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' , RANCE. PARIS. MARCII 16. When a quarrel or a law fuit tJes place be tween two neighboursit is not unufnal to fce form grind natured creatures take upon themfelves the charitable tail: of keepin alive the caw if theii dilagreemelit. They foci elisely calumniate both parties, they exaggerate their wrongs, e,:afperate their refentment, while they lindionlly flak what is true, and put fo7ward hat k COL, eel then, with unbluthing effrontery, hold out the leiud tot the wages of their perfidious rn:einaels. Should thnfe hottile neighboers appear aretinik to conic to an agreement, thould they, front tharnt et being unjult to each other, or from experien cing the folly of their animofitv, or (runt the con ceit-minds of the propriety of hying together on amicable tams, teem to proje& a reconciliation, then our chi - cord-rowers anxioufly redouble their malevolent exertions, and multiply their fpiteful and groundlels inveElives ; they never, indeed, Lai truth on their tide, but they do not even affea an air of probability. Under the dread winch they feel lelt a good undertlanding thould be re eitahlithed, they labour, by more an:vely diffemi nating their calamnies, to retard what they de. f r ail' of being able ultimately to fruftrate, and, like the tick felon condemned to death, who was eager to make the bell of his rern.,ining life, they haiten to add lie to lie, and injury to injury. Such is the part which for borne time back has been played by many of the Englith newfpapers. Nothing can equal the abfurdity of the French news which they bet afloat, or the falfehood of the fads which they publith, except the groffnefs of the in vectives that accompany their narrative. ' To to fhamtful an excefs do they carry this lettem that, to repeat what they venni' e to a(Lrt is fainici‘mt to punith them ; to copy them is fanicient to re fute them. They are not unlike thofe perfons who hawk ludicrous and gioo.:que : to thew them is enough to excite the di;g•itt and ridicule they folicit. When a part of the debt, which was to be con follAated only at the period of peace, has already beer, inictibed on the great boo!:, thee feribblers ailirm that it is in order to delay the payment of it that the negociations ale !pun out to loch a length. When the whole of France pants for nothing more than the cunfolidation of the relent order of things, and manifelis this with is every potiible way, they afthrn that not an individual is fatistied witii it. Btitil ERE tliey transform into a Secretary of Le. Ration; cIyINETTE, into a M.vor;'YHAurt- RIVE, into an Under Secretary or S -ate; Duvac, into a Jacobin ; vhile ti el erccct Tnus MST Louveß r vat; into a preacher, a ttatcfrnan, a fahlt, a martyr, or a rebel. _ _ _ While the Englifn who refide at Pali, eagerly folicit for themfelves and their wives th.e hononr Of being admitted into the ;twit!) , of this capital, the Englifh papers contain letters, reprefenting this focicty as compofed of and barba rians, of adventurers and rolkers, of vomen without honour, chattity, and even without com mon decency. According to them the Patriatc. that is to fast thole who are not Royalias, Men of Letters, and thole who excel in the Arts, are not admitted to the entertainments given by the hankers, ss:li:e it is well known that thole who formerly had titles, aad were Lwow ers of Monarchy, though not ex- CilltiCd, ale the petions found aloft rarely in thefe parties. They bellow upon a Prince of the Houle of Orange the office of Firit Magiltrate of Holland, and the Crown of France upon a Bourbon, al thouli the Houfe of Orange, from a principle of hotn,to , renounces the Stadtholderate, As the Bour bons do the Throne, from imbccili. They pi etcnd that all the ancient Nobilit7 re ceive their titles, whilft they only receive them from their footmen, or, like the Preemafons, are thus known only with one another. They make the inhabitants of Amiens call out rye 4 Roy, who, like other Frenchmen, relpe& nations in their Monarchs, but have no defire to live under Monarchy themfelves. They make Jost r H 114)N•PARTE come to Paris, who never quitted the department of the Somme ; and a packet boat be prepared for Marquis CORN. watt's, who has never had any thoughts of re• turning to London before the ftgnature of the Treaty. One day they fagely compare the French to the llufeovites under Pavia I. and BONAPARTS to CHARLEMAONE. The next, they difpatch &NA PARTE for the Italian Republic, and place the French in a hate of infuriation againft the Go vernment. They march General Ilsa-rtitta to Rome, and lay nitt this city as the capital of the Italian Re public. They then fend the POPL to Malta, and appoint Lim Grand Mailer of the Order of St. J&.hn of Jet uf►lem. The re - saw/al from the capital of two meddling old women and A few turbulent ni?n, all of whom were emigrants, is tratisform:ki into the arreft and impritimment of go perfons. CAMILLE Joau...a, happy in the hot - 0m of his Grail y at Lyons, where theCitz sr Cessui received him with great dininaion ; imBEIT coiomis at Bareuth ; and Duval., living with his family, are, by a decree of the Tun:, plunged into the fame dungeon at Paris. PI uffia, Aulria, and .Reffia, are about to re. man(rate amainil the refult of the Confulta afLy ons, and tllt- organifatiori of the Italian Republic. The work of the Confulta is about to rekindle the Continental war. But, unhappily for the Englill. prophets, on the tsth the, Marquis de LuccHISI Mt, in the name of the KING of PRUSSIA, congra tulates the CHIEr CONSUL upon this refult ; on tht tflth the Count de CORER'SEEL announces to thy CNIRT CONS!'L that the EMPEROr is difpofcd tr• receive Minitiers Plenipotentiary from the ilatavian. Helvetic, and Italian kepublics, and to fend the,- P.ii:ts.atrad,.rs of the f..me rank, adding, that h. Maje.ty the Emperor had Peen ith great ;atm. the organifatinn of the Itaiian IL public. Final!) the Coulit dC Matavrt, conmuuicatcc, to his Court the retoliaions taken at Lyons, has received by the return of the courier, his creden tials to the Confular Government. • It is enough hardy to mention fuch ahfurdities and follies. Thefe vain clamours diminifh not the glory of the French, the power of the Republic, the liability of the Government ; they will not prevent the concluficn of peace; but they cherifh in both nations f.tlfe fentiments, unjnf prejudices, and monltrous antipathies. They propagate ill will, they awaken recollastions which ought to he forgotten, and they exafperate againft each other two nations who might glorioufly command the repofe of the wqrld.—Mouimir. k OPPOSITION IN INCILAND. The circtimnance of a double oppofition in Eng land is highly worthy of obfervation. The old ()mention, founded on the rational and philofo phical principles of the Whigs, and the partizans of the old Minidry of Great Britain, men animated by the principles of the new fyllem of oppofition, and actuated by the fentiments of the former Mi nitters of the country. It is inapollible to allude to the deli:ription of thole enlightened and able men who compote the &II dais, the names of Fox, Of SHERIDAN ' of ADAIR, &c. and of Lord STAN HOrr, Lord HOLLAND, and others in the other !mooch of the Legiflature, contrafted with thole Of WINONA lA, ELLIOT, and LAWRENCE, with out at the fame time perceiving that the opinions of thefe two dales are different in the molt ellen tial circumflances. The points in which they dif fer are particularly worthy of obfervation. It is not now our objed to form any ellimate of the talents or virtues of men connected with thole two kinds of oppontion, but it may be more inte reflingto appreciate their principles and their prac tice. If Mr. Fox is a man of the highen intellec tual powers, fitted by nature to defend with the molt interelling eloquence the liberty and civil rights of the human race, Mr. WINDHA:4 is an in dividual of a realefs fpirit, denined to give his fupport to a fyllem for protraCting the continuance of a deltrudive war, and giving every potTible aid to a ruinous fyftem of miniderial defpotit'm. Thus it clearly appears that the fimilar conduct of thefe two kinds of oppofition is the fame, while their maxims and condud are wholly dillimilar. The ancient oppofition equally difplayed their princi ples by a fpirit ofhatlility to the war againfl Ame rica, and againit the freedom of France. The new oppofition, on the contrary, kern to inherit the ferocious imprudence of Lord NORTH, and unite their efforts to procure a confederacy in Europe naiad a people %%Imre only objet was to conlitute their own form of Government, and to form a Conanution agreeable to their own defire. The oppofition of kox and SHERIDAN was con. Randy founded on the maxim of afferting. that die pi ineiple of the war vas one which had for its objet the livery ti; nrankind,.tht dillipation of the treafures of nati,ms, and the fliedding of the blood of human beings, for the purpofe of ellablilhing derpotical form.:: of government, or favouring the notions of individuals of the moil dangerous and delPotic views. The oppofition of fuch men as WeisoNANs, Ei.i tory, and others of a flmilar dif notition, is built on the invariable maxim of eter nal hollility, the exiitenee of a grand military ella. blifhment, and the lopport of the exclufive and violent prefeeratfm of univerfal commerce. According to the old oppofition, who Live at all times voted for seneral peace, the war waged againfl France has been ,us unjg and impoblic contc,l, founded o n pinc:p/ flUveofive of the fiber,' 6f the human rare, and which hat involved the dejiridiion of a number of men, at which humaniiyAudderr. Agreeably to the maxims of the new oppofition, who, loudly exclaimed againtl the Preliminaries of Peace, the war againn France has appeared fo jun and le neceffory. that they have not hefitated declare. that the Eir,::l3 nxion ought to continue armed, whether it it in afiate tjpeace, or whether the war (ball be e-enewed. The principles on which the opporgion of the party of WINDHAM! and GRENVILLE proceed, fup pore that it was expedient to rinfe to the French peo ple the right offorming their own Confiitution, and, by an abfurd jealoufy, it was requilite to re-eftablifh the Empire of the Bourbons, and the ancient fyf tem of defpotifm. If we m a y giv e any credit to the fpeeches of Fox and SH ERIDAN, it is a ground of rejoicing to England, that by the incapacity of her &Unifiers, fhe was unable to procure the repo ration of the Bourbons, or of the ancient defpo thin, and that this failure is the molt thud ground of the continuance of a general peace. Who are the individuals then who can tefufe to the old -op. pofition the tribute of applaufe, for having contri buted all in their power to prevent thole miferics which, during twelve years, have afflifted the hu man fpecies, or extending the fexereft indignation to the new oppontion, who have done ail in their power to prolong that contell which has defolated and ruined fo many nations? But !till the new op- ' 1 pofition call to their fupport and to the aid of their fury the national honour, which they denominate, tbt treafarre of the fate and the fume !Wort of its ps o pakr. Far, however, be from us—tar be from the people of Europe, this falfe.and cruel de finition of national honour, or, more properly, of the Ex-Miniflerial pride, or relf-fufficiency of a few individuals,who now defpair of being more power ful. Surely national honour does not—no, •can. not confift in waging war againft the libertyofany people, or in troubling the rcpofe of nations for the fake of individual opinions, or in fupport of efpecial conneCtions. Such men as Lord HAwk E 5. FiURY and Mr. A DIU GTON, who have given a luftre to their ministry by the important virtues of moderation, of jultice and of wifdom, in jgoing the Prefirninaria of Peace, and in labouring inceffantiy accompli fh the work of general pacification, have a much higher and jufler conception pf the lational honour and fpirit—the happinefs of na tions.confids only in peace.—jorraal des Defi:yiars. Om rasniows.—France has always giiten the fafflion to Europe, and her fuperiority was not dif outed before the Revolution even by rival powers. l'ntrfia and Ruffin invited to their capitals French terateuts and philofophers. Our arts were every vhsre uanfplanted, and our manufaitures were : ! .re a d over the whole world ; our fafhions, follow el =kilt the (flows of the north AS . twig the Equator, proved the induftry and ingenuity of onr artith, and (hewed at the fame time that frivolity may be pardoned in becoming ufeful. About the time of the American war, Englifh fafhions, manners, and cuftoms, began to be intro duced. The tour of the Duke of ORLEANS and fome grandees of the Court made the dinglonlania univerfal. Honks, carriages, clothes, ladies' head drefres, all was Englith, when &ft the Revolution, and then the war, changed this propenfity, and dcftroyed, if not the talk, at leaft the ufe of Eng lifh produetions and mann:re. A juft fentiment of national dignity will, no doubt, finial wha t circumaances and laws hadbeg un. Let us difplay that pride which commands reipeit, without !Ming that amenity which aura& affec tion. We tl nil refume all our advantages, and among others the empire of faihion, (feeptre de In mode). From pride, if not from prudence, we will allow our manufacturers and arias to fill the limps and equip the beaus and elegantes of London with the produCtions of their induftry, without ailing in exchange the gVotefque modes which (hock tape, and which the charm of novelty even cannot ren der fupportabie. If Frenchmen with to be honour ed, if they even with to pleafe, if they with to ap pear to advantage before the brave—and the fair, let them be French in their heart, in their manners, and even in their drefs. The war has fulpende'd the aftivity of our arts, but has not iml•lired their perfection. Our manufactures are lefs extenfiec, but they difplay equal tittle. A French military man with a Ruffian or Englifh lint, a Paris e'le &ante, dretred in Englifh or India muffin, do an injury to the nation which the law cannot reach, but which ought to be punithed by ridicule and public indignation.—Mtmikur. 26 VENTOSE, MARCH 17. The Brun Gazette of the 27th of February, which reached Belgrade, by a airman announces that the GRAND SEIGNIOR has granted a general pardon to the revolted Jaratraries, and left them the choice of a new Paella. The Brett Courier of the 2r R Ventofe (March 12) contains the following paragraph :—‘, By a telegraphic difpatch, the Romaine frigate and the Curieux corvette have received orders to make t.hanfelvcs ready for fc:t. They are to be utAct command of Citizen LACAILLE, who is a Poll Captain. The dellination of thee two veifels is unknown, but they wait to weigh anchor only for the difpatches they are to carry, and which the te legraph announced to be now on their way to Brea. llte corvettes la Bacchante, and la Ve. fiive, from Havre, have entered this road. Ge neral of I)ivilion Q .E ANTIN, V.:10 is here on his way to St. Domingo, is to embark in one of there vetlAs." I.e:ters from Madrid contain the following ob. fervaticns rcipating the Spanifh army:—" The plan for the rcformaLion of the army is completed : it is to be reduced to Sixty thoufand men, and di vided into bodies of fix thoufand each. In this number are not included the Swifs regiments, nor the King's houfehold troops, who will form a body of fixteen thonfand men. The army, in time of war, will amount to a hundred and twenty thou land, in addition to whom there is a dilpotableforcc, confifting of provincial militia, who will be called upLn to enter on adual fervice on any emergency." NATIONAL INSTITUTE. LETTPR OP SIR fOiLiO ansrs, rar. , zIDENT OF TUT ROYAL PO,ICTIr Ok `:rION, TO - :u^ PAY.S.IDENT AND SICIATA- itE.S or rat: N.IIIONAI. IN I:ITU - VV. or k KANCE. London, January it, 1302. Citizens-4k pleafed to offer to the Nationnl Inflitutc my warrneft thanks for the honour they have dote mein conferring upon me the title of affoeiate of this learned and diflingttiflwd body. Affure at the fanw time my r.freelahle brothers, that I confider this mark of their eiteem As the highell and molt en viable literary diltinclion which I (multi puflibly attain. To be the firft eledled to he an affociate of the lira iitenry focicty in the world, furpatl'•s my molt ambitious hopes, and I cannot be too grateful towards a fucicty which Its. conferred upon me this honour, and towards a nation of which it is the lit,rzry repre fentativc—a nation which, during the molt frightful coneulfions of the late molt terrible revolution, never croLd to poffefs my them; being always perfuadcd, even during the nr.lt dif altrous period?, that it contained many good citizens who would infallibly get the upper hand, and who would re-cflablifh in the heart of their countrymen the empire of virtue, efjultice, and of honour. Receive more cfpccially; citizens, my warrnett ac knowledgments fur the truly polite manner in which you com municated this agreeable intelligence. I am, with fine,- re e (teem fur your dillinguifhed talents, dcc. (Signed) JO '..E1 . 11 SAN k 3. 27 ViNTOSE, MARCH IR. DEPARTMENT OF THE MARINE. Further details refpcfling the landing of the French army at St. Donniv,o, funilfhed by the Captain of the Syrene, who arrived at lira on the acth Ventore, March it. Amida the numberlefs cruelties committed by Chriflophe, on the aprroach of the army, there Is one trait of humanity difplayed by one of his own foldiers, which deferves to be re corded: The tortrcl of rice°let was commanded by a White. Chriftophe difpatched a negro to alralTinate hint; the latter left his accomplices at the door, then introduced himfclf, to the Governor, and pointed out to him a fecret and lure road by which he might effeet hit efeare. Several negrelfeq have age faved the lives of their mailers; and, indeed, not a white man is mentioned as having been murdered at the Cape oh this oe cafion. _ Long fine the inhabitants teemed to be aware that the fu rious Chrittophe would fet fire to the town. They had conic quently embarked their molt precious effeels in the Chipping in the harbour, and Cenral had fecreted their property in the •rerun, and brought it back into town the day after the arrival of General Leclerc. Many of the inhabitants themfelves had made to the fame retreat ; but they almoa all returned to the town before the departure of the Syrene. The crews of the Mips and the foldicrs happily fucceeded in cheekin ,, the rage and progrefa of the fire. Whole magazines have be% retcued, and a great number of houfes have efcaped undarnared. Thofe to which fire was fet have (camel) , more than their roofs contained. The furniture of molt of them has been faved--they only want to be new roofed to be again fit to be inhabited. It was Chriflophe himfelf who, before he took to flight, fet bre to the government-houfe, but only one apartment of it was ddtroyed. el the sift . Pluviofe, the day of General Lameilieries de p • ue, whole corps of black troops came in to the advanced ptqt furrendered their arms to General Leclerc. ~ fi sth demi-t stale had figniEed their intention to corm. it 4 body on the 22d a Id furrender their arms. The news of the peace WAY not proclaimed at St. Domingo ; Toulfaint had even prohibited any mention being made of it. For a length of time paft he appeared to labour under ex treme anxiety. The following letterhe wrote to one of his molt intimate friends, a few days btfore the arrival of the army : TOUSSAINT LOOVAITURE, GOVIANOR pr IT. DU:AINCO, TO CITIZIN SINON NAP fIiTZ JUN. " The Cape, the 7th Pluvioii(jan. 27), tBoz. " I have teaeived the letter, Citizen, whiehyou wm;:e tome PI the 22d al.- lam too great a di:lance to attend at prefent to what 1 promiicd you. hnd,ayour to put up your prayers to GOD for me, rather than he thinking of'the horfe anti,the hat which you were to receive from me. Health and amity. (Strict!) " Toesz.z.lNT apt:yarrow." HOLLAND. HAGUE, MARCH t 5 feveral items of the ways and means for the current year, publitLd yefferday, amount to 65,992,569 florins, to !livers. It appears, that the falaries of the Members of the Admiralty, of War, of Home Affairs, and of Fi nance, are fixed at Soon florins per annum, and that-of Treafurer General at 8000. Under the item for Home Affairs, we find 40,0c0 florins to wards carrying into ea& the 45th article of the Conffitution, regarding education, and the arts and lciences.—lt appears from this general flatement, that the exigencies of the (late are tliii year 5,363,750 florins, .5 [livers lefs than in the raft• year. Citizen Et.ouu is appointed Fif:al of the High National Tribunal; Citizen VAN MEERT N, Rs— corder; and Citizen JORDEN S DE JON GE, Dzputy Recorder. At Oolkerhout, laft week, the Prince's birth-day was publicly kept at a tavern, by a party of his friends, in the prefence of Come patriots notwith (landing which, as foon as the wine beg:rn to ope. rate, Orange longs were fun in full glee, and the attendin- , mulkians brottlit to at is concert hv means of a good preparatory balinz. Complaint was immediately made to the hea d ofiker of the place ; but he did not think proper to take cogni zance of the tranfanion - ROTT.TKDA At, MA KC H 15.—Our rnaaifirates, more determined and vigilant than thoce of other cities, have not yet liberated the Orange rioter: who were committed to prifon here a ni“n!l:i (ince. And the libeller who called for the Pri:l•:e of Orange at the head of affairs, is to he fent to the madhotife as a lunatic ; this being jml! , ed more prudent method than that of Hogging him on a Iciffuld, in the fight of his very cans friends! Letters from Milan, ender date February-u, Gay, that the Vice P: . elident of the It;%'jai\ R..- public has ptiblithed a decree, by which the ;VS:. of the French Almanack is aholithed, and•the Gre• 1) ~o ri•in 9 or Chrittian Calendar, is henceforward to be exclulively recognized by the Government god People. The motive Aligned for this rnealur?, is, a yelped for the ufages of the people, au2. ally for religious worfhip. The fame article i:,- finuates, that the Frer.ch ilyle has been already ta citly revoked by the Cunfular Government. P.4121.14.111:NT411?2 - 1-'1 , :0 1 :EE1)IA , GS. HOUSE OF LORDS, SATURD.I7, MARCII 20. Their I,ortlfltips met at half pall rice this morn ing, and having naked the ';.lutiny an ftver.ll Private 11;116, adjonrited.—The ohjea of th Hnufe in meeting at fo early an hour wis to enal,le the Chancellor to ,tttrnd at Lincoln's Jun THE CIVIL LIST REPORT. EXCRAC I FKOLI THE REPORT (nom THE CO7INIT• TEE OF THE CIVIL LIST ACCOUN TS. The Committee appointed to take into confi dcration the I.:reral Accounts prefentl.d on t%e 161 h of February loft by ti CHANcELLo A of :he Excutoluit, by his Mairsrv's command, rd it. ing to his 111vjEsTv's Cavil Lift, have pr , .ceeLle.l in the examination of the mstzt,i.s rcf.-.-re:i to them, and have agreed upon the following I:cport— . _ Your Committee have commenced•their in quiry by a reference to an .N.a paTed in thz 22d year of his pretent MAJESTY'S Reign, 4'or regulat ing the mode of parnent out of the Civll Re venue!, and which was laid before the 1-I,niie on the 6th of July, 170. " The Accounts of the Charge ofhli MAJEstv's Civil Government from that 'ear to the prefent, arranged according to that form, have been at dif ferent periods fubmittcd to the conti-leration of Parliament, and arc now before your Committee, who propore to comb:ne them through the whole period, and compare them refpatively with their correfj)ondin Eiiimates, in order to. explain to the Houle the 6 particulars in which the Excefs of Charge has °cent red, and confequentiv the man ner in which the debt has accumulated in the fe veral years to which the accounts vitae. Their report will therefore I .Ilow thole' heads of divßinn, in each of which will he found Inch ohfervations as feem to your Committee neceiriry to the eluci dation of the account under confideration ; and the refhlt of the whole, compared with the re fources applicable during the whole period to the difcharge of thofe demands, will then be fainnitted to the kioufe. Cress I.—Penlions and Allowances of the Royal. Faraft.v: This account exhibits tlic amount of charge in each year, compared with the efti mate of 1786 ; that eflimate appears to have been formed upon the e (late of the Royal Family at the time, arid confequently an excel; or dimi nution of expence mutt be eveaed, accnrcrng to the number of Royal Perfons to whom loch penflons and allowances as fuitcd their rank be came neceffary, was either diminifhed by death, or by their being otherwife provided for by Par liament, or incrcafed by their coming of age, or into a fituation that required tonic additional al lowance. His Majeily receives now, as in 17 85, 60,0001. a year • the Queen 5 B,ocol. The total difference under ;his head; including all the Brandies of the Royal Family, is only 45,1331. 9s. tofd. above what it was in 17 35. CLASS 2.—The falaries of the Chancellor, the Speaker, and the Judges of England and Walc.:, are nearly the fame as in 1786. Class 3.—The falaries of Miniflers to foreign Courts have been fubjea to much variation ; and if there has been fome interruption in oar rclati,ins with feveral foreign Courts in confequence of the war, the fame caufe has alfo or. the other hand oc cafioned larger and more expenfive eflablifhments in fome other countries in amity with his Ntijeliv. The greatcft increafe appears in the following Ein conitauttuopie, 1786, £. 1095 1802, £.5114 Vienna, 3 5 20 - 5657 - - - 3520 - • 6494 Berlin, • - 3020 - 53 t 8 Dn. (dal, - - 2224 - 3320 The Excefs of Efiahlifliments in. America oily.-