Star.
London, England, 1803-03-28 00:00:00

By WILLIAM MAYOR,

Vkar of H;iiicy in Beshfhire, Chaplain to the Earl of Dutn-
fries, Author of the &Was Nepos, Natural Hiftory for Schaols,
Univerrtl Hiftore, &c. am _ _ .

This Speiling Dook is an attempt to produce a foundation of
Basil& Learning, equal to the fuperftrudare which has been fo
carefully attended to by writers of the firft eminence. Bilbop
Lowth wrote a very excellent Introduelion to Englilh Gram-
war, but there has not yet appeared ore Introduflion to Read-
ing, tinted to the general and prance( Life of Schools, that
rifrs eeiove the level of the obfolete and vulgar compilations
of Dyche, Dilworth, and Fenring. The editor believes that
this Manual in plan and elecc,ion will be found to he much
better adapted to low the firfl feeds of learning, than any that
has preceded it, and as it wUI tend to facilitate their labours,
he antidpates the kind patronage of Teachers and Parents in
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FRANCE.

TRIBUNATE.—.MARCH as.

Pt lIIIDIN CY OT GAUL r.—Fasa (Jr P Ark).—
" Citizen Tribunes—Yon have long defired that
the annual plan of the law relative to the expences
Mould not be di v;ded and tranfmitted to the Legi-
flvive Body at diflant periods; you cannot in fall
jii lge of the merit of a fy Rem of finances propofed
to be adopted, unlefs the whole is fubmitted to
yea' : and that whole cannot refult from difcon-
ncacii plans relative to Come parts of the receipts,
or the opening of one or many provifional credits,
or the determination of expences already made,
Ilill lefs when you are called upon to fanelion it
by your authority. But, in the midi of a war,
and at the termination of the diforder in which the
Government found the general adminiftration and
the finances, it was impoffible (as the Miniller of
Finance rightly obferves in the account he has jolt
tendered of his adminißration in the loth year,
page rt ), to propofe a budget, founded on any
hills in the kali degree applicable either to the re.
ceipts or the ex per.ces. At prefent (continues this
111inifler) it will be proper to return to the execu-
tion of the conßitutional law, which direas that
the receipts and expences of each %car Ihall be re •
gulated by the Legalative Body. Thus the facred
and unalienable rights which a free people have
always enjoyed, of regulating the public expences,
and of confenting to the public contributions, is
folemnly avowed, and cannot be fuppofed that it
is unfanaioned by the Chief of the Government—
by him who adopts with tranfport every liberal
idea, and who makes it his principal glory to go-
vern a free and generous people.
Independent of the obligation impofed on the
Government by the 45th Article of the Conflitu-
tion. to dire& the receipt: and she event, of the State
eon formaat, to the annual ions which determines she amount
of both, the 47th Article requires that the detailed
accounts of the expenee of each Miniller, figned
and certified by him, (hould be made public.
The one which the Miniller of Finances has laid
before you of the loth year, has been already dif-
painted among you. We are of opinion there
never ezifted any thing more clear, precife, or fa-
tisfaetory ; every thing bears the Ramp Of order
and of regularity, and particularly of the good
faith and loyalty which diffinguifhes that Minifler.
The account of the public treafure has air() been
difiributed 2/71011; you ; and you mull have been
fenfilile, on reading it, how much zeal and con•
ft.ncy is required to reduce to Pimple refults, an
account fo complicated in its nature, and to face
it from every abide.
In giving the greaten publicity to there two ac-
counts, the Government has fent to the Legicla-
tive Body the plain of a law on the finances, under
diflina titles.
-The firfl title is relative to the credits open for
the expences of the fifth, finis, feventh, and eighth
year; the henna relates to the expences of the
ninth year; the third, to the annulling a credit,
become iifelefs, for the tenth year; and the fourth
tastes to the expences of the eleventh year; re-
ferring_to this title, it is fisted that the law of the
anth Floreal, Kith year, had opened to the Go-
v:ri•mtnt, on the produce of the contributions of
t sib year, a credit of soo millions of francs,
for the expences of the firll month of the IA year;
and the Government now propofes to you to open
ar.ntllc r credit of :89,500,000 francs to pay thofe
1. me e s ores: thefe two credits united will amount
to the funs total of 589,500,000 francs; the repar-
Shinn of it is made in the plan of the law among
the different Miniflers, and a more detailed Rate-
ascot of the expences of each of them, drawn up
be order of the Fiarr CONSUL, has been knt to
your le bun rit finances, to facilitate the examina-
tion of the nature of the demands of each. We at
firil demanded how it happened, that a fum of
559,500.000 francs was neceffary to provide for
the expellees of rise s eth year, when the fum of
254477,041 francs, for the ninth year, and
sos.J.i)oo.oosi for the mall year, were deemed fa-
fi,ient to cover the whole of the expences ? But
every difficulty has difappeared by an examination
of the plan of the law, the detailed fiaterneoth
and the account rendered by the Minifier of Ft- '
u-nces."

The czpsnees have ken greater during the
eleventh yea► thin during the ninth year.

an The filed 'spawns at tie Mininifttatinaa,
an .t o.e paints/ eider of all the department •of the

p. • at prelept p 44 out at public er,jurr,
ira4Tift cftitrated at Fra" 13.777051
ad. lit difference wile+ it hat ken ceetfr.try to
pay to the kliniften a( the lottner, tie &want of

the repair of roads, canals, and various other for.
vices, amounts to 140.000.
3d. The Miniiter of Marine in the ninth year hail
91 millions ; in the eleventh year it was found ne-
ceffary to repair in part the enormous loffes we had
fultam• cd in the courfc of the Revolution; it was
neeelfary to re(tore our Colonies, and reduce the
rebels of St. Domingo; there different caufcs have
rendered it eau:lran, for the Government to de-
mand
for the Milliner of Marine a Credit of 126
millions—difference - 350001000

4th. In the ninth year, the War Department -
had a fund of 238 millions, and pan ofbur troops
fulsfifted out of the French territory, and were no
charge on the public treafury. In the eleventh year
the credit of tie Minifter was augmented to five
millions compared with the ninth year,and thepub-
lic treafury fupported nearly tic fame expence on
account of the danger which would have attended
our difarming; we may reckon about thirty-five
millions for the expence of our troops in Piedmont,
Batavia, the Cifalpine, and other Foreign States ;
thus the espenee of the War Minifter, in the
eleventh year, initead of coiling five millions more,
pretence a diminution of - 30,0e0,000

Per Contra - 97,177.151
ith. In the ninth year the public debt, compri-
fing the penfiona, amounted to feve.nty-feven
; in the eleventh year it amounted to
34,023,48 a francs—difference - 7,013.482
In the ninth year the Minißry of Foreign Rela-
tions colt but fix millions, the peace having re.
eftabliffied all our antient relations; this esp.:nee
is railed, for the eleventh year, to (even millions
difference 1,000,0t00

x 05,800,633
Among the articles of expence relating to each
Minifler, we have remarked fix millions for the
expence of the reprefentation at Paris of the Fiat
Conful, the expence and maintenance of the palace
of the Thu;&ries, St. Cloud, and their dependen•
cies, and for his journies.
We find immediately after a fecond charge of
t,a00,000 francs. for the expences of the Second
and Third Confuls, at the rate of 600,000 francs
each, with this obfervation, that the -above expen•
ces are fired permanently during the life of the
Firff Conful, conformably to the Senatus Confulte
of 16th Tbermidor, loth year. In fad, the 53d
Article imports, that the law fixes for the life of
the Firll Conful the (late of the expences of the
Government." _ . _

You will doubtlefs remark with us, CitizenTri-
bunes, how very moderate this eftablifbment is,
and that it bears too little proportion to the Civil
Lift of the ancient Government, which amounted
to more than :5 millions, and that the nation is
fenfibly interefted in furrisunding its 611114dagiarate
with that eclat which belongs to fo elevated a
rank, fince the honour and the glory with which
he is invelled relied upon it, and concur in making
it refpefted abroad.
I will not (peak on the fignal Cervices which the
Firft Conful has rendered to his country. Hiftory
will align to him the rank he ought to occupy in
the eftimation of pofterity, among the great men
who have rendered their age illuftrious. National
gratitude has already railed in the hearts of the
people a temple more glorions than all the monu-
ments which could confecrate it. _ _

The Tribunate will alfo feel the neceffity of
equally furrounding with a certain degree of eclat
the dignity of the Second and Third Confuls,who'
(bare with the Firli Conful the honourable burthen
of the Government; the expence fixed for each
of them, at 600,000 francs, appears to us rather
below, than on a level with the fplendour which
ought neceffatily to attach to the fecond and third
perfons of the State. We will terminate the title
relative to the general expellees of the eleventh year,
by obferving,thAt the expences of the negotiations
are only Rated in the plan of the law, at 9 millions
tor this year, inilead of 32 millions, which they
coil in the 9th year, acd of 13,677,749 francs in
the tenth year.
Your SeEtion therefore thinks that you ought to
approve all the articles of expence in the eleventh
year, and grant to the Government a credit of
:89,500,000 francs, making with that of
300,000,000 francs, open by the law of aoth Flo-
real, tenth year, the total furn of 589,500,000-
francs, which will be fufficient to defray the ex-
pence' of the eleventh year.
The fifth title relates to a Supplementary Credit
granted by the fecond SeBion of the Sth Article'
of the Law of the s tit Floreal, ictlt year. The
firth tide relates to the contributions of the tads
year : the dire& contributions demanded for the
ath year amount to 341,780,651 francs. The
eighth Article relates to the Provifional Creditfor
the 12 th year. The Government demanded that
a credit be opened of 400 millions, on account of
the expences of the different departments of Admi-
nißration, during the 12th year, and to be autho-
riled to take that (um on the produce of the con-
tributions decreed, and on the other public re-
venues of the fame year.
Your Salina of Finance has thought that this
authority cannot be refuted, however coof*derable
the credit demanded may appear, particularly un-
der the circumflances in which it fees a foreign
Power, bound by a folemn treaty, afeaing fears
as to its duration.

The Government will direa the receipts and the
difburfement of the firft months of the tub year,
conformably to the plan of the Law fubmitted to
your examination, unlefs extraordinary circum-
Reacts lbould compel it to make in alteration re-
lative to the credit of the Minifters, but in that
cafe it will fubmit them in the next Seffions to the
approbation of the Legidative Body.
The animalism is compored of the Ilatement of
receipts, and the expences I the receipts of the
irth year are inconteltibly comprifed in the plan
with which we are occupied. The expenees of the
different Minifiers will alfo be found there under
detailed flatesnents ; though applicable only to
the a ith year, they will be the fame next year, un-
tcfs unforefecn and extraordinary eircumltances
fliould occur. Why, therefore, need we infaft upon
the Government nosvprefenting us with an ellirnate
of the expences of the lath year ? Could it give
us an 'lnmate more approximating to the salmi
expenditure than the Ratement of the s ith year,
which we have before our eyes, and conformably
to which it will provifionally dived the expences of
the next year, until the period when it (hall tranf-
mit to the LegifLitiVe Body, a aatement of the
receipts and expences of that fame year, exempt
from every kind of incertitude, Coact it will be

founded on the receipts and dillAtfeMents of the
firft months.
Till that epoch, the Government will direft the
receipts and-ezpences of the t ath year, not arbi-
trarily and according to its will, but conformably
to the law, which will have decreed the contribu-
tions of the tzth year, with regard to what con-
cerns the receipts, and conformably to the reparti-
tion between the Minifters, made for the ; tth year,
bythat fame law. with reference to what concerns
the expences of the firft months of the 12th year.
Your ration is further of opinion, that there
'never has been fubmitted to your examination a
plan of a law on the finances, fo compleat as this
Is, or which was more adapted to infpire con&
fidence, and allure public credit ; it therefore re-
commends it to your adoption.
Corram was heard; he pronounced an opinion
favourable to the plan. The difcullion was doled.
The Tribunate deliberated on the plan. The
adoption of it was voted by a majority of 58
againft z. The fitting role.