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4 6 v w - w7? : 9 ' A !! r . ; P.-A k I S, April 4; Ml T length our patriotic'ftnti-loya'.ilts. hayetarned a point in the Affembly byjwhich it is evident, that the King - is in facVa prifoner on parole : it is decreed that he hall riot be ' at liberty to re rnove'furtbei than twenty leagues from thede giflaive ..affembly, during the term of their fit tings. At other times he may travel where he choofes within the Kingdom, but not out of it, without leave ot the affembly, and then only . . .. 1 r 11I 1", ,t ..1 1 11 1 ! n coillulion 01 returning at inc 111 u. jnvuuuiij on pain of being confidered as having abdicat ed the'.'throne,. ; . , ' ; v That if the member? of any future legifla-. turc mould for their own eonyeniency, from caprice or any other motive, chooie to'hoid th ir meetings at Lyorii, in'tead of Paris, the ' King mull follow them as their attendant and ci'rk; The presumptive heir of the crown,,and - if he is a minor, the Queen and Regent are put under the fame reftrittionv Mirabeau died on Saturday morning. In tn'e'night he inquired for. fome papers. His fecretary was not to b found"; but upon brea- ' king open his apartment, he was round wel tering in Ins blood, with leveral Itabs given by himfelf, with a.pen knife. - 7 On opening his bureau, 15000 livres in af fignats were found ticketed belonging to Mr. .irabeau,-an4S9.oobelonging to himfelf. -TneetretavyaV4aot-dia,dlpn Saturd a Tbut liis life was defpahed of. . ITuipicic-ns ariiing that Miradeau was poifoned, he was opened in the prefence ofioo furgeons and pbyficians Who all agree he died of a natural death. . Vicious ashis private character was, his po. litical character was confident, and he dies re- 'reted by all parties, as a man of fuperior ta ents, and as the ableft chief of the democra ts faftion. Perhaps he was the only real ftatef Baan anting them. t ;?The theatres are ordered to be fhut for three ilays on account of his death, not by the com mand of any one inverted with authority, but by the voice of the people, or rather, the vio Jnt friends, of the new Order of things.. National Assembly, April . Pirticulau refpecling Mirabeau's death. . .'The Pi efidenr called their attention to this fubjeft "I rife, faid he (whilil emotion wad trohgly marked on his countenance) "to dif. charge a melancholy duty in announcing to ycu the lofs we have fu flamed in the prema ture death of the elder Mirabeau. lie died this ' morning at half pad 8 o'clock. I will not re tin .1 I 1 . . 1 idr4lKeirlSoV5e authentic monujr.cjj t -ofji heirproceedingig I move youthen that in the minutes of this tntlaircholy; day's pro ceedingrf mention be pnade of the concern the National AiTcmhly feels; for the lofs of this great. man, and that fome of its msmbcrs be deputed to attend his funeral." ... Upon this, the- mlileYsTTwithjontrvoicr cried out, " VVe will all attend." The motion puffed unanimoufly. ' Mt. Beaumetz obferved, that as the articles' refpecTirig lift wills and teftamcnts were bs-v fore the Affembly, hewifhed that Mr. Tal-" 4ftyfftfld '(hit ft flilhop of Auf'in) 'mould becul property : out hi vroulcj 'hare it (nfineo tt ' -the tenthpart j ilt thatlbverheplnetenthiX ot itf tney-mouia-nayg no aupQjmgwcr j,vhitever; thele .nine tenths delcending ac cording' to eft:ibli:h,xl rulea of inheritance, ; but the anceftor beini left at full liberty ti difpofc of the other tenth. . : ...... ...y. L O N D O N, Si led upon co read a written fpeech prepared by Mr. Mirabe xu on the fubjeii, and which trut great man had delivered to this Prelate the day before his death. . The biSiop upon this addreffed the Afll-m-bly in tle following words : ' I Went yefterday , to Mr. Mirabeau's ; I found both in the houfe and court-yard 1 great corfcourfe or people. Grief was vitible in eve ry face, except that of the great man, whofc approachine lots filled every oi c with forrow. Although death' appeared t' him inevitable, he was perrectly culm and'ierene that on one account he could ha his illnefs had commenced a that ne niigatriavc naa an opportunity or a livering in perfon, the thoughts which had oc curred to liirn on the fubject of ' inheritance y but as wiihes on this head were of no avail, he reiiuefted, in the. name of the frien J (hip by The ultiinatum of the . Ruffian Enprefst "refpecling tpolitjc and fpinted declara'tion. ofHhe BritijK GabineC be hourly ex- peftad nyerr as Prince Putemkin left Peterl- 'burg, to:put himfelf at the heavt ot tlIeR"ilfc nan army, trie zid ot la it mcntn. . . 1 Stocki got a lift yefterdiy ''one per oent. By the 'Dutch ni.u,:,viiitli arrived yeller- day, we lelrn, that the Regency have fignifi. ed to the Baltic company, thit, f as Eng !land and Prufia has dctei mined . to exert their : peace witn the rorte, the otates- vjeneral had, thought themfelves bound to coopernte with cheie powers, their. allies, to effectuate .the Imiiic' Ptwt. " R r this iiihnntmn trif Rmim' ?.5..-H,-,,?X comDaur were 'Dut on their truarda?ainft fend-- ve-wiihecl that , dis in,o . 2 Baltic. without enfiuiiif tew days liter, t,,. 0,v-.,l' ; ,-. J Repre ments which he had prepared for this occafio i, and which he had thrown on paper. He had fixed his attention upon the whoieof the works of thev Affembly ; and. it may be truly faid, that at the awful moment when deatU was faft advancing upon him, he waiublic not a private man. Tne Bilhopthen faid, this legacy of Mr. Mirabeau to his country wiil vi&oriou fly prove the magnitude cf the prize which death has. feized : the author of this workjs no more, but by lending it your attention, you will con. Ccive yourfjlvts at the pillow of the dying mm 1 t- . nun. He then read the manuicrtpt1 in wnicn Mirabeau ftill breathed : elevated and uncom mon ideas and widely extended vieys excited burltsiitappiauie, wnicngner loon mtenupt- ed ; tiw ttrange, in elfcct, to hear two hours after his death, a cjmpofition which meafured the balis ot fociety, in which he calculated t he chances of the caprices of man, and in which fathoming the depth of the grave, he'faid, "it call to your itcolleflion the plaudits with 'is beyond the bouodaiies of nature that a mor- iluch you hare Co often borne teftimony to his tal Ihsuld wilh to exift and hive a will, when peat talents. His title to our regret, and to he is merely a name; it is tranfmitting to tbe tetrs which we flied upm his tomb, reft non-entity the rights of exiften:ei nan owes upon foroething of an infinitely higher natuie hi prope.ry to fyciil. order -t in the ftate of The Ruflins liave 50 fhips of the line, 4.$ of which arc ready for lea, and fully equip ped, after their manner. Of theic ihips, eight are three-deckers. . ' ; - a :i tne ttepreientativcs or tne nation tno argu- , - . iM 771: upon foroething than talents." Mr. Barrere rofe next "Mr. Mirabeau then. fiid he, "is dead 1 The important fer- vices which he has done to his country and to mankind are well known. His death is eve- ry where lamented as a public lofs. Will not then the National Affembly exprefs its grief en this occaiton in a loiemn manner r J t is not on the brim of the grave thai 1 wifh to claim for him any vain 01 empty mark cf df. . m . A '. !.. 'II L.I . P ft ne ion. . :io pemruv it wm ocjohehj anc tohhTi in the lilt cr f;mie, the pi ct.Jui d;fcrvtl t be it the talk wf his coiiciui, tu u natcre he is Only a momentary poffeffur of the truitsot hiainaultry; then tne caoi.i which he buil Is, the animal he lays dead at htsteet, are his own, as lon as be can defend them againft the inroads of his fellows, and fuch a propcrt) is tantamount to a nothing It was fucitty abne that created proDeity." The Affembly un tnimoufly voted that it mould be printed. It appeared from this fpeech, that M. Mi rabeau did n.t wilh whjliv to take away from fathers, moihcis, grandfathers, or grand- mother, ic pow;r gfwiliinsavtaythcir giltrates hive eiven public notice, to the mer ciiants of tint city, of the, interference which . the allied powers are about to adopt, with refpeft to Ruffn, warning them of the dirH cukies that will thence arife in the navigation of the Baltic this fummer, that they may car ry on iheir plans . of.commerceaccordingly,. In confequence of this notice, all the ihips which were preparing to fail for the .ports in the Baltic, are prevented from proceeding ; and the underwriters will i.ot tnfure any Dutch Ihips on voyages towards Rufiia and the neighbouring ports. 4 The fame circumftance has taken place in this city, from whence two hundred mips have commonly failed ever fpring, fct Pe terfburg, Revel, Sec. and the goods they would have carried out at this feafon, conlid. ing'of- Englilh manufactures and produce," Ealt-India goods, and other commodities, would have amounted to upwards of 500,0001. but the whole trade is now at a ftand ; and if the (hips would venture to fii!, the under writes would notenfare them undei a premi um of five times the ufual rate ; and no mer chant will give this at prefent, a$, in a few weeks the cloud, which now overhangs the north of Europe,: may be difperfed, and all matters return to the ufual channel. April t. . A number of fi igitesainl fmall yeffels are ordered to cruife in the channel, to intercept the homeward-bound (hips, t man his Ma jelly's fle-t, now at the different ports. The Weft India merch nts have given or ders to the different trad.fnen not. to fhip the goods for which they have order, until fur ther noticcthey not being able at ptefent tt getuilQr$tonjaa their fliipi.
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