|he conou& which has been would be to alk more than the nature of the cafe demands, mcfrc than the fundamental maxim* of l'ocicty anthorife, more uau the Oufcates of fviiM reulo;i juil:fy. A nueition has anicn, with regard to th? prujkrf o jett of th-t giatitude, which ts so nUKai«UiiteiUfegon ; whether the unfo'lunate 2 7 i nice by wkUuni the alliltance received was given ; or the nation of whom be was the Chief o. ciie organ. It interests the national justice to form right conceptions on this point. The arguments which support the latter idea are as follow. 44 Louis the XVI was but the constitution al agent of the French nation. He acted tor and 011 behalf of the nation ; 'twas with their money and their blood he fupportedour cause. 'TU to them therefore, not to him, that our obligations are due. Louis the XVI. in ta king our part was no doubt actuated by State policV. An absolute prince could not love liberty, iiut the people of Fiance patron ised our cause with zeal, from fyinpathy in its objsiA. Tlie people therefore, not its mo narch arc entitled to our fyinpathy." This reasoning may be ingenious, but it is not founded in nature or J*£l. Louis the XVI, though no more than the conftitut-ional agent of the nation, had at the time the ible |)ow#r of managing » ts affairs, the legal right ct" dire&ing its will and its forces. It belonged to him to uilift u*, or n«t, without consulting the nation ; and lie did ai jiil us without futh consultation. His will alone wa; atliyc \ that of the natiop pajfivc. If there was any kindness in the decision, de manding areturnof kindhefs from u c , it was the kindness of Louis the XVI ; his heart was the depotitory ot the fcntiincnt. Let the genuine voice of nature then, \in per verted by political fubleties, pronounce whether the acknowledgment, which may be due lor that kindness, can be equitably transferred from him to othe'rs, who had no Ibaie in the de cision. Whether the principle ij gratitude ought to determine us to behold with indif ference his in fortunes, and with the triumphs of his enemies. The do&riue that the Prince is only the organ of his mition is conch*live to enforce the obligations of good faith between nation and nation ; in other words, the obfcrvance of duties stipulated In treaties for national ptw poles —and it will even iuifice ro continue to a nation a claim to the friendlhip and good will of another resulting from friendly offices done by its Prince ; but it would be to carry it too far and to render it too artificial to at tribute to it the eifefit of transferring that claim from the Prince to the nation, by way of opposition and contrift. Friendlhip, good will, gratitude for favors received have so i life parable a reference to the motives with which and to the persons by whom they were rendered, as to be incapable ot being trans ferred to another at hn cxbenct. From the New-Tort Daily Gazette MR. M'IEJN, EVERY benevolent heart niuft be agitated with mingled fenti metus of compafßnn and horror, at the late we!] authenticated accounts of the maflacreof eight or ten thou sand white people, men, women and children ; and the total de- Uruiftiou of tlie city of Cape-Fran cois. And what has occasioned this horrible carnage and devaiiation ? It appears, ft&in whatVve havebeen able to learn, that it originated in a dilputc between the coinmifiioners Sontbonux and Polverel, and the Governor Galbau, all acting under the authority of the National Con vention. Galbau, it teems, had been received at the Cape, and inltaied in the government, before the ar rival of the commissioners. This was deemed by these kuutbls Citizens an infringement of their authority, a deprivation offome part of their dignity. To support their cause in oppofkion to the Governor, the mu lattoes are introduced, the negroes are excited to Wft the arms out of the hands of theii mailers, and a general deitru&ion of tlie defence lefs inhabitants eufues without any diltinCtion of sex or age. These are the men who talk so much of equality ; but when they come to a£l, we find that, rather than en dure the lead luppofed diminution of their power, they will hazard the total demolition of a great and flourilhing and the/bedding of the all its inhabitants. i-fv ' " "Mm)! proud Man ! Drett'ifi a little brief authority, Melt ignorant of what he's pioft as ■ fur'd, Like an angry ape Plays such faiitaflic tricks before high Heaven, As makes the Angels weep, It is reported, that at leait two thousand of tlie wretched fugitives from that devoted place, aie on their way ro feck an nfyliini in the abodes of this happy coun ■to—they are coming with no more property than what root J he bto't oit ity pour wretches dying in con iU'jnawon from a general uiaflacic. I have pbferved in fume of the pa pers, an invitation i 0 the French people redding in this city, to meet at Cor re's HoteJ, for the purpefc of celebrating the anniversary of; the taking of the Baitile. Would it not be a much more becoming spe cimen of their patriotism, as well as hutnaniry, to save the expence of a fuinptuous entertainment, and make provision for the reception of their wretched countrymen, who will soon be here in a it ate of naked ness and poverty ? JUBA. Foreign Intelligence. o o FRANKFORT, April 2 S. THE French, wjth an eye to a diver/ion, having re-entered Deux Pouts, and spread their forces from Saar-Louis to Bitche, the Duke of BrurifWick has pushed forward to reconnoitre the ground they occupy, ar.d was followed yes terday by the King of Prulfia in per son. His Majeity, attended by the Duke of Deux Pouts, proceeded to Carlelberg, the French having in the mean time retreated back to the heights that bolder 011 the Duchy. Cuftine has published a proclama tion,in which he endeavors to prove, that he is not the greatest public robber in exigence. The Clubbiflsat Mentz, endeavor more than the French thenifelves, by every poflible expedient, to pre vent a capitulation ; and tional Deputies, to keep upthflHce of delulion, have declared in &.JFO - that they expect a Clic cour of sixty thousand men. The French have plundered the peafantg at Hombach, and committed every poflible enormity. Princfc Maximilian,of Deux-Poms, makes the campaign wich the Prui fian army. W« have pofleffion of a battery very near Mentz, formed 011' the ru ins of an ancient entrenchment,from which we play on the fort, and the ftfliHnn n.aniprl Philijppe. We liaye contrived by means of the relicks of an old Roman aqueduct, to inun date the enemy's mines. .• General Dumourier is (lill Stuttgard. J TOURNAY, May 3. On the litit, the French under Dampiere, attacked Gen. Clairfait's pujjfrat Raitnes and Vicogne, with conHßerable force. Their intention probably was to relieve Conde, which they would have succeeded in, hacLthey taken these polts They e f° ur several attacks from five in the morning till the evening, but were repulsed with the assist ance of a detachment from the Pruf iians under General Knoblefdorf, sent from their camp at Maulde, nottv ithfianding a French corps which was potted in front of the camp to keep them in check. The two battalions of Prulfians had left the camp near Tournay, to rein force tho* posted at Maulde. The affair was severe, and the lois great on both fides ; but the French were completely repulsed. The fame day the French alio left their camp at Famai s, and at tacked Piitice Cobourg's Polls at St. Sauve and Urmaing, probably with a view to prevent, his giving any aflillance,to f.'lairfait. The infantry advanced with an intention of turning the left of the Auftviaiig, and at the fame time kept up a violent and heavy cannonade and feint attack from the right, but "ere so well received from the right by the Atiflrians, that they fell back into two villages in great diforder,-«to the amount of 15,000, and were iome time exposed to a heavy cannonade, by which they loft i or 600 men, without (taring 1 o move out until their cavalry advan ced and covered their ret- c-c, which they made in great confiifion, and were pursued by the Aiiftrians be yond the 1a It height before their camp at Fainars, which the latter would have forced, had they been stronger. The French have !2 Ilitt> v\ e two 16 and three 12 pua »d^.s—j: l3 -466 reft were 8 and 6polers. Thc-fe attacks whichfcere iemly meant lo relieve or raise ilicge of Conde, by turning out exatf itieir expectation, U probably lia It en its surrender We had yefierdßy small aff-iir with the French ataimes. The French chof'e to attacus, and were fools enough to brij a cannon, which thtyHiiad tin to fire but once, the Aultrian calry falling in sword in hand beftt they could load again, and took he cannon, ] and ammunition wag|ji with eight horses. The Frenchiad iJori6 < killed, and 14 taken, niong whom wasan artillery officer, The French made a confvrfed (land on the road and fields ; but oil tfe arrival of two Hanoverian canrni, and firing a couple of rounds a them, they took to their heels, ari retired to a village, into which w: fired a cou ple of {hots more, wheh frightened them to such a degre*, that they run and did not stop until they got to Orchie. The guards and Hano verian horse were not there, being ■jk too great a diftanceto arrive in time. We had only a battalion of Hanoverian foot,and fomeAuftrian cavalry. Our loss only one Aus trian killed, and one horse. PARIS, April 25. Six thousand Marfeilloi,;, at tile in (ligation of the »re marching to this capita). You wilt fee in the details of the convention I enclofc you, that Marat was yes terday acquitted. He loft no time in refuining his feat in the conven tion, whither -he was followed by a formidable mob, who bad pFevioof ly placed on his head a civic crown. This farce will mod probably be followed b) a tragedy, on the arri val of the who will fee Marat in the light of a much injur ed patriot. NATIONAL CONVENTION, April 23. The Deputies returned from Va lenciennes ilated, that they had ta ken every precaution to couureradt the ill effetfts of theextreme dearth of provisions experienced in that city, thro' the treachery of Duniou rier, who had conveyed stores to the enemy. The frontier towns, they added, were in a refpetftable state of defence. They had nar rowly escaped being (hot by a set of counter revolutionists, whilst liar ranguing the troops. Referred to the committee of public fafety. Barbaroux impeached Monge,the marine miniiler, whom he thought guilty of unpardonable negligence, allowing seventeen merchant (hips belonging to the purt of Mar seille*, and returning thither froin the colonies, to be captured by the English and Spanish fleets, liotwiih ftanding sixteen fail of French (hips of the line were cruizing-in the Mediterranean ylpril 24. Chales, a National De puty from the department of Maine and Loire, represented the para.de and luxurious manners of General Berruyer, which he thought incom patible with the command of Sans Culottes. The soldiers of the Ge neral's army were in a date bor dering on infurrecHon, and demand ed the appointment of their own officers. Sitting of the Jaaubius. RobeiTpierre, the younger, de nounced Le Brim, the minister, who was guilty, he said, of the crime of leze-nation, when lie presented to the convention the proclamation of the Prince ofSaxe Cobourg. LONDON, May 7. General Cuftine, at the head of 20,000 men, is ready to artack the Electorate of Treves, and his ad vanced pofls are already on the Electoral frontiers. Knglilh Stocks, 7th May— 3 per cents. 76. ' SHIP NEP/S ARRIVED.*,,,, PORTojPHILAUkLPHI/. ling P .as, K'-chjiiaud. Poily, Giar'K. Sloop s.'ea,, Elkins, T'.j:a«, t)u-k Bfti.'v,;, tnrinlkry, Tflwn: ~~A~M ERICA. BASSETS***." ( St - thnrtop! «r*») June 3. Died on Thursday lad, Monsieur Louis Nicholas Durand de Sur niond, a trench royal ill. Harrali. Ed by the democratic party of Goa daloupe, and unable to jefide 1., ihat iiland with any kind ot com for, he disposed ot a (mall estate, and was about to retreat to Ameri ca there to seek an afyluui from the Itornis, by which 111 common with his countrymen ot the fame political principles with himfclt, lie had been three years buffered—in a brig bound to Boftou, he embark ed himfelt', his wife, and liis chil dren—in the fame vellbl was depe fired all his worldly effects,—the pricc of his plantation,—--Icarce liad they got without fight ot land « .iea they fell in with an EngiHh priva teer from St. Vincent, and were captured—llo difcrimiiiation could be observed —his fortune became the property of the captors : and he was brought into this port, dc.poll ed of the means of subsistence : 111 this truly pitiable situation with a heart torn with anguilhjand a body emaciated by sickness and fatigue, unable to bear the ills of fortune, he lingered a few days and died, la menting the tniferies of a helpless wife ai7d children. Being known by some of his countrymen among us to have been a member of the ancient and honorable fraternity of Free and Accepred Masons, his re mains were followed to the grave by a refpe»ftable number of the or der, and were buried with ail the honors of masonry. ST. JOHN'S) (Augusta) June 4. It is a f3i 90 hi tf-r n Vll 1"N w V '"£ ! : J •5