The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1804-08-11


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From THE PARIS ARGUS.
REPLY ofths CoNSERy-f7YgE SENATE to
TIE FIRST CONSUL eftbe REPUBLIC.
| CITIZEN FIRST CONSUL,
| You have by memorable mefage iuft re-
piled in a manner worthy ofyou and OF the great
nation which has appointed you its chief to the
withes which the fenate expreiied to you, and to
the folicitudes infpired in it by the love of the
country. You defre, Citizen Firft Conful, to
become acquainted with the whole of the opin;-
on ofthe Senate, concerning thote inftitutions OF
ours which we conceive fhoud be improved, in
order henceforth to fecure the triumph of equa-
\ ity and public liberty and to prefent TO the ma
ton and to the government, the double guaran-
tee of which they are in want.
| The Senate have afTembed together and care
fully compared the refults of the meditatons of
its members, the fruits of their experience, the
effects of the zeal with which they are animated
for the PROPERTY of the people, whole rights
they are appointed to protect.
| Having recalled the paf, examined the pre-
TENT and caft its looks towards the future, it now
prefents to you the with impoied on it by the
fafety of the fate.
The French have conquered liberty they
| with to enjoy repoie after their victory.
| For this glorious repofe they will be indebted
to the hereditary government of Jingle indivi-
dual, who elated above all, invefed with great
power, furrounded by fplendour, glory and ma
ieffy, will defend public liberty, maintain equa-
lity and lower his greatness before the fovereign
will of the people who proclaim him.
1t is this government which the French natl
on wlhed to give itfelf in the happy days of the
year 1889, the recollection of which will be for
ever dear to the friends of the country, whom
the noble enthulafm which the image alone of
this government created, was involuntdrily fha-
red even by thofe whole interefts were hurt by
the revolution, and againft which a perIdiouS
foreigner dared to lift up from afar his parrcide
hands (; ard in which the experience Of ages,
the reafon of ftatefmen, TIE genius of philofo-
ply, and the love OF humanity, infpired the re-
prefentatives whom the nation had chofen.
1t is this government, limited by the law
which the sreatsh genius Of Greece, the mott
velehrateyi OF Rome, ser.I t,ia sr-=at-a n
fatefman of the 18th century, declared to be
the beft of ALL
It's that alone which can put an end 10 dan
gerous rlvalries in country covered with nume-
rouS armies and commanded by great captains.
Hiitory holds it up as an invincible obfacle
to all rafh efforts of bloody anarchy, the VIC.
lence of an audacious tyranny which believed it
fef to be abfolved by ttrength, and to the peril
dious attempts ola defpotifin fill more danger
GUS, which fpreading in darkness its formidable
nets, waited with hypocritica patience for the
moment to throw off the mafk and TO lift up the
ftaff of iron.
1t declares to brave and generous nation,
" You have loft your independence, your liberty
and your name, becaufe You would not re-
&c nounce ele6ting Supreme Chief"
Jtunveils that long fequel of tumults, difTenti-
icixy ,;cL how LII
followed thofe periods when nations elected
new chief; happy when rot condemned to the
fhame fill more infupportable than death, Of re-
ceiving foreign power, conqueror or corruption,
contemplate chief, cowardly, enlaved or
bafely peridious.
1t bids us to regard the city ofthe Cefars the
capital of the world, prey to all the diforders,
crimes and furies, which the gold, the fword,
and the potion of the competitors for the en-
pire could create until IN hereditary power re-
placed monftrous aGemblage of contefed cleo
tions, ludicrous fanGions, uncertain deciions,
unacknowledged adoptions and defpifed accla-
nations.
After the fifteen years which have elapfed
lince the year 1889, after all the catafrophes
which have fucceeded each other, after the NUM-
berleis dangers which have furrounded the foci-
a. body, aud when we iaw tne aoyiS opened into
which they feened refolved to cat it, before the
ldyIouT oil france was reitored to as, what o.
ther government than that Of Jingle individual
regulated by the law for the happinefs Of all, and
| conlided TO family whole deitiny is infeparabe
from that Of the revolution, could protect the
fortune of 70 great number Of citizens become
holders of landed property, which counter re-
voIuton would inatch from them, guarantee the
| heads of Frenchmen who have never ceafed to
be faithful to the fovereign people, and even de-
fend the exitence Of tbole, who mined in the
beginning of our political torments have claimed
and obtained the indulgence Of their country?
! What other egis than that government, can
| forever repel tbOfe execrabe plots, which re-
producing thcmfelves under every form, fetting
every fpring at work, one day overturned and
he next reappearing, might II length ipilh b.
| firing out fortune and 70 which were devoted
tbofe blind zsaots, who in their guilty delerum,
conceive they have means once more to erect for
a family whom the people have profcribed, a
throne competed only of feudal trophies, and
Instruments of fervitude, which the national
| thunder has reduced to dur
What other government in fhort can fore
YER preferve that acquihtion 70 dear to gene
rous nation, thofc palms of genius, and thofs
laurels of victory, which the enemies of France
| would with facrilegous hands fnatch from her
augu0 brow
This hereditary government can only be con-