authority fhould exift in this diet, which was freely affembled, and whofe falutary works received approbation at the last dietines (acting with equal freedom) throughout the country. Befides, the negotiations with his ferene highness the elector of Saxony, are not yet brought to a conclufion. The final arrangement cannot be determined, but by the fupreme power of the diet. The moment will at laft arrive when Heaven, merciful to our prayers, will reftore us peace and tranquility, and the prefence of a diet in its full power will be neceffary. And as the Ruffian declaration infifts upon a meeting of a new diet, which being controuled by a foreign army, would only be fubfervient to the commands of Ruffia, fo the prefervation, integrity, laws, liberty, indepenence of the republic, require that the fame diet, a diet truly free, fhall continue its care and deliberations.

You fee, citizens, what is your fituation; you fee what measures your king and diet undertake for the common fafety. Let the defence of your country engage all your thoughts and attention; let the ftricteft peace and union prevail among you in fuch a critical moment as this. Follow your king, your father, your commander: follow him whom you have raised to the throne from among yourselves, and who, in his advanced age is going with you to expofe his life in the common defence of his country. Let us encourage each other by words and examples, let us boldly encounter all dangers in fupport of our laws and aberty. Let us conquer all difficulties and dangers by our courage and fortitude. Let every man confider, that on the preent fate of the republic, depends his own, that of his children, and his lateft Progeny. Thou God of armies, God of our forefathers, who feeft the innocence d the juftice of our caufe, who knowef the purity of our intentions, infufe and maintain the fpirit of union and Concord in the Polifh nation; grant fuccis to thofe arms, whofe object is not to thed blood for the fake of ambition, funjuft fpcil, or dominion over others but folely to defend our national Laws and Liberty, which even thou alloweft to free and rational beings-to defend

that country which thy Almighty Power has fo often protected, and which even now thou haft rescued from the brink of deftruction, by the spirit of thy wifdom and councils. A faithful king and nation implore thy affiftance, and will praife in hymns of gratitude thy providence and mercy.

Withing that this our addrefs may the fooner reach the public knowledge, we recommend to all Ordinal commiffions of the Palatinates and districts, to infert this circular letter in all public records; likewife to have it read from all the pulpits, and publifhed in all the parithes and churches, four following Sundays. Dated Warfaw, 29th of May, 1792.

A letter from Warfaw, dated June 2, has the following intelligence: Yefterday, an exprefs arrived from prince Jofeph Poniatowski, with the following account, dated at Winnica, the 27th of May: "Lieutenant Goleiowski of the national cavalry, occupying an out-poft with 300 men, perceived a body of 2000 Ruffians approaching, who firft began the attack, while Goleiowiki having returned the fire, charged the enemy fword in hand with fuch impetuofity, that their line was completely broken. A general action then began, which lafted two hours and half. Notwithstanding a fuperiority of numbers, the field of battle remained to our troops; 300 Ruffians were left on the fpot; our lofs confifts in 30 killed and 24 wounded. This body of the Ruffians was chofen from the nation called Czarnomorce, bordering on the Black Sea, reckoned the braveft: it is they who took Berezina nea: Oczakow, and who led the van in ftorming Ifmailow. Elate with former fuccelles, and trufting to their numbers, they marched down with feeming contempt, and little expected fuch a warm reception from a handful of Poles."

Our different divifions are marching to Lithuania and to Ukraine, with the greateft expedition and alacrity. They had not a fingle deferter.-In Lithuania, we fee the greatest ardour for defending their liberty and independence. Even their ladies ftrive to encourage the youth to noble actions; inftead of cries and tears-unworthy of free women

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Affairs of France.

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N the National Affembly, on Monday, February 6, an act of accufation was paffed againft the emigrant princes, M. de Calonne, M. de Laqueuile the elder, and M. de Riquetti, late viscount de Mirabeau.

On Saturday, February 11, the guard placed at one of the doors of the gallery of the National Affembly, was infulted, and forced by the crowd, who contended, that the conftitution abolifhed privileges, and confecrated equality, and that, therefore, they had an equal right to be there as any perfons for whom the feats had been defigned. The mob, after having difperfed the centinels, mounted the gallery, of which they took poffeffion.

A legiflator was defirous that this act of violence fhould be taken into confideration by the legislature; but the mob, far from teftifying either fear or repentance, overwhelmed the fpeaker with hiffes and groans.

M. Roullier then attempted to speak; but, notwithstanding his popularity, met the fame fate as the former member.

The prefident then fpoke, but with as little fuccefs; his prohibitions to the mob from difturbing the legiflative body were openly defpifed.

On a propofal being made to drive the rioters from the tribunes, they became more tumultuous and disrespectful

than ever.

Fortunately, an extraordinary deputation from the municipality of Avignon having been introduced to the bar, requested to be heard. Hereupon, not only the legiflators, but the rioters, became curious to hear what was to be faid. Silence was of courfe reftored.

Before the municipal officers of Avignon were permitted to speak, the Affembly, by a formal decree, enjoined the Committee of infpection to prefent a

future, the guard from being forced, and the reprefentatives of the people from being infulted, even when affembled in their fanctuary.·

Reports having ftrongly prevailed in the capital, that the king was meditating a fecond departure, his majefty, on the 17th of February, fent the following letter to the mayor and municipality of Paris.

'Gentlemen,

'I have already mentioned to fome of you the reports which are spread about my pretended leaving Paris; I thought that what I mentioned of it would have been fufficient for difcrediting thefe reports: but as evil-minded people continue to propagate them, in order to alarm the inhabitants of Paris, and to calumniate my intentions, I will explain myfelf clearly on my way of thinking.

'I know the duties which the conftitution impofes upon me, I will always fulfil them; but I alfo know the rights it gives me, and I will never refufe myfelf the power of making ufe of them, Nothing keeps me at Paris but my will of being there, as I think my prefence neceffary, and I declare, that I will and fhall remain there; and whenever I fhall have reafons to leave it, I fhall not difguife them.

I have to add, that if a perfon is not quite deprived of the ufe of his fenfes, or incurably perverfe, he cannot entertain the leaft doubt of my inviolable attachment to the welfare of the nation, and the inhabitants of Paris.

thofe fubjects upon which it had declared itself incompetent to deliberate. I at that time gave an account of thofe anfwers which M. Bertrand had prefented against these various complaints, and my judgment coincided with the Affembly. Since that time, no well-founded complaint has been made relative to the different departments of his adminiftration, and all communications from the colonies, from commercial bodies, and from the naval departments, prefent teftimonies of bis zeal and useful fervices. In a word, as he has been reproached with no breach of the law, I fhould think myself unjuft, were I to withdraw my confidence from him. To conclude, minifters know well, that the only way obtain and to preferve my confidence, is to caufe the laws to be executed with energy and fidelity. (Signed) LOUIS. (Counterfigned) M. L. DUPORT.

A long and animated debate followed, in which it was infifted, that the executive power had been abused. In the interior it was converted into an engine for ariftocratical views, and on the frontiers it feemed to have been delegated on one hand to the emperor and the king of Pruffia, and on the other to the king of Spain. Minifters, it was afferted, had been doing every thing in their power to deftroy the commonwealth fince the 21ft of June; that they had been guilty of treafon, and ought to pay the forfeit with their heads.

The Affembly at laft decreed,,

Ift, That the minifters, M. de Montmorin and M. Duportal, his fucceffor to the prefent day, who have refigned, hall not leave the capital without giving in their accounts.

2d, That there was caufe of impeachment against M. Deleffart; that feals fhould be put upon his effects, and that his perfon fhould be arrested.

Affembly of the facts relative to the arreft of M. Deleffart. A mob having gathered round his house, and threatened his life, he concealed himself, so that the officers of juftice could not find him. At fout in the morning, however, he wrote to the procurator general of the department, that he had only withdrawn from violence, but that he might be found in a certain houfe in the fuburbs, where he was preparing to fet out for Orleans, to furrender himself to the high national court.

A little time after, M. Deleffart addreffed the following letter to the National Affembly.

'Mr. Prefident,

At the moment of my departing for Orleans, I am permitted to complain, that without having been heard, without having received any eclairciffement on my fide, the National Affembly have pronounced the most dreadful decree against me; and that while they might have been fo eafily convinced of my innocence, they have preferred presenting me to France and Europe in general, as accused of the crime of treafon. I do not fear the fentence to which I am going to fubmit; I will prove that all my conduct breathes a respect for the laws, an attachment to the conflitution, and an ardent love for the public welfare; I will confound falfehood and calumny; but I fhall always regret, as a citizen, that the National Affembly have not permitted me to obtain from them the juftice that I expect from the tribunal to which they are going to fend me.'

If the latent intentions of the late emperor were hoftile to France, it foon appeared, that the new king of Hungary had not adopted more pacific views. In a word, the refult of various reprefentations and replications on each side, was a determination in the French cabinet, to make immediate declaration of

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For particulars of this tranfaction fee our news department for May, page

July 14, 11792.

BELFAST REVIEW AND CELEBRATION OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION.

HIS day, which forms an illuftrious era in the history of man, and of nations, as having given birth to effects the most important to fociety, and to human nature the most beneficial TO WHICH A WORLD SHOULD PAY HOMAGE, and to which a large majority of the inhabitants of every enlightened country in Europe have teftified their approbation and respect; tis day-the period of calculation for the emancipation of mankind from the trammels of fuperstition and corrupt powers this day-dear to every heart that has once felt the confoling and dignifying throb of LIBERTY, and pleafing to every mind that has been lifted above the debafement of TYRANNY and DESPOTISM, by a love of JUSTICE and VIRTUE―this day, the auniversary of the 14th of July 1789, when Defpotic Government in France received the fiat of expulfion, was obferved here with every denunciation of joy, fuitable to the confequence and folemnity of the GREAT OCCASION!

Yesterday evening, the feveral country corps marched into town, and were billeted on the inhabitants; who were happy in renewing expreffions of affection for their neighbours and friends in the fourteenth year fince the commencement of Reviews, and in the fixteenth of the Voiun

tee. æra.

Affemblies of fmaller bodies than formerly, having been deemed beit calculated to preferve at prefent the military fpirit among the citizen-foldiery of Ireland, another Review is to be held on Broughfhane-Mcor on the 1st of Auguft.

The number of corps which would otherwife have attended at Beifaf having been thus confiderably reduced, it was not thought proper to call on the venerable General of the Volunteer Army of Uber, the EARL of CHARLEMONT, to at tend on this occafion; but the Reviewing General who acts in his room, was requested by the Committee to make a regalar return to his Lordip of their numbers, state of difcipline, &c. The gentleman appointed in his place was Colonel SHARMAN, of Moira Caftle, who prefided with fach dignity last year in the civil affembly of the inhabitants of Belfast and its neighbourhood, at the celebration of the French Revolution. An unexpected illness having prevented that juftly admired character from filling an office for which be was fo eminently qualified, Major CRAWFORD, of Crawford's-burn-was unanimously nominated to act as Reviewing General; in testimony of the ripect due to decided yirtue in public and private Ife.

On Saturday morning a brigade was formed in High-ftreet, extending from the bank to the gay; and the whole were marched off to the old Review Ground in the Falls, at about eleven cock, by the Excrüfing officer Major MMA

forming in the whole feven hundred and ninety men. The plan of the Review was then executed with as much correctness as could be expected, and conducted by the Exerciting officer with that military ability for which he has been long remark bie.

In the emancipation of that great people, there is no good mind but muft feel, an intereft; for it is not the caule even of TWENTY-SIX MILLIONS, but of the world. It should therefore be the prayer of nations, that the prefent Gallic Aruggle may terminate in liberty and peace; that neither the voice of internal faction may distract the councils of the reprefentative body, wreft the fceptre from the hand in which THE UNITED WILL OF A PEOPLE has placed it, nor the arms of defpotic powers impede a revolution deminded by the almost unanimous voice of one of the first kingdoms of the earth. Having freely chofen a form of government, and individually fworn at the altar of their country to protect it, may nothing tempt them to depart from is principles, or their oath; nor to infringe an iota on any of the po vers which it has conftituted! If they fhould err in the difficult purfuit of liberty, it is the duty of beings poflenting the fame nature with themfelves, in every quarter of the globe, to drop a tear for their misfortune; to accompany them with anxious hearts in their progrefs to order, from a ftite of war and confufion; and to implore fuccefs to their arms against the defpicable machines of more defpicable tyrants.

On their return to town at three o'clock, there was a GRAND PROCESSION, the order of which is hereafter mentioned, and feus de joye were fired in Linen-hall-ftreet, by the whole body, in honour of that great day, which prefented the fublime fpectacle of near ONE-SIXTH of the whole inhabitants of EUROPE bursting their chains, and "throwing off, almoft in an inftant, the degrading yoke of flavery.

The heart which refufed to participate in the glorious triumph, must either be vitiated by falfe politics, or naturally depraved. The deftruction of the Eaftile, of which the 14th July was the anniverfary, will ever be confidered one of the most fplendid events in the hiftory of man; as, that and the other State Prifons of France were deplorable emblems of the degree of abafement to which tyranny may reduce the most gallant fpirits, and feelingly reminded us of the ineftimable value of civil liberty.

Immediately after the review, the brigade returned to town, and commenced the

GRAND PROCESSION.
Which was arranged in the following manner:
REVIEWING GENERAL:

(PRECEDED BY TWO TROOPERS.) Belfast Troop of Light Dragoons. COMMANDING-OFFICER, and his Aids-de

Camp.

Train of the Belfast ift Volunteer Company. Standards of the FIVE FREE NATIONS, with their respective mottos, viz. IRELAND-Unite and be Free. AMERICA--The ifylum of Liberty. FRANCE The Nation, the Law and the King. POLAND

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