National Gazette

On Monday last the officers of the second regiment of the Philadelphia militia, assembled at Weed's Ferry, to commemorate the overthrow of the BASTILLE, on the 14th of July. The GOVERNOR and Citizen GENET were invited to the entertainment; the former attended, but the latter, having previously engaged a party of his countrymen at his house, could only pay the company a short visit. During his stay, however, some of the following toasts were drank, amidst the firing of cannon, (which discharged 85 rounds in honor of the 85 departments of France) and the acclamations of the company, who felt all the enthusiasm with which an event so glorious in the annals of the world, must forever inspire the breasts of patriotic freemen.

1. The FOURTEENTH day of July: May it be a Sabbath in the calendar of freedom, and a Jubilee to the European world. 2. The TENTH of August; may the freemen who offered up their lives on the altar of Liberty, be ever remembered as martyrs, and canonized as saints. 3. May the Bastille of despotism, throughout the earth, be crumbled into dust, and the Phoenix of Freedom grow out of the ashes. 4. Nerve to the arm, fortitude to the heart, and triumph to the soul, struggling for the rights of man! 5. May no blind attachment to men lead France to the precipice of that tyranny, from which they have escaped. 6. May the sister republics of France and America be as incorporate as light and heat; and the man who endeavours to disunite them, be viewed as the Arnold of his country. 7. May honour and probity be the principles by which the connexions of free nations shall be determined; and no Machiavellian commentaries explain the text of Treaties. 8. The Treaty of alliance with France: May those who attempt to evade or violate the political obligations and faith of our country be considered as traitors & consigned to infamy. 9. The citizen soldiers: before they act may they know and approve the cause, and may remorse attend the man that would think of opposing the French whilst they war for the rights of man. 10. The Youth of the Paris Legion: may the rising generation of America imitate their heroism and love of country. 11. The Republics of France and America: may the cause of liberty ever be a bond of union between the two nations. 12. A dagger to the bosom of that man who makes patriotism a cover to his ambition, & feels his country's happiness absorbed in his own. 13. May French, superior to Roman or Grecian Virtue, be the electric fluid of Freedom that shall animate and quicken the earth. 14. Union and mutual confidence to the patriots of France; confusion and distress to the counsels of their enemies. 15. May the succeeding generation wonder that such beings as KINGS were ever permitted to exist.—Volunteer from the Chair—The rule of proportion: as France aided with respect to America, so may America act with respect to France! Volunteer from Governor MIFFLIN. Peace to France, and perpetuity to her Republican System! The entertainment terminated at an early hour, and several of the officers, in consequence of a general invitation from the Minister of France, joined the company at his house, where the day was closed with that convivial and fraternal harmony, which it is to be hoped will forever characterize the intercourse between the citizens of the sister Republics.