PUBLISHED WEDNESDAYS AND SATURDAYS EY JOHN FENXa, No. 41, BROAD-STREET, NEAR THE EXCHANGE, NEW-YORK [No. 32, cf Vol. ll.j DISCOURSES ON DAVILA. No. XVI (continued.) Opposant, sans relache, avec trop de prudence Lcs Guises itixCon(Us,ct la France a la France. Ton jours piete a s'umr aycc fes cnneoiis Et cnangcant d'inieier, de rivaux, et d'arais, WHILE all minds, were held in agitation at Court by these events, the Bourbons fuw themselves, notwithilanding their proximity of blood, and pretentions to the cro\j», contrary to the ufjgeof the nation, excluded from employ ments and honors. Except when the necellity of a war, or the exercise of some office of little consequence, which remained'to them, required their presence, they appeared not at Court. It is true, that the Count D'Aguien, on« of the Princes ot this houfe,had advanced iiiinfel'fby his merit and valour. The King had given him the c'ommaud of his army in Piedmont. The battle of Cerizolles, which he gained againlt the Spa niards, had raised his reputation. But this ad vantage was too tranlitory to raise the house of Bourbon. This Prince died by accident, m the flour of his age, and his brother, the Duke D'An guien was killed at the battle of Sr. Quintin. There remained therefore none of the children of Charles of Bourbon, but Anthony Duke of Vendome, and King of Navarre, by his marriage with Jane of Albret ; Louis, Prince of Conde, the Itock of the branches of Conde and Conti, killed afterwards at Jarnac, and Charles, Cardi nal Bourbon, proclaimed King afterwards by the Leaguers, under the name of Charles the tenth The chiefs of the house, were now, Anthony Duke of Vendome, and Louis Prince o>f Condc, Lis brother, both Tons of Cbarles of Vendome, ■who, after the revolt of the Constable de Bour bon, and the captivity of Francis the si rft, by his moderation and difinterettedncfs, had somewhat calmed the hatred which had Jwen viol tntly cu iindted rhofeofhis blood*. Tb«efe Princ es, deprefled by the Guifcs, whom t! icy called Itrangers and new comer 9 from Lorr tiin, com plained bitterly, that except the right of fuccef «on to the crown, which 110 man couL 1 rake from them, they were deprived of all their privileges, auid especially ot the hopor of rcfidin g near the person of the King. That they scarcely held any rank in a court, where their t irth called them to the fir lk places afier his jetty : arid that such conuutfl was equally inconl iilent with reason and equity. l"he King howc sver, main tained with-inflexibility, thepoweroi 'the Guises againlk all remonftrancea and compl. lints. The Bourbons endured with less impatier ice, the ele vation of the Constable Montmoren :y : on the contrary, they were severely mortifi td to fee his credit diminilh. United with him bj 'an alliance, hv views and by interests, they flat lered them selves they might obtain by his me Bn9 a decent Tank, if they could not re-ascend r o that which their ancestors had pollefled. But now,'depriv ed of that hope which supports the unfortunate l>y foftening the fentinient of thi sir ills, they bore with (kill greater impatience tl leirdifgraces. Anthony of'Vendome, a Prince ( if a mild and moderate chara&er, appeared to fopport thairi ■with more tranquility than the ot Jiers, because he meditated great designs. He had married Jane of Albret, only daughter of Henry, King of Navarre, ar.d afier the deat;h ofhir! father in law he had taken the crown and title of King. His -projecfl was to recover hirj kingdom of Navarre, of which the Spaniards had nia<le themselves masters, for several .yea ;s, durin:* the war, be tween Louis the Xlldi, ' and Ferdinand the Ca tholic. The Kings of France, to whole interest -chisftate had been facr'ificed, had attempted feve • xal times to reconquer it. The Spaniards, who could ealil.y inarch tro< ips t6 its relief, had hither to defended it. Butt- he two crown*, being then npon the point of co; icluding a solid peace, the King ot Navarre, hop ed to comprehend in the treaty, arid to obtain ; i relkitution ot his heredita ry lkutea, or, at leal t, an equivalent. lie ■was confirmed in this the ught, by the birth of a son, . to whom he gave the name of Henry, in memory ,of bis maternal gi'»n< llather. This is the Prince, hom, the splendor of his vidtories raised, after la "g and bloody wai *s, to the tfironeof trance, der th« name of Henry the fourth, and whose loirs and virtues t.ave merited the name of 'He was-born the I 3th of December, 1554. a\ Pav-> the capital 0 if Bern. This birth, wh\ch fiUedsV" 1 ' joythc-K Ing and Q;ieen of Navarre, SATURDAY, JULY 31, 1790. inspired them with more ardor, to recover their dominion. Anthony chose rather tointereft the King of France, to demand this restitution in the treaty of peace, than to finicit in quality of firft Prince of the blood, governments and dignities in the kingdom. It was this, which engaged him todiflemble with more patience and mode ration than the reft, the injullice done to his house. The King, periiftiug in the design of lowering continually the Princes of the blood, or perhaps irritated at tbs reful'al of Anthony, to exchange Beam and his other ftates,for cities and territories lituated in the interior of the king dom, had difinembered train Guinne, of which the King of Navarre was governor, as firft Prince of the blood, Lauguedoc and the city of Toulouse, to give the government of it, to the Constable. But the King of Navarre, ftiewing little resentment of this injustice, pursued cou ftantly his firft views. (To bs continued.) (p- The reader is i fired to correS tie following errors of the press in our lajl, " Dfcovifes tn Dmila* fourth line ftom the top Jirfi co lumn, dele apofiropre front the " Utntmorencys"—nth lirefrom bot tom f'Jl co'umn\ for " captive" read caplitfiie. TRANSLATED rOR Til'- GA7.ETTE C. THE. UNITED STATES. instructions for-the colonies, Presented to the National jfflembly, in the name of the Committee appointed for that pttrpofe, the 23d March, 1790. By Mr. Bisstvt, Deputy from Daupliiny. ARTICLE FIRST. ift. HPHE decree of the National Assembly A of the Bth of this month, refpe<Jting the Colonies, and the prefentinftrudtions halving been sent by tbe King, to the governor of the colonies of St» Dorai«fgo> t&c ibadl be bound iinmediately after their reception,to com municate them to the colonialAflembly,fhould one exiit already formed ; to notify thein in like man ner to theprovincial Afleinblies, and to give legal and authentic knowledge of them to the inhabi tants of the colony, by proclaiming and fixing' them up in all the pariihes. 2d. if a colonial Aflembly exists, it may if it pleases declare that it judges the formation of a new colonial Aflembly more advantageous to the colony than the continuation of its own powers, and in this cafe, they fliall immediately proceed to new eledlions. gJ. If on the contrary, it conceives its conti nuation moil advantageous to the coloniesit may commence its operations according t<o the mode pointed out by the National Aflembly ; but with out being capable of using the power granted to the colonial Aflemblies to execute certain decrees, until the intention of the colony with respeCt to its continuation has been proved, agreeable to the forms hereafter fee forth. 4th. Immediately after the proclamation and fixing up the decreed institutions in each parifti, every person who lhall have attained the full age of 25 years, proprietors of real eltate, or for want of such property, Ikall have been fettled in the parilh for two years, and paid taxes ; (hall ali'emble together to form the parochial As sembly. Sth. The parochial Aflembly being formed, lhall commence by taking into full coniideratioi, the decree of the National Aflembly of the Bth inft. and the present inftruiftions, to procecd in the execution, in the manner following. 6th. If no colonial Aflembly antecedently eleifted, should exilt in the colony, or if that which exiited has declared that it judges it molt expedient to form a new one, the parochial As sembly (hall immediately proceed to the election of deputies to the colonial Aflembly. 7th. For this purpoie, there lhall be made out a llatement and an enumeration of all the persons ofthe parish, absent or present, poflefltd of the qualities exprefled in the 4th article ot the present inllrurtion, to determine in proportion to their number, of the deputies which ought to be fenttothe colonial AlTembly. Bth. This enumeration being made, the num ber ofthe deputies to be nominated, (hall be determined, at the rate of one for one hundred citizens ; observing, lit, that the lait hundred lhall be judged compleat, if it amounts to the number of fifty citizens, so that for ijo citizens there fholl be two deputies ; tor a;o citizens, 541 * .w PdfllS. CONTINVID, three deputies, and so 011. ad, That no regard (hall be had in the parishes where there Ihall be more than 100 citizens, and the fractional num ber below jo, so that for 149 citizens, there ihall only one deputy be appointed, and so on. 3d, In the parilhes where there Ihall be less than one hundred citizens, a deputy shall nevertheless be appointed, however small the number of citizens Ihall be whichmay be found therein. 9th. After having determined the number of deputies which they have to nominate, the pro vincial Aflemblies Ihall proceed to this election, in the manner which Ihall appear most luitable to them. 10th. The parochial Aflemblies lhall be at liberty to give inllrmftions to their deputies, but they cannot charge them with any orders tend ing to conltrain their opinions in the colonial AlieujWy, and (till less to insert any clauses tend ing 10 withdraw them from the sense ofthe majo rity ; if a parish lhould give fuchordeis, they (hall be decined null, and the colonial Aflembly fliall pay 110 regard to them, but elections of the deputies fball not be invalidated. nth. The deputies elected by the parochial Aflembly, fliall immediately repair to the town of Leogine, and lhall there determine the place where the colonial Aflembly ought to fit. I To be continued.) TREASURY DEPARTMENT, July aoth, 1790. In Obedience to the Order oj the House of Reprefcatatives, OJthe twentieth oj January li/t, TiV Secretary of the Treasury, RtfpeVfully Reports, THAT in the f jrmation of a plan for thr difpofuion of the vacant lands of the United States, there appear to be two lead in * object* of conftderation ; one, the facility of advantageous sales according to the probable course of purchases ; the other, the ac commodation or individuals now inhabiting the wellern coun try, or who may hereafter emigrate thither. The former, as an operation oi Finance, cUims primary atten tion ; the latter is important, as it relates to the i'atisfacfion of the inhabitants of the western country. It is 4sfirable, and does not appear impracticable, to conciliate both. Purchasers may be contemplated in three clafles—Moni.d in dividuals and companies, who will buy to fell again—Alloca tions of pertons who intend to make fettleinenis themselves—Sin gle persons or families now resident in the weft:fn country, or who may emigrate thither hereafter- The two Hi ft will be fre quently blended, and will always want considerable tra6b. Trr laft will generally puichafe small quantities. Hence a plan for the sale of the wellern lands, while it may have due regard to the last, (hould be calculated to obtain all the advantages which miy be derived from the two firft classes. For this reason it fcems re quisite that the General Loan-Office Chould be eftabhlhcd at the feat of government. ' Tis there that the principal purchafrrs, whether f citizens or foreigners, can most ealily find proper agents, and chat contracts lor targe puichafes can be best adjusted. But the accommodation ot the present inhabitants of the weft em territory, and of unaffociated persons and families who may emigrate thither, seems to require, that one office subordinate t<> that at the feat of Congress fbould beopened in ttie north-wcilcrn, and another in the iewth-weftern government. Each of these officcs, as well the general one as the subordinate ones, it is conceived, may be placed with convenience under the fuperintendance of threC commiflioners, who may either be pre eltabliflud officers of the government, to whom the duty may be assigned by law, or persons specially appointed for the purpose. The former is recommended by considerations ©f ceconomy, and it is probable would embrace advantage which Could be derived from a fpccial appointment; To obviate those inconvcniencies, and to facilitate and enfure\ the attainment of those advantages, which may arise from new and casual circumftjnces, springing up from loreign and domcftic cau* fes, appear to be an object for which adequate provision should be made in any plan that may be adopted. For this reason, and from the intiinfic dilßculty of regulating the details of a fpecific provision for the various obje£U which require to be consulted, so as neither to do too much nor too little for either, it is refpeftlul ly submitted, whether it would not be advifeable to vest a con hderable latitude of discretion in the commiflioncrs of the general fubutt to some such regulations and limitations as sol- low, VIZ, That no land shall be fold, cxcept such in refpe£l to which the titles of the Indian tribes (hall have been previously extinguished. That a fufficient tratt or tra£U lhall be reserved and set apart for fatisfying the fabferibers to the proposed loan in the public debt, but that no location (hall be for less than five hundred acres. That conveniertt tratts lhall from time to time be set apart for the purpose of locations by a£Uial f.ttlers, in quantities not ex-* ceedingto one person one hundred acres. That other tratts (hall, from time to time, be set apart for sales in townlhips of ten miles (quare, except where they lhall adjoin upon a boundary of some prior grant, or of a tract lo set apart; in which cases there (hall be no greater departure from such form of location, than may be abfolutcly necedary. That any quantities may ntverthelefs be fold by special contra#, comprehended either within natural boundaries or lines, or both. That the price (hall be thirty cents per acre to be p*id, either in gold or silver, or in public securities, computing those which ihall bear an immediate interest of fix per cent, as at par with j and filvtr, and thole which shall bear a future or less inlcreft, any there (hall be, at a proportional valuer That certificates iflued tor land upon the proposed loan, shall operate as warrants w iihin the tra£l or tra&s whica (hall be spe cially set apart lor fatisfying the fubfetibers thereto, and shall also be receiveable in all payments whatsoever for land by way of dif- acre for acre. That no credit shall be given for any quantity less than a towrt (hip often milfs square, nor more than two credit fpr any t greater quantity* $$00 [Whole No. 136.]
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