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Pm taws No. yr, St. Paul's Church-yard; and fold by an Bookkliers and &admen. FRANCE. TRIBUNATE.—.MARCH as. Pt lIIIDIN CY OT GAUL r.—Fasa (Jr P Ark).— " Citizen Tribunes—Yon have long defired that the annual plan of the law relative to the expences Mould not be di v;ded and tranfmitted to the Legi flvive Body at diflant periods; you cannot in fall jii lge of the merit of a fy Rem of finances propofed to be adopted, unlefs the whole is fubmitted to yea' : and that whole cannot refult from difcon ncacii plans relative to Come parts of the receipts, or the opening of one or many provifional credits, or the determination of expences already made, Ilill lefs when you are called upon to fanelion it by your authority. But, in the midi of a war, and at the termination of the diforder in which the Government found the general adminiftration and the finances, it was impoffible (as the Miniller of Finance rightly obferves in the account he has jolt tendered of his adminißration in the loth year, page rt ), to propofe a budget, founded on any hills in the kali degree applicable either to the re. ceipts or the ex per.ces. At prefent (continues this 111inifler) it will be proper to return to the execu tion of the conßitutional law, which direas that the receipts and expences of each %car Ihall be re • gulated by the Legalative Body. Thus the facred and unalienable rights which a free people have always enjoyed, of regulating the public expences, and of confenting to the public contributions, is folemnly avowed, and cannot be fuppofed that it is unfanaioned by the Chief of the Government— by him who adopts with tranfport every liberal idea, and who makes it his principal glory to go vern a free and generous people. Independent of the obligation impofed on the Government by the 45th Article of the Conflitu tion. to dire& the receipt: and she event, of the State eon formaat, to the annual ions which determines she amount of both, the 47th Article requires that the detailed accounts of the expenee of each Miniller, figned and certified by him, (hould be made public. The one which the Miniller of Finances has laid before you of the loth year, has been already dif painted among you. We are of opinion there never ezifted any thing more clear, precife, or fa tisfaetory ; every thing bears the Ramp Of order and of regularity, and particularly of the good faith and loyalty which diffinguifhes that Minifler. The account of the public treafure has air() been difiributed 2/7101 1 ; you ; and you mull have been fenfilile, on reading it, how much zeal and con• ft.ncy is required to reduce to Pimple refults, an account fo complicated in its nature, and to face it from every a b i d e . In giving the greaten publicity to there two ac counts, the Government has fent to the Legicla tive Body the plain of a law on the finances, under diflina titles. - The firfl title is relative to the credits open for the expences of the fifth, finis, feventh, and eighth year; the henna relates to the expences of the ninth year; the third, to the annulling a credit, become iifelefs, for the tenth year; and the fourth tastes to the expences of the eleventh year; re ferring_to this title, it is fisted that the law of the anth Floreal, Kith year, had opened to the Go v:ri•mtnt, on the produce of the contributions of t sib year, a credit of soo millions of francs, for the expences of the firll month of the IA year; and the Government now propofes to you to open ar.ntllc r credit of :89,500,000 francs to pay thofe 1. me e s ores: thefe two credits united will amount to the funs total of 589,500,000 francs; the repar- Shinn of it is made in the plan of the law among the different Miniflers, and a more detailed Rate ascot of the expences of each of them, drawn up be order of the Fiarr CONSUL, has been knt to your le bun rit finances, to facilitate the examina tion of the nature of the demands of each. We at firil demanded how it happened, that a fum of 559,500.000 francs was neceffary to provide for the expellees of rise s eth year, when the fum of 25 4 477,041 francs, for the ninth year, and sos.J.i)oo.oosi for the mall year, were deemed fa fi,ient to cover the whole of the expences ? But every difficulty has difappeared by an examination of the plan of the law, the detailed fiaterneoth and the account rendered by the Minifier of Ft- ' u-nces." The czpsnees have ken greater during the eleventh yea► thin during the ninth year. an The filed 'spawns at tie Mininifttatinaa, an .t o.e paints/ eider of all the department •of the p. • at prelept p 44 out at public er,jurr, ira4Tift cftitrated at Fra" 13 .77705 1 ad. lit difference wile+ it hat ken ceetfr.try to pay to the kliniften a( the lottner, tie &want of the repair of roads, canals, and various other for. vices, amounts to 1 40. 0 0 0 . 3d. The Miniiter of Marine in the ninth year hail 91 millions ; in the eleventh year it was found ne ceffary to repair in part the enormous loffes we had fultam• cd in the courfc of the Revolution; it was neeelfary to re(tore our Colonies, and reduce the rebels of St. Domingo; there different caufcs have rendered it eau:lran , for the Government to de mand for the Milliner of Marine a Credit of 126 millions—difference - 350001000 4th. In the ninth year, the War Department - had a fund of 238 millions, and pan ofbur troops fulsfifted out of the French territory, and were no charge on the public treafury. In the eleventh year the credit of tie Minifter was augmented to five millions compared with the ninth year,and thepub lic treafury fupported nearly tic fame expence on account of the danger which would have attended our difarming; we may reckon about thirty-five millions for the expence of our troops in Piedmont, Batavia, the Cifalpine, and other Foreign States ; thus the espenee of the War Minifter, in the eleventh year, initead of coiling five millions more, pretence a diminution of - 30,0e0,000 Per Contra - 97, 1 77. 1 5 1 ith. In the ninth year the public debt, compri fing the penfiona, amounted to feve.nty-feven ; in the eleventh year it amounted to 34,023,48 a francs—difference - 7, 01 3.4 82 In the ninth year the Minißry of Foreign Rela tions colt but fix millions, the peace having re. eftabliffied all our antient relations; this esp.:nee is railed, for the eleventh year, to (even millions difference 1,000,0t00 x 05,800,633 Among the articles of expence relating to each Minifler, we have remarked fix millions for the expence of the reprefentation at Paris of the Fiat Conful, the expence and maintenance of the palace of the Thu;&ries, St. Cloud, and their dependen• cies, and for his journies. We find immediately after a fecond charge of t,a00,000 francs. for the expences of the Second and Third Confuls, at the rate of 600,000 francs each, with this obfervation, that the - above expen• ces are fired permanently during the life of the Firff Conful, conformably to the Senatus Confulte of 16th Tbermidor, loth year. In fad, the 53d Article imports, that the law fixes for the life of the Firll Conful the (late of the expences of the Government." _ . _ You will doubtlefs remark with us, CitizenTri- bunes, how very moderate this eftablifbment is, and that it bears too little proportion to the Civil Lift of the ancient Government, which amounted to more than :5 millions, and that the nation is fenfibly interefted in furrisunding its 61111 4 dagiarate with that eclat which belongs to fo elevated a rank, fince the honour and the glory with which he is invelled relied upon it, and concur in making it refpefted abroad. I will not (peak on the fignal Cervices which the Firft Conful has rendered to his country. Hiftory will align to him the rank he ought to occupy in the eftimation of pofterity, among the great men who have rendered their age illuftrious. National gratitude has already railed in the hearts of the people a temple more glorions than all the monu ments which could confecrate it. _ _ The Tribunate will alfo feel the neceffity of equally furrounding with a certain degree of eclat the dignity of the Second and Third Confuls,who ' (bare with the Firli Conful the honourable burthen of the Government; the expence fixed for each of them, at 600,000 francs, appears to us rather below, than on a level with the fplendour which ought neceffatily to attach to the fecond and third perfons of the State. We will terminate the title relative to the general expellees of the eleventh year, by obferving,thAt the expences of the negotiations are only Rated in the plan of the law, at 9 millions tor this year, inilead of 32 millions, which they coil in the 9th year, acd of 13,677,749 francs in the tenth year. Your SeEtion therefore thinks that you ought to approve all the articles of expence in the eleventh year, and grant to the Government a credit of :89,500,000 francs, making with that of 300,000,000 francs, open by the law of aoth Flo real, tenth year, the total furn of 589,500,000- francs, which will be fufficient to defray the ex pence' of the eleventh year. The fifth title relates to a Supplementary Credit granted by the fecond SeBion of the Sth Article' of the Law of the s tit Floreal, ictlt year. The firth tide relates to the contributions of the tads year : the dire& contributions demanded for the ath year amount to 341,780,651 francs. The eighth Article relates to the Provifional Creditfor the 12 th year. The Government demanded that a credit be opened of 400 millions, on account of the expences of the different departments of Admi nißration, during the 12th year, and to be autho riled to take that (um on the produce of the con tributions decreed, and on the other public re venues of the fame year. Your Salina of Finance has thought that this authority cannot be refuted, however coof*derable the credit demanded may appear, particularly un der the circumflances in which it fees a foreign Power, bound by a folemn treaty, afeaing fears as to its duration. The Government will direa the receipts and the difburfement of the firft months of the tub year, conformably to the plan of the Law fubmitted to your examination, unlefs extraordinary circum- Reacts lbould compel it to make in alteration re lative to the credit of the Minifters, but in that cafe it will fubmit them in the next Seffions to the approbation of the Legidative Body. The animalism is compored of the Ilatement of receipts, and the expences I the receipts of the irth year are inconteltibly comprifed in the plan with which we are occupied. The expenees of the different Minifiers will alfo be found there under detailed flatesnents ; though applicable only to the a ith year, they will be the fame next year, un tcfs unforefecn and extraordinary eircumltances fliould occur. Why, therefore, need we infaft upon the Government nosvprefenting us with an ellirnate of the expences of the lath year ? Could it give us an 'lnmate more approximating to the salmi expenditure than the Ratement of the s ith year, which we have before our eyes, and conformably to which it will provifionally dived the expences of the next year, until the period when it (hall tranf mit to the LegifLitiVe Body, a aatement of the receipts and expences of that fame year, exempt from every kind of incertitude, Coact it will be founded on the receipts and dillAtfeMents of the firft months. Till that epoch, the Government will direft the receipts and - ezpences of the t ath year, not arbi trarily and according to its will, but conformably to the law, which will have decreed the contribu tions of the tzth year, with regard to what con cerns the receipts, and conformably to the reparti tion between the Minifters, made for the ; tth year, bythat fame law. with reference to what concerns the expences of the firft months of the 12th year. Your ration is further of opinion, that there 'never has been fubmitted to your examination a plan of a law on the finances, fo compleat as this Is, or which was more adapted to infpire con& fidence, and allure public credit ; it therefore re commends it to your adoption. Corram was heard; he pronounced an opinion favourable to the plan. The difcullion was doled. The Tribunate deliberated on the plan. The adoption of it was voted by a majority of 58 againft z. The fitting role. PARIS, MARCH n. The dividends on the 5 per cent. Confolidated (commonly called the Tiers Confolidu) for the IA fix months, began to be paid yeflerday. The whole will be paid in the courfe of the prefent month. The 5 per cents. were yefterday at 57. — They of courfe fell two and a half per cent. the amount of the half year's dividend.—Nosiitur. MARCH 23. The 6 t densi brigade of the line arrived a few days fince at Bruffels, from Befancon : this corps, which was in Egypt during the whole of the campaigns of BONAPARTS in that country, is to form part of the force to be encamped under the walls of Brae's. _ _ Several Englifh Officers who were at Bru ff els, have juft let off abruptly on their return home, in consequence of letters they received from London, and by which they were required to join their re fpelive corps without delay. They write from Offend, that two French velTels which were lading at London, for that port, being informed of the preys for failors, and other warlike preparations, immediately failed, and arrived at Offend in 36 hours. The Dutch Government has been officially is formed that war was declared by the Dey o f Al giers againft the French Republic, on the 16th of January. The Hanfeatic towns are preparing to renew the communication they had with the port of Antwerp in the 15th and 16th Centuries, and which were interrupted at the period of the !hut-' ring of the Scheldt, in virtue of the Treaties con cluded with the United Provinces. The arms of thole towns have already been replaced at the Hotel they polkaed at Antwerp ; and this build ing is to be magnificently repaired, for the refi• deuce of the Commiffary, who is to be charged with their commercial intereas. MARCH Lt. Letters from Bandeaux (late. that very con fiderable purchafes of coffee, fugar, surd cotton, have lately been made at that place. The ea*er nefs with which there articles are bought up, gives reafon to fufpee feveml eaufes of fuck a movement. There is reafon to think. that the real one will foon be known.—Five per cents. 55 fr. go c. FROM THE PARIS PAPERS. CONSTANTINOPLI, Fits. tt.—On the loth ult. the Imperial Ruffian Ambaffador, Count IT*cou nt had an audience of the GRAND Veztta, and on the Bth init. delivered his credentials to theGaaso Stiontoa. On the 6th the Dutch AmbalTador to Stuttgard, Baron Van DIDIM TOT DIN GILDER, who came hither on a viat to his father, has fet out on his return to Holland. The French fquadron which carried hither Ge neral Benue, will, it is Paid, put to lea with the , firft fair wind,in order to convey the French Agents to the different commercial places of the Levant. According to the lea letters from Egypt a great many (hips are lying there to carry back to Eng land the &kik' troops, which are daily expefted to eradiate that country. G alma; Matte 5,--A courier has hem difpatcli ed from Vienna to carry the order of the Goldeti Fleece. to Prince ROSPIOLIOSt, nominated to the dignity of Grand Mailer of Malta. Confcripts daily arrive from France, to complete the derni-brigades which are in Italy. We hate here a depot of four hundred. Government provides for the fubfillence of the troops of that nation, which are in Liguria; by arrangements with the contraftors, with whom it has entered into :In engagement only for a year. A great movement of French troops from the wen to the call bas taker. place for Come days pan. VIRISIIA, Matte* 9.—Our Court has again en tered upon negotiations with that of ( Bavaria, refpeaing an exchange of territory. It is fop poled that one of the reftths of this negotiation will be the eaten of the diarifts or the Biatopric of Aneburgh to Auftria ; our Court, on the other hand, will cede to the Eleltor of 'Bavaria the Margraviate of Burgan. His Majeay has refolved to increafe and repair the port of Trielle. RATISSON, Maace 13.—The Auftrian Minialer has made a new propofition to the Diet, in which be confines himfelf to the propofing that the de. mands before made by the Emperor, for adding a number of new votes to the College of Princes, and making a new arrangement among the Votes of I that College, mould be referred for a particular deliberation, indeppdent of the_g_eneral Concision. AUGSBURGH, MARCH 11.•--We have received from blegentheim the news that the Miniller of the Teutonic Order at Ratifbon, M. ULatce, has traufmitted, in the name of the Grand Matter, to the General Diet, a very circumaantial Memoir, in which he infills on the infertion. In the General Reeetfus, of a confervatory clank in favour of the Order. It would refult, from the adoption of this clank, that all the porelfions of the Teutonic Order, (hinted in Germany, mutt be recognised, and formally guaranteed. by all the Members of the Empire ; and it will be particularly enjoined to the new poireffors of the countries given as indem nities, not to make any attempt on the rights and prerogktives of that order. • • LONDON. MONDAY, MARCH al. VitICE OP STOCKS THTS DAY Al' ONE O'CLOCK' 3 per C. Cold money, 60,1, 66, 61if, 6514. Ditto, for April arc. 63t, 66, Gsf M, Olds per Cena ppi—Ottuaiuni it Yelterday Government received difpatches from Malta. The ROSARIO Iloop, which brought them to Plymouth, had a long pattage. We have this morning received accounts over. land from Gibraltar, by which we learn, that or the rft inf. his Majefty's Hoop BITTERN, Captar. CoasErr, arrived there in sr days from Malta. Before the left the latter place, a tranfport, th Lotroos, had juft arrived from Alexandria, after a pallage of so days, and reported, that when 11, left Egypt, the orders for evacuating that country bad not been received. Orders, however, to that effect, were forward ed from Malta by the RIDHLIDGI fcbooner, whick failed thence for Alexandria on the gth of January ; and we may therefore loon caged to hear of that event having taken place. As to Malta, if we had not known by what has been paging at home, that is not to be quickly abandoned, our prefent letters would have con. firmed the fait. They Rate, that there is not the fmalleß preparations for fuch an event going on. On the contrary, when the 15:xylem left Malta, Gc. neral Vial., the French Refident, was felling off his furniture; preparatory to his quitting the Wand at leaft, it wig generally believed, that was his ,intention. Our Readers will alfo find Tome other iaterefting particulars in the fubjoined letter GIBRALTAR, MARCH 3. " The day before yellerday his Majefly's Coon BlTl'llif, Capt. CORBETT, from Malta, in at days. On the 24th ult. (be fell in with the Dasasa 1100 p of war and ABUNDMICI Rore4hip, on their way to Malta ; and on the fame day the met two French frigates and a lugger [leering to wards the coati of Barbary. The Bra ream brings orders for the Guy HOUVD, failing to England, to be paid off. The Rosatso failed for England on the morning of the tR infant. " On the fame day the ad Battalion of Royals was reviewed. General Castanaz. the Com mander in Cbicf of the Spanifh forces in this neighbourhood, having expreffed his wifh to be prelim, his Royal Highnefs the Governor em braced the opportunity of (hewing a flattering and highly gratifying mark of raped to the Spa. nits General, by taking the cousmanf of his own regiment, as Colonel, on the occafion, marching paft at their head, and falating General Casra wiz, whom he prefented with a return of the ft! giment, at %he fame time paying him all the ho nours ufually (hewn to a reviewing General. "His Royal Highnefs then put the regiment through the whole of the different evolutions be fore Mtn. As perhaps no Officer can excel his. Royal Highnefs in manteuvering a Regiment, and as the corps was in the higheft Rate of difci pline, and every individual feemed to feel a pride under his command, in (hewing a foreign General what the regiment could perform, it was one of the fineß and moR complete military (pet:tacks that can be imagined. " After the review, General Ca STAN 12, and the Officers of the Royals, dined with his Royal High nef. at Head-quarters. " The HI of 74 gunp, Capt. Sturm , , arrived this morning from Maltu, in eleven days. ' The Dominions, Sir Ricasito STSALCKAII, bad arrived at Malta before the HECTOR failed. Sir It:creams Bicataron and his fquadron were all well. No veffel had arrived at Malta from Egypt face the London trartfport. The Retro' pro ceeds to England the firß fair wind. Capt. Cot. trss, of the 27th regisisent, and Lieut. Lyons, of the toth regiment, are paffengers on board from Malta. " The American flip Flora arrived this morn ing from Naples, in 25 days. The Matter reports, that when he left Naples the Menvsa frigate, and an Englifh 64 gun (hip were lying there. " The Gas r moven frigate attempted to work ou; this morning, but was obliged to . put back with a wellerly wind. TwoDutcll line of battle (hips arrived at Cadiz the day before yelterday. " We are happy to learn from Malta, that there is every appearance of our keeping the ifland. We know from thence now,that the.Domu goat. carriick no orders for the evacuation, as we apprehendeJ " Accounts from Kiplet (late, that Prince Rus• rots had refigned the appointment of Grand Matter, and that tne Pors had, in confequence, eleffied Biotic Tossast, a. Grand Matter, in his romp. " Sir Tnowas Dvaa arrived here to-day from England, by land, on a •ifst to his Royal Highnefs " The &stings, of 74 guns, has juft come into the bay from England: fbe bas made alignal for a boat from one of the men of war, howl which if would appear file does ant mean to anchor. " The Vincego brig has jun arrived in Coen , days from La*. " •