fche flattery of the world. But liow shall I find and obtain the golden prize ? By seeking it— seek it earneltly, and yon will certainly find it : but if you despise the proffered boon, you cannot seek it; unless you hunger and thirlfc after it, you cajinot relish it ; if yon are determined to try every other thingfirft, your taite may be vi tiated—if you are always gorged with trafli,you can have no relilb for this, though a delicious inorfel ; for the full foul loathed the honey comb—he that often allays his tliirft at a putrid dream, longs not for the pure fountain. Would you know the happiness that fpringsfroin virtue, try the experiment. I never knew the man, who would own he repented of a moral life and virtuous actions : From which I infer, that it is more than probable, that none ever will repent of it, that lives in the practice of virtue. Then to attempt to is worth attention : By the trial, we are like to lose nothing, and may, it is more than likely, gain much ; for the reward of virtue, is present happiness ; and future glo rious profpefts.—Tafteof the pure fountain, and you will fay with the poet:— " Where now, ye lying vanities of life ! Yc evtr-lempting—ever cheating train ! Wlieie are you now ? and what is youramount? Vexation, disappointment, and remorse. Sad fick'ning thought." And again 41 Father of light and life ! thon God supreme ; O tcach me what is good, teach me thyfelf; Save me from folly, vanity, and vice, From every low pursuit! and feed mv foul With knowledge,confcions peace, and virtue pure ; Sacred, lubftantial, never fading bliss." PARIS, April 20. SINCE the fantflioning of the decrees concern ing the civil conftiturion of the clergy, Lou is XVlth's quiet acquiescence in all the measures of the National Afiembly had procured him a jrreat share of popularity, till within these few days, when the murmurs have begun to revive. The old story, of his intending to efcapeand put himfelf at the head of the malcontents, was re newed, and seemed to acquire probability from his behaviour to the refractory clergy. His con feflor, the Cure de St. Euftache, having taken the oath, he difiniffed him, and took one of the ron-jurors in his place. Several bilhops, that had refufed to comply with the decrees, were lodged in the Thuilleries ; apartments in the empty palace at Versailles were afligned to ma ny priests of the fame description ; and the other day the King received the facranient from the hands of the Great Afmoner, who is also in the above predicament. These circumstances had indifpoied the minds of the people, who found an opportunity to manifefl: their discontent on their Majesties preparing, on Monday morning last, to set off for St. Cloud. A crowd aflembled in the Court-yard of the Thuilleries, and refufed to allow the Royal carriages to advance. The King, a* ufua], was inclined to comply with the wishes of the people ; but the Queen encourag ed him to persist in his intention, and to remain in his carriage. After a considerable delay, and after the alarm of the royal person being invert ed by the mob had been given, numerous de tachments of the national guard and M. de la Fayette arrived. Ihe Commandant-General al fured the King that he fliould proceed if he wiJh ed it, but that his way would be strewed with dead bodies ; this, perhaps, would not have been disagreeable to the Queen, whose love for the French nation is notorious, and whofhewed signs of the most violent impatience and displeasure, especially when the young striplings of the Court, that surrounded her carriage, were rather rudely driven from their port by the soldiery. It is not certain, however, that M. de la Fay ette's promise would have been of easy executi on ; for a great, if not the greater part of the national guard were fully in the fentiinent of the populace. After a full hour and an half had elapsed, the King, rather than Occasion a scene of blood, consented to alight and retire to the palace. This is the history of the affair ; ficti on has, as usual, added a variety of circumstanc es—that four hundred horse were waiting in the Boisde Boulogne to carry offthe royal perfon,&c. On Tuesday the King went to the Assembly, to whom he announced his perseverance in his design jhe said his departure was neceflaryro (hew he was at liberty, and to add force to his sanc tion and acceptance of the decrees. The Assem bly applauded, and a debate ensued that led to no conclusion, the president putting an end to the fitting in the midst of it. It is, however, understood, that his Majesty is ro go to St.Cloud, that is to fay, if the Majesty of the people will permit him ; which is very doubttul, the minds of the public in general being very much heated. The department of Paris has presented an ad dress to the King, couched in very strong terms. They tell him he favors the refractory, and is served by none but enemies of the constitution. The club of Cordeliers, who are truly what are called Enrages, and in comparison of whom the Jacobins are royalists, have gone further ; they have stuck up, all over Paris, an arrete, or reso lution, by which they declare that the firft pub lic officer, the firft citizen of the state, is liimfelf res radlory to the laws ; they alio sent a deputa tion to compliment a patriotic grenadier, who, being on duty when the King was receiving the sacrament, pofuively infilled 011 being relieved, that he might not, as he laid, be witness to a per jury- It cannot be denied, that the condutft of the Court, in a great measure, jullifies the public sus picions. Every thing seems to indicate its only yielding to circumstances of the moment. The palace is full of avowed enemies of the conflitu tion. Men of the fame description were felett ed in the late choice of ministers to be sent to foreign Courts ; and it is not a little extraord nary that no French Amballador abroad has yet officially notified the revolution, the change of the King's title, or that of the national flag. April 22. Mr. Fleurieu, the marine minister, l\lr. Ville quier, the firft gentleman of the bed chamber, arid all the people of his Majesty's Chapel, have resigned. The following refolotion of the Club des Cor deliers has been the fubjecfiof much conversation at Paris. It has been publicly affixed in all the quarters of the city. Extract from the deliberations of the 17th of April. " The Society, on the information laid be fore them, that the flrft public Placeman of the "Nation permits the refra<ftory priests to enter his house, and there publicly to exercise those func tions which have been forbidden by the Legifla rure, to the great scandal of Frenchmen and of the law, and that he has this day even received the Paschal Communion and heard Mass from one of these refra<Sory Priests, have resolved that, the truth of this fa(ft duly proved, they de nounce to the Representatives of the Nation this firft public Placeman, this fiift fubje(sl of the Law, as a Violator of those Constitutional Laws which he has sworn to maintain, and of which ir is his office to enforce the execution ; and as having thus authorised disobedience and revolt, and prepared the way for those fa&ions which she enemies of the Rights of Man are endeavor ing to excite again ft the Constitution." TTiovipfon's ScafonJ, On Tliurfday evening M. de la Fayette, (hock ed at not having been able to maintain disci pline among the National Guards when his Ma jefty proposed to depart for St. Cloud, sent in his - efignation, accompanied also with those of the other Staff Officers. All good citizens, all thofewho, in their hopes of the future, do not rejoice in the calamities of theprefent, are afflitSed with a circumstance that must conrribute greatly to the public inquietude. Twenty-three battalians have waited on their late General, and requested hiin to withdraw his rcfignation. A detachment of the National Guards also went to the municipality, to request their mediation, and to befeecli them to join in their supplications with them. At eleven o'clock at night, M. Bailly, and the other Magistrates, accordingly waited on M. de la Fayette, and were immediately admitted. The apartments, the court yard, and the street, were crouded with tlje military, notwithstanding it rained ve ry hard. Madame de la Fayette appeared at midnight at a balcony, and, addtefling herfelf to those on the outside, lamented in the politest manner possible, that the house could not contain them all, and at the fame time teftified how much iTie was charmed with their zeal for the person of her husband. M. de la Fayette soon after made his appear ance, and promised to attend the general coun cil next day, and there give a decisive answer. He accordingly repaired there at nine o'clock 1 ast night, and had scarce pronounced the firft sentence of his speech, before he was suddenly taken ill, fainted on the spot, and remained so long in that condition, that the meeting was ad journed. It is thought that M. de la Fayette will again accept the command, after going through the formalities of a new eletftion. He is constantly attended by Mr. Paine, and the Marquis de la Langle, author of the Piclnrefque Dercription of Switzerland, who has just translated the "Rights of Man" into the French language. April 28. A letter was read in the National AflTembly on Saturday night from Mr. de Montmorin, the Minister for foreign affairs, to all the ambafla dors and envoys of the French King, in the i'eve ral Courts of Europe. This letter, written at the express desire of the King, unequivocally fignified his attachment to the New Constitution, and fully explained what may be called his Majesty's political creed. The reading of this letter met with reiterated applanfe ; and a deputation was ordered from the Aflembly, to thank his Majesty for the patri otic sentiments it exprefled. LONDON, 1 he Emperor and their Sicilian Majesties are at Venice incognito, the Emperor under the title of Count Burgan, and the King and Queen of Si cily as Count and Countess Cartellamare. The government endeavours to render their lituatiou agreeable. O Thursday was launched, from Mr. Perry's yard, at Blackwall, the Diligence, a new (hip intended for discoveries, the command of which is given to Captain Bligh, late of the BountV. She is to cany ro o men, and mount 16 gun*, be sides swivels. They proceed si.st to Botany' Bay on survey, then to Otaheite to take the bread tree plant 011 board, and cany them to the Weft Indies. Lall week two genteel men, foreigners, came to an engraver, and desired him to engrave a plate the fame as the French Affignats, and left a copy with him. As he fufpedted that they in tended to forge on the National Aflemblv, he gave information of the afFair to Sir Sampfoi> Wright, who, with the consent of the French Ambafl'ador, caused them to be apprehended and sent to Paris. There are at present twenty nine houses of Rendezvous jn or near Lotidon. for receiving men for manning tne Baltic fleet. The indignity offered at Bristol to Mr.Wilber fotce, for exercising his humanity, gives no fa* vorable indication of the general character of the people of that mercantile city ! The son of Judge Buller is fhorrly to lead the accomplished Miss Holliday to the hymeneal al tar. The lady's fortune will amount to ioo,oool. BENNINGTO N, June 20. Some time since we publi/hed an account that the British had withdrawn their guards from the ports they had formerly bolden in this rtate: The publication Was made in consequence of in formation received from a gentleman who had recently been near the spot ; but we now from authority inform, that the intelligence was pre mature.—On the contrary, the port at Point-au fair, formerly garrisoned with a subaltern's guard, is now augmented to a captain's; and that on Dutchman's point, where formerly a cor poral and four men were rtationed, is reinforced with a sergeant and twelve: The schooner Ma ria, likewise, which for a longtime part has lain opposite Point-au-fair, in Windmill bay, with four guns only 011 board, has received her full metal, together with a company of marines, her full compliment of feain--n, with her nettings, &c. complete as in time of war. The Maria, and the port at Point-au-fair, is five miles, and the port on Dutchman's point twelve miles, this fide the northern line of Vermont. The northern post informs, that lieut. Ebend zer Hyde of the isle of Motte, is miffing, and supposed to be drowned. He left the island on the 28th ult, in a canoe, in company with one Wales, between whom, it is said, the 111 oft cor dial agreement did not subsist ; Wales has since returned, but Hvde has not yet been feet). The account rhat Wales gives, as our informant fays, is, rhat Hyde fell out of the canoe and was drowned, and that it was out of his power to save his life, or bring back his body, as it funk immediately after heceafed struggling ; at other times, it is said, he reports differently, so that the real state of the matter is doubtful. PROVIDENCE, June 33 A Bank is about to be eftablifhsd in this town, to consist of Two Hundred Shares, of two hun dred specie dollars each, making in the whole a capital of forty thousand dollars, which maybe hereafter enlarged, Ihould the stockholders think it necefl'ary.—Three quarters of the proposed rtiares were subscribed in two days, and the sub scription will undoubtedly be filled in a few days from this time, about thirty (hares only remain ing unfubfcribed. Yesterday embarked on board a packet for New-Jersey, jo Recruits, under the command of lieutenant Sherman—being part of the 2d Unit ed States regiment, enlisted in this state. 1 he Providence AfTociation of Mechanics and Manufacaurers, at a special meeting held on Sa turday evening last, dire&ed Col. Amos Atwell, their Treasurer, to subscribe, in the name of the Association, for one (hare in the Bank of the United States. N E W-Y O R K, June 27 Yesterday arrived the Olive Branch,Capt. But ler, in 50 days from Newry. Capt. Butler in forms, that the hntteft press that ever was in Ireland, was made on the Bth of May last ; and that from appearances, a war inevitably would take place. Lord Hood, with 26 fail of the line, was ready for sea. J-- - - Died suddenly, on Saturday niaht, Dr. miah Smith, of this city. His death was occa fioned by his taking a large dose of laudanum through miflake, supposing it to be tindlure of bark. April 23 JACA-
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