Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1802-10-23

neis which has ever Gnce ex;aei cool,
which ended with the ab1,.t;a.o ,a' and
INTO the conlervative Senate, BY ), ' w5;s,
he was cut off from any further io, ~ winch
asa Pelical agent, in affair, Of the 'rasIsnce
but "a, name, the Fi.a Conful every ,h;~s as
The Pselent Contribution, is tb !, ing
the tolc offspring of the Firi4 ConSs..
ofain' and j. may be obferved, refnea
ing 1t, that he has ihewn in IFS oro,p;, n.y.
ton a total ignorance of every Kind Ha of
Legislative principles, an accuiatioo w;,h
which he has been more than once eh,ra :"
Cd BY mott upright and intelligent m 3,
who have coniidered him as better fitted
to hgure in Camp, than in the more fober
out 'eis ,lluitrious path Of Lawmake,
hmua not, however, be luppoied, ,b,,
the Contribution which we yeAerday
Preiented to our readers, ha. been rnJ
den ebullition from realeis and INNER;
Gus temper. We are warranted in affair
ing that 1t has been the fruit of, at leah
fix qoe<ks vsf Aeditafioa it was kent n
embryo till the votes could be collected
reipeeting his nomination for life, and
when that point was decided (which hi,
bayonets rendered mott cer.sin) it wa,
p0fftd on the kind public, as an evidence
OF the gratitude and 7v/dom Of their mo
dern Solomon.
In our observations upon this fubiea.
we Will not pretend to dilcuis its practical
efficiency on the French people; they ought
to be the beR Judges otits utility and ne
ceility 1ue can only examine it accor.
ding to thole principles to which we have
been habituated from our modes of thinking
and living.
The mott prominent circumstances !.
this novel icheme Of policy is the total de.
reelection OF all thoie articles declata,ory
of the rights and liberties of man, which
heretofore preceded the different conaitu-
lions which the French nation have been
fore<d to receive. Not lyllable is asted
concerning civil or political rights; no
iecurity is offered againf acts of oppreRion
on the part of the government. 1t is true,
thele were proclaimed in all former codes.
though never prstfiied by the govern
ment; confequcntly, in France the cir.
cumfance may be regarded without re-
greet. But in the preienr infance, all
proviGon for the lecurity of the citizen
was unneceGary, becaule, as the Fira
Conlul has declared himlelf TENT from hea.
ven to eaablih liberty, juaice, and equa.
lity, it neceiarily follows, that under
fuch Theocra'ic government no abuies Of
power can poaibly exit. Every thing il
heayenly&jua,i in conformity to his milton.
On this principle, the new contribution
opens with the lowea order of magifracy,
and gradually rites to colofAl heisht,
Whole top is decorated with the Germ.
THAN capital of imperial authority.
Before we proceed to analyfe the fruc.
ture Of this political fyaem, watch NUT
not be denominated free government, Te
feel it Our duty to animaivert on the man
ner and circumstances of its adoption F
The man, who was artfully feletfed to
violate the former contribution, by an &
nouncing the new order Of things, is the
fame perfon, who many years ago, was
the representative of the Legitimate iove- E
reign OF France to the court of the belt
and mott virtuous monarch upon the face
of the earth. This man, who, for many Is
years, was in the confidence of bis love- s
reign, and known TO have lecretly patfo'
nizei the emigrants at Soleure, in swift
erland, where he then rctided as amball'' 81
dor from the French government, VINO
was afterwards sailed to fill the lation OF
chief magifrate of France, who wa
transported as felon to Cayenne, tor tns
benefit of the great nation, and who, a.
Carnot oblerves, in his reply to Ballea.' 81
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