The Sun.
London, England, 1802-02-04 00:00:00

LONDON, FEBRUARY 4, 1802.

WE received this morning Paris Papers, but not
of a later date than those that came to hand yester-
day. They were brought by the Nancy Cutter,
which sailed on Tuesday for Calais with a French
Messenger, and returned yesterday with Mr. DR ES.
sins, one of the King's Messengers, from Amiens.

The First Consul is said to have arrived in Paris
(as was expeeted) on the 3rst ult.
'The Papers which we yesterday received were
most important indeed, and furnish much matter for
serious observation.

The Deliberations of the Consulta, considered
abstraEiedly, cannot excite much interest ; but it is
the conclusion of those Deliberations, and the efe s
which aje likely to result from it to the whole of
Europe, that merit, in a striking degree, our ani-
madversion. We have given, verbatim, the Process.
Verbal of the Operations of the Consulta, and, to-
morrow, we shall conclude the Details of the Con-
stitution and Organic Laws of the Italian Re.
public.
On the 25th ult. the Consulta presented the Re-
port of their Commission to the First Consul, in
which, after having expatiated on the political con,
dition of their Republic, they declare, that their
Country stands " in need of a man, who, by the.
ascendancy of his Name, and Power, may place it
in the rank which becomes its grandeur."
This declaration appears to be modest, rational, and
proper; but to our utter astonishment, and we are
persuaded that it will be a subjeft of wonder with
the remotest Posterity, they proceed in the next
paragraph to avow publicly a most extraordinary faa,
if true, and degrading, if false : " that man," say
they, " that power, eve should seek for in vain among-
ourselves." Thus, after having boldly premised,
that the political existence of the Cisalpine Republic
is completely secured by the Treaties of Tolentino
and Lunt'ville, they acknowledge, in the same breath,
their incompetence to administer the Government
of their Country, without the aid of a Foreign
Chief Magistrate, supported by Foreign Troops.
We do not challenge the political expediency of
the measure itself: the only circumstance of ominous
tendency implied in it, is the nomination of the
First Consul of France, to the Government of that
Country. He has accepted of this High. Office,
upon the following grounds, which we give in his
own wards :
" The ehoire-I have made of those who are to fill
the first places of Magistracy among you, have
been made independent of all idea of Party, or of
local spirit. As to that of President, I have not
found any body among you, who would have suffi.
cient claim to the Public Opinion, who would be
sufficiently independent of the spirit of Locality ;
and who, in fine,' had rendered great services
enough to his Country, to entrust it to him. I
shall still preserve, as long as circumstances may
require it, the great care of your ajfa;rs."
What a pity it is, that a country like Italy, so
renowned in ancient days, for the wisdom of its
Senators, ' and the valour of its People, and so
famed in modern times for its Legislators, for
such men as GIANoNE, GRAVINA and BECCARIA,
should be now so fallen, as not to possess one in-
dividual, competent to be at the head of its Go-
vernment !

RATISBON, JAN. lg.—The ELECTOR Of MENTz,
before he gave in his resignation, invited his
Chapter to renounce their Ecclesiastical Jurisdic-
tion over that part of the Archbishopric which is on
the Left Bank of the Rhine. The Charter assembled