FURTHER ACCOUNTS FROM EUROPE, By thi lajl arrivals. OF THE PATRIOTS OF BRABANT. A GENERAL Congress of the States of Brabant was to be held at Brullels the j January. A number of Britiffi officers are gone to offer their services tothePatriotsin the AultrianNetherlands. Fort Lillo, one of the two polls which was held by the Emperor's troops by the lull accounts pub lilhed, has been taken bj the Antwerp Patriots. The Emperor appresiending an approaching di Ablution from his present indisposition, is pre paring tor that event, by forwardingthe election of a King of the Romans. The States of Brabant and Flanders have con solidated thenifelves into one body. General Vandermesch isin the neighborhood of Luxembourg with 20,000 men—and a heavy train of artillery. A report having circulated that the Emperor of Germany had undutyreceived millions from the Court of France. The Imperial Ainbailador at Paris has wrote to Count Montmori N,the French Minister, to contradicft officially, this unfounded injurious rumor. M. Desmeuniers was chosen President of the National Aflembly in December. Among other articles in the organization of the judicial power, the following were proposed by the committee : " Jufticefhall be administered in the name of the King—No office fliall be created in order to be sold—Justice fliall be rendered gratuitously—No tribunal shall.have any share of legislative power —Judges fliall not be removeable but for abuse of office—Every citizen may plead his own cause —All canfes (hall be entered in a roll in order, as they come before the Court, and determined as they ftandon this roll, without deviation, unless by consent of parties. Many wife and liberal ar ticles are daily added to the Constitution, and not withstanding what hireling prints aflert to the contrary, the National Aflembly are proceeding in the great business before them with unanimity and dispatch—and their decisions meet with un expected and unparellelled approbation from their constituents : As much peace and tranquility pre vail throughout that immense kingdom, as could be expe&ed in effecting so great and important a revolution in government. A full and complete toleration in religious matters is firmly established by the decrees of the Aflembly, which enjoin that " non-catholics" fliall be eligible to ele<fl or be elected to all places ps honor and profit in the public service. Some of the venal English papers however, re present the kingdom of France as in a very de plorable situation—and even in Paris, one poor Englishman writes to his friend in London that he is afraid of starving ! The Provinces, another fays, are in tumults, and attempts are made to se duce the army—still without effect !! Narfhal Law is proclaimed infonie of the provinces ; but they are afraid to proclaim it in others : That the people, under the dire&ion of the National Aflenibfyyareinafiinilar situation to what the peo ple of England were, under Cromwell—with a variety of such entertaining articles—and yet the National Afletobly and the King appear to be on the best terms —the people are happy—plenty has flowed in upon them—and the pro(pe<ft is al together in favor of their eitablifhing a free con ftitQtion. TURKS AND AUSTRIANS. Great preparations are making to prosecute the war, notwithstanding the rumors of pacification ; but a§ the war has continued nearly long enough to exhaust the resources of all parties, it is molt probable that the pad winter has produced a peace —or a substitute at least. In the park of the Efcurial, in Spain, during the late appointment of Grandees, there were twenty fountains in full play ; among them a inoft grand jit d'tau., affording an illuitration of the do<ftrine of hydraulics ; and there was ano ther, playing by the elasticity of air. A marine fountain had a beautiful effe<ft; it was formed to Sea Divinities, naiads, tritons, dolphins, &c. &c. The Efcurial used to be called one of the won ders of the world. It has eleven thousand win dows, fourteen thousand doors, eighteen hund red pillars, twenty-two courts, and seventeen piazzas. It has three libraries, confiding of eigh teen thousand volumes, and three thousand Ara bian ixianulcripts. Here the King and Queen have apartments, and the reft ps this superb palace is inhabited by Monks. The plan of the building is in the form of a gridiron ! Lorenzo, a famous Spaailh Saint, was broiled on a gridiron ! Philip II built the Efcurial in me mory of this Saint, and the battle «jf St. Quintin. At the late Royal promotion by the King, Loren zo was invoked by the Monks to lbower down blessings on the new Grandees. The Spani(h gentry are very numerous, and their families ancient ; the cause of all landed estateS are entailed, and cannot be alieria ted but in failure of iflue, and then not without great expence, which occalions land to be so ve OF FR.tXCE. LONDON. ry dear there ; it is worth forty years purchase. At the late Royal promocion, each new made Grandee was obliged to produce proof of his be ing clear, by four generations, of the blood of a Jew ! The Defence of the Genius of Women, an aca demic discourse by Donna Giufeppa Ainar and Bordon, in answer to D. Gafparo [ovellanos and Don Krancefco Cabarrus, Counsellors of his Ca tholic Majelty, and Members of the Royal Aca demy at Madrid (into which society they endea vor to prevent the admiflion of women) is a fatal blow to the affedted and arrogant pre-emi nenca of the male sex. This enlightened female, after demonstrating the equal powers of her sex, in literature, poli cy, and all the fine arts—attacks the objections of the King's Council with the most pointed wit and ridicule, itifomuch that they have requested a ceflation, and not only consented to the admis sion of women, but invited them. Dr. CuLLtN, thro infirmity, resigned the medical profefTorfhip at Edinburg, which he haa filled for 34 years, with infinite credit and ability. On this occasion, the Lord Provost has moved, that the Magistrates and Council request his ac ceptance of a piece of plate, on which may be en graved such an inscription as may be thought molt expreflive of the high sense of the merit of the Profeflor, and their esteem and regard for the man. Richmond, March 3. The following address from the citizens of the county of Albemarle, was presented to the Hon. Thomas Jefferfon, Efq; at his feat, the 12th day oj Feb ruary, 1 790. PERMIT us to present to you our moil sincere congratulations on your return to your native county. We should do a violence to our feelings, and illy reward your merit, if we did not upon this occasion, give you this teftiinonial of our es teem. At an early period of your life, and a very criti cal tcra of public affairs, weele<ftedyou our repre sentative in the General Aflcmbly. The fubje<fts which at that time engaged the deliberations of that body, were kighlv iniereftingto our country. The controversy into which we were from neceifi ty about to embark, involved consequences of the firft importance to society, and called for the exer tions of those of her citizens who were mod dif tinguilhed for their wifdoin, integrity and patrio tism. Your conduit in the discharge of thattruft, merited our warmest approbation, and in a review of the signal services you have since rendered, we have always considered it a lingular instance of good fortune, that we conferred, and that you ac cepted the appointment. In that station, your talents and virtues became known to yoifr country, by whom they were afterwards made more exten sively beneficial to the community at large. By their appointment, you have since held a leries of high political employments, and we have reason to believe that your conducft in every stage, has been as fatisfa<flory'to those whom you served, as it was in the commencement inoft acceptable to us. We ihould wound your feelings if we entered into a d etail of those adts of your public life which we highly approve. We cannot, however, decline alluring you, that we have been particularly hap py to observe the ftrongattachment you have al ways shewn to the rights of mankind and to those inilitutions that were best calculated to prelerve them. Conduct like this, founded on such noble and illustrious principles, will always entitle you to, and secure you the gratitude of your fellow citizens. If we cojifult the particular benefit of our coun ty, in a variety of instances, we fliould feel anxi ous, that you woujd for the future remain with us.—But America has still occasion foryour servi ces, and we are too much attached to the com mon interests of our country, and entertain too high a refpetft for yourmerit, not. to unite with the general voice that you continue in her councils. In whatever line you may think pro per to a«ft, you will have our most earncft wi flies for your welfare. February 12, 1790. To which he made the following reply. Gentlemen, T'HE testimony of esteem with which you are to honor my return to my native county, fills me with gratitude and pleasure. While it that my absence has not loft me your friendly recolle<flion, it holds out tlie comfortable hope that when the hour of retirement shall come, 1 (hall again find myfelf amidlt those with whom I have long lived, with whom I wi/li to live, and whose aftetftion is the fonrce of my present hap piness.--Their favour was the door through which I was ufliered on the stage of public life ; and while 1 have been led on through its varying scenes, I could not be unmindful of those who as signed me my firft part. My feeble and obfeure exertions in their service, and in the holycaufe of freedom, have had 110 o tlier merit than that they weremybeft. We have all the fame. We have been fellow labourers, and felJow-fuffcrers ; and Heaven has rewarded 395 us with a happy ifluefrom our druggies. It rests now with ourselves alone to enjoy in peace and concord the bleflings of felf-govcrnment, so long denied to mankind ; to fliew bv example the fuf ficiency of human reason for the care of human affairs; and that the will of the majoriry, the na tural law of every fociery, is the only sure guar dian of the rights of man. Perhaps even this may sometimes err, but its errors are lioiielt, so litary and short-lived. Let us then iny dear friends, for ever bow down to the general reason of the society. We are fafe with that, even in its deviations, for it soon returns again to the right way. These are leflbns we have learnt to gether—we have prospered in their practice ; and the liberality with which you are pleafedto approve iny attachment to the general rights of mankind, allures me we are still together in these its kindred sentiments. Wherever 1 may be flationed by the will of my country, it will be my delight to fee in the gene ral tide of happiness, that your's too flows 011 in just place and ineafure. That it may flow through all time, gatheringftrength as it goes, andfpread ing the happy influence of reason and liberty over the face of the earth, is my fervent prayer to Heaven. Fibruary 12, I 790. New-York, March 24, 17^0. Members of the House of Representatives of the United States, eleffed for the State of N. Carolina, aie Hon. Hugh William son, Hon. John B. Ashe, Hon. Timothy Blood worth, and Hon. John Steele. LxtraEt oj a letter from Bojlon, March 14. " We are all fatigued out with the slowness of congreflional proceedings. Too much time is wafted in loog speeches upon points, to fay the Icaft not ot the greatest importance ; at this rate of progreflion, it will consume the life of Congrels to decide on the Secretary's report. Not a day ihould be loft, as the year will be too flioit for the arrangements neceflary in the Treasury de partment—and it gives a trifling air to the measures of govern ment to fpendfomuch time in debating and re-debating incon sistent proportions.—The foregoing are my own sentiments—but I forbear to repeat the observations of some characters, who tak.e pleasure in finding fault, and wijk to sow the feeds of difaffc&ion among the jvople." On Saturday last the Hon. Thomas jeffcrfon, Secretary of State ele£i,ai rived here from Virginia. Monday the Senateoor. r this State, concurred in the resolution of the aflembly, declaring it incompatible (according to the consti tution of the United States and of this State) that a member of ei ther house of Congress, or person holding anv office under the au thority oi the United States, should be a member of thcLegiflaturc of this State. A vote wos then pa fled declaring the feat of the Hon. James Duane, Phillip Schuyler, John Lawrance, and John Hamorix, Efqr's. vacant. Late accounts from London advise that the abolition of the Slave trade is yet an obje6l of great attention to the friends of hu manity in England and France, and that eflFe&ual measures to at tain that obje& are pursuing with unremitting diligence. A correspondent observes, that there is no sentiment that can be mentioned, in which the citizens of the United States, are so ge nerally united, as in this—that the abolition of the Slave Trade'is a duty of humanity, justice and found policy. Accounts from the country inform that the interior parts of the State arc full of grain, and as soon as the travelling becomes good, it will be feni to the capital in abundance A correspondent obft-rves that as revenue is the nerve of govern ment so the support of Public Credit is the only solid basis of revenue—for the attainment of this object, ourexertions were con centered to a point, in bringing about the adoption of the new go vernment— should procraflination or any other fatal circumstance prevent the funding system's being completed this fcflion, the consequences are mod seriously to be deprecated. On Friday the 12th inft. died at Dumfries (Virginia) on his way toCongrefs, the Hon. Col. William Grayson. Senator of the United States. His remains wereon the Sunday following, attend ed by a numerons circle of his acquaintance, depofiledin the family vault at the Rev. Mr. Spence Grayfon's. By the death of this gentleman the public, as well as his own family, have sustained an irreparable loss. His abilities were equalled bv few. His integrity fur palled by none. The Abbe Raynal, that celebrated Philofoplier and friend to mankind, fays, on the i'ubjed: of slavery, " I will not disgrace myfelf by adding one to thelift of venal writers, who have proititu ted their pens in defence of a trade so abhorrent from the laws of universal jultice. No principles of policy can juftify the breach of her sacred laws. In so enlightened an age, an age where so many errors are boldly laid open, it would be fhameful to conceal any truth that isinterefting to human ity. We will firft prove that no reason of State can authorize slavery. In doing this we lhall not hesitate to arraign, before the tribunal of eter nal light and jultice, all thofegovernments; who tolerate the cruel pracftice, or are not afliamed to make it the basis of their power. The great Montesquieu could not prevail upon himfelf to treat the question concerning slavery, in a se rious light. In reality it is degrading to reason to employ it, I will not fay in defending, but e ven in refuting an abuse so repugnant to it ; who ever juftifiesfo odious a system deserves the ut most contempt. " Pauci sidHonesti" and other favors in our next. ARRIVALS SINCE OUR LAST. NLW YORK. Ship Henry. Shipman, London, 63 days. Ship Hudson, Segar, Plymouth, 70 days. Ship Nerva, Irvin, Liverpool, 58 days. Ship Venus, Clarke, Bristol, 56 days. Ship Fanny, Woodburn, London. Ship Flora, Deny, Liverpool, 61 days. Brig Morning Star, Kermit, Amsterdam, 6a days. ——Brig Abigail, Harris, Havre de Grace, 74 days. Schooner Sally, Patterfon, Shelburne, 6 days. Schooner New Hope, Cook, St. Kitts, 18 days. ——Schooner America, Graham, Curracoa. ——Schooner Polly, Smith,. Richmond, 9 days. Sloop X'nity, WatfoA, Philadelphia, 9 days.
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