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Delegated to a directory of five mem
bers, nominated by the kgifljtive bo
dy. 5
IT. The council of five hundred form a
lift of triple thenumber of members for the'
executive which they are to nominate, and
present it to the consul of ancients who chufe
from this lift.
111. The members of the executive shall
hot be under the age of forty years.
IV. They cannot be taken but from a
mong the citizens who have been members
of the legislative body or general agents of
Execution.
The disposition of the present articles (hall
be observed only to the ninth year of the
Republic.'
V. The members of the legislative b@dy
cannot be elected members of the executive,
during their legislative functions, nor during
the firft year after the expiration of the fame
functions.
VI. The executive is partially renewed
by the election of a new member each year.
It fliall be decided by lot, during the firft
four years, who shall successively go out of
office, of those who were firft nominated.
VII. None of the members going out of
office can be re eluded till after an interval
of five years.
VIII. Ancestors of descendants in adi
red line, the brother, the uncle and the ne
phew, and the relations of the fame degree,
cannot at the fame time be members of the
executive, nor fuc'ceed such till after an in
terval of five years.
IX. In case of the death, disqualification
or difmiffion of one of the members of the
executive, his successor is elected by the le
gifhtive body in ten days at the fartheft.
The new member is ele&ed for the time
which remained of him who is replaced—ls
nevertheless that time shall not exceed fix
months, he who is elected shall serve during
five years and an half.
X. Each member of the executive shall
preside in his turn for three months only.
Xf. The president signs all public ads,
and is keeper of the seals.
XII. The laws and ads of the legillative
body, are addrefled to the executive in the
person of the president.
XIII. The executive cannot deliberate
except there are three members present.
XIV. It shall choose, without its own
body, its secretary, who shall countersign its
proceedings, and record its deliberations in
a register, where every member shall have a
right to enter his protest.
XV. The executive provides, according
to the laws, for the external and internal fafe
ty of the republic.
It difoofes of the armed force, without,
even in any case, the body collectively, or
any of its members, becoming the comman
tier, either during the time of their execu
tive fundions, or duringtwo years which
shall immediately succeed the expiration of
the fame functions.
XVI. The executive nominates the gen
erals in chief; but it cannot choose them
from among the parents or relations of the
•members, in the degrees expressed in the
B\b article..<
XVII. It watches and assures the execu
tion of the laws of the administration and
communes, by the commissioners of its own
appointment.
XVIII. It nominates, but from without
its own body, the general agents of execu
tion. -
XIX. The general agents of execution
correspond immediately with the authorities
'to whom they are fabordinate.
XX? The legillative body determines the
'number and the functions of the general a
gent of execution.
XXI. The agents form no council.
XXII. The executive appoints all the
receivers of the direct taxes.
XXIII. 1c appoints those placed
tithe head' of the adminiftiarioni of
the indirect contributions, and to the
adminiftrarions of the .national do
nwns..^T
XXIV. Those placed at the head
an well of the adminiferatioo of the
<Poftsai all those of the indireft cod
tributiom, have the .appointments of
the clerks of their office, and of those
of the department,.f
XXV. The directory fuperintendi
the coining of money, and appoint!
the officers charged with exercising
that fuperintendance. ^ „;
^XXVI. No member of'the direc
tory can leave the territory of the re
public, for two years after the cet
fetion of his functions. t:
He is held to fatisfy the legiflrfft
body concerning his refideuce during
that intervail.
XXVII. The directory is refpon
£ble for the inexecotion of 'the 1%
and for the &bufcs which it does not
denounce.l
XXVIII Ite agents are refpe&ivtly
responsible as well for the joe,echi-•
on of those laws which are tran flit
ted to the decrees of (hefydor/
xxix. The member# of the direc
tory may be tried by legislative body
for the crime of treafoo/or corruption
for dilapidation of the public monies
and for ever, capital crime relative to
their administration.
xxx. They are under the fubjec
tiun of the tribunals for ordinary and
private offences,neverthelefi they can
not be arrested, but in cases of being
taken in the aft, nor tried without the
authority of the legislative body.
XXXI. Every accusation, as well a
gaioft the directory, as againff one or
more of its members, is addressed in
writing to the council of Five Hun
dred. /
XXXII, If, after having deliberated
on it in manner prescribed by the ar
ticle 54, of chapter 4, the council of
five hundred admits the accusation,
it declares in these terms :
The accusation against , for the crime of
dated the . Signed the is ad
mitted.
XXXIII. The charge is then read over,
and, if it be made to appear, explained in
the midst of the place of the fittings of five
hundred.
XXXIV. The council of five hundred
declares whether there is room for examina
tion of the conduct of the accu fed or not.
XXXV. The arrested is afterwards heard
by the council of ancients, at the bar ; and
if he is judged guilty., after deliberation had
upon it in manner prescribed by the articles
55,56 and 57, the council of ancients pro
nounces the accusation, which produces sus
pensions ; and it fends the accused before
the high court cf justice, which is bound to
commence the process without any delay.
XXXVI. Ifthe accused be acquitted by
the judgment cf the high court of justice, he
resumes his fundions.
XXXVII. The legislative body cannot
fend for the directory, nor any of its mem
bers, except in the case of the preceding arti
cles.
XXXVIII. The accounts and the settle
ments demanded by the legislative body of
the directory, are furnifhed in writing.
XXXIX. The directory is bound atthe
opening of the session of the legislative body,
to present to it in writing the aggregate of
the expehfek, the state of the finances, and of
the exiting pensions, in order that it may
decree such arrangements of them as it shall
judge convenient.
It shall also point out the abuses which
may come under their knowledge.
XL. The directory may at all times re
quest in writing the legislative body to take
an object into consideration, but not to pro
pose to it legislative orders, if it be not rela
tive to peace and war.
XLI. No member of the diredory can ab
sent himfeif more than five days, nor remove
at a greater distance than four myrimaters
(about ten leagues) from the place of resi
dence of the directory, without authority of
the legislative body. %
XLII. The members of the directory can
not appear in public, nor out of doors, nor
in the inside of their houses, without being
clothed in the proper habits of office.
XLIII. The diredory has its customary
guard, and paid as soldiers, composed of one
hundred and twenty foot, and an hundred
and twenty horse.
XLIV. The diredory is accompanied by
its guard, in all ceremonies, and pubHc pro
cessions, where it has always the firft rank.
XLV. Each member of the directory may
cause himfelf to be accompanied over and a,
bove by two guards.
XLVI. Every officer of the armed force
owes to the directory, and to each of its
members, the Superior military honors.
XLVII. The diredory resides in the fame
commune with the Icgfflative body.
XLVIII. The members of the diredory
are lodged at the expense of the republic,
and in the fame edifice.
XLIX b The compensation of each ®f
them is fixed at the value of fifty thousand
myriagrammes (about ten thoufandquintah)
of wheat. {„ he continued.}
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
.i'-. —. — iMiiii'Pirniii :
JUNE 1^
WE are assured, that Count Befbo
roHko, Minister of foreign affairs at
the Court of Peterfburgh }h;i declac
ej to the Buffis Mioifler, in theJ
presence of (be Imperial E^voy, and
in the name of the Emprefi, that the
Ruffian roopt would evacuate, nei
ther Wadaw, nor its diftriQ, and
would not allow the Ruffian: to ef
tabliSh ihemfelves there until the lat
ter Should have ceded to Auftaia, Cra
cow and its Palatinate; It is conclud
ed from hence, that the cabinets of
Vienna and Petersburg, have made
an arrangement between them.
■. 11/OTI 18.1 .
HAMBURGH, JUNE ij.
There is a very Strong report now
afloat, that the Emprefe of Russia,
will fend an army of 50,000 men, to
a& in concert with the Imperialist,
and to (par on the pusillanimous pet
ty Prince of Germany, to do their
duty towards their Chief, white the
rest of the Emprek's forces in Poland,
which are to be augmented to 350,-
000 men, will Sufficiently engage the
attention of the Prussians, and keep
Frederick William from any adive
interference in those event, which
Shall happen on the banks of the
Rhine. Great expectations may be
formed of such a measure, Should it
a&ually take place ; and without
Some extraordinary stir of this kind,
the Emperor finds invincible obstacles
tohis resolution and eagerness to pro
fecote the war.
—. tm^rcrcmf
PARIS, JULY 4.'
The report which has been current
here for feme time, that La Fayette,
Alexander Lameth, Latour Mau
bourg, and Bureau du Posy, have
been discharged from the citadel of
Magdeburgh, by the King of Prussia,
is ridiculous, as far as it concerns La
Fayette, and Latour Maubourg ; it
being well known that they are con
fined in the citadel of Ofmutz, io Mo
ravia. It is equally unfounded with
refpea to Alexander Limeih and Bu
reau de Puzy, who remain still aS pris
oners at Magdeburgh. We learn,
however, that the former has received
leave to go on hit parole, to drink the
water of the place, for the restoration
of his health. The mother of the lat
ter is gone to Magdeburgh, to pay a
visit to her son, whom the had not
seen for a ioag time. Semonville,
Maret, have been permitted by the
Emperor, to write to their relations,
and Several letters have been received
from them at Paris, within these few
days.
LONDON, JULY ,
Before the capture of three Ships of
the line, by Lord Bridport, the Brit
ish navy had been very Successful in
accomplishing that great and indis
pensable object of demolishing the
navy of France. In lek than two
years, it has deprived that navy of 26
Ships of the line, nine of which has
been added to the navy of Greatbrit
aio, making a comparative difference
of 32 Ships in the two navies !——
A boast of which no preceding war
is entitled to make.
JULY 6.
Several veffeh have arrived at An
twerp, from Holland, loaded with
cannon, mortars and Stores, which
the combined troops, in their precipi
tate retreat from Holland, had not
time to take with thenfy!,he port
of Antwerp, Since the opening of th-
Scheldt, h^ been frequented by neu
tral vessels.
•J ULY 7'
On the 19th of May, as the troops of Hes
se Darrnftad,, were marching from Men
fchlayen to Badbergen, in the. Netherlands,
.their General Ven During ordered them to
halt, near the latter place, regaled the offi
cers, whom he had assembled voder a tree,
with wine, and presented three of them with
a horse each. Having broke up again, he
proceeded m 3 chaise, when at about a hun
dred yards distance, a fhet was heard, and
the Gen. was found watering in his blood,
.and died irt 2 fee ms having fh:t him
f<lf wih , piltol. lit his pocket was found
his will ;/ihe c^ufe of this rath aft remains,
however/ ?s yet a inyftery.
.According to a Utter from Luxembourg,
of the 16th ult. the value of the warlike
stores found in the arfenai of that place, is
eflimated at 17 millions of livres. During
the blockade, iz shells and Igoo-cannon balls
fell into the forAefs.
A letter from Hamburg of the 27th ult,
states, that two Frenchmen have been arrett
ed there on a charge of having mUicioufly
intended to set fire to federal public buildings
in that city.„
According to sane letters from Paris of
the 30th of June, we learn that the young
Princefe, the daughter cf Lo^uis XVI. has
- been released from the tower of the temple,
and has been fuffered to go to a country
house, whither the Duchesses d'Orleans, de
Bourbon, and de Tcurzel, were permitted
to accompany her. The citizen Pudrein,
the deputy front Morbihan, has very much
interested himfclf in behalf of this family,
and has demanded in a Memoire which he
has pubilhed, the repeal of the decree of
banishment agiinft the family of Bourbon.
, . , JULY it.
Weftindia property (in Grenada,) was yes
terday offered to be fold for t<wo, ear's par
chafe, and offered in vain I Before the
country was chaflited with the present de
plorable Adminiftfaticn; and their disastrous
perpetration of the WAR, the value of the
fame estate would have been ten .to.twelve
or thirteen year's purchase !—Yet such is the
ignorance and effrontery of these pretended
Politicians, (for how can we truly call them
" men"—) that, without any intension of
serving their enemies, they have began talk
ing of the depreciation of the French Affignatt,
Monsieur of France, has begun an official
correfpondehce with the British Ministry.—
Two large packets from him, were.delivered
at Lord Grenville's office, on Wednefd^y
night.
Twelve thousand quarters of wheat, fell
ed while on board transports, waiting last
year to make a landing in France, has lately
been fold at is. per bushel, to feed hogs ;
and yet we are told, that the excessive high
price of bread is not imputable to the mif
condud of Ministers.
Landing of Emigrants in France.
"}, cf Qriberon, "June 29.
" The troops on board our convoy could
not be difembarKed on the 25th inst. on ac
count of the fea^being too boitterous, and on
the 26th their debarkation was obftru&d
by a thick fog. In the night, between the
26th and 27th, M- de Puifaye went on shore,
and in the morning of the 27th the troops
were disembarked. At 11 o'clock they.were
all on shore, and at 2 o'clock their baggage
was also debarked. We have not loft a sin
gle man, either during our passage, or in the
debarkation. At a small diftahce from us,
we perceived about 200 men, who formed
the garrison of two small forts in the Bay.
As they did not answer our signals, the whole
army raised a general cry of " Five la Roi!"
whereupon they fled with the ntmoft precipi
tation. . This was no sooner done than all
the peasants came from their retreats. One
part joined us, and the other pursued the fly
ing Republicans, killed izof them, and took
7 prisoners, of whom they afterwards (hot 3,
and were going to dispatch the other four in
the fame manner, when the Emigrants pre
vented it, and obtained their pardon. W±
have rendered ourselves masters of the two
forts.,
" We learn fromthefe peasants, that Ad
miral Cornwallis has landed go cwt. of pow
der, and a graat number of firelocks, which
have been fen: into the interior, to arm the
corps under M. de la Bourdonnaye. The
peasants desired to be armed, and formed in
to regiments, under the command of our of
ficers, which has been done. Their number
consists of 3000 ; our whole little army,
therefore, -amounts now to 6000 effeaive
men, besides the corps of Chouans, upder
the orders of M. de la Eourdonnaye, whose
junction with our army is hourljrexpe&ed.
We bring them arms, ammunition, and uni
forms to form them into regiments.
" On the 28th, the town cf Aurai drove
out of that place 400 Carmrgnols, who form
ed its garrison, and sent deputies to our com
mander in chiefyto invite him to take pof-„
session of that city. A strong detachment
was immediately sent thither for that put- -J
Pole. ;
" Captain Harrison, who commands the
Standard man of war, ftarioned in the road
of Bellville, Tent on the 26th inst. an officer
ty the governor of that island, summoning
him to surrender the fame, "not to his Brit
annic Maj^fty, who aaed only as an auxilia-
Ty power, hut to his Christian Majtfty, as
lawful sovereign of the island," In.this ium- ,
miens,which is framed with,he utmost pru
dence and wisdom : he presents to the Gov.
• the naval victory late,y obtained by the Eng-fy
lift ; the remains of the French navy block
ed up in Port L'Orient, from whence they
cannot escape: the debarkation of emigrat
ed French Royaiifts, thgrjundion with those