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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