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