Nt. Brilliavd Savarin (lacing forcibly tlietrou- I
ties at Lyons, as originating from a Libellous
Pamphlet, the Alfembty unhapjiily negKived the
excellent mocion of M. St. Eiienue, by pafiingto
the order of the day—thus demolishing at once
their ground of pre-eminence airiong the nations,
and sealing up by impending prosecutions, the
iources offreedifcuflion, and detecting invcftiga
on ; andeftablifhing in one (hort hour, what the
labours of servility upon the bench of another
country have been exerted neara century to etfecli
and have at last fatally accompliihcd.
THE FAMILY COMPACT
Extracted from the Debates of the National Atfembl?
of Francs on Monday lajl
THE President reaa a letter from M. Montmb- |
rin to the following purport :
" The King commanded me last May to lay be-
fore the Allembly the reasons which made it ne
cellary to order an equipment of I 4 fail of the line,
which measure the Allembly approved. I mult
now lay before theni the reasons which feein to
make it necellary to encreafe this armament which
is in perfedt readinefs.—lt is prudent that we
ihould have an equal force with Great Britain,
who is hastening her's with all poilible activity.
The King of Spain has claimed the execution ot
the Treaty with Great Britain, and his Aiubafla
dor here claims that of the Family Compafl. '1 he
King therefore has thought proper to bring this
demand of the Spanifli Ambafiador belore the
Aflembly for its deliberation.
" The Aflembly will have two points to deli
berate upon. ill, The augmentation ot the
jnaments neceflary to be made : and 2d. 1 he anl
wer given to the Court of Madrid."
Besides the above letters from M. Montmorin,
another from the Count Fernanda Nunez, the
Spaniih Ambaflador at Paris, to M. de Montmo
rin, was likewise read. It is dated the 7th of
June, and after mentioning the negociation go
ing 011 with England, concludes thus :
" The speedy and exa<ft execution of the 1 rea
xy > signed at Paris tjth Auguit 1 761» under the
title of the Family Compact, becomes now an in
difpenlible preliminary, in order to be able to
treat with success, and it is 011 account of the ab
solute necelfity of having recourfetothe assistance
of France, that the King, »'? Walter, orders me
to demand expressly what brand, in its
jituation, can da for the aid oj Spain ?
" According to the mutual engagements, his
Catholic Majelty desires that the armaments, and
other measures suitable to tullil thele lacred en
gagements, be immediately put 1/1 execution*
He charges ine to add, that the present state
this unexpected ati'air requires an immediate
determination ; and that the measures which
the Court ofFrance fliall take tofui nilli affiltance,
ihall befoa<ftive, so clear, and so politive, as not
to leave the fmallelt ground for suspicion or dis
trust ; otherwise, his Most Christian Majelty ought
not to be l'urprifcd if Spain Jh.ill Jack otner Friends
ttnd other Allies, amongjl all the other Powers of Eu
rope, without excepting any one, upon whom'it may
depend in time of need.
a "jjg ties of consanguinity and peifonal
friendfliip, which unite our Sovereigns, and the
reciprocal interest which exilt between the two
Nations, will be always as much attended to in
these new arrangements as circuinltances will
permit." , ,
Mr. Fitzherbert's letter to the Count de i lori
da Blanca at Madrid was then read. It exprefles
a desire of peace, explains the ground ot com
plaint 011 account of the detention of two English
ihips in Nootka Bay, and obfei ves that Great Bri
tain has made no reprisals. He demands,
lit. A reftitutionof the (hips.
2d. An indemnification of the damages sus
tained, and ... ,
Satisfaction for the injury done to the
Engliih Flag. .
The Spaniih Ambassador's answer, begins by
fhewingthe uncertainty of the injury done to
the Engliih (hips that they had been detained
in places belonging to Spain by virtue of treaties.
His Catholic Majelty had neverthelels submitted
to make good the injury lultained should it ap
pear that there has been any, and that the En
•rlifli Captains had not been the aggrellors.
9 These papers were referred to the Committee
for managing foreign affairs.
BOSTON, September 30.
Extract of a letter from St. John' s (N. B.) Se P-}*-
On Tliurfday last the Assizes and Court of Oy
er, Terminer, and General Goal delivery,pp r * hc
city and county of St. John, was opened by Mr
Tuitice Allen, and Mr. Jufhce Uphain. At he
assizes were only two a«ftions of importance, the
one was brought to recover £.500 being the pe
nalty ofan arbitration bond tor non-compliance
■withthe award, in which John Harvey was Plain
tiff, and Benedict Arnold, Esq. Defendant ; the
trial lasted 7 hours, when the Jury brought m a
verditf: for the Plaintiff with £.275 dam *S cs -"Tr
Counsel for the Plaintiff Mr. Hardy,—for the de
fendant the Attorney-Genera], and Mr, Chipman.
Theother was the much talked of cafe for Defa
mation, wherein the fame Benedict Arnold, Eft],
was Plaintiff, and Monfon Hayt, Defendant—da
mages laid at £.jooo. The try al laltsd from alit
tie after nine 011 Saturday morning, to two o'clock
011 Sunday morning, when the Jury withdrew,
and yesterday morning brought in a verdidt
for the Plaintiff with 20s. damages.—Counsel for
the Plaintiff the Attorney General and Mr.
Chipman ; for the Defendant, Mr. Hardy,
Mr. Campbell, and Mr. Ludlow.
NEW-YORK, OCTOBER 9
The matter of a veflel who arrived at Phila
delphia, in 36 days from Corunna, reports, that
a terrible fire broke out in Madrid, which haa
confutned a very contiderable pare of that city.
Thfc Spanifli fleet was cruising ofFCape Finnifterre
when the Captain left Spain.
At the storming of Czettin by the Ruffians, 2000 lurks were
killed.—Spain according to accounts from that kingdom has no
idea of paying the Britifll bill of costs in equipping their fleet ;
why Ihould they ? The Britilh would laugh at such a demand on
the part of Spain ; the cafe is vice versa without doubt.
According to the convention laid to be finned between Austria
and Pruflia, the former is to abandon all its conquests from the
Turks, and to renounce its alliance with Ruilia ; hard term in
deed ! Frederic is to receive for this fuccefstul intcrpoiition
io,cooooo piafhes from the porte.
The cle&ors of Emperor for the German Empire began to af
femblc at Frankfort the 20 Julyi
The Spanifti and Englilh fleets being at fca, foinething impor
tant may be daily eicpc&cd from ihe Eaflern hemisphere ; im
portant to the parties immediately engaged—how much to to the
United States time may unfold.
The idea thrown out by Dr. Price of an alliance between
France and England, Was taken up in the national assembly—and
M.C. de Lameth suggested the propriety of add re fling the peo
ple of England through the Revolution Society ; this was objefck
cd to by leveral members as being neither judicious or patriotic —
as England is not governed by a club, but by a parliament.
The Englilh papers Hate that the French have al Breit 25 fail of
the line ready for sea.
The Frenchman who attempted to alTaflinatc Count Florida
Blauca was executed at Madrid 011 the 18 August.
The English papersgive an account of a drenchingenterprize at
Bnghthclmftone, in which Lord Bairymore and a royal Duke
fufiained the inoft conspicuous parts. A large furn of money be
ing deposited by the parties : he that could wade the furtheli into
the water with his cloaths on was to take the whole. Barrymore
beat the Duke. Such are the noble and royal pastimes of Bri
tain's riling hopes !
An indiscriminate publication, in v\mcrican papers, of Englifti
articles of news and politics, is supposed to be geneially reproba
ted ; but fact and experience prove that this is not the cafe : lor
tho the English papers contain an infinity ot conjectures, fuppoli
tions, and totally bafelcfs fabrications, and very tew fa£ts ; yet it
is apparant that the printers of those American gazettes, who dish
up the lavgeft quantity ot the heterogeneous mass, find the t ac
count ih it—There is one reflection which is cxcited on the occa-
fioti, not of the moil pleasing kind, and that is, that this taste in
dicates cither that we feel too much lntereflcd in the concerns of
that country, or that we have imbibed too ftiong a diipoiition to
be pleased with frivolity.
Very few English new fpapers are independent, and very little
that it conveyed through thr mwlium of party is pure, triie, or
honorable ; a free paper is generally undeiftood there to be, one
that is full ot abufc of the powers that be, or ot those who think
tor themlelves, ofrdf the party in whose cause it undertakes : You
may read such publications till your eyes fail, and never be a whit
the wiser j many such arc the sources from whcnccthe American
fount of European news and politics is supplied : In reipe£t to
the French revolution, what a gloomy al\>c£t is thrown upon it by
the latest Englilh accounts. While thar nation appears to be ex
ulting in the progrefsof their Conllitution *, while the people arc
as one itiah uniting and rejoicing in the benign influence o! a tree
and Iwearing in the mod solemn manner to support
their rights and privileges, we ate told that M. Fayette is their
King, General, and Supreme Legifiator, that he is the implacable
enemy of M. D'Orleans, and will briughim to the block, or con
fifcate his large pollcH'ions, that difcontcnts the empire,
that the King of Sardiuia is on the point of invading the king
dom, and that the refugees, with the Prince de Conde at their
head, has aflemblcd an army to second Ins efforts, that the permit
ting the Aultrians to marcn thro pait of France* is admitting an
enemy into then country, who will cftett a counterrevolution,
that the King's sickness is meer finefTe to facilitate an elopement
from the kingdom, and in fliorr, that the profpe£ls of the revolu
tionifls are dark, gloomy Jand dreadful ; but there is one circum-
Itance, tliat is really not cafy to be accounted for, and that is,
while many Bn:ilh charaders are nobly engaged in fighting the
cause of freedom in the low countries, as volunteers and officeis
of diilin&ion in the Bclgi# fcrvice, their countrymen, the Editors
of the British newspapers arc perpetually venting their spleen
againftthe patriots, in a series ot iour, ill-natured paragraphs ; it
is very rare that a commendatory fen:enee escapes their pens -
What advantage can Americans derive ftom such opinionated felt
fufficicnt cgotifts ? t .
An elegant writer in the Poughkecplte Journal of 2d urn. wnofe
produttions we conjecture, have before contributed to the enter
tainment of our readers, concludes foine very judicious remarks
on the French Revolution in the following words : "In the lat
-44 ter part of the 17th century, when the remains of French libtr
" ty were extinguished under the despotic monarchy of Louis 14. h,
14 the condition ol the kingdom was however vaftlv mended, and
44 its reputation carried to the higheit pitch by the aits of peace,
44 arid the atcluevcments of war ; but his intolerant lpirit banilh
-44 cd a vast l,ody of his indubious fubjed*, and his inordinate am
-44 bition enkindled wars ruinous to his own people, and dauger
" ous to the liberties of Europe. In our day they have complete
-44 ly recovered their civil and religious rights, and by a grand ai
'4 iociation have sworn to maintain them. How diftinttly the
44 comparative merit of those ages is marked between the inhu
'4 man government of Catherine and her sons, the magnificence ot
" Louis XIV, and the freedom of the National AfTembly ? It re
" mains only to be wished that their zeal may be so tempered by
" moderation, and their rcafomng so corrcded by experimental
" wiidom, as to lead them to fix a conftuution so adjuited in all
" its parts, as to stand firm and perpetual by the energy of its
44 own principles."
PRICE CURRENT. PUBLIC SECURITIES.
Final Settlements 12/z 1 12/4.
Indent» 7/1. a 7/2.
STATE Securities 8/
ARRIVALS SINCE OUR LAST. — -NEW-YORK.
Brie M<ty, Btirnham, Liverpool, 40 dayj.
0 , Thomas, Port-du-Pi luce, aa
Schooi.er Dove, Afkin, Richmond, 4.
Deborah, , Shclburiic,
Sloop thills*, Wkuic, Norfolk,
623
T, commirtione.sorMewVo.lt »*l Vermont have n - W
adiutlcd the i„„ m bui.nels of their m,ill"" i the
Vermont isdifmem't ered from the (lite ot
New-Hamplhire grams. foca,-ed. e acknowledged lo be vabd.
Thus the way is open for the admitlion ot Vermont into the I -d
tr One" fanner on ihe IXle.n shore of Maryland ha. !oWi from the
produce of his own farm the lad crop, twelve tnoufmd bu
Wheat; and had one tlioufand bushels kit lor the ulc o. .us own
family. . , . r n
A number of gentlemen in Virginia have agreed t<> ma<c Lon
grefs a compliment ot four hundred acres of s;ood <jim i>' tje >'
cinity of Georgetown, to be laid out in lou tor the tue ot t.ie to
deral buildings. . . , *r-i
We are informed that thcCenfUs of PhiKioc ph.a < J
and that that city is iodnd to contain pi ft* T.mtE • HOtSANi "
INHABITANTS. . , ,
A Charily Sermon is to be preached m tlic old Prelbyte.ian
Church to-morrow evening, for the benefit ol the new.y ereUed
School in Nassau Street ; the principal dependence .inner provi
dence for the support of this important inllitutuu. living on the
beneficence of such a? are charitably disposed. : _
A correfpondcnt observes, that independent of the objection to
the prccarioufnefs of acaHial support tor lucl) ncccjjary and
important institutions as Seminaries of Learning, it may jutliy tie
queried, Whether the children of a Free Republic ought to depend
on charity for that education, which is absolutely reqtufiie to ren
der them good members ot focitty, and spirited alleilois ol tie
rights of man. Itmayfafely be alTerted that the pi maples ok
Republicanism are not fully understood, where a community docs
not makefuch provision for the education of ah, a» that ail may
enjoy an equal chance to acquire competent attainments, and a
right to participate of the blcflings of knowledge, which ought 10
be as fret as air. But where no other provifton is made, chanty
pleads with irrefiftable energy with the benevolent.
«' Envy will merit as its fhadt pursue."
It has been lurmited thatJome pctjon in the United States has it
in contemplation to publ.lh an American Syllfm of Geography .
This has been afligned as the caule of several illiberal attacks on
the highly ureful and well executed performance of Mr. Morfe--
a work that has met with very general approbation from a decern
ing public* as is evinced by the rapid Tale of a very large impres
sion : A second edition is contemplated j When no doubt u» ic.U
inaccuracies will be corrected : A work of this kind is peculiarly
liable to imperfettio.is ; In Brittlh publications of a (imilar kind,
we find from theJirJi to the twentieth edition, every one is pubHlh
ed with rtvifions, corrections, enlargiments and improvements.
A correfpondfcnt would suggest the propriety of two or three
month's notice being given by the Treasurer of the United States,
to the holders of Public Securities, in which time they Ihould
fend in their proposals of sale—-at a given period, purchases to a
certain amount to be made ; this Would give an equal chjncc to
the government and to the creditors in all parts of the union 4
Ext rail of a letter from Philadelphia, dated Oct. 4.
" Captain Fitzpatrick arrived here yeiterday
from Amsterdam, and had on board 80,000 dol
lars in fpecie—4o,ooo to a honfe in this ciry, the
remainder for a merchant in New-York. The
presumption is, that the whdle is to be inverted 111
the debt of the United States-'*
Every 100 dollars continental debt, with three
years intereit due thereon, will produce an in
tereit of per cent. Is it not astonishing thac
prudent and intelligent people will fell such debt
at 12/6 in the pound, when there is a moral cer
tainty of the intereit being paid regularly every
quarter year ? The debt or England bearing such
an intereit,is worth at least i4O percent. 01 twen
ty eight fliillings in the pound.
The debt of England is at least 300 million
pounds Iterling.
The debt of the United States including Hate
debts not 20 million pounds Iterling. 0
On Wednesday being the day of Commence
ment, at Princeton College, (New-Jerl'ey), the
Latin salutatory oration was delivered by Willi,
atn Johnson, of S. Carolina ; the Englifif saluta
tory by John Taylor, and the valedi&ory by
Ezekiel Pickens, both of that $tace.
Orations were also delivered by Daniel Bell of
Pennsylvania, by Armftead Churchill of Virgi-"
nia ; and by George Shafford Woodhull of Mon
mouth—the fubje&s of disputation were—fit.
SVhether formality be advantageous to any cha.
raifter—2d. Whether fenfilal pleasures, when
indulged to a criminal degree can ever
fate the pains they create—3d. Whether the pre.
sent mode of education, so remote apparently
from the ordinary business of the world, be a
proper discipline to train up young |persons for
its adtive employments—-4th. Whether profane
swearing be confident with the chara&er of a
i polite man more than a religious riian—the dis
putes were carried on by Williant A. Harvey of
Bermuda, John Ruan of Santa Cruz. William
Hanna of Alexandria, Israel Harris of Deerfield.
William Mathews of South Carolina, and by
Mefl'rs. Bell, Churchill, William Johnson and
Woodhull—The degree of Bachelor of arts was
conferred 011 the above named young gentlemen
and on three others who were neceitarily abfenc
—Thomas Young of South Carolina, John Purdie
of Virginia, and Robert John Con ofSalcm. The
degree of Matter of Arts was conferred on ten
gentlemen alumni of this College and on Mr.
Gillet of Dartmouth College.
The degree of Dotftor of Laws, was confer
red on the following gentlemen—David Hume,
Esq. Profeflor of Scotch Law, in the Univerfi.
ty of Edinburgh, nephew of the Historian of
that name ; John Robinson, A. M. Profeflor
of natural Philosophy in the University, and
general Secretary oi the Royal Society of Ediu
burgh ; the honorable James Kinfey, Esq.
Chief justice of the state of New Jersey ; and
on Monsieur Neckar and Monsieur Fay.
ette.—The rhonorable Oliver Elfworth, Docftor
of Laws of Yale College, was admitted ad <£«#-
d«7H.