Star.
London, England, 1803-02-28 00:00:00

UNIVERSAL HISTORY.

'DIE Aflame Part of Dr. 141AVOR's UNI-
A VL.IthAL HISTORY being now completed In Nine
Volumes, the Public_ arc refpeelfully informed, that the Six mi
/otuart Or TRIS MODERN HISTORY will be pubiltbed OD
Thr FIRST or MARCH, and that a Volume will towline
to be plibllnted on the Firtt Day of every Month, tin the &e-
-rten Voansats, of which the Modern Hißory is to conic t,
are completed.
As the public opinion of the merit and utility of this week
has been molt unequivocally exprelled, by the rapid and ez•
tesfive tale of the Volumes which have appeared, it Is net
deemed ri..eff.ary to expatiate on the claims which Tea Mo-
or an His roav wi l polTefs, to a cootinuaneß of We fame nat-
tering patronage.
- . . .

It Wobviosa: that to all perfnns, to whom thereat Univer-
Cal Hsftory, Ilsty-6a large volouttesodavo, is either too cu-
p:sive or too voluminous*, Di. MAVOIt'S UN( . His
roar, lotwcnty•bve moderate Gaol volumes, muft be a molt
dcfi-able acquif.tion.
The volumcs are fold at s. In fowls; or, upon common
pair. at ;I 941. In bnards; and lin;le volunscs, or complete
Lis, may ha ',id nr all Book( lire..
No jt, Si. l'aurs Usurch-yard, hub. s 3,

TO THE CUROUS IN SHELLS.

TO BE SOLD BY PRIVATE CONTRACT,
AVERY Large and Valuable COLLECTION
of Scarce and BeautifulEHELLS.—Par particulars apply
perfonally, or by litters, poft paid, to Mr. Johns, Bookfcller,
Plke-ftreet, Plymouth.

• SUSSEX.
TO RE SOLD BY AUCEION—By Mr. WELLER,
Oa Wedodday the id of March, between the hours of Five
and Ns In the Evening, at the Swan Inn, (Welcher,
AMall Valuable FREEHOLD ESTATE,
atinprilini a good Farm-boafe, with Oakes and Out-
ether with 354 Acres of rich Arable and Patten
Land, an at South fleeted, Eve miles from Chiebefter, and
whin two miles from thee highly ell/mated Watering ;bee
11301P0e.--pool. may remain on mortpge.
And at the fame time eight rich M • Stmt. at Fhb-
bourne, one mile and a half Welt of C►ieb.Rcr, in the occupa-
tion of Mr. George Collins.
Primed particulars may be bad at the Chapter Colfee-boufe,
Lowden ; at the Oakes of the STAII, Military, Lewes, Win-
chefter, and Portinomb Papen; Seim Hoare, Tanbriego-
Wells Old Ship Tavern, Brighton • Star, Shoreham ; Hanna
Arms, Amadei; Angel, Midboat lßim's Arms, Godalming ;
White Hart, Oulldford ; and of Mr. Wein, at his General
Army Once, Chichefter.

... TO 8E SOLD BY AUCTION-By Mr. WELLER.

On Saturday, the sth of March, between the Hoots of Fi•e
and Six in the Evening, at the Dolphin Inn, Chichdter,
The fog ESTATES :
LOT I. A VERY delirable Leafehohl Enate,called
CROUDER's FARM, In the Pavia of Birdham,
confiding of a Farns-houfe and Out-buildings with 156 Acres
of good Arabic and Palture Land, lying within a Ring Fence,
and let on Leafe to Mr. Cuticid.

LOl' lI.—A Tenement. Barn, Gate Room, Orchard, and
Garden, with is Acres of Arable Land, Moue at Norton;
let on Leafs to Mr. Pledger.
Alfo ty other Lots of Leafehold Iftates, fltitate at Patter
and Wcftergate, in the Parillt of Aldingbounrw ; let on Leak
to Mr.
Particulars may he had at the adiaerat Market Towns ;
Chapter Calfee-houf:, London ; and of Mr. Welk r,at his Ge-
neral Agency °Mee, Chic'refer.

NAVIGABLE CANAL PROPF.ItTY.
RIVER I.EA BONDS. !)cc—MONTHLY SALE.
TO BR SOLD BY AUCTION, by Mr. scorr.

Chi Friday the nth of Marsh, at to o'Cloek, at Garraway's,
HE Staffordthire and Woreederthire Navoga-
A. tioa ; Two Shane in this (wilt-at Coacenh from the
Severn to the Grand : the profits of the laft hail year
were 221. per Share, and ez,Mtad to increate.
The Stotuhridge Cana:. Three Shares, paying tel. sat per
Annum.

The Grand Jundlion and Paddington Canal Original Shares,
Half Skarcs, and ()pitapat Loan.
Alto Shares In the Peak Foreft, Aiken and Oldham, Roch-
dale, Grand turret, and the Chelmer and Elackvram Navi-
gation ; and Five River Lea Bonds of toil cask, bearing 4 pix
Cent. irtcreft.

Particulars at the Swan, at Wolverhampton; Hen and
Chicken., at Birmingham; the Bear, at Reading; the \Vh:tc
Hale, at Uxbridge ; at Hatchet's Hbtel, Picemittly ; at t;ar-
raway's ; and of Mr. Scott, Ludgate-hill. I on.lovi who is
continilliotied to &Igor.. of Shares in Italians Nrd.rarans,
, Eames, Etc. bv Proms Contra&

1 . By order of a °mem! Court holden this day,
RICHARD CORP. Clerk,
ACCOUNT op soascasrriossa.
The Corporation Of Londas as above wool.
Tate Worthlpfal Company of Grocers lost
RightWorenpfol Sirloin John bent, Efq. .. lee
W. Andcrfon Bal. Al- William itobinfusi. Efq, loos
derman, Prefideas 4. too Edward Forger, k fq. lob
IWorikiptul jamn Palmer, Joko_OoLfrvy, Efq. mg
Efq. Trcafurar - -t Brook IFhtfed.Erq. Alder-
!faze Walker, Efq. too OM - ... too
John Walker Efq. - zoo Wilk'. Pitt. Efq. -50
George Gsilwin,Efq. me Lembo+ Ocroolkaiterm
Charles Pathan . zoo a lit , ENigh; Ikgra, . •
Joon Olt/term, Efq. the 'Lord Blthopot in poi
Maud :tare,. zoo,' Sir Roger Nowskiate, Bh std •
John Atkins, - zoo Right Ham Alamoder
Clement roag,Efq zoo Lord ViL Beidport . tea
Thomas Efq zoo %Awl Lea, Ern,
7 Efq, too Willout lithiuy.... wt. Ilt
Arta_, aft -raw-Weli•ayszr.Efn. SO
%Roo Dam Efq.. toe ftOloallsow Timms
job* Brklnrsod. Et* sa3 . istamil Cok.lifq. sou
Hon. Gen. Wm., Hervey zoo ftololOpo.Honikain, SA. sto
' Richard Dodwim Efq. - 102 'fitielles Flower, Er*
Thomas Cale,„ Efq. zoo Albanian
Thaw Edwards Frooka. Jo!" joelakftfq. t;
Efq. - - zoo filirii. Eh. Abloom= AU •
William Wilco:, Ell. so 11,21.22 R022,22(2.114. .
Edmond Wilcox, Efq. so Alderman • ' roll
Samuel Boranquer, Efq. 100 Darla Pike Wales, Efq. VA
John Whims re, Efq. no Robin Prodoos. EN. ' tee •
John Toner, Efq. (flat- Jabs Broadky Wake, RSIF gel
SO W Milan.
Jame zoo
William ingginfon,Efq. zoo Thomas SO
William LI oil;nr, Efq. zoo Rev. Robert Crammer top
J.jullus Anverikein, Efq. aos lam Hawkins Brown,
Franck Wilton, Efq. zoo , Efq. and Rm. J. cRA
John Ands. Rucker, Efq. 200 borne, ant litho 100.
Dm. Henry Rocker, E. 4. zoo &Lue Oslo San. of
Robert Hanley, Efq. so Wan Hawkins, Efq, soca
'Moans Posn:ir, hfq. zoo C. Wrviolin, ha's'. so
Samuel Long, P•q. adalr Wok. Rovrinfm, rot !OD
"One educated In this Hoch Philip Poky tod
Houle" too Ckmast Tudway Jag. zoo
Jam s Hayes, Efq. too Suomi Hoare, Iq. Lam-
Charles TeilEer, Efq. zoo bort-Area soo
Charles Balkh, Efq. aos kin Tray.ws, Efq. zoo
Robert Ladbroke, Ebb zoo -11401,1 Willialsolo, Eft so
;ones Brown, Efq. so Omer Brooks, Zig. zoo
rhomas Courts, Efq. too =Word. ftka. .10
Thomfon Sonar, Efq. too obo Jollah HOW.
~_ll.l- 4o-
Thomas Latham, Efq. ktoo Prrftoo. a-so JO
Robert Deo', Efq. zoo
... .. .. . .

Note.—. All Su.Veripdens are !welted as they ere received;
and the Account may be hafferfted at the Ceentiag Heels el
the Horpital

• TO THE FACULTY.
SMTTH's PATENT AIR-PUMP VAPOUR-BATH.

THIS Apparatus comprehends and combines,
in an emiacnt degree, the parades of perwerfeny foment-
Ina a part, and then removing the rare of the Amitafplreare
from fuch part, or fubjedlog it to the iatlsaue of dm Cuprite
glare ow a Smile more Weaved= bus been before t t of.
The figicac'y of this Appointee bee bees molt
proved by fevers! of the Facsky, sad partlesterty by Dr. Bum.
IioIOUOU, who has writtai a treatite,rothied " Peers sad Os-
iItRVATIONS rtfpretiog the Ufe of the Ala-tUair VAPOUR-
OATS In GOUT, Rilltol3ll TIM* PALSY, and other Dz stases."
Ludy polgiawd, where every particular ettpatiag Itephyfical
pr per*, any he fern.

The objet at the PAT curet V todifpods ot thopirtrikie of
Wing the (Aid Apparatus in manner fuilevring :
tit. ay countio. to PltartlfialltAL GIN I'l.lllEll.
sdly, For individual ufe, within the Simko Ingham! In the
Patent, namely, tb? United 1Clortoons; and,
salip, To be Med besomi the laid limits say.
The Iowa: premium of the ift privikie for the different
Country of England is sczi. a higher premium having tutu
inflated to lonic of th m.

The premium for Individual ofe, Including the price of one
complete apparatus, is now lard at dol. and tbafe Gentians"'
who have already paid sol for the fame are hereby accuuntcd,
that on application tol will be returned to them.
The price of rich Apparatus to be tiled out of the Urdted
Kingdoms only, It 301
Tbe modes of transfer, what counties are already r'll}sofed of,
end all further information refpcning the Apparatus. whkh the
above Publication &menet contain, may ix hoe. .11rn or.",
dew in L. 13, ,r Me Petnetee ; by perf ma! applieabon or litter.
putt pakl,.: No r, Camlrr4sed-fiar,, Neu At .1. d4,74,..4.,
where advice may he had in lid cafes whieb coma ander the in-
fluence of the Apparatus, as the Meares matinee:l above, arid
others cot:rained:a the pub",:ation alluded to, es entwine., eel
rf t;.e r• LT..e. In fhort, it is hum.
bit preform:l • hAt ti.• Apparatus In quit inn, from too
trftionot many ref!.::labfe men fp the profefdo is
worthy the att-L.:qo of rtr.::-Y Mao, and more part .
cutarly of tb,f4, who have ct....didimczis to tow.

TO F.F. :;(31r.D, IN LOTS, in the north of May ::eat,
.:dnor and Lordthip cf LALF' AFL
L ith Court I.eet and Court Baron, a Ferry acrofs the
It v-r s. foreral Nianfion Houfro aild Gardens on the
or C..: r, and about loco Acres at Land, hail
iwo Oird• of the Pariib of Lalelam, in the County of
t, miles \Veit of
P-irt.rulars are preparing, and will be ready to be de::vered
tr. of April, at N:,lrrs. Crahams, Lincoln's lon.

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FR,IA'GE.

PARTS, 3 VRNTOSE, FEBRUARY
ACTS OF THE GOV ERNMEN r.

DECREE 01, THE OMVERNMENT OE TI:f: 11. T

Tic Government of the Ficoublic decreci that a ♦icw of the
prcfctit fituAtioo o. the Republic that, b- carried to tit, I .crif-
lative &.1v by the Melt:Nen of the Gov.:entry:rt. alai allo
that the tame be ttiferted iu tl,e Bulktin of the I.av,

(Signed) IioNAPARTE, Firft Conful,
By Order of the Fir 1: Conful,
(Sighed) 1-1. B. MAR T, ':ecretary of State

VIEW OF THE S rATr OF THE REPUBLIC.

Events have neither frufliated the willies nor
&Lipp iinted the expetitatittns of Government.—
The Legiilative Body, on refuming its lahours,
has the fatisfaCtion of finding the Republic
firengthened by the union ca its Citizens, more
aCtive in its purfuits of induflry, and more conti•
dent in its profpeets of profperity. The execu-
tion of the Concordat, from which the enemies of
public order Rill ventured to conceive criminal
hopes, has alma every where produced the molt
beneficial effeets. The principles of an enlighten-
ed religion, the voice of the fovereign Pontiff, the
firmnefs and perfeverance of Government have
triumphed over every obaacle. Mutual fact fires
have re united the Milliners of Religion ; coliglit •
ened reafon, and cordial unanimity have revived
the Gallican church; and the happieft change'
bas already manifefteditfelf in the public morals.
—Every day produces a more pee-feEt coincidence
of opinion and of fentiment. Childhood is more
docile to the inaruaions of parents, and youth
more fubmiffive to the authority of Magiarares.
The Conleiiprion goes on fmi•othlv in thnfe very
places where the mere name of Confeription was
fufficient ro ftimulate infurrettion, and to •c the
country is now become a duty of religion. In ,!
thole departments which the Firft Conful vifited,
be every where received pledges, and obferved
proofs of a return to thofe principles which confii-
lute the llrength and the happinefs of fociety.—
In the departments of the Eare, the Lower Seine,
the Oile, the inhabitants proudly exult in the lia•
tional glory. They are fenfible to their full extent
of the advantages of equality. They hail wih
blefGligs the reanratinn of peace ; they receive
with bleMngs the re-eaahlifhment of public v••or-
flap. Theft are the ties that bind down every heart
to the (late and the conaitution.

It is the duty of government to cherifh and di-
me there aufpicious difoofitions. Other forms of
worfhip have been regularly organized. Conti(lo-
nics are formed of enlightened Citizens, tried and
acknowledged defenders of public order, of civil
and reli7,- liberty.
Public inflrutlion, that indifpenfil)le fopport of
fociety, is every where fought after se ith eageinefs
and alacrity. Soma, Lyceums have already been
opened: already, as Government had well fore-
feen, a number of private fchools afpire to the
rani of the fecoodary fchools. The whole body
of the Citizens (hew their convitlion that there can
be no happinefs without the light of education ;
that without talents and information there can be
no equality but that of mifery and fervirude. A
military fanol is opened to receive the young de•
fenders of the country. Soldiers, they will learn
to Inprit the life of camps, and endure the fa-
tigiies of war. By long habits of obedience they
will be trained up to the art of commanding, and
they will bring to the armies courage And difcipline
tthiled with talents arid with knowleil:;e. In the
Lyceums, as well as in the Military School, the
youth of the clep.irtniela:, nev.ly incorporated with
the Republic, will live mingled without any WI.
tr.:arta% with the youth of Old France. From
tins conflifi,m of minds and manner e, from this
communication of habits and of difpo;itirms, from
this commixture of interelle, of pro.p.Els, and c f
hypes, wmil tinnig up that fraternity, of
fe.veral nati.ors will make but one people:, de-
(lined by their pornion, by their ct.tirage, and
by vii toes, to form the centre of union, and
the e.:ornkle of Europe.
The National Inilitute, which ha; its afendancy
over pupi:c has received a more ofetoi
dire:hot!. ..nd henctft4ward sera ext.,-r Ttl,lll.
alive iotbiente over the tiaticti‘al di•r.o-aer, t,vt,
the language of cr.ur.try, and over the arts,
fentnees, and literature.
In order to enfi.x: the fh:hility of our infan.
if•ltittintity,, in ord-r to remove from the eyes o
the toiLlic time (pet: e of clifer.rd :mii?earek
to them in the pet i•rd:eal oi to m he
fupreme magifit::ey, the friends of me :ou.mtt
called for the Cnnfulatt for life to be gm:tt:ted t,,
the Fir a Magiltrate. er•ple b.iii;;
enn4mil-ecti atilwercd to their C1),4 a-:.: time fki.:tt,
stillktikroill of
,the people.
refin
FaVo'
°.;'•

the twit of experience, and the force of public
opinion. The organization of the Senate was
incomplete. The National Juilice was left to be
adminiflered by tribunals withoa: harmony, and
without dependance on each other. There was
no authority to proteet or to reform them ; no tie
of rearaitit to fabjeCt them to one common difci-
In fine, there was wanting to France a
power to reclaim jullice itfelf,the power of grant
ing pardon. How often thefe twelve years pall
has that pwer been implored ! How many in.
i,,rtunites have fallen the viehins of an inflexible
ilernnefs, with which wife men reproached our
laws ? How many criminals have been acquitted
through a falfe indulgence, becaufe our punifh-
mrnts were too revere ! _ _

A Senatus Confultuns has reilored to the people
the exercift of thole rights which the Conftituent
Alterably had acknowledged ; hut it has reflortd
:turn furrouaded with precautions, which pre-
ferve the pecple from errors or precipitation in
their choice ; wizlo precautions which guard the
influence of property, and the preponderance ofen-
-I:ghtened talents. Should the &ft magiftracy be-
e urte vacant, the duties and the proceedings of
t::e Senate are traced oat fur loch an emergency ;
fro of certain operation guide the wifdom and
the liberty of their choice ; and the quick decifion
of that choice deprives ambition of the means of
conipiring, and anarchy of the means of deflroy-
ing. The cement of time will every day confoli-
date, m( re and more, this tutelary inflitution. It
se :Übe not only the term of all difyrietudes, and
the obje& of all hopes, hilt likewife the faireft re-
compences that can be held out to public Cervices,
and public vi: tiles. julice embraces all the Tri-
bunals with one common bond. They have each
their lubordinate Ration, and their cenfor—they
are always free is the e sercife of their lantlions.—
Always independent of power, btu never indepen-
dent of the laws.

The privilege of granting pardon, when the in-
terra of the Republic requires it, or when circum-
Rances prefcribe indulgence, is entrufted to the
hands of the Fira Magißrate ; but it is only eon.
tided to him under the guard of jußice itfelf ; lie
is to exert if: it only under the eyes of a Council,
and after having confulted the fee:tett oracles of
the law. If inliitutions may be appreciated by
their effeas, never was any inflirution more impor.
tam in its refult than the organic Senatus Con-
fultum. From that moment the French people
began to confide in their delliny ; property be-
gan to refume its former value, and Ipecnlations
of diftant view to he multiplied—until that mo- j
merit every thing fcemed to float in uncertainty. !
The prefent moment was cherished ; the next was
a fubjeet of alarm, and the enemies of the country
continued to cheriffi hopes. Since that moment
they are reduced to isppotence,-and to deteßation.
The Hand of Elba has been ceded to France ;
that acquifition gives her a mild and indullrious
people—two fine ports, a produaive and precious
mine : but being separated from France, it could
not be intimately united with any of her Depart-
men:s, or fubjefted to the regulations of a com-
mon administration. Principles have been made
to bend to the neceffity of circumflances ; excels.
eons have been eflabliffied for the Ifland of Elba,
which its prifition, and the public intereft preferib-
ed. The abdication of the Sovereign, the will of
the people, and the neceffity of esiiiing circum.
fiances, had placed Piedmont un.ler the power of
France. Am'J,l the nations that furrounded it,
with the elements that compeded its population,
Piedmont was unable to fupport either the weight
of it, own independence, or the expellees of a mo-
narchy. United to France, it will reap the bene.
fits of its fecurity, and its greatnefs; its laborious
an.l enlightened citizens will exert their induliry
and their talents in the borom of the arts, and un.
der the lhade of peace.
Security and tranquillity prevail in the interior
of France. The vigilance of the magiftracy, the
feverity cf jufliee, and a gendarmerie vigoroufly
appointed, and diref,ed by a Commander, grown
grey in the career of aonotti, has every where im-
relied terror on the minds and die attempts of
the brigands. Private intereft has ra:fcd itfelf to
a fentiment of public interefl. Citizens have not
Shrunk from attacking thole whom they formerly
dread:J, even when they were chained down at the
font of the ti 'burials of juftice. Whole Communes
have taLn up arms and dearoyed the brigands.
Foreigners envy the fecurity of oar public roads,
anetlhat public force, which though often invill-
ble, is always prefent, attend on their footfleps, and
watch for their protesion, without any neceflity of
imploring its aid. During the coml.: of a difficult
year, amidli the exigencies of a general fcarcity,
the poor looked with confidence to the care of Go-
vernment. They (imported with courage the pri•
vations which necellity impeded ; and they receiv-
ed with gratitude the fuccours which they were
taught to expcd.
The clime of forgery is no longer encouraged
by the hope of impunity. The zeal of the tribu-
nal; appointed to prtifecute and pundit it, and the
just feverity of the laws, have at length checked
the ptogrefs of an evil which threatened both the
ti calor:, and the fortunes of individuals.
Our cilltivatii-ii daily improves, and defies the
moll boalled agricultural fyitems of Europe. In
r very Depaittrirnt are to be found enlightened
tanners, who i,flord both inlit union and example.
Premiums have been held out fur improving the
breed of :lin ft:s ; and Similar encouragements are
' dinpoied for the improvement of wool by the in-
„l a 101 eign hied of Sheep. Zealous
adminillrators arc every %Oleic occupied in tracing
out and revealing th, richrefs rf our (nil, and in
artferninatin; the plans and the happy re-
fitli s which experience daily ditenvets.
Our maim:A:tures multiply and receive new fpirit
and improvement. IVhale they emula:e etch other,
they will loon, no doulx, become the rivals of the
mint renowrie.l manufactures culintriei•
; knectos iii ti,ere still be niithivg anting to their
it &pet ity bi.t ca;iit ifs left dearly purchaled. But
capitalists Lenai already to y, .e up the havarilous
speculation; of dock, jobbing ; and devote their at-
iention to .It: improvement of land and the ptir-
Cuit of ufeful euterpt i tes. More than. 20,0c.0 work-
nieu, wi) were yilyrf.J throuEliont Europe,

have been recalled by the attention and by the fa-1
veurs of Government, and will rutin be reflored I
to our manufactures. Among our manufactures
there is one which is almoft peculiar to France,
which Colbert kindled up by his genius. It was
buried under the ruins of Lyons : Government
has exerted all its endeavours to extricate it.—
Lyons is again reftorcd to fplendour and opulence;
already do its manufattures impofe a tribute on
the luxury of Europe. Bin the principle of their
fuccefs is to be found in the luxury of France it-
fell ; it is in the changefulnefs of our mile, and the
mutability of our fafhions, that foreign luxury
mull look for its aliment, it is that gives motion
and life to an immenfc population, who, without
that encouragement, mutt lofe itfelf in corruption
and mifery.
There will loon be at Compiegne, there will loon
mire on the confines of La Vendee, a number of
Prytanees, where our youth will be brought up in
habits of induftry, and inftruCted in the mechanical
arts. From that fburce our dock-yards and our
manufactures will one day draw inipeigors to di
re& their labour.
Fourteen millions silting out of the barrier tar,
and ten millions out of the extraordinaries, have
been employed during the year to in improving
the public roads, in keeping up the old communi•
I cations. New communications have alto been
opened. The Simplon, Mount Cenis, and Mount
Genevre, will foon open a triple and eafy accefs
to Italy ; a high road will lead from Genoa to
Marfeilles ; a road is chalked out from St. Efprit
to Gap; another from Rennes to Breit, through
Pontivy. At Pontivy efiablifhments are to be railed
I which will have a powerful influence over the pub-
; lie mind of the Departments of which ci-devant
I Britanny was compared ; a canal will introduce
, into it new fources of commerce and profperity.
On the Banks of the Rhine Irons Bingen to
i Coblentz, a necelfary road is cut through inn-
; cetlible rocks. The neighbouring Communes of
fociate their labours to the factifices of the public
treafury, and the people of the other Bank, who
I ridiculed the folly of the enterprife, are aflonifhed
! and confounded at the rapidity of the execution.
I A great number of workmen are employed on
the Canal of St. t'Zi.iintio. The Canal of Ourcq is
opened, and loon will Paris people enjoy the be-
nefit of its waters, and the falubrity and the em-
bellifhments which they promife. The Canal in-
tended to unite the navigation of the Seine and
I the Soane, of the Danube and the Rhine, is al-
molt entirely finifhed as far as Dole, and the
ipublic treafury already receives in the increafed
I price of wood, to which that canal opens the ap-
Iproach, a rum equal to that which it has furnifh-
ed for the continuance of the work. The canals
of Argues, Mortes, and the Rhone, the draining
of the mulles of the Lower Charente are begun,
and will open up new channels to commerce, and
iafford new lands for cultivation. Works are going
forward for the reparation of the dykes of the ifle
of Cadfand, of Offend, of the Cotes du Nurd, and
the re-ellabliflament of the navigation of our rivers.
This navigation is no longer given up folely to the
labours and the cares of Government. The owners
of boats plying on there rivers have already felt
that it was their patrimony, and they fix on them.
(elves the taxes by which the works are to be kept
in proper repair. On the ocean forts are erecting
to corer the roads of the ifle of Aix, and to pro-
tea the we're's of the Republic. Every where funds
are railed for the reparation and improvement of
our ports. A new bafon and locked flaices will ter-
minate the harbour of Havre, and will form an ex-
cellent port for the commerce of La Manche. A
company of pilots is formed to fecure the fare na-
vigation of the Scheldt, and to free foreign pilots
from the danger to which an unknown navigation
mull ex pore them.
At Antwerp labours are begun, which will have
the drat of refloring to its commerce its ancient
celebrity, and the Government has in contempla-
tion a plan for forming canals to unite the navi-
gation of the Scheldt, the Meufe, and the Rhine,
to give to our Docks thole materials of wood
which grows in our own foil, and to our manufac-
tures a perfection which the manufaeurers of
other countries difpute with us on our own territory.
The iflands of Martinique, Tobago, and Saint
Luck have been reflored to us, with all the ele-
ments of profperity. Guadaloupe reconquered and
pacified, returns to cultivation. Guiana rites from
a long protraEted infancy, and affumcs a flourillsing
appearance.
St. Domingo had fubmitted, and the author of
its troubles was in France. Every thing announced
the return of profperity, but, a cruel malady deli-
vered it up to new mifcries. At length the fcourge
which defolated our army has sealed its ravages.
The forces which now are on the ifland, and thofe
which will fpeedily arrive from our different ports,
guarantee the profpett of Its fpeedy return to peace
and to commercial purfuits.

Velicli are fetting lad for the irks of France and
Rc•union, and for India.

Our maritime commerce is Peeking to renew its
ancient conneaions, to form new relations, and by
thefe efforts it gains new firength. Already hap-
py experience and wife encouragements have re-
ai.imated a fpitit for engaging in the fithery which
was long the patrimony of France. Commercial
expeditions fill more important are formed or
projeCted for the Weft India Colonies, the I& of
Fre.:ce, and the EMI Indies.

Istafeilles refumes in the Mediterranean its an-
cient afcendencyL . .

Chambers of Commerce have Seen rehired in
the cities where they forme.ly lifted. New ones
hare been eitablifhed in thole places, which, by the
event cif their operations and the imprtance of
their maiiiilafiures, have appeared to defy ve them..
In Oleic affa:iations, formed by perfons whole fitu-
atinti entities them to The honour of Lhonflng the
members, the rpiiit, as well as the Icience of com-
merce will revise. There its interells will be de-
veloped, intepArable from the interells tithe State.
The merchant will there learn to place, in pre-
ktence to riches, the confideration which honours li
them, and :).ifore the enjoyments of a vain luxury,
that s. c•c,,norny which fixes the elleem cf his
iilnw-cizizens and the coufidence of !hangers.
licputiss, cholin from the difetent chambers,

v:111 Jiiculs, in the pr.treao n
intcrells of commerce arid twill
laws and regulations which elm

require.
In our forces, by ces and land, init
the love of difcipiine iat feltil ;nay inc.

Relponfibility becomes more rigid in .air ►
corps. An aconotairA Adminiltration
ceeded to the dilapidating of
The foldier, better fed better

Rands ceconomy, and his favings, whit'.}: !I
into the common flock, attach him tt ft:: .

as well as to his
Every branch of our finance& becomes more
oroduftive. colleCtion of direCt
is leis rigorous with regard to the contributors.--
In the year Six it was reckoned that about lift
millions were in the hands of the collectors ed
taxes, and payments were three or four years i❑
arrear. At this moment the fum in the hands of
the CoHeelers is not above three millions, and tht
contributions arc paid even before they are due.
All the rules which have been made, and all the
plans of Adminiaration which have been formed,
give a produce Rill increafing. The rules appli.
cable to the registering of commercial tranfaCtions
is produetive to a degree, which arteas the rapid
m wanents of capital and the multiplicity of bufi-
ncfs which is tranfailed.

In the midit of fo many figns of profperity, the
excels of the dire& contributions is fill made a
ground of complaint.
The Government has learnt from every one
verfed in the principles of taxation, that the fur.
charge confined chiefly in the inequality of the
mode in which the :axes were impofed. Meafuree
have been taken, and are carrying into effel, to
after:2in the real inequalities which exin in the
different departments. In the courfe of the year
12, regular and fimultaneons operations will have
alcertained what is the relation which ought to
exin between the contributions of the different de-
partments, and what in each department is the
rate of the land tax. The moment that a certain
refult has been fixed, the Government will give
orders for thole alterations which junice requires.
But in the mirk of this year, and without waiting
for thofe refults, it will propofe an important dt.
minution in the land tax.

Innovations are Rill propofed in our financial
fyftem; but every change is an evil, if it cannot be
fatisfaCtorily demonftrated that certain advantage
would refult from it. The Government will Cede
from time and from difcuffions, weighed with all
poffible care, the maturity of thefe projefts which
inexperience often hazards ; which they fupport
by thofe park examples, the memory of which
has been aimed effaced from the public mud,
and on the financial doctrines of a nation, which,
by unnatural and exaggerated efforts, has broke
through every meafure of public contribution and
expenditure.
With an increafe of revenue which no one ven-
tured to calculate, extraordinary circum flames hays
led to wants which it was impoffible to forefee,
It was neceffary to reconquer two of our colonies,
and to re-eftablifh in all the power and government
of the mother country. It was neeeffary, by means
fudden and too estcnded to admit of rigid cecono-
my, to procure fubfiftenee for the capital and fe-
veral of the departments. At leall, however, the
fucccfs of the Government has teen equal to its
efforts, and after thefe vail exertions, recourses
remain henceforth to guarantee the capital againit
the return of want, and to dilconeert the projefts
of monopoly.
In the methodized Ratement of the Minifter of
Finance will befound a general view of the annual
contributions and the different blanches of the pub-
lic revenue, what was their amount during the lad
year, what profpeCt of amelioration crafted, whe-
ther, from the mode of adminiftration or the pro-
grefs of public profperity ; what have been in the
different departments of the Miniliry, the elements
of expenditure during the year ten ; what are the
films aill remaining to he paid for that and former
years ; what refources exift to cover them, whe-
ther arifing from outftanding arrears of taxes, or
from the extraordinary funds appropriated to pay
off the debts contracted in there years, and which
have not yet been exhaufted; what is the actual
amount of the public debt ; what Las been its in.
creafe, how it has been diminilhed by natural
castles, and how its extinction has been affelled by
the finking fund.
In the account of the ivtinifter of the Public
Treafury will be feen a Ilatement of the receipts,
the payments of the year ten, what belongs to the
different branches of the revenue, what is charge-
able in each year and on each part of the Admi-
niftration. The united accounts of the two Mini-
tiers will form a complete table of our financial Cr-
tuatinn. a The Government hold up with equal fa-
tisfaftion the picture which it prefents to its friends
and its detractors, to citizens and to foreigners.
After authorizing the ford.= expense of the
year ta, and appropriating the neceffary revenues,
objects of the greateft intereft will occupy the at-
tention of the Legiflative Body. It is neceffary
to introduce a change into our &Rem of coinage.
The cullom•houfe duties mull be reorganifed, fo
as more effeEtually to check the progrefs of con-
traband trade. It is at length effential to give to
France that civil code fo long prnmifed and fo long
czpe'ted. Above all, projea of laws have bern
formed under the obfervation of Government, ar,.t
matured in conferences where commiflions from
the Council of State and the Tribunate we:: urn•
muted only by the love of truth and regard for
the public intereft. The fame fentiments, the
fame principles will guide the deliberation of the
Legilitors, and fecure to the Republic the wit-
darn, and the impartiality of the laws which are
adopted.

On the Continent, every thing offers us pledges
of repute and tranquillity. The Italian Republic
fusee the proceedings at Lyons, has becn daily
Rrengthening itfelf by the more intimate union of
the people of whom it is compofed. The happy
harmony among the authorities by which it is go-
verned, its internal adminillration, its military
farce, Arcady give it the charatler, and the atri-
tud of A Hate long ellablifhed, and if wifdom pre-
fer ye them they guarantee to it a &ditty of unin.