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London, England, 1802-04-24 00:00:00

lIOLLAYD.

HAGUE, APRIL• ao.—The following is the
purport of the fpeech delivered by the Prefident
of the Legtflative Body on the Ratification of the
Definitive Treaty :

" Worthy Members of the I.egiflative Affembly,

lf, on the day when we doled our former!
extraordinary labours, I had caule to rejoice at
the unanimity and good underftanding which pie-
vaileal, not only among the Members of this Al
tembly, but alfo among thole whole co operation
has been fo ufeful to the country, and to whole
propofitions almoll all our decrees owe their c:i-
gin ; now is it abfolutely impoffible for me to er-
prefs, by words, the fenfations which I feel on,
your ratification of the Definitive Treaty, pre-
fenced to you by the Government of State ! Your
hearts, furely throbbing for your country, will be
touched at this event ! Surely a tear of gratitude
to the Symms BEING will efcape your eye !—No
wonder !—He who loves his country, who loves
' humanity, cannot be indifferent at this important
event. Our Republic, too often convulfed by the
part which the has been compelled to take in the
difrenfions of Europe, was alto involved in this
deftruClive conteft, the fell flames of which light-
ed up the greateft part of Europe, and, at the
fame time communicated its baleful influence to
the other quarters of the globe.—Yea, however
ardently the lovers of their country, who knew the
fources of its profperity, have for years withed
that we could remain neuter, circumflances never-
thelefs obliged us not only to defend our own ter-
ritory, but aaually to join our powerful Ally on
the Rhine, to affift in facilitating, by Batavian
arms, the peace with• the Houle of Auftria and
the German Empire. Our valiant foldiors have
thus co-operated to the eftablifhment of peace, as
well by their heroic achievements on the Rhine, as
by their vietories over their enemies on our native
foil. They have revived the renown which the
Batavian troops obtained under Czfar ; they have
alfo revived in our minds the confidence which
Augultus placed in their anceflors, whom he chofe
for his body guards in preference to the Romans
themfelves. In the courfe of the negociations at
Amiens, we have had an opportunity of experien-
cing, and which the event has confirmed, that our
Batavian hfinifter SCHIMMELPENNINCK is entitled
to bear the name of the Friend of his Country.—
However black the clouds which appeared in the
political hemifphere, they are almoft all cleared up,
if it cannot be faid that they are wholly difperf-
ed. None of you can be unconfcious furely of the
intereft which our Republic has in the peace !—A
peace which puts us in polfeflion of nearly all our
foreign property ! A peace by which, if we choofe
to avail ourfelves of it, a way is pointed out to us
for opening the fources of our profperity ; and
which, if the war had continued, we incurred the
immediate danger of having dried up for ever.—
This way is atfured to us, in the confcioufnefs
which we pail's of the zeal of the Batavian Go
vernment, and of its Minifter and Negotiator at
Paris, to watch for and to Rudy the interetls of our
Commonwealth. Let us then truft that nothing
will be 101 l fight of, or negleeted, which affects
our commercial concerns and our territorial ar-
rangements.—.A peace by which we are, as it
were, exhorted through that intereft which we
ought to place in our profperity, to obliterate all
pail diffenfions, and jointly to co-operate for the
prefervation of the country ! He who is not con-
fcious of this, is either blinded by prejudice, or in-
feted with the poifon of party rage. Felicity!—
Now the greateft Powers of Europe have mutually
underflood each other in fuch a manner, that no
abfolute predominancy of one is longer to be ap-
prehended.—The fources of contention in Europe
are removed, as far as it was poffible ; the terri-
tory of each particular State is molly marked out
already : the Powers are divided ; and, by that
means, the defies of thole rendered imprafticable
who, by their influence, might endeavour to dif-
turb the tranquillity of Europe, or any divifion of
it. Our Republic is put on a footing that gives
us reafon to flatter ourfelves with the hope that it'
will Rill be in a flourifning condition, particularly
thould we fee men appointed to the helm of State,
who appreciate their country and the general wel-
fare above every other confideration ; •that affords
us room to hope the revival of our trade by means
of advantageous commercial Treaties; the fup-
port of our manufaaures by wife and mature re-
gulations ; and the perfeEtion of our agriculture
by the peculiar zeal and patriotifm of our nation,
which will be rendered more confpicuous when
aided by the freedom Ef religion, and the liberty
of each individual inhabitant refpeeting the deal-
ings which mutt co-operate to his maintenance.—
Thus may we cherifh the hope of more favourable
times for poflerity I"
Te Duns was yellerday lung in the Roman Ca-
tholic Chapel belonging to the French Legation,
as well on account of the peace, as the reftoration
of public worfhip in the French Republic. All per.
fons of the French Embaffage, and ttle Military
Officers of high and inferior rank were prefent.

In confequence of a refolve of the Government
of State, the Agent of Police has prohibited the
editors and printers of newfpapers from making
mention of the refolutions of &id Body, till they
are fully convinced of the truth, and the esaa
fubflance of fuch refolutions, on pain of being pu-
ni(hed with a fuppreilion of their papers for fix
weeks !hi:mid they give any Calle or curtailed intel-
ligence of the proceedings of that board.
It was a ntiftake in the French papers to afrert,
" that the old Admiral KiIIGSDPAGIN is appointed
Minifter of the Marine." In our new Con ftitution
there is no Minifter of Marine, but a Direthon of
that Department, confided to three Members of
the Council of State, Bassin, Bavasaw, and
Qyaysas, who give their orders to a Council of
Marine, which is fubordinate to them.

The archives of the ci-deroant Netherlands, which
had been carried into the Interior of Germany by
:he Allied Army on their retreat in 1794, are to
be delivered up to the French Government, and
13ommill'aries are to be appointed to examine the
claim. of individuals in that Country. •

FRANCE.

PARIS, APRIL 19.

We have collthed the following particn!ars •o
be added to the details already given retpcSing
the folemnity which took place yefterday :

Five cart ilge, each drawn by four horles, and
defined by tile Miciiier at War for the Gei.crai,,
conveyed feveral of the molt diflingtiillied Clods
of the French army. Mafs was celebrated by tit-.
Cardinal Legate. Atte:. reading the Gofpel,
the Atchhifilops and Bil Lops, called by the Se.
cretary of State, trok the oath before the FIVT
CO4StI L. in the roll swing order :—The Arch.
bilhops of PariF, Malines, Tours, Befancon, Tuu.
lonic, Rotten ; the Bilhops of Larochelle, Troyes,
Rennes, Chambery, Nancy, Meaux, Strailmiurg,
Avignon, Angers, Dijon, Angouleme, Sodom,
Cambray, Orleans, Vannes, Clermont, Coutances,
Evreux, and Saint Brieuz.
_ _

The following paffage in the difcourfe of the
Archbi(hop of Tours, was remarked : " Contem-
plate the joy infpired by the re-ellablifliment of
this religion, which forbids hatred and animolity—
the firft precept of which is forgivenefs of injuries,
and whole fweet morality is the bond of fraternal
love. How much confolation it pours over pub.
lie and private calamities ! But it is in the Itutiim
of virtuous families that the effeds of it can be
obferved." •

' Among the Counfellors of State was placed the
wife and model Negotiator of the Treaties which
have brought about and cemented the general
peace, the objeet of the folemnity which WAS eon
celebrated.

The family of the Firft Conful occupied one of
the Tribunes which feparate the Choir from the
Nave. Madame BONAPARTE had on her right Ma.
dame BONAPARTE the mother, who at One look
could fee her five forts united in the fame :bient.
nicy.
The lace of the liveries of the Miniaers wa,
gold. The drefs was yellow, lined with red.