The New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser

BOSTON, April 25.

THE FRENCH PAPERS

The Editor has received, giving the latest intelligence from France not yet arrived. They do not however, and they are impartial—contain a word respecting either the late intended flight of the French King, or the miraculous destruction of the 18,000 troops of France in a third engagement with the Austrians and Russians: which the English papers have been so particular in detailing, and which the American papers have been so faithful in copying. A summary of what they do contain, independent of the many extracts presented this day, under the Foreign heads, is,—That the National Assembly has been agitated by a suspicion, that there existed in Paris, a club inimical to France, the members of which had access to the Councils of the King, and conveyed information of every measure to Foreign Courts, even before they were divulged in France. That the King had addressed the Assembly on this subject, assuring them, if such a body did exist, of which he was doubtful, that he would take the most efficacious measures to discover its members, and to defeat their machinations. At the same time cautions the Assembly against being led into intemperate measures, by reports and conjectures spread a-mong them solely to deceive them.—That a decree had been debated for banishing from France all the Clergy, who do not take the civic oath.—That a census of the inhabitants of Paris was in agitation, in order to discover their occupations, means of subsistence, and probable objects.—That the revolution spirit of the nation had not abated, but daily displayed itself in patriotic gifts, and public sacrifices.—That the most effective means appear to be taking to establish a severe discipline in the armies, to effect which, Gen. Rochambeau had been prevailed on, notwithstanding the ill state of his health, to continue his command of the Northern army—and General Luckner to return to his command on the Rhine—and that measures were in train for the most exemplary punishment of the murderers of General Dillon.—In short, notwithstanding the agitation and intemperance of a part of the nation, which discovers itself in many base and impolitic transactions, there appears a cool, determined spirit in the great body thereof, which must rise superior to every disastrous event, and which must eventually establish their glorious Revolution, on the broad and solid basis of due Equality and Freedom.