During the important moment of preparation
for a grand creation, and where all the ancient
initiations being overturned, offered nothing
but the ruins of twenty ages, France could not
but present the image of real chaos. This cha
os has disappeared, a durable order now succeeds:
the polls arc fixed, and the places are filled up,
and all rights are determined. We have escaped
that death which extinguishes empires as well as
individuals. You (to the National Assembly)
have not only prolonged the duration of our bo
dy politic, but have re-created its very existence;
and it is even in the bosom of that Itbrm, in
which it was about to be swallowed up, that you
have refitted the vessel of the state.
As Frenchmen, we partake of theglory of your
labors, but as public officers, we inult be occupi
ed entirely by our own duties.
The legislative body and the monarch are the
representatives of the people, and as for us, we
are no more than their mandatories. The Mo
narch is the executor of the law, we are the or
gans of the monarch in that execution. Tbefe
different relations determine all our duties.
We cannot express the will of the peoj le ; we
can only transmit to you their wants, their
wishes, their hopes. As light is spread over the
whole universe from one single focus, so the law
issuing forth, completely formed from the legis
lative body, and the Monarchs find, from that
moment nothing but fubjeclts on whom it atfts,
we the Magistrates receive it from the Chief of
the empire, and in caufingitto be executed give
the firft example of obedience.
LONDON, May 16
There is not perhaps such a memorable and
deplorable inllance of the loss of popularity, as
that which has occurred in the person of Mr.
Burke. While he combated the venality of Lord
North's Administration—while he venerated the
•virtues of a Washington, approved the counsels
of a Franklin, and flied virtuous tears over the
memory of a Montgomery, he was refpe«sled even
by those inimical to his principles.
Mr. Mackintosh, in his admirable Defence of
the French Revolution, has drawn a close and
striking parallel betwixt the principies of Mr.
Burke in the present, and those of Judge Jeffe
ries in a former age! This is, no doubt, by way
of retaliation for the celebrated comparison be
twixt the late worthy Dr. Price, and his pretend
ed prototype Hugh Peters !
The Marquis of Lanfdowne, and Earl Stanhope,
are the only two Englilh Peers who liave as yet
given a decided opinion in favor of the French
Revolution.
The commiifioners under Mr. Pitt's bill, for
tlie reduction of the national debt, had redeemed
on the ill May, I 791, seven millions, one hun
dred and fifty-five thousand, fix hundred pounds.
The Pope has written to the King of the French,
informing his Majesty, that he would not receive
any Ambaflador who fbould take the Civic Oath.
Louis XVI. has in return informed his Holiness,
that this oath has been taken by himfelf, and eve
ry other public functionary in the State, and at
the fame tiir e intimated, that if he persists, the
Minister from the Court of Rome mult quit Paris.
It is not a little remarkable, that this letter has
been printed on the motion of M. Treilhard, for
merly a Biihop of the Gallican Church, who fays
that it ought to be circulated on purpose " to
ihow the Holy Father's ignorance !"
From the London Gazette of May 14,
The King has been pleased to constitute and
appoint the Right Hon. William YVyndham, Lord
Grenville, one of his Majesty's principal Secre
taries of State; the Right Hon. William Pitt,
Chancellor of his Exchequer ; the Right Hon.
Henry Dundas, the Right Hon. Lord Frederick
Campbell, his Grace James Duke of Montrofe,
and the Right Hon. Thomas Steel, to be his Ma
jesty's Commiflioners. for the affairs of India.
Trinity-House
It having appeared to this corporation, that a
due attention has not been paid to the notice
publilhed in Auguit last, of the alteration made
in exhibiting the light at Scilly, from a disre
gard to which some inafters of (hips and others
have exposed theinfelves to those rifques it was
intended to prevent, the corporation judge it
neceflary to repeat their said advertisement,
namely :
" That the light at Scilly is now exhibited by
a number of argand lamps, fixed on a machine
moving in a circular revolution, which preients
a bright and conspicuous body of light once in
a minute."
This alteration was adopted for the purpose
of diftinguilhing to a certainty, the light at
Scilly from all other lights in the channel, and
if carefully attended to, cannot be miflaken by
lljips coming from the sea, whenever it can be
leen, as by its frequent vivid slashes, like light
ning, it may be known to b" the firfl light they
generally make on entering the British channel
in the night season.
FOR THE GAZETTE OF THE UNITED STATES.
A FRAGMENT,
In imitation of Spenser.
Ah me ! how black misfortune clouds the day .
How joy isbanitVd from the human mind
How plcafurc flics at like the evening ray,
Ne can we e'er its lovely footfteps find.
And still unheedful, to the present blind,
We let the joyous moments (lip along ;
Still to ourselves eke careless and unkind,
We pass e'er Graying from the happv rhrong,
Ne join the easy dance, ne footly raise the song.
Yet now, regardful of life's little space,
And wifely yielding with obcifance still,
Let me no more the plcafant scene deface
With griefs responsive to the murm'ring rill,
And moans loud echoing o'er the neigh'bring hill.
O let me hide mv sorrows in the night,
And bow fubmifltve to the Eternal will ;
Then Time shall load each moment with delight,
And o'er my foul shall shine the Muse's living light.
'Twas when the Sun had climb'd the azure steep,
And shed his yellow influence on the earth;
Had driven the roaring tempests 'neath the deep,
And call'd the green creation into birth ;
When lively Youth, gay Health and buxom Mirth,
Scatter'd the Summer's jovs the world around ;
When the neat houfewife from her kitchen hearth
Had thrown the ashes on the garden ground,
And with green boughs and flowrets it had crown'd ;
Then, where Libanus which is hight the new*
Spreads all around its ever varied scene,
And pours a rich creation on the view,
Stray'd from mine home, in fpritely youth I been,
Then, with frefh joy I ken the smiling green,
The distant mountains frowning on the vale,
The loftv woods which shew their heights atween,
The speckled flocks thick nibbling in the dale,
And leaves, and flutt'ring birds, ay flying in the gale.
Aid me, O Muse ! the varied joys to tell
Which in this region of delight appear;
To mark the sorrows which must here ay dwell ;
The joys, and woes, which call the differing tear.
W T hat curious Nature hath ypighted here
Ay torturing pain fore'erto drive away,
And ease the grief of many tiresome yeare ;
Or to add comfort to the present day ;
Eke her unkindnefs joying kindly to o'erpay.+
From the smooth plain we rife the crzr?gv hill
That tortuous windes its lengthened way along ;
Leave on the left the hoarse ay clacking mill,
And reach the dome, meet burthen of a song.
The dome e'er swarming with the busy throng,
That with a different purpose seek the place,
In pleasure's paths to wander all among ;
Or dry the tear from sorrow's faded face,
Which the foft hand of Love delights away to chafe. J
Straught from the morning to the falling ray,
Full many a foot the building fpred, I ween,
And its front proudly to the fouthcrn day
Uprearing pleasant, from afar was seen.
Flank'd with a broad Piazza round it been—
Meet place to walk, and spend the fummcr's morn;
And from its edge to view (he distant scene,
When the fun, riling, all things doth adorn,
And gild the flowers, an<* dew-drops glistening on the thorn.
Here, when the orient blushes o'er the earth,
I walk, regardful of the enchanting view.
What charms the voice of Summer wakes to birth !
What beauty trembleth through the lucent dew !
Far round the horizon rife the mountains blue !
In distant profpeft mingling with the sky ;
And here the woods in varied foliage shew ;
Yielding foft pleasure to tbe roving eye,
That longs the innumerous sweets of nature to descry.
At distance still, and o'er a beauteous plain
A village breaketh through the tufted trees :
Where industry renews her daily pain,
And labor (igheth on the careless breeze.
Here, tho' rich plenty laugheth o'er the mees,
In antic vesture robed Religion walks,
Her face in sorrows dreft, all hearts doth freeze,
And with a frigid hand creation balks ;
While in her train wan Care, with Pain united, ftalks.^
Here, while the eye doth glisten with delight
To fee what pleafaunce livcth o'er the scene,
Yet doth companion's tear bedim the fight.
O Heaven ! (hall Virtue of celefttal mien
The foul of nature, and creation's queen,
Reign but to spread deftruftion on mankind ?
Shall Piety, bedeck'd in God's own sheen,
I.ive but to seal damnation on the mind—
fi'/iofe very foul is love with adoration join'd ?
ELLA.
* New Lebanon springs, in the fiate of New-York—commonly
called the Pool.
+ Tkefe uialers have proved a radical cur; in many cases of rheu
matifa, and in fcrophu.'ous affcHwns ; and have relieved many other
complaints. One fmgutar cafe of their efficacy in Spasmodic diseases
is daily exhibited there, and is worth relating. A Mr. Hitchcock, who
keeps the Bath House, has lived there many years unable to remove.
He appears perfeflly well. Generally once a day—fometimei left often,
and sometimes oftener, he is Jeized with flrong convul/ions ; his muscles
appear to br. drawn into knots—which I have seen of the size of a large
egg. In thisfituation, unable ttfipport or assist himfctf, he is carried
to the hath. Jtripped and rolled m. The effett is injlantaneous. He
immediately jumps up perfeßly recovered ; and is commonly free till
nearly the fame time next day.
+ Much company resort here in the months of July, Augufl, Sep
tember and OSober, for the purposes of pleasure, ' and recovering
health.
\ This Ttjtr< to the fell called Shaking Quakers. About two miles
from the Pool they have a handjbme church ; and a large house in
which near an hundred persons live.—Their devotion confifls princi
pally in dancing and singing. Thele exercises are carried on to their
own extreme emaciation.—They art very laborious, and have generally
the charaZer of scrupulous honejly.—The women and men live in di f
ferent parts of the Jame house ; the married persons have no connexion
with each other, and all marriages are prohibited. Their dress is ex
tremely simple. The men wear jhort coats andfhort hair. The women
are. generally, drejed in a white/kort gown and skirt, and in small
clcf long.eared caps.— Thefellfeems to be rather diminifhinas the
natural means of increase arc cut off- few profektes are gained ; and
thefeverity and conflancy of their fatiguing exercises carries them
ojf in a jew years —This denomination of rehgiomjls made its appear
ance about ten years f nee. The htad of them was the former miflrers
of a Britfh officer. She called herfelf the £le(l Lady; and lived to
fee her principles adopted bv a con/idcrable number of people in the
north part oj the States of New-York and Majfachufetts, and Tome
parts of Vermont—Thty call thmftlves Chriflians—but their exact
principles I am unacquainted with.
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BOSTON, July 6.
There are accounts in town from Liverpool
England, which relate the particulars of the de
feat erf General Meadows, and the Britilh armv
by that Asiatic Frederick, TippooSaib—and add'
nothing but a rapid flight of the Britilh forces
prevented a complete " CornivaUif.ide."
In consequence of this intelligence, the British
Monarch, it is Hud, immediately difpatchcd a
mefl'enger to the King of Prnlfia, to put a flop to
the marching of troops to aflilt the Turks— and
it was fuppof'ed that a ceH'ation of the warlike
preparations in England against Catharine, would
l>e the confequence —that attention might be paid
to the preservation of the Britifli territories in
India.
An express arrived in town yesterday, from the
Vineyard, informing of the fafe arrival thereof
thelhipßuby, Capt. Rich, from India— Mr. Jones
the owner, being on a journey to the Eastward'
and the person immediately setting off, to ac
quaint him of the arrival, we have not been abl*
to obtain any information of the progress of the
war in India.
We learn with pleasure that on Friday eveninn
laft, the Committee forthefaleof EaUrern Lands'
closed the contract for the sale to Mefl'rs. Jack/on
and Flint, for themselves and aflociates, of two
millions of Acres of that Territory. The price
agreed on is Two Hundred Thousand Dollars
specie, to be paid in eight years, with interest. '
BALTIMORE, July 12.
Extract of a letter frovi a gentleman in Berkelty
County, Virginia, to his friend in this town, dated
July 9, 1 791-
" A gentleman, just arrived from Kentucky,
advises, that General Scott marched some time
ago from that state, with 850 men, on an expedi
tion against the Savages. Soon after he had cros
sed the Ohio, they were attacked by a party of
Indians whom they routed, and pursued (with
the loss of 30 horses) some distance. Gen. Scotc
then altered his route to the left, and surprised
four Indian towns, which he deltroyed, and kil
led 52 warriors, and took another prisoner, with
50 women and children, with whom he arrived
at Kentucky on the 15th of June. had four
men wounded, and three were drowned in crof
sing White-River. General Scott also brought in
with hioi a certain Abraham Wileman, who con
fefles he decoyed 011 shore several people, among
whom was a Mr. May, on their pallage down the
river Ohio, who fell into the hands of the Sava
ges, with all their effects. He has often been
guilty of such crimes. When this white Savage
saw no way of effecting his escape, he feigned
himfelf insane, and, under the character ofama
niac, is now on his way to the mad-house at Wil
liamfburg. When my informant left Kentucky,
General Scott was preparing for another expe
dition."
PORTLAND,
Extratt of a letter from Bridgeton, to the Editor of
" The following aifcovery has lately been
made at Sudbury-Canada, a new settlement on
Amarefcoggin river.
A Mr. B. RufTell was hunting in the woods in
the beginning of last May, and found a large
extent of ground where the trees were univer
sally covered with pigeon nests, containing the
young. On his return home, his account was
not credited by his neighbors. About a fort
night after, several of them accompanied him,
and found his account did equal what they there
beheld ! a large extent of land of several miles,
through which the} pafled, (how much farther
they know not) the trees on which wereentirelv
covered with pigeon nests. The young were
mostly in their nests. but ready to fly. There
was but one in a nest, ft ill they took four dozen
from a tree. They took from 50 to 100 dozen
in a day.
The scene was admirable to behold ! the young
were hovering on the nests, and calling for
while the old ones darkened the air with a con
tinual motion to and from the nests, busily em
ployed in feeding their young.
N E W B E R N, June 3j,
The Circuit Court of the United States ad
journed on Monday last, till the Bch of Novem
ber next. During the term, the court made it a
rule that Attornies, having pratftifed two years in
the Superior Court of this State, on fatisfying
them of their moral chara<fiers, may be admitted
as Counsellors and Attornies; and those licenced
to practice in the Superior Courts of this State,
may be admitted as Attornies of the Circuit
Court.
Accordingly George Duffy, John Hamilton, Si
las \V. Arnett, John L. Taylor,Triftin Lowther,
William R. Davie, D. Witherfpoon and B. Woods,
Efcjrs. were admitted as Counsellors
And Edward Jones, William Sladc and Edward
Graham, Esquires, as Attornies.
(M.) July 1.
this paper.