DISCOURSES ON DAVI LA Mais I'un etl'autre Guifeont eu moins de fcrupulc. Ccs chefs ambiticux d'un peuple trop credule, Couvranc lews lnltretsde l'tmetet des cieux * Out conduit dins le piege un pcuple funeux. THE eloquence and authority of Coligni, pre vailed with the others to embrace the par ty of the Calvinifts,to whose do&rines,were fecret ]y devoted (everal of the noblemen then present in the afleinbly. The common voice was in favor of this advice, which affording hopes,as near accom plilhment,aud becter founded, diverted them from taking arms ot a sudden, and concealed for some time, the view ot dangers, to which theinoft de termined do not expose themfclves, but in the last extremity J After Martin Luther bad introduced into Ger many, the liberty of thinking in matters of reli gion, and erected the standard of reformation ; John Calvin, a native of Noyon, in Picardy, of a vast genius, Angular eloquence, various erudi tion and poliflied taste, embraced the cause of reformation. In the books which he publilhed, and in the discourses which he held, in several cities of France, he proposed one hundred and twenty eight articles, in opposition to the Creed of the Roman Catholic Church. These opinions were soon embraced with ardor and maintained with obliinacy, by a great number of persons ot all conditions. The asylum and the center of this new fedt, wasGensva, a city situated on the lake anciently called Lamanus, on the frontiers of Savoy, which had (haken off the yoke of its Biftiops and the Dukes ot Savoy, and erecfled it (slf into a republic, under the title ofa free city, for the fake of liberty of conscience. From this city proceeded printed books, and men distin guished for their wit and eloquence, whofpread ing themselves in the neighbouring provinces, •there sowed in secret the feeds of their docftrinc. Almost all the cities and provinces of France be gan to be enlightened by it. It began to intro duce itfelf into the kingdom, under Francis 1(1. in opposition to all the vigorous resolutions which lie took to suppress it. Henry lid. ordained, with inexorable severity, the punishment ofdeath again It all who should be convidledof Calvinism. The Cardinal of I.orrain, was the high prielt,and the proud tyTaflt, who counselled and Simulated the King, to those cruelties and persecutions, which, by (bedding the blood of all the advocates of civil liberty, might have wholly fupprefled it, if the unexpected death of Henry lid. which the Calvinifts regarded as a miracle wrought in their favor, had not occasioned some relaxation under Francis I Id. The Duke of Guise and the Cardi nal of Lorrain, persisted in their bloody perfe cnting resolutions : but they did not find in the Parliament, nor in the other magistrates, the fame promptitude to execute the orders which they gave in the name of the King. Theodore Beza, a disciple of Calvin,celebrated for hi&eloquence and erudition, had already con verted several persons of both sexes, and of the firft nubility of the kingdom : and it was no lon ger in (tables and cellars that the Calvinifts held their aflemblies, and preached their sermons, but in the houses ofgentlemen, and in the palaces of the great. The people called them Huguenots, or Aignoflen Confederates. The Admiral Colig jii and several other noblemen, had indeed em braced the newdo<ftrine as it was called : but the Calvinifts, restrained by the fear of punishment, itill held their aflemblies in secret, and the great dared not declare openly for them. The Bourbons, finding France in a condition so favorable to their present interests, embraced greedily the proposition of Coligni, and they de puted Dandelot and the Vidsme de Chartres to negotiate this affair with the Calvinifts. These able agents, who had both embraced Calvinism, easily found a multitude of persons disposed to communicate to others the projedt in contempla tion, and to make the necefliry preparations for its execution. The Critrlnifts agitated without interruption by the terror of dangers and puni(h ments, served them with so much promptitude and concert, that they placed things in a train, in a (liort time to (ucceed. To be continued. OXFORD, June n. ON Friday last.at ro o'clock at night, Dr. Bed does, Mr. Edwards, a commoner of Pern- V.roke College, and Mr. Sadler, the famous En plith aeroftatift (which latter gentleman invent ed a very fnnple and excellent apparatus, with which gas may be collected with the greatell cafe and expedition) sent up a balloon from Pem broke College garden, tilled with hydrogen gas from marshes, to represent and account for the production of meteors, which it did in a very larisfactory and pleuiing manner. When the balloon had gained a certain height it suddenly caught fire ; ;ifterit was consumed, the air with which it was filled still retained its globular form, and continued rolling about at a great height, for a considerable time, and gave such an auiaz ing light, as alinofl. to refembje the fun. No. XIX. LONDON, June 21. The preparations made in Sweden for keeping a fleet in conitant readiness for sea, exceed those of any other country in Europe. At Carlelcroon they have begun to hew out of the solid rock thirty docks, in which twenty fail of the line and thirty frigates will be entirely rei'cued from the weather, while their itores and ammunition remain in galleries, between each dock, in such readiness, that they inay be conveyed on board in 24 hours. General Schoenfelt is proclaimed Military Dic tator of the Belgic Provinces ; and he exercises his authority with great severity. He lately shot two of his officers with his own hand, alledging they were traytors, at the fame time, he caused thirty soldiers, who fled in the engagement to be hanged. These rigid measures will restore discipline, or cause a general revolt; it is difficult to fay which. The King, and the royal family of France, it is determined, (hall aifift at the ceremony of the confederation on the 13th of July next. His Ma jelly is to head a deputation of sixty. The cere mony is to take place on the Chatnps de Mars— the field of Mars. A few days ago, the following melancholy ac cident happened : A young gentleman, who was the next day to have been married to an amiable young lady, the daughter of a tradesman in the city, in a playful moment, pulled the chair away as /lie was going to fit down, in consequence of which flie fell with her head upon the fender, and fractured her Ikull, and died in two hours afterwards. The gentleman has been ever since in a state of insanity. Peace between th e *k in g of Hungary and THE KING OF PRUSSIA. Private letters from Berlin announce the con clusion of peace between thefetwo Kings. Itis strongly fufpefted that the King of Prulfia has been prevailed upon by the king of Hungary to forget all nnimofities, and to join his forces to those of Austria, with a view to effetft a counter revolution in France, and prevent the further progress of liberty in Europe. France will undoubtedly strike the moment Eng land is engaged, no matter with what power, were it even the Hates of Barbary. Th« King will be desirous of a war, the Ministers to a man will leave no Hone unturned to engage the nation, and their having neither voice nor party in the aflembly, will not be the lead check upon the measures they will take to make every neceflary preparation The French in general fay the English will be out negociated : Spain, fay they, is determined ujjloji a war,"and her prefentaim is to get herflo. ta into fafety before holtilities begin. TO THE PRINTER SIR, —As the season is now approaching, in which children in general are very much trou bled with worms, owing to their eating too much fruit, or from other causes, I fend you the sol. lowing recipe, which 1 hare knownto he a sove reign remedy. Recipe for the worms :— Boil a little wormwood or tansy in water, drain it of, and add a table-fpooti of bead gall, and a little sweet oil or butter.—To be given by way of clyster every other day. PHILADELPHIA, August 27 The frequenters of the Caffc Procope, the fa mous literary coffee house at Paris, have lately diflinguilhed themselves in an extraordinary manner in expressing their veneration for the charadier of the late Dr. B. Franklin, and their sorrow for his death. The club of the friends of the revolution who meet there, got a bull of him erected,and had it surrounded with cypress ; and on Monday the 14th June, the chandeliers were covered with crape, the greatclub room hung with black, and on the door were inferirudthefe words; —Frank- lin ej} mart, fFranklini dead,] various emblema tical reprefentatior.s of his genius and his works were painted. Around at the lower end of the room, his bull, crown with wreaths of oak, was placed on a column, a ..under it the word—Vir, [a man ;] on each fide were placed spheres, maps, cypress leaves, &c. and beneath a serpent gnaw ing its tail—a symbol of jinmortality. And on the 1 sth the club distributed food to the poor, in honor of the memory of the great American Patriot, Legislator and Philosopher. BURLINGTON, August 24. On Monday the 1 7thjinftant, departed this life, in the 45th year of his the Honorable David Brearley, Efq ; Judge ot the Newjerfey diftrf<si. He fultained his lalt with that fortitude and refigtiation, which cvince the good man in the hour of death. Ever remarkable forgentle nefs of manners, humanity and probity, he con ciliated the affecftion, friendfhip, and confidence of all who knew him. Firmly attatched to the liberties of America, and a strenuous aflertor of her independency, he very early took a decided part in the late contefi:, and was four years en gaged in her service, as a Lieutenant Colonel in the field—from whence he was taken, and prcfi 578 tied iff the Supreme Court of New-Jei fey as Chief Juitice for ten years. The feverai appointments conferred on him by Congress and his nativeftate he faithfully and impartially discharged, with' honor to liimfelf, and the approbation of the pub 1 i ■ The unavailing sorrow of his widow, and ("even children, and the figlis of his friends and neiolj. hours, particularly the poor, will remain the Left and molt lalting monuments of his,character in private life. Being grand mailer of masons in New-Jersey his remains were interred in Trenton, in tuafonic form, and the ceremonies pecnliarto the Ancient: Craft, attended by the largell and molt refpedta ble collection ofmafons and citizens ever known there on the like occasion. STOCK BRIDGE, August 24. PROGRESS OF MANUFACTURES. Mr. Moses Barnum, of this town, has, finccthe month of Augull, 1789 —fulled 110 less than five thouland three hundred and ten yards of cloth and of thin cloth, drefled three thoufaud two hundred—in all, eight thousand five hundred and ten yards The foregoing affords a plea sing specimen of the progress of manufactures in this part of the country. MELANCHOLY ACCIDENTS On Friday lad, in the afternoon, a young wo man, by the name of Eunice Seward, aged about t8 years, eroded the river in a small cauoe, juil above a place known by the name of Hau'li'j Mills, in this town, together with her brother who on reaching the other fide Hepped out of the boat, and the young woman, rather imprudently set off alone to recrofs the river, but the current running very rapidly, the boat drifted down the river, and immediately went over the dam, and oyerfet ; the young woman was di owned :—Dili gent search was made for the body which wasnot tound till the next morning, about thirty rods from the mill. On VVednefday last, at.Dalton, a daughter of Capt. Parkr, about n years old, palling over the Houfatoonuck, alias Stratfoid river, on a laroe log, which served as a footbridge, being taken giddy, fell into the llream, and floated down !e ---veral rods, then gained her feet and flood seve ral minutes, begging for alfillance from thechil. dren on shore ; in attempting to move towards ihore, the flream being very rapid, /he could not (land, but fell, and floated down a considerable way, went under some logs wjiich lay partly in the ri\ er, and was drowned. She was'found and taken tip inlefs than an hour ; a Docftor happen ed to be present—every attempt was made to revive her, but it proved fruitleii, — NEW-YORK, Sept. i. European Advices by the Ceres, Capt. Angus, ar rived at Philadelphia. The Poles have agreed to the paflage of the Pruflian troops thro that kingdom to Sileiia : The Empress begins to clifcover a pacific disposition towards the Porte : She has lately interdided the circulation ofnewfpapers,and political pamph» lets in her dominions—" but thewindblowcth where it lijhth"—and even the very jlones will cry out in tie cause of liberty. Lieut. Gen. Solano is commander of tlieSpanifh fleet : The Court of Spain was to gi»e a defini tive answer to Great-Britain the n Jnile : The patriots of Brabant have fortified their camp at Andois, and are recovered from the panick oc casioned by their late defeat—a body of Auftrians who attacked the out ports were defeated: The Turkish soldiers receive a ducat for the head of every christian soldier they kill : Marshal Prince Potemkin has been suddenly recalled from his command of the Pruflian army, by the Empress : The King of Sweden, in the late adtion with the Ruffian fleet of gallies, besides 38 vefl'els taken, funk 10 gun boats, destroyed the dock-yards at Frederickfhatn, and burnt 40 gun boats, and 50 transports with provifioils : Accounts from Bmf fels announce a very extraordinary spirit among the people to support the revolution, and com pleat their emancipation from the house of Aus tria : Impressing seamen continues in Great-Bri tain and Ireland—the squadron at Spithead, the 21 June, ready for sea, confiftedof 21 fail of the line : The new Emperor of Morocco has lately put to death the Vice-Consul of Spain, with cir cnmftances of diabolical cruelty : In addition to this, he has, it is said, made the Jews in his do minions the vidiims of his rapacity, by giving up their property to the pillage of the soldiery. He is said to have commenced his reign with great moderation, compared to the conduct of his im mediate predeceflor ! ! The King of Pruflia left Berlin the 10 June to join his grand army in Si lesia. The English papers fay, that Franee is in as diftradted a situation at present, as at any per iod flnce the commencement of the revolution : Other accounts speak in encouraging terms of their fafl approaching to the time, when their government will defy the afTaults of internal fraud, or external violence. In the National Aflcmtily it has been decreed. That n el!/uf* tic occafmns their President jbou'd walk on the right hand of the The Parliament being dissolved, the Engliui rewfpapen a.'frU with e'eftioneering addresses and speculations.
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