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FRANCE.
TR1nuSATE, 10 FLoREAI, April 80.

Eabre de IsAude, PreSldent.--hiteit lily
minutes Of the last sitting had been read,
and approved, the president addressed the
assembly as follows:
son the SD ofthis month oar colleague
Curee, laid or the 1shle a morioa Of order,
IN wir.et he demanded, Isl. That the 60
vernnent Of the republic shall be coafded
an Emperor. I'd. That the Empire shall
be hereditary in the family of Napoleon
Bonaparte, now First Consul. Sd. That
such Of our institutions as are only traced
out, shall be definitely suppressed
Curee then said, s Citizens, Colleagues,
appear in this assembly to cali your at
tention to weighsy objects in which the
nation is highly interested. In a matter
0f so much Importance, it is necessary that
you should grant me that attention and in
diligence which the purity ofmy patriotism
gives me reason to hope; for the success &
duration Of every political system depends
on the stability Of the government, which
forms at IL were the centre of it where eve
~ thing terminates. This principleis in-
contestiblc for all times and circumstances
but It's application becomes a necessity
still more incontestible, when in conse-
quence of great changes having produced,
and developed an order Of things which fix
es under new points of view the destiny
of the people. it can be evidently proved
that these political changes are sanctioned
for ages, and the maintenance of the grand
results they have left behind them are Sc
cured for ever, by bringing back and re-es-
tablishing, in certain authentic heredita-
ry course of succession, the government
Incorporated with thesegreat results, and
which is connected IN as intimate manner
with them as the trunk Of tree is with its
roots.
The Speaker then called the atten-
ton of the tribunes to the memorable
epoch of the revolution, when the French
according to his blasphemous express
stony "with an unanimous will and voice
as powerful as that of the Creator the
first day of the existanbe of the universe,
exclaimed, let equality be established,
let privileges disappear, and let the ma
ton be whatit ought to be y He then
took view Of the government of Charlie
nlagne, and the abuses introduced into
France after that glorious epoch when one
Of the most powerful families CT the fadal
system was called to the sovereignty. He
then adverted to the year 1899, when the
French people, he said committed the great
fault Of leaving the supreme power in TIE
hands ola family essentially feudal. Louis
XVI. king Of France, would never conde~
scend to be king of the French. Being
born q sovereign he could never consent
to become magistrate. Having then
made some observations on the Constitu-
ent Assembly, the constitution of 1871 and
the state of things since that period, he OBJ
served that the happy situation Of the
French people, who were now in the full
possession OF ali the rights which were the
object Of the revolution in 1889, was dis
turbed only by uncertainty in regard to the
future. 8. The eneiaies Of our country
said he, are alarmed at our prosperity, as
they are atour glory. Their plots have been
multiplied, and one might say that instead
Of awhole nation, tkeyhad only to -censoat
one man. Him they have attempted to
strike IN order to effect MS destruction, be-
ING well assured that France in m ourning
for theloss it would that DAY Sustain, for
the great man who organised it, and the
chief by whom It is governed, divided by
ambitious rivals and torn by parties would
sink anids: the storms let loose against it
in every directisn-W What security can we
give it against the fear of so many misfor-
tunes? What remedies can we oppose to
SO many evils Opinion Of the armies and
the whole people have pronounced it. He
reditary succession ina family, rendered il
i,1strioss nv the re,,oI,tion consAcr,4sd