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trARIS, December 25.
lOUNCIL of STATE.
Regulation of the Council of State.
December 24. s
he Consuls of the Republic Decree :
Rf.l. The coutil of state is compof
f from 30 to 40 members
. J t form , it fell into a general aflembly
f« divides itfeff into fe&ions.
pill. The general, aflembly cannot be
:jj I bat on beingconvened by theconfal.
|jFt has for its president the firft consul,
ifli in tiis abfeuce one of the two other
lijrfnls. •
I|JIV. The minister has the liberty of en-
Kng intothe general aflembly ofthe coun-
Hos state, but no vote there.
■V. The counfellors of Rate are divided
Ho five, feftions, viz.—A leftion of fi
[Jnce, afaftion of civil and criminal legif-
Hion, a feftion of war, a feftion of ma-
Hie, a feftion of interior.
IVs. A connfellor of state. appointed au
rally by the firft consul, should preside
8 each fe&ion.
I When the second or third consul is in
Ey ofthe feftions he (hall be president.
■ The ministers when they think it of
Riiity, may assist, without a deliberate
Slice, at the fittings of the fe&ions.
I VII. Five counfellors ofthe state are
>ecia!ly charged with the different parts
f the administration in regard to inftruc
bn only: they '{hall follow the details of
kepi, sign the correspondence, receive and
ill for information of every kind, and
onvey to the ministers the proposals of
tcifion which the latter submit to the
onfuls. —One of them is charged with
le care ofthe woods, forefts, and antient
omains.—Another with the bridges,
aufeways, canals of navigation, and re
ndering of lands. Another with the arts
ind feiences —Another with the colonies.
VIII. The proposition of a law or a re
mlation of public administration (hall be
lrged by the ministers, each in the extent
3f°his department. If the consuls adopt
their opinion, the projeft fliall be refer
red to the competent feftion, in order that
the law or regulation may be drawn up in
r proper form. As soon as this labor is
inifhed, the president ofthe feflion fliall
wait upon the consuls to inform them of
lit. The firft consul lhall then convoke
the general aflembly of the council of state.
The projeift lhall there be difeufled upon
the report of the feftion, by which it was
drawn up. The council of state lhall
transmit their opinion, with the motive on
’* : 11 ' imi' 1 " WMHMt'TTp tfiry
fliall decree it definitively ; or if it be a
law, they lhall decree that it fliall be pro
filed to the legillative body. In the lat
ter case, the firft consul fliall name among
il\£ counfellors of state, one or more ora
lors, whom he fliall charge to present the
[projetft of the law, and to support it in the
jdifcufiion. The orators, when they pre
sent the projeft of any law, lhall explain
the motives of the proposition of govern
ment.
I X. When the government withdraws
ithe project of a law, they fliall do it by a
pillage.
XI. The council of state pronounces
1. Upon the coufli&s which may nrife be
tween the administration and the tribunals,
a. Upon ditputed affairs, the decision of
.vhich has previously been referred to mi
aifters. 3. They lhall explain the mean
ing of the Idfcvs, on the queltions presented
:o the Consuls being referred to them.
Xfl. The counfellors of state charged
v »th the direction of certain parts of the
public administration, have no voice in
he council of state, when it pronounces
n the contentions of their party.
XIII. The council of state Has a fecre
ary general, whose fuiuftions are—r. To
communicate the public business to the
l: herein feft ion s. 2. To write minutes
n the general allrmblies of the council of
late, and the particular aflemblies which
he prelidents of the feftions lhall hold
:,uh decade. 3. To present to (hecon
uis the refnlt of the labors of the general
trembly. *4, To countersign the opini
• JiS ot tlie council, and the decisions ofthe
'fficers. 5 Fo keep minutes of the ails
'/ '* j' ! - aflemoly, of the council of
tite. 01 the fast: ions, and of the counfellors
uigel with parts ofthe administration;
o deliver or sign copies of them iflued, or
x'racls.
vIV. The uniform falarv of counsel
»r > ot ftrt- is 2 <5,c00 francs. An addi
ons, !um t» granted to the president? of the
:tX - to b>ch of the counfellors of
ate as th ill ;>e charged with the direction
* anv part of the public administration.
V' j ' 1 i.ary of the fecretarv ger.cra!
i fixed at 15,000 livrcs. ‘ ’
X\ l. lue epitome of the counsellors
d ite in thus regulated —Coat of blue
‘V* • I j aml ue silk in fjumroer,
mhroidcred with blue Glk.
LONDON, January ti.
The dilpatches brought by Lieutenant
Leeky, who arrived at the A .niraltv on
Thursday, are of forne importance. A Po
lacre, from Egypt,, bound to Toulon with
confidential letters to the late trench Di
rectory and others, fell into the hands of
our cruizers. The Commander threw hi?
packet overboard, but it was recovered by
the enterprise and activity of an Englifti
sailor, who dived and brought it up. ir
has been lent home, and for theie last two
days, vve understand that these letters have
furnifhed infinite gratification to the curi
osity of office. They contain according
to report, the mod vehement complaints
by the French soldiers of the desertion of
Buonaparte, and the mod bitter impreca
tions on the government for leaving them
to perifli by degrees in that inholpitable
climate. A letter from Gen. Dugua to
Barras, is particularly mentioned as con
taining political information of conse
quence. He fays that the whole of the
French army in Egypt is reduced to 7000
men; that they have neither doathes nor
ammunition ; and that they are utterly Un
fit to resist the enemy, who are above
40,000 strong, and well lupplied with ev
ery neceffitry. He applies, therefore, to
Barras, as one of the directors, to exert
himfelf to save the wretched remains of
this arrny, for without the mod immediate
relief, not a man of them would be able to
return to their native land.
Another letter fays, that they mild sue
to the Turks for the means of escape from
the horrors of their present situation ; and
there are, as heretofore, numbers of pen
sive epistles from husbands to their wives,
and from lovers, Tons, and brothers to their
fympatliifing friends. It is said that these
letters are immediately to be publiflied.
OFFICIAL.
Second Letter from the Minister for Fo
reign Affairs, at Paris, with its accom
panying Inclofure;
And the
. Answer. Returned by the Right Honor
able Lord Grenville, his Mnjefty’s Prin
cipal Secretary of State forForeignaffairs.
(TRANSLATION.)
Paris, 24 Nivofe, B th Year,
(January 14, 1800 J
My Lord,
I loft no time in laying before the
First Consul of the Republic the Officia
„ M«|-- 1 f *— l -l-'"- —«-l— -d...-
charged to forward the answer equally offi
cial, which you will find annexed.’ Re
ceive, my Lord, the aflurance of my high
cotifnleration.^^
(Signed) W
CH. MAU. TALLEYRAND.
To the Minister for Foreign Affairs ,
at London.
TRANSLATION OF THE NOTE RFEER
RED TO IN No. I.
The official Note, under the date of the
14th Nivofe, the Bth year, addrefTed by
the Minister of his Britannic DTaufty, hav
ing been laid before the First Consul of the
French Republic, he observed with fur
priie, that it rested upon an opinion, which
is not exa6l, refpe£ting the origin and con
sequences of the present war. Very far
from its being France which provoked it,
file had, it must be remembered, from the
commencement of her Revolution, solemn
ly proclaimed Her love of peace, and her
difinciination to conquests, her refpeft for
the independence of all governments; and
it is not to be doubted that, occupied at
that time entirely with her own internal
affairs, (lie would have avoided taking part
in those of Europe, and would have re
mained faithful to her declarations.
But from an opposite disposition, as soon
as the French Revolution had broken out,
almost all Europe entered into a league for
its deftruftion. The aggression was really
a long time before it public : internal
resistance was excited ; its opponents were
favorably received ; their extravagant dec
lamations were supported; the French na
tion was insulted in theperfonof itsagents;
and England set particularly this example
by the difmiflal of the Minister accredited
to her. _ Finally, France was in fatf, at
tacked in her independence, in her honor,
and in her fafety, long time before the
war was declared.
Thus it is to the projeds of fubjeiftion,
diliolution and diimemberment, which
were prepared again ft her, and the execu
tion of which was several times attempted
and purlued, that France has a right to
impute the evils which (he has ftiffered
and thole which have affiicled Eurooe
Such projects, tor a long time without ex
ample, with refpeft to so powerful a na
tion, .could hot tail to bring on the most
fatal eonfequences. j
A flailed on all tides, the Republic could i
not but extend unlvcrfal’y the efforts of
her defence; and it is only for the main- 1
tetiaaceof her own independence that fits
has made ui'e of thole means which (lie
poflefied in her own strength and the cou
rage of htr citizens. As long as lhe favv
that her enemies obftmately refufed to re
cognize her rights, (he continued onlv up
on the energy of her resistance: but .as
loon as they were obliged to abandon the
hope of invasion, (lie fought means for
conciliation, and manifefted pacific inten
tions; and if these have not always been
efficacious; if, in the midst of the critical
circumstances of her internal (ituation,
which the revolution andthe war have suc
cessively brought on, the former deposito
ries of the Executive Authority in France
have not always (hewn as much modera
tion as the nation itfelf has (hewn courage,
it mud, abotle all, be imputed to the hate
ful and perfervering animosity with which
the resources of England havejbeen lavish
ed to accomplish the ruin of France.
But if the his Britannic Ma
jefty'(in conformity with his aflurances)
are in unison with those of the French F.e
public, for the re-eftabiifhlneht of peace,
why, instead of attempting the apology of
the war, should not attention be rather
paid to the means of terminating it ? And
what obftade can prevent a mutual under
standing, of which the utility is reciprocal,
,and is felt, especially when the First Con
sul of the French Republic has personally
given so many proefo of his eagerness to
put an end to the calamities of war, and of
his disposition to maintain the rigid obser
vance of all treaties concluded.
The firft consul of the French Repub
lic could not doubt that his Britannic Ma
jesty recognized the right of nations to
choofethe form of their government, since
it is from the exercise of this right that he
holds his crown : but he has been unable
to comprehend how this fundamental prin
ciple, upon which rests the existence of
Political Societies, the Minister of his Ma
jesty could annex insinuations which tend
to an interference in the internal affairs of
the Republic, and which are no less inju
rious to the French Nation, and to its Go
vernment, than it would be to England,
and to his Majeftv, if a fort of invitation
were held out in favor of that Republican
Government, of which England adopted
the forms in the middle of the last century,
or an exhortation to recal to the Throne
that Family whom their birth had placed
there, and whom a Revolution compelled
to del'eend from it.
at nrriftdfi pot far distant, when the
fented neither the strength nor the solidity
which it contains at present, his Britannic
Majesty tho’t himfelf enabled to invite a
negociation and pacific conferences, how
is it polfible that he should not be eager to
renew negotiations to which the present
and reciprocal situation of affairs promiles
a rapid progress. On every fide the voice
of Nations and of Humanity implores the
conclusion of a war marked already by such
great calamities, and the prolongation of
which threatens Europe with an universal
convulsion and irremediable evils. It is
therefore to put a stop to the course of
these calamities, or in order that their ter
rible conlequences may be reproached to
those only who (hall have provoked them,
that die First Consul of the French Re
public propoles to put an immediate end
to hoftiiities, by agreeing to a suspension
of arms, and naming Plenipotentiaries on
each fide, who should repair to Denmark,
or any other town as advantageonlly situ
ated for the quickness of the reipeftive
communications, and who should apply
themselves without any delay to effetft the
re-establishment of peace and good under
standing between the French Republic and
England.
The firft Consul offers to give the PafT
ports which may be neceffury for this pur
pose.
‘ CH. M. TALLEYRAND.
Pans, 24th. Nivoje {l4th Jan. 1800,)
B th Year oj the French Republic.
Letter from Lord Grenville to the Minifier for <
Foreign Affairs at Paris.
Downing-Street, January 20, 1800.
S I R,
I Have the honor to inclofe to ;
you the answer which his Majesty has di
-1 e£ted me to return to the official note
which you transmitted to me. 1 have the
honor to be, with the highest considera
tion, Sir, yuur moil obedient humble
servant. »
(Signed)
GRENVILLE.
To the Minister for Foreign
Affairs, ftfe. Ic. at Paris.
Note referred to in the preceding.
THE official note transmitted bv the
Minister for foreign affairs in France, and t
received by the undersigned on the iSth d
instant, has been hid before the King.
Hi; Majesty cannot forbear expressing I
1 the concern ...with which he observes .
that note, that the unprovoked agu rc gj *
of France, the lole cause and origin o f,t!
war, are fyftematicallv defended by »,* *
present rulers, under the fame injuri<J
pretences by which they were origi na ;i $
attempted t p be disguised. His
will not enter into the refutation of a j ‘
gations now universally exploded, and r"
so far as they rcfpeft his Majcfty’j
daft) not only in themselves u tter |’
groundlcfs, but contradicted both by the
internal evidence of the tranfafti ons to
which they relate, and also by the exp.-ef
teftimony (gWen at the time) of the vn
vernment of France itfelf. “ ' ,
\Virh refpeft to the objeft of the note
his Majesty can only refer to the ans r 4
which he has already given.
He has explained, without reserve, t’ le
obftaclea'nvhich in his judgment, preclude
at the present moment all hope of adva D .
negociation. All the induce
mepts to treat, which are relied upon i n
the French official note; the perfonaldif.
positions which are said to prevail s ort s, t
conclusion of peace and for the future ob
servance of Treaties ; the powers of in.
fureing the effeft of those dispositions, fun.
posing them to exist ; and the Solidity 0 f
the system newly established, after so rap'd
a succession of Revolutions—all these are
points which can be known only from
that test to which his Majeftv has alreadr
referred them—the result of experience
and the evidence of fafts.
With that sincerity and plainness which
his anxiety for the re-establishment of
peace indispensably required, his Majesty
has pointed out to France the surest and
speediest means for the attainment ofthai
great objeft. But he has declared in terms
equally explicit, and with the famefince
ritv, that he entertains no desire to pre
feribe to a foreign nation the form of its
government ; that he looks only to the se
curity of his own dominions and of Eu
rope ; and that whenever that eflential ob
jeft can in his judgment be, in any man
ner whatever fufficiently provided for, he
will eagerly concert with his Allies the
means of immediate and joint negociation
for the re-eftabliftiment of geueral tran
quility.
To these declarations his Majesty stea
dily adheres ; and it is only on the grottn ii
thus stated, that his regard to the fafety of
his fubjefts will fuffer him to renounce
that system of vigorous defence, to which
under the favor of providence, his king-
' r *v *** »*•«**. mrmiigi
wWrb they now enjoy.
(Signed) GRENVILLE
Downing-street, Jan. so, xßoo.
Congress of the United States ,
House of Representatives.
Monday, March 24.
Mr. Parker, from the naval, Committee
reported the following resolution :
Resolved, by the Senate and House of
Representatives of the United States of A
merica, in Congress aflembled, thatthePre
fident of the United Sates be requested to
present to Captain Thomas Truxtoo, a
Golden Medal, emblematical of the late
aftion between the United Sates frigate
Constellation, of 38 guns, and the French
ship of war La Vengeance, of 54 guns, in
testimony of the high sense entertained by
Congress, of his Gallantry and good con
duft in the above engagement; wherein
an example was exhibited, by the Captain,
Officers, Sailors, and Marines, honorable
to the American name, and inftruftive to
its rising navy.
Resolved, That the conduft of James
Jarvis, a midshipman in said frigate, who
gloriously preferred certain death*to the a
bandonment of his post, is deferring of the
highest praise, and that the loss of so pro
mising an officer is a fubjeft of national
regret.
MefTrs. Randolph and Lvon opposed the
firft resolution. Tiie question uponagree
ing to it was taken by ayes and nays, and
carried ayes S7 —noes - Those who vot
ed in the negative are
Mr. Jackson, Mr. Randolph,
Lyon, Sumter.
The second resolution was agreed to un*
animoiifly.
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