rd all the Representatives (landing, and holding up'their hands towards heaven, shall pronounce i„ ,he name of the people of France, t.,e oath, Tn live free or die. , . Each Deputy Ihall then individually take the oath 10 the nation in the pretence ofthe Allen bly, to maintain to the unnoft ot his power il Conllitotion of the kingdom, decreed by the Na tional Aflembly during the years I 789, I 79°> ®" 1 1 701, and accepted by King Louis XVI. to nei ther propole nor approve any thinginthe course of the legiflatu*, which may be contrary to the spirit of it, and .0 be in every thing faithful o the Nation, the Law, and the King. ne 01 shall be pronounced by the Prefldent, and each Representative appearing at the Tribune, (li lav, " 1 I'wear it." , The queftioh, whether the king (hould o. should not be empowered to diflolve the Legisla ture, was then taken into confederation. M Thouret moved, that the King shall not be empowered to dissolve the Legiilative bodies. M. de Foucauld propoled as an amendment, that the word not ihotild be left out ; which al teration, after Tome warm debate, was adopted. May 24. The affair of Avignon was again brought on the tapis, and, as before, it occahon ed a very noisy debate. The re-union of this country to France was again rejected. LONDON, May 6. Lord Grenville received the seals of office, as principal Secretary of State for the Foreign De partraent, on Sunday lalt; notice of which has been sent to all the Foreign Minilters ; and in consequence, his fxrft levee was held attheSecie tary of State's office, Whitehall, when there xvas ~a full meeting of Foreign Ministers. Another group of foreigners of diftint'lion are just arrived in London, in consequence of fiefli disturbances at Paris. On the 28th ult. the Senate of the University of Glasgow conferred the honorary degree of Do<ftor in Laws 011 W. Wilberforce, Esq. Mem ber of Parliament for Yorkshire, as a mark of the elteem which thatUniverfity entertains'of his cha racter and abilities, and in particular of their high approbation of his exertions for the aboli tion of the African Slave Trade. M. de Combs, Secretary to M. tie Mirabeau, has developed the cause of his laying violent hands on himfelf, being occasioned, as he affirms, by his excessive grief at the loss of his benefactor. His honor, integrity, and attachment to his patron, have been loudly piaifed by several of M. de Mi rabeau's friends. The letter from the French King to his Am bassadors at Foreign Courts, is written with a franknefs, a nobleness, and an energy, that does credit to the sincerity of the Monarch. His Ma jesty declares that he will cherilh, love, and de fend the constitution ; he recognises the sove reignty of the People ; he acknowledges that he derives his powers from them ; he thinks it ho norable to be the firft Magistrate in the State; in fine he speaks like the King of a Free People. The President of the National Aflembly was frequently interrupted while reading this letter, by repeated acclamations of i?tve le Rot! which resounded from the patriotic fide of the hall, while the ariftocratical party, overwhelmed with ihame and confufion, remained in silence. The accounts from Paris of the latell date d - scribe the conduct of the fifli-women as uncom monly liceniious, particularly towards the re ligious orders of female devotees ; this is sup posed to have arisen from the objection taken to thoffe priests who confefs the King without tak ing the oath to the constitution. A general alarm has arisen among!! the coun try innkeepers, in consequence of Sir Harry Fea therftonehaugh's new travelling carriage, which is so contrived as to answer the purpose not only of a bed chamber, but an eating room, and in the feats are cupboards ingeniously contrived to con tain provisions and wine. The Empress has a Scotch physician, who reads regularly the chief London papers to her ; parti- culaily the debates in Parliament. She has in the apartment where these are read, paintings or engravings of our mod celebrated speakers—and knows the politics of the country as well as our Senators Preparations are making at Portsmouth for the reception of the Royal. Family ; the whole of whom, we understand, intend being present at the review of the fleet on the Bth day of June next, at Spithead. May 26. It was the opinion universally re ceived at Vienna, that the Ruffians will reach C'onllantinople before the end of summer. Mr. who has for many years of fered a present of ten thousand pounds to any ]>eifon purchasing his brewery at a fair estimati on, has at length found cuftomqcs for ir. A com pany of persons have bought it, at the price of four hundred and fifty thousand pounds. T'ne French Eafl-Indiaman, named the Consti tution, lately arrived at L'Orient, brings advice, that the Spaniards, availing themselves of the 102 dereliction or interruption of the tur Trade from Nootka Sound, on the part of the Engl.fii had indultrioufly collected furs, and transported ilie'ii 10 China ; where they were bought with such avidity, that the nett Jiiofiis of He adven ture are calculated at ioo.oool. sterling. His Catholic Majesty, apprised of the benefits that would arile from this trade, had taken it into his own hands, and declared that the commerce from No'.tka and its environs should thenceforth he carried on by Government only. Lalt Thursday, John Gill, aged 65, and Ri chard Gill, aged 25, were found fuffocaced in a Lime Kiln near Halbanton, Devon. Ihe father went down to open a vent in the k:!n, and find- himfelf faint by the (tench of the culm, call ed°to his son for help, who immediately went to preserve his father,and was fuffocated with hint ; both ware found dead 011 each other. The (on has left a widow with three children, and preg nant with a fourth. I hey both bore the cha racter of lioneft men. Letters have been received in town from Bo tany Bay, which contain the mod favorable ac counts from that infant colony. The natives, by kind treatment, had been ren dered perfectly docile, and had in a great dgree been incorporated with the Colony. May It is confidently said, that unless the prayer of Mr. Haftings's petition to the Lords (hould be granted, he will on Thursday plead guilty to ; he charges agninft him, and pray their Lord (hip's judgment thereon, after being heard in mitigation of the lame. An American fleet arrived at Cadiz the sth of this month , and forty we are to fee that the States enjoy more fatisfatftion from their com merce with any other country than Great-Britain. The King of the French has been graciously pleased to liberate thirteen women who had been condemned to perpetual imprison ment in La Sal petriere, one of whom had been there 54 years. Mr. Hope, jun. of Amsterdam, the head of the firft mercantile firm in Europe, is at present in Dublin. He purpoles ro make the tour of Ire land, and the Lake of Killarney will engage his particular attention. There now is, or was a very few years since, in the Workhouse of Rotherhi;he, an old watch- man, whore employment, from the time he was thirty-eight years of age, until he was ninety-fix, was to cry the hour. In his ninery-feventh year his limbs refuted their office, he grew rheumatic, and being unable to do his nocturnal duty, was taken into the Workhouse, where he had a little room and a bed allolted 10 his use. His early habits adhered hjm :he could not sleep much in the night, nor could he walk at all, but he slept all d.ay, and in general waked about nine o'clock. Though his legs had failed him, his voice had not, and at ten he invariably cried the hour, at eleven he cried the hour, and at twelve, &c. &c. &c. he cried the hour, adding, sometimes a star light, sometimes a cloudy, and fometiines a rainy morning. This was at fir ft irksome to the other inmates, bin in time they got habitu ated to the founds, and slept through all the old fellow's noise in the night, as he slept amidst all their disturbances in the day. Extratt of a letter from Paris, May J. " In the late debate in the National AfTembly, whether,or nor, Avignon and theComtat-Venaiilin (hould be considered as parts of the French em pire ? M. de Clermont-Tonnerre, well known as being the leader of the Monarchical Club, ar gued strongly in opposition to those who wi/hed that the National Aflembly /hould declare A vignon and the Comtat Venailiin provinces of France : the mob were of a contrary opinion, it was their supreme will that France (hould adr that department to her pofieffions "perfas et w fas." • " On Thursday, as he came out of the Aflem bly, some of the mob, who conftamly surround the gates, accosted him with abufc, which lie was weak enough to return. He was fuffered to reach his house, but had not been there above half an hour before his gates were forced, and he dragged out with the cry of ala lanterns. In a tew minutes a halcer was placed around his neck, and he would have been instantly hanged if Madame de la Tonnerre had not thrown her felf round him, intreating permilfion to take a last farewel ofher hulbaud. " Some of the mob were affedted by her fears, and while the execution of their purpose, was thus, for a few minutes, interrupted, M. de la Fayette arrived with the National Guard, the populace fled* and M. de Tonnerre was restored in fafety to his family. " M.de Fleurieu, the Naval Minister, resigned last Tuesday. " There is also a talk of the resignation of M de Montmorin, Secretary for Foreign Affairs." June i. Yesterday, in the Court of Common I'leas, on an atftion of damages, Noftagainft Tho mas W orboys, of Bell's 13 uildings,Salilbury ("qua re, for pushing the plaintiff out of his house, and thereby breaking his leg, the jury gave a verdict ot one hundred pounds. A'£W CONSTITUTIO.V OF POLAND. IN the fitting of the sth May, the new form of Constitution was again proposed. The members present figncd it unanimoc' and they formally padrd. sentence by sentence, the twelve Arii* cles of which it is composed, and which arc as follow ; i. The Catholic Religion shall be the governing religion of the States, and the King (hall profeU it. But all other forms or wor (hip fhal 1 be admitted, and a general toleration, civil and icli'il ous, fliall be a fundamental law of the kingdom. 2. The ancient privileges and rights oi the Noblesse arc approv ed and confirmed. 3. At the fame time, all the rights and privileges of the people alTerted, renewed or granted to them duung the prcfent Diet, a, c equally ratified and confirmed. 4. All ft* angers who arrive and fettle in Poland, shall enjoy full and entire liberty. 5. The pcafantry arc *aken under the protc&ion of the laws and of government. They are relieved from all arbitrary impoluions and do not depend, henceforth, in what regards their rights and labours, only on the contracts which they ftiall, make with their Seigniors. All foreign labourers are free to enter and fettle in Po land, or to depart, fulfilling only the obligations of the contract thev may have made with the proprietors of the foil. 6. The government of Poland shall be cotnpofed of three branches, or diflintt parts —the Icgiflaiive power, the executive power, and the judicial power. 7. The legislative power belongs exclusively to the dates assem bled in Diet, and composed of two connedled chambers, viz. the senate, and the chamber of nuncios. 8. The King shall exercise the executive power with his coun cil. This council (hall be composed of the primate and five mini sters, who shall each have a department. No ovdei of the King can be put in execution un'.efs it is signed by the ministers, whose lives and fortunes shall be responsible to each Diet for the orders they (hall sign. As soon as two-thirds of the Diet shall demand the change of ministers, the King (hall be bound to difmifsthem, and to name others in their place. 9. The elcttion of King shall never fall hereafter on an indivi dual. A whole family (hall be ele&ed when the Royal Family shall be extinct. Thus after the decease of the reigning King (for whose long life the estates and the nation make the molt fervent pravcr) the reigning elector of Saxony, and his male defendants after him, shall succeed to the throne of Poland. If he lhall have no male iflTue, Ma r y Augusta Ncpomucene, his only daughter, now declared infant of Poland, (hall be Queen, and her husband, whom the King and the states aflembled (hall choose for her, (hall wear the crown and form the stock, from which shall fpringanew royal dynasty of Poland. 10. In cafe of the minority of the King, his tutelage with the administration of the government shall be in the hands of the Queen-mother, and of the council, who (hall be responsible for their conduct to every Diet. 11. The education of the King's children (hall in like manner be confided to the council. The judicial power (hall be fixed for each palatinate, territory! and diftrift. The judges shall be elected at the Dietines. MR. FOX AND MR. BURKE. WE know not which to admire 1110 ft : The manly manner in which Mr. Fox solicited the continuance of Mr. Burke's friendfiiip, or the unshaken steadiness which accompanied the lat ter gentleman's noble defence of his principles. In the one, the feelings of the heart, for a mo ment quelled the ftubborntiefs of an opinion founded 011 the conviction of a ripened and en larged mind. In the other, every private at tachment, and every friendfliip that can be dear to man, were facrificed with Roman firinnefs to support the Constitution of his country. Each thought himfelfin the right, and each conceived that he was arguing for tlie Public Good. Mr. Fox has long been known to profefs,a strong af fetftion for more of the republican system in our Government than Mr. Burke would ever bring his judgment to approve. The former conceives that there is a natural right in man to be free ; the latter thinks that such freedom would be subversive of all the blessings which we at pre sent enjoy. Mr. Fox would narrow the limitsot monarchy, and extend the liberty of the people. Mr. Burke would neither abridge the one nor enlarge the other. On these topics they have 'often difFered in private ; but as there was no event to prove who was right, the argument ne ver rose to any thing more than the convivial diflertations of the table. But the French Revo lution had no sooner happened, than each seized upon it as a strong tettimony to prove the julhce of his own opinion. Mr. Fox conceiving it to be a circumstance which must give the moll glo rious blessings to France ; Mr. Burke a (let ting that it was the 1110 ft difgraceful and deftrudtue event that could ever happen to an empire. t was now 110 longer a difcourle 011 a fpecuiatne point ; the die was cast, and each found his cre dit at stake to maintain his argument. The cy cle of private friend/hip became too narrow or exerciling the talents of these great men. < \' t minds, big with the importance of the cau e, buriwforth in the Senate, and as eloquence met eloquence so animosity encountered amnions, until the spirit of politics subdued the tenderne s of a long acquaintance, and friendlhip took ie departure 111 tears. Those who heard ant av the obstinacy with which the dispute was njai" tained, lamented that two men of such abl '' lliould differ in public sentiment on one 0 most important points which relate to t le pinefs and welfare of this country. 1 i-r are not without hopes that, even wule as 11 ference is at present, yet as both gentletnei 110 view but the general benefit of the e p > the one will relax from his too Itrong i< • republicatiifm', arid embracing the genera of the other, form a junction of talents that may continue as long as each lives to be an 01 to public a,ul private society. Tins we the benefit of the Constitution, and lot welfare of the people.
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