The New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser

Further accounts received from Europe, say, that the National Assembly has decreed that the ancient municipality of the city of Paris, and all the offices connected with it, should be suppressed and abolished.--Thus a system of police is destroyed which in a great measure furnished for so many ages, the victims of despotism to the dungeons of despair, in the infernal Bastile.--That Mons. Fitzjames de St. Colombe, had fallen a sacrifice to the populace.--That the assembly has decreed the elections of Judges should be by the people--and that but one subject shall be presented to the King for his approbation.--That there was in circulation of the notes issued by the Caisse d'Escompte 169,124,000 livres. The National Assembly has also determined that public officers other than the judges, shall be nominated by the King; and hold their offices during good behaviour--none of the members of the present assembly to be eligible until four years after the present session.--Members of the subsequent assemblies to be eligible in two years after the session.--Mr. Lambert director of the Mint at Rouen has received contributions in plate to the amount of 409,484 Livres.