The New-Hampshire gazette and general advertiser (Portsmouth [N.H.]), 1791-08-25 00:00:00

New - Hampshire Gazette, and the General Advertiser.
Containing the Laws, &amp;c. of the United States, as well as those of this State passed since 1787, with a variety of other matters both useful &amp; entertaining.
PORTSMOUTH: Printed by JOHN MELCHER, at his Office in Market-Street, at nine shillings per Annum.
The DOMESTIC TORNADO.
A FRAGMENT in imitation of STERNE.
MY wife, I say, entered the room, where I was sitting with my elbow resting on the table and my head carelessly leaning on my hand, in one of my lacadaical moods, musing over the happy prospects of my country under the auspices of the federal government, and the blessings of domestic and matrimonial life—I was thinking how the former might be improved—the last appeared to me almost perfect—at least, thought I within myself, the comforts of a husband exceed those of the solitary, lifeless lump of clay called an Old Bachelor, as much as the full blaze of the meridian sun surpasses the glimmering of a lightning bug in a dog-day twilight.—Yes, and I thanked heaven for it, from my very soul;—but my wife, I say, entered the room—The Serpent too once entered paradise. Pardon me, my Angel, that thought:—For I protest, with the sincerity of a dying lover, I would blast the villain, who should pronounce or even think thee a snake. There was something, however, which (I know not how nor wherefore) struck me, in thy appearance, that made me involuntarily think of Adam and Eve, apples, serpent and the Devil.—My wife, I have said or was about saying, entered the room—now, why I should just then think of hissing, of a viper, or of Eve's ear, if I was to suffer the pains of tooth-drawing to all eternity, I could not tell—but my wife then entered the room—yes, the very woman, who in the most public and solemn manner, had vowed to love, honor and obey me—she, this woman, my wedded wife, at that luckless moment, entered the room—but not with the same charming countenance, which she wore the first time I ever saw her, which was at a ball, where I had the honor to draw her for my partner, and for the first time in my life felt the throbbings of a tender heart-ache, excited by her elegant dress, her easy manners, her graceful mein and her looks, as smiling and serene, as the face of the earth in the bright morning of May, when not a rude breath of air disturbs the sweet stillness of the scene, or deranges the order of the expanding blossoms and flowers—not with the still small voice of friendship and love, which in the halcyon days of courtship or the shortlived period
of the honey-moon, used to distil from her lips, as gentle and refreshing as the falling dew of a summer's evening—but indignation lowred on her brow—every feature was at war—her face, once the seat of angelic smiles, was now a complete miniature of the sea in the tumult and hurly-burly of a storm; lightning flashed from her eyes—thunder roared from her tongue—and her voice in vengeance thus burst upon me—“You a man of spirit! you mean, dastardly, cow-hearted son of a shadow—you pretend to be a man of generosity! No! you pitiful, miser-grown image of nothingness—you shapeless substance of a fleer's gizzard—you”—hold, hush, cried I, raising myself out of my chair, and advancing towards her, with as much composure as my surprize would permit, hush, my dear; “I am no child, replied she, in a tone which pierced my heart to the quick, I am not a child; and so you need not attempt to hush me to rest.”—Have patience a moment, my love, said I, in a faltering accent; why all this fury, whirlwind of madness?—Whirlwind! Don't compare me to whirlwind—she exclaimed with a frown, which I am sure might be seen through a double pine door—at least I thought so then, it made such an impression upon my shivering soul—I'll, I'll tell you, continued she, with all the natural, unaffected eloquence of a scolding wife, I'll teach you; but not now—The curtains are my province, and I'll read you such a lecture!—then with an air (and a devil of an air it was!) she withdrew, but unfortunately, in her haste, she run bounce against the tea-table, overset it, broke her best set of China into a thousand pieces—Here I expected the storm would return with redoubled fury, and to be fairly broomsticked or distaffed about the house for her carelessness—but I was disappointed—she continued her march, regardless of my broken piece and her broken tea-cups and saucers, and left me, like an easy good-natured, submissive, hen-pecked husband, as I was, to gather up the fragments, of both, which I did, as well as I could, and sat down as composed as—till the idea of the curtains rushed back upon my mind, and began to haunt me—Fie! fie! said I to myself, once or twice, it is not worth minding; I'll think no more of it—But, nature was too powerful, to be overcome by such feeble chidings—Now, I always
had an aversion to curtains; so I determined to sneak away after my spouse, as bold as an Alexander, and know the worst of it—for I dreaded the confines of the curtains; and I solemnly declare, yes, and if it was not against the stomach of my conscience. I should even swear right down point blank, there is something in furniture check and blew and white callico, aye & your red or purple and white too, which I shall never think of, but with terror; they seem like the regalia of domestic tyranny: Indeed, of all the odious forms of government, with which the world has ever been cursed, the Petty-coatical thought I, is the most energetic, at least, if not the worst.—However, as I was going to relate, I followed my wife, and found that all this mighty Tornado arose from the following circumstance: It seems I had told one of my neighbors, early in the morning, that I thought a silver buckle was as great an ornament to a lady's shoe, as a paste one, where the expence of the latter would bear so hard on the husband as to make him curtail some of the good things of his dining table, and the real necessaries of his family, to enable him to make the purchase. In such circumstances, I thought expensive furniture or dress would be quite antisederal. In short, I told him that paste buckles and poverty were never made to be companions—My neighbour's wife had told mine, and she was then determined to have a pair of paste buckles, that the world might know we were not poor—I wish I could prove it—I represented to her the folly of the deception, and endeavoured to reason with her; but she remained obstinate and fixt in her purpose. The curtains were again mentioned; and I told her she should have a pair of paste buckles, I would instantly go to the shops and buy them for her and bring them to her myself in less than an hour, if she would accept of them—Not I, indeed, she replied, nor if I can't have them voluntarily, I vow I won't have them at all—my shoes shall sooner be tied with strings, which will be much more fashionable into the bargain—I was astonished—I was grieved—but the mechanical words of the Starling, “I can't untie the knot,” at that instant popt into my thoughts. So I resolved to make the best of my bargain; and recollecting that she was my wife, I was composed again and returned in silence to my appartment,
thanking heaven, as I walked along, that my sex is distinguished by beard and breeches.
YORICK JUNIOR.
From the AMERICAN MERCURY. REFLECTIONS ON HARVEST.
RELIGION consists in an imitation of God's moral character; especially of his disinterested and diffusive goodness. Fruitful seasons and liberal harvests are instances of his goodness, and calls to imitate him by doing good to those around us. Give to him who asketh thee, and from him, who would borrow of thee, turn not thou away. Do good and lend, that you may be children of your heavenly Father; for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.”
The system of nature is a continual lecture on benevolence. The world subsists by a reciprocation of benefits; by a perpetual interchange of kindness. The clouds send down in showers the water which they receive in gentle exhalations from the earth. The sea remits, to recruit the streams, that water which they have poured into its bosom. The air, by its constant motion, ventilates the herbs and flowers of the field, and thus contributes to their growth. The flowers and herbs of the field, thus agitated, emit their balsamick sweets to perfume and enrich the air. The sun sheds his beams on the earth, and other revolving worlds; these reflect his beams, which after various repercussions from globe to globe, may return back to their source, and, among other causes, repair his perpetual wastes. Man bestows his labor on the soil; the soil repays his labor in the sustenance which it yields him. He employs in his service the laboring beast, and in his turn serves the industrious animal by supplying him with food. This is the constitution of nature, and the moral design of it is to teach us benevolence. As the bodies of the system are drawn toward each other by attraction, so the members of human society, under the influence of universal love, should tend to the general good as the common centre of their actions.
A life so short as ours, should be filled up with beneficence. How fast one harvest rolls on after another. How swiftly the intervening months have flown: A few harvests more and the sickle of time will have reaped the (For the remainder see last page.)

On Tuesday last arrived here the ship Three Brothers , Captain Drew , in 43 days from Dartmouth , in England, Capt. Drew left England the 9th of July, and has brought papers as late as the 7th, from which we have selected the following European news.—Captain Drew informs that the Russians and Turks have made peace, that the British fleet were completely equipped and ready for sea.
L O N D O N , July 4: Flight of the Royal Family of France from Paris, and their Capture at Varennes, a town 60 Miles from Metz in Lorraine. IN the history of events and causes, there never has happened so sudden and unexpected a revolution, nor so wonderful and well planned an escape, as the silent and unperceived departure of their Christian Majesties and their family, from those vigilant guards placed round them in the palace of the Thuilleries , to prevent their escape. Guarded at the chamber-door by two sentinels—guarded by many more on the stair-case, and by several others at the entrance of the palace—the gates of the city strongly guarded, and every avenue secured which led to and from the Thuilleries , it was almost impossible to imagine that the whole royal family should be able, unperceived, to take their departure, and that the fact should not be known until six hours after it had happened.
The following may be relied on as an authentic statement of every circumstance yet known of this wonderful escape and re-capture.
The escape of the royal family was made at one o'clock on Tuesday morning, nor was it discovered until between seven and eight, when the commandant of the Castle of the Thuilleries went towards the King's apartment, to see whether his Majesty was stirring. He was met by one of the Household, who told him that neither the King, Queen, the Dauphin, nor the Princess Elizabeth, were to be found.—The dress in which they escaped is not well authenticated, nor do we believe that it is precisely known to any one.
The escape was certainly made thro' one of the private doors of the palace; it is believed through a passage leading from the pavillion in which the Queen slept, and from which there is a private communication to the garden. This avenue had no sentry passed over it. It is said that the royal family got into their carriages at the Pont-Royal , a short distance from the Palace. The carriages consisted of a berlin drawn by six horses, and two diligencies. The berlin had been sometime made for an officer of the royal guard, and held six persons very commodiously. The postillions who drove the royal family from Paris say, that in the berlin were two women, and two children, and in one of the chaises two men of a swarthy complexion. They drove them as far as Senlis . Several officers of the King's former body guard, attended at the escape, and some of them followed the royal carriages at a little distance dressed in liveries. About 50 persons immediately in the confidence of their Majesties are missing, and several have left the capital within the last fortnight. But the escape was most secretly contrived, and as admirably executed as human wisdom could have suggested, for relays of horses were stationed on the road all the way to French Flanders , in order to facilitate their journey. It is suspected that M. de Bouille , who commands in French Flanders , assisted the escape through the garrison towns under his authority.
The news of the escape became generally known through Paris about nine in the morning, and, as it may be supposed, created great confusion; the national guards were immediately under arms, and double sentries posted at
all the gates of the city, with orders to prevent any person from passing or re-passing: the alarm bell was rung; and couriers were dispatched by the municipality to different parts of the country with the news, and desiring the citizens to be on their guard whom they suffered to pass through their towns. Many faces wore a countenance of surprise, several carried visible marks of terror, and a general dismay prevailed among the democrates. The mob ever ready to exercise the uncontrouled rights of men, made a mock parade of the King's arms in the Market Places , and, dashing them and the figure of a crown to the ground, they trampled upon them, crying out—“Since the King has abandoned what he owned to his high situation, let us trample upon the ensigns of royalty.”
The Duke d'Aumont was rudely stopped by the mob, and the clothes torn off his back.—The people were conducting him to the Place de Greve , with an intention of hanging him a la lanterne , but he was fortunately rescued by the national guard, and conducted to the guard-house, tho' not without some resistance, for the people refused to give him up. He had been on duty the preceding evening, and it is suspected he favoured the royal escape. He had demanded to be tried by a court martial.
The proceedings of the National Assembly on Wednesday were not very interesting, but the summary of them was as follows:
Commissioners were appointed to go to the palace and inspect the wardrobe; who, on their return, reported that they had looked over the inventory of the royal effects made in the year 1784, and that the jewels marked down in it were missing. Sentinels were placed by them at the doors of the wardrobe for future safety.
Several articles of the penal code of laws were then passed, the most material of which was, that “Whoever should counterfeit the great seal, should be punished by an imprisonment of 15 years.”
A report was made from the Military Committee , which contained the form of an oath to be taken by certain commissioners appointed by the National Assembly to watch over the defence of the frontiers; it was as follows:—“I swear to employ the powers entrusted to my care for the defence of the country, and for the maintenance of the constitution against all its enemies, whether within or without the kingdom; to die rather than suffer an invasion of foreign troops into the French territories, and to obey no other orders but such as shall be given in consequence of the decrees of the National Assembly.”
Lastly, it was decreed, that twelve commissioners appointed from among the members of the Assembly, should instantly repair to the frontier towns, to concert with the municipal bodies and the commanders of the troops stationed there, the most proper measures to be taken for the defence of the kingdom.
The National Assembly acted with a dignity and moderation, on the late flight of their King, which has greatly raised their estimation in the opinion of the public.—By their example too the spirits of the people have been very seasonably kept up. All was alarm, confusion, and despondency, at the first news of the royal escape. This has since subsided into a national coolness, which shews their indifference as to their majesties' return.
By a courier which left Paris in the night of Thursday, and arrived on Sunday at the French Ambassador's , we learn, that their Majesties and the Royal Family had been captured on the road to Mentz in Lorraine . They had reached St. Menchoud , one of the last post towns in Champagne , where they arrived on Wednesday afternoon, having travelled 156 English miles. Here they were recognized by the Post-Master, as they were changing horses, who betrayed no knowledge of the royal persons, but gave directions for preparing
the horses which they ordered. He retired however to his own chamber, and wrote a short letter to the postmaster of the next place, Varennes , apprizing him of his suspicions that their Majesties were then in his house; that they were to proceed in two cabriolets which he described; and as this information would be delivered to him three hours before their Majesties could arrive, he would have time to take the necessary steps for ascertaining his Majesty's person on his arrival, and for arresting him, until it should be proved that he was travelling with the knowledge of the National Assembly. This letter he sent by a direct and nearer path than the post road, intrusting it to his own son. By this means the proper precautions were taken. M. Maryn , the son of the Deputy of that name, ascertained the King's person under his disguise, and, without the least tumult or confusion, a body of the National Guard surrounded their carriages and arrested the royal fugitives.
Messengers were instantly dispatched to the National Assembly, to inform them of the capture; and they, in the sitting of Thursday, appointed three commissioners, Messrs. Barnave, Petion de Villeneuve, and La Toure and Maubourg , to proceed immediately to Varennes , accompanied by 10,000 of the National guards, to escort their Majesties to Paris.
The royal captives have been treated with much tenderness and respect.
Monsieur, the King's eldest brother, and his Princess, having taken a different road from the King, and are supposed to have escaped out of the country.
It evidently appears that the King intended to escape to Mentz , the capital of the Elector of that name, where the Prince de Conde, the Count d'Artois, M. de Calonne the Dukes of Bourbon and Engein, and all the Chiefs of the Counter-Revolution now are. M. de Calonne would then have resumed his station, as Minister to the King, & been restored to all his honors.
It was at first suspected, that M. de la Fayette was privy to the design, for no sooner was the King's escape known, than he and Mons. Cazales were seized and held in confinement, until a deputation from the National Assembly rescued them. The people talked of no less than hanging them, and would have kept their resolution, had not the presence of the troops protected them.
All was quiet at Paris when the last express came away; and the confusion excited in other parts of France had subsided.—The Marquis de la Fayette had recovered the public confidence and esteem by his open and frank conduct.
The village of Varennes lies between Stennay and Montmedy , about seventy leagues from Paris, and within six of the Luxembourg frontier.
M. Laporte delivered in a memoir to the National Assembly, containing a proclamation from the King; addressed to all good Frenchmen, ordering them to leave Paris.
This proclamation commences with asserting, that Royalty has been entirely annihilated; that anarchy and confusion prevail throughout the Empire, and that no means whatever are taken to prevent tumult and insurrection.—A detail of the patriotic conduct of his Majesty then follows;—he complains of being deprived of the power of making war; and affirms, that the Judges in his appointment are not so many as the Procureurs General under the old Government. It is asserted, that the societies of the Friends of the Constitution have taken the Government upon themselves, and that the Cordeliers had denounced him to be refractory, and to have acted in opposition to the laws. He reproaches the National Assembly with having deprived him of his liberty, as well as having taken from him every prerogative belonging to the crown; and concludes with observing, that he was dissatisfied throughout with the proceedings of the Assembly, and he protests against every act which he has been forced to sign during his captivity.
The conclusion is as follows: “The attachment of Frenchmen to their monarch is ranked among the number of their virtues. I have received marks of it too affecting to be forgotten; The King would not bring forward the following, were it not to represent to his faithful subjects the disposition of the factions. The people kept in pay for the triumph of M. Necker , affected not to pronounce the name of King; they, at this period, prosecuted the archbishop of Paris; a courier of the King was stopped, searched, and the letters which he carried broken open, at this time the Assembly seemed to insult the King; it was determined to carry to Paris the words of peace: during his journey, they stopped, in order to suppress any cry of Vive le Roi . They even made a motion to carry him off, and to put the Queen in a convent; this motion was applauded. On the night of the 4th and 5th, when it was proposed to the Assembly to go and hold their sitting in the presence of the King, the answer was, That it was not consistent with their dignity to go thither. From that moment the scenes of horror were renewed. Upon the arrival of the King at Paris, an innocent person was massacred almost under his eyes, in the garden of the Thuilleries ; while all who abused religion and the throne received the honors of triumph. At the federation of the 14th of July, the National Assembly declared that the King was the head; but in order to show that they could name another, his family was placed separately from him; it was then, however, that he spent the most agreeable moments of his residence at Paris.
“When from religious motives, his ladies wished to go to Rome ; notwithstanding the declaration of rights, their departure was opposed; they were carried to Bellevue , and then to Arnay-le-Duc , to wait the orders of the Assembly for their departure; the authority of the King was disregarded. In the tumult which factiously disposed persons excited at Vincennes , those who assembled around the King from regard to his safety were maltreated; so far was their insolence carried, that their arms were broken in the presence of the King, under whose protection they were. When, to get rid of an indisposition he was preparing to go to St. Cloud ; in order to stop him, they availed themselves of the respect which they knew he entertained for them, and the religion of his father: the club of cordeliers brought a charge against him as refractory to the law—in vain M. de la Fayette endeavoured to protect him: They violently seized the faithful servants who surrounded him, and he again resumed his prison. In fine, he was obliged to order the removal of his chapel, to approve the letter of the Minister to foreign powers, and to go to mass at the new curacy of St. Germain l'Auxerrois . With such motives, and in the impossibility which the King feels to prevent evil, it is natural that he should endeavour to ensure his personal safety.
“Frenchmen, and you who are called inhabitants of the good city of Paris, withdraw your confidence from the suggestions of the factions, return to your King, he will always be your friend; when your holy religion shall be respected, when government shall be secured upon a firm footing, and liberty established upon an unshaken basis.
(Signed) LOUIS. Paris, June 20, 1791.
P. S. “The King forbids his Ministers to sign any order in his name, till they have received farther orders, and enjoins the keeper of the Seals to remit to him the Seal, when it shall be demanded on his part. (Signed) LOUIS.
Extract of a letter from Brussels, June 21. “The Serene Highnesses the Governors General, Albert Duke de Saxe Teschen , and his consort Maria Christine , made their public and solemn entry to their former Government, after an absence of two years, on Wednesday the 15th inst. amidst an immense multitude of people of all ranks, who hailed their arrival with every mark of real and sincere congratulation.”
JULY 5. On the evening of the 5th of June last, the Ministers of the Allied Powers having, by desire of her Imperial Majesty, submitted the whole of the proposals made on their part, for the purpose of establishing tranquility between the Russian and Ottoman Empires, to her Majesty's Ministers, the

same were, without delay, taken into consideration.—On the evening of the 7th of June, her Majesty was pleased to notify to the British and Prussian Plenipotentiaries, her agreement and assent to several of said proposals; those particularly which related to the cession of certain conquests made by her Majesty's troops since the rupture with the Porte.—Her Majesty's claim for the cession of the district extending to Unna, together with the fortress of Orsowa, was deserted for consideration till an answer from the Porte should be received concerning the terms which her Majesty had thus previously agreed to, which was expected at Petersburg about the 23d of June. It was understood, that Oczakow would be demolished by mutual consent, and thus all obstacles to a permanent peace be removed.
The last accounts from China acquaint us, that the Emperor of that kingdom had declared war against the Empress of Russia, and had forbidden the importation of Russian furs into the dominions of China.
Mr. Hammond's journey to London certainly does not proceed from any misunderstanding between the two Courts;—he has brought with him the news, that the Court of Madrid had expressed itself more willing to settle the claims of our merchants in Nootka, and had accordingly appointed Monf. Emanuel de la Sieras, as its Commissioner to adjust the business, who left Madrid the 6th ult. and is now at Paris, on his way hither. Our Court has appointed Sir Ralph Woodford to act with M. de la Sieras; and these two gentlemen are to settle what ought to be the fair claims of our merchants for the real loss of their property, as well as the advantages we are likely to receive from their trade to Nootka; for it is but fair that the probable profits should likewise be taken into consideration, and full indemnity made, since it is known, by former advices from China, as well as by more recent accounts, that the Spaniards have since carried on a lucrative trade indeed with China in the article of furs, which was grafted on their stoppage of our ships, and the depredations committed by them on our property; from which cause the late disputes with Spain originated. It is settled that should the two Commissioners above named not agree in opinion, respecting the quantum of damages which the Court of Spain ought to pay, that a third person should be called in, named by some power in friendship with two countries, who shall arbitrate between these Gentlemen.—The merchants engaged in this business are not the needy adventurers reported to be; they were engaged in an extensive line of commerce, and had prepared buildings, which, though not fit for habitation, were sufficiently strong for the deposit of their furs.—Thus, therefore, we see that the terms of the convention with Spain will very soon be brought to a conclusion. Indeed it would never be otherwise supposed, than that our Government would see it carried into effect. The Commissioners will meet the latter end of this month.
JUNE 30.
Yesterday morning Mr. Wiffin, the King's Messenger, arrived at the Secretary of State's Office with dispatches from Lord Gower at Paris, containing an account that their Most Christian Majesties, with the Dauphin and the Princess Elizabeth, had returned to that capital on Friday evening, and were escorted to their Palace at the Thuilleries without any tumult or other accident.
When they came to the gates of Paris, M. de Biron got into the carriage in which the King and Queen rode, and M. de la Fayette into that in which were the Dauphin and Princess Elizabeth, to guard them, by their presence, from any insult of popular indignation.
The carriages were conducted thro' the streets, which were lined with national guards, and crowded behind them with an immense concourse of people, in perfect tranquility to the
Palace, where the Royal Family alighted.
Mr. Wiffin left Paris on Friday night, and arrived at Boulogne on Saturday, where he was detained for some time, on account of the general embargo at the sea-ports.
When it was known, that the Royal carriages and the procession of National guards approached, the streets leading directly from the Barriere to the Thuilleries were filled with people, and even those communicating with them were crowded with parties, consisting chiefly of women and children. All the houses in Paris, not commanding a view of the procession, seemed to be deserted by their inhabitants.
When their Majesties arrived, the displeasure of the populace burst into groans, expressive of such disgust, contempt and malignity, as were horrible even to those who knew themselves not to be the objects of them. The National guard, however, restrained the populace; and their majesties suffered not the least violence. Upon some message from the Municipality of Paris or the Directory of the Department, it is said, that several officers of the guards, by whom M. de la Fayette was surrounded, exclaimed—"The King will defend with our lives, but we will not answer for the safety of the Queen." M. de la Fayette heard this with great composure, and when the Royal carriage arrived, he stopped it; then, entering, he said to the officers and the crowd—"I will protect the Queen."
Their Majesties thus protected reached the Thuilleries, when the King, Queen and Dauphin, were lodged in separate apartments.
Thursday Mr. Wilmot obtained a verdict of 500l. damages against his footman, for criminal conversation with his wife.
JULY 2.
It is understood that matters in dispute between the British and Russian Cabinets are now wholly removed, and that a peace between the Czarina and the Grand Signor will be concluded before the summer is over.
The Russians have been worsted in an attempt to take Brailow by a coupe-de-main; the particulars of this affair are not as yet made public, but the fact may be depended upon.
Nothing remarkable concerning their Majesties the King and Queen of France arrived yesterday in the advices from Paris. They are both in the Thuilleries; but the Queen, it was supposed, would be shortly removed to the convent of Val de Grace.
When the King and Queen of France and their family arrived at the Thuilleries, three noblemen (Messrs. Valoris, Moutier, and Magnan, of the body guards) who were suspected of being privy to the flight of the royal family, were tied with ropes on the King's coach.—The royal family of France met in the chapel-royal on Sunday, and the Queen fainted at the sight of her children, from whom, as well as from the King, she was separated, when they reached Paris.
The King and Queen of France were furnished with passports, procured by M. Simolin, the Russian Minister, as a Swedish family of rank.
Monsieur and Madame of France, arrived at Brussels on the 26th of June, and the Comte d'Artois arrived at the same place on the 27th.
The King of France declared to the Commissioners deputed by the National Assembly, that HE NEVER INTENDED TO PASS BEYOND THE BOUNDARIES OF THE KINGDOM. When this declaration was announced to the National Assembly it excited a general murmur.
The National Assembly of France have published a reply to the King's proclamation which contains the following animated passage:
"Frenchmen! all the powers are organized; all the public functionaries are at their posts; the National Assembly watches over the safety of the state; may you be firm and tranquil: One danger alone threatens us. You have to guard against the suspension of your
labours—against delay in the payment of duties—against any inflammatory measures, which commence in anarchy and end in civil war. It is to these dangers that the National Assembly calls the attention of citizens. In this crisis, all private animosities and private interests should disappear."
"Those who would preserve their liberty, should shew that tranquil firmness which appalls tyrants. May the factious, who hope to see every thing overturned, find order maintained, and the constitution confirmed, and rendered more dear to Frenchmen, by the attacks made upon it. The capital may be an example to the rest of France. The flight of the King excited no disorders there; but, to the confusion of the malevolent, the utmost tranquility prevails in it. To reduce the territory of this empire to the yoke, it will be necessary to destroy the whole; national despotism, if it pleases, may make such attempt—It will either fall, or, at the conclusion of its triumphs, will find only ruins."
On the 26th ult. ended the permanent sitting of the National Assembly, which continued without intermission, 127 hours, the Members relieving each other while they took their rest, and refreshed themselves. It began on Tuesday the 21st, and lasted until Sunday at half past three o'clock.
George Hammond, Esq. his Majesty's Secretary of Legation at Madrid, arrived in town on Wednesday, and is said to bring an account of some new difficulties opposed by the Spanish court to the fulfilment of the stipulations of the convention.
By the latest accounts which Government have received from Madrid, it is found that the same misguided and violent spirit, which at present distracts and disturbs all France, has spread its baneful fermentations through several of the provinces of Spain, and had created much alarm and apprehension among the Ministers of that country.
PHILADELPHIA, August 11.
Extract of a letter from Fort-Pitt, dated August 2, 1791.
"On Sunday, 24th ult. two Indians arrived from Fort-Franklin with a talk to General Butler: they inform us that a majority of the Five Nations intend to go to war with us, and may be expected to march towards Pittsburgh in a few weeks."
"On Monday, 25th, Lieut. Thompson arrived in camp, having been absent three days, without seeing any Indians."
"On Sunday last a number of people were fired on by the Indians at Poke-Run, within twenty miles of Pittsburgh."
"Last evening a soldier arrived from Fort Franklin, who informs us, that a man was taken prisoner by the Indians, within one hundred yards of the Fort."
"Ensign Bond is expected from Vinango every day."
"This day Captains Doyle and Beatie embarked for Fort-Washington, the river in very bad condition."
"Captains Newcastle and Phelon are expected here in a few days."
A few days before captain Goodwin sailed from Rotterdam, a ship and a brig, with passengers sailed for Baltimore.
AUGUST 13.
Extract of a letter from London, to a house in this city, received by the Lark, arrived at New-York, dated June 7th.
"The dispute with Russia is yet unsettled, but I think it will be adjusted in an amicable manner this summer, and a general peace take place throughout Europe. I would advise you, therefore, to make no speculations that are not founded on pacific principles; and with regard to the prices your produce, you will be guided by the advices you may receive from different quarters. The crops of grain in Europe have, from all accounts, bear the most luxuriant appearance but particularly so through-
out this island, where every kind of grain is really abundant and promising."
BOSTON, August 24.
British Three per cent. consols. have been contracted at New-York, to be delivered for the Three per cent. stock of the United States.
Last Saturday, Capt. Lewis arrived at Marblehead, from Bilboa, which he left on the 15th of June. He informs, that the Spanish Government were extremely jealous of the French; and it was said that a time was fixed for all French residents to quit the kingdom, under a pretext that the great fire at Madrid last year was occasioned by Frenchmen. A story was also propagated, that the French King and the Marquis de la Fayette were imprisoned in Paris.
Capt. Bailey, of Marblehead, also arrived there on Saturday, from Lisbon, which he left the 11th of July. Just before he sailed a report prevailed there, and was told too by masters of vessels immediately from French ports— that the King of France had escaped from Paris, and fled into Germany.
Capt. Bailey saw at Lisbon, Capt. Patten of Marblehead, who had just arrived there from St. Petersburg, which he left about the 11th of May; and who informed him, that the capital rung with accounts of the prowess and success of the Russian arms; that the most recent account, brought by an officer, from the army was,—that after the capture of Ibrailow by the Russians, they had penetrated through the country, with irresistible rapidity, to within a few miles of Constantinople, destroying every thing in their furious progress, and an incredible number of defenceless men, women and children, falling an indiscriminate sacrifice to it.
The symptoms of the Scirpophobia subside very fast. Longitude of countenance is one of the indications of the persons bitten.
Scrips have, since our last, vibrated between 150 and 190 dollars.
MARINE JOURNAL.
Arrived at Philadelphia, Ship Diana, Capt. Ozias Goodwin, from Rotterdam, with 150 passengers.
Arrived, at Portland, Capt. Richard Codman, in 58 days from Plymouth. On his passage spoke with the Ship Rashly, Capt. Wyatt, from Halifax, bound to London. Capt. Codman being short of provisions, was amply and generously supplied by Capt. Wyatt.
PORTSMOUTH, August 25.
The white and black cockades have disappeared, in the French West-Indies, but the greatest part of the citizens have laid by the national cockade.
A letter from Maryland dated Georgetown, Aug. 1. mentions, that Mr. Ellicot, the Surveyor General, is busily employed in the federal city, in opening streets, laying off squares, lots, &c. and that it is expected the publick buildings will be begun next spring, which will give employ to 3000 workmen. It also mentions that a dryer summer than the present was never experienced, having had but little rain since April last;—that the corn crops will be trifling; and as for tobacco, scarce any.
We hear from Philadelphia that the Secretary of the Treasury is buying six per cents at 20/15.
APPOINTMENT.
THE PRESIDENT of the United States, has been pleased to appoint TIMOTHY PICKERING, Esq. formerly of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Post-Master-General of the United States.
ENTRIES at the CUSTOM-HOUSE of this district.
ENTERED FROM Schooner Jane, Shackford, Hispaniola. [Two British vessels have arrived here, but neither of them have entered, they propose going to the eastward.]
CLEARED FOR Brig Elizabeth, Hooper, Scotland,

earth of its present growth, and a new one will succeed to be reaped down in its season.
As one harvest follows another, so do the generations of men. Let harvest awaken our attention to a future world, and hasten our preparation for that happier clime where seasons walk their rounds no more, and age no more succeeds to age; where one perpetual summer smiles, the stream of immortality constantly flows, on its banks the trees of life flourish in unfading verdure, and yield their fruits every month; where is no more poisonous curse, nor wasting death, nor painful labour; but life without decay; fullness without toil; rest without interruption, and joy without mixture of sorrow.
Harvest is a busy season. When this calls, time is precious. By one week's neglect, the labors of the past, and the hopes of the ensuing year are lost. Time is always precious in another view. The happiness of eternity is depending on present diligence. It is wise to lay up for ourselves, a good treasure against the time to come, that we may lay hold on eternal life. We labour for the meat which perishes: We are anxious to sustain the body, which after all that we can do, is mortal still. Let us rather labor for the meat which endures to eternal life, and which nourishes and sustains the immortal mind. Worldly diligence is commendable, but let it be subservient to diligence in our high calling.
It becomes us as rational beings to act with a steady regard to futurity. We have a kind of natural faith, if I may so call it, which standing on the ground of past experience, looks forward with expectation of a future harvest. Let christians, standing on more elevated ground, the ground of divine revelation, and commanding a more extensive prospect, the prospect of immortality, look far beyond this world to things unseen, and anticipate the blessings of the heavenly state. In full persuasion of the promised glory, let them patiently endure the sufferings, and cheerfully perform the duties allotted them in this low station and short period of their existence. Let them not be weary in well doing, for in due season they will reap, if they faint not; and they who sow bountifully, will reap also bountifully.
From the MIDDLESEX (Conn.) GAZETTE.
On the CELERITY of SCANDAL.
AMONG the many vices that are incident to human frailty, few perhaps, except murder (and I hardly dare except that) are so baneful and injurious among mankind as Scandal . A man had better be dead than from illiberal reflections suffer painful mortification through life, by backbiters, who, stab the reputation,
without truth, and vilify without knowledge. The most virtuous become envious in the eyes of their most intimate and bosom friends, when the defamer is despised for his illiberal sarcasms for trivial vices; of which they themselves are, in greater magnitude guilty. Shakespear gives us a truth, when he observes in one of his Tragedies to this effect:
"He who takes my money, takes trash, But he that filches from me my good name, Robs me of that which not enriches him, But makes me poor indeed."
If there is a temporary gratification in berating our neighbors, upon reflection it must "Harrow up our souls, and make us startle at destruction." For Death in Life comes to mortals too often by the loss of friends: And there is no mean so pitiful to acquire a supremacy over a man and the peace of families as that of insinuation; an artful wound that wears a plausibility without a truth.
Those who satyrize, should be tenacious of their own faults, and ever keep this proverb in view: "Satire comes not from men of sense, sagacity, or men of eloquence."
Scandal arises from envy, the pitiful subterfuge of a perturbed, weak mind, against the prosperity of others, not arising from any injury received, but from the credit, benefit, and supposed advantages that they will obtain in the novelty of calumniating. "Sweet balm of Gilead to a censorious mind." Swim down the deceptious flood, glide on the sweet surface of imaginary commendation, and you will land on the rock of affliction, descend from honor to ignominy, from pleasure to pain, from affluence to poverty, and from that to an universal contempt. Then comes Lex Talionis , a return of the vital stab, with double poignance of reflection.
It seems almost impossible for admonitions of the greatest weight to reclaim vicious minds; but some vices may receive a check, a friendly secret admonition, without its being promulgated to all his acquaintance, whereby he gets a bad name.
"No man liveth to himself and sinneth not."
Where is the man on earth immaculate, or without his foible? If a good citizen and doth not disturb the peace, pray let him pass.
He who takes upon him the evils incident to human frailty, and undertakes to bring about a reformation agreeable to his own local feelings, hath little to hope for, but much to fear, and need be a Colossus to bear the foibles mankind are liable to.
Scandal comes generally thro' a hypocritical, designing passion to injure upon imaginary ground; when the innocent loses a character, and the culprit gains nothing by it.
Calumny should ever be
spurned at in all companies, for he that will revile against one, will against another, and no character is secure. Let us ever carry a listening ear, with a silent tongue against others foibles. "Pluck the beam from thine own eye."
Though to a man some trivial errors fall, Open his heart and you'll forget them all.
Declaimers who attempt by an apparent shew of profound erudition to damp and terify their auditors, (with thinking persons or people of sense) must consider that they are not only liable to censure, but become obnoxious and are viewed as men of danger. Men tho' equal with themselves in literary abilities, have suffered much in a friendly conversation, where they thought themselves secure. But when a man is gazed at with the eagle eye of malevolence, and his footsteps traced to his prejudice, Where is friendship to be found?
You may probably hear from me on this subject, &c:
From the Independent Gazetteer. A CURE for the MEASLES in SWINE.
IT frequently happens that Swine are killed when disordered by the measles, which is easily discovered by the meat or flesh containing small globular red or white pustules, of different sizes, varying according to the different degrees of the disease; which originate from their being fed with musty, damaged corn, or some unwholesome food; or from its being boiled in lead and copper vessels, in which it hath lain too long; or from their being kept in a wet or dirty pen; either of which causes tends to obstruct the free circulation of the fluids; hence arises those globular pustules, which are the juices rendered viscid and coagulated.—About once a week, mix two spoonfuls of madder in their food, which prevents obstructions acting as a diuretick, and at the same time an astringent. And on some other day in the week, give a spoonful or two (of equal quantity) of flour of sulphur and salt petre, well pounded and mixed, which purifies and cools the blood. All these different articles added to each pail of food in the morning, on separate days, prevent the measles, keep the Swine extremely healthy, and fatten them more expeditiously.
Horrible instance of revengeful Jealousy.
THE marchioness of Astorgas who lived in the time of Charles the 2d King of Spain, suspected the fidelity of her husband.—Having discovered that he had engaged in an amour with a young lady, distinguished almost beyond the rest of her sex by the graces of her person, and the beauties of her countenance, she flew at once to this unfortunate object of her resentment, murdered her, tore out her heart, and
then, returning home, had it served up among the dishes at the table of her husband: When he had eaten of it, she asked him whether the dish which she had purposely prepared for him, proved agreeable to his palate. He answered, that he had found it delicious,— "At this (said she) I am not surprised; for it is the heart of the woman whom you so much adored." Scarcely had she uttered these words, when taking from a cabinet the bloody head of this devoted victim of her jealousy, she rolled it along the table at which her husband and several of his friends were sitting. Availing herself of the first moments in which they remained motionless and astonished at the horror of the scene, the marchioness instantly disappeared, took refuge in a convent, and there becoming a lunatic, expired under an agony of mind too shocking to admit of a description.
ANECDOTES.
A MINISTER in Massachusetts, in the midst of Sermon time, perceiving that the old people in the seats below were asleep, and the boys in the gallery were enjoying a pleasant afternoon in whispering and playing, he looked sternly at the young rogues, and with a stamp cried out, "Boys be still there—you make such a racket, that the old men can't sleep."
A LEARNED Judge traveling the circuit, not a century ago, bargained with a countryman for a horse, to span one in his four-wheeled carriage, and desired, as the countryman knew him, to let him to a distant country on trial.—The countryman consented, but before his Honor returned, the horse died. On the Judge's relating the circumstance, the countryman shrugged up his shoulders, and said he "did not expect that the poor creature would have lived long."  "Not live long," returned the Judge angrily, "how then came you to let me have him?"  "Oh," replied the countryman, "you mistake my meaning, I thought nothing could live long after you had it ON TRIAL."
SCRIP.
NOW sixty years have roll'd about, Since grandame Britain saw, The famous south sea bubble-rouse, Rais'd by that schemer Law. Of golden mountains—in the moon, What pictures did they draw! And diamonds dimming sol at noon, Form'd by that conj'rer Law. But soon they found the bubble burst The balloon had a flaw; And thousands found themselves accursed, That built their hopes on Law. This fatal fact one would have thro't, Should fill mankind with awe! But we by ruin still untaught, In SCRIP have distanc'd LAW.