Gazette Of The United States

FURTHER EUROPEAN INTELLIGENCE.

Received by the Sandwich Packet.

LONDON, August 27.

M. CALONNE, M. NECKER.

Neckar's publication, on the object of the first controversy between him and Mons. Calonne, was read with avidity and approbation all over Europe.

Mr. Calonne promised a confutation—but instead of producing it he came forward with apologetic reasons for postponing it till the meeting of the States General. From these reasons we have translated a few extracts, which will serve to illustrate the character of M. Calonne.

He begins thus:

"The reply, (of M. Necker) so long expected, so eagerly wished for, at length appears. It appears in the minute when the author is called upon to save the State."

Here M. Calonne breathes the spirit of a prophet: M. Neckar has saved this State.

"From the dreadful crisis in which this reply appears, it acquires the force of sacred rights in directing the interest of the public."

The politics of M. Neckar deserve this character, they have infused the genuine spirit of civil liberty among the people, and the sacred rights of man are now establishing, and taking root in the soil of France.

This reply:

"It appears at a moment when the eye of the nation is fixed upon the author; when patriotic vows are offered up to heaven, imploring success to his measures, and the means conspire to ensure it."

Never did the eye of a Nation take a more proper or wise direction. The object was pointed out by the finger of Providence, and the prayers offered up to heaven were heard and granted.

"This reply appears at a time when those sentiments, which I shall retain to my latest breath, prevents me from acting in any manner prejudicial to the necessary confidence which ought to be placed in the author."

M. Calonne, when he wrote this, well knew that M. Neckar possessed the full confidence of the people; and his sentiments, when they became known, so far from prejudicing the cause, poured on the people to a consummation of their freedom.

"Such essential confidence did exist. but was defeated by unskillfulness. which the public must condemn, and of course, the author will take advantage of every assistance that a skillful hand can draw from the experience of blunders."

The advantage drawn by M. Neckar from the blunders of the French Administration, have wiped away the oppressions that aggrieved the people. When dismissed, the people recalled him—when recalled, he accomplished their liberty!

The strongest proof of essential and reciprocal confidence.

"To what evils must France feel herself exposed, should I attempt to frustrate that, which in consequence of her present circumstance, is her only means of support. Should I attempt to depreciate a measure to which the nation looks with ardent hope."

This is vanity issuing from weakness. M. Calonne here appears totally ignorant of the great and extensive plan which M. Neckar had in view for the emancipation of the French nation. A plan which the narrow views and mechanical calculations of M. Calonne can never frustrate—the erecting a Temple to Liberty on the ruins of a despotic government.

"My honor will not relinquish those truths I have supported, when a future day shall dissipate those clouds which threaten to overshadow it. The reproaches of the public are terrific, but an apprehension of their effect shall not induce me to...
place my personal good in competition with the interests of the State.

M. Calonne's ideas of the interest of a State are curious. The State must be supported, as if the people were made for the State, and not the State for the people. But the true interests of the State of France are now establishing upon this great and unerring principle, derived from heaven and inherent to nature—

SALUS POPULI, SUPREMA LEX!

There is in the National Assembly a Committee which is named le Douze (the Twelve) whose office it is to report to the National Assembly their researches and information respecting every circumstance which may interest or affect their new-born liberty. A member of this Committee presented on this day (Saturday) their first report, which was respecting a Pamphlet published at Paris and Versailles. It is entitled Memoires sur la Bastille, and contains a detail which outrages every feeling of humanity!