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48 The national -guard on duty i< ®Ljc& to
the regulations of & public adminiftrati^n.
The national guard not on duty is only fubjeCt
tothe law.
49 The government is to manage political re
lations abroad, to conduct negociation, t&make
,i eliminary ftipuiation&, to sign and conclude
all treaties of peace, alliances, truce, neutrality,
commerce, and other conventions.
50 Declarations of war and treaties of peace ;
alliance, and commerce, are to be proposed,
difeuffed, decreed, and ' promulgated in the
f me manner as laws.
Only the difeuffions and deliberations rela
tive to these objects, as well in the tribunate as
huthc legislative body, are to be in a fecrct com
mittee, if the government desires it.
51 The feerct article of a treaty cannot be
deftru&ive of the public articles.
52 Under the direction of the consuls, the
council of Haters charged with ,he drawing up
of the plans of the laws and the regulations of
the public administration, and to refolvc such
difficulties as may occur in all administrative
matters.,
53 It is from among the members of the coun
cil of state, that the orators are to be fcleded,
who shall be appointed to appear in the name
of the government before the legislative body.
There are never to be any more than three of
these orators sent to support the fame plan ofa
law.«
54 The ministers are to procure the execu
tion of the laws, and the regulations of the pub
lic administration.
55 No a& of the government can have ef
fc& till it is signed by a minister.
56 One °f the ministers is specially charged
with the administration of the public treasury.
He is to verify the receipts, direct the applica
tion of the funds, and the payments authorifed
by law. He is not to be at liberty to pay any
thing, except by virtue, firfl, of a law, and only
to the extent of the funds for defraying those ex
pences such law has determined upon. zdly, by
a decree of the government, jdly, by an order
signed by a miniftcr.
57 The detained accounts of every minister,
signed and certified by him, are to be made
public.
58 The government can only ele& or retain
as counfe llors of state or ministers, such citizens
whpfe names are inscribed in the national lift.
59 Tire localadminillrationseftablifhecl,whe
ther for each communal diflridl, or for the more
extended portions of territory, are subordinate
to the ministers. No one can become or remain
a member of these administrations, unless he is
entered in one of the lifts mentioned in the ;th
and Bth articles.
CHAP. V.
Os the Tribunal.
60 Every communal arrondiffement Ihall
have one or more justices of the peace, elected
immediately citizens, for three years.
Their principal duty confits in reconciling the
parties applying to them, and in case of noilcon
ciliation, to decide their dispute by arbitrators.
61 In civil matters there are tribunals of
firft instance and tribunals of appeal. The law
determines the organization of the one and the
other ; their competence and territory form
ing the jurisdiction of each.
62 In cases of crimes to which are annexed
a corporal or infamous pUDifhment, a firfl: ju
ry admits or rejects the charge. If it be ad
mitted, a second jury pronounces on the fad,
and the judges composing a criminal tribunal,
apply the punishment. Their judgment is with
out appeal.
63 The fundlion of public accuser to a
criminal tribunal, is filled by the commissioner
of government.
* 64 The crimes which do not amount tocor
poral or infamous punishment, are tried be
fore the tribunals of correctional police,faving
an appeal to the criminal tribunals.
65 There is for the whole Republic a tri
bunal of caflation which pronounces on appeals
against judgments in the dernier resort, given
by the tribunals in cases referred from one tri
bunal to another on account of lawful suspicion,
or the public fafety, upon exceptions taken by
the party against the whole tribunal.
66 The tribunal of caffation does not inquire
into the merits, but it reverses the judgment
given on proceedings in which form is violated,
or which contain Something contrary to the
expressed law, but fends the case back to be
tried on the merits by the tribunal, which hasi
cognifance of them.
67 The judges who constitute the tribunals
of firfl: inf^ance, and the commissioners of gov
ernment established at the tribunals, are taken
from the communal or departmental lift.
The judges forming the tribunals of appeal,j
and the commissioners placed with them, are;
taken from the departmental lift.
The judges composing the tribunal of caffii
tion, and the commissioners belonging to that
tribunal, arc taken from the national lift.
68 The justices, except the juflices of peace,
remain in office for life,unlefs they should be con
demned to forfeit their places, or should not be
continued on the lift of eligibles corresponding
with their functions.
CHAPTER VI.
Os th refponfbility of the Public Function
aries.
69 The functions of members, whether of the
senate or of the legislative body, or of the tri
bunate, and also those of the consuls or counci
lors of state, do not difeharge them from respon
sibility.
70 Pctfonal crimes, to which are annexed
c ^ poral or infamous punishment, committed by
a member either of the senate, tribunate, legif
iative body, or of the council of state, are pro
secuted before the ordinary tribunals, after a
deliberation of the body to which the person
charged belongs, has authorifed such prosecu
tion.
71 The ministers arraigned, in their pri
vate capacity, of crimes to which are annexed
corporal or infamous punishment, are confider
cd as members of the council of state.
72 The ministers are refponfiblc—ift, for
every aft of government signed by them, and
declared unconstitutional by the senate ; 2d, for
the Don-execution of the laws, and of the regu
lations of the public administration; 3d, for
the ' particular orders which they have given, if
these ord rs arc contrary to the constitution,
the laws and ordinances.
73 In the several cases of the preceding arti
cle, the tribunate denounces the minister by an '
ad on which the legislative body deliberates in :
ordinary form, after having heard or summoned
the person denounced. The miniver placed in
a course of judgement, is tried by a high court,
without appeal or resource, for 3 reversal.
The high court is composed of judges and ju
rors. The judges are chosen by the tribunal of
caffation and from its bosom. The jurors are
chosen from the national lift ; the whole accor- ,
ding to the forms prescribed by laws.
74 The judges, civil and criminal,for crimes 4
relating to their fusions, are prosecuted before,
the tribunals to which the tribunal of caffation
finds them, after having annulled their, ads.
The agents of government, other than
theMinifters, cannot be prfedfor a, re
fating to their fusions, hut by virtue of a de
prosecution is carried or before the ordinary
, tribunals.
CHAPTER VII
General Difeftions.
76 The house of every person inhabiting the
French territory is an inviolable afyluui.
>During the night no person has a right to en
ter it, except in case of fire, inundation, at the
request of the perfens within.
In the day one may enter it for the special
purpose, determined cither by the law, or an
order emanating from a public authority.
77 In order that the a& which ordains the
arrest of a person may be executed, it is neces
sary, ift, that it express in form the causes for
such arrefl, and the law in execution of which
it is ordered ; 2dly, that it issues from a funct
ionary to whom the law has formally giveh that
power ; jdly, that it be notified to the person
arrested, and a copy of it left with him.
78 No keeper or jailer can receive or detain
any person, without having firft trailfcnucd on
his register, the act ordering his arrest. This
,61 mutt be a mandate, given in the forms pre
scribed by the preceding article, or a warrant
for taking the body, or a decree of accusation,
or a judgement.
79 Every keeper or jailer is bound, without
any order being able to dispense with it, to re
present the person in his custody to the civil
officer, having the police of the house of deten
tion, whenever this officer shall demand such
account.
80 A representation of a person in custody
shall not be refufed to his parents and friends,
carrying an order from the civil officer, who
shall be obliged always to grant it, unless the
keeper or jailer produces an order of a judge
te keep the prisoner secret.
81 All those who not being vested by the
law with the power of arresting, shall give, sign
or execute the arrefl of any person whatever:
all those who, even in the case of arrest author
ifed by law, shall receive or detain the person
arrested in a place of confinement not publicly
and legally designated as such ; and all keepers
or jailers who shall aft contrary to the dispo
sitions of the three preceding articles, shall be
guilty of arbitrary detention.
82 All Severities used in arrest, detentions, or
executions, other than those commanded by the
laws, are crimes.
83 Every person has a right of addressing
private petitions to every constituted authority,
and particularly to the tribunate.
84 The public force is necessarily in a state
of obedience; no armed body can deliberate.
85 Military crimes are fubjeded to special
tribunals, and particular forms of judgment.
86 The French nation declares, that it will
grant pensions to all the military wounded in de
fence of their country, and also to the widows
and children of such military as have died on
the field of battle, or in consequence of their
wounds.
87 It shall decree national rewards to the
warriors who fhaPhave rendered distinguished
services in fighting for the republic.
88 A constituted body cannot deliberate ex
cept in a fitting, at which two thirds of its
members, at least, are present.
89 A national inflitute is charged with re
ceiving difcoveria, and perfecting the arts and
sciences.
90 A committee of national comptabilite re
gulates and verifies the accounts of the receipts
and expences of the republic. This committee
is composed of seven members, chosen by the
senate from the national lift.
91 The regime of the French colonies is de
termined by special laws.
92 In case of the revolt of an armed body, or
of troubles which menace the fafety of the state,
the few may suspend i,.the places and for the
time it determines, the empire of the confutation.
The suspension may be provisionally declared
in the fame cases, by an ar rette of Government
the legislative body not being fitting, provided
this body be convened ata very short term by
an article of the fame arrette.
93 The French nation declares, that in no
case will it fuffer the return of the French who
having abandoned their country since 1 789, are
not comprised in the exceptions contained in
the laws against emigrants. It interdicts every
new acception on this point.
Theproperty of emigrants irrevocably belong
to the republic.
94 The French nation declares that after a
;fale legally completed of national property,what
leverI ever may be its origin, the lawful purchase can
not be difpoffefTed, saving the right of third per
fons,if such there should be, claiming to be in
demnified out of the public treasury.
95 The present conflitution shall be offered
forthwith for the acceptance of the French peo
; p' e#
Done at Paris the 22d Frimaire, (Dec. 13)
in the Bth year of the French Republic, one
and indivisible.
(The Signatures of the members of the legislative
committees and consuls folione.)
I PARIS, DEC. 14.
Yesterday the new constitution was signed
by the members of the Legislative Committee,
ratified by the Consuls, and ordered to be pte
fented forthwith to the French people for accep
tance. dec. 15.
The three Consuls were named the day be
fore yesterday by the two Commissions. Buon
aparte was unanimously appointed firft Consul,
Cambarceres and Lebrun had each 21 votes. —
The Consuls, and five persons who are to assist
them, met last night to appoint the Confervaters
to the number cf 60. These 60 will elect the
Tribunes and Senators. The Consuls appoint ,
The Ministers and the 30 Couufellors of State.
The new Constitution was published yester
day at Paris with much pomp. dec, 16.
This day all the troops composing the 17th
division aflembled in the Camp de Mars, to take
the oath to the new Constitution. dec. 18,
The constitution docs not prevent the firft
Consul from taking the command of the armies.
Thus it is said that if Buonaparte does not this
winter induce Austria to make peace, his inten
tion is in the spring to put himfelf at the head
of the armies to sign a peace in the heart of
Germany.
The registers of acceptance and non-accep
tance are opened at Paris. The confluence is
prodigious, and the whole of the votes almost
arc in favour of the new Constitution.
DEC. 20.
It has been insinuated that the registers will
one day serve tor lifts of proscription ; but we
hear they are to be burnt as soon as the num
bers are known.
It appears from the speeches of the King of
Prussia to Durot, as well as from different re
ports from Constantinople, that the Porte has
altogether given up Egypt.
The Helvetic Government is about to expe
rience a change necetfary to disappoint projects
unfavourable to the independence and unity of
that republic.
' Three hundred and twenty Members of the
1 Council of Five Hundred have accepted and
sighed the new Constitution ; which, consider
ing the number of Deputies excluded, and of ,
those on miffion,make§ upwards of fcven-eighths
of what remain.
1 It is believed that the members of the Conser
vative Senate hitherto elected are ,1.
THE MINISTER OF WAR.
TO THE ARMIES.
COMRADES,
Being appointed Minifer of war, I accepted
the office solely from the desire of being ufeful
to the brave men who have founded liberty, and
who cemented the republic with their blood
and by numberless Sacrifices.
• My heart has bled for the fuffcrings you have
endured.
I am far from concealing from myfelf the
dangers and difficulties that encumber the im
portant functions which I have to difeharge ;
but I ihall be upheld and animated in the per
formance of them, by the ardent zeal which I
fuel to put an end to your privations. I will
employ only Republicans, worthy of the na
tional confidence, both by the purity of their|
sentiments and the vigor of their talents.
My sole reward,if I have the happiness to fuc-'
ceed, will be to return to your ranks when the 1
season will permit the opening, of a new career ;
for your glory, and by my present services tol
found some claim to your gratitude and esteem.
(Signed) A. BERTHIER.
LONDON, DEC. 20.
We yesterday received by express,
Paris papers to the 13th inst. which, al
though they contain no military fad
that is at once authentic and of much
importance, will, we have no doubt, be
found interesting. Beginning with mi
litary affairs, and with that theatre of.;
the war which, is fartheft removed from|
us, we find nothing new, except an affair I
which took place on the 23d ult. in I
the Riviera de Pouenti, in which the
imperialists were the assailants, and in ]
which the Republicans do not positive
ly arrogate to themselves the victory.
They fay that the loss of the Austrians
has been very considerable, amounting
to 2000 men—the ordinary manner in
which they colour a defeat. It does
not appear that any engagement has
taken place between the army of gene
ral Melas and that which is opposed
to him, now no longer under the com
mand of general Championet, subse
quent to those of which the Vienna
Court Gazette has already brought us
an account, and of which a farther of
ficial detail is given in a letter from
lord William Bentick, inserted in the
London Gazette of Saturday evening,
and our last. The moll important in
telligence which that letter contains, is
that the siege of Coni was to be re
gularly begun on the 24th ultimo.
In Switzerland there is nothing new.
The French army is increasing thereev
ery day in the absence of its commander.
Our readers are already apprized that
Maffena has repaired to Paris, and ex
changed the command of the army of
the Danube for that of the army of
Italy ; and that the former of these,
which with that of the Rhine incor
porated, is placed under the orders of
Moreau. The French papers contain
letters from Augfburg, of a date two
days more recent than those brought
us by the last mail, from which it ap
pears that the Ruffians were decidedly
about to pass the Lech, and to march
into Bavaria.
Tire banks of the Neckar offer more
interesting matter than those of the
Bormida and theStura. The reinforce
ments sent by the archduke to'general
Sztarry have enabled him to attack the
Republicans and to defeat them. En
gagements took place on the 2d, 3d,
and 4th, which were both warm and
general. The French do not disguise
that they were entirely to their disad
vantage ; and this we may easily judge,
by feeing, that on the sth their Head
quarters had retreated as far as Man
heim, and that their army, which is
now commanded by Baraguay D'Hil
liers, had at the fame period taken that
concentrated position at the confluence
ofthe Neckar and the Rhine, which it
had occupied after every one of its for
mer three defeats.. This information
is conveyed to us ina letter from Straf
burgh, of the 7th instant, and inserted
in the Moniteur, of the 12th. The
fame letters add what, if true, would
be of very great importance in the pre
sent situation of fairs' that an armis
tice was concluded on the stli between
general Sztarry and Baragnay D'Hil
lers. Another letter from Strafburgh,
of so late a date as the Bth, in the Clef
du Cabinet, confirms this armistice,
which it dates to be concluded for
eighteen days from the 6th inst. fub
je<ft to the ratification of the two hos
tile governments: but hostilities were
not to be renewed without notice,
should it not be ratified.
It is supposed that the approaching
promulgation of the public establish
ment, as Roederer calls it, will lender
the legislative debates more interesting
than they have lately been. They have
been dedicated, as usual, to founding
the bottomless abyss of the republican
finances.
The plan of the union of Ireland is fettled.—
Four Irish Archbishops are to fit permanently
in the imperial parliament. Cork and Dublin
are to fend two members each. The present
members of the Irish parliament are to set with
the present British parliament, and no new elec
tion is to take place till both parliaments dis
solve or expire.
= .„ I
^ Arrival of our Commissioners.
PARIS, DEC.^B.
The American Ambassadors, who have been
appointed to negociate with France, have just
landed at Lifben, from whence they will pro
ceed to Paris. _
Paris, dec. 22. It is reported that Cardinal
Maury is ele&ed Pope.
The Chouans have violated their armistice.
In the Cotes de'Nord they are reorganizing
themfelves—lßoo6 of them are in arms in the
departments of the weft, who have in ten days
receivedj6 waggons of ammunition.
Important NEWS,
B, another late arrival.
Extraordinary State Papers !
LONDON, JAN. 8.
[Published by aw!';rityq ,
T ETTERS from the Minister of Foreign
JL, Affairs in France, and from Gen. Buona
parte, and the answers to them by the Right
Hon. Lord Grenville, his Majesty's principal
Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.
(translation.)
MY LORD,
I DISPATCH by order of Gen Buonaparte,|
First Consul of the French Republic, a MefTen-1
(ger to London ; he is the bearer of a letter 1
from the Firft.Conful of the Republic to his'
Majesty the King of England. I request you
t° Q e the neceffarv orders that he may be en-'
I ablet to deliver it into your own hands. This'
:ftep, in irfelf announces the importance of its
objed. Accept my Lord, the affuranecs of my
highest consideration.
CH. MAU. TALLEYRAND.
Paris, the yb Nivafe. &b year nf tbe Freneb'
Republic, [December, 25, 1 799.]
,
[translation.]
French Republic—Sovereignty of the People.
Liberty. Equality.
Buonaparte First Consul of the Republic, to bis:
M^fy tbe Kin ^ °f Great-Britain and of he- I
land.
IParis, the sth Nivofe, Bth year ofthe Republic.
;CALLED by the wiffies of the French ua-|
;tion to occupy the First Magiftiacy of the Re-'
' public, I chink it proper, on entering into office, I
] to make a direct communication of it to your:
i Mafcfty.
I The war which for eight years has ravaged
I the four quarters of the world, must it be eter
nal ? Are there no means of coming to an un
derstanding?
How can the two mod enlightened nations of
Europe, powerful and strong beyond what|
their fafety and independence require, facrifice
to ideas of vain greatness, the benefits of com- ,
merce and interna! prosperity, and the happi-j
nefs of families ? How is it that they do not feel 1
that peace is of the firft necefiity, as well as ofl
the firft glory ?
These sentiments cannot be foreign in thei
heart of your Majesty, who reigns over a free|
nation, and with the sole view of rendering it'
happy.
Your Majesty will only fee in this overture
my sincere desire to contribute efficacioufly, for
the second time, to a general pacification, by a
step, speedy, entirely of confidence, and disenga
ged from those forms which, necessarily perhaps|
to disguise the dependence of weak Races, provel
only,in those which are strong, the mutual de-;
fire of deceiving each other.
Fiance and England, by the abuse of their 1
strength, may still for a long time, for the mif
fortune of all nations, retard the period of their
being exhausted. But I will venture to fay it,<
the fate of all civilized nations is attached to thel
termination of a war, which involves the whole
world. Os your Majefiy*
BUONAPARTE.
* We are at a loss to decipher the meaning of this|
fentence —it is boivever, agreeably to the copy.
Droning-freet, fan. 4, 1800.1
SIR,
I have received and laid before the King the
two letters which you have transmitted to me;
and his Majesty, feeing no reason to departl
from those forms which have long been estab
lished in Europe for tranfa&ing business with
foreign states, has commanded me to return, in
his name, the official answer which 1 fend you
herewith indofed. I have the honor to be,
with high consideration, fir, your most obedient
humble servant, ,
GRENVILLE.
To tbe Mirdfer for Foreign Affairs, ^'c. at Paris,
NOTE.
The King has given frequent proofs of his
sincere desire for the re-establishment of secure
and permanent tranquility to &rc^e.--He nei
ther is, nor has been engaged in any coriteft for
a vain and falfe glory. He had no other view
than that of maintaining, against all aggressions,
the rights and happiness of his fubje&,
For these he has contended against an unpro
voked attack; and for the fame objects he is
flill obliged to contend ; nor can he hope that
this necessity could be removed by entering,
at the present moment, into negociaticn with
those whom a frefh revolution has so recently
placed in the cxercife of power in France, fincei
no real advantage can arise from such negocia-*1
tion to the great and defireable objc& of Gen-|
era! Peace, until it shall diftin&ly appear, thati
those causes have ceased to operate which origi
nally produced the war, and by which it has
since been protracted, and, in more than one
instance, renewed.
The fame system, to the prevalence of which
France justly ascribes all her present miseries,
is that which has also involved the rest of Eu
rope in a long and definitive warfare, 0. a na
ture long since unknown to the practice of civ
ilized nations.
For the extention of this system, and for the
extermination of aileftablifhed governments, the
resources of France have from year to year, and
in the midst of the host unparalleled distress,
been lavished and exhauAed. To this indiftrim
inate spirit of definition the Netherlands, the
United Provinces, the Swiss Cantons, (his ma
jesty's ancient friends and allies) have successive
ly been facrificed. Germany has been ravaged :
Italy though now refeued from, its invaders, has
been made the feene of unbounded^rapime and|
anarchy. His majesty has himfelf bee, .com
pelled to maintain an arduous and burthenfome
contest for the independence and exigence of
his kingdoms.
'Nor have these calamities been confined to
Europe alone; they have been extended to the
most distant quarters of the world, and even co
countries so remote both in situation and inter
ests from the present contest, that the'very cx
iftence of fitch a war was perhaps unknown to
those who found themselves iuddenly involved
in all its horrors.l
While such a system continues to prevail, and
while the blood and treasure of a numerous and
powerful nation, can be lavished in its support,
-experience has shewn that no defence but that
of open and Ready hostility can be availing.—-
The most solemn treaties have only prepared
the way for freffi aggrtffion ; and it is to a de
termined icfiftance alone that is now due what
ever remains in Europe of lability for property,
for personal liberty, for social order, or for the
free cxercife of religion.
For the security, therefore, of these cffential
objects, his majesty cannot place his reliance on
the mere renewal of general profeffions of pa
cific difpoficious . Such profeffions have been
repeatedly held out by all those who have suc
cessively directed the resources of France to the
deftru&ian of Europe ; and nubom the present rulers
b/e declared to have been all,from tbs beginning,and
uniformly, incapable of maintaining the relations of
amity and peace.
Greatly, indeed, will his majesty rejoice
whenever it shall appear, that the danger to
I khicL i.:> eve d< milions, anti il.olccl fas au.Q
have been so long exposed, has really ceased :
whenever he shall be fathfied that the necessity
of resistance is at an end,that after the experience
of so many years of crimei& miferies,better prin
ciples have ultimately prevailed in France ; and
that all the gigantic projects of ambition, and
all the restless schemes of deftru&ion -which
:have endangered the very existence of civil so-
I ciety, have at length been finally relinquished ;
;But the conviction of such a change, however
agreeable to his majefty'swiffies, can rcfult oik
I ly from experience, and from the evidence of
; fads.
I The ^ft and most natural pledge of its real
>ity and permanence, would be the restoration
I of that line of princes which for so many centu
;ries maintained the French nation in prosperity
at home,and in cohfidcration and refpea abroad:
,Such an event would at once have removed, and
will at any time remove all obstacles in the way
of negociation for peace. It would confirm to
France the unmolested enjoyment of its ancient
territory ; and it would give to all the other na
tions in Europe in tranquillity and peace, that
security which they are now compelled tG feck
. by other means.
But desirable as such an event must be both
to France and the world, it is not to this mode
exclusively that his majesty limits the poffibilit,
of secure and solid pacification. His majesty
makes no claim to prescribe to France what
1 shall be the form of her government, or in whose
I hands she shall vest the authority necessary for
Iconducing the affairs of a great and powerful
' nation.
I His majesty looks only to the security of his
own dominions and those of his allies, and to
?the general fafety of Europe. Whenever he
shall judge that such security can in any man
ner be attained, as refolding either from the in
ternal situation of that country, from whose in
ternal situation the danger has risen, or from
such other circumflancea of whatever nature a#
] may produce the fame end, his majesty will ea
'gerly embrace the opportunity to conceit with
I his allies the means of immediate and general
pacification.
, Unhappily no such security hitherto cxifts ;
! no fufficient evidence of the principles by which
I the new government will be directed ; no rea
-Ifonable ground by which tc judge of its liability.
!In this situation it can for the present only re-
;main for his majesty to pursue, in conjuL&oq
;with other powers, those exertions of just and
; defenfive war, which his regard to the happi
ness of his fubje&s will never permit him either
to continue beyond the necessity in which they
originated,or to terminate on any other grounds,
than filch as may best contribute to the secure
enjoyment of their tranquillity, their conftitu,
Ition, and their independence.
I (Signed,) GRENVILLE.
I Downing-street, Jan. 4. 1800.
< To the duinfer for Foreign Affairs,
I tfc. &c. at Paris.
Paris, dec. Xf.
K^ New French Constitution.
I The Committee of the Council of 500, on the
idemand of the Councils of the Republic, yester
day adopted the following Resolutions .•—
Art. I. There shall be opened in each com
mune, a bock for acceptance or non-acceptance
I of the Constitution—the citizens are invited to
inscribe, or cause to be inferibed, their votes.
2. The registers shall be opened at the Sec
retary's offices of all the administrations, tribu
nals, &c.
3 N The delay for voting in each department
i is a fortnight from the date of the arrival ofthe
constitution at the central administration ; —
and three days from the date of the arrival of
the fame in the chief place of the canton.
4. 5. The Consuls of the Republic are au
thorifed to regulate, and put in activity the
forming, opening, term closing, and lending
the registers, and proclaiming the rcfult.
Mefage of the Coifyf.
The Consuls of the French Republic, aft
conformably to the unanimously manifefted will
of the two Legislative Commissions, by propo
hng to y° u to decree to Citizen Sicyes, a signal
proof of the national gratitude.
The Citizen, who, after having enlightened .
the people by his writings, and done honor to
the revolution by his disinterested virtues, re
fufed at firft the Chief Magistracy, and accep
ted it afterwards only from a sense of the dan
gers by which it was surrounded, is affuredl,
worthy of the dittiu&ion which you will decree
I to him, and a rcfufal of which will not be per
-1 knitted to him, when the organ of the law ihall
I have spoken.
I The Consuls of the Republic, in order to ad
s here to your desire, and in conformity with the
I law of the 19th Brumaire, submit to you the
j formal and necessary piopofition to decree to
Citizen Sieycs, byway of national recompencc,
I the property of one of the domains which arc
at the disposal of the state.
Tbe consuls of the Republic,
BUONAPARTE,
ROGER DUCOS,
("Signed H. B. Maket, Sedry.
[Tbe comenifon, in consequence of tbis meff/ge, re
fc?ved, That tbe national domain of Crofne should be
decreed in full and intire property to citizen Sicyes,as
a national recompenfe^
In the Committee of Five Hundred, on re
port of Ludot, the law relative to privateering
was repealed.
~KN/GHTS OF MALTA.
The following Resolution was adopt
ed.—" The disposition of the treaty
concluded betweenßuonaparte and the
/Knights, of Malta is ratified, by which
I the 'French knights, who were in the
island of Malta, at the time of its re
dudion are considered as not having
' emigrated from France. Such of the
knights whose personal estates have not
been fold as national property, shall be
reinstated in their effects. If they have
been alienated, they shall only be en
tituled to an indemnity as fixed in or
dinary cases. The present disposition
' comprehends only the knights wh<\
were included in the above treaty."
'pßosp^r^'i^
IDUBLIN, DEC. 24-
A letter from Londonby Monday's
mail, contains an observation on the
miniftcrial prints there, affecting to
shake the credibility of an armistice be
ing concluded between the Auftriaa
and French armies on the Rhine, &c.
which in our opinion merits the atten
tion ofthe flock-holders in this country.
That an armistice has been concluded,
is by a corroboration cf letters confirm
ed, it is a fad beyond a doubt, and that
there is the strangest probability it has
ere this extended to every hoflile Ration,
must be admitted ; which circumstance,
j together with the dereliction of the