North Carolina Gazette

              n o r t h-c arolinagazette vol xi saturday november 12 1796 no 565.3 this day s publfihrd jndfir sale at the printing-office ' t t h e north-carolina on the houfes and ftaus under pretext of hav ing dilcovercd a revolutionary plot and of the nece'ility of difcovering and feizing the ac complices when their phalanxes became fufficicntly ftrong they would have put the direclory and thole deputies who are obnoxious to them to the fword and in the midlt of the general confulion they « ould have proclaimed the a narchial code of 1793 though they have only half fucceeded they will hope nevertheless that they have perluadcd government that the royalilts have attempted the grand ftrnke fo often announc ed by louvet poultier u jturml its hom ines librcs and that nothing remains but to deliver itlelf up anew to the terrorifts but every thing has failed and ended in a pitiable farce btcaui'e theie was neither unanimity nor concert among the conipir^tors and co chon the ininilter of jiolice had pi ctrous in formation of what was to happen the white colours have been planted but fonie of thole who planted them have been feized and they turn out to be certain mem bers very we 1 known belonging to he re volutionary committees panegyrilts of ba ba uf and of drcuct and louic new friends of louvet with joy and proclaiming rhe neceflity of a new revoltttiou and of a purgation of the councils 1 hey cannot even themielves pre tend afcer proofs the molt cenvincing that have been adduced that it was not the jaco bins who have played this trick lull nijjht which they alcribe to the royalifts in order to cover thofe real confpiracies which the 1 erro ifts are every day fonicutingagaiuft the conititution and the public tranquility in hue the partisans of a new infurrefti on do not coniider themfelves as beaten 1 hey have fworn that before the expirati on of hfteen days they will diccover at leait two or three royalift confpiracies in ordei to withdraw the attention and indignation of the public from babotuf and his accompli ces almanack for the ye-r of our lord 1797 a tld of a m ». r 1 c a n i n d e p e s d e n c fc , - x x i , - x x 1 1 , being the lit after lkai year calculated lor the meridian of ralkigh 35 deg j4 min north latt 3 deg 36 min long tude weil from philadel phia . c o n tent s chronological cycles solar and lunar eclipfesj cilendar remark-iule days and alpeft of the weather riling and letting of the fun phafes rifing iouihing letting age and place of ilie moon setting of courts caules ofacountry's growing rich receipt for preserving turnips lrom infedls to preferve butter i'*eet the whole year 1 , for bitters to prevent the fever and ague cure for froit bites a method for prefer ving meet frclh for whole havre auguft 29 yefterday evening arrived in this harbour an englilh hip the uxbridge with a hag of truce ; lie has on board feveral cafes con taining different objects of naturul hiftory coliejled by d'emrecafleaux during his voyage it will be recollected that this ex pedition the object of which was to obtain information refpecying the fate of m de la peyroufe fuppofed to be lolt in the eaftern ieas has afforded proof of his clifcoveries having become the prey of the enemy r'itreen mon hs ago they were fent to eng land but upon application from our go vernment great-britain has confented to the return of this the common property o all polilhed nations squibs and crackers have been fired on fe veral quarters but no pcrfon is alarmed one of tiie confpirators was killed who was a veil known terrorift cthersof the fame defcription are wounded i he tninifter of police knows the name of the terrorift who engraved/zatf-j dt lys upon the white colours i hey have found in the poffefilon of another a manifefto figned by a pretended marquis de kiinberg declaring that all the republicans and all thole who vu ted for the death of the king ft.ould be maf facred years together female heroiibi anecdotes poetry character of 5>t tamnnny the way to grow thin the way to grow rich coins of the united states as eftab'ifhed by b e l t a s t scptenfar 16 law a table fiiewing the value of foreign gold coin in federal arul ltate currency a table fiiewing the value of cents in ftatc this morning pfefented a very unufual appearance in this town a large body of cavalry appeared in arms the artillery pa raded and there was every appearance of war — several great people came to town i\.r john pollock attorney a tended by lord downshirk lord vv'estmeat i lord castlekeagh c detached guards were rationed in feveral parts of the town and feveral of the inhabitants were arreited under warrants ilgned bv mr julticc bo d now refident as we underitand in dublin l\;r sampson's houfe in particular was be i'et with foldiers and fearched by virtue of i warrant to apprehend mr samukl nart son for high treafon who was at the lame moment walking publicly on change this fearch was made by the earl of westmeat h accompanied by captain coulston of the artillery and a large armed guard of horic and foot mr sampson allured thefe gen tlemen that mr nf.ilson had been but a few minutes before sit his houfe where he had always been a welcome gueft and had left it fo lately that he was furprifed they had not mec him on the way mr sampson laid that his w.fe had lain in fome days be fore and might be alarmed by fuch an ap pearance lord westmkath made the u fual apologies and fearched every room clo let pantry c in the houfe and amongft the relt fearched that of mrs sampson altho mr sampson jocularly allured him he was not as fome ladies are in the habit of privately harbouring gentlemen some time after his departure he return ed to fearch the hay-loft and fome other pre mifles which we hall not name mr samp son offered to open the the band-boxes — but that was politely refuted on the part of the noble lord ; upon which mr s/.mpsonaf fured him th.it lie muft have had very ignorant advifers fefpecting houfes ard pcr lons in belfaft when he was directed to look either for any concealment in his houle or what is more when he fuppofed that mr nkii.son whnwas an honcit and an lioi.or able man would be found concealed in any place accordingly when the guard was removed from the door he went on the currency a table of intereft at 6 per cent ihe jacobins after the victory ou^ht to fliew this manifefto in order to make it be believed thut they had reafon to affafiinate their adverfaries in fine every thing is quiet and tranquil thanks to the vigilance of theininirler of police and to the bud ad drels of the confpirators who are about four hundred in number 1 his farce tends com pletely io untnaik the jacobins and to fill up the rneafiire of their audacity therooment was not ill thofen on the night betveer the icth and 1 ith eabaut and lbme of than fet ofi for vendonic in ltrong carriages 1 hey would have refcucd them on the jour ney — the reft of the culprits muit be taken there to night 1 hey have fpared them the fatigues of the journey lomet certainly meant to prepare the pub lic mind yctterday fcr a royaliit plot by his grand declamation againil tliecheuans in the council of five hundred ; but in the fright at what has palled he has all on a fudden loit the power both oi fpeaking and thinking ; he has ituttcrcd and remained dumb 1 he reft of the terrorift journals have not been fo prudent b'ome days ago their fury was directed againftcochon lh y con fidently predicted a commotion which was to happen and which they called royal ifm un der the colour of anarchy ; but this was on ly preparing a fubterfuge for themf'elves in cafe the attcu.pt failed oiluccelv 1 lie com motion ot that n;ght to i'peak like louvet has been tei rorilin under the colour of roya liiir it i.s clearly announced this morning in the journal des kommes libres it is there laid m advice to the people that all the fignals are rendy louvet tells his friends alib in the sentkiche that there are emigrants in paris sic ppultier declared ionic days a go that there would be a change j that the chouan majority in the councils would not la(t ; that the d rectory would again become terrorifts price one shilling stores will be fupplied at the rite of fix hillings ppr do/.en thirty-two hillings and fix-pence per hulf-grofs and three pounds per grofs orders from the country by port or other wife will be attended to . paris september 13 the conspiracy from pc/li's journal * i i : e night before bit was devoted by 1 the terror jfvs to the moft horrible con fi v r;!ciet t-oiue time ago their friends and their accomplices made preparations for fecu ring the fuccei's of tie r infer nalfdiemes by iiice.tantlv accusing of royalifm and chou m ifm the wifefl repiel'.ntativesj of the people the new deputies and a multitude of good citizen ode-voted to the comtitiuion of .' 79s — they pretended to think v'i:it the republic was i;i danger and betrayed by thofe whofe duty it was to dcfer.d it i hey endea\'oured to divert the public indignation from the crimes of baboci'f ofdroet ar.id*ll the fuc ceirors ol robefp'u rre but the viflory was flow and they attempted the night before lalt to accelerate its arrival favoi*ed by the ilarknefs of the night they planted at the gates of alinofl all the new nninidpalities white colour whhfleurs tk lys ami an in/cription long liv louis x iii 11 the citizens trc commanded to wear the ivuite cockade ; kuth to the republicans in the ii-ean while many of them ran through the ftrects crying vive 1 roi in feveral quarters they diltnbuted v.iiitc cockades let oifcrackcrs and endeavored to w-ad con llcrnation their object was obvious • it was to feat ter alarm throughout paris to terrify the pood citizens ; to colleft round them all the thieves ui the project ofglumlexy to fall ud one tnnnot hut perceive the difmay and embarr ailment ol the apologifts and friends of ljjlxcuf who eight days a^o were exulting