The Sun.
London, England, 1804-05-21 00:00:00

THE lIAMBURCII MAILS.

CONSTANTINOPLE, APRIL Io.—The Porte has
received intelligence that the English, with thirteen
Ships of the Line and Frigates, and a number of
Transports, have effeaed a landing in Egypt, and
taken possession of the City and Forts of Alexan-
dria. They expeft the arrival, in a short time, of
7600 men from the East Indies, by the way of the
Red Sea. _ _ _

' The Turkish Fleet is preparing to sail for the
Morea.

BANKS OF THE MAINE, MAY 5.—Accounts from
Genoa of the 21st of April, renew the report that
the Toulon Fleet of nine Ships of the Line has put
to sea, and is at present stationed off the Hieres
Islands. The English Fleet of Lord NELSON has
in part sailed for Turkey.
WILLS and two other Leaders of the Insurgents
in Switzerland, have been beheaded at Zurich, and
another shot.

SWABIA, APRIL 24..—Yesterday, a somewhat
singular mistake occurred at Offenburgh. An Eng-
lish Gentleman arrived there of the name and title
of Sir FRANCIS DRAKE, and was in consequence
taken for the English Envoy of the same name. It
soon appeared, however, that he was an entirely dif_
ferent person, and not even related to him. He is a
descendant of the celebrated Admiral, and was going
from Neufchatel, where he had resided during eight
months with his family, to Berlin.
LEGHORN, APRIL z2.—The French Garrison
here amounts to four thousand men. Last week,
some English making their appearance, the gartison
manned all the batteries. The English Ships have
now sailed away. Many suspeeled Frenchmen con.
tinue to be arrested in Italy.
FLORENCE, APRIL 16.—They write from Rome
that a late marriage is not expaled to be durable.—
(Is this the marriage of the Princess BORCHESE ?)
A part of the Fleet of Lord NELsoN is sailed from
Malta against Algiers.
BERLIN, MAY B.—Her Imperial Highness the
Grand Dutchess CONSTANTIN& of RUSSIA, arrived
at Potsdam last Sunday.
The Russian Embassy, and all Russians present in
this metropolis, have taken mourning for the Duke
of ENGHIEN, for one week.
A number of Troops have been embarked at the
Cape of Good Hope, immediately after the arrival
there of a French Commissary from the Isle of
France, from which place Troops in return are cx.
peded to be brought to the Cape.
PETERSBURGH, APRIL 24.—(From the Court
Gazette.)—His IMPERIAL MAJESTY has been
pleased to order a Court mourning for seven days,
on account of the death of his Highness the Duke
cI'ENGHtEti.

CARLSRT.TH E, AP RI L 30.—The Court of Sweden
has gone into mourning for eight days, on account
of the death of his Highness the Duke d'ENGH I EN.
Baron FAIRENSWARD, Envoy Extraordinary and
Minister Plenipotentiary at Paris, had received or-
ders a month since to repair to the KING, to receive
his commands and instructions relative to various
objects.

THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF MosicrANs held their
Annual Dinner on Saturday last, atVVI L L t s's Rooms.
The Earl of FORTESCUE sat in the Chair, as Hono-
rary President.—The room contained near 300 per.
sons, and consisted chiefly of well-known Professors
and Amateurs of Music. The dinner was elegant
and abundant. Non nobis Donzine was given imme-
diately after dinner, and many loyal and constitu.
tional Toasts followed. Dr. CALLCOTT, with a
laudable zeal for the Institution, composed a new
Ode on the occasion, which was sung by the SALES,
KNYYETTS, NIELD, GORE, &C. &C. A new Glee,
composed by the Junior SALE, was sung by him,
KNYVL•TT and NIELD. The health of the Noble
President was proposed by Dr. SMITH, and drank
with zeal. The Earl returned thanks in a neat
speech. The health of the Vice-Presidents was next
proposed and drank. Earl WILTON returned thanks
in their names, and promised a zealous support to
the Institution. INcLEDON and SHIELD exerted
their talents on the occasion, and the day passed
off with the utmost festivity.
Mrs. STEPHEN KEMBLE is come to London
merely upon a visit of friendship, but we hope she
will not leave it without gratifying the Public with
an exertion of those theatrical talents which they
have so often admired.

Drury-lane 'Theatre closes on the 9th of June, and
Covent-Garden on the 29th.

The Novel of Virtuous Poverty, is the produaion
of HENRY SIDDONs, the only Son of Mrs. SID-
DONS, and it maintains the credit of the family for
superior talents, being the best production of the
Press in that line that has appeared this season.
Some differences having lately arisen between the
Herald': College, or College of Arms, and the Ge-
nealogists of the Order of the Bath, respelling the
right of recording the Pedigrees of the Knights,
HIS MAJESTY has commanded that such Pedigrees
shall in future be first entered at the College of
Arms, and copied from the books of the College
into others, to be kept by the Genealogists. This
order, which is dated May 8, appeared in Saturday
night's Gazette.

The projefted Encampments on the Kentish coast
will very shortly take place. That at Shorncliff
will consist of the 4th, or King's Own ; 43d (Light
Infantry), from Ashford ; 5 ail (Light Infantry),
59th, and Rifle Corps, with two Brigades of Ar.
tillery.

The Generals and Chiefs of Hati (ci.devant Sr.
Domingo), on the Ist of January last, proclaimed
JOHN JAMES DESSALINES, Governor-General for
life, with the powers of making war and peace, and
nominating his successor. ,The Generals have all
sworn to resist for ever the authority of France, and
to die rather than live under its dominion.

The lower class of people at New Orleans are
stated to he greatly dissatisfied with their new Go_
vernmenr, and that the French and Spaniards were
in aftive rebellion. On the z;th of February they
attempted to destroy the City by fire, and soo dol-
lars are nOw offered for the discovery of the incen-
diaries. The Americans were; at the date of the last
accf)upt9, every night tithiel arms.

AAPAL NEWS.

From ti:e LONDON GAZETTE, My 19, ISO 4

Admiralty-once, May 19, 1804.
Copies of Letters from Commodore Hood, CO:
mander in Chief of His Majesty's Ships and Vessels
in the Leeward Islands, to William Marsden, Esq'
Centaur, Carlisle-Bay, Barbadah
SIR, March 5804.
I beg leave to inclose you, for the informnticn
of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty,
copy of a Letter from Lieutenant Carr, command-
ing His Majesty's Armed Schooner L'Eclair, giving
an account of the cutting out an Enemy's Privateer
by Mr. Salmon, the master, and ten men in a boat►
from under the Batteries of La Hayes, GuLdaloulle.

I have the Honour to be, &c.
W. Marsden, Eq. SAM. HOOD. 1
His Majesty's Schooner L'Eclair, St. johrfj .
SIR, Roads, loth March 1804..
It is with great pleasure I have the honour to ac'
quaint you, that on Tuesday the sth inst. at torts
P. M. passing Englishman's-Hea•d, Guadalourt ira
His Majesty's Schooner under my command, I dis-
covered a Schooner standing at the northevard;,
on drawing near her she hoisted a red pendant,
stood into the Hayes, and anchored close under
the Batteries. On standing in I discovered her
i
to be a French Privateer full of men, The win'
blowing fresh on shore from the westward, pt
vented my sending the Cutter to attack her. 11;
seven, still laying off the Hayes, it fell calm. `,
. .
then proposed sending .the 'Cutter to attempt het'
when Mr. Salmon, the master, volunteered this °tie
vice, to which I consented, from the knowledge ~
had of his resolution and good conduit on fort
occasions; and I hope, Sir, you will be of opito", '
he merits the confidence placed in him. The BO
containing only ten men, himself, and the Surgetrn
who was also a volunteer. At two A. M. the
Boat returned, having captured and brought outs!c
litlaterbßoautrte;r,itehse,
Privateer, who commenced firing on them, ,°,,
Bimoamtedpieartseeleverisend:hbeoiarredentzing mei'
and care
o,ineres (
Tied her after a stout resistance of ten
from the crew, consisting, when boarded, 011,"t
nine men, well prepared to receive their, an"A a
calm, under a heav fire from the EneraYy
ob-
liged afterwards to tow and sweep her out Ina dead
calm, hat'
teries, as also the musketry from the shore : the
master assures me, that the very gallant conduct 0 •
the men, together with the assistance of the surges:oo 1
in opposition to all difficulties, enabled him to 00."
cute this service. She proves to be Le Rose Schoeai
er Privateer, carrying fifty men, well armed, and
one long brass nine-pounder, sails extremely fast,
well found, and vklualled complete for three meat"
for fifty men, just going on a Cruize. ‘
9
I am happy to add, that no loss has been seh;
tained on the part of the boat. On the part Of fof
Enemy five men killed and ten 'wounded, Piro,
whom jumped overboard, including the CaPt°i '
who was wounded on the first of the attack.
I have the Honour to be, &c.
W. CAR °
To Samuel Hood, Esq. Commodore and Com-
mander in Chief, &c. &c. &c.
Centaur, Carlisle Bay, Barlabist
SIR, March 23, 1804.
'
I beg leave to enclose you, for the irformaLW
.3
of the Lords Commissioners of Elle Admiralte.td, I
letter I have received from Captain Youeelusbatino
of His Majesty's Sloop Osprey, giving an ace°
,„,,
of a most spirited aftion he fought with the Eg)eto
tienne, a Freuch Frigate, of 36 guns and 260 alio;
which must certainly have fel!en to .li:s sul4.thee 1
skill and bravery, had not she availed herself n,,,ai,
sailing to get away. Captain Younghusharel'Ue,,,
lant condutt, widi that of his Officers -
rest 'l,
1
against such superior furce, merits my wa
plause. , Avers,
This Ship was formerly the Railleure, at' 1s ' rri-
to the Merchants of Bourdeaux, to fir out a 9 'We"
vate Ship of War ; she had made several /encl.
one of which has been,re-taken by the Hile
I have the Honour to be, Sec. „00P,
W. Marsden, Lig. SAM. P
R babes' 1
Ili: Majesty's Sloop Osprey, 'M.
SIR, March zB,
he°
1804-• lj ifOr;
I beg leave to inform you, that on the 2',.ter ; *e
I discovered four sail on the south. west (1.°3" "*
t
immediately chaced, and upon- nearing croone
found them to he a large frigate and three (nate, she
ships ; upon coming within hail of the frig
.a,isitles
hoisted French Colours, and fired her t:v(0) soles
which was .instantly returned, and the t, twee,'
continued in close anion for an hour an"_.d /IWO
minutes, when the Feemy ceased firing, end
to make off, and her convoy to separate osinie",,u,seili
courses ; I then found with regret that
the or ;
°
ed the Osprey under her topsails oo.on our 1)0
however continued the chace, '(ea,. firing but we losc
,
chacers as long as they could
, sferc
sight of her during the night. rid loot
ye
The French Ship's sails, rigging, a av ,
suff,,, to
very much cut ; the Osprey has els° sail 0
much in her sails and rigging ;
man kaled and
add, that we have one
W..'
wounded. , Corn}'
and I am .
siscee
Lieut. Collier, the Officers, and Ship's . ...,,.
behaved with the
I have further to inform you, that on
.% geli-
the S z_,
the Osprey and Hippomenes retook i. /so c
I renc" the
ance, an,i I am informed from theii,
ed, was ,
greatest bravery and atfirv,l.Z7tll,
master, that the Ship the Osprey engai,,rtee,.
... 171:,
Frigate -Egyptienne, fitted out as a vtahirlest"-
the Merchants of B eirdeaux, mounting i (iftr
five mull. I am, Sir, Sec. - A1\11).
1i513
G. YOUNGH
guns, and having on board two hundred an' ,
joes,
mander in Chief, Egc..&c. &c.
ba°
Centaur, Carlisle-13a.Y, Eat
4_. ~
To Samuel Hood, Esq. Commodore and 600- . •
March 29v 1"1" , of Pe
SIR, COPY ut
I have the satisfaflion to .n siiiiesY .e,
Letter I have received from Captat. . 0
.t.
fiend you - 1
count of the capture of the EgYPtiliat stoop- ,•0 tbe
gate, of thirty-six guns, .q., Egypt
.- ShioleY : Ot.
His Majesty's Sloop Hi
of Laptain the-
, .
Artnriess and perseverance
toes hi")' crctlit f
force, i
pursuit of a Ship of such iighest
the I
firers, and Sloop's Compaq,
ppoinene.c,ngni:Ficgcoot kfroc

and %zing well marked with judgmmt and decision,
he so surprised the Enemy, that he struck the rim.
ment the Hippomenes came alongside, after three
hours running fight. No doubt the spirited ac..
tion of the Osprey contributed ; of which Captain
Shipley speaks in the handsomest terms.
I am, &c. &c. SAM. HOOD.
IVilliant Marsden, Esq.

Sig, His Majesty's Sloop Hippomenes,
I have the honour to March 29, 180+.
tore of acquaint you with the cap.. L'Egyptienne French Privateer (formerly a
Republican Frigate), mounting thirty-six guns,
twelves and nines{ commanded by M. Placiard, and
having two hundred and forty men on board, on
the evening of the 27th, after an arduous chace of
fifty-four hours, and a running fight of three hours
and twenty minutes, by Flit Majesty's Sloop under
my command, for she struck the moment we fairly
got alongside of her. I feel much pleasure in say.
ing the Officers and Men behaved with that cool-
ness and intrepidity inherent in Englishmen ;
and
had the Enemy allowed
them a trial alongside, I
am convinced her superior force would not have
availed them much. However, I cannot forbear
recommending to your toteon
tenant, for his good condpue} on this y asFi onrst L
all fur
ieu.
rner occasions. The slight resistance she made I
can only attribute to the fear of being as severely
beat as she had been four days previous by the
Osprey, who killed eight of her men and wounded
nineteen, and whose gallantry astonished them.
Mr. john Lloyd, Master's
Mat is the
lon hurt on this occasion, and he se,
lightly.only per.
I have farther to inform you of the re-capture of
the Rtlianceof London taken by the abov F • .te
e Fri
•
i have the Honour to be, &c.
Commodore Hood, ONWAY SHIPLEY.
i 1 c.Eec.o
&c.

Centaur, Carlisle-Bay, Rarbadoes,
SIR,
Match 31, 180—
I herewith inclose Copy of a Letter from
Lieutenant
and of King, of this Ship, acing in Com-
bl His .Majesty's Sloop Drake, giving an
account of his Naving, with that Sloop, fe.captured
the Enterprize, of Bideford, loaded with camp equi-
page, medicines, &c. for the Army ; also of two of
his Boats (after having drove an Enemy's Privateer
tinder the Batteries
of LA Hayes (commanded by
t nem
the Master), recaptured another Ship, which the
y abandoned.
I also enclose a Co
O'Brien py of a Letter from Captain
of His Majesty's Ship Emerald,
Lieutenant Gregory, with the Boats of that Ship,
stating
having destroyed a Schooner and a Sloop at Port
Diable- Martinique.
I have the Honour to be, Scc.
IV. Marstierz, Esq.
SAM. HOOD.
Stit,
His Majesty's Sloop Drake;
Pao rch /7, 1804.
. I have the Honour to acquaint you, on the morn-
ing of the 14. th inst. off Englishman's Head, Guada-
loupe, I fell in with a French Privateer Schooner,
and a large Ship in company,
but could not come up with eer
apparently
until thip r
her prize,
on shore near the Batteries atith the Hayehe I ;
end un
ed-
iPoored to cut off the Schooner from the proteCtion
Of the Fort, but was prevented doing so by its fall-
jag calm, and frequent changes of the wind, and
having the main-top shot away, and the rigging
much cut; another Ship
and appearing 1 in the Wing,
steering, as if intentionally to run ashore, I
made sail after her, leaving two Boats, under the
Ziredion of Mr. Robson, the Master, to watch the
Ship, having perceived her to be off the she and
to attack her should they come out, which was ob-
viated by the Enemy's abandoning her at the ap.
preach of the Boats, only leaving one of tir rew,
who had not time to get into their Boats
. But I am
sorry to add, when in than half an hour, she blew up posse
en
of the Ship more
a Master's Mate, three Seamen by which accident,
,and one Marine
Wert lost; Mr. Robson, the Ma exred few
tours after, and several others much brupi aised. Th
name of the Ship I could not learn ;
she had eighteene
guns mounted, and was a very
large S
hip.
The other Ship which I re-captured proved to be
the Enterprize, of Bideford, taken by the Decide.
I have the Honour to be, &c.
Sa (Signed) W. KING.
t.orne/ Hood, Esq. Commodore, and Com-
mander in Chief, &c. mac. &c.
Nis Majesty's Ship Emerald
SIR, Diamond , off the
, March 2.1, 1804.
I have the Honour to inform you, that on the
tirening of the 20th of this month, observing a Sloop
and a schooner at Port-au-Diable, Lieutenant Gre-
gory, with the Bat of this Ship, was direEted to
bring them out, which not being able to do, he set
fire to and destroyed them.

I have the lion.,,ur to remain.
3"lbi ROM% Esq. Commedi)re, air J. O'BRIEN.
CommandeP in Chief, c. fc.
`16:7;r41t.y-Offre, May 19, ISO 4.
CM" of a Letter
ain 111 E Rear. Admiral Vash.f.'n, t:
arlalii"ii s
SIR, q. daied
.I.2:ith, the 14th inst.
You will be pleased to acquaint the Lords Com-
Missioners of thP Admiralty, that His Majesty's
Ship the Ethalion arrived in Leith Roads yesterday
after Post; and I herewith inclose a Letter from
Captain Stuart, giving au account of the capture of
lheh Dutch National Brig Le Union, of sixteen guns,
wich ht has brought in with hint.

I am, &c, J. VASII6N.
I be EgJalion, off Bergem, May to, 18(4.
$ to acquaint you, that, last right, after six
tic/11ra Chace; I captured L'Union, a Dutch National
13hig, fitted out by a Company of Merchants at Am-
sterdam, carrying sixteen long guns, twelve nine,
Ind four six-pounders, and eiglity-one men, cam-
anded by Captain Cartes Thuenesse ; two days
from Bergen.
L'Union is a remarkable
fine Vessel, about two
uundred and eighty tons, pp
coer fastned, and
rnY opinion calculated for his Majesty's Service. in
I have great satisradion in communicating this
Intelligence, as L'Union, in company with L'Es-
, 'Dutch C'orvette, lately annoyed oar rade
ttn thin Station.

I have the Horour t, he, &c.

CHARLES STUART.

toy EL—Arrived here late last night the
Facvourite hired Armed CUttcr, which brings inter_
ligence that about 60 Gun.brigQ, Loggers, &c. came
Out with an inter.t to attack the gallant Sir SIDNEY
SM TII ; but, after a few broadsides frein .e2Mtelope
and the other vessels in company, Ille)r were obliged
to sheer off. Sir SIDNEY dashed in at'acingst them,
regardless of the heavy fire of their Batteries, until
his Ship touched ground, when be was compelled to
draw off, though not without taking one, sinking
seven of the Enemy's Gun-boats, and driVing be-
tween twenty and thirty ashore; the rest escaped,
some into Flushing: and some into Ostend. Nothing
but the shallowness of the Coast saved the whole
from destrudion. The Cruizer Gun-brig, and
three Frigates that were in company with Sir SID-
NEY, have suffered very much in their rigging.
Accounts were received here yesterday, that a
very unequal Adion had taken place between seven.
teen sail of the Enemy's Gun-boats and the Pincego
Gun-brig, when the latter getting becalmed, and
having received so many shot from the Enemy that
she was on the point of sinking, she was compelled
I to strike to the Enemy.

A very heavy and steady firing has been heard
during the greatest part of yesterday evening, and
the whole of this morning, but we know not upon
what account : some say it is in celebration of BO-
NAPARTE'S being made Emperor of France, and
others .that it is Sir SIDNEY following up his shot;
we expert to hear news every hour.

FALMOUTH, MAY I S.—Arrive) this day the
Eurydice Sloop of War, of z+ guns, having under
Convoy about 25 sail of the outward-bound New-
foundland and Quebec Fleets, which put in here
by contrary wind ; also arrived the Harriet, FORD,
from London, to wait convoy for Honduras; the
American Ship Eliza, Capt. EvANs, from Norfolk,
Virginia, 30 days passage ; called here for orders
the Anna Catharina (Swede), Cap►. KttAa E, -from
Petersburgh, with hemp and iron, last from Cowes,
bound to Oporto, very leaky.

Sailed the ship Regulus, IVILT":;GROV E, for London;
Alo!her. Aamsry, WI NDALE, for Poole; Atyrilei
HARPER, for Lancaster; and Mir:qua, DEtitits,
for Bristol.

The Princs of Wales Packet is detained by con-
trary wind, having on board two 'Mails for Lis.
bon.

The Princess Elizabeth Packet, Ciptairi KIPD,
will take out the Mails of the 16:h instant, fur the
Leeward islands.

The Auck/and Packer, -with Mail from Lisbon,
may be soon expeacl

PORTSMOUTH, MAY 20.—'Arrived the CV/veils,
Lord Eldon, and the Experinent, outward-bound
East-Indiamen.

SHEERNESS, MAY 20 —Sailed the I?raddich
Armed Ship, and Lively Cutter, with a Fleet un-
der convoy fur the Baltic.

DEAL, MAY 20.—Arrived His Majesty's Sloop
Scourge from Margate Roads; Sulphur from Sheer-
ness ; and Bonetta from Hull.
Sailed the immortaiite and Tartarus Bomb, off
Boulogne ; Charlotte Schooner, with Convoy for
Portsmouth ; Basilisk, convoy to the Mackerel
Fishery ; Veteran and Scourge, on a cruize to the
westward ; Jamaica, Champion, Dart, and Orestes,
on a cruize off Calais; and Cv.ffnells East India
Ship for Portsmouth.
Arrived the Alt:wick Castle, Lord Eldon, and
Experiment East India Ships, from the River, and
sailed through for Portsmouth.
_

In the Downs—Monarch, Utrecht, Illustrious, Ardent,
Virginie, Lucifer, Devastation, Fury, Zebra, Sulphur, Lark,
Bonetta, Zephyr, Speculator, and Industry.

CORN EXCHANGE,' MAY 2T.

To-day there is an abundant supply of Wheat
come to hand, the Trade is exceeding dull, and
cheaper full 3,. on inferior qualities ; Barley in
tolerable quant►ty, and dearer, as is Malt ;
,Pease
but few here, which keep their price, and Beans at
diff:tence ; there are many arrivals of Oats,
and the prices are quoted lower ; Flour very plen.
tiful.

5VlKat 26s a 36s a cos od Tick Beans -26 s a 33s od
Fine ditto -51 S a 53s od (Lars - 175 a 19$ a 235 od
Rye - - -24 s a 275 od Poland dittu 245 a 25s 6d
Barley - - 215 a 2.6 s od Rape Seed - - 361 a 391
Malt - - ..
.5.0 a 67s od Fine Flour - 395 a 435 od
White Pease 365 a 42s od Se,:onds 345 a 39S oct
Beans - . 355 a 335 od

The Clerk of an eminent merchant in the city,
who hitherto bore an excellent eharaaer, and was
long in the confidence of his employer, has within
these two days past been taken up and lodged in
prison, on a charge of embezzling property to the
amount of upwards of moot.
On Friday morning a private binel7hiincigi e
hehas%%/1- Guards,astriedby a Court Martial,
Coldstream
siicaiiol,ll7ll:st °
,
been only
chargeti with acts of vagrancy., by begging in the
streets in a disguisA dress, and pretending to be a
cripple. When apprehended, he %vas taken to the
guard-house and examined by a surgeon, who re_
ed him
lth, anti no
3137)01-0: s t;l',niics) eh
a diug(i
werego oeit:lin tnih'e;ady the Court fC°l‘evka; ey,
caedfiti'est-r
ues,
which he was taken to the Military

M.AY

THE SENATE CONSI3RVATtttiR TO THE 'FIRST CON-
SUL OF TiYt RIPUBLIC.

" CITIZEN FIRST COIISUk.,

" The Senate Conservateur repairs in a body to
You, to thank you for the comMtnication you have.
made to it, the zd of this month, by the Grand
Judge, Mintszer of Justice, of the original docu-
ments and authentic papers, relative to the atrocious
plots laid against the State and against you, under
cover of a Diplomatic Character, by the Envoy of
the KING of ENGtANI) to the Court of Munich.

" In examining these Papers, and the Report
which the Grand Judge has mule to you of them,
the Senate has seen the necessity of supplying for
the moment the funtlions of that 'grand National
Tribunal, the establishment of which is wanting to
our Institutions, A commission of five Members
has made to it a Report which the Senate has adopt.
ed, and which it comes to present to you. Its
publicity is committed to the wisdom of the Go-
vernment. Our deliberations are essentially secret,
and, in political matters, we have for a maxim to
let transpire only, what the Government may
judge convenient to communicate to Europe. We
say to Europe, because it is not France alone that
is concerned, her cause is that of the whole world.
" However, relatively to France, the circum-
stances make it a duty for the Senate to explain it-
self upon two important objefts, which the disco-
very of those horrible plots appears to it to render
worthy of your quickest and most serious Mien.
tion.

" At the sight of ail these attempts from which
Providence has saved a Hero necessary to its de-

signs, a first rtfle&ion has struck the Senate.
When they meditate your ruin, it is France
they mean to injure. The English and the Emi.
grants know, that your destiny is that of, the French
People. If the execrable ptojelts of the former had
succeeded, they little think of the horrible vengeance
which that people would have taken of them. Hea-
ven will preserve the earth from the necessity the
French would he in of punishing a crime, the con-
sequences of which would overturn the whole order
of the world. But that crime has been attempted,

and it can he go again ; we speak of vengeance, and

our Laws have not foreseen it.

" Yes, Citizen FIRST coN,eL, the Senate must
tell it you.
" In organizing our social order, your Superior
genius has Made an omission, which honours the ge.,
nerosity of your charaaer, but which, perhaps, aug.
ments yOUr dangers and our fears. AU our Consti.
tutions, except that of the year had organized
either a High Court, or a National Jury. You
have had the confideoce that such a tribunal would
not be necessary, and posterity, which must give
you credit for all that you have done, will also put
to your account all that you would not foresee.
But, Citizen Ft !UT CONSUL, you Qwe yourself
to the Country. You have not the authority to
neglect your existence ; and the Senate, which, in
its essence, is the preserver of the social pat of
thirty millions of men, demands on their part, that
the Law should explain itself
.upon the first object
of this preservation.
" Citizen Ft itst CoNsot, a grand National
bunal will assure on the one side the responsibility
of the Public Functionaries, and. on the other it will
offer to Conspirators a tribunal quite ready, entirely
invested with the consistence, and with the powers
necessary to maintain the safety and existence of a
great people, attached to the safety and to the ex.
istence of its Chief.

" But thi's National Jury does not yet suffice to
assure, at the same time, both your life and your
work, if you do not add to it Institutions so corn-
!tined as that their system may survive you. You
found a new mra ; but you must eternize it. Bril-
liancy is nothing without duration.
" We cannot doubt but this great idea has oc-
cupied you ; for your plastic genius embraces every
thing and forgets nothing. But do not defer.
" You are pressed by time, by events, by con.
spirators, by ambitious men. You are pressed, in
another sense, by an inquietude which agitates all the
French. You can chain down time, master events,
curb conspirators, disarm the ambitious, and tran-
quillize all France, by giving it institutions which
may cement your edifice, and prolong for your chit-
dren what you have done fut the fathers. Citizen
FIRST CONSUL, be well assured that the Senate
speaks to you here in the name of all the Citizens.
All admire and love you ; but there are none who
do not often think with:anxiety, on what would
become of the ship of the Republic, if she had the
misfortune to lose her pilot before being safe moored
upon immovable anchors. In the Cities, in the
Country, if you could "question all the French, one
after another, there is nor one of them but would
say to you, as well as we, • Gr'lat man, complete your
wotk, by rendering it immortal like your glory.
You have drawn us from the chaos of the past ; you
make us bless the benefits of the present ; guarantee
to us the future.'
" In foreign Courts, sound policy will hold the
same language to you. The repose of France is
the secure pledge of the repose of Europe. Such,
Citizen FIRST Cortsut., are the observations which
the Senate has charged us to lay before you, and has
given us also the express mission to repeat to you,
•in its name, and in the name of the French People,
that in all circumstances, and now more than ever,
the Senate and the People make only one with you.
(Signed) CAMB AC FRES, Second Consul, President:
MoRARD GAL LES and JOSEPH CORNUDET, SECS.
Seen and sealed,
The Chancellor of the Senate (signed) LAPLACE."
Saint Cloud, sth Floreal, year I 2..

MESSAGE.

BONArARTE, FIRST CoNsUL OF THE RFPUZLIC,

To THE SENATE CONsERYATEUR.

SENATORS,

" Your Adress of the 6th last Germinal has
never ceased to be present to my thoughts. It has
been the °hied of my most constant meditation.
" You have judged the Hereditary Power of the
Supreme Magistracy necessary, in order to shelter
the French People cc mpletely from the Plots of our
Enemies, and from the agitations which arise ft.tn
rival ambitions. It even appears to you, that Ma'

ny of ear instoutions Ongf,t to he irrprovel, try
order to seFule for ever the tritmi-.h et Ecoality,.
and Public Liberty, aid present to the, Nail in a, r_
to the G.)vernthent the .double gi:ar,antee they are
in want of.
c' We h ave been constantly gutled by gra`nd
truth, that the stivereigniy, resides in the Frtnch
People, in the sense that every thing, without ex.
ception, ongbt to be done for its interest, its happi-
ness, 'and its glory. It. is in order to attain this
end, that the Si)preine Magistracy,. the Senate, Ole
Council of State, the Legidative Body, 'he Eke.
tonal Body, the Electoral Colleges, and the diffe.-
rent branches of the Aaministtation, are and ought
to he instituted.

. , .
isy in proportion as I fix m attention upon these
great objeet4, T am still More convinced of the
verity of those sentiments which have expressed to
yoU, and I feel' more and more, that in a' circum-
stance as new as it is important, the Councils of
your wisdom and experience were necessary to enable
me to fix my ideas.
" I request you then to Make known to me the
whole of your thoughts..
" The French People can add nothing to the ho-
nour and glory with which it has surrounded toe',
but the Most sacred duty for me, as it is the dearest
to my leart, is to secure to its latest posterity those
advantages which it has acquired by a Revolution
that has cost it so much, particularly by the satri.
fice of those millions of brave Citizens who have
died in defence of their Rights.
" You desire that I might declare to you, on the
z4.th July, in the present year. Fifteen years have past
since, by a spontaneous movement you ran to arms,
you acquired Liberty, Equality, and .Glory,„ These
first blessings of Nations arc now secured to you for
ever, are sheltered from every tempes,, they are
preserved to you and to your children : institutions
ecwceived and began in the midst of the storms of
interior and exterior Wars, developed tv ith constancy;
are just terminated in the noise of the attempts ai d.
plots of our most mortal Enemies, by the adoption
of every thing which the experience of centuries and
of nations has demonstrated as proper .to guarantee
the Rights which the Nation had'judged necessary
for its dignity, its liberty, and its happiness.
(Signed) BOTIAI;ARTE.
" By the. FIRsT CONSUL,
" The Secretary of State, (Signed) H. B. MAR ET."

EXTRACT OF THE gEGI ST FR S OF.THE SENATE CON..
SERVATEUR OF THE 14TH FLOAEAL-, YEAR. 129

OF THE REPUBLIC.

" The Senate Conservateur, assembled to the
number of Members prescribed by article XC, of
the Constitution ;
" Deliberating upon the Message of the FIRST
'CONSUL of the Republic, of the sth of this month ;
"After having heard the Repottofits SpeCial Com-
mission of. ten Members, nominated on the sitting
of the 6th instant;
" Adopts, by secret scrutiny, and by the also.
late majority of suffrages, the projea of reply pre_
sented by its Commission, and t:le Memorial an-
nexed thereto ;
'' Decrees, that both be inserted in the Notes
Verbal, and laid before the FIRST CONSUL of the
Republic by a Deputation, composed 01 the ihireats
and Members of the Commis.sion."

REPLY OF THE SENATE.

THE SENATE CONSER.VATFUR TO THE FIRST CONSWL

OF THE REPUBLIC.

" CITIZEN FIRST CONSUL,
" You have, by a memorable Message) just re_
{,lied in a manner worthy of You, and of the Great
Nation which has appointed you its Chief, to the
wishes which the Senate expressed to you, and to
the solicitudes inspired in it by the love of the
Country. You desire, Citizen FIRST CONSUL, to
become acquainted with the opinion of the Serrate,
concerning those Institutions of ours, which 'we con-
ceive should be improved, in order henceforth to se-
cure the triumph of Equality and Public Liberty,
and to present to the Nation and to the G.lvernment,
the double guarantee of which !Irv) are in want.

4.4 The Senate have assembled together, and
carefully compared the results of the meditations of
its Members, the fruits of their experience, the ef_
leas of the zeal with which they are animated for
the prosperity of the People, whose rights they are
appointed to protel.
" Having recalled theyast, examined the present,'
and cast its looks towaids the future, it now pre.
sent' to you the wish imposed on it by the safety of
the State.

" The French have conquered Liberty ; they
wish to preserve their conquest ; they wish to en-
joy repose after their vidory. '
" For this glorious repose they will be indebted
to the hereditary Government, of a single individual,
who, elevated above all, invested with great power,
surrounded by splendour, glory, and majesty, will
defend public Liberty, maintain Equality, and lower
his fasces before the Sovereign Will of the People
who proclaim him.
" It is this Government which the French Nation
wished to give itself ir. the happy days of the year
1789, the recolleaion of which will be for ever dear
to the friends of the Country, whom the noble en-
thusiasm which the image alone of this Government
created, was involuntarily shared, even by those
whose interests were hurt by the Revolution, and
against which a perfidious Foreigner dared to lift up
from afar his parricide hands, and in which the ex
perience of ages, the reason of Statesmen, the genius
of Philosophy, and the love of Humanity, inspired.
the Representatives whom the Nation had chosen.
" It is this Government, limited by the Law
which the greatest genius of Greece, the most ctle-
' braced Orator of Rome, and the greatest Statesman
of the 18th Century, declared to be the best of all.
" It is that alone which can put an end to dan-
gerous rivalities in a Country covered with numerous
Armies, and commanded by great Captains.
" History holds it up as an invincible obstacle to
all the rash efforts of a bloody Anarchy, the violence
of an audacious Tyranny which believed itself to b
absolved by strength, and to the petfidiou, attempts
of a Despotism still'more dangerous, which sorea.3.
ing in darkness its formidable nets, waited with