pen, and also by the entire magistracy, we come, SIRE, to beseech your majesty to consent to give the most magnificent edifice in the city, the most magnificent employment it can ever havet. We come, as interpreters of the sentiments of our countrymen, to offer your majesty the City Hotel, and to beg he may be pleased formally to accept and declare it the Palais Royal, and thus assure us that it shall hereafter, and forever,‡ have the honour of being the residence of the sovereign. Placed at the head of our countrymen, we come to fulfil a duty very grateful to our hearts, in entreating your majesty to be persuaded that their most ardent prayers unite with ours, that it may please the Supreme Arbiter of our destiny to enable us long to enjoy the happiness of seeing your majesty among us, and of respecting and cherishing in him a king, who, since his elevation to the throne, has never ceased to love and protect us. Yes, SIRE, we are firmly convinced that all that commerce suffers by the hard measures required by the situation of Europe; all that our city (of which commerce is the only support) suffers at this time, would be infinitely more painful, if the rigorous measures adopted by your majesty in the highest wisdom, had not in view * His French-Corsican Majesty may not hope to pronounce these words; but, by turning over a Dutch-French dictionary, he may learn their signification. A federalist would take this to be quizzing! This comes with bad grace from plain Dutchmen. They seem to be unwilling again to run the circle of Revolution. It will be singular if this stipulation should bind their posterity, and preclude them the sacred rights of insurrection and rebellion. the salutary object of avoiding greater evils; of concurring to bring back the common enemy to a more moderate system; and of at length insuring us a peace, stable, advantageous, and honourable, which alone can heal our wounds. Assured of the paternal sentiments of which your majesty has given us so many proofs, we place, with entire confidence, our dearest interests, and those of our countrymen, in your hands, SIRE.* The moment your majesty shall make his entry into Amsterdam, will be a moment of happiness and consolation for all, and particularly for us, SIRE! May your majesty, deigning to employ the zeal that animates us to execute his orders, be pleased to place us in a situation to contribute to bless his name, as that of a tender father, whose unceasing care constantly watches over the welfare of his children. Was to declare a one of my first acts it such I hoped a maritime peace would enable me soon to put it in possession of the title I had given it, and which it shall always retain; unfortunately General Peace appears to be still distant; my whole people suffer by the duration of the war; your city suffers the most; in this state of things I ought, and I wish, to be nearer its distresses and its wants. I shall no longer oppose the solicitations of my beloved city and the necessity of my being in its bosom. Gentlemen, tell your countrymen that I am impressed with the pleasure they express to see me among them; that I willingly accept the offer they have requested you to make authentically in their name, but that I insist upon the condition that all the expense it may create shall be paid by the Crown, until some years of peace, and the re-establishment of the finances shall enable the publick treasury to build a new palace, and to restore that of the Hague given to the inheritance. I wish Amsterdam then to take back the palace, that it may become again the City Hotel: if your city does not possess a suitable one, worthy of my Capital, I shall cause one to be erected after the conclusion of > peace*. I wish you to make known to the minister of the interiour all the establishments and improvements which are essential. I hope my people see me with satisfaction. I wish my presence may be useful to them and never a burthen. • These disturbers of the world's repose, flatter us with the hope, that they will become quiet, and that we may expect peace some day. May it soon happen. be Gentlemen, I will prove to you the confidence I have in my loved city and in you, to whom I have confided the government of it, by acquainting you with the motives that have delayed, and those that have accelerated my arrival in spite of the concern with which I behold the situation of commerce, of navigation, and of industry. We cannot conceal from you, that a continual state of war renders the situation of this country critical in several respects; it has become daily more so, in consequence of the posture of European affairs, since the commencement of my reign. I have found you torn to pieces by faction, the principal and most destructive enemy of this country; abased for twenty years by numerous misfortunes; having during that epoch almost lost its independence and manifested in that space of time, longer by events than by years, symptoms of dissension, the condition of a conquered people, rather than the great character which appertained to their ancestors, and which might yet become theirs: under these circumstances, gentlemen, what hope of success can I have—-a stranger to your language, your manners, and your affairs? should have still resisted, and more happily withstood the force of events which give me a task so difficult to accomplish, if I had not had the consolatory expectation that the nation in general, and each individual in particular, would second my efforts; if I had not relied the entire confidence of upon the nation; if I had not hoped to view around me, in the most intimate union, all orders, classes, and conditions; in short, if I had not thought so well of an enlightened, brave, persevering, and loyal people as to believe that each person 1 I A of right and equity alone, amid the clashing of more potent interests. The obligations of the Prince are indeed great; but those of the people are still greater: the former must expire with a brief and fragile life; the latter are as constant and durable as society itself, of which they are the chief bonds. Convinced of the truth of these observations, and knowing how ruinous and irreparable may be the least hindrance, the least deviation from the only system that can save the country, I wish to abridge delay as much as possible, and hasten to consolidate my go I have always suffi ciently esteemed and relied upon the inhabitants of my chief city to think they could greatly contribute to the success of my efforts for the would consider the general interest as his first concern, which necessarily comprises that of the individual. Devoid of these sentiments could I have had the expectation of upholding this country, called to independence in a season of peril, after numerous changes and distresses? No. In order to surmount these obstacles, to elevate Holland to the rank assigned it by the virtues of your ancestors, their active and constant industry, their courage, and entire devotion to their country, I cannot dissemble, gentlemen, you must abandon that state of indecision, of stupor, of apathy, of distrust, of discourage-vernment. ment, which, if it is dangerous in times prosperous and calm, becomes grievous and fatal in other circumstances. Faithful to my declarations, I make, and I shall un-welfare of the nation of which they ceasingly make new efforts to avoid the worst evils, seeing that not anything now favours the execution of the plans I had formed to melisrate the condition of the country: Indeed, gentlemen, in a limited Monarchy, according to my idea, and as I wish it, if the King can discern and promote virtue and happiness, it is only when there is really a nation, a people; when the general is uniformly considered before the individual interest; when the most eminently distinguished men encompass, enlighten, support, and defend the throne. If this is true, a country in which the Prince is entirely isolated from his people must be soon lost. Is it not equally certain, that if every person alienates himself from the sovereign, when there should be a national, a publick spirit, all must perish still sooner: particularly when, whatever may be the issue of events, ages must pass away before the small states can be able to sustain themselves by the strength constitute a very considerable part: my choice naturally falls upon it; when the Constitution of the country is no longer either Federal or Republican, when the change has become so great, I could wish the site of my Capital to be such, that it might become forever that of my successours; no city in the kingdom can be envious of seeing the Palaces of your Kings established within your walls: I wish to show the nation the importance I attach to commerce, and to the most commercial city in the kingdom; I wish to prove to it that I am acquainted with its true interests; I wish my successours may never think otherwise: I wish the inhabitants of the Capital to know that the title is not a vain name; that if, on my side, I assure them I shall greatly distinguish and do much for them, on theirs, they ought to set an example to the rest of the kingdom; they ought to manifest the sentiments the nation should possess and exhibit; they ought constantly to be the most zealous and the most strenuous defenders of the throne. I could wish, as there is but one state, that there might be but one grand Capital. In fine, I hope to find among you persons enow experienced in the different branches of government, that I may more easily and speedily effect establishments necessary to exalt and support the rank of the nation among the most enlightened and best constituted: which will require great and persevering efforts. I am aware of the magnitude and difficulty of my undertaking. Of course I calculate upon the aid of all enlightened, upright, and true friends to their country: I trust my confidence will prove well founded. Should it be otherwise the fault cannot be attributed to me, for all my time, all my thoughts, all my efforts are exclusively devoted to the interest and the affairs of the publick. forts. I feel for their sufferings; I suffer more than they; I am occupied solely in endeavouring to diminish them: and when a general peace shall console the people and suffering humanity; when they shall have repaired their misfortunes and forgotten them, I shall still remember alt the hardships experienced in the beginning of my reign. From the Providence Gazette THE ADELPHIAD. The literary world has lately been gratified by a new acquisition from the pen of poems he has given us more than an equiJames Montgomery. In a small volume of valent for our money, and he who delights to amuse the tedium vite by a dalliance with the coy damsals of Parnassus, and goes an enjoyment which good fortune has neglects this opportunity, voluntarily forethrown in his way. That strange and capricious thing, called genius, which has eluded so long the definitions of philosophers, may here be known by its effects. The muse of Montgomery first pours her tears over the fate of unhappy Switzerland, Thus, gentlemen, I shall soon and then indulges herself in several freaks under the shade of the cypress tree. If be among you: I have spoken an authour's page affords an evidence of with the confidence those merit to his life (a position which the Rambler whom I have entrusted the admiseems disposed to controvert) Montgomery nistration of my Capital; the fulis unhappy. The reader will find, throughout the whole volume, a tender melanclioly filment of my intentions; the in- prevailing, and not unfrequently deep touchquiring into every practicable im-es of the pathetick. Thoughts widely disprovement; the causing my authority to be respected and cherished; the promoting of publick and private security, and a rigid execution of the laws. I do not doubt you will accomplish my designs, and that I shall be soon convinced of the good you have effected. Meantime, gentlemen, I receive tant are brought together with such facility of combination, that the reader will often involuntarily shut the volume, and contemplate in retrospect the wide extent lis fancy has travelled over in two lines. For instance: "Have you lost a friend or brother? Till she seem'd to wake from death?" zerland, muse, before her pupil knows whither he. is going, hurries him into the depths of desolation and gloom. After with pleasure the sentiments you The poem entitled The Wanderer in Switexpress. Tell your countrymen, andegins with a beautiful abruptness, that the attachment and approbation of the nation, and particularly of my beloved city, is the object of all my actions, and the sweetest recompense of all my ef day thus visited the scene of her incanttations, he is wrought upon by a variety of conflicting passions, horrour, pity, admira tion and despair, and is dismissed at last D "Born in freedom's eagle nest, Liv'd my sires from age to age." How solemn is this description of an Alpine-night! "So when night, with rising shade, Climbs the Alps from steep to steep, Till in hoary gloom array'd, All the giant mountains sleep." On the perusal of the following lines, every disciple of the muse feels a chill, as if the vital blood was for a moment suspended in his veins. Let the reader bear in mind that he is now in the midst of a battle: Lovely as an infant's dream dado The following bold and expressive thought brings to the mind of every American the prospect of his own native Allegany: "High o'er Underwalden's vale, Where the forests front the morn; A friend, much respected and beloved, has stated an objection to the measure of the verse, and conceives it incompetent, from its brevity, to express the grandeur of the subject. This objection is not confined to the verse, but embraces the whole plan which the authour has adopted. Horrour, consternation, despair, and in fact all the deep passions, are always expressed by short sentences: for the mind encompassed by such whirlwinds, has no time soberly to consult the whole measure of its miseries, and therefore gives vent to itself in broken, short, and interrupted accents of distress. Had the authour changed the plan of his poem, and given his readers an epick narrative of the events, while he himself appeared to describe them, this measure would have been undoubtedly improper. This, however, is not the case; personages themselves, the immediate sufferers, are made to utter their distress while under the utmost pressure of it, and they do it in a measure admirably adapted to agitated narration. It is unnecessary to justify by precedent, a principle that demands no precedent to justify it; or we might cite the first scene in Macbeth, where the "weird sisters" perform their incantations in the same measure. The reader, without one word more of comment, is left to judge for himself with what success that measure is apopted. W. LAW INTELLIGENCE. The following trial exhibits the capriciousness of the human character, in so striking a view, that if we had not found it on so grave a record, as in the proceedings of a court of law, we should have been indu. ced to consider it as a romance. SURRY ASSIZES. GUILFORD, Aug. 9. CROWN SIDE-Before the Lord Chief Baron. CRIM. CON. AND BIGAMY. Eleanor Whitford was indicted for that she at Gretna, in Scotland, inter |