PUBLISHED WEDNESDAYS AND SATURDAYS BY JOHN FENNO, No. 69, MARKET.STREET, BETWEEN SECOND AND THIRD STREETS, PHILADELPHIA. [No. 55, of vol. ll.] Saturday, November 6, 1790. Discourses on Davila. No. XXIJI. — CONTINUED Utrumque regem, fua muliitudo con!a!u:aven! /CATHARINE hoped, that by conducting with ability, the reins of the itatc would return to her hands. She fir ft thought of making Cure of the Princes of Lorrain. A negotiation so de licate and thorny, ought not to be confided to any but the ablest hands. The Oaeen, after having cast her eyes on several perlbns, fixed them at last on the IVfarihal de Saint AnSre, as the man of the court the molt proper to assure her success. She sent for him, and after several difcourfes,the result was, that it would be impoliible to termi nate the differences of the two parties, without Cumuli and war, but by relaxing somewhat of their pretentions, by ceding a part oil both fides, and making the Queen the nrbitratrix of their interest. J hat by this plan, the two parries, without yielding one to the other, would appear, from refpedt, and for the peace of the public, to give way to the mother of their King, who lliould hold the equilibrium between the Gufjs and the Bourbons, f lie Queen was a politician refined enough to pretend ihat flie was indebted for rliis council to the prudence of the Marftial, rather than that she had fuggeft:-d it to hiin, which was the I'aCi. The ,;n •!, jadging without paflion that this P'"' j vv 1 ;, e very convenient to the slippery a ioiib nation in which the Guifts Hood, u: ,'j: ut negotiate with their party. Upon th> p. opolltion which he made of it to the Duke and Cai dinal, and which they brought into de]i beration in an aflembly of their confidents; the opinion of these, and even of the two brothers, Weredivided. ihe Duke, who had more cauti on and moderation than his brother, yielded to the accommodation, which was to leave him in possession of the governments and riches which lie held frpm the liberality of the late Kings. But the Cardinal more ambitious and mere vio lent, rejetSed all compromises, and pretended that they would preserve their power in the fame degree, as they hadexercifed it under Fran cis Id. Ihe fentimentof the Duke was approv ed by the cardinal tie Tournon, the Marshals Brif fac and Saint A'idrt, and above all by Sipiere, the advicc of all which perfoiiages had a weight, which accompanies an high reputation for pru dence justly acquired. Al! judged it fufficient for the Guifts to preserve their credit and honors, and preserve theriifelves for circumstances more favorable ; and the result they communicated to the Queen by Saint Andre, and left to her the choice of means the most proper to treat with the King of Navarre. There remained (till a greater obstacle to over come : roappeafe the facftion of the discontented Princes : an enterprize which many thought im possible and chimerical : but the Queen, who perfectly knew the characters and "lifpofitions of the perlons with whom she had to treat, did not delpair of obtaining her end. The King of Navarre had for his principal confidents, Defcars Gascon, and Lsoneourt, Biihop of Auxerre. Def cars had a contracted genius and little experi ence ; Leonoourt was a designing politician, but folelyintent upon his own fortune. The Queen secretly gained Both, by approaching each on his weak fide. She dazzled Defeats with presents andamufed him with specious reasonings. And £he excited in the Biihop of Auxerre, hopes of ec clesiastical benefices and dignities which he could not easily obtain by the sole credit of the King of Navarre. They both promifed,under the pretext of giving faithful and sincere council to their mailer, to favor the negotiations which tended to bring the two parties together, and commit the regency to the Queen mother. The Dutchefs of Montpenftcr, carried the firft proposals of accommodation. Her candor and franknefs, had gained the confidence of the Queen : and her taste for the new opinions, had attached her to the King and Queen of Navarre. In the progress of things, Carrouges and Lanfac, Lords of cor.fummate prudence,entered insensibly into this negotiation. By means of these persons rheQueen proposed to the Kiag of Navarre three conditions, i. To let at liberty all who had been arrested for the conspiracy of Amboife, the Prince of Condi, Madam dt Roye, and the Vidame de Cbartres ; and to annul by the Parliament of Paris, the sentence againlt the Prince. 2. To create the King of Navarre, lieutenant-general of j the kingdom, on condition that the Queen had the t;tle and authority of regent. 3. so obtain of the King of Spain the reftituion of Navarre. The confidents of the King of Navarre, exagge rated to him these advantages ; they represented to hitu that the name of regent, a title without reality, was but an empty and Ipecious found,for which he would be abundantly recouipenfed by the power and authority, which would be given him over the provinces ; prerogatives in which confided the effective governmsnt of the king dom. That the glory of deliveringthe Prince of Conde, by the humiliation of his enemies, joined to the hope of re-establishing forever his lioufe, in its original splendor, left him no room to he firate. It is not a time, said thty, to Cornell with rigor against enemies so powerful. You have to combat the prejudices, which your enterprizes against the ltare have excited. Why, upon the brink of a precipice, do you indulge chimerical hope£ deputies of the jlatcs. are almojl all, de voted to the ivilt of the Qjieen and the Guises, whv have chosen them at their pleasure and gained them to their irjterefts. If theafFair is left to their decision, it is to be feared that their partiality, will incline them to exclude the I'rinces from the govern ment, and commit it to the Cnifes, which would infallibly accomplilh the final ruin of the lioufe of Bourbon : These reasons shook the refulution of the King of Navarre, and disposed him to follow these councils : but he was ltill reitrained by the Prince at Condi, whose keen refenttnent and de sire of vengeance, rather than solid reasons, ex cited to advise the contrary. The Duke de Mont penjier and the Prince dc la Rhocke-fur-yon, sup ported those who negotiated an accommodation. Both were of the lioufe of Bourbon, bat of a branch more distant from the royal-stock, and had not meddled in these troubles. (To be continued.) MR. LKDYAPOX [The jo 11 owing is extracted from different parts of the Journal of Mr, Ledyard } who was ferit out from England by the s/jfo-ciation, for protnoting the disco very of the interior parts of Africa.] " A TRAVELLER, who Ihonld, by just compa risons between things here and in Europe, tel! his tale ; who, by a mind unbewitched by antecedent descriptions, too strong, too bold, too determined, too honest, to be capable of lying, fliould speak just as he thought, would, no doubt, be esteemed an arrant fool, and a stupid coxcomb. —Per example, an Englishman who had never seen Egypt, would alk me what fort of a woman anEgyprian was ? If I meant to do the question as much justice by the answer, as I could in my way, 1 Ihould ask him to take notice of the fir it company ofgyplies hefaw behind a hedge in Es sex ; and I suppose he would be fool enough to think me a fool. " August: 14. I left Alexandria at midnight, with a plcafanr breeze north ; and was at fun-rife next morning at the mouth of the Nile, which has a bar offand across it, and foundings as irre gular as the sea, which is raised upon it by the contentions of currents and winds. " The view in failing up the Nile is very con fined, unless from the top of the mast, or some other eminence, and then it is an unbounded plain of excellent land, miserably cultivated, and yet interspersed with a great number of villages, both on its banks, and as far along the meadows, as one can fee in any dire<ftion. The river is al so filled with boats palling aiid re-pafling ; boats all of one kind, and navigated in one manner, nearly also of one lize, the largett carrying ten or fifteen tons. On board of these boats are seen onions, water melons, dates, sometimes a horse, a camel (which lies down in the boat) and ftieep, goats, dogs, men and women. Towards evening and morning they liavemufic. " Whenever we flopped at a village, I used to walk into it with my condu&or, who, being a Muflelman, and a descendant from Mahommed, wore a green turban, and was therefore refpe<S ed, and I was sure of lafety : but in truth, drefled as 1 was, in a common Turkifli habit, I Ihould have walked as fafely without him. I saw 110 propensity among the inhabitants to incivility. The villages are moll miserable aflemblages of poor little mud huts, flung very close together without any kind of order, full ofduft, lice, fleas, bed bugs, flies, and all the curses of Moles : peo ple poorly clad,the youth naked—in such respects 629 Hkso [Whole No. 159.] they rank infinitely l>elovv any lavages I ever fa\v. " The common people wear nothing but a shirt and drawers, and they are always blue. Green is the royal or holy colour ; none but the defen dants ot Mahommed, if I am rightly informed, being permitted to wear it." PARIS, August 8, THE mystery made yeftcrday in the National Affcmbly of the names of the two Members accused by the Chatelet, of hav ing been concerned in the scenes of violence that palled at Ver laillcs, the sth and 6th of October, 1790, is ftifHcieritly explained by the following report of that tribunal, puhlifhed this dav, viz. Chatelet, August 5 and 6. " THE Chatelet of Paris has hern fitting thrfe two days part, to hear the report ot the invelfigation of the affair of the cth and 6th of October talt. " By judgment without appeal (en dcrnicrrc rrflortc) it has been ordered, That information ihould continue to be tak.n, and thai 111 the mean time, a pcrfon of the name of Nicholas, (known by the designation of the man with the long lie»rd) MadonoiiclJe Tcroine de Mcricourt, a m?n of the name of Atjnaud, a name of Louise Keine le Due, and a man ol the namcol Ulangey, Ihould be apprehended. *1 hat certain persons unknown, (thirteen in number, several of whom were dressed 11: women's; clothes, and whole delcripttoit We think, useless to give) be likewifc appieheudcd. " Asalfo, that M. Louis Poil, d'Orlcaui, and Mirabetu the elder, deputies of the National Afl'embly, appealing to be lia ble to be apprehended, copies of the depositions Hull be presented to the National Alfembly, 111 conformity with the decrees ot the 26th of June, fanCHonrd by the King, that the AfTcmbiy may take fucb ftcps as it may think proper." THE mysterious packet was opened on Monday la(l, by the committee, when, the proofs appearing fiitficiendy iliong, the two members accused, were immediately taken into custody. " The young Mirabeau (le Vicompte) is supposed to hdve been a party, as, on their apprehension, he immediately disappeared. The objett of this conspiracy, it is said at Paris, was to remove the King, and that on that occasion, he owed his life to accident. t; Opinions are however divided, and the Duke and M. Mira beau aienot without their supporters, who fay that the whole is a plot of the Marquis de la Fayette ! " The Viscount Mirabeau is said to have absented himfelf, since Wednesday last, from Paris, and from his dutiet at the National AfTembly, without any one's knowing what is bccome of him. It isfufpe&ed by some that he had favored M. Bonne Parvardin's cfeape from priion, and hearing of his being taken into did not chufeiowait the event. The latter gentleman was expect ed to be brought a prisoner to Paris to night, and from his exam ination much insight is expe&ed to be got in the supposed project of a counter-revolution. Some of the public pretend thai thisprd je£t is not yet given up, and that fiequent councils are held at Aix la-Chappdlc, by M. de Broglio, and several refugee lieutenant ge nerals. In the mean time tht examination of d'Hofiei and Petit Jean ftili continues, but no information can be obtaiued from NATIONAL ASSEMBLY OF FRANCE. The patriotic contribution ot Monsieur was this day announ ced to amount to 500,000 livres, the fourth of his annual income. The fubfeription of this prince rendered an early homage to the equalizing ric.-crie of the Aflembly. It was (imply Lou 1 s Stan islaus Xavier, de France. No vcltige of his diitin&ion ot Monsieur, or ot his title of Compte de Provence, remained ; and the fublcription of the next brother 10 the King was not to be diftmguiQicd from that of the most obfeure citizen. It was natural to expect so exemplary a tribute to the laws, from this ref peflable Prince, whose conduct through the whole progvefs of the revolution has been so unfulpicious and unoffending. Mr. Neckar's letter was read, in vindication of himfclf from the charges of M. Camus, relative to the anticipations in favor oF M. le Compte d' Artois, and Madame de la Mark. He denied pofi. lively the fubftauce of cither aceulation : what, however, he had done, was undoubtedly at the command of the sovereign. His epistle was conceived in terms of strong diflatisfa&ion and <iifguft. He complains of unjuflifiible dillruft towards a man, who had ever anxiously laboicd for the prolpcrity of the nation. In no ticing the calumny calf upon him by an unkown person, relative % to the concealment of 600 millions of the national treasure, he thus cxpreffes himfelf : * " I earneflly requefl that the assembly will fever ely search into the par ticulars vfthat accusation* and by a speedy examination of my account d diver me from the aspersions of my enemies. lam the more anxious— I hop; becomingly so —for such an audit, as it will be the herald of my abproaching peace, in a retirementfrom the tempers of aflive life, and the conflart tormznt of continual vigilance. Yes, gentlemen, I will then depart in the hovefl confidence of integrity and zeal. Certain that my duty has never been deviated from a moment, Jfhall, with alacrity, fu(- mit to whatever scrutiny the representatives of the nation may deem ne cejfary in my particular to make ; not dreading invefligation, where dif cfofure will be surely honorable, as more clearly evincing to the world the purity of my purposes, and the difficulties of my office, and how hardly indeed I have laboured—to be rewarded at length with suspicion and clamor." To so much firmnefs and free representation, from a great man, opprefled by affairs absolutely inextricable, the AHembly were by no means insensible. The deepest iinpreflion was made upon the minds of all present, assisted too by the indisposition of the foverexgn. LONDON, September 2 Great efforts are to be made, soon after the meeting of the next parliament, to have the trade to Hudson's Bay thrown open in discriminately to all the fbbjelU of Great-Britain. It is thought the Hudson's Bay company, at present consisting of only nine or ten persons, will be the less anixous to have their exclusive privi lege continued, as they do not now find their trade with the coun tries about that bay, so advantageous as before we get poffeflion of Canada. The company's charter was granted to them in the year 1670 for an exclusive trade tothofe parts, and ever since they have kept up a constant annual intercourse, with four large ship* navigated by 130 seamen. Their several Forts are now gairifon ed by about 190 or 200 men. They export commodities to thr valueof i 6,0001. and bring home returns to the value of which yield to the public revenue 37341. —This commerce, small JULY 26. August 1
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