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LEGISLATIVE BODY.-PRESIDENCY OF DELATRE

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arc composed of the whoie of the French youth, the
sons of citizens; without exception. In obeying
the voice of his cot entry, he does not the lees cease
to belong to his coOntry ; does not cease to have
the flee use of civil rights, within the limits com-
patible with the natary-state. Thus, when he is
on the French territory, his rights are regulated by
the common law ; ibut, in time of war, when the
army is on foreign territory, there is necessarily an
exception.
'The plan of the law might have contented itself
with the article under the title of general disposi-
tions, which imports, Ithat every aEI of the civil
state of Frenchmen, klone ia foreign cotmtrie.,
shall be sanctioned, when drawn up according to
the forms used in such countries.
But, upon this part of the subjeCt, it has been
justly thought, France was momentarily wherever a
French army made its appearance.
During the last war the most sacred contra is of
marriage were sported with. Heirs, whose origin
was unknown to families, daily came to disturb
their repose. Parents are always doubtful as to the
existence of their children. Doubtless the war itself
was the cause of iitese abuses, but there 'were many
which were attributable to the want of foresight in
the Legislature. • • '
There shall therefore he aret;ister of the Civil
State attached to every corps of the troop, and the
Staff-major of every army, for the officers without
companies, and for those who axe employed.
The acts shall be inscribed in registers, and sent
to the officer of the domicile of the paters, to be
inscribed on the registers there. On the return of
the armies, the registers of the Civil State of the
soldiers shall be deposited among the archives of
war.
sococaa, FEE. 8.
A French Commissary, preceded by a Courier,
and repairing with renal LW* eagerness to the
coast of Tuscany, has just passed through our city.
We have a French demi-brigade, which has just
come from Modena, and is, they say, to pursue its
route. French troops are expeEted in different ma-
ritime places, situated on the different maritime
places of the Mediterranean. We only give these
reports, not pledging ourselves for their authen-
ticity.
ZERNE, FSa. 18.
Letters of several officers of the Third Auxiliary
Demi-brigade, have confirmed the news • that the
first battalion of that corps, which repaired to
Ajaccio, conformably to the orders of the Adjutant
Commandant Blaumont, Chief of the Staff, Major
of the 23d Military Division, is destined to be em-
barked for the East Indies. The Chief of Brigade
has protested against this embarkation, upon the
ground of the dispositions of the Convention of the
tiOth Nov. 1798, by which it was stipulated that the
Swiss Regiments shall not be bound to cross the
sea. This claim. has been communicated to the
Government.

CORONER'S INQUEST.

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SITTINGS OF TES. 28.
nnunEALI, Counsellor of State, presented the
second title of the Civil Code, relative to the acts of
the Civil State. The project cf the kw contained
six distinct parts, and referred to tilt three grand
epochal, constituting the state cf man, and forming
the source of all civil rights—namely, birth, mar-
riage, and death. It stated that the Constituent
Assembly had adopted regulations respelling
Marriages, and Deaths, and that the Constittent
Assembly organised the principle of them by the
law of the 20th Assembly in 1792, still in force.
He added, that the plan of his. law contained all
that was necessary with regard to the form of the
ads, with such moditiations only as over: the result

of experience.
It stated that the law of 179'2 required but one
publication of bans, eight days before the celebra-
tion of marriage ; but as it was impcstant to pre-
vent clandestine marriage, it was necessary there
should be two celebrations, at the distance of eight
days each ; and, as the former notices had been
found deficient, the civil officer was charged to
affix them at the door of the town-hall. The prcjed.
of the law also recognized the ibrms established in
other States, sued in some degree extended the rev-
lation of the ordinance of 1931 on this subjeEt. it
proceeds w observe, that /he armies of the Republic

BARBARITY AND CRUELTY.
Friday night an inquest was held before Mr.
Gill, at the -Fox, in Wardour-street, on the body
of Dorant Lovell, otherwise George Mango, who
was found dead on Sunday morning last, at the
corner of Noel's-street and Wardour-street. It ap-
peared in evidence that the deceased, who was a man
of colour, had procured his litrelihood, for many
years, in the streets of London, as an itinerant
tinker. He went into the Crown in Oxford-street,
on Saturday morning, where he was served with a
bacon of tea and a buttered roll. He returned in
the evening to the same house, and had a pint of
beer; about eleven o'clock the same evening, he
was discovered by the watchman in Wardour-street,
sitting under a door-way, where Andrew Pollock,
a. watchman, finding him, insisted on his leaving
that place, and forcibly dragged him to the oppo-
site side of the street, which is in St. Anne's parish,
where he left him. The watchmen belonging• to
St. Anne's, .finding the wretched being lying in a
door-way on their beat, forced hint back to the side
in the street in St. James's parish, where he remain-
ed till Pollock returning to cry the hour, asked him
"'what he did there a second time, after he had dri-
ven him away ;" when the deceased exclaimed, " 0
Cod, lam dying I" " then (replied the watchman) you
shall not die here ; you must do that somewhere
else." The deceased answered, "I am not able to
stir—l am a dying man!" " I care nut" said the
watchman, and then either dragged or carried him
a second time to the oppoiate side of the street.
At seven o'clock he was fOfind dead' on the St.
James's skle.
On the view of the body on Friday appeared a
contusion on the left hand, and a bruise upon the
elbow ; when it was thought proper to have Mr.
Brooks, the surgeon, to. open the body, in. order to
ascertain. if there were any internal bruises that
might have occasioned the death. The kurgeores
report was, that there was no bruise wiratOwer in-
ternally, hut that he discovered an inflammation
on the stomach and intestines, but not of.that mag.
nitude as to cause death.
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The. Jury returned the following verdia.
It is not proved in 'evidence that the deceasoci,
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Dorant Lovell. otherwise George Mango, did ace
tually die otherwise than a natural death, but it is
very clearly proved, that Andrew Pollock, the
watchman on duty in Wardour-street, on Sundaf
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night bit, has been highly negligent of his duty, ht. .
omitting to take that care of the deceased whichhe
I was bound trido,and by such omission, the said Juls
Cleii4 of n, deeease4loft life.'
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