in the sentiments which he had a right to cxpetf
from all his fubjecTts without distinction, he had
come to reside in Paris, where he received the
molt refpedtful testimonies of love and fidelity
from the inhabitants of that good city. That he
is certain they will never attempt, in any man
ner, to influence the free determination of their
sovereign ; and, from the midst of them, announ
ces to all the inhabitants of his provinces that
when the National Afl'embly fliall have terminated
the grand work of restoring the public welfare,
he will put in execution apian, which he has long
fnice formed of vifitingall his provinces to inquire
what good he can do in each, and to prove that
they were all equally dear to him. That he flatters
himfelf this declaration, on his part, will engage
all the inhabitants of his provinces to second the
labors of the National Affeinbly, in order that
France, under the protection of a happy conlli
tution, may enjoy that peace and tranquility, of
which an unhappy divifionhas long deprived it.
This proclamation is dated October 9, and un
der signed DE SAINT PRIEST.
Paris (o<ft. 16th) was again tolerably quiet, and
things went on as usual ; the mob feemecl perfect
ly contented with the ficuation of the royal fami
ly, whose el'cape was so much the object of their
apprehensions. Their Majesties had another le
vee of the foreign ininifters on Wednesday lalF,
but the King spoke but little, and looked despond
ing and melancholly. The court was but thin
ly attended, and had much ihe appearance of a
dumb flievv.
In the affray at Versailles on the 6th of October,
about jo of the Parisian troops and mob were kill
ed, and 80 of the King's guards cut to pieces.
The maflacre would have been much more terri-'
ble, had it not been for his majelly's orders.
LONDON.
The Queen of France owes the preservation of
her life to the gallant Marquis de la Fayette.
There is no nation on earth better informed of
political events that the French, at the present
day. The deputies of all the cities correlpond
daily with their constituents ; and 011 the arri
val of their letters, they are immediately pub
liflied by the committees of correspondence.
UNITED STATES.
GEORGE-TOWN, November 2j.
Eje.trail of a letter from an American gentleman at
St. Augujline, Eatl- Florida, to his friend in this
town, dated Otfober 20, 1789.
" The report of the proceedings between the
Commiflioners of Congress and M'Gillivray,
reached this place three days after the business
was finiflied ; but astiie Spaniards are exceeding
ly cautious towards ltrangers, they take care to
keep the ref'ult of that day a profound secret; 20
Chiefs of the upper and lower Creek nations ar
rived here a few days after the treaty on llock-
Landing broke up ; they frequently wait in a
body on Governor ZESPEDIES, who entertains
them at his own house, and fuffers 110 one except
an Interpreter to be prefent;—it is whispered that
the real'on of M'Gillivray's not entering into a
treaty with the Commissioners was, that the terms
offered by Congress, would, (if accepted of) in
fringe on the treaty existing between his Catholic
Majesty, and the Creek nation ; that such a treaty
exilts is beyond all doubt, for the Kingof Spain,
ever iince the recovery of the Floridas, had paid
an annual tribute of 8000 dollars to the Indians
bordering on the Provinces ; they are regularly
supplied with cloatliing, arms, and ammunition,
out of the King's Magazine here and in Penfacola.
" Trifling as this present affair may appear to
some, I can afl'ure you, from my own observati
ons, a personal knowledge of Mr. M'Gillivray—
the Indians—the extent and situation of riieir
country,—the weak state of our Southern Fron
tiers, &c.
" That the next step Congress takes in the busi
ness will be of importance to the Uniced States.—
" 1 have the greatest reverence and opinion of
the wisdom of our leaders, but am apt to think
that the sword in (lead of the olive branch, will be
their result at last—and therefore a speedy appli
cation of the former might save lives and money."
B A L T I M O R E, Nov. 2;.
Extrafl of a letter from Annapolit, to a gentleman
in this town, dated 21// I\ov. 1 789-
The Amendments recommended bv Congress,
were unanimously adopted by our House onWed
nefday last.
P H ILADELPHIA, December 3.
In the General AHembly on Monday, the com
mittee of the whole went into the further confide
ation of the firit and second amendment proposed
to be added to the conflitution of the United
States. A variety of opinions prevailing as to
both these articles, it was deemed molt proper,
that the conlideration of themfhould be poitpon
ed, that the members might have further time to
reflect 011 them. The committee therefore role,
"reported progress and alked and obtained leave
to lit again. As the fellion is nearly drawing to a
clofc,it is conjectured that nothing will finally be
determined in thisbufinels, until the House meet
again, which will probably be sometime in Febru
ary next.
FOR THE GAZETTE OF THE UNITED STATES.
PROLOGUE,
Spoken by Mr. Wicnei.l, on Mrs. Morris's Night, before a
Comick Sketch, called The World as it goes ; or The PiClure Ex
hibition—delivered by Mr. Wicnill, soon after the burning
of Mr. D's balloon.
T ,
X HAT all the world's a stage, lweet Shakespeare sung,
And by that thought, full many a fweettale hung,
Of war, and death, and love : The simple maid,
By man's falfe lures, to ruin's gulph betray'd ;
Of kings and qtieeris, and crowns, and witty fools} O
All nature's book difplay'd, uncheck'd by rules, >>
Thole genius-damping {hackles, forg'd in Grecian schools. 3
With mind unbounded, and with eagle eye,
Ev'n hidden things the favor'd Bard, could spy;
Trace the nice windings of the human heart,
Andfearch the feal'd-up secrets, of each ptirt,
Then fly beyond the bourne of mortal ken,
And study when he'd exhauft*d men.
This simile I trust, will change full soon,
And worldly a&s, be each—like a balloon ;
Some fill, some fail, some rife, and others fall,
Some, soaring high, forget this dirty ball, >
'I ill buifling in a blaze,'they lose' life, schemes and all. J
Others again will bullle, flir, and puff,
To scrape together asroftatic ftuff,
Perhaps in luck, they fill the great machine,
Should foraecurfl chance or other intervene,
While panting thousands, gape, and gaze, and choak,
The bubble bursts, and all is 101 l in smoke.
Once, this btcftland, not many years ago, p
Rais'd a Balloon, a grand Mid gallant show, S"
Which nations gaz'd at, as all nations know ; J
'Twas form'd of privileges, rights and law,
And fill'd wish patrictifm instead of gaz ;
The wond'rous fabric rose, majestic ! high !
And spite of british ballad, reach'd the sky ;
There proudly hangs aloft—a ftiining frame,
From which e'en Europe takes the gen'rous flame, *
Shakes oft her (hackles, greatly dares be free,
Raift! a Balloon, like us beyond the sea, >
Fill it with all that's good, and call it Liberty. _)
This night a small Balloon invites your eyes ;
I can't pretend to fay that it will rife ;
I'll do the best I can to make it go ;
But then it's charg'd with wit, and that's oft falfe you know :
Howe'er the wits which we ftiall ufc to night, "0
Are rarified, and fit for merry flight, >
Stev ens, Pi lon, and Foote that waggifti wight. _) x
/go for ballajl, and I freely own,
I fear I'm weight enough to keep it down ;
Howe'er I go, cheer'd by this pleasing thought, >
(All other aids I value not a groat) >
Tis your applause keep* my Balloon afloat. J
[Going Returns.']
But flop.—— l -Egad a mighty pretty joke,
I had forgot the main I was t'have fpokc.
From her I come, whose humble wifti to please,
Has oft been here repaid : While now fhefees
This brilliant show collected here again,
Her grateful feelings render language vain ;
Her thanks ftie promises by afls to fliow,
And [bell rings']— Coming Mr. Prompter—l muftgo, />■
For our Balloon is full, and 1 go up you know, J
NEW-YORK.
Our accounts froiji Franee areinveloped in un
certainty. Though there is 110 doubt of a decid
ed majority of the people in favor of the Nation
al Aflembly, yet it is evident that a great spirit
as fermentation is in existence among them.—
Fraud, ambition and wealth, have too often prov
ed equal to defeating the best devised plans in
favor of liberty and justice. Neither too much, nsr
(oo little, should be the motto of patriotism : This
will point out the golden moment of making sure
the glory, profperity,andhappinefsof a country.
Danger to the liberties of the people, in all re
volutions, arifesfrom the natural pride of the hu
man heart. It has too often occurred, to escape
the notice of the molt cursory observer, that vio
lent partizans are generally impatient of con
troul: This is the firft lyniptom of a despotic tem
per, aiid commonly appears after a series of
wheedling arts, have imposed on the judgements
of the people, and insured an ascendency in their
confidence. By degrees, the weight of party is
ascertained, and from that moment the voice of
reason, prudence and common sense are despised,
and every demand is made with an arbitrary tone ;
justice, honor, and personal rights are facrificed
for the good of the people, pretendedly ; but, in
reality, the establishment of power in the hands
of a majority, who are moulded, controuled and
directed by a demagogue, is the prime obje<fl.
It is too much the cafe that in contemplating
the rights of mankind at large, those of indivi
duals are often considered as grievances—hence
those who are diftinguiihed by pre-eminence, are
viewed with a jealous and envious eye : In all
revolutions, attention to certain diftiuCtions, ap
pears to be a desideratum in politics.
FOR THE GAZETTE OF THE UNITED STATES.
THE GUEST. No. 111.
t: The Molt, that has no window for the fun x
" Finds yet a light that leads to genial love. 1 "
AC RE AT part ofinankind are held in bondage to one absurd
custom or another—but perhaps a more ridiculous and mis
chievous deviation from the laws of nature and reason, never ob
tained, than the celibacy of the Clergy. This is a trite lubjecfc of
declamation; but all that has been written, or could be nr-red a
gainst it, would have proved ineffectual, had not the rays of politi
cal knowledge recently bpened the eyes of mankind to their true
interest. There is now a fair profnect that this intolerable yoke
will betaken off the Clergy of the Roman Catholic Church ; and
the door of honorable love, and connubial joys, be opened to them
in common with their fellow men. " Marriage is honorable in.
all:" It is an mllitution wife, politic, and benevolent in itfelf—
and leads to all the tender charities that knit the family of man
kind in the happiest unities of love, concord, and peace.
When I behold a well regulated, happy family, the object in
spires the mod pleanng lenfations and reflections : I call my
thoughts back to the period when the parents of a lovelv progeny
firft commenccd the acquaintance that has proved the origin of l"<>
many agreeable o^umftances —Happy moments of love, honor,
and mutual confidence ! —How refined and delightful the sweet
intercourse of kindred minds ! Their mutual attractions cemented
by the facrcd bonds of wedlock, have gathered strength with ad
vancing years—and their last setting fun lhall go down in peacc.
When this conDe&ion is founded on proper piinciples, it is not
fubjettto those perturbations and deprcilions offpints, which ren
der the marriage state a jest to the libertine, and make
the timid waver and doubt, till time extinguishing the best paflions
in the human heart—-creates an indifference cither to pleasing, or
being J>lealed. The cares of life in every state are many—ln the
married state they are divided, as they increase—and the plcafures
of life are coubled-'-the mind letains its natural foftriefs and ge
nerous sympathy ; and having a variety of objettsto engage its at
tention, those objects interest its feelings, and animate its exertions
till its feli ity consists, in living tothe happiness of its connexions,
and of mankind. Society derives its best security from th<- attach
ments which originate in the ties of Family—fathers, mothers,
and children are the furcft and best pledges of fidelity to the Com
monwealth—to those endearing appellations nothing is ndiffer
ent, that has reference tothe peace, and prosperity, the misfortune,
or misery ot their country ; but the voluntary exiles from the tem
ple of Hymen, while they violate the laws of reason and society,
in pafling thro life in the solitary walks of ban :lo iu, 1 of" bv
degrees the best affeftions—tbey contrast a temper ut infei fibili .y
to the happiness or infelicity of their fellow creiturcs —a*iti t ro;n
negle&ing and being neglected by the bejl part of our fpet -s, they
acquire a morose and censorious disposition—and making war with
the world by then contcmpt for its maxims and customs, they al
ways come off fccondbejl,
NEW-YORK, DECEMBER 9.
A gentleman f/om Marietta, who left this city \ejlerday, on his way
to the Editor with the follotoing account:
About eight weeks fine:-, two brothers, by the name of JohnlWn,
one 12, the other 9 years oid, were playing ort the western bank,
of Short Creek, about twelve miles fron/Wheelinz, flapping stones
in the water—Ata dillanccthey discovered two men, whoappear
ed to be settlers, beingdreffed withcoatsand hats : Thefemen, to
amuse and deceive the children (as the event shewed) engaged in
the lame sport, advancing towards the boys, till by degrees they
got so near, that the children discovered them to be indians ) but
it was then too late to make their escape : The indians seized and
carried them fix miles into the woods, where they made a fire, and
took up their lodging for the night; their rifles ar.d tomahawks
they rested against a tree,and then laid down,each indian with a boy
onhis arm : The children as may befuppofed kept awake—the oldest
began to move, and finding his indian found a deep, by degrees,
difengagea himfelf, and went to the hre, which had then got low,
and (lined it up ; the indian not waking, be whispered to his bro
ther, who likewise crepi away, and both of them went to the fire_
The oldest boy then observed tohis brother, "I think we can kill
ihefe indians, and get away from them"—the agreed it*
the propoldl of attempting it : The oldest then took one of the
rifles, and placed the muzzle, which he rested on a small stick.that
he found for the purpole, close to the head of one of the indians,
and committing the exceution of this part of the business tohis:
brother, ordered him to pull trigger at the moment he saw him
strike the other indian with one of the tomahawks : The oldeit
gave thefignaj; the youngest pulled trigger—the rifle fliot away
the lowei part of the Indian'siace, and left him senseless ; he then
told his brother to lay on, for he had done for his ; after which he
lnatched up the gun and ran ; the boy with the tomahawk gave the
stroke with the wrong end, the india'n ftartcd on his feat the boy
found the mistake, and turning the tomahawk in his hand, gave
him another blow, which brought him to the ground ; he repeat
ed his ftiokes till he had difpatchcd him, and then made the belt
of his way after his brother. When the boys had found the path
which they recolle£tcd to have travelled before, the oldest fixci
his hat on a bush, as a dire&ory to find the fceneof action the next
day. The tomahawked indian was found near the place where
the boys had left him : The other was not there j but was track'd
by his blood, and altho so weakened by his wounds, that he could
not raise his rifle to fire at his pursuers (two men) they fuffered
himto escape ; but it is supposed he mull have died of his wounds.
These two mdians were fentoutto reconnoitre the belt place for an
attack, which was to have been made by a body of warriors,
waiting in the neighborhood. The gentleman who gives this
account, saw, and conversed with the two children, about fix
weeks since. .
Ihe President of the United States has been pleased to ap
point the Hon. William Drayton Judge of the Federal
Court for South-Carolina Diflrict, vice the Hon. Thomas Pinck
niy refigned—alio the Hon. Cyrus Griffin, Judge of the Fe
deral Court for Virginia DiUrift, vice the Hon. Edmund Pen
dleton, resigned.
His Excellency the Vice President of the Unit
ed States returned to this city lafl week, from
his late visit to his feat in Braintree, Maflachufetts.
There was no mail from the southward of the
Patowmac received at the poll office on Saturday
last, which may in some measure account for the
failure of official dilpatches to government re
fpedting the ratification of the Conflitution by the
State of North-Carolina.
The weather is remarkably mild for the season,
the harbor is full of /hipping, and business ispur
fuqd with the greatell conveniency. The price
of wood rather falls than rises—a great benefit
to the poor. Our country friends who mean to a
vail themselves of theprefent rates, multpulhin
their supplies as soon as polfible.
On Monday evening there was very large and
refpeclable company at the Theatre.
ARRIVALS.—NBIV-YORK.
Tuesday. Ship N.St. M. de Patrounco, Cawello, Liflion, 42 days.
Schooner Polly, Crovice, Caps Francois.
ling Polly, Hill, Montego Bay, 42 davs.
Sloop Rebecca, March, Bcrrruda, 20 davs.