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OP TfE DIET.

25: Each-Canton sends a Deputy to the Diet, who may be
accompanied by one or two Substitutes, who shall be eli-
gible to act as well, in case of the absence or indisposition of
the Principal.
26. The Deputies to the Diet are to have instruetions and
limited powers—they cannot vote contrary to their In.
structions.
27. Thu Landamman of Switzerland is, ex officio, Deputy
of the Direttorial Canton.
B. The to Deputies who compose the Diet, shall have 25
Votes, in the Deliberations, in manner as follows: •
The Deputies of those Cantons of which the population
is.rnore than too,moo inhabitants, viz. those of Berne, Zu-
rich, Vaud, St. Gall, Argovie, and the Grisons, shall have each
two .votes, ' The Deputies of those. Cantons, of which' the
population is less than ico,ooa souls, namely, those crf Tes-
men, Lucerne, Thurgovie, Fribourg; Appemzell, Soleure,
Schwitz, Glaris, Schaffhausen, Underwald, Zug, and
Uri, shall hive but one vote each.
29. The Diet, at which the Landartiman of Switzerland
presides, is to assemble the first Monday in June ; its Ses-
sion shall not exceed the term of one month.
30. There shall. be extraordinary Diets on the following
occasions On the demand of a neighbouring Power, or
of one of the Cantons, supported by the Supreme Council of
the Directorial Canton, which shall be assembled on such
occasion, ifnot sitting at. the time. idly, On the determin-
ation of the Supreme Council, er of the Laud:-gemeisicr of
Five. Cantons, who can, on such an occasion, deinanti, ;he
.pruceecting, though the Direeterial Canton may not concur
in it. 3diy, When they shall be convoked by the Labalitn-
man of Switzerland. •
.31. 'The Declaration of Wiar, and the Treaties of Peace or
of Alliance, emanate from the ict 7• but the concurrence of
three fourths ot the Cantons,SUCti oci;a4o.llS, is necessary.
32. It shall aJohe have the power of concluding Treaties
of commerce, &c. for the foreign service. It authorises the
Cantons, incase it shall deem expedient, to treat particularly
Mother concerns with a Foreign Power.
34. The Diet has the direction of the Contingent of the
Troops ter be furnished by each Canton, according to Art, a.
It appoints the Commanding Officer, and in short, adopts
all the measures necessary for the security of Switzerland,
and for the execution of the other dispositions of the first At-
ticle : this power also comprises internal Concerns.
35. It nominates and dispatches Ambassadors Extraordi-
nary. •

36. it decides finally upon all matters in dispnte between
the Cantons. For this purpose it'torms itself into a •Lynctieai,
but in such case each Deputy has but one voice-;neither are
previous instructi.ns necessary on this occasion.
37. The Perbal.p.oceir of tile Diet is to be entered in two
Registers, of which one remains with the Directorial Canton ;
anti the other with the State Seal, which, at the end of De—
cember, is to be removed to the Chief Place, in the Diretto-
rial Canton. •

38. A. Chancellor, aial a Gre:ti er, appointed by the Diet,
foet%vcr years, and paid-by the Directorial Canton, (at the
rate-the Diet shall' think prOper) shall always accompany
the State Seal and the Registers.
39. The Constitution of each Canton, engrossed on parch-
ment, and sealed with the Seal of the Canton, shall be de-
posited in the archives of the Diet. •
. • 40. The present Federal Act, as well as those of the par-
ticular Constitutions of the 19 Cantons, shall abrogate and
annul all anterior dispositions whatever, that may be con
teary to it ; and'no Law relative. to the internal affairs. of the
Cantons, or to the relations between them, .can be founded
on the arici,:itt political state or Switzerland.
. The Repose of-Switzerland, the success of the New Insti-
tutions now limning, require that the. necessary operations
for carrying thcroinn., coed, .;nd to transmit to the newlyfa-
gist:4ms the care of the happiness and welfare, be se-
-cured trout the intinence or toe vaisiol;s, anti.executecl with
moderation,impartiauty, wtAwn.

we cannot hope tor a ihQsocious issue,' unless the Coln.
rnisioners, mina! by the Aa ut. Mediation, be animated by
the_pitit which dictatedit.
iu 6duorcosariidst
vityr.tsleiervseatcioloili!jkdliertraorteio:xsi?ees,se,

g For tbe year 18(1.3, Fribourg to be the Direttorial Can-
ton. -

'rite tit.i.Lou Is D'AFFXY to be Landamman of Swit-
zerland, for the said year, and invest hint with the extraor-
dinary powers until the aseetnbling of the Diet.
3. 'rite original Act of Mediation shall be transmitted to
the landaminiii_,l in order to be deposit,id in the areltives of
the Direttoria Canton.

4.• In each C. roe a Commission of seven Members, and
of which one shall be appointed by L: s, and six chosen by the
Ten D,:piAtio selftic.l to center with Us, is to put
into .iJivity the Constitution, and to atiniiiiisteriz prove.
sionally.
.5.. These Commissions are composed as follows,
Then follow the names persons appointed to fill the
Commissions of the diii:Zreis,t Ci11110:13.

6. Onthc toth'of Ai arch next,. Inc Central Government
shall dissolve itself, after having ttansmitted its Papers. and
Archives to the Land:unman of Switzerland-

7. Each Commission shall assemble on the loth of March,
at the chief place of the Canton; and notify its assembling itn-
mediately to the Prefe4.
8: Within 24 hours after that 'Notification., the Prefeet
shall transmit to the ComT4ission, the Papers of Administra-
tion.
9. In those rises which 'may require initruaions, or spe.
ciat authoricies, the CoMmissions shall iddress themselves
to the Landanunan of Switzerland.

to. On the Istb otApril the Constitution shall be put into
a state of adivitv, in order that on the tat oil ime each Cau.
ton may eled it; Deputies to the Diet, and prepare their in-
strudions,and on the first Monday in July, in the present
year, .tlhe Diet shall assemble. .
. Tile alfailS pending before the Supreme Tribunal shall
be carried to the Tribunal of Appeal of the Canton in which
the parties reside. The Supreme Tribunal. shall tease all its
functions on the loth,of 14arch.

la: The Helvetic Troops, at present in the pay of Bwit-
zerland, who shall notbe employed .by. the Ist of May by
the Cantons, shall be taken into the service of France.

No Picrsectition shall be carried un for crimes relating
to the Revolution, worn witted, or pretended to be. committed,
either by individuatl4 or in the PlCrt.iSe of any public func
tion.

The dissolution of the Central Government, and the rein.
statement' of the Sovereignty t» thz Cantons, requires that
them should be a 'provision made for the discharge of tho
Helvetic Debts, ,and of the disposal crf the property. declared
National.

We, in our said quality, and with the reserve before ex-
pressed, appoint as follows-- '
Axr. t. The Property heretofore belonging to the Con-
vents, shall be.restoted to them, not only the property situ..
utel in the same Canton, but also in any other.

2. The Adiiiii.str.ition of Nvinnal. Property, other
than that hefefofore belonging 'to Berne, in the Cantons of
Vaud and Argovia, provi4ordy tnsnsolitted t:, the Cautons
to which it belt:aged. 'rite documents re;ipezting the claims
ofßeine,'shall beprov, Cantons
transtititked to those CLllTlMiS-
sinners appointed by the .of Berne, Vaud and
A. rgovia. • _ _ • .

3. In each Canton burdened with. debts antcrior'to the
Revolution, there shall he assigned funds for tlieir funding
or discharge, out of what remains of the property' lieretOtbre
belonging to the Canton. ', • ..
4. There shall be re-constituted-for each City a Revenue
proportioned to its municipal rapt:flees.'
$. The .National Debt shall beliquideed, to which pur-
pose all claims shall be appropriatect: If .the debt exceeds
the amount of the erZtlit, the • excess shall •be divided
amongst the Cantons, proporrioii according to what- re-
mains of their et uevant inunoveable yrop,.ri),., at ter the diS
tharge of the Cantonal Debts anrenor to the itevetution,
and thelecompositioo of the Patrimony of the Cities. • •
6, The moveable and nritt ovehl,.! property which shall
remain after the termatiOn of the Communal funds, the
discharge of the Cantonal and National Debts, shall rvitirn
to the possession of those Cal,toW."lu cubicle it 1);i44
'Cite property. vetlich stmil remain in the Cantons of Vaud and'
rgovia, anidi belong to them. Winit may rentain of the
chums of -Berne, WAIL be equally distributed amongst the
Cantons of Iterul, and A rgovia. -

7. A Commi;ion ermpose<l ot tivc Members,. namely, tb*
CitiZeilS ST A PP Elt, qt itixsTr;a, Lx.
Mif&ter of the I- inances, m Y, oi-devAnt I„h.;tne.:llor of
l;fl6oufg, arid at present A-lc:zither of Administrative
,Cttlfribtq., rz ER, of Winterthur, Ifolvetic. DlulY)
L A & N r, Mayor Qt Lucerne, Pmident of the Adinini sta.:

five Chambe4sliall determine' the extent of the wants Of the
Lierilt;ipalitics, and Of the funds necessary for re-coustituting
their Revenues, shall lir:initiate the debts of the C.:intait; :(,)T
the National Debt. shall assigg,,to each Debt the funds ne.
cessary to operate its discharge, ltd shall determine the pro-
perty which shall return hit° the passessio* of each Canton:
8. It shalt publish the result of its labours vith respect-to
the. Debts on the Loth of May, and with resPeCl-t9 ‘he
venues of the Cities, and the.Pittrimony of the Canton, on tPz:
loth Of June : it shall send the result of each labour to the
First Landamman of.Switaerland, and to eAtill Canton, far
the purpose of being carried into execution.
9. The Commission shall assemble at the chief place-of
the Diteclorial-Canton, and shall remain there till the, end
of its labours. •

The present mt, the result' of lons conferencei
between wise Men and the Friends of Virtue, ap,
pears to us to contain those dispositions which are
most proper to ensure the peace and happiness,-of
Switzerland. As ..soon as they shall be executed'
the French. Troops shall be Withdrawn. . .
• We recognize Helvetia, constituted cOnformably
to the present Ad, as an Independent Power.
We guarantee the Federal ConstitutiOn and that of
each Canton, against the Enemies of the tranq4iii.
lity of Helvetia, whomsoever they may be, and We
promise to continue those relations of beneficence{
which for so many ages have united the two Na.:
tions.

Made and done at Paris, rgth Feb. :80,3.
(Signed) BONAPARTS.
The. Secretary of State
(Signed) 1-luoll PS B.
,MAI.t
The Minister'for Foreign AfEtir;,
(Signed) C. M;TALLZYRAND.
The Mini ter for FOrign Affair 3 of
the Italian Republic,
(Signed) J. MAR escAt. ext.

The present Aa, has' been transmitted by the
Senators Commissioners undersigned, to Ow ten
Swiss Deputies undersigned, at. Paris the 19th,of
February 1&:.3.
Signed
RCIDEREft.

" Signed
Loris D'Acrxr.
PiElttE GLUTZ,

Fotniir.

EmmArqu'r.L
NioNNo-r. =

DENIEUNIER.

,RUIN HARD,
SPRECHBR, BEF.MYS.
F. A. STAFFr.R.
PAUL USTERY.
P.. Ds WATTEvILLis
Menthe nay.
Y. Vox FLue.

CORN EXCHANGE, Fcn. 25 .

WE have but few arrivals of Corn to:day, the
Wheat Trade is heavy, and may be observed
lower ; some fresh samples of Barley ; this,
with Malt, are • falling articles ; Pease at lit,
tie alteration ; pridie old guns fetch good prices ;
Oats sill in good quantity, arid rriAerare ; with a
good supply of Flour, which remains cheaper.

Mica! 4.0 aso S. a 57$ oil Tick Beans - a 32S od
Fine ditto -58 s a 39s od Oats I,}s a 17$ a 2os
Barley -2.1 s a 25s od Poland ditto 2X5 3 22$ od
Malt - ' 4os a 44$ cd Rape Seed - 3ti a 341
Rye - -32 s a 35S$ od Floe Flour - a 47$ 0
White Pease 33$ a 3Ss 6d Seconado 1$ 4 d 446
!leans - 3os a 35$ od

rx.Tr, ACT OF A LETTER FROM JAMAICA, DATED
DBCEMRER, 1802.

It is with the deepest concern I communicate
to you the death .of Capt. ALLAN ?./14cLEAw,
the 6th Battalion 6oth Regiment, the only son of
Mr. MAeLEArt, of Inverscadje: Of all those who
have fallen vielims to the pestilential scourge of
:This -Island, few have gone to .the grave with
more general regret than this amiable young man.
The solicitous attention and kindness of his friends,
with the best medical aid, strove in vain to prolong
a life so dear to us : on the morning of the 13th
November he was no more, and I will venture to
say, he left none behind him, pcsiessirg in a greater
degree those amiable qualities of
.the human 13eart
which endear a man to Society."

Mrs. &TEN doses her engagement at the Edin.
bUrgh Theatie this week. She played, lik/braria
on Monday, and Lad9nunil.y. on Vs7cdnesalay, which
last was her tit th' appearance. As she his been so
attra4tiverhowever, her engagement will probably
be renewed. We wonder hhe is not induced, by
some liberal offer on the port ,of tie London Maria_
gcrs, to re-appear in the Metropolij:
Died at Pulta, in the East iirdief, on the 49A1 of
August last, Sir CHAR LEI WILLIAM BLUNTb. Barr.
A poor nran yesterday dropped down tkad near
Carey.street. It appeared, by a paper found in his
pocket,, that he had been many years a servant to
.an Officer in the, Austrian service; kis. maser halt
retired from the Army, and the nan, Lleing an
Englishman, was 'coming to London, when was
rubbed of ail he had, and that he was now going 'so
a gentleman in the neighbourhood: of 'Finsbury_
square,• to petition his asSistance, A (~oyoner'4l
Inquest was held on the body, and brought in a
verdift—Died by the visittititile of Cad.

OnfSunday se'nnighr, the Lrve&-, of Berwick, in
warping into the Tweed, ran aground a little within
the mouth of the river, The major part of the
crew, this her in danger of oversetting,
tnediately deserted her, and attempted to make
- the short in the boat. Yinding,this not makable,
t tying• to regain the ship, the inoruent they passed
und.iir her cable, she suddenly righted, and they were
all; except one boy, swept intO the water. The bJat
drifting, ran aground a Mule helow, anti another
.boy of the name of Galbraith, by the -eddy of the
water, was Cast upon a sand-bank at a small dis.
tance from her. The others, who by the assistance
of thoSe who staid by her, had regained the vessel,hearing him .
ctll for help, which they had no Amara
of affording, advised him to rejoin hi, in
boat,; in attempting which, he sud?enly tepi into
deep water, and was drowned. His body was found
next morning near the spot.
TrtmAts POLICE OFFICE..---The Master of a
Vessel bound to Amsterdam, was committed fr)r re-
examination, being charged with having on. boird
a box of printed cottons, which was entered in the
log-book as stores. The difference was discovered
by, one of the Deputy Searchers of the Custom house,
since which it appears that the prints, with other
goods, had been some weeks since burg/nriously
stolen frOM the warehouse of Messrs, Rus!,e)n,rl,
in Goulstanc.sqtme, Whiterhapel.

1.441 V REPO/l'.

CO'3I2:T OF KING'S BENCH;. FEB, 7:4
SITTIN(iS
,EIIFOII.E. LORI) WLSTMIN:

STER

•PRETOII V. SIR ANDREW DENTON.

Tots was an Action brought by Mr. Pretor, the
Plaintiff, who is a Geptletnangifortune, resident in
the County of Wilts, igainst Sir Andrew Benton
Inornmally), he being Sheriff of the County of

The circumstances oldie Cage 'were shortly these :
A person of the name"and addition of Colonel Steel,
together with his brother John Steel; carried on the

business Of Lime.burners' and becathe bankrupt.
•

Colonel Steel went to reside. ht .a place called Pinck.
wick, in the County of Wilts; in the neighbourhood
of the Plaintiff; Mr. Pretor, who accommodated
Colonel Steel from time to time, with various sums
of money, by which he -supported himself and his
family, and got a farm. In consequence of these
sums of money being lent to Colonel Steel from
time to -time, which amounted to about zoool. a
Bill of Sale was given to the Plaintiff by Colonel
. Steel, for securing this 'debt. It appeared, that
the Bill of Sale was first executed on the I6th of
January, aoz: there was no possession -taken
under this Billy tv,r any thing done uric er it ; it
remained in,the hands of Mr. Pretor, theYlaintiff,
for the purpose of putting it in his power, in case
arif'totlwi, Creditor of Steel should have., laid hold

of the prOperty, to take'the preference. After this
Bill of Sale was given to Mr. Pretor, he and his
Lady visited at the house of Colonel Steel often,
and thus matters went on until the rgth of (Mo.
bet, z Boz, when the Bill of Sale was re-executed;
Sinne articles were inserted in that bill, which were

not in the former one ; and some time afterwards
'possession was taken of the goods of Colonel Steel,
by the Plain.tiff, under the last •Btil Of Sale, and lie
continued in possessiOn until the iSth of December,
during all which time Colonel Steel and his family
continued in ,the house, when 'the Defendant, as
Sheriff, entered with an Execution at the snit of a
person of the name of Arden, who is brother-in-
law• to Colonel Steel, and took possession. of the
goods to levy for a debt of 16°01. Tile question
was therefore between Mr. ,Pretor, the Plaintiff,
who claimed a right to the goods by virtue of this
Bill of Sale,„ and Mr. Arden, and the rest of the
Creditors of Colonel Steel ; and the action was
brought against the Sheriff, nominally, for the uur.'
pose of trying this point.
Lord ELLlNvntotitiu was of opinion, that the
first Bill of Sale was good for nothing, inasmuch as
it was not accOmpatned with, or folloWed up by,
posoiession ; but the second Bill of Sale was followed
up bj, possession, and therefore; although the first
Bill of. Sale was void; yet the second was a good
Bill of Sale. In order however to cot down this
Bill of Sale, several witnesses were, called On the
part of the Defendant; and particularly Mr. Steel,
Whttr swore, that subF.equent to the execution' of the
Bill of Sale of the t sth of Oetober, he, in the pre.
sence of ,the Plaintiff,. Mr. Pretor, Who was in his
house, sold three fat sheep to a butcher, and an horse,
Lacy) of which was in the Schedule to; the Bill Of Sale,
and that he never asked the Plaintiff's leave for so
doing. It like Wise appeared that Coletiel Steel had
sent inforination .of ,this „to some of his Creditora
who were nor suing him, as well as to some Avho
did : he is now in, execution for a debt at the suit
Of his brother-in-law-.

The sinle, question for. the Jury was, whether
the Bill of Sale in Atte,tion, which was the last'
Bill of Sale, was valid or not > And after a very
able charge from the. Chief Jtistice,
,they' found It
was, mid therefoie 'a yeidid for the
10044,75.•

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Fin, ;4.

.THOMPWN v. I'l i.TON.

This was an .aaion to recover the suth of 321.
I as. 6d.—The Plaintiff is a birtt.pre'server, and the
Defendant A wire-worker in PieCadilly. 'The De.,
fence to this adion,was, that the charges were extra-
vagapt. Plitintiff had been employed to stuff
a quantity of foreign birds and, animals; and two
'cases, which constituted that part of the bill in
dispute, had been made on a large scale, containing
trees in full bloom, with birds perched on them, and,
animals (*various desetiptions sporting beneath.—
The birds consisted of Cockatoos, Mockacoos,Tow.
chers, Gold-pheasants, Virginia.nightingales, Ca.
finfieS, &c. SCC.:. and the animals, Pigs in Armour,
Monkeys, bquirreis, Crocodiles, and a'number of
/Von.ifeleriptr.
The Plaintiff called several Witnesses n; one of
them said 511 the produetions of each quarter of the
globe had passed through his hands, and he thought
the Plaintiff's charges were very reasonable.
The Counsel for the Defendant proposed a re-
ference ; but that was objected to, as he bad refused
to let any person view the articles except his own
friends. Some 'Witnesses were then called to de.
rreciate the value of them.
Mr. TENNA.Nt, Who said he was one ,of the
greatest Naturalists in England, estimated the, va.
lue at little more limn half wnat they were charged.
Lord ALVA NIA v said, as the articles Were .vorki.
.offncy, it was impossihle to appreciate ti.em by
arty common -rules. He certainly thought the
fairest mode of adjusting the difference between
the,ie parties would have been by reference ; but as
the Defejtdant had declined shewing them to any of
the PlaintiiPs friends, he must now abide the con. 1
60:10CIWCA. 1

'llte jury found a Vedic fur the Miutiff to the

,
A ,singular circnoutance o:9lpened on toe, 7th
inst, ii t.. the Earl ot OxF9itn's warren, in the part; It
of St; ntoo.tipon.Arrtmv, Herefor&hite. * .A sow
brought seventeen pig., at one linter, thirteen.of
ivllich iv:Jo soon deskkoycd, by soh); unknown
meang, wail, the %yltrretier, conceiving they might
have been devourrd by .4 lay in ambush, when
Irr fortcin.rtely discovered, took, and bagged sly
ReynaMforhis future di\,ei,ion.