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PARTS, 3 VRNTOSE, FEBRUARY ACTS OF THE GOV ERNMEN r. DECREE 01 , THE OMVERNMENT OE TI:f: 11. T Tic Government of the Ficoublic decreci that a ♦icw of the prcfctit fituAtioo o. the Republic that, b- carried to tit, I .crif lative &.1v by the Melt:Nen of the Gov.:entry:rt. alai allo that the tame be ttiferted iu tl,e Bulktin of the I.av, (Signed) IioNAPARTE, Firft Conful, By Order of the Fir 1: Conful, (Sighed) 1 - 1. B. MAR T, ':ecretary of State VIEW OF THE S rATr OF THE REPUBLIC. Events have neither frufliated the willies nor &Lipp iinted the expetitatittns of Government.— The Legiilative Body, on refuming its lahours, has the fatisfaCtion of finding the Republic firengthened by the union ca its Citizens, more aCtive in its purfuits of induflry, and more conti• dent in its profpeets of profperity. The execu tion of the Concordat, from which the enemies of public order Rill ventured to conceive criminal hopes, has alma every where produced the molt beneficial effeets. The principles of an enlighten ed religion, the voice of the fovereign Pontiff, the firmnefs and perfeverance of Government have triumphed over every obaacle. Mutual fact fires have re united the Milliners of Religion ; coliglit • ened reafon, and cordial unanimity have revived the Gallican church; and the happieft change' bas already manifefteditfelf in the public morals. —Every day produces a more pee-feEt coincidence of opinion and of fentiment. Childhood is more docile to the inaruaions of parents, and youth more fubmiffive to the authority of Magiarares. The Conleiiprion goes on fmi•othlv in thnfe very places where the mere name of Confeription was fufficient ro ftimulate infurrettion, and to •c the country is now become a duty of religion. In ,! thole departments which the Firft Conful vifited, be every where received pledges, and obferved proofs of a return to thofe principles which confii lute the llrength and the happinefs of fociety.— In the departments of the Eare, the Lower Seine, the Oile, the inhabitants proudly exult in the lia• tional glory. They are fenfible to their full extent of the advantages of equality. They hail wih blefGligs the reanratinn of peace ; they receive with bleMngs the re-eaahlifhment of public v••or flap. Theft are the ties that bind down every heart to the (late and the conaitution. It is the duty of government to cherifh and di me there aufpicious difoofitions. Other forms of worfhip have been regularly organized. Conti(lo nics are formed of enlightened Citizens, tried and acknowledged defenders of public order, of civil and reli 7 ,- liberty. Public inflrutlion, that indifpenfil)le fopport of fociety, is every where fought after se ith eageinefs and alacrity. Soma, Lyceums have already been opened: already, as Government had well fore feen, a number of private fchools afpire to the rani of the fecoodary fchools. The whole body of the Citizens (hew their convitlion that there can be no happinefs without the light of education ; that without talents and information there can be no equality but that of mifery and fervirude. A military fanol is opened to receive the young de• fenders of the country. Soldiers, they will learn to Inprit the life of camps, and endure the fa tigiies of war. By long habits of obedience they will be trained up to the art of commanding, and they will bring to the armies courage And difcipline tthiled with talents arid with knowleil:;e. In the Lyceums, as well as in the Military School, the youth of the clep.irtniela:, nev.ly incorporated with the Republic, will live mingled without any WI. tr.:arta% with the youth of Old France. From tins conflifi , m of minds and manner e, f r om this communication of habits and of difpo;itirms, from this commixture of interelle, of pro . p.Els, and c f hypes, wmil tinnig up that fraternity, of fe.veral nati.ors will make but one people:, de (lined by their pornion, by their ct.tirage, and by vii toes, to form the centre of union, and the e.:orn k le of Europe. The National Inilitute, which ha; its afendancy over pupi:c has received a more ofetoi dire:hot!. ..nd henctft4ward sera ext.,-r Ttl , lll. alive iotbiente over the tiaticti‘al di•r.o - aer, t,vt, the language of cr.ur.try, and over the arts, fentnees, and literature. In order to enfi.x: the fh:hility of our infan . if•ltittintity,, in ord-r to remove from the eyes o the toiLlic time (pet: e of clifer.rd :mii?earek to them in the pet i•rd:eal oi to m he fupreme magifit::ey, the friends of me :ou.mtt called for the Cnnfulatt for life to be gm:tt:ted t,, the Fir a Magiltrate. er•ple b.i i i ;; enn4mil-ect i atilwercd to their C1),4 a-:.: time fki.:tt, stillktikroill of , the people. refin FaVo' °.;'• the twit of experience, and the force of public opinion. The organization of the Senate was incomplete. The National Juilice was left to be adminiflered by tribunals withoa: harmony, and without dependance on each other. There was no authority to proteet or to reform them ; no tie of rearaitit to fabjeCt them to one common difci- In fine, there was wanting to France a power to reclaim jullice itfelf,the power of grant ing pardon. How often thefe twelve years pall has that pwer been implored ! How many in. i,,rtunites have fallen the viehins of an inflexible ilernnefs, with which wife men reproached our laws ? How many criminals have been acquitted through a falfe indulgence, becaufe our punifh mrnts were too revere ! _ _ A Senatus Confultuns has reilored to the people the exercift of thole rights which the Conftituent Alterably had acknowledged ; hut it has reflortd :turn furrouaded with precautions, which pre ferve the pecple from errors or precipitation in their choice ; wizlo precautions which guard the influence of property, and the preponderance ofen -I:ghtened talents. Should the &ft magiftracy be e urte vacant, the duties and the proceedings of t::e Senate are traced oat fur loch an emergency ; fro of certain operation guide the wifdom and the liberty of their choice ; and the quick decifion of that choice deprives ambition of the means of conipiring, and anarchy of the means of deflroy ing. The cement of time will every day confoli date, m( re and more, this tutelary inflitution. It se :Übe not only the term of all difyrietudes, and the obje& of all hopes, hilt likewife the faireft re compences that can be held out to public Cervices, and public vi: tiles. julice embraces all the Tri bunals with one common bond. They have each their lubordinate Ration, and their cenfor—they are always free is the e sercife of their lantlions.— Always independent of power, btu never indepen dent of the laws. The privilege of granting pardon, when the in terra of the Republic requires it, or when circum- Rances prefcribe indulgence, is entrufted to the hands of the Fira Magißrate ; but it is only eon. tided to him under the guard of jußice itfelf ; lie is to exert if: it only under the eyes of a Council, and after having confulted the fee:tett oracles of the law. If inliitutions may be appreciated by their effeas, never was any inflirution more impor. tam in its refult than the organic Senatus Con fultum. From that moment the French people began to confide in their delliny ; property be gan to refume its former value, and Ipecnlations of diftant view to he multiplied—until that mo- j merit every thing fcemed to float in uncertainty. ! The prefent moment was cherished ; the next was a fubjeet of alarm, and the enemies of the country continued to cheriffi hopes. Since that moment they are reduced to isppotence, - and to deteßation. The Hand of Elba has been ceded to France ; that acquifition gives her a mild and indullrious people—two fine ports, a produaive and precious mine : but being separated from France, it could not be intimately united with any of her Depart men:s, or fubjefted to the regulations of a com mon administration. Principles have been made to bend to the neceffity of circumflances ; excels. eons have been eflabliffied for the Ifland of Elba, which its prifition, and the public intereft preferib ed. The abdication of the Sovereign, the will of the people, and the neceffity of esiiiing circum. fiances, had placed Piedmont un.ler the power of France. Am'J,l the nations that furrounded it, with the elements that compeded its population, Piedmont was unable to fupport either the weight of it, own independence, or the expellees of a mo narchy. United to France, it will reap the bene. fits of its fecurity, and its greatnefs; its laborious an.l enlightened citizens will exert their induliry and their talents in the borom of the arts, and un. der the lhade of peace. Security and tranquillity prevail in the interior of France. The vigilance of the magiftracy, the feverity cf jufliee, and a gendarmerie vigoroufly appointed, and diref , ed by a Commander, grown grey in the career of aonotti, has every where im relied terror on the minds and die attempts of the brigands. Private intereft has ra:fcd itfelf to a fentiment of public interefl. Citizens have not Shrunk from attacking thole whom they formerly dread:J, even when they were chained down at the font of the ti 'burials of juftice. Whole Communes have taLn up arms and dearoyed the brigands. Foreigners envy the fecurity of oar public roads, anetlhat public force, which though often invill ble, is always prefent, attend on their footfleps, and watch for their protesion, without any neceflity of imploring its aid. During the coml.: of a difficult year, amidli the exigencies of a general fcarcity, the poor looked with confidence to the care of Go vernment. They (imported with courage the pri• vations which necellity impeded ; and they receiv- ed with gratitude the fuccours which they were taught to expcd. The clime of forgery is no longer encouraged by the hope of impunity. The zeal of the tribu nal; appointed to prtifecute and pundit it, and the just feverity of the laws, have at length checked the ptogrefs of an evil which threatened both the ti calor:, and the fortunes of individuals. Our cilltivatii-ii daily improves, and defies the moll boalled agricultural fyitems of Europe. In r very Depaittrirnt are to be found enlightened tanners, who i,flord both inlit union and example. Premiums have been held out fur improving the breed of :lin ft:s ; and Similar encouragements are ' dinpoied for the improvement of wool by the in „l a 101 eign hied of Sheep. Zealous adminillrators arc every %Oleic occupied in tracing out and revealing th , richrefs rf our (nil, and in artferninatin; the plans and the happy re fitli s which experience daily ditenvets. Our maim:A:tures multiply and receive new fpirit and improvement. IVhale they emula:e etch other, they will loon, no doulx, become the rivals of the mint renowrie.l manufactures culintriei• ; knectos iii ti,ere still be niithivg anting to their it &pet ity bi.t ca;iit ifs left dearly purchaled. But capitalists Lenai already to y , . e up the havarilous speculation; of dock, jobbing ; and devote their at iention to .It: improvement of land and the ptir- Cuit of ufeful euterpt i tes. More than. 20,0c.0 work nieu, wi) were yilyrf.J throuEliont Europe, have been recalled by the attention and by the fa-1 veurs of Government, and will rutin be reflored I to our manufactures. Among our manufactures there is one which is almoft peculiar to France, which Colbert kindled up by his genius. It was buried under the ruins of Lyons : Government has exerted all its endeavours to extricate it.— Lyons is again reftorcd to fplendour and opulence; already do its manufattures impofe a tribute on the luxury of Europe. Bin the principle of their fuccefs is to be found in the luxury of France it fell ; it is in the changefulnefs of our mile, and the mutability of our fafhions, that foreign luxury mull look for its aliment, it is that gives motion and life to an immenfc population, who, without that encouragement, mutt lofe itfelf in corruption and mifery. There will loon be at Compiegne, there will loon mire on the confines of La Vendee, a number of Prytanees, where our youth will be brought up in habits of induftry, and inftruCted in the mechanical arts. From that fburce our dock-yards and our manufactures will one day draw inipeigors to di re& their labour. Fourteen millions silting out of the barrier tar, and ten millions out of the extraordinaries, have been employed during the year to in improving the public roads, in keeping up the old communi• I cations. New communications have alto been opened. The Simplon, Mount Cenis, and Mount Genevre, will foon open a triple and eafy accefs to Italy ; a high road will lead from Genoa to Marfeilles ; a road is chalked out from St. Efprit to Gap; another from Rennes to Breit, through Pontivy. At Pontivy efiablifhments are to be railed I which will have a powerful influence over the pub ; lie mind of the Departments of which ci-devant I Britanny was compared ; a canal will introduce , into it new fources of commerce and profperity. On the Banks of the Rhine Irons Bingen to i Coblentz, a necelfary road is cut through inn ; cetlible rocks. The neighbouring Communes of fociate their labours to the factifices of the public treafury, and the people of the other Bank, who I ridiculed the folly of the enterprife, are aflonifhed ! and confounded at the rapidity of the execution. I A great number of workmen are employed on the Canal of St. t'Zi . iintio. The Canal of Ourcq is opened, and loon will Paris people enjoy the be nefit of its waters, and the falubrity and the em bellifhments which they promife. The Canal in tended to unite the navigation of the Seine and I the Soane, of the Danube and the Rhine, is al molt entirely finifhed as far as Dole, and the ipublic treafury already receives in the increafed I price of wood, to which that canal opens the ap- Iproach, a rum equal to that which it has furnifh ed for the continuance of the work. The canals of Argues, Mortes, and the Rhone, the draining of the mulles of the Lower Charente are begun, and will open up new channels to commerce, and iafford new lands for cultivation. Works are going forward for the reparation of the dykes of the ifle of Cadfand, of Offend, of the Cotes du Nurd, and the re-ellabliflament of the navigation of our rivers. This navigation is no longer given up folely to the labours and the cares of Government. The owners of boats plying on there rivers have already felt that it was their patrimony, and they fix on them. (elves the taxes by which the works are to be kept in proper repair. On the ocean forts are erecting to corer the roads of the ifle of Aix, and to pro tea the we're's of the Republic. Every where funds are railed for the reparation and improvement of our ports. A new bafon and locked flaices will ter minate the harbour of Havre, and will form an ex cellent port for the commerce of La Manche. A company of pilots is formed to fecure the fare na vigation of the Scheldt, and to free foreign pilots from the danger to which an unknown navigation mull ex pore them. At Antwerp labours are begun, which will have the drat of refloring to its commerce its ancient celebrity, and the Government has in contempla tion a plan for forming canals to unite the navi gation of the Scheldt, the Meufe, and the Rhine, to give to our Docks thole materials of wood which grows in our own foil, and to our manufac tures a perfection which the manufaeurers of other countries difpute with us on our own territory. The iflands of Martinique, Tobago, and Saint Luck have been reflored to us, with all the ele ments of profperity. Guadaloupe reconquered and pacified, returns to cultivation. Guiana rites from a long protraEted infancy, and affumcs a flourillsing appearance. St. Domingo had fubmitted, and the author of its troubles was in France. Every thing announced the return of profperity, but, a cruel malady deli vered it up to new mifcries. At length the fcourge which defolated our army has sealed its ravages. The forces which now are on the ifland, and thofe which will fpeedily arrive from our different ports, guarantee the profpett of Its fpeedy return to peace and to commercial purfuits. Velicli are fetting lad for the irks of France and Rc•union, and for India. Our maritime commerce is Peeking to renew its ancient conneaions, to form new relations, and by thefe efforts it gains new firength. Already hap py experience and wife encouragements have re ai.imated a fpitit for engaging in the fithery which was long the patrimony of France. Commercial expeditions fill more important are formed or projeCted for the Weft India Colonies, the I& of Fre.:ce, and the EMI Indies. Istafeilles refumes in the Mediterranean its an cient afcendency L . . Chambers of Commerce have Seen rehired in the cities where they forme.ly lifted. New ones hare been eitablifhed in thole places, which, by the event cif their operations and the imprtance of their maiiiilafiures, have appeared to defy ve them.. In Oleic affa:iations, formed by perfons whole fitu atinti entities them to The honour of Lhonflng the members, the rpiiit, as well as the Icience of com merce will revise. There its interells will be de veloped, intepArable from the interells tithe State. The merchant will there learn to place, in pre ktence to riches, the confideration which honours li them, and :).ifore the enjoyments of a vain luxury, that s. c•c,,norny which fixes the elleem cf his iilnw-cizizens and the coufidence of !hangers. licputiss, cholin from the difetent chambers, v:111 Jiiculs, in the pr.treao n intcrells of commerce arid twill laws and regulations which elm require. In our forces, by ces and land, init the love of difcipiine iat feltil ;nay inc. Relponfibility becomes more rigid in .air ► corps. An aconotairA Adminiltration ceeded to the dilapidating of The foldier, better fed bette r Rands ceconomy, and his favings, whit'.}: !I into the common flock, attach him tt ft:: . as well as to his Every branch of our finance& becomes m ore oroduftive. colleCtion of direCt is leis rigorous with regard to the contributors.-- In the year Six it was reckoned that about lift millions were in the hands of the collectors ed taxes, and payments were three or four years i❑ arrear. At this moment the fum in the hands of the CoHeelers is not above three millions, an d tht contributions arc paid even before they are due. All the rules which have been made, and all the plans of Adminiaration which have been formed, give a produce Rill increafing. The rules appli. cable to the registering of commercial tranfaCtions is produetive to a degree, which arteas the rapid m wanents of capital and the multiplicity of bufi ncfs which is tranfailed. In the midit of fo many figns of profperity, the excels of the dire& contributions is fill made a ground of complaint. The Government has learnt from every one verfed in the principles of taxation, that the fur. charge confined chiefly in the inequality of the mode in which the :axes were impofed. Meafuree have been taken, and are carrying into effel, to after:2in the real inequalities which exin in the different departments. In the courfe of the year 12, regular and fimultaneons operations will have alcertained what is the relation which ought to exin between the contributions of the different de partments, and what in each department is the rate of the land tax. The moment that a certain refult has been fixed, the Government will give orders for thole alterations which junice requires. But in the mirk of this year, and without waiting for thofe refults, it will propofe an important dt. minution in the land tax. Innovations are Rill propofed in our financial fyftem; but every change is an evil, if it cannot be fatisfaCtorily demonftrated that certain advantage would refult from it. The Government will Cede from time and from difcuffions, weighed with all poffible care, the maturity of thefe projefts which inexperience often hazards ; which they fupport by thofe park examples, the memory of which has been aimed effaced from the public mud, and on the financial doctrines of a nation, which, by unnatural and exaggerated efforts, has broke through every meafure of public contribution and expenditure. With an increafe of revenue which no one ven tured to calculate, extraordinary circum flames hays led to wants which it was impoffible to forefee, It was neceffary to reconquer two of our colonies, and to re-eftablifh in all the power and government of the mother country. It was neeeffary, by means fudden and too estcnded to admit of rigid cecono my, to procure fubfiftenee for the capital and fe veral of the departments. At leall, however, the fucccfs of the Government has teen equal to its efforts, and after thefe vail exertions, recourses remain henceforth to guarantee the capital againit the return of want, and to dilconeert the projefts of monopoly. In the methodized Ratement of the Minifter of Finance will befound a general view of the annual contributions and the different blanches of the pub lic revenue, what was their amount during the lad year, what profpeCt of amelioration crafted, whe ther, from the mode of adminiftration or the pro grefs of public profperity ; what have been in the different departments of the Miniliry, the elements of expenditure during the year ten ; what are the films aill remaining to he paid for that and former years ; what refources exift to cover them, whe ther arifing from outftanding arrears of taxes, or from the extraordinary funds appropriated to pay off the debts contracted in there years, and which have not yet been exhaufted; what is the actual amount of the public debt ; what Las been its in. creafe, how it has been diminilhed by natural castles, and how its extinction has been affelled by the finking fund. In the account of the ivtinifter of the Public Treafury will be feen a Ilatement of the receipts, the payments of the year ten, what belongs to the different branches of the revenue, what is charge able in each year and on each part of the Admi niftration. The united accounts of the two Mini tiers will form a complete table of our financial Cr tuatinn. a The Government hold up with equal fa tisfaftion the picture which it prefents to its friends and its detractors, to citizens and to foreigners. After authorizing the ford . = expense of the year ta, and appropriating the neceffary revenues, objects of the greateft intereft will occupy the at tention of the Legiflative Body. It is neceffary to introduce a change into our &Rem of coinage. The cullom•houfe duties mull be reorganifed, fo as more effeEtually to check the progrefs of con traband trade. It is at length effential to give to France that civil code fo long prnmifed and fo long czpe'ted. Above all, projea of laws have bern formed under the obfervation of Government, ar,.t matured in conferences where commiflions from the Council of State and the Tribunate we:: urn• muted only by the love of truth and regard for the public intereft. The fame fentiments, the fame principles will guide th e d e lib erat i on o f the Legilitors, and fecure to the Republic the wit darn, and the impartiality of the laws which are adopted. On the Continent, every thing offers us pledges of repute and tranquillity. The Italian Republic fusee the proceedings at Lyons, has becn daily Rrengthening itfelf by the more intimate union of the people of whom it is compofed. The happy harmony among the authorities by which it is go verned, its internal adminillration, its military farce, Arcady give it the charatler, and the atri tud of A Hate long ellablifhed, and if wifdom pre fer ye them they guarantee to it a &ditty of unin. ± .~ld