Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1825-01-13
TOUCH AND BONAPARTE.
from the Boston Patriot.l

MEssRs. EpIToRs--A work, entitled
the Memoirs of JOSEPH FoUoHE, Due
d'Otrante, has appeared in Paris. 1t
is written, as far as we can Judge, in
coarse and inelegant style, and with
profuse abundance of slovenly revolu-
tionary phrases. Whether genuine or
not, for it purports to be an autobiogra-
phy, it contains some interesting Sc
eret anecdotes of the enginery which
the unprincipled of the revolutionists
played eff upon each other and quite
honestly refers all these maneuvres to
the adage "That those should get who
have the power and those should keep,
who an.''-Thus it is with great sim
plicity stated that to gain the Presidents
seat at the board Of the three Consuls,
BoNApARTE resigned the Consular privy
purse to SIEYEs, +" who fell on it like a
ZION, giving ROGER DUDos, his colleague
an eighth thereof only We have ex-
tracted from farther part Of this work
the account Of the change Of govern
ment to that Of the First Consulship {:
"At last, about the middle of December,
the three consuls and the committee met in
the apartment os Bonaparte. The consulta-
ton began about nine in the evening and last
ed till quite late Danou was chosen secreta-
ry.-&eyes at first uttered not a syllable, but
being pressed with earnestness, he finally gave
in detached portions the theories ofhis differ
ent writings. In an oraculartone, he unrolled
in succession the bases of his favourite consti-
tuition. II was to consist of Tribunal of 100
members to discuss projects of laws, alegisla-
tive corps to pass or reject them by ballot with
out debate, and Senate of members chosen
for life, whose duty should be to watch over
the preservation of the laws and constitutions
ofthe nation. All These bases to which Bona
parte made no positive objection, were success
sively adopted. As to the government or adj
ministration, SIErEs gave it the power of orig
mating projects of law, and to this effect crea-
ted Council of State charged with this duty.
twas well understood that SIKrEs, government
was to end in a point, a sort Of monarchical
termination TO republican foundation, an idea
(Which he had long been fond, Tin the auth
or's French, tune espece de sommite monar-
Clique plantee sur desbasesrepublcanes idee
don't il etait eatiche' dupuis long temps!") and
great curiosity was manifested to see at last
the capital of his constitution. He proposed
a sGrand Eleetor' chosen for life by the Sc
nate, to live at Versailles, representing the
majority majesty y Of the nation, with six
millions salary and three thousand guards
and with no other duty than to nominate two
other consuls Of peace and ,car, Independent in
their separate offices.
The Able then goes on to state, that
this Grand Elector is to be liable to be
"a6sor5edp' BY the Senate by being re
called to its bosom.
"Here Bonapsrte could no longer restrain
himself but rising with burst Of laughter,
he seized the manuscript from the hands ct
Sieyes and cut out (s.sabra'') with one stroke
ofthe pen what he loudly called ''this nom
sensical metaphysics" Sieyes who usually
received objections in sullen silence, could not
help defending the Great Elector, and said
that sRer all q King ought have no more pow
eyf Bonapsrte replied with great vivacity,
taH he teak he saa1sW fss the 6ody. the abuse