by game, to destroy and eat np the bounty of providence. " All this," laid a joyful farmer, in tne neighbourhood of Montreuil —" all this Mon lieur is destined to the use of man—What a Re volution is this ! We (hall reap what we sow." A under the titfe of by a Society of Republicans, has made its appear ance,in the firft number of which isaletter from Mr. Paine. LETTER from M. Rocderer, a celebrated Patriot, to M. Bouille. " I received yellerday, Sir, a packet with tlie poll-mark of Luxembourg, sealed vvitl) your arms, containing a printed copy of your letter to the National Allembly. I flatter myfelf that in iranfmitting this letter to me, you wish to indi cate that 1 am personally intereiled in the insults which it contains, and 1 thank you accordingly. " Perhaps you may recolledt a conversation which we had together at Metz, during the epoch of the Revolution. 1 was then at the head of the Patriotic Party, and you were commandant of that place. The citizens diflrufted you ; they were afraid lett you lhould invite the King, and those courtiers whom the Revolution had con demned to the punishment of equality, within their walls. You were at that time the cause of a continual fermentation, but you were taught to know (how much havejou (ince forgot this ul'eful leilon !) that your cannon wereol'no avail against the eternal batteries of reason, which fiom the Priuting-houfe as Laudouiu, began to humble all the supporters of Tyranny and of Ty rants, and which, be allured, will continue to humble them, to whatever distance they may re treat, or within whatever citadel they may en trench themselves. " Penetrated with these truths, so humiliating to you, you then waited on me and alked methis question—" Do you think that the public wel fare, demands that 1 fhoiild give up my command ! If you do, I am ready to give in my resignati on." " If the fugitives," J replied, " intend to rally in this country ; if the King intends to to take refuge here ; if Metz is destined to be come the cradle of a Civil War, I with you were a thoufarid leagues distant. But on the contrary, if the King ihould adhere to the Conltitutiort, if the fugitives difperled throughout the world are content to ac r t thepart of Knights-Errant, I (hall be-very happy to fee in the chief garrifan of our frontiers.a General like-you, who has gained the attachment of thefoldiery, and is capable of en\ forcing obedience at home and iefpe(ft abroadv'\ " Your reply to me was a memorable lam able to recapitulate it exactly —I give yon my"word of honor, toeujorce the Decrees of the Na tional A[feml>!y with my utmoj/ power, whether 1 ap~ prove them or not ; 1a!fo pledge my word oj honor, never to involve my country in a Givil-War. " Perhaps this couverfation has been recol lected by you firrce vour arrival at Luxembourg ; you may have been afraid lelt one of the -words of honor which you have betrayed Ihould be for gotten, and you have undoubtedly addrefied your letter tome, for fear that this claim to public infamy /hould lofe.lis just reward. " If this is your motive, Sir, 1 doubly thank you for your correspondence. " For some time part, Philosophy has laboured to diihonour honour, and to elevate Virtue in its room. Louis XVI. and you have at one and the fame time rendered this i'crvice to the nation,and have advanced the morals of mankind at leaf! half a century nearer perfection. "In fine,l hope thai public opinion and the laws will no longer confine themselves to fmts of chi valry and wards of honor, as neceflary titles for public employments : but that they will also in lift 011 proofs of virtue and atfts of patriotism: (Signed) " ROEDERER, " Jeputy to the National Aflemb'y." NATIONAL ASSEMBLY, July 7. The President.—" 1 have received a commu nication from the King." " Mr. Prefidetu, " I fend you a note, which I request you to read to the National Afl'embly." " GEN-tlemrn, " I AM informed that several officers, gone into foreign countries, have, by circular letters, invited the soldiers of the regiments to which they belong, to quit the kingdom to join them ; and that as an inducement, they protnife to ad vance them ; by virtue of full powers, directly or indireiftly, flowing from me, 1 think it my du ty to give a forma] contradiction to these afler tions, and to repeat my former declaration, that in leaving Paris I had 110 intention but to go to JVlontmedi, and there to make to the National Affdmbly such representations as I thought ne ceJaryj on the difficulties experienced in the ex ecution of the laws, and of the adminiltration of the kingdom. 1 declare pofnively, that all per lons who (ay they have received such powers from me, are g'lilry of a mod culpable impo sition. (Signed) Ordered to be entered in the proceedings JULY 12. Decreed, that 130,000 livres hitherto paid an nually to the Pope, and the annual rent paid to the Apostolic Chamber of Avignon, (hall cease to be paid, from the ift of April, 1 79 1 * The Call of the All'embly wa&in the morning ; bv which.it appears that the number of members present was 1029. The number ot thole who are dead, or absent with or without leave, &c. or who have resigned, is 132. Read a'letter from Pondicherry, giving in.- formation that Tippoo had ravaged the country as far as the walls of Madras ; but thac he had 1110 ft carefully spared the French and their pro perty, and that the French Flag, wherever dis played, had been the means of preserving those vrho had hoilted it. July 14. M. de Liancourt attended the tri bune, and drew a uioft lively and animated pic ture of the prefenc situation of France. He de clared that he would deliver bis opinion with all the courage of a man who is free and indepen dent. He said, that to oppose the inviolability of the king, yvould be to overturn the conftituti -011. " A king who is not inviolable, (fays he) cannot be ail hereditary king, but a king of a day." Whether the king in his flight, be considered as a king, or a simple citizen, his person is invio lable. One thin" is wanting to onr revolution ; that is the liberty of the king. To complete the con ititution, it was jieceflary that the King, at a dil tatice from Paris, might be enabled to re&ify all defecfts, and afterwards come back to his capital with all the dignity of a man who forms an inte gral part ofthe constitution. Arc then measures, adopted with that salutary view, to be thought criminal ? M. de Liaticourt then observed, that previously to the sth of Ocftober, the king had not any thing to do with the declaration of rights. His next attempt was to juftify the declaration which the king had left behind him when he left Paris. He spoke highly in praise of the king's personal integrity, of his love of justice, of his fondnefs for his people, and of his endeavours to rectify all kinds of abuses. Tlie king, fays he, is no longer a king, except for those who have the courage *udefpife all fac tious people.—The king is attacked, but through him it is that royalty is intended to be deftroyedc It is by the fall of one that foine seditious people hope to be on a level. His concluflons were that the projert of the committees ought to be adopted. M. de Lialicourt was mod virulently attacked 'Jjy'M. Ricard, whose arguments solely confiftecf personal reflections. • M. de Liancourt's answer was that of a gentle man. M.Touftain de Tide asked if the King be not liable to be tried, what methods the committees would Adopt to prevent Louis XVI. from corrupt ing, with his lift of thirty millions, as many peo ple as he pleases. How, fays he, will it be pof jible to prevent him from choosing another de Calonne to be put at the head of the finances, and another de Bouille to be at the head of an army ? M. Badier made a fpeerfi well becoming the deplorable iituarion of a man who has a straight waistcoat on. Of course it cannbt be worth re peating. According to him, a perjured man, a traitor, a parricide, a house-breaker, or a high way man, are complete gentlemen, compared to Louis XVI. M. Montefquiou with great energy, defended the King and the Monarchy, aful spoke with zeal against the arguments of the wholfe republican 'phalanx. M. Frngnon argued forcibly on the fame fide. M. Roberfpierre watof a different opinion; and his speech was much in the fame ftyleasthat of M. Badier. M. Duport delivered his sentiments in favottr of the King, and in favor of monarchy, and his arguments were irrefiltilvly conclusive. He very ap ly alluded to the English constitution, of which the king is the perpetual equilibrium. The farther difcuflion of the fubjecft was at length adjourned to the day following, which, Vve may fafelv prophecy, was one of the mod tu ni ul rno us of. all the noisy days since the aflembly was felf-created. From the very puny (late of health which the Dauphin labors under it is not expe<fted that he will live out hisa-pprenticelliip ; in cafe of death, the Democrats will be gratified with their favor ite fyflem, unless they should happen, by that time, to go uito the other extreme, which is not improbable. 1 he total of the subscription money for the projected canal between Hereford and Glouces ter, amounts to 80,0001. It was very natural for the Prince of Wales to set his face against the Revolution Dinner peo ple. Those who rejoice at the demolition of a crowned head in France, oh the principles of " LOUIS." 166 LETTER FROM PONDICHERRY LONDON, July iy. Democracy, would make no Temple t 0 upon the Crown worn by a Britiffi So*erei»T der the idea of Republicanism. Tbeir in 1 murdered Charles the First, and to this d»» v™ fuccellors January/in' k of-tfie horrid regicide*thenxommittcd. CansT men be called friends to the British Conftitß,- > The conlternarion of Meffi s. Priestley p and Co. at the refinance of the people to trines of Repulilicanifm, is great indeed. E,° C * shadow of hope is now departed, and w e hear no more of the rights rtf man. The Swediih Minitterat Poland,inconfequ«, of having married a Polilh lady, has been hoßou' ed with letters of indigenat, or naturalizatj 011 A camp is about to be formed in Poland to prevent any attempt against the new conftitn'ti,,! of that Kingdojn. Mr. Humphreys, whose houle at the turnpike was pulled down, offered the mob 4000 and as. terwards 8000 guineas, if they would desist ; ], Bt ' they declared that money was not their obie6 and that they pulled down his house because tbev considered hiin as a principal person concerned in the inflammatory handbills. He is a principal merchant in the town, and a gentleman much esteemed in his private chararter. To pay a compliment to the afties of Voltaire is facrificing found sense to idle theory, and ido latroufly worfliipping—" falfe doctrine, herefv and fchifin." Arillocratics and Miniflerialifb will, doubtless be surprised when we draw against them a re! mark (for which we rel'er thein to the immortal LoCKF.in his Treatise on Civil Government) made by James the Firit ; that king, so prodinj. onfly attached to the prerogatives of royalty,and who had himfelf endeavoured, in his writings to consecrate this doctrine. " All kings, (he ob serves) who do nor wifli to become tyrants, and to experience the fate of tyiants, ought to keep chemfelves under fnbmiffion to the laws. Who soever maintains to the contrary, is a pest and a viper," The condu&ofthe advocates for defpotifm,ky calumniating with mifconftru&ions, asabfordas they are atrocious, the natural exultation! of freemen, when they perceive millions of their fellow creatures gloriously emancipating then*, selves frorp the (hackles of lawlefspower,remind* us of the too just observation of Vohaife—" that persons are always to be found who havenothing in their composition which belongs to either the age, or the country in whieh they exist. America, though happy under her own free Government, does not view the commotions in Europe without much concern. Situated,.^ (he is, in a sequestered corner of the earth, she terniined to repose herfelf for a long while yet to come in tranquillity, withaut meddling the affairs of other nations. Peace and frient (hip are all (he claims, and all (he delires. HeV commerce is flourifhing, ahd her revenue Jawsftt Well regulated, that at the close of the two firtf. year's experience of her new conflitution, (he found iir the public treasury, after deducting all the current expences of Government, a million,! towards discharging the National Debt. In the fix departments of Brest, Toulon, Roch fort, Bourdeaux, Havre and Dunkirk, there are 132,110 seamen. The Clergy of Spain have much more reason to dread a Revolution than the King. Their re venues and their power are exorbitant. Many of the antient nobility have long viewed the over bearing influence of the Church with an evil ejt, and should his Majesty be disposed to imitate the illuftrioua example of the King of Poland; he might, in conjun<siion with his molt enlightening nobles, effect a reform of the Government, which would at once secure to him the gratitude an affection of his people, and as great a degree of power as a good King would desire to „ Poland, patriotically inattentive to the buttle of Europe around her, pursues the'completion 0 the mod wonderful revolution ever produced y the concurring a (lent ofan awakened people, wi> a philosophical ivnanipiity. , . Sir John Sinclair has found, that the m«r«ie of inhabitants over all Scotland, within the t forty vears. notwithstanding wars, emigratio , &c. is'little short of half a million of peop'f parishes, which in 1755 contained 10,59 1 tants, in 1790 contained 25,249, an incre 8668. LIVERPOOL, July x 6, The man who overftepstheg geni us' ° f h 'V£e whether it be a statesman, who has the co and virtue? to break through the rimpa" ° pillar and ancient prejudices, cemente W felf jnterefl. of those who profit by ' e or the philosopher, who by his di cove ft tens the progressive improvement or mind ; or the moralist, who by some JTrrnpt fort of genius is able to stem the tide o j: ed manners, and turn it into P ur f r ° jjmes, carries with hini his exigence nit" " " e [, t i and becomes one of the links often unp of the great chain of causes and ette the moral world is suspended.
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