Alexandria gazette, commercial and political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1812-1817, 1815-06-14

Mr.. ROBINSON remarked that no
unnecessary delay had been occasiened
by the British Commissioners and that
lthe point of fact had the Treaty been
signed almost as soon as the negociatoTs
met, it could not have prevented the
catastrophe at Washington.
Mr.. j. P. GRANT explained.
| The House then divided, when the num-
ibers were
For the Amendment 81 /.
Againstit 129
Adjourned at .half-past Twelve.
LONDON, April 26.
.Netc French Constitution.
We have Just received the Paris pa
Ipers of Sunday last, which contain the
| new Constitution, of which we can now
Ionly give ashort account. The legisla-
tive power resides in the Emperor & two
Chambers. The Chamber of Peersis here
ditary, & the Emperornames,them. Their
number is unlimited. The second Cham
Der is elected by the people, and is to
consist of GEO Members-none to be
under 25 years. The President is ap-
pointed by the Members, but approved of
by the Emperor. Members to be paid at
the rate settled by the Constituent As
|sembly. tits to be renewed for every
flee years. The Emperor may prorogue,
adjourn, or dissolre the House of Re-
representatives.. Sittings to be public.
The Electoral Colleges are maintained.
Land tax and direct taxes to be voted
only for year indirect may be Tor
several years. No levy of men for the
army, nor any exchange of territory, but
by a law. faxes to be proposed by the
Chamber of Representatives. Ministers
to be responsible. Judges to beirremova-
Die. Juries to be established. Right of
petition is establshed-freedom of wor-
|ship-invioability of property.
An instruction is said to have broken
out at Venice, and the Austrian General
been killed.
1t is said the King of Naples was to be
at Than on the 18th.
The papers also contain the frcclama-
|tion of Murat, calling upon the Italians
from the Alps to the strait of Scyla to
assert the independence of their country.
It extols England as Sc that nation which
holds out to all Others the model of ma
tional aud constitutional Government
Some communication is still carried on
between the courts of Paris and Vienna.
'Fhe Messenger from Bonaparte resided
several days at the Hotel OF Talleyrand.
Genoa still continues to be garrisoned
by British and siciian troops.
,Stochs-Red. Aun.. 56--Consols 81
5 per cent-Nayy 36.
its reported at Paris, that Talleyrand
though in the number of those exempted
from the amnesty proclaimed at Lyons,
has made his peace with the Emperor.
Bonaparte is said to have thrown out
an indirect challenge to the Emperor of
Russia, for which the Paris papers affect
to find precedent in the personal quar-
rel of Francis [, and Charles V.
Austrian Declaration respecting Mn
rat.-The Vienna Court Gazette contains
an official paperon the conduct of Murat,
from which we make the following ex-
tract
son tire 5th of March, the news Of
NapoIeon's escape arrived at Naples.
The King Immediately sent for his I'M
perial Maiesty's Ambassador, & declared
to him that he was, and should still re-
main, inyiolably faithful to the system of
the Alliance. He renewed the same de-
claration to the Cabinets of Austria and
England at the same time he sent his
ABIDE Camp Count de Beaufrin out, to
France, with the commission to look for
Bonaparte and to assure him Of his sup
port! Scarcely was the news OF Napo-
Icons entry into Lyons received at Ma
pies, when the King formally declared to
the Court of Rome" that he considered
the cause of Napoleon, as his oacn, and
could now prove to him that it had never
been foreign to him,"-he required at the
same time passage through tie Roman
States for two of his divisions, which, how
ever, far from acting in an hostile manner
should not disturb the Holy Father in his
capital. The Pope protested against this
violation of his territory, and whenit took
place his Holiness left Rome, and repaired
to Florence.
" On the 9th April, the Neapolitan
PIenipotentiaries at Vienna delivered
note to the Cabinet, which, with assu
rance of the most friendly sentiments of