there vill be another Royal Seifions to-morrow, (Tuesday) to annul the proceedings at thelalt, and finally to put the great national business in trail). The Aflembly was adjourned to that day, on the motion of M.Bailly, the Prelident of the Commons, who observed, that so great an event as the happy union of the Stares General, called for a momentary suspension of all other business, and merited an interval for congratulations and rejoicings. The following is a lift of the patriotic Nobles who made the firft step, and whose names de serve to be held up to the friends of liberty throughout Europe. Le Due d'Orleans, Le Due d'Aiguillon, Dan dre, Le Marquis de Lezay-Marzia, Le Vicomte de Toulongeon, Le Comte de Crillon, Le Vi comte de Beauharnois, Le Pheline, Le Vicomte Defandrouns, Le Marquis de laCofte, LeCompte de Caftellane, Le Marquis de Blacons, Le Mar quis de Langon, Le Comte de la Blache, Le Comte de Antoine d'Agoult, Le Comte de Virieux, Le Comte de Morge, Le Baron de Chalion, Le Comte Marzanne, De Burle, D'Eymar, D< Nemperre de Champagny, De Pres le Greflier, Le Marquis de Biancourt, D'Aguefieau, Freteauj Le Comte de le Touche, Le Comte de Montmo rency, Le Chevalier de Maulette, Le Comte de Clermont-Tonnere, Le Due de la Rochefoucauld Le Comte de Luzignan, Dionis du Sejour, Du pert, Le Marquis de Montefquiou-Fezenzac, Al exandrede Lameth, Le Marquis de la Tour-Mau bourg, Le Marquis de Sillery, Le Baron d'Harm bure, Le Due de Tuynes, Le Marquis de Len cofne, Le Baron de Menou, Le Comte de Telle, •with three others. In the late eminent crisis of public affairs, the dragoons,and all the national troops in the neigh borhood of Paris, loudly declared, that they would neither draw a sword, nor fire a mufquet against their countrymen. The day after the French guards refufed to fire on the people, they were all ordered to be con fined to their quarters, both at Paris and Ver sailles, excepting those on duty. They were not, however, restrained by the orders of their officers, but declaring that they had no inten tion to be turbulent or desert, left their barraks, and for two succeeding days amused themselves in walking about the streets, &c. where they were regaled and applauded by their fellow citizens. At the palace Royal, the head-quar ters of liberty, the coffee-houfes were filled with them, every body striving who should be firft to entertain them. Judge what an effect all this niuft have produced at Court, and what was to be expe<sJed in the Provinces, had the Comte d'Artois and his violence prevailed. London, july 4. The French AmbafTador has had a second interview with Mr. Pitt, on the fubjeft of the present diftrefles of the French nation, occasioned by the great scarcity of corn and flour. There are I 5,000 troops in Paris, Versailles, and its neighbourhood. And yet, very much to the astonishment and difcomfiture of the court, they could not get a regiment to draw a trigger. Extract of a letter from Paris, June 26. " A Member of the National Afleinbly moved lately, that the benches on which they fate should have ticks put to them, for the greater conveniency of the gentlemen who are obliged to occupy them for so many hours i " Is it to be thought," said he, on the motion being opposed, " that the King thinks his grandeur confiftsin being seated on an elevated throne, while his fubje<fts are crawling at his feet. These marks of servility might have pleased Louis XIV, whose heart was spoiled by the base adulation of his courtiers, who demeaned themielves to the condition of menial servants ; but they would dishonor Louis XVI, and should not be fuffered to profane the Timph of Liberty. Let all due refpetft be paid to the Sovereign, but let us not forget what is due to our own dignity, as men, as Representatives ofthe Majefly of the People of trance, of whom the Monarch is in reality no more than the molt dif "nguifhed individual.'' Such language from the mouth of a Frenchman, and in Paris, you will think incredible : But had you been for even a frort space 0 f ti me accustomed to hear the ex preflions hourly made use of in cofFee-lioufes, private societies, and 011 the public walks, you would readily believe it. One party maintains, or initance, and openly avows it, that the No ihty, sooner than relinquish their privileges, 1111 niafh their hands in the blood of the rabble. While JL °ther as openly declares, that the National 1 ffy flail be cemented with the blood of the No w- And yet, notwithstanding all this, there 31 e w ho think it not unprobable that this momentuous business will terminate—a la Fran "'/•—in a song—vox, vox, et pretsrea nihil! It u -, however, be owned, that it wears a very '"nous afpecft." " T} XtrC a etter f rGm Paris, June 29. ri v. States-General have at last come to a in? n t j U ? c ' ei^anc^n S- The Nobility and Clergy U e * e Tiers Etat on Saturday, and this Au felve K ly now seriously occupy them biv! S i. a 1 l^e i m portant objects for which they a>e been called together." By adviccs received in town from Abo, in Sweden, dated May 29, we are informed, that on the preceding day a courier passed through that place on his way to Stockholm, from the fron tiers, with the news of an a&ion having taken place between the Rufliansand Swedes* in which the former had five hundred kil led on the spot; the Swedes loft only 19. A baggage magazine belonging to the Ruflians was burnt. THE RURAL RETREAT. O, WHAT a charming thing and pretty, To have a noble, Federal City! Surpafling in few years to come, All that history fays of Rome ; That ancient feat of arts and wars, The mother of eternal jars ! Not near old oceans' margin built, Where blood by hogftieads may be spilt; Where {hips which vomit smoke and fire, May force the people to retire ; May set a scampering our patricians, Curfmg all maritime portions. Besides, all sea port towns, we know, The floods of horrid vice o'erflow ; There business, noise, and diflipation, Diftraft the rulers of the nation ! I here morn, and noon, and midnight revels, With a long lift of Syren devils— Balls, treats, and visits—arts cajoling, Will set their wits and senses rolling, Till on the rocks of tempting beauty, They shipwreck honor, truth, and duty. No, let us to the woods repair, For peace and innocence dwell there : There, in the times beyond the flood, When men were frugal, wife, and good, Beneath an oak, or beechen ftia^e, The best of human laws were made : They wanted then no central station— Their Federal Hall the whole Creation. Then let us to the woods repair, And build a Federal City there, Where nature never fails to please, In hills and dales, and shrubs and trees ; Where ancient Sages gather'd knowlege', Without the aid of church or college. Secluded from the noisy hive, Who business, arts and pleasure drive. 14 In the cool grot and mofly cell," Where truth and inspiration dwell, Without a buzzing in our ears, Of speculator's hopes and fears, What Laws and Statutes (hall be made ! To help the basket making trade ; To regulate the country roads, And clear the neighbourhood of toads ; To regulate the time for hatching Hens eggs—and {had, and oyster-catching f What time is best to ring the {wine, And other bus'nefs in that line— To bind in leagues of fix'd opinion, 1 he States who form this great dominion. MR. FENNO, IN the Gazette of the United States of Wednes day last, there appeared some ftriAures on the ex tracts of two letters publiflied in the Daily Gazette, of 24th and 31ft of August. I lhall not pretend to follow that writer through his long performance, teeming with words, but sterile in ideas. Neither shall I enter into a critical examination of his ltate of facts, asl conceive it altogether alien to the pres ent purpofe,whether this,or that,or the other State formerly gave its delegates in Congress, four, five, or fix dollars a day : The question is whe ther the lum which has been agreed to by a ma jority of the House of Representatives is too much ? I think it is not, and I thinkmyfelf toler ably fafe in coinciding in opinion with so respec table characters as formed the majority on that occasion. However every man has a right to judge, but no man has a right to impeach the motives of those who openly avow their sentiments, and in that avowal make an appeal to the decent and uninfluenced tribunal of the public :—Not to be sure, to be villified and abused, but to have an impartial decision upon their conduct. To charge men thus circumltanced with designing views, unfriendly to the truth, and the public interest, indicates a mind totally insensible to delicacy or honor. I am wholly uncertain who the letter writers are —I thought there was weight,and can dor in their observations :—And he must be a wifacre indeed, who can suppose that any per son, who had the least regard to his own reputa tion, would, in a public paper, utter designedly a known falfehood. I believe the letter writers supposed the relation they gave was true. And true it is for ought that appears to the contrary. But this laconic animadverter alks, " how the wonderful logician knows that Congress is to set but two or three months in a year >" It is sup posed that the public business will not require a longer time. And those letter writers justly sup pose that Congress will not needlessly prolong their sessions. All the difference that I can fee is this—The animadverter thinks that Congress may set eight or nine months, in which cafe the ex pence to the public at four dollars a day, will be just double what it will at fix dollars a day for three months. The truth is, that four dollars a day will keep the new, as it did the old Congress, always in fell ion,—a desirable objett with fovie. Every man makes an estimate of what he thinks his public Services ought to be compensated at. And till mankind are 101 lto all sense of pub lic infamy, that compensation will always be within defenfible and jult limits. Ihe words " ariflocratic," " small fortunes," " nabobs," &c. convey a very obvious meaning—but are here applied with a very ill grace. It is however, too much to be feared, thatperfons who have no pre tentions from their abilities, to the public favor, will find their account in such popular canting. C I V I s. NEW-YORK, SEPTEMBER 12. The President of the United States hasbeen pleased to nomi nate, and by and with the advice and confcnt of the Senate to ap point the Hon. Alexander Hamilton, of N-'w-York, Secre tary of the Treasury. And Hon. Nicholas Eveleich, of S. Caiolifta, Comptroller of the Treasury. On Tuesday last, being the firft public levee at the President's, since his mother's decease was known in this city, feverai gentle men of the two Houses of Congress, and other relpe&able person attended it, in American mourning* This silent mark of refpeft, flowing spontaneously from the hearts of freemen fympathizmg with him 111 this domeflic misfortune, manifefts sentiments and emotions which no language can express in a manner so unequivo cal and delicate. The late interesting debates of an honorable aflembly, upon the fubiefl of a permanent residence, have given rife to a variety of sensations and opinions : Some have applauded, and others con demned : Combinations have been talked ofj and the conduct of the affociators hajfceen reprehended—with how mtich justice wc will not pretend to determine : A more Southern fittiation than the Sufquehanna, would never have been agreeable to the Eastern and Northern States—and it may be fairly questioned, whether the read interest of the Southern States will be eventually promo ted by taking a position so far South as that. Emigrations are from the North to the Scuth. What does this prove, but that the excess of population is in the foi mer. The truth is, this excess must swarm, and the Southern regions will al ways afford room, and never be full. Should acceflion from the Northward failj it is pretty evident they would in time be depo pulated. Extrad of a letter from the State of Rhode-IJland, dated, September 4, 1 789. " The federalifts, in this State form a class of citizens more important in a national view than is generally imagined. They are principally merchants, and the circumstances of our com merce require the greatest enterprize and the closest calculation. As our staple is inconsidera ble we must have recourfeto a circuitous kind of traffic. It is evident we must find employment for we cannot submit to perilh, while objecfls of a ny kind present themselves which can afford sub sistence. Now it is evident if Congress (hut us out from a participation of the advantages re sulting from the new government, we (hall be compeled into a line of bufihefs that will injure the interests of the United States. Nothing of this kind is atprefent dreamed of.—But I will not be answerable what turn the imagination of peo ple will take. It is well known that our mer chants were formerly celebrared for their skill in Imuggling. They have not totally forgot the sweets of their former pra<ftice. We lie between two States of an extensive sea coast, inhabitted by people who are not enemies to illicit gains. Should we be deprived of lawful admission into thole States on equal terms with the other citizens of the Union, our necessities will drive us to ex pedients which we now reprobate. Neceflity breaks through all rules of justice andpatriotifm. When once we have got our ha|nd in, we Jhall not readily relinquiih the plan. We know that Connecticut is not unaccustomed to connive at practices that will throw advantages into the hands of their citizens, and as for Maflacliufetts they are not free from persons Who have an inor dinate love of money. Extrafl of a letter from a gentleman in London, to bis friend in New-Tori, dated July 4, 1789. " It is with the greatest pleasure I learn, that the new Constitution is likely to be solidly cftab iihed. I hope the two Houses will be firm and decided in their measures, and not fuffer their federal power to de difputedor trifled with by a ny particular State ; if they do, they will soon dwindle into that nominal and nerveless power, which distinguished the government of the late Congress; The truly illustrious General Wash ington is a treasure which I hope the United States will long enjoy—a man like him, at the head of governnent, will give it a weight and energy which it otherwise would not so fully poflefs, and must make it highly refpeftable to all the European powers." INTELLIGENCE BY THE LAST MAIL. BOSTON, SEPT. J, Extra{h of Utters fro?n New-Tor k, Augufl 30. " I have been here but three weeks, and in that time have heard, in my occasional visits to the Gallery, more Oratory, Learning, Law, and Good Sense, from the Members of the House than I ever before heard in my life. And for a bilities ofevery kind, I do not think alike num ber could be collected in the United States ihat would be superior." " I received " the Fragment" you sent me So far as the Poem is noticed here (for there are some in the city) it is with indignation and con tempt. As to the Vice-President, his character rests upon the broad balls of virtue and abilities, and is not to be lhaken by the attacks of envy, ma lic: and disappointment. Another High Officer who is also an objetft of the Poem, is universally refpedted—-and since I have been here, I have heard it said in the House, that the public ser vice is as much promoted by this officer, as by any other whatever : That the public military stores under his care are worth a million of money—and that they are,through his vigilance and attention, keptm iucli order, that the United States are, in this refpetft, in constant preparation for war. No man can be more refpedted than he is—and for the attack, I believe it would puzzle a Sybil to assign acaufe."
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