der for the purpose, the officer or soldier who shall have executed it, fliall fufler confinement in I c years. . . 3 Those concerned (either by giving or exe cuting orders) in attempts to prevent the re-uni on effert the diflblution, or interrupt the delibe rat'ions of the legislative Wy, or in attempts tending to dellroy the independence oi any in dividual member of it, (liall luffer death. 4 If troops of the line come within 20,000 nUi, [120,000 feet] of the place ... which the legislature is fitting, without being authouted, <>r°required by the aflbmbly, the Minilter who has given or countersigned the order, the com mander in chief, or the principal commander of rath bodv of the aforefaid troops, who has par ticipated in the execution, shall fuffer to \eais imprisonment. .. f. Those who attempt to surround the legiila tive body, with armed men, or to procure admit tance into the place where they fit, without be in" by them authorised, shall luffer death. The Minister or commander, who has signed the order, the officers or soldiers who attempt to execute it shall fuffer the fame puniffiment. 6 For all attempts to derange the order of fnccelfion to the throne eltabliilied by ihe confti tntion—Death. 7. 1 f any act. is publiffied as a law. without having been decreed by the legislature, whaie ver be the form of that art, the Minilter who countersigns it (hall fuffer death. If said art does not appear in the form pre scribed by the decree of the 7th of October 1 7 V 9> every civil or military officer publiffiing or exe cuting it shall fuffer 10 year's imprifonment.^ This article is not tobe understood toinfringe on the rights of the executive to publish procla mations and iflue such orders as are put within its power by the constitution. 8. In cafe of the publication of a falfified law, the Minister by whom it is countersigned, it con victed of having altered, or caused to be altered, the decree of the legislative body wittingly, shall fuffer 1J year's imprisonment. 9. If any art laying a tax or direrting a loan to be made is published without the said tax or loan passing through the forms established by the constitution, the Minilter courirerfigning said art, or ifluing orders to collert said tax. or to receive monies 011 account of said loan, fliall fuffer 20 year's confinement, x All agents of the executive power, executing said orders, eilher by collecting said tax, or re ceiving the monies of said loan, (hall luffer death. June 9. M. Thouret of the eccleftaftic and conrtitutional comm ittee,offered the followi»g<le crees to the consideration of the aflembly. 1. No brief, decree, or bull of the court of Rome can be printed, publiftied, distributed or execut ed, without being firft prefeiued to the legisla ture, read, approved, and famftioncd by theni, that sanction approved of by the King, and pro mulgated in form directed by law. The following decree, proposed by M. Duport, was adopted. _ Municipal, administrative, judiciary functions, and the duties of commander in chief of the National Guard, are incompatible with those of a legislator, and persons who fill such offices (hall Dot exercise the duties of them, during theii ap pointment to a {eat in the legislature i but may resume them after the time of their ele&ion is expired Permit a Holland Patriot to blame the uncau tious fecuriiy of the French nation, who negledi the means of discovering the secret manoeuvres and complicated political schemes of sOl eign courts. It is by their means ttiat fears and fions take place in the new departments of that glorious regenerated kingdom. It is that daik fyltem of politics, which, by means of mercena ry writers and seditious tools, misleads opinions, and occasions internal commotions. All these enemies will not acft from the exterior upon France ; but internally they are much more to be feared. What are the intentions of those cries of expected invasions but seditious rumors, railed and kept up by the agents I have men tioned ? To disquiet the French, and divide, if poilible, the kingdom, is the plan of a few powers which appear to me to be busy in confuhing measures as a central committee in the cabinet at Hague. Fiance has nothing to fear but from a civil war, which l'oine of her neighbours would wilh to fend them either by the means of Ambafladors, or by persons in an inferior capacity ; —the latter are more to be feared. What are, it may be said, these intrigues and intriguing persons, when compared to the great principles of an Afiembly working the regeneration of a powerful king dom ? True ; —but still may not France, for want of more circumfpeftion, pay with the effufion of more blood tor the revolution which does them honor, and for the happiness which awaits them ? Let them not forget the device, which the foun ders of the Batavian Republic adopted : Concor dia res paw# cr~efcunt, difcordia maxim# dilabuntur. HAGU E. \ LONDON, June 4. By the new constitution of Poland, tlie Kit, is inverted with high prerogatives, nearly equl to rhofe of Great Britain. He is to have the n min at ion of Bifliops, Senators, and all civil ai military officers ; and to appoint Miniiteis .1 Prime Agents of the executive power, but fliall always be responsible and liable to be <1- miiied. The person of the King Avail be faci'l and inviolable, and entirely free from refpoti bility, which is equal to the Engliffl maxim, tXt the King can do 110 wrong. In lime of war,ie (hall command and direct all military operatios. His title shall be " Stanislaus Augustus, by ie grace of God, and the wishes of the nation,Kig of Poland." It will never be forgot in Poland, that 011 ie memorable 3d of May, the patriotic King Staif laus Augustus discharged his guards. In ne procession from the Senate house to the churh, and from the latter place to his own palace, ie absolutely refnfed to have a single man of lis usual guard with him, but mixed with the Sea tors and citizens at large, and frequently «s engaged in the crowd. " Well," said he,at the close of the evening, " thank God not a in gle drop of blood has been filed. Perhaps lie of the greatest misfortunes that has happenecto day, has lighted upon myfelf, for 1 have loftny hat in the crowd." All arguments from our former policy refp<ft ing Rnffia, are inapplicable to our prelent filia tion. We introduced her (it is said) in 177 in to the Mediterranean. We declined oppcing her taking the Crimea in 1 782. But let it bi re membered, that at both those periods Francethe ancient ally of Turkey, the natural protecltr of her independence, was in full vigor. It c uld not be the policy of England to strengthen the ally of her rival, nor could lhe have any reaon able alarms for the independence of a pcwer proiei-'led by the House of Bourbon. But cinum ftances are changed.—The imbecility of Fnnc£' has now thrown Turkey into the arms of the Triple Alliances. If they abandon her, (henuft perish, and with her one of the great bulwarks of the fectirity of Europe against the toweing ambition of Catherine 11. Since the Porte has, by the debility of France, been compelled to form a closer connexion with England, (lie has recalled many preferences to French produce, which had been prescribed by the French alliance, awd which had ruined our Levant trade, once one of the mod flouriihing branches of our commerce. Our Levant trade has accordingly, within these three la It years, doubled, and piomifes, in due time, to rife to its former level—No niean conmn-'.-i r i— r jje: rescue of Turkey. Letters from Vienna oßferve, that the Marquis de Noailles, proceeded (for the last time) in his flaie carriage, witli the full family liveries, and the arms blazoned, to the house of the Chancel lor, Prince de Kaunitz, and put, with great form, into his hands, the memorial wherein Louis the sixteenth declares himfelf the " chief of the re volution of France." The real anfvver given to the Ambaflador has not yet transpired ; but a courier has, on this occasion, been dispatched to the Emperor, who is now at Parma. Monsieur Noailles who, previously to the revolution (tiled himfelf Marquis, no longer presents him elf in any other character than that of the Ambaflador of France ; and this without even joining to the appellation his family name ; yet, his two sons continue to be addrefled, in all compaiies, as the Connesde Noailles. Louis the sixteenth appears to make t rapid progress in his emancipation from the P'.pal su premacy :—The Nuncio has been ordered to quit Paris The Turkish army in Bulgarid coififts of t 10,000 effective men. The Ruflian frees in Moldavia and Beil'arabia amount to 120,00. The Nabob of Oude, has at length fiuihed his new palace, at Lucklow—it is four miles in cir cumference, but is built so contrary to al order, that every apartment seems to belong ti differ ent persons—the last room that has ben fitted up, is the most magnificent thing thntcan be imagined; it is entirely of ivory and flvr. The Nabob is particularly partial to hunting and he is the only one of the Asiatic despots the hunts in the true eastern (tile of magnificece ; his train in general, confilts of 750 elephans, j,ooo horse, and 40,000 foot—half a dozen t}£ers of a morning are to him a breakfaft, and a rhinoce ros, with two or three panthers, a lunceon, be fore dinner. On Sunday the 15th of May, the wist of Mr. Richard Smith, a day-labourer, of Le-Brock hurts, in Shropshire, was fafely del'ered of three daughters, and all of them are s well as can be expected ; but they are so ctremely small and delicate, as to admit a wornns' ring of an ordinary size, to be put over the 'oot, an cle, and almoil up to the knee. Rumour dates, that it has been lonjtlie ear ned wilh of a Great Personage* to pals he resi due of his life in as much serenity as t'e nature of his painful situation will permit, ant that to 126 the complete repose of his mind, nothing wntfld with fomuch certainty contribute, as the feeing a flrong and efficient adniiniftration in the coun try. Report alio obfer*es, that Mr. Kox waj mentioned upon this topic, and that no objecti on was made ; and further, that arrangements would be entered upon, in which that Staiefoiau would be included. * George 111 ALBANY, Augult j. (i On Thnrfday last arrived in this city from \ London, via New-York, and the fame evenino set off for Canada, Mr. STEWART, the noted pedestrian—who, we are told, has travelled over the greater part of Europe, Alia and Africa oh foot ; and lias come to this country, for the pur pose of completing his travels, by making the tour of the, American world. Mr. Stewart is a I middle aged man, about fix feet high—and what I is particularly remarkable, he is [aidto sat no ani- I mat food, and but one meal a-day. / ELIZABETH-TOWN, Aug. i A letter from Maryland, dated George Town, Augtifl: t, mentions, that Mr. Ellicot, the Sur veyor-General, is busily employed in the federal city, in opening flreers, laying off squares, lots, &c. and that it is expedted the public buildings will be begun next spring, which will give em ploy to 3000 workmen. It also mentions, that a dryer fuminer than the present was never expe rienced, having had but little rain since April 1 ast ; —that the corn crops will be trifling ; and, as for tobacco, scarce any. Philadelphia, August 17. European intelligence is received to the 18th June, A motion in tlie National Assembly June 10, by M. Roberfpierre, to disband the army, occa sioned a warm and lengthy debate ; the next day the opinion of the committee of the confti tut ion 011 this fuhjecl was received, read, and adopted—the substance of which was, to fimpK fy and more perfectly regulate the ltahdiug for ces, and provide more effectually for the fidelity of the commiflioned officers, &c. This report contained a request that tiie King would give notice to M. Condc that his refidente near the frontiers gives uneafinels to the inhab itants, and requiring him to return into the kingdom, or to remove from the frontiers with in 15 days—if lie does not conform to the de crees of .tlig. Ailembly he is to be declared a rebel. ~*Juue 14. Eight articles were decreed intended to prevent combinations of journeymen to raise wagei-r-or of employers to lower the price of labor. A curious letter from the Abbe Raynal (now in decrepitude and dotage) was received by the National Aflembly, the firft of June : This let ter contains all the common place dodtrine of the aristocratic failion, about deitroying the power of the crown and the noblefle ; M. Ma louetit is said has the honor of drawing the Abbe to this miserable contraditlion of the former doifhines of his life ; this letter was read with out interruption and very little notice taken of it. Two letters were received, one from the Ame rican Congress, and one from the Aflembly of Fennfylvania, thanking tlie Aflembly for tlie tribute they had paid to the memory of Dr. Franklin, and expressing the high regard which America entertained for the acfts and fentinients of the National Aflembly of France. These let ters were ordered to be printed. A special feifion of the Circuit Court of the United States, in and for Pennsylvania Difti'iit of the middle circuit, was on Monday held in this city The Judges, Wilson and iredill, present. Judge Wilson delivered an excellent charge, ind the jury having withdrawn, returned with a Ji 11, charging Eleanor M'Donald with having committed a larceny, in having taken tlie goods of Henry Williams on the high seas ; whereupon the said Eleanor pleaded not guilty—her trial was to come on vefterday. Having been alked whether (lie had engaged a couilfel, she replied in the ne gative ; whereupon the Court informed hei Hiat they would appoint a gentleman of the bar to a( vocate her cause. By accounts received from St. Croix, so l ate a ' the 2cl inft. we are informed, that the P rlce °, flour there was about five dollars per barrel . an. it could also be bought at St. Euftatia for the am P nce ' Col. Humphreys, Resident of the States at the Court of Lisbon, has been iecei in that character The State of Rhode-Island has lately u a) ' . heavy loss, by the death of that diftn'S" 1 " >atriot, Prelident Manning—an event t ia , jflFedi the friends of virtue, science, an P otifm, through the union.
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