Nt. Brilliavd Savarin (lacing forcibly tlietrou- I ties at Lyons, as originating from a Libellous Pamphlet, the Alfembty unhapjiily negKived the excellent mocion of M. St. Eiienue, by pafiingto the order of the day—thus demolishing at once their ground of pre-eminence airiong the nations, and sealing up by impending prosecutions, the iources offreedifcuflion, and detecting invcftiga on ; andeftablifhing in one (hort hour, what the labours of servility upon the bench of another country have been exerted neara century to etfecli and have at last fatally accompliihcd. THE FAMILY COMPACT Extracted from the Debates of the National Atfembl? of Francs on Monday lajl THE President reaa a letter from M. Montmb- | rin to the following purport : " The King commanded me last May to lay be- fore the Allembly the reasons which made it ne cellary to order an equipment of I 4 fail of the line, which measure the Allembly approved. I mult now lay before theni the reasons which feein to make it necellary to encreafe this armament which is in perfedt readinefs.—lt is prudent that we ihould have an equal force with Great Britain, who is hastening her's with all poilible activity. The King of Spain has claimed the execution ot the Treaty with Great Britain, and his Aiubafla dor here claims that of the Family Compafl. '1 he King therefore has thought proper to bring this demand of the Spanifli Ambafiador belore the Aflembly for its deliberation. " The Aflembly will have two points to deli berate upon. ill, The augmentation ot the jnaments neceflary to be made : and 2d. 1 he anl wer given to the Court of Madrid." Besides the above letters from M. Montmorin, another from the Count Fernanda Nunez, the Spaniih Ambaflador at Paris, to M. de Montmo rin, was likewise read. It is dated the 7th of June, and after mentioning the negociation go ing 011 with England, concludes thus : " The speedy and exa<ft execution of the 1 rea xy > signed at Paris tjth Auguit 1 761» under the title of the Family Compact, becomes now an in difpenlible preliminary, in order to be able to treat with success, and it is 011 account of the ab solute necelfity of having recourfetothe assistance of France, that the King, »'? Walter, orders me to demand expressly what brand, in its jituation, can da for the aid oj Spain ? " According to the mutual engagements, his Catholic Majelty desires that the armaments, and other measures suitable to tullil thele lacred en gagements, be immediately put 1/1 execution* He charges ine to add, that the present state this unexpected ati'air requires an immediate determination ; and that the measures which the Court ofFrance fliall take tofui nilli affiltance, ihall befoa<ftive, so clear, and so politive, as not to leave the fmallelt ground for suspicion or dis trust ; otherwise, his Most Christian Majelty ought not to be l'urprifcd if Spain Jh.ill Jack otner Friends ttnd other Allies, amongjl all the other Powers of Eu rope, without excepting any one, upon whom'it may depend in time of need. a "jjg ties of consanguinity and peifonal friendfliip, which unite our Sovereigns, and the reciprocal interest which exilt between the two Nations, will be always as much attended to in these new arrangements as circuinltances will permit." , , Mr. Fitzherbert's letter to the Count de i lori da Blanca at Madrid was then read. It exprefles a desire of peace, explains the ground ot com plaint 011 account of the detention of two English ihips in Nootka Bay, and obfei ves that Great Bri tain has made no reprisals. He demands, lit. A reftitutionof the (hips. 2d. An indemnification of the damages sus tained, and ... , Satisfaction for the injury done to the Engliih Flag. . The Spaniih Ambassador's answer, begins by fhewingthe uncertainty of the injury done to the Engliih (hips that they had been detained in places belonging to Spain by virtue of treaties. His Catholic Majelty had neverthelels submitted to make good the injury lultained should it ap pear that there has been any, and that the En •rlifli Captains had not been the aggrellors. 9 These papers were referred to the Committee for managing foreign affairs. BOSTON, September 30. Extract of a letter from St. John' s (N. B.) Se P-}*- On Tliurfday last the Assizes and Court of Oy er, Terminer, and General Goal delivery,pp r * hc city and county of St. John, was opened by Mr Tuitice Allen, and Mr. Jufhce Uphain. At he assizes were only two a«ftions of importance, the one was brought to recover £.500 being the pe nalty ofan arbitration bond tor non-compliance ■withthe award, in which John Harvey was Plain tiff, and Benedict Arnold, Esq. Defendant ; the trial lasted 7 hours, when the Jury brought m a verditf: for the Plaintiff with £.275 dam *S cs -"Tr Counsel for the Plaintiff Mr. Hardy,—for the de fendant the Attorney-Genera], and Mr, Chipman. Theother was the much talked of cafe for Defa mation, wherein the fame Benedict Arnold, Eft], was Plaintiff, and Monfon Hayt, Defendant—da mages laid at £.jooo. The try al laltsd from alit tie after nine 011 Saturday morning, to two o'clock 011 Sunday morning, when the Jury withdrew, and yesterday morning brought in a verdidt for the Plaintiff with 20s. damages.—Counsel for the Plaintiff the Attorney General and Mr. Chipman ; for the Defendant, Mr. Hardy, Mr. Campbell, and Mr. Ludlow. NEW-YORK, OCTOBER 9 The matter of a veflel who arrived at Phila delphia, in 36 days from Corunna, reports, that a terrible fire broke out in Madrid, which haa confutned a very contiderable pare of that city. Thfc Spanifli fleet was cruising ofFCape Finnifterre when the Captain left Spain. At the storming of Czettin by the Ruffians, 2000 lurks were killed.—Spain according to accounts from that kingdom has no idea of paying the Britifll bill of costs in equipping their fleet ; why Ihould they ? The Britilh would laugh at such a demand on the part of Spain ; the cafe is vice versa without doubt. According to the convention laid to be finned between Austria and Pruflia, the former is to abandon all its conquests from the Turks, and to renounce its alliance with Ruilia ; hard term in deed ! Frederic is to receive for this fuccefstul intcrpoiition io,cooooo piafhes from the porte. The cle&ors of Emperor for the German Empire began to af femblc at Frankfort the 20 Julyi The Spanifti and Englilh fleets being at fca, foinething impor tant may be daily eicpc&cd from ihe Eaflern hemisphere ; im portant to the parties immediately engaged—how much to to the United States time may unfold. The idea thrown out by Dr. Price of an alliance between France and England, Was taken up in the national assembly—and M.C. de Lameth suggested the propriety of add re fling the peo ple of England through the Revolution Society ; this was objefck cd to by leveral members as being neither judicious or patriotic — as England is not governed by a club, but by a parliament. The Englilh papers Hate that the French have al Breit 25 fail of the line ready for sea. The Frenchman who attempted to alTaflinatc Count Florida Blauca was executed at Madrid 011 the 18 August. The English papersgive an account of a drenchingenterprize at Bnghthclmftone, in which Lord Bairymore and a royal Duke fufiained the inoft conspicuous parts. A large furn of money be ing deposited by the parties : he that could wade the furtheli into the water with his cloaths on was to take the whole. Barrymore beat the Duke. Such are the noble and royal pastimes of Bri tain's riling hopes ! An indiscriminate publication, in v\mcrican papers, of Englifti articles of news and politics, is supposed to be geneially reproba ted ; but fact and experience prove that this is not the cafe : lor tho the English papers contain an infinity ot conjectures, fuppoli tions, and totally bafelcfs fabrications, and very tew fa£ts ; yet it is apparant that the printers of those American gazettes, who dish up the lavgeft quantity ot the heterogeneous mass, find the t ac count ih it—There is one reflection which is cxcited on the occa- fioti, not of the moil pleasing kind, and that is, that this taste in dicates cither that we feel too much lntereflcd in the concerns of that country, or that we have imbibed too ftiong a diipoiition to be pleased with frivolity. Very few English new fpapers are independent, and very little that it conveyed through thr mwlium of party is pure, triie, or honorable ; a free paper is generally undeiftood there to be, one that is full ot abufc of the powers that be, or ot those who think tor themlelves, ofrdf the party in whose cause it undertakes : You may read such publications till your eyes fail, and never be a whit the wiser j many such arc the sources from whcnccthe American fount of European news and politics is supplied : In reipe£t to the French revolution, what a gloomy al\>c£t is thrown upon it by the latest Englilh accounts. While thar nation appears to be ex ulting in the progrefsof their Conllitution *, while the people arc as one itiah uniting and rejoicing in the benign influence o! a tree and Iwearing in the mod solemn manner to support their rights and privileges, we ate told that M. Fayette is their King, General, and Supreme Legifiator, that he is the implacable enemy of M. D'Orleans, and will briughim to the block, or con fifcate his large pollcH'ions, that difcontcnts the empire, that the King of Sardiuia is on the point of invading the king dom, and that the refugees, with the Prince de Conde at their head, has aflemblcd an army to second Ins efforts, that the permit ting the Aultrians to marcn thro pait of France* is admitting an enemy into then country, who will cftett a counterrevolution, that the King's sickness is meer finefTe to facilitate an elopement from the kingdom, and in fliorr, that the profpe£ls of the revolu tionifls are dark, gloomy Jand dreadful ; but there is one circum- Itance, tliat is really not cafy to be accounted for, and that is, while many Bn:ilh charaders are nobly engaged in fighting the cause of freedom in the low countries, as volunteers and officeis of diilin&ion in the Bclgi# fcrvice, their countrymen, the Editors of the British newspapers arc perpetually venting their spleen againftthe patriots, in a series ot iour, ill-natured paragraphs ; it is very rare that a commendatory fen:enee escapes their pens - What advantage can Americans derive ftom such opinionated felt fufficicnt cgotifts ? t . An elegant writer in the Poughkecplte Journal of 2d urn. wnofe produttions we conjecture, have before contributed to the enter tainment of our readers, concludes foine very judicious remarks on the French Revolution in the following words : "In the lat -44 ter part of the 17th century, when the remains of French libtr " ty were extinguished under the despotic monarchy of Louis 14. h, 14 the condition ol the kingdom was however vaftlv mended, and 44 its reputation carried to the higheit pitch by the aits of peace, 44 arid the atcluevcments of war ; but his intolerant lpirit banilh -44 cd a vast l,ody of his indubious fubjed*, and his inordinate am -44 bition enkindled wars ruinous to his own people, and dauger " ous to the liberties of Europe. In our day they have complete -44 ly recovered their civil and religious rights, and by a grand ai '4 iociation have sworn to maintain them. How diftinttly the 44 comparative merit of those ages is marked between the inhu '4 man government of Catherine and her sons, the magnificence ot " Louis XIV, and the freedom of the National AfTembly ? It re " mains only to be wished that their zeal may be so tempered by " moderation, and their rcafomng so corrcded by experimental " wiidom, as to lead them to fix a conftuution so adjuited in all " its parts, as to stand firm and perpetual by the energy of its 44 own principles." PRICE CURRENT. PUBLIC SECURITIES. Final Settlements 12/z 1 12/4. Indent» 7/1. a 7/2. STATE Securities 8/ ARRIVALS SINCE OUR LAST. — -NEW-YORK. Brie M<ty, Btirnham, Liverpool, 40 dayj. 0 , Thomas, Port-du-Pi luce, aa Schooi.er Dove, Afkin, Richmond, 4. Deborah, , Shclburiic, Sloop thills*, Wkuic, Norfolk, 623 T, commirtione.sorMewVo.lt »*l Vermont have n - W adiutlcd the i„„ m bui.nels of their m,ill"" i the Vermont isdifmem't ered from the (lite ot New-Hamplhire grams. foca,-ed. e acknowledged lo be vabd. Thus the way is open for the admitlion ot Vermont into the I -d tr One" fanner on ihe IXle.n shore of Maryland ha. !oWi from the produce of his own farm the lad crop, twelve tnoufmd bu Wheat; and had one tlioufand bushels kit lor the ulc o. .us own family. . , . r n A number of gentlemen in Virginia have agreed t<> ma<c Lon grefs a compliment ot four hundred acres of s;ood <jim i>' tje >' cinity of Georgetown, to be laid out in lou tor the tue ot t.ie to deral buildings. . . , *r-i We are informed that thcCenfUs of PhiKioc ph.a < J and that that city is iodnd to contain pi ft* T.mtE • HOtSANi " INHABITANTS. . , , A Charily Sermon is to be preached m tlic old Prelbyte.ian Church to-morrow evening, for the benefit ol the new.y ereUed School in Nassau Street ; the principal dependence .inner provi dence for the support of this important inllitutuu. living on the beneficence of such a? are charitably disposed. : _ A correfpondcnt observes, that independent of the objection to the prccarioufnefs of acaHial support tor lucl) ncccjjary and important institutions as Seminaries of Learning, it may jutliy tie queried, Whether the children of a Free Republic ought to depend on charity for that education, which is absolutely reqtufiie to ren der them good members ot focitty, and spirited alleilois ol tie rights of man. Itmayfafely be alTerted that the pi maples ok Republicanism are not fully understood, where a community docs not makefuch provision for the education of ah, a» that ail may enjoy an equal chance to acquire competent attainments, and a right to participate of the blcflings of knowledge, which ought 10 be as fret as air. But where no other provifton is made, chanty pleads with irrefiftable energy with the benevolent. «' Envy will merit as its fhadt pursue." It has been lurmited thatJome pctjon in the United States has it in contemplation to publ.lh an American Syllfm of Geography . This has been afligned as the caule of several illiberal attacks on the highly ureful and well executed performance of Mr. Morfe-- a work that has met with very general approbation from a decern ing public* as is evinced by the rapid Tale of a very large impres sion : A second edition is contemplated j When no doubt u» ic.U inaccuracies will be corrected : A work of this kind is peculiarly liable to imperfettio.is ; In Brittlh publications of a (imilar kind, we find from theJirJi to the twentieth edition, every one is pubHlh ed with rtvifions, corrections, enlargiments and improvements. A correfpondfcnt would suggest the propriety of two or three month's notice being given by the Treasurer of the United States, to the holders of Public Securities, in which time they Ihould fend in their proposals of sale—-at a given period, purchases to a certain amount to be made ; this Would give an equal chjncc to the government and to the creditors in all parts of the union 4 Ext rail of a letter from Philadelphia, dated Oct. 4. " Captain Fitzpatrick arrived here yeiterday from Amsterdam, and had on board 80,000 dol lars in fpecie—4o,ooo to a honfe in this ciry, the remainder for a merchant in New-York. The presumption is, that the whdle is to be inverted 111 the debt of the United States-'* Every 100 dollars continental debt, with three years intereit due thereon, will produce an in tereit of per cent. Is it not astonishing thac prudent and intelligent people will fell such debt at 12/6 in the pound, when there is a moral cer tainty of the intereit being paid regularly every quarter year ? The debt or England bearing such an intereit,is worth at least i4O percent. 01 twen ty eight fliillings in the pound. The debt of England is at least 300 million pounds Iterling. The debt of the United States including Hate debts not 20 million pounds Iterling. 0 On Wednesday being the day of Commence ment, at Princeton College, (New-Jerl'ey), the Latin salutatory oration was delivered by Willi, atn Johnson, of S. Carolina ; the Englifif saluta tory by John Taylor, and the valedi&ory by Ezekiel Pickens, both of that $tace. Orations were also delivered by Daniel Bell of Pennsylvania, by Armftead Churchill of Virgi-" nia ; and by George Shafford Woodhull of Mon mouth—the fubje&s of disputation were—fit. SVhether formality be advantageous to any cha. raifter—2d. Whether fenfilal pleasures, when indulged to a criminal degree can ever fate the pains they create—3d. Whether the pre. sent mode of education, so remote apparently from the ordinary business of the world, be a proper discipline to train up young |persons for its adtive employments—-4th. Whether profane swearing be confident with the chara&er of a i polite man more than a religious riian—the dis putes were carried on by Williant A. Harvey of Bermuda, John Ruan of Santa Cruz. William Hanna of Alexandria, Israel Harris of Deerfield. William Mathews of South Carolina, and by Mefl'rs. Bell, Churchill, William Johnson and Woodhull—The degree of Bachelor of arts was conferred 011 the above named young gentlemen and on three others who were neceitarily abfenc —Thomas Young of South Carolina, John Purdie of Virginia, and Robert John Con ofSalcm. The degree of Matter of Arts was conferred on ten gentlemen alumni of this College and on Mr. Gillet of Dartmouth College. The degree of Dotftor of Laws, was confer red on the following gentlemen—David Hume, Esq. Profeflor of Scotch Law, in the Univerfi. ty of Edinburgh, nephew of the Historian of that name ; John Robinson, A. M. Profeflor of natural Philosophy in the University, and general Secretary oi the Royal Society of Ediu burgh ; the honorable James Kinfey, Esq. Chief justice of the state of New Jersey ; and on Monsieur Neckar and Monsieur Fay. ette.—The rhonorable Oliver Elfworth, Docftor of Laws of Yale College, was admitted ad <£«#- d«7H.
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