Foreign Affairs. 1' A R I S, August 8. IN Fraijcgr the iropofition of iythes is for ever aboliihed ; the people have already experienced the happy «ffe»3s of biing released from oppref lion. , - During the last autumn, the nul ba 11 dine 11 in several pariibes began their harvcft in a manner expreihve of their gratitude, both to God and io the National Afierably. Their pastor* accompanied them to the (ielJ ; TtDeum and other anthems were performed ; and the grateful eiFufions of the heart ascended to JHeaven in praif'es and thanksgivings. The nrail thankful acknowledg ments were made to their legi/lators, by whose wife and merciful every one was about to reap ihe fruits of his labor ; happy that he could now call ihe whole produce of- bisj fields his ovm. Muiic and dancing and innocent "feftivity, displayed th rough the Pa lifii the felicity of its inhabitants. Is there an Kngliflnnan who reads this account, J'tit molt earnestly hopes that tlie period is not far distant, when his countrymen (hall enjoy ft milar felicity, and express theii-feel ings in the fame grateful and devoti onal manner. NATIONAL ASSEMBLY, August 6. Letter Marjhat Luckncr to the Mb njJUr at War. IVitf.viburg, Aug. 4. " The army of the Rhine is en camped below VViHembiirg ; detach nients have been sent out in order to l'cour the country and bring in intel ligence. Four hundred Hungarian dragoons have been cut in pieces in a fkirtnifl), during which we loft on ly 25 men, one of whom was a lieute nant colonel. ' " General Kellernian i» advanced towards Lauterbourg. The Auftii aos have crofled the Rhine ; ic was impoflib!? to prevent their paflage. " It is certain that we /hall be at tacked in several different parts at one ai'id the fame time ; theonly dif ficulty will be, to diftinguitfi the true one. 1 have every reason to praise the discipline and good order of the I am, &c troops (Signed) August 13 M. Bazire informed the Aflembly, that several letters had been found in the King's apartments, among which was the correspondence of the Jacobins of Marfeilies to their bre thren of Paris. 'I hose letters had been intercepted by M. Blancgillv, member of the National Aflembly, and handed to the King. He added, that M. Blancgilly had previoufl\ written notes in the margin descrip tive of several persons friendly totlie Jacobins, confeqtientjy the King's e nemies The commiflioners fer.t to fumtnon M. Blancgilly to apj>ear in his place, and answer to the charges made a' gainst hini ; returned and brought word, that he was gone to the coun try. The Afl'embly decreed, that his pa pers flionld be (ealed up. Mr. Gohier laid down several pa pers found at M. la Pone's admini ftration of the civil lift, fyj. Gohier observed, that there were nutnberlefs letters among them replete with adu Jation, and begging a pa, ticipation of the civil lid. There is one letter from an officer, said he, whose name we lliall not ineniion for theprefent he is employed in a high capacity in one of our armies j and he does not conceal his anti-patriotic sentiments. The last mentioned le/ter was re ferred to the Military Committee with injunctions to adopt the proper measures to counteradt the rebel's in tentions. The comir iffionrrs of the commons of Pans gave in the st are of thecapi tal-peace as they fai.l, was perftfl: Jy restored—all the arillocratic pre(T es had been destroyed —the Staft' offi ceisof the Gens d'Armes were in ctittody the aftaffin's who threatened the Mayor's life were in sr ons . a Court Martial to judge the Swiss was aiiein.bled. ihe Aflembly bestowed much applause on the sondu.it of the commons. M. Thuriot moved, that all the dc nmHlhed (latues rtiould be converted to cannon. M, la Croix conceived it would be a patriotic decree, that wonld > order all the brazen monuments ,in the churches to be melted into artillery. Not only in Paris, added M. Tha rior, but throughout the whole em pire——Whatever is metal in the churches, national in the dwellings formerly in the King's po(- feflion, lb in) Id be melted dqwn, and made cannon of Al. La Croix's motion was decree*! M. Francois moved, that the lands called common ftlpuld be equally di vided among the inhabitants of the neighborhood in which such should be found.— Decreed. The lame member moved, that the property of the Emigrants (hould be fold in fniall Jots.— Decreed. A Member read a paflage from a letter he had received from Brest " The lorh of August the citizens of Brest transported 72 priests who had not taken the oaths.—The ship the people of Brest chose for their con veyance had been formerly a Guinea man ; and the good people ordered the Captain to make the firlt Spanish port."—(The aflenibly applauded.) M. Genfonnet, in the name of the Committee of General Safety, propos ed, and the Aflembly decreed, thefol' lowing articles : — t. The fix Secretaries of State, ap pointed by the allembly, are to corn pole the Executive Power. 2. They are charged to seal and promulgate the laws of the State. 3. Each Secretary in his turn, and weekly, is to piefide at the Council Board. 4- A double copy of each law is to be made out, signed by the keeper of: the Seals, and sealed with tlie seal of State ; ene copy to be depofiied in the Keeper's Archives, the other in the National Afleinbly's. j. The Jaws are to be promulgated. — The decrees of the National Allein bly are entitled laws, and are to be publiflied without any prevjouSifor mula—they are, however, to be con cluded thus "in the name of the Nation, the Executive Council,ad in terim, order the Adminillrative Bo dies and the Courts of Jnftice to tran scribe these presents, &c." " Luckner." 6. 1 he Seal of State lhall be chang ed : henceforward it fliall bear the figure of Liberty, armed with a pike, with a cap of Liberty at the top,with this infcripiion, " In the name of the French Nation." 7. The sentences of the Courts of Jullice fliall begin thus: "In the name of the French Naiion." 8. The Officers of Jultice, former ly called the King's Commiflaries, fliall for the future be trained Nation al Commiflaries. M. Bazire in the name of the Com mittee de Surveillance, presented se veral letters and memorials found in the King s library. The letrersAvere wriiten from Coblentz to M. Noail les de Poix, to obtain pay for the King's guaids at Coblentz— It ap peared that the King had paid them even after the month of January 1792. M. Bazire informed the Aflembly' that the Prince de Poix had been tak en in custody, by order of the Com mittee de Surveillance. Six o clock in the evening, 1- O N D O N, Augurt i 3. it of a letter fro?n Paris. r a- ' hC , C< ' mn, » l,s are in full pof feflion of all power and authority. 1 hey ha%'e conferred on the Setfions ', e ''S'^ C l of l .i ud g i "g every citizen who (hall be denounced, and to pass onih.n what sentence they please. They have ererted a proviftoharv tri bunal, to vvhtch they refer every man lent to the,,, as a criminal, who is fuminanly judged, and inftamly ex ccuted £very moment frelh victims 1 u . , " ler lll£ - sword of this new ~i bunal. Every p er son is politivelv pi evented from leaving p aris _ A |j thole who are pollelied of property ,' e r "' a g ene, al conifer nation. Kc clefiaftics are particularly ferreted out and imprisoned. Th'e Nol„!i lv " si - P,i " ce < le P j Ch '] b °t «as arretted yefterdav Ahh W n i'i n ° d ° ubr ' be Abbe Dillon, of an Iris]» family has been maflacred in Jus own i'J** Sitting of Tuesday Night 154 Yesterday, twelve Eccleiiaflics were arrelted who had taken refuge in the Irilh college. Persecution is, in ihort, at iis heighth. " Every liratagem has been em ployed to excite the fury of the rab ble again ft the Royal Family, and to bring them to the fc«ffold. For this pnrpofe, not only hand bills are in daily circulation, but the licentious editors of the Jacobin Journals invent the 1110 ft grol's calumnies ; which they know limit remain uncontradicted, as the Gazettes in the opposite iwerelt have been prohibited to bepubliihed. In one of these papers of yelterday, written by the execrable Gorfas, a let ter is publiihed, which he fays was found in the Queen's writing-delk at ihe time the palace was pillaged,from her Majesty to the Aultrian Minilter at Bruflels, recommending a long lift of prolcribed friends to the royal call fe, to his particular favor, She is therein made to write—how much they are entitled to his protection, from the services they have done her 1 and the King, and that ihe hopes the i time draws nigh, when ihe shall be a- j ble to reward all her friends ; —that , (he looks forward with a pleasing : hope to the time when the Duke of Brunfwick enters Paris. ! } " By a decree of the military com- Jinittee, which nominates commiflion ers to the three armies, they are au thorised to ijfut mandates of arrest, pro nouncing the Jufjienfiou and difmijfion 6f the gekcral and fiaff officers -who may be suspected ofJavoring the enemy, or of aiding against the general fafety." Prince d'Eftefhazy, accompanied by the Prince de Lichtenftein, is ar rived in town, incog, from Coblentz. | As loon as the news of the late com motions at Paris reached Rouen, the department fitting there came to a resolution. That they had taken a fo !emn oath to be faithfuf to the nati on, the law, and the Xing ; thar they had devoted their lives and fortunes to the constitution ; that the present legislative aflembly had no power to alter one tittle of that confticution ; and that they would neither obey, nor cause to be executed, any decree not fan<ftioned by the King. This is expected to be the cafe with many o ither departments. ' By the mention of the Prince de Poix in the National Aflembly on Sun day, as one of the persons having ac cess to the King without leave, it ap pears that the report of his having fallen a vicftim to the infurretftionsof Friday last was erroneous. Bickeftaff, the author of Love in a Village, the Maid of the Mill, Padlock, &c, and who might justly be termed the father of that species nfcompofiti on, was some time ago seen wander ing about in Italy, in a Hate of almost mendicant indigence. A donation of half a guinea from one who had known him in better days, was re ceived by hiin with humble gratitude. An example this, that abilities when debased by vice, cannot fecuve to their pofleffors even the common ne ceflaries of life. | When a wells'vairlt,br drain, lias been inclosed a considerable time, if two or three pails of water be.thrown down, the noxious and fuffocating air will be so tlifperfed and corrected, that in an hour any person may go down with fafety. Great quantities of Wheat are al ready cue in the neighborhood of Loudon, and a season more abundant than the present for that kind of grain, is not within the memory of ihe oldest farmers. August 20. It is positively aflcrtccl by informa tion received at a capital houfeinthe city, that the combined army had en tered the French territory in Ltixein burgh, and had commenced their o perations by the invelture of Thion ville, the capital of the French in that Duchy. The force by which it was attacked could not be refilled for ma ny days. Thionville is 19$ miles N. E of Paris. From Thionville, the combined ar my aie to move to Far Louis, aftro.ng town in Lorrain, fortified after the manner of Vauban ; it is 20 miles to the eallward of Thionville, and at this fiegethe King of Prulfia, it is said, will be prefenr. Avellel which left Havre-de-Grace on Wednesday morning, with Gen. Biion's lady, is arrived at Wrifmouth. Domestic Articles. s A L E M, O(Sober 2. La ft week an atiion on the ci Traae Act was brought l»f Court of Common Pie!* at t\ ' he port ; when it Z d l a n whether the Court had iunfdi who determined firmaiive. Ihe defendant, then a pealed from this decision to that f the Supreme Judicial cw,. ' r I,is acc °unt of Con coid, Maflachufetts, fays << Theav rage number of deaths annually" fu" thirteen years past, is 17 or r 3 i a nuary 1792 there « ere living in ,U town, feventy-five persons above 7 £ years of age." The census of that town giv e » 1590 inhabitants. , The National Gazette of the 10th jult, gives an extract of a letter from I Bolton, which represents the oreat jbody ot the people here as not "well ' fatisfied with the federal government. | A fuperficial observer would however be likely to form a different opinion, 'from hearing the people universally exprefiing their happiness in the pie fent established order of things, and from the candid, acknowledgment of those who at firft opposed the federal constitution, that they were in an er- tor BOSTON, OA. 4. Captain Spooner, of the lchooner Phcenix, arrived at Plymouth, Malla chufetts, on Tuesday lafl, in dajs from Oporto—spoke oa the Grand Banks, brig , Capr. Brockhoufe from Havre de Grace, for Salem, who confirmed the late unhappy accounts from France, and added, that Gene ral Fayette and his family had gone jto England—Captain Brockhoufe left ; Havre de Grace about the 4th Sep tember. HARTFORD, OA. 8. The deplorable (fate of France, at this moment, mult excite thecompaf. fion of every feeling man. The King deposed by a decree of the National Aflembly—and both King ami Queen, with their family, obliged to lh«lrer themselves in this very Aflembly, from the lawless fury of the Parisian populace. The guards of the palace butchered before ihe threshold, and the palace rifled by the mob—an ar my of 200,000 Anltriansand PriiffiaiiS, headed by the brave and warlike, but implacable Duke of Brunfwick, de termined at all events, to penetrate to Paris and restore the his throne and prerogatives—diAinion, suspicion and treachery among the national councils—fierce animofitv between the Jacobins and the gene rals of their armies, and dillradion throughout the whole nation. A scene so gloomy and teirible is feldoni un folded on the theatre of this earth ! As men, as philosophers, and as citizens, let nspaufe—let us withhold a part of ouradmiration oflhe French Constitution, which places legislative power in a jmgte body of men, uncock ed and uncoiitrtujcd—Let tis withhold our enconiiurns on the man or men who are diftingnifhed for their facul ty of writing down governments, with out talents for replacing them with better fvftems. Let us lament the obltinacy of Kings, nobles and prie 1:9 in Europe, who, by refufing to relax in their dominating systems, in pic portion to theprogrefs of knowledge and commerce, render their fubjcCfJ and tenants desperate, and by reit - ing small amendments of the Conn tution, blindly expose their countries to the horrors of war and civil ai' cor Let us lament that nations, w they have obtained important aine .' orations of their government, wl not stop at any point of moderation, but rafiily plunge themfel'es into a narcjiy, wretchedness and ruin. RICHMOND, (Vir.) Oa. J. On Monday last ihe Affero.Wj " ihis Hate met at the Capitol >n 1 city, agreeable to cheGo*ernor s pra clauiation, when there appeared full honfe. J hey then prided to the appointment of their officers, made choice of Mr. Charles Hay, « clerk, Thomas Mathews, Esq. f PP ak £ ' Mr. William Allen, .fr.jeant at arTO* and .Ire Rev. .oenjaJT>.n Bltgro", Chaplain. • t
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