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202 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.