and advise in tlie National Aflembly, without vot ing, till the conilitution lhall have fixed rules to be followed in that refpe<3;." Several members ©bjetftedtothe laftrefolution, asdangeious to liberty, observing, that the Par liament of England had never been corrupted but by Ministers. Others maintained, that admiring Ministers to advise, but not to vote, would be a bulwark to liberty ; that being questioned on the business of their refpe<ftive departments, without previous communication, they would btTebliged to answer without reserve ; and that it would be' extremely difficult for a weak or wicked minister to deceive the vigilance of the National A ffembly. Both parties admitted the importance ofeftablilh ing a national bank—but they were by no means agreed on the resources to be expe<fled from Ame rican faith, or American granaries. The firft and lecond articles were adjourned till Friday next, and the third till next day. The Duke de Bouillon has offered 332,484 livres to the nation, as the fourth part of his annual income. PARIS, October 18.. It is difficult for any one who has the feeling and confederation of a man to observe without real distress, the wonderful indifference with ■which the people here turn to the events of last week, at no time, and at this less than any, have they feemedtoliave a full sense of the importance of the points they have gained, or even a common one of the bloody scenes they have thought it neceflary to a«sl over in their attainment. They have long been unused to great exertions, or any real concern about state affairs. By a retrogad* fort of politics every one has been dead, but to the business of throwing up his own fence, while tJSe common chorus has been the grandeur and glory of their rulers. Itmuftbe a new-born and pure generation, a generation wliofe views are directed to important objetto, that will give the body of the French nation a just idea of their li berties, and of what the birth right of man is re ally worth. They now feel themselves capable of being agitated, and whether it be the forma tion of an aflembly, their own danger, the impri sonment of a King, oralillof murders, they catch at it to feed their wonder with, and throw italide the inflant the novelty is off. The arrival of the aflembly, and the departure of his Grace the Duke of Orleans are the objedls of this speculation. On the latter fubjedt the public mind has not yet come to any determina tion, though every thing that probability or ab surdity can offer has been attended to, and the "Surdities have bid as fair to get the majority, as fair fuggefFion. oneTialFliouf rormeOllTTencn cockade party in Hampshire, where the presence of the Duke was indifpenfible—another voted his Grace over to invite his British Majesty toadinner and conference with the King of the French in the Thuilleries Palace—and a third loaded him with business of the firft political na ture. His Grace's enemies only spread the idea of his departure being neceflary—and it is an idea which is less and less attended to every moment. Perhaps one occasion of putting a flop to the retreat of so many of the Members has been a re solution agreed to by the e]e<ftors at Chateau Thierny, declaring every member that forfook the Aflembly, without the leave of his Conflituents, a traitor, base, and an enemy to the nation. The Aflembly came the fame day to a resolution against more leave being given but on very urgent occa sions, and uhat in cases of illness no unlimited paflport should be granted till the member's place wasfupplied by another. The Hotel de Ville has this evening ifl'ued a proclamation in the name of the Mayor, inform ing the public of the arrival of the Aflembly, &c. recommending peace and good order to the citi zens—dcclaringthe inviolability of the represen tatives of the nation, and pronouncing every fort of difrefpeelful behavior to any one of them.no less than treason to the nation itfelf, and an at tack upon it,through thole it hadchofento main tain its rights, secure its happiness, and defend its liberties. LONDON, Ofiober 14. The public will be surprised to hear, that such is the energy of British trade, that the London market supplies Ruflia with furs ! The folntion of the paradox is, that the north ern Chinese have been hitherto supplied with American furs by the Ruffian caravans ; at what an enormous expense maybeeafily conceived. It is now trying whether a trade may not be drove from Canton to the northern paws of Ghi na, by which we may supply them with the ar ticle dire<slly, and make our Chinese trade so much less difkdvantageous. The fur trade, in all its progress, is wonder ful. The American collector is frequently out twen ty months among the Indians. lib circuit among the snows and woods, tang. 1:1 ac once with ice and fur, is not less than 2000 .niles ; in all which journey he never fees a -.vi.'ite face, nor tastes the comfort of human c.v-verfe by day, or a bed at night. O-.'i. 19. The chief advantage that has result eel to Europe from exploring the distant legions of another hemifpbere, has been, the introduc tion of fonie of the molt ufeful plants and fruits that are cultivated. Cherries were brought from Pontus by Lucullus, and planted firft at Rome. The pear,the peach, the apricot, andthe quince, were refpe&iveiy b»oughtfrom Epirus,Carthage, Armenia, and Syria; they were firfttranfplanted jn Italy, and afterwards difleminated by the Romans, through the northern andweftern parts of Europe, then under their dominion. The tree may be still alive, in China, that afforded the feeds from which the firft sweet (China) oranges were reared in Portugal. Among ourselves, in the beginning of the 16th century, we had neither fallads, cabbages, tur nips, carrots, nor any of those Toots that consti tute the principal part of the food of the poor. Hops, pippins, and pale gooseberries, were in troduced into these kingdoms about the middle of the fame century, and the cauli-flower plant was not known for, a considerable time after wards, though now it is to be found in no other part of the globe i(i equal perfection. From the discovery of America, one ofthemoft important advantages we derived, perhaps, was the introduifiion of the potatoe—a root by far the most ufeful of all others we have among us, and which, though it now forms almost the only food of the poor, was, little more than a century ago, confined to the gardens of the curious, and pre sented as a rarity. 0(1. 28. Not less than 200,000 families are said to have quitted France on account of her present diftraJted state; and as the exiles in ge neral were those poflefled of the greatest proper ty, they are calculated to have drained the na tion of fifty millions of money. Count Lally-Tollendal, generally efteemtd one of the best informed, as well as best princi pled members of the National Aflemblpr, having withdrawn himfelf from that body, is a proof that he nowconfiders the accjuifition of that liber ty to his country, with which he had flattered himfelf, as a forlorn hope—or that, if acquired at all, it will be in such a degree, and by such means, as not to be worth the purchase. Count Lally-Tollendal, M. Mounier, the /ate President of the National Aflembly, with the Princess de Henin, and two or three other per sons of diftindiion in company, directed their route towards Germany. The Count de Mirabeau, who is a kind of French John Wilkes, is admired for talents, not much depended on for the sincerity of his zeal in favour of public liberty. To distinguish their "abilities, to gratify their vanity, tt> brow-beat their superiors, and to mortify their enemies,.are powerful motives with most public chara<Sers, while the credulous admiration of an undifcern ing multitude exalts them into reputation for firmnefs, benevolence, and patriotism. ROSEAU, Oflober 10. By accounts from Martinique, we learn, that the disturbances which we mentioned in one of our late papers, are so far from being abated, that they seem daily to gain additional force Our readers may remember, we left the French general in our last accounts, at Fort Royal, to bringoverpart of themilitary to his fide, against the people ; we have since obtained the follow ing particulars, which will form no bad sequel to that account. Itfeems he began with the subalterns, several of whom took a certain oath of attachment which he administered unto them ; but when he came to the major, that officer declined faying, he had already engaged himfelf on the fide of the people. Incensed at his reply, he reviled him in very opprobious terms, in whieh he was not sparing of that epithet, so ofFenfive to a French man's ear, with which we will not defile our paper—fout—e, and informed him that he would fend hiin his conge ; which the other replied he was most heartily disposed to receive from him our accounts fay that he laid the cane upon the refra&ory major. Frustrated in his attempts upon the infantry, he made his next application to the regiment of artillery—but with as little success. These in formed him, that tliemfelves and culverins were stationed there for the protection of the people and for them only fliould be used. ' Driven to the last fliift, his distress suggested the sorry expedient of having recourse to the people of colour, who there form a considerable corps. By a small dose of flattery these people, so leadily to be caught by a little seeming atten tion, promised to stand by him : and did so as long as they usually stand firm to anything that is, till their fears for their own persons be came an object of more .weighty concern thev then abandoned him. 3 The humiliating familiarities to which he descended to this motley rabble, was truly dis gusting. He embraced them, called them his InfansznA cker Amis, and prartifed all the dirty condefcentions, which those only who are con versant in the praise-worthy art of cajoling can form any conception of. The effect of tliis conduct was, ns inightbe expe&ed—infolence. One of this banditti pre sumed to Itrikea grenadier. —This incensed both the military and the people ; —the colifequence was, their doughty leader was laid hold ot, who his trnffy leaders left to his fate. He wns put into confinement, and had the pleasure of be holding from the window of his prison, him whom lie had inspired with the innocent teme rity to Itrike a white, fulpended 011 a gibbit. The inhabitants of St. Pierre then afiembled to confer on the nieaftires to be taken on this occalion, when ten deputies were chosen to bring the deposed commander to that part of the island for trial, and twelve judges were chosen to pre fideat that, 10 him, very important trial. Thus flood matters at Martinico on Tliurfday last : at which time a rumour prevailed that the Marquis de Bouillee had fuffered death by the extraordinary and ingenious method of being put between two planks and fevered in pieces by a cross-cut saw. Oct. 14. Thirty-fix of the rebellious slaves have been sent to Fort Royal for execution. Their principal ringleaders were a muftee and a mulatto, one of whom, had modestly pitched up on the place of intendant, had they succeeded ; and had call his eye upon one ef the most cele brated belles of that iiland, as the partner of his exaltation. Of tliefe banditti two were broke on the wheel, ten racked, fourteen hanged, and ren condemned to the gallies for life.—Some of them were so daring as to declare at the place of execution, that the whites need not yet think tliemfelves se cure, for that there was not a man of colour left behind, but had sworn to carry their views into effect. RICHMOND, December 16. Yesterday, the Diftrift Court of the United States for the Diftridl of Virginia, was opened in the Capitol in this city, where the fion. Cyrus Griffin (formerly as Judge of the Court of Ap peals for the Continent,and late President of Con gress) prefidedas Judge,bcingfirft duly qualified. Wiliam Marflial, Kfq. was appointed Clerk, pro tern. James Innes, Jerman Baker, William Du Val, and John Marshal, Esquires, were admitted as Counsel in said Court :—After which, there being 110 business depending, the Court adjourn ed to the third Tuesday in March, to be holden in the city of Williamiburg. FOR THE GAZETTE OF THE UNITED STATES. THE GUEST. No. XI. While modes exotic rule the nation, In dress, in Jpeech, and ; Tho millions Jkout our fifing Jarne, Our boajlcd Freedom 1 s but a name ! JN contemplating our situation as an independent Empire, theft are some ideas that obtrude themlelves on the mind, which greatly disgust every real friend to the dignity and hell interests of our country—among others may be reckoned a propensity, not on ly to imitate very closely, but to carry to the greatcft exccfs too many of the absurd customs and tafhions of Europe. While our country at large is nobly disentangling herfelf from former preju dices, and endeavoring to form a chara6ter of her own—while nmple, reasonable, and pra&ical institutions are Springing up in various parts of the Union, which tend to nationalize the people of these States, Fashion still connefls us with the *'house of bon dage," by a chain that appears extremely hard to be broken : A servile imitation of British modes of dress is symptomatic of weak ness, and a want of due reverence for ourselves ; but this is an evil of very interior concern, compared to imitations of their modesof speech, and plans of education. In the principal towns on this continent the American language is spoken by the undebauched natives, with a purity unrivalled— and if our own pronunciation can be preserved in its original ex cellence, it will draw a line ofdiftin&ion between us and foreign ers, especially the modern Britons, who are making rapid strides towards a pronunciation, which will ere long give them a language to be understood only by themselves. It is therefore to be wished. that the capricious alterations, the grating, hiding, scratching founds of novel reformers, may not obtain among us. But the most absurd of all our imitations of foreigners, is that of educating our children, especially the females, agreeable to the forms of a modern English boarding school. It is not onlv ab surd, but exceedingly cruel to thcil children, for even the most wealthy of our citizens, to have their daughters taught the polite accomplishments of music, dancing, painting, French, embroidery, &c. while ufeful and substantial acquirements are neglected. The former, so far from proving a defence and support when adversity comes, are often the sources of misfortune and indigence. Thefc accomplishments, experience verifies, are merely fuperficial, and may consist with a tot?l abfencc of all those intellectual improve ments, which constitute the most valuable traits in the female cha racter : In this view they may be compared to the external orna mcrits of a building, which is destitute ofevery internal accommo dation. A man would discover less wisdom in purchasing an estate by report, than he would'in chufing a wife by the dazzle of such unlubftantial qualifications. The following incident is founded onfa£ls : 11 For God's fake, a penny, to save a wretch from starving"—said a poor, meagre, ragged female, at 11 o'clock at night : Curiosity and companion induced an enq&iry. What was the result ? Theonce accomplish ed Mel i ssa, who fhonc, the firjl Jlar y in the most brilliant circles but a few years since, thro a series of misfortunes, which stripped. her family of its estate, is now a houseless, friendlefs child of want. She was early initiated in every accomplishment of the bon ton — but the hour of adversity was not contemplated, and consequently not provided for. O, Sir, said (he, if I had been taught to han dle the diftaff, and my mind had been imprefled with early sent*» ments of humiliiy, and the importance of industrious habits, when the dream of dissipation was over, I should not have fallen a prey to the arts of feduftion, and now experience the vanity of my once boasted education. Hapless Me l issa, may thy example impress the maxims of wisdom and benevolence on the minds of the af flueut, and teach them to unite the ufeful with rhe ornamental, in the education of their children, since riches are an uncertain inheri tance.
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