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the ►cil, 1110 5 of prat the of The First Consul may add to the senate (with. out any previous presentation by the E[ oral Col. leges of the Departments), any Citizens distinguish_ ed for their services and their talents, provided they have attained the age prescribed by the Con stitution, and that the number of Senators in no case exceeds one hundred and twenty: The Senators may be appointed ConSUls, Mini sters, Members of the Legion of Honour, Inspe6tors of Public, Instru6lion, and may be employed in mis sions, tidier temporary or extraordinay. The'Se'nate is to appoint every year two of its Members to aft as SeCretaries. The Ministers are to sit in the Senate, but are not to have a deliberative voice, if they a're not Senators. COUNSELLORS OF STATE. The Counsellors of State are never to exceed the number of fifty. The Council of State is to be divided into Sec. tion s. The Ministers are entitled to a seat, and delibe iative voice in the Couhcil of State. LEGISLATIVE BODY. Every Depattment is to have in the Legislative lody, a number of Members proportioned to the extent and population of the Department. All the Members of the Legislative Body belong ing to the same Department, are to be chosen at the same time. The Departments of the Republic are to be di_ 'hided into five Series. • The Members of the Legislative Body are to be Classed in five Series. They are to be rennkred according to the Series in wk . kell they are placed. _ _ ThelGovernment Assembles; Adjourns, and Pro `ioguttattie Legisliive Body. 1 • TEE TRIBUNATE. Aftei the thi - rieenth year of the Republic, tile "rtibunate shall be reduced to 50 Members ; half 6f the go are to - 10 out every three yeirs. Until that reduaion tale's places, the Members who go out, are not to be ietilaced. The Tribunate is to be divided into Seaions. . . The i&mbers of; the Legislative Body and the Trihu - nate are ic; - be ;'renewed when the Senate liro:. ziounecs its dissoi.titiqtY. ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE AliM THE Till- BUN BLS, There is to be one Grand Judge, Miiiister of jtis- Lice. .41 . He is to have a distiilguished place in the Senate a . r,cl the Council of State. He is tti preside in the Tribunal's of Appeal %%len ever - GOiernment thinks fit. . . Plebes a right to.watch over the TribUnalss and the lustiCes of the Peace, and to review their ?rd. etdings'a • The Tribunal . of Cass4tivi, 'the Minister of jus. .tire being President', has a right of censure over other Tribunals': it may, upon ericiits cause, sus- Pend the other jadges,.and niay sbiurtion thetti before the Grand jtidge, to give an account of their con. dud.. . . The Tribtinals of Appal have the fight of in. tpesing the proceeding's of the Civil Tribtimils of this atiiet, and the Civil "Tribunals hve the same rigl44itli regard to the jastiees of the Peace in their Distriet. The Members of the Tribtinal of Garth-hew (or superior Tril)unalrof Appeal), are appointed by the Senate on the presentation of the Chief ConSul. lie Is to present three Persons for every place that 16 vacant. OF THE POWER GRANTING MERCY The First Consul has the power of extending Ailetcy j after having heard the case discussed in a Privy Council composed of the Grand Judge, two l iinisters, two Senators, two Counsellors of State, Ord two Members of the Superior Tribunal of . Appeal. The Council of State, after having discussed the above P roje t, which had been laid before them by the Consuls, a:Trove of it, and decree that it shall be presented to the Consuls according to the regular form. (Signed) J. G. LOCRE, Secretary to the Council of State (Approved) BONAPARTE, F irstConsOl H. B. MARET, Sec. of State. The Projet of :he above Senatus Cons!'bum was hill before the Conservative Senate by the Counsel lors s 'of State REoNt ER, Polt - r.A!, ts, and DessoLLEs, and was adopted by them in the Sitting of that day (the 4th inst.) Marriedon Saturday, at Sr. George the Matt)'r, JONATHAN GREtN 3 ES(I. to Mrs. HANDLFY. _ . The av e r age pr i ce o f S ugar, c o mpute d f r o m t h e Xeturns.madef or the week ending the 4th day of August 186 i, shillilisi arid five-pence fa "king ter Hundred I,Vci e ibl. • NAVAL NEWS. PLYMO EITR, Au G. 7. ARRIVED the Eliza, of Liverpool, Wt.•. WEDS master, from Leybo, laden with barley and wheat, bound to Barcelona ; the athish Barque I x dustrie, Capt. BJOICA, from Drain, with timber ; and the Heaor, WAYGOOD, from Memel ; also the /mo. gene Sloop of War, from a Cruize. Sailed the Lard Illacartney, Capt. MACKEY, for New Brunswick. The Wisk, of Whitby, GE OR E WAii.is master, from Mahon, with part of the 36th and - 82 d Regi ments on board ; and the illattliertv, FOSTER, with the 17th Regiment, were spoke with in Lat. 4.0..53. N. Long. 17. 32. all well, bound for Cork. FALMOUTH, Auc t 6. E Dutch Ships of War mentioned in my last, still remain by contrary winds. Appeared off this day in the Offing, His Majesty's Ships Rosario, of 20 guns, the Petterel, of 16 gums, and the Clausina Cutter, THOMAS', all on a Cruize against the Smugglers. HARWICH, Auc. 8. YEsTE apAy about four P. M. sailed the Prince of Wales Packet, Captain A. DEANE, with the Mail, and nearly thirty passengers, for Helvoetsluys ; also the Diana Packet, Captain Os BORN, with the Mail and Passengers for Cuxhaven. DEAL, AUG. S. ARRIVED from Portsmouth, and sailed for Sheer. ness, the Tamer Frigate. The Blood-hound Gun_brig sailed yesterday on a Cruize, and the Vixen ditto is arrived from Sheer. ness, and remains. NEW PARLIAMENT. MEMBER RETURNED. COUNTY OF INvMtNEss—Charles Grant, Esq. WEYMOUTH, AUGUST 7. LAST night THEIR MAJEStiES and the PRIN. CESSES went to the Theatre, to see the Comedy 0: the Schoo/fA Scandal, and the Entertainment of The Jew and the ifoilor; Mr. Etst,tsToN' performed Charles Surface in the Play, and i;Thednego in the Farce. This morning, after breakfast, THEIR MA/ Est t Fs and Attendants ivent to the Esplanade to see the Rowing Match, given in honour of Her Royal Highness the PRINCESS AMELIA, between the Barges ipelonging the Royal Yachts and Frigates. INVERNESS, AUG. 4. • • . Ai ore o'clock this . niorntng our EleaTOn teemi. nated, and owing to the treachery of a few de. serterS, and a coalition between Mr. FURBEs of Culloden and Mr. GRANT, Colonel FRA.sta, younger of Lovar, lost the Eleaion in the first in stances by a majority of 4 ; bin there being solid objeCtions to 9, he petitions the House of Corn. monsi, and complains to the Court of Session'', and there is no doubt.of his ultimate saccesS'a'gainst a pet - ion Opposed by three.foUrths Of the Landed in. tere'st of the COunty. CORN EXCHANGE, 9. ' . . . .' ... .. -- • . . . ... THIS day we haVe a good suppl . y,tif all kinds of , Grain ; there were many buyers of Wheat-, but, from the appearance of the harvest; it fell full . ss. per • (.- Quarter ; Malt has a heavy sale; and is lower Pease and BeanS are sonieMiAt cife'aper ; we have great many Oats ai,Marketi which go off at Is. less price ; Flower is also lower. . . • wheat 4ss a 55s a 63s od 13c4n - 3zs a 36s od Fine do. - 64; a 65s od Tick ditto - .8z; a 32s 6d Malt - 445 a 485 a 50S od Oats - its a igs a 2,2,S ad Fine ditto .- sis a sis od Poland (10. ' 235. a 24s od Barley - 3rs a 365 od Rape Seed 331 . a 371 per last Rye - -32 s a 35s 6d Fine Flour sos a 53s per sack White Pease 38s a 435 od Second do. 45s a ses per 'clo. Satureay letters were received from Sierra Leone, by the Comcord, WALCIT. The Colony has, in s )me degree, recovered from the late attack of the Natives ; hut it is still languid. One of the Baltimore Papers, on the authority of Letters from St. Domingo, states, that DEssimiii, JENGAMBEE, TRoYFoRT, (late commander of the Borgne) with fifty other partizans of TOUSSMNT, had been arrested on charges lac to those prepared against the Negro Chieftain:, Life-boats, on the plan of that used at North Shields; are now making at Whitby, Redeur, and numerous other places along the coast. The Liverpool Paper says, a most atiociotis as was perpetrated a few days ago at 'restot : a young woman having entered the town in the evening, and inquired for a lodging, was decoyed to the fields by five or six fellows, who used her so bruthlly that her death was the eonsequeriee • . , A shocking aceldent happened , ?tpit.,,ancaste,ri.yes tertlaY sennight : Miss Borwicli t hi wp leaning out of her• chamber window, which is - filiee stories high; to wipe something off the glass; and onfor tunately over-reached herself; and fell into the street ; she was taken up apparently in a lifeless state, but by proper medical assistance; she was brought to herAelf, vlien she proved to have both her arms broke, and one dr het thighs, she was otherwise bruised in a Most shocking manner : the broken litilbiViere'w, and bores are entertained of her.recovery._ KEAY?' ASSIZES. MAII)SIOSE, ALYGtiSi' 6. BEFOXE SLR 'ARCFiIIIALD MACD0N . .6 . 1.1). KtiT. LORD CILIZI" BARON, AND A SrECtAL ROBERTSON W. OAKLEY AND OTHERS. Tors was an Adios) of considerable intereet and curiosity ; it was in troves, and bro&gbt by the Plaintiff to recover of the Defendants the vahie of certain articles household furniture, of which they had unlawfully dispossessed her. The damages were laid at 30001. Mr. GARROW said, he Was Counsel for Miss Eliza Robertson, a Lady of whom it was much more than probable each of the Jury had heard or read, because it was one oof :the misfortunes of the age, that persons of any celebrity in the world could , not come into a Conti of Justice without having the circumstances of their case forestalled, and the public mind prejudiced, at least as far as depend ed on the writers of anonymous and libellous pamphlets. He had no apprehensions the Plain tiff would suffer from any impression the Jury might entertain, but he was convinced they would toy the cause as if they had never heard of Miss Robertson. If they had heard or read of her as the famous Swindler, the Lady who went about the country in various disguises, sometimes in man's clothes, sometimes assuming one mode of conceal- , ment, sometimes another, he trusted they would dis miss such rubbish from their memory, and attend to her complaint with minds as pure and unprejudiced as if they had never heard of her name before. In his opinion the case had nothing of novelty in it ; it was a simple action of troves by a Lady possessed of a large quantity of furniture, who had been unjustly dispossessed of it by a person who conceived he had a right to commit what he called a little wrong, but which was in fad a serious injury to another, in order to do a great good to himself ; and he would venture to assert, that unless the Jury were aduated by pre judice against Miss Robertson, there could be no dif ficulty in point of law or fad in determining that, beyond all doubt, she was entitled to a verdid. Miss Robertson had stated to him, that it was very much her desire the whole of her life should be publicly discussed and examined in this place, but she had mo destly added to her wish, her fears that her Counsel would neither he able to devote sufficient time to quaint himself with the whole of her history, or the Court consider it important enough to occupy its at tention. She therefore contented herself with ap. pearing as an ordinary suitor, to demand justice.— Without going farther into the detail of her life, he would state that she had for some time been engaged in partnership with a Miss Sharpe,in keeping a Board. ing-school for yoting Ladies at Croorn's-hill, which they had concluded with reputation and credit. For reasons unnecessary to mention, this Lady thought brighter prospects in life were opening upon her— She had reason to think she should form an honour. able connexion in marriage. Indulging thisfiatter ing hope, she had taken an handsome house at the Paragon, Blackheath, which the had fitted up in a style of the highest elegance. She had, before this, dealt with Messrs. Oakley, Shackleton, and Evans ; names, perhaps, not unknowd:to the Jury. They must have seen them in the Daily Papers, advertising their splendid Magaiines in Bond street and St. Paul's Church-yard, where the Public might be supplied with every article of use; orna ments 'and luxury ; the fashion, Style; and taste of which, Miss Robertson had desired hiin to admit, nothing could possibly exceed, but the estorbitanCe of the charges for them. She had befdre purchased goods of Messrs. Oakley and CO. to the amount of abOut 2001. and in contemplaticin of her removal to the Paragon, had applied to the Defendant's to con vey her property in safety to 46. new house. - They • undertook So to do, and, at the same time Wrote • her a letter, informing her how happ' they should be to receive her future Orders ; *nd *hat satisfaction it would give thein to see her a's their Mil . gazin der Moder. Things were not tailed bow by the same nanies they, ulsedro 66-:--'formerly the depest of a tradesman's stock in trade was called a shop;--then it ' becathe a warehouse . ; now Stich terms *ere 'obsolete, and it was a illagaindis Alai:. To speak inplainer terms, the Plaintiffs ivercFurnishingtlpholstererS, at whose warehoUSes any' of the jury or their friends might he provided with 'Whatever they Might want to purchase, from a state bed Of one thriusand guineas, doWn to the humble accompaniment under the beds MisS kobettson ordered several article:s, 'which were Sent: A t last Mr. Oakley presented himself with proposals for furnlshing Mis's Robertson's Drawing-room ; it was to he Clone upon a Scale of grandeur, of which 'plain Kentish Men could form no notion ; it was to be fitted up in .compart ments; dadoed marbles, gilt I no; i'faith he be lieved, gold Mouldings! and the ceiling to be painted by the most eminent Artists; to represent the aiure sky ; he wanted eXpresSioni to convey an adequate idea. .it short, it was to be in the Oakley stile. The sum required to 'coMplett these decom. tions buihiecl Miss Robertson; but the Defendant silenced her alarins by sayiog, tts Lord, Madam, this is nothing 1 a there trifle I Beticlei; we shall not hurry,you for payment till it is perfealy conve. hient." He mentioned this; to sheW that o ley thought he had got an excellent customerne who, to cite his own eispreSsiori do a forriter trial, would either pay well or riot pay .'it all. It was only by referring to that eXprestionht 'could aecount for soma of his charges:. It Was a rule, that thoSe who did pay,paitifor those Who aid not ; at least so said the wicked world. The drawing-toom was fitted up in a style of Eastern niagniftcence. Soon after it came to the knowledge of, Miss Robertson, by Means of that Modern source of information, an anonymous letter, that Mr. Oakley had said She . owed Mtn' iooal. and he was doubtful as to her being the person of fortune she represented herself. As she had stiptilathi for twelve month's credit, she was Uneasy Upon the subject, and sent to hint 'He came anit'diried with her, and in the p're. mice of two Witnesses; disavowed having 'said any such thing. One of therh especially, Mr. Creasy, was the intimate friend of Miss - Robertson—==-not intimate in die improper sense of the Word„for he was a married Man- - --not the lover of her Everson, but the professed adMirer of her vehisiini Wine, and other good things her table . afforded; he thotight it. very convenient for his 'wife and children to /wit the use of her carriage ; be*Sidesi be had . . . no olijeaiOn him — self to an eitcorsioti now and theii -- to Margate,. in one corner of kt. After the (!: net, Miss Robertson took dcension rc - 0.-C,7 to Mr:, Oakley, "It has been communicated to Me that yoU have said that I owe you wool. and that yeae, are alartned—You know I said I could act pay ybu immediately, and you consented to allow le twelve modals credit. If what I have heard rs true, do not let my credit be injured ; tell toe eeu • are apprehen - sive of your Money, and I will sit;- y yon."—" Dear me, Malan ! how coUld you see pose me capable of such conetlt ? I aro petdha: satisfied -with regard to veut fortune—l only you was More in my debt ! I am .00 much to - tradesman of fashion, aid a man of honour. oa attempt to accelerate the pay ment of a (ie.:laud for executiog the orders of a Lady, bethre the a d stipulated period. The Proprietors et . the 1 - I,:eaaler des Nodes would be ashamed of A`t.og in such a ner, and to shew ou, Madam, how sensihly t:ae bare imputation affects rte, I w itl give too:. discover the author of the report." The A - ) _ fendant went on furnishing her house ; el • persons were haportunate for mon; y . bertson owed them, and she tv,:s ad vi away for a faw days to aver 1 [heal, t;'l • e enabled to pay the 1111 i due to than. he came to the ohli of the pre.-en. d. Plaintiff, on lea ding her loitist, sessed of goods bought of ex Dehaahoit.. she had paid him. She hao good!- _ tradesmen ; and she had also a consitie of goods, furnished by the Defendants, they had agreed to give twelve months .: During her absence, Mr. Oakley presented hi,n late in the evening at her house, and ask ad *he, ther the carpet - for the drawing_ room was come before he could well be answered, this gallant man—this honourable man—this stylish ;--?arch des Modes—insidiously introduced hitnselfup the ata.a ) went round to the street door, opened it, let in his mynn;dons, packed up every thing he could find; and made such good use of his time, that he left. nothing for the morning beams of Aurora to shine upon, but the bare welts. He had !wnd of dif_ terent kinds of Ejetanients ; among others, of a Welsh Ejenment, which was effected by unroofing a house, when the tenant, no longer sheltered from the pitiless storm, was glad to make his escio;e, But such a mode of Eietment as this, of ciirrva ing off all the furniture, and leaving the tenant not a bed ,to lay on, a table to dine off, or a chair ~ to sit on, was quite a new invention. He Was e v at a loss to conceive under what head .it could be ranged in our law books. An appropriate nacre had just struck him, it must be called the—Oaao. Execittion. Dull ordinary men of business, not your High-flyers, who had their magazines at the West end of the town—but common plain tradesmen--: would, if they had a demand upon any one for goods they had sold upon credit, have taken out a Writ, and waited till they could have arrested their Debtor; they would have had patience till a trial at the Assizes could have taken plate-till a verdiei shOuld have been pronounced in their favour, and then till judgment could have been entered up. Such slow and uncertain proceedings were beneath your dashing men . of Bond -street, therefore Mr. Oakley, without any law to justify him, had dis pensed with all forins of justice, and had assumed the offices of Judge, -_fury, and Executioner, in his own cause.—But he should hope Mr. Oakley's execu tion was not one which would be Much favoured. He took the law tm be this .—lf a thin had sold goods to another, and had.delivered them, whether on - credit or not, but still More so if on credit, the •stipulated period for which had not expired, and ini mediately'after the delivery, met a Sheriff's OffiCer,. who told him he had an execution against the per son to whoin he had sold them, Still nothing but the la* would justify his taking them away again.. If trpon'a perpon, who bad goods of different people, becoming insolvent, the Upholsterer was to run a 'race with the Bricklayer, the Carpenter, the tram - Monger, arid the numerous tradesmen who' had furnished the Debtor's house, and all these were to'knock their heads together ) each to teat away what he could, the wildest havoc and con fusion would 'be introduced into society. The Credia tors a Misßobertson.had a right to lock her up in -. prison, if that wit any gratification to them, as truly it seemed to be—and it was an unmanly gra_ tification—they might confine her for life in the . Mol ofHuntingdon, where she had been, or in the eet Prison, where she now was, alas ! withoot any prosped of delivetance, till the day of her death; all • this they might do, bUt they should not take away her goods, because her temporary absence afforded them the opportunity. The law was• anxious to prevent the occurrence of stsch a case at this., He would suppose that a person had told ; another, Who Was his friend, 5001. worth of goods, and that friend suddenly was reduced to a state of insolvency, and was amenable to the Bankrupt Laws, he might say, " My Creditor has been my friend—it is hard he should be a loser—l will get him to take back his goods:" They were taken back—wellez. a bankruptcy ensues; the law would not permit such a transaction, but the goods mus, be reetoted as a general fund for the benefit of the Creditors at large. This principle of law applied so strongly in the present case, and was so clear and undisputed, that he was persuaded Messrs. Oakley and Co. would not have. dared to have disputed i!, unless they had de pended uponthe preju lice raised against the Plaintiff. Much had been said asao Miss Robertson's getting the goods under false pretence ; he wotiht defy the Defendant to bring any loasofot the tion, unless they should have recouide to the r;'. presentations of Mr. Creasy, who had dressed aka his stories 'in gaudy trim, to grat4 his own vanity, but whico could nut by p. ssitiiiiry aff 'it the Plaintiff. It was said in justificititho that Miss Robertson had consented to .c.e seiz,l„ . ; he could not be brought to such belief, as he aeal knew, when Mr. Oakley thUnd he had n:,-n in his opinion of the Lady's property, aid his Attorney in the dead of night to the P.,:areo, with a view to induce her so sign a bill-of sae, te peremptorily 'closed to do so ; it was tutelar: likely she should afterwards have consented. It a had been so, Mr. Oak aoy would l-ive mao a .l ferentiy ; , he would !rive na occasion is 0 : 0 a p:-etc.% , ;:c far c.diieg at the house, nor tom h:tytt f crced his way in at OA- .1 ) ,,a of irneg ate ; ad if Pic g VP hall 'first