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- 1 NWE PAPER. ISLICOURSE OF 1119 ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE SOVE REIGN OF THE NUTHEHLANDS, DELIVERED TO THE AS• SESIBLY OF TRH NOTABLES, ON TAKING THE OATH TO THE CONSTITUTION, OR THE 30711 OF MARCH, 1814. Gentlemen,-4 experience a lively satisfaction in perceiving my opinion with regard to the Constitu tion confirmed by the declaration of so numerous an assemblage of honourable and enlightened men. I feel equally sensible of the tel.timonies of zeal and of attachment which I have received on this so lemn occasion, horn this illustrious assembly. 4 6 The national honour, our interests well under stood, the manifest protection granted to us by the A Lsusury, every thing, in short, must encourage us to persevere without relaxation in our efforts for the welfare of the country. 4 4 Precisely four months have expired this day since my return to the Netherlands; and during that short period, the progress which we have made in the im portant work of the restoration of the State, hasgreatly exceeded all that we might have dared to expect. - 4 Foreign Powers have not confined themselves to applauding the recovery of our independent existence: they have also manifested by deeds which must in spire as with boundless gratitude, their satisfaction at witnessing the sovereignty conferred upon my house. " The most important of our foreign relations — those which 'oboist between us and the generous Bri tish nation,--will soon acquire, by the naarri age of nay eldest amp * new degree of intimacy and of reciprocal regard. " But what gives me the chief hope for the future, is the experience which I have acquired of the senti ments and of the good disposition of the nation it eff. " Its devotion to the good saw has enabled me, not withstanding the ezhaustion of this country, and its dilapidated resources, to raise, in the space of a few weeks, more than 25,000 troops; the greater part of whom, well armed and equipped, will soon be col lected on our frontiers, under the command of my two sons. S 4 Its Juitusimily in all that concerns the great inte rests of the country has been displayed in the most marked manner by the prompt organisation of the militia, the leery in mass, and the national guards, and as now also ltiy the acceptance of the Constitution. 44 I am persuaded, Gentlemen, that I shall only an ticipate the wishes,of you 41, by immediately apply ing myself to the enforcement of that Constitution, as well as by adopting all the measures. and establishing all the arrangements, without which its effects would remain long incomplete and imperfect. 44 That important task, therefore, shall be hencefor. ward the main object of my attention ; and in dis charging it, I shall be guided by the Lime impartia lity. and the same solicitude for the public welfare, which I have endeavoured hitherto to display in all the acts of my Governmeat. " As long as no inroad shall be made on the spirit or the letter of the constitution, the tsiuntry will be sheltered from all dissentions, from all contests about authority, and all rivalry between the provinces. It allots to reasonable citizens all the liberty, to the Sove reign all that extent of power which they can respec tively desire • at the same time that the people and the Prince, the governors and the governed, find in It:equitable and liberal arrangements, what is calcu lated to establish and secure their mutual agreement and ooperatins. .-44 I n awe senontents, the fruits of a long and deli. beratessamination, and which are still further forti fied led exalted by the solemnity of this memorable moment. I declare myself ready, in presence of this anesnbly, as representing the United Netherlands, to lathe the oath which the Constitution has prescribed to the tjeveteige Fringe." NEW FRENCH CONSTITVTION. CONSERVATIVE SESATE. 11IXTR4CTIM FROM THZ RROISTINS OF wisp CVNBIRYA TIVIII SISISATZ, OF WEDNESDAY* ON OF APRIL. The Conservative Senate deliberating upon the Plan of Constitution presented to it by the Provisional Government, in execution of the Act of the Senate of the ist instant : After having heard the report of a Special Com mission of seven membgrs, decrees as follow: Article 1. The French Government is monarchi cal, and hereditary from male to male, in order of primogeniture. 2. The French people call freely to the throne of France, Louis &mislays Xavier de France ' brother of the last Xing. and after him the otherblembers s 3l , the house et Bourbon, in the ancient order. 3. ancient Nobility resume their tides. The new preserve tbeir's hereditarily. The Legion of Ho. volir is maintained with its prerogatives. The King shall fix the decoration. 6. The executive power belongs to the King. 5. The Xing, he Senate, end the Legislative Body, concur in the making of laws. Plans of laws may be equally proposed in the Se pate and in the Legislative Body. Thot relating to contributions can only be pro- posed in the Legislative Body. The King can invite equally the two Bodes to tacsoßy themselves upon objects which he deems tropes. The unction of the King is necessary for the com pletion of a law. 6. There are 150 Senator; at least, and 200 at most. Their dignity is immoveable, and hereditary from mule to male, in order of primogeniture. They are named by the King. The present Senators, with the exception of ilitse who should renounce the quality of French citizen, gre usainteined. and form put of this number. The actual endowment of the Senate and the Senatorship: belongs to *ant The revenues are diviied equally between them. and gap to their successors.• In case of the death of a Senator without direct male poste rity, his portion returns the public treasure. The Senators vels'n'ibill be named is fsiture falnot par. of this enOwtment. . Ttie rrinits of ihe Kozall 'gab, and the remcee of the klood. 4,rff fe4fill?cif 01 OF ' The flutedens of a &poor 'cannot he euevelsed W1)- 0 ille - perslus Missive:tined the age of 21 years. - The **ale &tides she came eussion of objects before them shall be public secret. 9 Each Department shall send to the Legislative 'Body the same number of Deputies it sent thither.• The Deputies who sat in the Legislative Body at the period of the last adjournment shall continue to sit till they art replaced. All preserve their pay. In future they shall be chosen immediately by the Electoral Bodies, which are preserved, with the ex ception of the changes that may be made by a law in their organization. The duration of the functions of the Deputies to the Legislative Body is fixed at five years. The new Election shell take place for the Session' of 1816. 10. The Legislative Body shall assemble of yight l , each year on the Ist of October. The King may i convoke it extraordinarily ; be may adjourn tt ; he may also dissolve it : but in the latter case another Legislative Body must be formed, in three months at the latest, by the Electoral Colleges. 11. The Legislative Body has the right of discus sion. The Sittings are public, unless in cases where it chuses to form itself into a General Committee. 12. The Senate, Legislative Body, Electoral Col leges, and Assemblies of Cantons, elect their Presi dent from among themselves. 13. No Member of the Senate or Legislative Body can be arm estcd without a previous atithority from the Body to which he belongs, The Trial of a Member of die Senate or Legislative Body belongs exclusively to the Senate. 14. The Ministers may be Members either of the Senate or Legislative Body. 15. Equality of proportion in the taxes is of right: no tax can be imposed or received unless it has been freely consented to by the Legislative Body and the Senate. The Land-tax can only be established for a year. The Budget of the following year, and the Accounts of the preceding year, are presented annu ally to the Legislative Body and the Senate, at the opening of the Sitting of the Legislative Body. 16. The law shall .fix the mode and amount of the recruiting of the army. 17. The independence of the judicial power is guaranteed. No one can be removed from his natu. ral Judges. The institution of Juries is preserved, as well as the publicity of trial in criminal matters. — The penalty of confiscation of goods is abolished. The King has the right of pardoning. 18. The Courts and ordir.ary 1 ribunals existing at present are preserved; their number cannot be di minished or increased, but in virtue of a law. The Judges are for lilt and irremovable, except the Jus tices of the Peace and the Judges of Commerce. — The Commissions and extraordinary Tribunals ate suppressed, and cannot be re-established. 19. The Court of Cassation, the Courts of Appeal, and the Tribunals of the First Instance, propose to the King tnree candidates for each place of Judge vacant in their body. The King chooses one of the three. The King names the First Presidents and the Public Ministry of the Courts and Tribunals. 20. The military on service, the officers and sol diers on half-payohe widows and pensioned officers, preserve their ranks, holm's, and pensions. 21. The person of the King is sacred and invio lable. All the acts of the Government are signed by a Minister. The Ministers are responsible for all which those acts contain violatory of the laws, pulilic and private liberty, and the rights of citizens. 22. The freedom el worship and conscience is guaranteed. The Ministers of Worship are treated and protected alike. 23. The Liberty of the Press is entire, with the exception of the legal repression of offences which may result from the abuse of that libert). The Sena torial Commissions of the Liberty of the Press arid individual liberty are preserved. 24.. The public debt is guaranteed. The sales of the national domains are irrevocably maintained. 25. No Frenchman can be prosecuted for opinions or votes which he has given. 26. Every person his the right to address indivi dual petitions to every constituted authority. 27. All Frenchmen are equally admissible to all civil and military employments. 28. All the laws existing at present remain in vi. gour, until they be legally repealed. The code of civil laws shall be entitled, Civil Code of the French. 29. The present Constitution shall be submitted to the acceptance of the French people, in the form which shall be regillated. Lou is Swimsuit:B )(ems shall be proclaimed King of the French. as soon as he shall have signed and by an act stating -44 I accept the Canstisation i I swear to observe it, awe to cause it to k observed." This oath shall be repeated in the solemnity, when he shall r e F eive the Oath Fidelity of the French. (Signed) Prince ef Bpi ye NT*/ la, President. Counts de Vis.strr and PA sTuawr, Secretaries. The Prince Arch- Counts Fenno, Counts Pere, Treasurer. Fabre (de Made), Tarther, Coutus Abele!, Dubois Dubai', Further de Recite. Bartle Marbuis, De Fontanes, bourg, Enunery, Carat, De.Puule Centre s Barthelemy, Grdgoire Saur, illeidersbuck, Herwyn ' ds Nevslft , Sigel, Jetreourt, St. IWartie. " • Cornet, ' Kitiu, De Unseat', Garbenara, Journu, Sainte Suzudne, larand, Aubert, Sieve% Chasseloop, Lambrecht Satinamelpennitick, Lonjuioats, Van do-yandergel- Coland, Leji as, der, l)avuus, Lebrun defteeLemontVan de Poi, De Gregory, I,eniercier, Venturi, Dterory, !Merman, Vaubois Drpere, Dr Lespenasse, Due de Vainay, Den . has re- e„ De Mau tbadon „ V Meta rd, Dissuberaerr, Lenoir Rarucli", Vimar, Demist Tracy, De Mailleville, Van iayien van Redon, 2,lyevelt. D'Hedouville, Roger Dams, COPY OF A LETTER ADDRESSED TO HIS MOST CHRISTIAN MAJESTY, BY THE YRENCM PROONERS dq. THE IDYPOT AT THAME. " 4111 of respectful confidence in the goodneu and generosity of your Majesty, the Frenchwprisoners, at Theme, have assembled to felicitate themselves, as well as all France, on the happy day which, by the favour of HEAVES. restores to the throne, and to the Nave of the French, the descend:lnt of Bt*. Louis, of Levis XII. and of Henry lll.'' " Sire, our hearts, our life, 'ill that we have we lay at the feet of your Majesty snay HJIAVEN grant your Iyugubt family as mush prosperity and happiness as he ought to halm experienced who nowt fella his seat in ityss spilfson this great ;nd foetus:sate relenitibpss. • P • AriVlt xdlt • wig 1,,g sollr• • ewe MO firatiltell FRENCH P4i PERS. I' • • PARIS, APRIL R. 70 THE PREFECT OF THE SEINE. 61 The Provisional Government transmits you the Constitutional Act which the Senate have just de creed, and which calls to the throne Louis Stanislaus Xavier de France, Kirg of the French. la You will cause it to be solemnly published io the different quartets of Paris in the accdstomed forms. " Path, Aprll 7. " The Provisional Government. (Signed) 66 Prince of BENEVENTO. " BOURNONVILLE. JAL:COURT. " Duc de DALBERG. 66 Abbe de MowTEstruinu. 66 DUPONT BE NaMouns, Sec." THE LEGISLATIVE EODY TO THE MEMBERS OF THE PRO. yimoN AL GOVERNMENT. II Gentlemen—The Legislative Body has received the communication which you have made to it of the Constitutional Charter. It gives its entire adherence to it. " It finds in it the guarantee of all rights ' and a distribution of powers calculated to place France hereafter in safety from the evils she has suffered. " The Legislative Body congratulates itself at being able to manifest at last the sentiment it has hie:erto kept in its bosom, and to express the lively joy it feels at seeing the august House of Bourbon recalled to throne, and the title of the King of the French conveyed to Louis Stanislaus Xavier, brother of our lit King." [Signed by all the Members.] One of the Public Bodies uses these expressions— " It adheres charitably to the constitutional forfeiture of Nicolas Bonaparte, called Napoleon Bonaparte," &c. We are assured that the Emperor of Austria will speedily come to Paris, and that the Officers of his Household are already arrived to prepare lodgings - - for his Imperial Majesty. They began yesterday to efface the inscription— " To Napoleon the Great," Placed upon the façade of the Legislative Body. Monsieur Count D'Artois, now Monsieur, appoin ted Lieutenant-General of the Kingdom, was in his youth one of the most amiable and brilliant models of that lively gaiety, that grace, politeness, and noble elegance of manners which characterized the French Nobility. Those qualities serve now as an ornament to a grave and reflecting mind, an inexhaustible good ness, and the virtues of a wise man. His Royal Highness quitted Switzerland aim the 19th of March, and entered Vestul on the fld. In Setting foot again on the French territories he gave himself up to the deepest emotion—tears flowed from his eyes.- " At length, (lie exclaimed) I see.my na tive country again; that country which my ancestors governed in mildness. I am in France ;—I will , never quit it again." No, no, adored Prince 1 you never shall quit that France which burns with impa tience for your august family. Our wishes invite you, our hearts call out for you ; and one of the happiest days will be that in which France shall see you enter her walls to the cries and blessings of the people— cries repeated a thousand times of Yivele Roi ! rive LOalil XVIII ! The following lines, from Adelaide de Guesclii, are placed underneath the portrait of Louis XVIII. Dui, iv sang (i‘s Capers est toujours adore, Francois, uni,..ons nous: que de ce trace surf Les ramcaux clivisis et courbes par l'orage Doormats Titania suient notre unique ocobraget For some days three }golden, feter4 de Se have been displayed underneath the crown which occupies the middle of the drop-curtain of the Theatre Francois. This revered sign was inaugurated in presence ot the Emperor Alexander, and amidst the unanimous plau dits of the audience. Soon will the lily, emblem of the French Monarchy, replace the bee, adopted. I know not why, by him who, being able to be the be nefactor of France and the pacificator ot Europe, chose to become the butcher of the people be go verned, and the scourge of the world. The bee, that precious daughter of the air, gives to men what is best and noblest in the world, sweetness and light. Are these the presents we have received from Bona parte ? Alas ! the Corsican bee gave us neither honey nor wax—we knew it only by its cruel sting. If we wanted fresh proofs of the madness that reined is the councils of the Government from which we have been just delivered, we should Had n singular one in the choice of the piece destined AC.Ltir Theatre Francois to renovate and strengthen the Public mind (such aresthe words t f the Minister) at the approach of danger. They chose the Siege de Calait. This piece, which depicts so strongly the love of the French for their legitimate Sovereigns, and their horror of a foreign yoke, was a manifesto of the people against the tyrant. Several of the verses were omitted, but persons who followed the play with a printed copy of it, noted all the passages omitted, and *hewed them to those next them ;—the book passed from hand to hand, and soon thc only passages at tended to were those which the actors did not recite. The following are IPTltasiN• Qul pent d'un desk .a saint sieefebeet assolosis Quel autre doit roper sur A Frame*? ILL! NO I. Un Francais. Parte:, penes encore l'Userpateur pour maitre; Mais addles qu'un tel Rol as pas lung temps a refl. Etl! que prut la pine sue cote anes Ineurnaine I N'a-nil pas vu wort felt Wen oiH traeqeillt et tier Tauber des legions sous is Risme et le ter, I)es debris et des morts eouvrer les met. ...walnuts*, Lzs flagons calif) pour lel seul ezpirantge? PARIS, APRIL It. ACTS Or THE ritoVlelo)lAL GOVXIIIIIIII4IT. The 'rovisional Government informed that in par suance of the orders of the Sovereign, whose deposi tion was solemnly pronounced on the Sd inst. consi 7 derable lands were carried off from Paris dying the days viticai preceded the occupation pf that city by the allied troops ; that theie tuna; 'were Conveyed in several transports to different par pf the kingdom ; that they were even augmented toi the spoliation of several public chests in the depirtinentt ; that the municipal' Cheeis e and even Mote of the 'hoseitals, have no; it.capcd that dilapidation : wishing to re coier as speedily as possible the fundi thus abstracted from the 'frtaiury, and whicli belong to the pub*: service, f tiq order' its follows; lictefallops ;be reqp iris; perfoss with I 'duns the laid 4andi may 1;190,1!•% ataishp oniff have them in transport or under military convoy. t^. make declaration of the same to the Mayor of the .Dearest commune: All magistrates and civil and military administrators are required, if necessary, to foist the continuance of such transport ; and those !Ph° neglect to obey this order, are made responsible Sot the sums thus lost to the public service]. r_ The Peovisioaal Government cosidering that his of importance to secure to the French people by all possible mans the knowledge of the great events which have tateh place since the :50th of March last ; and that of the Acts of the Senate, the Legislative Body, and the Provaor.al Goverment, which have insured to France the invaltsaide blessings of pe..ce, and the return of Its ancient Sors-reigns ; learping that some civil or military authoritiC have thought proper to stop the journals, letters, and packets which have been addressed from Paris to different tiepart ntents—order the free circulation of letters and jo:.t. nals to be maintained and respected. and that every civil or military authority who may impede,that cir culation shall he deprived of lois functions, arrested, and prosecuted on a charge of high trrason. An order of Government directs the liberation of General Count Hammerstein, d-rained in ,he castic. of Saumur ; and also of Major Lutzow; and the other Proissitns, prisoners of war in that cistly. The Provisional Government learning. that Car dinal Mathci, Doran of the Sacred C liege, is detained at Alais, and several other Cardinals in different teWni of France, directs them to be set at liberi y. The Provision of Government, informed that the seminarist* of the diocese of Ghent, in number 06, of whom 40 are deacons or sub-deaCons," wire.c.n dutted to Wesel in A ugust,lBl3. in order to be placed M the artillery. ordain that they shall be forthwi h re- stored to liberty. Another order directs the liberations cf the mem bers of the Chapter f Tournay, who had been con ducted to Cambray and Unto detained. The Senator Count Fontanes has been invited to continue his functions as Grind Mager of the uni versity of France, The Imperial Lyceum is in fu ture to take the name of the Lyceum Louis le Grand, the Lyceum Napoleon that of the Lyceum Henry IV. and the Lyceum Bonaparte that of the Lyceum Bourbon. The Provisional Government penetrated with ad . mit-anon and gratitude for the brilliant generosity 'of his Majesty the Emperor of Russia, who has ordered the restoratien of the French prisoners of war now in his States, and wishing to testily their gratitude as far as lies in their power, order, that all the Russian prisoners of war now in Fiance snail be immediately sent to the General in Chief of the gussi4n armies. The Provisional Government considering that the system of giving men their inclinations, and talents, an exclusive direction towards the militat y profession and spirit. induced the late Guvernmeet to withdraw a great number of ollildren frosn the paternal loath°. rity, to educate them according to its private views in the public establishments ; that nothing can be a greater invasion of the rights of the paternal audio.. rity, and that on the other hand this vexatious sys tem was directly hostile to the deeelopemeot of the different kinds of genius, talents, and spirit derived from nature, and of which the diversified whole forms the moral wealth of the public ; that, in fint,* pro. longation of such disorder would form a marked con tradiction to the principles of a free government; Order that the modes and the direction oldie NIU• 'cation of children shall be restored to Lie authorirr of their father and mother, tutors or families ; and that aU boys who have been placed in schools, ly ceums, and other public institutions, without the wish of their parents, or who shall be reclaimed by them, shall be forthwith restored and set at liberty. The Provisional Government informed, that a great number of Belgian priests have been for years contused in different prisons, especially in the Castles of Ham, Bouillon, and Pierrechatel ; that their des tention was caused by their ref using to say prayers for Napoleon ; that their detention was prolonged, notwithstanding authentic acts of submission, repea ted several times—order, that the said Belgian priests confined in France shall be immediately srt at liberty. The Provisional Government considering that the most effectual means of establishing puhlic liberty is to prevent licentiousness ; that the liberty of the press, whkh should be the safeguard of the citizens, ought not to become an instrument of insult and defame- Lion ; that, under present circumstanci...., such an abuse, ;•.nd especially that which might be made of pamphlets and placards, would easily become a per• fidious engine in the hands of those who might endea vvur still to sow disturbance among the citizens, ar,4 thus impede the noble movement which should unite them all in the same just cause; order, 44 1. No placard or bill shall be . posted in the streets or public places, without having been previ ously presented at the prefecture of police, where as imprimatur shall be given. " e. Every hawker is prohibited from cryirg, sel ling, or distributing in the streets any pamphlet or sheet. the distribution of which has not beau autho tised by the Prefecture of Police." Other orders of the Provisional Government direct the system of police, and the regulations as to printing and bookselling, to continue provisicually the same as before. The Prefect of police announces, that en Snnday the 10th, the Emperor of Russia and King of I'rus.is will review the whole of their creeps, and that after. wards 7'e Dar. will be sung in the place Louis X%. Fto return thanks for the memorable events which have given peace to Fiante and to Europe, The official Joprnal contains 4 great number of adisaions to the legitimate government oa the part of Generals and ?One Fu,nctionaries 7 441.368 otters who have deliraved us their aJbe: Oen. are Geoeral Nansonty, the Senators Cardinal de Bayonne, puke of Dantzick, Count Colchen, the Oahe of Massa, late President . of the Legislative Body, tied the Senator Villernan.T, who, in a letter from Arras, dsited 7tli, intprms the Govern mtnt that Mr. Morhets de Bellamy would set nut that night for . ; and that he had sent with h im typo letters, opOo General 14aison, and the other for Geneql Bremer, commanding the Ifith military divi sion, for the purpose of tacilitating the success of his "limit* in the department of the North." Thee, are . also letteri of adhesion from MMarshalOudiniat, from Marshal loordan commanding at gaunt, from Count Lagrange at Gisors, Count User Commanding a corps of cavalry at Bo urbon, C• 0111 Whited cotemandin4 trice 9th COTI)3 of cavalry