Gazette Of The United States

PARIS, May 10.

The house of the Jacobins is to be sold, therefore they must seek out for another spot on which to hold their sittings—with a change of place, it is hoped they will change their measures—The universal cry is, the Jacobins have ruined France—They have lately moved that the protection of the State shall be put into the hands of what they call a national legion, to be composed of Invalids!

They have again revived the absurd idea of transferring the French crown to the House of Brunswick—a short time will determine at what value this precious diadem is to be estimated.

A bill has been stuck up in all parts of the town, intituled, a petition of ten millions of the French nation! it is however only signed by six Jacobins; it recommends depriving M. De La Fayette of all military command; it says, his victories would be more ruinous than our late disgraces; so that it appears every thing is to be wrought for France and Liberty by magick, or rather the cause is to work itself.

Rochambeau is said to be no less than a traitor; that he is in an infamous league to enslave both France and Flanders;—the proceedings at Lisle are spoken of, as, in some cases which could be named, worthy of imitation!

The subsequent observations have a retrospect to the Manifestos issued by the House of Austria and their General in the Brabantine provinces, to justify the combination of that and certain other continental powers against the reformed government and constitution of France.

Nothing can afford a clearer proof that governmental reformation is far behind national reformation, than the principles which the Governors general in the Low Countries have dared to publish & disseminate in their proclamations. We there find assertions the most false, imputations the most slanderous, and the denial of facts the most notorious. They deny, for instance, that the emigrants have either been protected or tolerated in Germany; and that the French travellers and residents in those dominions have been insulted, abused and plundered.

This audacious impudence that can cooly deny acts known to all Europe, is not new in their system of politics. What is most astonishing is, the deliberate coolness with which despotism publishes the catechism of its faith, and repeats the ancient creed, at the present period as it would have done 30 years ago. The sacred name of God is introduced to sanction their worse than Gothic abuses of true government, the perpetuity, we may say, the eternity of the most absurd institutions, couched under the respectable appellation of fundamental laws, but in fact annihilating the rights of men, who have tacitly renounced those rights, merely for the benefit of associating together, and living under a despotism, that has made them its absolute possession and property. And these are the base principles which are preached up to Europe at nearly the close of the eighteenth century.