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FRID A Y, October 24, 1794.
} Mw Police of France.
fi> Notwithstanding the ample view we have
taken of the new order of things in
France, in the last Mirrour, frfyfr#
that we fauld he deficient in that duty wbicb<UM
owe to a liberal public, were we to peftpOM the
following Decree, which, though lengthy wefot
intire—lt mhy be called the
Y ° \
REVOLUTIONARY CONSTITUTION,
FRRQR^&fc^r
NATIONAL CONVENTION, AUG. §,
CAMBON, after expofog the arts by
which the tyrant Roberfpierre, aided
by the Jacobins, had continued to accumu
late all power in the hands of the Committee
of Public Safety ; and flawing the errors in
the organization of the various Committees,
presented the following Decree, which was
adopted by the Convention. ,
DEGREE,^.
ART. I. The Committee of Public Safe
ty shall assume the name of " The Central
, Committee of Government, It shall be com
posed of twelve members, to be renewed eve
ry month, and not eligible again till after the
interval of a month..
•11. This Committee shall be under the di
re& infpeaion of the " Committee of Foreign
Affaire, and cannot dispose of any of the
public funds except for the secret services of
government. For this purpose it shall have
upon the National Treasury a credit of ten
millions. The credit which it had formerly,
and is hitherto unemployed, is hereby with
drawn.
111. The Committee of Surety and Super
intendence, shall take the name of, The Com.
mittee of the General Police of the Republic." It
shall consist of fifteen members. It shall, in
dependently of the Ccshvention, have alone
the power of arresting citizens. For iffuiag
warrants of arrest against public funaiona
ries, it shall ad in concert with th^ Commit
tee charged with the superintendence of the
Administration to which such fundionary
may belong.
IV. It shall neither fend to trial those who
have been arrested, nor liberate those sen
tenced by the Popular Comm;ffions without
being in concert with the Central Committee
of Government., 1
V. The Commission of Civil Affairs of
Police, and the Tribunals, shall make to it a
daily report of the Police and the interior
security of the Republic.
VI. It ihall have under its immediate in
fpedion, the Police and armed force of Paris,
the Revolutionary Tribunal, the Committees
of Superintendence of the Republic, and the
Popular Commissions.
VII. The National Treasury shall credit it
for nine hundred thousand livres, for extra
ordinary and secret expenses. , ^L
VIII. A fifth part of the members of the
Committee shall be engaged every month,
and not re eligible till after the interval of
one mohth.
IX. All other committees, or commissions
of the Convention, now in exigence, are a
bolifhcd.
% The following twelve Committees shall
be established :—
1. One to foperintend the Commission of
Agriculture and Arts, composed of five
members.
2. One to superintend the Commission of
Public inftruaian, to consist of five mem
bers. .
3. To superintend the Commission of Com
merce and Provisions, five members.
4. To superintend the Commission of Ex
prefles, Poftoffices, and Pofthoufes, five
members.„
5. To superintend the Commission of Arms
and Powder, fix members.
6. To fupei intend the Commission of the
movement of the Armies, fix members.
7. To superintend the Commission of the
Marine and Colonies, five members.
$. To superintend the Committee of Public
Succour, five members.
9 Wo°^^
to For the superintendence of the fi&fe
Expenses and Revenues, there foali be four
foffefy^f |^% ;
bers, shall loperintend the vommiinon
roe ruojic a i&vwatp —
$ the Office of Accounts.
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fupeHfitendence of the Commission of
Civil Adminift rations, the Police arid the
Tribunals, according to the report of the
fri^ Administrative Bodieffhall
be char^ with the revision |nd clafrifica
tion of me laws, and the details refyeaing
the territorial divisions of the Republic.
12. A Committee of Infpeaors of the Proves
f'Verbezu*, consisting of fifteen members,
is charged with fuperiintending the tran,
fe&tffy the Aft&of the Convention in
its offices and archives, the National Pi^efs,
and the Commission of Civil Administra
tion. ~
ART. XI. There ihall also be a Commit
tee of Infpedors of the Hall, flawed of
fifteen members, exclusively charged with
the Police within the limits of the Conven
tion, the Committees, and the National'
Garden. It shall regulate the expenses of
the National Convention and its archives, as
well as those of the Committees,alfo the trav-.
elling, expenses of the Representatives of the
People, sent to the departments, or the ar
mies. ° >
XII. It shall verify and adjust the accounts
relative to the aforefaid expenses: and the
resolution of that Committee, during its
verification of the expenses of the Represen
tatives of the People, amounting to such a
sum, shall be allowed as an admimon of that
account.
XIII. The National Treasury shall give,
credit for three millions, to be employed in
such expenses in the aforefaid payments ; aod
all former credit hitherto unemployed, is
withdrawn.
XIV. Every Executive Cothmiffion Shall
give a daily account of its proceedings to the
Committee charged with its infpeaion, and
shall propose to it the difficulties to be sur
mounted, and the means of removing them.
It shall also submit, tor the approbation of
the Committee, the agents nominated for
the execution of its order.
XV. The Commiliioners shall every day
lay before the Committee for infpefting the
Public Expenditure and Revenue, a detailed
account of the expenses incurred in the course
of the day.
XVI. The Committees shall directly pro
pose to the Convention all legislative objects,
after having ptevioufly communicated them
to the Central Committee of Government.
They Shall concert with that Committee
through the medium of one of its members,
who shall be charged to report the executive
objeds difeuffed in the Committee.
XVII. All executive obje&s shall be defi
nitely fettled by the Central Committee of
Government, which Shall be responsible for
the refutations it rtiay take.
These resolutions fyll be signed by at least
fix members of the Central Committee, and
by the Commissioner of the Committee who
shall make the report.
' The resolutions shall be sent to be execut
ed by the Commissions, and an account of
them Shall then be laid before the Conven
tion.,
XVIII. Should there be any difference of
opinion in t^e Central Committee of Gov
ernment, the affairs to be difeuffed and de
cided by a meeting competed of one Com
missioner from each of the Committees.
XIX. In cases of urgency wher^xpedition
is required, the Central Committee of Gov
ernment may call upon one or more of the
Committees charged with' the faptfinten
dence of the matter in question, and the re
fall of their deliberation shall be carried into
execution. But the membets who shall aflift
in such deliberations Shall make an immedi
ate report of it to the General Committee.
XX. The Convention fhaU itfelf nomin
ate the Representatives of the People to be
sent on any commission, the Generals, the
members of the Executive Commission, the
members of the Revolutionary Tribunal, and
Popular Commissions, oh the propofitwb
the Central Committee of Government,,-
united with the Committee charged with what
relates to that particular obje& ; ^
XXI. The; National Convention alone has
power to recal the Representatives of the
People fe#upon commission . ^ ,
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that particular affair, may remove the Gen
erals; the members of the Executive Com
' LA mnletifli fnnf>Liriarie< of
^ch"#'Mortis to be made to the Conven-
XXII. All the Committees Shall hare a
rchanved everrfmorith.
[NUMBER tog.]
h^lf, AlUhe Committed and Commit - ,
lions within the Cohvenfo shall continue
to e^ercife theiffunaions tilf thteCommit tees
that are tb replace them are perfectly organ*
ized.
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FOR VrtE MIRROUR. '
observaTor, N°. nt.
117 HEN we fee young misses gossiping
from house to house, lying in wait at
every c&dct, watching ' for the twilight,
wishing with a rover's appetite, for an interim
view with the filet partners of ^theic %
baucheries—we are read, to exclaim. Good
GOD ! What infamous defircs are feared in
the female breaft!—lt is a very important
truth, and worthy the attention of the ladies,
that the morethey strive by affeftationto info: ,)
bate themselves into favour with the gentle=
men)fo much the more they are despised.—,
Modesty, in these days, appears to be very
; much out of date, and daring, brazenfaced
impudence instituted in its room !—Would
young ladies, but lay by that black garb,
" impudent assurance," and cloath therti
-1 selves with that fwelt and enchanting gar
ment, " Modes ry."—Good heavens ! folk
quick Would they conquer the hard,mlfcullne
hearten man ! How aliasing would be the
reta/if We could exclaim in that sweet and pa
thetic language which was Spoken of ouff
mother Eve,- 4 -" Grace was inall ber ffeps,
Heaven id' her eye, and every gesture dignity 1
, and love."
Tb^ghts on Religion,:
ERRORS and mistakes, however grofi, in the
II matters of opinion, if they are sincere, ought
to be pitied, but not punfad nor laughed at. The
bitndkefs of the understanding is as much tb be piti
ed as the hlindue, of the eyes ; and it is neither
laughable nor criminalfor a man tol^e bis way i#
either cafa Charity bids us endeavour to fit i&ta
right by ^rg^ment, but at thefame time forbids us
• either to puwft or ridicule their misfortunes
Every manfecksfor truth, but God only knows
who hasfound it 3 it is u^uftto perfaute, and ab
surd to ridicule, people for their federal opinions,
which they cannot help entertaining upon the con
viaion of their reafon—ltis be who aa, or tells
a lie,,bat is guilty ; and net be who bonefly and
Sincerely believes the lie. Tbeofya of all pubbe
worship in the ^orld is the fame ; it is the Great
Eternal Being, who created ever, thing. The
different m&?es of worjbt, are by no meansfubjeas ^
of ridicule, each thinks bis own the best . —and I^,
know no infallible judge in this world, to decide
which is bfo
Remarkable Instances of Grati
tude.
LORENZO Mufate, a native of Catania,
in Sicily, was in the year 1774, taken
in a Maltese ship by an Algerine corfeir.
When the prize was carried into port, be
was fold to a Turkish officer, who treated
him with all the severity that the unfeeling
difpefition of a barbarian, rendered intoler-.
ant by bigotry, could inflid. It happened,
fortunately tor the Sicilian, that his master's
son, Fezulah, (about ten years old) became
extremely fond of him and by numberless lit
tile offices of kindness alleviated his slavery.
Lorenzo, in consequence became a much
attached to the boy, as the boy was to him ;
so that they were seldom fparaie from each
other. *'
One day, as Fezulah (being then sixteen)
was bathing in the fee, the current carried
him off; and he would have p&ifhed, had
not Lorenzo plunged in, and saved him, at
the hazard of his lite. His affection was now ,
heightened by gratitude, and he frequently
interceded with his father for his deliverer's
emancipation, but in vain. Lorenzo often'
sighed for his country,and Fezutah determin-&
ed that he ihould return there. With this
reflation, he one night conveyed him on
board an Englilh merchant ship that by off
Algiers ; and haring embraced him in tears,
retired with all that exquisite glow of please
< ure and felf-approbation, which virtue feels
in idling with gratitude and generosity.
The Sicilian returned to his country,where
he found that a relation had bequathed him
afmall tenement ; upon which he fetled, and
enjoyed the sweets conipetency ana repo ,
ffc^eQ^^r^^t
Jffi^edofiede^
I his kinsman, a maftec of a vessel, to Genoa.
I On landing in the D Arfena,he heard a voice