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ef ray fervtces. -Whatevefhis natural parts
ma be, I tannot recognize, in his few. and
7 idleyeafs tiieco ripetence tojudeWny long
and laborious life. . If I can help it, he fhall
be" 01 the inqdetl of ray quantum meruit
, Poor rich man ! He can hardly know any
thmof public mduibry in -its exertions, or
talr eilnnatd its cbihrnfationsvheij its work
is done. ' I have no doubt ofhis U race's rea-
-iliilefs iii, all the calculations of vulgar aritfp
v metie ; but I revcil '.fu.'pecl that he is ve-
jfy-little itudied in the theory of mord ipro
, . portions and has never L amed the rukof
three in die arithmetic of policy and itate.
zm is G race thinks! ha veohcained too rnuchU-
Ianlver, that my exertions, whatever they
have -been, were tuch asjisoihopes of pecuni
ary reward cojaidw.
cuniary" conipen fat :on could poilibly reward
tVm.' Bet-veen the and miey t-iere is
r,o cs-n ion m'far? Sucn fer ices, Xdone
byier-' men -.thin 1 am, ;ure, 'qua itlties w
coi?eiur;ibk -..""'Money :is ftTade tor'the
'. c6" j. fort -ad" convenience. of' animal Ufe it
' canno. e 'u'riivvvi-U" iu : hat niirVahinial hie'
.'in".v;- ' i.: i'iuitaiii, but ne er can inipire.
Wrh iih:n u.cn ta hU Grace ! have not . had
'more :h.aj ft tj.i ,' nt. As to any no Ae ufe ,
I uh I k-"j ''in . -o employ, a j. well h-,.
a m.i !i;jreVr lortu than he poilViiCo in
amof eton i.eJ application. I certa.niy ihnd
inneH of. every kind of relief and SaTeinent
' much f lore than he does. . When J fay I
have -i-Qt rfi.eived more han I deferve, is
' Ynis-the-language I hold to Majesty ? No !'.-;
Far; very far from it 1 Before that preience,
I Ciaia! no merit at all. Every thing do
wards me is favor and bou ,ty. Oneuyleio-
a gracious benefactor ; another to a proud
aliuinlui:nis;r.c.
':, The. Engliih at Port au Prince, to facili
tate their-meditated 'attack upon Leoganc,
which is about 7 leagues diftant from the firft
mentioned place, had corrupted Pierre; DL
eudonne and Pompee who commanded the
republican volunteers encamped in the envi.
rons of Port au Princeiat Lee Chafhnnn'prr V
.Rivierefrokle and Crete. r.Piquans but the
plot was difebvered and the traitors were lent
"to Leogane to be tried. - J ; . ---z.;.
"This arrefted for a jhort time the projects 2
of the Engliih . Th ey , however, having
France is therefore lout into two erand got togetmr at rort a ui'rmce the command.
'vdtvHloriirtf-a. Monarcbiis. -: If y 61 the Mole StNicholas, Sf. Marc an i. .
ah& Jac ter have Iheahaicrity,, re tiinu
n'.oa and experience tor won the tormer
alifti,. monarchlftsancl arHlocratifpread o '
ver the.vait territory of Francepbury decp-
ly in their trealt this bent of inclination ; have,
nolmplicit confidence in each other ; nor are
l-excwrKiirom the panic terror, in which,-
lor thirtee,! montns, tney nave Deen. i-.ee
us'dutrull, therefore, all pxaggeratedpp
nioas whle" ettimate-is impraCtible ; but,
while. we-efrain rom a conhden"ccthat.ii taT
tal, let us equally7 avoid a fruitlefs difumr
ragen
Hit . - . . . - - j- '.
Cf Republicans and Monarchies,
F ' R A ,N C E .
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. THE REAL STATE OF PARTIES.
Our Readers will thank Us for laying this ab
.flract before theui, of the opinions of. tiie
moil -'enlightened Work publiiiied upon
this fiibect 1 :
Of f aris and the Departments.
During two years the picture of the inte
rior ot Paris has been that of all France. We
Hibulid now deceive our felves by adopting
futh a notion. 'I he - Departments, lofing
that ftupid homage for the Capital, the re-
fult of their e thui.a m lor the lu-volu:io:i,
have dimini ' cd ihdr lum of gr .tuude u its
authors. Parts, therefore, tnmi no more
be fokly reardt'd. lthas lot!gbeeiiaJcale
to determine the progrefs of puolic opinion r
at prefent it would kau pUly to a fallacious
eili.nate We inua obfevc the wiiBle . of
. France. ......
It is not fufHclently remarked, perhaps that
in tbvptorle7 i.innitcly leu light th..u tney
have been deemed, although tne revolution
arypaliions arc hlcnt, the options that gave
then bJrth are not dettrocd. 'i lie, dci:ri
umof drmocraiy,it ;s true, excitet enfly dil-'
gull , but the lu ll ideas pror ogated with lb
jnuth addr f&, have taken a deep root in the
mi ubVl m iny. ' We mult ccafe to tonfou.i ,
therefore, the generalhorror againit thc iyf
tcm of terror with all .dea 0. returning to
frhnaniiJ Government. There arc in
France various opinions, inclinations, and in
tr f lis ; hut no pirty, properly fo called, u
n'tcd with force, or even iud nation, to at
tempt the linking off a republican yoke. Fac
tions arc no more. "1 lie Republicans, real-
ly fuch, arc a power andjcprelcnt the Hate ;
. the Jacobinsdifpcrfed,withoutleadcrs, with
out apparent rcfourccs can only fervc as in
liniments to any new faction, which, by col
ic cling their fcattercd wreck, may think of
TVMMgfins.iuhtiJm, and reigning by the
influence of terror. ,
Tlie Royaliils, by which arc to be under
Hood all w ho prefer any Monarchy jo the
Rqjublic, form, no doubt," the pJ.ve map
rity of Fiance. We may reckon among their
' auxiliaries, in fecret, the multitude
titst the Duhiwst n& the InJifferenttfcr-
Ions, whom inclination, hab'ui, anj interdl,
' would make Hoyalifts if monarchy Jhould c
vcr recover favour, and they toul . withfe
curity aarouncc their fupport but the roy.
have In ;.; intereit, power, places, re
. wan! i to' b dlowland puuiiiiments to Juliet fc
armies: obeying, , the habit of livin - in- and .
fwaying popular comntotions, and the cer-
taihty of bemg mpporud by all the creatures
attacned to the new ord'r pf tiimgs'. . e
. mutt reckon among the" arnis ol the Repub f;
llcans the unlimited freedom of t,he prei's -a
freedom upon which too much itrfa has been
laid, and .which hus never dared to attack
pnfloples," but always has conrined its
: warf.re'to perfons. . ' i,v ';. ; '
; Tne Republic, one and indivifillemtxxs
that title only under tw o views. It is one co
make obeyed the authority it hal created
; w&muhfjij.-fc to refill the efforts of its ek-
ternal ejemies, but under the other. No w
mat uiicunion is wunout acrimony and w i.th
but. danger, the Republicans are ddiiy. weak--ened
ikiafniuch as theiret'urn-.:.to" Mpriirqhy"
becomes a new ojeclt or fpeculation. " ,
- bfMyaliJts and Ahnurchifis. '
Thife charalers have only onis noint of
union, 'fce deiti uclion of the Republic. Of
this the government weh knows how to pro
fit. T'li Monar chills who arc royaliits.
iougnt to iudemto the Committees when ter-
rorij'n t'as overthrown, but. they fliewed"
themfelfes to foon,' and thus fell into the
fame fault as the Royahils of allclafTes. The
Monafciiuls, w-e repeat, form the majority
of the Republic but of thefe not one hun-
tired individuals aoTee.upoh" thTniode'of re.
compendng he Monarchy. T he Ariflocrats,
pure Royaliils adhering to the ancient con
ititutipn of the kingdom, for.n almofl a fourth
of the majonty. The reafon is clear the
great? part of the individuals of this clafs,
appertaining to the rirlt orders of the ilate,
are ei her out of the kingdom, or . have pe
riled upon the fcaffold the reft, efcaped
from the prifons ot Kobeipierrefpread thro
the interior, broken by the recolleclion of
miferies endured, ilill tremble w ith alarm,
and endeavor that an exiilencee, which has
to'them been long a burthen,rhould be com
pletely forgotten
,'- Tbc ' CwJIituthnaltftt
Are nearly in the fame predicame it as to
uiyon, .vhatcver may be pretended although
they are ,-eneralh found in the Magijirutcs
of. tne Dtpurt'umtSf and have fillei up in the
National uard of Paris the room of the Ter
ror'uU, who were driven out. But
'IbeFcuULns
Are too weak to be feared, and their party
fo forgotten, that La Fayette w ould not find
an hundred partrzans m all Parish
The term Contitutkn need explanation.
No one is fool enough to be fhll attached
to the v impracticable theory of 1701. It is
generally defpiied, but becomes a point of
union as the tint round 01 a ladder, that may
without convulfion and bloodlhed, conduct
1 rancc up to Monarchy once more.
began its execution bv drivim? in- the-Dolls
in the environs of Port ad Prince. 'Ihcfc
trifring.-dvanctiges encoOT3gcU3thaa-tifer-r-
attack upon Leogane., ... . y.-
1 he 1-epublicans m Leoganehad receiwd . 2
information of their intentions and had put
the place - in rtheIVlftuatiou of defence..:'..
But' tired of exeitiug the -EngUiii, Iiig..uct
anii Biibvais whole p reprice was waieJ at
Caye and Jackmel, :left the defence of Leo
gape to Ilenaud, having taken- -every previ
ous mefure for the ffcurity of the placeii
A fe days after their departure, the Eng.
Tiih ficet, cQhliijiog of iotir veliels of the lin;.
one of three decks, fix frigates; one- cbrvet
te, Jeveral armed fjrigs and other velfels and
about fifty .tiranfp oris, kft Port- aii Prince and .
appeared before Leogane- .-,j...--..--..-.,.,T
. t 1 her i-hip. s of war on the 21ft' of March
cannonaded fort Cairafrom 9 in the mocn
ing till 6 in the'evening j bui't the fire from
the fort obliged them then to Hip their cables
and ILeer oft, and to tow off one of the mips
more dilabled than the reft.
During this cannonade the enemy had '
landed their troops at Eiler and Petite rivere,
under, the protection of the remaining' ihips -ofwar.
ThaRepublican detachments api olu-
tted to prent the defcent, were prevented
by the hre trom the mips, and returned to
town. '- ' -'. ' "
Major-General Bowyer,; commander in
chief of .the enemy's .troops,, headed the -troops
landed at Eiler, compbi'ed ot feveral
bodies of Englifh ii-.funtry, and of partcirthc
colonial cavalry 1 commanded by Co!. Grant,
and encamped on ihe pLr.tation Emean,
whence he detached a iiroi rr column, with
four field.pieces, which commenced the attack
01 the town, on the tide or the poit called
Liberty. , 1 he hnng was. warm, on both
fides; but after half an Hour's firing, the
column was thrown into difordcr and were
obliged to fall Lick upon the main body.
1 he divilion that landed at Pctitc-rivlerc
headed by Baron of iMontaltmbai , cbnipofed
of colonial forces, of emigrants of the legion '
of Lapolnte and of the Chuifeurs of Deilour.
tes, remained as a corps of obiervation.
PHILADELPHIA, May to.
Official account oftheRepulfc cf the Englijhfnm
before Leogane
We haVe been favoured with a fight of an
account of the ficge of Lcogwc, drawn
up "by the Brigadier Generals Rigaud and
Bauvais, from documents furnilhcd them
by Renaud Dcfruifleuax, Who command,
cd w the bcTicged place. It is more minute
and lengthy than ow reader! tould w ifli
to be troubled with; wc have therefore
preferred to prefent them the following
abltraded, which contahu every pirticular
01 coaictjucatc .
In the ' night of the it ft to the 22d, the
Englifli corliruc"ted a battery ojpcfi eto the .
b. don of Liberty, atpillol lhot diftancc front
the folje. At break of day the works verc
perceived, and a well iupportcd fire of ar tille.
ry and ir.ullvetry fo well directed, that after
a bloody conflidt of three hours, the EnglilU
were obliged to abandon their entrench
ments. .
They then attempted to carry the place
by aflault, the attack being covered by the fire
of four field pieces.' '1 hey ieglcled no means
to make this attack fuccciiful, ladders, faf.
cincs, &c they had every think in aboard
ance. lney were juiicrcu to rcarti tn? ;
edge of thefofle, when a general fire rom
tncgarnlon, kept up with coimancy, obhg.
cd them to fly with precipitancy. 1 hey d.f.
perfed, abandoning their tools, arms, &c
andlwo brafs iix.ponnucrs, &c w h.ch the
republicans took poflcllion of, having made ,
a lortic and purfucd the fl)'ingencmy.
t '1 he divifioti of Montalcmbeft made an
attempt to protelthc retreat of the Englifii,
with a detachment of cavalry j but a well
dircfted fire from the baftion of l-.quali , ob.
liged them to retire. ...'..
' Authentic Communication.
An authentic copy of the following intereft.
iiiig paper has been hahded to us, a,nd wc
haltcntopublilh atr.mfiationofit. Aurcha.
STEPHEN LAVEAUX,
General in Chief, Governcf Jit Dpmsn jo,
ar.d
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