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1' STAY E-PAPER. WANTED, a fituation in a Houfe cf r:..fpecla hi.ity, in the 1 iren-drapery line. idr a Youth, aged lac Len }-ears rt ti boftitf., a Houle of fell trade, w rc every attcnt..,.n h:ici•esn paid toil:improvement, as well to his to-NN. Al • i'crfra• in ix:int of iu.h a Yn..rh. h 7 direC9nr a !ine rn it- A. a: z'a:-:,:0!...er-low, will Li writcd ou. PROCLAMATION OF HIS I.IPEPIAL SIAJISTY THE I ROR ALCX,',NDCR, YURI !: r!.l') ON THE DAY II NIS CCACNATION, :,'::I ;T,TT. 1861. ,‘ flawing taker. upon Glatt:la - es, by uttr ae ccilltai to the thro-e of our ..uccaots, all the vbli• v,tit i.ms belonging to our important fituation ; ard having recognifed in our heart, that from this fo ie= moment the hapkinefs of the people which is entrmled to us, fliould be the only object i our cat es and withes, we have direeteti all our atten tion to that object ; and for its b.:tia, we have de teiniiied from the heginning of our reign, to con fii In all the orders in ti,eir ri4lits and privileges. IV:: have thertfiire re-eflaialifited for ever the pa tent of the NoLiiitr, the force of which had been weakened in fcverai rints by eireunitlances; we h.tve confirmed the Municipal Organization; and we have reftored to the Citizens their privileges enti;e ; we have laid open to commerce and trade, all the fources of riches, and have given a free c:ianncl to their progrefs ;. we have granted to ti.e Peatants the ri i .,ht of cutting timber in the fo. for thiiir met flitics, by the prohibition of which they were fo fieverely oppreifed. Having r& pi cried all the horrors of the Secret Tribunal, we have taken out of its dungeons all its vic tims ; in annihilating the eternal profecutions of fuits againfl thole employed under Government, and perfons of every defcription, who have been guilty of climes through enillake, accid:nt, or by vicious examples, we have mitigated their fate without invalidating the energy ctt the law, in the firm perfunfion that this manifellation of our cle mency will tend to reform, and rellore to the paths of truth, thole who had deviated born them ; an lowering the recovery of debts to a fpeciiic fun', and in alleviating as much as poflible punithments of all kinds, we have entirely freed the Clergy front them. • ‘, In thus fulfilling our duties before Con, we do not think that we have by there meafures al ready reached the great end for which we are de (lined. " The welfare of empires is confolidated by time, and attains perfection by continual efforts for the common good. In all thefe regulations, our foie dcfire is to thew the extent of our folici tude for the hapriaefi; of the people, and how grateful it is to our (:clings, to convince the real children ofthe country of our attachment to them, and our attention to their interells. The At mit wry has bletil.d our defiles and endeavours. In every good aCtion we have felt the aid of his all-powerful arm, to fignalize his provizl.c....e all workings upon us, and to firert4then tla fecret ties which bend us to the people whom the AL re IC tiTY has confided to our care. This day, 'in der the influence of his grace, we have completed the faced a,`li,n of the unction and coronation.— In returtri;:w thanks to his all powerful providence, Ave cannot offer np on his altar more grateful in eeme than by following the inclinatiem of our bear:, to preferve the engagements which we have folemnly made in his pretence, to render this day Iltered, and to imprefs it upon the hearts of the people by new favours." LONDON. FRIDAY, NOVEMBEP. 6. PRIM; OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Cntlrols 6 i 681 i—Ditzo, fcbr ac , !ount, 677-4 ptr CC 'lt. I . .4!—.New s per Cent. 01.1:1.11;2:92i.LL0ng Thi, day we received Paris Journals to the tfl in inclufive. The velfel which brought thcr left Calais on Wednefday, but owing to the tern pefluous date of the weather, did not reach Dover till yeßerday afternoon. Tiers Confidid; 59 fr. 25 C. By this veiTcl it.telligence has been received of the ilth: landing cf Marquis CORNWALLIS at Calais Cll cv n*l:7. Ile was rect.ivcd on thot - e amidft the firing of guns an 1 tit ging of bells. The ' town was illuminated no the occafion, and the in habitants were not backward in teftifying, by every demonfirati.in of joy, their Itappin:fs at his arrival. The principal article in the Journals that have rea:hed us is a copy of the New Batavian tution, from wi.ich we have filY j oined an abitraa (1 . the viiiit in:pi:rant of its articles. It is li.00,! that loch at r.itigtni.:;its ha^c t.:lten place baucen tl.c Britifit and French Gent:tut:ems as ill ptcvent Hanover from palling under the yoke of a new matter. The P:uffian troops, it is faid, ate f0,.:1 to quit that Elcflorate; but whether his Prullian Nlajciiy has col - Anted to Otis arrange. spent we are not infia.mcd ! A letter firm Friboutg, dated the inflant, fir, We have received here certain intelli gen( c, that in cencecouicc of the mull urgent re prrkula:ions made by the Culla of Vienna, the Der • of Moms 1 ill a (fides at Trevito,has at hi.gth untf,nted to c.riatm to the difporitioni of the treaty of Lor cvOlc, and to accept the in tip of tl-c hut he rill nut take ppr ti.;• it till thc ra.v , .hangcs about to he made c• n any have 1 ,. , .11 fully carried into c xectitiGn. Lov.Ls.r go to that country, bat g cer - .rnmt it to his fun-in•law, the Ar: FIKWISA/a), futmcoly Cuvc:-nor of Ile OCTOBER 30. —Three hundred Englifh palTports arrived here this day, to be difiributed to trading veffels bound to diftant countries, which intelligence of the peace may not yet have reached. A like number of French pa frports have been fent to London fcr the Britifh merchant-chips.—Mmiteur. Oct-. 3 t.—The Confuls having thought proper to fupprefs the place of Secretary-General to the Confuls, and the FIRST CONSUL being defirous to ;ive a particular teftimony of his fatisfaZtion to Citizen LACARDF, who hitherto held this Office, has appointed him to the Prefealtirefhip of the Department of the Stine and Matne. HANOVER, OCT. 18.—Yelicrday a courier ar rived here from London, with difpatches, which excited a very lively joy among the members of the Government : thefe d:fpatches contain an affur ance, that the Prullian troops will immediately evacuate our Eldlorate ; and that in confequence of a particular arrangement between the 'Nu or ENGLA s D and the French Government, this coun try will not pati under a foreign yoke.—journal der Defilfrure de la Patric. CONSTITUTION FOR THE BATAVIAN PEOPLE. GENERAL PRINCIPLES AND DISPOSITIONS. Art. 1. The happinef: of the whole iithrfirfi of laws : Confequently no Member nor aiy feEtion of fo ciety, can receive advantage by any particular law to the prejudice of others. z. All the members of fociety are equal in the eye of the law, without dillinCtion of rank or birth. 3. Each Citizen may do what he pleafes ; but remains refponfible to, and according to the law, both fur his aEtions and the fcntiments he propa gates. 4. The law cflablifhes the neceffary difpofitions for bilaring to every Citizen an honed fubti:lence, but all privileged bodict and exclufive affiliatiou , are abolifhed. 1 S. Every inhabitant is maintained in the peace able poatlion, and enjoyment of his property. — No one can he deprived of any part of his poffef unlefs the general good imperioufly requires it ; and in that cafe, he (hall receive a kill and proper indemnity. 6. Every inhabitant is inviolable in his habita tion, no (we can enter it seithout his content, and in virtue of an order ilfued by the proper authority. 7. No one can be arrelted but according to tile law.—No one can be tried or condemned but by, the Judge acknowledged by the Conftitution or the law, and until after being fummoned ape ably to what they prefcribe, and having obtained all the means of defence uliich they determine. 8. Every citizen mull be heard in three day aficr lie has been delivered into the hands of natural Judge.—A copy of the motives of his ar reflation cannot be refuted to him ; the law de teimines the pinifhment of the Judge who flia) offend againfi. thefe difpofitions. If the examina tion and motives of arrellation have not been communicated within the time above prcfcribed, the prifoner has a right to be releafed, and without any deity. 9. All adds feverity in the guarding of pri toners is forbidden. All violent means for ex torting confeffion are aboliflied. to. Every citizen has a right to addrefs in wri• ring petitions and propofitions to the conaititted authorities, provided they are figned individually ; in any other cafe they cannot be made but by• th, bodies conftituted by the law, and mutt relate on. ly to objeas which have relation to the funaions which they difeliarge. 1. All religious Societies, which acknowledg ing a Surat ma BEING, and rendering homage to him, tend to favour virtue and good motals, are equally proteaed by the law. Every religious fo eiety publicly profeffes its opinions, and grants flee aeccfs to the daces coafecrated to the ex-:rcife of its worfhip. 12. Every head of a family, and every inde• pendent perfon of either fez, who has attained to the age of t 4, mull infcribe their names in one of theft religious focicties, which they may freely pit to enter into another. Every Society re quires from its Members an annual contribution for the ruainten inc.: of its Nlinillers and nl its pI o perty. TF.is clmvibution however, can nevel ex ceed the fum (Updated for that purpore by elle law.' 13. Every religious fociety whatever remains irrevocably in poirellion of what it podeded at the commencement of the preterit century. 14. No eselufivc civil rights can be attached to any of them. The Teachers, Minifieis, and Ec clefiallical Servants of the reformed religion, here tofrre the prevailing religion, who being paid ft larks or penfions from the public it - eau:ries, arc aelualiy in excreitc, (hall continue to ciijoy their inc , .:nes and penfions until the full execution of die difpofitions pie by Article r 15. All the laws and difpofitionr, Core :lie commencement of the year 1795, have ledened the value of property or p01r4:1110TIS are fiibjeft to rcvi:ion. 1.4, L.ca injure.: by thcfc laws, may apply to the teg::ncy :.t the Starr, which according to the exigency rl , llc cafe, propofe to the I.rgitlat;ve Ilvd? .• 1 A re peal of the law, or its revilion, or a jua and pro-' per indemnity. 16. Feudality is abolithed : ail fiefs are declared alleJial. The law provides an indemnity for the polfelfors of Lord lh ips. 17. The Batavian people dcfirc that the national guard, eflabliflicd for the purpole of enforing li berty and maintaining the national independence, (hall Lc encouraged by every proper means. No citizen forming part of that guard, is obliged to ferve beyond the ten itory of the Republic. He is not. bound to any fcrvicc buyend his department, without a decree of the Lcgillative Body, and only in the cafe of an attack from the enemy. The a rise fcrvicc of the national guard, in each de partment, is farther determined by the law. 18. The fame kinds of money (hall be coined, and cii.culatcd throughout the whole Republic, accordiug to the manner and value which the law than cliabilth. 19. The weights and mesfitres already known in the Republic (hall be uniformly regulated. The law !hall fix the mode and the period when this difpofition (hall be carried into execution. OF THE DIVISION OF THE TERRITORY, AND THE RIGHT OF St/I - FRAGE. 20. The Ilatavian Republic is Inc and indivi ti!.le. 21. Its European territory remains divided into eight departments, the limits of which (hall he thole of the ancient Provinces, the modifications under-mentioned excepted. 'rite country ofDrcuthc (hall remain united to the Province of Overyfrel ; and B:ttavian Brabant (hall form au eight Depart. meut ; Ameland (hall form part of Friefland ; Wcddc and Weft Woldingerland of Groningen ; Yttellicin of Holland ; Virile of Utrecht ; and Kuilcnburg and Buren of Guelderland. The law (hall further determine to what Department the countries which are already or may hereafter be annexed to the territory of the Republic (hall belong. 22. Each department (hall be, in regard to its limits, divided into a certain number of difiriCts. It is according to this regulation that the election of the members of the departmental adminifira tion (hall take place. 23. The prefent divicion of the Primary blies is maintained for the ele,ftion of the members of the Legitlative Body. 24. Thole who unite the following qualities are glive citizens: ft, Thole who have infcribed the place of their liab:tation in the National Regifter.—zd, Thofc who have attained to the full age of 21, or who form a part the national guard.-3d, Thofe who have relided without interruption in the Re public for a year, if natives of the country, or fix years, if foreigters.-4th, Th ore who can read and write Dutch, a difpolition which, however, can not be applicable to citizens infcribed before the 23d of April 1799.-sth, Thole who have made the following declaration : 4 , I promife fidelity to the Conftitution and fubmitlion to the Law." 25. The following are excluded from voting : ill, Thofe who are in the fervice of any foreign power, or who receive from it a penfion-2d, Do meßics who receive wages attached to perfonal or houfehold ftrvice-3d, Thofe maintained in the houfes of charity, oliihan-heurcs, and licfpitals 4th, Thofe who during the Jail fix mind's have !,_en maintained from the poor's box-sth, Thole Ander tutcrfhip on account of bad conduet, di:Elia :ion, or mental derangement.-6th, Bankrupt., as well as thole who have given up their property, until their creditors are paid-7th, Thofe who are in a Rate of accufation, or who in jußice are known to be infamous. z 6. The law fixes the manner in which the right of fuffrage ought to be exercifed, :411,1 the quaiifi. cation in regard to property rzquired to be elated. 27. The Minitlers of any woribip are not eligi ble to I - wit - lions depending on the Government. el. The Military cannot exercife theirfunflious, but in the place of their refldence, and in fo far as it is diflittft from that where they are in garrifon. OE THE COVEN, SIMENT. 29. The Governtwnt is inttufted to a Regency of State, compolcil of twelve Members choten from among the aElive Citieens of full 35 years of age, born within the Republic, basing relided in it for the fix ball years, and not being connoted by relationfhip or alliance within the fourth degree with any member of the regency. They (ball en joy an annual pennon of to,ooo florins. 30. For this time fcven of tilde Members arc immediately named by the prefent Executive Di rettoryc There fcvcn Members (hall proceed to amok the other five. The twelve Regents (hall choofe from among themfelves a Prefident who is defied for three months. During the &ft !ix moitths of the inflaihuion of the Regency of State, if one or more vacanciestliall happen, the remain- Menibeis Ilan proceed in the courle of eight slay, to till them up. 3 t. The Regency of State decrees the regula t . a of order for holding' the fittings. It (ball Ji‘iac itfelf ii i,. as many Commirrions as the dif ictent burettes of the Adminiitration render ne cc f.i!. Tilde Commitlions [hall employ them (elves ;ndifctiffing and eramining the afrairs ictred to them by the Council. 3z. The Regency fhall unite to itfelr, Secretary General, a Secretary of State hav;:..., the department of Foreign Affairs, thi:e Secretai of State, having the depart :us of t!.l M ar ine, War, and the Interior : or if it 'bk.. ' more proper, in place of each of the three Lt.-, three Councils, compofed each of three 11Irmhe. ti In the laft place, a Council of Finances civaunej to three perfons, and a Treafurer General. 33. The Secretaries of State, or the Cour,it, which fopply their, place, are charged wit!! !!, adminiftration of the affairs within thcir •• as well as the execution of the orders tranfn,itttd to them by the Regency, agreeally to its iniltuo Lions, and under their refonfibility. Th ey 3 , 4 named by the Regency of the State, hem a t: lift formed by the fetltion of the Council of ice".- %2 attached to the department to which they 34. Every year one Member of the R, cn „ State (hall go out in rotation; this (hail take cl. t . for the first time, en the ift of Novemh , :r, 0 :2 according to the order which (hall be det:rrrr, by lot, for the annual going out of all the Mce l hers. To fhpply tl:c vacant places the departmen• (hall proceed, in the order hereafter prefct: w i, the nomination of four perfons, a lilt of be fent to the Regency. The latter (hall re.:;!.. et i,; number to two, from whom the Leginative PaJr fhall make a dclinitive choice. [Wart of room obliges tat, for thr prefer! to defer the Innis der of this Contlitution, sehl:h, la the Maui:" r, .•.:;7i:c ft, columns. The following arieLs s however, biiel importance, we have fulijoined thim, cfpecisiliy a., with p. Part we have tranflated at full length down to the 4.:. they will forte to convey a pretty good ilea of :It and nature of the new form of Government people have thought proper to adopt.] The Legillative Body is comTnfed of 3; M.z. bens, named for the fir d time by the Grvernn:of during the fica eight days of their indallatior..— Twelve of them chnfen by a plurality of voiceskr the term of fel:1)n, ordinary or extraordinary, fuel difcsifs the laws propofed. Difcullions on all projeets prefented during the firli week of a Common Salon, mull be termina% at the latch the laa day of the Scffion, thzt is fay, on ty, 39 th of May, or the tsth of Deeernber. During extratdinary convocations, the pro, fitions which have given rife to them muff be z' tcrmined before the feparation of the Legifiativ Body, and within a month at the leaft. The Meiners of the Legalative Body pro notince on the projeds prefentcd to them, by 1 . 4 or No. There projeds may always Le withdrawn &tie; the courfc of the difcuffion. If the projeft i; re jeCittl, the Regency of State when it judges neca: fary than dcputc three of its Members to s::e Lt giflative Body to explain and defend the motives their vote : if thc Legiflat ivc Body perfifts in rej.:6l:l the projed, it cannot be again brought ti-wir4 In this cafe the Legillative Body mua a;:ign req loos for their refufal ; the Regency re,ains right of prefenting another project. The debts and obligations contraded, not nil by the generality and in its name, but :till , is tl-1 name of the different Provinces of the tlr - e.: ters of Guelderland, the country of Dt e n:ht Batavian Brabant, and of the Eaft-India Cornpar: - are declared national debts and obligatio. Conttads for rents, obligations, reci:rs, all other obligatory ads, (hall be exchatv - 1 i loon as poll - title for national obligations, widi.:4l any &dation whatever of capital or intereft. PROMISE OE THE MEMZERS OF THE LEGISLATHI BODY. I folemnly promife, that as Member of the L. giflativc Body, and in conformity to the Cob tutional Atc.t, I will OM with all my power t fupport the intcrefls of the Batavian Pewit. well as to maintain their rights; and that I difcharge with fincerity and zeal - all the duti impofed on me in this refpel, without ever viating from them for any confederation whater favour or &trace, promifcs or pretend, or In other thing. I equally promife that I will in e. manner concur, nor take part in any refolution pmjeft, that may tend to introduce hereditary dir nities, or that may tend to deviate from the pr ciples of a Reprefentative Popular Government. PROMISE OF THE MINDERS OF THE RECIIR‘P 0 THE STATC, I folemnly promife, as Member of the Re . gency of State, that agreeably to the Cora tution and power which has been entrulled me, I will atria with all my might to zraintaii the interells of the Batavian people, to ch:feni its rights, its rank and dignity, to confolidee maintain, and enfure the independence of th Republic, and the liberty of the citirenc: that will with fincerity and zcal,difcharge all the in.:poled on me in this refpea, without ever depart ing from them on any confideration whatever , a your or difgrace, promifcsor prcfcnts, or any oat.: thing ; and that I will never staid in any WA ner to form or countenance any projed that wa deviate from the principles of the Conflitution. tend to intrxluce hereditary dignities, or e'h' , may be contrary to a popular Reprefcn: :Try Government; and I moreover promife. that come to the knowledge of any enterprife of !- kind, I will oppofe it and endeavour to preve" by all the math with which I have bccnenutut: J