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-country alwtys nn ai tit Loi es. tilice
nothiog hill but inikvility and
Tim hde of Elbe I ad been ceded to'France ; It•gave her a
mild, indu trious people, an Slipeirb ports, a fertile and u-
nable mine ; but separated from France it could nut be inti-
mately Jitiellea to any of its Aeportarnts, or Submitted to Cie
.regAlations of a common ad.r.iiii:tration. It has been deemed
•expeAli-tit, that ,iris lc . should yield to the tweet/iv of:cir-
coms:ances There have been establiArd for the Isle of Elbe
ei.iceptionto which its position, and the public interest corn-
mantled.

'The abdication of the Sovcragn, the wish of the people,
and the necesslty of things, had placed redmont in the
power of 'France. In the midst of nations who surrounded it,
.and with the elements that composed its population, ?led-
/bent could neither support the weight of its own itidepeigl-
-roc; or the expeuce of a Monarchy. United to Franc', it
sill erij.oy its security and grandeur; its laborious and
erdight-
cued c•tizens will develope their industry in she bosom ef the

.arts and of Lamm
In the intarier of Trance reign ealmnevi and set-laity. The
of the M 17istrates, a severe Police, a Otntlarmerit
+well .constituted and ditened by a Chief, who hai watched in
the career of honour" have every wherJ spread terror in the
aninds of Brigitels.
Private interest IF elevate.% to a sentiment of pu:4lc luti,rest.
The citizens 11.—. e dared to mule!: ;hose they formerly
dreadad, even though they were chained at the feet of the
Tribunal.

Whule Communes have armed, and have destroyed them.
Foreigners envy the safety of our raids, and that public force.
siskiela often invisible, but ever present, guards their step:,
and protels them even without their b:iag
In the course of a diflicuit v.nr, and in the midst of a
general penury, the poor have not distrusted the cares of the
Coveriunont. They have supported, with courage. necessary
privations; and til- assistance they had reason to expect, they
havis received with gratitude.

The cri az o: forg Ty is 11.) long cr encouraged by the hope of
impunity the zeal of the Tribunals charged to punish it,
and the jest severity of the laws, have at length stopped the
Trosgress of this iicoune, which menaced public and private
PT°Pert.' •

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Our saorsbi? has reached perfection, and &Res the most
boasted modes of worship in Europe. In all the Departments
shcre are enlightened cultivators or it, who instruct b'• precept

and example.
The 'training of knives has been encouratid Sy freminms ;
h it ancliwztion of i.;tnr lino!, by ti:: intro :action of locks of

c‘e-y where zealous Administratotv seek and
reveal the. • icl.•s.ni r ',oil, an,lpro„agate the useful methods

Our mamdaotories multiply and acquire an a:Merlel ani-
ma"! l• and itnpneement —emulous with regard to each other,
the:::,on rival the most renowned Manufactories Monad,
they w.. u• rYteiug to their preseerity but capitals less dearly
purchased, and already the 'capitalists abanaon the hasanlete
speculations of Stock-sobbing, and return to the cultiveticin of
the earth and 'useful enterprizes ; more than 20,000 French
workmen, who were dispersed throughout Europe, are recalled
by the cares and benevolence tithe government, and will be
restorer!' to our Manufactories.
Amongst our Manufactories, there a one in which France is
snore particularly interested; it is that which Colbert warmed
with les genius; it was buried beneath the ruins of Lyons : the
Govorntr.ent has used every care to restore it. Lyons rises to
splendour and opulence, and already from the bosoms of their
wurkshme, itiartizansimpose trihutus upon the luxury of Er,-
tope ; but the principle of their sirecee is in the luxury of
France itself. It e in the fickleness of our tastes, and the in
'constancy of oar fashions that foreign luxury finds its aliment;
it is that which gives life and motiou to an immense popula-
tion. which without it you'd-tie lost in corruption and misery.
There will he Corr:pipe, and soon nn the confines of La
pry.7.ienne, where the youth will form themselves to
industry and nieceateeal-arts ; there one Dock Yards and Ma-
inufactorlos will else dey find the chiefs of their workshops, and
the directors of their labours.
Fourteen millions produced by the tax on barriers, and ten
millions retraortlinary have been, during the tenth year, em-
ployed on the public roads. The antient eommunicatiens
have been prepared arid maintained, and new communications
have been opened ; the Simplon, Mount Cenis, and efeunt
Genevre, will soon afford us a triple and oasy'access into Italy ;
a grand road will lead from G 'noa to Marseilles; a rood is
traced from St. Esprit to sop, another feom Reuses to Brest;
by Poetivy ; at Pontivy establishments will be raised, which
will have a great influence on the public mind of the Depart-
nacres of weeh A.ntient Brittany is composed; a canal will
convey colleietce, and new prnsperity.
On the banks of the Rhine, from Bingen to Coblents, a
necessary mad is eke through thoinaceessiele rocks. The neigh-
bouring Cameiunm a ember their labours with the sacrifices of
the peblie treasure; and the people of the right bank, who
laughed at the folly of the enterprize, remain confounded at
the rapidity of its exezution.
I:unites:3 work-shops are dieribeited bn the canal of Se
Q.:entire The canal of Ourcq has just °pent (I, and Paris will
eteey sere its seters the salubrity and embellishments which
they pitlti.tie. :11..: canal destined to unite the nevi: teen of
the Se , • .1.., ei • Dethe, and the Rhine, is almost en-
they :XeCiter: as .at Doele ; and the public treasure already
receives, in the augmetnaticm cf the price of wood, for which
the canal servis as a conveyesce, a sera equal to what it has
• furnished to continue undertaking.
the creeds of A;gnii:Muttes and of the phone, the draining
-of the naelsees dale LowerCharent have cummeuced, and will
present new roads to commerce, aed new lanes to cultivation
They are edruring to repair the dykes of the Isle of Cadsaud,
those of Ostend, three of the tout of the North, atnl to re-
establish the navigation of our rivers. Ties navigation is al-
ready nosioage; iSaelloned to the sole cite of Covenament ;
the proprietors of lee b as, who fr quent thetas, are, at
tengte sensible, that they are their patrimony, and they teem-
`selves call fur the tax..l3, which .areers assure deer future maan-
eetiance.
On the ocean, forts have teen troth:a, to cover fhe Road of
the Isle of Aix and <1 °fetid the vessels of the Republic. Every
-where funds are essigned fur the reparation and cleansing
+of nun ;suits. A new t.asorransi sluice de Chasse will terinerete
"die Pod. of Have', arid will make it the finest commercial
-port of.La Maness A company of vtloti is formed, to assure
'the Navigation the'Schelet, end guard Against ehe ignorance
•atid danger of fore gn pilots. At Anvers lateases are cointiosee_
ng, *,which w4ll vet e,- to its commerce Its ancient celt.hety,
ail la ealtentieetion of Government are the =mils welch

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ate fo courteet eat Goa ot the. Scheldt, the gieuSe, and
the Rhine, and rettler to our Back-yards the timber which
grow,: tont' owrsoil, att:i to our manttfaTantra, a consumption
which forcipt .:nanufttlories dit,ute with us oa our o wit taxer

wry. •
The Wands of Nfutiniime, Tobago, and St Lucie biave
been reitorisd to 114, with all the
nelzments of
_they prosperity.
Guailaloope, rsi-conquerea and paciied, is regenetated'to culti-
vation. Guiana einerg:as from its long infancy, and assuines
a naked state of anielimation.

St. Domingo was stihjeaad, and the instigator of its trou-
bles was in the pow:lr of France; every thing a.niouticed the
return of its prosperity ; but a cruel ma'sdy has abandoned it to
new disartart. At length the scourga Which desolated our army
'has causal its rarays ; •ae faces which remain in the co;ouy,
any those which w ill a►riva there from our pert.:, aisorc us
that it will be soon restorNl to peaca and CaUlalzr:r.
Vessels are departing for the Isle of France and Re-union,
and flr the Indies.

Our maritime commerce explores the traces of its atittent

conneftion!, and forms new ones; it derives encouragement
from the attlmpts hitherto made; already the cifetis of a
happy experience, awl the nec.ssary encpuragemmit held out,
bast re-animated the fishing-trade, which way lung the patri-
wons of the French; commercial expeditions are made or
meditued to the Easteru Coloaies, the I,le of Franc; and the

Marieitles resumes its abtient ascendancy in the Mxliterra-
neon ; chambers of commerce have been restored to t.!:a towns
which had them formcvly, and have baen established in tt.ose
which, by th.: exteutrot their operiv.t:ons, a.rd the importance
of their ntanufavtures, have wy.,eared• to merit thvnt.
To those associations, formed by an honourable choice, the
spirit and science of comirorce will revivls. Titer: its int...rest,
inseparable from the intcitst of In: State, will be deseinpv..!.
There the merchant will leant to prcfitr to riches the cc.;
deration which honours them, and to thc enjoynscr.:
vain luxury, that wise lennomy, which fixes the esteera oitue
citizen and cantidence of the foreigner.

Ikputiei chosen in these tliirerent rirau, rv3, sill discus:,
under the eves of Government, the intereA of co:amerce and
mannfaiture,, and the Lilts and regulations whicn circuit"-

st.utees may require.

la our armies, by sea area land, will be propagated the in-
stru:tion and the love of discipline. Th' responsibility
amongst mnitary bodies will be defined; a domestic nimi-
nisVation has succeeded elle plundering system of Apeculatori
and coaractots T,..e soldiers, better fall a..d b Ater cloathed,
will know lie value a economy, and the savings he sttbscrities
towurtli the common chest, will attach him to his etaiulard as
to his farrily. _ .

Ail the sources vof our fittan -r:. t. ii L''‘n"nlle mot fcftile ; the
Payment of dir.: 1 contr.hation; .7:11 be leis rigorous with re.
;rant to the cotrributors In the sixth year they reckoned fifty
millions for forced contributions, and they were three or four
years in ar(ears ; at present there are not three millions, and
the contnhutians are regularly paid.

The aerlunts of all the Administrations prove, that the Re.
venue is continually ectc:easing• The administration of the
registery of public property winces a fecundity, which attests
the rapid fluCtuation of capital, and the multiplicity of busi-

In the of so many sign s of prosrierity, there are accusa-
tions talaft7e. to tt. of direa contributions

Government aelsnowladges, with every enlightened man in
Administration, that the sure iarge was particuie,:iy iu tha ir.e-
qullity of the repartition ; measures are deeced, and are al-
ready beginning to be executed, to aseer•:tin the n•nl inequ..-
iities which exist in the. difrent Departments. At latcrt, iu
the course of the trirlfth year, regular and simultaniuus opera;
torus will inform Ili, what is the relatian of the coutributiceis
Letweett one Department and ar.other, and what is in each
Deioatnient. The mean rate of general cantribution, ones:
assured of a certain remit, the Government will proi.ose those
amendments which justice requires; but from' this Session.
and without waiting for thou results, it will prviric an im-
portant diminution relative to the general contatittrois.
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lanovations are still proposad in our system of finance, but
every change is a 3 evil, if it is not demonstrated by evidence
that positive tdv..ntages will result from it. The Glvzrat rm.; t
will await, fro:n Car: and serious discussion, the maturity o;
thos:: pr jet which inexperience often hszarcle. It is justifi.M
by the example of the past, the traces of which are for the
most part -effaced from our minds, and, by the financial doc-
trine or a nation, which, by exageratod efforts, has deetroy.ed
all the measures of public contr.butions and expences.

With an waescertained increase of revenue, extraordinary
circumstances have led to wants that wer.., imposUbl..r to be
foreseen. It was neeemiry to re-cot:pier two of uur
and to re-establish in all, the power and the government of the
metropolis. It was neceectry, by means prompt, awl too ex-

tensive to be directed with the precision of a severe economy,
to assure subsistence to the capital, aid a great numb_•r of the
DeNtrtments ; but at lea,•t success Lai Imsviered the efforts of
the Grr:!:nroent, and from thace vast opetations rtsoure.,-,; re-
matii for ever, to guarantee the ca-oital from the return of the
same penury, and to enable it to dilltvgard the combinations
of monopoly.
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In the statement of the Minister of Finances, will be found
the annual inmeritoutieeri and the different branches of the pub-
lic revenue, miter the head; of their produce, during the

last year, and the extent to which they may be carried by mea-
sures of adininistOation or the progrew of the public prosperity.
What have been in the different departments of administreaan;
the princiidesof the elpem:e for the loth year? What sums
remain to be pai I for thlt and former years'. What resources
remain to cover them, either by obtaining payment of asiass,
meuitt sof past contributimis, or by the extraordinary fun& as-
signed for the expences of those year; and nut y:•t applied?
What is the present state ol the public debt? in what propor-
' tion has it increased? Wtat have b....en the natant: extinCtions?
and finally, What has be,ln discha; ged by the operation of the
Sinking Fats! 'f
la the account of the Minister of the Public Treastfry will
be seen, the receipt; and payment made in the tenth year
belongs to the did...:rent Ira nenes of the revenue, and
what ought to be applied to each year, and to each pan of the
administration.

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The jo:ntacoount oI theie two Ministers, will prevent the
most ceznid.:at pictute of out feteancia{ sAteation ; the Ga.:en:-
mem niers it with equal coufideuce to its fricnd4, and its
detractor:, to it; citiz :ns and to forrigarli.
After having authorised the expences of the fourth year,
which are foloieen, tuid aintropriat4 the nereswry revenues
for thon: 4.4.pancsi, (Art :u greatest •Otttast will ocum,

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