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London, England, 1802-06-30 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PARIS, JUNE 16.
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The Confids, by a Decree of the aid, have
fired the poftage of Foreign Letters
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Letters and ‘Pariets for Cireatßritain and Irelandorelybing
leis than 6 grammes (abaft half an onnee)a.Frotn Paris to
Calais, r decline (td.)..-From Calais to Dover, s (sd.)
And proportionably for Letters and Packets wet=
atnmes and upwards,. accord* to the preireflies
by the Law of the 4th of May Wt.
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Letters from other parts qf the Repablisfor Great Britain
and Ireland, weighing ids than flz grammes, to M 1 she fob&
pane to Calais as other Letters. horn Calais to Dover two
declines, and proportionably for Packet' weighing above Ia
groans', steording to the Law of the 4th of May. •

Letters vatighloilefs than 6 grammes. coating Irons Gnat
13ritaln and Ireland to Calais; to pay 6 declines (ad.) including
dechues (sd.) for the paffage from Dover to Glatt. Letters
and Packets weighing fix grammes and upwards.to pay accord!
ing to the. Law of the 4th of May.

Letters and Packets coming from England to Cab* in DK-
patches to be expedited to other plans, to pay the pottage due
at Calais, over and above the pottage frees Calais to.tbe place
of their addrefs.

Letters and Packets from Great Brits* foe Paris. Rcu,
Havre, Dieppe, sad other intermediate plows, allay is
times (is.) including the pairage by fea, provided they weigh
leis than 6 grammes. Thole above that weight, to pay ageord.
log to the Law of the 4th of May.

Letters and Packets contained in Britt& Difpatches for Pa-
ris, and to be eeptdited from thence to another deftioation, to
pay the pottage from Great Britain to Paris, over and :limn
that from Paris to the place of their deltinatioo.

PRIVATE LETTERS, PARIS, JUNE t6._

40 It is three months iince• I already informed
you of an intended change of Government. This
teems now to be decided; fo far as relates to the
Conful himfelf. The publicias and lawyers fay
it is abfolutely neceifiry to have only one Conful,
becaufe the appeal to the People „fast it Vegeta
vier' fays nothing about firit Conful, it therefore
might lead to quibbles and chicaneryof the fattious
aliar the anti-Bonapartills ; thus have 'they ac•
counted for their with to chativ again their Con-
(ligation. Cambaceres is to bigkarcellor of State,
and. Lebrun Comptroller or Direllor General of
Penances. Whether there is to be one Chamber
or twenty, or Tribunate. Or any thing. is of little
cemfequence; Bonaparte is the man. that rules, and
will sole himfelf as long as he liver—took gal miss
The Ccmfervative Senate have this long time pail
ilMolt given up their funefons, efpecially after
that groTs violation of the Conititution by a decree
of the Government for an appeal to the people
without obtaii.ing a Salaam Collodium. The prim
cipal members of that body have, or ate about,
:to abfent themfelves. namely Sieyes; 'who is gone
to Bagtieres in the Pyrennees ; Volney isigoing to
'England; Mange to his own country; Le Cool.
tens 'to the Belgique ; and Lanii!ittais' *to hrs•
tountry-houfe: 'Tliefe (with the old Admiral
Pleville.le•Peley, who is, firm and nearly blind)
, have of late formed the minority in the Senate,
and it teems they do not with to fign their own
,difgrace. Sieyes was the left man who could have
fuppofed that the revolution of the t Bth Brumaire,
a bantling of his own creating. ibould have he-
roine fo refraaory. A gentleman was obferving
' to him about the revolution of the 18th Brumaire,
...that it was an edifice of his own railing, “ Trai,
(tars Sieyes), Asa din was a wait? -aanagli the
imorifists !I" - •

4* La Fayette has, written a letter to' Bonaparte
on the fubjee of his being Conful for life. in
which he lays, that "he has his vote provided he
retlores to the People of France the rights of Ci-
tizens and the Liberty of the Prefs." Bonaparte
ket skit vittbal mirage, faying—es TM

etweral La Payette F wort to do that which he ,u
Nokia, he nor l would be in France three monahr."--
lhe French Revolution produces firange phew,.
Alma : oqe is Camille Jourdan writing alfo in fa-
vour of the liberty of the Firers. This man has
made a bugle in the political world within there
three days. He has been writing a book, lam
told, in a very able manner, in which he calls upon
the Firlt Conful to declare his intentions with re.
gard to the laws, jurifprudence, and conaittition.
He wants him to give the liberty of the prefs,
hut at the fame time laws made to define what .
is libel. further willies the judgment of the
Tribunal of Caltetion to be decifive, whereas now
they can be annulled by the Council of State, with,
out any caufe (hewn or parties heard, &c. When
the prefs was juts going to work, the Police Offi.
cers entered die Printer's houfe, with an order
from the Prefect of Police, Dubois, to arreft au.
thor, printer, and every perfon concerned is it.--
The author was not Kermit, but a young man of
the name of Duchefne, fon of a Tribune of that
name, who attended the prefs for Camille, was
apprehended, and fent to prifon. This came to
the ears of the Prefident of the Tribunate, Adet,
who, as Prefident, has a right to reclaim any of
their colleagues, as well as any perfon arbitrarily
arrefted. M. Adct went to the Prefeet, firft, to
get the young Duchefne liberated, which was ins.
mediately complied with • alfo 'the printer. In'
the courfe of the converfatiun he had with the
Praia, he faid he was furprifed that the work
was fuppreffed, asthere was n.ithing harfli. "Why,
(lays the Prefect), be wants to give the fame mfr.
quence and power to the *Tribunal: which the Parliament
of Paris formerly had." Thus it is admitted that
there was more liberty in France in 1788 than is
tfio2.
There is not a man even in the Government,
although he holds a place under that very Govern-
ment, who does not fay, " mere mallonarent rendi-
tion ;" and what they had done formerly was,
• d:nu le tans d'Exaltation." What ! men who.
had attained their years of maturity than talk af.
their follies ? This is a phrsfe well fuited for a
fchool.boy. As an illuftration of what I have
jolt advanced, I will give Ton. the following me.
dote : A few weeks fince Bonaparte was on a vifit
to Girardin, a Tribune, a ei.drease Marquis, at his
feat, called Hermoneville, where Routeau lived
many years as tutor of the prefent M. Girardis
when a youth. Girardin thought it highly gratify.
ing to Bonaparte to thew him the room Ronan
inhabited ; however, inftead of being pleated, he
turned away from it, and Paid, with a froWn.
" Take me from this place ; the name of Rout.
(eau is dreadful to me ; to his anti-focial Cynics
and falfe philofophy we mull attribute all the hors
Ism of our country, and it is owing to hint that
we are where we are!"
46 It feems that many ails of the First Conful arc
intended to produce popularity,efpecially in foreign
countries; by the return of the Emigrants he
thought he would obtain a !till greater (hare; but
how are they treated? Thofe men, it teems, ,repo
have .a•thiag to cape& from the Government are al.
lowed to return, and thofe whore Property Aw 4
Ares fequeftered are not to return, becaufe their pro.
perty not being fold, they last a right to it, except
houfes in the ufe of the. Government. I can tell
you t cafe in 'point. The ci•ikoard Count de
who is now in• London, cannot get
himfelf erafed from the lift of Emigrants. Why?
becaufe his property is in St. Domingo, and art
hid I confequently, if he is allowed to return,lwe
can elains 'lle Counters, his lady, a mot
ahiiable woman! after having made applications
out of number in behalf of her hu(band, is now
going hack to London, without fucceeding. •
" There is ter-be a grand fete here on the 5011:
a Chief, of every Brigade is ordered to attend,
and all the heroes and Mayors throughout the
Republic.
" The Ruffian Miniffer has prefented a note is
the name of his Emperor, in behalf of the Dr
chefs of Orleans, requelting Bonaparte to rellore
her tome part of her property. This will not be
complied with.
" I mentioned Tome time fince that bison-,
was gaining ground in France. Several mil•
trefres of peaftwa (boarding fchools) have objea•
ed to taking in English children, beanie they way
ProtOcutte ! But you may Ale what fort of Eng.
lith would at prefent fend their children to Francs
for education?
" General Moreau, who'is on a hunting party at
Newilly, the feat of Lucien Bonaparte, had nevi,
been killed by a wolf, who afready had his teeth
in the hero's coat, but he was immediately killed
by Lucien."
•NOTNEI LETTER, SAM DATE.
The abfence of Madame Bosararra, who is
gone to take the waters of Plomdieres, has, within
thefe two days, produced a variety of firange re.
ports. It is aliened in every quarter, not only that•
her abfence is not occafioned by ill health, but that
it is the prelude to .a final reparation from her
band. It is added, that after having divorced hit
wife, which, by the exiting law, he may do with
all facility, Bowararri means to have himfelf
appointed .Conperor of the Gault! and to many a
Foreign Printers, whom every body names at
will, an the hope of having a fueeelfor ! You will
agree with me in regarding thofe rumours as es-
travagant and ablurd ; but you would witnefi
with at leaf! an equal degree of furprize, the mats.
nor 'in which they are generally received. The
mention of the Imperial Purple feems to flatter the
national vanity ; and as to the idea of hereditary
power, it appears to me that the people are fo tick
of revolutionary (hocks. that they would readily
lend their Oita to any meafure which had for its
tendency to remove the apprehenflon of civil war,
and to guarantee them againft new convullions.
What is more certain than thefe rumours and
fptculatiOns is, that the Firft Conful has lately un•
dergone an operation for a Allula. It was perform-
ed by the celebrated Chiturgeon BOYER, and va:
attended with the molt complete (tweet's. This .
a eircumftance not generally known ; but his Fir.•
rate friends, Come of whom mentioned it to tint
have been to felicitate him on a cireumftance
which enfures his health, and lengthens his Po'
frftive of longevity.