by their surprize ; the Constituent A (Tent My is
upon its duty ; the constituted powtrs are in ac
tivity; the Citizens of Paris,the National Guards,
whole patriotism and fidelity are above all praile,
watch round your Representatives ; the atftive
citizens throughout the kingdom are in arms,anci
trance may wait Jor ill enemies.
" Are they to fear the consequences of a writ
ing, forced before his departure, from afeduced
King : It is difficult to conceive the ignorance
and blindnesS that have dicftated this writing,
whicfi may deserve to be further discussed heie
after ; at present, your Representatives content
themselves with examining some particular sen
timents.
" The National Afiembly has made a solemn
proclamation of political truths, and ot rights,
the acknowledgment of which will one day pro
duce the happiness of the human race ; to en
gage them to renounce this declaration of rights,
the theory of slavery itfelf has been presented to
them
Frenchmen ! we have no fear in recalling
to v.onr memories the famous day, the 23d ot
July, 1789 —that day, 011 which the Chief of the
Executive Power, the fit ft public functionary of
the nation, dared to dilate his abfoiute will to
your Representatives, charged by your orders to
form a Con(lit»tion. The National Aftembly la
mented the difordeis committed on the sth of
Ortober, and ordered the prosecution of the per
sons guilty of them ; but, because it was difficult
to discover fotne rioters amongst such a multitude
of people, they are said to have approved all
their crimes.—The nation is, however, more jnfl.
It has not reproached Louis XVI. with the vio
lences that have occurred under his Reign, and
tkofe of his ancestors- I
" They are not afraid to call to your recol
lection the Federation of July. What are the
statements of the persons who have dictated the
letter of the King, with respect to this auguftact ?
that the fit It public functionary was obliged to
put himfelf at the head of the Representatives of
the Nation, in the midst of the Deputies of all
the kingdom. He took a solemn oath to main
tain the Constitution. If the King does not here
after declare, that his good faith has been sur
prised by seditious per lons, he lias, of courfe,an
nounced his own perjuty to the whole world ! Is
it necefl'ary to go through the fatigue of answer
ing the other reproaches of this letter ?
" The King is (aid to have experienced some
inconveniencies in his residence at Paris, and not
to have found the fame pleasures as formerly ;
by which it is implied, no doubt, that a nation
ougljt to regenerate itfelfwithout any agitation,
without disturbing for an instant, the pleasures
and thS* indigencies bf courts. As to the ad
drefl.es of congratulation and adherence to your
decrees, these fay they, are the work of the fac
tious.—Yes—no doubt—of twenty-six milli
ons of the ftiffions.
•' It was necessary to re-conrtitute all powers
because all the powers were corrupted, and be
cause the alarming debts accumulated by the
despotism and the disorders of government, would
have overwhelmed the nation. But does not Roy
alty :xij.l for the people ? And if a great Nation o
ilig'es itfelf to maintain it, ij it not solely becatrfe it
is believed to be ufeful ? The Constitution has left
to the King this glorious preroga 1 ive, and has
confirmed to him the only authority which he
flioulddefire to exercise. Would not your repre
sentation have been culpable, if they had facri
ficed twenty-fix millions to the interest of one
man ?
" The labonr of citizens supports the powers
of the Stare ; but the maxim of absolute power
is, to consider the public contributions as a debt
paid to despotism. The National Aflembly has
regulated its expences with the ftrivfteft justice :
they thought themselves bound, when acting in
the name of the Nation, to a(st munificently ;
and when they were to determine what part'of
the public contributions jhotild be allowed to the
firft functionary, tliirry millions were allotted
for him and the Royal Family ; but this is re
presented ae a trifling sum !
" The Decrees upon the fubjedl of peace and
■war, have taken from the King and his Minis
ters the power of facrificing the people to the
caprices of courts -, and the definitive ratificati
on of Treaties is reserved to the Representatives
of the Nation. The loss o( a prerogative is com
plained of. What prerogative ? That of not be
ing obliged to consult the National will, when
the blood and the fortunes of citizens were to be
facrificed. Who can know the wish and interests
of the Nation better than the Legislative Body >
It is wished to make was with impunity.
But have we not had, under the ancient Go
vernment, fufficient experience of the terrible
effects produced by the ambition of Ministers >
We are acciifed of having def'poiled the King
ill forming the judicial power, as if.the King of
a great Nation ought to appear in the adntini
ftration of justice, for any other purpose than
that of canfing the law to he observed, and its
judgments executed. It is wiflied thnt heflmnid
have the right of granting pardons, and chang
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ing punishments •, but does not all the world
know, how such a right"Would be exercised, and
upon whom the benefit of it would fall ? The
King could not have exercised it by himfelf; and
having prohibited Royal despotism, it was natu
ral to prohibit that of the Ministers.
(( The necetlity of circumstances has sometimes
obliged the National Aflembly to meddle, contra
ry to its inclination, in the affairs of adininillra
tion. It ought not to act, when the government
remained in blame3ble inertness ? It is, theie
fore, necessary to fay, that neither the King nor
the Ministers have the confidence of the nation !
'• The Societies of Friends of the Constitution
have fuppot'ted the Revolution ; they are moie
neceflary than ever, and iome perlons presume
to fay that they govern the administrative bodies,
and the empire, as if they were the deliberating
bodies !
" Frenchmen ! all the powers are organized ;
all the public funftionaties are at their pods ; the
National Allembly watches over the fafety of the
State ? may yon be firm and tranquil ! One dai'
ger alone threatens ns.—You have to guard a
gainst the suspension of your labours—against
delay in the payment of dnties—againft any in
flammatory measures, which commence in anar
chies, and end in civil war. It is to these dan
gers that the National Affenibly calls the attenti
on of the citizen,. In this crisis, all private ani
mosities and private interests should disappear.
" Those who would preserve their liberty,
should show that tranquil firmnefs which appals
tyrants. May the factions, who hope to fee eve
ry thing overturned, find order maintained, and
the Constitution confirmed, and rendered more
dear to Frenchmen, by the attacks made upon it !
The Capital may be ap example to the reft of
France. The departure of the King excited no
disorders there ; but to the confufion of the ma
levolent, the utmost tranquility prevails in it.
" To reduce the territory ofthisempire to the
yoke, it will be necessary to destroy the whole
nation! Despotism if it pleases, may make such
an attempt —It mill either fail, or at the conclusion
of its triumphs, will find tnly ruins J"
This Address was unanimously approved by the
Affenibly, and ordered to be sent to all the De
partments.
LISLE, June 7.
THE National Guard in the village of Lefquin
flopped an ecclesiastic, who had a conficler
able quantity of louis-d'ors, aifti one bag of Gi
ver, in his carriage, the whole weighing 1691b.
besides this, a quantity of aflignats, and foine
rouleaux of Louis, were found upon his person.
1 his money is said to have been the firlt payment
of a million to be furnifhed by the late Abbot of
St. Benin to the Cardinal de Rohan, to hasten
the pafiage of the Rhine. Thus the counter-re
volution has received another pull-back.
PARIS
NATIONAL ASSEMBLY, June 27.
The Conquerors of the Baftile again came to
renew their oath.
M. Troncher, who had jnft received a note
from the King, said that his Majeily desired to
fee the Commiifioners at eleven o'clock ; but, he
added that the Commiifioners did not think it
proper to comply with this desire without the or
ders of the Afiembly. The Assembly ordered
them to wait on the King.
In halfan hour the fame deputy returned, and
said that the Commissioners had found the King
in his bed-chamber, who told them that he had
sent for them to add that he had forgotten, in
his declaration to mention his having given or
ders to M Bouille to protect him on his journey
to Motitmedi.
The Commissioners having told the King that
the Assembly was informed of this circumstance,
his Majesty replied, " I knew not that these or
ders were known. I have nothing more to add ;
my only in'ention was to inform you that 1 had
given those orders."
M. Defmutiiers then made his report, in the
name of the Committee of Constitution, on the
forms to be observed in the choice of a Governor
to the presumptive heir of the crown. One ar
ticle alone was productive of debates. < This was
" whether the Members of the Legislature should
be eligible to this office."
It was at length determined in the negative.
Art I. Previously to the nomination of a Go
vernor to the preemptive Heir of the Crown, a
lift of the citizens qualified for that office, (hall
be drawn up.
Art. 2. The members of the National Aflembly,
divided into Bureaux, lhall make the neceflary
fcruriny. Two Secretaries fiiall add together the
fcrntinies of all the Bureaux. The lift of those
who are qualified fliall be reported to the Aflem
bly, and (hall be primed.
Art. 3. The Election shall be by a plurality of
votes. The votes may be not only for any of
those on the lift, but for any one citizen. No
Members of the National A (lembly fliall be elected.
Art. 4. The Governor appointed shall, before
the Aflembly, take an oath to watch over the
life, and to promote the health of the prefumi
tive heir, and to be refponftble for his perl'oll '
Art. f. All persons in the service of the n
fumptive heir fliall be under the orders of t
Governor.
rfrt. 6. The National Aflembly wiH ; mm .j
ately apply thewfelves to the formation of apl a '~
of education for the prefumpcive heir, in p u ,f u "
ance of a former decree.
At the opening of the evening fitting, a letter
from Dunkirk was read, giving information tint
the officers of the regiment Colonel-General ha 1
run away to Fnrus, and had taken with theili the
colours, and the whole baggage. They had all
attempted, but in vain, to corrupt the soldiers
and to entice them to desert.
A Monk was to be their treasurer. His apart
ments have been searched, and in them were
found 50,000 livres in silver; 200 000 litres go
ing beyond the frontiers, were also intercepted.
The trunks of the fugiiive officers have heeii
seized, and therefore it is supposed they will soon
be fhirtlefs.
LONDON, Juue 30.
A Spcrial Meflenger arrived at the Imperial
Ambaflador's on Saturday last, who is one of the
Emperor's body-guards ; he was only (even hours
on his paflage from-Oftend. A long conference
took place between Mr. Pitt and his Excellency
on Monday, in conference of the dispatches he
brought over. The report is, tha: they contsin
ed information that the Emperor has been pre
vailed 011 again to join his forces with those of
Ruflia against the Porre—that the Danes have de
termined to join Ruflia 111 difpiuing the pafi'age
of the Englilh fleet up the Balti&; and that Swe
den has determined, in cafe of a rupture between
Ruflia and this country, to re-commence hoitili
ties against the former.
The French Eatl-India company, not with (land
ing the general deprelfion of their country, main
tain their credit in the 1110 ft exemplary manner;,
to one house alone, a few days back, they remit
ted in one bill, no less a sum than 40,000!.
Jr y 7.
Baron Horix, Referen.lary of the Chancer 1
the Empire at Vienna, has j 11ft published a^
which ismuch spoken of. Its objecfi is to
that every citizen of Germany, who wai
free, has, by virtue of such freedom, a ri
aspire to any public employment or charge
ever;—and that the exclusive right ■ which is
claimed by the Nobility, has no other foundati
on, than barbarous prejudice' Taniflioiied by igno-
ranee
We feetn to have at length reached the happy
tera, when all the Gothic governments through
out Europe, are to vanish and make room for
governments founded on justice and reason, and
conformable to tlie grand objects, for which so
cieties were originally instituted. Despotism and
Feudality are now at their la (I gasp. Mankind
are determined to be 110 longer led like a herd
of brutes. In lieu of an unnatural inllincft, they
have substituted the light of reason, which now
brings forth to view those rights, that have been
too long concealed frqm the eyes of the people,
and of those w ho govern ihein.
A certain and infallible method of preserving
French beans, potatoes, and other tender vege
tables from being injured by the fpringand funv
mer fro ft s :—Before the fun lifes, wash off all
the white froft from the plants with a watering
pot of common pond or spring water. The a -
hove has been tried this summer and had the de
sired effect.
A gentleman aged upwards of 60, was, and
had been for some years, violently afflicted with
the stone and gravel in the bladder and kidnies ;
he was advised to eat raw onions, and drink the
juice of the fourefl: crab apples, particularly in
the mornings, and to use as mncli of both as his
stomach and constitution would bear at all times
in the day ; by continuing the use ofthefe things
about a year, he was perfectly cured, and re
mains so to this day without any return of the
complaint, and can now attend his bufinefs,which
before he could nor, from the extremity of the
pain. For those constitutions that cannot so well
bear the strong acid of the crab apple, may be
substituted in its room a jam or conserve made of
the blackberry in its unripe state, while it is of
a red colour ; let the juice or pulp be palled
through a Iteve after the berries have been boil
ed in a covered jar set in a kettle of water for
five or fix horn s over the fire ; to every quart 01
the pulp or juice, thus boiled, add two pound*
of lump sugar, boil and skim it, and so keep so'
use.—Dose, a tea spoon full at night, or ofiener,
if the constitution will bear it.
Extrafl of a letter jrom Paris, June 2<?-_
" When the Royal raptives entered Pans, it
is not a little remarkable, that of the immene
multitude afl'embled from Neuille to the Thn'
leries, no one pulled offhishnt to the King. e
soldiers too did not appear under recovered arms,
bnt, on the contrary, with their muJkets fli° u
dered, thus /hewing that they were not
do honor to, but to ascertain the surety °b
Iloyal Family.