn. arc to he regijlered
and furnif/ied with certificates of citic.enfh ‘p.
if. Free white persons born zvithiv. the limits of
the United States, or any of them, and free write
persons horn in arty foreign country, bur. aclu.'Uy
fettled within the Emits of the Un ted V <tes on the
third day of September, in the year one thoufani
/even hundred ,and eighty-three.
id. Persons not trail.:.” i purfuint to the laws of
any of the United States, prior to the twenty-ninth
day of] aviary in the year one thoufmdfeven hun
dred and ninety-five.
■]d. Persons natur/ili ledpurfuavt to flic laws of
the United States, pajfed on the twenty-ffstk di\ >f
March, in the year one thoufu.d seven hundred and
ninety, while, it was in force.
4 ,1 r Persons naturalized purfuavt to the law of
the Unit’d Stites. pajfed on the twenty-ninth dn
of January, n the year one thoufandfeven hu.ndr(i
and nirety-fve. ,
ijh. Children of citizens of the Un’ted States, or
ar y one of than, born at dr.y place oat of the limits
oj the Unit'd ‘'fates.
Uh. Chi! Iren of naturalized citizens, dwelling
in the United States, and under twenty-one years of
age at the time officii naturalization.
Proof of atieerjlii*} in the fevered cases before
mevtioned, to be produced to the collectors r effec
tively, prior to their issuing certificates of citizen
ship. are to be of the kind, and to he authenticates
as follows :
\[i. Every person claiming citizenship, as all a
t've of the United States, is to produce an extract
from the register of births or baptifns. where such.
is kept, in the civil or religious fncicts, to which
the applicant belongs, certified by the proper officer
of fuck society, in the usual manner, andfupportd
by the off davit of at lej.fl one credible witnef, tef-
Ufying that the. applicant was born within the lim
its of the United States. and deferibirg the county
andflate in which he was born.
id. Every person claiming citizen /hip. ly virtue
of an actual jettlcment within the United States, on
the third day of September , in the year one ‘f rd
feben hundred and eighty-three, shall prod<o t the
affidavit of at least one credible witnef, tefhfv n f
that the applicant was actually fettled within the
United States, on the third day of Sept, ruber, “■
the year one thousand fevtn hundred and cf'/
three, and defenbing the town or county, anijtcte
in wlon h he teas then fettle and.
3 d In'cafes where citizenfh Pis claimed b\ v’c
tue of any naturalization, pursuant to the laws f
any one of the United States , prior to the t venty
vinth day oj January, m the year one thousand fit*
hundred and ninety-five, orpurfitar.t totht laws T
the Uwted States, the fame ffi.i/Phe proiid by a topy
of the law or record, (as the case maybe) certfc*
xnder the hand of the proper Off er ;an and t,T
of a record of a court, it is to be authenticated
under the seal of the Court , if anyfeai is use I.
4 th. In cases were citizenship is claimed by per
sons as being child)cn of citizen oj the L rated
States , or any oj them, born out of the limits of the
United States, the citizenship of the parent undj “i
whom the applicants claim , shall bes roi ed as b. (
prefenbed, in like manner as if the citiz’if’.pj
was claimed by the parents them fives', md further. l
‘t fnuji b; preyed i, th: offi.it'* of at 1
fro* 51.
