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" Republicans, the signal has beenjgiven — the moments are precious, and 

 ecisive measures are necefsary. Let us march — let thelaw enter Paris a- 

 ang with us ; and if you are not acquainted with the roads to it, follow the 

 races of the blood of your brethren ; they will conduct you to the bottom 

 if its walls, from which have proceeded those murderous scourges ; the san- 

 uinary plots and destructive manoeuvres — the sources of all our misery. 



" There you will restore liberty to good citizen^, and dignity to the na- 

 ional represention. The villains will disappear, and the Republic will 

 e saved. 



" Deliberated in the General Committee of the thirty-two sections of 

 Marseilles, June 12. 1793, the 2d year of the French Republic. 

 (Signed) Peloux, President, 



Castellanet and Pinatel Secretaries." 

 On the 16th, all the admmstrative bodies took an oath exprefslve of the 

 ntiments contained in this manii'esto. 



DuMOURiER exhibits at present a singular appearance in Europe : after 

 laving, in common with other patriotic adventurers, amafsed, during his ad- 

 ministration as a minister, and his operations as a general, a sum of money, 

 amounting by report, to more than three hundred thousand pounds, which 

 be took care to secure in the funds of foreign countries, where the govern- 

 ment is more stable than in France; finding there was a chance that he 

 might be made to submit to the fafhionable operation of theguilottine, which 

 he did not at all relifh, thought it prudent to take himself away bofore he 

 was subjected to that operation ; and wiftiing to conciliate the favour of 

 those he had formerly oftended, he, with that pliable morality which seems 

 to be so weilsuited to the French principle, endeavoured to effect a revo- 

 lution in favour of those who were lighting against his country. But ha- 

 ving failed in this respect, he now wanders literally a vagabound througball 

 the countries in Europe, in none of which he has yet been able to find a rest- 

 ing place. He has tried the Netherlands, several parts of Germany, Switzer- 

 land, England, the Netherlands again, in which he was reported o have 

 been arrested : but this information,as appears by a letter from the Elector of 

 Cologne, seems to have been unfounded. Where he will now direct his course it 

 is difficult to say. There is little probability that the American States, were 

 he to go thither, would receive him ; neither Sweden nor Denmark, it is 

 probable, would choose to afford him Ihelter : The Emprefs of Rufsia would 

 not probably like to admit such a troublesome inmate into her dominions ; 

 the bow string is such a well known means of recovering ill gotten gear in 

 Constantinople, that he would not probably like to trust himself there'; and 

 the jealousy of the Venetian Nobles against the intrigues of a man of so 

 much activity, with such ^.command of money, would probably render his 

 abode in the Venetian State by no means agreeable. Which way there- 

 fore he will turn himself, it is difficult to say, so that it will be a matter 

 of some curiosity to trace his steps in future. Britain has hitherto been 

 ready to open her arms to receive monied men, without being very scru- 

 pulously inquisitive into the mode by which they have acquired that wealth. 

 U these men have been able to satisfy their own consciences as to the mat- 

 ter, and willing to communicate a reasonable fliare of that wealth to their 

 partizans, the businefs has been managed tolerably v*elL Are wc from 

 the case of Dumourier to conclude that the morality of the age is improving, 

 or to what other cause are we to ascribe this singular phenomenon ? This 

 is a question for the philosophers to solve. 



CusTlME seems to be in the fair way of either becoming fhorter by nine 

 or ten inches crc long, 01 of follow ingtht csaaiplc cf hisv.orthy prcdccefsot. 



