DISCOURSES ON DAVILA. No. XXI.— CONCLUDED, ——My foul achcs, To know, when two authorities arc up, Neither supreme, how soon confufton May inter 'twi*l the gap of both, and take Tlic one by the other. Shakzsfiai. THE Constable, whom the court afFe&ed to urge less, bccaufe he was in a place where lie might be more easily compelled, had com menced his journey with more confidence in ap pearance, but in reality with more precaution. He had not abetted the difcoutented but with his counsels, which only tended to demand justice of the States, without plotting con (piracies, or ex citing infurredlions. A refufal to go to court might fortify the i'ufpicions conceived against liim: He therefore employed artifice and difli niulatioii, to delay his arrival and regulate his pro ceedings by the example of the Princes. Arriv ed at Paris, he pretended to be attacked with the gout, and returned to Chantilly to re-eftablith his health. He again attempted to proceed, but under the pretext that the change of air and the motion of the carriage incommoded him,which his advanced age rendered plauftble enough, he tra velled by iittle day's journeys, frequently by cross ways, at a distance from the great road, where he made long delays, to prolong the time, till the arrival of the Princes. His sons, iiv per suading him to hasten his march, reprefentea to hiin, that neither the Queen-mother nor the Guis es would ever dare to attempt any thing againit a man, so refpedled as he was in the kingdom. The Conftable,inftrudled by experience, anfwer edthem, that the ministry could govern the Hate at its pleasure, and without opposition, though t * l . e 7 '" eeme d to be preparing for themfetves a for midable one, by calling the States General. That this condudt inveloped some myfteriotis intrigue, which heihould be able to unveil, with a little patience. This judicious reflection abated the ardor of the young Lords, and the Constable con tinued to temporize. Nevertheless the King of Navarre and the Prince of Conde hail been received on the fron tiers by the Marshal deThermes, who, under the pretext of paying them the honors due to their rank, followed iheni with a large body of Caval ry, to make sure of the cities become fulpedled by the deposition of La Sague. At the fame time; he ordered poH'efTion to be taken by other troops, both of Cavalry and Infantry, of all the reads, ivhic'i the Princes lefc behind them,left, a change of their resolution Ihould determine thein to re turn. As i'ooii as it was known at court, that the Princes had entered the kingdom, and were so well observed by De Tlierines, they arretted, all on a sudden Jerome Giollot, Bailif of Orleans, accused of intelligence with the Hugonots, to cause a revolt of that city in favor of the discon tented Princes ; and by order of the King, they sent to prison the Vidaine of Chartres, who had been imprudent enough to remain in the Capital. They had not the fame success in attempting to seize Dandelot. As prudent and subtle in pro viding against dangers, as ardent and daring in forming deligns, he retired suddenly to thecoafts of Brittany, resolved to embark for England in cafe of neceflity.- The Admiral, whose add rets and dissimulation, according to Davila, had hi therto conduced everything,without discovering or expofmg liimlelf, was among isthe firft in the States General, with design there to labor in fa vor of his party. The King and the Qneen had received him as usual, with benevolence. He employed himfelf in following with his eye, all the measures of the court, in order to give in formation of them, secretly, and with extreme precautions, to tlie Constable and the King of Navarre, All thrfs delays were exhausted, when the Princes of the blood arrived at Orleans, the 29th OiSober, without any person's going out to re ceive them, except aftiiall number of their nioft intimate friends. They found not only the gates of the city guarded, but bodies of guards placed and batteries erec'ted in the ftrongell potts, in the cross ftreetsand public places : precautions which tjie court had not ufiially taken in times of war. They pafled through the midst of this formidable apparatus, and came to the King's Lodge, where they kept a more exadl guard, than at the head quarters of an army. Arrived at the gate, they would have entered on liorfe-back, according to the right attached to their rank : but they found only a wicket gate open, and were obliged to alight 111 the open ttreet, and few persons appear ed to t eceive or salute them. They were con duifted to the King, whom they found fitting be tween the Duke of Guise and the Cardinal of Lot-rain,furrounded by the Captains of his guards. He received the King of Navarre and the Prince of Conch, with a coldness very different from t.iat a..ability whicli the Kings of France are ac cultomed to practice to all their fubjecfts but above all to the Princes of their blood.' He con ducted them soon to the Queen-mother, where the Guises did not follow them. Catharine of Medicis, who wiihed always to appear neuter and disinterested, received them with ordinary de monstrations of friendlhip, bat with an aft'sdled sorrow, and artificial tears. The King continued to treat tliem with the fame coldnels,and addred ing hinifelf to the Prince of Cnnde, lie began to reproach him, that without having received from his Majesty, cither displeasure or ill treatment, he had in contempt of all laws,divine and human, excited several times his fubjed:s, inkindled a war in different parts of his kingdom, attempted to seize on his principal cities, and conspired against his life and that of his brothers. The Prince, without emotion, answered with firmnefs, that these accuf.itions were so many calumnies forged by his enemies. We mult proceed then, replied the King, by the ordinary ways of justice, to discover the truth. He went out ofthe apart ment of the Queen, and commanded the Captains of his guards to arrest the Prince ofConde. The Queen-mother, forced to consent to this measure, but who had not forgotton that things might change, from one moment to another, exerted herfelf to console the King of Navarre. The Prince complained of none but the Cardinal of Bourbon his brother,who had deceived him ; and fufFered himfelf to be condtiified to a neighbour ing house, deltined for hjs prison. They had walled up the windows, doubled the doors, and made it a kind of fortrefs defended by several pieces of artillery and a strong guard. The King of Navarre, astonished at the detention of his brother, breathed out his grief in complaints and reproaches to the Queen, who, calling all the blame on the Duke ofGUife, as Lieutenant-Gene ral of the Kingdom, endeavored only to excul pate herfelf. To the King of Navarre,they gave for a lodging, an house, at a little distance from that which the King occupied, and guards to ob serve his motions ; so that, excepting the liberty of feeing whom he pleased, he was in all other refpedls treated and confined like a prisoner. At the fame they arretted Bouchart his secretary, with all his letters and papers ; and Madeleine de Roye, mother in law of the Prince, with all her letters and papers, at her feat at Anifi. Al though they held the gates of Orleans shut, and fufFered no person to go out, the news of these tranfadlions were anuounced to the Constable, who was still but a few leagues from Paris. He suspended his journey, resolved to pass no fur ther, but to wait andobferve the consequences of these events. I hus the mystery fufpe<fted by the Constable was unriddled. The States General were funi moned only as a net is laid, artfully to befprung upon game. This game were the Conltable and Princes, and their principal friends. They were a mere stalking-horse, behind which to lhoot a wood-cock ; and that wood-cock was the Prince of Conde. Although of the two authorities which were up, the Court and the States, neither was supreme ; yet the one we fee might be taken by the other. We Uiallfoon fee that confufion en tered by the gap. Treasury Department, Sept. 20, 1790. T T ' s hereby made known, that the following arrangement has A been adopted towards carrying into execution the A£t, mak mg provision tor the debt of the United State.*, viz. Loan-Office Certificates, andthofeiirued by the Commission ers for the adjustment of aceounts in the fcveral States, will be re ceivable only at the Treasury and by the refpecHve Commiflioners ol Loans within the States in which they were refpfSivcly iflued. The Certificate* issued by the Rcgifter of theTreafury, by the Pay Master General and Commiflioner of Army Accounts, by the Commiflioners for the adjustment of the Accounts of the Quarter Mafter't, Commiflary's, Hospital, Cloatlvng, and Marine Depart partments, Indents of Interest, and Bills of Old Kmiflion, will be receivable indifctiminarely at the Treasury and by the Com. miflioners of ail the States. The fuuationofthe Checks has dicta ted this arrangement for the greater security ot the public against lmpofitions by forged or counterfeit paper, and the details which have been adopted from the fame confederation for the execution ot the business are such, that it will give facility and dispatch, if applications Irom the Holders of Certificates ol the Register of the Ti eafury and of the Paymaster General, and CommilTioner of Army Accounts, and of the Commiflioners of the five Depart ments above mentioned, are made in the firft instance at the Trea sury ; and if applications from the Holders of Loan Office Certi ficate s, and Certificates ifTucd by the Commilfioners for the adjust ment of Accounts in the refpeftive States, are made in like man ner to the Commiflioners of Loans within the States in which they were ifTued. Transfers can afterwards be made to any Office that the Proprietors of these Certificates may desire. fp3~ The printers of the f vera! States are requ'fled to insert this. ADVERTISEMENT. PURSUANT to a Resolve or ast of Congress of the 10th dav ■L of May, 1780, relative to the deftruftion of Loan-Office Cer tificates by accident ; notice is hereby given to all whom it may concern, that on the 2d day of January 1780, the house occupied by the fublcriber in Market-Street, Philadelphia, took fire and was con (limed, in which was lodged a number of Loan-Office certificates as pr. lift below, all which were destroyed by the said hre : Therefore if any person, hath any objection why the said Certificates should not be renewed, agreeable to the resolves of Congress, they mufl make them before the expiration of three months, from the date hereof. Invoice of Loan-Office Certificates dtjlroyed in the house of John Hotter on the 2dday of January 1780. J778. March 13, No. 1636 1 < 1673 1 Dols. Samuel Cooke, jun. New-York, 600 ditto - do. 600 In tcftimony whereof I have figncd the prelent for pub " OLK ' B - 624 Dollars, 1200. TREASURY DEPARTMENT, Sept. 2 S, I?9 o.- \T° / J' CE f » g lvrn > , '? at proposals will be received anl* Office otthc Secretary of -the Treasury, nnt.l the ~ft d,v ot Decern uer next mclutive, tor the building of a LIGHT HODSf nearly of the dimensions proposed by ,h= late ; Virginia and Maryland,'upon the lot of land on Cape Hen £h. the County of Princrfs Ann, and State of Vmrinu. J J'r that purpose to the Unit d States. It , s deli cd .'hlt .hl " r",' may leave theeledion, whether the buildin* above Lhe f ™P°f mail be of brick or ffone, and a s the cost a„3 Ar terial, vary, .t , 5 expected, that acorrefpondmg dilWnce wMI £ made in the terms offered. , yhc fnund.tion of the Light-Houfc , s to be of stone, and Kink to the depth of thirteen feet below .ho water table, ovtrthe ton »f whic, the pavement is to be laid. The diameter thereof i, £ twenty leven feet fix inches, with . vacancy of about nine feetm the centre. m The diameter ofthe base isto be twenty fix feet whirl, -t .. the ihicknels of the walls is to be fix feet. The. height from the bottom of the water table to the top of the stone work i " 0 ht seventy two feet,where the diameter i s to be fix feet fix inche, ami the thickness of the wall, three seer. The form is to be an o£h'/o n « having three window, ,n the east, and four in the weft, if £ built of brick, it is to be faced with the glassy kind, if of fW * it to be faced with hewn or hammer-drefTed stone. ' On the top ofthe stone work i< to be a floor of joists, bedded therein, planked over and covered with copper, extending abo^ two feet eight inche.bcyond the wall, thereby forming an evr rh ? W,th a L conlice > whole having a descent from the centre fufficient to throw oft" the water '° be r ?PP° ,ted by "ght post's or wrought Iron of three inches fqujre and twenty feet in length, ten feet of wh'ch .re to be wrought into the stone wall „„ the inner part at each corner The diameter of it t, to be ten feet, leaving a platform on Ihe ouf.de thereof of about si* feet in width. All the work above I, ,'V° be of i ron and f°PP«; TV lanthotn i. to be ten feet high, having a femiorcular roof of five feet more, with iron raft ers covered with copper. The whole space between the polls fun. porting the lanthorn, u Co be occupied by the sashes, which are to be made of iron, ea h sash is to have twenty-eight panes of glaft, twelve by fourteen inches. One ofthe sashes on the feu i weft fide IS to be hung with hinges for a door to go out upon t, lO platform, from the outer part of which to the roof of the lanthorn IS to be a frame ofiron covered with a net work of ftrone bract wire, to preserve the glals from injuries by hail and flights of birds in the night. 6 ™ The rafters of the lanthorn are to be well fattened to an iron hoop, over which is » copper funnel, through which the smoke may pass into a large copper ventilator in the form of a man's head, capable of containing one hundred gallons. This head is to be so placed at to be turned by a large vane on the spire above it, that the hole for venting the smoke may always be to the leeward, tight dormant venttlators of fix inches diameter are to be fixed in the roof of the lanthorn. A clofc stove is to be provided and fixed in the lanthorn, which is to he furnilncd with eight lamps, each capable of containing fix quarts, hung in two tiers orer each other transversely. There a c 11 be fix flights ot ftaivs to ascend to the lanthorn, the entrance to which is to be oy a door covered with copper. The building i* to be furnilhcd with two condu&ors, to lecure it from the eficfts ot lightning. A frame house is to be built for the keeper, twenty feet square two stones high, with a frame kitchen ; the whole to be fimfhed with lath and plaiftcr. A vault for the storage and fafe keeping of the oil is to be built of I tone at a convenient dtftaorc, twelve feet wide, and twenty in length. It is to be arched, and covered wit'' earth or sand, over w nch a shed is to be built, and it is to be furnifhed with eight itron-cedar cisterns with covers, each capable of containing two hundred gallons of oil. The entrance isto be fccured by a ftron£ door. 7 i * Good fecurlty tar thc/juhful performance of <Hc cunt raft - will be expe&ed. Payments on account will be made at proper sta ges of the work, and the balance will be paid on its completion : or, if a fuitnble difference should be made in the terms, cash will be advanced for the purchafc of materials and provisions. C-? The Printers in the several States are reqaejied to infer! this. - WAR DEPARTMENT, Sept. 9, 1790. INFORMATION is hereby to all the military InvafidsoP the United Stales, that the funis to which the* are annually en titled, and which will become due on the fourth day of Marcbi ensuing, will be paid on the said day, by the Commiflioners of the Loans within the ftatrs refpeftively, under such regulations as the President of the United States may direst. H. KN'OX, Secretary fur the Department of War. (The Printers in the refpeHive States are requeued to publijk tat above in their newfpapers,for the fpttce of two Months.j TO BE LET, On very low terms—ani entered upon immediately, until the JrJl r>f May next. THAT elegant new TWO STORY BRICK HOUSE, in the Bowery-Lane, formerly occupied by Robert Gilbert Livingston, deceased ; it has seven Fireplaces with a goort Cellar under the whole House—a convenient out-Houfe in the rear, with a Coach-House, and Stables ; for further particulars en- MANGLE MINTHORN quire of (2 w. t. f.) Mail Diligence, FOR PHILADELPHIA, LEAVES the Ferry-Stairs, at New-York, Ten minutes aftei; Eight o'clock every morning cxcept Sunday. Stage Office, City Tavern, ) Htead-Way, New-York June 5, 1790. \ The ADVERTISEMENT. THE Proposals for printing this paper stipulated, that it flioulcl "be publi/hcd at the feat of the federal government —Pursuant to this engagement, tc The Gazette or the United States" will, from the beginning of November next, be publifned at Philadelphja The Subscribers, who may please to continue their patronage o£ the Publication, will befupplicd from Philadelphia as soon as pol fible after it is out of the press, on the present terms. |CT" To be let,from l/l November, THE HOUSE in which the Editor now lives :—A good situation for a Boarding-House—being formerly occupied in that business. SCJ" Dr. Price's Revolution Sermon may be had of ths Editor. Price 1/7. Corporation Dock
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