The RIGHT CONSTITUTION of a COMMON WEALTH EXAMINED, (Continued from our laj\.) TAROUIN, by his ambafladors, solicited at least the reltoration of his property. Brutus op pofedit. Collatinus, the other consul, advocated the demand of his royal banished couiin. The senate was divided : The question was referred to the people aflenibled by centuries. The two consuls zealously supported their different opin ions. Collatinus prevailed l>y one vote. Tar quin's ambafladors rejoice and intrigue. A con- Jpiracy was formed, in which a great part of the yoilng nobility was concerned : two of the Vitellii, l'ons of Collatinus's lifter, an 1 brothers of Brutus's wife ; two of the Aquilii, sons of an other filter of Collatinus, as well as two of Bru tus's sons, 'were engaged in it. When the con spiracy was discovered, Brutus alone was inexor able. Collatinus endeavored to save his nephews. —Collatinus, as the husband of Lucretia, ap pears to have been actuated by resentment against the person ofTarquin, but not to have been very hearty in the expulsion of che family, or the abo lition of monarchy. His warmly contending for the reftitutijn of Tarquin's effects, and his aver iion to the condemnation of the conspirators, completed his ruin with Brutus. He ailembled the people, and was sorry that the Roman peo ple did notthink their liberties fafe whilethey saw the name and blood of Tarquin not only fafe in Rome, but verted with fcfvereign power, and a dangerons obstacle to liberty. Collatinus was amazed at such a speech, and prepared to de fend liimfelf against this attack ; but finding his father-in-law Spurius Lucretius join Brutus, and other principal men, in persuading him, and fearing that he should be forced into banishment, with the l confifcation of his estate, he abdicated the consulship, and retired to Lavinium : but he carried all his effects with him, and twenty talents, or 3,87; sterling, which Brutus added five talents more, a molt enormous sum, if we consider the universal poverty of that age, and the high value of money.—ls it pollible to find, in this character and conduct of Collatinus, such disinterested and magnanimous virtue as our author speaks of? Is this an example to prove that disinterested virtue was frequent in that ltate ? He inutt have been dead to every manly feeling, if he had not refemed the rape and death of his wife. He did not retire but to avoid banish ment; nor was he contented without his whole estate, and a splendid addition to it: So that there is scarcely a character or anecdote in histo ry less to our author's pnrpofe in any point of view. There is an extravagance in many popular wri ters in favor or republican governments, which injures much oftener than it lerves the cause of li berty. Such is thai of our author, when lie cites the example ot Rcgulrs. Let us fit ft remember, however,that Regulus was a patrician and a sen ator, and that he was appointed to his command, and continued in it, by the senate ; and therefore, instead of being an example in honour of a sim ple or a representative democracy, it operates in favor of an aristocracy, or at molt it favor of a mixed government, in which an ariftocray has full one third part. Regulus had been in a course of victory, which the senate would not interrupt, and therefore continued him in the command of the army. He wrote to the senate to complain of it. The glory of it to himfelf, the advantage to the public, was not reward enough to him. He demanded a fuccellor ; and what was his rea son ! A thief had stolen his tools of liufbandry used in manuring ; his tenant was dead, and his prelence was absolutely neceflary to prevent his wife and children from starving. is it possible to read this without laughter and indignation ; laughter at the folly of that government which made fopoor a provision for its generals, and in dignation at the fordid avarice of that senate and people, who could require a threat of resignation from the conqueror of Carthage to induce tliein to provide for his wife and children. The senate decreed that his field should be cultivated at the public expence, that his working tools should be replaced, and his wife and children provided for. Then, indeed, Regulus's aversion to the service was removed: To such fordid condescensions to the prejudices and meanness of the stingy and envious parts of the community are such exalted fouls as that of Regulus obliged sometimes to submit; the eternal panegyrics of Republican writers, as they call themselves, will never recon cile mankind to any thing so ridiculous and con temptible. The labourer is worthy of his hire : he who labours for the public should live by the public, as much as he who preaches the gospel should live by the gospel; and tliefe maxims of equity are approved by all the geneious part of mankind. And people whose heads are turn ed with conttaefted notions of a contrary nature, will forever be the dupes of the designing; for where you will find a single Regulus, you will find ten tlioufand Caesars. (To be continued) ivRUON MJHCt.LIANi.OUS ARUi.L^S. \ LONDON, MAY IJ. It is expcfted Mr. Neckar will be very hard run in the Aliembly of the States. The no bility of Paris have lhewn great ikill and in trigue in the choice of their deputies, to the the States-general. It can scarcely be believed, though it is a fact, that they have chosen Monf. D'Elpremenil as their firft repi efentative, in pre ference to the piince of the blood and the fii lt nobility in the kingdom.—This gentleman not long since, declared in parliament, that he was the enemy of M. Neckar, and said, Let his friends ■withhold their votes •from me. since I -will never ceafi till ] unmajk him. The opinion of the city of Paris may be judged of from this election. In the mean time, Paris swarms with periodi cal publications in opposition to government, and the king has found itneceflary, notwithstanding the declaration in M. Neckar s speech, that the liberty of the press should be allowed, to publilh an ordinance for their suppression, as well as no tice to all booksellers who shall fell them, on the penalty of forfeiture of their estates. June 3. Yesterday morning advices were re ceived from Hamburgh, confirming the intelli gence, that Admiral Wrangell has put to sea from Carlfcroon, with thirty men of war, great part of which were line of battle fliips, from 66 to too guns. The Admiral was proceed mg up the Baltic, towards the coafl of Finland, in order to make acruife in fucha iituation as to bloc', up the port of Revel, and to prevent the lquadron from Conftradi forming a junction with the Ruffian fleet, in the harbour of Copenhagen : In such cafe, one engagement may fettle the Hate of this year's campaign by sea. Extract of a letter Jrotn Madrid, June j. " The Hon. W. tutu, commercial negociator from London, havin , finilhed the lyftcm of commerce which is about to take place between Spam and England, left this city last week, and is gon.* from hcnce to London. All rcllndions on the commerce between the two nations will be removed, and a plan of trade fettled. No articles have yet appeared, but they are cxpc&cd to be nearly similar to those with trance." The benevolent and philanthropic Mr. Howard is pre paring to leave his native country on a three year's tour. One year ne purposes to spend in Egypt. Should this truly valuable member of society live to return', and that he may mull be the sin cere wilhof every good man, his gieat work on Lazarettocs will be enriched by an appendix, in which the history of the plague will make a conspicuous figure. It is now prettyclear to every discerning mind that nothing deeifne will be done in the slave-trade this ieflion, several having been alreadv taken up in examining a few witneiles when such a multitude remained behind. The reports before the privy council too, now printed for the use of the members, arc all so contradictory—so much the efleft of interest, of pailion, of hear-say, &c. that it would be next to drawing lots Jor jujlicc to come to a ready condufion either way. It is to be hoped, how ever, some temporary measures will be adopted,and that the trjed eft rts of those mealures, with a clearer view of the general queilion will enable Parliament to effect that reform next leflion, which will do credu to the legislature of Grcat-Britian. FRANCE JUNE 8. The payments at the Hotel de Ville are begun for the last fix months of 1788, as Mr. Neckar had mentioned in his speech. It is wonderful how government keep up their credit, when the finances are so very low. It is true that the half yearly dividend has been due these five or fix months, but it is likewise too true that when Cardinal Lo mh n ey, Archbishop of Sens, quitted the administration, not half a million oflivres were found the treasury. It is a guardian angel; it is the director general ; it is a Neckar, who nobis dejundit vivum per tnembra vigorcm, exclaim ed enthufiaflically, the commons ! june 21. At the moment when France thought lierfelf happy in the establishment of her RIGHTS and LIBERTIES, every thing is again thrown into confufion. On friday the national aflembly (that is to fay, tbat part of the states, late called the commons) had finally voted the provisional grant of taxes, till the end of the sessions ; the consolidation of the national debt; a loan for the immediate pay ment of the arrears due from government : and confulerable lums of money to be forthwith lent into the provinces for the relief of the poor at the fame time the clergy had determined to join the third estate on the next day, Saturday. In the morning, at three o'clock, an officer with sixty men was ported at the door of the as sembly room, to prevent the entrance of the de puties ; and at nine o'clock the heralds proclaim ed a suspension of the meeting till Monday, when his majerty would go to the house, to receive them. Ihe president and several members arriving at their usual hour, and finding the doors shut against them, remained some time in the llreet but at length adjourned to the Tennis-court' and there held their aflembly till late in the even ing, when they separately took the following oath: " WE SOLEMNLY SIVE4R NEVER TO SEPARATE FROM THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY, BUTTOUNITE OURSELVES IN EVERY PLACE, WHEREVER CIR CUMSTANCES MAY REQUIRE, UNTIL THE CON STITUTION IS ESTABLISHED ON A SOLID FOUN DATION." " RESO'VED, That this determination (hall be printed and Cent to the differentprovinces." At the fame time Monsieur De Gocies, on the part of the inhabitants of St. Domingo, put the colonies under the protection of i£ e » 3t ; , lembly, and declared that licnceforw, i lf " would call the, Selves Colonies Nadonales All Fans is, in the greatelt coiffiernation j the court under the utmost euibarraflme,,' f intention of the king in going the houle i i-» a profound secret ; and the people lr( . rh pt alarmed, as they fee no reason why r™' ihould be made, if his design was favoraL " the other hand, the finnnefs 0 f the a<fanU ' ■" their proceedings of yeherday, put the court party under the greatett dilem j for this evening at fix o'clock, no orders a «7« given for his niajefty's equipage, norat,v no £ lent to the officers who should attend him t£ general report is, that the king will N „ 'J the house to-morrow, and that a counter-prod mat,on will be on the breaking up of the conn il Every day brings frefh accounts ofthe'diftrl of the country for want of bread. In the neigh bourhood of Senlis, Soiflons, Chantilly is credibly affirmed, that the bakers wirinot'l* able to furniffi a single loaf at any price .f- Wednesday. To Paris, Versailles, M ar ii7 not a cart load of flour is brought without the protection of a guard. LONDON', JUNE 29. Received at ten o'clok UJI night, by £ xp rl f l) f m VERSAILLES. La Seance Royale, which we formerly announc ed, took place on Tuesday last, at >vhich time the king abolished all the arrets entered into by the tiers etat. Each order of the allbmblj went separately to their refpecftive chambers, the etat remaining in their own.—After'the king's departure, they voted in their own caps city, a confirmation of the arrets which they had jull agreed to, notwitliflanding the kino- had commanded them to be abolished.—They then fevei-ally took an oath, not to confidcr themselves as diflolved, although the king had ifl'ued his or ders for that purpoie ! Immediately after this, Monf. Neckar, the minifler of finance, went up to the king, and en treated permillion to resign the seals of kit offici, This was peremptorily refufed by the sovereign. On going out of the palace, he was embracedby the allenibly of the tiers etat, and conduced by them in a shew of triumph and adoration to his official apartments. This proves a llrange revolution in poli.ics— and, if the phrase can be allowable, wewilladd, an usurpation of liberty in the very heart of the latedefpotic capital of France. Twelve months ago, tiles of mnfqueteers, witli drawn bayonets, were placed in, and fjrround ed the courts of justice and houses of parliament in Paris. At this moment the third and inferior slate of the kingdom is bidding defiance to arbi trary power, and the decrees of their sovereign. This may be tonfidered as a critical epoch in the history of nations, and France in particular; whilst famine is haflening to the very gates of the capital. Liberty will have another feather in her cap. The seraphic contagion was caught from Britain, —it crofled the Atlantic to North America from whence the flame has been communicated to France. July 2. We areaffiired from refpetfableau thority, that the great controverted qaeltionin France has received its final determination. The two superior orders have yielded to the com mons, in consequence of a letter from the king. On Saturday lafl, the three orders met and form ed a liouf£ ; none of the clergy diflenriftg, of the nobles only forty five ; so that every thing now is peace and concord without doors. PRICE CURRENT. NEJV-YORK. Jamaica Spirits, ... £,[. Antigua Rum, - / - 4/6. a 4/?. St. Croix, do. - - 4/5. a 4/6. Country, do. - - ? / 10 - MoJaflcs, - a 2/0. Brandy, - - - 5/9- Geneva, - 5J3• Do, in cases, - - 28 fa 2 qJ. Muscovado Sugar, - - 0 I*f Loaf, do. - - if \ * y3' Lump, do. - - V l e* Pepper, - 2/0. a 2JIO. Pimento, - 1/9. a V- Chocolate, - l/ 2. Cocoa, - - ' 75 f a Coffee, - - 1/8. * »> Indigo, (Carolina) - - 4/ a % Rice, - - - 22/6. -a 2 3jf Superfine Flour, - Common do. - - 4°/ Rye do. - 24f- a 2 «5> Indian Meal, - ,1' Rye, . . 4/3. fr- hjk Corn, (Southern) - zf\9- a i/' Do. (Northern,) - 4/3- * 4 -> r Beef, fir ft quality, - - 4 V a $ 0 t Second quality, - - 43/J* Pork, firft quality, - • Jfc Sccond quality, - - ' -A' Hams, . < d \ Carolina Tobacco, - J ) Virginia , - - 4d- a $ Published by JOHN FENNO, No. 9, Lane, near the Ofwcgo-Markct, New-York. [3'"/'"
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