7. Mechanics and workmen engaged in the manufactures established by his Majefty, or by private perfons, may declare themfelves not domiciliated, and refide, in that quality in the kingdom. Subjects to have their names inferted in the registers; individuals included in this Article fhall not be molefted nor coinpelled to take the oath; except, rft, when the perfon fhall be fufpected of political relations or maxims; 2dly, if he fhould defire to refide at Court, in which cafe he shall take the oath of non-refidents, provided he has not permiflion from the Office of Foreign Affairs." 8. The perfons above defcribed fhall take the oath of non-domiciliants, as well as thofe who fhall be required by fuperior authorities, in order to remain in the kingdom, or feek a trade or profeffion in it, or for any other motive which fhall not be included in the treaties with foreign nations. "The oath of the non-domiciliants does not enjoin the quality of fubject; therefore, it neither expreffes vaffalage nor fidelity, but refpect, fubmiffion, oberience to the Soveeign, and to the laws of police of the country-Confequently, he who has taken the eath ought to abstain from doing, faying, or writing, both within and without the kingdom, any thing contrary to good or der, to subordination, and to public autho'rity. 9. Foreigners who come to feek an afy lum, or to take refuge in the kingdom, shall follow the road which fall be pointed out by the Commanders of the Frontiers-fhall ftop in the place prescribed, and there wait 'his Majefty's permission, and take the oath above mentioned. "By thefe means, His Majefty, without refufing hefpitality, will be able to know, as well what is proper for the refugee-ftrangers, as for the tranquillity of the state." 10. Foreigners who fhall tranfgrefs thefe rules and orders fhall be fent to the galleys, er expelled the kingdom, with confifcation of their property, according to the condition of the perfons, or the nature of the infractions. "In order to proceed judicially in the application of thefe points, the Juftices of the Peace fhall confult the fuperior Tribunals of their district, previous to their putting of the fentence in execution." FRANCE. NATIONAL ASSEMBLY. In the National Affembly, the affairs of the colonies were again taken into confideration, when, after some debate, it was determined the fubject fhould be difcuffed before the Allembly fhould feparate: The X12 following articles of the plan of the committees were accordingly paffed: 1. The Affembly reserves to itself the exclufive right of determining, with the fauction of the King, on the exterior part of the colonies. 2. The Colonial Affemblies fhall be authorifed to make, upon thefe fubjects, all the reprefentations which they think neceffary. 3. The laws concerning the fituation of perfons not free, and the political state of perfons of colour and free negroes, as well as the regulations relative to the execution of the faid laws, fhall be executed provifonally with the approbation of the Governors of the colonies, and thall be directly prefented to the fanction of the King, without any anterior decree being able to obftruct the full exercife of the right intrufted by the prefent article to the Colonial Assemblies. 4. The forms to be observed for the completion of the laws for the internal government, which do not concern perfons, fhall be determined by the Legislative Body, The King published the following proclamation on Sept. 18: "I have accepted the conftitution-I will ufe all endeavours to maintain it, and caufe it to be executed. "The revolution is completed.-It is time that the re-establishment of order fhould give to the conftitution the fupport which is fill most neceffary; it is time to fix the opinion of Europe on the defting of France, and to fhew that the French afe worthy to be free. "But my vigilance and my cares ought ftill to be feconded by the concurrence of all the friends of their country, and of liberty; it is by fubmiflion to the laws; it is by abjuring the Spirit of party, and all the paflions which accompany it; it is by a happy union of fentiments, of wifhes, and endeavours, that the conftitution will be confirmed, and that the nation will enjoy all the advantages which it secures. "Let every idea of intolerance then be abandoned for ever; let the rash defire of independence no longer be confounded with the love of liberty, let thofe pernicious qualifications, with which it has been attempted to inflame the people, be irrevocably banifhed; let religious opinions no longer be a fource of perfecution and animofity: let all who obferve the laws be at liberty to adopt that form of worship to which they are at tached; tached: and let no party give offence to those who may follow opinions different from their own from motives of confcience. But it is not fufficient to fhun thofe exceffes to which you might be carried by a spirit of violence; you must likewife fulfil the obligations which are impofed by the public intereft: One of the firft, one of the most effential, is the payment of the contributions eftablished by your reprefentatives. It is for the obfervance of engagements, which national honour has rendered facred, for the internal tranquility of the state, for its external fecurity; it is for the stability of the conftitution itself that I remind you of this indifpenfable duty. "Citizens armed for the maintenance of the law;-National Guards, never forget that it is to protect the fafety of perfons and of property, the collection of public contributions, the circulation of grain and provifions, that the arms which you bear have been delivered into your hands; it belongs to you to feel, that justice and mutual utility demand, that, between the inhabitants of the fame empire, abundance fhould be applied to the aid of indigence; and that it is the duty of the public force to promote the advancement of commerce, as the means of remedying the intemperance of feafons, correcting the inequality of harvest, uniting together all the parts of the various productions of their foil and induftry. And you, whom the people have chofen to watch over their interefts; you alfo, on whom they have conferred the formidable powers of determining on the property, the honour, and the life of citizens; you too whom they have inftituted to adjust their differences, members of different adminiftrative bodies, Judges of Tribunals, Judges of Peace, I recommend to you to be impreffed with the importance and dignity of your functions; fulfil them with zeal, with courage, with impartiality; labour with me to reftore peace, and the government of laws; and by thus fecuring the happinefs of the nation, prepare for the return of those whofe abfence has only proceeded from the fear of diforder and violence. "And all you who from different motives have quitted your country, your King invites you to return to your fellow-citizens; he invites you to yield to the public wish and the national intereft. Return with confidence under the fecurity of law, and this honourable return, at the moment when the constitution is definitively fettled, will render more eafy, and more expeditious, the reeftablishment of order and of tranquillity. "And you French people, a nation illuftrious for fo many ages, fhow yourfelves magnanimous and generous, at the moment when your liberty is confirmed; refume your happy character; let your moderation and wisdom revive among you the fecurity The Affembly having, by a former de cree, refolved, that this day fhould be the.. laft of their fitting, and that their fucceffors fhould take their places to-morrow, met this day to terminate their labours. The King had intimated his intention of coming in perfon to the Affembly, and the hall and galleries were crowded and brilliant as on the memorable day of his acceptance of the conftitution. The Members of the new Legiflature being all admitted to the body of the Affembly, and the Municipality of Paris, as well as the Directors of the departments, being invited to affift at the fitting, in confequence of addreffes which they presented, made it, if poffible, more numerous than on the former occafion, and infinitely more brilliant. The Aflembly clofed their labours by receiving the last reports from their committees on different fubjects, particularly the Military Code, and by publishing an account of the ftate of the finances, of the fums in the National Treafury, of the receipt of the taxes, of the coptributions received by the departments, and of the precife ftate in which they delivered over the affairs of the kingdom to their fucceffors. The accounts were received with the highest pleasure; they were confidered as highly favourable to the nation; and the vouchers were ordered to be depofited in the archives. M. Montefquion flated, that there was 35 millions in the National Treafury, of which 18 millions were in fpecie; and the Members of the Committee of Finance pledged themfelves perfonally for the fidelity of the accounts, and that they would be ready to answer for them to the next Legiflature. Before three o'clock they had done all their business, and prepared for the Royal prefence. In the proceedings of the day be. fore, they had determined to receive the King with more refpect than on the former occafion. Only one chair of ftate was placed on the platform to the left of the ordinary chair of the Prefident. The tables were not removed, and no carpet was fpread. -Spread. At half paft three the King was The fpeech was as follows: GENTLEMEN, "You have terminated your labours the Conflitution is finished I have promifed to maintain it, to cause it to be executed -it is proclaimed by my orders. This Confitntion, from which France expecs profperity, this fruit of your cares and watchings, 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 intrusted to me to give efficacy to the new fyftem; that I fhall communicate it to Foreign Courts; and fhail in every thing prove that I can only be happy in the happinefs of the people of France. "Tell th m alfo that the Revolution has reached its period, and that the firmei fupport of the Conflitution is now the re-establifhment 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 fubmiffion 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 deerced by their Reprefentatives. It is by This morning, the Affembly commenced by the report which was made by the VicePrefident, of the refult of the Deputation fent to the King, M. Ducaltel faid, that having taken the opinion of the Deputation of what he ould fay to the King, they went up to the Palace at fix o'clock in the evening. They faw the Minifter of Justice, who told then that his Majelly had appointed the next day at one o'clock to receive the Deputation. The Vice-Prefident flated to the Minifter, 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 Legiflative Affembly, poftpone their commiflion. The Minifter of Justice reprefented this to his Majefty, who 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 Majefty in the Council Chamber, when M. Ducattel made his reverence, and delivered his commiffion in the following terms: "Affembled by virtue of the Conftitution, to exercife the powers which it delegates to you, you will undoubtedly confider as among your firft duties, to facilitate the operations of Government; to confirm public credit; to add, if pofhible, 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 cafy for you to devife the most proper means of give ing the neceffary force and activity to the Administration. "For my own part, called by the Conftitution to examine, as firft Representative of the people, and for their intereft, the laws prefented for my fan&tion, and charged with aufing them to be executed, it is alfo 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 immediate attention on the ftate of finances, and you will feel the importance of establish ing an equilibrium between the receipt and the expenditure, of accelerating the affeffment and the collection of taxes, of introdueing an invariable order into all parts of this wat Administration,.,and, thus providing at once for the fupport of the Aate, 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 Conftituaion. You will alfo have to fimplify the Bode of proceeding in the Courts of Law, and render the attainment of Justice more easy and more prompt. "You will perceive the neceffity of estab lishing 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 in igent. "I fhall make known my firm defire for the re-establishment of Order and Discipline in the Army; and I shall neglect no means that may contribute to restore 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 sentiments refpecting the Navy, that important part of the public force, deftined to protect trade and the Colonies, "We shall not, I hope, he 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 purfaing, with activity, thofe meafures of precaution, which pru dence ought to dictate (Loud applaufes 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 acclamations). 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 adminiftration will not be haraffed by vain alarms, the property and the religion of every man will be equally 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 refpected. "It is on this great basis of order that the ftability of the conftitution, the fuccefs of your labours, the fafety of the empire, the fource of all kinds of profperity, muft depend. It is to this, Gentlemen, that we al all ought to turn our thoughts in this moment with the utmoft poffible vigour; and this is the object that I recommend the most particularly to your zeal, and to your patriotifm." The moft lively teftimonies of applause were given to the King on this occafion. THE PRESIDENT'S ANSWER. 66 SIRE, "Your prefence in the midst of us is a new engagement, which you take towards the country. It is right that we fhould forget the confounded powers. A conftitution is established, 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. Instead of violating, it alcertains your power-it has given as your friends all thofe who formerly called themfelves only your fubjects (here a burft of ap. plaufe-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 Majefty in the rank of the moft favoured Kings, and the welfare of the people will be moft happy. May our mutual anion make us fpeedily feel its happy influence purify legislation, reconfirm public eredit, 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 King went out in the fame manner that he entered, amidst the most vehement acclamations of Vive le Roi, and he was accompanied by the fame deputation. RESIDENT BAILIES. Leith-Mcff. W. Douglas and P. Hadaway. Canorgate and Calton-Meff. Jas Clark and Thos Milne. Portfburgh and Potter-row-Mess. W. Calder and Douglas Menzies. The following Gentlemen are electe Frovofts of their respective boroughs: Glafgew, James McDowall, Efq. Aberdeen, George Auldjo, Efq, Dundee, James Johnfton, Efq. Perth, Alexander Fechney, Efq. Dumfries, David Blair, Efq St Andrew's, Alexander Duncan, Efq. Stirling, Henry Jaffrae, Efq. Lochmaben, David Dickion, Efq. Irvine, The Earl of Eglinton. Rutherglen, Major John Spens. Cupar Fife, Major Wiliam Maxwell Mor rifon. Inverkeithing, Sir John Henderson of For dell, Bart. Dunfermline, John Wilfon fenior, Elq 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 fhip 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 supply |