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alfo put to your account all that you would hot fore- reprefent his Manner of thinking on the feb; Firft Conful, by the Ruffian Charge d'Afiaires jt While his Majefty adopts a meafure prefcrSbe' him by his folicitude for the welfare of thG. Empire, Ire is convinced that the Diet and th--- the Empire will do juftice to his difmtereft, nifeftly indifpenSMe care and that their endeavours with his to tranfmit their -ftrances to the French Government, to take fuch fteps and meafures as the violation of 'J dignity may require, and the maintenance of tlic-C ture fecurity may render neceffary. Constantinople, Jlpril ig AfFair Egypt have taken a favourable turn foAhe IV'1 in cotsfequence of dilTentions amono the Tt fipopn hv a nnarrl K.v.i-,i1.ewr, them much. Thefe officers deferve the' higher! praife Lean give them. They fpeak of the conduct of their Lieutenants, officers, and crews, in terms of warm panegyric.

Meff. Budd and Daly-ell from the Antelope acted in the abfence of. two lieutenants of thofe fhips. Lieutenants Garrety and Patful, commanding the favourite and Stag cutters, did their belt with their final! guns. againft greater numbers of greater calibres-Lieutenant Hillier, of thentelope, gave, me all the affiftance and fupport on her quarterdeck his ill fta'te of health would permit.

Lieutenant Stokes and Mr Sieffer, lieutenant, direded the fire on the lower and main decks with coolnefs and precifion. It would be- the higheft injuflice if I omitted to mention the intrepid conduct of Mr Lewis, the matter, Mr infpired the1 reprefentatives whom the nation nad cho-4en. It is this Government, limited by the law which the greateft genius of Greece, the moft celebrated orator of Rome, and the greateft fiatefman of the 18th century, declared to be the beft of all. It is that alone which can put an end to dangerous rivalries in a country covered with numerous armies, and commanded by great Captains. Hiftory holds it up as an invincible to all the rafh efforts of a bloody anarchy, the violence of an audacious tyranny, which believed itfelf to be abfolved by ftrength, and to the perfidious attempts of a deipotifm ftill more dangerous, which, fpreading in darknefs its formidable nets waited with hypocritical patience for the moment to throw off the mafic, and to lift up the fhaft of iro'n.

It declares to a brave and generous nation, you have loft your independence, your liberty, and your name, becaufe you would not renounce electing a fupreme chief. It unveils that lono; fequel of tumults, diffentions and 5 rportca. RAN CFORT, May 8 PS.OIVI TKE.LONDON GAZETTE. ADMIRALTY-OJrFICE May 22. Copy of a Letter from the Right Honourable Lord Keith, K.

B. Admiral of the Blue, to William MurlUeu, fq. dated at Ramf'giite, the 20th Inftaut, herewith' tranfmit, for the information of their Lordfhips, a letter which I have this day received from Commodore Sir Sidney Smith, acquainting me that the enemy's flotilla at Flufh-ino had been puihed out from-that port on. the inlt.int, to form a junction with that at Offend, and that the greateft part of them had fucceeded in reaching the latter place, notwith-itanding the vigorous meafures that were ufed "by the fquadron to relift their progrefs; a circumftatlce which is to be imputed only to the numerous difadvantages to which his Majefty's (hips we're fubjected in con fequence of the fhailownefs of the water, arid the effect of enemy's field artillery and their batteries on the fhore for the Commodore appears to have ufed every practicable exertion to defeat the defsgn, and to have been very gallantly fe-cdnded by all the officers ferving under his orders. I alio enclofe a lift of the killed and wounded ob this occafion and have the honour to be, Keith.

Antelope, at anchor, off Oftend, Lord, May 17, 1304. Information from all quarters, and the evid'ent Sate of readinefs in which the enemy's arma-- merits-'were in Helvoet, Flufhing, and Oftend, indicating the probability of a general movement from thofe forts, i reinforced Captain Manby, off Helvdet, with one Ihip, and directed Catkin Hancock, of the ciruizer, ftationed. in more, to combine his operations and the Rattler's with the fquadron of gun-boats ftationed off Oftend. The Antelope, Penelope, and Amiable, occupied a centrical poliuon in fight both of Flufhing and Oftend, in anxious expectation of the enemy's appearance. Yefierday at five m.

1 received information from Captain Han cock, then off" Oftend, that the enemy's flotilla was hauling out of that pier, and had already twenty-one one-mafted vefTels, and one fchooner, outfide in the roads and part feven the fame morning, I had the fatisfaflion to fee the Flufliing flotilla of fifty-nine fail, viz. two fhip-rigged. praams, nineteen fchooners, and thirty-eight fchuyts, fleering along-ihore from that porr towards Oftend, under circumftances which allowed, me to hope I mould be able to bring them to action. The fignal was made to the Cruizer and Rattler for ail enemy, in the -E. S.

E. to call their attention Oftend the t'quadron weighed the moment the flood made, and allowed of the heavier (hips following them over the bnks; the iignais to chace and to engage were obeyed with alacrity, fpirit, and judgment, by the active and experienced officers your Lord-ftiip has done me the honour to place under my orders. Captains Hancock and Mafon attacked this formidable line with the greateft gallantry and addrefs, attaching themfelves particularly to the two praams, both of them of greater force than themfelves, independent of the crofs-fire from the fchooners and fchuyts I fent the Aimable fay fignal, to fupport them. The Penelope, (having an able pilot, Mr Thornton), on fignal being made to engage, Captain Broughton worked up to the centre of the enemy's line, as' near as the feoal water would allow, while the Antelope went round the Stroom Sand to cut the van off froni Oftend unfortunately our gun-boats -were not in fight, having, as I have underftood fince, devoted their attention to preventing the Oltend divifion from moving weftward. The enemy attempted to get back to Flufliing but, being haraffed by the Cruizer and the Rattler, and the wind coming more eafterly againft them, they were obliged to run the gauntlet to the weftward, keeping clofe to the beach, under the protection of the batteries.

Having found a paflage for tVe Antelope within the Stroom-Sand, Hie was enabled to bring her broadfide to bear on the headmoft fchooners before, they got" the length of Oftend. The leader ftruck immediately, and her crew deferted her. She was however recovered by the followers the artillery from the town aDd camp, and the rowing gun-boats from the Pier, up a. conftant and 'well-directed fire for their fupport our mot, however, which went over the going on fliore among the Iiorfe artiiicry, interrupted it in a degree ftill howevai: it was from the fliore we received the greateft' annoyance for the fchooners and fchuyts crowding along could not bring their prow guns to bear without altering their courfe us, which they could not venture and their fide guns, though numerous and well ferved, were very light. In this manner the Penelope and -Antelope engaged every part of their Jang But, Citizen Firft Conful, you owe yourfelf to the country.

You have not the authority to negleft your exiftence and the Senate, which, in its effence, is the preferver of the focial pa of 30 millions of men, demands, on their part, that the' law mould explain itfelr upon the firft object of this prefervation. Citizen Firft Conful, a grand national tribunal will affure, on the one fide, the refponfibility of the public functionaries, and on the other it will pffer to confpira-tors a tribunal quite ready, entirely invefted with the cpnfifteuce and with the powers neceffary to maintain the fafety and exiftence of a great people, attached to the fafety and to the exiftence of its Chief. But this national jury does not yet fuflice to affure, at the fame time, both your life and your work, if yoii do not add to it inftitutions fo combined as that their fyftem may furvive you. You found a new sera but you muft eternife it. Brilliancy is nothing without duration.

We cannot doubt but this great idea has occupied you for your plaftic genius embraces every thing and forgets nothing. But do not defer. You are preffed by time, by events, by confpirators, by ambitious men. You are preffed, -in another fenfe, by an inquietude which agitates all the French. You can chain down tune, mafter events, curb confpirators, difarm the ambitious, and tranquillife all France, by giving it inftitutions which may cement your edifice, and prolong for the children what you have done for the fathers.

Citizen Firft Conful, be well affured that the Senate fpeaks to you herein the name of all the Citizens. All admire and love you but there are none who do not often think with anxiety, on what would become of the Ihip of the Republic, if file had the misfortune to lofsiher pilot before being fafe moored upon, immoveable anchors. In the cities, in the country, if you could queftion all the French, one after another, -here is not one of thf m. but would fay to you, as well as we, Great man, complete your work, by rendering it immortal like your glory. You have drawn, us from the chaos of'the paft you make us blefs the benefits of the prefent guarantee to us the In foreign court's, found policy will hold the fame language to you.

The repofe of France is the fecure pledge of the repofe of Europe. Such, Citizen Firft Conful, are the obfervations which the Senate has charged us to lay before you, and has given us alfo the ex-prefs million to repeat to you, in its name, and in the name of the French people, that in all circumftances, and now more than ever, the Senate and the people make only one with you. (Signed) Cambaceres, Second Conful, Prefident. Mop.ARD de Galles arid Joseph Cornudet, Sees. Seen and fealed, The Chancellorof the Senate, figned, LAr-LACE." Saint Cloud, 5th Fhreal, Tear 12; MESSAGE, BoHAPAT.TE, Eirji Conful of the Republic, to the Canferva-tive Senate.

Senators Your addrefs of the 6th of laft Germinal has never ceafed to prefent to my thoughts. It has been the object of my moft conftant meditation. You have judged the hereditary power of the fu-preme magiftracy neceffary, in order to fhelter French. people complete from the plots of our enemies, and frSm the agitations which arife from rival ambitions. even appears to you, that many: of our inftitutions ought t6 o'e improved, in order to fecure for ever the triumph of equality and public liberty, and prefent to the Nation and to the Government to double guarantee they are in want of.

We have been confiatitly guided by this grand truth, that the fovereignty refidesin the Frer.cn people, in the fenfe every thing, without exception, ought td be lone for its interefts, its happinefs, arid its. glory. It ir. in order to attain this end, the fupreme Magiftracy, the" Senate, the Council of State, the Legiflative Body, the Electoral Body, the Electoral Colleges, and the different branches bf the Adminiftration, and ought to be inftituted. In proportion as I fix my attention upon thefe great objects, I am ftill more convinced of tile verity of thofe fentiments which I have expreffed to you, and I feel i more and more that ih a circumftance as new as it is im portant, the councils of your and experience were neceffary to enable me to fix my ideas.

I requeft. you then to make known to me the whole of your thdughts. The French people can add nothing to the honour and glory with which it ha? fu'rrounded me, but the moft iacred duty for me, as it is the deareft to my heart, is to fecure to its lateft pofterity thofe advantages which it has acquired by a revolution that has coft it fo much, particularly by the facrifice of thofe. millions of brave citizens who have died in defence of their rights. You defire that I might declare to you, on the 14th of July, in the prefent year.

Fifteen years have paffed, fmce, by a fpontaneous movement, you ran to arms, you acquired liberty; equality, and glory. Thefe firft blefs-ines of nations are now fecured to you for ever, are lhel- every tempeftj they are preferved to you and t'o'-ybur children inftitutions conceived and begun in the midft of the fjtorms of interior and exterior wars, developed with conftancy, are juft terminated in the noife of the attempts and plots of our moft mortal enemies, by the adoption of every thing which the experience of centuries has demonftrated as proper to guarantee the rights which the nation had- judged neceffary. for its dignity, its liberty, and its happinefs. (Signed) Bonaparte. By the Firft Conful.

The Secretary of State, figned, H. B. Maret." Extraft of the Regijlers of the Confervative Senate, the 14th SIay, year 12, of the Republic. The Confervative Senate, affembled to the number jf Members prefcribed by article XC of the Deliberating upon the Meffage of the Firft Conful of fhe of the 5th of this month; After having heard the report of its Special Commis-fion of ten Members, nominated on the fitting of the Sthinftant Adopts, fcrutiny, and by the abfolute majority of fuffrages, the project of reply prefented by its commillkin, and the memorial annexed thereto Decrees that both be inferred in the procefs verbal, and laid before the Firft Coaful of the Republic, by a deputation compofed of the bureau and Members of the Commiffion." REPLY OF THE SENATE. The Confervative Senate to the First Consul of the Republic.

Citizen Firft Conful You have, by a memorable meffage, juft replied in a manner worthy of you, and of the great nation which has appointed you its Chief, to the wifhes which the Senate expreffed to you, and to the folicitudes infpired in it by the love of the country. You defire, Citizen Firft Conful, to become acquahited.iuith the opinion of the Senate, concerning ihoj'e indiiulions of onrs ivhich nue conceive fhotdd be improved, in order 'henceforth to fecure the triumph of equality and public liberty, and to prs fent to the nation and to the Government, the double guarantee of zvbich they are in want. Tfhe Senate have affembled together, and carefully compared the refults of the meditations of its members the fruits of their experience, the effects of- the zeal with which they are animated for the profperity of the' people, whofe rights they are appointed to protect. Having recalled the paft, examined the prefent, and caft its looks towards the future, it now prefents to you the wifh impofed on it by the fafety of the State. The French have conquered liberty they wifh to preferve their conqueft; they wifh to enjoy repofe after their victory.

For this glorious repofe they will be indebted to the hereditary Government of a fingle individual, who, elevated above all, invefted with great power, furrounded by fplendour, glory and majefty, will defend public Ij berty, maintain equality, and lower his lalces before trie fovereign will of the people who proclaim him. It is this Government which the French nation wifhed to live itfelf in the happy days of the year 1789, the recollection of which will be ever dear to the' friends of the country, whom the noble enthufiafm Which the image" alone of this Government created, was involuntarily fhared even by thofe whofe interefts were hurt by the revolution, and a perfidious foreigner dared to lift up from afaKKfs': parricide and in which the experience of ages, the reafon of ftatefmen, the genius of puiloi'ophy sad the love of humanity iLiii iiey and the other Jbevs who are Ot Cairo. An action roliowed, in which this Lie and the greater part of partifens frll n. bey hiniielr has retired. -into Upper Egypt.

-A ftill greater diipute arofe immediate!" aft-the Arnauts, and about 6000 Albanefe, vh' had hitherto held with the Mamalukcs, led with, and employed their aims asainft th4n" and on the 14th of Lift month, a bloody took place between them, irT which Ibrahn Bey, and almofr. all of the oilier Beys, k-; led, difperfed, or taken prifoners. Such are the accounts which the General 0f theArnautshas tranfmitted to the Porte, to whic'i he promifes future Similar accch-nts have, likewife been received from the con-nrr-dahts Alexandria, Kokcr Pacha, in dhpatcho dated the 22d of March. In conference of this change of affairs in Egypt, by which the fovereignty of the Btvs is put an end to, the cannon of the Seraglio vcre fired on the 13th a public demonflratioa of joy. Endeavours will now be made to take the government out of the dangerous nanus of Djezzar to whom in the time of neceiHty it was committed.

The lateft accounts from Egypt affert, that a corps of Sepoys from the Engliiii Eaft Indies has arrived at Suez, and that an Englifli fquadron has made its appearance in the Tutkifh leas but A ip rp n-- 1 Laiv.u poiiciuoii or Dy tile A new and ftriTr Edid of Council has been nublifhed here rph-i-ir to the emigrants and fufpected French. A reward in money is given to any perfon who will inform againft any of them who" refide here fe-cietly. All foreigners who have certificates of refidence from the Magiftracy, muft carry thera continually about them, and' will be conddered as fufpicious if they cannot produce them. Petkrsburgh, April 13 Important events fc-em to be on the carpet, if we may judge from the intercourfe maintained by couriers between our Government and fome of the German Courts. The Grand Duke, it is laid, will foci fet out for Poland, and the frontiers, for the pur- pole, no doubt, of infpectmg the troops, which have been for fome time afiembling in that quarter.

Banks of the Mavn, May 6 The latt intelligence from Peterburgh confirms the news, that a defeniive treaty of alliance has been concluded between Ruffia and Denmark. Two more Ruffian frigates, with nire paffed the Dardanelles, and proceeded towards the Seven Hands. Vienna, April 24. As o'ur finances have been greatly improved fince the war, under the wife direction of Count Yon Zichy, Prefident of that department, it is intended to reduce the public debt more and more in pui fuanc; of which, the Chamber of Finances is proceeding vith the difcharge of the national bonds. It has been re-folved, that, next month, bank-notes for two millions arid a half fhaJI be deftroyed.

It is mentioned, in a letter fiota Lemberg, that great numbers of Ruffian troops are aflcmb-liog on the frontiers of Podolia. In Pruffiaa Poland, alfo, there are great movements among the troops. The between our Court and that of Peterburgh has'-been extremely brifk fof fome time paft. Upon the whole, it is thought that important events are on the eve of diicb-fure. April 28.

For fome time paft the ofEcial communications between our Court and the principal Cabinets of Europe, have been very frequent. This activity of coirefpondence, as well as other circumftances, affords reafon forprefu.m-ing that objects of the hioheft importance are now on the tapis Three days ago there arrived here two extraordinary couriers, one from London, and the other froni Peterfburoh, with difpatches for the Chancery; and at time, our Court difpatched a courier to Paris, and Count de Rafumowlld, the Ruffian Ambit fador, fent off one of his domeftics to Peteifburgh, with difpatches, faid to be of a very urgent nature. There has alfo paffed through this capital a courier froni the French Government, on his way to Peterfburgh. The laft intelligence from Peterfburgh and Copenhagen, flates, that a defenfive treaty of alliance has been concluded between Ruffia and LONDON May 23. Monday morning about ten o'clock, the Lord Chancellor and Mr Pitt had audiences of his Majesty, and continued till near twelve.

In a fhort time after, his Majesty, accompanied by the Duke of Cambridge, took an airing in his port chariot, followed by the Quees, and the Princesses, attended by the Counteifes Aylesbury and Cardigan, in two coaches and four, on the Harrow road, and retur ned about half paft three through the principal ftreets at the weft end of the town. Yefterday morning, about ten o'clock, the Lord Chancellor and Mr Pitt had audiences of hisMAjESTY, and continued with his Ma-, jesty a confiderable time. About 12 o'clock, his Majesty, accompanied by the Duke of Cambridge, in his poft chariot, followed by the QuEExand Princesses, attended by the Counteifes Aylesbury- and Cardigan, took an airing to Kew, after-walking in the gardens returned to the Q-jeen's Houfe to dinner. Yefterday at three o'clock, the Ruffian Am-baffador had an audience of Lord Karrgwiiy, his office, and continued with his Lordihip ill near five. I Nunn, and Mr Webb, pilots, to whofe fteadi- neis, Hall, ana attention, particularly trie ror-mer, I (hall ever feel myfelf indebted, for ha-ving brought the Antelope into action within the Sands, where certainly the enemy could not expect to be met by a fliip of her Cizt-, and for having allowed her to continue engaged with' Commodore Verhuel to the laft minute it was poflible to remain in fuch fnoal with a falling tide.

It is but juftice to the enemy's Commodore purfued a fteady courfe, notwith-ftanding our fire, and returned it with fpirit to the laft. I coald not detach open boats into the enemy's line, to pick up thofe veffeis which had ftruck, and were deferted, mixed as they were with thofe ftill firing Captain Hancock fent me one fchu'yt that had. hauled out of the line and fur-rendered. She had a Lieutenant and twenty-three foldiers of the 48th regiment, with five' Dutch feamen on board. She is fo ufeful here, I "cannot.

part with her yet. Enclofed is a lift of our lofs, which, though great, is lefs than might have been expected, owing to the enemy's directing their fire at our mails. The Rattler and the Cruizer have of courfe fufrered moft in the latter refpedt, but are nearly ready for fervie'e The fmoke would not allow us to lee the effect of our fhet on the enemy but their lofs', confidering the number of them under our guns for fo long, muft be great in proportion. We fee maft heads above water of three of the fchooners, and one of the fchuyts, which were funk. I have the honour to be, W.

Sidney SmiIh. The Right Honourable Lord Keith, K. S. Commander in Chief, Return of Killed and Wounded an board his Majejlys fhips and veffeis under the orders of Commodore Sir William Sidney Smith, Knt. in action n'ilh the enemy's flotilla on its paffage from Flufbing to GJlend, 16th May 1804.

Antelope 2 feamen and I-private marine', Wounded. Penelope 3 feamen, killed, and 4 feamen, wounded Amiable Mr Chriftie, mailer Mr Johnfon, 'mi'dfhipman, 4 feamen, and 1 boy', killed Lieutenant W. Mather, Mr Shaivell, purfer; Mr Conner, man, and 11 feamen, -wounded: Cruizer 1 teaman, killed; Mr George Ellis; clerk, and 3 fearrien, wounded. Rattler 2 feamen, killed, and 5 feamen, wounded. Total ,2 petty officers, 10 feamen; and 1 boy, kifl- de 1 Lieutenant, 1 purfer, 4 petty officers, 25 feamen, and 1 private marine, wounded.

W. SIDNEY SMITH. WAR-OFFICE May zz. Berwickshire Ge ntlemen and Yeomanry Cavalry. James Anderson to be Captain.

Cornet George Brown to be Lieutenant, vice Logan. Thomas Jop-land to be Cornet. Dumfries-shire Gentlemen and Yeomanry Cavalry. Captain Brice M'Murdo to be Major Commandant vice J. M'Murdo, deceased.

Lieutenant Hugh M'Cor-nock to be Captain. Francis Short to be Lieutenant. Rev W'Hjam M'Morrine to be Chaplain. Kirkcudbright Gentlemen and Yeomanry Cavalry. Rev.

William Gillespie to be Chaplain. Arinandale and Eskdale. Battalion of Volunteer Infantry. Lieutenant Alexander Craig to be Quarter-Master. Berwickshire Volunteer Infantry.

Carr Brodie to be Ensign, vice Thompson, resigned, ad, or Eastern Battalion of Caithncss-shire Volunteers. Ensign William Sinclair'ijto be Lieutenant, vice Stave-ley, promoted. Ensign Alexander Campbell to he Lieutenant, vice Mackay, promoted. Malcolm Gun to be Ensiga. Benjamin.

Cormack to be ditto. Inverness-shire Volunteers. Isle of Sky Northern Battalion Kenneth Bethune to be Lieutenant, vice M'Crummin, resigned. Rory M'-Lean to be Lieutenant, vice M'Donaid, resign'ed. Peeblrs-shire Volunteers.

Thomas Henderson to be Ensign. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE, FROM THE FRENCH PAPERS. The Confer-jathe Sarnie to the First Consul of the Republic. Viskis May 7. Citizen Firft Conful.The Confervative Senate repairs in a 'body -to you, to thank you for the communica tion you have made to it, the 2d of this mouth, by the Grand Judge, Minifter of Juftice, of the original documents and authentic papers relative to the atrocious plots laid againft the ftate, and againft you, under cover of a diplomatic characerj the Envoy of the King of England to the Court of Munich.

In examining thefe papers, and the report which the Grand Judge has made to you of them, the Senate has feen.the nece'fity of fupplying for the momeut the function, of that grand national tribuual, the elhiblifhment of which is wanting to our inftitutions. A comniiflion of five members has made to it a report which the fenate has adopted, and which it comes toprefent to you. its publicity is committed tothe wifdom of the Government. Our deliberations "are eflentially fecret, and, in political matters, we have for a maxim to let traufpire only what the Governments may judge convenient to communicate to Europe. We fay to Europe, becaufe it is not France alone that is concerned her caufe is that bf the whole world.

However, relative to France, the circumftances make it a duty for the Senate to explain itfelf upon two important objects, which the difcovery of thofe horrible plots appears to it to render worthy of your quicken; and moft ferious attention. At the fight of all thefe attempts, from which pro-vi dence has faved a hero neceffary toils defigns, a firft reflection has ftruck the Senate. When th4y meditate your ruin, it is France they mean to injure. The Englifli and the Emigrants know that your deftiny is that of the French people. If the execrable projects of the former had fucceeded, they little think of the horrible vengeance which that people would have taken of them.

Heaven will preferve the earth from: the neceflitv the French would be in of pu- I'nilhing a crime, the eonfeouences of which would over turn the whole order of the world. JJut that crime has been attempted, and it can be fo again: we fpeak of vengeance, and our laws have not forefeen it. Yes, Citizen Firft Conful-, the Senate muft tell it you. In organifing our foczal order, your fuperior genius has made an omiffion, which honours the generality of of your charajfter, but which, perhaps, augments your dangers and your fears. All our conftitutions, except that of the year 8, had organifed either a high court, or a national jury.

You have had the confidence that fuch a tribunal would not be neceffary, and pofterity, which muft give -you credit for all that yon have done, will civil difcords, which have preceded or followed thoie-J periods, when nations eledted a new chief happy, when not condemned to the fhame, ftill more infupport-able than death, of receiving a foreign power, conqueror or corrupter, a contemptible chief, cowardly enflaved, or bafely perfidious. It bids us to regard the city of the the capi tal 01 tne wona, a prey to ail the dilorders, crimes, and furies, which the gold, the fword, and the poifon of the competitors for the Empire couid create, until a hereditary power replaced a monftrous affemblage of contended elections, ludicrous fauctions, uncertain decifions unacknowledged adoptions and defpifed acclamations." After the fifteen years which have elapfed fmce the year ,1789, after all the catsftrophes which have fucceeded each other; after the numberlefs daiigers which have furrounded the focial body, and when we faw the abyfe opened, into which they feemed relblved to caft it, before the Saviour of France was reftored to us, what other Government than that of a fingle individual, regulated by the law for the happinefs of all, and confided to a family, whofe deftiny is'infeparable from that of the revolution, could protect the fortune of fo great a number of citizens, become holders of landed property, which a counter-revolution would fnatch- from them, guarantee the heads of Frenchmen, who have never ceafed to be faithful to the Sovereign People, and even defend the. exiftence qf thofe, who, miffed in the beginning of pur political torments, have claimed and obtained the indulgence of their country. What other sgis than that Government, can for ever repel thofe-execrable plots, which, reproducing themfelves under every form, fetting every fpring at work, one day overturned and the next re-appeuring, might at length finifh. by tiring our fortune and to which were devoted thole blind zealots, who, in.

their guilty lemtude, which the national thunder has reduced to duft. What other Government, in fhort, can for ever a rA m. evvuxiii.iii iu v.icai lu uiieruus nation, tnoie palms of genius, and thofe laurels of victory, which the enemies of France would, with facrilegious hands, fnatch from her auguft brow This hereditary Government can only confided to Napoleon Bonaparte and his family. I JrlorY gratitude, love, reafon, 'the intereft of the ftate, all proclaim Napoleon Bonaparte hereditary Emperor. But, Citizen Firft Conful, the benefit of our focial pact ought to endure, if poflible, as long as your renown.

We ought to enfure the happinefs, and guarantee the rights of generations to come. The Imperial Goverment ought to be unfhaken. Let northe forgetfubefs of precautions called for by wifdom, fuller the ftorms of an ill organized the tempeft of an Elective Government. Liberty and Equality muft be held facred the focial pact rfiuft not be violated the fovereignty of the. people muft be acknowledged, la-order thatfat the moft diftant times, the nation may not" be forced again to 1 feize its power and avenge its outraged raajefty.

The Senate is of opinion, Citizen Firft Conful, that it is for the deareft interefts of the French people, to. confide the Government of the Republic to Napuleon: Bonaparte hereditary Emperor: It developes in the memorial which it annexes to its meffage, the difpofitions which appear to it the moft proper to give to our inftitutions the neceffary force to guarantee to the nation its deareft rights, by feosring the independence of the great authorities, the free and enlightened vote of impoft, the fecurity of impoft, the fecurity, of profperity, the liberty of individuals, of the prefs, and of elections' the refponfibility of Mnifters, and the inviolability of the conftitutional laws. Thefetutelary difpofitions, Citizen Firft Conful, -vill completely the French people from the plots of their e-nemies, and front thofe agitations which take their rife from ambitious rivals, they will maintain the reign of the law, of liberty and equality. The love of the French for your perfon, tranfmitted to your fucceffor's, with the' immortal glory of your name, will for ever conned the rights of the nation with the power of the Prince. The.

focial pact will brave time. The Republic, as immutable as its vaft territorv, will 1., 1 -i-. ucumu -uiaici ueiiipeits gatner rouna it 111 vain. To make it the whole world muft be ltiaken, and pofr terity, in calling to recollection the prodigies brought about by your genius, will continually behold erect that immenfe monument of every thing for which the couo-- try wui be indebted to you. The Vice-Prefident and Secretaries, FRANCOIS (de Neufchateau) Vice-Prefident.

MORARD de GALUES.7 JOSEPH-CORNUDET, Secretaries. The Chancellor of, the Senate, LAPLACE. (FROM THE HAMBURGH MAIL.) RUSSIAN NOTE TO THE DIET UPON THE ARREST OF'THE DUKE D'ENGHIEM. yThe following Ruffian Declaration, delivered by the Minifter Rupell, to the Baron D'Albini, was communicated to the Diet NOTE. The event which has taken place in the flates of the Elector of Baden, the concltifion of which has been fo melancholy, has occafioned the moft poignant grief to the Emperor of all the Ruffias.

He cannot but view with the greateft concern the violation which-has been committed on the tranquillity and integrity of the German territory. His Imperial Majefty is the more affected by this event, as he never could have "expected that a power which had undertaken, in common with himfelf, the office of mediator, and was confequently bound to exert its care for the welfare anf tranquillity of Germany, could have departed in fuch a manner from the facred principles of the law of nations and the duties it had fo lately taken upon itfeif. It would be unneceffary to call the attention of the Diet to the ferious confequeuces to which the German Empire muft be expofed, if acts of violence, of which the firft example has juft been feen, fhould be paffed over in fileiice it will, with its accuftomed forefight, eafil'y perceive how much the future tranquillity and fecurity of the whole empire, and each of its membeussl muft be endangered, if fuch violent proceedings fhould be deemed allowable, and fuffered to take place with-outobfervation or thefe confidera-tions, and in quality of Guarantee of the Conftitution of the Germanic Empire, and that of Mediator, the Emperor confiders it '-as his duty folemnly to proteft againft an action which is fuch an attack on the tranquillity and fecurity of Germany. Jrdtly alarmed at the mournful profpect it Ks Majefty made no delay to conceive tney nave means once more to erect for a family whom the people have urofmhed. a throne compofed onlv of feudal trophies, and mfn-msnn of line from four till eight, while the Amiable, Cruizer, and Rattler, continued-' to prefs their rear.

Since two o'clock the fteramoft Praam ftruck jeer colours and ran on more but the artillery men from the army got on board, and fhe renewed- her fire on the Amiable with the precifion of a land battery, from Inch 'that fliip lufFered much. Captain Bolton fpeaks much in praife of Lieutenant Mather, who is wounded. Several of the fchooners and fchuyts irame-' diately under the fire of the fhips were driven on fliore in like manner, and recovered by the army. At eight, the tide falling, and leaving ns in little more water we drew, we were reluctantly obliged to haul off into deeper water to keep afloat, and the enemy's vefTels that were not on more, or too much mattered, were thus able to reach Oftend thefe and the Oftend dir vifion have hauled into the bafon. I have anchored in fuch a polition as to keep an eye on them and I lh.aH endeavour to, clofe with them" again if they move into deeper I have to regret that, from the depth of the water in which- thefe vefTels move, gun-boats alone can aft againft them with Four have joined -me, and, I have fent them in to fee what they can do with the Praam that is on 'Shore.

1 have great fatisfaition in bearing tefttmony to your Lordfhip of the gallant and fteady conduct of the captains, commanders, officers, feamen, and marines un.der my orders. Captains Hancock and Mafon bore the brunt of the at tack, and continued it for fix hoars againft a great fuperiority. of fire, particularly from the army on fhore, the howitzer fliells annoying.