I
tließritiflv army lias marched qufte through it;
Sad the Engliih have used every policv of flattery,
of terror, and severity, but nil in vain, and wovfe
than in vain ; ail has confpii ed to make the people
of New-jc !'ey foine of the moll brave and Jkilful
to resist them.
New-York, before the commencement of hos
tilities,was supposed to be the moii luke warm of
the middle States, in the opposition to the de
signs of the Engliih. The Engliih armies have
invaded it from Canada and from the ocean, and
have long been in pofleffionof three.islands, New-
York Island, Long-lfland, and Staten-lfland ; yet
the relt of that Province has flood immoveable,
through all the varieties of the fortune of war, for
four years, and increases in zeal and unanimity
every year.
I think, therefore, there is not apoffibility, that
any one of the Thirteen States ihould ever volun
tarily revolt or fnbmit.
The efforts and exertions of General Howe, in
New-York, Loiig-Jlland, Staten-lfland, New-Jer
sey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Maryland, to
obtain recruits; the vail expence that he put his
pav-mafter to in appointing new corps of officers,
even general officers: the pains they took to in
iift men, among all the llragglers of those coun
tries, and among many thousands of prisoners
which they then had in their hands ; —all these
jneafures obtaining buj three thousand fix hundred
men, and very few of these Americans, accord
ing to General Howe's own account,ihews, 1 think,
to a demonstration, that no voluntary revolt or
fubmiflion is ever to be apprehended.
But even supposing Rhocle-Ifland ihould submit,
what could this small colony of fifty thousand fouls
do, in the midil of Maflachufetts, Connecticut,
and New-Hampshire ?
Supposing Delaware, thirty thousand fouls,
ihould submit, what influence could it have upon
the great States of New-Jersey, Pennsylvania,
Maryland, and Virginia, among which it lies ?
If Georgia, at the extremity of all, ihould sub
mit, what influence could this little society of
thirty thousand fouls have upon the two Caro
linas and Virginia ? The colonies are at such
vast distances from one another, and the country
is so fortified every where, by rivers, mountains,
and forefts, that the conqueftor fubmillion of one
part has no influence upon the reft.
I have the honor to be, See.
JOHN ADAMS.
MR. CALKOEN.
E ROPE AN INTELLIGENCE.
LONDON, August 12.
The Britons of France, in whose country the
city of Nantz lies, appear wifely to be as careful
•t the rights of the Crown, as they are of the rights
of the People; and to be as ready to support the
former, as they are determined to maintain the
latter.
Carefully avoiding the wild chimeras of mo
dern reformers, who would either abolish mon
archy totally, or leave it a mere empty name, they
think the prerogatives of the Crown not only com
patible with the liberties of the people, but abso
lutely netelfary to the preservation of those liber
ties.
They also take care, left certain revolutionists
Ihould luffer themselves to be carried away by no
tions of ambition, that they abliortlie idea of tak
ing the crown from him who at present wears it,
or from those upon whom the inheritance of it is
entailed by law.
A short extraift from the Nantz address will
clearly (hew both their wisdom and their spirit:—
The city of Nantz having had the advantage
of being one of the firft in the kingdom, to raise
its voice to claim and allcrt the unalienable rights
of the people, feels itfelf bound to manifelt, in
the molt striking manner, its attachment to the
privileges which the National Allembly has so
nobly and so courageoully aflerted.
'< It therefore eagerly embraces this opportu
nity to declare, that it adopts, and will moil: fted
faft'ly adhere to, not only yourrefolution of the
17th of June, but to all those that followed it.
" That the interest of the people ofthis coun
try is inseparable from that of their Sovereign,
and that they never will be able to (hake off the
yoke under which they have 1b long groaned, but
by giving the greatell vigour to the executive pow
er, the citizens of Nantz 1 wear upon the Altar of
"''eir Country, in the presence of the dreadful
and common Judge both of Kings and Subjects,
that they will maintain the Royal Authority be
longing to the Crown, and will refill, to the ut
most of their power, the attempts of those who
may be daring enough to wiili to divide it with any
body of men whatever.
" Full of gratitude to a long line of Kings,
who strove to break the chains made for man in
mges of barbarism, and to reltore him to the dig
nity of his nature—
" Penetrated with the 1110 ft profound refpeft
for the virtues of the beneficent Prince who has
restored to France her National Aflemblies and
*<ho feels that the rights of the Crown, and the
rights and property of the fubjei t, ft and upon one
and the fame foundation—the Citizens of Nantz
hilU'Judt their Representatives to proclaim the re
fpeclful homage of their inviolable loyalty and
fidelity to the Family upon the Throne, and their
love for the Patriot King whom God has given
them.
" They raise their hands to Heaven, and thus
solemnly swear, that they are ready to facrifice
their fortunes, and to lpill even the lalt drop of
their blood, to maintain the fcepterin the House
of Bourbon.
" In the fame manner, they solemnly swear,
that they are ready to make the fame facrifices to
support the refolutioiis of your augult Ailembly,
and to defend the liberty of the French Nation,
whose greatelt enemies have been the enemies of
Kings.
" They call for vengeance on the heads of those
who are wicked enough to calumniate a loyal na
tion, and a faithful people.
" The Citizens of Nantz think it a sacred duty
to pay homage to the zeal, the underltanding, and
patriotism of the National Alfembly.
" Should attempts he made to lay snares round
you, or to stagger you either by terror of menaces,
or the fed uc r tion of intrigue, look behind you, and
you will fee twenty-five millions of people, with
their eyes fixed upon you, and waiting in silence
to hear from you what is to be their lot, and that
of their posterity.
" At this fight, your courage rising to the dig
nity of the augnft character, no less sacred than
that of the prielthood, with which your Country
has invefteti you, you will (light all menaces and
feduiftion in contemplating themajefty of the firlt
People in the Universe.
" You will think then only of the bleflings that
will attend you when you return individually
among your fellow citizens, to proclaim their re
covered liberty, and the beneficent a&s of a be
loved Sovereign, who cannot long be deceived.—
" Who, emulous of the glory of Louis XII, and
of his own renowned ancestor Henry IV. and wish
ing to tread their steps, feels the true greatness
of a Monarch is to reign over a free people.
" In a word, who knows that the law, that
emanation of Divine Wisdom, ought to be refpedt
ed by Sovereigns theinfelves, if they know their
own interests."
At the late infurreflions in France very naturally oc
cupy all convcrfation, this Jhort Jketch of the Royal
family of that Kingdom may not be unacceptable to
the generality of the public :
Louis XVI is now about thirty-three years of
age ; he ascended the throne of his grand-father
about seventeen, and shortly afterwards married
a filter of the present Emperor of Germany.
When he was firft married, he was thin to a
degree of particular observation ; but being na
turally of a mild, quiescent temper, and indulg
ing in the pleasures of the table, he is now, per
haps one of the fatteft men in his dominions.
To counteract this in some degree, he rises ear
ly, and almost daily takes the diversion of the
chace ; but from dinner till bed-time indulges,
with the intervention of hardly any other buli
nefs than the signing dispatches, See.
He has had four children, two of whom are
lead. His present family consists of the Dauphin,
x child of about fix yeais old, and a princess.
The Oueen is nearly about the King's age, has
much majesty and vivacity in her port, and is on
the whole reckoned one of the fineft women in
France.
Monsieur, the King's next brother, is nearly
is fat as the Sovereign, and was in the beginning
as the present troubles rather a favorite with the
people.
The Count d'Artois, the King's second brother,
isa tall, well-moulded, elegant figure, with much
vivacity and deciiion in his character. He ren
iered himfelf unpopular in the firft meeting of
:he Notables, and seems to have increased that
unpopularity to a degree of proscription.
The Court part) has for several years back
been ealled the Queen's, aided by the Count
d'Artois : these two were said to have the 1110 ft
prevailing influence on the King in all his mea
sures.
September 3. It excites our wonder when we
consider that among two Uncles and three Royal
Brothers, there is not one ofthem whole prudence
or (Economy circumscribes his expences within his
Princely income : The world seems at present to
be in a very ticklish humour.—They should con
template ferioully on the uncertainty of human
events, from the examples at present before them
in France, and view with trembling eyes the im
mense debt this Kingdom groans under :—To
feed the liypocondriac, and not at all to check the
high spirit of unthinking Demigods.
Letter from the Minijiers appointed by the King, to
M. le Chapelliere President of the National altfembly.
" Sir, —Called by the King to his Council, we
are anxious to difclofeour sentiments to the Na
tional Afi'embly.
" The marks of attention with which we have
been honored from the happy moment of our un
ion, and, above all, our fidelity to the principles
of the National Aflembly, and our refpecftful con
fidence in them, are motives the molt sure of giv
ing us courage.
" We cannot for a moment forget, that in
order to fulfil truly- the intentions of the King
we ought ever to huvtf present to our t\.<
great truth, which the National Aflembiy l,' as
pronounced, and which can never be repeated in
vain, " that the power and liappinefs of the Kii n .
cannot be maintained with dignity, noreftabliih.
Ed with durability, uijleft they have for their
foundation the good and liberty" of the people
" Condescend Mr. President, to be our iute'r»
prefer to the Aflembiy, and offer them, in our
name, our iincere protection, that we will no!:
exercifeany public function that lhall not do us
honor by is principle, and that we shall firmly
and steadily govern ourselves by this maxim. ty'e
are, with refpec r t, Mr. President, your very hum
ble and obedient servants.
J. G. Arch, de Vienne,
J. r»I. Arch, de Bourdeaix,
La Tour du Pi n."
INTELLIGENCE JiY THE LAST MAIL,
KINGSTON' {Jamaica} August lg.
Extract of a letter from Ebenezrr, in the if ate of Georgia, dated
June 25, i 7 Bg.
" We have Hill our dreads about us from the copper-colourcd
sovereign. What our hopes lead us to expeCl one d.i v ', is fruftrated
the next. The keen part of this community adiudge him artful
political, and rather dilutive, but not totally deiti'tute of virtue and
magnanimity. Indeed, lie feeius to expett peace on his own terms:
therefore, Ciod only knows when it will be confirmed, unlds
Congiefs take the business on themselves.
" The feat of the present disturbances answers now as a ren
dezvous for European adventurers—therefore, the monarch wiil
be never at a loss for white chieftains of some denomination.
They have lately ushered in a new Principal at the head of their
renowned tribe of horse, by birth an Irithman—a substitute for
one Thompson, an Englifhrnan, who once headed this detach
ment, and we believe not undefcrvedly the favorite of the rmnj
genius, except in the cafe of being fufpefted of an attrocious crime
that of adultery with one of their squaws of the firft confequencc,
which reduced him to the necessity of decamping and leaving Ins
property, or else lose his life. The present is a man further ad
vanced in years, has been much longer in the country and of good
military talents. Different accounts confirm him a perfect ty
rant, unawed by companion, continually embruing his hands in.
the blood of the innocent, for the ill-gotten plunder."
HALIFAX, October 13.
We are desired by Authority to publish fortlie
information of Malters of Veflels coming into
this harbor, that the Block-houic 011 the Citadel-
Hill, which was a conspicuous obje<ft, is now re
moved, on account of its ruinous condition.
The Hag and signal Staff Hill remains, and may be
seen from Sea as usual.
The Hulk also of the large ship fometimefince
stranded, at the backof Thrum Cape, was beat
to pieces 111 thelate storm.
NEWBURY-PORT, October 21.
In the course of a few days THE ILLUSTRI
OUS PRESIDENT OK THE UNITED STATES
is expe<fied to visit this town ; the inhabitants of
which will undoubtedly feel the most exquisite
plealurefrom such an event, and teftify the fame,
by shewing their DELIVERER every markofref
pe«ft in their power.
BOSTON, October 20.
As it must eventually tend to promote the hap
piness and glory of the King, and the freedom
and felicity of the nation, we cannot but wish,
as the firft operations of the National Allembly
of France have been marked with the fame fea
tures—that the French Nation may be as happy
in eftablifliing a Constitution as their allies the
United States of America have been, who now
enjoy the compltte operation of a fyltem ofgovern
:nent which has aftoniihed Europe—drawn from
its most celebrated Civilians the highelt encom
iums, and is calculated to promote not only the
happiness, honor, and glory of the Union—bat
eflentially to promote the Rights of Mankind.
The Hall of the elegant edifice known by th«
name of Faneuil-Hall—was previous to the war,
ornamented with the portraits of several digni
fied personages which were either destroyed or
taken away by the British, in the time of the
liege ; —one of them was the full length of
George 11, King of Great Britain, which was
placed before the middle window at the weft end
of the Hall.
Would it not be a lively and exprefliveteftimo
nial of our regard and veneration for the illultri
ous personage, who is momently expetfted to ho*
nor this town with his prefence—for the town to
request their committee to prepare an address, to
express a desire that the Prefidentof the United
States, would be plealed to permit our ingenious
townsman and refpeifted portrait painter (Mr.
Johnson) to wait on him for the purpole of tak
ing an exact and full length portrait to be put m
the fame place where the portrait ot the King
of Great Britain formerly was ; which would a
a rich brilliancy to the Hall, aud givepleafureto
everv real friend of America.
OF THE PRESIDENT.
Oct. 21. Preparations aremaking atMa. ' "
rough, for lodging The President, and tie
escort which will attend him, on Friday next, "
that he may be expected in this town on Satin
His Excellency the Governor, we are in pjj'rsi
has difpatclied an express to meet THE 11
DEN 1' of the United States, in order to know o
what road he will travel, and when he wil l
in this town, that tliofe preparations may ,e 111
to receive him, which the honor and digmtv
the State require.