The Kentucky Gazette

NEW-YORK, November 15.

As far as can yet be judged from the intelligence that has been received by the last arrivals from Europe, the late attempts at a revolution in France was nothing more than a renewal of the old struggles for a restoration of monarchy. The return of an immense herd of banished priests, with a no less numerous accompaniment of the servile devotees of Louis XVI, as by law permitted, gave royalty some room to suppose that a revolution in its favor might be effected. Nothing shews in a more striking light the folly of the despotic combination in Europe against the liberties and happiness of mankind. At a time when the people are beginning to act for themselves, and see the necessity of it, what weakness and ignorance does it shew in the arbitrary powers, to depend on the efforts of the expelled clergy or court dependents, to restore their drooping cause, in such a country as France, where philosophy has laid the basis of a general system in favor of human liberty.—On the 20th of September lord Malmesbury and his suite arrived in London, having quitted Lille, without accomplishing the object of his mission—peace. Admiral Nelson had arrived in London, after his unfortunate expedition against Teneriffe. The populace gave him three cheers: he thanked them, he appeared somewhat chagrined at the loss of his right arm; but the fracture was doing well, and he was comforted by the acclamations of the people—

The return of lord Malmesbury, without effecting a peace, had greatly depressed the spirits of every class of people; there being a general conviction that without a system of pacification speedily to be adopted, national ruin must be the result, the expenses of war being so enormous, that it appeared beyond the ability of the nation to pay them, in case of a continuance of the war. The crops of the past season had generally failed in England; orders are said to have been received, in consequence, of large exports of wheat from the United States.

The English public prints assert, that, another year's war will add at least 70,000,000 sterling to the national debt of Great Britain, the gross debt amounting to 500,000,000 sterling: under which the nation cannot but sink. The people were calling out for a permanent peace; and a negotiation under the auspices of Charles Fox, was thought to be the only remaining chance for political salvation.