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J^Theifm, fays a great expe
rimental moral ft, is lets perni
cious in its practical effeds than
fnperfticion. Had lord Bacon
been now living, he might have
seen reason to tetrad this opin
ion. The gloomy irreligion of
France may enter fuccefsfully
into competition with the fanat
kifm which Mahometan impoP
ture and Papal ignorance inspire;
and in the votaries of all we may
remark the fame desire of dissemi
nating their opinions, the fame re
sentment against those who pre
sume to dissent, and the fame in
difference rn infliding and yield
ing to the stroke of death.—Con
neded with this sentiment, and in
the intervals which can be spared
from the more serious business of
proscriptions and affaflinations,
the unextinguifhable frivolity of
the national charader bursts forth
with renovated fplendour. The
institution of a new calendar ; the
eredion of temples to modern
philosophy, in lieu of those which
were coniecrated to the Deity of
confined themselves to address
their grievances in a friendly man
ner to the government; the com
mittee of public welfare, who
found their complaints justly
founded, has taken mealures to
remove the causes of those griev
ances, and to give to the Swiss
Cantons ample proofs of the fra
ternity and benevolence of the
French nation.
If you wi(h to know what cow
ardly means are employed by the
allied powers, [ will relate to you
a curious stratagem employed by
the Austrians, and which reached
the committee of public welfare,
at the moment when I was going
to terminate this report. The
committee -received an authentic
note which Auftriacaufed to be
delivered to the government of
the Canton of Berne.
The government ofßerne,much
troubled by this note, comm uni
cated it to our Ambaflador in
Switzerland, and though the lat
ter entreated that government to
banish all fears reipefting such an
event, all the German Gazettes
ppblifhed throughout Europe, fay
that the committee of public wel
fare was determined to declare war
asainft. Switzerland, and that I
was charged to make a report to
you on the fubjeft.
That you may frill better per
ceive Austrian perfidy, 1 can teM
you, that more than a month ago
a proposal was made to your
committee, which offered an ad-
vantage infinitely precious in our
circumstances ; to obtain that ad
vantage we were only to have in
vaded a little state surrounded by
our territory, and allied to Swit
zerland; but we receded that pro
posal with indignation.
The Swiss have always confu
ted the true interest of their coun
try : and your committee will de
mean itfelf in the fame manner to
wards the Helvetic Cantons, and
all other friendly powers. We
will always deal frankly as it be
comes a great and powerful re
public.
• EXTRACT.
Christianity; and the worship of
Pardian (trumpets, arrayed in the
insignia of the goddess of free
dom •, are the occupations which
diverfify the toils ; and relax the
cares, of the legislators of France.
And the multitude (bed their
blood on the frontiers, or enjoy
rhe revels of the metropolis, re
joice at the guillotine over the
lifelefs remains of their fellow
citizens, or weep in the theatre at
the exhibition of fiftious woe,
according to the varying caprice
of the dtftators by whom they are
d i reeled . , "
To enlarge the Civil Jurifdi^icn of
fufices of the Peace witbin this
State, and dire bling Confab les,
in certain cases, to Jerve JFrits
and other legal Precepts.
BE it cnafted by the Senate
and House of Representa
tives in General Court convened,
That in (lead of the powers of
Justices of the Peace being limit
ed to forty frillings, as by the pre
fant Laws, the laid Justices (hall
hereafter have jurifdiftion of all
Causes, of the fame nature, not
exceeding four pounds. And all
appeals from judgments of Justic
es of the Peace, when more than
forty (hillings debt or damages
shall be recovered or demanded,
(hall be to the Superior Court of
Judicature, in the fame way and
manner as appeals are now by law
allowed and had from the judg
ment of Justices of the Peace to
Courts of Common Pleas; except
ing that the appealant (hall, at the
time of claiming his appeal, enter
into recognizance with fufficient
sureties to enter his appeal at the
Court appealed to, and ^rofecute
the fame with effect.
And be it further enabled.. That
all Writs issuing from Justices of
the Peace (hall, wherein the sum
demanded exceed 'forty (hillings,
be served fourteen days before the
time of trial, and before they are
served, be endorsed by the Plain
tiff or his attorney, and the endors
er (hall, in case the defendant re
cover cost, be holden and liable
for said cost in the fame way and
manner as endorsers of Writs re
turnable to the Courts of Common
Pleas, by law now are; and any
Justice of the Peace may, upon
application, \Kuefcire facias in due
form of Law, against such endors
er for said coft<
And be it further enabled, That
the fame mode with t^fped to
bail on mefne process, and taking
Bond upon Execution for the lib
erty of the Prison Yard (hall be
observed upon Writs and Execu
tions issuing from Justices of the
Peace," as the Laws now in force
point out with refped to Bail on
mefne process returnable to, and
taking Bond upon Execution issu
ing from the Courts of Common
And be it further enabled, That
any Constable to whom any Writ,
or other legal precept issuing from
a Justice of the Peace may be
direded, be and hereby is fully
empowered and direded to serve
and return the fame according to
law.
State of New-Hampshire.
An
ACT,
Pleas; any Law, Usage or Cus
tom to the contrary notwithftand
ing*
This Aft to continue and be in
force three Years from the pafling
hereof, and to the end of the then
next Seflion of the General Court,
and no iongen
P H I L AD E L P H I A, M 22.
THIS day M. Fauch et, was pub
licity introduced to The Presi
dent of the United Stales, by the Hon.
Mr. Randolph, Secretary of Stale. His
credentials being produced, he was ac
knowledged as Minister Plenipotentiary
of the French Republic.
M. de la Forest, is recognized as
Confal-General of the French Republic,
for the United States j and M. Petry,
as Coniul for the port of Philadelphia.
This day being the anniversary of the
birth day of the President of the Unit
ed States, at twelve o’clock, th a Vice-
President of the United States, Mem
be:s'of the Senate and House of Represent.
atives, Foreign Miniften, the Heads of
Departments; the society of his fellow
veterans, the Cincinnati ; the Governour
and other functionaries of Pennsylvania,
with a great number of their fellow citi
zens, waited on the President and con
gratulated him on the occasion.
The day was devoted to joy and feftivi
ty— the bells were rung and colours were
displayed from various parts of the city,
and the (hipping.
The several military corps paraded in
honour of the day, and fired federal salutes.
The officers of the militia appeared in a
new and elegant uniform.
fee. 24. Saturday the zsd inttsnt,
being the Birth Day of our beloved Pre
sident, the Managers of the City Dancing
Assembly gave a Ball in the evening.
They were honored with the company
of the President and Mrs* Washington,
several of the Foreign Minifters,* a num
ber of the members of Congress, the
Secretaries of the Treasury and of War,
the Governors of the State and of the
Weftern Territory, and the most brilliant
display of beauty, perhaps, ever exhibited
in this city. The countenances of all
present, appeared perfeflly congenial
with the happy occasion. The toasts given
were highly patriotick, and truly federal.
NOR WICH.M 18.
We learn from Albany, that a bill is
debating in the Legislature, which provides
SO,OOOI. for the purpofc of fortifications
within this State.
Yesterday arrived in town from Balti
more, three waggons, supposed to con
tain money, and the effects of the Minis
ter of France. The carriages were guard
ed by a party of the Baltimore Volunteer
Dragoons. ♦
BOSTON, March 5.
There hath not any later Foreign
Intelligence been received on the conti
nent, than has been presented the public,
except the following.
Within the last three days, we have re
ceivedadditional advices of the recapture
and evacuation of Toulon. The public
have so often been deceived by similar ac
counts, that the fubjeft ought to be touch
ed with caution. We shall, however,
present the reports given by gentlemen ar
rived here from New-York, who inform
That Capt. Brown, had arrived at New<
York, from Guernsey, [an island in the
EnglHh channel, on the coast of Norman
dy, fubjeft to Great. Britain ] which he
left Jan. Bth, and informs, that Toulon
was retaken by the French, that Gen.
O’Hara, with his army, were captured, and
that Lord Hood had escaped, with the
combined and French fleets:
Another account fays, that the English,
finding they could not hold the place,
evacuated it; firft burning the French
(hips which were in the inner harbour
A third account dates, that the French
carried the works by assault, in which they
loft 2COOO men; and that the garrison
was put to the sword.
* Among whom, we learn t was M. Fau
chet, the new Mini tier Plenipotentiary from
Prane.
American Intelligence.
By Friday s Maik
NOTE.
Letters from Guernsey mention, that the
expedition fist od foot by the British Cabi
net, for landing a body of tre ops in France,
had failed. The Earl of Morai, who
commanded this body, finding that the
Royalists did not approach the coast of
Normandy, and judging it impraftible to
land in France, with the troops he had
with him, abandoned the enterprile, and
had (ailed from Guernsey for England,
The gentlemen farther fay, that the re
ports of the recapture of the place, were
credited at New-York. A few days will
evince, whether they are founded in fad,
in rumour, or made out of the repulse
which Gen. O’Hara lately met in cne of
the sallies. It is to be noted, that ac
cording to the accounts lately publilhed,
Gen. O’Hara was taken prisoner, in the
sortie ; but that his troops got into Tou
lon.
Advices from the Weft Indies, vis
NcW-York, inform, that the Governours
of the British I (lands have received a Proc
lamation from the British King, comman
ding them to release all American vessels,
and to pay to their Commanders the dam
ages they may haVe (attained by their
duress. This it is said, will make bank
rupts of many of the gentry of the ((lands,
who have lately grown fat on American
spoils. Letters in town, confirm this.
We learn from Philadelphia, that the
late commercial communications from
Great-Britain, are such as cannot be ac
cepted by the United States, and wil occa
sion fre(h negociations. The posts, we learn
are to be given up immediately* As the
communications are confidential, we can
give the above only as report—but it came
from a refpedable quarter.
Ex f raftfrom the resort of Barrere, in tie
National Convention, ufon the French
Navigation AB.
•• The Vifier of George Ilf. has dared
to declare a few days ago, in dilating
Jaws to neutral nations, and daring tore*
flrain the rights and forms of their neu
trality, « France, said he, should be feper
ated from the commercial world, and trea
ted as though ihe had but a Angle city,
but a Angle port, and as if that place was
blockaded by sea and by land.”
France blockaded ; Thus {poke of
Rome, before their just deftrufiion, those
men of panic faith, the ambitious and
mercantile Carthaginians.—France bloc
kaded ! Nay. If it were possible to re
duce her to the confined limits of a (ingle
port, of a Angle garrisoned city, the French
nation would then fatty out of its limits by
a bridge from Calais to Dover, and landing
with its liberty on the British territory,
too long fertilifed by our spoils, the heads
of George and of Pitt, would fall at the
feet of those Englishmen who should feel
themselves worthy of liberty, and the
Engliih island would raise at our fide anoth
er Republic, or become a defert.’’
M. Fauchet, the new French Am
bassador, is ranked foremoft among the
Philosophers of the present day; and he
confiders himfelf as sent to the government
of the United States, and not co an anti
federal party.
The Genetites die hard. Because M.
Fauchet did not aft on his arrival, as
their leader did ; they firfl insinuated that
no Minift^r had arrived in the French
squadron ; and that, after the squadron had
failed, a fwift failing cutter had been dis
patched and had recalled him. M. FaV
chet, instead of issuing commiflions im
mediately on his arrival, was cautious to
conceal from every one his rank and mis
sion until he was recognized by the Su
preme Executive of the United States.
The Treasury of New-York, on the ift
of the present year, hsd a balance in its
favour, in cash, of 59,828 pounds. In
the expenditures of the last year, are, the
following-For improving and making
roads, 2i,BsoZ.—-To (he truflees of Colum
bia College 950 Z. To the New York hos
pital 500/.— Indian pensions 640/.—To
the Regents of the University 1500/. For
inland leek navigation icoo/—and to pri
vate individuals, to aflift them in prosecut
ing various manofaftures, loans to the a*
mount of 6000 Z. Appropriations worthy an
enlightened and patriotic Legislature. Be
sides the above balance in cash, the State
of New-York ownes 2,121,462 dollars in
the funds of the United States.
GASCON A D E.
NEW-YORK.