mediately after it dispatched a courier to Lon
don. The Count is soon expetfted here to reside.
It appears that the Ruffians have discontinued
their offenftve operations against the fortrefs of
Btailow, and even have given up the execution
of tlieir projects against Bulgaria. It is probable
that the importance of the forces under Jnlliif
Pacha is believed, and that Prince Repnin thinks
it prudent to remain on the defenfive.
The last dispatches from Hererfburg contain
letters written in the Empress's own hand writ
ing. They were immediately sent by express to
the Emperor in Italy. Baron de Buhler, who
was the bearer of them, returned immediately to
his court.
AMSTERDAM, May 30
By a letter received from ihe Helder, dated
on Saturday latt, we are informed, that Vice Ad
miral Kingfbergen, who has for two years com
manded the fleet of observation, had (truck his
flag, and that the whole fleet was going to he
laid up in ordinary
The Directors of the East-India Company have
come to the resolution of recalling M.deGraaft,
Governor of t he Cape of Good Hope, and of fend
ing a deputation to regulate the contested af
fairs, and repress thedivilions inthefaid colony.
BASLE (Switzerland) June I
We hear from Berne, chat the French emi
grants are very numerous in that city : Molt of
them have been absent from France since the be
ginning of tire Revolution ; some from Italy ;
others return from Germany. They boaftof their
intentions to effect a counter-revolution ; but
the only step they appear to have taken towards
this, is, wearing white cockades.
PARIS, May 26
Yeflerday, for the fii ft time since the baiba
rous, impolitic, and ever to be execrated revoca
tion of the ediiit of Nanrz, a congregation of
Proteflants were seen in Paris, under the
of the law, publicly worshipping the Eternal, ac
cording to their rights !—-M. Maron officiated as
Minister, and it is but justice to fay, that we ne
ver saw a Clergyman pe: form the service with
more fervency, order and propriety,—his text
■was " la nuit et paflee ; le jour eft leve," " the
night is far spent, the day is at hand ; let us
therefore cast off the works of dai knefs, and put
011 tiie armour of light." Romans, chap. xiii. v.
xii. xiii. He dwelt long on the goodness of the
Divinity, that, in his wisdom, fuffei ed man ro be
persecuted to try his faith. He expatiated wide
ly on the sage and philanthropic decrees of the
National Afieinbly ; and earnestly exhorted his
auditory to prove their gratitude by a strict, for
mal, and an uninterrupted obedience to the law,
the nation, and the king. There were above
2GOO p efent 011 the occasion, all the Englifli in
Pans a.lifted—the attraction was irrefiftable.
We learn from Nantz, that the society of the
friends of ihe conllitut ion there, not only wen
into mourning for Dr. Price, as the J ten bins hei e
did, but have resolved 10 place his bust in theii
hail, belicle the Declaration of the rights of Men
—to name one of the quarters of the town, con
sisting mostly of new buildings, Le Quarter de
Richard Price, and annually, on the 4th of
November, w'hen they celebrate the Englilh re
volution, to read his funeral oration.
The g'eaiell preparation is making in the
plain of the confederation for the celebration of
the ensuing birth-day of liberty, the 14th of Ju
ly. Lall week there were not less than ten thou
sand persons employed ; the number, however,
is now reduced to about eight thousand.
NATIONAL ASSEMBLY, May 23.
M. le Grand, member of the ecclesiastical Com
mittee, propufed, that the eighty-fix convents in
French Inlanders fliould be reduced to nineteen,
which was agreed to by the Afl'erahly, though
opposed by M. l'Abbe Brevrart, who pronounced
an eulogium on the monastic life, Motwithiland
ing they were invited to quit it.
M. de Montefquiou prefenied a flare of the
daily reports, whereby it appeared, that the de
ficiency for the month of April alone amounted
to upwards of 24,262,000 livres. —He proposed
that on the 14th of each month, the fnperinten
dant of the public treasury fliould deliver in an
account of the receipts of the preceding month ;
that as the expence> of each month may amount
to 48,558,523 livres, the ex:raordinary bank
fliould pay into the public treasury whatever
part of that fi'm should be deficient ; and that to
defray the deficiency of the month of April, the
f.iid bank ftiall immediately pay the sum of
24,262,505 livres. The proposal was adopted
without oppofirion
May 25■ M. Bouche fnggefted an amendment
o the resolution of paying four millions as a
dower, p anted by 'he National Aflembly to the
Queen, on condition of her surviving the King.
Ke proposed that the four millions ol" livres
Ihonld be paid to the only on condition
of her continuing ;o elide in France. The As
sembly, however, did not adopt his proposal.
A decree was afterwards pafled, confirming the
King in the pofleffion of the domains and country
feats of which his Majesty a year iigo exprelled
his intention to retain the pofleifion.
LONDON, June 6.
According to a fpeechof the Attorney General
in tlie Roul'e of Commons on the fubjeift of li
bels, it appears that in the last thirty years, the
number of prosecutions on that account, amount
ed to feventy—aniongft them some were against
the scriptures, others against the king, against
the revolution, the government and other ob
jects, and fonie were obfeene.— Fifty of these had
been convicted—of the other twenty, some had
ablconded, and allowed judgment to pass by
default, and a few had been pilloried.—Five he
believed was the number feiueuced to the pillory,
two of whom for publilhing obfeene baoks—one
of them was however pardoned it having been
proved that he was not accefl'ary to the publica
tion, being ill at the time—two were for libels
against his Majesty, and two lor libels on the
Ruilian Ambadador, &c. these were all that in
the course of thirty years had been sentenced to
that punilhment
According to the account given of M. de Mira
>eau's illness, by M. Chabinis, his friend and
>hyfician, he said not long before he died, of our
Vlr. Pitt, " This Pitt is the vuinitter of preparation;
le governs by what he threatens rather than what
:ie does. If I haJ lived, 1 (ho-jld have given him
[ believe some mortifications." M. Mirabeau
:onceived, fays M. Chabinis, that liberty acquir
ed by itifurrec'tion, fliould be maintained by re-
I'pect for the laws—and that the laws could not
be executed but by an atftive power ; and that
the alliance of a good demo, racy and of monar
chy was the natural form of government ; and
that no other form could equally unire the vigi
lance of constant regulation to the inviolable se
curity of national freedom.
HOUSE
ROMAN CATHOi-IC BILL
In a committee, Lord Cat-heart in the chair,
the bill was read clause by daufe, and a number
of amendments were propufed, some of which
were accep.ed, particularly the alteration of the
oarh enacted in the year TJJS, as a qualification
for the Irifb Catholics.
The Biihop of London moved, " That Catho
lic Schoolinalters should be retrained from let
ting up Schools in ilie t wo*Univei fities, and from
educating the children of Protestant Parents."
After a debate, the amendment was agreed to.
H O E OK COMMONS.
I.IBEI f,.
Upon the motion for the third reading of the
bill for confirming the Rights of Juries in cases
of Libels.
Mr. Fox, in order, he said, that as few quib
bles might be furniftied by this bill as poflible,
would move to leave out certain words which
admitted of different conftru<ftions, and w hereby
juries had been limited in their jurifdnition, but
which this bill fought to extend. The words he
moved, were, after matter at iflue before them;
it having hitherto been thepratSice of the Courts
only to fuffer the jury to find the defendant guil
ty of publilhing; then the criminality of that
publication, if leditious or defamatory, was con
firmed, and the defendant found guilty, w iihout
leaving to the Jury to decide, with what disposi
tion and spirit he published the paper containing
the Libel.
The motion being seconded, the amendment
was adopted—whereby the whole of the matter
at iflue is left to the determination of a Jury.
LONDONDERRY, May 24
On Saturday last, Mr. Cox finifhed his contract
for erecting the Bridge over the river Foyle.—
When we consider the immensity of the under
taking, and the shortness of the time in which it
has been compleated, we cannot too much ad
mire and applaud the genius and execution of
this molt able artist. He began and completed
the whole work in little more than twelve months;
and if a fufliciency of timber had been always at
hand, it would have been finifhed much sooner.
Philadelphia, August 15.
Extract of a letter from Loudon, Jo a house in this
city, received by the Lark, arrived at New-York,
dated "June 7th.
'' The dispute with Ruflia is yet unsettled, but
I think it will be adjusted in an amicable manner
this funnner, and a general peace take place
throughout Europe. 1 would advise you, there
fore, to 111 'ke no (peculations that are not found
ed on pacific principles ; and with regard to the
prices of your product, you will be guided by the
advices you may receive from different quarters.
The crops of grain in Europe have, from all ac
counts, the molt luxuriant appearance, but par
ticularly so throughout this island, where everv
kind of grain is 1 eally abundant and proinifing."
123
June 12.
OF LORDS
OnTcefdayafternoon,!' 1 moth y Pickering,
Esq. arrived in this city from the Indian country,
whither lie had been sent by the President of the
United States, to negotiate a treaty with certain
Indian tribes. We have every reason to infer,
when we reflect on this gentleman's acknow
ledged abilities, fteadinel'sjand moderation, that
he hasifatisfacflorily compleated tiie very impor
tant objeifts of his million.
A Diiiriilt Court of the United States, for the
Diftricft of Pennsylvania, was held last Tuesday
at the New Court House in this city, where a
grand jury was impannelied, and an excellent
charge delivered by the Judge, William Lewis,
Efqnire.
Several bills were laid before the grand jury,
after which the Court adjourned until Wed
nesday, ten o'clock. N
The French Sloopof War, LaFavourite, Monf.
Riviere, Commander, is the fir ft French fliip we
have seen in the Delaware with the National Co-
lours
During t he late war bet ween Great-Britain and
the United Srates, M. de Ternant, now Ambatik
dor from the Court of France, served as a Lieu
tenant-Colonel in the American Army.
Arrived at New-York on Sunday last, the Ship
Ann and Snfan, Capt. Duplex, in 62 days from
Londonderry, with five hundred pallengers ; eve
ry one of whom paid their passage befofe they
left Ireland.
APPOIN 1 MENTS.
Th omas Jo h k son, Esq. of Maryland, Afloci
ate Judge,'in the room of J. RuTLEDp E,Efq. who
lias resigned
Matthew Clarkson, Esq. of New-York,
vlarfhal of that Diflriift, in the room of W. 5.
Smith, Esq. appointed Supervisor.
SCRIP
NOW fixtyytars have roll'd about,
Since grandame Britain saw,
The famous foutb-fea-bubblc-rout,
Rais'd by that fcheemer La w.
Of golden mountains—in the moon,
What pittures did they draw !
And di'monds dimning sol at noon,
Form'd by that conj'rer Law.
But foonthey found the bubble burst—
The balloon had a flaw ;
And thousands found themselves accurst,
That built their hopes on Law
This fatal fa£t one would have tho't,
Should fill mankind with awe !
But 4* by ruin still untaught,
have diitanc'd Law.
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