Star.
London, England, 1801-11-25 00:00:00

DISTRIBUTION OF PRIZE MONEY.

The CAMBRIAN, for the capture of the Spanilli
(hip Santa Terefa, and brig Virgin dcl Rofati.i,
will be paid on board the raid chip, on the 2 Lich
intlaut.

To the SCIPIO, PIQIIE, PROMPTE, and BACEI,
for the capture of the Ariel and Zee Nymphe, on
the 23d of July, 1796, a diftribution will be made
on Monday, the Both inft. at Downing ftreet.
To the DORIS, for the rec tpture of the Noftra
Senora de Navigantis, a diftribution will be made
on board the faid (hip at Portfmouth, on Saturday,
the 28th ink.

Tl2eiii;;;;ON, for the recapture of the Camilla,
will be paid on board the fhip at Yarmouth, the
a7th
The STAG and JASON, for the capture and re-
capture of the veitels undermentioned, will be paid
on board the CANADA, at Spithead, before flie pro-
ceeds to fea, viz. STAG, for the condemned part
of the cargci of .the Bothchaft Maria, and the JA.
sox, for the Venus.

The fleet whiCh failed from Cork on the tnth
Odober, for the Weft Indies, under convoy of the
TARTAR frigate, were left all well on the aGth, in
lat. 35. 37. N. by the FORTUNIE frigate, returned
to Cork.

Some fears are entertained for the fafety of the
Halifax brig, of 14 guns, Lieutenant Sccrcr, as
fhe failed for Bantry Bay the sit inliant, and has
not fince been heard of.

Letters from the crew of the gun boat, Friend-
fhip (a), fo long miffing, dated Jerfey, Nov. rg,
Rate, that the was driven out of Guernfey Roads
the night of the ad inßant, in a violent hurricane,
and was wrecked on the coat of France. On the
morning of the 3d, Lieut Athlcy and the crew
remained fome time on a rock, and, as the tide
receded the fame morning, they waded up to
their middle in water, and got afhore. They were
humanely received by an officer and Come foldiers,
who concluded them to a barn, two miles in the
country, where they remained eleren days, and
were treated very kindly. The Commandant then
fent them in an open boat to the Prince de Dona-
to/4, with a flag of truce. So certain of their
being all drowned in the late dreadful hurricane.
were the family of Lieut. Aso Lev, that they had
all gone into deep mourning.

A Jamaica newfpaper relates the following ex-
trardinary Rory.—ln the courfe of the laft fum-
mei-, Lieutenant WYLIE, in the SPARROW cutter,
during a cruize off the fouth fide of Hifpaniola,
detained an American brig from Baltimore, and
tent her down to Jamaica for adjudication. Her
papers being totally wanting, afforded no evidence
againft her ; but while the caufe was pending, and
the veffel on the point of being given up as neu-
tral property, Lieutenant FIDDLE, of the ACTIVE
fchooner, entered the Court, and turned the fcale
by evidence of a very fingular nature. Having
cruized on the fame nation, he had caught a (hark,
and on opening him found a pocket book, contain-
in the very papers in queftion, perfealy legible !
Thg e American Captain confeffed he had thrown
them overboard, which decided the trial in fa-
vour of the captors. The jaw bone of the (hark,
remarkable for its fize, now hangs in the Admi-
ralty Court of Jamaica.

The following curious et of lands by King
WILLIAM to the Norman Hunter, authenticated
by an old record, anciently kept in the library at
Richmond, may poffibly prove amufing to ibme
of our Readers:

I William, Kin 7, the third yecre (duty naive,
Gine to the Niontan Hunter, to me that art both life and
de,re,

The Hop and the Hopton, and all the Boyndes Raod
downe,
Vnder the Earth to Hell, aboue the Earth to Heaurn,
From me, and from min:, to thee and to thirr,
As good, and as faire, as ever they mine war :

To *hod, that this is footh, I bite the white watt with
my tooth.

ado» Jugge, Mawdc, and Margery , and my yourzet. loran
Henry,
_ _

For one Dow and broad Arrow: When I come to bunt %mon

Yarrow.

The long contefled caufes, repelling the letting
afide the will of the late Mrs. Sarah James, of
Keinpfey, is, after neirly levels years litigation in
the Ecelefiallical Court at Worceiler, decided in
favour of the will.

Lord Fotsr,hunting with Lord HARSOROVG
hounds in Leicefterfirire, has met with a danger.
ous accident : his horfe's legs dropped into a deep
hole, and the animal fell backwards upon his
Lordthip. His friends were near enough imme-
diately to extricate him,but he fainted, and after-
wards vomited a conliderable quantity of blood.
Lord HARIOROOC. H immediately fent for his car-
riage, but Lord F. could not he rtmnved further
than to an adjoiang farm houfe. The laft accounts
happily Rate, that he is better, and we tru( he will
be futhciently recovered to meet his friends at
Willey, on the 2111 of December, on which day
his Lordlhip comes of age.

On l'hurfday evening, about fix o'clock, the
clothes of a fine girl, in Liverpool, about thret:
years and a half old, by fomc means caught fire,'
.child her mother had occafion to leave th,. room,
and altlionh fhe was not abfent more than three
minutes, the child was fo dreadfully burnt, that
after languifhing under the molt excrutiating pain
until two o'clock on the following day the expired.
On Saturday fame failors, after receiving their
money at Somerfet.hotife, hired a coach, nhieh
Was loade,l in and outride :—two men and a v o
rn:ta on the roof tell upon :he pavement in the
..I:nolies, when one had his leg broken, the oth:r
c. was ”IT.ltiV hruifcJ, and the woman's actin was
1 •
fraftured. They were taken to St. Bartholomew's
Hofpital. They had a great deal of musty about
them.

CORN MARKET.

"11 morning at Mark•Lanc, WlLat Arai :-.llur
bnrc the fame prices as cn Islond•ty.-o:Lts ;Ind
Beans fornewliat lower.

ASSIZE or BREAD.—Yclierday a Court of Al-
dermen was held at Guildhall, prefent the LORD
MAYOR, RECORDER, 14 Aldermen, and Shuriffs.
The Company of Bakers wait,:d upon the Cot.' t t,.
lix the allize e 1 Bread, when on infpeaing the re-
turns of the prices of wheat and flour, it appeared
they had confiderably rifen iince the bat return.
The Court ordered the price of the quartets loaf to
be raifed to r ad. to take place to-morrow. It
was referred to a Committee of all the Aldermen
to confider the A. of Parliament made in the 37th
George M. for fetting the ;Are of Bread ; aad
the opinion of the Law Officers ordered to be
taken on the powers of the Court and Lord Mayor ,
in that re:pea.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF CHANCERY. Nov. 24.
DRURY-LANE THEATRE.

At the defire of all the parties except Mr
Grubb, the final decifion of the buiinels of Drury-
lane Theatre is put off till Saturday fe'nnight
The Cotinfel for MciTrs. Ford and Hammertley, on
one tide, and for Mr. Sheridan on the other, raid,
that confideralie progrels had already been made
towards an amicable arrangement, which would
certainly be completed in a few days. Mr. AGAR,
16r Mr. Grubb, objefted to delay, as it would tend
every day to increafc the embarraffments aliening
the Theatre, and thus add to the inconveniences '
of Mr. Grubb's fitnation, already fo very unplea-
fant. Mr. MAIRSVIRLD, Connie' for Mr. Ham-
merfley, faid, that lie did not perfealy underhand
the nature of Mr. Grubb's interell in the Theatre;
but he fhc.iold fuppofe, that whatever was for the
iittereh of the concern in general, mull be for his
intereft alfo. The affair was ordend to (Land
over to Saturday fe'nnight, being the day after the
lira teal.

COURT OF RING'S BENCH, NOVEMBER 34.

THE KING V. D'ALAI.ISERT.

In this cafe Mr. Dauncey moved for the judg-
ment of the Court, and the Defendant being call-
ed in, Mr. juffice LE BLANC proceeded to read
the report of the Learned Judge who tried him.
His Lordfhip was repontedly interrv.pted by boats
of laughter from the Bar, and the Bench found no
(mall difficulty in preferving its gravity.
It appeared that Monficur D'Alambert, a (4-
del..rnt French Nobleman, has refided for fome years
in the town of Carmarthen. In Augur', itioo, he
had a quarrel with Mr. Horton, the Town (lei k,
and Mts. Horton, -his Lady. For forte time no
Reps were taken to procure legal redrefs, and the
two families lived on their ufual good terms.
About fix months afi:r, however, Mr. Horton pre-
ferred an itidiament at the Carmarthen Grand Af-
' fixes. It was found a true Bill, and afterwards
removed by Certiorari into the Court of King's
Bench. The trial thus came on at Hereford, at
the lag Affixes, before Mr. Baron THOMSON.
The firft Witnefs called was the Profecutor him-
kW He Rated, that, as Mrs. Horton and he
were walking on the evening of the 2d of Anguil,
iSeo, pall the Defendant's honfe, a dr ridhed
out, and fprung up upon Mrs. H. SIL: exclaim-
ed, " Good Gon, my dear, there is the dog again,"
and afraid of being bit, ftruck him with her fan.
The Defendant looked out of his honfe, and laid,
" D—n you, you b—h, vat you firike my dog,
for ?—Me will not allow mine dog to be inflated
by nor man nor woman in Vales."
As helwas proceeding in this (train, the Prole-
cutor obfervcd that this was language very unbe-
coming a gentleman to ufe to a lady, and after
this rebuke he walked on with his fpoufe under
his arm. The couple, however, had fcarc el y reach-
ed home, when a loud knocking was heard at the
' door, and the Profccutor defired his wife to go
out f the parlour. He then opened the dour,
and to his great confternation law M. D'Alambert
(landing before it foaming with rage.
The following dialogue then took place :
D. Where is Madame Horton ?
H. What do you want with my wife?
1). I do fay where be Madame Hawn ? You
(hall not keep me from her.
H. I am quite at a lofs to know your meaning. ;
My wife is my property, and no man !hall fee hcr
without my content. Pray Sir, what do you want
to do with my wife ?
D. (Scribal his one palm twain, the °di. eritkzrear
violence) I will take up her petticoats, lay acrid,
my knee, and whip her —. I will take np thepet-
dems of every woman in Carmarthen who d.)
have the audacity to infult my wife, my dog, my
fon, or any other one of my family.
[Re den enters tb: hole, and Horton rairati.—
&me, the Lobby.]
H. [Ms aulipatins *VW at a high piteA, and 'xi:s
repre.,lfr,L3--You go no farther.
1). LC 144.11 e, and put, limjiyiss aI, ximg pit
to:T. He then rtt Athl7l]—•-e••••-•11 il—n you, i
Fight, or I will (crew your neck aliout, and throw '
your head en one tide, and your body 011 the
H. You know I am bound over to keep the
peace, and in a cowardly manner 7int will to bull,:
me or to make use f•irfeit my recugnifance.
1). You have no fpitit.
H. Put me up a little mere, and yen will find
that 1 have a drvil afpi, is.
1). Sliew, then, that suit have :—meet me At
night in the meadow at the Lu 1. rl the t A', n ;
bring you one piltol, and I will h: r s utie
H. You know my recognifaiae.
1). D—n your recogni:..ncc. It mull be
that mine honour wounded, do 11.1%, faistaftu n.
—You may hay: fv Ends, it yeti file them bet.
ter. But on cae May or ot.c .:her. C. a lea me
or I kill you. [t N.! D'iv'artinr.
Norms Pr.:.
A molt impudent and unreafonable Jog ! But I
will bare my revenge! ! ! [Ea of Ad iv,.
However no meeting took place in the meadow,
and the parties having met nest day in the hall,
wars as good fricads as ever.

Mrs. Horton was not called, t ar:
had overheard the COOVeI I.ltion, I-11:1y C.
the evidence of the profecn: decui
fcene exadly as we have. !fated it.—Ti:
brought in a verdid of Gui.V.
The a3idavits, however, whkh were no
induced a helief that M. cl'Alumb--.rt Lad h
teated, mit by a thitil mrre:
with to have a r..c•ived ~71
charadtt from is I. It r 1
fpeCtability in the nel?iilmiirhood of Curet
The Bithop of St. David's, Lady
declared that !Ince cxe: i aye had (he 1
of his acquaintance, th:y, hay: found him
tleman of the greatell politrfl m.
and the moll humane difpoiltio.i. Thry co!
poifibly believe, they added; that 11_ could
indecent anion or ule a sll::at.
ral affidavits were likosiie made I:;.rn hi
neighbours, which in ,xI3IIiTT his
ble deeds, and 1:Inv:la:lig di lois which the
town of Carmarthen, and partieularl7 the
would fullain, if be and his lady thould
another part of the country. Mr. Lam,
riling to addrefs the Court on his behalf,
Lord KLN von fetid, force judgment mull
lardy be pronounced; but he fevercly cc,
the conduCt of the Profecutor in allow;
afFair to lay by for fie months, then preferrii
indictment at the grand feffion, then remo
by tertiorefri, and then bringing the Deft
from fuch a (Nuance. The fentcnce he th
ought to be light. Where a el:alien:4e had
ltizely beeu fent, it was the duty of the Co
be. rigorous in puniihing; but here not on
fighting had taken place, butt it WAS JOUbtfU
tiler the Defendant ever ferioufly inked to f
The Learned Judges then held a confalt
after which Mr. Jullice Gitose, as their org:
thefe occaflons, obferc,:d to the Defmdant
however improper the reAna of tit: Prof:
had been, it was bnpo:rible not to cenilra wl
the Detendmt bad done. Ile then lenience
to pay a fine of I. and to eater into a recugni
in tool. to keep the peace for tw,..lve month:
d'Alambert immediately entez ed into t
cognizance, paid down the ;l. and walked c
Court. His appearance was very gentlen
and he wore the infignia of a C,:vaatir de id
Croix.
&TETANUS HANOI' T. THE TEU:T 51.1 OF THE

TON MALLET

Truflees for theft Turnps had pct
up to .r.lfticn ; Mr. Handy Ltd been L
bidder, had paid a conrdera!):e film as dr
money, and the Trufices now re:al;!..l6ther
him in poiTeflirn of the rights of thefe Turn
or to reaore his depofn-money. GA
moved for a ri::e agai:lft red.
FXIVILLGE OF A,T3Aci...Oo!<-.

In a cafe in which Jean Lont.i.;arte is the I
dant, a rule was °Jaz:tined i f:2'.%. days ago to
caufe why th.- bail-bend fiti:".d not be del
up to be cancelled, and %thy cr.r.itr on (held
be accepted in lieu of fitczia! hail ? It war
in the affidavit nn which the rule was grante.
the Defendant was in the rervice of his Exce
the Charge d'Affaires, or Secretary of Let
of the Sublime Porte, and by the 7th of .
cap. la, to RTTCII the ferv.tnt nf a foreign A
fador is highly penal, and the arreft void.
Mr. ERSKINE now ilicwed cattle aQainfl th,
He allowed that he was now :izcretary to
pinmatic asnt of the GI-land t•i:ifeninr, en
if he were to be arrett..d now he moil he ein
ed upon filing of common had. This wa
only the fia.ute law of England, hot beyo
dnult the law of nations. Bilt by the ofi
which he held in his hand it clearly appeare
this rule mutt be dicdrarge.d. It was there
that he I :came Sec :tart' to the Tin kifh Am
dor only on the 27:11 of Oh,ber. Mr. ER
read a letter to him of that date, from his
lency, riving his willingnefa to employ him.
was ate-cried on the Bth, at a time when he h
profpea whattoter °t inch a fun:firm. He it'a!
mailer of an academy, called the Grove IH
Bail was given to the Sheriff ; bail was p
above, and on the ,4th the Plainfa receive
Lice of jullification. However, the jutlific
was not dilly completed, and an attachment i
againft the Shedd' for not bringing in the I
The Sheriff was thus fixed before the Defer
could podibly be entitled to any diplomatic
lege. Mr. ERs Kt. E reafitned with his uftial
lity upon their tarts, and (hewed lwth the eti
fetch a ruic as this mull be mifch:evous, and
it was quite contr.. y to the intentions of tht
giflature.
Mr. GARROVJ fpoi : .n ftlpport of the Rule.
laid the 7th of Ann: had two objects In ties
evens! tile ;iris Anthalladors to th,i
v..nte, and t o'. th,fe At :la lArlti;j it f
dare to anti r erfon in tol'e fee-rte.:4a lo
the arre(: e: tL.Ie :dart
ptaallat:de cw.a.nd. but lit :I the
part of the ap: lied to the crei'.:ntt. ea
!fere was a p..rfi a :: voteet!ly CZTCLII")
CA,Prtret:".l7.:/.-:1:/ ['brie, only far ed.
inifon lty havit.z And V h(1:: b
:10r,* liable to an ac t;ir
w 4; 1... -",d, to fay inn
t.. .t an Anebatfad,,r
ailow a... who ha.' it...onac bail for him to fi

I.,ei eras tcs ti: pAGing of this 11
wa: part Of ::ic of the country. I-:c
n!co.:;ltcd from ilh,r the arreft in the I
•if London of thri RuStn Envoy • the firs.
Czar Petc: C: Z.lt ; hie &ma:l cf the hen
SlictirT c'7.•;r:
Inc takrn the
; th: krirg.l7 ii r•t- L' -s ar .1
copy en:',7.4zo-se,! P
He :hen •Je.s: it AS 1:11
thAt this cafc •"id not Come the Ati
the form fi.r.:97irrm, %Alien: the cal•iity of the
t.:ii• us: fcreneelv c,intidered, is ntr.cr
ireamed that the Le,:ifstiire intender: ts,
late irty -creels ?-s.: Ciote sianaily •-etained s.
reign ?sfin•ters, and regiftered at the Sec :ti
State's °free. Tr, allow men to fare th..en
from if.: corfecuences of their debts ts 7
wards entering the fertice of an Ainbairador
be a grafi pa-Terry= of jutticc.— Rik

EONAPARTE.

SECOND YEAR OF THE CONSULATE Of 60NATARTF.

(From thr Joutlital de Parts.)

The firfl year of the Confnlate of BONAPARTE
elapfed, and the war flill continued. The fleets of
England covered the fens ; Au(lria hefitated at
Lunevalc, and her armies, confronting thofe of
France, extended from Italy to the North of Ger-
many. Turkey, Portugal, Naples, and Sarc;iiii.i,
were nal in a !late of war. Rome itfelf, whole
power ought to be calculatcsl net by its tett itor)
nor its population, but by the influence it exer
cites in other (bites ; Rome aliO was numbered
among our enemies, and Rual.: could yet be claf-
fed only among the neutrals.
In the interior, order 1,1%1S every where marked
om, that it might be reftored : but every thing was
not yet brought into its proper place. Thu fubver.
lion of Ole tamily fyftem had ceafed, bnt good
laws were yet. scanting to rcclace it to f.'.ed pi in-
ciples. The entire territory of the Republic, and
all the inhabitants who were friends to induftry
and their homes, had been reftored togovernment
and to law ; but bands of robbers, without family
or fined places of abode, lived by the pillage of
the public property, by contributions impofed on
the purchafers of national domains, by affaffina-
tions committed on the highways, and by con-
fpiracies againfl the chief r f the government.—
Tribunals were cltablilhed ; criminal juftice walk-
ed iu the paths of rectitude, but with tottering
footfteps ; and general fecurity was dillurbed by
the abfence of perfonal Wet), in feveral parts of
the Republic.
In the internal government the adminiftration
proceeded, bn: uniformity wasflill wanting in their
principles arid their proceedings. A number of re-
forms and ameliorations were projeCted ; all of
them were not yet carried into execution; many
were not commenced, and mon of them were not
yet poffible. All the fources of evil were flopped '
up, but thole of good were not open, nor was it
yet eery to dive to thofe that already fuffered their
fertility to be perceived. War mercilefs war, Rill
held the good and the ill fu:pended over our heads
and kept our deflinies in fetters. In one word,
we had entered upon the ninth year with great
hopes, but it was nor yet certain that we fhould
teach the end of it with good fortune.
It is to the gth of November, in each year, that
It belongs to tell us what has been produced by the
interval that feparates it from the great day of
which it is the anniverfary : it is on that day
that the recolleeion of the evils to which it mit
an end, and the account of the bleffings which
Bowed from it, fho.:11 prcfs upon our minds.—
Let us fix our eyes on the picture which it prcii:nts
to us.

_
The &It foundations of civil fnciety have been
invettigated, ltrengthened and confnlidated by the
compofition of a part of the civil code, which de-
termines the relative rights and duties of hulband
and wife, of parent and child, and regulates the
facial order of &maim This part of thexivil code
will he prefented in the approtching feffion of the
Le illative Body.
The criminal legiflation required to be reformed
on the principles of our civil and political code, and
comaniffioners have been appointed for that under-
taking. Others have been chafed to revife the
commercial code, and to renew in it thofe atten-
tive and provi&nt laws which proteft property
aniidlt the• hazards of tr ade,and preferve it at lealt
from bad faith.

The preceding year had eflablifhed civil tribu-
nals, but the acceffes to them were wit fafc. They
were infeßed with perfons who poffelfed none of
the qualities of lawyers, but the name. A wife
law has ie-eflablifned the corporation of aveuir,
and has refined to the authority of this body that
police of delicacy and honour which can be tact-
cited only in a family.
Sir thoufand jußices of the peace arc reduced to
• leis than hall that number. This ieduElion laves
rnany millions to the Rate. It removes a multi-
tude of men incapable of dißributing jollier, and
it increafcs the relpeaability and importance of
thole who are to replace them.
In many departments criminal j office was power-
left againft crimes ; robberies and affallinations, in-
celfautly repeated on the highways, too long bore
teltimony of it. The Juries, for fome time the
hill uments or vi&inis of banditti, and Rill further
intimidated by their enemies, or the accomplices
of their crimes, were but humiliating and danger-
ous afillrnts to the Judges. The Judges them.
felves were wavering in their duty, through fear
of the infhtliciency of the public force, which he-
fitated in its turn, fearing that jullice would dd.:a-
vow its efforts. Special tribunals have been kali-
toted ; in them, the law feats couraqeous foldiers
by the tide of moderate lawyers. The forms cal-
eulmted for the proteaion of innocence arc always
obfereeil in the proceedings, and the publicity of
the ilifauflions removes all the dangers of fecret
At the fame time a body of infantry is
fpread over the infeiled departments; the gendar-
merie is orr,ani/ed ; commdfaries general of police
ate placed in a t•mporary efiablifliment in the
grea; towns where the robbers may have eflablifli •
and by there means public Iran-
eplii;!ry• 11:., heel; eilailiflied and
Civil t•Citg tt or:;..l.lf.:ti•:n of
Arc th.• t‘Aintiers of ty.".i morals ; And V./ crimi•
nab I..as, by rtprerinT ..:;10e5, arc i:ict.itttilthly
:! v :'l. ftil•lli ; but it retiairi.. .1:1 authority lIIOVC
• •' rtttisal ty, tuts ter-
r.. th..t rec.ll the pee-
try to the heart
ti. •• :ate. that

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.::Ica:, at tu.p.4cs the t'..ttate

which enrrefpotd with his eighte. The French
people longed fir it. In vain had the moil vlt-
thous citizens attended the pulpit; in vain had
fome of them added to their words the weight 6f
good example.
To Urikc the imagination of the people it is not
enough
,that an orator thould he venerable; he
Mutt be fhcred. The old hoar-headed farmer,
the rage of the canton, and the honour of the pa-
rift, impofes lets awe than his fon returning from
college, after an abfence of ten years, more learn-
ed than his tellow-citizem, clothed in a hzbit
ferent from their's, (peaking a language which is
not their language, initiated in the moil aeguft
myfleries, alinott Cnillieded t.ith the &frit ESIE
BE INC:, and, in fine, become fo moth ftiperior to
other men, that he condemns to eternal Idence, the
mutt guter;tl, the fweeteft, and the moil ardent of
parGons. The people wiffied for morality, and
wifbed it to be preached by the minitters of reli-
gion. It was jutt to (satisfy the people. The pub-
lic peace was concerned, in as much as a part of
Frarce had been drawn into the civil war, only
for the imereft of its morality preached by its
priefts. The peace of the interior depended upon
it perhaps no lays. Again let it be find, the power
of Rome is not to be meafurcd by her territory,
nor by the number of her inbjeas. He who called
her is widow of the people king, but ft ill queen ofthe
world," expretfed by there words the influence
which the may mercife for the benefit of the powers
which The loves, in the Rates of the Catholic
Powers, which are fisbjed to her cenfiare. In fine,
the enmity of foreign powers h ad for a pretext, at
leaft in afpeet, a people, according to them, more
faouge than philofophical, without prieits, and
without altars.

The antient worfhip of the great majority of the
French has then been rellored to their wintes, by
a concordat of the Government, with the Chief
of the Chrillian Religion. But this worthip is not
exclufive ; it is not a ruling, or a privileged wor-
lhip. The clergy no longer forms a dinial order
in the Rate, nor a political body. The Supreme
Pontiff is no longer furrounded with powers ill
difpofcd towards France. At the lower extremity
of the clergy wilt be the parlors ; no longer will
there he a mendicant militia between them and the
•people. The certainty of the maintenance allign•
ed to the milliners of worfhip, will be conneEted
with the fecurity and 0; p:ofperity of the nate.
In fine, the public authority, folcmnly acknowledg-
ed by the Roman Pontiff, n refumc its antient
fuperintendence, even over the exercifcs of this
worthip, the perfecution of which had, in fume
meafure, given a legal canniun to its clan gcrous
privacy.
Frequent difcuilions have taken place in the
Council of State on the fubjeci of public education.
The (Indies ofmetaphylics, morAity, and politics,
which were formerly called philolOphy, there Itu.
dies, almoil funk into oblivion fillet: the revolution,
wool be re-eflablithed. The Lazin language, with.
out which the French cannot be well underflcaid ;
the Grcck language, without which it is impotlible
to know the Latin, ancient and modern literature,
the art of writing, and the art of realoning, will
be cultivated anew. For ten year► it feems to have
been believed, that the mon reafoning and moral
nation of the world, as well as the moll brilliant
in mind and imaglivrion, could he reduced to
knowledge phyfical and mathematical ; the tenth
year will behold every fpecies of moth uftion renew-
ed in its proper domain,and the youth of France re-
placed on all the paths which have conduced
Frenchmen to the different kinds of glory that were
referred for them.

'lshe Government has employed itfelf no lefs in
the details niche public economy, than in the civil,
political, and moral intcrefts of the country.
The inJullry of manufacitirers has beets encou-
raged by the din.: ibution of prizes ; by the atten•
Lion which the Firlt.Coliful has bellowed on the
fabrics which he had an (Try unity of vifiting ;
and by the public, whole attention he has deeded
to the molt recent inventions of the arts.
Mealiers are taken to finial the canals that had
been commenced, to cleanfe the canals that had
gone to ruin, and to drain the ramifies.
Confiderable repai-s have been commenced on
all the great roads, and preparations are found in
fetch a Itate of atlivity upon them, as to confole us
in a great degree for their not being yet fuch as
they ought to be for the facility of commerce, and
the convenience of travelling.
The hospitals are reftorcel to the care of thole
refpeetable females who hare always borne with fo
much propriety the title of Sifters of Charity, and
whole angelic goodnefs flood as much in need of
the lick to afford it employment, as the litfferings
of the tick had oecation for their care. Without
doubt the general adminiftration will feel how pro-
per it is to leave to the folicitude of the municipa-
lities the care of the civil hofpitals, the Govern-
ment not being at this momcnt in a condition to
fupport them, otherwife than by contributions le-
•ied on there very municipalities.
The finances, that aliment of pclitieal organifa-
tion, have been ameliomtcti. The prefervatinn
the national forefts has been organited. The pay-
ment of adminiltrative and judicial expenses has
been reamed to the eential auth..tits.

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The adminifiration of theL....on:lf linmains, and
that of ti'e culloms. have r‘reiVEd a better fi.rnt.
The nbfeitrity of all the accounts ha. been pone•
traced by the rich Conful. Alh f :!:cm have been
examined, compared, and peat:led. Tie public
debt has lit4-ered a reds, tion ra r; niiilinns by the
op:ration of .t fin Ling fund. 'lle toll. of direa
conttibution hive !not motildcd in another form,
and forne (Ault; in the diftritotti.,a have difappcar-
cd. The hrp:. ut. pc.ite hire !wen fullicuent to
augreunt the produced Burial irdlin:cl taxes. The
credit which i. already felt from fo many favour-
ahlz circuital ,nce% is above all hippos teal by the
certainty which prevail., th tt the Fitil Conful,
having for many mouths applied Itimielf to the
u ill not full,; the loth year to pArq a%r:t y,
wi!hent having cftabiilhr•d a new mode of dirilion
t• a- the diteet contributions. or without having in-
•r-el:tced a fyflern of cerououty into every pat of
the expenditure.
The political (Tam of France carded a law
which &Quid giv, c x:ltenee tp that ample aouhility

voted by the French people in its coollitutiortal
charter. 11w nation walled for a barrier between
the great public employments, and bare ambition
without just pretenfions. It wished that a gradual
ootabilit y ihould put the &ft places above the reach
of incapable or perverfe men, poffeffing neither
talent nor, property, nor knowledge nor Cervices,
to oder as a fecunty for the public happinefs. It
willed that the lines on which the antient ivi-
leged orders walked diflial from the third estate,
should for ever be impoffible to be retraced, and
to this effect, that it Should be croffed in every
ferric by a line of the different orders of fclated
men, from whom the nation may derive honour.
The Government was bound to fulfil its expeela-
lion. Great dangers and great difficulties prefented
tlicnifelves in this undertaking. It was neceffary
to take clic, if not abfolutely that un*orthy per-
ions Should not ufurp a place among the great ci-
' tizens, rat kali that no perfon of real dittindion
lhould be omitted. It was neceffary to take care
the notab,es, recognifed as fm-h by the public
opi-
nion, fhotild not be forgotten in drawing up the
law ; and that moral notability Should not be found
in oppotition to political notability. It was neccf-
, fary, not only for the public interest, and for the
liability of the conflitution, but alfo for the fake
of jottice, which would have been violated by in-
jurious exclufions. Still a crowd of the moil dif
tinguifhed citizens, all our warriors, among whom
there arc fuch numbers capable of conducting af-
P fairs, were far from their habitations, far from the
elections : was it not to be feared that fubaltern
intriguers woryld profit by this abfence to throw
them out ? The law had to prevent this pollibility.
All that the moll fcrupulous meditation could dif
cover, that was moll proper to preferve us from
quickfands, the haw has collated and confecrated ;
and probably the refult of the elections will giver
better proof than the text of the law to all the mi-
litary men who feel themfelves inclined to under-
take the management of the public affairs, that the
abfent were not wronged when their rights were
balanced with thofe of the other citizens. _ _ _

The cares bellowed on the common weal had
occallon for peace ; and, at the commencement of
the 9th ycar, peace could not yet be obtained but,
by war.

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The armiflice agreed upon between France
and the EneeitGlt was broken at the commence-
ment of the winter. ANGER EAU, at the head of
the Gallo.liatavian army, after a number of en-
gagements, defeats the Auflrian Generals Kis
NAU ar.d Aims. blroteat; triumphs at Hohen-
lindea ; he pafr.:s the Lou and the Salza, he takes
polfeflion of Saltzburg, he chafes the enemy from
the ftrong pofttions of Newmark, Lensbach, and
Walburg, croffes the Ems, and forces the Aut..
trians to fall back even to the walls of Vienna.
Ile gains an extent of 7o leagues of country,
makes iforicrs, takes 40 pieces of Can-
non, hefides a ou•nber of magazines, and kills
fifteen tholifitfid men in the field of battle.
DONALD, after having paired the fnows of the Splu.
gen, at thcli.lad of the army of the Grilms, forms
a junaion with the army of Italy. BRUNE plies
the Mincio, ;,n,r a biilliant viaory, blockades
Mantua, palfes the Adige and the lkontu, and
takes pollellion of Verona, Vicenza, and Padua. ,
The EistrErost concluded a Peace at Luneville.
The KING of Napers concluded it at Rome. Th•:
ladependance of the Cifalpine Repulilic was con.
firmed. Tufcany, under the tide of the '
of Etruria, brconacs the price and the pledge of
the amity which unites France and Spain.
At tle.: fame cpceh, the FIRST CONSUL few
back, without r.infotri, to PAUL I. fevers thoufand
Ruffian prillmers, do:idled and armed. He or•
dered that his Hag Swill,' be refpeeted on the fens,
and P.tut. Tent him a Minifler.

The ratifications of the treaty between France
and the United States of America were exchanged
at Paris ; and thc cticconlat made between Rome
and France seas figned there. The Minillers of
the Em PERM! of RUSS/A, and the United States,
I and of the PopE, met in that city, and were leis
aflouithed than phafed to find thcmfels es there.
The KING of E ritURIA came thither hinifelf, to
Rudy the model, that he propores to imitate in the
noverninent which is confided to him, and to teat I.
to hear the weight of butinefs.
One enemy alone remained now to France—it
wzs England ; but England had loft the aflittance
of her friends—viaory had tavilhed An ria from
her—our moderation had reconciled Ruflia to us.
!The fleets el England remained, but flue hail no
more armies ; the might touch on the craft of
Franot-, but -null not penetrate. She might de-
prive us of a colony,of the profits cf maritime corn-
nseree,withont heir:gable to diminilh our territorial
wealth, which is the true foundation of nor power;
and, b:•fides, in order to deprive us of our fuper-
fluity, the mull lase faerificed her own opulence,
and compromi;:.l all her refources.
The weakners of the French marine did not pre-
vent it from being nfefol ; it was fu at the outlet
by its very weakncis—fad confennence of the re-
volution ; it was fo in giving England to under.
Rand that the revoluttons which multiply and
give (peed to the plough, promote anarchy in Mips;
and though they fometirpes add flrength to terri-
torial power, they always put marititne power in
danger. But when it was reinforced by the Spa.
nil!, marine, it teadered real fee vice. Not able to
deftruy the Englith matine, it bad at halt the
glory of keeping it occupied. Not able to dettroy
it by its cannon, it at hall condemned it to ev-
il:tuft itfelf by its expences ; it obliged it to divide
its force on every coati, and keep it parting on
every fea. Wherever a French fail appeared, the
boldnels which filled it, and the liar that guided
it, called the attention and the force of the enemy.
England, twice repulled from Egypt, returned
thidter with new forces ; but a French army en.
tered int.. Portugal, and another army, much
more numerous, atfembled on our coals, threat-
ened trot: of England beaten*. England menaced
one of our colonies, and we were on our march for
her metropolis. She attempted to overwhelm the
flotilla of Boulogne, which teemed with fu many
formidable warriors, proud of the viftory of Al-
gefiras. She was twice repulfed. The news of
die triumphs of Egypt were received with al
dcadly cubiners saidit tin alums of Londou.

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Yet Eng%M and France fied c'er iv? nittr..,;
tions for tuauy months. Fr.g_
land, weakened by eflettnthad hesiv,
this power laid dow:st its Istrnr. Het nett•NiAtiols.
were condoned witit sone. fairb. 11:e ev. • veli,c
of Egypt did Dot railc her pretcnfon.s, ar,,f gaz..
undcritanding was re•eitablifoed by rre:imit
of peace, the linczrity of which is attefil• :!••
julice and rtclptocal conyeni:•nce. 3':::•s, ren.
is reftorzd to the wo7kl. Thus, rin ec; 141
fucceeds to this sear of ten ycrt-s. Warrh wat
felt, for fume time, alto univertil. . • .

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France, or. being informed of the peace,
its content:nent in :.calm in inner, and was tl•.‘
more remarkable that the would Lye been by zi,e
eeceffes of an immoderate joy. A noisy ;InCi
milt:mos joy announces that the people nr, inca-
pable or unaccufiorned to propriety ; it is .the too
of the populace when it obolins an unexpeetra
nefit, when it is delivered from a great dantoo.
when it arrives at the end of extreme fufittrit..o,—
Every candid man, who for two years fait 1)?`. ob.
ferved in the public places, and in the national
fetes, all the great aremblages of Citizens, wilt
bear teflimony that it is a people that is to be teen
and not a populace ; military•men, and not a fol.
diery---nohle effed of that equality which, admit.
tang all Frenchmen to all pie:traces, has take,
away from every one all temptation to difturb
' them ; and, admitting all to every employment.
calls upon every ohs to reipett, if not what be
'is hinsfelf, at leatt what be may be. Befi,po,
France was perfuaded that the could run bur
rick by a contiouation oh the war, diretled as flan
was by the fira warrior of Europe ; and flee wa,
too well convinced that he would make peace, as
loon as the honour and fecal-iv of the nation would
permit, to be furprized when it was conelcUca.—
The peace, erpeted with confidence by a people
who begin to be fenfible of their own digli7:ys
ought to be received with a latisfa6tion more:rear:-
felt than tumultuous, .and it has been received fix
What a light does France prefect ! a territory
enlarged by the comic of the Selielsit, of tl:e
zelle, of the Isleufe, by the entire left Bank ef the
Rhine. Armies more formidable to foreign na-
tions by their numbers and their valour, and dear,
cr to their fellow-citizens by their difcipline and
good condua, than they had been in any petic,cinf
the monarchy ; more independant neizhbo::: 'a
Italy and the Zatavian Republic ; the fient:*.p
of Spain more confirmed Limn ever ; a powtr ..t.
ready fuedcient to balance that of the great
enriched by the fpoils of Poland, aed
commerce. Behold what France is at this
confidered as to her foreign relations l
the interior manutaattros every where re,
ing;; trade alrcadt !hooting beyond the ; a
floarifhitig agriculture • indingry every where rt,
tiored, echoing in the fields and ir. t:ie eitie.
mating man and nature by its moti ; er,ler
cured sr:that the triyle f-ice formed :4:00r.il it by
the laws, the rroraas aim+ snard the laws, :1.14
the decency which guards the morals: beheid what
this day flukes every eye, and conveys emotion to
every heart !
The firth year of the Confalate of no a APR Ilvit
had put an end to the ravages of the Revolution.
The year which has kill expired he not <oily 'pot
.in end to the ravages of war, bt.t has el can!;
the ravages of time to ceafe, and kerns to hvo
heactforth left it power only to create.
This yrir and that which preceded it are ti
daughters of a great day, the iPtit Tiruntaire.—
From that day wa • to tpring annihilation or Flni
it gave us gloi y by giving us a man wh. mit eon•
fee rated to the titivation of the country.
I n the changes that Lave been elfeeted, this man
has fccn and condtkled every thing; while he
eaed the whole, he did more in each ineneiJoal
department than thole to whom it was efpecially
confided. The prodigious ltrength ed Lla tacal.
ties permits him to devote 18 hours a day t,. ba-
rna it, pea raits him to x his attention dvrieg there
13 bouts to a fistole alien', or attain, it to oventy
in fuccenion, without liaffering the ditliculty, or
die fatigue arifing from any one to embarrafs the
cramination of another; the prodigious fircngth
of his faculties permits him to look beyond as ,-
fair: fair; while he manages every affair, and 6404
all pleafures while making trial of lonic; w fie
the judgment or posterity beyond that of di.: pre-
Icnt gene.ation, the judgment ofEttrope,tad that
•if France beyond that of Paris; in one word, to
fee in all its beauty that true glory on which oil.
dling men cannot fix their thoughts, and wrath
has for them neither radiance nor torn.

It is this lirength orgarazatioa which eva-
ders hint indefatigable, that renders him
corruptible, and cicvates him above tit: dacltera
of power. While we eanter..plate kis rah lialrivrs.
he has already advanced fat irom us into futurity.
No man is before him in au ufefui ides kaPPY ir
he who can 1,:llow him near. This head, rAd"lng
with lately, is nith new care, and labnott to
the is ere.h of ail; when yrur attention is Gsetien
him, hit is employed in inquiring into your wants
and your interells. Yon will he Pall engaged as
recounting what he did halL pear. When already
arrived at the cal of that which is paling oP.
*nether ilith of artimaire will claim foe him
new teflimonies of your admiration and raw
gratitude.