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
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