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OW" ' t NAI7 GOY RV.1111...v I OF FRANCE. In the new projea of an organic SPA this Ccnful- 1 , tum, as it is affal Aly called, or of the final Chatter about to be granted by General BONAPARTE to the bell of Peoples," it is with g: cat concern that tie c.m difeover nothing confolatory for France, nor capable of cTiminilhing the hut apprehenlions of h.:r neighbours. The powers oc the Executive Authority pervacle and compels the whole of this extraordinary code, and either perplex or ex• tinguith every haft notion of the fundamental laws of limited Monarchy, and of popular privilege. It is in vain, that throagh the cightv-feveu para graphs of the Con i llsrna, rale leeks for libert-, re prelemation,or even the independence of Tribunals and !•lagittrate.,, which could oppofe even a moral or a formal delay, to the unqualified ' ezei cife of the hoilia.flefs prea (otive of the:CONSUL. her Parliaments—without a common law—without any tribunals of joitice—but loch as are in cieet to many Ipecial commiffions from Thuilleries—without the obligations of long cow Ina and habit—without fixed notions of morals p. , licy—and without an effeet , ve guide,rearaint, or proteElion in any religious fandion or eltahlilh. ment, is- ranee delivered over to the arbitrement of an individual, whom the fame a,ll conflio tcs her Governor for life, and invelis with the power of bequeathing her as a legacy to a nephew cr a favourite ! It is impotlible for us to examine every detail of this new Conflitution, which mull be read and re-read to be well underflood in all its ramifications ; but which is in nothing lo worthy of obfervation and refledion, as in the audacious novelty of promulgating the details of Executive • Defrotifin as a Conflitution, and the minittesial forms of abfolute authority as a charter of liberty, and the fundamental laws of a Republic. We (hall in this place affemble briefly together ! filch of the prerogatives of the FIRST Consul. as , are the molt capable of prefenting a fimple and; general idea of the Right: of hi: Crown, as they' are flipulated in this organic contrail between him and his free and equal people. But we defile it to i be borne in mind, that that fmall portion of his au-! thority, which is entitled the Army," is utterly palled over without a name in this Aft and Record of his Civil Power. The FIRST CONSUL ASV?: the Mayor and At: fillants in the Municipal Councils. He convenes the alremblies of Cantons, fixes the time of their duration and the object of their deliberation—(that is, excludes every other object. ) The FIRST CONSUL appoiats the Prefidents of Eledoral Colleges of Diarids for each SerTion.— He m.ty add to there bodies ten members from the L_•Fina of honour—that is, procure a majority, or intimidate the whole by the prefence of ten mi• lit.try Nobles. This power keeps due pace with the extenr on of numbers : to the Ele4loral Colleges of Depart sren: he may add thirty members. He alto convenes and fixes the objet of their difeutlion, and ditibircs them for exceedinr , their limits. He is Prefident of the Senate. He names the Second and Third Confuls. He chooles his Ilicceffba*. He points out,at the holding of each Privy Coun cil of the Senate, the Members who are to com pote it. He prelides over it—and no organic law can be dirculfed by the Senate but in thefe Coun t lc, which are betides compofed of himfelf; the other Confuls, two Miniilers, two Senators, two Counfellors of State, and two O ffi cers of the new lit try Nobility. He appoints Senator: without ally rellriflion, although there are Come forms which he may comply with if he pleafes. All the Members of his new grand Military Coun nil of the Legi , m of Honour are irf; fittlo Mem bers of the Senate. The Minillers fit in the Se nate with or without a deliberative voice as he pie tics. lie convokes, adjourns, and prorogues the Le ,:vc Body. 1 - /e makes War, Peace, and Treaties, but his filet-ea - or i- to (wear that he will never make war but for the el-1-rfe or glory of the Republic. Is Cu:in puffible pretext for war which cannot be cart: ed by one or other of there alternatives ? Hie nominates to the new office of Grandltaze, or Minitler of Juftice, whole authority is more exter,live and terrible than that of any Miniller recorded in the hiflory of defpoti n. litichla giftrate prrfides over the Tribunal of Caflation, (Court of dernier Rcairt), and the Tribilaali o f Appeal', when dir4t:ted to do to by the Fairs Cac see. He ftiperictends and crylir:s the Tribunals and their Members, and the Juflices of Peace. The Tribunal ~f Caff.ttion, when he is prefent, has the right of renAre and difcipline over all the Courts of Law, and may /Wend and fummon the Judges betore him as GP.AND JUDC E, to anfw•er for their con(' uCt. He nominates through the Se:late the Members o f the Court of d•raicr kl% it, and he enjoys the ti , !corttrouled power of Pardon ! Such is the broad outiin: and general analyfis of du: ConlW.tr Authority, as it is to be funda mentally fired, and fantlioned by this organic aft of the Senate. We are forty to fee the name of PoaTatts as an Orator of the Government upon' this degrading fei vice. tivrely loch a reputation its BAkT/41.1.114Y ' S Might have fufEced for the We Mall permit onrfelves, for this time at lea% no minittcr invelligation of this awl of fervitude, which i• ct•lcbrated by illuminations and con ccrts; but we feel it impnaible to conclude sk iih • There is a moll curious marl...lion upon thi• escreife of his authority for tb- silay retufe his firfl and fleond pr. an tvier, • ris thirdi . final; fo that if be could entertain a tjouht of theb-nbAlenec, in has may to propofe two incapa ble or eser, rionahle prrfoosscs to make the third s, 'Joist. But he has a right t.. amend the name of hi. iuceeliur till it Sall be dirci.Ad ty au L.l will, and to recall will fr, m the public Arcinves. it is to be &poked, as often as be Shall change his Afttr his (Bath, if the Senate refute Ws norriloatioo, Coy A. , / chafe one of four p,rfons, out of two to ' be nominated oy the :wept...land Third is hard to imagine a better finnit'ation 'for civil wars than this Inftltution, which mites all the probable inconvenience of a difoutc4 fur t :fiat the turbulocc of an Elativc Crown:* • out obferving that ..trots the FOVITSINTIi revel' cojoyed a fourth port ion of this power, and that CROMWELL did not ufurp it. That the accumu lation of all authorities, Executive, Legitlatire, and Judicial. upon the head of the Firfl Conful, is the autherdic organic charaaer of defpotilm, accordinOo its technical and proper definition, and that the arbitrary introdation of the Military Legion into the Senate and EleCtoral Bodies ren ders that defp,,tifm wilibly Prztorian. The de• pcndence of the Judges and Tribunals upon the Court, that is to fay, the Generals and Minifters, is calculated to render civii jullice as precarious as political liberty, and to difule and dilaffeet the people to any jullice or any fafety but from the favour of Authority and the patronage of Office. Of this Conliitution we have no difficulty to (peak in the words of the Abbe Sayss--c' Ce oecli point encore lot bonne." LONDON. THURSDAY, AUGUST rs. PRINCI o► WALltell BlRye-t)Ay.— Holiday at all the Public PRICE OP STOCKS YESTERDAY. Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Red. Toll 3 per Cent. Cool 70 1 } t 9: 4 per Cent. Ann. 1171 i $ per C. Ann. roof osol ice S per Cent. 1797, rola Long Ann. zo t I-16 9-16 India Stock 24)8 Imp. 3 per Cent. 69 6gl Excheq. Bills 4s. to 35 pron. Omnimm 6ii dif. Conf. for Avg. 701 691 70 691 We have received letters from Gibraltar and Liftion. A Hamburgh Mail has arrived, as have alto Paris Journals to the loth inftant. They contain little News of moment, but an Article in the Moniteur, which may be confidered as demi official at leaft, thews how fore fome men are that the Prefs in any Country fhould hill be free enough to cenfure what no man in France is free enough to blame. We (hall fubjoin the article, a philippic againft the Time:, which, however, is fo manned, as to implicate our Government in the charges. How little they know about the way in which Minifterial papers, as they are called, are concluded in this country ! But the angry writer could not in any other mode give the turn he walled to his article—A Minifterial paper, in his logic, implies a Minifterial meafure ! an I the with dun: or thole who direr ted the infer tion of the article, was to find fome pretext for clamour againft the wrecks which (till remain of a free prcfs in England. But can they find Papers not Minifterial mare ready to praife the mockery of liberty which now prevails in France ?—Are our oppofition Papers alfo direeted by Minifterial influence ? Let thefe Reformer: of the World aitt a little more confiftcntly than we have yet feen them, and they will merit and obtain the praife of in dependent minds, and free men. ." GIS/LALTAR, JvN/ 13. 84 The HOUND Coop of war arrived here on the 9th inihnt, with Major General STEWART on board, on his way to Conftant;nople, where he is going on bufinefs of importance, after arranging of which, he is to proceed to Egypt. The Hotr/ID alfo brought out twelve brafs field pieces and a quantity of ammunition, as a prcfent to the EMPE ROR of MOROCCO. " The appointment of the Doke of KS trr to the Government of this Garrifon, has diffufed univerfal fatisfaalon amongft all ranks of people, as he has, fince his arrival, (hewn the utmoft at tention to the welfare and s proteftion of the in- habitants, and has aholiffied many vexatious and oppreffive fees, which tended exceedingly to injure the free trade of this place. Provitions are now become extremely plentiful and cheap, as his Royal I lighnefs has fu foccefsfully cultivated and obtained the good opinion of the Spaniards, that every fpecics of provifions is not only permitted to come in from Spain, but as a mark of peculiar confidence, never (hewn to any former Governor, his paffport is allowed to pars every officer or inhabitant into Spain, without any farther authority being required, and in cm fequence the Officers of the Garrifon make daily excurfions all round the country. " The Duke frequently rides into Spain him felf, and he lately dined with the Governor of St. Roque, who alfo often dines in the Garrifon with his Royal Highnefs. " By the firm and moderate conduit of his Royal Highnofs, the troops here are getting fait into a Rate of high difcipline. " The Duke of SUSSEX has been here on a vifit to his brother for this month pall, but he fails for Lifbon the firft fair wind, in the MERMAID frigate." " Lissom, JULY 24. " The Rupor occafioned by the late eafy con quell of a fine Portuguefe frigate by the Algerines is now got over, and a fquadron of two men of war and fome frigates is fitting out, to reinforce the chips in the Mediteranean, and take vengeance on the Infidels, in conjundion with the Americans. The report of thofe infolent Africans ferionfly menacing the Engin, proves unfounded. A few days ago the MILIBROOIL fchooner arrived here ftom Gibraltar, and Isrmight accounts that Capt. ileat.ow, who had been Sem by Lord ILlvit to Algiers, hid ned from thence, with full Last faaion fr o m the Day, and a prornife of 4L faturf god ithaviour. The Manna, put in here on her way home, being leaky and half water logged. She 1 1 is to fail again as loon as a few temporary repairs can be effeded, which the wants, in order to be able to proceed homewards.—The winds have been fo frefh of late from the Northward, that a week ago the Kw; Gsoacs packet arrived here in five days from Falmouth! " Captain STEWART, Aid-de-Camp to General Sr: wait., Commander in Chief of the late Eng lifh contingent in Portugal, died here yelterday of a confumption. The General is erceilively con cerned at the lots of this promifing young Officer ; his Staff broke up but a few days ago, and he means Ihortly to return to England." PARIS, tg TX EIMIDOR AUCATIIT 7.—The Timer, a Paper Paid to be under Minifterial direc tion, is continually throwing out inveaives againft France. Two of its four mortal pages are every day employed in giving credit to the molt ftupid calumnies. Every thing that the imagination can conceive low, vile, and worthier:, this wretched journal afcribes to the French Government. What is its objea ? Who pays it ? On whom does it with to produce an effeet ? A French journal, edited by wretched Emi. grants—the moil impure dregs, the vileft refufe ; men without country, without honour, and Rained with crimes of every kind, which no amnefty can wafh away, goes Rill farther than the 9 intr. Eleven Bifhops, having at their head the atro cious Bifhop of ARRAS, rebels to their Country and Church, meet at London They print libels againft the French Bifhops and Clergy, and abufe the Government and the Pope, becaufe they have reftored the Peace of the Gofpel among forty thou• land Chriflians. The Wand of Jerfey is hill of brigands, con demned to death by the Tribunals, for crimes com mitted before the peace, for affdlination, rapes, and arfon ! ! ! The Treaty of Amiens ftipulates, that perfons accufed of crimes and murder, fhall be given up on both fides. But the affaffins at Jerfey meet with a favourable reception! They fet out unexpeaedly in fifhing-boats, land on our coafts, afraflinate the richeft proprietors, and fet fire to the corn mills and barns. Gammas appears openly at London, with his red ribbon, as a reward for the infernal machine which deftroyed a quarter of Paris, and deftroyed thirty women, children, or peaceable citizens.— Does not this fpecial proteaion authorize us to think, that if he had fucceeded he would have re ceived the Order of the Garter? Let us make a few rePations on this ftrange conduit of our neighbours. When two great na tions conclude a peace, is it for the purpofe of reciprocally ftirring up trouble ? of hiring and paying perfons to commit crimes? of giving mo ney and proteCtion to all thole who with to embroil the State And does the liberty of the prefs extend in a country to the power of faying to a friendly Ration, with whom a reconciliation has been re cently effeeted, what one would not dare to fay to a Government againit which a war of deftruftion was carried on ? Is not one nation refpontible to another for all the acts and for the whole conduit of its citizens ? Are they not even forbid by Aets of Parliament to infult allied nations and their Ambatfadors! I ! It is laid, that RicHazieu, under Louis XIII. affifted the Revolution in England, and contri buted to hurry CHARLES I. to the fcaffold. M. de CHOISFUL, and after him the Minifters of Louts XVI. excited, no doubt, infurreetion in America. The late Englifh Minifler knew how to be avenged. He excited the maffacres of Sep tember, and had an influence different ways on the movements which made Louis XVI. peril)) on the fcaffold, which deftroyed and burned our fira manufaeturing towns, Lyons, &c. Is it wifhed, then, to prolong this (cries of movements and influence, which has been fo fatal to both ftates during fo many ages ? Would it not be more rational and more agreeable to the refults of experience, to exert their reciprocal influence by good commercial relations, by a mutual vigi lance, to proud commerce, to prevent the fabri cation of &lie money, and to deny !better to cri ! minals ? 'Betides, what refult can the Engin Govern ment expeel, by fomenting the troubles of the church, by receiving and vomiting forth on our territory the brigands of the Cotes-du-Nordsand Morbihan, covered with the blood of the princi pal and richea proprietors of there unfortunate departmects ? By fpreading by every means in it power, inflead of difcouraging and fevcrely fup preffing, 411 thole calumnies with which the Engliffi and French papers publithed in London, are filled ? Do they not know that the French Government is at prefent more firmly eflabliffied than the Englith ? And do they think it would be difficult for the French Government to retaliate ? What would be the circa of this exchange of abide, th4t influence of infirre4tional committees, of that protalion and encouragement granted to different atrAffins ? Wou)d the civilization, corn. meree, and happinets of the two nations g.tin by it Either the Engin Government authorizes and tolerates the& public and private crimes, in wil;ch cafe we may fay, that its conduit is unworthy (. 1 - Britifh generofity, civilization, and honour; it cannot prevent them, and in that cafe we may fay, that there is no Government where there are no means of fuppreffing allaffination and calumny, and of proteaing the focial order of Europe.— STUTTGARD, AUGUST 2. —We have juft now received the important intelligence, that the I'M* varian troops, affembled at Amberg and the envi rons, have put themfelves in motion for Fran. conia, and that they were to be at Bamberg on the 29th ult. The Pruffian troops are in full march on all fides. The King of Pa ty ss la his requefted the Court of Vienna to withdraw from Esfurt a battalion of the Auftrian regiment of Erbach, which is in garrifon there. It is well known, that Pruffia is about to occupy Erfurt. Greater appre. henfions than ever are entertained for the fafety of the Archduke CHAILSS I who is dill danger. oufly ill. FRANCIEFORT, AUGUST L.—The Court of ?rut. fia has caufed a declaration to be made to that of Vienna, that it wiihes the occupation of the countries which have fallen to it as indemnities, fhould be confidered only as a provifional meafure, and that under this view it will confider the countries provitionally occupied by its troops as its property, till the deputation of the Empire (hail have formally terminated the affair of the indemnities. WE c, JULY 3o.—A great many polls, bear. ing the PrufGan eagle painted on a board, are preparing here, to ferve to point out the bounds. ries of the new poireffions which have fallen to PrufGa as indemnities. A great many ccpi sof a Proclamation, addrelled to the inhabitants of the countries which the PrufGan troops are about to occupy, have alfo arrived : the inhabitants are exhorted to be peaceable, and fafcty and protec tion are promifed them. HAMBUR4H MAIL. Sr. PETERSBURGM, JULY 16.—A French and a Ruffian courier are gone to Paris with the Rati fication of our Court, which is unconditional.— M. de VIETH;Griot?, newly eletied an Honorary Member of the Academy of Sciences, for his ad mirable Treadle on the American Agave, has drawn up a plan for a Veterinary School, whicl; will certainly be carried into execution, The duty lon exportation, which was formerly fo heavy u to be oppreffive to the country people, is now dimi niffied. The Court Phyfician at Schwerin, Bon i CHOLI, has received from the Emperor a relent of a diamond ring, for the copy of his work, called, a Complete Treatife on the Cow Pox. BELLY, JULY 51.—Count Goarz, our Mini. net at the Diet, departed yeflerday for Ratifbon. The perfons deftined to organize the Civil Admi, niflration in the new provinces alto left Berlin yet. terday. Two Boaes, with the Icing's portrait, each of the value of 6000 dollars, have been fent to Paris for the Minifter TazzEYRAND and General BOURNONVILLE, and within there four days, fifty thoufand dollars for two Miniflers. M. BIGNON. Charge d'Affaires, has alto received a Box worth 2000 dollars, with the cypher F. W. R. Yellerday Baron Jac= arrived here from Dref, den, and is going to return to his poll as Ambaf. fador at London. Yeaerday, alto, we received the news of the death of the Eleetor of Mayence. Thy reigning Duke of Brunfwick arrived at Ko sligfberg on the 22d, in profecution of his journey through Pruffia, and departed on the 26th. Baron Ross Neter+ z, Dann Arobaffador to the Court of Ruifia, has fet one for St. Peterfburgh. Juzy 24.—We are again in great anxiety for the life of the beloved Archduke CHAaLt!. In the night of the 21ft, he had a very fevere attack of his old complaint, and the account of his Highnpfs's 'health to-day is very affiiaing. He has paffed a very bad reliefs night, and the epileptic fits have been alma inceffant. The Phy. ficians are with him+ night and day. The Pruffian Ambaffador, Count KELLF lt, has received an exprefs from Berlin, with official in telligence of the ratification on the ad infl. of the Treaty of Ceffion and Indemnification, concluded at Paris between France and Pruilia, on the 2 May, with orders to notify the fame to our Ccai t. The Diet at Prefbotirg procculs fo flowly, that it may perhaps, tail till November. A commercial houfe is efiabliffied here, for t:.o purpofe of carrying on a trade with Hungarian wit= to London. The perfons concerned begin with advancing a capital of 500,000 florins. The new Hofpodar of Wallachia was by the la a accounts already arrived in the frontier town of Forkon, celebrated as the fcene of former Ruffian and Turkilh Congrefs, and intended to make on the t3th his public entry into Bucharefl, the troops of PASSWAN OGLOU having retired. The lafflettters from Conliantinople fpeak only of the re-eflabliffiment of tranquillitp and the fub- Iniffion of GIOILGI PAcua. 1