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prersion. a with an Unanimous will, tad a voice as
powerful as that of the Creator, the first day of the
, esistente of the universe, exclaimed, Let equality be
established, let privileges disappear, and let the nation
ble what it ought to be !" He then took a view of
.the Government of Charlemagne, and the abuses in-
troduced into France after that glorious epoch, when
one of the most powerful families of the Feudal
spawns was called to the sovereignty. lie then ad-
verted to the year 1789, whin the Fremi people, he
' siid, committed the great fault of let ing the su-
p one power in the bands of a family essentially
f let. Louis XVI. King of France, would never
crudescend to be King of the French. Being born
a Sovereign, he could never convent to become a
Magistrate. Having,then made some observations
' co the Constituent Assembly, the Constitution of
1791, and the rate of things since that period, he
observed, that the happy situation of the French
pe )ple, who were now in the full possession of all the
rights which were the sole obje& of the revolution
*ln 178% *as disturbed only by uncertainty in re-
gard to tire future. "The enemies of our emln-
i try," said he, " are alarmed at our prosperity, as
they are atsour glory. Their plots have been
multiplied. and one might say, that instead of a
whole nation, they had to combat only one man.
Him they have attempted to strike, in order to effi:a
his destrujion, being well assured th it France, in
mourning for the loss it would that day sustaia, fur
the man who organieed it, and the chief by
was liveried, divided by ambitious rivals,
a by partiel, w..uld sink amidst the storms
• loose against it in every direaion. What secu-
gen we give it against the fear of so many mil-
' Sart WS? What reme4s can we oppose to an many
evils Opinion; the aflsties, and the whole people
, have pernonneed it. hereditary suceession in a fa-
mily rendered illustrious by the revolution, conse-
crated by equality and liberty, in the family of a chief
who was the first soldier of the republic before he be-
came the First Magistrate ; a chief who would have
been eminently disti guished by his civil qualities,
even had he nut filled the whole world with the fame
of hisestrms and the splendour of his viaories. Here
(continued he) we have the inappreciable advantage
of finding at the head of the nation the Chief of an
august family proper to form the first link of the new
dynasty; an eternal barrier will thus be opposed to
the return of fall ion. and the French people will be
consist of preserving their dignity, their indepen-
dence, and their tett itory. Let us hasten then, my
colleagges. to demand that the Chief Magistracy may
be made hereditary; for, in voting a Chief to be he.
=Glary, as Pliny said to 'Frajan, we prevent the
mturn of a master. But at the same time let us give
a grand name to a great power; let us procure in
'Abe Supreme Magistracy of the first Empire in the
'e oeld'Cme mite& due to a sublime denomination ; I
do not find any title for the Chief of the National
Power mote worthy of the splendour of the nation
than the title of Soperw. " I move then, that we re-
itr to the Senate a wish which is that of the whole
nation. and of which the (skied is :
" Ist. That Napoleon Bonaparte. now First Con.
aid, be declared Emperor, and in that quality remain
with the Government of the French
Re-
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44 g, They tl.e imperiel dignity be declared here-
" 3. That such of our institutions as are only
tzseel out. shall be definitively suspended."
Al-nost all the Members of the Tribuaate having
-inseresed their names to speak on the motion; SA•
VOT. Ro tun observed, that it would be difficult
filet tem all to be heard ; and oa a proposal being
male, the Tribunate referred to a commission of
thirteen Members the motion of order. the speeches
delivered, and those which should he spoken till the
day fixed for the report. The commission were to
Stake their report on Thursday.
The Members who compose it are Cures., Saline,
Jaubert (de la Gironde), Duverrier, Duvidal, Gil-
let (tie la Seine et Oise), Freville, Canon de Nisax.
Savoy. Rollins Albisson, Grenier, Eelaitre, Cha-
baud Latour. The members of the Bureau, Fabre
President. Jard Panvilliers. Faure, Simeon, and Ar-
'mold, Secretaries, are to form part of this commis-
sion also.
EXTRAORDINARY SITTING.
CLORZIL (HALT I.)
An ordinary crowd of speaators this day, as
D. y, filled the Tribunes, and the interior of the

Tea sitting was opened at two o'clock. The Pre-
sident intimated that Carnot being the only Tribune,
whose name was inscribed against the motion,
liberty of addressing therribunate was afforded him.

Csrnot mounted the Tribune. He set out with de-

daring, that bring to sprat against the motion of
Curse, he should endeavour to preserve the same
moderation in delivering his opinion, which had been
Imbibitetiq the Tribunes who had spoken in favour
of the Union. He added, that he referred those who

wished to put a bad eonstruttion on his sentiments
to the rigid examination of his condua, since the
.commencement of the Revolution. He took up the
question of conferring on Bonaparte the dignity of
Emperor lot life, and making it hereditary in his fa-
. roily. He asked, if it was to grant the First Consul
a rewind for his services, to offer him the sacri-
fice of liberty ! He asked, whether it was not to
destroy Bonaparte's own work, to make France his
private patrimony ?
I voted against the consulate for life (continued
*e orator, and I will not this day follow a different
coon le. will be consistent with myself ; but the
moment that the order of things which is proposed is
established, I will be the first to conform to it, and
to yield to the new authority proofs of my deference.
May all the members of the community follow the
same example." The orator went on to the examina-
tion of the form of government proposed to be arts;
Wished. He cited a number of examples from the
Jsistory of Rome, and drew as an inference from them,
that a government by one individual was not in the
smallest degree a sure pledge of its stability or its
tranquillity. He applied the same inference to the
history of France, where intestine commotions and
civil discords so often existed under the government
of princes. weak or unworthy of governing.
4. After the Peace of Amiens (continued Carnot),
Bonaparte had the choice between a Republic or a
Monarchy ; but he had sworn to defend the former,
and to resist* the wishes of France, wi.ich had
nude him their guardian. Nvw it was proposed to