%i;t €sascttc% r HIL .* 1J £■ LPH IA , f.SLI.'.Y EVP.'-fi'JG, I:OrEMBER %•) Th," .commifiioners appointed by the go vernor to Carry into effect the law for aue- XiKJ.ig the diftfefsof the citizens of Phila delpiiia, and the suburbs thereof in confe queiice of the late calamity, To the binevolent donors who came for ward to five relief to our fuffering fellow citizens at cne of those trying pariods which d'eldom happen in any country. It is to youthat we conceive it our duty to address at this time ; not only because it belongs to you to be acquainted with the appropriation of your money that wa3 cn trr.fted to us as your agents, but likewile to give vent to feelings of gratitude that are engraven on our minds, for the generous a ail fpoiitaneous fupplics depoutfd in our hfinds, at a moment when our thoughts were ifeepVy" engaged to find out ways and means t > afford relief to about fix thoufnnd diftreff td rr.en, women and children, who had be iJOEe obiscb of our c?re, in confequt'nce of having received fnppoit from the fuin grant ed by the Legidature, which was <#'.tirely ospemlcd by th,' eighth of October : At ' t'liii junftuvt we called on our fellow-citi 2»r, , "> id were anfwercd with'that noble • • I n'ffo of/pi,it which characterizes our coun try, by receiving in ca(h upwards of twenty thnufand ive hundred dollars, exclusive of three hundred and thirty five barrels, and sixty hundred,. three quarters and fifteen Tjounds in bags of wheat, rye, buckwheat, and indian meal ; besides potatoes and fun i!ry other kinds of provifiou : aided by the above, and affiited by a number of refpec!- table inhabitants of the city, northern liber ties, and Skiuthwark ; we are erfabled so continue relieving, by weekly donations, a bove thirteen hundred persons, chiefly heads (if families, oppressed by poverty (icknefs and distress, and to give employment to a bout fix hundred men on the roads ; who if not provided for in that manner would, in i a all probability, huve been, from dire necedi- ; ty, compelled to descend tp means injurious ' to themselves and to the community. Thus have we endeavoured to explain to j you, in some measure, in what manner we expen&dyour money, entrusted to us until' about the 18 th in ft. at which time an exam ination of our funds took place, and the bal ance found ta be but two thousand dollars- Artec making appropriations for the pur chase of five hundred cordis of wood, and fifteen hundred bufhtls of potatoes, for the purpoie of meeting the diftrefiesof the poor in the more inclement season. ' At this time we were called on by an af iofctation of young women of great refpetfla- ' bility afid known philanthrophy, who have ] been for ftveral winters employed in relief- '• ing without pa. tiality the fuffering posr par- t ticiikrly of theii own sex ; paying no re- ; gard to distance weather or fituution ; not 1 doubting but it would meet with yotir »p 1 and be as agreeable to you to be t informed of their praise worthy request, as 3 it was to us by having it in our power to 1 1" grant them five hundred dollars and ten bar- t rels of flour, at a time v. hen we had con cluded to fulpend the fupplics as our fellow- a j citizens had returned home and employment u was attainable ; yet there might b« tiume- t rous cases wherein this worthy female foeie- 11 ty might indulge themselves in visiting the t< ' mansions of distress and thereby give relief d to many \wofe iituations would never have 1 been othfrwife known. ; d Although we have the above balance-be lideS wood, potatoes, and flour, we fear it t; will be scarcely fjfficiVnt to meet the nuir.e- p rous wants of the inhabitants during the ap- j e< proaching winter. | ei Having been as brief as poflible in giving ' c you a detail of our proceedings, a more mi-1 1 aiute one we should be willjng to afford by j m a conference with any persons who may feel ' u themselves interested in the expenditure of L thehnoney, &c.' entrusted to out care ; or UI ijre deliroiu t« obtain information for the w of improving by our experience, for N tli'e advantage of fuffering humanity in fun ! ture. For this purpose a reference to the an minutes of our proceedings may be had at ol: any time, by enquiring of the members. Thankful wc are that we have been aid- H ed by some supplied by you, and direle- cafe of the (hip America, adjudged in Eng un- land upon the principle, that a Britilb fub aty j e <3, though he remivttfto America, is still of a British fubjeQ. This principle may per tnd haps be deemed rigid,,but if it is sometimes sen hard, it sometimes proves beneficial, and at, gives a man, born in England, the adrsnta un- /ges of a natural fubjeA. Is there any na :he tion that allows a man to throw offhiscoun eci- try at pleafurc, as he would his boot* ? er- which the writer seems to think the true to do&rme. The French (hot the poor Count a- de Sombreveil, who was takeu at Quiberon, ids 3nd they gave their emigrants no quarters,e es s ven in war, because they hold to the doc a- trine this writer so much abominates as ex -lif clufively Bntifh. What doss the writer al in 1 luded to think the true system i Was Bar fix- ; ney right ? May a man fay hocus pocus, us ; and then, of right and with a good con j science, fit out a privateer or take a French to , commiiuon to rob his own countrymen on ve the high seas ? Is there such magic power til in a I'rench cockade ? Is there morcgood n. sense, more patriotism in that proceeding than in the unchangeablenefs of British al _ legiance ? :r . So much for the fubjeft and argument of id your correspondent. The ■ coarseness and >e istemp«ra*ce of his paragraph speak for 3r themselves. f. One of the chief caufcs of our profiting so j. little by experience is, that we badly com re prebend itsleflbns. Indeed it is said that r . men never grow wife by any experience but r . their own ; because, perhaps, no other it well enough understood. The aftonifliing ,t revolution in Paris, o£ the 4th September, > 1797, wiU form a great article in future hif e tory. We know few ®f its circumftancei is aad causes, but to those who will not wait [ o long to make up a final judgment, we offer , the following remarks : , i- The DiredWy, confiding of five persons, i ■- and the two Ltgiflative Councils, arifwer- 1 t ing to our American' Senates and Reprefen . tatives, diFagreed. The Directory, har - in g gained the armies, had it ir. their power . e to decide the difput-e by for«e, and it was ( f decided by beat of drum in half a day— c Then it was easy to obtain from the new mo- a i delled councils, after ontf third were bani(h- F - ed, laws and resolves to k«ep the beaten par- * t ty down, and to assure the people that their . political salvation was once more accomplish- a . j ed. Which party was right, or whether c | either fcufflcd for any thing but power is a r; left to time and to the wife to decide. . | There is, no doubt, much of mystery in ■ j most political affairs ; and those of France p . [ have long been deemed unfathomable.— ' * Like other men of common learning and ■ underflanding, we can only compare what tf we do not perfectly know with what we do. at • Now how would it be in America—ln Pa- f" ris near sixty Representatives and Senators, and two of the five Direiiors arc turned out and banished, in half an hour, to die of the yellow fever on tha eoaft of Africa— How would such a thing proceed in Ame- sl rica ? Here a law must be firfl passed, descri bing the crime, and pointing out banifhinent ty as the punishment. Then a grand and pc- tii tit jury must decide on the offence foleinnjy ta and plainly charged and described—and if k either of the r aid juries (hould decide against th the wishes of the Federal Government, the ca laws would fay to our rulers, " thus far (hall h"c ye go, and no farther," But iri France, a h juftica goes by the beat of. the drum, and Ai much quicker. Now which is best, Ame- th ricar. liberty, or French ? Some have here- re tofore pretended to douht. One line of difference and immense- E' ly important it is, lies here, that all power to in France aSually rests in the fame hands W 1 It is theJinglenefs, tbe unity of that power !Z< that envenoms the curfc of their tyranny— that makes every stroke of its whip draw wt blood—it is an ele&ric slash, that kills and cai consumes, without warning and without St redress. Ati In the United States of America, the power that disposes of life and liberty is di- W vided. Those who make laws are fnbjeft to fe>' them in faft, as well as in name, and those tin who submit to the laws find them a rod of wh iron, which oru(hes them, if they offend, wfl but a wall of brass, if they are innocent. de( In a word, our liberty is in our own keep- *ec ing. For the juries, in thr cafe of the gov- gre crninent's desiring to perftfeute private citi- itrc zens, is that of brass. By- the independ ence of the judicial power, the government of is never so fceisle as when it would be def- rev potic. dor These oljfervations lead to the error and con imperfection of the French system, and cite ought to ijpprefs upen every reflecting mind fait the nlasof ttieM,/and /rx'iifaerty of our country, in which every citizen is jecure, cm attil j'As so. How much is this experiment-: the ed iecunty to be preferred to the for,t!iy and l'anguinary abiiractions of French philo the fi-phy : ' re- 1 ' LDAN i y Nov 21 ► ar- I!igKly tt.bfc that exceßtiir snd T in n «.)ininK «if Prefidtnt /.dams, to the the United Stit**, to «« avoid !'orei/n ion j , r fl ® epcc * t ' llt 'ieflroyiug: anjrel of, ■ lit iaft accounts from tile I rench regeitt'r/iie/i Ratavian repuMic (hew t«> a (l:u the ation such an influerict has reduced that once by independent people. In such d-esd do they feel oc . tnemklves on account of their allies, th e- French, ce, 011 '' lc ' a,e r( je < Si"n of the cdnftittitTon ilh iicei, piopnli-dto tliem, the Hjtgt ian , convention voted an addrefs'to the Fr. nch, heir . S'"g not t<> be condemned hailily for tne step • irl » thtihe!d from her. Do not fuft'er the mercenary hordes jjf robhers, of infamous royalists and emigi ants, who have re jb- ' urr \ e d> to force frc(h chains for us. Cru(h all , parties and all paihons. Purge the earth of 1111 those monAers who only seek to sow divisions, er- bloodshed and pi'lage. Overthrow for ever ics that intatnous hydra, that phantom of tyrannv. nd " Moreau, our worthy chief, will communi ta- c:lte 10 s rou our sentiments and our wishes j thry la- arc c! '^ atcil hy the purefl patriotism ; they are lrl directed to the support of government, and the i ConAi'tiitii.n of the year; they are direiSled ' • to maintain property within, aßd to Overthrow ue thronts without. Nt " Should nny party whatever attempt toover in, throw th.s sacred at-jv'-flf our liberty, sum ron , round you the chit ken of vi<£lory ; thev wif | c _ rid you of thole moriders who have so long re tarded the progress of the revolution ; they will prove by t heir Courage that they have nat'been j si- emp!ovedlii vain for the.lalt eight years, lr- "We have no reflections t«, add, citizen Di IS) rcdlors. We have only to request, that y< u n . a-ill cantinye your labcms, and will give us marks of your efletm, by 'heftowing on us the haypinefs of iliil more in fuppcrt of 111 the government and of the eonflitution." cl " | Here followed thefignatures.] )d ig COUNCIL o» FrV'E HUNDRED, ill Con [l- plennentary day—Sept. 27. Vilhcrs, in the name of the eon tnitlee of fi nance, gave a second rea ling of the financial . prcjedl. He proposed that tne prodtifl of the ' duty on tobacco imported from foreign parts >* (liould be raised to to millions. The Council agreed to the principle. Peres.—" You are ignorant to what an' ex- r 0 tent the fury of card-playing has arrived in Fran;e : there is no family that does not lament fuck a disorder 5 as it cannot be destroyed, it mufl be made serviceable to the public, treasury. '} It" playing continues, so much the better for the is public treasury ; if it ceases, so much the better g for the catife of morality. I, therefore, propefe I c f tolubjefl cart's to a Damp duty." f- Sever»l memlrtrt.—ketcr ft to a committee. I Villicrs —" Ido net eppofe the deferring it to I ' acommittee, but I think we (hall r.ot be long in ! ' deciding : for it is a known fidl, that the roy- ' 1 aliilsplay more than the repufclifans : the form- I 1 er, therefore, while they do play, will at leaftbe I 1 1, furced to havehefore their eyes the i'.amo of the ] .. republic."—(A laugh.) The motion of Peres was pafled immediately. I / 3d day—Sept. 19. j Thedifcuffw? on the projeil ol Ouy vernon, I ' r to exclude all the ci-devarit nobles from public I ' s fitnationsj was resumed. I Chollet opp fed the whole as uacQnftitutional. - and unjnit- He concluded with moving a pro- I . position to the follawing cffedl: "In a month I _ a.ter the promulgation of this law, all the ci- I devant nob'es (hall be obliged to apgsear before I a magiflrate, and make this declaration—" II 2 acknowledge virtue as the only nobility, and I cenSder every other ditinrtion amongftmen as I 1 an outrage to humanity." piitnoling opposed th? projeift of Chollet I 1 he difiutfion of Guyvernon's prijeil was I. put offfc. three days, and,fhe Couheil pafled to I ' the Order of the Day on that oFChollet. [P jth Complementary Djv—Sept. 21. I J Citizen Lecox, Bifnop, of Kennes, organ of j the Miniftersof the Catholic religion afli-mbled I ei at I ar.s, trahfmitted their declaration offu'omif- [ ti fion to the laws of the TJepublic. Andouin.—" We know no B.lhops here; j I move the Order of the Diy." —Adopted. " COUNCIL OF ELDERS. " j m SITTING OF THE THIRD COMPLEMENTA- ,' c RV DAY. I y( Tiu deputies of St. Domingo, admitted by the law of yesterday (Lavaux and Brot- n , tier) took the oath. Lavaux at length ab- j eJ tained permifßon to fpcak. My firll duty, said he, is to make known the exadl (late of | b< the colony of St. Domingo, and to eradi- at cate the ill imprvllions which the enemies of I ]y liberty have spread abropd in France, and, a t above all, in the fca-port towns, which as- [ ol Aiding recitals have so much dittrefled them I en that they do not believe trade can be again I f c revived in that colony. j ; n This l;'centiou3 faition, which the 18th Q f Frudlidor has brought tojnllice, presented j c h to you the patriots of St. Domingo, those I S 1 who defendedit, as blood-fuckers, diforsfan- | . !( tzcrs, and dilapidators. They hope infea- j cl; fibly to bring you tobelieve,. that the blacks t h were not worthy of enjoying liberty. You jt o I cannot, citizens, allure the tranquility of ex St. Domingo, but in giving a new confirm- I th ation to the decree of th.e 16th Pluviofe, J BR which proclaimed the liberty of the blacks. I \v hat interest would the black hav# to de- j mc fend the colony, if lie had not at the fame J V at time to defend the right of a Freneh citizen, j f„l which had been accorded to him ? Vainly J ift will the troops $f France be relied upon to j tJ O defend St. Domingo. Experience has pro - [ are ved that the climate has cut down a very rna great part, ar.d that the fatigues of war de- h?i ftr»yth C reft._ J, What can induce you to annul the decree ble of the 16th Fluviofe ? can it be the eott'n- a g { revclutioary report, of Vaublanc of Bour- a':,c don de Loiie ? The 18th of Fructidor has p o \ convinced you that they only wanted to ex- abl cite a civil war in France ; they had the « fame intentions for &it. Domingo." ;)ur Lavaux then made an eulogy on the ge •re, iiTals Touflaint LoUvertur.-, Pierre Mi nt- ehel, L'F.veille Moife, Vitiate, Pajot, and »nd of a number of other officers, ilo- He added :at the taking of Jean Rabel, 200 French emigrants weic found, propri etors of estates j not one was killed ; they are all in America. At the taking of Era fcarcadere, 300 of them were found; 1 fa : '' n vecl 260 of them, who are now , upon their 5 ." plantations. It is thus that' men called i/iri cannibals, have coftdu&etl themselves. If l:u we had been wiHinjr to deliver up the colo ur* ny to the enemy, of which we are accused, "y'' (honld we have defended it at a time when . ' every morning several per fans were found ian wftH hunger ; , when we had nothing r , r - to live upon but com and sugar c*;ies. tep Vaublanc has called us diforganiiers ; but has he forgot that when I took the com ~ mar.d of the northern part of St. Domingo, all the sugar plantations were burnt ; that a year afterwards (thanks to the vigilance of PerroudJ ninety four plantations were re-ef '^' tnblifhed, and that his admiuillration has J. s been able to provide for all the wants of the colony, without scarcely receiving any fuc sur cours from the metropojis. It is to him jur that lam indebted for the fuceefs of my jr- projects. At my departure the colony ow >ur ed only 800,000 livres. In fine, to all the 1 ° calumnies which have been uttered ag .inft r °l me " n f w f r » that I have dene my duty ; jll and I swear to do it here also. 0 f The council ordered the discourse to be ns, printed. ' er Fourth Complementary Day. '?• One of the deputies named by the elc-c ---toral assembly held at the Cape of St. Do lr'e niirigo, 20th Germinal, sth year, took the l, e oath of fidelity to the republic, and to the e d conditution of tha 3d year, iw Bordas, in the name of a committee, pro posed to rcje£l the resolution which reealh : " into the colonies the refugees and those who have been expelled. Tlte firft article, said e _ he, facilitates to all the emigrants in foreign id countries the means of re-entering the colo cn nies, and the taking poflefiion of their es tates. I( will be fwfficient for them to ob tain this power, to a(k a certifieate of the " minister of the republic in that «; *> ry. I le None will hefitatc to a(k this, beeaufe they 0 f are very certain there cfoet not exist any le gal diftin£tion for the emigrants of the colo nies, that they arc not confounded with those of the continent, and they will not be :1 ~ afraid of the minister refufing thera on ac j. count of their emigration. When this article-is compared with ano lc ther in the fame resolution, it will (hew its ts injuftiee. They confine to the juftificatioa :il of non-emigration the colonists who are re fugees in Prance, and who, from this, may be the lefsfufpefted of emigration, and they " dispense with it in those who are refugees id l t foreign countries. !. Another article of the refoluiion tends e also visibly to_caufe all the emigrants to re •r eater the colony. It states that the emi ■" grants, whose goods have been fequeflrated, 1 fnall enter again to the poffeflion of them, o on t ' le f' m P* e rcprefentation of the ran Her n roll of the neutral veffcl which conveyed - them ; so that it will depend upon an A- ' 1- merican captain whether an emigrant (hall e re enter the colonies and take pofleffion of i c his property ; and to enable him to do this, t the captain may produce a falfe muster-roll, c fabricated for the purpose. The commit- 1 j tee proposed uuaniinoufly to rejeft the rcfo- < e lutiou. . ' f The council ordered the printing qf this i • discourse, and an adjournment. f ' SPEECH OF REVILT.IERE LEPAUX, t ' President of France. a [ Ts FXEJfCH PEOPLE at tie ChwxJ> Jt Mjrt, c ! ON THE ti FRENCH-NEW-YEAR'S DAY-Sept. n. I " Thanks be to thee, Soveriegn Regula- si tor of the deltiny of the Uuiverfe ! Let C praifl- be rendered unto thee ! —France is a c Rep : 4lie ! . f, " For many ages., despotism had banili- c ed the genius of liberty, which in ancient d times covered the {hores of the Mediterra- ei nean with flouriihing republics. If fume tl nations, at dillant periods, and at long inter- d Tals have thrown off the yoke of an inditfid- IV tial, they soon bowed themselves before a ti new mailer,or submitted tothenot lefadebaf- ti ing rod of aristocracy and fauaticifm. Sla- ai very, fuperflition, and ignorance, had sub- ri jested mankind. No where on our, centi- h< nent did real liberty and political equality p. exist. cr *' When more frequent communications th began to reconcile nations to each other, L and when the torch of philosophy was rapid- us ly enlightening them, their rulers, terrified th at the progress of reason, formed an impi- co ous league to eietinguilh knowledge, or to ur erapoifon its effefts. Uniting the links of pi servitude which each of them had separately vH in his hand, they forged, amidlt the gloom br of their political dungeons, an oppressive ha chain, which was soon to have encircled the lig glebe. Their fanguiuary quarrels about the to portions of this chain which each of there Pa claimed to preserve, served only to make ga them more unanimous in their disposition co to aggrevate its weight and to hasten th# pr< execution of their plan. They believed dil their work was completed ; and it was roi BROKEN IN PIECES ! 0 { " Our miseries made us burst forth in a am moment : an ardour hitherto unknown ele- fefi vated our hearts ; and, liberty,, thy power- ter fnl voice vefuunded over France. The rav- gai ifhing found was re-echoed by the whole na tion. The posterity of the ancient Gauls Fr are no longer (laves ; they are restored to get manhood. With persevering labour they the have sapped the thione, and all those do- len minations which, by their union and ttrri- get ble force, had overpowered' them for many h©< ages. Scarcely three years have passed, Vii and the mail ancient monarchy, the molt lov powerful, and in appearance, the moil dur- to able, is levelled with the dust ! " Thinks be rendered unto thee, Sove- dy, reign Aibiter of the Univrrf: > Thanks be *'' 5'- rendered unto tltee ! Framet ■. A Rsrue -3- lic ! md " Unworthy Frenehm«n, however, that extravagant composition of bafentfs and of id, pride, ibd from their homes, and lifted up >ri- arms againil their country. They urged icy the power# of ivjrope to embrace their m- quarrels. These, enraged to fee the chain fa- which had cost them so much labour, fud eir denly interrupted and broken, ad«anced led with irnwenfe forces to eftablilh the m'onar- If chy, or rather to divide among themselves lo- its ruins. France was about to fall again ■d, into the abyss of despotism ! But she is fuf en tained by thy all powerful hand ! The voice nd of war was heard to resound : every where iig arms were forged ; and our valiant youth, ;s. animated by thy Divine Spirit, formed, as ut it were by cnchantmeut, formidable armies. " n - Thou placeit in the hearts of our soldiers o, that burning courage which teaches them a to brave every danger, and vanquish every cf op P ofition._ Thou giveft to their chiefs :f- that tranquil valour and prtfence of rriind as which enables thenj to forefee every event, !ie and to accomplish every enterprize they un c- dertake. The lignal was given, and the in m numeraole cohorts of our enemies were fcat ly tered by republican bayonets, as columns of v- thick fmokc are diflipated by the winds of le a tempest. ft " Ambit'on and profligacy, profitted by ; the troubles infeperable from movements so v an d multiplied, elevated for a mo le raent the frightful throne of terror on the wreck of that of monarchy : but the true Inends of liberty, dir»dted by thee, in one c- day made it disappear. Our trophies were a- now successively embtllifhed with the olive le of A constitution was formed; ie and, notwithstanding the efforts of royalifm and aristocracy, rendered abortive in the )- glo,rious day ot the 13th Vendemaire, that Is constitution, duly executed in all its paru, 0 fixed the lot of France. Then every eslight d cned patriot exclaimed in the joy of his a heart, Thanks be rendered unto thee, Se )- vercign Arbiter of the deftifly of the Uni f- verse ! Thanks be rendered unto thee ! ). Francois a Republic ! ie " however, the new triumph obtained over ourremaining enemies y —no-twithftanJing that the molt obftinatt of thfin were at last compelled to listen to >- propolitions of Peace—notwithstanding that h an aftonifliing internal amelioration proved e the excellence of the Republican Conftitu fion—attempts were yet made to deftrby it, aud to re-elevate the Monarchy 1 Our ene -- mies did not employ force ; their arms were s intrigue and corruption, the eonfequence of a their perfidious combinations. Traitors, placed in every authority, and even in the y Supreme Executive Power, having under y mined our fecial, edifice, no longer conceal a ed their plan of subversion. Another mo ment, the Gonftitution would have been t>- s verthrown, Liberty annihilated, Republi - cans murdered, and France, rendered the prey u{ L,ivii vVar, would have been cover , ed with dead'bodies aud ruins ! But thy , paternal eye was never withdrawn from us. - At the moment when the state verged to de -1 ftru&ion, thou didst replace ft on its basis : - Thou didst excite the just indignation oftlw 1 Defenders of the Country. Thou haft f it ruck the Confpiratois with blindness and , terror ! while thou didst enlighten the path , of the Friruds of Liberty, and inspire them . with a noble intrepidity ! On the immortal ■day of the 18th Fruftidor, thou didst con found the traitors; Uiou madeft them fall 1 into the Clares they had prepared for the de finition of the Friends of Liberty ; The Republican. Connitut:o» was by the very efforts that had been made ta accomplish its ruin. - But thanks be render ed unto thee, Sovereign Arbiter of the U niverse !—Thanks be rendered unto thee! France is a Republic. "Now complete thy work; consolidate fui ever this Republic. The ensfnies of Constitution of the third year lurk in con cealment, but they are still watchful ; its friends, then, ihould not rtpofe in falfe fe. curity. May our country be incellantly uri d r thy proteiiion, and may wc be direct ed by thy counsels ! May the grandeur of the meafurcs adopted by the Ltgiflativ, Bo dy keep pace with the wisdom of its Law* 1 May the Executive Direftory d.splay an ac tive and unremitting vigour in their execu tion, and in the conduct of Government ; and may all the Ci«il aud Military Autho rities firmly concur with them ! May our hearts be always open to humanity and com. -passion; but may a strict, though enlight ened iuftice, prevent us from "weakening the effect of the means appointed by the Law, and ordered by the Government! Let us never forget, that if atrocity must ihock the feelings of men, feeblenefs provokes their contempt ; and that, to prevent foroe evils unfortunately inevitable, it would again plunge France into that abyss of horrors of which we would wish to efface the remem brance ! But, ribovs all, may those who have been tnifled by their paffwns be en lightened by thy jnflice, and atlength ceaftf to mistake the spirit ofFaftion for that of Patriotifrn. Far from us be those who re gard thefervices which they render to their country as titles l>v which to make it their property. Far from us be those who caa d-.icern the Republic in those nn'y who sur round them—who decide on the prosperity of the State merely by the degree of power and influence of which themieives are pol fefftd, and regulate their views of public in tercft by a companion with, their private gains. " May, thou, on the contrary, inspire all- Frenchmen with feutimeats grand, elevated, generous, diiinterefted ! —Propogate among them a spirit of peace and mutual benevo lence, a itrong attachment to truth and l»- gwuout openness, a rooted averiion to falfe hood and hypocrisy, a profound refped for Virtue, a marked hatred to Vice, an ardent love of Liberty, and an unlimited devotion to the cause of their country. " France fi-.all theji be for ever frtz, hap, py, triumphant and peaceful ! " May tlicfe our ardent rows be r-cccnv -