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AT a meeting of the General Council of tlie
Commons of Paris", 011 the 22d April 179 r, M.
de la Fayette delivered the following address :
Gentlemen,
I COME in the Commons' Hotife where foniany
agreeable remembrance'sllrike me, to acknow
ledge these lall initances of your goodness, with
all the lenlibility of ai> heart, whole firlt «i(li is,
after that of serving the people to be loved bj
them; and who is altonilhed at the importance
ascribed to an individual in a free counti j , where
nothing ought to be of importance but the law.
If my condatft on this occalion, gentlemen,
were to be directed only by thole sentiments
which 1 feel of tenderness and of gratitude, 1
Ihould only make reply to the regrets with which
you and the national guard have honored me,
by obeying your requeils ; but as in this business
I have listened to no personal motive, so amidst
the tumults which agitate us, it is not by the
suggestions of private feelings that 1 am to be de
termined.
I do not think that the national guard, the ma
jority of whom were ever deaf to the voice of
faction and of party, can have seen with indif
ference the cause of my difcourugement—The
conftirutional authorities set at nought—their
orders def'pifed—the public forces oppufed tothe
execution of the law, whose defence was entrust
ed to it. We are citizens, gentleman, we are
free ; but without obedience to the law, there
remains only conftifton, anarchy, defpotifin ;
and if this capital, which has been the cradle of
the revolution, instead of ftrrrounding with its
light and its refpedt the depositories of the na
tional power, fliall besiege them- with tumults,
or fatigue them bv violence, it will cease to be
an example for Frenchmen ; it will be in danger
of becoming their terror.—Eefides, gentlemen,
in the striking tokens I have received of affec
tion, too tnnch has been done for me—too little
for the law ; 1 have felt with the tendered emo
tion thatmy'fellow (oldiers love me ; but I have
not yet learned how far they cherish the princi
pies upon which liberty is founded.
I deposit in your hands, gentlemen. this fmeere
avowal of my sentiments; be pleal'ed to make
known to the national guard, whose tokens o(
friendlhip I have received with so much fenfibi
lit}', and to whom 1 fliall be ever a brother as af
feiftionare as grateful.
I acknowledge, to command them I warned to
b'e afl'ured that they firmly believed the fare of
the conftitntion as depending on the execution,
oftlie law, the only fovereigu of a free people ;
that the liberty of individuals, the fafety of
liotifes, religious liberty, refped: for legitimate
authority; that these, without exception, would
be held by them as facreel as by me. We not
only want courage and vigilance, but also una
nimity in the principles I have just laid down ;
and I have thought and Hill think the constitu
tion will be better served by the deliberate re
llgnation I have given in, than by my acquies
cence with the invitations with which you have
deigned to honor me.
Fur the GAZETTE of the USITED STATES.
Qnoufque tandem akuterc pat'untia 'noflral
HOW long, Sir, are we to be bored with the
idle speculations of endless writers about
(he British constitution ? Of what concern, ]
should be glad to know, is it to us, whether
Great Britain has or has not a written conflitu
tion, or whether it has certain principles in the
nature of a constitution, or whether it has only
a form of government instead of a cor ftitution?
The celebrated Mr. Burke lamented, that France
in her revolution had not more closely attended
to the British constitution ; Mr. Paine thereup
on gets in a rage, and writes a dozen pages to
prove a negative, that is, that Great Britain has
no constitution.— Publicola is displeased at this,
and infills that it has, and Brutus and Agricola
again contend that it has not. The three firft
of these writers having managed the subject
with ability, a patriot reader might peruse their
publications wijh tolerable attention, but I can
not help wishing that Agricola would attend to
his fields and his plough ; and when 1 saw the
fir 11 number of Brutus, I involuntarily exclaim
ed, Et tu, Brute ! Indeed, Mr. Printer, I dont
fee the neceliity of fluffing the newspapers day
gftei' day. morning and evening, with all these
pros cons, and 1 recommend to these
great politicians, who are so fond of writing,
to turn their thoughts and their hands to some
other i he people of England have
sense enough to take care of themselves, and if i
rhev have not, its no business of onr's. Every
body acknowledges our constitution to be a good
one, and that under it the people of the Ui7ited
States are happy and growing rich. Whar then
is the tendency of these numerous diflertatiuns
about revolutions, new constitutions, abolitions,
informations and so forth ? Tqueftion whether it
be 3 salutary one. These authors had bettet
write fomeufeful treatise on agriculture, or fug
some improvement on our domcftic manu
factures: Indeed they would, in my opinion,
render more service to society, if they were to
invent some mode of getting rid of the flies at
this troublesome season, or discover how wem ight
keep ourselves cool in this city. A. B.
FOR THE GAZETTE OF THE UNITED STATES.
Away- each (ast and lenddr bli-fs—
The laugh of jiy—the glance of love—
The gay dilcourfe—the heart of peace—
The hours, winged with rapture, move.
A friend, oncc wont to give and share
Each Iranfport of the fleeting year,
A femblant angel, good and fair.
To every thought ancf feeling dear;
Explored my heart
In fmiFing Friendlhip r s faithlefs guise,
Exulting found a tender part
Where lives foft pcace and where it dies.
Arid there—ah there ! her causeless hate
Ifn pre fled an undeterved blow,
That fcalc d with endlcfs grief my fate,
And plunged me deep in hopeless woe.
Then trufl npt, Youth, the melting air,
The thrilling touch, refined embrace;
Since Treachery has a 'form so fair,
And Malice'wears fa sweet a face.
On feeing Governor Paterson on board his
Barge the Cirrielia-, at the late celebration of
INDEPENDENCE.
O.N Raritotflhfop,Ofh gliding (Iream we view,
Eniaptur'd vijew the man whom we admire,
On this aufpicions day, -with laurel crown'd,
How gracefully the honor'd barge moves on !
See Neptuns's hardy sons.all clad in white,
Timeing their oars to the melodious flutes;
Not Cleopat racelebrated barge,
When she full arm'd with cach bewitching charm,
A tyrant bound in the foft chains of love,
More elegant, or pleasing could appear;
Nor did contain a jewel of such worth,
Not freighted with a proud intriguing Queen;
She nobly bears New- Jerfefs fav'rite fob,
Our guardian chicf\ oui jfhnd> a Pate r s on.
New-Brunfwitk, July 4, 1791.
W A R S A W, May 3
"PHE new conflitntion has just parted in tlic
S. Diet, by which the Eledtoi ofSaxony is declar
■d immediate fucceflyr to the Throne of Poland;
afier whose demise, his daughter is to inherit ;
and the choice of her husband, if she iwarries,
is to he decided by 'lie States. Afier this Condi
tution had pa(ll*d, the King, attended by the
Marlhalsof the Dier, and a great number of the
Members, went to the Cathedral, and took an
oath to maintain it.
f he Union of the Noblcffe with the class of
citizens meets with daily encouragement. Prince
Czartorvflci and Count Potocki.Marflial of Lithua
>iia, are become burghers; Count Malachowflky,
Marflial of the Diet, has also added himfelf to
the class of citizens, faying at the fame time
" that lie flionld think it an honor to be a magifV
trare of Warsaw."
One of [he magnates has declared his intention
of opening a warehouse in his palace, to (hew
that it is by no means degrading for a nobleman
to be concerned in trade.
The King himfelf has declared that the re
eftablifhment of the rights of the citizens, re
wards him for all the difficulties of his reign, and
even gives him cause to rejoice at being a King.
Q \ 6 O N, May 20.
Wednesday Rear-Admiral Col"by lioifted liis
flag at Spithead, on board the Impregnable, of
98 guns, Sir Thomas Bayard, Commander.
There are now at Spithead five Admirals, and
one in the harbour.
Fourteen Pilots, acquainted with the naviga
tion of the North Sea, particularly the Beit, are
arrived at Portsmouth from London, and several
others are daily expected. Orders are received
in the dock-yard for all the gun-boats to be o- 0 t
ready for immediate service.
Lord Kawkefbury, on Tuesday, entered his
Protest: in the Honfe of Peers against the vote of
the preceeding evening, relative to the further
prosecution of the trial of Mr. .Haltings.
Sir Jothua Reynolds and the Gentlemen who
are a Committee to superintend the ereiftion of
monuments to the memory of eminent perfonsin
St. Paul's Cathedral, had a meeting there vefter
day, to fix on a prop er spot for the proposed mo
numents of Mr. Howard, and Dr. Johnson.
It is remarkable that with the late Dr. Price
originated the plan now in adoption for reducino
the_ National Debt—perhaps the only one in
winch the sentiments of the Adminiflration and
hnnfelf were united it is fervently wilhedrhat
there may always be that clear underrtandino;
and genuine integrity, in the ruling powers to
gether with that anxiety for prcl'e rving theblef
fings of peace, which (hall, enable them to carry
this great design into full effect [—France, in ail
her confufion, p.-.vs off her debt fatter than when
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H F N R Y.
[HY REOUEST.]
/lie was said to be in tranquility and orofue •
what difintereiled counfeliors flit tnuft hav
at that time i e * la( '
To what causes do medical Gentlemen as . •,
theincreafing number of paralytick cases '.Ij ,
lunatics and suicides ? The fact, it is to b e f
ed, is indisputable, and the source of these alar"'
ing evils requires a very lenous invelHeotio""
Are we to attiibute tlieni to the general iif' "p
tea, wine, or spirits, or to those ledentaiy
fures, which are now fubdituted in the roou "r
active ones ? ' °'
The Pope's Bull, which has Ice,, publi c ] ; i
burnt at Paris, contains these words : " ti
King would not have fancftioned the Cisii C
dilution of the Clergy, had he not been c °,"~
drained, and even forced to it by .he
4flembly—as the letteis which die Kiiiir i
written to us plainly teftify ! Pius the M
This declaration has set new'fpirits at «o !'
who publickly, though not very politely d C cl ,'<!
—thar ei'her the French King, or the Itaj;
Pope must have told a ! and they will ice
which it is. These letters, therefore, are to be
moved for in tlie National Aflembly, that »;
Montmorin niayjudify himfelf on the fubj-c't
On Thnrfday M. de Clermont-Tonnerre \v as
marked by the mob, for having supported the
intereds of the Pope againd the nat ion. Heform
mtely took fl'ielter in a coffee-houfe. until! th e
National Guards came to his refctte. Thev after
wards attacked his house, which thcv' would
have demtritfhed, but for the guards.
The claims already colleded in, on account of
a yoqng gentleman [duke of York] 1 itely em l
barked for the Continent, amount to 240 000 l
127,000!. of which are unfunded debts Of the r,-
fpefiable compaify of Bluck legs.
Two thousand dram shops or whiskey houses
have been (but up in Dublin finee the palling of
'he late ac r t of tlie Irish parliament, to prevent
the alarming use offpiri'nous liquors in Ireland.
The laie popular commotions in France, have
been highly advantageous t< the enufe of liber
ty, for the di;':ifFe<sied at iftocrates, and prelatical
nonconformids. have been banished from about
the throne ; the fove eign has c onfented to a
public recognition of the French C'onditmion at
foreign courts ; and the national guards tannin
he danger of difobediencc by the refignaticn
of their beloved commander, will hereafter e
vince a fcrupalons attachment to their funeiior
officers, and with M. de la Fayette once mote
at their head, will become the defenders of their
country, and the guardians of those laws which
cliey have sworn to enforce.
The 18th of*ttpril, 1791, will be therefore
another p' oud day in the annals of Francc, e
qually honourable for the Parisians, equally
nfeful for the nation, and equally creditable to
he Monarch as the 14th ot July, 1789 !
The impeachment of Mr. Hailing® niay no\»
be Hud to have died a natural, The dif
.inion of its conductors has palsied that accusing
inn, that no effectual pursuit of the accufatiohs
can any longer be expeifted.
Mr. Burke has become the object of pity to
his friends. The oppositionists fay he i*
now mad—Common Sense aSlerrs that he has ,b:cn
so—and the noble orator himfelf confelles " that
his faculties are impaired through a long and
severe attention to public business."
The refuni ptio" of Avignon, and the Cotulat
Venaiffin, will add nearly one million of inhabi-
ants to the population of Francs
Those Chevaliers of the order of Sr. Louis,
who have merited that honor by their fervkes,
ashamed of the spies, piyips and parasites who
had been decorated with the Croix, have deter
mined to relinquifli it i«n 1i 1 the refpedtive merits
of the pofTefTors, ffiould be canvafled by the Na
tional Aflembly.
This is certainly the epoch for unaccountable
revolutions in Church, as well as State—for
what astrologer could have divined that in the
year 1.791, the mild legislature of Britain would
have been occupied in granting toleration and
indulgences to the Rotnifh Church, at the pre
cise moment that his Holiness the Pope was
burnt in effigy at Paris, by the hand of the corn
man hangman ! —Sic tranljt gloria Ecclefuc.
The answer of his DaniSh Majesty, to the late
communication from our Court, is said to liavs
been, that he was in hopes his Britannic Majesty
would not have asked any thing that mightconi
mit him with BulTia.
A veflel called the experiment arrived at Li
verpool on Saturday fe'nnight, laden with linen,
from Dundee, being the firll that has come to
that port through the canal.—.She was only
four days in her pafl'age from the east coast of
Scotland ; a voyage which, when attempted
round the land, has been known to take lip a}
many months
On Tuesday fe'nnight, after a litigation of
e ight years, the claimants on the goods f'eized
by Lord Rodnev and General Vauglian. at St.
Euftatius, in the vear 1752. were paid the full
amount of their several claims, pwrfuatit to a fi
nal decision of the Lords of the Privy Council