on better terms; exprefs ferious doubts of its continuance; and dread the leaft agpearance of jealousy towards an enemy, infolent at all times in power, and aggrandifed by our conceffions. This was not the language or the practice of our ancestors. But we muft fubmit to the new order of things, which we cannot controul! Let it be further recollected, that in this concurrence of fentimert, the motives and reafoning of the parties are far from the fame: the one fubmits to the Peace, because it is the act of Government which they dare not offend by their oppofition, and because they fancy it may prove a letfer evil than the continuance of war: the other, clamorous against the war, even before we were engaged in it, and during the whole time of its continuance, receives the Peace with a fullen acquiefcence, diffatisfied, in both intances, with any meafare which might furnish a chance to their country of curbing the exorbitant pretenfions, and dangerous intrigues of France. In regard to the hoftility which has been pointed against myself, this is the short hiftory of it: my fuccefs in the year 1790 was never forgiven by one branch of the prefent coalition, nor remembered either with gratitude or approbation by the other, from the moment when I was found not to be a tool fuited to their purpofes. The dormant fpleen of 12 years concealment, rankling in the breaft of difappointed ambition, was to be brought into activity whenever the occafion fhould occur, and all objections of inconsistency were loft in the delightful contemplation of a fweet revenge, fanctifed by that truly orthodox article in the creed of Jefuits and Jacobins, that "Any means may be used to obtain a favourite end." Influence of various kinds has been practifed in many Elections before the prefent; and whatever is common, ceafes to be noticed. But are there no extraordinary features in the present tranfa&tion? If the confcience of any man tells him that he has forfeited his promife, folemnly pledged to me, he muft find fome better palliation of his conduct, than the miferable plea, "That be bas no will of his own.” But what fhall be faid for the liberality and virtuous feelings of thofe, who can find a gratification in requiring the facrifice of friendship and of honour, at the shrine of their inordinate ambition ? I have abftained from faying any thing of the Hon. Gentleman who has been oppofed to me. It is fufficient that you have made him the object of your choice. But it is fair to obferve, that, hitherto, his habits have not been thofe of a man of bufinefs; and, if you have rejected me from a difapprobation of my conduct, (though that is far from proved,) it will be recollected that you have adopted him, without any experience of his talents, or knowledge of his principles. In one particular he will find himself under difficulty: his free and independent mind will revolt at the instructions which he will receive from one part of his constituents, while his wifhes and connec tions may lead him forcibly to adopt the fentiments of the other. In this he will find fome embaraffment ; an embaraffment neceffarily arifing from the ftrangely mixed interefts by which he has been fupported. From this distress nothing can relieve him, but the manly adoption of that found principle of the Conftitution, "That the fervice of a Member of Parliameni, is a fervice of perfeet freedom," fubject only to that refponfibility, which is impofed by the recurrence of a new election, on occafions like the present. Au attempt has been made to confound my conduct in the year 1790, with that which has been purfued by my prefent opponent. But I can refer to the memory of you all, and in particular to Mr. Hale, that no two cafes were ever more diffimilar. In the year 1790, on the very morning of the Diffolution, I expreffed to Mr. Hale my decided difapprobation of the manner in which he was introduced to the county, and my fanguine hope that there would be found a proper fpirit in the Freeholders to refent it. This I repeated more emphatically at the nomination, in the form of refolutions, which the meeting adopted, and declared me a Candidate at the fame time. This was five days before the election. Mr. Lambe, on the contrary, abfents himself from the nomination, where Mr. Plumer and myfelf were unanimously approved of, not announcing himself a Candidate till the day before the Election. Reports are in circulation, (I know not how founded), that the new allies already begin to feel fome jealousy and uneasiness in their prefent connexion. How, indeed, can it be otherwife? Or when was it ever known that leagues engaged in without fome common and honeft bond of union, were of long continuance, or productive of any public good. Unjuftifiable in their motives from the beginning, they can hardly fail to end in mutual difappointment. Far be it from me, to fay any thing which can widen the breach between them. But the pride of the Republicans will furely be mortified, when they find, on an inspection of the Poll, that in the fix Hundreds where their itrength was fuppofed principally to lie, their Candidate was compleatly beaten: and that they owe their majority, in the other two, merely to the coalton, which both being ashamed of, affect to deny, and to a fecret canvafs actu lly carried on by the Courtiers, and not explained, till it was found convenient for them to unite in oppofi g me. By the decifion of this day you have indeed, Gentlemen, contracted very much the the sphere of my public duties: but I have others yet to perform; and I can affure you with truth, that, under no circumstance or change of fituation, will you find me lefs disposed, than I have hitherto conftantly been, to attend to your concerns as a Magiftrate, a neighbour, and a friend should be ashamed of myself, if I could feel refentment ag inft any man for what has paffed, or if fuch events as thefe could "Stir the conflant mood of my calm thoughts, "Or put them into misbecoming plight." I retire to the walks of private life, I truft, with the regard and approbation of ABSTRACT OF FRANCE. the virtuous and the good, there to enjoy I remain with all due refpe, Gentlemen, FOREIGN Paris, Auguft 4. The audience of the Corps Diplomatique yesterday was interrupted by the introduction of the Confervative Senate. Citizen Barthelemy, the Prefident, fpoke as follows: The "Citizen First Conful,-The French, grateful for the immenfe fervices you have rendered to them, with that the first Magiftracy of the State fhould be irrevocably placed in your hands. In thus conferring it upon you for life, they only express the opinion of the Senate, as ftated in its Senatus Confultum of the 8th of May. The nation, by this folemn act of gratitude, confides to you the task of consolidating our institutions. A new career commences for the First Confol. After prodigies of valour and military talents, he has terminated the war, and obtained everywhere the most honourable conditions of peace. French people, under his aufpices, have affumed the attitude and character of true greatnefs. He is the pacificator of nations, and the restorer of France. His name alone is a tower of strength. Already an administration of less than three years has almost made us forge that epoch of anarchy and calamities which feemed to have dried up the fources of public profperity.' But evils yet remain to be healed, and inquietudes to be diffipated. The French people, after having aftonifhed the world by warl ke exploits, expect of you, Citizen First Conful, all the benefits of that peace which you have procured for them. If feeds of difcord ftill exist, the Proclamation of the Perpetual Confulate of Bonaparte will diffipate them. Every one will now rally around him. His powerful genus will fupport and preferve ail. He exifts only for the profperny and the happiness of the French people. His conftant efforts will be directed to increafe the national glory and national greatness. What nation, in fact, better deferves happiness, and of what people more enlightened, or more fenfible, can he defire the eiteem and attachment? The Confervative Senate will af GENT. MAG. Augufl, 1802. JO OCCURRENCES. fociate itself with all the generous maxims of government-it will fecond, by all the means in its power, every amelioration which fhall have for its end the prevention of the return of thofe evils by which we have been fo long afflicted, and the extenfion and confolidation of thofe benefits which you have conferred upon us. It is its duty alfo to contribute to the accomplishment of the wishes of the people, which have been manifefted in`a manner fo honourable to their zeal and their difcernment. The Senatus Confultum, which the Senate in a body now prefent to you, Citizen First Conful, contains the expreffion of its own gratitude. The organ of the Sovereign Will, it was of opinion, could not better fulfil the intentions of the French people, than by calling in the aid of the Arts to perpetuate the remembrance of this memorable event." After this Addrefs, Citizen Barthelemy, the Prefident, read the act, of which the following is the tenor: SENATUS CONSULTUM. Extract from the Regifters of the CONSERVA- The Confervative Senate, confifting of the number of members prefcribed by the goth article of the Conftitution, deliberating upon the meffage of the Confuls of the Republick of the 29th uk. after having heard the report of the Special Committee, charged with the verification of the regifters of the votes given by the French people, feeing the Proces Verbal prepared by the Special Committee, and which states, that 3,577,259 citizens have given their fuffrages, and that 3,568,185 citizens have voted, that Napoleon Bonaparte should be appointed Conful for life; confidering that the Senate, established by the Conftitution as the organ of the people, in every thing in which the focial compact is interefted, ought to manifest in a splendid manner the national gratitude towards the conquering and pacificating Hern, and to proclaim folemnly that it is the will of the French French people to give to the government (Signed) BARTHELEMY, Prefident. By the Confervative Senate, the Sec.-Gen. (Signed) CAUCHY. The First Contul replied to the Senate in thefe terms: "Senators,-The life of a citizen belongs to his country. The French people with that the whole of mine fhould be confecrated to them-I obey their will. In giving me a new and permanent pledge of their confidence, they impofe upon me the duty of refting the fyftem of their laws upon provident inftitutions. By my efforts, by your affiftance, Citizens Senators, and that of all the Authorities; by the confidence and will of this immente people; liberty, equality, and the profperity of France, will he fecure from the caprices of fortune, and the uncertainty of fatuity. The bett o people wThe the happiest, as they moft deferve to be, and thor happinefs will contribute to that of all Europe. Sausfied with having been called, by the order of Him from whom all things em.1nate, to reftore upon earth justice, order, and equality, I thall hear the knell of my last hour without regrend without any inquietuse as to the opinion of future generations.-Senators, receive my thanks for fo feteron a proceding. The Senate has extunnus coire for what the French illed, and has thus more toely comected infef with every thing ins to be done for the happiCounty. It is extremely grazedatatur nce of this in the gwind a Poefident,” * 8. Te principal part of $ occupied with a SUP* CONSTITUTION, leveral Defor protecting the f the Republics, and the Liberties biteGalli an Church, Tom any intringetarot to which they might be exposed from the interference of the Papal authority, as exercifed by the Cardinal Legate; the number of holidays ba- been reduced, by an Incultum of the Sovereign Pontiff; and in future the only Featts winch will be celebrated in France, helides Sundays, are: 1 the Monte The Nativity of our Saviour Jefus Chrift. Afcenfion Day. The Affumption of the Moft Bleffed Virgin. The Fête of All Saints,-[The SUPPLEMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION we thall give t length in our next Number.] Paris, Aug 1. The Mon teur cont ins an article, which may be confidered as an official denil of all intention on the part of France to become a party to any difmemberment of the Turkish empire; and which alfo contradicts the reports, that have been lately in circulation, of other -European Powers having formed a project for the partition of that empire. It obferves, that this is not the moment when it can be fuppofed that the Furt Conful will occupy himself with schemes of ag grandizement and conqueft; and that, fo far from this, all the former relations with the Sublime Porte have been renewed; whilft it must be feen, that it is rather the intereft of France that the Ottoman empire fhould be re established in all its ftrength and all its power. The trading interet of France continues to ufe every exertion to prevent the conclufion of a Commercial Treaty with Eng. land; and the Minifter of the Interior has written feveral letters, for the purpose of removing the apprehenfions which the ma nufaЯturers entertain upon this fubject. He carefully avoids any direct contradiction of the flatenent of a Treaty of Commerce being now up n the tapis; but affirms, that no meature in which Commerce can be intereffed will be adopted hefore it is well weighed in the political balance; and that the mfte yhtened merchants of the Republick will be confolted when the opening of commercial relations with this Country fhali be under difcuffion. M Talleyrand, the French Minifter for Foreign Athos, formerly Bishop of Autun, has lately been unfrocked by a special brief from the Pope (which has received the flent of the First Conful), and has been reitered to a lay and fecular character. corvat. A letter from Paris, giving an account of the celebration of the 15th inft, fays, "The Fête of yeẞerday was the joint celebration of the Fift Conful's nomination for life, of his birth day, and of the ConAt eight in the morning the Fête was announced by a discharge of cannon. High mals at 10, in the metropolitan church of Notre Dame; where M. Fetch (uncle of Bonaparte) was confecrated Archbihop of Lyons. At eight in the evening, the illumination took place, and with an inconceivable rapicity. The Chateau of the Thuilleries, the Place de la Revolution, with the Admiralty, &c. the palaces of the Leg flative Bodics, the Place Vendome, the houfe of the Officers of State, and Ge neral Officers, formed a blaze of light. The two façades of the Thuilleries were Illuminated with feveral rows of lights. That next the gardens had, in addition, the arcades furrounded by lamps, and a luftre depending from the centre of each arcade in the main body of the Chateau; the gardens were filled with pyramids of lights, and the bason surrounded by lamps. The Place de la Revolution was alfo crowded with pyramids. I fhould think, that in these two contiguous fpots there could not be less than a million of lamps. The Flace de Vendome was the most elegant illumination, and confifted of a circle of fafces formed of variegated lamp, about 15 feet high, furmounted by a civic crown, bearing the illuminated name of a department, and the tri-coloured flag waving on the top; the number of thefe fafces correfponding to that of the departments. In the centre, round the Tree of Liberty, the Decree of the Senate, which ordained the Fête, &c. was written on a transparency. A concert on the centre steps of the Thuilleries. In the Confervatoire, the band cor fitted of 300 perfons. A volcano from the Pont Neuf-fire-works from the gardens of Tivol, Harneau de Chantilly, &c. clofed the evening; on which occafion all the theatres were thut; whereas the preceding evening meft of them were opened gratis. By the account of the police, the number of English prefent was 16000. (6 Henriot, an ingenious Anagrammist, discovered the following Anagram for the occafion of the 15th: "NAPOLEON BONAPARTE ferat-il Conful a Vie, [Oui. La-le peuple bon reconnoiffant votera"There is only a trifling change of a, to e.", A divifion, confifting of two fail of the line, two frigates, and two brigs, is stated to have failed from Toulon for Tonis, with an aid-de-camp of the First Conful onboard, for the purpose of obtaining from the Bey an explicit avowal of the caufes which have induced the Tunisian corfairs to infult, as they have lately done, the Republican flag. A more formidable force will, it is thought, be employed against the piratical Regency of Algiers.—It ap pears, that the different Powers of Europe have contributed in the courfe of the laft three years to the maintenance of this wretched and contemptible government (if fuch it can be called) not lefs than half a million of money. Great Britain, France, Spain, Holland, Sweden, Denmark, and Portugal, feem, in this general account, to be funk into the degrading state of inftruments of convenience to the Dey, whom he treats as fpunges, which he is enabled to fqueeze as he pleases. SWITZERLAND is at length relieved from the burden of a French army. It was high time, indeed, that France should fuffer the Swifs to enjoy their own country, unmolested and uninfulted by a foreign force." May that na tion (fays the Moniteur, with unblushing gravity), which history has always held out to us as a model of energy, of courage, and of morals, henceforth, fatigued with revolutions, rally round its government, and facrifice all pathons to its intereft, its independence, and its glory!”—This from the nation that produced these revolutions, that roufed thofe paffions, that infulted that independence, is adding mockery to injuftice. We may add another wifb, that Switzerland may never again have the bleffing of French liberty! The inhabitants of the Cantons of Schwitz and Underwale have formally demanded to be feparated from the Helvetic Republick; alledging as their mo tive, that the Conftitution of their anceftors is the only one which is fuitable to their habits and their manners. This des mand was addreffed to the French Minif ter in Switzerland, requesting he would ufe his influence for the gratification of their wishes. They urge, that the union between them and the Helvetic Republick, under its New Conftitution, was a forced and unfortunate marriage, and that the only remedy is a divorce. At Lawis, on the 27th of June, the fruits of the field, the vines, the harvest, in a word every thing, were d› stroyed by a terrific ftorm of bail and thunder and lightning. More than 3000 trees, among which were many chefnut and almond trees, wete torn out of the ground. The houfes and the roofs were damaged by the form in the most lamentable manner. an adjoining Italian Republick, this storm has occafioned damages which are incalculable. HOLLAND. In An Amuelty for the Durch emigrants has at length heen agreed to by the Legiflative Body of the Batavian Republick. It is even extended to all tho e who have borne arms against the Republick. Those only are excepted from its benefits, who were inftrumental in delivering up the Dutch fleet to the British in the year 1799. Hague, Aug. 14. The following is an authentic copy of the Treaty concluded between France and the Prince of Orange: Art. 1. His Highness the Prince of Naffau Orange Dillenburg Dietz formally renounces, for himself and his heirs and fuc ceffors, ceffors, the dignity of Stadtholder of the United Provinces which now form the Batavian Republick. He alfo formally renounces all rights, claims, and pretenfions whatsoever, which arife from the above mentioned dignity; as likewife all domains and territorial property fituated in the faid Republick, or in its colonies. 2. His Highness the Prince of Naffau Orange Dillenburg Dietz, the Princess his confort, their children and heirs, fhall enjoy all permanent or annual rents which they have in the Batavian Republick, in the fame manner as other poffeffors of rents in the faid Republick. 3. To indemnify the Houfe of Naffau Orange Dillenburg Dietz for the renunciations and ceffions in the first Article of the prefent Treaty, his Highness shall receive, 1. The bishopric and abbey of Fulda. 2. The abbey of Corvey. 3. The abbey of Weingarten, with its dependencies. 4. The Imperial town of Dormund, in Weftphalia, and Yíny and Buchhorn, in Southern Swabia, with their territories and dependencies. His Highness shell poffefs for ever, and in full fovereign property, for himself, his heirs and fucceffors, the above-mentioned bishopric and abbeys, which shall be fecularized in his favour, and the Imperial towns, with all the territory belonging to them; under the condition, that his Highnefs fhall engage to fatisfy the existing and acknowledged claims to certain inheritances appertaining to his House, in the course of the last century. This fatisfaction shall be determined by Arbitrators, to be appointed by the two Contracting Parties. 4. The inheritance in the new States which shall be affigned to the Houfe of Naffau Orange Dillenburg Dietz fhall be regulated in the following manner: The male line fhall fucceed to the exclufion of the female; but in failure of male heirs, the female fhall enter into all their rights. This claufe fhall extend to all the legitimate offspring of his Highness the Prince in a direct line; and, in case of the failure of that line, the above-mentioned Territory, States, and Sovereignty, fhall devolve to the Royal Houfe of Pruffia. 5. His Majesty the King of Pruffia, and the First Conful of the French Republick, in the name of the French people, reciprocally guarantee, in conjunction with his Highness the Prince of Naffan Orange Dillenburg Dietz, the indemnifications of the ceded or conquered countries, as they are ftipulated in this Treaty. 6. His Maj fty the King of Pruffia, and his Highnefs the Prince of Naflau Orange Dillenburg Dietz, in like manner acknowledge the Batavian Republick. 7. Immediately after the exchange of the ratifications, his Majesty the King of Pruffia, and his Highness the Prince of Naffau Orange Dillenburg Dietz, may take poffetion of the States and Territories allotted to them as indemnities. 3. The prefent Treaty fhall be ratified by the Contracting Parties within 40 days, or fooner if poffible. Paris, 24th May, 1802. MARQUIS DE LUCCHESINI. ITALY. Disturbances of a ferious nature had broken out in Bologna, of which the fcarcity and dearnefs of provifions were either the caufe or the pre-ext. The reftoration of tranquillity has, however, been effected by means of the French troops. Since the changes in the Free h Conftitution, that of the Italian Republick has been altered, for the fake of uniformity. The Moniteurs have given long decrees on this fubject. One of them regulates the payment of the perfonal tax, by which the expences of the government are principally to be defrayed. The fathers of twelve children are to be exempted; the tax is not in any cafe to exceed three livres ten fous a head; and it is liable to be diminifhed, in cafe the state of the public treafure will admit. Houfe-owners are to be anfwerable for their lodgers; and merchants, &c. for those employed in their fervice. In walled towns, where tolls are paid on articles of confumption, an increase of thefe is fubftituted for the perfonal tax. Another decree regulates the mode of acquiring and perfecting the rights of citizenfhip, viz. refidence on the 26th of January 1802, landed property to the value of 3000 crowns, or commercial property to the value of 50,000; naturalization to be obtained by petition, stating the grounds of the claim. The rights of citizenship are forfeited by the acceptance of a place in any foreign country where diftinétions of birth are admitted; by the acceptance of penfions from foreign Powers, without the confent of the government; by being fentenced to a difgraceful punishment; by refidence in an enemy's country, after the term fixed by the government for returning; and by fraudulent bankruptcy, legally proved. A third decree establishes a civic regifter in every commune, where the names of the citizens must be infcribed; and this infcription is an indifpenfable preliminary to being allowed to exercise any office. GERMANY. The Emperor is fo fully convinced of the ineffica y of refiftance to the plan of Indemnities which has been formed by the other Powers, that he has difpatched a metlenger to Berlin, with an affurance that he will give every facility to the arrangement of this important business. Orders have been iffued for the evacuation of the territories which are to form the Pruffian |