The Patowmac Guardian, And Berkeley Advertiser

The French National Assembly, by the latest accounts, appear to be much less favourably disposed towards the petition presented by M. Petion, for the deposition of the King, than was at first imagined. Many of those who till late have been most violent Jacobins, declaim against this petition, as unconstitutional and detestable.

Aug. 10. The Duke of Wirtemberg and the Elector of Cologne have certainly armed against the French. Indeed every government in the world which values peace and prosperity, must either contribute in wishes or in active assistance to the destruction of a system of mobocracy, that must inevitably send back the civilized part of mankind to what may be called a truly ferocious state of nature.

The camp has at length melted into the air—the soldiers have beat a march and the mob as merrily retreated. The officers have rather more reason to rejoice than the privates, whose stern alarms, perhaps, are not so easily converted into merry meetings.

With what complacency the literary, and aristocratical tyrants of their species view the gathering storm on the banks of the Rhine. Thank God, they exclaim, France will now be deluged in blood! No longer shall we hear of the barbarity of single murders—the shocking cruelty of killing our fellow creatures in detail, is happily over, and now they will be murdered as they ought to be, according to the reason of Kings, in wholesale!

It is generally believed that a counter revolution will take place in France by the middle of the next month.

Aug. 11. La Fayette is so much a favourite with his army, that no decree could displace him from his command! There can be little doubt but that the Jacobins would be happy to see him dismissed. But the question is—dare they attempt it?

M. Petion is doubtless to be considered as the Oliver Cromwell of France. He commands the army to march in the night, with cannon muffled, towards the palace: and when detected, he puts the most convenient construction upon it, which nobody dare dispute.

The Marseillois, a banditti, from the southward, devoted to the Jacobins, have been moved by M. Petion, nearer the royal palace—for what end may be easily guessed.

No true Englishman surely can read of the present proceedings in France, without a desire, prompted by sentiment and humanity, to rescue the King and Queen, of that devoted country, from the perils which surround them.

The accounts received yesterday, refer but little to the question, which is now chiefly interesting, that of the King's sovereignty or deposition.

Should the King of the French have been deposed yesterday, it is not the intention of the Jacobins to inflict on him the least personal injury.

The inflammatory Gaconade of the Duke of Brunswick has precipitated this Monarch's fall, who is to be delivered up in safety even to the enemies of the liberties of France, if it is possible to save him from the rabble.

Several gentlemen who have arrived this week from the French frontiers assure, that the Austrians are extremely discontented, and that their officers have such little confidence in their men, that they are almost afraid to risque an action. In the French army the reverse is the case, the soldiers have little or no confidence in their officers, and are actuated only by one sentiment, and that is the sentiment which inspires with vigour and justice, the great body of French patriots.