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~~ r !RANG. CONSICIVATIVE SENATE TO THL MST COPSrI. OF THE REPUBLIC. Paris, Mal. 7. " Citizen First Consul—The Cmservative Senate repairs in u body to you, to thank you fin the com munication you have made to it, the 2d of this month, by the Grand Judge. Minister of Justice, of the original documents and authentic papers re lative to the atrocious plots laid against the State, and against you, under cover of a diplomatic cha meter, by the Envoy of the King of England to the Court of Munich. " In ex.tmining these papers, and the report which the Grand Judge has made to you of them, the Senate has seen tht necessity of supplyirs7 for the moment the funetions of that grand national tribunal, the establishment of which is wanting to our insti ,. tutions. A commission of five members has made ' to it a report which the senate has adopted, and which it comes to present to you. Its publicity is committed to the wisdom of the Government. Our deliberations are essentially secret, and, in political matters, we have for a maxim to let transpire only what the Government may judge convenient to corrmannicate to Europe. We say to Europe, be- Cause it is not France alone that is concerned ; her Cause is that of the whole world. a However, relatively to France, the circum- I stances make it a duty for the Senate to explain it r, tell' upon two important objeds, which the discovery •f those horrible plots appears to it to render worthy of your quickest and most serious attention. .. At the si-,ht of all these attempts, fmm which Providence has saved a hero necessary to its designs, itfstst reflection his struck the Senate. . " When they meditate your ruin, it is France they mean to injure. The F.nglish and the Emigrants know that your destiny i< that of the French people. If due execrable projqls of the former had succeeded, they little think cf the horrible vengeance which that people would have taken of them. Heaven will pre serve the earth from the necessity the French would be in of ;-;!aishing a crime, the consequences of which would overturn die whole order of the world. But that crime has been attempted, and it can be so again ; we speak of vengeance, and eur laws have not foreseen it. 4 ' Yes, Citizen First Consul, the Senate must tell it you. .. In organising our social order, your superior ge , ties has mad- an omission, which honours the ge neresiry of your charatter, but which, perhaps, aug ments your dangers and our fears. All our consti tutions, except that of the year R, had organised either a high court, or a national . 1.117. You have had the corSclence that such a tribunal would not , be necessary. a-d posterity, which must give you credit for ail that you have done, will also put to your account all that you would not foresee. " But, Citizen First Consul, you owe yourself to the country. Teu have not the authority to negleft your existence; and the Senate, which, in its es sence, is the preserver of the social raR of 30 mil lire's of men, demands, on their part, that the law should urplaie itself upon the first object of this pre- *.nation. " Citizen First Consul, a grand national tribunal wit asgire on the ere side the responsibility of the public fun :.itinaries. and on the other it will offer to conspirat as a tribunal quite ready, entirely invested with the consistence and with the powers necessary to maintain the safety and exigence of a great i penile. attached to the safety and to the existence of i.sellief. I " But this national jury does not yet suffice to as. rice, at the same time, both your life and your work, if you ifo not add to it institutions so combined as that their system may survive you. You found a new ma; but you must eternise it. Brilliancy is nothing without duration. " We ca•inot doubt but this great idea has occu pied you ; for yoat plastic gei.iiis embraces every thing and forgets nothing. But do n n defer. " You ate pressed by time, by events, by conTira tors, by ambitious men. You are pressed, in ..nether sense, by an inquietude which agitates all the French. You can chain down time, master events, curb con- I ipirators, disarm the ambitious, and tranquillise all E imam by giving it institutions which may cement 1 =edifice, and prolong for the children what you done for the fathers. Citizen First Consul, be well assured that the Senate speaks to you here in the name of aU the Citizens. All admire and love ' you ; but there are none who do not often think i with anxiety, on what would become of the ship of the Republic, if she had the misfortune to lose her pilot benne being safe moored upon immoveable asselinrs. In the cities, in the country, if you could 1111111aliMa all the French, one after another, there is Not i of them but would say to you, as well as i 4 le, I man, complete your work, by render lig li. ' nal like your glory. Yon have drawn us from t e chaos of the past ; you make us ble•.s the benefits of the present ; guarantee to us the fano,: " In foreign courts, sound policy will hold the lame language to you. The repose of France is the secure pledge of the repose of Europe. Such, Citi zen First Consul, are the observations which the Se jpe has charged tutelar before you, and has given .:F' us also the express mission to repeat to you, in its sante, and it the name of the French people, that in all circumstances, and now mere than ever, the Se. pate and the people make only one with you. (Signed) CA NE ACES ES, SECONCICOOSOI,President. Mosamo or GALLES and JoseeitCoastioer,Sees. Seen and sealed, The Chancellor of the Senate, signed, Lan Ace." S lint Cluocl, 3th Fiore.* Year 12. MESSAGF. SIONAFARTC, FIRST CO,l4Vt. OF THE .REPUSLIC, 10 INC CONStItt ATM SENATE. a Senntor—Your Address of the 6th of last Germinal has never ceased to be pigment to my thoughts It has been the object of my most constant meditation. " You have judged the hereditary power of the supreme magistracy necessary, in order to shelter the Fr:nch People completely from the plots of our ene• %alai-% and From the agitations which arise from riv a lientitions. It even appears to you, that many of our freaitutions ought to be unproved, in order to secure for ever site triumph of equality and pit'lic liberty, , or 1 .).e.wy.t to the Nation and to the Guverament -:.; d ',Lk guarantee they are in want of. , • We have been constantly giiided by this grand that Use sovereignty tesides in Use krencla This Day—Warr Tvesont —Princes Ei.izAaays born—. Holiday at the Poblir Offices. THE BRITISH PRESS. LON DON, TUESDAY, MAY 22. Organi.ed despotism, though less savage, is more to be dreaded than anarchy, which contains within itself the seeds of its own destruCtion ; while the pillars of despotism, tieing artfully arranged for the support of each other, as well as of that of the general fabric, may stand for ages. Deplorable, therefore, as the stuatien of Europe was under the reign of Ro semi:ILSE, in 1794, the return of order, and the end of polhical troubles, were then more probable than now, since vile and wicked men have, by the sacrifices of the honour of their country, and the liberty and prosperity of their countrymen, assisted BONAPA , TE to organise a revolutionary anarchy,whicb extends it: destruetive and oppressive influence over the most populous nations, over the most fertile countries, and over the most delicious climate. The affenation of BON es sr, to be, like Au- OMITS, the Emperor of a Rerublic, and his pedantic imitations of the Roman Commonwealth by his Senator', Prefeets, Tribunes, Questors, !cc. are ridiculous, but not determined upon without future views of aggrandisement. The half learned set of Senators, '1 ribunes, Legislators, Sophists, and lawyers, who constitute at present tic gitoi of France in proclaiming Bot a►at*t atl Emperor, know vet y well, that of the twenty intivtnees, which were added by the Roman% to their Empire during the two last centuries of . the Republic, two only have been conquered by the French Repubßeens ; and eighteen, therefore, remain yet to be attacked, plundered, and ruined. Many balmy them have imitated and surpassed the Romans in ravaging the eerth, aad enslaving nations; There is no reason to be proud of having revived These bar barous times. The Roman Republic was grown cid, and sinking in those seas of bLid made by faftrons and Generals; whereas, it is in its very cradle, that the French Republic is steep ed in infamy: it begins whete all great repub 7 lies efiV it wish clariiir crimes, with war s of con quests, alt.b audacious and unprovoked a:tasks on 1 • its neighbours, with slavery at home and oppression abroad, with encouraging corruption an! spreading desolation. There is, however, still less public liberty existing in the French . Republic, than was left at Rome under the SYLLAii and the tyrants who succeeded them. but power itttiJLkes alive 111.111 a organised anarchy ; and the citizen of Paris, like the citizen of antient Rome, marches nut of his country to be slain, in order to administer to the passion's of an usurper. And what an usurper ! ' Never did Rome sink to such disgrace. At lcast'the inbark sion of the peopld derived some little honour from the eminence of their tyrant. C.'ES Alt was of a noble family, and Aucust us was his nephew, and both were Roman citizens; while the Vrinth Repub licans bow to the iron sceptre of art obictire, cable foreign adventurer, whose hands are stained with the blood of French citizens, fighting for his authority, and combatiiy for his laurels ; who was an assassin of Frenchmen before he was a com mander of French armies. By the proposed change of government, /los A. CARTE will gain an hereditary throne, but Europe will gain no security against an universal iepublic. On the contrary, every person acquainted with Bo- NACARTe9 outrageously ambitious charaaer, and the enterprising and propagating spirit of his coun sellors, may easily foresee, that after making all the South of Europe an Italian or Spanish republic, he will endeavour to revolutionise the North, and that nothing but its strength and spirit can gave it from disorganisation. Having no privileged orders to sopport his throne, he must Make some privileged republics its foundation, otherwise the first years of his imperial and hereditary rank will shew him the necessity of a revolutionary no• bility, as well as of a revolutionary clergy. All loyal and independent men must despise those na tions, who, that one may be free. are content to be slaves, who first lift a tyrant into terror, and then shriqk under his power, which their indolence and imprudence have assisted to treate. The Vineenjo brig, being becalmed in Quiberon Bay, was lately taken by a flotilla of seventeen gun boats. Sir SYS/MEV SUITIII has been more fortu nate. A flotilla of fifty vessels lately came not of Flushing to attack his little force ; but was defeated with the loss of seven sunk, one taken, and between twenty and thirty driven on shore. Sir JA Nees SA U- K A REZ also attacked a flotilla of French gun-boats on Friday last, on their passage from Cherbourg's to Granville, and drove several of the►s on shore. We have received Paris Papers to the 19th. Their contents chiefly relate to the new change of Govern ment. The Messiotvr of the 10th contains Address« in favour of the Estet soft and the ILit 4 telitafy cession, from the City of Strad:tire'', lte Camp at Brnyes, the Camp at Ostend, the Cd Division of / the Camp at ()stem', and the Squadron in T.adon Road. They are in the usual style, and destitute of interest or variety. Th- French Funds are stated to have risen tott'thit , cccasion.—They are 57r. 5 sc. Yesterday, about ten o'clock, the Lone CR A W.• CES. LON and Mr. PITT had audience' of His MAJESTY, which continued till near 12. Ina short time after, His M IJESTY, accompanied try- the Duke of CAM OR MGR, in his post-chariot, followed by the Qoat.4 and Pattrcesses, attended by the Countesses AvLeseuev, l and Cnantuan, in twe coaches and four, took an airing on the Harrow road, and returned about half-past three, through the principal streets at the West enclof the town. Yesterday, at 12 o'clock, the RUSSIA?! ANII A S s AD() e had an audience of Lord Hnanowar, at hirOffiee, which continued till past five. Yesterday was app ointed fur Ills MAJESTY to re ceive th e REconDER 'S Itepart'of the Conviets under sentence of death-'-hut, at a late hottron Sunday night, the LORD ANCAILI. 0 R RCM to the Recent- DEM, informing him it Iva put off. The Purser of the Sir 'Stephen loishiagion arrived yesterday .the jpdia-House, with I the MOH.. seine of the safe arrival of that ship at Plymouth, cominny with', the ships illntiral Gardner, Earl and Clnrlien, and five whalers. The Bari Hove, Admiral Gardner, Chigriton, and Sir &epic's tushisgioockft•Rengul in Deternberlast, and sailed fritorft.tielena; Ist'April ; left there the &donate Nrt2fp.15.721 ontward-bourtel) , and nileyy ea r z , there since the last acnunta teFre received PASAiIgCrA pia Sir Stephen 1,4,A8 nsinn from Ilsn— gal • C.Ronef and Mrs. Glass and Family, Mrs Ron and Fr Indy, Mrs. if Mtn Roberts. WI. Sheriff, Co Gir_ diner and Son, M . ,* taadvin, • roved Rol., Fort Two Mir Ron's... Wynn ht. Wallas Mr. Mown, Mr. Ge .rge S•iiith. A letter from Yarmouth states,. that orders are tired there on:Saturday from Commodore Sir SID. NEY SWIM, foe.a.l the 7un brigs and cutters in the Roads to proceed i:nmediately to sea and join the srmsdron, as be was in hourly etrietgletiOn of-the wh o l e of the Dutch flotilla corning cult Wi inderstortd Sif Va sem us flows* reappointed Commander opens the ?Ivs-for.rdlind sratiud, in - rhe mom of Adojral Giattati„a, atippintsti a Lori of the Admiralty. The 3d Regiment of Garda hose received orders to hold themselves in reidiness h to Weir. mr.uth, where the Roy intynd to be against the SO of nut month. 7 • • The Prima. sj: raise •packet, which wired on Saturday night from Husum at Harwich, brought over twenty passengers, among whom were the Earl of A stito Capt. and Nis % L •Ito, and" several Hanoverian recnrits. • * /... BRITISH NAVY. List of die - Min i sterial fl:et ypon the Westmin ster station, unsler the command of Admiral PITT. Guns • Premier. ,„„i r tten. wWilliamPitt, y, 01 „,. Adnvir4, Con. in Chief Cirt n . p g ,4 41 ,_ n ofwalli;; csiA. Itc ,- 4.43 , - •1 a shuts.. ....74 Qiipt.lriik . ..in,on. • Ebb , . *Cm sti rroilet 74 Cspt. R. Stews+ L. Cow& II • • ' 64 Ca pt Pratt. • P.4yetAster • 41 cwt. G Rost. l'A i meer 44 Capt. CAnuirig. • with ,a large Rotilla of bombs, cutters, pinnace, :brigs, arni gun vessels. The vessels marked thus rwere taken trom the enemy in the late engagerr.ent, whiCh Adintrol rlonis , .•rott was defeated, will the loss of his whole fleet. As it is expelled that this fleet will soon come into anion, and a considerable degree of interest attaches to it, the follotving account of the priccipal ships mar prove acceptable : The Premier is a very fast sailor, and carries very weight' metal. She is built upon a very pee'shar ctmit:uetion, being uncommonly long, consider. ing her .breadth. The Premier's head is much admired for the beauty of the inside. Her Pilot 1.; the celebrated t. Pilot that weathei'd the Storm." She has seen a great deal of service, but was, toe • the last two years, laid up in ordinary at Dover. • The Meltrilk. This vessel is built of Scusc fir, and was originally in the East India Cmispany's 1 service.—Her timbers being old, and supposed tole rotten, it was the general opinion that she would have been condemned and broken up accordingly. She has been stationed as a guardship for some time in the Frith of Forth, and was lately used as a re ceiving ship to carry recruits from Scotland to the fleet at Westminster. Upon this last trip, however, she perlormed her voyage with such expedition, the Admiralty have been induced to take her again into the line. Her guns are all brass, and her head and bottom are well copped. The A 1 dale was ter ribly mauled in the engagement off Ferrol, since which she has stuck close to p,et. She distinguished herself principally in her voyages in the Red Sea. The Ifenalisbisry has. been employed for some years past upon foreign stations. The llarrasuby is not a vessel of great force, but • she is very manageable; and being as light and active as a frigate, is expe&ed to make great havoc among the enemy's flotilla of gun-boats. The Cavntreagh was originally upon the Irish station, and lately in the service of the East India , Company. The Paymaster was formerly a slave ship in fie Guinea Trade, and was used occasionally as t Ministerial dung-barge. In the late war she took several prizes in Treassmy Bay. The Treq.uter carries a great deal too much sail for her upper works, which are fir from being so'i stantial. Her only guns consist of a few ;utterer les in her bow ; and, being a light shewy vessel, she has been principallg.auached to the Admiral as a sort of pleasure-boat.. hit.maiDiG • • Yesterday, about half pa;t two in the afternoon, the .I,,fore and IVeshaoretand, two four-oared boats, started from - Westminster-bridge to row through Kew-bridge. a distance of eleven miles and a half. against tide, for a Wager of twenty guineas. The choice of•pietibis won by the Aurora, but before thee. reached the shore the Wootareland came op with her, and nearly turned her round ; the :brow, , however, prevented her opponent from passing her. 'and contiaued a-head all the way up Millbank. C n crossing from the Distillery to the Red I louse, the OrearatervArroi again came. up with the Atmore, and • after ASII:II)COIIICNI,pasSCA herani kept greatly a-head LIMA they came near Putney, when the .!terse got !very close to her adversary. After they passed the bridge, the Mstmoriatod again got so .much whead of the Aurerii.aut on the arrival of the latter at Barnes, she gave up and went on sho r e. Th e IVea morqtari continued her course, and passed through Icew-bridge at four o'clock, having performed the distance in about an hour and a half, the shortca time it ever was rowed in. The bridge was lino d with speairtore l above and under the arches, who saluted the victors with huzzas and a discharge of small guns on their arrival. Considerable hots were depending. The odds, previous to starting; were in favour of the Aurora. Yesterday being Whit-Monday, Greenwich dis played all Its attrattive charms of poppet-shows, round-abouts, Scc. Kin in the Ring WAS the favourite beftig preferred to even rolling dov. Peopi-, in the sense thst every thing, whhout excep tion, ought to be done for its interest, its happiness, and its glory It is in order to attain this end, that the supreme Magistracy, the Senate, the Council of State. the Legislative Body, the Eleaoral Body. the hid:tor:a Colleges, and the different branches of the Administration, are and might to be instituted a In proportion as I fin my attention upon these great objeds, I am still more convinced of the verity of those sentiments which I have expressed to you. and I feel more an I more that in a circumstance as new as it is important, the councils of your wisdom and experience were necessary to enable me to fix my ideas. " I request you then to make known to me the whole of your thoughts. ' 4 The French People can add nothing to the ho nour and glory with which it has surrounded me, but the most sacred duty for me, as it is the dearest to my heart, is to secure to its latest posterity those advantages which it has acquired by a revohrtion that has cost it so much, particularly by the sacrifice of those millions of brave citizens who have died in defence of their rights. ' I desire that I might declare to you, on the 14th July, in the present year. Fifteen years have passed, since, by a spontAneous movement, von ran to arms, you acquired liberty, equality, and glory. These first blessings of nations are now secured to you for ever, are sheltered from every tempest, they are preserved to you and to your children : stitutimis conceived and begun in the midst of the storms of interior and exterior wars, developed with constancy, are just terminated in the noise of the attempts and plots of our most mortal enemies, by the adoption of every thing which the experience of centuries has demonstrated as proper to guarantee the rights which the nation had judged necessary for its dignity, its liberty, and its happiness. (Signed) BOK A •IRT L. By the First Consul. The Secretary of State, signed, H. B. Mater." PRIVATE VETTER. ITARIIVICW, MAY 8. Letters from St. Petersburgh mention, that not only the imperial Court, but all the inhabitants of the Russian capital, have pat on mourning for the murdered Duke of Enghien ; that Bonaparte's emissary, Hedonville, continues to reside there, but that he visits nobody, and nobody visits him The rumour of his departure was general on the 17th of April ; but on the next day he demanded, and ob tained an auil:ence of Prince Crartarinsky, the Minister ad .tn,',rim; for the foreign department, with whom he conferred for two hott-s ; and in the evening, he disp t!clied a c:airier to Paris, and will probably remain upon his vow, until he receives Un answer to the disp aches he sent away with this courier. It is reprted that he has de clared to the Russian Minster, that in his public character, he must defend the condaa of his superior, though in his private and individual capacity, he on this occasion not only disapproved it, but detested it. Before the middle of this month sixty thousand Russians will be collated and encamped in Livonia and Courland ; and letters Crum Russia contuaue ment on that a Russian Beet of 35 ships of the line, besides frigates and cutter, with transports, will be ready before the Ist of neat month. 'th eir destina tion is uakisown. the hill. The I)iike of NOSTIHIM BERL AND gave a grand dinner yesterday. Lady L. Masseuses rout, this night, in Pall Mall, will be brilliantly attended. The Marquis of I ST r polo will give a grand dinner tomorrow , at his house in Arl i ngton- street . The Earl of DEasy has allowed, out of his own priirate purse, 2s. 6d. per week, to cads wife and child of the Knowsley Volunteers now on ac tual duty at Wigan; and the labourets in his Lord shipkispiplay via:amuse so receive their wages while on military duty. Lord l►CNv uii is now oil duty at Nantwich with his regiment, the least Mayler Loyal Volunteers. Among the fashionables that have honoured lb: Exhibition of Tuxiis at Chelsea with their presence are—the Countesses of Essrx :mold IVLST MORE L :4 Lady 5041144111,T0N, C4 , 1011C1 ::. 1 1111,1111 • L E, &C. & • Their Royal'Highnesses the Prhice 4 f Waxxs.a:•••l I)iike of I r fIlt):, It is expefted, will also hot:our Cis choice assemblage of the children of' FLORA with a visit in the course of the present week. The French Tribunate lately cause to a resolution tol'itaae the dsbate when the silted was c.l a dad. t 4. pity thi s r u l e i a., zryl o served in eeri i va Assemblies ! ! Riini.xso.s . r.i.Niti.he other OfFICT.TS 01 1 the Craven Legion, patronised Miss Smi t ii's hew!: oa Orrsirdep, sir Ysoft, a • *..; • ni .s: A Majo r-Gene..-al Lord CRARLTS FITZROY. Y . 31 ao .lilida4 reviewing the Royal Bucks and, West *My At Harwich, he wag thrown Ituru his horse with some yipience to the ground. We axe, ltakpy . hovi:gier, that he was not nutfri.shv.busi l ,hemi: nay sdd ~ . hrrsed ; as he immediately tiloanteda Rnrte2lfl ,' ttlsith his aid de-camp Was riding, and 'c' &Wed 4 ennsiderible time in the field. Wow of St! TM T (ct•n 4 the gram Tile felt ; r ing of thl af;erw ive colons whi !these last 1 7 jght digit PJlice had b o url, from of the next. to avoid Clurlemag rerrarive Sc .'could be p ul The proe c_ flowing of rim, a Dut a P mague lading an waiting, an a Saxon, ar SIM?. state I arms, were ramerets, carryin cf tfan, G Tiry://, c walkin; tt Ss a Cdate, ashes of the in a republi chewed a 14 decorated v crape, with Ewers. &el lotine fresh &Minions ; at aate ,r the 1 4, dres,eti afted as :t coac aad Cardinal Igionar y Card i mmediate! ) a balloon, :,.'•plliue La 'lP4,le, &c. of maids of hor 4 " 1- 1 ^Tri at4 re t d ioa at u4 tionar; c 7'4 Bicetre --- Alter the Ala.:war! 0 .• i "" - atly I""'T.2ci