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NAI7 GOY RV.1111...v I OF FRANCE.

In the new projea of an organic SPA this Ccnful-1,
tum, as it is affal Aly called, or of the final Chatter
about to be granted by General BONAPARTE to the
bell of Peoples," it is with g: cat concern that
tie c.m difeover nothing confolatory for France,
nor capable of cTiminilhing the hut apprehenlions
of h.:r neighbours. The powers oc the Executive
Authority pervacle and compels the whole of
this extraordinary code, and either perplex or ex•
tinguith every haft notion of the fundamental laws
of limited Monarchy, and of popular privilege.
It is in vain, that throagh the cightv-feveu para-
graphs of the Conillsrna, rale leeks for libert-, re-
prelemation,or even the independence of Tribunals
and !•lagittrate.,, which could oppofe even a moral
or a formal delay, to the unqualified '
ezei cife of the hoilia.flefs prea (otive of the:CONSUL.
her Parliaments—without a common
law—without any tribunals of joitice—but loch
as are in cieet to many Ipecial commiffions from
Thuilleries—without the obligations of long
cow Ina and habit—without fixed notions of morals
p.,licy—and without an effeet,ve guide,rearaint,
or proteElion in any religious fandion or eltahlilh.
ment, is- ranee delivered over to the arbitrement
of an individual, whom the fame a,ll conflio tcs
her Governor for life, and invelis with the power
of bequeathing her as a legacy to a nephew cr a
favourite ! It is impotlible for us to examine every
detail of this new Conflitution, which mull be
read and re-read to be well underflood in all its
ramifications ; but which is in nothing lo worthy
of obfervation and refledion, as in the audacious
novelty of promulgating the details of Executive •
Defrotifin as a Conflitution, and the minittesial
forms of abfolute authority as a charter of liberty,
and the fundamental laws of a Republic.
We (hall in this place affemble briefly together !
filch of the prerogatives of the FIRST Consul. as,
are the molt capable of prefenting a fimple and;
general idea of the Right: of hi: Crown, as they'
are flipulated in this organic contrail between him
and his free and equal people. But we defile it to i
be borne in mind, that that fmall portion of his au-!
thority, which is entitled the Army," is utterly
palled over without a name in this Aft and Record
of his Civil Power.

The FIRST CONSUL ASV?: the Mayor and At:
fillants in the Municipal Councils. He convenes
the alremblies of Cantons, fixes the time of their
duration and the object of their deliberation—(that
is, excludes every other object. )
The FIRST CONSUL appoiats the Prefidents of
Eledoral Colleges of Diarids for each SerTion.—
He m.ty add to there bodies ten members from the
L_•Fina of honour—that is, procure a majority,
or intimidate the whole by the prefence of ten mi•
lit.try Nobles.
This power keeps due pace with the extenr on
of numbers : to the Ele4loral Colleges of Depart-
sren: he may add thirty members.
He alto convenes and fixes the objet of their
difeutlion, and ditibircs them for exceedinr, their
limits.

He is Prefident of the Senate.
He names the Second and Third Confuls.

He chooles his Ilicceffba*.

He points out,at the holding of each Privy Coun-
cil of the Senate, the Members who are to com-
pote it. He prelides over it—and no organic law
can be dirculfed by the Senate but in thefe Coun-
t lc, which are betides compofed of himfelf; the
other Confuls, two Miniilers, two Senators, two
Counfellors of State, and two Officers of the new
lit try Nobility. He appoints Senator: without
ally rellriflion, although there are Come forms
which he may comply with if he pleafes. All
the Members of his new grand Military Coun-
nil of the Legi,m of Honour are irf; fittlo Mem-
bers of the Senate. The Minillers fit in the Se-
nate with or without a deliberative voice as he
pie tics.
lie convokes, adjourns, and prorogues the Le-
,:vc Body.
1-/e makes War, Peace, and Treaties, but his
filet-ea-or i- to (wear that he will never make war
but for the el-1-rfe or glory of the Republic. Is
Cu:in puffible pretext for war which cannot be
cart: ed by one or other of there alternatives ?
Hie nominates to the new office of Grandltaze,
or Minitler of Juftice, whole authority is more
exter,live and terrible than that of any Miniller
recorded in the hiflory of defpoti n. litichla-
giftrate prrfides over the Tribunal of Caflation,
(Court of dernier Rcairt), and the Tribilaali of
Appeal', when dir4t:ted to do to by the Fairs
Cac see.

He ftiperictends and crylir:s the Tribunals and
their Members, and the Juflices of Peace. The
Tribunal ~f Caff.ttion, when he is prefent, has the
right of renAre and difcipline over all the Courts
of Law, and may /Wend and fummon the Judges
betore him as GP.AND JUDC E, to anfw•er for their
con(' uCt.

He nominates through the Se:late the Members
of the Court of d•raicr kl% it, and he enjoys the
ti,!corttrouled power of Pardon !
Such is the broad outiin: and general analyfis
of du: ConlW.tr Authority, as it is to be funda-
mentally fired, and fantlioned by this organic aft
of the Senate. We are forty to fee the name of
PoaTatts as an Orator of the Government upon'
this degrading fei vice. tivrely loch a reputation
its BAkT/41.1.114Y'S Might have fufEced for the
We Mall permit onrfelves, for this time at lea%
no minittcr invelligation of this awl of fervitude,
which i• ct•lcbrated by illuminations and con-
ccrts; but we feel it impnaible to conclude sk iih-
• There is a moll curious marl...lion upon thi• escreife of his
authority for tb- silay retufe his firfl and fleond pr. an-
tvier, • ris thirdi . final; fo that if be could entertain a
tjouht of theb-nbAlenec, in has may to propofe two incapa-
ble or eser, rionahle prrfoosscs to make the third s, 'Joist. But
he has a right t.. amend the name of hi. iuceeliur till it Sall
be dirci.Ad ty au L.l will, and to recall will fr, m the
public Arcinves. it is to be &poked, as often as be Shall
change his Afttr his (Bath, if the Senate refute Ws
norriloatioo, Coy A.,/ chafe one of four p,rfons, out of two to '
be nominated oy the :wept...land Third is hard to
imagine a better finnit'ation 'for civil wars than this Inftltution,
which mites all the probable inconvenience of a difoutc4 fur-
t :fiat the turbulocc of an Elativc Crown:* •

out obferving that ..trots the FOVITSINTIi revel'
cojoyed a fourth port ion of this power, and that
CROMWELL did not ufurp it. That the accumu-
lation of all authorities, Executive, Legitlatire,
and Judicial. upon the head of the Firfl Conful,
is the autherdic organic charaaer of defpotilm,
accordinOo its technical and proper definition,
and that the arbitrary introdation of the Military
Legion into the Senate and EleCtoral Bodies ren-
ders that defp,,tifm wilibly Prztorian. The de•
pcndence of the Judges and Tribunals upon the
Court, that is to fay, the Generals and Minifters,
is calculated to render civii jullice as precarious as
political liberty, and to difule and dilaffeet the
people to any jullice or any fafety but from the
favour of Authority and the patronage of Office.
Of this Conliitution we have no difficulty to (peak
in the words of the Abbe Sayss--c' Ce oecli point
encore lot bonne."

LONDON.

THURSDAY, AUGUST rs.
PRINCI o► WALltell BlRye-t)Ay.—Holiday at all the Public

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We have received letters from Gibraltar and
Liftion. A Hamburgh Mail has arrived, as have
alto Paris Journals to the loth inftant. They
contain little News of moment, but an Article in
the Moniteur, which may be confidered as demi-
official at leaft, thews how fore fome men are that
the Prefs in any Country fhould hill be free
enough to cenfure what no man in France is free
enough to blame. We (hall fubjoin the article, a
philippic againft the Time:, which, however, is fo
manned, as to implicate our Government in the
charges. How little they know about the
way in which Minifterial papers, as they are
called, are concluded in this country ! But the
angry writer could not in any other mode give
the turn he walled to his article—A Minifterial
paper, in his logic, implies a Minifterial meafure !
an I the with dun: or thole who direr ted the infer-
tion of the article, was to find fome pretext for
clamour againft the wrecks which (till remain of
a free prcfs in England. But can they find Papers
not Minifterial mare ready to praife the mockery
of liberty which now prevails in France ?—Are
our oppofition Papers alfo direeted by Minifterial
influence ? Let thefe Reformer: of the World aitt a
little more confiftcntly than we have yet feen them,
and they will merit and obtain the praife of in-
dependent minds, and free men.

." GIS/LALTAR, JvN/ 13.

84 The HOUND Coop of war arrived here on the
9th inihnt, with Major General STEWART on
board, on his way to Conftant;nople, where he is
going on bufinefs of importance, after arranging
of which, he is to proceed to Egypt. The Hotr/ID
alfo brought out twelve brafs field pieces and a
quantity of ammunition, as a prcfent to the EMPE-
ROR of MOROCCO.

" The appointment of the Doke of KS trr to
the Government of this Garrifon, has diffufed
univerfal fatisfaalon amongft all ranks of people,
as he has, fince his arrival, (hewn the utmoft at-
tention to the welfare andsproteftion of the in-
habitants, and has aholiffied many vexatious and
oppreffive fees, which tended exceedingly to injure
the free trade of this place.
Provitions are now become extremely plentiful
and cheap, as his Royal I lighnefs has fu foccefsfully
cultivated and obtained the good opinion of the
Spaniards, that every fpecics of provifions is not
only permitted to come in from Spain, but as a
mark of peculiar confidence, never (hewn to any
former Governor, his paffport is allowed to pars
every officer or inhabitant into Spain, without
any farther authority being required, and in cm-
fequence the Officers of the Garrifon make daily
excurfions all round the country.
" The Duke frequently rides into Spain him-
felf, and he lately dined with the Governor of St.
Roque, who alfo often dines in the Garrifon with
his Royal Highnefs.
" By the firm and moderate conduit of his
Royal Highnofs, the troops here are getting fait
into a Rate of high difcipline.

" The Duke of SUSSEX has been here on a vifit
to his brother for this month pall, but he fails
for Lifbon the firft fair wind, in the MERMAID
frigate."
" Lissom, JULY 24.

" The Rupor occafioned by the late eafy con-
quell of a fine Portuguefe frigate by the Algerines
is now got over, and a fquadron of two men of
war and fome frigates is fitting out, to reinforce
the chips in the Mediteranean, and take vengeance
on the Infidels, in conjundion with the Americans.
The report of thofe infolent Africans ferionfly
menacing the Engin, proves unfounded. A few
days ago the MILIBROOIL fchooner arrived here
ftom Gibraltar, and Isrmight accounts that Capt.
ileat.ow, who had been Sem by Lord ILlvit to
Algiers, hid ned from thence, with full Last
faaion from the Day, and a prornife of 4L faturf

god ithaviour. The Manna, put in here on her
way home, being leaky and half water logged. She 11
is to fail again as loon as a few temporary repairs
can be effeded, which the wants, in order to be
able to proceed homewards.—The winds have
been fo frefh of late from the Northward, that a
week ago the Kw; Gsoacs packet arrived here
in five days from Falmouth!
" Captain STEWART, Aid-de-Camp to General
Sr: wait., Commander in Chief of the late Eng-
lifh contingent in Portugal, died here yelterday of
a confumption. The General is erceilively con-
cerned at the lots of this promifing young Officer ;
his Staff broke up but a few days ago, and he
means Ihortly to return to England."
PARIS, tg TX EIMIDOR AUCATIIT 7.—The
Timer, a Paper Paid to be under Minifterial direc-
tion, is continually throwing out inveaives againft
France. Two of its four mortal pages are every
day employed in giving credit to the molt ftupid
calumnies. Every thing that the imagination can
conceive low, vile, and worthier:, this wretched
journal afcribes to the French Government. What
is its objea ? Who pays it ? On whom does it with
to produce an effeet ?
A French journal, edited by wretched Emi.
grants—the moil impure dregs, the vileft refufe ;
men without country, without honour, and Rained
with crimes of every kind, which no amnefty can
wafh away, goes Rill farther than the 9 intr.
Eleven Bifhops, having at their head the atro-
cious Bifhop of ARRAS, rebels to their Country
and Church, meet at London They print libels
againft the French Bifhops and Clergy, and abufe
the Government and the Pope, becaufe they have
reftored the Peace of the Gofpel among forty thou•
land Chriflians.

The Wand of Jerfey is hill of brigands, con-
demned to death by the Tribunals, for crimes com-
mitted before the peace, for affdlination, rapes,
and arfon ! ! !

The Treaty of Amiens ftipulates, that perfons
accufed of crimes and murder, fhall be given up
on both fides. But the affaffins at Jerfey meet
with a favourable reception!
They fet out unexpeaedly in fifhing-boats, land
on our coafts, afraflinate the richeft proprietors,
and fet fire to the corn mills and barns.

Gammas appears openly at London, with his
red ribbon, as a reward for the infernal machine
which deftroyed a quarter of Paris, and deftroyed
thirty women, children, or peaceable citizens.—
Does not this fpecial proteaion authorize us to
think, that if he had fucceeded he would have re-
ceived the Order of the Garter?
Let us make a few rePations on this ftrange
conduit of our neighbours. When two great na-
tions conclude a peace, is it for the purpofe of
reciprocally ftirring up trouble ? of hiring and
paying perfons to commit crimes? of giving mo
ney and proteCtion to all thole who with to embroil
the State And does the liberty of the prefs extend
in a country to the power of faying to a friendly
Ration, with whom a reconciliation has been re-
cently effeeted, what one would not dare to fay to
a Government againit which a war of deftruftion
was carried on ?

Is not one nation refpontible to another for all
the acts and for the whole conduit of its citizens ?
Are they not even forbid by Aets of Parliament
to infult allied nations and their Ambatfadors! I !
It is laid, that RicHazieu, under Louis XIII.
affifted the Revolution in England, and contri-
buted to hurry CHARLES I. to the fcaffold. M.
de CHOISFUL, and after him the Minifters of
Louts XVI. excited, no doubt, infurreetion in
America. The late Englifh Minifler knew how
to be avenged. He excited the maffacres of Sep-
tember, and had an influence different ways on
the movements which made Louis XVI. peril))
on the fcaffold, which deftroyed and burned our
fira manufaeturing towns, Lyons, &c.
Is it wifhed, then, to prolong this (cries of
movements and influence, which has been fo fatal
to both ftates during fo many ages ? Would it not
be more rational and more agreeable to the refults
of experience, to exert their reciprocal influence
by good commercial relations, by a mutual vigi-
lance, to proud commerce, to prevent the fabri-
cation of &lie money, and to deny !better to cri!
minals ?

'Betides, what refult can the Engin Govern-
ment expeel, by fomenting the troubles of the
church, by receiving and vomiting forth on our
territory the brigands of the Cotes-du-Nordsand
Morbihan, covered with the blood of the princi-
pal and richea proprietors of there unfortunate
departmects ? By fpreading by every means in it
power, inflead of difcouraging and fevcrely fup-
preffing, 411 thole calumnies with which the Engliffi
and French papers publithed in London, are filled ?
Do they not know that the French Government is
at prefent more firmly eflabliffied than the Englith ?
And do they think it would be difficult for the
French Government to retaliate ?
What would be the circa of this exchange of
abide, th4t influence of infirre4tional committees,
of that protalion and encouragement granted to
different atrAffins ? Wou)d the civilization, corn.

meree, and happinets of the two nations g.tin by
it

Either the Engin Government authorizes and
tolerates the& public and private crimes, in wil;ch
cafe we may fay, that its conduit is unworthy (.1-
Britifh generofity, civilization, and honour;
it cannot prevent them, and in that cafe we may
fay, that there is no Government where there are
no means of fuppreffing allaffination and calumny,
and of proteaing the focial order of Europe.—

STUTTGARD, AUGUST 2.—We have juft now
received the important intelligence, that the I'M*
varian troops, affembled at Amberg and the envi-
rons, have put themfelves in motion for Fran.
conia, and that they were to be at Bamberg on the
29th ult. The Pruffian troops are in full march
on all fides. The King of Pa ty ss la his requefted
the Court of Vienna to withdraw from Esfurt a
battalion of the Auftrian regiment of Erbach,
which is in garrifon there. It is well known, that
Pruffia is about to occupy Erfurt. Greater appre.
henfions than ever are entertained for the fafety
of the Archduke CHAILSSI who is dill danger.
oufly ill.

FRANCIEFORT, AUGUST L.—The Court of ?rut.
fia has caufed a declaration to be made to that of
Vienna, that it wiihes the occupation of the
countries which have fallen to it as indemnities,
fhould be confidered only as a provifional meafure,
and that under this view it will confider the
countries provitionally occupied by its troops as
its property, till the deputation of the Empire
(hail have formally terminated the affair of the
indemnities.

WE c, JULY 3o.—A great many polls, bear.
ing the PrufGan eagle painted on a board, are
preparing here, to ferve to point out the bounds.
ries of the new poireffions which have fallen to
PrufGa as indemnities. A great many ccpi sof a
Proclamation, addrelled to the inhabitants of the
countries which the PrufGan troops are about to
occupy, have alfo arrived : the inhabitants are
exhorted to be peaceable, and fafcty and protec-
tion are promifed them.