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man (hall sit under the fliade perly interposed his influence to 

 of his own fig-tree, and eat the | allay the heats of a popular al- 

 fruit of his own vine j and when \ sembly, as yet but novices in the 

 no man, armed with the terrors j art of legislation, as has tended 

 of power, fliall dare to pluck the ' greatly to preserve good order 

 morsel out of their mouth. 

 France. 



The eyes of all Europe are 

 still directed towards France ; 

 and every day brings fcrth 

 new events, the probable ifsue 

 of which no human sagacity 

 can foresee. A few weeks ago 

 appearances were strong that 

 i^ar would have been carried 

 into the heart of Germany, by 

 the military ardour of the 

 French troops. Fortunately 

 for the cause of humanity, the 

 rulers of that extensive empire 

 have yielded to the storm, by 

 dittountcnancing the emigrant 

 princes. In this prudent cau- 

 tion every friend lo humanity 

 ■will rejoice : Long may' such 

 salutary counsels prevail I btill 

 however new rumours of the 

 hostile intentions of foreign 

 princes are kept up in France, 

 though it does not clearly ap- 

 pear that there is any just foun- 

 dations for' these reports. 



In regard to their internal 

 situation, a great, and almost 

 unpcrceived revolution, has gra- 

 duhily taken plfce of late. 

 The king, now evidently under 

 the influence of,^sonie person of 

 great judgement, has acted with 

 a M'udy mildnefs, and with a 

 judicious attention to the pre- 

 servation of order and decorum 

 in government, and has so pro- 



in the state, and to check some 

 rafh enterprises that other\vi<;e 

 would have been too hastily 

 entered upon by the nation. 

 By this means the preponderance 

 of the royal authority has been 

 much augmented in the natio- 

 nal afsenibly, and among the 

 people ; may it never be car- 

 ried too far ! 



Distraction still prevails in 

 St Domingo to an astonilhinc;' 

 degree ; and there seems to be 

 no reason to hope that their 

 animosities will cease but with 

 the extirpation of one of the 

 parties. The whites appear to 

 be the weakest. Troops are 

 now preparing to be sent from 

 France thitlier. These, it is 

 probable, will join with the 

 people of colour, whose cause 

 is the popular cause of the dav. 

 In that case the contest will (ic 

 soon ended. Tiie white men 

 will be driven away ; but how 

 they will afterwards settle with 

 the mother country, time only 

 can bring to light. 

 Fo/)ular commuliun at Madrid. 

 A great: commercial house at 

 Bourdeaux has received a letter 

 from a correspondent at Ma- 

 drid, dated January 26. st;itiu'r 

 rhat the inhabitants of the ca- 

 pital of Spain arc in a great 

 ferment, and the court in the 

 utmost consternatiun.. 



