The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1805-11-15
SENAT-CoNsERvATEUR.

Ext,a9 from The PeGcy Of tie Ssna- oajay0afery Of
Ni0n2ay, 90 Frat7aaSy, ysar S.
The Senat- Coniervateur afIembed to the m,,,her
preieribed by the 18th Art of the contribution az
esd Frimaire, year S.
After having feen the Senatus- Confu,um, redncs,f
to the form Preferibed BIZ the 57t,Art of the 10Th
lhermdor, year 10;
Aher having heard the reaCons of the f4il protect
ahgneby the orators of :he government and tie re-
port OF the fpecial commi(on named during the lef
iono of the 9Th of the preent month, makes the fol-
lowing decree:
Art. hAfter the lIth of next Nivofe IN of
January, 1900 the Gregoran Calendar fhall be IN
troduced into ME throughout the French Empire.
Art. I'd. The prefent Senatus- Concal.ur, Gall be
tranimitted by meffage to his Imperial Majeay
The Preiidcnt and Secretaries
Signed' fRANcoIs'NEUFcHATEAU, Prsiident.
CoLAND & PoKcHEK, Secretaries
Examined and feaed - 80.
the Chancellor of the fenate, Signed, La PLACE.
Reaions of the Senatus. Conultum prelenteJ TO The
Coniervatve Senate during tie fefIion of TIE 5lb
fruetidor, by Mr.. Regnaud (de St. lean d'Angely)
| and Moanier, orators of the government.
Gentlemen,
All the changes, all the reforms, which policy ha,
approved after genius has conceived them; which our
manners have fanaioned after the laws hive CONF.
Grated them; which foreign nations ihall begin h-
envying, and fha ultimately borrow from the Fren.h
nation; are and always fhal be maintained by tia
administration and ftrong!y protected by the govern
ment.
Such is, for example, the etablifhnient of rev
weights and neainres, which the unanimous uni,,;n
ofthe learned the unclsngeabIe foundation Of their
labour, henatureo of misunderstanding vhichis com
to all nations, the advantages Of fcha dvion for
thepurpofes ofcacuation milne the want of unform
~ throughout the empire, and fooner or later the
want of this uniformity throughout the world fnal e.
terpaiy preferve in oPpolon routie, to obfinacy
| and to ignorance.
Blu; amidh thefe establishments ,ybol. usrr,InsC
has been denied, Whole poTibity Of Improvement
has been difpnte6; whole advantages have remained
doubtful there none which mas experienced rreat-
err controversy, oppoftion flubborn than RI.
new Calendar deereed on the 9Th Odober, 1898. and
regulated by the law Of n Frimaire, year 2.
1t was contrived for the p,rpofe of giving to the
French people Calendar purey civil and which not
being confronted by the difciplne of any one feG
could be equally adapted to the whole
Hswever when the frl idea of the Dtr1s diyi-
ion (week OF ter days propofed in the name of
the committee Of public iniiann Of the convention
tos committee Of geonetrcians aud ASTRONOMERS he
longing 20 the academy OF licences dat innovation
was unanimously diiapproved Of and oprofcd By rcs-
ions which it is ufeefs repeat, inec the yifon of
weeks has been already eGabliihed, and free the
oppoiton of the learned, was founded upon the
difficulty and the Inconvenience Of its fupprefiun
This fublhution Of the week in place OF the be-
cade has already eaufed the French Calendar to oC,
one OF its moi common advantages that il 70 fav,
the oenlaut correspondence between the date Of the
month. and that Of tie Decade. IN fac the number
being neither the dvifor Of the number Of DAYS in
the mouth, Of the year, it is impoiFbie in the
French Calendar which in that refps@f reGrrh,es>
all the reh to efablih any convenient r,Ie for finding
the dsy ofthe month by the day Of the week, or III.
day Of the week by that of the month.
Fotw ithlanding dis the advantages which are
yet attached the French Calendar. are not altoo4
ther TO be fpfed the Uniform length Of the month
conAautiy competed Of 80 DAYS; tie feaions which
begin with the mor;s; and the names Of the nion;h
iiniilar in then fira Pounds and exrfciye Of every
ieaiou 80 which II belongs are Gntie and oonvari-
en idess, which would continually give IN the FRENCH
Calendar an ineoneih'le preference oVer the P,msa
Calendar, II both Calendar had been rrOpofed l.s,
day icr The iirit time: what is mere coIree 30
one would dare at the prefedt fime to yroroGe = e
Roman Calendar, had it not rreviouiy heen I'M, :.
duced in'o ufe.
The French Calender exhNits wife and rcpu r.
divhior, founded upon an exsa knowledge Of. t. e