dence going along with us; which could not be withdrawn from us while we fulfilled our duties; and the law, and responsibility to which we were fubjected before the fame was pronounced, appeared to us a fufiicient sheker from vague accufations, a thousand times more fevere than that law and responsibility. We have thus confidered it our duty to despise the shafts of calumny, vague complaints, and every thing that night diftract our attention from the important duties of Adminiftration. We have thus thought it our duty to expose ourselves to the hatred of the enemies of order, and the cenfures of thofe, who, measuring the characters of minifters by events, neither confider the obitacles they have to furmount, nor the number nor degree of efforts displayed against them, It is confoling, it is glorious to us, to be able to invoke even the teftimony of your Majesty. You know, and you have had the goodness sometimes to say, how much, in the course of the difficulties that were perpetually rifing up, it behoved us with courage, to bear and support the weight of our places. You know, that it has behoved us to forget ourselves, and to remember nothing but your Majesty's love for the good of the people, the importance of our obligations, and our devotion to interests of fuch magnitude, we against us, an impreffion inconvenient and hurtful to your service. Deign, therefore, to weigh in your wisdom, that which the prelent circumstances demand of you.-Deign not to listen to your own natural bounty, but confult your own personal interefis, and that of your kingdom. Our love for our country, and for our King, will live always in our hearts. And, affuredly, whatever may be our fate, we shall ever deserve to be ranked among the number of good Citizens of your empire. We are, with the most profound respects &c. L'ARCHEVEQUE DE BOUR- St Cloud, 08. 22. 1790. I AM very much touched with the fentiments you have expreffed to me. No perfon can know better than mylest how very little foundation there is for the fufpicions that have been conceived against you. I have always found you the friends of the people, of order, of justice, and of the laws. I shall take your letter into my particular confideration. I shall make known to each of you my intentions, and I expect, from your zeal for the public good, and your attachment to me, that, until I have made known my wishes, you will not abandon your functions. It is with the same sentiments, and upon the fame principles with which we made every personal facrifice, that ought now to fupplicate your Majesty to take into confideration whether it would not be for your interest and the public good, to make choice of other ministers. We have reason to believe, from what Letter of M. la Luzerne, to the King of artificers of the ports and arsenals, where the feeds of licentioufuess and infubordi- fignation, and by fupplicating you to acto my duty, by addreffing to you my renation chiefly prevail. has lately pasled in the National Affembly, that we shall no longer obtain the confidence of a great number of those who compose it; and although they have, in their justice, rejected the Decree that was moved for although no specific charge has been made against us-although the generality and bitterness of the imputations indicate only the impatience of certain persons to fix upon us the blame of the public misfortunes-and although it would be easy for us to demonftrate the purity of our conduct, both in the system and detail, yet there would refult, even from the clamour of this difcuffion, and from the phantom of diftruit, which they are defirous to raise (Signed) LOUIS. France. SIRE, Paris, Oct. 23.1790. ALL your Minifters have reprefented to you their situation. and the state of public affairs; but I more particularly have made your Majefty fenfible, that it is impoffible for me to be any longer ufeful in the department committed to my charge. Disorders have prevailed in different provinces of France; they have lately increased. The fidelity, or at leaft the difcipline of various corps of troops hes been shaken. At this time troubles exift in the most distant posseffions. It is among the crews of the fleets, and the artificen The ports, arsenals, and squadrons, must be admitted to be the true strength of the French colonies. I have to entreat that your Majesty will permit me to state, in a memorial at large, in what condition I leave them, and give an account in detail of my administration. At prefent, I will make a rapid sketch of the refult of these statements. It will be fufficient to point the resources of the state, and the path of action to those who come after me, by ftating what has been done during my administration. and A marine force, confiderably greater than has exifted fince the beginning of this country the fupplying with provifions 70 ships of the line, and 65 frigates (i donot include in this number fourships two frigates which will be be launched towards the close of the ready to year, nor eight other vessels, and four frigates on the stocks,) a body of excellent officers, who signalized themselves during the last war, and who, by being kept in constant exercise since that pe riod, must render France formidable to the maritime powers, must preferve the colonies from insults, and be the surest guarantee for the maintenance of a peace. Nevertheless, at this time, the fleets of other nations cover the feas, and our naval forces are chained down. They are condemned to inaction and indolence by the infubordination of the marines, by infurrections conftantly renewed, and by unjuft fufpicions. Henceforth, Sire, one of your old Mihifters will have it in his power, as far as he can, to apply remedies to those evils; it is, however, neceflary for you to appoint a successor to me. I Thould betray my confcience and the truth, if I diffembled with your Majesty on the indifpenfible neceffity of this meafure. Whoever he may be who shall be the object of that choice, he will, probably, not experience the fame difficulties. The public opinion will be in his favour, the breath of popularity will fecond his efforts, and affift him in the reestablishment of order. This confideration is so decisive and urgent, that any other in the present circumstances ought not to be put in competition with it. My attachment to you, Sire, is, be always without bounds. I offer to e, is, and shall your Majesty a new proof of my attach ment to your interests, and my fidelity cept of it. 4 (Signed) LA LUZERNE. His Majesty's answer. proof of your attachment, in refuming Letter from the principal Naval Oficer "SIR, لسة upon war as inevitable, at the very in- officers to enforce obedience new code of Marine Penal Laws would ed with the confidence of the nation, and ! tion triumphant in the fleet, think it their duty to make known to the National Aflembly, the disorders which it is totally out of their power to remedy, and to request that you, Sir, would be pleased to be their Sepaker. "It is not for themselves that they are alarmed; but they dread the thought of being obliged, in the day of battle, to witness their own disgrace, and that of the French flag. "If the riots, which the failors are genity of, be produced by the intrigues of enemies, no time should be loft in difcovering and punishing those who are the cause of fo much mischief. "But if this infubordination proceeds from a diflike to the officers, hurt as they must be to be fuperfeded by others, yet they would not only submit, but rejoice to fee their fucceffors reftore order and difcipline, and lead the failors to glory. "They would add this facrifice to many others which they have already made for the fake of public tranquillity; and would earnestly pray, that their fuccessors might enforce that obedience which has been refused to themselves." NATIONAL ASSEMBLY. October 28. M. Chaffey, member of the Ecclefiaftical Committee, gave an account of feveral religious establisliments poffeffed by the English, Scotch, and Irish, in France. It appeared there are twenty-eight of them for both sexes, engaged for the instruction of youth of the three kingdoms, or in miffions, and poffefsed of a net revenue of 329,000 livres destined for the fübfiftence of one thousand five hundred individuals. True philofophy would probably induce the Aflembly to invite those monks and nuns to return to their abodes, to preach the duties of the hufbandman, and the father of a family; but policy, which often wraps principles, has dictated a decree in ten articles, leaving these foreigners in their present state, providing nevertheless, that they shall be penfioned like other fuppreffed monks; that their property shall be fold; that they shall forego the dress enjoined by their founder, and that no more vows shall be taken. With respect to the penfion of 6000 livres claimed by the Irish College at St. On er's, the Affembly has fent the petition to its united Committees and Penfions. The President then read a letter from Remains, as actual deficit 255,724,000 More than quadrupled in so short an interval! The Duke of Orleans' juftification at length is published. This Prince infifle, that the insurrection of the 5th and 6th of October was owing to the fcarcity of bread; to the orgies imprudently held by the body guards at Versailles: to the intended project of conveying the King to Metz, which is plainly proved by Count d'Estaing's letters to the Queen; and to different caufes entirely foreign to the Duke's patriotic views. He concludes, by declaring his intention to profecute Mess. Boucher d'Argis and De Flander de Brunville, the two Magiftrates of the Chatelet; and Mess. La Sere, Duval, Nampty, Thieryla Ville, Fondeville, Gaillermi, Pelletier, Degoine, Morlet, Roch London. In this ship came fix Cherokee Chiefs, of the first rank, one of them born in England. As foon as their arrival was announced in form, Sir Andrew Douglas, Commander of the Alcide, of 74 guns, fent his barge to bring them ashore to Portsmouth; and, upon landing, they went to Bradley's, the Crown Inn. These Indian Chiefs are dressed in the habit of their country, with their faces painted in an extraordinary manner.They waited on Colonel Trigge, of the 12th regiment of foot, and some other officers of distinction. The Indian Chiefs have been abfent from their own country eighteen months. They arrived at Halifax, Nova Scotia, in May last, after a most tedious journey, of only seven days short of twelve months. Their country is fituated somewhere about the fource of the Missislippi; but instead of adopting the course of that river, for their guide to the North American shore, by which they might have penetrated through Vermont, and reached Virginia in three months, they took too westerly a direction, and thereby unneceffarily traversed a tract of some thousand miles, which at last brought them to the fea at Halifax. The Governor of that settlement was unwilling to take upon himself the conduct of their voyage to England; and therefore fent them to Quebec, to Lord Derchefter, who provided them with a paffage on board a vessel bound for London. most propitious circumstance for this country, had public affairs taken a different turn, as they have at this time between 20 and 50,000 men ready to take the field? These missionaries are fix in number, but two only are Chiefs. Of the other four, one is a native of England-his name is Bowles, and he is nepaew to the Gentleman of that name in St Paul's Church-yard. He had been an officer in the English army; but, from a spirit of enterprize, while in America, he per rated into the country of these Indians, who received him in the most hospitable manner-There he remained ever fince, and he has been invested with a principal command of their forces. The avowed purpose of their miffion to this country, was to folicit a supply of arms and ammunition, for the prefent purpose of effectually repelling the inroads of fome troublesome neighbours. In return for this assistance, they were wil-, ling to enter into an engagement to turn their whole force against any power in that quarter of the globe whose views were inimical to the interests of Creat Britain. The appearance of the political hemifphere, certainly renders it impolitic to enter into any engagement of this nature at the present period; but may we not in fer, that these offers would have been a Another, who acts as an interpreter, is a Welchman; and the other two are honorary attendants. On Tuesday afternoon last, the Cherokee Indians visited the Cathedral of St Paul, which they examined with an equal degree of curiosity and amazement. They were asked whether they would not attend the evening service, which they readily complied with, and seemed particularly delighted with the organ. The Cherokees were last night at Covent-Garden Theatre. The Duke of Bedford, Mrs Gardniter, and Lady Webster, were in the adjoining box, and entered into frequent conversation with them. They seemed much aftonished at the characteristic scenery and dresses of Captain Cook. After the performance, they retired into the Green-Room, where wine and sweetmeats were prepared for their refreshment. The house overflowed at an early hour; and the boxes were filled with perfons of distinction. ENGLAND. The London Gazette Extraordinary. This morning Mr Dreffins, one of his Majefty's messengers in ordinary, arrived at the office of his Grace the Duke of Leeds, his Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, with difpatches from the Right Hon. Alleyne Fitzherbert, his Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary at the Court of Madrid, dated the 24th of October laft, containing an account, that a convention for terminating the differences which had arifen with that Court, had been agreed upon between his. Excellenсу, " My Lord, "I have the honour to acquaint your Lordship, that the messenger, Dreffings, arrived here this morning with dispatches from the Right Hon. Alleyne Fitzherbert, his Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary at the Court of Spain, dated Sunday the 24th of Oc. tober, containing an account that a convention for terminating the differences which had arisen with that Court had been agreed upon between his Excellency on the part of his Britannic Majesty and the Count de Florida Blanca, on the part of the Catholic King: and that the convention was to be figr signed and exchanged by these Ministers on the 27th of the fame month, I have the honour to be, My Lord, Your Lordship's Most obedient, And most humble servant, Νου. 4. 1790. LEEDS." The Right Hon. the Lord Mayor. The Lord Mayor was at Guildhall when he received the above letter, and, with an attention much to his praise, immediately adopted every means to make the joviul news as generally known as possible, as will appear from the following note affixed to the copy which his Lordship left at the Mantion House; "N.B. This official letter was received at a quarter past eleven o'clock at Guildhall. I went immediately to Stock Exchange, Royal Exchange, and Lloyd's Coffee house, and read it; and have left a copy for any person to fee at the Manfion House. W. PICKEL, Mayor. November 4. 1790." His Lordship also went to the Bank and India House; but they had each received the tame information officially. London Gazette Extraordinary. SUNDAY, November 7. 1790. WHITEHALL, Νου. 7. This morning, one of his Majesty's Messengers, dispatched by the Right Honourable Alleyne Fitzherbert, his Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary at the Court of Spain, arrived at the Office of his Grace the Duke of Leeds, his Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, with the Convention between his Majefty and the Catholic King, for terminating the differences which had'arifen with that Court, which was signed at the palace of the Escurial, on the 28th of October laft, by Mr Fitzherbert on the part of his Majefty, and by the Count de Florida Blanca on the part of his Catholic Majefty. Convention between bis Britannic Majefty and the King of Spain, dated at the Efcurial, Ortober 28 1790. (Published by authority.) Their Britannic and Catholic Majesties, being defirous of terminating, by a speedy and folid agreement, the differences which have lately crisen between the two Crowns, have judged that the best way of attaining this falutary object would be that of an amicable arrangement, which, setting afide all retrofpective discussion of the rights and pretenfions of the two parties, should fix their respective situation for the future on a bafis conformable to their true interests, as well as to the mutual defire with which their faid Majefties are animated, of establishing with each other, in every thing, and in all places, the molt perfect friendship, harmony, and good correspondence. In this view, they have named and conftituted for their Plenipotentiaries to wit, on the part of his Majesty, Alleyne Fitzherbert, Efq3 one of his Majesty's Privy Council in Great Britain and Ireland, and his Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to his Catholic Majefty; and, on the part of his Catholic Majesty, Don Joseph Monino, Count of Florida Blanca, Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Spanish Order of Charles III. Councellor of State to his faid Majesty, and his Principal Secretary of State and of the difpatches: Who, after having communicated to each other their refpective full powers, have agreed upon the following arti cles: ART. I. It is agreed that the buildings and tracts of land, fituated on the northwest coast of the continent of North-Ame |