Gazette Of The United States & Evening Advertiser

From the General Advertiser.

CIVIC FESTIVAL.

On Thursday last, May 1st, the Democratic and German Republican Societies of this city, together with a number of their fellow citizens, assembled at the place of Citizen Israel, about three miles from town, to celebrate the late success of their French brethren.

Though the celebration of the day (St. Tammany's) by several separate companies deprived the general meeting of a number of true Republicans; and though the notice of this Civic FESTIVAL was but short, yet about 80 citizens, among whom the Governor and several officers of the State and Federal governments attended, assembled to celebrate those events which have so eminently conduced to consolidate French liberty and guarantee our independence. The Minister and other officers of the French republic favored the citizens with their company. The flags of the sister republics marked and ornamented the seat of felicity. At two the company partook of a plain yet plentiful repast, after which the following toasts were drank, accompanied by universal marks of approbation.

I. The Republic of France one and indivisible—May her triumphs multiply until every day in the year be rendered a festival in the calendar of Liberty, and a fast in the calendar of courts.

II. The people of the United States—May each revolving year increase their detestation of every species of tyranny and their vigilance to secure the glorious inheritance acquired by their Revolution.

III. The Alliance between the sister Republics of the United States and France—May their union be as incorporate, as light and heat and their friendship as lasting as time.

IV. The Mountain—May tyranny be chained at its foot, and may the light of Liberty from its summit cheer and illuminate the whole world.

V. The Republic of Genoa—May every nation that values its independence dislike her the citations and resist the power of tyrants combined for the destruction of freedom and equality.

VI. The great family of Mankind—May the distinction of nation and of language be lost in the association of freedom and of friendship, till the inhabitants of the various sections of the globe shall be distinguished only by their virtues and their talents.

VII. The Constitution of the United States—May its form and spirit be the invariable guide of all who administer it—may its authority never be prostituted for the purposes of party nor its departments illegally blended for the purposes of intrigue.

VIII. The men of the People—the minority of the Senate—and the majority of the House of Representatives of the United States—May they on future, as on past occasions, have wisdom to discover and fortitude to resist every attack upon the Constitution and rights of their country, while they enjoy for their services the patriot's true reward, the love and confidence of their fellow citizens.

IX. A Revolutionary Tribunal in Great Britain—May it give lessons of Liberty to her King, examples of justice to her Ministry, and Honesty to her corrupt Legislature.

X. The Armies of the French Republic—May they be invincible and unshaken till by their glorious efforts Liberty and Peace, exalted in the same Triumphal Car, shall be drawn to the temple of Janus by the humbled tyrants who have dared to molest them.

XI. The extinction of Monarchy—May the next generation know kings only by the page of history, and wonder that such monsters were ever permitted to exist.

XII. Reason, May it successfully counteract the baneful effects of executive influence, expose the insidious arts of judicial sophistry, and preserve inviolate the purity of legislation.

XIII. Knowledge—May every citizen be so learned as to know his rights, and so brave as to assert them.

XIV. The fair daughters of America and France—May they ever possess virtue to attract merit and sense to reward it.

XV. The Democratic and Republican Societies of the United States—May they preserve and disseminate their principles, undaunted by the frowns of power—uncontaminated by the luxury of aristocracy, till the Rights of Man shall become the supreme law of every land, and their separate fraternities be absorbed in one great democratic society comprehending the human race.

VOLUNTEERS.

I. May every free nation consider a public debt as a public curse, and may the man who would assert a contrary opinion be considered as an enemy to his country.

II. The unfortunate victims of British tyranny—the members of the Popular Convention of Scotland—May their fate recoil upon their persecutors, and may those who have sought an asylum in this country find in every American a brother and a friend.

III. The dispersed friends of Liberty throughout the world. May France be the rallying point where they may collect their scattered forces, and whence they may sally forth to the destruction of all the tyrants of the earth.

By the Minister of the French Republic. May the principles of reason be universal as they are eternal.

By the Governor of Pennsylvania, Peace on her own terms to the French Republic.

The Presidents and Vice Presidents of the sister societies presided at the feast, the preparations for which do the greatest honor to the managers.

After dinner the citizens formed a double line in a lane which led to the place of entertainment, and the President of the Democratic Society gave the fraternal embrace to the minister of the French Republic, amid the acclamations and most animated joy of all the company.

The citizens then, some time being spent in the effusions of mirth, friendship, and good humour, accompanied the Minister to town, in a regular order of march, headed by music and the colours of the Republics and accompanied by one of the companies of volunteer infantry of this city.

They partook of some refreshments provided in the Minister's garden and preserving their line of march thro' part of the city, dispersed with perfect good humour and tranquility before the State House.

The provisions which remained after the repast were distributed, agreeably to order, among the prisoners confined in the goal of this city.