"This difpofition, fubject to events, will not make any change in the table of expence prefented by M. de la Luzerne. His Majefty will take care only to give orders for the iffuing of the fums voted by the Affembly for the Marine department, in proportion as the armament fhall require. "The King believes, by these difpofitions of wifdom, prudence, and, at the fame time, of economy, that he has entered fully into the views of the Affembly, and thus reconciled their pacific intentions with the precautions that circumftances render neceflary. "I have the honour to be, &c. Sept. 1. 1790. September 2. CIVIL WAR. Champ did not refift; but the Swifs ob- firing took place from every part of the fireets and from the windows-three offcers of volunteers were killed. The half of the regiment of Chateauvieux were killed, and the other half taken prifoners. The regiments of Meltre de Champ and du Roi difperfed in the environs. The number of national troops who have been killed is not yet afcertained. September 3. The affair of Nancy was again refumed by the Affembly. By a letter received from M. Bouille, it appeared, that that General, at the head of about 2400 regu The Prefident read the following letter lar troops, part infantry, part cavalry, from the King: "Gentlemen, "I have ordered M. la Tour du Pin to inform himself of the events which have concurred to the re-establishment of order and peace in the town of Nancy We owe them to the good conduct of M. de Bouille, and to the good difpofition and courage of the national guard under his command. I greatly lament that order could not be reitored without the effufion of blood; but I hope it is for the last time, and that the foldiers will return to fubordination and difcipline, without which the army cannot subsist.” At the conclufion of this letter, the Secretaries read a letter, directed to M. de la Tour du Pin by M. de Gouvernet, his fon, which arrived by a Courier Extraordinary yesterday evening. This letter Rates, that M. de Bouille is overwhelmed with fatigue, and is himself unable to give an account of the meatures which he has adopted for reftoring order at Nancy, of which the following is a flatement: M. de Bouille arrived at the gates of Nancy, at the head of the national guard, and fummoned the three regiments to furrender, and obey the decrees of the National Affembly. They demanded to capitulate. He answered, That he could not capitulate with rebels, and that if the three regiments did not, in the space of two hours, march into the plain, and reft upon their arms, he would employ force against them. The regiments du Roi and Mefire de and from 600 to 700 men of the national guards, arrived on the 31ft ult. at the gates of Nancy. The General having made difpofitions to force the gate, it was opened, and a cannon appeared in the portal charged with grape-fhot. In vain the officers, whom the regiment of Chateauvieux had obliged to appear at its head, endeavour ed to bring about peace-in vain M. de Silly placed himself at the mouth of the cannon, in which fituation he received four mufket fhot. At length the cannon was fired, which killed 300 men of the national guards; this difcharge was fol lowed by another from the artillery. The national guards then began to fire; they foon took poffeffion of the gate, all the outlets, and the public squares. The combat continued three hours, during which all the foldiers of the regi ment of Chateauvieux were either killed or made prifoners. A council of war was to be held on the prifoners that day, and many would doubtless be condemned to be hanged. His letter further mentions, that there would be a neceffity to break the regi ments of Chateauvieux and Meftre de Champ, and to difband the regiment du Roi, or at least to reduce it to two batta lions, and to place it at the fag end of the army.-He however adds, that this last regiment had refpectfully waited for him in their caferns, and marched to Verdun on the first orders. This afflicting recital gave rife to many warm eulogiums on the conduct of M. de M. de Bouille, and at laft the following decree, fuggefted by M. Mirabeau, was paffed: "The National Affembly decrees, That the Directory of the department de la Meurthe, and the Municipalities of Nancy and Luneville, fhall be thanked for their zeal. "That the national guards, who accompanied M. de Bouille to Nancy, fhall be thanked for the patriotifm and civic bravery which they difplayed in the reeftablishment of order at Nancy. "That M. de Silly fhall be thanked for the heroic manner in which he expofed himself. "That the nation fhall provide for the widows and children of thofe who have nobly fallen in the execution of the decrees of the National Affembly. "That the General, and the regular troops which he commanded, fhall be applauded for having nobly done their duty; and that the Commiffaries appointed, fhall go immediately to Nancy, to take the neceffary steps to maintain peace in that town, and to obtain exact information of thofe facts which may infure the punifhment of the guilty, of whatever rank." The following letter was lately written by the Duc de Fitz James, the lineal defcendant of Marshal Berwick, natural fon of King James II. to the King of France: GENEVA, Aug. 10. 1790. "SIRE, "At a time when the nations of Eu. rope view with astonishment an Affembly. of your fubjects (whom your Majesty has been pleafed to acknowledge as the National Affembly) destroy your nobility, the most illuftrious that ever exifted in any monarchy, and whofe moft glorious title was that of the fupporters of the throne; permit me, Sire, the head of a family who have the honour of reckoning Kings among their ancestors, to requeft of your Majefty to be pleated to receive, in the name of myfelf and family, the oath which we have made to live and die faithful to your interefts; and to rally at the cry ever dear to Frenchmen, of Vive le Roi! Vive l'Honneur! and to fhed in your service the laft drop of our blood, which ungrateful France has already feen to flow for the maintenance of its glory, and that of your illuftricus ancestors. "The difperfion of that family ren ders it impoffible for me to have my letter figned by all the noble and loyal gentlemen which compofe it; but, Sire, I have the unspeakable happiness of being able to answer for them, as I do for myfelf, that the fame blood flows in our veins, and the fame inclination to fhed it in your Majefty's fervice, and that our hearts are the fame as they ever were. "Condefcend, Sire, to depofit this letter in a place where, from age to age, our pofterity may fign it; and that it may be an evidence fo much the more glorious that no human force can deftroy. -It is not in the power of misfortune to defroy great fouls. The honour I feel of having fome drops of the noble blood of Henry the Great flowing in my veins, fhould be a pledge to your Majefty, that mine preferves its full energy; and I am able to exclaim with a hero of your n.ble race, All is loft but our honour. The truly unfortunate are thofe who will not join their voice to mine; and who have not the noble mind to make the fame oath as I have made. FITZ JAMES. NAPLES, Aug. 17. On Friday laft, the Prince Rufuli, Ambaffador Extraordinary of the King of Hungary and Bohemia, made his rublic entry into this city; on Saturday his Excellency had his audience of their Sicilian Majefties to make the demand of the two eldeft Princeffes, Donna Maria Terefa, and Donna Maria Louifa, in marriage, for the two eldest Arch-Dukes of Auftria Francis the hereditary Prince of Hungary and Bohemia, and Ferdinand Great Duke of Tuscany; and, on Saturday morning, the marriages were folemnized in great forin in the Royal Chapel, the hereditary Prince of Naples reprefenting the Arch-Dukes. After the ceremony, there was a Baccio-Manos, and, in the evening, their Sicilian Majefties and the Royal Brides went in the greateft ftare to the Chapel of St Januarius in the Cathedral of this city. At night, the Royal Family went to the Opera in their State-box, which they have not done thefe fourteen years past; and, after the Opera, the chief Minifters, Officers of the Court, and foreign Minifters of the first and fecond clas, had the honour of Jupping with their Majefies, the Prince Royal, and Royal Brides, at the Palace. VIENNA, Aug. 21. His Hungarian Majey fet out early this morning lor Fitt, accompanied by E 2 his fourth fon the Arch-Duke Leopold, to meet their Sicilian Majefties. BERLIN Aug. 24. We have well-grounded hopes that the Court of Peterburgh will follow the example of that of Vienna, and that it will yield all its conquests made from the Turks during the prefent war. Our Monarch has abfolutely rejected the proposals made by her Imperial Majefty, that the provinces of Moldavia and Wallachia fhould be declared independent of the Porte. This will not be very pleasant information to Prince Potemkin. The people at Conftantinople are already acquainted with the importance of the King of Pruffia in the political feale of Europe, and how greatly the Muulmen are obliged to him. The meflenger Mehring, who is just come from thence, gives the following account of the beha viour of the Turkish people on hearing the news of what the King of Pruffia had done for them: and we haften to inform you thereof, con scious that this news will be agreeable both to you and all our fubjects. "We remain, very affectionately, "CATHERINE, "Zarfkoselo, August 16, 1790." STOCKHOLM-August 31. The King of Sweden arrived at his country feat of Haga, in the neighbourhood of this city, the 26th inft. and yefterday made his public entry into Stockholm, on horfeback, amidst the acclama. tions of a great concourse of people, who had affembled in the ftreets through which he was to país. His Majefty was achave diftinguished themfelves during the companied by fuch of the Officers who late campaign, as were already arrived from Finland, and was escorted by the city guards, who have performed the military service of the capital fince the commencement of hoftilities against Ruf fia. "As foon as I had delivered my difpatches, expreffed my defire to fee Con- dral Church; and, after having perform His Majefty firft went to the Cathe ftantinople, and for this purpose I obtained his devotions there, repaired to the ed two Janiffaries to accompany me, I Town-hall, wi ere he, in a very gracious had fcarcely walked an hundred fieps be- fpeech, thanked the Burgeffes aflembled fore the people followed me in great num for the marks of loyalty and attachment bers, fome of whom spit at me, and cried he has received from them during the out, you Ruffian rafcal! But my companion informed them of their mistake; ing-room, where the foreign ministers war. In the evening there was a drawand I was no fooner known to be the fer- had an opportunity of paying their court vant of his Pruffian Majefty, than the to his Majefty. fcene fhifted, every one feemed much concerned at what had paffed, and took every opportunity to exprefs their joy at feeing me, and I was foon after carried in triumph through the city." "To our Governor, &c. "On the 3-14th Auguft, was figned between us and the King of Sweden, an agreement for establishing an everlafting peace, and fixing our frontiers as they were before the war broke out; General Baren Igleftrom figned it on our part, and Baron D'Armfelt, Firft Gentleman of the Bed-chamber to the King of Sweden, on the part of his Majefty. The ratification is to take place in fix days from its date. "We give our thanks to Almighty God for the ceffation of thedding of blood, and refloration of peace in thele quarters, To-day peace was proclaimed with the ufual folemnities in the different quarters bility, and other perfons of diftinction, of the city. The Royal Family, the noaffifted at the Te Deum, which was fung with great pomp at the cathedral; after which, there was a Court and public dinner at the palace; and the evening is to clofe with illuminations and other demonftrations of joy. all their works. The regiment of Antwerp, under the command of Colonel Tinne, marched from Huy the fame night to furround this poft. The Auftrians, on being driven from thence, retreated into four other camps, which our people took, and burnt every thing. Out of two hundred of the enemies huffars, who endeavoured to coyer their retreat, so were killed on the fpot, befides a great number wounded. We have taken from them three pieces of cannon, one pair of colours, about a dozen of their huffar horfes, and a great number of prisoners in fhort, their right wing is entirely defeated, and the enemy are retired towards Gewes and Affeffe, without having made any attempts to recover the posts we had taken from them. Major-General Kof hler's report of the 2d of this month, confirms the account of the Auftrians having loft 500 men, with the Baron de Blechem, Major Murray, two Captains, and five fubalterns. H. C. N. VANDERNOOT. The above is the account published by order of Congress ;-but other letters received here from the army, affert, that we have loft a great many men, as well as cannon. Representation of the inbabitants of the BELGIC PROVINCES, to bis Majesty the KING of HUNGARY, August 1790. SIRE, The Declaration made by your Majef ty, and tranfmitted to the States of the Belgic Provinces, by the letter of their Roval Highneffes the Archdutchels Marie Chrift ine, and the Duke Albert of Saxe Tefchen, dated at Bonn, the 2d March last, has made known your Majefty's good intentions towards the inhabitants of the Low Countries. You there difapprove the arbitrary conduct of the late Emperor and King, Jo feph II. with refpect to us, in a manner fo decided, as to encourage us to lay before you our paft fufferings, and the injuftice which we have invariably experienced, which constrained us to fhake off a yoke become infupportable, by a Revloution but too well justified in the eyes of ́all Eu❤ rope. If, on this occafion, the States of the Pro vinces had done their duty, by inviting the people to make a free choice of proper Re prefentatives to direct the public affairs, and determine on any fubject that could contri bute to the welfare of the nation, it is poffi, ble they might have been able to reconcile the interefts of the country with thofe of your Majefty, in acknowledging your fove, reignty, fubject to the conditions requisite to establish liberty upon lasting founda tions. The States have been actuated by other motives; they were themfelves defirous of fupplying the place of the Sovereign, with out having been chofen by the people, the only fource of all fovereignty; and, in the hopes of tranfmitting to their defcendants and fucceffors the authority which they had arrogated to themfelves, they have directed their endeavours towards feparating for ever the nation from its ancient Sovereigns, Under thefe circumflances, it was impoffible that the overtures made on the part of your Majefty fhould produce the effect which you expected from them; but the time approaches when the Belgic people are finally to determine their fate: there are but two courfes to adopt; they must ei ther risk every thing to maintain their independance, as a free State, in replacing, by the Government; or they must refolve a a better choice, thofe who have feized on gain to entrust the exercife of fovereignty to the Houfe of Auftria. This laft expedi der the nation happy, it is neceffary that ent promifes us external peace; but to ren the fhould have fecured to her at the fame time the most entire liberty, eftablished n pon foundations capable of protecting us for ever against all attempts which our fo vereigns may be induced to make against our rights. If your Majesty has reafon to complain of our States, you are to confider that they are not of the choice of the people, who, in ref pect to themselves, have much more ferious caufe of complaint against them; but as we here pafs over in filence a detail of the arbitrary and defpotic acts of our late Sove reign, reign, it is equally proper that we should be filent upon thofe of our States. Your Majefty cannot treat effectually but with the whole people, fince they have not yet chofen Reprefentatives; and it is only after fuch a free choice that these reprefentatives could, in the name of the people, ratify and confirm the Convention to be entered into between your Majesty and the nation. But in the mean while, as the public voice has fufficiently made known the fentiments of the great majority of the people, we haften to lay before your Majesty a fuminary of thofe conditions, the complying with which will induce the nation to acknowledge you as its Sovereign: 1. As the Government of the Belgic Provinces has hitherto been a limited monarthy, that form of Government shall be preferved, as well as that of the ancient conftitutions of the Provinces, inasmuch as they can be adapted to actual circumstances, admitting, nevertheless, fuch change and ame liorations as are become neceffary for the welfare of the nation in general. 2. All the inhabitants of the Belgic Provinces have, and will have, the right of being reprefented by perfons of their own choice, freely elected by a majority of vioces, for a limited time, as well in the cities and towns as in the country. 2. The Executive Power fhall be entrusted exclufively to the Sovereign perfonally, or to the Governor General, his reprefenta tive.. 4. The Legislative Power fhall be exercifed by the reprefentatives of the nation, in States General affembled, in conjunction with the Sovereign in perfon, or his reprefentative, the Governor General, forming together the Supreme Legislature, as will be hereafter stated. 5. The Judiciary Power fhall continue to be exercised by the councils and Tribunals eftablished, or to be eftablished, by the Supreme Legislature. 6. The Legislative, Executive, and Judiciary Powers, fhall ever remain feparate; and neither the fame perfon nor the fame body fhall excercise them all together, or two out of three, in any cafe, or upon any occafion whatever; referving, nevertheless, to the Sovereign or Chief of the Executive Power, the right of pardoning crimes, and mitigating fentences of the law, in cafes wherein no injury can refult to individuals. ROME. mies of religion, fovereignty, and public tranquillity, have induced the inhabitants of the town of Avignon to commit the moft enormous outrages, and to debafe themfelves by the most execrable perfey. This people, who have lived fo many ages under the mild and happy dominion of the Holy See, have been imprudently led away by the boid and artful practices of fore defigning perfons, who amidst tumults and anarchy, have at length produced an open rebellion. "To prevent all cante of complaint, the Holy See has in vain difplayed its benevo lence towards thofe fubjects, of whofe dif affection it complains, by occafionally furnishing them from its own fources, with plenty of grain, by lightening their expences, by facilitating the administration of justice, and by inviting them paternally to make known the defects and abufes which might have crept into the legiflation, in order to their being reformed. "All these cafes, all these acts of condefcenfion of a generous Pontiff, far from exciting any gratitude, have only ferved to ren der thefe unhappy men more rebellious and more infolent. Every day has produced new crimes and new excefles. "After having overturned from the foundations the ancient fyftem of the municipa lity and the tribunals, feduced the militia, ufurped the rights of the throne and the altar, infulted the Holy Father and his Minifters, published writings injurious to the fupreme power, and violated even with contempt every thing facred and profane, they have at length attained the acme of their infamous defigns, by imbruing their hands on the 12th and 13th of June laft, in the blood of their fellow citizens, by enforcing M. Gaffoni Vice-Legate, to leave the city and territory of Avignon, by pulling down the arms of the reigning Pontiff, their only Sovereign, and tumultuously fubftituting for then thofe of his Mott Chriftian Majefty, whofe known equity, religion, and refpect for the Holy See, fully convince that Court, that, far from favouring fo criminal a procedure, he would not fuffer it to pass with impunity, “Such, in few words, is the account of the infurrection of the revolters of Avignon, of which the Cardinal Secretary of State, by order of the Holy Father, has the honour to inform you, to the end that you would be pleafed to communicate the fame to the Court where you refide; and it is in the full perfuafion that it will take a part fuitable to the importance of an event, which is the common canfe of all Sovereigns, and to the Brief of bis Holiness the Pope to the Cordinal de particular friendship which it has ever pro Bernis, bis Nuncio at Paris. "THE maxims of independence, and an trained liberty, propagated by the enç feffed towards the facred person of his Ho linefs." Given at Rome, the 17th of July, 1790. |