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London, England, 1804-01-30 00:00:00

PRANCE.

IXPOSITION OP Till STATE OP Till REPUBLIC.
• Parfs,ss Vetere amts.)
" The Republic has been forced to change its aid.
Mid*, but has not shared its fiteation. It always
prefaces in the confcioufnefs of its arenrh the pledge
of its praperity. All was calm in the interior of
France, while at the communion* of the lift year
we Iliii entertained the hopes of a durable peace.—
Every thing was tranquil, when a power,
by haltisfy. re-kindled the flames of war. Viet
this laa epoch the union of intereas and of opinion
was mire full and more complete. rebate (pint de-
'eloped itfelf with new energy. In the new De-
=n which the Flea Cenral has vifited, he has
s among the old ones, the accepts of indigna.
Elsa truly Fiends. He has recognised in their hatted.
toss Government which is the enemy of their pint
, mere than in the demontratione of public oy
mid attachment, their ardour of patriot' m,
fund 1r to the intereth of France. In all
the Departments the Dtßnifius of religion hare ex-
erted their influence to confecrate this fpontansous
•difplay of national fpirit. Depots of arms, which
.Ihad Men buried in the earth by the rebel fugitive'.,
to be refumed as faro as an opportunity favourites
• to their dears relented itfelf, were difcovered en
of danger, and delivered up to
the to be pot into the hands of our brave
Alefenders. The Brit& Government will perhaps
attempt to intesidoce, or may already have him- i
doeed,fonse of theft menders which it had eherithed
doriag passe to dearoy the country that gave them
birth 1 but they will no longer find thofe impious
lands who were the loan:meats of their former
crimes. Terror has difanmed them, or jullice has
• purged oar country from thofe traitors. 'They will
no looser find that credulity which they shored. nor
the feeds which tharpeoed tha (words. Experience
bets isansaad all seders. The wawa of the laws,
awl the excelleiscs of their adminiaration, have re.
•easeiled all hearts. Surrounded on all fides by an!
named hue, every where watched by the tribetials.'
Ask odious men will not be able to air ap
we to recommence with impunity their trade of bri-•
thtads and alfans. Abwady has a nsiferable
iilipt been made to excite iaturrestion- The cow'
=were made the pretest for it. But chimes.,
Milers. all vied with each other in their
seal to defend their country. Tbofe who were for-
ges* the authors of commotion. 00",cameto Offer
*air aid to public authority. In their pathos and
la their families„, were the pledges of their fidelity
sad armies. In be. that good will and belief-
. • sent% ethich particularly charaasrhe the fixerity efl
sidles' and tie rears of the facial allielliess,
aleat it more feasibly from day to day. Is all quer-
tees the safortusate are fare of relief, and *feral
are founded. War basset interrupted
till=isf. brace; and the Government has pur-
ism* with analang every marine which can accom-
medals she Cesaitatiaa to the manners and the habits
of the peepleond reader all their intereas and their
hive' fswirjbls to its duration. The Senate has
bees aromintid in that mod* bell faked to its into
Funds for the fappott of its member.=bre; Anted, sad their ellabliaments now give
it as impeing greadear. The Legillative Body will
banmeards appear with the maictiy felted to the ins-
its fusehoss. An annual Prefident daU
rdelesio li
mners of its movements. and the organ of its
&Amenities and withers, in its relations with the
Government. This Body will then ponds that dig-
My which is inconfifient with variable and undefined
forms. In the Electoral Colleges every thing has
born calm, and the wifdoni which guided their elec.
dons is the bee pledge of their happy choice. The
Legion of Honour nails in the higher parts of its
organisation, and in a branch of the elements of
which it is to be compofed. Thefe elements, at pe-
rmit equal, only wait for the ultimate choice of their
functions and their places. How many honourable
traits has the ambition of being admitted into it dir-
tied-eel! What treafures will the Republic have in
this inflitution to encourage and to reward public fu.
vices and virtues. In the Council of State, another
inaitution prepares for the choice of Government
men to be yelled with all the fuperior branches of
admiriaration. There laws and regulations are
formed. There the principles and maxims of public
law are invelligated and difcutred. The Members of
this new infitution. always furrounded with wit
metes and judges, often under the eye of Govern
mote often ensproyed in important millions, will
enter OS their public functions with that maturity of
experience, and with that claim to confidence,
which is derived from a charafter, conduct, and
knowledge fully known to the nation. Lycea and
fccondary reboots are rapidly increafing in all quar-
ters, but fill not situ a rapidity equal to the impa.
tient ardour of citizens. Common regulation, a
common difripline, and a fimilar Ij Rem of inaruc-
tioo will form the minds of thole generations which
will fupport the glory of France by their talents, and
be sailitutions by principles and virtues. One pry.
imagoes alone, the prytancum of St. Cyr, receives
the Children of Citizera who have fallen for their
Country. Education there already glows with mi-
litary enthufiafin. At Fnntainhkait, the Sm. coal
Military School contains feveral hundred (Maws,
who are employed in difcipline and inured to fatigue,
and who acquire with the habits of their profetlon
the knowledge of the military an. The fchnnl of
Compiegne prefints the afpc t of a waft ananufaeory,
wirers coo youths pals from the worklbeip to the
Rudy, and from the Rudy to the workibop. After
the le* of a few nininlis, they execute with the pre
awn of intelligence, work. • .r could not be ob.
tamed after year,. of °retina y %pprehticefhip, and
loon commerce and induar• 'al enjoy the fruit of
their labours and the cares oe the Government.—

Meaty and fortification have a (mamba fehool.
Mediahse and pharmacy have been put under Come
fainter, regulation'. A law has been paged for the
regulation of the duties between mailer and (errant,
and their differences are now adjuded with a celerity
which is effential to their mutual intered, and an im-
partiality which jultice requires. The Civil Code is
finithed, and in the courfe of the legion the projets
of the laws which are to complete it will be fub-
misted to the Legiflative Body. The Judiciary Code
is in a Rate of preparation. The Criminal Code ad-
vances t and thole branches of the Commercial Code
which are moil imperioully called for will fpeedily
be completed. New bridges are conftruaing on
various rivers of the Republic."—The article ees
th to notice the condruflion of roads, the draining
of marffies the Rate of fortifications. and other local
fulqeas. The detailshere could not be interelliog to
our Readers. and therefore we pals on to other rub.
jots of more importance.
The great improvements executed at the different
harbours are next fpecified :—"At Antwerp, in parti-
cular, there have been fuddenly built a military poll.
an arfenal, and Mips of war. The enlargement and
repairs of this ancient harbour are defrayed by two
,andlions roiled by the hie of national domains in the
=tnts of the Scheldt and Deux Nether. At
and Havre, that line of coati which the
enemy will henceforth call " A Coif of trot," the
Vella undertakings are going forward, as well as
at Rochelle, Cette. lidarfedles, Nice, Sec. while the
navigation of the interior is placed under the infpec-
don of prefeas and other Officers. who inceffantly et-
as therafelres for its advantage."
On the fobjea of Finances, the article lays—" The
left year has been favourable to our finances. The re-
ceipts have exceeded the previous calculation. Dire&
contributions have been collated with cafe. The ope-
rations which are to regulate the mode in which taxes'
on landed property are to be collated. go on with
amazing rapidity. Didribution will become invaria-
ble, *awe Wall fee no more of that contia-of bite-
rein which corrupted public joilice and that jealous
rivalry which threatened the deft;ultion of the in-
&try and proilierity of every department. The
Prefab and the Councils General have required that
the fame operation Would extend to all the communes
of their repeats,e departments, with the view of
ellablifhing the bags of proportional contribution.—
A decree of the Government-has authorifed this fyil
tem. which is at once more funple and more econo-
mical. The Sinking Fund executes with fidelity and
contaney its detination. Severe refponfibdity and
inviolable fidelity on the part of thofe who manage
it. define the confidence of the Government. The
new coinage goes on without interruption. The
credit of the country is fopported amid the (hocks of
war and the rumours of the difaffefted. The expen.
cos of the Colonies are defrayed either by direft tranf-
sniffions of money or by operations on the continent
of America." But araidit this vaunted pro(perity it
appears that the Government were alarmed at the
creation in St. Domingo of a mars of bilk to the
moan. of ,zz millions. without any contribution to
the afloat or anticipated wants of the Colony. "Thefe
bills were conveyed by unprincipled men to the Ha-
rannah. Jamaica, and the United States. where they
were delivered at a Blameful inferiority of value, to
people who had furniffied neither money nor rner-
* &audits. Under thefe circundlances the Govern-
ment found it nectffary to suet the coorfe of fuck
an infamous proceeding, and to prevent the nation
from fullaining the lots with which it was threaten-
ed t and for this purpofc an Agent was rent to St.
. Domingo, to afcertain what number of bills had been
iffued, by whole authority, and on what conditions.
6 In Isom eleven millions not in circulation, were an.
nulled, and accounts were obtained of e reit.—
' Mole for which an integral value had been received
were difcbarged with intereft to the day of payment;
i but thofe which were iffued without say real value,
were ‘onfidered as flare, and are to undergo a rigid
I examination."

After a few obfervations on the pacific views of the
French Government, the whole concludes in the fol.
lowing manner ;
µ This then was the moment which the Britifh
Government chofe to alarm its nation, to cover the
Channel with (hips, to infult our commerce by inju-
firms infpations, and our coats and ports, as well as
thofe of our allies, by the prefence of its menacing
forces. If on the t 7th Ventofe of the s ith year, there
exited any extraordinary armament in the ports of
France and Holland ; if a (Ingle preparation was
made in them to which the molt remote fufpicion
could give a flintier interpretation, then we are the
aggrelfors. The maw of the King of England
and his hoflile attitude have been rendered necef-
fary, by a legitimate precaution, and the Englilh
geople had a right to believe that we threatened their
independence, their religion, their conftitution : but
if the affertions of the 'mirage was falfe, if they were
contradiftal by the opinion of Europe, as well as by
the confidence of the &kill% Government, then that
Government have deceived their nation ; they have
deceived it by precipitating it without reflation into
a war, the terrible effefts of which now begin to be
felt in England, and the refults of which,may be de-
cifive of its future deltiny. The aggreffor, however,
ought alone to anfwer for the calamities which aria
humanity. Malta, the caufe of this war, was in the
power of the Englifh ; it remained with France to
arm to effee its independence ; it was France who
Waited in f.lence for the juflice of England, and it
was England who began the war, even without a
declaration. By the difperfion of our fhips and the
confidence of our merchants, our lofies mightfhave
been immenfe ; we forefaw thefe eircomilances, and
we would have fupported them without dilcourage-
ment or weaknefs, but happily they have been leis
than we apprehended. Our (hips of war have re-
turned to European ports; one only excepted, which
had long been employed merely as a tranfport, has
fallen into the hands of the enemy. Of two hun-
dred millions, which the Englifh miters might have
taken from our commerce, more than two thirds
have been prefaced. Our privateers have avenged
thefe toffee by important captures, and they will
complete their revenge by others more important.
Tobago and St. Lucia were defencelds, and were
obliged to furrender to the tirlt force which appear-
ed; but our great colonies axe yet refereed, and the
attacks made againft diens by the enemy have proved
(antlers. Hanover is in our power : ac,sc:r of the
beft troops of the enemy hive laid down their arms
and become prifoners of war. Our cavalry has

been remoubted at the expense of that of the ene-
my; and a poffeffion which was dear to the King of
England, is in our hands, a pledge of that 'unite
which he will be compelled to render to us. On the
teas, Britifh defpotifm daily adds to its ufurpations ;
in the laR war it (truck terror into the neutral na-
tions, by arrogating to itfelf an inimical and revolt-
ing pretenfion of declaring their whole coaß in a
Rate of liege; in the preterit war, it has juR aug-
mented its mollrous code by the pretended right of
blockading rivers and canals.
a If the King of England has (worn to continue
the war till he fall have reduced France to fignfuch
dithonourable treaties as formerly expofed its misfor-
tune and weaklier:, then the war will be long. France
contented in the Treaty of Amiens to moderate con-
ditions ; the will never acknowledge any lets favour-
able—nay more, the will
Britifh Government the right of fulfilling their
Ten-
gagements only as may fun the p Mee calcula-
tions of their ambition, nor the ri tof requiring
farther guarantees than thole whit bad been faith-
fully pledged. But if the Treaty of Amiens has not
been executed, how can we capeß, in regard to a
new one, a faith more holy, or oaths more fasted ?
~ Louifiana is henceforth united to the American
States: in that quarter we Sall referee friends,
whole remembrance of a common origin will always
attach them to our intereß, while favourable com-
mercial relations will unite their profperity witbours.
The United States are indebted to France for their
independence ; they will henceforth owe to us.their
firength and grandeur.
8, Spain remains neutral. Helvetia is re-eßablillied
in her Conliitution, which has feared no change,
but what has been rendered neeeffary by lapfe of
time, and change of opinions. The retreat of our
troops from this country is a proof of its internal
fecurity, and of the end of its difentions. The ancient
Treaties have been renewed, and France has regain-
ed her olden and mon Faithful ally.
ii Peace reigns in Italy ; a divifion of the Army of
the Italian Republic is sit this time croffing France
to encamp with our own on the tea coati. Theft
battalions will there meet with innumerable infiances
of that patience, bravery and heroifm, which dittin-
guifhed their anceßors. The Ottoman Empire, fa.
tinned by intrigues, will gain by the intereß of France
' the fupport of ancient alliances. The tranquillity
given to the Continent by the Treaty of Lynnville,
is fecured.by the lall acts of the Diet of Ratifbon.—
The enlightened interett of gyeat powers; the fidelity
of the French Government in cidtiviting with them
relations of friendfitip ; the jußice, energy, and the
forces of the Republic will guarantee it.
(Signed) eig Bonaratra,
By order of the Firl Cancel '" H. It Massy."
The reading of this article being finithed, the Pre.
fident anfwered the Orators of Government in the
following terms :
• The pad= that has been traced der yea dour WNW 1t...
Hon. Is as encouraging se faithful Conerealiest ars not deative.
the French people. Its deputies, marbled bon kale el she de-
partments, ail acknowledge the ads of Undo& soferrod upon
them. They have fees the very thins lon hoe rioted; eted A
the yokes of Prange are railed, as ft were, In thle deals, In 'OW
sway of the &kik, of what you have hid.
• Mass Cousfellors of State, the Legiflatirc Bay IC poi to
foes Ida into a general committee to Gamine the ice of
the tuella wbkh you have fuhekted to le, sad to enter low a
defibention worthy of k, and of the geuernelos which bus fort
roe
The printing of the Expofition, and of the Prefi.
dent's Anfwer, was called for.—Ordered.
The Counfellors of State, Tesisnaan, Dem-
MON, and GALLI', were introduced. Tesixisenn
(poke as follows :
" Citiseur Legatos, the boat Is one to Wool the sere of
our legitimism. of which the Oaks have been to happily hid in the
murk at the laft Sefton, and we king yea the it Mew of
the ad Book of the civil code. Tide blot elerbs hat hob.
,L. the &Moab° of goods, property, gnaw:l2W habitation,
favittukard (mice'

He then proceeded to explain the fame at length,
and the difcuffion of the projea was fixed for a dif.
tent day.

26 111101111 (JIL 17).
The Cannfellors of State, Porrasis, BULTIIIIII,
and NUT de la Loaere, prefented, in the name of
the Government, the Second Article of the Second
Book of the Civil Code, entitled—Concerning Pro-
..

perty—on which occalion POILTALIS delivered a
fpeech of great length. Citizen 131ITHIIR then read
the projed of laws on the above fubjeft.

28 NIVOill (JAN. 19.)
The Counfellors of State GALLY, TRIILHAID, and
BERIINGSR' prefented the Third Article of the Se-
cond Book of the Civil Code, entitled—Concerains

[Hari" the are and occupation of Property.—Ci•
then GALLY read the project of laws on this head.
after developing. in a long fpeech, the motives on
which they were grounded. • ,