From the Engli/h Rtvitw. NA'TIONAL AFFAIRS. London, April 6. FRANCE. Theatjtounts that vc have received for Tome time concerning France have been, asufual. iomcwhat 0011 tradiilory. Nor is this to be wondered at. Not only are the individuals, from which the reports "originate,, fwiyed by (lifTWrent intereffs. but even men of perfedl candour and (incerity, Jnd who -have no o ther views thin those of truth, are exceedingly liable to be deceived in- the eftiin-ttes they form of the adlual condition, fentiroents, dispositions and dvfigns, of a people so numerous, f® versatile, so corrupt, and, in proportion to their corruption, open to the influence of i:Hrigue and fa&ion. Were' France a kingdom of small or but muder-at* extent, were the French a Hea dy, fimpleand honest people, itmightbe -pofiible «o form tome probable-judgment concerning the conduift they would ho!d>at the present crisis. As peace is,be 'yond all doobt, their interest; their interest, even' if" they were to place their fuprenae interest in political po-ver and grandeur ; so it might be pretty certainly prediifled, that pacific.councils would prevail in the great aflembly of the nation. Peace would heal up her wouedsl revive agriculture, • manufaflures arid con merce; consolidate her-government in fume form or ■ other; and place in hand, as heretofore, the balance of "the greater part of Europe. The juvenile ardour of a naicent republic, would carry her on, by a rapid progrelfion, in a_fp!endid career of various "improve ment ; and a large increase of wealth and. of know ledge, would reader Jier capable of the greateit at chievements of war ; if, indeed, "in that progress to wards the perfeflicn of human nature which was the grandprmciple oh which her philosophers set out in the revolution, (he (houhi not attain to so much wifdsm as to be pervaded, that there is. a degree of national glory, as-well as of felicity, luperior far to what is to be procured by fore? of arnis_ In the natirral course of .events, the Netherlands would be united., in feme Jhape or other, and by Ame means or either, with France ; and her empire, bounded only by the Alps, the Pyrennees, the Rhine and the might form and execute grander designs than any that were ever •••executed, or ever, conceived hv the greatefl-emperors ; ' deflgns not of political ambition and conquefl ; not of ] ilupen J ous pyramids, or mountains and rocks ftiaped ' into fantaflic forrtfi by millions of hands in the lapse ' of ; but defgns of 'yhilolbphy, for the genera) 1 comfort of,maniwid, and the aggrandizement of hu- ' man nature. But if, «n the other hand, the national 1 aflembly should persevere in the war, the refourees of ' the nation, though great, yet annually jiminifhipg, c meil fail at last j if the enemies of France (fcould stlfo reTolve to perl'evere in the struggle. They have teen t fticcefsful in the firft years of the war; as always \ has been, and also mull be the cafe, where a whole, or ( a great part of a people, marches forth to war, into the territories of thair neighbours. They find supplies ia those territories for a time ; hut, .when these are ex- c haufted, they are under a tieceffity of either advancing or retreating. If they advance, they weaken their bo- ' dy by dilatation, and they present mimberlels advaD- v tages over them to their saemies, vrhofe armies on the r frontiers formed but a small part of their population. t If they retreat into their own country, they cannot long mike head against eonftant and active aflailants, , iinlefs it can befuppofed that it is possible to carry on pirpetual war with their rjicft .powerful neighbours, ' and, at the'fam« time, afford a fufficient number of a hands for agriculture, and a certain pertion, too. of c the neeeffiry manufactures and commerce. It would a be (onfideretl, toe, by the French nation, wereihev guided by good sense and pure .intentions, constant war must th*aw them, sooner or later, info the hands of the army, or, which it the sara& thing, «junto us v leading men in their aflejnbly, who influence and direil v the army. Something very like this has happened alt ready. It was by means of the army that the Nation- t al Aflembly, that is, the ruling party in the National r Aflembly, controlled the Parisians, and the citizens of r other large cities, and continued their power by the re «*.efti®n of two thirds of their rmmber. •Snch are the reflefiions that, in our judgment, weiild a occur to a sober and sensible people: fush -are not the ' JEreitch. And, to conjedlure concerning the conduct i of such arrogant, b.zarre, and infuriated beings, is c difficult ; though entirely to abstain from all conjeflure a i* impdffible. The Sovereign power of France, at the present moment, Teems to be lodged in a collufioo, or coalition, between the leaders of the National Aflem bly and the army. The Aflembly have paid the army 1 nobly, and they will continue tq pay them, if net with a p-!per, with plunder. The army, in return, have a done every thing for the National Aflembly. This g mutual complaisance may continue during the v,-ar ; G but, on the conclufior. of a peace, it mull come to a j period. Then it must be decided with which party the benefit of this combination-is to remain .it last. This v is not our present qucftion ; though it he, to a eertsin F degree connected with it. Our present enquiry is, hew far the passions and interells of the Executive.Gorern jnentof I ; ra«ee, including the Direxflory and the ar- n »y, will probably incline them to the cantinuanceof a war, or rtie restoration of pcace. It ocsuts, at firft fight, that the voice of the army must flillbe for war. " But if we Ihould reason from most other armies to the f army of ;the republic, we might fall into at) error. In \ moll other armies military ideas prevail over civil; in li the French army civil ideis,prevail over military* ; both a officers and men may naturally be fijppofed to wish for e a return into the bosom of their families andtheirccou- t try, and there enjoy in tranquillity the honors and the rewards of their iervices. A certain degree of com- " penfation, we ondeiiland, is decreed even to the priv ares- And employment may be provided for them in the tonllruilion of harbours, canals, and other public I 1 vrorks, until a demand for labour grow out peace d and returning commerce. ; On (he wliole, it is our opinion, that, in the French army, military ideas do not yet predominatelover those of patriotifir. and civil liberty ; although -they might C probably be found to predominate at lad : a confidera- ' tion that Ihouldinduee the f civil powers of France to E make peace, on aiVy reasonable terras, as fact as poifi- v ble. r , £ But, on the other bind, the minlfters of Frarwe, if they were to make peat e, would unddubiedly lale their t places; for it is fearcely to befuppofedthat they could, in their present circvmflances, make such a peace as ' r would fatisfy the natiojial vanity and ambition so com- * pletely as to fliield them from al! th« arrows of embit- a tered'rivals. Suppofiiig them however, to poflefs so t great a degree of virtue as to facnfice private ambition and interest, and the attachment too of their numerous treatures depending on war, to retain such materials as the French, in anv form, or fimihtude to a form, of , civil government .' ' It ha»been afivroed, by many politi*! : writsrs pro founcly vcrfnnt in history, that every extenfivs repub- a lie must be a conquering power ; because, if it does v net expand hi'elv v itht'ur, it nnitl be defroysd within, e by its o\< n ii.ternrl a#!on. And it is said bv others, IJj that if evei tiveit Aas a republic incapable, by nature, ; j, of internal peace, -without external comnrefljon, it is , Fran thfir j » own.pcwers ; or] ia harlher tuxuj arrogance j p I and felf eonceit. In priwateconverfatior, it 16 a * 3n ". rtd find two Frenchmeu, and a pefrccY *niFacle to find three lucuchmeii, agreed on any one point. it any thHig is to be undertaken, every ont is fcr beii g the co.iduch ia.ys on t.c helm, and commits the laboring oar to his neighbour. If, therefore, peace is ever to be reftered to France, it c is pechaps to spring out of a ger.ci Jl fit;ety ant! abhor rence of the present system, that J\as hitherto produced .. nothing at home byt crimes, difllnfions, disorder and misery. And even now, after all thi-ir viiiories, and the afiimilatnn of their conflitntion to that of Amcri ca, the predinths ago have arrived r- fafely, and turned the tide of'foTtoue in St. Vin ci cent's. d Our commercial prosperity, at present. is great ? beyond example. enjoy, the larged flia-e by 1 far, of the European and the American trails, and j the whole of that of both the East and YVt'l Indies, j' The immense influx of specie diminishes, in fact, n the buttheri of national debt, by the gradual depre ; ciationof money. And this is a fact which we wifit y to hold up to the confitWatioi' of the French ge vernment and -people. But France, though almod . infelated from eotpw,erce, possesses advantages of a kind more eompa£r,4plid,«nd durable, in her united d though extenfue, various, and fertile lands, in the y tmnjbei, fpirit.iand genius, of her people : ana this '■ is a consideration which we vvifh to hold up to the " .consideration of the peopleand government of En '* gland; that each nation, contemplating, according g to the advice of the apoflle Paul, "Not his own things only, but also thofeof another,may be in . dined te make conceSioiis, in ordej- to obtain tUe j - fuprcme blefling <»f peace. Great designs are not always to be measured as we have often haJ occalion to ohferve, by the com- ' f ■ mon maxims of financial and vu!g3r calculation.— ; 1 Ca.ifider what the Empress ofJlufTia has done, and . continues to do, witli a reverie of' no more than 6 - millions (lerling. When the ScottiHi projeftot, t Law, proposed h'ii banking scheme to Victor Ama ' dams, king of Sardinia, t','.t prince " I ' am not powerful enough to, go to ruin/' At-the liottorn of this faying there is a great deal of pro-, found political wisdom. . It implies that a nation' maybe powerful enough to set the common pro-' - ceedings of finance, in a great medfure, at dehance ; . ...... • • : * It has, however, been affirmed, that the a-:my t begins to abftraft itfelf more and more from polit -3 ical questions. This is a matter that demands fe» r rious attention. f This beautiful metaphor ic copied from ffjonf. de'Galonne, by Mr. Buike; who has, indeed, bor f rowed, very judiciously, as we have formerly remar ked, from that ftstefman, the bed part of his let ters on the Stlte of France. Had the French na tion taken Monf. de Calonne's advice to assimilate their comtitution to that of England, they might, 1 at this moment, have been a happy and flourishing 1 people. M. de Calonne delivers, in a sober, tho' elegant lively manner, what Mr. Burke fet'off • in a veiy extraordinary tliough fafciitating mixture • of frifli howl, with lrith vivacity jit was M. de • Calonne who firft stood forth as the-prophet of evil 1 to democratic.rage, not Mr. Buike. It was onM. de Calonre that fovercign princes Pnould have be ftovved the firit pension. But this gentleman mult be fatisfied with confeiyus elevation of mind, and future fame j for he dots not, in his late publica tions, take the road that leads to a pension. J See lad number of the Englifn Review, .page '9 8 - § They laid the inhabitants under severe contri hntion. and carried off evety thing, even to the took of. induflry and agriculture. ~~ ton lHt GAZE 1 I t OF TUB. UNITED STATES. To the Magistrates of the City of PhiladelbiAa. Gentlemen, It is with the utmost concern that 1 again find myfelf under the necefiky of addressing you on a grievance which I at firlt supposed needed but to have been mentioned to have'been remedied,! mean' the Pharo Tables which have been eftablifoed in this city. But perhaps you either thought that (hame would have been a fufficient check to meo for the future from attending them ; or, that a newspaper-was not a fufficient authority for you to aft upon. To the full of these idea* I {hail only answer, that shame is the passion of half fortotH villains, and piirlt therefore soon quit the bread of the habitual gameder ; to the second, i am willing to allcw all -reafonsble weight, and-of confrquence gram that such information would not befufficient, for the arreting a perfen on a criminal charge, for an indiAment before a court of jurtice, or ic ftiort, for any crime of a private natuie. But when you come to refledt on the importance of the £übje£t now under confiderau'on, ahd the impojfilility of getting an.y private citizen to come pubfi lyfor ward before a court of justice as an informer, you will then fee the necessity you are. Huder for the preservation of the remaining morals of our youth, ( if you (hould think them worth the preserving, to come fetward and aft upon the notoriety of the f cafe, it-were indeed to be •atijbei, that fume per- ' son whose fittistiop in life would (hield him from all ' those aspersions which are generally thrown out on ' tbe character of an informer would come forward, ' but this is not to be hoped for. Such men usually fhink it fufficient to preserve their own morals, witbojit troubling themfelveaabout the preservation of those of their fellow citizens, £t cannot be that those whose duty it is to guatd the publicHnorzU, by executing the laws - are ignorant of what is so generally known—Every obligation, moral aird political, therefore calls upon them to come foj ward, and atrell in its progtefs an evil that threatens geueral contamination, extensive private tnifery, and public infamy. AN OBSERVER. I From the Aurora. Extract from the Second Part of the Age of Reason, A correct edition of this work, printed underthe eye of the Author, is to be had at the officc of the Aurora. I To be happy in old Dire, it is neceflary that we aeenfiom ourselves to objects that can accompany ' the mind all the way through life, and that we take the red as good in their day. The mere man of' pleasure is miferaWe in old age; and the meie drudge in business is but little better: whereas, 11a- £ tural philosophy, mathematical and mechanical fci- j enees, are a-continual fcurcc of tranquil pleasure, and S i'i spite of tl e gloomy dogmas of pricits, and of fupeiflition, tJie ftndw of thoie things is the ttudv of the true theology ; it teaches man to know and " to admire the Creator, for the principles of Icienc f are in the creation, are unchangeable and us div!;i« origin. Those who-knew Bbnjamim Franklin, will r f , i colled, that l>!3 mind was ever young; his temper , ever serene ; science, that never grows grey, was •; t| i ways his miltref". Without an object, wc beaonie "3 - like an invalid an hospital waiting, (or death. t Far the GizETra of the United States r - — i Mr. Fenno, 1 am not futprized at the eagerness of Benjamin , Franklin Bache, to circulate the second psrt (1 f - "the Age of Reason j" becaufc interest prompts , to it, and probably a fondtiefs for the fcntintei, !s . which that cpnteaiptibie pamphlet contains fans j|, e \ flame of his y.eal. But lam i'urprifed at the bo. i lucky choice of an estract which lie has puMiftud 3 in his pap<-r of this morning. When T.-m Paiie : and his old grandfather were to be btuupht before 8 " the mind's eye," lie certainly ought not to have ■ j inferred one word of an allufipn to " a mistress " . or to << a mnn nf pleafureßut, forgetful of ihL r he lifts up out " busy middling memories,'* bv . printing Benjamin Frankiiu in capita; letters, ia . connexion with f«ch a declaration as this—" rdencr . which never grows gtey, was always his mistress,'* Eefnles, i do affirm that, unless a man can have s two millrefl'ei at a time (which I would charitablv . j I)ope,is mare than Paine himfelf would contend for ) _ j tlie .rffertion that fcie»ce was always his miftrrfs, is ] -not true, either as it relates to Thomss or to Be'n -5 jamin : For ilfere are, at this day, living wilnrfl, , t» prove that each of them bad another mi (tic's . bcfirle science. There are, also, those who Ihrewdly [ suspeCt that the enmity chctifhed and manifested! y ■ tlpis brace cf patriots to revealed religion, its . origfo principally to its denouncing such a hailh r. sentence as it is known to do. on {he keeping of - mittfeffes, and on certain other pleasurable pi acfuts. 5 See. j. Cor. 6, 9, 10, and the gospel every where. '•No man e'er (jit the hahci; dratt •" With good opinion of the hw.'' 'j A. B. Mr. Fennq, . ■ w • i obferre in your paper of last evening, an rx ■ trail from a late publication by Peter Porcupine, ■ who it seems is riolently offended that one of our printers, fhoujd presume to offer for sale Paiim's ■ Age ef Reason—this is not at all — Men cf a trade ieidom agree—and Peter perhaps would like to have the Pamphleteering market altb gether to himfelf.—As to the'Chriitian Religion,' it will fuffer no more from the writings nf Paine, than the French .Republic will from those of Peier —both authors might be well reconciled to each other on this ground—they both walk ia a vaitj (hadow and disquiet thcrnfclves in vain—that either orthe woriu'fell is owing to the fonjnefs ef mar kind, for novelty and abuse more tha-o to any impreflion made by either on the exiting state of things. This taste for flandec, it was the benevolent in tention of Christianity to eradicate ty reforming the hearts of men ; but what preteiiftons can he have to take up the armour of defence of onr Holy Religion, who is daily violating its precepts by ■ publication*, replete with as much obfeenity, mate voleace and detraction, as could flow from the pen of the moit unchrithan author? and all this again!]: charatters utterly unknown to him, and whose re putation js as much beyond the reach of Peter, ■ 5 he appears to be himfelf a stranger to the fpirtt b[ that lyftem, he would seem to wish to make the world believe him an admirer of Q. . Mr. Warrcit, >Varret!,jwj. fcf M.iJI.H■ at nil's Night i New Theatre. ON WEDNESDAY EVENING, June 3, ' Will beperformed, the Tragedy of ROMEO JULIET. Romeo, ""Mr. Moreton. Paris » Mr. Darley, jua. MtHttftuc, Mr. Warreli. Cap'ulet, Mr. Morris. Mertutio, Mr.-Chalmers. Benwlio,' Mr. Green. j|V ' Mr. Beete. lvriar Lsorenyej 1 Mr. Whitlock.' Mr. Warreli, jun. Apotlradgrv, Mr. Francis. W Mr. BHlTett. juUet'..- Mrs. Mnrihall.'. Mjßk-gapulet, Mrs- Soldtnori. Mrs. Rowlor't. In arSl. A MASQUERADE; with a Dance by the Charatflers. • I«aa v. A FUNERAL PROCESSION and fo femn Dirge.— Ihe Vocal Parts by Meflrs. Mariliall, Darley, Warreli, RowfoD, Francis, Robbins, J. Wsr-i " tellj T. WarrelJ, Mitchell, and S Old-. rnixon, Mrs. Wan,ell, Mis. Bates, Mrs. Harvey,' Mrs. Gillinpham, Mrs. De Marque, Mifj Willem# arid Miss Milbourne. End of the Play, i Mr. Bates will sing the favorite comic song of The Little Farthing Rujb-Light. After which, ~ A HORNPIPE—By Mr.Warrcll, jun. 1 o which will be added, (not performed this feaion} a favorite comedy in two adis, called The Liar. Old Wilding, Mr. Whitlock. \o"jrrt Wilding, Mr. Chalmers. - James Elliot, Mp. Green.' Papulinn, Mr. Marlhall, Waiter, Mr. Bli/Tett. Servant, Mafler Warreli. . Mrs. Grantham, Mrs. Francis. Miss Godfrey, Mrs. Harvey, Kilty, Mrs. RowTn. Between the ift & 2d afU of the farce, (by desire) } The favorite air of ' The Trump of Fame',by Mrs. Warreli. Ticket'to be had of Mr. Warreli and Sons, 89 3d " i street, louth, and at the ulual places. On Friday, Shakefpearc's comedjr of The Mer chant of Venice, with the Pantomime 6f The Vjliant Officer ; or, The Rescue of Columbine, u'ith o|)ier Entertainments, for the benefit of Monf- Lege and S'o* J* l -. Ooflor.' |..J Mrs ,-.nd Miss Solomon's night will be 011 Monday, ; BOY, Omc Doiijr—iPlT, Three-Fourths of a andGAI.LLRY.aHait a Dollar. Piacc3 for tlx: Bo\fs to be taken of lit- Wilis, at.'tht Float of the Theatrr;