The following Song is recommended to be sung at all Convivial Meetings convened for the purpose of opposing the Assessed Tax Bill. The Correspondent who has transmitted it to us, informs us that he has tried it with great success among many of his well-disposed Neighbours, who had been at first led to apprehend that the 120th part of their income was too great a sacrifice, for the preservation of the remainder of their Property from French Confiscation.

You have heard of REUBEL

That Demon of Hell,

And of BARRAS, his Brother Director;

Of the canting Lepaux,

And that Scoundrel MOREAU,

Who betray'd his old Friend and Protector.

Would you know how these Friends,

For their own private ends,

Would subvert our Religion and Throne?—

Do you doubt of their skill

To change Laws at their will?

You shall hear how they treated their own.

"Twas their pleasure to look,

In a little blue book,

At the Code of their fam'd Legislation,

That with truth they might say,

In the space of one day

They had broke every Law of the Nation.

The first Law that they see,

Is, "the Press shall be free!”

The next is," the Trial by Jury ;"

Then, "the Peoples' free Choice;"
Then," the Members' free Voice ;”

When REUBEL exclaim'd in a fury

"On

"On a method we'll fall

"For infringing them all

"We'll seize on each Printer, and Member:

"No period so fit

"For a desperate hit,

"As our old bloody Month of September.

"We'll annul each Election

"Which wants our correction,

"And name our own Creatures in stead.

"When once we've our will,

"No blood we will spill

(But let CARNOT be knock'd on the head).

"To Rochefort we'll drive

"Our Victims alive,

"And as soon as on-board we have got 'em,

"As we destine the Ship

"For no more than one trip,

"We can just make a hole in her bottom.

"By this excellent Plan,

"On the true Rights of Man,

"When we've founded our Fifth Revolution,

"Though England's our Foe,

"An Army shall go

"To improve HER corrupt Constitution.

"We'll address to the Nation

"A fine Proclamation,

"With offers of friendship so warm

"WHO can give BUONAPARTE

"A welcome so hearty

"As the Friends of a THOROUGH REFORM?"

FOREIGN

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

THE non-arrival of the Hamburgh Mails leaves us without any information as to the state of affairs on the Continent, except what we derive through the channel of the French Papers.

We have indeed little reason to doubt the truth and accuracy of the accounts which these Papers afford, as they are conformable in every respect to all that we have hitherto seen, and to all that we have been accustomed to expect, from the spirit and character of the present Government of France, whether in War or in Peace, or in Negotiation, in its relation with its Allies, or in its intercourse with Independent Nations.

The discussion with Switzerland seems drawing to a crisis and a system of more atrocious and tyrannical wickedness, of more profligate and impudent contempt of Right and Justice, than marks the whole of the conduct of the Directory towards that devoted Country, the history of human depravity cannot furnish.

To excite and foment disaffection, in every State to which their emissaries have access to offer, by general declarations, the protection of the French Government to all who would throw off their Allegiance to the Government under which they were born, has indeed been the constant and uniform practice of the Rulers in France, since the beginning of their Revolution. But in no instance, perhaps, has their interference with the internal affairs of another Country been so direct and insulting, or their object so shamefully avowed and pursued, as in their treatment of the Swiss Cantons,

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The two following Decrees will shew, with how very little even of the shew or pretext of Justice, they think it necessary to veil their designs of subverting the constitution, and confiscating the property of these States — a design which it is yet to be hoped they may find some difficulty in accomplishing, if there remains unextinguished one spark of that spirit by which the Swiss originally acquired, and have so long maintained, their freedom and independence.

PARIS, 7TH NIVOSE.

The Executive Directory to the Minister for Foreign Affairs.

The Executive Directory, Citizen Minister, charged you some time ago to make to them a speedy Report on a Petition of several of the Inhabitants of the Pays de Vaud, tending to obtain, in virtue of ancient Treaties, the guarantee of the French Republic for the re-establishment of their Rights.

You have not as yet made this Report, although it greatly interests the Executive Directory to determine, as soon as possible, on the Petition in question.

The Executive Directory invites you to give them an account of this affair without farther delay.

(Signed)

For the Secretary General,

BARRAS, President.

FRANÇOIS (de Neufchateau.)

Decree of the Directory, of the 8th Nivose, 6th Year.

The Executive Directory having heard the Report of

the Minister for Foreign Affairs,

Decrees,

Decrees, that the Minister of the French Republic to the Helvetic Cantons shall declare to the respective Governments of Bern and Fribourg, that the Members of these Governments shall be personally answerable for the individual safety and properties of the Inhabitants of the Pays de Vaud, who have addressed themselves, and may hereafter address themselves to the French Republic, to reclaim, in virtue of ancient Treaties, its mediation, to maintain and reinstate them in their Rights and Privileges.

The Minister of Foreign Affairs is charged to execute the present Decree, which shall not be printed.

(Signed)

BARRAS, President. For the Secretary General, REVELLIERE-ĻEPAUX.

There does not appear to have been any progress made in the negotiation with America, nor any alteration in that mode of treating the Negotiators, which the French Directory conceives to be peculiarly calculated to mark their just contempt for the present Government of that Country. By the dignified and manly tone of the Speech of the PRESIDENT of the United States, we are induced to hope that the time may not be far off, when the American Government and People will make some other return to the insults and injuries heaped upon them by their "Sister Republic," than humility and acquiescence.

While such is the conduct of France with regard to Nations to whom she stands professedly in the relations of Peace and Amity, we are not surprized to find, that in her Negotiation for the termination of Hostilities with Portugal, she thinks it proper to take some steps not exactly conformable to the usual practice of Countries in an ordi