The New York Packet

Extract of a letter from Paris to a gentleman in Hartford, dated May 30.

The Marquis de la Fayette, on the day before the dissolution of the Assembly of Notables, which took place on the 25th of May, having represented the situation of the Protestants in France, brought in a motion which he carried by a great majority to the following purport:

That whereas a considerable part of the citizens of France, who do not profess the Roman Catholic religion, are lying as it were in a state of civil death, it is expected that the King desirous to impress every heart with the love of his own religion, and knowing that truth is sufficient of itself, and that error alone can be in need of violent measures, would add to his other virtues, that of a benevolent tolerance; in consequence whereof his Majesty is most earnestly requested to put an end to those laws of proscription against his protestant subjects which are equally contrary to the general interest of religion—to good morals—to population—to national industry—and to every principle of morality and policy.

Having carried this motion in his Bureau, the Marquis made another motion, for the revision of the civil and particularly the criminal laws, which was also agreed to, and presented by the King's brother, President of that Bureau, to the King, who received the two addresses very graciously.

It is to be remarked that among those who supported the Marquis's motion in favor of the Protestants, most of whom are Calvinists to the number of about fifteen hundred thousand, the Bishop of Sangres was one of the most liberal.