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FRANCE. TRIBUNATE, to FLOREA L, APRIL 30. SITTING EITRAO/IDINAILT OF TUN TRINIINATI• FARE DI L'Auot, Prefident.—After the minutes of the lalt fitting had been read, and approved. the Prefident addreffed the affembly as follows: " On the sad of this mopth our Colle.tgue. Cults, laid on the able a motion of order, in which he demanded. tn. That the Govetnment of the Republic (hall be con fided to an Emperor; sd. That the Empire (hall be hereditary in the family of NaroLsos Bo AAAAA r now:Firft Conful ; 3d. That fuch of our inftitutiuns as are only traced out, fhall be definitively fuppreffed." Cues • then Gad." Citizens Colleagues, I appear in this affetnbly to call your attention to weighty ob kat in which the nation is highly interelled. In a matter of Co much importance. it is neceffary that you Osould grant me that attention and indulgence which the parity of my patrintifm gives me reafun to hope : for the fuccefs and duration of every political fyllem depends on the liability of the Government, which forms as it were the centre of it where every thing terminates. This principle is incontellible for all times and for all circumftances, but its application becomes a neeeffity Rill more inconteftible, when in eonfequence of great changes having produced, and developed, an order of things which 6zes tinder new points of view the deftiny of the people. it can be evidently proved that thefe political changes are lane "toned for ages, and the maintenance of the grand Milks they have left behind them are leaned for ever, by bringing back and re-eftablithing. in a certain au thentic hereditary courfe of fucceffion, the Govern ment incorporated with thefe great refults, and which is connerfted in as intimate a manner with them as the trunk of a tree is with its roots." The Speaker then called the attention of the tri bunes to the memorable epoch of the revolution. when the Frencli, according to his blafphernous ex preffron, 4 4 with an unanimous will. and a voice as powerful as that of the CRINITO/ the firft day of the staiffence of the univerfe, exclaimed, let equality be eftablifhed, let privileges difappear. and let the nation be what it ought to be !" ie then cook a view of the Government of Charlemagne, and the abufes in troduced into France after that glorious epoch, when ass of the naafi powerful families of the Feudal fylleta was called to the fovereignty. He then ad verted to the year 174, when the French people, he raid, committed the great fault of leaving the fu preme power in the hands of a family etrentially feudal. Louts XVI. King of France, would never eondefeend to be King of the French. Being born a Sovereign, he could never confect to become a Magiltrate. Having then made tome obfervations on the Conftituent Afferably, the Conftitution of 1794 and the Bate of things fince that period, he *braved, that the happy fituation of the French people, who were now in the full pollitlion of all the rights which were the Pole objet of the revolution in .789, was difturbed only by uncertainty in re• Bard to the future. " The enemies of oar coup. try." Paid he, " are alarmed at our prorperity, as they are at nor glory. Thcir plots base been sisleiplied, and one might fay. that inflead of a wok nation, they had to combat only one man. r they hare attempted to Itrike, in order to effeet hj ikfttoaioo, being well atfured that France, in oteurniog for the kfs it would that day fullain, for the great man who organized it, and the chief by whom it is governed, divided by ambitions rivals and torn by parties, would link amidst the aorms itt lode againa it in every dire Rion. What fecurity an we give it agaiaa the tear of fo many misfor- times ? What remedies can we oppnfe to Co many evils ? Opinion ; the armies, and the whole people bare pronounced it. Hereditary furceGion in a fa tuity rendered illuflrious by the revolution, confrcrated by equality and liberty, in a family of a chief whir was the firft foldier of the Republic before he became the Firß Magiftrate ; a Chief who would have been eminently diiiinguillied by his civil qualities, even bad he not filled the whole world with the fame of his arms and the fplendour , of his •kgnries. Here (continued be) we have the inappreciable advantage of finding at the head of the nation the Chief of an anguß family proper to form the firft link of the new dyna(ly ; an eternal barrier will thus be oppofed to the return of fattion, and the French peop!e will be certain of prcferving their dignity, their indepen. dense, and their territory. Lee us ballets then, my colleagues,to demand that the Chief Magill►acy may be niade hereditary ; for, in v.iticg a Chief to be he reditsiy, as PLINY (Aid to Tae) +r, we prevent die, return of a matter. But at the fame time let us give 2 grand 114fIle to a great puwet ; let us procure to the Supreme Magiaracy of the lila Empire in the vi..old the telvea due to a fuhiime Jehominati , a ; I do not find any title for the Ch of the Nl.,tinr..l Power IllotC worthy of the fplctiA,a,r f the Lation thin the title of .6 , :trr&r. inave th.n. 014 v. Rte, to the SCHAte Wtlii Alija i. that h t::e 114- uon, and of which the 0h . ;.: : tit ,Chat NArr.LIM4 Ar ••. th! .I,r;Ar,d , Cr. (',n 2.1."1''. Imperial 3d.1 hit fucit of our null Lc d_filw;v..:i I • ...I trz:ck: fncri Almoft all the Members of the Tribunate having infcribed their names to fpeak on the motion, Savor Rot. Len obferved, that it would be difficult for them all to be beard, and on a propof4l being made, the Tribunate referred to a conuniffion of thirteen Mem• bees, the motion of order, the fpeeches delivered. and thofe which should be fpoken till the day fixed for the report. The commiffio? were to make their report on Thurfday. _ _ The Members who compere it are Curee, Sahuc, Jaubert (de la Gironde), Duveyrier, Duvidal, Gil let (de Seine et Ode), Freville, Carion de Nifaz, Sa voye Rollin, Albilton, Grenier, Delaitre, ChAbaud. Latour. The members of the Bureau, Fabre Pre fident, Jard Panvilliers, Faure, Simeon, and Arnauld, Secretaries, are to form part of this CommitGon alfo. 11 FLOIEAL, MAY 1. EXTIAOIDIMAIT SITTING.—An Extraordinary crowd of Whims this day, as yelterday, filled the Tribunes, and the interior of the Hall. The Sitting was opened at two o'clock. The Pref►dent intimated that Carnot being the only Tribune, whole name was inftribed againft the motion, liberty of addreffing the Tribunate was afforded him. Cmtwor mounted the Tribune.. He fet out with declaring, that being to !peak againft the motion of Cures, he lhould endeavour to preferve the fame mo deration in delivering his opinion, which had been exhibited by the Tribunes who had fpoken in favour of the motion. He added, that he referred thofe who willed to put a bad contlrudion on his fend menu to the rigid examination of his condo& fence the commencement of the Revolution. He took up the queftion of conferring on Bonaparte the dignity of Emperor for life, and making it hereditary in his family. He Aced, if it was to grant the Fill Con ful a reward for his fervices to offer him the facrifice of liberty ? He afked, whether it was not to deftroy Bonaparte's own work to make France his private patrimony ? I voted againft the Confulate for life: continued the orator, and I will not this day follow a different courfe. I will be confiftent with myfelf; but the moment that the order of things which is propofed is eftablifhed, I will be the firft to con form to it, and to field to the new authority proofs of my deference. May all the members of the com munity follow the fame example !—The Orator then wention to the examination of the form of government propofed to be eftabliftted. He cited a number of examples from the hiflory of Rome, and drew as an inference from them, that a government by one indi vidual was not in the (mallet degree a fure pledge of its lability or its tranquillity. He applied the fame inference to the hiftory of France, where inteline com motion% and civil dig - cords fo often exiled wider the government of princes, weak or unworthy of govern. ing. After the peace of Amiens, continued Carnot, Bonaparte had the choice between a Republic or a Monarchy ; but he had (worn to defend the former, and to refpee the wither of France, which had made him their guardian. Now it was propofed to mate of that power a property, of which, at prefent, only the Adminilltation is pottered. The Roman: were moil jealous of their liberty, and Camillus Fab'us and Cineinnatus only rived the country becaafe they relinquifhed the power which had been con fided to them after they had laved their country. But the liberty of Rome perifhed as foon as Cztar willed to ufurp abfolute power. Carnot cited the example of the United States. It was referved for the New World to (Lew to the Old the prac ticability of a nation's enjoying liberty, and the riling profperity of the people. The dellinies to which they appeared to be called left no doubt re maining of the exiftence of that truth. After &feu& ling a vat iety of general principles,Carnot made force particular obfervations. Will (laid he) the opinion of the public funCtionaries be the free with of the whole nation ? Will there not be inconveniencies at teuding the expreffion of an oppofite fentiment ? Is the liberty of the profs fo much reflrained and de graded that it will be impollible to make, in the pub lic prints, the muff refpeaful remonfirances again(' the propofed arrangement ? The Orator confidered the queftion in another point of view. He afked, if the etpulfion of the Bourbons at all involved the ne ecßity a new dynaly ;if the ettabliflunent of that dynaßy would not place obilacles in the way of a general peace; if it would be recognized by foreign powers. and if in c.afe of a refulal to recognize it arms would necclfarily be retorted to, and fur an empty tide the fecurity of the French n4tion would net, perhaps, be endangered ? This is not the only means which the exiling Government has of c-nfilidating ittelf. The means of chic conf..lidelon confiAs in adherence to plaice. Far he it from me here to m..ke any particular app:lcation, or to tall any blame on the Pptratiohi GovernmLnt. St:cll a thou ; :u ha, no place in my heart. 1$ liberty then (Mel , fed to man on:y that it may never be enjoyed ? —No! I cannot cot - tient to rcg.ttd it as a mere ci,i• mera, and my heart tells me that its government is In c , t,clotion,l.l,l:;,e Oistor—l am tee.ir to my fictional 0r0n.,•1 the interals of my My relpcktt lur tl.c I.IW will t cm.,in unal ii I c .'ry to 1c tvery .n Jai :en.) N I 1 'tut': the FA , it nctt mounted the T:t: une. Ile applied refutation Carttoev f i cech. Ile anceti if he had well manifetled his rept& for the law, by reminding him that be had on a preceding occallon voted again ft the Contislthip fir life, fanaioned by the vote of more than a million ef Frenchmen? He allied him if he had forgotten the regime of ;793, and that horrible Decemviral Committee, which in cold blood figned arras for death and profeiptions ? and he was alioniiked at hearing of oppofitinn to that propofition which alone could prevent the return of filch miferics. We are not here to confider the intereas of an indi vidual family, but the•interefts of the whole nation. Here Fau're entered into an examination of the hate of France in 1789 and its prefent &natio!). He inquired what were the propofitions contained in the look draught of the Conti it ue ntA trembly ,and he found their completion in the form of Government which it was now propofed to eftablifh. He fupported the motion. ARNOULD began in the following terms the fpeech which he alto delivered in favour of the motion : What is this fatality which has feized our colleague, which renders him the paflive witnef of the outrages of the Committees of Public Safety, which carries him to the DireElory, and cannot furnilh him with the means of doing good to the people which on the tilt h Frutidor renders him the viaim of the events of that day, and does not permit him to perceive the (hare which Pichegru then bad in the confpiracy formed againft France ? Albifon, Grolier, Chabot (de l'Allier) Deletre and Challand, feverally fpoke in favour of the motion. Cullom No zits refuted the opinion of Carnot. Hit fpeech will be publifhed at the end of the one he de livered yefterday. The Tribunate ordered fix copies of the opinion of the Orators to be printed. ZZZZZ ORDINARY SITTING, 12 PLORIAL, ISAT 2. The Order of the Day was rolled for the continua tion of the dircuffion on the motion of Curiee.—Co as mow contended that the intention of the French had always been to ellablint a monarchical form of Government. The with formed in 1789 was now to be fulfilled, and no perfon than Bonavarra could better fulfil this with, which will cotakitute the hap. pinch of France and our potlerity. He voted for the motion, and fix copies of his fpeech were ordered to be printed. FERREE formed the with diaated to him by his lineerity and his cnnfcience. He added a few words to corroborate what had been Paid, to prove how well Bosh', sere was worthy the dignity to which the French people called him. He particularly direaed his obfervations to thew what a powerful guaran tee potterity would pollits in the hereditary fue ceßion propofed. The lateß polterity of the head of the Government, Paid he. will feet in the hillory of Bo AAAAAA e the example which they ought to follow. They will refpea his glory, and never thall our poi rarity have reafon to reproach us for the with which we form this day.—The (peach was ordered to be printed. Cart arr. and Dcr.►rraaa joined their wifhes to that of their colleagues. This is not the time, faiti Del pierce, when the people were the property of Kings. The int eras of both are now common. Their reptile, their (lability, and their happinefs, are henceforth inseparable. FAVA RD.—I know that the Firft Conful, the augnfl head of the Government, has the wifhes of the French people. The pens of the eloquent are employed in celebrating his glory ; and polterity, which is the judge of great men, will only re-echo the language of the age in which he lived. I know the place which be occupies in their hearts; I know, if I can judge by myfelf, the devotion which he merits, and with which he has iofpired you. I know all the right which his eminent fervices give him to the dignity of Emperor, and to have it made hereditary in his fa. roily. But let us examine abilraftedly, from al perfoaal feelings of gratitude and love, if the unity and hereditary fucceffirm of the Chief Confol be conlifteat with the Government of France. Different States have a right to that form of Government which they enjoy, according to principles invariable as that nature from which they originate. In vain political maladies area and fufpend thole principles for a moment. The crifis cures, and nature refumes her rights. It is the nature of things, that a country of vaft event, whofe fecurity is not guaranteed by its phyfical porition, and whole relations with its neighbours inceftsntly menace its tranquillity, ought to be governed by one bead. Rome, at its birth, had Kings, becaufe the States which furrounded were governed by Kings. Rome, after conquering her neighbours, expelled the Kings and created Con fuls. When her power had gone beyond the limits of her territories, when fhe had to combat nations far removed from the centre of her dominions, even the excefflve love of liberty could not prevent the ruin of the Republic, and Emperors were elevated to the throne. Happy would have been that great nation if the fita of their Emperors had, as he had it in his puierr, made the Government hereditary in his fArn::r. The fcenes which covered the throne with blood—the civil wars which def,ilated that 'aft Em pire, and i recipitated its downfall, would not have fut'ied the rage of the hi aory of theft; maarrs rf the V,(ll ' E one great error In to dreadful ah.ifea. Ott c f a Monarchy dearnyed, An :•t tempt Was made t fahflitine a notarcl.icAl Government. Fiance mull have been Jefiroyed, if the geniot o. Bonaparte had not created the Cnnfulfhip, to pre • cede fur a few !ears the creatica of the Ins, trial dignity. He ia called to this elevated poft by t:.: unanimous with, and this with is the firli fentimert which ought to give rife to military fervices. He had, as Conful, the power of performing raft fer• vices, and you have feen that he has ufed it with a degree of fuccefs of which no example is afforded in the lutiory of the world. This is enough for his own 'glory, but it is not enough for the happinefs of France. It is in the nature of things, that if em. pires profpee under a great man, the moment which deprives them of his fervices menaces them with lonic dreadful explofion, if the fame moment does not fubßitnte in his place him who is to be his fucceffor. It is then that ambition becomes enflamed, and long bafore ambition prepares in feeret the means of fup. planting rivals. Long difputes, fucceeded by civil wars, agitate the minds of men, difturb for ages the union of citizens, and the people are often fo unfor tunate as not to fee who is the moft worthy among the rival candidates to receive the fceptre of which death has bereaved the objeet of their regret. What then can prevent there difafters ? A conftitutional law which fixes the line of tucceffion, and which gives to the family of the Chief the new dynally.— This is the objea of the motion under difcuffion, and I affent to it, perfuaded that if the empire is the price of the virtues of the great man who is called to the Imperial dignity, the fucceflion to it by the family guarantees to France ages of glory and of repots. Corral endeavoured to prove that the motion was one founded on utility, that it was falutary and pa. triotie. He alto replied to the arguments ufed yet• terday by Caroot. Savors Rouas Paid, abfolute monarchy is the molt degrading of fyaems—monarchy conneaed with the representative fyftem conciliated political and civil liberty. In the excel ve liege of civilization to which we are arrived, there can be no liability in the government if it is arbitrary, bin if it i► founded on law, it is incorruptible. Frederic raid that laws could not fucceed except by the prefervation of a proper equilibrium betwixt the power of the government and the liberty of the people. What Frederic thought Napoleon is about to execute. I vote for the motion of order, which goes to unite hereditary power to the reprefentative government. Bs • u Van obtained leave to make a motion of or. der. the objea of which was—l. To declare that the dircuffion is doted-3(11y, To decide that the Repor. ter of the Commiffion than be authorifed to-morrow to make his motion on•Curec's motion of order. Both thcfe motions were agreed to. PARIS. MAY t. Bisty4: Communes in the Department of Deus Sevres, have voted a medal to the FIRST CONSUL. Letters received at the Hague from the Cape of Good Hope flare, that the fquadron of Admiral HAILTSINIL has taken thirty Englifb veffels, richly laden, which were bound from the Well Indies to England. From Rome we learn, that the mother of the Fizsr COhSUL arrived there on the 31R of March efcorted by a detachment of pontifical cavalry, and alighted at the houfe of her brother, Cardinal Sk: N. PARLIAMENTART PROLEEDINGS. HOUSE OF COMMONS, SATURD %V, .MAY 12. At four o'clock the Speaker counted the Houfe, but there not being& futleient number of Member. prefect to makea ballot, to try the meri3 of the Lilkeard Median, an adjournment tuolt place till Monday. LONDON. MONDAY, MAY f 4. Ca&la, fur mosey mut May, sq. Reduced SS{—Olds per Ccat. 911. Oranialn 51 4 MCI OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK PRICE OF SIOCKS ON SATURDAY : Bank Stock lodic Stock 1724 3 per Cent. Red. 5511 India Bonds, i o dif. par. 3 per C.Conf. 5641 Ira 5 per Cent. Sai 4 pat Cent. o lo/ it; IS Excileq.l3ll4, Is. at par 5 per Cent Navy vs 3 Omniont 34 4 Pram 5 per Cod- 1 797 50 ( 51 ENO& Tickets, 1111. 15s. Long Ana. 16 3-a Coof. Ise see. 36H DUILIN, MAT 9. Ccrade el Eathease---Duel.a ea Load= 16. The Gazette of Saturday announced the appoint. ment of Mr. FITT to his new office. This is the only appointment that has been officially communi cated. Indeed the other arrangements a.c not yet completed, and even force of thole that have been fuppofed to be fettled, may be confidered as fuhjed to the poffibility of variation, fo long as the blifinefi of fettling a new Adminifiration remains unfinifhed. We have already fisted that Lords Havntrsauer ana CASTLIRRAGII will continue in Office, and that Lord Et non will alto continue in the office of LORD ANCF Lon. Report (fates that the offh eof Speaker of the Houle of Peers, alto held by the latter, is tmw to be conferred on Lord RoSSLV N. The Duke of Nicol - ram/ is to be Viceroy of Ireland. The Earl of Witic AAAAAA fume& the late Duke of Roreuec Ft, as Groom of the Stole. The Duke of 171% At; roar is to be Lord Chamber 14:n, in the room of the ;•1 I.t SALISRVR V. EAT: CA"Lt\ 111C,:t1...11; 1.1 RT as WAT Mi- Lord H sawry is to Le S.cii-tary of State for the Foreign Department ; end Lots' IlAwkissuar lot the :14.n.e