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.. FRANCE. PARIS, MAY 3. The grand queflion with which the Tribunate has lately been occupied has diverted public attention from every other objet. A note, which in the Mo n:~ of the 29th of April, accompanied an Extrat of a Letter from London of the 24th of March, has not however ek aped notice. 46 Goo knows (lays the letter among other things) when the expedition will let fail for the other fide of the water I but be allured of this, that, fail when it may, we (hall not fail to give a very fatitfigtory account of it. The attempt, once made, will never be repeated, and the queflion, or rather the threat, of invafiun, will be decided for ever." The& expreffions have given rife to the fol- lowing paragraph in the official journal, in the form of a note, which is remarkable in more than one pelage We agree perfc&ly with this good Englilhman, that, let the expedition once fail, and the queßion will be decided for ever. We moll add, however, that we do not underßaud this *ration in the fame fenfe in which he employs it. ,We cannot but deplore the fate of a country which the faults of its Govern ment have placed in a Rotation fo critical. We do not do left plaice to the energy and the honourable feelings of thole who are anxious to defend their country. The people do their duty in eodeavonring to place themfilves out of the reach of invafion. We do ours in reeking to conquer peace, and a portion of the patrimony of the fees, of which the unbridled ambition of the Englith Government willies to deprive us.—Abfolute matters of the commerce of the world, their (hips cover both the Indian and American feas. '`hey with further, by the unjuß polethitin of Malta, at once to expel as from the commerce of the Medi terranean. That is not in their power. They who grafp at too mach, silk all. We are alfo a populous nation. We have a raft extent of coat, numerous tailors, a great deal of wood, and a large Ibare of money. Mat, then, is that mad ambition which wines to deprive us even of the commerce of the Levant, which our anceAors from time immemorial have enjoyed ? They very afelefsly keep fix thoufand men on the rock a Malta, which, barna what way, they afterlhall retain. They are on the point of lobos Ceylon for want of a (airiest number of troops to defend it. Of the two nations, which is that whore ambition knows no reafonable bounds Is it the nation which by treaty cedes the Mends of Ceylon and Trinidad, and coofolidates the Eaglil power in the Indies, in China, and Mocks, or that which willies to that us out of all the ports of the Levant ? The Englith Government deceives the people in the groffeß manner refpelting all that is done, or that pats in France. They carry this Co far as to tell the people that certain intelligence has been received of the troops at Boulogne having mutinied, that the half of the garrifon at Paris have revolted, that the Paribans have thews a difpoStion to intimation, hecanfe they were prevented (Mm leaving their own honks after nine o'clock. AB &eh revolts referable Mr. Daaaa's rebellion in the four departments.— thiai piper. we Ora wait the elifeetit. y we wore tow to wait it for year', ear foreVi whale wily he enre_fserte."—Mositerr. Mar s.—The important a rlan of the elevation of 3osasaitva to. the Imperi dignity in France, ap pears to be more sod more on the eve of execution. Already the vote has not only been folemnly ro manced by the Tribunate bet alas cononuoicatad on their part to the Confervative Senate. We are befides already apprised by the anfwer of the Vice. Prefident of the Senate to the Deputies of the Tri. balsam that the Senators had anticipated in ferret the communication of the vote of the Tribunate, and have been deliberating for upwards of two months die the.meass of carrying it into died. It appears, then, that a cirenmaance which was formerly only the ground of report, is now reduced to an abfolute certainty, namely, the prefentation of a Senatorial Addrefs to the Pease Consul., offering to inveft him with the hereditary Government of France, delivered roust after the communication of the original copies of Mr. Dee a a's Conefpondeoce. The veil which covers the deliberation of the Se nators has not yet bees withdrawn. It has not been withdrawn from the proceedings cf that other na tional authority which will bring on the czpefted difclofure,—Thisdifclofure, howeverigleaY be fPeedaY ex Red. The Tribunate employed on this occalion to make the firft communication of this plan, as two years ago they did of the fettlement of the Conk%!flip for We, terminated the day before yederday their extra. ordinary Sittings by the adoption of a decree founded on a previous motion. This decree, which had been propok4 that day by the Consmiffion appointed to examine the motion of CURIE, after a long fpeech from the Reporter, JAI° PAUTILLIIII, was couched in the following terms Traumata ceolidering that at the healing oat of the Re. minim, wham the oedema will had an opportesity of manifelt. Big hit( wish Megrim& firedom, the poeml with was declared fee the individual malty date Supreme Powa, sad for the here ditary remiss of that power; That the hoolly of the Boubcas having by their cenduet ren dered the Hereditary Govereasent odious to the peopte, forced them to We light of its advantages. and drove the natiao to feel See a happier &Rimy In a Dersocratical form of Gnecr,,ment ; The fresee having made a trial of d fermi forms of Gowns. Ineot, experienced from dude trials oely the mitcries of anarchy ; TIM the state was in the great/ft peril, when Bonaparte, brought hack by P a ovi e toe a Juddenly appeared for is fahration ; That ender the goreremest of a tingle todivichml, France m e, 'weed tranquillity et home, sod acquired abroad the laigheft degree of confidential and glory; That the plots formed by the Houle of Bowbon, eomert 'lib a Misiftry the imp:amble enemy of France, warned France • danger which threatens It, if idles Boosparte See coati mokd in the agitation target - able from an cledion the Confnlihip for life, and the power granted to the Firit of appointing his fuectifor, arc not adequate to the preven. ' intriv." at home or 'brood, which could not fail to be daring ;he vacancy of the supreme Power ; in declaring that Magilizael hereditary, conformity Is a• core to the mempie of all great Stalee, ancient or , sod to the trR vela of the nation mitered in !le ; , enlightened and (imported by this experience, the notion femme to this wilt more Bewley than ever, and carats it ' Mn;. poUrkil charges it ►aa ►eco ufual 10, /When to cOll - puwa m Lilt to r tora be Liu t►tir iaUty; That when Franetdemands for her fecurity a Hereditary Chief,' her gratitude and of ettion call on Bonaparte ; That France will preferve all the advantages of the Revolution by the choice of a new Dynafly, as much interested for their faftty as the old one would be for their &titration ; That France may expel from the family of Bonaparte, more duo from any other, the maintenance of the rights and liberty of the people which chore them, and all theft inftitutions heft calm- laced to fupport them ; That there is no title more fultable to the glory of Bonaparte. and to the dignity of the Supreme Chief of the French Nation, than the titk of Emperor. The Tribunate, exereifing the right given them by the agth article of the Conftitution, have come to the following vote : Taw NAPOLI° m Bo NA PAIITZ. the Firit Capful, be proclaimed Emperor./ the French, and is that capacity Inverted with the Government of the French Republic; That the title of EMPZIOIt, and the imperial power be made hereditary in his family in the male line, according to the order of primogeniture I That in Introducing into the organisation of the Conffituted Authorities the modifiesdone rendered neceffary by the eftaelah meet of hereditary power, the equality, the liberty, and the rights of the people thaU be preferved in all their Integrity. This rote *tall be prefented to the Senate ►y Si Craton, who ihall explain the views of the Tribunate. ° The foregoing decree having been put to the vote by the Prefident of the Tribunate, it was carried by acclamation with the fingle exception of the only Member who delivered his fentnnents againft its adoption. Citizen jaato Pauvicaraas was named Firft Orator to prefent, the following day, the Vote of the Tribunate. The other five orators who are to accompany him. were chofen by lot. Citizen GaLunt then made a fpeech to prove the neceffity of the third article of the Vote. This was at length, on the motion of &Lime, figned on the Regiffer by the Tribunes relent, to the number of fortreight, among whom was JOSEPH MOILEM/, the brother of the General now confined in the Temple. The Member who had formerly delivered his fend ments againft the Vote alone refuted to aSz his fig. nature. The Officer of the Court having prefented to him the Facer verhat, he merely oft his eye over the contents, and returned it without figning his same to it. We mull now endeavour to exphun the manner in which the objeaions of Caasor were re• lined, and we cannot do this better, than by giving die expre& and interefiing reply of Cartoon Nisas at ebb fame fitting. Cams NISEI after having, in the exordium' of his fpeech, announced his defign of Staking with the greateS moderation, entered on the confideration of the queftion, and obferveds Citizen Carnot is afraid that the mealures pro pofed (the nomination of Emperor, and the appoint ment of a hereditary fucceffion) amount to nothing sort of the total and abfolute deftruaion of the Re. public, and that thole who fupport them have either the intention. or are to unfortunate as to give up Lilac, aid tbeCearstr7 the prey ejo Deflect. What ! be. caufe the Firft Magiarate Sall be called Emperor, and begat& Ms power (ball be hereditary, (hall there PO longer eta sa France Liberty, or a Country ? Shall we have no law or a facial coupe& ? for, ac cording to his opinion, thefe &A wants of a people are inconfillent with inch a fpecies of dominion, fuch a form of the fupreme Magiftracy. Thus thought not that zealous Republican J. J. Rousseau, who has formally declared that every legitimate Govern ment. that is a Government founded on law, is a Republican. What 1 is there any man who would now talk of putting men above law t What Govern ment is more legitimate which propofes, organizes, and accepts itfelf, which is ineonfiftent with the li berty, the maturity, and the folemnity which pre ceded it, which infpired the meafures which we adopt. and which prefides over their ditcuffion. Citizen Cannot is afraid of beholding die return of the ancient Monarchy of France. of feudal and proprietary Royalty. Very little reAeaion is necef fary to Sew, that betwixt that fpecies of Royalty, and that which we now prop*, there is as great a difference as betwixt light and darknefs. Royalty began with taking pefeffion of the land, with the feizure of the perfont of thole who inhabited it. Thel inhabitants were then leoacion pettily," WO glebe. It was on thefe monfirous fiaions that the rights, titles and yxs of the Government of Royalty were found. ed. The King of the French, fuch as the Ccollitu ent A ffembly withal to appoint him, the Emperor of the French Republic, loch as we now with to elle blifh. is neither the proprietor of the foil,nor of thofe by whom it is inhabited. He is the head of the French by their voluntary choice. His dominion is moral, and no fervitude can legally proceed from fuel a fyftern. Citizen Cannot teems to believe that the refult to which we now dire& our attention has been long be forehand prepared by the Fiat Conful, with an art as &BSI as a delire conitant and indefatigable. On the contrary it is a fad, and I call on thole who know it bell to declare (and there ate many who can do fo) that the Fiat Conful was the lAR to enter into Clis fort of holy confpiracy in favour of the court try. formed on the 18th Brumaire (Nov. 9), by a (mall number. among whom I had the honour to be one ; a {mall number, which fuccellively increafcd till it became an innumerable multitude—the whole French People, whole with it is now impoffible to difobey. It is true that the objet was at lint con cealed, that the end in view was difclofed with a cer tain degree of addre(s, that the precautions neceffary to fecure its fuccefs were adopted. There were (and Citizen Carom continues among that number) a number of Citizens. the number of which have daily diminifhed, who, full of Revolutionary prejudices and errors, had not benefited by the lelfons of re fleilion and experience ' and who were not yet capa ble of admitting truth. It is this that rendered ad drefs nccefary in difelofing the light to a perfon dii eafed who bas been long deprived of it. In the midß of this saisity of wife opinions which were advancing to improvement, and of erroneous notions which teemed to take a retrograde coolie, the Firft Conful (hewed a rPrillanee and a reluaaott as fincere as for a long time invinci!:le. to the relish of which he perceiyes the neceffity. He was. however, the tali to perceive it, and it is only a day fuzee that , compelled by the public voice, you fee him publifb thole addreff s which fix months ago poured on him from all parts of die Republic, topported by the warm to- licitation of the Magiftrates and Public Tunilioearies, and which he has hitherto fuppreffeJ. The alarm createdby the attcmpts at affallusation azi.aft the per • fon of the Firft Coefol, by the Frofrea of the fright ful etril!rta~tiah would have followed from them, had tbsylaken stied, have ftrengthened every refolu tion and battened every meafure. The Firft Conful is ambitious of glory. He is zealous for it, bet it it is proper that he thould confider power as glory. A word from him, a fingle emotion of that great foul which he could difclofe to the country, will render that truth more evident than all the details and all the affertions which I could adduce. One day the Firft Conful (poke with the molt profound fenfibility of the miferies of the revolution : fume one wifhed to weaken his emotion by a reprefcatation of the re- Cults of ihat great crifis, and in conclulion (aid to him, it does not belong to you, Citizen Firft Conful, to be afflifted at the revolution—without it you would never have been elevated to the rank which you now hold, and you would never have acquired that im. menfe glory with which you are now covered."— „ Well! " exclaimed Bonaparte, " would to Goo that France had never heard of me—that its Govern ment bad never been guilty of tech errors, and that its people had never experienced (uch miferies." No, the man whole heart gave birth to thefe expreffions, which I confide to hittory, fees in the aggrandifement of his power only the inereafe of the means of public happinefs. He feeks in his own grandeur only the glory of the nation. He accepts the rank which is : offered him, and he has not eagerly courted There is a certain fpecies of ambition which is above certain low views. Citizen Carnot (continued Cation Nifas) willies to alarm us by the example of the Carfare, and the dif orders of the Roman Empire. This fear, however, is very ill founded. and the analogy by no means jail. On the contrary, the great misfortune and the capital defat of the power with which the Carats were ;ri valed, arofe from that power not being hereditary; the privilege of adoption deßroyed every thing. and eleaion threw every thing into confufion; and thefe are precifely the inconventencies to which the (yam we now with to introduce is direftly oppofed., By whiling in a fyftem nearly finlike to that of Rome, , Poland has been deftroyed. By adopting one nearly fimilu to ones, RufGai has made a< very confiderable Rep to its confolidation. Citizen Carnot has had recourfe to the Roman re public, and has exhibited to us a perfat government and liberty at the fame time wifely preferred it that 'aft Rate : without doubt it became great indeed, but in proportion as it became great, did it become alfo democratic ? In order to render the government of feltive, did they not perceive the neceffity bf a fingle heed ? Citizen Carnot is convinced of this truth. and admits the temporary remedy of the Diftatorthip— temporary indeed in regard to the people who inten ded only to eßablith it for q Sort time, but that might become perpetual in the hands of an enter• piling and ambitious Dictator, a bloody tranfition from democratical licentioufnefs to an empire inde• i fined and without a condisatioo, or, in other words, an ablolute defpotifm. Citizen Carnot urges an objsdios egoista the he reditary fyftern, which is real. aad comet be mill cated. It is certain that this fpeeits ac lf e r= fometimes makes nations enter into and enhance family quarrels. There is,iiirlestibass ) danger; but what human inftitntion is without dm. ger ? But thefe interefts have at lad louse reality, Come utility among the people at large.and this danger is leis than that to which nations are often expoied, in confequence of efpoufing the quarrelhand entitling themfelves on the fide of the perfonal pafiions, quar rels, and interells of their rulers or their orators. Pe ricles was not an hereditary Prince, but for an loft* offered to Afpacia. the Grecian republic was fet on flames. In the belt times of the Roman Republic s efpoufing fometimes the intereft of a Tribune, and at another that of Come other &aims party, involved the Senate in conitant alarm, and the Senate, Cacti. ficing the people to their private interefts and private quarrels, embroiled" them with their offending and unoffending neighbours. The pretext for a foreign war was never wanting when the Senate dreaded the approach of civil broils, and the blood of the people continued to flow. This brings me to the confidera- , lions which Citizen Carnot urged by way of antici pation; as far as regards our relation with Foreign Powers. Surely it is only neceffary to employ the (lighten degree of common fenfe, to fee that they will a thoufand times ,prefer a Government analagoos to their own, to a Government always menacing, be caufe the principle of its eftablifhment would be op. pled, and confcquently inimical. The Government of an individual has for its guarantee abroad. the wifdom. the maturity, the experience of the Prince ; there is neither wifdom, maturity, r.or experience in a Prince certainly liable to change, and that eternal effervefeence of popular Governments, a prey to every paiton, eternally menaces and agitates the in wells of furrounding States, and confounds all the relations of external politics. This recall to my recollation the oblervations of the profound and pro. phetic remark of a ilatefman (M. de Merci Amen teen ), the hliiiiiler of the Houle of Aultria, who, ' about tl.e time of the greateß revolutionary convul fions, was asked, whether if he thought ferioully that with German Arms he could replace the Bourbons on the throne, he would not rather prefer leaving the re public quiet to govern itfelf, as thole then in power judged moil expedient ? We know well (anfwered this wife politician) that we cannot make France ac cept mailers whom ihe has determined not to receive. We know alfo, that raw and inexperienced as her armies are, they will more than once beat our troops, and caufe dreadful loft. We will fupport thefe reveries and we will continue to fight, fometimes advancing and fometimes retreating, according to the varieties of fortune. At the end of Come years, a General or a Politician mull needfully arife in France, who will feize on the Government, who will reduce everything to regular order, and v. ith him we thrill concludea peace. That would be inipoßible ;it would be fri volous with a revolutionary fpecies of Government, which would for ever threaten to let Europe in flames. I confers that this tiatefman appears to me more fa gacious, more wife than our colleague, who propofes to tile ferioully the example of the United States of America. It is not now for the firil time that this example has been held forth, and it is not (or the fiat time that it has been combated. After the (harmful and perfidious flight of the late 'King to Vartennes, Vadier propelled in the Conllituent Af fembly the example of the American Government, and invited that Affembly to give to Frances runner conftitution. Sainte iliac againft the prepofiticon. Why was this fo much to be regretted victim of the Decemviral proferiptions not preferred, and nig:a he not now repeat with that facility of eloquence which we have all fo muck admired—Why cannot I fufficiently remember his arguments and his words to repeat them to our colleagues? I recoiled rightly he faid, " a population thinly fcattered on a moft extended foil—a new people on a new land—a people whofe activity will for a long period be fatisfied by numerous and eafy means of fubfittence—a fate ;ululated on a raft hemifphere, furrounded by impe netrable knells and vaft teas, can never be brought into compaction with a people furrounded by enter. prifing and reftlds nations, itfelf reliefs and enter priting, like all thofe populous and civilifed fates, among . which the means of provitlon are dear and (carte in proportion to their luxury and population." Confider what be faid a little, and that the napreffion made by it on the Couftituent Aftembly was les powerful that not a word more was faid of a Prefi dental or Federal Government. The public ditclothre of the grand projeB of the day has not been unfavourable to the funds. The five per Cents. have rifen to s 6 francs ; the funds of the Bank de France toys francs. Mar 6.—Yefterday the Tribunate had an Extra ordinary Meeting. They aftembkd for the purpofe of bearing the report of the Deputies who had carried their opinion to the Senate. The Chief of the Depu ties, 11RD PAVVILLIatie commuhicated to the Tri buttes the fpeech he had addreffed to the Senators, with the anfwer they.had given. Tittle two speeches competed the whole report. After which the Prefident of the Tribunate adjourned the fitting till the 22d of May. When the result of the deliberations of the Tribunes wis prefented to the Senate on the 4th WI. the motion had been again amply difeuffed. The ketch which Citisen Jam) Paevtausas haddelivered on that oceafioss was a recapitulation of an the promi nent ts that bad been fire brought forward by the Tribune Catass,and afterwards elucidated and enforced in various ways by hiseolleagnes. The fol lowing is the interelling enterer whichthe Vice Prefi dent of the Senate made to the Deputation of the Tribunes :—“Citizens Tribunes, this day will form a remarkable era. It is the day an which you are called on, for the fira time, to exercife with the Contervative Senate,the republican and popular privilege which the fundamental laws of the confikution have delegated to you. You could not exercife this prerogative at a more favourable moment, or apply it to an object of more importance than the prefent. Citizens Tribunes, you exprefs to the trofteesof the national rights a with truly national. I cannot remove the veil which con ceals for a time the labours of the Senate on this important tubjee. I mull inform you, however, in the mean time, that fine the 6th Germinal (March 27) the Saute has directed the attention of the FinkMagiftrate to the fame fobjcd. The Senate bad previoutly founded the public opinion, and had announced it to the Government. But you will find youradvantagesand privileges, when you °blare that what we have been thiakmg of in filence for two months, the peculiar nature of your inttitution, and the place you bold in the Conftitution, has enabled you at once to fubmit to ditcoffion in pretence of the (per- You have ferved at once the people and the Government, by difclofing and enforcing this opinion, pregnant with fo many advantages, and at 6rft fe cretly cheriOsed in the holm of this *trembly, where you bavp now fo glorioufiy reported it. The happy developement which you have given this great idea, procures to the Senate, which opened the Tribune to you, the fatistaillion of being able to congratulate themfelves on their choice, and to approve what they have done . In four, public fpeeches we have found the balls of our opinions , Like you, Citizens Tri bones, we do not with the return of the Bourbons ; becaufe we do not with a counterrevolution, which is the only benefit we could derive from thole unfor tunate exiles who have carried with them defpotifm, nobility, feudal tyranny. Savory and ignorance, and who. Rill.to augment their crisis's, have encouraged the hope; that a return to Frappe might be found by the way of England.—Like you, Citizens Tribunes, we with to raife a new dynafty, betook we with to Co. cure to the French people all their rights which they have retonquered, and which the folly of their ene mies would take from them—Like you, Citizens Tribunes, we with liberty, equality, and knowledge, may no more have a retrograde motion. Ido not (peak of the great man called upon by his glory, to give his name to the age in which he lives, and who ought to be called on by our willies to con fecrate to us his family and caillenet. It is no; to himfelf, it is not to us that he ought to devote himfelf. What you propofe in the ardour of enthu. fiafm, the Senate will confider with cool deliberation. —Citizens Tribunes, we are the corner none of the theist edifice; but it is the government of an heredi tary chief that mull conflitute the key lone of the arch. You repo& in your botom the with, that this arch may be at fall confolidated. In receiving this with the Senate does not forget that what you folicit is not fo much a change of the (late of the Republic as a means of perfecting and eftablithing it, and this certainly is what we are moll intetefted in. In this national temple the conffitution ought to repofe in tome meafure on the God Terminus. If we are • induced to interfere is any refped with this sacred I compact, the guardianthip of which is ;wafted to . us, it is only to add to fts ftrength and to extend its duration." If thofe guarded explanations of the Senate are to be credited, public curiofity muft in Tome meafure be fatisfied. A corner of the veil at leaft which co vered the communications between the Senate and Government has been now removed—The addrels of the Senators to the Firfi Conful of the 27th of March, the favourable anfwer of the Firft Cordial the 25th April, and another addrefs of the Senate of the ails May, are publithed in the Mishear of this day. ' PROM THE PARIS PAPERS. CONSTAIITIROPLI, MARCH 26.—The Ottoman Minifter has juR publithed the circomilantial account which he has received of the new difaftrous occur rences which have taken place at Egypt. This account reprefents thefe occurrences as a renewed revolt of the Mamelukes and Arnauts, and the tra gical end of ALI Paciia, in particular, as a piemi ditated murder, committed not only on the Governor, but befides on nearly two hundred of the of and other perfons of his Nice. ALI PACHA (according to the official flatement, which perhaps may be able to coma or clear up the accounts formerly received) was nu his route from Alexandria to Cairo, with a -.Rorer's, 1 1 x1..melu periu.ide text that provifim betides, CNA, ha caufed other gt Cairn, Arrival trance. bitter r him ;ha dillurb Arnaut that the death c . chiefs o jog the teturn comply I , l6tedi that Iso officers He, of the Aft bit offil reft we the cos detains, PB D of j c s Eg lia zz , has bet moo e Provin ree-orl of feeii terruo with tl proviG Their Into s C taken th Jog the i After i Is of p esavcn, MO, ttri ellay fort (as Lod Meth The 1 their rd d• Afl Mr 1 to He or titireen (mid BM The' ed. Cola of the C motive.' The ; to brim segl al they an time fa Tenn I AM flips We a liarbac A Pc backs al Majetti Mr. cite Lic okra ti Fag On hamp inflan ber of receiv trains city, a tlat( B. . y . 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