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MUSES’ RETREAT. ——<ss-o o m> ODE TO PEACE. lU-ftr .’ “ ‘ * ‘ Conic, peace of mind, delightful £ueft! Return, and make thy downy nest Once more in this fad heart : Nor riches I, nor pow’r pursue, Nor hold forbidden joys in view, We therefore need not part. Where wilt th n u dwell, if not with me, From av’rice and ambition free, And plcafure’s fatal wiles ; For whom, alas! do ft thou prepare The sweets that I was wont to fliare, The banquet of thy fmilcs ? The great, the gay, fliall they partake The licav’n alone that thou canst make, And wilt thou quit the ftieaiu That murmurs through the dewy mead, The grove and the fcquefter’d fired, To be a giieft with them ? For thee I panted, thee 1 priz’d, For thee f gladly facrific’d *Whate’er I lov’d before J And fliall I fee thee flart away, And helpless, hopclcfa, hear thee fay— “ Farewel, we meet no more !” o<m o EPIGRAM. You fay, you nothing owe; and so T fay; lie* only owes, who fumething has to pay. NATIONAL CONTENTION. September io. Duhem announced, that a column of the republican army had penetrated to \ pres : “ Behold, we are again in the Belgic provinces,” he exclaimed, “ but we have not yet eltablilhed our selves in the poffeflion of them in such a manner as to plant the tree of liberty. 1 —Our philanthropy lart year colt us twelve thousand men. In future, the re fore, instead of attaching any conquered, provinces to Fiance, would it not be r more prudent to make them furnifh us with provifiotis and llotes, and conduit [j feme of the Belgic faints to Paris ?” “ Certainly,” re-echoed the assem bly, with much applause. The propofitiim was immediately sent to the committee of public fafetv. September 15. Barrere afeended the tribune—“ It was the project of your committee to make a general report refpeiling the a£lual flute of the armies of the repub lic. Your eagerness erodes our inten tions, and we can only furnifh you with results.”. [ Here Barrera read several drfpatches, of which the following is the sub- J. fiance : The flrff dispatch, dated from the ; head-quarters at La Pape, September ! 10, conveyed the following infoima ; (ion on the part of the representatives of the people With the army before j Lyons—th t nothing of importance | occtircd during the Bth, 9th,and loth ; that in the evening of the loth, the : lines of attack were drawn, when the 1: arrival of the mortars, bomb?, and cannon destined to set lire to the centre of Lyons, was expedit’d ; they date, | that the precaution of the Lyonefe had 1 been such, that that city could not bo j, set on fire, notwithstanding 500 bombs and 100,000 red hot balls which had been thrown into it. “ We have caused fome comburti l bles (added the representatives) to be r got ready to blow up the bridge of $ Moran.—But as hazard wotdd have 1 It, the Lyonefe found means to blow ,r up the combustibles, which’were ap | proaching the bridge on a raft, by dif | charging a lingle mufquet. “ We expeit ammunition and men, liftnd with a reinforcement of 60,000 ■l “nen we fliall soon reduce that rebelli- I ous and oblfinate city.” 1 hey termi- Inate their letter by announcing the cap * ure of St. Etienne and Mont Brilfon ; rebels of this latter place have re- to Lyons. Letter from general LeClerc, to gene ral Carrion. Bergues, September ro, 1793 Every thing goes on well. Waggon loads of ammunition and priToners are constantly arriving. Ihe Fleflfans of Languedoc and CaiTel are posted on my right. The enemy’s cavalry are thrown into perfect disorder. We are informed, that the enemy at the camp of Alfrcnous abandoned four teen 24 pounders, and a quantity of forage ; they know not where to fly ; they are panic struck. Long live the republic. Good news, prisoners, and deserters arrive every moment. We expeit many more. A reinforcement of ten lhoufand men is instantly expected. We are preparing for the immediate pnrfiiit of this band of cannibals. Every body is in raptures of joy at the repulfc of the enemy. Tranquility is restored. LE C LERC. Copy of a letter from the procurator genera! of the department of the Pyrennes East, to the committee of public fafety, dated September the Bth, 1793. The intelligence which I announced in mv letter of the 3 1 ft of Angnft, is true. The brave republican army, commanded by citizen Dagobert, has driven the Spaniards from Cerdagne The tree of liberty has beer, planted with foktrinity in the capital of Pieu Cerda. The municipalities are re eftablifhcd, and Caffanyes, the national reprefentativc, who participated in ail the dangers of the campa : gn, has driven the eledlric fiiock of freedom to every department: he has obliged them to acknowledge the bleflings of liberty and equality. This is the eternal balls of our holy constitution : personal free dom. The security of property lias been refpe&ed in every instance by our victorious army : and whilrtthe Spanilh robbers have marked their path by fire and sword, we have paid minute atten tion to preserve the intcrcils of the con quered. This country alone is able to iurnHh 4.0,000 bushels of grain. We (hall pay them in affignats. It will serve a double purpose. The in habitants will be accuftumed to the money of the republic, and we Hr all eflablifh excellent magazines for the winter fubfifience of the army. Perpignan is not inverted. The enemy have their patiolcs within a league of the place, but they have not taken any fixed position. Sh uid they attempt to cut oft our communications, we are determined .to push bayonets with them. The soldier and the citizen cannothefuate which to prefer, whether death or slavery. But weougfit not to omit that Spain has 20,cc0 troops, which are ready for different services ; (fome fay 40 000) and we have fufficiert to garrison the citadel, and defend the city, in case that Perpignan should be belieged. LUCIA. September 16. The adminiflrators of the depart ment of La Manche informed the con vention, that the department contained several strong cartles belonging to aris tocrats. In one of them were difeo vered ileep caves, where several fiif pedted persons were found.—lt was decreed, that the committee of public fafety should adopt proper measures on tire fubje<*L September 25. A letter was read from the commis sioner Dalbert, w ith the army of the Alps, Rating, that the Piedmontefe army made a general movement on the 7th, to attack the French at Santofca ; and on the 9th, the Sardinian king went to Saergioj to harangue his troops —he displayed his eloquence in a pom pous dilcourie ; the fubjecl was the miracle of the SemfiiJJtmaMddona (Vir gin Mary), who on the Bth of Septem ber, 1707, saved Turin from the at tack ot the French ; he did not forget to. bring, with him the relicks of the bones ot all the faints who protedl his kingdom ; especially the fliirt of St. Segond, which has priferved its white ness, unsullied, for so many centuries —the holy cloth of St. Suare, which was sent to him from heaven, through the milky way. In fine, the deluded Piedmontefe, who had, perhaps, fome mifereants among them, thinking to run to certain victory, met the French bayonets, which proved to them, that the Madina, tired of supporting the cause of tyrants, had taken the part of the republicans. They left 1200 dead and wounded on the spot, and as many were taken prisoners, who heartily cursed the author of so unfortunate a delusion. Merlin read the following letters from the head quarters at Mortagne, dated September 11 : “ Hitherto we have experienced a . rapid fucceflion of vidories ; but the advanced guard of the army at Mentz has received a check. Hie enemy have made an attack between ClilTon and Mortagne ; our advanced troops were lurrounded by a number infinitely superior ; they were obliged to retreat with the loss of their cannon. The general has been beat at Clinon ; the troops immediately marched, and de feated the enemy, but were not able to regain their cannon.” Another letter from general Kleber, of the fame elate, confirms this unfor tunate intelligence : it announces that the flying artillery of the advanced guard of Mayence has been totally de feated. 1 Roflignol refilled to concur in the plan of operation, and to order his army to march. The troops, after having gained seven leagues of ground, were forced to retreat by order of Rof fjgool. The mod violent indignation was exprelled at the relation ol this intelli gence. September 26. St. Andre, in the name cf the com mittee of public welfare, addrefled the convention : “ Ci izens, you have been indignant at hearing of the horrible treason of the Toulonele; you will net be less so when you hear how theEr.g’ilh concluflt themfeTVcs in that city. The news which the committee has just received, will make known to you the real cha racter of the Englilh, who dare to as sume the title of philosophers. What follows is written from Mar fcilles, by an agent of the committee of public welfare, dated September 18 : “ The Englilh and the Spaniards, to the number of 5000, occupy the forts and the advanced ports ; the interior guard of the city is confined to the in habitants. There is in the city a mi litary tribunal, compdfed of English and Spaniards. This tribunal plunges the patriots into dungeons, and after wards embarks them, we know not for what deflination. We reckon the number of these vi&ims at 800.— Pierre Bailey, reprefentativc of the peo ple, has been found strangled in his prison ; we know not whether he bps killed Jhimfelf, or has been facrificedby the monsters who confined him. Flis colleague, Beauvais, lives in the midlt ot alarms; he is every inrtant threat ened with death. “ Fhe Engliflt are flill masters of Toulon, but the people shew ligns of difeontent; the corps of teamen have formed themselves into a battalion, and are ready to fall upon the English. Trogolf and Ruiffaht are {fill at the head of the feCfions. One of the mo tives which contributed to the delivery of the port of I ouion to the enemy, was*the preference the workmen gave to money over aflignats.” The fame citizen writes on.the 19th, •“ The fame intereffed motive may restore Toulon tethe republic, for the workmen begin to ask, Who will pay us at the end of the month ? We have been allured that all the trade of Toulon has been disembarked, and that they disarmed the Juno fr gate, in order to augment the artillery. Delaunay. “ I demand that ihe committee of public welfare do make a report concerning the war in La Vendee. If they Jo not speak out, we will do it,and fay, that the two columns commanded by Roflignol, have been wafled ; one on the 171 b, theotherthe 19th.” Ordered, “ that before the end of the fitting the above committee should give in thedefired report.” September 27. A secretary read the following letter from the representatives of the people with the army of the north, dated Lille, September 26, 1793 : “ Citizen colleagues, one of the ad vanced ports of the enemy was this morning carried by our troops. They took 55 prisoners, of whom two were dliceis. “ The commirtioners, in a second ’otter, add, (hat a confpiracv, which was set on foot to deliver up the town and port of Argcntierres, wasdifeovered Oy a note found upon an officer, in one of the late affairs. The criminals were arrested, and twelve of them de livered upto the revolutionary tribunal; the others, less culpable, were detained till further orders. Signed Le Gassmur, Bentabole.” Barrere read the dispatches received by the committee of public welfare. The fir ft confuted of a letter from Marseilles, dated September 18. It announced, that the neighbouring de partments rife in amass ; that the sup plies of provision for Marseilles were iirnilhcd according to the requisitions; rnd two members of the central com mittee of that place had been guillotin ed ; that suspicious persons were ar retted every where ; that 30SO Mar feillois, and fome companies of can noneers, had joined the army of Car teaux ; and that Olioulles, whose inhabitants had fired upon the patriotic army, had been pillaged. A letter informed, that the republi cans of the environs of Perpignan, had marched, to the number of 60,000 men agairift the Spanilh Haves. Caifeny, representative of the people with the army of Perpignan, gave 2 farther detail of the vidtory gained over he Spaniards on the 17th of September. A deputation Irom Bourdeaux came to announce, to th: convenf?— -u .—jl inhabitants of that city had risen, and the republicans were every where tri umphant. They also Hated, that all the conspirators had been put under arrert. Another letter announced that, on the 19th, the attack upon Toulon had commenced. “ The English,” laid Barrere, “ are not in force at Toulon ; the majority of the inhabitants are dis contented ; and the English themselves treat them with the mod sovereign contempt, as the vile inrtrumebts of treason, by which Toulon lias been delivered into their hands. “ They have made a sortie, which has proved very unlucky to them : they will not so soon attempt to return to ‘he charge. ihe national guards of i ouion have received the reward due to traitors. Our batteries have funk a Genoefe veflel, and an Engliflt frigate: their baking houfc has been set on fire ; and a tartane has just been flopped at Marseilles, crammed with counter revolutionirts.” Gambon—“ I have excellent news to bring you. I think it proper to ac quaint you with the refuit of a decree which you iflued three days ago. You ordained the deposits of money left in the different offices of consignment, to he poured into the national coffer with three keys. Yerterday an im mense crowd came to the national trea sury. ihe receiver of conlignments brought 12,000,000 which were in his chert. A notary brought a payment in part of 200,000 livres. Paris alone will furnifh upwards of 120.000,000, which will soon circulate in the national coffer.” Briffot was again denounced by those colonists who have taken refuge in Fiance. He and his adherents, fay they, have reduced St. Domingo to its present deplorable filuation. He by his falfe philosophy induced the blacks to revolt ; he provoked the plots and manoeuvres of the royaliffs ; and, by his eulogiums on Blanchard, fereeneti the crimes of that confpiralor.