crifices, and by a noble difintereftcdnefj for the fate which was one day to call to concur in the foundation of th: republic,and to become one of its firfl; magistrates, I had the honour of fitting with his two other col leagues in that afTembly, which began so much without aceomplifhing any thing ; and with a ju!t degree of pride I fpealt it, the people then considered lis as their firmed friefie*:—-wc have juftified, and we will juf tifv that opinion. " Yes, citizens directors, I am prouS of being joined to you—of being able to fee at home those qualities wlvich diftSngtiilh vou at magistrates ; ns ycur private virtues, that mild philanthropy which culture of fciencc and the simple tafl'e for nature, the attendant on a lofty and sympathetic foul, in one ; in another, that firmnefs of charaitef, that rapidity of thought, thai unshaken ar dor, which is never (lopped by obstacles, and which fees in difficulties only the means of glory and a source of triumphs ; and sbroad, that brilliant coarage and those affa ble manners which temper the exercise of authority, and command attachment while they ensure refpcft. " What ffir.ll I fay to you, citizens diiec tors, fcnd whtit can I bring into this society of virtues and talents ! A zeal, industry, and unbounded d votion, and constant efforts to detcrve your efltem, by labouring, like you, for the republic. " Repub'ic ! May this facrcd name— this nanu which ruffians have dared to tar nish, become the objeft of universal esteem. May it* institutions be honored—May it be beloved by its children at it is feared by its enemies ; mr.y the intimate union of its cbief magiil'ratts, and their unanimous agreement with ItgifUtors, bind still more strongly the bonds which it has attempted to divide ; and may the coalition of all means and of all ef forts at length realize that vvi(h which is in the bofvim of all good men—that of the. tranquillity of the republic within, and peace with its external enemies, honorable, solid, aril fiicb as the innumerable triumphs which I fee on every fide of us, point out to us to require. " Full of these fentimcnts, and convinced of the receflity of adding to the convidtion wjiich you already rnuft feel of their finceriy, the additional pledge of a solemn oath, which is nothing to a rascal, but a religious duty to an honcfl man ; and in order to prove my inviolable submission to the laws of the re public, " 1 swear hatred to royalty and anarchy and attachment nnd fidelity to the conftitu tiois of the year." Citizen Francois de Neufchateau then said, " CITIZEN DIRECTORS, " After what citizen Merlin haa said, I cduld only repeat expressions which I (hould be fearful of weakening. Thtfe fentimcnts have been in my heart since my firfl infancy. Brought up in the school of philosophy, the revolution' found me ready to embrace its. dofkritie, and to maintain it. lam well con vinced, that a citizen ought to live and die for the republic, that he owes himfelf entire ly and without reserve to it, and that it is in tfce republic that we ought to plape and consecrate, in some fort, all our wiflies and all cur hopes. This profeffion of faith being also yours, citizen direftors, I am happy in partaking yoiir labors, as I entertain the fartne ideas and have (hared the fame gangers. It ir> a flattering circntnftance to me to find here three diflinguifhed members of the con stituent aflembly, and one of my colleagues in the legislative aflembly, with whom I re member to have run other dangers on the icth of August, 1792. I am penetrated BS"you are with this immutable principle (of which the 4th of September affords a sub lime application) that the best means of maintaining a government and of rendering it liable, is to bring it back constantly to the principles 011 which it has been founded., It is therefoae neeeflary that France and its government (hould conftanth^ return to re publican principles. " A witness of the purity of you inten tions and of the greatness of your courage, and admiring those virtues at this great con jutl&urc, lam happy in the choice which "eonftitutes me a member of the executive di rectory, and which unites me intimately with the favionrs of my country. It is with joy, then, and from my heart, that I take before you the oath of hatred to royalty and anar chy, and of inviolable attachment to the re public and of fidelity to the constitution of the 3d year." The president of the dire&ory replied to them, ' 1 « Citizens Colleagues, " is agreeable for me to be the organ of the executive directory, to express to you how happy they are to fee you among the number of their members. " They have at length pafled those days of anguish in which mistrust and discord pre vailed its our circle. The most agreeable confidence is abo\it to prevail among us, or rather already pievails, and nothing can dis turb it. Whatever difference may be in our pleasures snd in our habits, our harmony will not be lqfs perfeft. We all know one another, alid we arc all convinced that each of in energetically wishes for v the republic, and the cortftitntiou of the 3d year, which is the pledge of it; that every one of us is desirous of feeing virtne prevail, of infpinog all hearts with the love of the country: that 1 very one of us, in (hort has no other ambi tion than that of feeing France free and happy within, and great and honourable without, "'May this affe&ing agreement serve as , n example to all Frenchmen—May all re jublicans rally, and the lhades of opinion l) 0 longer render them the sport of ariitocra -y & fanaticifm —may terrorism, which one party affeft to fear, and which the other would really render terrible, in order to drive us into the arms of Royalty, no lodger serve as a pretence t» (top the progress of public spirit may government meet with confi dence, and the [French pfrfuade thcmfelve* that this dreadful fyftera will never revive— may those violent men, -.vhofe escefles cre ated perhaps as many enemies to the revol ution as the deftru&iori of abuses, be sensi ble for onct\ that energy of foul, and vigor of means are adverse both to oppreflion and atrocity; while on the other hand, weak and tinftid men may henceforth cease to cal umniate decided republicafis—may. they know that wisdom is as far removed from weakness and pusillanimity, as from exeefs and cruelty ? in a word, may all parties u nite themselves on truly patriotic principles, by the principle of those who know how to unite great wisdom of conduft with great vigor of charafter, an ardent passion forjuf tice, with an unbounded attachment to li berty: an almost restless vigilant* forth# support of the republic, with a great love for peace; and a humanity and compafiion, with the severity necessary to rep'refs v'ce in general, and the enemies of liberty in particular. " It is by this agreement of all parties, by their union with the friends of liberty, vvhofe true charafler we hav# delineated, and by the praftical effefls of their maxinas, that we lhall fee the republic conf»lidated, and the constitution of the third year strengthened beyond the pofiibility of being shaken. " To this objeft all our wishes and all our labours tend: and we never thought our hopes better founded than since we have known who were the afTociatcs, and whom the wifdoin of the legiflativj body had cho sen for us." A new difcHat-ge of artillery announced the installation of the new directors. A meflapje was then sent to eaclv of the councils, advising the-m of the installation »f citizens Merlin and Francois (de Neufcha teau.) By this day's Mail. NEW-YORK, November 10. SCOTLAND. Considerable riots have taken place in that part of the Britilh'dominions in conse quence of the enforcement of the Military Aa. They have ' however been quieted, as will appear from the following s At a general meeting of the lord lieu tenant of the county of Hiddrnton, and his deputies, held at Hiddenton the 7th day of September, 1797. The lord lieutenant and his deputies take this fi'rft opportunity of their being eon venedin a general meeting, toexprefs their warmed acknowledgments to the military, both officers and privates, who were em ployed under the civil power, in restoring peace and good order in the late unhappy and atrocious riot at Tranent, upon Tues day the 29th of August last, fur their long and patient forbearance at the commence ment of the riot, and for their t«rnperate> firm, and manly conduct in suppressing it: and the meeting, without detrafting from the merits of the other officers and privates employed on that occasion, beg leave to exprcf* their marked approbation of the conduA of captain Tinlay, of the Cinque Ports cavalry, and of captain Price, of the Pembrokeshire cavalry, for their judicious conduft in that affair; and the meeting re commend to the lord lieutenant to wait up on lord HaWkefbui*y, the commanding of ficer ef the Cinque Ports cavalry, to ex press their fentimenti, to request that his lordship will take the earliest and moll preper mode of communicating these sentiments to the officers and privates of his own corps, and of convtying them to the commanding officer of the Pembroke cavalry ; and for the alacrity with which the detachment of that corps marched to funport the laws and the constitution of their 4 country. TWEEDDALE, Lord Lieutenant, (Signed) PAIIS NOT TRANQUIL The Chouans of Paris do not yet consi der themfelvea as subdued : on the Sth of September, they-infulted the citizens at the Theatre of Moliere, but they prudently despised their provocations. Yederday, at a tavern, the representative Lehardi, who took such an aftive part in bringing about the revolution of the 4th, was threatened and attacked by twoChouam, who behaved so ill that he was obliged to seize one of them by the tollar, in order to eofiduft hirn before a justice of the peace. But his com rade having taken flight, he succeeded in extricating himfelf, and got off. If the police do not take care, the cut-throats under the command of Pichegru will soon revenge their general in disgrace, by destroy ing those men who have been the mod ac tive in overthrowing royalty.—Annales Po litique!. • PARIS, September 12. PAPERS Alluded to in the address of the council to the departments and the armies. The following papers were not stuck up, but were printed and diftributcd : (No. i.) Extraft of the correfpondtnce seized at Le Maitre's. " Mr. Bayard, who will deliver this, is sent by the Englilh ambaflador, but you may place great confidence in him. Assist him with your advice and otherwise—it is for the good cause, and Mr. Bayard is a true and ruyalift. " I embrace you with all my heart. " E. D. V." (No. 2.) " I am informed from Verona of the Bth, but not by aperfon of the council, that the king will leave that place fooOi Marlhal de Ca dries and Mr. Flachlauden fay no thing." (No. 3.) " The priests are aftive in the distribu tion of the newspapers, and all for the love of God.—This body of men are become Angularly difintercfted. I fliould be very f«rry that the intrigue which ia renewing ! . ~ PNflcefi royal fliould ; for | and circumstances (hall put it in my powsr if it fhoulo, they would have an Lo" that is iny apprehension, and that is the re - this day will come, for our reciprocal con fon why I have infilled upon forty-nine al- folation, lam Sir, with great refpefl, your ways remaining free. Barthclciry is ill, and , very humble and obedient ftrvant. very melancholy, anu I (hould not be fur- (Sighed) " Pancemont, prised if he is af.'edkd by reriorfej I have *. Curate of St. Sulpice." informed them, t'tatif they choose, I will (^.'14.) found him, to set if lie would obey an or- "La Roche, Rate!, feaionary writer and der from the king to quit the place, and deliver to the person appointed all the pa pers relative to the embafiy. They did.uot aiifwer me, because they never ahfwer. Fai ewcll " ~ (No. 4 .) " Ihe opinion of the king nnd of the princes in the interior, &C. See. you per ceive ought not to ba known. " Above all things, let us not speak of the perfidy of the EngWh or of Pitt, but only some flight difappro"bation or advice. All the red of the politics may be laid open ; the intrigues of Vienna and of Doulcet may all be difcovered.y J „ ( N °*-). '• You alk.me many things. Without doubt you w;lh to eflablifh a correspondence with the armies of the coast ; and you want to knew what is passing in the committee and in the armies—that is very well. This is a great work, but it would be nothing if the means toaccomplifh it were fufficient. I would then exert myfelf; but I will tell you one thiug, and your conftitutiou will surely do it, that is, that they (honld obtain nothing but by fair means." (No. 6.) " Will the emperor penetrate into Al l'ace as a conqueror ? or will he conquer it for the king of France ?—T confefs to you, that I believe nothing ; foi'i't will be necefla ry to difrover his plan beforehand. This mny cause the campaign (o fail, but may effect difpolitions of the primary aflem blies ; and when the enemy enters upon the republican territory, the convention will turn their attention from any beneficial pursuits, to induce them to oppose the enemy, who cah that the court ofVienna, which is acquainted with the difpolition of the in. tenor, may nbt be anxious that it (hould not be manifefted in a manner that may not cor respond with its views ? (No. 7 .) " Ssyer wrote to us yesterday. I know that Barthelemy is not content: he wrote, confidentially, to a friend, that all this would end badly." (No. 8.) "To all this no answer is given : but they went to unravel Doulcet's intrigue; for that purpose, they had remitted me more than 2co Louis. Tell me how I /hall dis pose of them." (No. 9.) " Mr. Wickham does not? approre of re jefting the conftitutionaliih. Hare you seen the new work of Dumourier }" (No. io.) " 40 —If you can, without inconvenience, bring me Bezane's Elements of Mathema tics, our dear Marnaontel'B Elements of literature, to 48, you will oblige me much. Bring us some intelligence from the latter, if you can do it without endangering your felf. My uncle has written to him by the last courier." (No. II.) " Beflot, lieutenant of volunteers." (It appears that there are a great number of lettm written by this Beflot, a counter-re volutionary person and spy ) " Htminguen, Sept. 26, 1796, " When any certain intelligence of I. I. (hall be received, it (liall be sent to you im mediately. He went llraight to London, wliere we know that he arrived in 48 hours." " Vou mock me, my dear comrade, from what I can judge Jjy your letter ps the I2lh; reft quiet; we fnall have ouf hire as well as the army of Kleber ; we (lull here pas* the Rhine, as we hope we are all well disposed ; troops mud come here in a fliort time, as we are aflured. I shall fend you an account of what we are doing ; what gives 'me the greateli uneasiness is, the wqnt of money for the purpose of the campaign ; fee my brother-in-law, and endeavour to persuade him to fend me something, among other things three (hirts, if he can, with two or three pair of (lockings; in so doing you will perform me a very friendly office. I am sure that Goujon will employ you for me if he is able. You know that we have been at Manheim for some days,where we expe£l to hear from you ; my compliments to all your friends, whom I hope ( to fee. Adieu, my dear comrade, I embrace you in friend (hip. (Signed) « BESSOT, " Lieutenant of volunteers." " Have you received the 200 livres that Vold?ne undertook to forward to you ; what the Devil are you speaking of, if Wurmfer has been to fee J. J. ? He came there ; they agreed very well. " Voldene ia come from Vienna ; he will, I believe, inform you of a great many things." (No. 12.) ' " Be£tionsof Parii—the enemies rely on them. " You may be sure that J. J. is in a fury, particularly at feeing how well evtry thing goes on in the interior ; he does all he can, and will take advantage of the firft oppor tunity which he (hall fee. Reft allured of this. " La Vendee goes on well. F - yis there." (No. 13.) " Maynaud Pancemont—Curate of St. Sulpice acknowledges the receipt for mo ney." 28th Sept. 1796. " Yes, certainly, Sir ; I recolledt the dif ferent sums which have come to me through your hands, and what have beer, employed according to-your wiflics. I have received, inclofedin your letter, the 10,000 livres, in bills of 3,000 livres, and I shall aft accord ing to your intentions. I return you, in the r.ftme of religion, my fiitoereft thanks, '♦La Roche has been written to by Ra tel, and the latter pVefks him to hasten the interview: we (hall fee whether he receives the invitation kindly. " I was yeflerday at La Roche to look for Rat el and to confer with him on the ob ject to which your letter alludes. He is gone for monies, whither he has been sent for on the preceeding evening by the elec tors. They have promised me that he (hall be informed of my onset, and that he shall eome to fee tpe immediately. " Another contingent evil would be, their having at their disposal Madame Roy ale ; and it is for the ft&ions of Paris, and for all.Fraee, to avert the blow, and not to fuffer themselves to be deprived of the re mainder part of that miserable family." (No. I J ) " Lacretelle, it is said, l«ads the feftion of Lepelletier ; that ie, in my opinion, the company of grenadiers. " We hav« not been able yet to fee citi zen Ratel, though twice invited to receive the teflimony of your friend/hip. He a grees that all the fe&ions are led by ten or twelve persons, but that the principal are Le harpe, Lacretelle, and Richer Sertfy. But how, said I, can all this be possible ? for we believe that these three persons are r.ot re publicans ; and if they are not, how can they lead those who are ? " If M. Sourdat had fonle new numbers if the Ventriloquist, it would cffeft won ders. I have no farther time, as the guard waits to carry the packet to the diligence, which is opposite to the Luxemburg!) Health." (No. 16.) " It is vexatious not to be able to have a onverfation with Ratel. It has not been possible to fee him. He has always avoided public ways and high roads, without ap pearing in ihis country, and we have no more communications with La Roche than you ; besides, I have no person at my disposal to fend into that country. I (hall, however, rilk a letter to him, ky the medium of his friend Lambert, though we do not know whether it will succeed. He was to rejoin Barail at Nantes, and they were to go to Versailles together." (No. 17.) " We are to speak of the communications which remain to be made to me with refpeft to a part of the amnefiy. With refpeft to the 49 ( who voted the death of Louis XIV.) I do not think that the king can, by any public aft, or by any new declaration, par don those judges. But the king regards as a different matter, a pardon to be granted to thof« who, having committed this crime, (hould render such ferviee, and so employ their and means, as that the king (hould feel himfelf indebted to them for his rcftoration to his throne. In this cafe, (hould the king grant a pardon, no one eould condemn his conduft ; but great a£ls and great services would be neceflary to hii ex cuse and juftifkatinu." (No. 18.) Proof that Lemaitre had a copy of a se cret treaty with Holland—Art. The ports ofC , of Br , Colonibe, Trineom ale, (hall be open to French (hips, as well as to the (hips of the United Provinces, and on the fame conditions. (No. 18.) Poifly, aiTociate of Marat. 31ft December. Barthelemy wrote that the new year would fee the Regicides fall; the royalists the constitution of 179 1. J. C. Boifly wrote, that he would write against the Royalists, in order to serve thtm the better; that he wifliid.for Mallet and Moivtefquieu to post up royalty, and Mai-/ ouet, Stael, aad Narbonne, Constitutiona lists. 10th and 12th August Boifly—We mult have a royal constitution; we cannot trust the Englifhraen in the South; as they wish for anarchy. (No. 20.) Lamont, formerly advocate at Caces; good Henry Larivierre, advocate at Fal T aire ; good M. Butts, at Paris. (He was there oa the 20 Aug. 1797 ! BALTIMORE, Nov. 9 James Carroll, Esq. is eleifled I'peakcr of the house of dolegatcs, of Maryland. A warrant has been iflued by the house of de legate#, for a new election of delegates, for the city of Baltimore. CHARLESTON, OA. 11. MARRIED—By the Rev. Bishop Smith, on Tuefdav evening, Majfcr Thomas Pinckney, lateminifter to the court of London, to' Mrs. Frances Middleton, widow of John Middle ton, Esq. N O T I C E. AI.L persons concerned are hereby notified, that the fiiWcriber intend* to apply for a re newal of the undermentioned 101 l certificates of Stock in the Bank of the United States—He for* warded them tinder cover of a letter addrefTed to John Anfley.of London, by the ship Bacchus, capt. George, which left this port in June lad for Lon don. But that (hip having been captured on htr paflage and sent to France, the above Utter and ln clofure haw failed in their deftinatiou. Three certificates, viz Nos. 26325, 26326, 26327, each for four shares, dated January ift, and iflued in the name of Heary Grace, of Tot tenham Highcrofs, Great Britain. ZACCHEUS COLLINS. Philadelphia, nwember 8. H lw 6 W SILK. ANY person having raw Silk of American or .European produce, may kear of a pur chaser who will give a liberal price~for the fame. Application to be made at the store of Robert f.tv/if, jun. No. 7C, Pine Street wharf, any Lime before tl.e lath of January next, Nov. «o, X£e <sasttW PHIL A DELPHIJ, SATURDAY TVEMP'G, NOVEMBER it Yefterdjy, about two o'clock in the af ternoon, the Prefloat of the United States arrived in town, after an absence of between three and four months. He was met at Trankford, and efcorted'to town, by the three volunteer troops of horse of this city, commanded by captains Dunlap, Singer, and Morrell, and the countytroop command ed by captain Forreft. On alighting front his carfiage, he was welcomed by tlie huz zas of a crowd of citizens affembhd on thtf oceafiou, and a federal salute from a detach ment of the artillery. The Heads of De partments immediately waitcdupon him with their congratulations on his fafe return to the Seat of Government. Peals were rung from the Bella of Christ Church and continued thro' the day. The Aurera account of the arrival of the President of the President of the United States, is in unison with the general tenor of the factions publications in that Paper, A GROSS MISREPRESENTATION. The number of Horse wa3 truly refpeft able, and on no occalion has there been. a more numerous muftcr, of several of the corps, The Federal charafter of our city was perfo&ly vindicated from the afperfionso. the Aurora by the truly refpedable and pas triotic rtcepriort of the Chief Magistrate o the Union yesterday, any thing in that Foreign Gazette to the contrary noN withstanding. The follow lug members of Conjrefs arc in town, MefTrs.- Harper, Machir, Macon,' Sprigg and Dent of the House of Repre sentatives—and Mr. Reed and Mr. Lawranee of the Se nate. THOMAsTItLINGHURSTrEsQi IS eleft ed Member of the House of R'eprefentatives of the United States, in the room of E. R. Potter, refigned. Letters from Baltimore by this days mail 1 inform, that the (hip President from Lon don, with a very valuable carge, is taken off the capes by a French privateer. The people were landed from the {hip 6n the coast by the privateer. OF MAKING LEGAL ADJUDICATIONS. Extra& of a letter from a Merchant in Bal- " I have lately heard of the condemnati on of one of our veflels and cargoes, valiifey at least 16,000 dollars—(he was bound to a French port, with every necessary paper that a vessel could have ; was taken into St. Ja go in Cuba ; the capt. sent to Cape Fran cois for trial, where condemnation was pal fed, for •want of papers, they having been dcjlr oyed by the prize master, or captain of the privateer." A CHARITY SERMON 1 Will be preached To-morrow, 12th inft. by the Rev. Mr. Carr, for the support of the free school of St. Mary's. GAZETTE MARINE LIST. Netu-Tork, Nov. 10. ARRIVED DAYS Ship Herculea, , Gibraltar. 47 Schr. Thetis, Drake, Bermuda. Baltimore, Nor. 9. Fort M'Henry, Koi'. 8. Arrived brig Thetis* Thomas 6'prigg, 28 ifiays from Cape Francois—Came in the Capes with (loop Fair American, Rogers, from the fame poit. Ship Willink, Stewart, 75 days from Am ftrrdam- The Canal Lottery, Will re-commence drawing, on Monday the 20th inft. ROBERT BROOKE, Nov. 11. Teas of superior quality. 80 chests fine Hvfon i? ch»fts young Hyson 1 chests Imperul For Sale, corner of Second and Pine ftreetj, ko C. HAIGHT. v member 11 The Office of Secretary of State OF THE UNITED STATES, IS removed to No. 13, South Fifth street, near Chefnur street. y,t „„ v . so . Ali Persons who are indebted to the estate of William Hevsbam, fen. of Phila delphia, deceased, are requeued to make speedy payment; and those who have any demabd* a» painfi said eflste, will pleafrto present them, pio perly atccfted, to the fubferibsfs. lY'tHiam Heyfham, ~t Robert Hexham. C Executors. Francis Bwwes Sayre, J november 61 Just published, And to be lold at the Bcokftores of H. fcf p. Rice, No. ?o, Market-fireet | J. Ormrodj No. 41, Chefnut-ftreet, and W. Voun»' confer of Chefnut and Second-streets, An acfcurate System of Surveying; IK WHICH IS CONTAINKD, I. Decimal fraftions, in a plain, eoncife. and easy manner. i. The extraction of the square root. 3. PJain trigonometry* retfangulir and ob lique; 4. An exadl method to cast up the content* cf lands. j. Field surveying. The whole beinp performed without the ufc of scale and compafles, on a table sf logarithms. To which is given some accrust of the variation if the needle, and the caufcs of its attrition. By SAMUEL MOOIIE August i *eojt, FRENCH MODE timore. Check Clerk. dt2o. »aw 7* lawtf 2aw4w
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