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London, England, 1801-12-03 00:00:00

LEGISLATIVE BODY.

tITTING OT 5 FRIMAIRI (N0V.26.)
The Prescient having announced the arrival of
*a orator of Government, Rottman, Counfellor
of State, charged with prefenting the projed of a
Law, in regard to the Convention concluded be.
tween France and the United States, mounted the
Tribune.

A great many Members demanded that the
Legiflative Body fnotdd form itfelf into a General
Committee. _ _ _

The orator declared that the Government had,
not thought it necetfary to make nfe of this difpo-
fition of the Contlitution. Having therefore read
the Convention concluded on the Sth of Vende-
miaire, year 9, (Sept. 30, t Cot ) bet seen the two
nations, Citizen RORMILEIL fpoke as follows:
" Citizens Legiflators—l'he Treaty which I
have the honour to prefent to the Legiflative Body
has put an end to the mifiniderflanding between
France and America. It is the firti of there which
have dillinguithed the year 9, by the peace of the
world. It is by. candid and liberal Ripulations that
the Government has made Europe fenfible of its
pacific views and its moderation. - It is the firlt
ray that !hone through the tcmpell, as if to illu-
minate di:: loft vidortes of France, to reader them
dearer to the conqueror, and to (often the afped
of them to the conquered." The Orator then pro.
seeded to comment on the different Articles of the
Treaty : "The bales of it," rays he, pare the moll
perfect equality between the two Nations, an esad
reciprocity in all Cafes which were furceptible of it,
great liberality of principles, and a reciprocal af-
furance of treating each other, in eve'', kind of
relation, on the footing of the moil favoured na-
tion. Such ought to be the chameersof a Treaty
concluded between two nations proud of their liber-
ty. The Legiflative Body will find worthy of re-
mesh that article of the treaty which ellablithes
the principle, that the neutrality of the refill con-
ftitutes that of the merchaftdife with which it is
loaded ; and in calling to mind the period when
this treaty was made public in France, it will per-
haps perceive that thisprinciple, eminently liberal,
contributed not a little to revive in the North the
high policy which guided Catherine the Great,
when the placed the flag of each Neutral Power
under the protedion of all the reft, and to caufe
new efforts to be made to found a great and folid
fyltem of maritime neutrality."
When :he Orator concluded, the Legiflative
Body decreed that a copy of the treaty fhould be
trantibitted without delay to the Tribunate by a
nieffage. _ _

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The difettilion of this ohjeti in the Legiflative
Body WAS fixed for the 15th Frimaire, (Dee. 6th,)
and the fitting then rote.
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The order of the day being the prefentatioa of
the projed of the la't• in regard to the treaty con-
cluded between the French Republic and the King,
of the two Sicilies..—The Counfellor of State,
Battles. addreffed the affembly as follows

" Ciiisens Legiilators--1 come in name of the
Government topreent to you the treaty concluded
'at Florence, between the French Republic and his
Majefly the King of the Two Sicilies. I efteem
snyfelf happy in having to lay before this augufk
affembly, nue of thofe memorable aas which paved
the way for the general peace ; that which L have
the honour of fubmitting to your wifdoin, difplays
in a particular manner the moderation and gene-
rofity of the French Government." After the
orator had given an hifiorkal account of the
events which preceded this Treaty, a copy of it
was read, and the Leriflative Body decreed, That
the projeCl of the law refpeding it, together with a
copy of the orator's speech, thould -be forthwith
tranimitttd to the Tr.uunate by a Ideffage.—The
fitting then role.