the French language, last before mentioned and set forth, being translated into the English language, were and are of the same signification and meaning as these English words following, that is to say: Citizens, the mildness of character, and probity, that distinguish you among all nations, occasion me the greatest uneasiness at the moment when I come to address you on the tyranny of our Dictator, (meaning the said Napoleon Buonaparté). I am fearful that I shall not be able to convince you that there are men capable of actions which you think criminal, because the person (meaning the said Napoleon Buonaparté) whom I denounce to you, has founded all his hope on guilt and perfidy, and does not think himself sate, but by placing himself, through his malice, so much above your fears, that the excess of misery in which he keeps his slaves, may take from them even the idea of recovering their liberty. I am fearful, also, that you may think it better to live in the midst of these dangers, by conducting yourselves with prudence, than to obey the sentiment that directs you to avenge yourselves. Is reality, satellites of this monster, (meaning the said Napoleon Ruonaparté), the agents of his tyranny, are either men who had, heretofore, gained themselves a good reputation, or those whose ancestors have left them noble examples to follow: the Liancourts, the Choiseul-Praslins, the Dormessons, the Durocs D'Adhemar, the Lameths, the Noailles, the Segurs, the Deluynes, the Mouniers, the Fleurieus, the Portalis's, the Barthelemys, &c. These men, astonishing circumstance! have made a sacrifice of their own liberty to enslave you they chuse rather to hurt their fellow citizens, than to reclaim their most sacred rights, and act like freemen. So the illustrious families of the Rohans, of the Montmorencys, of the Larochefoucaults, of the Daguesseaus, of the Duras, of the Vauguyons, of the Boisgelins, present, at this day, descendants who may be said to be born for the subversion of the government established and defended by their ancestors, and of the titles which their virtue had gained them. And wherefore have we fought against Prussia, Austria, Italy, England, the whole of Germany and Russia, if it be not to preserve our liberty and our properties; and to the end that we might obey no one but the laws alone. And now this tiger, (meaning the said Napoleon Buonaparté) who dares to call himself the founder, or the regenerator of France, enjoys the fruit of your labours, as of spoil taken from the enemy. He is not satisfied with the destruction of the King, nor of so many brave men, nor of so many Princes, whom the war has mown down: he (meaning the said Napoleon Buonaparté) becomes more covetous and more cruel, in circumstances under which prosperity changes fury to pity among the greater part of mankind. This man, (meaning the said Napoleon Buonaparté) sole master in the midst of those who surround him, has ordained lists of proscriptions, and put in execution banishments, without sentence; by means of which there exist punishments for French who have not yet seen the light. Proscribed families give birth, out of France, to children oppressed before they are born; their misery has commenced before their life. His wickedness, (meaning the wickedness of the said Napoleon Buonaparté) increases every day: in spite of the security he enjoys, he (meaning the said Napoleon Buonaparté) enters into new passions; and as to you, far from daring to reclaim your liberty, the fear of aggravating your slavery freezes you, and you are subjected to the deepest terror. You

must act, citizens, you must march, you must op pose what is passing, if you wish that he (meaning the said Napoleon Buonaparté) should not seize upon all that you have. Above all, no delay, no useless wishes, reckon only upon yourselves : unless, indeed, you have the stupidity to suppose that he will wantonly expose himself to danger, by abdicating, by weariness, or shame of tyranny, that which he holds by force of crimes. But he is advanced to the point that he looks no more towards glory, but to his own security; and that he esteems nothing honourable but what conduces to the preservation of his power. It is thus that he (meaning the said Napoleon Buonaparté) has organized a company of Mamelouks, as they are. called, composed of Greeks, Maltese, Arabians, and Copts; a collection of foreign banditti, whose name and dress recalling the mad and disastrous Egyptian expedition, serve to cover him with shame; but who not speaking our language, nor having any point of contact with the army, will always be the satellites of the tyrant, (meaning the said Napoleon Buonaparté) his mutes, his cutthroats, and his hangmen. That tranquillity, then, and that leisure adorned with liberty, which many good men prefer to an honourable existence, exist not. Frenchmen, it is at this moment that you must resolve to serve or to command; to receive terror, or to inspire it. Are we not reduced to extremity? What human institutions can stop the tyrant? (meaning the said Napoleon Buonaparté). And are not all the divine institutions corrupted? The French people, that was lately the arbiter of nations, at this day despoiled of its sovereignty, of its glory, and its rights; incapable of rousing itself, the object of universal contempt, enjoys not even the condition of slaves, and is not, like them, assured of its victuals. A single man (meaning the said Napoleon Buonaparté) has annihilated, by one decree, that noble federation of national guards, that had rendered so many and such great services to its country, and was entirely formed of French citizens. Some satellites and favored agents, such as Sieyes, aud certain generals, have received for the price of their crimes, the patrimony of which the innocent has been despoiled. The laws, justice, the finances, the administration, the Sovereigns of Europe; in fine, the liberty and the life of the citizens, are all in the power of one man (meaning the said Napoleon Buonaparte). You see at every moment ar bitrary arrests, judges punished for having acquitted citizens, individuals put to death, after having been already acquitted by a lawful sentence, and sentences of death extorted from judges by threats. Remains there for men who would deserve that name. any thing else to do, but to avenge their wrongs or to perish with glory? Nature has set the bounds of life to all, even the most powerful. No one ought to wait the last extremity, without having attempted something for liberty, if he would not pass for a timid and pusillanimous woman. But Buonaparté says, I am factious, I regret the wealth that I amassed in the time of the troubles. It is said, that I desire war, because I reclaim the rights that we ought to enjoy in time of peace. That is to say, that you cannot live, por be in safety under his (meaning the said Napoleon Buonaparte's) government, but by applauding the prodigalities of Lucien, and the sophisms of the scribe Roederer; by approving the proscription of the innocent, the imprison. ment and banishment of the best citizens, and the division of the national property among cohorts of honour, as if it were plunder taken from

the Germans. But the tyrant (meaning the said Napoleon Buonaparté) objects to me, because I have bought the property of the proscribed; and that is precisely the greatest of his crimes; that neither I, nor any other citizen, have ever been able to think ourselves in safety, but by doing wrong. And, well! these lands, that fear has made me buy, and of which I have paid the price, I restore them to those to whom they lawfully belong. I cannot bear to have it said, that citizens have furnished a prey to citizens. We have full enough of what we have suffered in our madness, when the French fought against each other, at Lyons, in La Vendée, and in Brittany, and when our legions were drawn from the frontiers to be marched against ourselves. Let an end be put to crimes and injuries. These evils make so little impression upon Buonaparté, that he makes himself titles of honour from the massacres of Toulon, and the day of the thirteenth Vendémiaire, and that, if opposed, he would do still worse if he could. I am not uneasy with regard to the opinion that you have of him (meaning the said Napoleon Buonaparte). I know that he is generally detested; but I am fearful as to the degree of your energy. I am afraid, that not being agreed upon the chief whom you would chuse after him, you may suffer yourselves to be misled, not by his promises and his gifts, which are nothing, and which you despise, but by your own apathy; and that this man, who always relies upon his fortune, may appear to succeed incessantly in every thing that he undertakes. For, with the exception of some confidential satellites, that have shared the disgrace of his flight, who is there that desires the same thing? Who, on the contrary, is the man, that does not wish for a total change? except in the extent of our froutiers, the fruit of our victories. I speak here of the army, whose blood has been shed to enrich a Berthier, a Murat, a Lucien, a Joseph, a Junot, a Duroc, a Lannes, a Bourienne; or to procure an archbishoprick for the prelate Boisgelin, a filthy old woman, who has always disgraced the honours that have been conferred upon him. For this reason, I have the greatest confidence in our arnies, always victorious, who, after so many fatigues, and for the price of so many wounds, have ended by finding nothing but a tyrant (meaning the said Napoleon Buonaparté). It is true, they were made to march to Saint Cloud, to overthrow by main force the system of national representation established by the Convention. They thought then to draw all to themselves, and to receive at last the milliard that has been so often promised them: but, at this day, when they are banished into dull and insipid garrisons, at the bottom of woods and marshes; at this day, when they are sent to perish, like flies, at Cayenne, at Guadaloupe, and at Saint Domingo, and when they see only a small number of favourites engross all the rewards, they burn with jealousy, and with the desire to avenge their wrongs. And wherefore marches he (meaning the said Napoleon Buonaparté) in public, with so many guards in his suite, and so much pride! It is because fortune often wonderfully seconds great criminals: but let his good fortune totter an instant, as much as he was dreaded in the evening, so much will he be despised on the morrow; unless we are duped by the names of concord and peace, that he has given to his crime, and to the parricide that he has com. mited on his country. He (meaning the said Napoleon Buonaparté) takes great care to say, that tranquillity will never have place in France, unless the proscribed remain deprived of their pro

perty; unless the acquirers of the national domains enjoy their horrible prey in safety; unless justice be at his disposal, and he alone possess all the rights, that heretofore were the portion of the sovereign people. If you would enjoy peace and concord, approve of all the revolutions and all the murders that have taken place in the Republic; sanction the laws that have been imposed upon you; receive tranquillity with slavery, and shew to posterity, by your example, that a man may make himself master of the Roman people, by causing them to spill their own blood. As for me, if I have ever sought to be any thing, it is in order to defend the liberty and the dignity of the people, and the sacred rights that our fathers have left us. I have never sought to make a disgraceful fortune, and I have preferred the storms of a liberty, difficult of attainment, to the deadly tranquillity of slavery. If you are of my opinion, Frenchmen, present your. selves; and after having invoked the assistance of the gods, name Camille your Consul and your Chief, in the bold enterprize of the recovery of your liberty."-To the great scandal, disgrace, and danger of the said Napoleon Buonaparté; to the great danger of creating discord between our said Lord the King and his subjects, and the said Napoleon Buonaparté, the French Republic, and the citizens of the said Republic; to the evil example of all others in the like case offending, in contempt of our said Lord the King and his laws, and against the peace of our said Lord the King, his crown and dignity.

Third Count. That said Jean Peltier, so being such person as aforesaid, afterwards (to wit) on the 26th of August, in the forty-second year of the reign aforesaid, at the parish of Saint Anne, within the liberty of Westminster, in the county of Middlesex, unlawfully and maliciously did print and publish, and cause and procure to be printed and published, a certain other scandalous and malicious libel, containing therein, among other things, divers other scandalous and malicious matters, in the French language, of and concerning said Napoleon Buonaparté, according to the tenor following, that is to say:-"Eh bien, ce tigre qui ose se dire le fondateur ou le régéné rateur de la France, jouit du fruit de vos travaux comme d'une dépouille enlevée aux ennemis. Il n'est pas rassasié de la destruction du Roi ni de tant de braves, ni de tant de Princes, que la guerre a moissonnés; il devient et plus avide et plus cruel dans des circonstances où la prospérité change chez la plupart des hommes la fureur en pitié."-Which said scandalous and malicious words, in the French language, last above-mentioned and set forth, being translated into the English language, were and are of the same signification and meaning, as these English words, following, that is to say:-"And now this tiger, (meaning the said Napoleon Buonaparte) who dares to call himself the founder or regenerator of France, enjoys the fruit of your labours, as of spoil taken from the enemy. He is not satisfied with the destruction of the King, nor of so many brave men, nor of so many Princes, whom the war has mown down: he (meaning the said Napoleon Buonaparté) becomes more covetous and more cruel, in circumstances under which prosperity changes fury into pity among the greater part of mankind." To the great scandal, disgrace, and danger of the said Napoleon Buonaparté; to the great danger of creating discord between our said Lord the King and his subjects, and the said Napoleon Buonaparté, the French Republic, and the citizens of the said Republic, in contempt of our

said Lord the King and his laws; to the evil example of all others, in the like case offending, and against the peace of our said Lord the King, his crown and dignity.

Fourth Count. That said Jean Peltier, so being such person as aforesaid, and unlawfully and maliciously devising and intending as aforesaid, afterwards, (to wit) on the 26th of August, in the forty-second year of the reign aforesaid, at the parish of St. Anne, within the liberty of Westminster, in the county of Middlesex, unlawfully and maliciously did print and publish, and cause and procure to be printed and published, a certain other scandalous and malicious libel, containing therein, among other things, divers other scandalous and malicious matters in the French language, of and concerning the said Napoleon Buonaparté, according to the tenor following, that is to say “ Il faut agir, citoyens ; il faut marcher, il faut s'opposer à ce qui se passe, si vous voulez qu'il ne s'empare pas de toutes vos dépouilles; surtout point de délais, point de vœux inutiles; ne comptez que sur vous, à moins que vous n'ayez la stupidité de croire qu'il se mettra en danger de gaîté de cœur, en abdiquant par ennui ou par honte de la tyrannie ce qu'il possede à force de crimes. Mais il s'est avancé au point qu'il ne regarde plus à la gloire, mais à sa propre sécurité; et qu'il n'estime honorable que ce qui lui sert à conserver sa puissance. C'est ainsi qu'il a organisé récemment une compagnie dite de Mamelouks, composée de Grecs, de Maltais, d'Arabes, et de Cophtes, ramas de bandits étrangers dont le nom et l'uniforme rappellant l'expédition insensée et désastreuse d'Egypte, servent à le couvrir de honte; mais qui ne parlant point notre langue, et n'ayant aucun point de contact avec l'armée, seront toujours les satellites du tyran, ses mucts, ses sicaires, et ses bourreaux." Which said scandalous and malicious words, in the French language, last above-mentioned and set forth, being translated into the English language, were and are of the same signification and meaning as these English words following, that is to say: "You must act, citizens, you must march, you must oppose what is passing, if you wish that he, (meining the said Napoleon Buonaparte) should not seize upon all that you have. Above all, no delay, no useless wishes, reckon only upon yourselves; unless, indeed, you have the stupidity to suppose, that he will wantonly expose himself to danger, by abdicating, through weariness, or shame of tyranny, that which he holds by torce of crimes. But he is advanced to the point that he looks no more towards the glory, but to his own security, and that he esteems nothing honourable, but what conduces to the preservation of his power. It is thus that he (meaning the said Napoleon Buonaparté) has organized a company of Mamelouks, as they are called, composed of Greeks, Maltese, Arabians, and Copts, a collection of foreign banditti, whose name and dress, recalling the mad and disastrous Egyptian expedition, serve to cover him with shame, but who, not speaking our language, nor having any point of contact with the army, will always be the satellites of the tyrant (meaning the said Napoleon Buonaparté) his mutes, his cutthroats, and his hangmen."-lo the great scandal, disgrace, and danger of the said Napoleon Buonaparté, to the great danger of creating discord between our said Lord the King and his subjects, and the said Napoleon Buonaparté, the French Republic, and the citizens of the said Republic; in contempt of our said Lord the King, and his

laws, to the evil example of all others, in the like case offending, and against the peace of our said Lord the King, his crown and dignity.

Fifth Count. That the said Jean Peltier, so being such person as aforesaid, and unlawfully and maliciously devising and intending, as aforesaid, afterwards (to wit) on the 26th of August, in the forty-second year of the reign aforesaid, at the parish of Saint Anne, within the liberty of Westminster, in the county of Middlesex, unlawfully and maliciously did print and publish, and cause and procure to be printed and published, a certain other scandalous and malicious libel, containing therein, among other things, divers other scandalous and malicious matters in the French language, of and concerning the said Napoleon Buonaparié, according to the tenor following, that is to say "Quelques satellites et agens favoris, tels que Siéyès et certains généraux, ont reçu, pour prix de leurs forfaits, le patrimoine dont l'innocent a été dépouillé. Les lois, la justice, les finances, l'administration, les souverains de l'Europe, enfin la liberté et la vie des citoyens, tout est au pouvoir d'un seul homme. Vous voyez à chaque moment des arrestations arbitraires, des juges punis pour avoir acquitté des citoyens, des individus mis à mort après avoir été déjà acquittés par un jugement légal, et des condamnations à mort arrachées aux juges par la menace. Reste-t-il à des hommes qui veulent être dignes de ce nom autre chose à faire qu'à venger leur injure ou à périr avec gloire ?"Which said scandalous and malicious words, in the French language, last above-mentioned and set forth, being translated into the English language, were and are of the same signification and meaning as these English words following, that is to say: Some satellites and favoured agents, such as Sieyes, and certain generals, have received for the price of their crimes, the patrimony of which the innocent has been despoiled. The laws, justice, the finances, the administration, the Sovereigns of Europe, in fine, the liberty and the life of the citizens, are all in the power of one man (meaning the said Napoleon Buonaparté). You see at every moment arbitrary arrests, judges punished for having acquitted citizens, indivi duals put to death, atter having been already acquitted by a lawful sentence, and sentences of death extorted from judges by threats. Remains there for men, who would deserve that name, any

thing else to do, but to avenge their wrongs or to perish with glory?"-To the great scandal, dis grace, and danger of the said Napoleon Buonapatié; to the great danger of creating discord be tween our said Lord the King and his subjects, and the said Napoleon Buonaparte, the French Republic, and the citizens of the said Republic; in contempt of our said Lord the King and his laws, to the evil example of all others in the like case offending, and against the peace of our said Lord the King, his crown and dignity.Whereupon the said Attorney-General of our said Lord the King, who, før our said Lord the King, in this behalt prosecuteth for our said Lord the King, prayeth the consideration of the Court here in the premises, and that due process of law may be awarded against him, the said Jean Peltier, in this behalf, to make him answer to our said Lord the King, touching and concerning the premises aforesaid.

Observations on Mr. Peltier's Trial, from the MoniteurParis, March 2, 1803.

A person of the name of Peltier has been four d

guilty, before a court of justice, at London, of printing and publishing some wretched libels against the First Consul. It is not easy to imagine why the English ministry should affect to make this a matter of so much eclat.-As it has been said in the English newspapers, that the trial was instituted at the demand of the French government, and that the French ambassador was even in the court when the Jury gave in their verdict; we have authority to deny (démentir) that any such things ever took place. The First Consul was even ignorant of the existence of Peltier's libels, till they came to his knowledge in the public ac counts of the proceedings at this trial. All the civilised nations of Europe, have, in the system of their mutual relations and dependencies, certain reciprocal duties to fulfil, which they ought to respect so much the more, because a different conduct, which fails not to have in every country, its partisans, could tend only to restore the reign of barbarism and anarchy.-It is, therefore, not easy to imagine, what interest England can have to encourage, and authorise all those scurrilities of infamy, which the libellers of that country are incessantly propagating; as little easy is it to imagine, why it should afford protection to the French libellers who settled there during the war, as to conceive what useful purpose could be answered by a proceeding of such pomp and ostentation. The Alien Bill gives power to the English ministry to send strangers out of that country at pleasure. That power the ministry largely avails itself of. Above twenty Frenchmen, who lived in settled residence, and were well known in England, have been, without any formality, sent out of that country. Within these few days Citizen Bonnecarrere, a chief of battalion of the national guard at Paris, being at London, to prosecute a suit at law, and having his wife there sick, received orders to quit the country in forty-eight hours. We know others who, after a residence of thirty years in London, have been sent out of the country with equal abruptness and rigour. To what purpose, then, drag, with ostentation, before respectable courts, foreign libellers who are only such as naturally arise in the end of any great political commotion. If Lord Pelham's Under Secretaries should only hint to them to cease to write, they must, per force, obey. Should they not, they might, under the Alien Bill, be sent out of the kingdom.--The King of England owes it to his own personal dignity, and to the honour of the nation, to put an end to the outrages of his subjects against a neighbouring government and nation with which he is at peace, and to which he gives the presence of an Ambassudor not less exalted in rank than amiable and respectable in his personal qualities.--Yet it is to be acknowledged, that these proceedings, however useless in other respects, have afforded an occasion to the Judges who presided at the trial, to evince, by their wisdom and impartiality, that they are truly worthy to administer justice in a nation so enlightened, and estimable in so many respects.

ward for the reparation of the dykes of the isle of Cadsand, of Ostend, of the Côtes du Nord, and the re-establishment of the navigation of our rivers. This navigation is no longer given up solely to the labours and the cares of Government. The owners of boats plying on these rivers have already felt that it was their patrimony, and they fix on themselves the taxes by which the works are to be kept in proper repair. On the ocean forts are erecting to cover the roads of the isle of Aix, and to protect the vessels of the Republic. Every where funds are raised for the reparation and improvement of our ports. A new bason and locked sluices will terminate the harbour of Havre, and will form an excellent port for the commerce of La Manche. A company of pilots is formed to secure the safe navigation of L'Escaut, and to free foreign pilots from the danger to which an unknown navigation must expose them. -At Antwerp labours are begun, which will have the effect of restoring to its commerce its ancient celebrity, and the Government has in contemplation a plan for forming canals to unite the navigation of the Escaut, the Meuse, and the. Rhine, to give to our docks those materials of wood which grows in our own soil, and to our manufactures a perfection which the manufacturers of other countries dispute with us on our own territory. The Islands of Martinique, Tobago, and St. Lucie have been restored to us, with all the elements of prosperity. Guadaloupe, re-conquered and pacified, returns to cultivation. Guiana rises from a long protracted intancy, and assumes a flourishing appearance.-St. Domingo had submitted, aud the author of its troubles was in France. Every thing announced the return of prosperity, but a cruel malady delivered it up to new miseries. At length the scourge which desolated our army has ceased its ravages. The forces which now are on the island, and those which will speedily arrive from our different ports, guarantee the prospect of its speedy return to peace and to commercial pursuits.-Vessels are setting sail for the Isles of France and Re-union, and for India. Our maritime commerce is seeking to renew its ancient connexions, to form new relations, and by these efforts it gains new strength. Already happy experience and wise encouragements have reimated a spirit for engaging in the fishery which was long the patrimony of France. Commercial expeditions still more important are formed or projected for the West-India Colonies, the Isle of France, and the East-Indies.-Marseilles resumes in the Mediterranean its ancient ascendancy.Chambers of Commerce have been restored in the cities where they formerly existed. New ones have been established in those places, which by the extent of their operations and the importance of their manufactures, have appeared to deserve them. In these associations, formed by persons whose situation entitles them to the honour of choosing the members, the spirit, as well as the science of commerce will revive. There its interests will be developed, inseparable from the interests of the State. The merchant will there learn to place, in preference to riches, the consideration which honours them, and before the enjoyments of a vain luxury, that wise economy which fixes the esteem of his fellowcitizens and the confidence of strangers.-Deputies, chosen from the different chambers, will discuss, in the presence of Government, the interests of commerce and manufactures, and the laws and regulations which circumstances may require.In our forces, by sea and land, instruction and

progress of public prosperity, what have been in the different departments of the ministry, the ele ments of expenditure during the year ten; what are the sums still remaining to be paid for that and former years; what resources exist to cover them, whether arising from outstanding arrears of taxes, or from the extraordinary funds appropri ated to pay off the debts contracted in these years, and which have not yet been exhausted; what is the actual amount of the public debt; what has been its increase, how it has been diminished by natural causes, and how its extinction has been affected by the sinking fund.-In the account of the Minister of the Public Treasury will be seen a statement of the receipts, the payments of the year ten, what belongs to the different branches of the revenue, what is chargeable in each year and on each part of the Administration. The united accounts of the two Ministers will form a complete table of our financial situation. The Government hold up with equal satis faction the picture which it presents to its friends and its detractors, to citizens and to foreigners.After authorizing the foreseen expense of the year 12, and appropriating the necessary revenues, objects of the greatest interest will occupy the attention of the Legislative Body. It is necessary to int oduce a change into our system of coinage. The Custom-house duties must be reorganized, so as more effectually to check the progress of contraband trade. It is at length essential to give to France that civil code so long promised and so long expected.-Above all, pro jets of laws have been formed under the observation of Government, and matured in conferences where commissions from the Council of State and the Tribunate were animated only by the love of truth and regard for the public interest. The same sentiments, the same principles will guide the deliberation of the Legislators, and secure to the Republic the wisdom, and the impartiality of the laws which are adopted-On the Continent, every thing offers us pledges of repose and tranquillity.-The Italian Republic, since the proceedings at Lyons, has been daily strengthening itself by the more intimate union of the people of whom it is composed. The happy harmony among the authorities by which it is governed, its internal administration, its military force already give it the character, and the attitude of a state long established, and if wisdom preserve them they guarantee to it a destiny of uninter rupted prosperity.-Liguria, placed under a mixed constitution, sees at its head, and in the bosom of its authorities, all those of its citizens, the most estimable for their virtues, by their illumination and their fortune.-New shocks have convulsed the Helvetic Republ c. The goverument owed its support to neighbours, whose repose was essential to the repose of France, and it will use every exertion to ensure the success of its mediation, and with it the happiness of a people whose position, whose habits, and whose interests make it the necessary ally of France.-Batavia successively takes possession of the colonies which the peace restored to her. She will ever remember that France must ever be her most useful friend or her most destructive foe.-In Germany the last stipulations of the treaty of Luneville are carrying into effect.-Prussia, Bavaria, all the Secular Princes who had possessions on the left bank of the Rhine will obtain on the right bank suitable indemnities.-The House of Austria finds in the bishopricks of Salzburgh, Aischtett, Trent, and Brixen, and the greatest part of Pau, more than

the love of discipline are sedulously inculcated. Responsibility becomes more rigid in our military corps. An economical Administration has succeeded to the dilapidating system of contracts. The soldier, better fed and better clothed, understands economy, and his savings, which he throws into the common stock, attach him to his standard as well as to his family.Every branch of our finances becomes more productive. The collection of direct contribution is less rigorous with regard to the contributors. In the year six it was reckoned that about 50 millions were in the hands of the collectors of taxes, and payments were 3 or 4 years in arrears. At this moment the sum in the hands of the collectors is not above 3 millions, and the contributions are paid even before they are due. All the rules which have been made, and all the plans of Administration which have been formed, give a produce still increasing. The rules applicable to the registering of commer cial transactions is productive to a degree, which attests the rapid movements of capital and the multiplicity of business which is transacted.-In the midst of so many signs of prosperity, the excess of the direct contributions is still made a ground of complaint. - The Government has learnt from every one versed in the principles of taxation, that the surcharge consisted chiefly in the inequality of the mode in which the taxes were imposed. Measures have been taken, and are carrying into effect, to ascertain the real inequalities which exist in the different departments. In the course of the year 12, regular and simultaneous operations will have ascertained what is the relation which ought to exist betwixt the con tributions of the different departments, and what in each department is the just rate of the land tax. The moment that a certain result has been fixed, the Government will give orders for those alterations which justice requires. But in the course of this year, and without waiting for those results, it will propose an important diminution in the land tax.-Innovations are still proposed in our financial system; but every change is an evil, if it cannot be satisfactorily demonstrated that certain advantage would result from it. The Government will seek from time and from discussions, weighed with all possible care, the maturity of these projects which inexperience often hazards; which they support by those past examples, the memory of which has been almost effaced from the public mind, and on the financial doctrines of a nation which, by unnatural and exaggerated efforts, has broke through every measure of public contribution and expenditure.With an increase of revenue which no one ventured to calculate, extraordinary circumstances have led to wants which it was impossible to foresce. It was necessary to reconquer two of our colonies, and to re-establish in all, the power and the government of the mother country.-It was necessary, by means sudden and too extended to admit of rigid economy, to procure subsistence for the capital and several of the departments. At least, however, the success of the Government has been equal to its efforts, and after these vast exertions, resources remain henceforth to guarantee the capital against the return of want, and to disconcert the projects of monopoly -In the methodized statement of the Minister of Finance will be found a general view of the annual contributions and the different branches of the public revenue, what was their amount during the last year, what prospect of amelioration existed; whether, from the mode of administration or the