Gazette Of The United States

Philadelphia, August 17.

European intelligence is received to the 18th June.

A motion in the National Assembly June 10, by M. Robespierre, to disband the army, occasioned a warm and lengthy debate; the next day the opinion of the committee of the constitution on this subject was received, read, and adopted—the substance of which was, to simplify and more perfectly regulate the standing forces, and provide more effectually for the fidelity of the commissioned officers, &c.

This report contained a request that the King would give notice to M. Condé that his residence near the frontiers gives uneasiness to the inhabitants, and requiring him to return into the kingdom, or to remove from the frontiers within 15 days—if he does not conform to the decrees of the Assembly he is to be declared a rebel.

June 14. Eight articles were decreed intended to prevent combinations of journeymen to raise wages—or of employers to lower the price of labor.

A curious letter from the Abbe Raynal (now in decrepitude and dotage) was received by the National Assembly, the first of June: This letter contains all the common place doctrine of the aristocratic faction, about destroying the power of the crown and the noblesse; M. Malouet it is said has the honor of drawing the Abbé to this miserable contradiction of the former doctrines of his life; this letter was read without interruption and very little notice taken of it.

Two letters were received, one from the American Congress, and one from the Assembly of Pennsylvania, thanking the Assembly for the tribute they had paid to the memory of Dr. Franklin, and expressing the high regard which America entertained for the acts and sentiments of the National Assembly of France. These letters were ordered to be printed.