The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1808-03-18


ry; and there shall be a minister secretary
of state.
20. The ministers shall be responsible,
each in their own department, for the exc
cution of the laws, and the mandates of the
king. :,
FL. The council of state shall be composed
OF at least 16 members and of IS at most, APP
pointed by the king, and removable at plea
sure. 1t shall be divided into three sections,
viz. section of justice and the interior, sec
ton of war, section of commerce and f.
nance. .. .~
90. The states of the kingdom shall be
composed of one hundred members, appoint
ed by the colleges of departments, viz. Sc
venty hembers chosen among freeholders,
fifteen among merchants and manufacturers,
and fifteen among the learned and other citi-
zens, who shall have deserved well of the
state.-The members of the state shall re-
ceive no salary.
so. They shall be renewed by one third,
every three years The members whose
term has expired, may be reelected again
Immediately.
81. The president Of state is appointed by
the King.
30. The states shall meet upon the convo-
cation ordered by the king. They cannot be
convoked, prorogued, adjourned or dissolved
but by the king
"a. The territory shall be divided into de-
partments, the departments into districts, &
the districts into cantons, &c.
IS. The departments shall be administer
ed by project.
As. The code of Napoleon shall form the
civil law OF the kingdom of Westphalia,
commencing the LIST January, 1908.
SO. The CONSUMPTION shall be fundamen
tai law of the kingdom of Westphalia.-
L enllstintr for
take place.
81. The foregoing constitution shall be
completed by the regulations of the king
discussed in his state council.
s.. The laws and regulations of public adj
ministration shall be published in the bulle-
tin of the laws, and no other form of publ
cation shall be wanted t. render them obi
gatory.
Given in our palace of Fontainbleau, the
18th day of the month of November'in the
year 1907.
(sisned) NAPOLEON.
BY the Emperor
The Minister Secretary of State
(Signed) HUCHEs b. MARET.if
In our translation of the above constitution
we have omitted to notice such parts of it
as relate merely to local regulations, I'M
interesting III the detail-such as the attr-
bates OF the state council, the interior or
ganlzation of the courts of Justice, the adj
minlstration of the departments, &c.
Further Foreign Intelligence, MA Phila-
deL1thia.
LONDON, Jan. IL
Cen Savary has taken the House of Mr..
irtii, the Master of Police, at Petersburgh,
TOR four years, for which he has paid down
100000 rubles, more than ten thousand
pounds, though Mr.. Irtil is to continue to
live in it himself. AS it is known that Gen
eral Savary is about to return to Paris, and
has no occasion whatever for house at ST.
fetersburgh, this transaction is generally
considered in that capital as a largess, and
when 1t is recollected that this largess is gil
ven by the head of Bonaparte's erTerior Pc
lice to the Chief of the Police in the capital
OF the Russian Empire, it cannot be viewed
as an insignificant occurrence. 1t has been
remarked, also, that Gen. Savary, when he
appeared in public, was unusually liberal in
distributing money among the people :,..
a report has of late been afloat i'll militia
ny circles, that very large expedition will
ere long be fitted out, the destination South
America, to be commanded by Sir John
Moore, with some of our ablest Generals
that Government has determined that the
! stain on the British arms shall be wiped off
4" Hial quarter IL is thonght that cow the
conquest of Spanish America will be both an
easy and more valuable acquisition, from it's
neighborhood to the Brazils.
by the Dublinpap received this morn
ing, we learn, that numerous meeting of
Roman Catholics took place in that CITY. on
Tuesday last, the Earl of Finga in the
chair; when it appeared to be the unanimous
sense, that it would be advisable to have
peution presented i'll the ensuing session of
the imperial Parliament, praying for the re
peal OF the remaining penal laws: and it was
agreed that further meeting should take
place OH the 18th inst. for the purpose of
drawing up the Petition and settling the mode
OF its presentation.
1t is, we think, very probable that circum-
stances occurred during Bonaparte's absence
to render his Immediate return to Paris ne
cessary. The unexpected determination of
the Prince Regent the fear OF seeing the
brazils thrown entirely into our hands the
danger arising from thence to the Spanish
settlements in South America and the con-
sistencc and activity which the intercourse
between our government and the Austrian
Minister at Paris seems to have contributed
to induce him to suspend the important OBJ
Jccts for which he repaired to the shores of
the Adriatic
The official paper contains some sftarb OBJ
servations on the different articles of intel
llgence i'll the English journals. The spirit
OF these is any thing but pacific. The exis-
tence OF any negotiation with our government
is positively contradcted. In this. perhaps.
I hQ Nj pn1t aftV Il.