Star.
London, England, 1801-11-07 00:00:00

NEW BATAVIAN CONSTITUTION.

(The following Abitrad will put our Reader. in potrefflon o
the fubitance of the Articles which we could not overtake in

oar Paper of ycfterdayl
THE FIMASCIII.The details on this divifion
are extremely complicated and uninterefting.—
They include in the firft place, an account of all
thefe Debts which the Republic is to recognize as
debts of the nation. They then proceed to point
out the refources in poiTelßon of the Government,
for their extinClinn ; explain bow new funds fur
annihilating them are to be railed, and defcribe
what is the duty impofcd on the Regency of State
in the regulation of this important branch of na-
tional economy.
THE ADMINISTRATION OE THE DEPARTMENT!.
—Each Department is to be governed by feven
perfons at the leaf", and at the mull by fifteen, do-
miciiiated in the Department, and fulsicet to the
fame laws of eligibility as the Islvnbcrs of the Le-
giflative Body. Thefe individuals are to regulate
the cxpcnces of their interior adminiftration, and
to determine the char es to be exacted in the pro-
ceedings of Courts or Jußicc and Police. They
are to fix what expence is neeeflary for the repair
of public edifices, &c. In cafe of any unexpeCted
calamity or difafter happening in their Depart-
ment, they arc to tranfmit accounts of it to the
Re?,cney of State, and to require what fuccour
may he requifite out of the National Treafury.—
They are to have the power of nominating public
funnionarics, and all inferior WE( crs employed in
the Adminiliration of their Department. They
arc to di reel internal econorn v, rein', -ces, police, &c.
and to make regulations on each of thefe points,
taki;i:,,, care, however, that their dee.; films (hail at
.111 tiM''S be confluent with the courfe- of the laws

~I4F AMU\ lITRATIO4 01 TM! MMUNKI•—
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cal itnpontions, fluid's by the eonfent of Deputies
chofen from the Commune, and approved of by
the Adminiftration of the Department.
THE Jeni c lAL POWER.—This power is to be ex-
ercifed by judges eft.ibliihed and appointed in con-
formity to the principles of the conflitution.
The judges and public accufers belonging to the
fame tribunal, fhall not, at the time of their affu-
ming their fun lions, be relations within the third
degree. None can be admitted to the fituation of a
judge who is not an aflive citizen, and who has not
paged his 25th year. In all criminal proceffes the
definitive fentence given (hall be held null and void
if the crime for which the individual is condemned
is not fully explained in the fentence. The doors
of every court (ball be open at the time when a
fentence is pronounced.—The Tribunals of the
former provinces are to preferve the jurifdi(tion
they now exercife. All perfons ferving in the ar-
my or navy are exempted from this jurifdiftion,
except for civil crimes or faults liable to be judged
of by common law. There is to be a feparate
Tribunal for the trial of the troops in the land and
fea fervice. This court is to be compofed of an
equal number of officers of the land and fea fervice
and lawyers.
TheCOURT OFNATIONAL JUSTICE.—This Court
is to be compofed of nine members, who (hall be
chofen by a deputation of the Legiflative Body,
and the Council of Regency. The members once
chofen are to continue for life, and their office is I
to confift in judging of the high crimes and
mifdemeanours of the Members of the Legifla-
tive Body, of the Regency of State, and all the
other public funCtionaries in the exercife of their
duty. They are to exercife a fpesial jurifdic-
lion over the Courts of Mice, and the Tribu-
nals of the Batavian Republic ; they (hall have the
power of fufpending or of reverting their decifiens,
when in any cafe they are contrary to the laws re-
lative to the adminifiration of Juftice, and the
forms prefcribed by the Conti itution. No defini-
tive fentence can be pronounced without the
prefence of feven members. The Public Accu-
fer, (the Attorney General) in the Court of Na-
tional Juftice, is to be chofen by the Regency of
State from a lift of three perfons formed by the
Court and by the refpeCtive Departmental Admi-
niftration. Befides the ordinary Public Accufer
there are to be conflated with this High Court
Three National Syndics, who are to have the in-
fpeCtion of all Colleges and Offices of Magic-
tracy, the Conftituted National Authorities, the
Department al Affemblies, the DepartmentdTri-
bunals, and a variety of Public FunCtionarics; the
office of this fall order is explained at (fill greater
length, and every thing connected with their duty
is minutely defcribed.
The whole account of the Conftitution concludes
with a copy of the Oath to be exatßed from the
Members of the Legiflative Body, and the Coun-
cil of Regency.—(See the STAR of yylerday.)