fiw a licet of »i fail of the line fiecring up uic channel. The (hip George Barclay, Capt. Collet, failed from London on the morning of the ajth August, and brings papers to the 14th and Lloyd's lifts to the J2d. A few d*yi ago was boarded by the Niger, Bri ti(h frigate, which the fame day had cap tured a schooner from Hifpaniola bound to Philadelphia. if he Hope, Young, from Virginia, and Galen, Eddy, from Bufton, Arrived at Gravefcnd the 19th and the Lively, C»m rel, from Virginia, failed the lift. The Polly, Chad well, from Boston, ar rived at Portsmouth the 19th. The Union, Bright, from Philadelphia, at Cowes, and John Johnfton, from Vir ginia, at Liverpool the 19th; The William, M'Carthv, from Wif cafTet, at Whitehaven Aug. 19. At Dover, the Eliza, Collay, from Virginia, and Polly, Crimp, from Boston. At Bristol, the Roebuck, Bliss, from Philadelphia. Capt. Collet has brought letters from Mr. Jay, for the Secretary of State. Died oftbegcut in his Jlomacb Col. Wm. Williams House Carpenter and an eminent ArcfjiteH of this City ■ Col. Williamj •was a dijlmguijhed patriot in the late Re volution. ExtraS from the Maryland Gazette of the 16th mjlant. Aft ion: speak much louder than words, and arc the heft criterion to form an opini on of the human mind. When I behold aspiring men, with few or no recommen dations of their own, hut their profeflion of patriotifrn, and a general reprobation of government, I cannot help entertaining some doubt of their merit j when I fee them iajole'the multitude with the founds of democracy and ariftoeracy, liberty and equility, I question the purity of their intentions, and whether their action cor respond with their profeflions, whether they are actuated by public virtue or pri vate ambition, and I am induced to brng the matter to a test in making the follow ing queries : if they are men of families, I tra« them home; if they are single men, 1 trace their private charailers ; are they good citizens ? are they indulgent matters ? are they humane to thefr slaves ? do they support the laws of their country ? are they benevolent to the human race! do they lhew a disposition of philanthropy to all mankind ? these are the true cha. raftrreftics of republicanism ; if they are men of this charadler, they are entitled to the public confidence, and the end fandti fies the means—But reverse the question; are they domestic tyrants ? are they cruel and barbarous to thefr slaves ? are they violates of the laws of their country ? are they despotic in private life > these are the true charaileriftics of tyranny ; if they come under the latter denomination, they may, by profeflion, be democrats, or what you please, but in principle, tyrants. The human mind may be improved, the dispositions may be checked, but these palTions, which in small circles character ize philanthropy or tyranny, cannot be de stroyed in larger ones, because nature will be always inclined to run in her usual chan nel ; to suppose the contrary would be sup posing a natural and moral impoiTibility ; it would not only presume a change in the disposition, but in human nature itself, which is immutable. A man diftinguilh ed for republican principles in his family &to dependants,the prelumption is strong, that he will cxercife them when his coun try may requir* them in a larger circle, & on a more extensive scale. But that ado meftic tyrant, when veiled with a greater authority, will become a true republican, requires fometbing more than a change in the human mind. By this Day's Mail. FRANCE. REVOLUTIONARY CONSTITU TION OF THE FRSNCH REPUBLIC. NATIONAL CONVENTION, August 5. CAMBON, after exposing the arts by which the tyrant .Robespierre, sided by the Jacobins, bad continued to ac cumulate all power in the hands of the Committee of Public Safety ; and (hew ing the crrocs in the organization of the various Committees, presented the following Decree, which was adopted by the Convention. DECREE, &c.' ARTICLE i. The Committee of Public Satety shall assume the name of The Central Committee of Govern ment." it shall be composed of twelve members, to be renewed every month, and not eligible again till after the in terval of a month. This Committee shall be under the direct ififpeaion of the " Cotnmif iion of Foreign Affairs," and cannot difpole of «ny of the public funds ex cept for the secret services of govern ment. For this purpose it shall have upon the National Treafyry a credit of ten millions. The credit which it had formerly, and is hitherto unemployed, »s hereby withdrawn. 3- The Committee of Surety and Superintendence, shall take the name of " The Committee of the General Po licc of the Republic." It (hall confilt of fifteen members. It (hall, indepen dent of the Convention, have alone the power of arrelting citizens. For i(Tu ing warrants of arrest againtl public functionaries, it (hall adt in concert with the Committee charged with the super intendence of the Admiuiftration to which such fun&ionary may belong. 4. It (hall neither fend to trial those who have been arretted, nor liberate those sentenced by the popular Corn millions without being in concert with the central Committee of Government. 5. The commiflion of Civil affairs of Police, and the Tribunals, (hall make toita daily report of the Police and the interior security of the Republic. 6. It (hall have under its immediate infpe&ion, the Police and armed force of Paris, the Revolutionary Tribunal, the Committees of fuperintendertce of the republic, and the popular commif- fions. 7. The national treasury (hall credit it for nine'hundred thousand livres, for extraordinary and secret expences. 8. A fifth pait of the members of the Committee, (hall be changed every month, and not re-eligible till after the interval of one month. 9. All other Committees, or com inifiions of the Convention, now in ex igence, are abolilhed. 10. The following twelve Commit tees (hall be eftablilhed :— . One to superintend the commiflion of agriculture and arts, composed of five members. 2. One to superintend the commiflion of Public Inftrudtion, to con,lift of five members. 3. To superintend the commiflion of Commeice and Provisions, five mem bets. 4. To superintend the commiflion of Exprefles, Polt-Oifices, and Pod houses, five members. 5. To superintend the commifiion of Arms and Powdefy fix members. 6. To superintend the commifiion of the movements of the Armies, fix members. 7. To superintend the commifiion of the marine and Colonies, five mem bers. 8. To luperintend the committee of Public Succours, five members. 9. To superintend the commifiion of Public works, five members. 10. For the fuperintendenee of Public expences and Revenues, there (hall be four feftions The firft, confut ing offive rfwmhers, {hall superintend the commifiion of the Public Treasu ry ; the second, of ten members, the National Revenues ; the third, of ten members, the National revenues; the fourth, of ten members, the general Liquidation j and the fifth, of ten members, the office of Accounts. 11. A committee of Legislation, com posed of fifteen members which (hall have the fuperintendencc of the com million of civil Administrations, the ■police and the Tribunals, according to the report of the Tribunals and adminiflrative bodies, (hall be charged with the revision and claffification of the laws, and the details refpefting the territorial divlfsons ot the Re- 12. A committee of Infpediors of the proces-verbeaux, consisting of fifteen members, is charged with superin tending the transcription of the acts , or the Convention in its offices and archives, the National Prefsandthe commission of civil Administrations. Art. 11. There shall also be a com mittee of Infpeftors of the hall, com posed of fifteen members, excluGvely charged with the Police <■. ithin the li mits of the Convention, the committees, and the national garden. It (hall regu late the expences of the National Con vention and its archives, as well as those of the committees, also the travelling expences ©f the Representatives of the people, fenl to the departments of the armies. 12. It (hall verify and adjust the ac counts relative to the aforefaid expen ces s and the resolution of that Com mittee, declaring its verification of the expences of the Representatives of the people amounting to such a sum shall be allowed as an admiflion of that ac-! count. 13. The National Treasury (hall give it credit for three millions, to be em ployed in such expences in the aforefaid payments; and all former credit hither to unemployed, is withdrawn. 14. l'very Executive Commission (hall give a daily account of its pro ceedings to the Committee, charged with its infpe&ion, and shall propose to it the difficulties to be fui mounted, and the means of removing them. It (hall also submit, for the approbation of the committee, the agents nominated for the execution of its order. 15* The cottimiffioner* stall lay eve ry day before the committee for infpeft ing the public expenditures and revenue, a detailed account of the expences in curred in the course of the day. 16. The committees shall direflly propose to the Convention all legisla tive obje&s, after having previously communicated them t6 the central com mittee of government. They' (hall con cert with that committee thro' rhe me dium of one of its members, who shall be charged to report thc executive ob jects discussed in the committee, 17. All executive dbjecls (hall be definitely fettled by the Central com mittee of government, Which /hall be responsible for the refokiticms' it mav take. : ' The refolutioni /hall be signed by at least fix members of the central com mitte, and by the commifliooer of the committee who shall make the report. The refblutions (hall be sent to be executed by the commiflions, and an ac count of them (hall then be laid before the convention. 18. Should there he any difference of opinion in the central committee of government, the affairs to be difcufled and decided by a meeting composed of one commifiioner from each of thecom- ttiittees. 19. In cifes of urgency whert expedi tion is required, the Central Committee of Government may call upon one or more of the Committee charged with the fuperin iendence of the matter in question, and the result of their deliberation (hall be carried in to execution. But the members who (hatl aflifi in such deliberations (hall make an immediate report of it to the General Committee. 20. the Convention shall itfelf nominate the Reprefentativel of [ft*" PeopF: to be sent on any commifiion, the Gcn«ral«, the members of the Executive Commis sion, the members of the Revolutiona ry Tribunal, and Popular Commlfiions, on the propositions of the Central Com mittee of Government, United with thecom rr.ittee charged with what relates to that particular objedl, 28. The National Convention alone has power to recal the Representatives of ' the people sent upon eommifiion. The Central Committee of Govern ment, in concert with the Committee charged Hvith that particular affair, may remove the .Generals, the members of the Executive Commiffiotis, and other public functionaries, of which a report is to be made to the Convention. 12. All the Committees shall have a fifth of their members changed every month. 13. All the Committees and Commifli- , ons within in the Convention (haft conti timie to exercise their functions till the committees that arc to replace them are perfectly organized; .. The committee of public welfare at Paris U now composed of the following perforu : Barrere, Lolloi, Tnlien, Thuriot, Collot D'Herbois, Treilhard, Billaud Varennes, Carnot, EJJeeberau,fen, Prieur, and Breaid,, Lindet. <1 0 . , LONDON. From a variety of applications which were made to the feat of Sir James San ierfon'a honor in the course of the re treat from Guildhall on Tuesday, we are told that the worthy Knight has been rendered as fcientific, as the per sons described by Hudibras, who have been " Kick'd until they can feet whether, " The Ihoe be Spanish or Neat's leather." Hid the recent circumftinces of a man jumping from the top of a house to avoid being dragged to the field of giory happen ed at Paris iuftead of London what an ample field would Tome people have had to expatiateon the dreadful situation of a coun try, where such means were necefiary to recruit thearmy 1 What adecided inference would have been drawn of the sense* of the people as to the profccution of the War ! What a strong argument in favour of a Counter-Revolution being to take place ! NEJV-BKUNSiVICK 08 at. ExtraS of a letter from an officer of the ferjey I'olttnteeri, dated Harr\Jburgh October 10, 1794. I expert to be with you in 4 or $ weeks, we Jhall reach Carlijfe 17 miles from this place to morrow and thenif time mill per mit y fembly, was to crcate a legislature with n France, bouud to New York, Nicho- zjingle houft, I believe it was not only asCaftilHne matter unfortunately drown- ; proper but titce/Tury, that all the diffcr ■d, take this opportunity of publicly ac- ent onJ f M clloft „ to c fc cnowledgmg ®ui gratitude to Ebenczer . ~ ... , nit Tucker Esq. Surveyor of the Customs of . e A.lieniby» Ihould ftteet :he Port of Little Egg-Harbour, for his 1 inonehoufe, otherways the Nobles and lumane and spirited exertions in our be- \ Clergy would have negatived every aft L n " nd ! av ? nn ? t0 ? c " re andrec °ver ( ti iat should entrench on their exclufifre :he effects & cloathes of the unfortunate, i • i j rrn* „ j • 1 ;vho were plundered by the unprincipled ! a " d junfd.A.on ; and with. Shallop-men and Inhabitants on thecoaft; 1 abohlhlng many or their privileges, sut we have to regret that when we firft [ the revolution would have been incum jrounded, Mr. Tucker waj absent at Phi- ; plete, and probably useless. adelphia on business, or we have every I But these orders being once abolished, eafon to believe we should have laved pro- ' i .t, r i 11 j j j ,erty from the wreck to a eonfickrable a- j ,5 °[ ran . k . 1111 rc . duced and r moun t< ! blended with other citizens, hi point of Witness our hands at the Port of Lit. rights, it should have been the firft arti tle Egg Harbour, this 15th day of cle of the conftitutiori, to eredt an eleS- October 1.794. . ive Senate, to be composed of any citi toivme erar 1, Mate zens whatever, and no way diftinguiih . c -wig aufer, f rom t ) ie members of the other house but by their more venerable age. Their negledt of this artisle in the 'undamental Code, in defiance of the :xperience of two thousand years, and the recent experience of America, was 1 proof of their contempt of old max ims and hoary headed experience, for which France has ever since been bleed ng at every pore. A venerable senate s the rock of political fafety to all free [fates. When eledlive, it is not an aris tocracy ; it is a reprcfentative body.—> And a division of the legislature into :\vo branches it intended almoftfolely to lid and temper difculfion and to restrain passions and precipitance. The history jf the convention for three years pad is sne tilß:; of fadts to illustrate the utility jf such a divilion ; and has done move to onfimMr. Adams's doftrineof checks ind balances in government, than a hun» ired folios of labored disquisition.— Joseph Sims, Who has for Sale, A few Cbejls of Red and Pale Peruvian Bark, Of tbeFirft Quality, Madeira & Sherry Wines, Fit for immediate use, See. &o oa. 22 Ouiuorh P. S Any person who has got any of the cargo of laid {hip, and will deliver it to the officers of the Cuftomi of Phi ladelphia, New York or Egg Harbour, (hall have a Salvage according to law. Oa. 22 Old American Company. THEATRE—CE DAK STRF THIS EVENING, oHoler 21. Will be Presented, A .New COMEDY, never acted here, called the World id, a. Village, Written by OTCeefe,author of the Younj Quaker, Wild Oats, Poor Soldier, &c. Between the Play and the Farce, a Bal let DANCE, called the Two Philoso phers or the Merry Girh To which will be added, A FARCE, called High Life beP/W Stairs. In A a second, x MOCK MINUET by • Mrs. Bolomonj and Mr. Prigmore. MefTrs. lIALLAM & HODGKINSOK rcfpedlfully acquaint the Citizens in gene ral, that every expence'has been chearful ly sustained. that might tend to make the Old American Company worthy a share of ! their patronage, during the ftort stay the nature of their engagements will permit thei.-i to make here. BOX, one Dollar—PlTT, three quar ers—GALLERY, half a dollar. The doors will be opened at half after: five, and the curtain drawn up precisely tt half afttr fix o'clock. Hifpa ( niola do. From the American Minerva. REVOLUTION IN FRANCE. This fubjeft is a theme of genera Jamaica conversation, and furmfhes an inexhau tible fund of ufeful reflections. Me of'all nations, who have enlarged, ide of social happiness, have been lookiu" upon that event, as molt propitious t, the piVgrefs of truth, reason, fcieuce, freedom, and national improvements. The ardi>r of their wishes is fti 11 the fame, tho' their hopes have been damp ed by the scenes of blood and tyranny wbich have been eslu'bited, during the pcogrefs of the revolution. What then have been the eaufes of the langninary, and irregular proceed ings of the kgiflators of France, whick. have abated the arder of our hopes, and wounded the feelings of all good men ? This is certainly an enquiry of vail magnitude ; and a fatisfa&ory elu cidation of this poiut, will be a valuable acquisition to the statesmen of all coun tries. Men whose minds are warped by preju dice, and who nevier examine caui'es while, the events pieafe them, lay " Allthe severe measures of the ruling powers in France have been occasioned by the combination of tyrants to deitroy the liberties of the French, or by internal treachery." With these people all the sanguinary proceedings !n that country are deemed neceflary ; and therefore judicable. I admit in the firft piace, that w&s ther such measures arc neceflary or not, it is clearly good policy in the Conven tion to make the people of Franco be lieve tliem so ; and the, deception, if it is one, will spread among the advocate® of the cause, in other co-unti its. I ad mit, in thefecond p'ace, that it is probable m'peh. of the violence committed in EV*uu.e he j-uiilyaltTlfauted ta- the 4t ET. FOR SALE, In the County of Fairfax and State of Vir ginia, a Trafifc of Land, THE Land oo Biands ford, contain Dg 189 »cres,ilioiife with two ftiljs, 01 e of U 3 and the o ther. 53 gallons, in .older for immediate ' 'i(i,rime are also good app'e and p<*acb irchard# on it. All the houfesare new ex • epr one «rf the dwellnif, houfes,that how ver is comple'elv lepaired and rr good or der it is a oooc! fitimiion for a store Tavern and D■ Hi 11c Iy, and there is a good MiU iftit "D it. £»^ti : rcoi the Priutef I