The Council of Five Hundred prefented a very agitated fcene: The Sitting opened with a motion for a Report upon the ftate of the republic. Without entering into a difcuffion of this motion, it was propofed that all the Members fhould take an oath of fidelity to the Conftitution. The propofition was received with foud plaudits, interrupted by frequent exclamations of

Down with the Dictators !" After each member had taken the oath, the Council paffed a Declaration, that they were confituted to the number of a ma

jority required by the Conftitution.-A letter from Barras was then read, giving in his refignation. While the Council were deliberating, Buonaparte, accompanied by 20 grenadiers, entered the hall, and walked up towards the Prefident, his brother. Several of the members immediately darted towards him, and pushed him back. Some propofed to out-law him. One member, Arena, his countryman, attempted to ftab him.' The blow, however was warded off by a grenadier, who received it in his arm. Buonaparte then drew back, ordered the grenadiers to withdraw, and left the hall himfelf. His conduct was then vehemently reprobated; his appointment of General of the Legiflative Guard was proposed to be annulled, and the Council of Ancients was complained of as having violated the Conftitution. The Prefident interrupted this

debate by quitting the President's Chair, and throwing off his scarf. The doors were immediately o pened, and a file of grenadiers entered and took away Lucien Buonaparte. A ftrong detachment of foldiers followed, and an officer ordered the hall to be cleared in Gen. Buonaparte's name. This order was immediately carried into execution. Meanwhile the Council of Ancients refolved, in a Secret Committee, to abolish the Directory, and to appoint a Legislative Commiffion of twenty-five Members, and an Executive Commiffion of three Members, who were charged to procure a folid and honorable peace: In the evening, they appointed the perfons to fill these Commiffions, and then adjourned to the 20th of February.

The re

mains, of the Council of Five Hundred alfo met in the evening, and having paffed a decree fimilar to the Council of Ancients, adjourned also to 20th of February.

Nov. 19. The language of Buonaparte, fince the late Revolution, is pacific. One of his charges against the Old Directory, is, having plunged France into a new war with Auftria. The Councils charge the Confuls to negociate a Peace. Pruffia, it is faid, by the interceffion of Sieyes has confented to be the mediator.-The Confulate fits at the Luxemburg. Gen. Murat com manded the Grenadiers, who drove the Council of 500 from their place of fitting.

Dear Alwyn;

No. II.

ife I made you, when we parted; the love I bear you, and a defire for your correfpondence, could have ever again called my pen into action, or induted me to difcover my retreat: A retreat, in which I can now reft fecure from the various evils which tempeft human life; for as I know noth ing of the tranfactions of men, fo I am delivered from the perplexities attendant upon fuch knowledge.

Did you but know my motives, I believe you would applaud my conduct in retiring from the world. What had I to do with the world, when I could difcover nothing therein, but what gave

who would not be difpofed to leave that with which they must always be at war?

ALWYN! do you remember the pleafures of our childhood? To me, that period has returned; the mysterious fimplicities of ever varying nature, are fufficient for all the defires which I now poffefs; I liften with more exquifite delight to the fong of the grafshopper than I ever did to the mufic of a birth-night ballroom; you will treat this as a chimerical idea;the effufion of a wildered imagination; or of a world fick fancy : whatever it may be, the principles which actu ate you, and every other person, are I

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more romantic than mine in purfuit of the reality, you obtain only the femblance; content with the femblance, I, of courfe, enjoy the reality.

From a bewildering foreft in Virginia, you will receive your Lewitzer's melancholy indictions. Here he realizes more fubftantial comfort than he has ever before experienced; what weapons has nature formed which can wound the mind? I enjoy her bounties, and they are fully fufficient to every demand-why did I ever feek for more?

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You defire a hiftory of my fince we parted. Why, Alwyn, wilt thou caufe me to call up fcenes which I have long buried in the vault of oblivion? Why wilt thou cause me to retrace fteps indelibly imprinted in the beft of human blood? Ah, Alwyn, were not the feelings of your friend unftrung by age, infirmity, and determinate refolution ; his hand would be unequal to the talk. And yet I fear to recount events, which, in fpite of a Hermit's philofophy-in fpite of thy Lewitzer's fortitude, muft harrow up his foul, and wring the long un accustomed tear from his withered eye! But it was the parting request of my friend-it was my laft promife, and I will perform. My next letter fhall begin the important talk-And may the genius which illumines my folitude, diftil the balm of confola tion into the wounds of my heart, which must be reinflicted.

Little did you know of my in tention when we exchanged a laft farewel on the banks of the Elbe.-I could not inform you. I told you I should fpend my

days in America. When I ar rived at Philadelphia, I immediately fat out in fearch of a filent recefs in fome fouthern latitude by good fortune, I discovered this: I purchased a few neceff. ries, and here I retired. It is a natural cavity in a rock of white marble, defcending beneath the furface, through the fides of which I have cut holes, in an ob lique direction, for the admiffion of light and air. The entrance is fmall and barricadoed. A cir cular flue, in form of a chimney, leads off the fmoke, into a distant part of the foreft, by a number of perforations, whenever I have need of fire, though that is but feldom, as the weather is fcarce ever cold in thefe parts. I cultivate a fmall garden. I purchased me a goat at one of the adjacent villages, which yields me milk, She lies in the mouth of my carern by night, and feeks her food in the foreft by day, from whence I also draw much fustenance, as it abounds in fruit and nutritive roots. I have much improved the convenience of my cavern, from nature, by art. I have planted fruit and other trees, as. alfo thrubs around me. I have a few books and a German bible. A bubbling rill murmurs through my garden, and a varying fiream rolls at a distance. My domeftics are a dog and a cat, who ferve me with more difinterefled zeal and fidelity, than any fervants I have heretofore employed. Such is the fuit and furnishments of him who once could tread upon velvet, and wallow in filks and gold.

The peafants in the furround-. ing villages, (though the nearest

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is ten English miles off) have dif. covered my retreat. They at first pleafed me by their attention; they proffered me favors of almoft every kind; and related to me the circumftances of the exifting war between Great Britain and this country. I frequent ly gave my opinion with regard to fubfequent events, which, as was eafy to be forefeen, were in fome inftances verified; this, in their opinion, ftamped me a Magician, and brought me into difficulty I had not fufpected. They thronged me from all parts; fome wanted their fortunes told, others the discovery of loft property, and others again the refult of the war. I was obliged to adopt a decifive and fummary method. I refufed their prefents, except fuch as I was in abfolute need of. I answered none of their questions, and kept as much

concealed from them as poffible, and thus prevented their impor tunities. I am now converfant only with a few characters, who vifit me privately and occafional ly, whom I prize--Thefe tranfact any bufinefs I defire, and are charged with the care of my letters. Once a year, I leave my recefs, and make a tour to the fea port. I affume the man, caft a longing, lingering look over the blue billows, and the dews of poignant reflection fuffufe my eyes. I wander through the vil lages, converfe a little with the inhabitants, and return to my beloved hermitage. Thus, Alwyn, paffes the days of your Lewitzer -how different from the prof pect of my early years!

My next letter commences the arduous tafk; if the lamp of life holds out, it fhall be completedFor this time, adieu.

MARSHAL ARSHAL SUWOROW is mafter of the principal part of the European languages. He fpeaks and writes both German and French as if they were his native tongue. He is alfo well acquainted with thofe of Italy and Moldavia, of Poland and Turkey; and be can converfe in all the various dialects of the people whom he has fubdued.

In 1774, he married Barba

Nanowna Princefs Proforowiki, daughter of the General Prince Iwan Proforowski; by whom he has two children now living: Natalia Countefs Suworrow, who married General Count Nicolai Zoubow, and Arcadius, who is about fourteen years of age, a youth of great promife, and a Lieutenant in one of the regi ments of guards.

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long and laborious marches, which form an enormous aggregate of fix thoufand German miles (equal to twenty thousand of English meafure); notwith ftanding his wounds and military toils; Suworrow ftill preferves the gaiety of youth. He is free from all corporeal weakness and infirmity; a circumftance which must be attributed to the hardy habits of his life, his robust conftitution, and rigid temperance. Distinct as he is in the more ftriking features of his character, from the common race of men, that . difference is feen to prevail even in his ordinary tranfactions, in his mode of living, and the diftribution of his time,

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He rifes about four in the morning, both in winter and fummer, in town and in the country. His bed is not contrived by art to indulge the effeminate voluptua ry; it is not made of down, or furrounded with filken curtains; but is formed of the fimple materials of nature, which afford to the peafant fatigued with labor, the refreshing sweets of fleep. A heap of fresh hay, fufficiently elevated and fcattered into con fiderable breadth, is his humble couch. A white fheet is fpread over it, with a cushion for his pillow, and his cloak for his cover lid. He generally fleeps without body linen, and in fummer he paffes his day and night in a tent in his garden.

It is not to be fuppofed that the toilet occupies any portion of his time; but when he is not on active fervice, he is clean in his perfon, and frequently washes himfelf in the courfe of the day. He confines his drefs to an uni

form and a kind of close jacket, called a gurtha; but robes de chambre, and riding coats are banished from his wardrobe, and he never fuffers the indulgence of gloves or a peliffe, but when a winter's march compels him to use them.

After his breakfast, which confifts of tea, he walks for an hour by way of exercise, and then fits seriously down to the official du ties of the day. He reads letters and reports, distributes the peceffary orders, and continues without relaxation his professional occupations till noon. He dictates fuch alterations as he thinks neceffary to be made in the various difpatches which are prefented to his infpection; and he will fometimes write them himself, His ftyle is manly and concife; and fo correct is he in the choice of his expreffions, that he is nev er known to efface them.

The hour of his dinner is irregular, and varies from nine to twelve; and during his repaft, he is frequently communicative, and full of vivacity; his table generally confifts of about twenty covers; but he is himself a rare ex, ample of temperance, and. ob ferves the fafts of the Greek Church with the most undeviat, ing rigor, Immediately after his dinner, he paffes a few hours in fleep, and fupper is not a meal with him.

He knows little of the amufements and paftimes which luxury, has invented, and laffitude demands, to quicken the pace or relieve the burthen of time.

His principal occupation, and at the fame time, his favorite di verfion, is war and its duties, However