Gazette Of The United States, & Philadelphia Daily Advertiser

TRANSLATED from the Leyden Gazette.

From the Redacteur of January 27.

PARIS, 7th Pluvioe, year 6.

The enemies of kings and of anarchy, the friends of liberty have to felicitate themselves upon a new event which is about to give a solid basis to their principles. Holland, which the partizans of the Stadtholder and those of an outrageous demagogy wished to destroy, has pronounced itself decisively. An 18th Fructidor has operated there; and a circumstance remarkable enough is that the plan of that necessary revolution, was determined on the 2d Pluvioe (21 January O. S.) the anniversary of the just punishment of the last king of the French.

The execution of the plan took place from the next day: the republicans of the Batavian convention, have, on that day, saved their country: they have caused to be arrested those members of their body, who by the intrigues which they carried on in order to prevent the completion of the constitution, nourished the hope of the enemies of Holland. of France, and of liberty and so powerfully seconded the manoeuvres of the government of England. There have been proposed, and the purified convention have immediately adopted them, the foundations of a constitution, free and wise, which goes to the organization amongst them of the Representative System, from which the Batavian people expects its liberty and its happiness.

The perfidious cabinet of St. James's is thus at length outwitted in Holland, as it has been in France; and this last blow is one of the most important which has been struck against The Tyrant of the Sea. The friends of humanity will learn with pleasure that this revolution has been effected in Holland without any effusion of blood, without pillage, without disorder. They will remark that every where the republicans know how to unite sagacity to firmness and to courage. Here are the details of this important event.

The party of the patriots had gained strength for some time. The most influential among them had resolved to sign what they have called the Constitutional Creed :-- This was an act containing those general principles which, in the sense of the Batavian patriots, ought to serve for a basis to the constitution, as well as to the immediate formation of a provisory government.— The signatures soon multiplied--they embraced the names of a great number of the representatives. At length, on the 2d Pluvioe, every thing having been concerted beforehand, and the most decided measures for tranquility having been taken, the orders were given at 4 o'clock in the morning for the arrest of six members of the commission of exterior relations; and, at the same time, the remainder of the Representatives were invited to meet in the National Hall of the convention. By five o'clock, the members who had signed the Creed, were assembled with the President in the apartment called Haarlem : numbers of other members met there successively: at seven o'clock, the whole majority had collected there. Immediately, a detachment of the National Guard and another corps of hired troops, paraded with ceremony before this assemblage of Constitutional members, and conducted them to the National Hall amidst the clamor of popular acclamations.

The assembly formed itself upon the spot, and the President, after having declared the motives of this extraordinary convocation, ordered, with the assent of a great majority, the arrest of twenty-one members (not comprising the six, already arrested, of the exterior relations) : Two of these twenty-one not being to be found, the nineteen others were instantly deposited in a neighboring hall ; and by a solemn decree, these twenty one, as also the six of the diplomatic commission, were excluded from their seats in the convention. The assembly, thus purified by this separation, decreed successively the fundamental articles of the constitution, those which establish the provisory government and those which assure along with public tranquility, the plenitude of the constitutional power.

The assembly declared itself permanent, and peaceably pursued the course of its operations. Commissioners have been dispatched to the provinces ; and every thing announces that the calm will be universally prevalent.