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.. ft: t• V r i FRANCE. adi~iidl■~ eATtis, ''3o MAUCH, TRrt!s.vt'e. svrrisu or Tut IsT GETIM:N AL (220 MARCI 2 ) t ',CNC Y Or LAMA Vr Fabre CitircnTribunes—You have long desired that the animal clan of the law rela tive to the expences should not 1w divided and trans nii:ted to the Legislative Ilody at distant ceriods you cannot in fact judge of the merit of a rastent of trances proposed to be adopted, unless the whole is subraitteil to you: and that whole cannot from disconnated plans relative to some parts of the receipts, or the opening of one or many provisional credits, or the determination of expellees already made, still less when you are called uc nt to saniction it by your authority. Eat, in the midst of a ivar, :and at the termination of the disorder in which the Covernment found the general administrat;on und the finarces, it was impossibl.. (as the Minister of Finance rightly oliserves in the account lie has just • rendesed of his administration in the tuth year, page 11) to propose tr . :budget, founded on any basis in the least degree applicable either to the receipts or the espences. At present (continues this Minister) it will be proper to return to the execution of the constitutional law, which &Teas that the receipts and expenee, of each year shall be regulated by the I.:risla:i ye Body. Thus ti.' sacred and unalienable rights wilich a free people have :dwass enjoyed, of regulating the public exprne.u, and of consentir.g to Site pifolic contributions, is solemnly avowed, and e..nnot he supposed that it a tinsanetioned by the 4 lief of the Government—by 'oirn who ud..pts with is mist rt et cr.; liberal idea, .:tad who makes it his y. too ipso glory to govern airee and genet ous people. • Independent of the ob:igation imposed on ..• rnment by the 45th Art:Je of the Cot: ;*: ution, to dir •It the r44..ts aid the expects of tie Su* e0n ,,,,4r0w.4: • to 4, smilax! lava ,Irterniiies de amount of 62.4 . , the 4;th Article requires the detailed ac counts of the: espence of each Minister, signed and `certi:L•.: ',y him, should be made public. 'lle rile el.ieh the Minister of Finances has laid Iscrere proof the its + yeJr. has been already distri buted writing We,aie ref ()pinion there never existed more clear, precise, or satisfailory; every thing bears the stamp of order and of regu larity, and particularly of tile good faith and loyalty 'a /tide distinguishes that Minister. The aecosint of the public treasure has also been .slistributed among you ; aid you must have been s..nsible, on maul it, haw much zeal and con stancy is required to reduce to simple multi', an cc -4'olllll so co:oplicated in its nature, and to free it Imm ever/ abuse. In giving the greatest pub:kity to these two ac counts, the Government has sera to the 1.e.-illative Body the plan of a law on the finances, under eight sfistinft titles. The first title is relative to the credits open for the ezpences of the fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth Nen.; the second relates to the expo :es of the ninth • ;ear ; the third, to the annulling .. ,:redit, become itself:l, for the tenth i•Ntr ; and the fourth relates to the espences oldie de... Atli year; referring to this title, it is stated that the l • •I the ./Othilloreal, ITV) %Vitr o had opened to the •enuent, on the pro •auce of the contributions e. • I I th year, a credit of 303 millions of francs, for ‘pences of the first mouth o the last year ; t.:e Government now proposes to you to open another credit of ea9,5:4,0t5) francs to pay those same expences : these two credits united. will amount to the .um to tal of :reo.Stut,ooo francs; the repartition of it is made in the plan of the law among the different Mi nisters, and a more detailed statement of the ex peaces of each of them, drawn up by orster of the Yiret Consul, has been sent to your seaion of fie s. to facilitate the examination of the nature • 1.. e demands' of each. We at first demanded Low it happened, that a sum of 3.1!•,500,04p; fr a ncs was necessary to provide for the expences of the 11th year, when the sum of fe.:ii,177,04i francs, for the Mali year, and 590,000,000 for the tenth year, were deemed sufficient to cover the whole of the espences ? every difictihy has disappeared by an es:urination of the plan of the Lew, the detailed vatentents, anti the account rendered by the Minis t..r of Fin.otccs, The ie.; t.cer, It tee been greater during the ek .ventli year tiam -duffing the ninth '.oar. The Axed expene.w. of that lions, and the juitleal irotrn of At dmstremilit.: 'i. VW puhlie at pkeent m id oat of the pub it ires •• err, nray lit imam tted at FS.IIIO 18,777,1• M The which it 1.3. • to pay Nt.oirtc•i4 of the Interior, an al:01111 . g • the mt.& of petit, canals and •varlow. oda r aintoniti to - .11,000,000 • M. Tor Mill.* r of Marine in tlt tii oh rear id'a fl heal;; in the elevi nth year it was found neer-nary to r •pe.4 i.l part the ennrinea4 Inewat we asst suataatirelin Cue roam of Car Revofilt:na ; it • %eV try 0, reAore ow Colonies and relive r.. c r c ht,lsl Ompipro ; d.tf-rent mows hate mode e l it iwersory inr the Gnrernineut to •detnatel threhe Minim •r of Marine a Cri.44 of Ito milli • s•-tii'feren.e 31,000,000 4th In the !Li t 1 Teat, tit^ Vr.ir Th l airtm , nt lad alosid of 1.03 iiii!kons, antlyat of =lmo l ai sob tared inn in* the F en 11 teniewy, .11111V”:11:, charge no the public In: i utv. in the EleventhYn..r • to cretin of (he . h43iister Wei augmented to live • C"1141411 VI 144 Um Ninth Year, and el e towsitry sti; l :ortert nearly At :aloe ex v essce in..eco•unoftheti••ner ph!`cli witte‘lll;oe.neon c t u If ; Ira i n ir ro .krut alrtut etc- , i . :‘: uniforms f the extreme Of rex terio34 in riei:iiequ„ 11.tavo i. rite anal mita 1:or . 'il• •4 ! 1.(1)1 1. I' 1411 p War Nl.ui<►o, iu tilts .vetots r, hi ,or enerintbre n.i auu, 1111.4; • - - polooo r Corona - - • - 07,17.7;151 4o t..e Ninth leaf tiw ,p 46. r • ;‘: the pendot.4, atnnuinvit ro seventy U• sits ; its the F it-tr.t.th t. it anatitiined .43 4 . inset--dlffereare - - - - 7,023,48: I the N liras' -the Mitytt.l. of Foreign R .* u s ais ottilinnttite petve ill tee 'An Annent reintnne. ; .•:Arn: a. it for th& Eirmittlaietro....u.s. reunion— CS% mi?..4. •- - - 1.00t,0 .103,110(),i , " Amin fly. article.% of experxr Mating to each ,t, 'Minister, we hare remarked six millions tiff the es ," mice of the.representation l'aris of the First Con- Sul. the expeac:: and maintenaoce of the palace of the Tittetlleties, St. (load, and thee sependencies, and for his jou% ues. We ti:sd inuneilintsly after a secona charge of 100)00)0 francs, 4; )1. the sv pea. as of the Second and Third Consuls, at the rare of OirJ,ooo francs each, 401,111 this cohsery.stiton, that die above evrences are pia. i prrmanroti) during the life of the Fir t salr oostforanably tar. the :.;st.aLus Cui,s•alte pt 16th The:l:bider, ritl' In the . r • Article ports, that the o law fixes ter the life of the First Consul the state cf the errences of the 4;es-ern- You will doebtlels remark with us, Citizen Tri h 1w very moderate this establishment is, and that it bears too proportion to the Civil List of the ancient Gos.ernmeat, which A:tem:red to more than millions, and that tile nation is sensibly in terested in sue rounding its first Magi , trate with that eclat which belongs to so elevated s raek, since the honour and the glory with which he is invested re flea upon it,. and concur in nuking it respened hiltoad. I will not speak on the signal services whir 11 the First Consul has rendered to his country. I listery • will as-inn to hint the rank l ought to ocevy in the eetinettion of pcsterity, am o ng the great men who hive rendered their ace illustrious. National gmtitude has already raised in the hearts of the peo ple a temple'more glorious than all the monuments which could consecrate it. The Tribunate will also feel thenecessitv cf equally surrounding with a certain degree of eclat the dig nity of the second and third Consuls, who share with the First Consul the hononrable hurthen cf the 'Go vernment ; the expence fixed for etch of them, at 6,g),093 11211 CS, appears to rather below than on a level with the splendour which ought necessarily to attach to the second and third persons vat the State. YVe will trrminate the title !dative to the general expences of the eleventh year, hy chserviage that the CIFVIC:I of the negecietions use only ,tate.l in the plan of the law, at u millions for this year, in steed of millions, which they cost in the ;hit year, and e f I 3,67;J it) francs in toe teeth year. Y.inr Scairm therefore thinks thet you ought to ep pi nye all the articles of expellee in the eleventh year, and gr .nt to the Government a credit of 289,500,000 franc., making with that of $00,000,000 francs, open by the law of 20th Flcreeel, tenth year, the to tal sum of 389,500,000 francs, which will be suffi cient to defray the expences of the eleventh year. The fiGh title relates to a Supplementary Credit granted by the second Sedion of the eighth Article of the Law of the feist Horsed, loth year. The sixth title relates to the contributions of the twelfth year : the direct contributions demanded for the 12th year amount to S 11,780,6.51 francs. The eighth Article relates to the Provisional Credit for the 1 .2th year. The Government demand that a credit be opened of 400 millions, on account of the expences of the di& lent departmeat of A dminstratioa, during the 162.11 year, and toile authorised to take that sum on the produce of the contributions decreed, and on the other rublic revenues of the same year. Your Sedion of Finance has thought that this authority cannot be refused, however considerable the credit demanded may appear, leaticulatly under the circumstances iu which it sees a foreign Power, bound by a solemn treaty, affating feats as to its duration. The Government will direct the receipts and the disbursement of the first months of the 12th year, conformably to the plan of the Law submitted to sour examination, unless extraordinary circunistan ces should compel it to make an alteration relative to the credit of the Ministers, but in that else it will submit them in the next Sessions to the approbation of the Legislative Body *I he annual law is composed of the statement of receipts, and the expences ; the receipts of the 12th year are incontestibly comprised in the plan with which we are occupied. The expellees of the dif ftnent Ministers will also be found there under de tailed statements ; though applicable only to the 11th year, they will be the same next year, unless unforeseen and extraordinary circim - •stances should occur. Why, therefOre, need we insist upon the Government now presenting us with an. stimate of the expellees of the 1 ih year ? Could it give us an estimate more approximating to the adual expendi ture than the statement of the 11th year, which we have before our eves, and conformably to which it will provisionally direr the expellees of the next year, until the period when it shall transmit to the Legislative Body, a statement of the receipts and expences of that same year, exempt from every kind of incertitude, since it will be founded on the receipts n.l disbursements of the fi rst months. Till that epoch, the Government will direct the receipts and expences of the Peal year, not ailsitra- My and according to its will, hut conformably to the law. which will have decreed the contributions of the I‘.:th year, with regard to what concerns the receipts, and conforniably to the repartition between the Ministers, made for the 11th year, by that same law, with reiceace to what concerns the eepences of tire 'first months of the Mil year. Your Scaion is farther of • opirtion, that there 11C. ver has been submitted to your examination a &ail of a law on the finance., so compleat as this is, or which was more adapted to inspire confidence, end assure public credit ; it therelote it:colon:end> it to your adoption. Costae was he ird ; he pronounced an opinion fa vourable to the plan. The discussioa sea. ehmed. The Tribunate delihereted tel the plan. The Airy tion of it w. s voted by a majoei:y of .56 against 1. The sittings tee e. 771EATI? E-Rf)rif I)I?URr.i.ANE. TUN w 4.1 11.1 vre.e•iii...l a New II .t.rmal it. irk". Act-, TILE liEito OF THE NORTIT. 1 to h.. 1 I .11 UOMIMPI i a., I ..I.4lberl b Mr. Kelly. s.n.t7i t .itl (lily-014N lery lir NV militia 'II. Nif. Kell.. Mr • twei.l. INeg,,ii. t 31.'1%114.1, j,.tt. Jr. If; Loup. Nll • Mt. Me.l:nirokli, Vit. (;4111,4,,w, Mr. 11'1 , 14 , r Mr+. Yfbu.ig.. 11 Nlr4 Menage, Str, M Tyeer •1' • t tv It irh '4;l he a.lll. 34, I'i•LREE WYEKti AV, NIA.ii.RLAGE. Idiff apW thl . A. 6 .1t13C. StrAtt;;Cill ; Nirt ,lonian, with ihitt .116411. t) Tit. Ileru of the t<l' rt!). with the Snitda ; Mr.. Jot (7.111"kil , itt ii.! .kff 4 . enlittil 41.. Nl:itriag retiear.4l. and ill be invdneett. 7711*4111tE.-1101.4.1„ . CUFTYUCAR 1 OPIV. Titisk% ENING will lir prrhirinsd a Ntur Cuuseaty cs.hrd JOI N BU 1.14; Cr, AN ENGIAtiliiNIAN'oi The priltrip4l<eltar.itteti by Mr. .I,ru rt. Mr. euikito, Mr. F4wortr, Mr. .I"imetni , e, Mt. 11. &thrown. Mr. H aurlrl,nl, i11..rm.. , y, Mt. NVatkly. Mn. C;sioMt. %IM. EU-en:ut, AM 0 14 Pt. II JUliti44ti. Prnicr:, apokan 11 NI r.zBrman.r. W alt a1011(..1 %Ir Tu which wrili TWO STRINGS 'IU OUR DOW.. Th. N w COI nr , lf John -pp& he rotf.t.r.l rne.r.. Thursday, and Soar - lay, nevi werk, -sther. the Theatre A Au., tu. k.ikaa Z1.411-y. BRITISH PI3ESS._ LONDON, , moNDAY, MAacis,2B. 'We yr , :ter.lay received the Paris papers of the .(23.1. instant. Their contents are extremely inte resting. Upon the 21d. a pr4jet of a law upon the finances was submitted to the Tribtri.de. It is precisely upon the plan of our tudgrt ; and after taking a full view cf the revenue and expenditure, it begins its eighth and last sdlion, in the following words : • " TheCnecrrsment aemald: n rot , of credit of 400 millions tatiCS, to derriy the exinint.“ of the cevetal ihliattmenti set ait mini-arnimi *.r Cie year 12. (the year eimtvienc,rig the 2,k1 Scritzmher newt), awl teat It ch Ji hi- nothurireil to take that SUM %lion the procl6:c.: ,f and other pi:l3:4; resenia of the said par. — " YJUTIVN'ti al of fida hu tho , •ght this Icmarnl will not be refes.ll, the-i rerrirod tnay bey f aerie •lark ;t1 cl%i:•7l,stances in %illicit We iec a f toad by tr. aty, etfi:a epprClleovun. of its ditra.on " `Dm Prokt .‘f the law containing this proposition, • was tl,en put to the vote, and carried by a majority of 5) to 1. We conclu , le.i, from :he long anl studied silence of the MerJi.'ear upon the sub'ect cf the ex istin7 ditnvences b:•tw:en the two countries, that when it should break siLlice, it would speak out to some purpose. Toe event has jnsti ed our expeda- Lion. A sum of sixteen millions sterling, voted with only one dissenting voice, afford; a tolerable proof of the unanimity of the French Councils, and the energy with which BONAPARTE is prepar ing to decide the present contest. We may boast the unanimity with which our P.:rliament voted the Address upon his NI aJi.sr v's Message. We may boast the unanimity with which the vote of 10,000 seamen was carried, but the FIRST Ct./N -OEL may also boast the unanimity of hi: tribunate, and his vote of 400,000,000 fr. The disposition of the people of France is believed to be pacific ; but in a country where the Government is so powerful, it is idle to take the dispo , ition of the people into the account, in any calculation of peace or war. The riltST CUNSI: L. knows no restraint from popular inclination. He has only to consult his own will, and from this sample of the liberality of his Tribunate, he need not fear a refusal of the means of carrying his will into execution. We thought, at the first moment of his Majesty's Mes sage, that the sudden alarm could only be justified by an immediate eireft. re now confirmed in - that opinion. BONAPARTE has now his Vote of Credit, he has made his preparations to give France a commanding attitude, and he .has done so with out giving the country that shock which England has been made to suffer. Nobody can now expea. that France, thus prepared and provided, will yield a single point from fear or surpize, and the Nego citation will henceforth I,e carried on between the two parties upon a footing of perfeet equality.— This state of things is, we think, rather unfavourable to the continuance of Peace. BONAPARTF. thus ...apprized and prepared, c:rinot yield a point with out a departure from the high tune which he has - assumed ; and the English Minister, we fear, cannot yield with a good gr... c, or without, in some mea sure, compromising the diginity of the nation. It is astonishing to see with what firtrnce, the Frerch Rinds stand IT agtinst the threatened rupture. — TIP!: 5 per Cents. were on the `..?! . .!d, the day on whiChi the 100,600,000 were voted, .5;". being one per Cent. !higher than on the preceding day. On account Tor the Sept. they were, however, only fi.t. Yesterday morning Mr.l - ILsTER, the NI: ssenger, anived at Lord HA WKLCSURV'S Office, with dis patches from Lord WIIITWOnTu at Paris, and also with dispatches for the Faisett ANIIIAF3ADett. The contents cf the fcrmer were immediately kr warded to his MAJESTY at Windsor. From the daily arr:val and depart ire of Messengers, we kat.,w thrt the present discussions are carried on with great anivity ; but ..ve know nothing more. This profound Sear'y, which does act alterd a single point t:) :imix the fancy, is cf course the parent of infinite conjefture. Saturday, the ugh less prolific of rumour than Friday, wa , , however, more posi tive and defined in its produ.ftions ; an.lthe most promising of the day was th., recd c I Mr. PITT. We :have reason to that Ministerial changes have been in contemplation, and are in coittempla tion but we believ.• they entirely A leptir..l upon the issue tithe preselit difrerene , with Fratice. mould they end in war, Mr. Pitt will revolt to office; but * until something decisive shall tak ,place in our fo. reign affairs, our internal Chang .f are quite un certain, and rest upon the hazard of a die. Some alarming rrparts haya Leen recently pro. mated, with rtutpea to Irel inl ; considering it the nos: vulnerable part cf the Laic of the Empire, we have taken pains to ascettala d eir truth. It is the custom of wme Paper.: to reason upon the aff.,iri of that country, as they would urn chose of Jamaica ur Trinidad. A man, however, who will reason, with respect to Ireland, upon general : principles, will run tian'ger of being deceived, because it is a country la which pi-.:jastedikrl passior4 prevail n a znatur degree, tlian,fertaps, in any othz-r.-- Ne have seen p v ate ai.eutsius from that r Art <of ,tll2 United Kingdom, ;Uli the/ are far from being an.. tista&ory. Although the fast ha; not been asccx• tained, there i..trong reason to presume, that arm; have been smugded into it ; and that it tempt: have been made to awaken the dying embers of diaffenion ain.mg the lower classes.—.. In the list of incitement to sedition, has been in cluded a Manifesto from Aar air & O'Cora s oit, pro mising his countrynien liberty and equality. We du not, however, find that there is any truth in thlc particular i.eport. The foundation of # was, believe, a pamphlet published about three months ago, in a very inflammatory style, and said to have been %%nitwit by him, in juitiiication oi his conduct. We du nut, however, think it of much importance whether there be such a manifesto or not. The lowcr classes in Ireland arc persuaded, that he stands high in the confidence of the Fiat? C0N51.,L, ar.d that in case of an kvasiun he will have a principal command. —ln this state if things, the Lawyers Corp, which, in the late rebellion, was the first to set an example cf byalty and courage, has had a fleeting at Dubli , at which they unanimously resolved to. arm —Coun sellors Saciat s an.i Spa:si:a. le, who were officers, and resigned their commissions upon th? Union, have offered to serve in the ranks.—There is no clout - , hut that all the upper classes cf Society twill display the same patriotism and loyalty. it was reported is the city on Saturday, upon the authority rt letters said to have been brought by the Dutch mail, that the French troops, professedly in tended for Louisiana, but whose real destination was the subject of suspicion with our cabinet, have em barked at Ilelvoetsluys, and only waited a favour able wind to proceed to America. CO pro,- The Admiralty Board on Saturday issued orders for granting protations to the crews of all vessels indiscriminately that have cleared out at the Custom house against impress : the application for prcacc tion is to be accompanied by the certiticate of clear ance, in order that the benefit may be confined to those vessels in readiness fur sca.— Ob.erv‘r. Letters nem Constantinople, to the 11th Febru ary, state, that a brig of war, on the Ist et J:u arrived at Alexandria, in thirty-two days horn Eng land, charged with orders for the immedilac evacu ation of the place. It is asserted at the Hague that all the Gover nors who, at the commencement of ae war, gave up the Dutch colonies to the English troops, will be cited before the Military Tribunals, which the Go vernment arc about to establish for this purpose. It is said that our Government will send out, in the course of this year, a considerable number of troops, though the different garrisons abroad are already stronger than they have been at any former period. Mr. Dm:Nato:to, the English Ambassador, at Constantinople, is a man of business, as well as a studious and learned man. He is the author of a translation called Persiuc," and of a Tragedy lately printed. The alarm occasioned at Constar tinople, by Lord Etcn salute, appears, by our letters of yesterday, to have been greater than reported. It -0.-as three hours after sun-set when this extraordinary 'Salutation took place. As a gun is never fired there at night, but upon some very important occasion, as a rebel lion in the city, the deposition or death of the Sultan, or extensive confl igration, Lord ELGiN ' S nineteen guns exzitt'd the utmost panic and confusion. Citizen Bca(wisc, the French Ambassador at Stockholm, has presented to the King of Sweran a copy of a translation of a play written by his father, Ciesvavus ADOLPFLUi 111. entitled Sir: Brake, or The Dengers of Curio,ity, which is now performing in Paris. This play was produced at Covent-Gar. den :thou: seven years since, from a translation of hlr.Tlt eP, under the title of Curiosi.Py. On Monday the 27th of December, about one o'clock, his Majesty's ship Ulylnr, of 44 guns, Ca rain Co is um n a, anchored in the Gulp - h of Trinidad. His rxcellency General Picrom imme diately deputed. Sir Jamas BOW) UN and the Hon. BLACK to wait upon Colonel FetcAatos, with congratulations on arrival, and a request to be inforrazd when he proposed to had. The Treaty between the Company and the Rajah . t)f Tanjore has at length been ratifieit and a laces of congratulation has hen dispatched from the Court of DirMors to his Highness on that impor tant occasion. I). Wells, who was found guilty at the late Darby Assizes, of the murder of G. Bingham, was exe cuted cn Saturday. After having been suspended, the rope slipped, and the is -retched man fell to the ground, by which his leg was broken, and he was otherwise much bruised ; but being, immediately tied up again, he expired ;After a severe struggle. h is said, that he acknowledged at the place of exe cution the commission pi another murder, two years ago, when he drove a waggon over his un happy maim, and reported that he had met his death by accident. A great number or, small encampments are to he turned in the Austtian dominions early in the Spring, when the Ext. rttoa purposes to review the whole of his army. It is said that the Emperor o: Russ' the Kings of Sv , and NA PLEB, and ober great personages, s, ill, on this occasion, visit eic. Austrian Court. Several F.neifill offic:rs w l .O were at Brussels, have set of abruptly on thtir re:urn home, in consequence of letters thpy received ,from London, and by which they woof required to join their te. spective corps without delay. The Prefea of the Doyle writes from Paris, that the Fins? CoNst t. will occupy the Hotel of the PrefeCture, one of the finest and the most pleasantly situated in Brussels. This Hotel was formerly oc cupied by Count MET: Lanett, Minister of the Emperor to the General Government of the Low Coun:ries. Preparations are already begun at Brut. sels fir the reception of the First Magistrate of the Republic. An elegant carriage, of the value of 30,000 francs, has been ordered from the manu fincry of the celebrated Statos. It is destined to receive •Bwi P Atilt On the frontiers of the ar dep. -•, • ' meat of tl,e • :