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MUSES’ RETREAT. ——<C>o£ 0< M * 7HE JACK DAIV. There is a bird who by his coat, pAnd by the hoarfends of his note, Might be fuppos’d a crow; A great frequenter of the church, Where, bishop-like, he finds a perch, Ek And dormitory tod. Above the ftccplc fliincs a plate, ‘.That turns, and turns, to indicate 5■ r From what point blows the weather ; Look up—your brains begin to fvvjm, ‘Tis in the clouds—that plcafes him* f • He choofts it the rather. Fond of the speculative height, * Thither he wings his airy flight, e And thence securely fees | The buflle and the rarte-fliow, : That occupy mankind below, Secure and at his case. Yon think no doubt he fits and mufti On future broken hones and bruiits, If he fliould chance to fall, 3n to, not a Angle thought like that Employs his philosophic pate, Or troubles it at all. He fees that this great roundabout, The world, with all its motley rout, Church, army, physic, law, Its cufloins and its bus’nefles Are no concern at all of his, And fays, what fays he ? Caw. Thrice happy bird ! 1 too have seen, Eluch of the vanities of men, And, lick of having feen’em, Would chcarfully these limbs relign For fuel) a pair of wings as thine, And such ahead between ’em. THE CORRESPONDENCE Between citizen GENET, mimihr of the French republic to the United States of North America, and the OFFICERS of the FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. f l-OHtinueJ/rom our paper of IVeiurfiay If ] Letters from the mtntjier of the Enrich republic. Philadelphia, May 23, 1793, 2 I year of the French icpublic Citizen Genet, minijkrp'enipot ntia/y oj the French republic, to mr. Jejjnfn fecre/qrj/ of Jiate of the L nitea M/e>. Alone against the innumerable l a us of tyrants and Oaves, who threaten to crulh her infant liberty, the French ration might jufily calf on the United S’a.es to di(charge the obligations un pofed on them by the treaties they hate contracted wi.h her, and wilier fit has sealed with her blood ; but funny relying on her great refoiurces, on the power of her principles* not left formi liable to her enemies than the vi£lori< us arms with which (he opposes tltcii fury, (lie has, at the very time when emiifaries from our common enemies were ineffectually driving to repress the emotions of gratitude in your ft 1 low-citizens, to compose the efjvr vefcence of their zeal, and to draw the Curtain of darknels before their-eyes, this generous nation, I fay, this faith ful friend, at such a time, in such cir cumftances, has been labouring to for ward their prosperity and to add to their happiness, w hich lhe ever con templates with pleasure and fatisfac lion. 1 he obflacles raised to your welfatt with intentions deftru£tive to liberty, by the perfidious minilters of despotism, obflacles w hose iniquitous design w-as to oppose the progress of the Ameri can trade, and to check the propaga tion of humane and beneficent max ims.are now removed. The French republic conficlerip| the Americans in the light of brothers, has opened to them by the enclofa decree, all her ports in the old and new world; has granted, them the privi leges enjoyed by her own citizens in rdl her vast pofleffions; has invited them to partake of the benefits of her T. •. igation, by granting to their veflels the fame rights as to her own, and has given it in charge to me to propose to your government to c mfecrate by a true tamily compact, by a national covenant, the liberal and fraternal basis on which it wishes to eltablifh the com mercial and political system of two peo ple, whose interelfs arc inseparably connected. 1 am inverted, fir, with the powers uecefTary for entering into this impor tant negotiation, of which the lamen table a mals of previous to the glorious a: a which now draws up on the world, affrtrd no example. Accept my refpedls, GENET. Decree of the national convention of the l .)th February, 1793, 2 d year of the Fiencb republic, re. at ve to commodities exported or imported bf American vrj f : U, from or to the colonies, or Jrovt or to France. The national convention, after hav ing heard the report of its committee of general defence, decrees what fol lows : Article iff. All the ports of the .French colonies are open tu the velfels of the United Spates. 2d. All commodities exported or imported by the Am rican veil Ms,’ (hall pay at their going out of, or at their entrance into the colonies, 01 France, only the fame duties as are levied on those which are carried in French ves sels. 3d, The executive council isantho rie. and to adopt all proper measures to hinder the Hates with which the repub lic is at war from profiting by the ad vantages granted to a friendly power 4th. The executive council (lull negotiate with the congress .0} the U uted S ates, to obtain in favour ol F cnch traders a reduction of duties ji ndar to -hat which is granted by the prt f.nt law to American traders, ami tint's to Hrengthcti the bonds of bent vo le r e which unite the two nations. sh. The nafi ual cdnvefui n fuf pen.is the execution ot the law of the 2s h of Angart. 1790 ; decrees, that all veil’ Is laden with niewhandiz from the Ealt Indies,may unload inaM'he pons f the republic during the continuance of ihe war, and that u if Is cartying only commodities tr> m tlv isl-ts of France and B lurbon, (hail in future enjoy the fame liberty. Compared with the original by us, the president and fecretartes ot the na tional convention, ar Paris, this 2tit of February, 1793, the 2-tyearof tile Freach republic. (Signed) BRE AK Desi ‘ent. CAN’ B \CERI S, PR 1 EUR, de la Marine, LE lOINTE PUYRAVEAU, E LAMAKQjJE, and P. CHOUDI EU, fccretaries. In the name ol the republic, the executive provitional council ti-join's a ul orders a:l he adminirtrative bodies and tribunals to cause the piefent law to be inserted in their regirters, read, published, fixed up, and executed in their several departments and jurisdic tions. In teflimony whereof we have hereunto affixed t or fig: attire and the seal of the republic. A’ Paris, the 21 rt dav of the month of February , one thousand fcven hundred and ninety - three; the second year of the F.eneh republic. (S gned) I E BRUN. (Counter signed) GAR AT. Certified to be conformable to the original. CARAT. At Paris, from the national print ing office of the Louvre, 1793. , Certified to be true and conlujmable to the deciee of the national conven tion. GENET. The national conventi< n has sus pended the law of the 15th of May, 1791, which deprived the Americans ot the privilege of intr< ducirg, felting, and arming their vdTelsin France, and excluding them fn m the enjoyment of all the advantages granted to those built in the dockyaids of the republic. Certified to be true and conformable to the decree of the national conven tion. GENET. New York, September 30, 1793. 2d year of the French republic. Citizen G net, mmjler pin'pet, ntiary of the French republic, to mr. Jeff rfn, secretary oj Jiati of the United Slates. Sir, I am directed to communicate to you anew. decree of the national con vention, parted the 20th of March, re lative to the commerce of the United Mates with our colonies. You will find in it, fir, frtrti proofs of the at tachment which France bears to the Americans, aid of the interest ihe takes in their pr< fperity. After h. ving confirmed, by the preceding decree, to theii European commerce, every ad vantage they could vviih during the present war, lhe has ertabliihed for them, by this, the openii g of the ports of her colonies for the consumption of all the productions of their foil, and heir iudultry, tor the importation into the United States of part of her fugats, and her ct ffee, and for the exportation of every kind of colonial production to the ports of F ance, < n the fame footing with the French ihemfcives. This law, conrtruCtive of that of the. 9-h of February, appears such tone: that I cannot conceiv e the United States j could widi a more favourable one. I . have been also charged to direCt all the j consuls and either agents ot the French j repub'ic, to attend to the equipments | which may take place in the different; ports of the United States for the French colonies, and to prevent at y violation of the regulations of the iff and 3d articles of the endofed decree ;! and i have eve y reason to believe that the federal government will cheerfully, and without delay, take the needfary Heps that the directions which 1 am about to give on this head lhall meat j wuh no difficulty on their part. ‘ Hitherto, fir, the greuteft part of my correspondence has only presented you with details diltrefliug-tor a phiio iopher- The declaration of war* uc cafioned by tyranny against Fiance and freedom, has only allowed me to fp-ak to you of the military points fixed be tween our nations by the alliance which unites them ; but I this day find areal pleasure in-engaging you; at tention in details more confidatory, in details w hich .cannot fail of being to ymr the mortinterefimg, since they have no other objtCf than the peaceable pur luits ot man ar, asocial being, of man on whom philofi phy is delighttq to; fallen her attention. Urged by the. convulsions which occalion the eftqb ! lifhment within itfe-lf of a Conflitu-j tion which annihilates every privilege,! which ftifles every ptcjudice, fuirt und- j td by all the force which tyranny and! ianaticilm can coiled against her lom, every part of Europe, France, present j ing in one hand the shield ot liberty, and in the other the thundeibclt of war, already maiks out by her ir.fpira ! tion those extensive enterpiizi s whii h,| on the return of peace, will fix, in their: execution, the happiness of the Ftenth; and of their allies, and prepare a re • generation for the inhabitanit's of the! whole earth ! Among these views her! firfi attention has beer, fixed! upon the commercial ties ot the republic with ether nations. The national conven tion has felt the immense fa ti.-fa£licn which enables them to enjoy the spec tacle of that efiabiifhment which, in* annihilating dirtances, unitels, at the fame spot, the productions aril the en joyments of every climate, ajndwhich, by count£tir>g the human race featured over tlie earth, should collect them in | to one family only, confian'tly excited by the interchange which th Mr mutual wants occaficn. She has seen with! grief ever) people gri an mg u nder a tr - mercial regulations,asabfuul as they are tyrannical, every where the victims of errors and greedy exc£) ions ; flit has !cen them w uh pain, after ha virg over come Teas, mountains, dttarts, and every barrier which nature aj ‘peared to have placed between them, checked, in the moment when their efforts we: to be crown d* with success, by rub and ministerial regulations which, i n peding their genius, puts more in.fur mountable bars to their intercotirf dun those even which nature-appears to have created. France, fi , perceiv ing the period when all nations wdi b freed from th.fe ‘obrtaclej, views the trument when every one, governed by the fame law's, led by ’he fame interelß and Fading freely their activity over the face of the earth, find on it no other commercial guide .than their own genius ; (he'has fixed her atten tion upon that happy period, and lit has determined to acce!era:eit; per luaded that the firtelt means to attain this end was to hold up the exam leof two people enj lying every adva. teg of a perfectly free communication, ihe has turned her eyes to the Americans, a people governed like her MU w ith ut a king, and whose coralituti n.il p m ciples refcmhle her own, a people whose enlightened minds have, fits her own, lltfi *d, or are ready to Hide, all the prepoif- (lions of ignorance ; a peopl , finally, whose genius-ft uggej like her own wish the obtfacEs’ w inch cor-rupt court fyftetns oppose to their com vsertial a&tvity ; such a people ap pear to her th >fe whom she ought io connect herfelf with, to a'am the ’.great end lhe meditates; Fit with this j people has determined to cm,chi le ;4 new treaty, which, founded upon the • | unchangeable principles of nature, j may, Uy becom ng an o’ jec’t of {envy to other nation-, invite ihem 0 | participate in it, and may fetve as a mo Ito all those who in future form compact met ween themselves. Indeed of the mutual interells of theconrrafl j ing nations, she has only seen in th: treaties hitherto ma'e a combination , formed upon an ififatiable and ignorant fyltem of taxation, deceitful-calcula tions by interested individuals, and refinements upon a fyltem equally re pugnant to xeafon, justice and found p they. It is in the viciousness of these regulations that lhe d.fcovers the in- Hability of every treaty hithdrto mads ibetween governmertts, and rtne n jif ant cat He ci their violation. France therefore wiihes now with America, not a treaty —the very name imports a nullity—but a compact agreed to by both, and tiie duration of which (hall j depend for its support, not on a tem jporary imereit, nor the underHandt g I between two cabinets, but on the real and fetd cl inereff of the t w > people. It is with this view that the national convention has called for a report on ; the commercial regulations eftabilrtied jbetween the two nations since the Itreaiies made under our lad g ivern |ment. It has resulted from this re- | fearch, that our connexions hive been j very {lender indeed ; that the maximum of annual American importations, ir.'o French ports, has never extended jto eleven millions, that their exporta tions were scarcely two millions and a half, and that the eight millions for ! plus pail in fpeeie, had no other de (fi liation than to go in support of the ‘>Engli(h tr.anufaftorics. France has ; seen, that since lhe has carted from ali j parts for the introduction of provifiohs , into her teriitories, America has hard i !y fun.idled the sixteenth part of the corn and giain v. h : ch have been intro duced there, and that fifteen-fixteenlhs have been carried there by f. reign ra tions, and even by those whose go- j | vernnicntshave forced them into a war jwith her! They have seen with regret I in this account, that after having confi* | derably reduced the duty imposed upon ; your tobacco, that after hiving i mitted your fiili and oil (which ob'.ig ;us to keep up premiums on our diva establishments for the cod and whale fifh; ry) we do not enj’ y with you an)’ ifort ol favour for our exportations < r importations, and that after having taken t if the duty on the freight bv your vt fills, you have itcpofed up ca ours a molt exorbitant rate of ton nage. [To be continued.^