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
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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
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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.