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A disadvantageous balance of trade may al
ways be prevented by indnftry and frugality.
If a people continue industrious and frugal,
tbCy cannot be long afflicted with an tin
favourable balance.
The value of money riling* in* proportion to
its Scarcity, will gradually lower the price
©f all commodities. And if our commodi
ties be cheap, the money of foreigners will be
introduced among us to purchase them, and
thus exportation will be'promoted. ’ On the
Contrary difficulties and disadvantages of
fluking remittances will lefien the imports,
and thus the balance will gradually turn in
our favour, and money in confequence' will
flow in among us.
An unfavorable balance of trade, in gene
ral, indicates an expensive, prodigate disposi
tion in the people. And this profligacy of
character can only becorrefled by the embar
sassing difficulties which it invariably brings
upon a people. To study how to Supply by
an artificial money, .the Scarcity of coin occa
sioned By an unfavorable balance, is to study
how an expensive, profligate disposition in a
people is to be cherished.
The above are the common remarks of all
©Ur admired political writers; and they are
considered by ftatefnien as true as they are
common.
P ARTS, December 30.
WE know little of foreign affairs, except
that the Emperor has joined us to pre
vent the war between Russia and the Porte.
VVe expeft on this head the Divan's anfweir
to the firft propofitionß made by the Imperial
Interuuncio at the desire of our Ambaflador.
33ut there is no doubt of preventing hostilities
if they could depoSe the present Vizir. The
Impernr, notwithstanding his conciliatory
proceedings, takes the most efficacious pre
cautions to Support his ally, should the Turks
tefufe every accommodation.
M. de Bevy, Second Prcfident of the Par
liament of Dijon, was arrested on the night
of the 14th and 1 sth of the present month, at
kis own houSe, by a Hufhier de la Chaine,-
who entered his chamber and shewed him a
X>ettre de Cachet, which ordered him to go
under an escort to the Baftilc*
Madame deßcvy has followed her husband.
It is Said that this Magistrate has brought this
disgrace upon himfelf by the energy of his ex
pressions, and the ftreugth of his eloquence
©u various occasions, particularly at the Jaft
meeting of the States of Burgundy, in presence
*• of the Prince of Conde.
LONDON, January 12,
Every new occurrence indicates the unset
tled Hate of the Dutch. Turbulence yet ran
kles more or less through most of the people.
The popular tumults, and the 1 military vio
lences, are equally inimical to the repose of
the civil magistracy and good order.
Inconsequence of the disorders at Bois le
I)uc, the States, with the Stadtholder, have
aflued orders of a Special nature, throughout
all their garrisons, authoring the comman
der in each place to punish every offence of
this fort in the most Summary and Severe
manner. •
When the last accounts came from Vienna
the Emperor had not declared waragainft the
Porte, nor can the most clear Sighted politi
cians make 3ny thing of his designs at present.
He tianlaCts all public business himfelf, re
ceives courier in person. and frequently, in
material cases, returns answers wuh his own
hand.
Extra 3 of a letter from Paris,' Dec . 50.
u The King of Prance has repeatedly said,
tb- is was not on acc >nm of the freedom of
Speech which the Parliament had a Burned that
he imprisoned two of the members, and ban
ithed a thi.d ; for, be laid} that when he in
formed them that he wiflied to beat their fen
timeutss he, by implication, allowed them a
freedom of debate ; it was therefore not for
the freedom, but the licentiousness of debate,
as c Said, that he had dealt so rigorouily by
tiemj for without confining themfelvea to
f ,hc *>' ">« new
Ml| ' fly ° l bf ‘ rv " l - '*'»> the two im
foned membe,. had taken , general review
hy a letter trom a Chriflian merchant at
iWgudc wc xic ittivfiucd| that ih« oumbn
i I
of Christians in tint Ottoman a may amounts to
80.000, among winch *aVc French of
licers, 70 Germans, and 25 Polanders, who
follow the standard of Mahomet, because they
ate so well paid.
A second Janed’Arc, (the Maid-of Orleans)
has made her appearance in Asia. She went
to Choczira at the head of .14,000 men, and
wa* received with public demonstrations of
joy. The exalted minds of the Mahomejans
soon persuaded that this mighty virgin
is sent from heaven |>y their hgly pfophet.
Second Petition of the Parliament of Paris to
5 ‘ the French King*
In the Assembly of the Great Chamber of Par
liaments, 10th December, 1787.
SIRE;
YOUR Parliaments, the Princes and Peers
of your realms, being seated, have charged
us with the Com million of laying at the feet of
your throne their mod refpeftful representa
tions on your Majesty’s anfwcr to their fup
plicatibns.
The Magistracy of your kingdom,- as weil
as every true citizen, are equally aftoniihed
at the reproaches it contains, and the prin
ciples which are manifefled in it.
We are, however, far from attributing these
reproaches to the personal sentiments which
inspire your Majedy.
Public decency received a severe wound in
the choice of the executors of your orders. If
their crime was not carried to the personal
arred of one of your Magistrates, the exposi
tion of other fafts, far from being exaggerat
ed, is yet incomplete, and your Parliament
may add, that this Magistrate, whole house
was inverted by armed men, himfelf delivered
up to the Agents of the Police, like a male
factor, law himfdf reduced to the humiliation
of being liable to the summons of an officer,
, from a fubmidion to your Majesty’s order.
May we be allowed, Sire, to repreferit to
you, that, in devotingourfelves to the public
service, in promising to release your Majefiy
of the firft duty you owe your nation, namely,
that of justice, in bringing up our children to
be fubjeft to the fame facnfices, we never
could have supposed we were dertining our-,
selves and out children to misfortunes, still
less to outrages of so heinous a nature.
But we do not come so much to claim your
benignity as the proteftion of the laws. It is
not to your humanity alone that we add refs
ourselves ; it is not a favor which your Par
liament folicitsj it comes, Sire* to dema.d
jujtice.
This justice is ftibjeft to regulations inde
pendent of the will of man—even kings them
lelves are fhbfervient to them ; that glorious
Prince, Henry IVth, acknowledged he had
two Sovereigns, God aiid the £aws.
One of these regulations is to condemn no
one without a hearing; it is a duty in all
times, and in all places; it is the duty of all
men ; and yotir Majesty will allow us to re
present to you, that it is as obligatory on you,
as on your fubjefts.
But your Majesty has not to execute this
function, and jour Parliament with pleasure
brings to your recollection your glorious pri
vilege, that of lhewing mercy to condemned
criminals. 1 o condemn them yourfelf is not
a function belonging to Majesty. This pain
ful and dangetous taiK the King cannot exer
cise but through his Judges. Those who find
a pleasure in hearing your Majesty pronounce
the dreadful word of puuirtunent, who advise
you to punilh without atrial, to punish of
your own accord, to order exiles, arrests, add
imprisonments, who suppose that afts of ri
gour are compatible with a benign difpolition,
equally force a wound to eternal juftiqe, the
laws of the realm, and the most confolating
prerogative belonging to your Majesty.
•* t does not allow, that opinions delivered
in Parliament should be confidefed as motives
for your rigour, and in some measure, a con
futation for us. But if strong reasons (hould
aCtuate you to the exile of the Duke of Orleans
if it can be called a kindness that you no
longer leave two Magistrates exposed toperith'
in diltam prifona, or unwholesome places—
il it is confidercd as an aft of humanity, which
templates justice, in reieafing them from
luch actuation— they must indeed be guilty !
But it is the duty of your Parliament to judge
them—and we demand only that their crimes
thould be publiihed.
T he meanelt of your fubjefts ia not lefa in-
MUfUd 1U tb« fucceli of our uckiiuiiom than
\ tbe firft. Prince of -your m*.
d»ly a Prince of your bfcfOd; buVe^ery‘French
man punished by your Majesty, and especially
who is punched without aftiearingj, tit comes
necertarilythe fubjeft of public alarm. -Tfief
•union Os tßefe ideas U'-noHhe Work of sou/
Parliament, it is that of nature, it is the voice
of reason, it is the principle of the most whole
some laws, of those laws which are engraved
in every man’s heart, which is the principle of
yours, and: which allures us 6f your personal
* The ex'ile pf his JRoyal High
ness the Duke of Orleans, and of the two Ma
gistrates, is then without our and*
by forcing those principles, “the aft of the'
throne, whose only foundation is, justice, and
without which no nation can be happy. It is
; therefore m the name of those laws which pre
serve empires, in the name of that liberty foe
; which We are the refpeftful interpreters'and
; the lawful mediators, in the name of your
authority, of which we are the firft and most
confidential miniflers, that, we dare demand
the trial or the liberty of the Duke of Orleans
and the two exiled Magistrates, ,■who are im
priforied by a fuddeh tirdeiy as coritraVy to
the sentiments as to the interest& r of your Ma
jesty. , ~
bxtratt of a letter from Parity Dec . 27.
“ A dangerous inflarice of a precipitate bu
rying about a fortnight ago in St. Euftacc’s
churchyard. A joiner, jtfft as theptieft was
reading over the prayers for tfce dead, gave
signs of life, and was taken home to fiis afto
nilhed wife, who through exceflive grief had
fliut herfelf up in’ her room to fettle many*
things that were in disorder, and to fepaVat*
the crowns and half crowns from the smaller
pieces. A quarter of an hour, or more ex
pedition in the parson, the man would neveg
have visited again his disconsolate wife.”
It was in the highest circle of political intel
ligence on Tuefday declared, that proposals
from Madrid had been transmitted to his Ma
jesty, by Mr. Eden, tending to eftablilh a
permanent treaty of alliance, offenfive ahd
defenfive, between this country andtheSpa
niffi court; and that an aftual reparation of
interests had taken' place between the two
Houles of Bourbon. The principal objeft of
the King of Spain, in projeftirig this nouvelle
connexion, is, that Great.Britairt will find it
to her interest to combine with the Court of
Spain in securing the peace and profpeiity of
each other’s distant pofleffions.
B O S T O N,> March iq.
Friday the Hondrable Hobfe of Represen
tatives parted a refolvC for pardoning and re
; ftorin S to the privileges of a freeman, Capt.
Luke Day, who for some time past has been
confined in the goal of this town.
Saturday night some villains cut the cable
; of a schooner lying at Mr. Lorfhg’s wharf,
which they got clear off.
17. By a vertel which arrived here on Fri-~
day last from Halifax, we learn, that the town
had been for fCveral dkys disturbed by the
outrages of parties in a contested eleftion for
a Representative, the Refugees having set up
a Mr. Stearns from this state as a candidate,
and the native inhabitants having f.ropofed a
citizen of Nova-Scotia; that in a riot in con
sequence two persons had been killed, and
tnat a number had been Wounded, among
Whom were Mr. Mulbery Holmes, formerly
of this town, and his lon. The Refugees loft
the eleftion.
22. We feel the highest fatisfaftion in an
titrating to the public, that, in a revenue bill
which palled the Honorable Legiftature yester
day, the clauses in the afts heretofore in force,
laying a duty oh. advertisements, writs, exe
cutions, arid deeds, not registered in 6 months
; were repealed: Our fatisfaftion on this event
a. ifes from feeing the Honorable Legiftature
thus attentive' to relieve a class of citizens on
whom the laws bore with a difproportionatc'
• weight, and f otfi* the liberality of the prin
ciples which difta'ted the measure.
*~ xt letter from his Excellency General
"ajbiugtcn to a gentleman in this town, dated
Mount rernon> Feb . 29.
M The candid and conciliatory behavior of
your minority places them in a more favour
able point of view than the debates of the con
vention gave room toexpeft, and fufficicntly
ftiew# the good cfleck which were produced
by a full aud fair difcuilion of the fubjeft.
M Th « adoption of the constitution in Mas
sachusetts will, 1 presume, be greatly influen
tial in obtaining a fawu/ablg determination