recollection of all. It is you who have defended us against ten combined kings; who have driven them from our territory; have transferred to their dominions the fcourge of war. You have not only conquered men; you have overcome the obstacles thrown in your way by nature. You have triumphed over fatigue, hunger, and winter. What a spectacle for the people ! what a dreadful leffon to the enemies of liberty!

A new-born republic arms its children to defend its independence; nothing can reftrain their impetuofity; traverfing rivers, carrying intrenchments, climbing rocks. Here, after a series of victories, they pushed back our limits to thofe barriers that nature intended for us, and pursuing over ice the remains of three armies, transformed an oppreffed and hoftile nation into a free and allied people. There they fly to exterminate the hordes of traitors and villains, fubfidized by England; punish their thieves, and reftore to the republic brothers too long mifled. Here, furmounting the Pyrenees, and precipitating themselves from their fummit; overthrowing whatever opposes their progrefs, and checked only by an honorable peace; there afcending the Alps and Appenines, they fly across the Po and Adige.

The ardor of the foldier is feconded by the genius and boldness of the chiefs. They plan with fcience, and execute with energy; now displaying their forces with calmness; then courting danger at the head of their brothers in arms. Oh that I could here difplay the immense and glorious picture of their victories! that I could name our most intrepid defenders! What a crowd of fublime images and beloved names prefs upon my recollection! Immortal warriors, pofterity will not believe the multitude of your triumphs; but to us hiftory lofes all its improbabilities.

But do we not fee, even on this spot, a portion of those brave defenders? Victors over the exterior enemies of the state, they have come to reprefs our internal enemies; and preferve at home the republic

which they have caufed to be refepected abroad. Do we not also see thofe venerable warriors who have grown grey in the fervice; thofe whom honorable wounds have obliged to feek premature repofe, and whofe afylum is in fight? With what pleasure our eyes feed on this interefting reunion. With what agreeable emotions we contemplate thofe victorious brows!

Heroes who have perished for liberty, why does there remain to us nothing but a recollection of your fervices? You will, however, live forever in our hearts; your children will be dear to us; the republic will repay to them the debt they owe to you; and we discharge here the first, by proclaiming your glory and our gratitude. Republican armies, reprefented here, by warriors from your ranks; invincible phalanxes, whofe trophies I obferve on all fides, whofe fresh fucceffes I forefee, come forward and receive the triumphal crowns which the French people command me to attach to your

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ADDRESS OF MR. ADET, FRENCH AMBASSADOR, ON PRESENTING THE COLOURS OF FRANCE, to THE UNITED STATES, 1796.

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MR. PRESIDENT,

COME to acquit myfelf of a duty very dear to my heart. I come to depofit in your hands, and in the midft of a people juftly renowned for their courage, and their love of liberty, the symbol of thè triumph and the enfranchisement of my nation.

When the broke her chains; when the proclaimed the imprescriptible rights of man; when, in a tèrrible war, fhe fealed with her blood the covenant made with liberty, her own happiness was not alone the object of her glorious efforts; her views extended alfo to all free people; the faw their interests blended with her

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own, and doubly rejoiced in her victories, which, in affuring to her the enjoyments of her rights, became to them new guarantees of their independence.

These fentiments, which animated the French nation, from the dawn of their revolution, have acquired new ftrength fince the foundation of the republic. France, at that time, by the form of its government, affimilated to, or rather identified with free people, faw in them only friends and brothers. Long accuftomed to regard the American people as their most faithful allies, fhe has fought to draw clofer the ties already formed in the fields of America, under the aufpices of victory over the ruins of tyranny.

The National Convention, the organs of the will of the French Nation, have more than once expreffed their fentiments to the American people; but above all, thefe burst forth on that auguft day, when the Minister of the United States prefented to the National Keprefentation, the colours of his country, defiring never to lofe recollections as dear to Frenchmen as they must be to Americans. The Convention ordered that these colours fhould be placed in the hall of their fittings. They had experienced fenfations too agreeable not to caufe them to be partaken of by their allies, and decreed that to them the national colours fhould be prefented.

Mr. Prefident, I do not doubt their expectations will be fulfilled; and I am convinced, that every citizen will receive, with a pleafing emotion, this flag, elfewhere the terror of the enemies of liberty; here the certain pledge of faithful friendship; efpecially when they recollect that it guides to combat, men who have fhared their toils, and who were prepared for liberty, by aiding them to acquire their own.

PRESIDENT WASHINGTON'S ANSWER.

learned its value; having engaged in a perilous conflict to defend it; having, in a word, devoted the best years of my life to fecure it a permanent establishment in my own country; my anxious recollections, my fympathetic feelings, and my beft wifhes are irrefiftably excited, whenfoever, in any country, I fee an oppreffed nation unfurl the banners of freedom. But above all, the events of the French revolution have produced the deepest folicitude, as well as the highest admiration. To call your nation brave, were to pronounce but common praife. WONDERFUL PEOPLE! ages to come will read with astonishment the hiftory of your brilliant exploits.

I rejoice that the period of your toils and of your immenfe facrfices is approaching. I rejoice that the interefting revolutionary novements of fo many years have iffued in the formation of a conftitution defigned to give permanency to the great object for which you have contended. I rejoice that liberty, which you have fo long embraced with enthufiafm; liberty, of which you have been the invincible defenders, now finds an afylum in the bofom of a regularly organized government: a government, which, being formed to fecure the happiness of the French people, correfponds with the ardent wifhes of my heart, while it gratifies the pride of every citizen of the United States, by its refemblance of their own. On thefe glorious events accept, Sir, my fincere congratulations.

In delivering to you these fentiments, I exprefs not my own feelings only, but thofe of my fellow-citizens, in relation to the commencement, the progrefs and the iffue of the French revolution; and they will cordially join with me in pureft wishes to the Supreme Being, that the citizens of our fifter republic, our magnanimous allies, may soon enjoy, in peace, that liberty,

which they have purchased at fo great a price, and all the happiness which liberty can bestow.

I receive, Sir, with lively fenfibility, the fymbol of the triumphs and of the enfranchifements of your nation, the colours of France, which you have now prefented to the United States. The tranfaction will be announced to Congrefs; and the colours will be depofited with thofe archives of the United States, which are at once the evidences and the memorials of their freedom and independence. May thefe be perpetual; and may the friendship of the two republics be comimenfurate with their exiftence.

THE OPPRESSIVE LANDLord.

Enter DON PHILIP and Wife.

Den Philip. WEL

ELL, my dear, I have warned all the families out of my long range of buildings, and ordered them to pay double the rent they have done, for every day they remain. From every new tenant I am determined to have three times the fum. The prefent rent will never do in these times. Our children will become beggars at this rate; and you and I fhall have to betake ourselves to hand labour, like the common berd, to earn our daily bread.

Wife. But I fear that fome of our tenants are too poor to endure a rent, double to what they now pay; and I am certain that it will be impoffible for them all to remove, on account of the fcarcity of houfes to be obtained.

Don P. That is not my look out. It is enough for me to attend to my own intereft, not theirs.

Wife. But you will exercife a little lenity towards them, at this diftreffing time. I am perfuaded, my dear, that you will not turn them into the ftreet. Befides,, it is thought by fome, that they already pay a reafonable rent.