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place is then dissolved, in having conf nlne3 to the
taw, and chosen France for his country. Much of
this, however, must depend on the charader and
morals of the claimant. The result of a long his-
torical and philosophical elucidation of this t vie
was; that di • view law ordains the right of citizen-
ship to he conferred in conformity with the treaties
and relations which France may hare with other
Powers.
No nattves of France to be admitted to the rights
of citizens, who have accepted military employments
in foreign service, withn it having been authorized
to do so by the French Government.
Passing to the second sedion, the privation of ci-
vil rights—the law, he said, ordained that any per-
son so situ:tted was disqualified; having undergone
a chid death, could no longer claim the rights of ci-
tizenship.
The remaining part of the code, according to his
explanation, regarded principally the modification:
of this law in resped to wives and children born at
a certain time after the condemnation: into the de-
tail of which it would be unnecessary to go, as we
have already given a sufficient analysis of the
whole.
On Sunday last the Citizens D'Affry, Glutz,
Monnat, Reinhaut, Sprecher, Ustery, Watteville,
and Von Fleu, composing the two commissions of
five -Members, formed by the '26 Swiss Deputies, to
take into consideration the act of mediation made by
the First Consul between the parties which divid-,
Switzerland, were admitted to an audience of the
First Consul.

The Consuls, the Senators, the Ministers, the
Counsellors of State, and die Inspeclors General of
the Army were present, as well as the Citizens
Barthelemy, Ihederer, Fouche, and Dcmeurier,
Senators and Members of the Commission charged
to confer with the Swiss Deputies assembled in
Paris.

The First Consul was for a long time engaged
with each of the Members of the two Commissions
of the Swiss Deputies, and the audience was termi-
nated.

On Monday, the same Members being present at
the audience, Cit►zen Barthelemy, Preside•,t of the
Commission of Senators, presented to the First Con.,
sul the names of the Deputies, which follow in the
enumeration.

The Citizen Louis d'Affry, Landamman of S wit.*
zerland, addressed him in these words
CITIZEN FIRST FIRST CONSUL,
" Called upon by the mediation, which you have
procured, to the important but arduous situation of
Landamman of Switzerland, it is flattering to me,
in becoming the organ of the Deputation which my
country has sent you, to have, for my first funflioa,
the duty of testifying the gratitude with which it is
penetrated, for the vigilant attention which you
have condescended to give to that work, which con-
firms the independance of Switzerland.
" Your first benefit was to restore to the different
people of Switzerland the Federative Government
which is alone suitable to them.
" The result of your mediation will again create
these bonds of convenience which united two nations
accustomed to afford each other reciprocal advan-
tages, and destined to esteem each other. he
troubles which have agitated my country shall cease:
the Powers, friendly to Switzerland, will applaud
the means which the First Consul has employed to
put an end to the direful effeas of party. I owe it
to my country to second your beneficent views, and
I owe it t. myself to be perfectly impartial in the
exercise of the functions which are consigned to me.
" I pray the First Consul to accept with kindness
the homage of our sincere respect."
The First Consul made a suitable reply ; and af-
ter the audience was over, the Landamman, in the
evening, set off for Switzerland.

PARIS, PER 2G.

A circular letter of the Minister of IVar, of the
9th February, again recommends to the Prefects
the prompt and rigorous execution of the laws
concerning conc:ipts. Every conscript, definitely
recognized as supplementary, shall immediately set
out for the corps :or which he is destined. If that
corps should be complete, the Minister shall give
orders for such conscripts proceeding to those
corps which require to be filled up.
. Conscripts of the 7th and Bth year, adds the Mini-
ster, called to their standards by the amnesty of
the 14th of May, have resisted the voice of the
country. There arc others who, after having
joined their corps, have again deserted. Even con-
scripts of the 9th an,: 10th year have abandoned on
the road the soldiers charged to condul them
Every Conscript, in either case, as well as every
Supplementary Conscript, who, after a summons
by the Recruiting Officer renewed three successive
Sundays, shall not obey, shall be diueted towards
one of the depots destined for recruiting the colo-
nies. The Conscript whose desertion shall be at-
tended by aggravating circumstances, shall be pro-
secuted and tried by the Military Tribunals."
Letters from Rouen state, that three individuals,
one of whom was formerly a lemonade vender, ano.,
ther a Chouan, who had received the benefit of the
amnesty, and the third, a reformed gendarme,
have been arrested last week at Pont Audemer, and
conduCted to the prisons of Rotten, where they sepa-
rately underwent long interrogatories, and on the
19th February were sent to Paris in three private
coaches, under the escort of an equal number of
gendarmes. It appears, that they did not know, at
Rouen, the nature of the crimes of which they are
charged, and the letters containing the few details
which have just been read, speak of these three pri-
soners with much reserve and circumspeEtion.
The news of the approaching cession of Sar-
dinia to England is contradiCted by several persons,
notwithstanding the affectation and toile of assur-
ance with which it was circulated. There is no

doubt but that France, and even Russia, would op-
pose a sale which would augment, without measure,
the maritime preponderance of Great Britain, be-
sides adding much to her territorial power. It is,
besides, easy to conceive that the Court of Londoia
has employed every means to engage the King of
Sardinia to dispose of his island. Twenty millions
are a trifle to a State, which no longer calculates,
because the deficiency of its finances does not admit
of calculation.

Last week an inquest was taken on the body of
John Poole, of the parish of Mangorsfield, near
Bristol, Engineer, who was killed in a pit, called
Sandwell, by the explosion of a large quantity of
gunpowder, which took fire whilst the fororkmeti
were endeavouring to blow up a part of the coal.
works. Vadifit—vicridestai DeatA.