ftant. For this reafon, the Senate prefents to the committee of Public Safety fincere wishes for the Republic of France. The Senate will hear with pleasure of every fuccefs which advances the happiness of the French nation, and the complete establishment of the peace and liberty of France will be confidered by the Senate as an inftance of good fortune for the United States, and for humanity.

(Signed)

EDMUND RANDOLPH. [Repeated and most ardent applauses.}

The Prefident to the American Minifter.

THE French people have not forgotten that it is to the American people they owe the beginning of liberty; it was by admiring the fublime infurrection of the American people against Albion, once fo proud, now fo degraded; it was by taking arms themselves to fecond the courageous efforts of that infurrection; it was by cementing the independence of America with the blood of their bravest warriors, that the French people learned to break the fceptre of tyranny in their turn, and to erect the ftatue of liberty on the ruins of a throne, founded on fourteen centuries of corruption and crimes.

How then fhould not they be friends? How fhould they not be affociated by reciprocal means of prosperity, which commerce and navigation prefent to two nations become free by mutual aid? But this is not an alliance purely diplomatic; it is the sweetest, the frankeft fraternity that ought to unite them; it is this fraternity that unites them in effect; and the union will be for ever indiffoluble, as it will be for ever the fcourge of defpots, the fafeguard of the liberty of the world, the conservation of all the social and philanthropic virtues.

In bringing up the pledge of this union fo dear to us, you cannot fail to be received with the moft lively intereft. Five years ago, the ufurper of the fovereignty of the people would have received you with the pride which befits only vice, and he would have thought that he did much in granting to the minifter of a free na tion fome marks of his infolent protection. To-day it is the fovereign people reprefented by faithful mandatories that receives you; and you fee with what tendernefs, and what effufion of heart, this fimple and touching ceremony is accompanied. Let me not delay to crown it by the fraternal einbrace which I am charged to give you in the name of the French people! Come and receive it in the name of the American people; and may this picture complete destroying the last hope of the impious coalition of tyrants!

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The whole affembly rofe up with one emotion, and exclaimed, Vive la Republique !

The minifter of the United States was conducted to the Prefident of the Convention, who gave him the fraternal embrace: he then took his feat among the reprefentatives of the people, who redoubled their acclamations.

Moife- Bayle.-I move, that, to confecrate the fraternity which ought to exift between the two greatest Republics of the two worlds, an American and a French flag be united and hung up in the place of our fitting, as a fign of eternal amity and alliance.[Decreed with unanimous applaufe.]

Decreed, That James Monroe is acknowledged by the reprefentatives of the people as minister plenipotentiary from the American to the French Republic.

Decreed, That the papers and fpeeches relating to this business be printed, and tranflated into all languages.

25 Fructidor, Thursday, Sept. 11. The Prefident.-I have received a letter, written in English, announcing that the minifter plenipotentiary of the United States of America fends a flag to be placed in the hall of the Convention, beside the French flag.-The flag is borne by an American officer.—It was unanimously decreed that the officer fhould enter the hall. He entered amidst the loudest acclamations of the affembly, bearing the American flag unfurled. He prefented the following addrefs from the minifter:

The Minifter of the United States of America to the Prefident of the National Convention.

Paris, 23 Fructidor. Citizen Prefident, the Convention having decreed that the flags of the American and French Republics fhall be united, and fly together in the place of the fitting of the National Convention, in testimony of the union and friendship which ought ever to fubfift between the two people, I thought that I could not better manifeft the profound impreffion which the decree made upon me, and the acknowledgments of my conftituents, than by preparing their colours, in order to offer them, in their name, to the reprefentatives of the French people.

I have had them executed after the manner last decreed by the Congrefs; and I have entrusted them to Captain Barnery, an officer of diftinguished merit, who rendered us great fervices by fea during the revolution. He is charged to prefent them to you, and to place them wherever you shall appoint. Accept, then, this 5

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flag, Citizen Prefident, as a new pledge of the fenfibility with which the American people always receive the proofs of interest and friendship given to them by their good and brave allies, as well as of the pleasure and eagernefs with which they improve every circumstance that tends to cement and confolidate the union and concord of the two nations.

(Signed)

JAMES MONROE.

Speech of Captain Barnery, on presenting the Flag.

Citizen Prefident, having been charged by the minister plenipotentiary of the United States of America to bear to the Convention the flag which they defired-the flag under the auspices of which I had the honour to fight with our common enemy, in the war which accomplished our liberty and independence, I fulfil my honourable commiffion with the most lively fatisfaction, and remit it into your hands.

From henceforth, fufpended befide that of the Republic, it shall become the fymbol of the union which fubfifts between the two nations, and which shall endure, I truft, as long as the liberty which they have so bravely achieved, and so wifely ratified.

The American officer advanced, with his flag ftreaming, to the President's chair, who gave him the fraternal kifs, amidst the unanimous and reiterated applause of the hall.

Parliamentary.

Parliamentary Papers.

On the 21st of January, 1794, his Majefty went to the House of Lords, and opened the Fourth Seffion of the Seventeenth Partiament of Great Britain with the following Speech from the Throne.

My Lords and Gentlemen,

HÉ circumftances under which you are now affembled, require your most serious attention.

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We are engaged in a conteft, on the iffue of which depend the maintenance of our conftitution, laws, and religion; and the fecurity of all civil fociety.

You must have obferved, with fatisfaction, the advantages which have been obtained by the arms of the allied powers, and the change which has taken place in the general fituation of Europe fince the commencement of the war. The United Provinces have been protected from invafion; the Auftrian Netherlands have been recovered and maintained; and places of confiderable importance have been acquired on the frontiers of France. The re-capture of Mentz, and the fubfequent fucceffes of the allied armies on the Rhine, have, notwithstanding the advantages recently obtained by the enemy in that quarter, proved highly beneficial to the common caufe. Powerful efforts have been made by my allies in the fouth of Europe; the temporary poffeffion of the town and port of Toulon has greatly diftreffed the operations of my enemies; and in the citcumftances attending the evacuation of that place, an important and decifive blow has been given to their naval power, by the diftinguished conduct, abilities, and fpirit of my commanders, officers, and forces, both by fea and land.

The French have been driven from their poffeffions and fishery at Newfoundland, and important and valuable acquifitions have been made both in the East and Weft Indies.

At fea our fuperiority has been undifputed, and our commerce fo effectually protected, that the loffes fuftained have been inconfiderable, in proportion to its extent, and to the captures made on the contracted trade of the enemy.

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The circumftances by which the farther progrefs of the allies has hitherto been impeded, not only prove the neceffity of vigour and perfeverance on our part, but, at the fame time, confirm the expectation of ultimate fuccefs.

Our enemies have derived the means of temporary exertion, from a fyftem which has enabled them to difpofe arbitrarily of the lives and property of a numerous people, and which openly violates every restraint of justice, humanity, and religion: but these efforts, productive as they neceffarily have been of interhal discontent and confufion in France, have also tended rapidly to exhauft the natural and real ftrength of that country.

Although I cannot but regret the neceffary continuance of the war, I fhould ill confult the effential interests of my people, if I were defirous of peace on any grounds but fuch as may provide for their permanent safety, and for the independence and fecurity of Europe. The attainment of thefe ends is ftill obstructed by the prevalence of a fyftem in France, equally incompatible with the happiness of that country, and with the tranquillity of all other nations..

Under this impreffion, I thought proper to make a declaration of the views and principles by which I am guided. I have ordered a copy of this declaration to be laid before you, together with copies of several conventions and treaties with dif ferent powers, by which you will perceive how large a part of Europe is united in a caufe of fuch general concern.

I reflect with unspeakable fatisfaction on the fteady loyalty and firm attachment to the established conftitution and government, which, notwithstanding the continued efforts employed to mislead and to feduce, have been fo generally prevalent among all ranks of my people. These fentiments have been eminently manifefted in the zeal and alacrity of the militia to provide for our internal defence, and in the diftinguished bravery and spirit displayed on every occafion by my forces both by fea and land: they have maintained the luftre of the British name, and have fhewn themfelves worthy of the bleffings which it is the object of all our exertions to preferve.

Gentlemen of the Houfe of Commons,

I have ordered the neceffary effimates and accounts to be laid before you, and I am perfuaded you will be ready to make fuch provifion as the exigencies of the time may require. I feel too fenfibly the repeated proofs which I have received of the affection of my fubjects, not to lament the neceffity of any additional burdens. It is, however, a great confolation to me to obferve the favourable ftate of the revenue, and the complete fuccefs of the meafure which was last year adopted for removing the embarraffiments affecting commercial credit.

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