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PRANCE.

PARIS, APRIL 4E.

PRIVATE LETTEIL
I have only time to give you a fhort account
of the grand &Rival this day, which has palled of
without any accident or remarkable circumftatice,
other than fuch as might have been expeded. The
crowd and pageantry were great. The whole
more refenibled a military fpettacle than a religi-
ous ceremony.
Early in the morning the cannon were fired,
and a new religious code proclaimed. The dif-,
ferent Councils and Conftitutcd Authorities afTem-
bled to proceed en the grand fervice at the Metro-
politan Church of Notre Dame, and the inclofed
proclamation was polled up all over Paris. The
approach of the CHIEF Coesot was announced by
the firing of cannon. Before he entered, the Conn-
ells were feated in the galleries, the Legiflative
Body on the left, the Ccmfervative Senate on the
right, and the Tribunate in the centre. In the
body of the Church, the 447 were ranged on
Iffi the left ; the nifters, Am ors, chief Officers,
Scc, &c. on the right. Thi stiles of the Church
were thickly lined with well.drelfed and fine look-
ing foldiers, and the number of niilitary officers
was great. Terminating the pafTage of the strain 1
aille Rood the altar, nearly in the centre of the
Church. On the right, as you approached, was
ereded a temple, railed on four pillars, ten or
twelve feet high, over which was fufpended from
the roof a'fplendid canopy. This temple, which
was covered with crimfon velvet, and molt fuperb-
ly decorated with gold and precious !tones, was
defigned for the three Confuls, and it was open all
round that they might be teen. On the oppofite
fade of the altar flood a limilar temple, not fo mag-
nificent, in which were to fit the POPE'S Legate
and two Archbithops, one of them of Paris.
Soon after is o'clock the CH is, Coasul, en-
tered, cannon firing, and the finch band of mufic
playing in the church I ever heard. The grena•
Biers were ranged three deep on each fide of the
Rifle, along which he paired to the altar, the Porn's
Legate introducing him to the church, and con-
cluding him. He was followed by the two other
Confuls, who teemed to attend him as footmen.
After certain ceremonies he afcended the Temple,
and the Cardinal and Bilbop entered theirs.
fervice of folemn mats was then performed, Boma-
PARTS going through all the ceremonies, not ap-*
parently with the greateft zeal. In thole parts of
the fervice where the congregation bow, the tel-
diets prefented their arms, by word of command
from their officers. The oath of fidelity was taken
by the Clergy, who were very numeroufly
bkd round the Legate's Temple, as already de-
fcribed, after which a fermon was preached by the
Bifhop of Pants, the fame who preached before
Louis XVI. on his coronation. A grand Te Dam
followed, in which all the belt vocal performers in
Paris affitted. The band was allonifhingly power-
ful as well as fitilful. About four o clock, the
whole ceremony having concluded, the Cli Ist CON.
sot. retired in the manner he entered, and the red
of the company withdrew. I give you but a faint
idea of die magnificence and grandeur of the fcene.
This evening TALLITRAND gives a grand dinner
to the Foreign Minifters, &c. and many other en-
tertaininents will be given. A general illumination
is commencing.
The Meshes. of this day, which of courfe you
will receive before my letter, Rates, that the Foist
Cossui. ratified yefterday the Definitive Treaty of
Peace between the Republic and his Britannic
Majefty. The refpedive ratifications will be ex-
changed to-morrow, Sunday, the i Bth, at nine
in the morning. But as this is all it Rates, it may
be of ha to inform you, that the ratifications have
actually been exchanged, though with France
only. The Dutch and Spanifh ratifications have
not been exchanged, becaufe, I am told, the Ens-
- fent only one ratified copy ; now it is
necelTary they fhould have tent two others, one for
Holland, and one for Spain.
PROCLAMATION.
THE CONSULS OF THE REPUBLIC TO THE 'RENCK.

From the bofom of a Revolution, infpired by
the love of the country, bnrit forth at once in the
rnidit of yon religious diffentions, which became
the fcourge of your families, the nurfe of &aims,
and the hope of your foes. A finfelefs policy at-
tempted to Rifle them under the wrecks of altars,
and the ruins of Religion herfelf. At the voice
of that policy, thofe pious folemnities ceafed in
which Citizens called each other by the tweet name
of Brothers,and acknowledged themfelvesall olual
under the hand of the GOD that bad created them :
the dying, alone with grief, no longer heard that
confolatory voice which commons Chri (Bans to a be t-
terlife ; and Gov himfelffeemed exiled from nature.
But the public confcioufnefs, but the fentiment of
the independence of opinions arofe, and foon, mif.
led by the enemies without, their explofion carried
ravage and havock into our departments. French-
men-forgot that they were Frenchmen, and be.
came the inftruments of foreign hate. On the
other hand, paffions let loofe, morality without fupp
port, mifery without hope in futurity, every thing
united to carry diforder and difmay into fociety.
To flop that diforder, it was nece(fary to re-fix re-
ligon on her halls, and this could not be done but
by meafures acknowledged by religion herfelf. It
was to the Sovereign Pontiff that the example of
ages and reafon commanded recourfe to be bad
to approximate opinions, and to conciliate hearts.
The Head of the Church has weighed, in his wit
dom, and the intereft of the Church, the propoll-
tions which the inter& of the State dilated; his
voice was heard by tliz pallor:; what he approves
the Government have confented to, and the I-egif
htors have made it a law of the Republic. Thus
difappear all the elements of difrord ; thus vanifh
all the fcropks which might alarm confciences,
and alPthe obflacles which might oppofe to
the return ofinternal peace. Minifters of religion, of
peace, let the deepen oblivion cover your diantions,
your miferies, and your (=hi; let the religion
that unites you, bind• you all in the fame ties,
dt iadiffoluble ties to the intereas of the toolitl79

exert far het aihielhisgth sad ataabary wrliteb
your Miniftry gives you over the mind z let your
legions and your examples form the young citizens
to the love of our infittutions ; to refpea and at-
tachment to the Tutelary Authorities which have
been created to protea them ; let them learn from
you, that the Gon of Peace is alto the GOD of Ar-
mies. and that he fights with thole who defend the
independence and freedom of France. Citizens.
who profefs the Protellant religions, the law has
extended her folicitude equally to you. Let that
morality common to all Chrillians, that morality
fo holy, fo pure, to fraternal, unite them all in the
fame love for the country, the tame refpea for its
laws, the fame atfeaion for all the members of the
great family. Let the comets refpeaing doarine
never injure the fentiments which religion infpires
and commands.—Frenchmen ! be all united for
the good of the country, and of humanity ! Let
that religion, which has civilized Europe, be again
the tie that binds the inhabitants of it; and let the
virtues it requires be ever atfociated to the lights
that illuminate us.

The Frit Confal. (Signed) SONAPARTI.
Given at Paris, at the Palace of the s7th
Germinal. April 17,year to of the Prods Republic.

PRUSSIA.

&aux, Aram 6.—Yefterday was a holiday
for a part of the inhabitants of Berlin. The an-
ceilors of the quarter of the city called Kmpenick,
had, yefterday an hundred years ago, received
from the contort of the firft gin_g of PruiLa, the it-
luftrious %leen CHARLOTTE SOPHIA, R Princets
eqbally diftinguifhed for humanity and fcience, a
pair of colours embroidered by her royal hand:—
Now, her grand.daughtet, the perfea fucceifor of
the great virtues of this exalted pattern, our uni-
verfally honoured (teen Lonna, caufed the
colours of Open CHALLOTTI to be hung up in
the church o the Kcepenick quarter of the city s—
and fent to the Burgerfchaft there a pair of white
colours, alto embroidered by her Majefty herself..
They are adorned with the cypher of the Royal
pair, with the Black Eagle, and a tafteful golden
border. Yefterday there colours were handed over,
and the name of Louifentiadt given to this quarter
of the city. To render this feftival more solemn,
the (teen prefented the Buigerfehaft there w ith
an hundred Friedericks d'or. The solemn delivery
of the colour; took place in the great Conference'
Chamber of the Senate Houfe here, in the pretence
of a very (pkndid affembly ; and the three eldeft
children of his Majesty, the fon of the deceafed
Prince Lewis, the young Princes of °RAMOS, ac-
companied by their governors,and Prince CHARLES
of MecklenbnrO-Strelitz, brother of her Majefty,
honoured this Cokmn as with their pretence. The
Crown Prince drove the firft nail at the confe-
cration of the colours, which was followed by the
reft of the Princes, and many perfons prefent.