Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1802-11-05
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SC Many who have even fuhered mate
rally by the revolution, not choofng thar
the nation ,fhould retrogade, are highly
aiiIatished with tie ccniullhip for life,
AMI the recent changes 10 what is called
the contribution. La Faye,te, when he
wen, 10 give his vote, wrote kind OF
yrotef, the purport OF which is IS follows
{ Popular Representation and tbe liberty
gsbe prxl beng Glpeaaed, leaanos giies
vof< on tbs qasHion aOere t6e/s pri.
Dikges rsfored,s I qvsula vste, and it
l6ould BE- far B0uatarte.' When this
was mentioned to the frf conful, he is re-
ported TO have faid. Tell La Fayetle
that ifthe liberty Of the prefs was reitoTea,
neither he noE | would be three months IN
France
" The frlf conful profeaes great ref
peel for the voice Of the majority OF the
people. 1t was becaufe thar voice was
in its favour, that, according to himfelf
he determine upon the re efab!ihmeLt OF
religion. Arguing with Voloey, who
did not 70 itrongly feel the neceiiisy OF
this uaeaiare, he faid I am for the large
battalions the majority Of the French
people with fos religion, and they ihall
have ONE The majority of the French
people with for Louis XVIII,' replied
Volney. This obGerva,ion, was not We
ry agreeable, and Volney is no longer in
favour. The majority Of the French
people, it is very certain, with for popu-
lar representation, and the liberty Of the
prefs. But the seHorstion of shefe priyi-
leges would nor be attended with the ap-
pointment of Archbilhops, Blhops, and
Priets, TO Rrengthen the hands of the 60
vernment. On this queGlon it is proba-
bic the frG conful, will be difpoied TO tidc
with the /maN danaL!ions.
But julfice requires that we fhould
declare the body of the French people in
noceent OF iheG pretenGons, and alhamed
of the fate into which the nation has again
fallen. They are fsnfbls tina, they have
been betrayed into the facrihce Of their
Liberties, by too great An enlhaiiaim for
Bonapartc on the one hand, and a horror
of anarchy on the other.
{" The daily addrefes Of the Msxitear,
which will be handed down as NONE
meat of unparalleled Gcryility to future
ages, CANNOT be confiicred as the voice of
the French people. They proceed from
the continued authorities, and the army
only. All the (hare which the people
have in the .raniattions conducted in their
name, is tlent acquiefcerce. They have
no channel left thro' which to utter an op-
poGng voice. Every book which appears
written in ienle contrary to that of the
government, is imu.ed iassly feized by the
Police.
The delerium of ambition feems to have
acquired its height. Almoa every mea-
fure for long time paa has announced
ghis truth. But if the meafure of convic-
zion were not full, look at the confulate
Tor life, and the new contribution. Of
all the articles which diainguilh this vi
fionary contribution, that which gives the
tira conful the power of life and death,
for that OF pardoning is nothing leis,) is
the mott complete anti-republican. In
order to bring the exerciie Of this power,
and the power itfelf, into reputation, we
are ihortly to have an exhibition, in which
a number of young men convicted Of the
crime Of Cbaaanne,e are to receive par
dons. Fos this purpole, an application
is already made to the Arlt coniuI, by the
judges of the criminal tribunal of Rouen,
who condemned them. Oae of the judges
anigns as motive Of pardon, that one Of
the young men had Aved his life during
the tine Of terror.''
Z O N d O N.
The prohibition of goods beiag imported into
France by way of traniit Is of Ureater confa.