The Sun.
London, England, 1803-01-27 00:00:00

Tiff tr.iinistfid,

(FROM A' PARIS tiAl'iß`.)

'OO all sorts' of men known to us,. doubtless, the
most obstinately opinionative,' ai.d the b'hlest.
idle conjecture,- are our QUIDSUNCs.- These
ple have even triumphed over the Revolution, by
which so many powerful orders and bodies of men
. were dissolVed. They seem even to be perpetuated
in society, `loran example of folly to guard others
from a departure from the principles of sound sense.
However out in their conjectures, the, absurdity
. of one sueh'vain fancy of theirs,. is no sooner ex.:i
posed, :than they renew their dirty Work, and:spin
new eobwebs to supply the place of the former.
They fancy themselves to be the Very sool and spirit'
of the Government. Would you .belieVe tfiem,
they have given the first hints of every- thing. The
event . may belie their predidtions but they, soon
. suggest new plausibilities on 'whiCh to account for
the change. Their capitulation, iS'always honour_
able; for they still march out, ivith their intientilie'
zenins unimpaired. 'ln a moment they return to
the charge, with new plans, and new projeets.—
They penetrate the walls of the StnateJmuse.• They
enter, with the powers of invisibility, • into thf!
closet-councils of the Thuilleries and St: Cloud.—
, They enjoy all those magic li6ertieti. of unseen in-
gress and egress, with which
.the Sylphs are salchv
have charmed the love-dreams of our grand-mothers.
They .behold bloody divishns. and debates to all
bur them unknown. TlieY are ready to unfurl 'the
banner of civil war. They no, longer give (lt
their fancies as mere conjeaures.. They assert, they
maintain : they name the reporters, the °posers,
the panegyrists" of the new Sena tus Consul t um. Upon
the faith of this, they have, for some time, named
.BONAPARTE, EMP:EROR Of the GAUL 4- But their
eleftion not having been confirmed by LANJUINAI9;
they now reduce the title to Your MAJESTY, and
decisively fix the xra and the tenor of the new
formulary, to which they say, the Senator from
Bretagne, has, at the urgent request of certain'
Generals, consented. This new srory is already
the theme of conversation in all the Coffee-houses
of Paris. It is published aloud on the Terrace
Del &within:. This absurd, this ridiculobs fable,
is the botched of the talk of all the'wrong:headed
persons in the. HOspital for incurable: lunaticsyaod
of all the gosSipOng Old women in the suburb of
St. IVlarceatt.
, sut, to speak seriously, it is only public Grati-
tude
.that has invested the 'Head of the. Republic
with a power so great; and with so many symbok
of regret.
,The. Nation• itself is the chief gainer
by these. It finds itself honoured in the honours
of him who has dene it' the highest services, and
has acquired power to serve it yet more essentially
than ever. To Wye refused to the FIRST .00- RM.
the pomp becoming the Head of a great State ; not
to have confided into his hands the necessary power
to create respeft at homy and abroad, would have
been to debase the dignity of France,.and to betray
her interest. •

To a superficial observer, the petty details of the
ceremonial of the Government may bespeak nothing
but idle ostentation and personal vanity. But, in
these, the eye of poli t wisdom can discern the means
by which due,estirnation is given.to the,commander
to the state ; 'the sources (n' .c re to the' Magi-
strates, the best mode of diffusing abundance among
the indigent and laboricius class of the, people';
spring to restore that spirit of commerce and Indus-
try, of which the decline has• left to our adversaries
the empire of the seas. But here we stop ; for, we
will not put 'ourselves on a level with the frivolous
and. impertinent political talkers of the Case de la
&grace. ,

The speculations of this same race of Deep-Think-
era, are, With like sagacity, exercised upon another
subjed of mighty importance. They are in a pro.
digiouti hustle of invention and conjecture, to deter.
mine the destined rank and functions of thine Sena-
tort, to whom Senatorial Authorities over certain
Distrids of Territory are to be, respedively, as-
signed. Some affirm, that this arrangement' is to
be a partition of France among the Generals. Others
rather think, that the Senatorialities are to be so
many absolute commands, under which the power
l're&lures will be reduced to nothing; The
latter is, no dotibt, the more modest conjetture of
the two.

But it is easy to see that. the Senatorial Magi.
stracy has no resemblance to auy thing that was no•
tiently seen in France. The rights of the Senators
are to be, not rights.of property, but merely usu..
frwattary, like those of the Ministers and Prefab,
who live while in office- each in a house belonging
to the nation. The authors of those idle surmises
(surmises which affirm that a new species of Feodism
is to be created in France) know not even what it
is that constitutes Feodism. ' Feodism gave in pro.
petty of fee, the soil, with its inhabitants. But,
under the institution of the Senatorialities, both the
soil "and its inhabitants will remain, as before, the
property ,of the nation, of- which its Chief Ruler
himself as expressly recognises the Sovereignty, as
he has gloriously established' the independence. •
'To us, the Senatorialities- appear in the light
rather of a paternal Magistracy, than of nny posi.
'rive authority. No judicial, no executive power
is to be vested in them. They will present so many
shrines of sublime compassion and beneficence, under
the sandity of whose protedion the people may take
refuge from ads of private oppression. In them the
eye of Government will.acquire a new sort of °mi.
science. They will be so many nervouvramifica„
tions, by which its beneficent sensibilities may be
brought more universally into vivid contad with the
whole people. Abuses will, by them, be more
. efre.ditally brought' to light ; . complaints will be,
compassionately heard ;, the vexations of oppression.
will 'be,.edety where suppressed the Moment they
nugusr, Prerogative l by which
:the :Senate associates itself with the Government. to
ifablish. the universal reign of justice! We have
already said; we repeat it, the Gov SRNMYINr anti
the St ;Alm have, togethef, in the latter period
of 64- great crisis, becoaie the siALLADityht of
the public liberty. ' Whatever consolidates their
power, is. to be considered'ai a riewlienekt, a new
safeguard to the, people, inasmuch -as it 'gives to