fpread. At half paft three the King was announced, and he entered, preceded by the Deputation of Members, and by his Minifters, who, inftead of being feated on chairs at the Bar, took their ftand behind the King. The Affembly were all standing and uncovered. The King was dreft in purple embroidered, and with the red ribband and star, as patron of the order of St. - Louis. He was received with the most lively acclamation. He drew a paper from his waistcoat, and read his fpeech. He read it standing, which by the arrangement previously made, kept all the Members on their legs. His deportment and manner was through the whole much more dignified, collected, and chearful, than on the day of the acceptance. In reading the fpeech he was interrupted twenty times by torrents of applaufe.

The fpeech was as follows:

GENTLEMEN,

"You have terminated your labours the Constitution is finished-I have promifed to maintain it, to caufe it to be exccuted -it is proclaimed by my orders. This Conftitution, from which France expects profperity, this fruit of your cares and watch ings, will be your recompence; France made happy by your labours, will communicate her happiness to you.

"Return to your homes, and tell your fellow-citizens, that the happiness of the French ever has been, and ever will be, the object of my wishes; that I neither have nor can have any intereft but the general intereft; that my profperity confifts only in the public profperity; that I fhall exert all the powers intrufted to me to give efficacy to the new fyftem; that I fhall communicate it to Foreign Courts; and shall in every thing prove that I can only be happy in the happiness of the people of France.

"Tell them alfo that the Revolution has reached its period, and that the firmeft fupport of the Conftitution is now the re-eftablishment of order. You, Gentlemen, in your feveral departments, will undoubtedly fecond my vigilance and care with all your power; you will give the first example of fubmiflion to the laws which you have framed; in the capacity of private citizens you will difplay the fame character as in the capacity of public men; and the people feeing their Legiflators exercife, in private life, thofe virtues which they have proclaimed in the National Affembly, will imitate them, discharge with pleasure the obligations which the public intereft impofes on them, and cheerfully pay the taxes deereed by their Reprefentatives. It is by

This morning, the Affembly commenced. by the report which was made by the Vicc Prefident, of the refult of the Deputation fent to the King. M. Ducaftel faid, that having taken the opinion of the Deputation of what he should fay to the King, they went up to the Palace at fix o'clock in the evening. They faw the Minifter of Juftice, who told them that his Majesty had appointed the next day at one o'clock to re ceive the Deputation.-The Vice-Prefident flated to the Minister, that it was of the utmost importance to the public affairs of the empire, that the notice with which they were charged fhould be made known to his Majefty without delay, and they could not, confiftent with their duty to the Legislative Aflembly, poftpone their commiftion. The Minifter of Juftice reprefented this to his Majefty, w o was pleafed to appoint nine o'clock of the fame evening to receive the Deputation. Accordingly, at nine o'clock, they went up again, and were received by his Majesty in the Council Chamber, when M. Ducaftel made his reyerence, and deli vered his commifion in the following terms:

"SIRE,

"The National Affembly Legislative is finally conftituted, and we are appointed a Deputation to intimate this to your Majelly."

The King defired to know the names of the Deputation. The Vice-Prefident told him that he had not a lift of the names, and that in truth he did not know them all.

His Majefty was then pleased to say, that he would come in perfon to the Affembly on Friday next. He was forry that he could not poffibly go there fooner.

October 7.

His Majefty, accordingly, went to the National Affemby, and made the following Speech:

"GENTLEMEN,

"Affembled by virtue of the Conftitution, to exercise the powers which it delegates to you, you will undoubtedly confider as among your first duties, to facilitate the operations of Government; to confirm public credit; to add, if poffible, to the fecurity of the engagement of the nation; to fhow that liberty and peace are compatible; and finally, to attach the people to their new laws, by convincing them that thofe laws are for their good.

"Your experience of the effects of the new order of things, in the feveral departments from which you come, will enable you to judge of what may be yet wanting to bring it to perfection, and make it eafy for you to devife the moft proper means of giving the neceffary force and activity to the Adminiftration.

"For my own part, called by the Conftitution to examine, as firft Reprefentative of the people, and for their intereft, the laws prefented for my fanction, and charged with caufing them to be executed, it is also my duty to propofe to you fuch objects as I think ought to be taken into confideration in the courfe of your Seffion.

"You will fee the propriety of fixing your Ammediate attention on the state of finances, and you will feel the importance of establishing an equilibrium between the receipt and the expenditure, of accelerating the affeffment and the collection of taxes, of introducing an invariable order into all parts of this vaft Adminiftration, and thus providing at once for the fupport of the ftate, and the relief of the people.

"The Civil Laws will alfo demand your care, which you will have to render conformable to the principles of the Conflitution. You wiH alfo have to fimplify the mode of proceeding in the Courts of Law,

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and render the attainment of Justice more eafy and more prompt.

"You will perceive the neceffity of establishing a fyftem of National Education, and of giving a folid bafis to public fpirit. You will encourage Commerce and Industry, the progrefs of which has fo great an influence on the agriculture and wealth of the kingdom; and you will endeavour to make permanent difpofitions for affording work and relief to the indigent.

"I fhall make known my firm defire for the re-cftablishment of Order and Difcipline in the Army; and I fhall neglect no means that may contribute to reftore confidence among all who compofe it, and put it into a condition to fecure the defence of the realm. If the laws in this refpect are infufficient, I fhall make known to you the measures that feem to me to be proper, and you will decide upon.

"I fhall in the fame manner communicate my fentiments refpecting the Navy, that important part of the public force, deftined to protect trade and the Colonies.

"We fhall not, I hope, be troubled with any attack from abroad. I have taken, from the moment I accepted the conftitution, and I ftill continue to take, the steps that appear to me the most proper to fix the opinion of foreign powers in our favour, and to maintain with them the good intelligence and harmony that ought to fecure to us the continuance of peace. I expect the best effects from them; but this expectation does not prevent me from purfing, with activity, thofe measures of precaution, which prodence ought to dictate (Loud applauses of Vive le Roi!)

"Gentlemen, in order that your important labours and your zeal may produce the effects from them, it is neceffary that conftant harmony and unalterable confidence fhould reign between the Legislative Body and the King (renewed applause and acclama tions). The enemies of our repofe are but too ftudious to difunite us; the love of our country must therefore rally us, and the public intereft render us infeparable, (warm applauses). Thus the public force will be exerted without obftruction, the administra tion will not be haraffed by vain alarms, the property and the religion of every man will be cqually protected, and no pretext will be left for any perfon to live at a distance from a country where the laws are in vigour, and - mens rights respected.

"It is on this great bafis of order that the ftability of the conftitution, the success of your labours, the fafety of the empire, the fource of all kinds of profperity, muft depend. It is to this, Gentlemen, that we

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all ought to turn our thoughts in this moment with the utmost poffible vigour; and this is the object that I recommend the most particularly to your zeal, and to your patriotifm."

The most lively teftimonies of applause were given to the King on this occafion.

THE PRESIDENT'S ANSWER.

"SIRE,

"Your prefence in the midst of us is a new engagement, which you take towards the country. It is right that we should forget the confounded powers. A constitution is eftablished, and with it the liberty of Frenchmen. You ought to cherish it as a citizen. As King you ought to maintain and to defend it. Inftead of violating, it afcertains your power-it has given as your friends all thofe who formerly called themfelves only your fubjects (bere a burst of applaufe-You faid fo, Sire, fome days ago in this temple of the country, and we alfo have reafon to love you (the plaudits were reiterated). The conftitution has made you the first Monarch in the world-Your love for it places your Majesty in the rank of the most favoured Kings, and the welfare of the people will be moft happy. May our mutual union make us fpeedily feel its happy influence-purify legislation, reconfirm public credit, overthrow anarchy. Such is our duty-fuch are our wishes-fuch are your's, Sire. Such are our hopes, and the benedictions of Frenchmen will be our reward."

The following Gentlemen are élected Frovofts of their respective boroughs : Glasgow, James M'Dowall, Efq. Aberdeen, George Auldjo, Efq, Dundee, James Johnston, Efq. Perth, Alexander Fechney, Efq. Dumfries, David Blair, Efq. St Andrew's, Alexander Duncan, Efq. Stirling, Henry Jaffrae, Efq. Lochmaben, David Dickton, Efq. Irvine, The Earl of Eglinton. Rutherglen, Major John Spens. Cupar Fife, Major William Maxwell Mor

rifon.

Inverkeithing, Sir John Henderson of Fordell, Bart.

Renfrew, Matthew Gray, Efq.
Dunfermline, John Wilfon fenior, Esq.
Kinghorn, Andrew Hamilton, Efq.
Banff, George Robertfon, Efq.
Haddington, James Banks, Efq.
Dunbarton, Marquis of Lorn.
Lanark, John Bannatine, Efq.
Kirkaldy, Michael Beveridge, Efq..

Driven from their native country by hard neceffity, about 400 natives of the Ifle of Skye, embarked in the fhip Fortune for North Carolina. The ship was driven into Clyde by ftrefs of weather, when that public fpirited citizen, Mr David Dale, invited the poor Highlanders to Glasgow, gave them a

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fupply for their prefent neceffities, and offered to procure them all employment at kis manufactories. Though many of them had given their little all-fome twenty, fome thirty pounds for their paffage to America, they no fooner heard of employment, than all who were not indented left the fhip, and put themselves under his protection. In comparison of fuch a man,

How low, how little are the great!

October 11This night, between ten and eleven o'clock, James Plunket, convicted of ftreet-robbery, and George Davidson, convicted of forgery, before the Circuit Court of Justiciary at Glafgow, and who were to havebeen executed the 26th inft. found means, by the affiftance of one Ruffel a weaver, to break the prifon there, and make their escape. A reward of fifty guineas was offered to any perfon who fhould apprehend and fecure any of the three.

MARRIAGES.

Sept. 27. Mr Peter Cameron, writer in Edinburgh, to Mifs Annie Donaldson, of Allachie.

28. Mr Alexander M'Brair, merchant in Glasgow, to Mifs Henrietta Brown of Edinburgh.

29. Capt. William Urquhart of the 30th regiment of foot, to Mifs Isabella-Helen Rofe of Rofebank.

O. 3. Harry Stark of Teaffes, Efq. to Mifs Horfeburgh of Cupar.

4. Capt. Thomas Inglis, to Mifs Jean Balfour of Dunbog.

Mr Martin Lindfay, of the Lord Thurlow Eaft-Indiaman, to Mifs Wood of Perth.

10. James Smith, Efq. merchant in Glafgow, to Mifs Margaret Macgregor, of that place.

Mr William Brown, merchant at Saltcoats, to Mifs Janet Erfkine, of that place.

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15. Samuel Dalrymple, Efq. Captain the 3d regiment, to Mifs Tweddell of Unthankhall.

18. William Ker, Efq. of Spring Garden, Jamaica, to Mifs Margaret Hunter of Frankfield.

20. Lieut. M-Niven of the Royal Highlanders, to Mifs Catharine Heriot, of Edinburgh.

26. Charles Buchan, Efq. of Whitfome, to Mifs Marion M Michen, of Killentringan.

BIRTHS.

08. 2. Mrs Capt. Brown, of a daughter. 6. Lady Kinnaird, of a daughter.. 9. The Countefs of Lauderdale, of a daughter.

10. Mrs Hay of Newhall, of a daughter. 12. Lady Salton, of a fon.

16. Mrs Drummond of Perth, of a fon. 20. The Lady of Andrew Stewart, Efq. of a daughter.

Mrs Alexander of Ballochmyle, of a daughter.

21. Lady Napier, of a daughter.
22. Lady Colquhoun of Luís, of a fon.

28. Mrs Rob. Lochead, of Clafgow.