ponds with its fuperb front: the owner of this houfe has fhewn the felf-denial and humility of his fect, by becoming the tenant of a man not fo great as himfelf, and defcending to the level of the inhabitants of a little country town, rather than erect this magnificent building on his own manor. Humility leads to honour, and it must be fuppofed that every particular relative to the owner of fuch an houfe will be narrowly scrutinized. This honourable man is an example of generous benevolence to his brethren, and by his patronage and liberal fupport many noble inftitutions are kept up among the fociety of which he is a member, as well as in the town of which he is an inhabitant; previous to his erecting this noble structure, he built a meeting houfe at his own expence, that belonging to the quakers before he fettled in this neighbourhood, being a poor building; he is the principal fupport of the Sunday School: and in fhort lives in a ftyle of generous hofpitality and extenfive charity, as becomes the owner of the moft fumptuous houfe that we yet faw in the north, belonging to a commoner. From Dungannon to Charlemount the country is well planted and populous. We paffed a confiderable fettlement of quakers who have built feveral new houfes here lately, of which that belonging to Jofeph Nicholson appears the moft elegant. Charlemount is a very poor place. From thence we rode nine miles to Armagh. This was formerly called a city, and is at prefent the fee of the metropolitan of all Ireland. The prefent primate has very much improved the place, which muft have been very poor indeed before his time. We were much difappointed upon feeing the cathedral, which we expected to fee the fineft piece of architecture in Ireland; but it is by no means equal to St. Patrick's in Dublin in any refpect, being neither fo large or lofty; on the fteeple the prefent primate has had a modern fpire erected. Indeed the fituation of this building is far preferable to that of St. Patrick's, being on an high hill in the middle of the town. This metropolitan cathedral ferves as a parish

church, there being no other in the town. In this place is alfo a great free school, the revenue of which is about one thoufand pounds per annum :-How many schools like thofe in Lurgan would that fupport! Some of the houses in Armagh are well built; the primate's palace at a little diftance is a very good building of hewn ftone, and the chapel adjoining peculiarly elegant.

From Armagh we rode 9 miles to Portadown, a poor town, and yet from its fituation, one might imagine it would be a place of great inland trade, being in the center of a populous country, on the navigable river Bann, which runs into the extenfive Lough Neagh. From Portadown we rode to Moyallon, a settlement of Quakers; the country here indeed is beautiful, being on the banks of the river Bann. The fine feats of many of thefe induftrious people, with plantations of well grown trees furrounding them, have a pleafing appearance; the houfes of Jof. Richardfon, J. Chrifty and Jofeph Phelps, Efqrs. are peculiarly elegant. Thefe people live in a very hofpitable manner, and to their honour, the poor around them feel the effects of their charity in an eminent degree. Two fchools on the plan of thofe in Lurgan, fupported entirely by the Quakers of Moyallon without the smallest affiftance from any other people, give a decent education to the children of the poor all around. The whole country on either fide the Bann is remarkably beautiful, exceeded by no part that we paffed thro except that between Lifburn and Belfaft. From Moyallon we rode a miletoGilford, a pretty village, with the feat of Sir Richard Johnfton, Bart. From thence to Dromore 8 miles, the beauties of the country if poffible increafed ; but when we arrived at that town we for a while bid adieu to beautiful fcenes. From Dromore we returned to Newry, and thence to Dundalk, a well built town about a mile in length, the church of which has a tall spire.

(To be concluded in our next.)

Affairs

Affairs of France.

(Continued from page 143.)

LA FAYETTE fent a copy of his

gainft all their enemies. Let this refo lution, fupported by all the acts of your private life, and by a firm and full exercife of the royal power, become the pledge of harmony, which, above all, in the moments of crifis, cannot fail to

to the king, with the following letter to his majefty:

'Entrenched Camp of Maubege, June 16, 1792, 4th year of liberty.

'I have the honour to fend your majefty the copy of a letter to the national affembly, in which your majefty will find the expreffion of fentiments that have animated my whole life. The king knows with what ardour, with what con ́ftancy, I have been at all times devoted to the caufe of liberty, to the facred principles of humanity, equality, and juftice. He knows that I was always the adverfary of factions, the enemy of licentioufnefs; and that no power, which I thought unlawful, was ever acknowledged by me. He knows my devotion to his conftitutional authority, and my attachment to his perfon. Such, Sire, are the bafis of my letter to the national affembly; fuch will be those of my conduct toward my country and your majefty, amid the ftorms which fo many combinations, hoftile or factious, ftrive to draw upon us.

'It belongs not to me, Sire, to give to my opinions or my measures a higher degree of importance than the unconnected acts of a fimple citizen ought to poffefs; but the expreffion of my thoughts was always a right, and on this occafion becomes a duty; and although I might have fulfilled this duty fooner, if, inftead of being to be heard from the midft of a camp, my voice had been to iffue from the retreat from which I was drawn by the dangers of my country, I do not think that any public function, any perfonal confideration releafes me from exercifing this duty of a citizen, this right

of a freeman.

Perfift, Sire, ftrong in the authority which the national will has delegated to you, in the generous refolution of defending the principles of the conftitution a

tives elected by the people, and their hereditary reprefentative. It is in this refolution, Sire, that for your country and for yourself are glory and fafety. There you will find the friends of liberty, all good Frenchmen, ranged around your throne, to defend it againft the machinations of the rebellious, and the enter prizes of the factious. And I, Sire, who in their honourable hatred, have found the recompenfe of my perfevering oppofition--I will always merit it by my zeal to ferve the caufe to which my whole life is devoted, and by my fidelity to the oath which I have taken to the nation, the law, and the king.

Such, Sire, are the unalterable fentiments of which I fubjoin the homage and that of my refpect. (Signed)

LA FAYETTE.

The affembly decreed that the letter fhould be printed. Several members demanded that copies fhould be fent to the 83 departments: this occafioned a violent tumult, which continued for fome time. M. Verginaud oppofed the motion, as the reprefentation of a general of the army might fuperfede the laws, and deftroy liberty.

M. Gaudet even called the authenticity of the letter in queftion: M. la Fayette, he faid, 'fhould recollect, that when Cromwell wrote a letter in terms nearly fimilar, liberty was no more in England.' After a tumultuous debate, the letter was referred to the new commiffion for examining the ftate of the kindom.

On Tuesday, June 19, M. Condorect faid, this being the anniversary of the memorable day, on which the conftituting affembly put the laft hand to the edifice of political equality, by deftroying the nobility, the affembly could not do better than to follow up the example, by authorifing the feveral departments to burn all the books containing the regifters and titles of nobility, which were

the

the only remaining refuge of this ridiculous vanity. The affembly decreed accordingly, and paffed a decree to this effect unanimously.

The following letter was then read from the minifter of juftice:

"Mr. Prefident,

I have the honour to inform the affembly, that the king has put the conftitutional formula, "the king will examine;" ft, on the decree of May 27, 1792, which determines the cafes and the forms of the deportation of difturbing pricfts; 2d, on the decree of the 8th inftant, bearing that the armed force fhall be augmented by 20,000 men, who fhall affemble near Paris on the 14th of July.'

M. Lacroix obferved, that the refufing to fanction, ought to be an official communication figned by the king. The affembly ordered that fuch a communication fhould be tranfmitted and depofited in the archives.

On Wednesday June 20, the directory of the department of Paris appeared at the bar, and repreiented that, in fpite of the law, and the refolutions of the council-general and the department, a great number of armed citizens were affembled, and that, although there could be no doubt but that the object of the greater part was to give a new teftimony of their zeal for liberty and attachment to their reprefentatives, it was to be feared that fome of them meant in this array to prefent an addrefs to the king, which ought not to be received, but in the form of a petition prefented by unarmed citizens. A warm debate enfued. M. Verginax obferved, that the affembly having often permitted citizens in arms to march through the hall, could not refuse the fame honour to those who were now to apply for it. He was confident of the good difpofition of this armed body; but to prevent any alarm, a deputation of fixty members might be fent to wait on the king, whom he was fure the citizens would not approach with arms in their hands.

In the mean time thefe armed citizens arrived, and requefling permiffion to pafs in order before the affembly, faid, they would prove by their conduct how

ill founded were the affertions that imputed to them an intention of difturbing the public peace. The affembly refolved that they should be admitted. They prefented a petition, profeffing their attachment to the conftitution and the law, complaining of the inactivity of the army, and the high national court, and praying leave to retain their arms till the conflitution fhould be finished. They then paffed through the hall to the number of from 12 to 15,000 men, women, and children.

The propofition for fending a deputation of fixty members to wait on the king was now adopted.

This great body immediately repaired to the Thuilleries, where they arrived at half paft three; they broke open the gate, paffed without refiftance into the court, which was filled with national guards, provided with cannon. The gate was abandoned fo precipitately, that fome of the guards left their arms. Having pointed four cannon under the veftibule, two on the fide of the garden and two on the fide of the court, they entered the palace, threatening to burn it, if the doors were not opened, which at laft were opened by the king's order. The mob then fpread through all the apart ments. Nothing was ftolen, but several looking glaffes were broken. A party entered the king's private room, and a man in a red bonnet, with a pike, and piftols at his girdle, made the king fit down in an arm chair, put his pike between his legs, and interrogated his majefty. He asked him, if he wished to oppofe his people's happiness? if he wifhed to be king at Coblentz, or of the French? He prefented him two cockades, one white, the other party coloured, urging, That, if he chofe the firft, he would conduct him fafe to Coblentz ; but that, if he adopted the latter, he should be of good faith, and fanction the two decrees relative to the clergy, and the 20,000 men. The king afked three days confideration; the mob replied, that they would not depart without a fatisfactory promife; the king then promifed them, and took the national cockade; upon which a man behind the chair put immediately a red bonnet on his majefty, while others put coloured ribbands on his arms,

and

'Citizens,

The king had to oppofe to the menaces and to the infults of the factious only his confcience and his love for the public welfare.

The king was ignorant at what limits they would ftop; but he can affure the French nation, that violence, to whatever excefs it may be carried, will never force his confent to that which he thinks contrary to the public intereft.

He expofes, without regret, his tranquility and his fafety; he facrifices, without pain, even his enjoyment of the rights which belong to all thrones, and which the law fhould render facred with respect to him, as with refpect to all ciHib. Mag. Sept. 1792.

tizens; but, as the hereditary reprefentative of the French nation, he has fevere duties to fulfil; and if he can make the facrifice of his repofe, he cannot alfo make that of his duties.

If those, who would overthrow his monarchy, require one further crime, they may commit it. In the prefent ftate of the crifis in which the king finds himfelf, he will give to all the conftituted authorities an example of that courage and firmness, which alone can save the empire; in confequence, he orders all the adminiftrative bodies and municipalities to watch over the fafety of perfons and properties,

Given at Paris, June 22, 1792, the
fourth Year of Liberty.
(Signed) LOUIS.

On Saturday the national affembly iffued a decree, inviting all citizens to employ every expedient to maintain the public tranquility. On Thurfday June 28, M. la Fayette unexpectedly arrived in Paris..

The national guards carried him in triumph to and from the national affembly, but the people were far from joining in the applaufes which his brother foldiers beftowed on him. The king received him with open arms. He afterward fent a letter to the national affembly, requefting admiffion to the bar; which being granted, he appeared accordingly, and M. Raymond read the following addrefs of M. La Fayette to the affembly:

་ It becomes me, gentlemen, in the first place, to declare to the affembly, that my prefence in this capital will in no way tend to injure either the welfare of the empire, or the fafety of the ftate. The measures concerted between Marthal Luckner and myself will be a fecurity againft every furprize. My motives for coming hither are as follow:

You have been told, that the letter, bearing my fignature, and dated the 16th instant, cannot have come from me. I appear before you to acknowledge the letter, and to call on your juice to avenge the attempt of the 20th made at the palace. This attempt against liberty, and the fafety of the king, has exCc

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