Gazette of the United-States. (New-York [N.Y.]), 1790-09-04 00:00:00

Gazette of the United States.
PUBLISHED WEDNESDAYS AND SATURDAYS BY JOHN FENNO, No. 41, BROAD-STREET, NEAR THE EXCHANGE, NEW-YORK.
[No. 42, of Vol. II.]
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1790.
[WHOLE No. 452.]
FOR THE GAZETTE OF THE UNITED STATES.
DISCOURSES ON DAVILA.
No. XIX.—CONTINUED.
Mais l'un et l'autre Guise ont eu moins de scrupule. Ces chefs ambitieux d'un peuple trop credule, Courant leurs intérêts de l'intérêt des eux Ont conduit dans le piège un peuple furieux.
THE first measure advised by Dandelot and the Vidame de Chartres, was that a large number of those who professed the Protestant religion, should assemble and present themselves without arms at court, to petition the King for liberty of conscience, the public exercise of their religion, and permission to have temples for that purpose. Davila, the Catholic and Italian, has recorded in this place, all the party exaggeration on his mistress and the Guises. He says, that if the petition of the Protestants was severely and haughtily rejected, as it indubitably would be, they were to march immediately troops assembled secretly from all the Provinces; that these should suddenly appear under different leaders who should be appointed for them, that finding the King unguarded and the court without defence, they were to massacre the duke of Guise and the Cardinal of Lorrain, with all their creatures; and oblige the King to declare, regent and lieutenant-general of the kingdom, the Prince of Condé, who should grant them a cessation of punishment and liberty of conscience. It was believed at the time and published, that the chiefs of the conspiracy, had given secret orders, if every thing succeeded to their wishes, to put to the sword the Queen-mother, the King himself, and his brothers, that the crown in this way might descend to the Princes of Bourbon. But Davila himself acquits them of this atrocious accusation, by adding, that none of the accomplices having avowed this horrible design, neither when on the rack, nor of their own accord, but all on the contrary having formally denied it, I cannot relate it as a fact. We know very well that fame, aided by the vain terrors of the people, and the malignity of the great, takes a pleasure in magnifying objects to infinity.
The plan being thus concerted among the conspirators, they divided the provinces and employments, among the principal Calvinists, that the execution might be attended with as much order and secrecy as possible. Barri, de la Renaudie assumed the principal part, and put himself at the head of the enterprize. This was a person celebrated for his travels and adventures. His wit and courage had acquired him credit among the Hugenots. He wanted neither spirit to undertake nor vivacity to execute. The disarrangement of his fortune had reduced him to the alternative of procuring himself a better condition by some daring attempt, or of terminating his misfortunes by a sudden death. Although issued from the first nobility of Perigord, he had wandered long in different countries, and had at length taken refuge in Geneva, where by his subtilty he had acquired some consideration. Such was the birth and character of the principal leader of the conspiracy, who was soon followed by a great number of associates, some excited by a zeal for religion, others by the attractions of novelty, and others simply by that natural inquietude, which never permits the French to languish in idleness.
La Renaudie confided to the chiefs among them, the care of assembling their partizans and conducting them to the rendezvous. The intelligence with which he distributed provinces, introduced a kind of order into this confusion. Castelneau had the department of Gascony, Mazers that of Bearn, Dumesnil that of Limosin, Mira beau that of Saintonge, Coueville, Picardy; Mourans, Provence; Maligni, Champagne; Saint-Marie, Normandy; and Montejean, Brittany: all famous for courage, distinguished by their nobility, and considered in their cities and cantons, as heads of the party. These factionaries, after having assembled at Nantes, a city of Brittany, some under the pretext of a lawsuit, and others under that of a marriage, repaired with great diligence to the posts which were assigned them. In a few days, and with admirable secrecy, they there gained an infinite number of persons of all conditions, ready to sacrifice their lives for an enterprize, which their preachers assured them tended to the advantage and tranquillity of the state.
(To be continued.)
LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES. PUBLISHED
By Authority.
CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES:
AT THE SECOND SESSION. Begun and held at the City of New-York, on Monday the fourth of January, one thousand seven hundred and ninety.
An ACT for the relief of the persons therein mentioned or described.
BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the register of the treasury shall, and is hereby required to grant unto Sarah, the widow of the late major-general Earl of Stirling, who died in the service of the United States, a certificate to entitle her to a sum equal to an annuity for seven years half pay of a major-general, to commence as from the fourteenth day of January, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-three, in conformity to the act of the late Congress, passed on the twenty-fourth day of August, one thousand seven hundred and eighty; the amount for which the said certificate is to be granted, to be ascertained by the secretary of the treasury, and on similar principles as other debts of the United States are liquidated and certified.
And be it further enacted, That the said register shall grant unto Frances Eleanor Laurens, the orphan daughter of the late lieutenant colonel John Laurens, who was killed whilst in the service of the United States, a certificate to entitle her to a sum equal to an annuity for seven years half pay of a lieutenant-colonel, to commence as from the twenty-fifth day of August, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-two, according to the act of the late Congress of the twenty-fourth day of August, one thousand seven hundred and eighty; the amount for which the said certificate is to be granted, to be ascertained by the secretary of the treasury in manner aforesaid.
And whereas no provision hath heretofore been made for discharging the arrears of pensions due to officers, non-commissioned officers, and soldiers, who were wounded and disabled whilst in the service of the United States: Therefore,
Be it further enacted, That each of the officers, non-commissioned officers and soldiers, who were so wounded and disabled, and who are now placed on the books in the office of the secretary for the department of war, as a pensioner, or to be so placed in conformity to any law of this Congress, shall receive from the register of the treasury, who is hereby required to grant the same, a certificate, to be liquidated and settled in such manner as the secretary of the treasury shall direct, for a sum equal to the pension annually due to him, to commence from the time he became entitled thereto, or from the time to which the same had been paid, as the case may be, which shall be ascertained and certified by the said secretary for the department of war, and which annuity shall be liquidated to the fourth day of March, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-nine, from which day the United States have assumed the payment of the pensions certified by the several states. And in case of the death of any person so entitled, the certificate shall pass to his heirs or legal representative or representatives.
And be it further enacted, That the widow or orphan of each officer, non-commissioned officer or soldier who was killed or died whilst in the service of the United States, and who is now placed on the books in the office of the said secretary, as entitled to a pension, by virtue of any act of the said late Congress, or any law of this Congress, and for whom provision has not been made by any state, and to whom any arrears of such pension are due, and which have arisen prior to the said fourth day of March, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-nine, shall receive a certificate therefor in like manner, and on the same principles, as certificates are by this act directed to be given to officers, non-commissioned officers and soldiers, who were wounded or disabled as aforesaid.
FREDERICK AUGUSTUS MUHLENBERG,
Speaker of the House of Representatives. JOHN ADAMS, Vice-President of the United States, and President of the Senate.
APPROVED, AUGUST THE ELEVENTH, 1790. GEORGE WASHINGTON, President of the United States. (TRUE COPY)
THOMAS JEFFERSON, Secretary of State.
RESOLVED by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all surveys of lands in the Western Territory made under the direction of the late geographer, Thomas Hutchins, agreeable to contracts for part of the said lands, made with the late Board of Treasury, be returned to, and perfected by the Secretary of the Treasury, so as to compleat the said contracts: And that the said Secretary be, and is hereby authorised to direct the making and compleating any other surveys that remain to be made, so as to comply on the part of the United States with the several contracts aforesaid, in conformity to the terms thereof.
FREDERICK AUGUSTUS MUHLENBERG,
Speaker of the House of Representatives. JOHN ADAMS, Vice-President of the United States, and President of the Senate.
APPROVED, AUGUST THE TWELFTH, 1790. GEORGE WASHINGTON, President of the United States. (TRUE COPY.)
THOMAS JEFFERSON, Secretary of State.
ORIGIN OF CARDS.
CARDS were invented in the reign of Charles VI. king of France, to amuse him during the intervals of that disorder which conducted him to the grave. The world would have suffered no loss, had his majesty been suffered to die in peace without this invention.
P A R I S.
NATIONAL ASSEMBLY OF FRANCE.
June 19.
A Deputation was received from the conquerors of the Bastille: The assembly decreed, "that each conqueror of the Bastille should, in the name of the Assembly, receive a suit of cloaths and arms complete, with his name inscribed on the sabre, and a mark of distinction put on the coat."
M. Alexander de Lameth informed the Assembly, that a deputation was coming to Paris from French Comte and Alsace, which countries were represented by slaves chained round the pedestals of statues. He then moved, that all such symbols of servitude should be removed.
This motion was seconded with a further demand, that, as a consequence of the declared Rights of Man—the titles of Duke, Marquis, Count, &c. be suppressed.
M. de Foucault enquired how the Assembly would recompense the soldiers of the Bands of Piedmont, to whom Henry II. gave letters of Nobility in these words—"I make you noble, and count, for having saved the state."
The Marquis de la Fayette replied, "We would put down that John or Thomas had saved the state."
M. Alex. de Lameth observed that Duke, Count and Marquis, did not sound better than Charles Fox, George Washington, or Benjamin Franklin.
After a violent debate, and much opposition, the Assembly at last passed two decrees, which were in substance—
"The National Assembly, at the approach of the great day of the General Confederation, wishing to set all the French the example of fraternity, decrees, That the symbols of servitude at the foot of the statues of the Kings in the capital, shall be immediately destroyed."
"The National Assembly, considering that hereditary Nobility cannot subsist in a free state, enacts in consequence, that the titles of Duke, Count, Marquis, Baron, Excellency, Greatness, Abbe, and the like, shall be abolished, and that all the citizens shall take, in future, their family and patronymick names; that no one shall in future cause liveries to be worn, or take a coat of arms; that incense shall no longer be burnt in the temples, unless in honor of the Divinity; that the title of Monseigneur shall not be given to any individual or body; but at the same time, no injury shall be offered, under pretence of executing the present decree, to property, or to public or private monuments, nor shall any one be forced to lay aside his liveries in Paris till the 14th of July, and in the Provinces till the expiration of three months."
JUNE 25.
A deputation was introduced of 863 conquerors of the Bastille, with Mr. Bailly at their head. These brave fellows, finding that the honorable decree passed in their favor by the Assembly had excited the envy of their fellow citizens, and the enemies of the commonweal were making use of this opportunity to disturb the public peace, generously declined the advantages to which they were entitled, rather than occasion any disturbance.
The meeting was terminated by a decree, expressed in these terms:
The National Assembly, affected with the noble patriotism of the brave citizens who conquered the Bastille, accepts the renunciation of the distinctions which had been granted them by the decree of the 19th inst. The National Assembly farther decrees, that there shall be made in the verbal process the most honourable mention of their generous sacrifice.
LONDON, June 30.
Mr. Major, one of the King's messengers, arrived last night at the Secretary of State's Office, with dispatches from Mr. Fitzherbert at Madrid.
A Council was immediately held; and if any thing can be inferred from the proceedings of the night, and the present situation of affairs, the hopes of peace seem farther removed than ever.
There was no accompanying messenger to the Spanish Ambassador; but agreeable to the courtesy of the times, Mr. Major was entrusted with dispatches for his Excellency the Marquis del Campo also; and, from every circumstance that has since transpired, the rupture that was before only dreaded, is now no longer problematical.

ON THE LATE REVOLUTION IN FRANCE, &c. CONTINUATION.
THE most effectual means should be instantly pursued to check this growing mischief; and perhaps none could be better than re-establishing the obsolete practice of issuing general warrants, at the discretion of the Secretary of State. If there should still remain any absurd prejudices against the name, let them be called lettres de cachet . A late eminent magistrate recommended the adoption of this measure, with great force of reasoning, and unanswerable argument, in order to check the migration of our manufacturers, and the export of our spinning-jennys; but now the French revolution, and the wise extension of our excise laws, have made it not only prudent, but absolutely necessary for the preservation of the empire. The present member for Middlesex has a glorious opportunity of making the amende honorable to his king, country, and constituents, by bringing in a bill to legalize general warrants, or lettres de cachet . Let the commons pass it, and the lords will not venture to throw it out. The daring menaces of the tobacconists, in their evidence, may serve as a preamble to the act; and a special clause may be inserted to suspend the pernicious operation of the habeas corpus act for seven years; and at the end of that time it will be totally forgot.
In short, the expediency of strengthening the arm of executive power is universally admitted; and as we have hitherto derived all our riches, glory, and happiness, by keeping up a cordial enmity, and provoking rivalry between us and France, by a total diversity of laws, opinions, and constitution; let us still, with patriotic pertinacity, adhere to our old system, and we may yet bid defiance to all our enemies, foreign and domestic. On this principle, the following hints may be of use.—
Let the whole of the British revenue be farmed to that great comptroller of finance, Mons. C.—Let a royal imprimatur be established; (nibbling at the newspapers, by forbidding them to be lent, is a nugatory policy;) let both houses of convocation meet to recommend lotteries, and his Majesty's proclamation for the reformation of manners; let them appoint a committee, (Doctor H. in the chair) to cite, degrade, and deprive such of the clergy of their benefices who shall presume to support any of the present members of the house of commons, at the next general election, who voted for a repeal of the test act; let them examine, and sentence to the flames, all publications of an immoral tendency, and commit the authors, printers, and readers to Newgate; let the schism bill, which expired on the 1st of August 1714, be revived; let the authority of the bishops' court be extended, and no appeal allowed from their decisions, except to heaven. Something of this sort has been already done, just sufficient to provoke the animadversions of Doctor Price; and what more can be said in praise of administration?
Even you, Sir, must acknowledge that I spread no false alarms, when we are at this moment menaced with a restoration of the pagan divinities. The Pantheon may receive the gods of Greece and Rome; and perhaps we may see the worship which has been very lately abolished at Isernia, revived at Ranelagh. Our youth are early initiated into the mysteries of the heathen mythology, and have too strong a propensity to kneel at the shrine of Venus, and pour out libations to Bacchus. In short, the revolution in France, the spirit of the dissenters, and the licentious wish of a platonic philosopher, strike me with the utmost horror. The approaching calamities of Britain lie heavy on my heart. At all events, I shall endeavor to act with fortitude and resignation:
“Such in those moments, as in the past, O save my country, Heaven, shall be my last.”
But a consideration of the utmost importance yet remains. The dangerous revolt of the military, on whom the stability and glory of the French monarchy rested, has excited my indignation, and almost driven me to despair. If soldiers once presume to consider themselves as citizens, to enter into any discussion and distinctions on this invidious subject, there will be no use in keeping up those large standing armies, to which modern governments owe their brilliancy and power.—No similar instance has happened since the year 1688. “James drew out his army,” says Lord Bolinbroke, “but in vain, for it was an English one.” Louis did not draw out his army, for it was no longer a French one! And thus kings have been deserted, and delivered up into the hands of their revolted subjects, and a fatal revolution brought about in France and England, by the shameful defection of the troops. But an extension of the evil is still to be dreaded, and has already taken effect. Papers, called le Soldat Patriotique , are dispersed among the military on the continent, exciting the privates of every battalion to mutiny; and tauntingly asking them, whether they are not degra-
ded, by submitting to the caprice of puerile aristocrats, who are wittily commissioned by their sovereign to drill and chastise them into military discipline, by the magical effects of a rattan ?—These inflammatory addresses have already had such a fatal operation, that I question whether a German prince could now induce his troops, by double pay, to fulfil a contract with us or Spain, if the flame of rebellion should spread to her colonies in South America, or to the Isle of Man.
On the whole, Sir, I own myself terrified at the very idea of innovation. The fermentation of democracy, begun in France, may extend here, and excite a fatal change in our tempers and dispositions. Your philosophical pursuits incline you to be less tremblingly apprehensive; you falsely conclude from analogy, that our constitution may be improved by impregnating it with a new principle, as you have given common water the spirit and flavor of Pyrmont, by a lucky infusion of fixed air. But the ancients were wisely, and even timidly circumpect on this essential point of policy. The kings and ephors of Sparta have justly merited and obtained the praises of all posterity, for issuing a decree against Timotheus, and fining him, for adding another string to the harp. Those profound judges of human nature instantly perceived that the laws and constitutions of Lycurgus would soon be despised, and rendered obsolete, by the wanton vibrations excited in the ears of their sober and uncorrupted youth, by this unconstitutional string. They expressly say, “He has given to our music an effeminate and artificial dress, instead of the plain and orderly one in which it has hitherto appeared; rendering melody infamous, by composing in the chromatic , instead of the enharmonic . Be it therefore enacted, by the authority aforesaid, that Timotheus be banished from our city, that men may be warned for the future not to introduce any innovation into Sparta!”
I only quote this very singular historical anecdote, to convince our self-opinionated, sceptical reformers, that nothing was deemed trifling by the wisdom of antiquity, which could in the slightest degree tend to any alteration in the government.
In the present wildness of political speculation in France, I should not be surprised if some declaiming demagogue proposed the eating of raw flesh, a la mode d' Abyssinie , in order to keep up the rage and violence of the commons in unabated vigor. An act of the National Assembly (considering their unhappy influence) would soon make this savage custom fashionable, under the fallacious pretence of reducing the price of wood; and rendering one article of the commercial treaty of no effect, by preventing the importation of coals. This barbarous nutriment would soon be relished here, as we have always had a propensity to that sort of food; and would infallibly produce every atrocious act of ferocity which has already desolated that devoted land.
As the passions, taste and appetites, principally originate from the physical properties of our diet, our virtues and vices may be traced to the same source, and improved, or counteracted, by a moral regimen. This sentiment is neither new nor paradoxical; it has been already elucidated with philosophic truth and poetical beauty, by one of our most elegant and pleasing poets:
“Was ever Tartar fierce or cruel Upon the strength of water gruel? But who shall stand his rage and force, If first he rides, then eats his horse.”
The cruelty or mildness of animals depends on their either being graminivorous or carnivorous; man, by his dignified nature, enjoys the optional privilege of being either; but as he is also distinguished by enjoying the superior faculty of cooking , the direful effects of a raw-flesh diet are counteracted by this humane refinement. The Hindoos are meek, gentle, uncommonly patient, and submit to every act of extortion and rapine, with astonishing composure, and the most laudable resignation. Our countrymen, who, by their travels and indefatigable researches, have acquired a perfect and accurate knowledge of Indostan, all agree (however they may differ on other points) in giving the natives this very amiable character, and universally ascribe it to their simple vegetable diet. This physical principle is so well understood, that the fighting casts are compelled to eat flesh, as an essential part of military discipline; otherwise they would soon lose their courage and the esprit de corps , and meanly degenerate into the tameness of mere citizens.
I could adduce strong reasons for throwing out this alarming hint, and have now in my possession letters from a leading member of the National Assembly, to prove that this horrid scheme is in agitation. The vanity of Frenchmen induces them to think, that as they have long given the ton, en fait de manger , the most aristocratic people in Europe (even Spaniards and Germans) will soon eat themselves into a republican frenzy, as they will be stimulated by a fresh incentive at every meal. This is the favorite project of our restless and ambitious rivals at present, who still vainly flatter themselves with the hope of establishing a shocking system of universal demo-
cracy, by this infamous expedient. Our best preservative, in such an emergency, would be a general test act, depriving every man of the rights and privileges of a citizen, besides subjecting him to a fine, at the discretion of the judges, and imprisonment till it was paid, who did not produce and lodge a certificate weekly at the excise-office, signed by the rector, curate, and church-wardens of the parish, certifying his exact compliance with the obligatory clauses of the said act, to wit , “That A. or B. had duly and regularly eaten his flesh or fish, either boiled, roasted, baked, broiled, or fried.” Yet I am fully persuaded, that you, Sir, and your brethren, the dissenters, would still remain stubborn and refractory, and factiously complain of this salutary restraint, as a new grievance, and again expatiate on the natural and abstract rights of man, to eat his meat according to his own whim, either raw or roasted. To be continued.
CONGRESS.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. THURSDAY, July 29.
The Amendments to the Funding Bill under consideration.
THE house having agreed to insert seven years in lieu of ten insisted on by the Senate, as the time at the expiration of which, interest on the deferred part of the debt should commence; it was moved that the house should recede.
This motion was opposed by Mr. Lawrance, Mr. Gerry, and Mr. Ames; Mr. Sherman, Mr. Fitzsimons, Mr. Stone and Mr. Sedgwick, supported the motion.
Mr. Ames observed that it gave him great satisfaction when he reflected that the house through the long discussion of this important subject had discovered an uniform disposition to support the public faith; not an instance in our conduct I believe (said he) has occurred, through the whole course of this business at which we have cause to blush; this firmness and consistency has reflected the greatest honor on the house—and I would fondly hope, lays a happy foundation for the public mind to rest upon. He then offered some general observations on the immutability of public justice, the sacredness of public contracts—and applying the principles to the proposition of the Senate insisted that it was a manifest and glaring violation of the contract between the government and its creditors, and a departure from principle; for the Senate have agreed to the rate of redemption, viz. 8 pr. cent. per annum, agreeable to the first part of the amendment proposed by the House: the time for the commencement of interest, seven years, ought to follow of course.
He then shewed the operation of the proposition adopted by the Senate, and by calculations he had made, it would, he said, deprive the creditors of 18 pr. cent. of their deferred capital . He enlarged on the present and probable rate of interest, and from various deductions he shewed that the original proposition in the Secretary's report was more consonant to justice than any substitute which had been offered; and as that which the house had agreed to deviated less from it than that modified by the Senate, he hoped for these and other reasons, which he offered, that the house would not recede, but insist on their amendment, and request a conference.
Mr. Sedgwick said that the subject now before the house was of all others the most important, and that about which men of the most pure intentions might be supposed most to differ, without the imputation of improper motives. To this body was referred the important and arduous task of providing for an immense debt, to do this in such manner as to give satisfaction, an infinite variety of circumstances attending the creation of the debt, and what had been the operations with and upon it, were to be contemplated. The house had not only to determine what they ought to do, but they were also to guess what they could do.—What were the resources of the country, and the abilities of the government under these circumstances? He feared that the speculations of the closet, had produced systems, which prevented a spirit of accommodation and concession, which he believed was never more necessary. He besought gentlemen to reflect, that the utmost degree of certainty they could obtain that they were right, was a conjecture that they were so. Under these circumstances, he hoped that gentlemen would compassionate the circumstances of their country; he begged them to reflect that the commercial capital of this country was diverted to objects not only unproductive of any benefit to the community, but destructive of its most important interests; that the passion of avarice, the most sordid of any which can possess the human heart, was now raging to a pitch, of which the history of our country afforded no precedent. Men not only speculated in the funds, but they gambled even in contracts of speculation; bargains respecting the debt were sold in the market almost as frequently as the debt itself.—He asked if it was not the duty of every good man to exert himself to relieve this country from the effects of this unhappy situation. He observed that the difference in value between the provision proposed by the Senate, and that heretofore adopted by the House, was about one twelfth part. Temperate reflection he believed would prevent on this account one moment's pertinacious adherence to the conjectural calculations of the house.
Mr. Sedgwick said that his colleague (Mr. A.) had jealously contended that the amendment of the Senate was a departure from principle—this he did not understand to be the case. The Secretary had attached to his proposition for which this was a substitute, a quality of irredeemability; the house had varied this proposition—the Senate have done the same. Whether any or which of these calculations were right, no gentleman could with certainty predict. They are dependant on future events, known only to that being who had the supreme controul of them. He never could comprehend how this irredeemability, the worst quality in the opinion of the people of this country annexed to the terms of the loan, could justly be considered as an equivalent for that part of the debt of which the creditor was to be deprived for it. Notwithstanding he had always considered this as a principle understood by few, and desired by none—yet from a disposition to accommodate to the opinions of others, he had acceded to it; because without such a spirit of accommodation, every effort to effect the funding of the debt, would be found vain and ineffectual.—He wished other gentlemen would be equally disposed to conciliate; and he had no doubt but a majority would; for he would not suppose that they would endanger the loss of the accomplishment of the great business we had so long and painfully labored to effect—because a majority in the other house, who had an equal right with them to think and act for themselves, were not disposed to resort to their standard of truth.

EXTINCTION OF TITLES.
PRINCE, Duke and Marquis, Count and Abbé, Are TITLES lately grown so shabby, The people will no more respect e'm— E'en Noblemen themselves reject e'm— For by the magic of a sound, The world has been in fetters bound, To keep all future evil from us, Our safety lies in TIM and THOMAS. Hail happy age—long since foretold, That turns all baser coin to gold; Hail deep humility of spirit, That forms a common flock of merit; Allons the same exalted station To him who saves, or sinks, a nation.
NEW-YORK, SEPTEMBER 4.
INTELLIGENCE received by the GRANTHAM PACKET, which arrived here on Thursday in 49 days from FALMOUTH.
NATIONAL ASSEMBLY, JUNE 27.
A DEPUTATION from the inhabitants of Avignon informed the assembly that they had emancipated themselves from the tyranny and superstition they had so long groaned under, and came to throw themselves into the arms of France and be incorporated with its citizens.—The address was received with great pleasure. The conduct of M. de Mirabeau was then the subject of deliberation—he was charged by the deputies of the City of Perpignan with a design to let the city by the ears.
M. de Mirabeau made his appearance at the bar; and used his utmost endeavours to invalidate the charges against him: His defence, tho' it disproved some of the allegations, did not appear on the whole to be complete—A decision was deferred.
JUNE 29.
The Assembly took the situation of the island of Tobago into consideration, and ordered relief to the sufferers by the late fire. A short decree was passed on motion of Mr. Target, postponing the nomination of a commander in chief of the National Guard at Versailles, till the decree for the organization of the National Guards is passed.
Several of the members delivered up their patents of nobility, and the insignia of their respective orders and ranks.
LONDON, July 10.
The Marquis de la Fayette has lately performed an act, which has deservedly acquired him much popularity. He made a motion in the Assembly, that the command of the national troops was too great a trust to be entirely vested in one person.—The motion was adopted by the Senate. The Marquis, therefore, so far from being appointed Grand Prevot, is not near so great a man as before. He now commands only a part of the national forces.
The Queen of Spain's party, which is much the strongest, are determined, as is generally understood, on a war. The King's party see the necessity of arming, but wish to protract giving any answer to England.
The signal for war it is supposed will be given by the King of Prussia, and intelligence of his having commenced hostilities against Austria, is every hour expected.
The Prince lost between eight and ten thousand pounds at Ascot Races, the greatest part of which was betted against Mr. Fox's Sea gull. The Prince is said to have been so irritated against some of the jockeys for unfair play, as to have declared, he will never make another bet on Ascot Race Ground.
The British fleet was in port 7 July; on which day the Dutch squadron of 10 sail, 8 of the line, arrived at St. Helens under the command of Mon. le Chevalier de Kingsbergen.
The Ferret Sloop of War arrived at Falmouth from Gibraltar on the 20 June law 35 Pendants flying in harbor of Cadiz—of that number 18 Ships were of the line.
Dispatches have again been received from Lieut. Riou of the Guardian, which put it beyond doubt that he had reached the Cape.
Warshaw June 12: The second of this month the City of Lissa was destroyed by fire. The whole, excepting 12 houses was swept away by the flames.
The Swedes are pushing the war against the Russians with great ardor—and have been generally successful.
The demolition of the Bastille cost 200,000 livres: The materials sold have produced hardly 36,000.
Agreeable to orders from the National Assembly, the Nunneries in France have been visited and inspected—and the result is that the most humiliating remains of bigotry ignorance and superstition are found to exist in those receptacles.
A strong democratic spirit has discovered itself in some late resolutions passed by the Diet of Hungary—They have annihilated all distinction between their upper and lower house of assembly.
Frequent skirmishes take place between the Austrians and Patriots in the low countries—in which great numbers are killed on both sides: The posts of the Patriots according to a late survey ordered by the Congress of the states are said to be in excellent order.
The seventeenth June—nothing decisive respecting Spain had transpired: Mr. Fitzherbert was then negotiating at the Court of Madrid.
A severe action has taken place between the Austrians and Turks; which terminated in the defeat of the latter. The Austrians were commanded by General Scleny: The Turks rallied several times but were finally driven off the field—the Austrians lost 28 officers.
Mr. Fitzherbert had his first audience of the King of Spain the 12 June: The same day he dispatched a messenger to the Court of Great-Britain.
The King of Hungary has assembled an army of 150,000 men on the frontiers of Prussia.
Accounts from Leghorn mention that the white and red cockade has been assumed by the people of that city—the Churches broke open; great disorders prevailed, and many lives were lost; the tumult was appeased by the governors sending off to the court of Vienna a statement of the demands of the people.
The monster, alias the person who has been a terror to the females of the City of London for several months, by cutting and maiming women in the Streets, has been tried, and found guilty; the person turns out to be one Renwick Williams—several other indictments are yet pending against him—judgment is respited to December sessions.
A SURPRISING INSTANCE OF SLEEP WALKING. A person dreamt that he was catching birds. In the morning he found a whole nest of swallows in his bed. He had, in the night mounted an high ladder, and taken the birds under the eve of the house.
Extract of a letter from London, July 2.
The greatest number of new members will be returned for the next parliament that ever was known: This is occasioned by the debates on the repeal of the Test Act. The established Clergy have made the most extraordinary exertions to displace the friends to the repeal of that act.—Our fleet is yet in port.
From the political Magazine for June 1790.
A pamphlet published in France, upon the present rupture, contains the following very reasonable proposition—"That neither Spain by the Pope's bull—nor England by the right of prior discovery, has obtained any sovereignty at Nootka Sound.
"The property of the district, says the writer, is in the inhabitants—and their permission to the English to settle, constitutes a claim, against which Spain has nothing to offer."
No exception being made from the Prince of the blood to the Abbe, in the Decree of the National Assembly which abolishes all Titles—the Duke of Orleans is now M. Bourbon, and the French Ambassador is no longer Count, but M. Luzerne.
It would be an immense saving of time, paper, ink, &c. &c. to abolish titles, distinctions, forms, etiquette, levees, drawing rooms, balls, courts, parties, &c. &c. in Great Britain: These form the great volume of contents to all the newspaper publications, and from which scarcely one important idea is ever gleaned.
The late grand Visir Hassán Pacha is succeeded by the Gov. of Widia, who has already discovered a pacific disposition.
Mrs. Macauley Graham intends to write the life of Dr. FRANKLIN.
Copy of a letter sent by M. de St. Priest to M. Cherin chief genealogist of the Crown of France.
PARIS, June 4, 1790.
"The King has enjoined me, Sir, to inform you that His Majesty does not intend you shall receive any longer the genealogical titles usually remitted to you, by those who aspire to be presented to him: You will conform to his Majesty's order. (Signed) ST. PRIEST.
This short note will make an epoch in the monarchy of France: His Majesty by this gives another proof of his approbation of the principles of the New Constitution.
BOSTON, August 28.
CORRESPONDENCES.
There are almost innumerable candidates in this State for Federal Representatives.—But it is generally believed, that the people feel the necessity there is, in order that the work well begun should be well finished, and that the "top stone should be brought forth with shouting," of REELECTING those persons whose abilities have been matured by the experience of two years; and who alone can with efficacy finish the great work of establishing public faith and justice, and securing respect abroad, and happiness and prosperity at home. When these great objects are affected, fickleness will not be so likely to blast our rising prospects.
By Capt. SMITH, from Port-au-Prince, we learn that the demon of insurrection and riot had again infested that place, and had produced an affray, in which several persons had been killed; and which ended in the interference of the military, who made prisoners of several of the rioters, and secured them in prison. We also learn that in the absence on shore of the Captain of one of the French 74 guns ships lying there, the crew rose on the Lieutenant and obliged him to conduct the ship to sea; previous to which she fired on a frigate which lay in the harbour, and obliged her to run out of the port.
The military preparations making in Spain, evince, that the English will not find it so easy a task as they imagine to make the Spanish Monarch "concede." However desirous they may be of fingering the Caroluses of Spain, it is pretty certain that Charles the IVth will urge, what the Spanish artillery bear on their muzzles, "Ultima ratio Regum," rather than submit to any degrading terms of accommodation.
NEW-YORK, September 4.
Slanders on private characters are justly and universally reprobated: How much more ought unfounded aspersions on public bodies, or characters, to meet with general detestation!
It is the glorious privilege of freemen to think what they please, and to publish their sentiments with freedom and decency on all subjects, with which their interest is connected; but it is an high insult to the majesty of the people, to traduce those characters that their free suffrages have elected to public stations.
While a free press is an object of sacred regard to an enlightened people, a press that teems with lies and slander, either thro' ignorance or design in the conductor of it, is to be execrated as a pestilent engine of mischief.
Sycophants are of various descriptions: There are sycophants of power, persons and opinions: Neither of them possess any fixed principles: Sycophants of power are the obsequious tools of ambition; sycophants of persons are the blind idolators of individuals, whose frowns or frowns, or present sentiments, however variant or contradictory to former declarations, are the directory of their faith and practice; sycophants of opinion are those, who sacrifice their own sentiments on all occasions to what they conceive to be the popular ideas of the moment: All these characters are destitute of honor, and therefore detestable; but it may be queried, whether the last, which comprehends the essentials of a demagogue is not the most injurious to society of the three. The views of the two first commonly terminate in personal considerations, and frequently without affecting society; the success of the latter depends on anarchy and confusion.
The Pennsylvania legislature is now in session. The new Constitution of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania was proclaimed in due form, in Philadelphia, on Thursday last. The President of the United States was expected to arrive in that city the same day.
Yesterday No. 16789. was drawn a prize of £3,000, in the New-York City Lottery.
We have been favored by a gentleman of this city with the Craftsman to the 10th of July—those papers contain no account of a Naval Engagement.
Anecdote of the late Dr. Franklin.—When the Doctor first heard of the French Revolution, it was in the company of several persons who came to visit him at Philadelphia, when he could no longer go abroad; every one was wondering at the circumstance, and asking whether it was not very singular. The Doctor having heard them for some time, with his usual patience, at last replied—"Why I see nothing singular in all this, but, on the contrary, what might naturally be expected; the French have served an apprenticeship to Liberty in this country; and now that they are out of their time, they have set up for themselves."
ARRIVALS SINCE OUR LAST. —NEW-YORK.
Packet Grantham, Bull, Falmouth, 49 days.
Brig Polly, Smith, Tobago, 22
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Junius, Brutus, Siniman, Cape-Francois
Sloop Friendship, Bird, Philadelphia
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PRICE CURRENT.—PUBLIC SECURITIES.
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STATE SECURITIES 8 1/2.
PRIZES
IN THE NEW-YORK CITY LOTTERY.
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FROM THE FARMER'S JOURNAL. A Paper, recently established at Danbury, State of Connecticut.
SONG,
Tune—"The Huntsman is up."
WRITTEN BY A LADY.
IN a moulder'd cave, in desert retir'd, Bright Genius sat sighing alone, Since SHAKESPEAR her friend, and great MILTON expir'd, Only echo attends to her moan. By HOMER and VIRGIL the once was address'd, And sought for by all in that age, By ATHENS re-ver'd, and by GAY was caref'd, And POPE try'd her heart to engage. She deign'd to give laws to the Persians and Medes; To Br' tannia she then took her flight; The fages with pleasure recorded her deeds, And ADDISON prov'd they were right. JOVE call'd her a coquet—declar'd in his rage He would humble her arrogant pride, That modern bards should refuse her a page, And with poverty she should reside. Then wept the fair Goddess with transparent tears, At the harsh and unwelcome decree, When TRUMPAUL and BARLOW in vision appear, With power to set Genius free. The Conquest of Canada they laid at her feet, The author adores her they say; Brave HUMPHREYS found out her sacred retreat, That's often frequented by JAY. She smil'd approbation on patrons to kind, Politely to each gave her hand; The hill of Parnassus to them she resign'd, And their worth she proclaim'd thro' the land.
VIENNA, June 16.
AS soon as the news arrived here that the Brabanters had desired assistance from Prussia, a Council was held by his Majesty with all his Ministers, when it was resolved to require a categorical answer from Prussia upon this subject.
PARIS, June 26.
The Court of Spain have demanded of our Court, the succours stipulated by the family compact, and existing treaties, in case it should be involved in a war. The general voice seems to reprobate a compliance; and it is believed the Assembly, when the affair comes before them, will give a flat negative.
LONDON.
THE question, "are we to have a war?" has thrust "how d'ye do?" out of place; and as no person can give a proper answer to this question, the quantity of supposes, conjectures and ifs, are really wonderful.
The most notorious and notified Prince of pickpockets has given instructions to his attorney to prosecute a printer for a libel on his character—and why not he, as well as other great men?
It is not generally known, that those perilous rocks on the Welsh coast, called the "Bishop and his clerks," derive their name from an incident which happened near 200 years ago. A fleet of merchantmen, coming home from Spain, were wrecked upon them, and only Miles Bishop, with John and Henry Clarke, were preserved on the fragment of a mast. Hence the appellation took its rise.
Thanks to the constitution of the government under which we live, that the liberty even of the lowest subject shall no more be invaded with impunity than that of the highest.—A verdict was lately given against the Mayor of Londonderry for illegally imprisoning a poor man five days. Damages 300l.
The art of making perukes was invented at Paris, about the end of the reign of Lewis XIII, and people then gave over the use of Calottes ornamented with a double row of hair, quite straight or frizzed. The Abbe la Riviere first set the example: His peruke weighed two pounds. These head dresses were heavy, and of an enormous size, until 1680, when the Sieur Ervais devised a method of curling the hair. Perukes then became real ornaments, and seemed to banish the marks of old age.
Antimony, the remedy so celebrated, was discovered by a German monk, named Basil Valentine, who, searching for the philosopher's stone, and having thrown to the hogs what remained after some of his experiments, observed, that those who swallowed it, after being violently purged, became much fatter. He took it into his head to make a trial of it upon some of his brother monks; but, as the dose was too strong, they all died. Hence comes the name of antimoine in French, which has been given to this mineral substance.
Burying grounds were not established until the year 200. People before were interred in the highways, and ancient tombs are still to be seen on the roads leading to Rome. Hence these words, so often repeated in epitaphs, Sta viator: Stop traveller.
In 1474, the physicians and surgeons of Paris represented to Louis XI, that several people of distinction were afflicted with the stone, and that it would be of the highest utility to anatomy to examine, in a living subject, that part of the human body which is the seat of this disorder. They therefore requested his majesty, that he would order a person, named Franc Archer, who had been subject to this malady, and who was condemned to be hanged, to be delivered into their hands. This being granted, the first operation
of cutting for the stone was performed publicly at Paris, in the burying ground of St. Severin. The criminal was completely cured in the space of a fortnight, and obtained, besides his pardon, a considerable reward. We cannot here help observing, that this is a striking instance of the vicissitudes of life, since, to be cured of his disorder, it was necessary that this unhappy man should be condemned to the gallows.
NEWPORT, AUGUST 19.
ADDRESS
TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
SIR, IMPRESSED with the liveliest sentiments of gratitude and affection, the citizens of Newport salute you on your arrival in this State, and wish to express their joy on this interesting occasion.
The present circumstances of this town forbid some of those demonstrations of gratitude and respect, which the citizens of our sister States have displayed on a similar occasion; yet we rejoice in this opportunity of tendering the richest offering which a free people can make—hearts sincerely devoted to you, and to the government over which you preside.
We anticipate with pleasing expectation the happy period when, under the auspicious government of the United States, our languishing commerce shall revive, and our losses be repaired—when commerce at large shall expand her wings in every quarter of the globe, and arts, manufactures and agriculture be carried to the highest pitch of improvement.
May kind Providence long continue your invaluable life, and in the progressive advancement of the United States, in opulence, order and felicity, may you realize the most glorious prospect which humanity can exhibit to an enlightened and benevolent legislator; and when you shall cease to be mortal, may you be associated to the most perfect society in the realms above, and receive that retribution for your disinterested and extensive services, which the JUDGE of all the earth will bestow on the friends of piety, virtue and mankind.
By Order,
H. MARCHANT, Moderator.
THE ANSWER.
TO THE FREEMEN OF THE TOWN OF NEWPORT.
GENTLEMEN,
I receive with emotions of satisfaction the kind address of the citizens of Newport on my arrival in this State.
Although I am not ignorant how much the worthy inhabitants of this town have been injured in their circumstances by their patriotic sufferings and services; yet I must be allowed to say, that nothing on their part has been wanting to convince me of their affection to myself, and attachment to the government over which I am appointed to preside.
I request, gentlemen, you will be persuaded that I take a due interest in your particular situation; and that I join with you in anticipating the happy period, when, in our country at large, commerce, arts, manufactures and agriculture, shall attain the highest degree of improvement.
My expressions would but faintly communicate my feelings, should I enlarge beyond the proper limits of an answer to your address, in evincing my sensibility of your affectionate wishes for my felicity in the present and future state of existence.—It will be a better proof of my zeal for the prosperity of the inhabitants of this town, and their fellow-citizens of this State, to lose no opportunity of attending to the advancement of their interests, in combination with the general welfare of the community.—This I shall do with unfeigned satisfaction—And may all the happiness be theirs, which can result, in their social character, from the uniform practice of industry, virtue, fraternal kindness, and universal philanthropy.
GEO. WASHINGTON.
ADDRESS FROM THE CLERGY.
TO GEORGE WASHINGTON PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
SIR,
WITH salutations of the most cordial esteem and regard, permit us the Clergy of Newport, to approach your person, intreating your acceptance of our voice in conjunction with that of our fellow-citizens, to hail you welcome to Rhode-Island.
Shielded by Omnipotence, during a tedious and unnatural war,—wise, as a messenger sent from Heaven, in conducting the councils of the cabinet—and, under many embarrassments, directing the operations of the field; Divine Providence crowned your temples with unfading laurels, and put into your hand the peacefully-waving olive-branch. Long may you live, Sir, highly favored of God and beloved of men, to preside in the grand council of our nation, which, we trust, will not cease to supplicate Heaven, that its select and divine influences may descend and rest upon you, endowing you with "grace, wisdom, and understanding," to go out and in before this numerous and free people; to preside over whom Divine Providence hath raised you up.
And therefore—before God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, in whom all the families both in heaven and earth are named, according to the law of our office and in bounden duty—we bow our knee—beseeching him to grant you every temporal and spiritual blessing—and that, of the plenitude of his grace, all the families of these wide extended realms, may enjoy, under an equal and judicious administration of government, peace and prosperity, with all the blessings attendant on civil and religious liberty.
SAMUEL HOPKINS,
Pastor of the 1st Congregational Church.
GARDNER THURSTON, Pastor of the 2d Baptist Church.
FREDERICK SMITH, Pastor of the United Brethren.
WILLIAM BLISS, Pastor of the Sabbatarian Baptist Church.
WILLIAM SMITH, Rector of Trinity Church.
MICHAEL EDDY, Pastor of the 1st Baptist Church.
WILLIAM PATTEN, Pastor of the 2d Congregational Church.
Newport, August 17, 1790.
THE ANSWER.
TO THE CLERGY OF THE TOWN OF NEWPORT IN THE STATE OF RHODE-ISLAND.
GENTLEMEN,
THE salutations of the Clergy of the town of Newport, on my arrival in the State of Rhode-Island, are rendered the more acceptable, on account of the liberal sentiments and just ideas which they are known to entertain respecting civil and religious liberty.
I am inexpressibly happy, that, by the smiles of Divine Providence, my weak but well-meant endeavors to serve my country, have hitherto been crowned with so much success, and apparently give such satisfaction to those in whose cause they were exerted. The same benignant influence, together with the concurrent support of all real friends to their country, will still be necessary to enable me to be in any degree useful to this numerous and free people, over whom I am called to preside.
Wherefore I return you, Gentlemen, my hearty thanks for your solemn invocation of Almighty God, that every temporal and spiritual blessing may be dispensed to me; and that, under my administration, the families of these States may enjoy peace and prosperity, with all the blessings attendant on civil and religious liberty.—In the participation of which blessings may you have an ample share.
GEO. WASHINGTON.
NEW-YORK, SEPT. 4.
The President having safely arrived at Powles's Hook, was pleased to return the elegant barge which conveyed him over, to the citizens who presented it; with the following letter to Captain Thomas Randall, of this city, a copy of which has been kindly communicated for insertion.—
New-York, August 30th, 1790.
SIR, ON the 2d of May, 1789, I wrote you, requesting that my acknowledgments might be offered to the gentlemen who had presented an elegant barge to me, on my arrival in this city. As I am, at this moment about commencing my journey to Virginia, and consequently shall have no farther occasion for the use of the barge, I must now desire that you will return it, in my name, and with my best thanks, to the original proprietors: At the same time I shall be much obliged if you will have the goodness to add, on my part, that in accepting their beautiful present, I considered it as a pledge of that real urbanity, which, I am happy in declaring, I have experienced on every occasion during my residence among them; that I ardently with every species of prosperity may be the constant portion of the respectable citizens of New-York; and that I shall always retain a grateful remembrance of the polite attention of the citizens in general, and of those in particular to whom the contents of this note are addressed.
I am, with sentiments of regard and esteem, Sir, your most obedient and very humble servant, G. WASHINGTON. Thomas Randall, Esq. Ec. Ec. Ec.
Doubts and uncertainty rest on the politics of Europe: War or no war is the question—even conjecture is at fault—and probability can find no object to fix on—Ere this, Spain has doubtless given a categorical answer to Great-Britain—The aspect of public affairs in the Eastern Hemisphere is very interesting.—France can hardly keep herself out of a quarrel betwixt Spain and England; and there are some circumstances which induce an opinion, that both Democrats and Aristocrats may think it for their interest at this juncture to have the attention of the people employed on some new object.—Should both parties, tho' on different principles, unite to urge a war—the prospect of that event will be strengthened.
Accounts of a warlike complexion abound in every foreign publication—and the concurrence in the same idea from all quarters, is strikingly obvious.—Should they finally evaporate in fuma—the expences incurred will fall little short of those attendant on actual hostilities.
NOTICE.
ALL persons having demands against the Household of the PRESIDENT of the United States, are requested to exhibit their accounts for settlement, at his late Dwelling in Broad-Way, before the 15th of September. August 31, 1790.
ADVERTISEMENT.
PURSUANT to a Resolve or act of Congress of the 10th day of May, 1780, relative to the destruction of Loan-Office Certificates by accident; notice is hereby given to all whom it may concern, that on the 2d day of January 1780, the house occupied by the subscriber in Market-Street, Philadelphia, took fire and was consumed, in which was lodged a number of Loan-Office certificates as pr. list below, all which were destroyed by the said fire: Therefore if any person, hath any objection why the said Certificates should not be renewed, agreeable to the resolves of Congress, they must make them before the expiration of three months, from the date hereof.
Invoice of Loan-Office Certificates destroyed in the house of John Holker on the 2d day of January 1780.
   1778. No. Dols.     March 13. 1636 1 Samuel Cooke, jun. New-York, 600   1673 1 ditto. do. 600   Dollars, 1200.  
In testimony whereof I have signed the present publication. New-York, July 26th, 1790. HOLKER.
TO BE LET,
On very low terms—and entered upon immediately, until the first of May next.
THAT elegant new TWO STORY BRICK HOUSE, in the Bowery-Lane, formerly occupied by ROBERT GILBERT LIVINGSTON, deceased; it has seven Fire Places with a good Cellar under the whole House—a convenient out-House in the rear, with a Coach-House, and Stables; for further particulars enquire of MANGLE MINTHORN. (2 w. t. f.) Corporation Dock.
Just published, (In 11 Vols. bound and lettered) and to be sold by the Editor of this paper, Price 13s.
M E M O I R S
OF THE
BLOOMSGROVE FAMILY,
In a series of LETTERS to a respectable CITIZEN of PHILADELPHIA.
Containing Sentiments on a
MODE OF DOMESTIC EDUCATION,
Suited to the present state of Society, Government, and Manners, in the United States of America,
And on the Dignity and Importance of the
FEMALE CHARACTER.
Interpersed with a variety of interesting ANECDOTES.
By ENOS HITCHCOCK, D. D.
The following account of the above, is contained in a letter to a gentleman in this city.
"The design of this work is to show the great importance of early education, by exhibiting the portrait of a family in which this great object was attended to. In this family were a son and daughter, whose early education was superintended by their parents, and particularly by their mother. The several steps which were taken to instil into their young minds, sentiments of virtue, and to form good habits, are represented in such a manner, as to render the whole a most pleasing picture. The letters are interspersed with judicious observations, interesting anecdotes, and refined sentiments, tending to develop the subject. It is written in an agreeable manner, and a familiar style: Precepts are enforced by a pleasing narrative; the best way of communicating instruction. The scene is not laid in any particular place, but it is left to the reader's imagination to place it in what part of America he pleases.
Dr. Price's Revolution Sermon may be had of the Editor.—Price 1/6.