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prersion. a with an Unanimous will, tad a voice as powerful as that of the Creator, the first day of the , esistente of the universe, exclaimed, Let equality be established, let privileges disappear, and let the nation ble what it ought to be !" He then took a view of .the Government of Charlemagne, and the abuses in troduced into France after that glorious epoch, when one of the most powerful families of the Feudal spawns was called to the sovereignty. lie then ad verted to the year 1789, whin the Fremi people, he ' siid, committed the great fault of let ing the su p one power in the bands of a family essentially f let. Louis XVI. King of France, would never crudescend to be King of the French. Being born a Sovereign, he could never convent to become a Magistrate. Having,then made some observations ' co the Constituent Assembly, the Constitution of 1791, and the rate of things since that period, he observed, that the happy situation of the French pe )ple, who were now in the full possession of all the rights which were the sole obje& of the revolution *ln 178% *as disturbed only by uncertainty in re gard to tire future. "The enemies of our emln i try," said he, " are alarmed at our prosperity, as they are atsour glory. Their plots have been multiplied. and one might say, that instead of a whole nation, they had to combat only one man. Him they have attempted to strike, in order to effi:a his destrujion, being well assured th it France, in mourning for the loss it would that day sustaia, fur the man who organieed it, and the chief by was liveried, divided by ambitious rivals, a by partiel, w..uld sink amidst the storms • lo ose against it in every direaion. What secu gen we give it against the fear of so many mil ' Sart WS? What reme4s can we oppose to an many evils Opinion; the aflsties, and the whole people , have pernonneed it. hereditary suceession in a fa mily rendered illustrious by the revolution, conse crated by equality and liberty, in the family of a chief who was the first soldier of the republic before he be came the First Magistrate ; a chief who would have been eminently disti guished by his civil qualities, even had he nut filled the whole world with the fame of hisestrms and the splendour of his viaories. Here (continued he) we have the inappreciable advantage of finding at the head of the nation the Chief of an august family proper to form the first link of the new dynasty; an eternal barrier will thus be opposed to the return of fall ion. and the French people will be consist of preserving their dignity, their indepen dence, and their tett itory. Let us hasten then, my colleagges. to demand that the Chief Magistracy may be made hereditary; for, in voting a Chief to be he. =Glary, as Pliny said to 'Frajan, we prevent the mturn of a master. But at the same time let us give a grand name to a great power; let us procure in 'Abe Supreme Magistracy of the first Empire in the 'e oeld'Cme mite& due to a sublime denomination ; I do not find any title for the Chief of the National Power mote worthy of the splendour of the nation than the title of Soperw. " I move then, that we re itr to the Senate a wish which is that of the whole nation. and of which the (skied is : " Ist. That Napoleon Bonaparte. now First Con. aid, be declared Emperor, and in that quality remain with the Government of the French Re- Itw 44 g, They tl.e imperiel dignity be declared here " 3. That such of our institutions as are only tzseel out. shall be definitively suspended." Al-nost all the Members of the Tribuaate having -inseresed their names to speak on the motion; SA• VOT. Ro tun observed, that it would be difficult filet tem all to be heard ; and oa a proposal being male, the Tribunate referred to a commission of thirteen Members the motion of order. the speeches delivered, and those which should he spoken till the day fixed for the report. The commission were to Stake their report on Thursday. The Members who compose it are Cures., Saline, Jaubert (de la Gironde), Duverrier, Duvidal, Gil let (tie la Seine et Oise), Freville, Canon de Nisax. Savoy. Rollin s Albisson, Grenier, Eelaitre, Cha baud Latour. The members of the Bureau, Fabre President. Jard Panvilliers. Faure, Simeon, and Ar 'mold, Secretaries, are to form part of this commis sion also. EXTRAORDINARY SITTING. CLORZIL (HALT I.) An ordinary crowd of speaators this day, as D. y, filled the Tribunes, and the interior of the Tea sitting was opened at two o'clock. The Pre sident intimated that Carnot being the only Tribune, whose name was inscribed against the motion, liberty of addressing therribunate was afforded him. Csrnot mounted the Tribune. He set out with de- daring, that bring to sprat against the motion of Curse, he should endeavour to preserve the same moderation in delivering his opinion, which had been Imbibitetiq the Tribunes who had spoken in favour of the Union. He added, that he referred those who wished to put a bad eonstruttion on his sentiments to the rigid examination of his condua, since the .commencement of the Revolution. He took up the question of conferring on Bonaparte the dignity of Emperor lot life, and making it hereditary in his fa . roily. He asked, if it was to grant the First Consul a rewind for his services, to offer him the sacri fice of liberty ! He asked, whether it was not to destroy Bonaparte's own work, to make France his private patrimony ? I voted against the consulate for life (continued *e orator, and I will not this day follow a different coon le. will be consistent with myself ; but the moment that the order of things which is proposed is established, I will be the first to conform to it, and to yield to the new authority proofs of my deference. May all the members of the community follow the same example." The orator went on to the examina tion of the form of government proposed to be arts ; Wi s h e d. He cited a number of examples from the Jsistory of Rome, and drew as an inference from them, that a government by one individual was not in the smallest degree a sure pledge of its stability or its tranquillity. He applied the same inference to the history of France, where intestine commotions and civil discords so often existed under the government of princes. weak or unworthy of governing. 4. After the Peace of Amiens (continued Carnot), Bonaparte had the choice between a Republic or a Monarchy ; but he had sworn to defend the former, and to resist* the wishes of France, wi.ich had nude him their guardian. Nvw it was proposed to . _ make of the Power a property, of which, at pre sent, only ihe Administraiortr , !x.ssessed. "The Romans were most jtii.)us (,f their liberty, and Camillus Fabius and Cincil..ti.itts ally saved the country because they relincittis'%ed the power which had been confided to them it t•or they Ltd saved their country. But* liberty of Rome perished its soon I. as Czsar usurp absolut , 2 prAvcr." CA IttiOT cited the eranrk of the t'nited States. ' It was reserved for the New World to spew to the Old the pr.:Ll:tic:6;l4y of a nation's enjoyin . :; liberty, and the rising prosperity of the people. 'the desti nies to which they appeared to be called Ivit no doubt remaining of the existence of that truth. After discussing a variety of general principles, Carnot made some particular observations. " Will (said he) the opinion of the public funCtionaries be the free wish of the whole nation ? Will there not be inconveniencies attending the expression of an opposite sentiment? Is the liberty of the press so much restrained and degraded that it will be im possible to make, in the public prints, the most re spedlful remonstrances against the proposed arrange ment ?" • The Orator considered the question in another point of view. He asked, if the expulsion of the Bourbons at all involved the necessity of a new dy nasty I if the establishment of that dynasty would at pl.er ohstacles in the W of a general peace; if it would be recognised by foreign powers; :old if , in case of a refusal to recognise et, arms would neces sarily be resorted to, and for an empty title the se curity of the French nation would not perhaps be endangered? This is not the only means niiich the existing Government has of consolidating itself. The means of this consolidation consists in adherence to justice. Far be it front me here to mak•• any parti cular application, or to cast any blame on the opera rations of Government. Suet; a thought has no place in my heal t. " Is liberty then disclosed to man only that it may never be enjoyed ?—No ! I cannot consent to regard it as a nitre chimera, and my heart tells me that its Government is easy. In conclusion (said the Ora:or) —I am ready to sacrifice my personal opinion to the interests of my country. My respea fin- the law will remain unalterable, and I desire above all things to see every opinion, and every sentiment united against our eternal, our implacable enemy, that enemy which is now meditating universal op pression. I vote against the motion." Faure next mounted the Tribune. He applied himself to the refutatifm of Carnot's speech. He ask ed, if he had well manifes e t his respell for the law, by reminding them that he had on a preceding oc casion voted against the Consulship for life, i murtion_ ed by the vote of ;wore than a million of Frenchmen ? He supported the motion. Aft:tout° began in the following terms the speech which he also delivered in favour of the motion : " What is this fatality which has seized our col league, which renders him the passive witness of the outrages of the Committees of Public Safety, which carries him to the Diredoey, and cannot fur nish him with the means of daing good to the peo ple, which on the 18th FruSidor renders him the eiaim of the events of that day, and does rot per mit him to perceive the share which Pichegru then had in the conspiracy formed against France ?" Albison, Orman. i Chabot (de L'Allier), Deletre and Challand, sever ally spoke in favour of the mo tion. Cation-N:3as refuted the opinion of Carnot. His speech will be published at the end of the one he delivered yesterday. The Tribunate ordered six Copies of the opinion of the Orators to be printed. • EXTRAORDINARY SITTING IZT/1 FLOIL/LAL (MAY 2.) The Order of the Day was called for the confirm. ation of the discussion on the motion of Curee. CHASSISON contended that the intention of the French had always been to establish a monarchical form of Government. The wish fortr.al in 1789 was now to be fulfilled, and no person but Bona parte could better fulfil this wish, which will consti tute the happiness of France and our posterity. He voted fur the motion, and six copies of his speech were ordered to be printed. PER er E formed the wish &dated to him by his sin cerity and his conscience. He added a few words to corroborate what had been said. to prove how well Bonaparte was worthy the dignity to which the French people called him. He particuLtrly direaed his observations to shew what a powerful guarantee posterity would possess in the hereditary succession proposed. The latest posts-thy of the head of the Government, said he, will seek in the history of Bo naparte the example which they ought to follow. They will respell his glory. and never shall our pos terity have reason' s to reproach us for the wish which sse form this day.—The speech WAS ordered to be printed. Canner and Det.toxitat joined their wishes to that of their colleagues. This is not the time, said Delpiene, when the people were the property of Rings. The interests of both are now common. Thew repose, their stability, and their happiness, are henceforth inseparable. FAV•RD—u I know that the First Consul, the au • gust head of the Government, has the wishes of the }Tench people. The pens of the eloquent are em ployed in celebrating his glory ; and posterity, which is the judge of great men, will only re-echo the language of the age in which he lived. 04 It is in the nature of things. that if empires pre. spot under a great man, the moment which de prives them of his set vices menaces them with some dreadful explosion, if the same moment does not substitute in his place him who is to be his successor. “This is the objet of the motion under discussion, and I assent to it, persuaded that if the empire is the price of the virtues of the great man who is called to the Imperial dignity, the succession to it by the family guarantees to France ages of glory and of repose. BE tUVA is obtained leave to make a motion of or der, the objet of which was-1. 'to declare that the discussion is closed-2,11y, To decide that the Re porter of the Commission shall be authorised to morrow to make his motion on Cures's sou Con of order. Bolh these motions wete agreed to. do. THE BRITISH 1 3 RESS: LONDON, TUESDAY, MAY 15. Yesterday morning, abaut ten o'clock, Mr. An- DINC:TON bad an audience of His MAJ rsz v, which continued until near twelve o'clock. At three o'clock, His MAJESTY hed a Privy Council, which was attended by the Duke of PORT!. AN n, Earls DAR MOUTU, CAMDEN, CMATLIAM, WINCHEt SEA, and WESTMORLAND ; Lords IIAWKESaVnY, lIA ItiIOWEV, MELVILLE, and CASTLEREAGH ; Lord GeoRGE TH VNNE, Sir H. D. NEAL E, and Mr. PITT: The following Noblemen and Gentlemen were sworn into office, and had the honour to kiss His MAJES- T v's hand, upon their several appointments as fol- Lord MctviLLE, First Lord of the Admiralty, vie, the Earl of ST. VINCENT. The Earl of DARTUOUTII, Lord Chamberlain, vice the Marquis of SALISBURY. Lord HA a ROWBY, Secretary of State for the Fo reign Department, rice Lord HAN/NUN:It v. Lord H s WKESBU RV, Secretary of State for the Home Department, rice Mr. Yo RR L. Earl CA MORN, Secretary of State for the War Department, rite Lord Houma. Lord G. Tirvrest, Comptroller of the House hold, rife Lord CHARLES Swiggett. The Council did not break up until past seven o'clock. I lis MAJgsr v soon after gave an audience t o Mr. Parr, which lasted until eight.—ln the House of Commons yesterday, . new writs were moved for the boroughs of Beeralston and Wen (lover, to return Members in the room of Lord Lou vAlisc and Loso, appointed Lords of the Trea sury ; and for the Borough of Lostwithiel, in the room of Mr. WI LLtass Dtcsitgason, jun. appointed a Lord of the Admiralty.—We rely upon this offi cial detail, as a proof of the superiority of our in formation.—Of the above appointments, six pre ci-ely correspond with the arrangement which we gave yesterday.—lt is curious to observe, that the plans given by the papers, which affat to be most in the confidence of the several parties, have proved the most fallacious.—Mr. Cassino has returned to town, and it is stated with confidence, that be has consented to succeed Mr. Timmer as Treasurer of the Navy; he is also to be a Member of the Board of Controul. This is exaftly what we foresaw. Second thoughts are best, and his good sense could not fail upon reflation to determine him to adhere to Mr. PITT. When the GRENVILLE party shall hare exerted the whole of their influence to bring in Mr. Fox, we will venture to say some of them will follow the example of Mr. CANNING. According to the present arrangement, Lord ELDON will certainly go out on Saturday, and will be suc ceeded by the Ertl of Rossi vN. We mentioned yesterday that Mr. Fox was offered places for five of his friends in the new Ministry, but that the offer was not deemed satisfaftry. Indeed, as the offer has been detailed to us, it could net be expe&ed to produce any circa. ; for, of the five persons mentioned, Mr. Gary was the only one that could be fairly considered the friend of Mr. Fox. The other four were of the GRENVILLE party, and old friends of Mr. Purr. A morning paper, devoted to the party of Mr. Fox, adverting to this subjea, seems very sore upon it, and from the manner in which it has taken it up, one world be inclined to conclude, that there is more in it than meets the eye. The following ate the words in which the paper to which we allude expresses itself: " A rumour having been circulated, and having found its way into the newspapers, that on Mr. Fox's acquies cence in his own exclusion fi om office, an offer had been made by him and his friends, that five of them should have scats in the Cabinet ; an offer which, according to the skid rumour, they peremp torily and precipitately refused ; we are happy to have it in our power to contradia, from compe tent authority, a report which has no founda tion. No such offer, nor any offer of a similar nature, or on a similar principle, was ever made, &rally, or indiratly, by Mr. PIT T, nor ever hinted at by any of his friends. Of Mr. PITT'S conduA in the late transaaions, neither Mr. Fos nor his friends make any complaint. Where there existed no engagement, either express or implied, as resulting from the nature of the transation, there could be no ground for complaint. But, on the other hand, it is not fair that Mr. Fox's friends should be ar raigned for having refused a proposition of which they had no knowledge, until they heard it circu lated by common report, and read it in the news papers, after some progress had been made in form ing the New Administration " It is expelled that Mr. Pity will be re-elated for Cambridge to-mor row, and that he will take his place as Minister in the House of Commons on Friday Instrations have been given for prepariag a new Volunteer all. It will include all Mr. Prrr'ssug gestioas upon the subjea, and, it is expected, will e. '<', pass without any opposition from she GA ch v.t.t T. ,arty, as it wi►t ASO mixes die ideas of Lord G ALN. v 11.1.1: in an its leading features. We have given the proceedings of the Ttibun ate, luring three successive days, upon the pi opositioa r confemug the title of EMPEROI Op )1 i ON A. eA it rE, and rendering that digc.i,y hereditary is his CA a Nor was the only Tribune who op. p I it, and some shallow politicians, totally rant of the charaCter of CA RNOT, and of the Revolution, give him great praise for his spirit a. ,1 courage upon the occasion. A link retie/Eon a:4 attention to faCts will be sufficient to cmvince the:n of their error. No era, either antient or modern, is so remarkable for profligacy of principles a , ',l hypocrisy of conduet, as that of the French Revo. lution. Among the criminal heroes who have figured upon its disgusting stage, CAIINOT is ode of the foremost. With several commissions of his Ktmo in his pocket he first revolted against . His MaJESr v's authority, and afterwards voted for the death of a ' Sovereign, to whom he had taken the oath of allegiance, both as an hereditary and as a Constitutional King. With Ronzerizsaa he was a member of that infamous Committee, and signed with him orders for the imprisonment of 250,000 families, the proscription of 500,000, and the death warrants of upwards of 300,000 perstiits, who perished at Paris, at Lyons, at Toulon, at Orange, at Bourdeaux, and in La Vendee. The in. trigues and hyprocrisy, which prevented him front sharing the scaffold with Aosaria►nit, made him afterwards a Direetor. In this place he cajoled all parties, and deceived them all. But his duplicity , became notorious, and he was proscribed in his turn. Recalled by BONAPAITZ, to occupy the place of a Minister of the War Department, he made, as such, the preparations for that campaign in which the battle of Maringo decided the slavery of the Continent. Quarreling with BILITIIIaa, he was thrown into a momentary disgrace, and resigned the Ministry for a place in the Tribunate. There he spoke of liberty, as while a member of the Com• mittee of Public Safety, when he sent hundreds daily to perish, and thousands daily to fill the republican dungeons. The friends of liberty were for some time the dupes of this abandoned charaaer, but after the discussion upon the Ccessnlnnefer life, when every person who spoke againa..it etas removed, when CHLMILI, DAMAO. Se. Ausix, and ocher re. gicides lost their places, and CIasOT continued, not only to preserve his, but to be consulted by the FIIST Cesium, the mask of the patriot disappeared and traitor to his King as te his country and coon. trymen remained. Thelatespachof CA anor against the change of the republicangotreensanstinto a revo. lutionarymonarchy infavour of a Asocial* foreigner, cannot be any thing else but a farce, agrd upon be. tweenhim and hispresent master,topersnade foreign nations, that liberty is not entirely extinguished in France ; that when such a speech is permitted to be printed, every French Citizen may publish his opinion on this subjea freely; and that when no other opposition is made to Bona, savz's new dignity, it may be regarded as the unanimous wish of the nation. Any person who has studied the French rebellion, and the underhand dealings of its actors, cannot be the dupe of the manmuvres either of a Casinos - or of a Bow AAAAAA . The word liberty in the mouth of the Decemvir, Can sot, can only mean Revolution. In the Tribunate, besides Caesar, are twenty two other regicides who have voted a throne fur Boss AP ARTZ, after voting a scaffold for Louis XVI. In the Senate, besides SI Vials GMSOOIIta. and Faucet. are 16 other regicides,who have exalted Bo ti•P ART E to a throne, after murdering Louis XVI. upon a scaffold, who have banished as a criminal the most virtuous of Sovereigns, and who have taken home, as a Sovereign, the most criminal of foreigners. All the letters recently received from India are entirely silent upon the progress of the Revolution ists who have lately disturbed, and are endesvoutiag to destroy, the long established order of things in Mc Chinese empire. Information had been communicated at Bombay. that a vessel had fallen in with six Dutch ships of the line on the coma of Java, to the Eastward of Batavia. Yesterday, WILLIAM LLISMINGTON, Esq., citizen and merchant tailor, paid the usual fine of 4001. and twenty marks, to be excused serving the offixo of Sheriff. Alv) EDWARD Kruett, citinen and salter• paid :he usual fine of 4001. and twenty marks, to he excused serving the office of ShieriS. The Vretor sloop of war he. taken, off Adyea a Head, French ship, valuat-4y laden with preA-ntr, from the King of Connie to the Fool COSIVL. _ . A letter from on boisrd His lislaJasrv's ship inter/Tater, of Teener, uqs, et We have assert %+ that the Strait betosezz Nevi , Holland an.' "X.rr Guinea may be safaly passed in three days. wtss• caution—enter the f i.tfs in 9 Je 7 .45 mk t . S. and :n .4 on the north s'.•te of st••rra)'s laan.l—stc .t •he Prince of Wall so l s slain 10 31• mm. ship may :inch „kr every night, milder lin lea tt reef or islAncl." S' F. P..„1, •.• Dtr St.!' e, t aotnall S to 1 a7' 7 t,l '2 Hippo, two cc noi:! of j„..3 Fres C.lib • Dtrb 1. ,rd rim% • Glov4 604 c; filly, ( again Yeste erry. his Poo ccsses. Richm MVO Cel The at Car the li lu f tar; Au fine As