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
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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.