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To -es one Mr lad rirs othes Counfellers appeared
sea preferred the Whew*
maw Si us Sti Vas lletif OT its InSPUILIC.
It se wish she limiliee fatisfaiiies that the Go-
mesemenepeteues to the nation the piens* of the
aim of die ftepebht during the yew which has
Lerely chid. Every thing se its intensal and m-
ensal itemize her. Ahmed a sew sips& and on
mimes fah it is some prated. it acts a long
pedinek of bap sell felicity.
`the Wel sal in the Swath the remnant of
nuterwees belies et brigands inhaled the roads and
defelmed the Gelds, while they wets either alto
refer inedible se the mere which peened them,
ee was "'faded again& them by that terror
etude they mired mew their victims. If lone-
saws they fell see the hands of their mimes,
awl were Wee& into a ahead of JAW, their
awslasity &eta terror inn their amftwe, sad the
wirerges who were as prom their gvik ; nor did
irtrZsg• aid Juries ehapc from the fear their
eacieed. Freon the Leads of jeftice there
samillen shaped gepesilhed, only to renew their
brew atrocities. Again* this pea, deftrudive
err the order of inciety, it was aceefary to employ
ether arms than meld be fumed in thole flow and
gredeal forms ef procedure, which public Office
motleys arid site fit evil (pints who con
max tiseMeives hem puaiStment in Silence and fo-
kiosk. Spetiel tribunals were created, what,
mete sapid and certain atftivity was capable of,
seething sad eadoendieg them. Flagrant circa-
den have hem hived; witederkeve ceded to be
hoimidmed ; ledges haws eilie.yeiltheir cookience;
heist, has hem avenged of its enemies. Thole
wile have &did the perfuit of juilice now fly
Isom eat woe of concealment to another, and
the LtpahFC&thy ifcharges from its bofom, the
seament of Not, kms-bonters, who have fo long
dilwelied its repels. la the mean time innocence
has led main miser ; the fecurity of the cid
use has sax been interrupted by the 'matures
to pima their oppreihm, and the flintier
with which assay perfons wised to terrify
is • ads of Meaty, have only been realized
again' ahem
From the mouth of Flores!, in the year 9, to the
se Veademieire, is the yew to, (Sept. si,) feral
Modred aid twenty-four fentences have Gan pro.
wwwwwd by the Special Tribunals. Of there only
semeses have been revcrfeJ by the tribunal of cat
Maim. en the of their incompetency. They
mineet, be with any reatoe accufed either
of eneseilieg dui powers, or of invading the coorfe
of arlisary jallice.
The Govereesset is the firft days of its inßitu-
ties proclaimed liberty.' of confcieoce. This ro-
les= MI calmed the torit of thole whom enjulli•
liable river had temfied. Since that period the
swedentson of religious difentions has been an-
sosecied, and matures have actually been concert-
sod with the Sovereign Posstiff of the Catholic
Church, to reunite in the fame fentimcnts the pro-
le/besot a common faith. At the fame time a
Magi/rate who has been charged with whatever
concerns the toms of worship, is occupied about
the rights dell ; be has colleted in conference:
held with the C.alvitaillic Lutheran Millers that
isfeemastio• smeltery for preparing regulations
which will fenny to all the liberty which is their
right. and the publicity which the inures of fo-
eial order require to be granted to them. Similar
aseateres will provide for the maintenance of every
different feel : nothing (hall be left to the difpo-
fition of their Miniders, and the public. treafury
Stall in no cafe be overcharged. If Come citizens
have been alarmed by idle rumours, let fuch air
mho:axons be difpelled. The Government has
done every thing to reftore public confidence,_ but
it has done nothing to offend principles, or deffroy
the independence of opinion.
Continental peace has put an end to whatever
anxiety and vain terrors ilill exifted in the minds
of Citizens. Already Wired with all the happi-
nefs they ezpeited, the Citizens will repofe on the
bean of the Coullitution, and to it will unreferv.
edly attach their deft iny. Enlightened and faith-
ful Adminiftrators have zealoufly feconded this
difpofition of the public mind; almoll every where
it appears by their reports that public authority
has experienced nothing but the readieft obedience,
love and gratitude. Hence there exile in the Go.
vernment that fatuity which conftitntes its
ftrerigtb. It entertained no more doubt of public
opinion than of its own fentiments, and hence it
dares to appeal to it without any dread of the re-
!Ult. Hence a Prince, (prong from the blood of
thofe Sovereigns who long reigned over France,
patted through our departments, had his refidence
in the capital, received from the Government the
honours due to his Crown, and from the Citizens
all tisofe marks of refpea wjiich one people owes
to smother in the peon orhim who, is called to
govern them. No fufpicion for a moment inter-
rupted the tranquillity of the Government, no ru-
mour ditlurbed the repofe of the people. Every
where the countenance of the people difplayed the
appearance of a nation blefed with liberty, and
rnanifefted thole affections which charafterife a na
tion dißinguifhed by their hofpitality. • Even
&angers, the enemies of the Country, have fees
that attachment to the Republic is deeply im-
planted in the hearts of Frenchmen, and that there
et already poffeffes all the maturity which could re.
fuk from the experience of ages. The return of
warriors into the territories of the Republic has
been followed by fetes and by triumphs. Tbofe
warriors, fo formidable in the kid, have mixed
with their brothers and their friends, happy in the
eziftence of public jufl ice, enjoying without haugh-
tiuds the gratitude they fo well deferved, and
(hewing themfelves by the Mad, difcipline wor-
thy of the vineries they have obtained.
Intliewar which we had Rill to fopport, theevents
which hare taken place have exhibited a mixture
of good and ill nieces. Reduced to combat the
-nevi of England with unequal ftrength, our ma
tte difplayed its courage in the Mediterranean,

tamed with the eserey's fleet. It has on the
ocean recalled fonts traces of its antient glory
By a glorious refiflance it aftoniflted the people of
England allembkd on their chores to be only the
wieners* of the defeat of their countrymen ; and,
had not peace been concluded, a hope might have
been entertained that it would have been able to
avenge its pail misfortunes, and repair thofe faults
which had produced them.
In Egypt the foldiers of the army of the Eaft
have furrendered, but they have furrcndered more
to the eireumflances in which they were placed
than to the Englifh and Turkifh arms. They
would certainly have conquered if they had fought
with union. At length they return to their coun-
try ! They return to it with the glory they have
acquired by four years of courage and of labours.
In Egypt they have left reeolleaions never to be
forgotten. Recolleaions which may one day give
birth to the reftwation of arts and focial inkitu-
tions. • fliflory, at !call, will not fail to record
what efforts the French have made to introduce
into that country the knowledge and civilization
of Europe. It will tell by what efforts they con.
quered it, by what itifdom and by what difeipline
they fo long preferred it, and, perhaps, it will de-
plore the lots of it as a new calamity to the human
race. Twenty-eight thoufand Frenchmen at firft
entered Egypt to conquer it; others have been
fent fince that time to reinforce them at different
periods, but the whole number of thole who have
returned is nearly equal to the number/ of thofe
originally employed in the expedition. Twenty-
three thoufand men return to France, after Egypt
has been evacuated, without including the fo-
reigners who have followed their fortnne. Thus,
four campaigns, numerous conflias, and the dif.
cafes of the country, have not carried og a fifth
part of the army of the Eaft.
Since the conclufion of the continental war, the
Government has been employed in making every I
reform in the Rate of the army which circuni-
fiances would permit. A confiderable number of
men have
.got their difcharge, thefe dacharges
have beeagtvenwithoutfavour,withoutpreference,
and in an order irrevocably fixed. Thole who firtt
took up arms in compliance with the laws of re-
qui fition, LB obtained their difcharge.
To fill up the vacancies which there difcharges
will occafion, it will be neceffary to call upon the
confcripts of the years 9 and so, and in this fel-
1-ion the pro ea of a law will be propofed to the
Le illative Body to place them at the difpolition
of the Government ; but the Government will on-
ly call upon fuch a number as may be fufficient
keep up the army on the peace eftablithment.
We (hall enjoy peace, but the war will leave us
a burden which for a confiderable time will prefs
on our finances. To defray the expences which
could neither be forefeen nor calculated, to recum-
pence the fervices of our defenders, to reanimate
the works of our arfenals and our ports, to reflore
a marine to France, to create anew all that the'
war has deftroyed, and all that time has confum-
ed ; to !sting, in a word, all our eßablifhments to
that point of perfettion which both the grandeur
and the fecurity of the Republic require: to an-
complilh all thefe various objeas, cannot be effea-
ed without an increafe of our revenues. The re-
venues will indeed of themfelves increafe with
peace, and the Government will manage thefe re-
venues with the ftriaca ;economy. But if the na-
tural increafe of the revenues, aided by the Rrifteß
(economy, do not prove fufficient for the public
wants, the nation itfelf will judge of thefe wants,
and the Government will find it to be their duty
to propofe the refources which circumftances may
render neceffary.
_ _ _

In the whole Courfe of the year 9 a few rare com•
manications have with difficulty exilled betwixt
the mother country and the colonies. Guadaloupe
preferves a remnant of culture and profperity, but
the fovereignty of the Republic received more
than one outrageous violation. In the year 8 one
agent had the foie command of that ifland. He
was banned by a fa&ion. Three agents fucceed-
ed him, two of whom deported a third, and re.
placed bim by a perfon of their own choice. Ano-
ther died, and the two furvivors inverted them-
felves with all the powers which three were def.
tined to exercife. Under this mutilated and une-
qual adminiftration, anarchy and defpotifm uni-
verfally prevailed. The colonifts accufed them,
and imputed to them every error and every
crime. The Government endeavoured to orka.
nife a new adminiftration. A Captain General, a
Prefect, a Commirfary General, fubordinate to
each other, but mutually fucceeding each other if
Ire u mftances (hould require it, prefent an arrange-
ment of power which is perhaps, in Come rcfpeds,
liable to cenfure, but contains no fources of rival-
(hip which can arreft its adivity, or paralyfe its
exertions. This adminiftration exifts, and we
dtall loon be enabled to determine whether it will
juilify the hopes which have been conceived of it.
Since his arrival, the Captain General has had
to combat the fpirit of faction, and he has thought
it his duty to fend to France thirteen individuals
who bad been alive in promoting the divitions of
the colony, and in favouring the deportations.
The Government has confidered the prefence of
fuch men dangerous in France, and has given or-
ders that they be font to any of the colonies they
may think proper, with the exception of Guada-
loupe.
_ _

At St. Domingo irregular ails have endangered
fubordination. Under equivocal appearances the
Government has hitherto wifhed to view only an
ignorance which confounds names and things,
which nfurps when it believes that it only obeys.
But a fleet and army which are on the eve of fit-
ting out from the ports of Europe, will Coon diffi-
pate every cloud, and St. Domingo will return
entire under the laws of the Republic. At St.
Domingo and at Guadaloupe there are no'llavas:
—every thing is free and every thing will remain
free. Wifdom in the progrefs of time will reltore
order, and roeflablifb culture and labour in theft
fettlements.

At Martinique there will be daTerept princi-
ples.—Martinique has preferred flavery.and &very
wal there be retained. It has con humanity too
much yet to try in this Nall dikift of the earth
a new revolution,

Corm preteen under in stain and vigorous
adminillration. h will profper kill more under
the reign of Peace, and aggrandefed by a new ter-
ritory which is &vourable to culture, and promifis
a •ail increafe of riches.

The ifles of France and Reunion have continu-
ed faithful to the mother country, in the midd of
faetkons and under an adminißration feeble, uncer-
tain, fuch as chance prefented, and which received
from the Government no impulfe or fu
There Colonies, Co important, are fecured. Wet;
now fear only left the mother country, by ;filling
liberty to the blacks, fkould endanger the lardy of
the white inhabitants. _
The order eftablifhed in the former year, in the
receipt of the revenues, and the dißribution of the
eapences, left very little room for improvement in
this depattment. An &Rive fuperintendance has
brought to light pan dilapidations and prefent
bufes. The colprits have been denounced is the
public opinion7and before the tribunals. The
mode of management has.been concentrated, and
hence greater energy has been introduced boo ad-
minißrauon and sore celerity into the means of
obtaining the general refults. Meafures have been
taken to accelerate Rill farther the payment ?lac
public revenues, to feeure greater regularity in
meeting the national expenditure, and to lender
refponfibility in this department aronee more Am-
ple and more naive. The prattices of thofe guilty
of forgery have arrived at a height which crates
alarm in fociety. By means of" faFe titles they
have deceived thofe appointed to liquidate the
public debt, and have thus embezzled the na-
tional meal-tire. To prevent, for the futire, (rich
*bulks and Such crimes, the Government has de-
termined that liquidations made in the offices of
Minillers (hall be fubjeeted to a new trial, anti hall
not be allowed to be a debt of the Republic till
they are mire ] in the Council of Adminitration.
The Minißer of Finance has now the whole charge
of the labours which the receipt of the revenue
and the fynern of contributions require. The of-
fice of another Ninifter is to labour direly in
what is conneaed with the depot of the public
treafure, and his perfonal refponfibility fecures its
inviolability. The Sinking Fund has received a
more complete organization. A fingle individual
has the management of it, but four Adminiliva-
tors furvey the whole details, and who are at the
fame time the advifers, and, if it be necelfary, the
cenfors of the agent whom they are bound to affill.
The moll precious property of the Republic, the
national forelts have been placed under the gui-
dance of an adminiftration who, confined wholly
to this objeft, will excrcife in it the greaten alto
vity, the mod accurate knowledge, and the mod
watchful infpeition.
Public initruCtion has made confiderable pro.
grecs at Paris, and in feveral of the departments.
Iu almolt all the others it is languifhing or nearly
satinet. If we do not kraut on the path which
has been traced, there will loon be only a few
nattered lights on detached points, and ignorance
and barbanfm cannot fail to Succeed. A fyltern
of public inftruftion more concentrated has em-
ployed the deliberations of the Government.
many fchools eltablifhed in one or moreCommnnes,
if local circutußances admit of this alfociation,
will prefent generally to the children of Citizens
that elementary knowledge, without which man
is a mere blind agent, dependant on every thing
that Surrounds him. The condultors of theft
Schools (hall have an allovranco fuenithed by the
Communes, and a Separate allowance, compofed
of the retribution agreed upon b the relations,
who Than be in a Situation to afford it. Some
other ufeful funaions will be aligned to thefe con.
duetors if they can be made confident with their
primary and neceffary funaion.
In the Secondary fchools there (hall be taught
the elements of the ancient languages, of geogra.
phy, hinory and arithmetic. Mefe Schools flail
be formed either by individual exertions recogniz-
ed by the public adminißration, or by a meeting
of the Commutes. They fhall de encouraged by
gifts of public edifices, by gratuitous places in
i the Superior fchools granted to pupils
thcmfelvcs ; and in a word by prizes bellowed
on a number determined by the Profelfors, who
Shall have furniflied the greaten number of pupils
Ito the Superior Schools.
Thirty pupils, under the appellation of Area
!hall be formed, and fupparted at the expence of
the Republic, in the principal cities which, by their
Situation and the manners of their inhabitants, are
mon favourable to the Study of Science and litera-
ture. There the learned languagei, Geography,
! Hillery, Logic, Natural Plulofophy, Geometry,
I Mathematics, etc. will be taught. In form of
them the modern Llognages will alk be taught,
!the ufe of which is pointed out by their fituataon.
j Six thoufand pupils of the country Shall be diftri•
buted in thefe thirty eltabfilhments, maintained
and educated at the expence of the Republic.—
Three thoufand than be the children of Soldiers, or
! of public functionaries who have done fervice to the
! State. Three thoufand others Shall be chofen in
the Secondary fchools, according to examinations,
formally appointed, and in a number proportioned
to the population.
The pupils of the united departments Shall be
called into the fchools of the interior ; !hall there
be habituated to our cußoms and our manners
imbibe our maxims, and carry back to their lam
lies the love of our inftitutions and our laws. The
other pupils admitted mull be maintained and in.
ftrueled at the expence of their relations. Six mil.
lions (ball be annually allotted for the formation
and Support of thefe eftablithments, for the fubfia.
ence and inßrnaion of the pupils of the Country,
for the falfu-ies of the Profeffors, and for the pay
of the Diretion and refponfible agents.
The !pedal fchools (hall firm, the laR _Rage of
public inftruaion. Several of thefe are already
constituted, and will preferve their prefent forms.
Others will be eßablithed in the molt convenient
nations, and for profeffions for which they are
judged molt necenary. Such is a Sketch of the
fyfiem which Teems to the Government to unite
the greaten advantages, and to ',mini& the
greaten chance of faced's, and which in the pre.
fens felLon it will propok to the Legillative Body
ip the form of the psis, of II Law. ear (aria.

eienda ice will be fufScient for edaoitt:itmlngaabt;fllefln.rndu:::,
while a greater number would escape its care a;
witsouidobfervanot taniond. a
tniilirte
raebnotv
tehaolfle,
felfors who give reputation to fchools, nor of 1)
reams capable of maintaining in them a fever
difcipline, tar of advifers fufficiently caghte,
to direa their admiaiftration.
Thirty Lyres wifely diftributed over the ter;,
tories of the Republic will, by their intluence
embrace its whole extent, will univerfally diffuf
the fame of their knowledge. and their fucce
will aurae the attention of foreigners, and wii
be to them what lately Tome famous fchools
Germany and England, and what fume celebrate
univerfittes were to us, and which viewed at
diftance, commanded the admiration atul
of Europe.
The Civil Codowas IA year ar.nounced ar rh
deliberations of the Legiflative Body, but
work encreafed under the hands of thofe whoa,:
preparing it. The Tribunals were called upon t
render it more perfect, and enriched by thor cl
fervations, it is fubmiued in the Council of Stat
to the fevercß difcutGon. All the parts of
it is cumpored will be fa uceflively prefented forth.
fanflion of the Legiflative Body ; thus this irrpc,r
tent work will be fubjthed to every proof, as
will be the refult of every kind of illuminaLion.
Workthops multiply in houfes of labour and car
reaion, and labour banifhes from them that idle
nets which addsllill more to the corr Up:iOn rf
corrupted. In many of the departments no b-1.,
gars are to be found. The hofpitals are gradu..
rifultafrom that ftate of diftrefs which conflit...
she me of the nation, and the grief of the G.
vernment. Already private beneficence encreat
their flares, and attefts the return of thole fon
meats of benevolence which pernicious lava a
protractive mifery fumed to have banifhed fo
ever. Its all the principal circle' of cominunica
tion, the high roads either are, or will fpeedily
repaired. The produce of the tar for keeptn 4
them in repair expriences a progrefive encreafe
The molt impoktt of all the canals is already
dug a the public expence, and a number ..
others will foot he formed by the induftry of
individuals. literature and the Sciences hay
received every poffiblc degree of fupport an.
entourapfzent which circumftances would pet
mit. have been formed for the embellifi•
Inca of Paris, and already Tome of them are
carrying into execution. An indiviival affocia•
tinn, formed by teal (till more than by interell,
has copftrueled bridges, .which will open corn.
munications either extremely ufeful, or altozeth,s
neceffary. Another aifociation will furnifh w the
City a canal and faluhrious water, which are (till
wanting to the capital. The Departments wit
not be neglefted. On every fide enquiries are
made what works are neceffary to adorn them, or
to render them more fruitful. Colleeions of pia.
jogs are defined to form mufeums in the principal
cities. The view of them will infpire the young
Citizens with a tafte for the arts, and will at:e..
the curiofity of travellers.
At the moment when general peace is about to
reftore to the arts and to commerce all their atli.
'city, the duty moll dear to the Government is to
enlighten their path, to encourage their labours,
and to remove every obllacle which might retard
their career. It will invite, for the accomplifluneat
of there great. interens, every divifion of knowledge;
it will ckins all the counfels of experience; it will
fix upon men for confultation, who by their anull
knowledge, by their inflexible probity, by their
interetted views, than be worthy of the ;Aix con.
fidence and etteem. Happy if the national genius
fecourd its ardour and its zeal, and if by it. carts
the profperity of the Republic one day equal .t;
triumph and its glory.
In our external relations, the Government mil
not fear to difelofe its principles and its maxim.
Fidelity to our allies, refpee for their indeper,l
ence, and frankneft and fincerity with our eaemie ;
fuch has beer its policy.
Batavia complained that its form of Govera•
went was not Inked to it. But for feveral year.
this Conflitution governed it. The principle of
the Government it,that nothing is more fatal to
the happinefs of States than the inf., ability of their
Conftitutions, and when the Batavian Dirdlory
made an application to it on the expediency of a
change. it always appealed to this principle.—At
length, however, the Batavian people walled to
change their Conftitution, and they have adopted
a new form of Government. The Government
has acknowledged this Coullitution, and it was its
duty to give this acknowledgment, becaufe the
Conflitution was framed according to the with of
an independent people. Twenty-five thoufand
Frenchmen were to retnain in Batavia according
to the terms of the treaty of the Hague, till the
conclufion of a general peace; the Batavians
fired that thefe forces might be reduced, and i°
virtue of a recent convention they have been rs-
duced to ten thoufand men.
Helvetia has prifented, during the year 9, the
fpeeacle of a people torn in pieces by fear, and
each one of thefe invoking the Power, and fie-
times the arms of Prance. Our troops have re-
ceived orders to re-enter the territories of the Rio
public: Atooo men only remain-in Helvetia, egret
ably to the with of an the local antlibritics who
have begged for their flay. Helvetia has often
fubmitted to the Chief Cooful projees of organi-
ration ; the has often requeled his advice; betas
always recalled her to hefindependence: " Re-
member only, (he has fometimu raid, ) the courage
and the virtues of your fatheu ; have an °rpm-
ration Pimple as their manners. •Think of thole
different religions, of thofe .different language!.
which have their limits marked out; think 4 thole
mountains which feparate you ; think of the owl
reconeflions tufted by thee natural boundarirtv
and let there remain an impreffion ofall thefe things
in your organization : above all, for the example
of the nations of Europe,preferve liberty and ere.'"
lity to that nation which belt taught them to be hi-
dependent and free." Thee were only counfeis,
and they have been coldly Whined to. Helvetia
remains without a pilot in the midi of tempai:
The Minter of the Republic has aged Cal as a
mediator §carteen the hoftile panics, and the qe.

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The Cifalpine and Liguria have at lin agreed
vpin their organization. In the tranfitetions which
:null accompany the firft nominations both arc
al:at • •cl of the revivatof rivalfhip and hatred. They
bare therefcre teftified an inclination that the C r
-c,„;ul, would charge himfell with tit& nontina-
tios He will try to reconcile the with of theft
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co Republics, lo dear to France, with the more
tat red duties which his fituation impofes upon him.
Lucca has expiated in the miferies of a provifio- ,
ral government the errors which drew down upon
it the indignation of the French people. It is now
employed in framing a*definitive organization.
The King of Tufcany, tranquil upon his throne,
recognized by feveral of the great powers, and
fi•oti Will be fo by all the refl. Four thoufand
Frenchmen garrifon Leghorn on, his account, and
remain there only till he has 6rganifed a national
army-
Piedmont forms our twenty-feventh military
vifion' and under a milder government forgets the
evils of a long anarchy.
The Holy father, Sovereign of Rome, poffeffes
his dates in their integrity. Pafaro, Fawn and
Calla St. Leono, which had been occupied by the
Cifalpine troops, have been reftorect to him. 1-if-
teen hundred Frenchmen remain in the citadel of
Ancona; to infure the communications with the
A:MY of the Smith.
After the peace of Lune v rrance might haii
fallen with all her weight upon the kingdom of
Naples, to panifh the Sovereign for his unprovoked
infraetion of the treaties, and to make him repent
of the infults which the French had received in the
Port of Naples. But the government con fidered
itfelf avenged when it might have taken vengranc,;
h felt ao longer but the defire and the neCettity of
peace ; to agree to peace it required only the Port
of Otranto, become neeefrary to its defigns in the
haft after the taking of Malta by the Englith.
Pant I. was attached to France; he withed for
the peace of Edrope; above all he was anxious for
the liberty of the fcas. his great foul was moved by
the pacific fentiments which the CHIEF Cows us. had
Manifetted. He was Rill more !truck by our fuc-
ceffes 2nd our viaories. Hence the firft ties which
attached him to the Republic. Eight thoufand
Ruffians have been made prifoners in fighting with
the Allies; but the hlinifter who then governed
England had refufed, to exchange them againft
French prifoners. The Government was enraged
at this refbfal. The Cuter Coesu,. refolved to
rellore to their country thefe brave then whom
their Allies had deferted.--he refl.:red them in
manner worthy of the Republic, worthy of them,
and of their Sovereign.—Hence doter ties, and a
nearer approach to cordiality.
All on a fudden, Rttflia, Denniark, and Swe-
den, nuked; a coalition was formed to gliarantee
tke liberty of the teas ; Flanover was occupied by
the Pruffian troops; vast projelt; were in contem-
plation : But Pam. I. faddeoly dies.
Bavaria is haftening to revise the relationswhich
conneeted her with France. This Important ally
halt tuftained great lotTes on the left Bank of the
Rhine. It is both the inter& and defire of France
that the fkould receive, upon the Right Ban}, a
juft and full indemnity.
Much difeuffion has taken place at Ratifbon,
with regard to th.: execution of the Treaty of
Luneville, but none of there difputes arc immedi-
ately interefting to the Republic. The Peace of
Luneville, concluded with the Emperor, and rati-
fied by the pies, has irrevocably fixed the interefti
of France in this quarter. If the Republic ftili
takes a part in the difeuflions at Ratilbon, it is only
from having guaranteed the ftipulations in the ytl:
article of the Treaty, and to preferve the jull equi-
libritun of power in Germany.
Peace with Rufla has been hued. Nothing
will henceforth difturb the relations of thefe two
great nations, who with fo many reafons to love
each other, have not one to excite ikalouly or fear,
and whom Nature has placed at the two extremi-
ties of Europe, to preferve the balance of the north
Mid the fouth.

The Porte, reftored to a fenfe bf its true interefts,
and its inclination for France, ha: returned to its
molt antient and mof faithful ally.
With the United States of America all difficul-
ties have been fmoothed.
Finally, Preliminaries of Peace have been ratified
with England. The Peace with England was the
refult of long neguciations, fupported by a fyftem
of war, which though flow in its preparations, was
infallible in its effeets. Already the greatell nuns-
ber of her allies had abandoned her. Hanover,
the only poffeflian of her Sovereign on the Conti.
nent, was always in the power of Praia. The
Porte, menaced by our important pofitions on the
Adriatic, had opened a feparate negotiation.
Portugal remained to her. Long fubjeet to the
influence, and confined cxclufively to the com-
merce of England, Portugal was in truth but a
province of Great Britain. it was here that Spain
was to find a compcnfatinn for th.: celinn of the
ifland of Trinidad. Her army advanced; a divition
of the troops of the Republic encamped on the fron.
tiersof Portugal to fupport heroperat Its. But after
the firft hoftilities and a few flight (kit macs the
Spanifh Knitter ratified fcparatcly the treaty of
Badajos. From that moment it was cafy to forefec
the lofs of Trinidad to Spain ; from that moment
in truth, England confidered it as a polfeflion
which the had definitively acquitel and from
thenceforth rejated front the negociation every
tang which could fappoti the pofliblc reflitution
ot

Beforeratifying the fcparate treaty with Portugal,
Coveznnnent communicated tu the Cabinet of Ma-
drid this refolutiun of England. England refilled
with the fame iraiesibility the eeflion of Ceylon ;
but the Batavian Republic will And in the many
prulitlions whit!) arc retlorcd to her the re-ella-
War:tent of Ler summerce •an.l her power.
France has maintained the inter ells of her Al-
lies as forcibly as her own ; ilte has even been
ready to facririce greater advantages which the
might have obtained for herfelf: but it was al-
V,Eys neceffary to flop at tic point where nego-
tiation became impoffible. Hcr eshaulled Allies
(void no longer furaiat I:lOuiccs fur the continu-

1-at:on of the war, and the poffAionc, the reflitu-
tion of which was refuted them by England, wet.,
not to be compared to the chances of a new cam.
paign and all the calamities with which th.y might
have been overwhelm..2d.
Thus in every quarter of the Globe the Repub-
lic has none but friends or allies, and every where
her commerce refumes its ancient channels.
In the whole courfe of the negotiation the pre-
fent Miniller of England has (hewn a fincere anxi•
cty to put an end to the miteries of War; the
Englifh People have embraced the Peace with en-
thufiafm. The rancour of rivalfhip is mind—
there remains only the emulation of great aaions
and ufeful enterprifes.
The Government had fet its ambition in replac-
ing France in her natural relations with all nations;'
it will now place its glory in maintaining the great
work it has accomplithed, and to perpetuate a
Peace which will enfure the happinefs of France
and the happinefs of humanity.
The Chief Conful (Signed) BONAPARTE.
By the Chief Conful,

The Secretary of State (Signed) H. B. MART.
Which being read, was ordered to be printed.
The Preftdent moved that a Committee of 2.}
Members fhould wait upon the Confuls with their
congratulations.—Agreed to.

Marquis Coatiweais was prefent this day at
opening the Seffion of the Legiflative Body. He
was received with Military honours when he en-
tered and when he quitted the hall.