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t>ry and the following persons are no longer members of
the national reprel'entation, on account* of the exceflVs and
violent attempts which they have uniformly made, and
particularly the greater part of them in the fitting of this
morning.’
[Here follow the names of(n members.']
ad. The legiilative body creates provisionally an exe
cutive consular committee, composed of citizens Sieyes and
Roger Ducos, ex dire&ors, and Buonaparte, general.
They fiiall bear the name of consuls of the French repub
lic.
3d. This committee is inverted with the full powers
•of the directory, and specially conuniffioned to organize
order in all parts of the administration, to reeftablilh in
ternal tranquillity, and to procure an honorable and solid
peace.
4th. It is authorized to fend delegates with a power
limited according to its own power.
sth. ‘XV legiilative body is adjourned to the 20th of
February. It is to meet ut that period in full power at
Paris.
6th. During the adjournment of the legiilative body
the members fiiall preserve their indemnity and their con
stitutional security.
7th. They may, without lofmg their quality as repre
sentatives of the people, be employed as ministers, diplo
matic agents, delegates of the executive confiilar commit
tee, and in all other civil fundlions. They are even invited
In the name of the public good to accept them.
2th. Before their reparation, and during the time of
their fitting, each council shall name from among their
members a committee of 25 members.
gth. The committees appointed by the two councils
will, in conjunction with the committee of the executive
consulate, determine upon all urgent objects relative to
the police, legislation, and finance.
I oth. To the committee of the council of five hundred
will belong the right of proposing, and to that of the coun
cil of elders that of fan&ioning them.
1 ith. The two committees will also, in the order a
bove mentioned, regulate the changes in thoft parts of the
constitution which experience may have (hewn to have
been, inconvenient or vicious.
12th. These changes can have no other objetft but
that of consolidating and guaranteeing inviolably the so
vereignty of the people, the republic one and indivisible,
the reprelentative system, the division of power, liberty,
equality, and the fafety of property.
13th. The executive consulate committee may lay
before the other committees their views upon these fubjelts.
14th. The two committees are charged to prepare a
civil code.
15th. Their fittings will be held at Paris in the palace
of the legiilative body, and they may convoke extraordi
narily for the ratification of peace, or in case of great
public danger.
16 th. These resolutions fiiall be printed, and sent by
extraordinary couriers to the departments, and solemnly
publilhed and stuck up in all the commuiffes of the republic.
At one o’clock the three consuls came and took the
following oath:
’ “ Fidelity to the republic one and indivisible, to liberty
and equality.”
At three o’clock they proceeded to the femtiny of the
nomination of the intermediate committee.
The president then adjourned the council to the 20th of
February at the ordinary place of meeting.
Paris, November 8.
Headquarters at Zurich, 12th Brumaire, November 3.
Majfena , commander in chief to the minister at war.
Citizen Minister,
I had given orders by gen. Soult, in concert with the
division of gen. Loifon, to drive all the enemy that remain
ed on the bank of the Rhine across the river.
Gen. Loifon set out from Difltntis with the 38th demi
brigade, and at Fleims was joined by the 44th from Elu,
under command of adjutant Comptre. Gen. Loifon pro
ceeded to Treins, where he attacked the enemy and compel
led them to fall back to Tamius, while gen. Mortier, with
two battalions of the 25th light regiment, and a detach
ment of the 1 oth regiment of horse chalTeurs, attacked all
the enemy he found behind Vettis, defending by the route
of Konkels. They in vaip opposed a momentary refin
ance. The brave 25th, charged them with fixed
bayonets, and compelled them to abandon the positions
they occupied. Gen. Mortier caused a charge of cavalry
to be made by his chalTeurs, which was executed with so ‘
much ability that we took 200 prisoners.
The enemy, aware of the importance of defending Ta
mius, assembled all their forces, which confided of four
battalions, at the Debauche of Konkels. They endeavored
at all hazards to prevent us from penetrating, but a critical
charge by the 25th threw them into disorder. They loft
all their pontoons and two three pounders; 300 prisoners
remained in our hands. The enemy parted the Rhine in
the greatest disorder, burning the bridges of Richeneau and
Feldlburg with comouftible materials which they had pre
pared. The junction of gen. Loifon and Mortier was ef
-eifted at this point.
The refidt of these combined operations has been the ex
pulsion of the whole of the enemy’s troops who were on
the left bank of the Rhine into the Grifons, the defti ucbion
•of the bridges at Richeneau and Feldfourg, two pieces of
cannon, 5000 prisoners, among which are nihe officers, and
•a number of killed and wounded. On our fide we had only
three killed and ten wounded. The generals beflow the
greatest praise upon their troops. All did their duty per
fectly well.
Health and fraternity.
Massena.
November 13. The consulate entered the 23th
Brumaire (nth November) on its functions. There will
not be a president of it, but a conl’ul for the day.
The consulate has been fincc. employed in nominating
to the mod important places.
Maret, ex ambassador at Naples, is appointed secretary
general of the consulate.
Gaudin, formerly commissioner of the treasury, and
fincc ccinmiffary general of the executive diceiftory for
the administration of the ports, is minister of finances;
Alexander Berthier, minifter’ at war; Gairibaceres is ap
pointed minister of justice; Fouche, of police; and Rhein
ard, of foreign affairs.
Ycfterday citizens Talleyrand, RWderer, and Volnev,
were sent for by the consuls, with .whom they had a long
conference. A council of (late was created; it is to be
comp Ted of these three citizens.
Proclamation ijfued by gen. Buccapctrte at 1 t o'clock
on the night of the \<)tb Brumaire , (November 10. J
On my return to Paris I found dil’cord reigning among
all the cofiflituted authorities, and that they agreed only
refpeifVmg one truth, viz. “ That the constitution was half
delhoyed, and was unable to save the cause of liberty.”
All parties came to me, entrusted me with their designs,
disclosed to me their secrets, and solicited my support. 1
refilled to lend my. support to any party, j
J he council of elders called me before them. 1 obeyed
the call. A plan of general restoration had been concerted
by men in whom the nation is accustomed to behold the
defenders ot liberty, of equality, of property. This plan
required a calm and free invert igation, unbiaffed by any
influence or by any tears. Agreeably to this idea the
council of elders resolved upon transferring the legiilative
body to St. Cloud; they c’ arged me with the military force
ntceffary to proteift their independence. I deemed it a
duty I owed my fellow citizens, tlie soldiers who are per
-1 filing in our armies, and the national glory acquired by
their blood, to accept that command.
Ihe councils assembled at St. Cloud; the republican
troops watch over their external security; but affallins
make terror prevail in the interior; fcvtral deputies of the
council cf five hundred, armed with stilettos and pistols, cir
culated all around them the threats and terr rs cf death.
Ihe plans that were to be developed are limited, the
majority disorganized, the moft intrepid speakers difeon
certed, and the propolal and agitation of any wife mealure
became utterly 11 fclefs.-
I communicate my indignation and my sorrow to the
council of ciders; I request to be allowed to fee lire the
execution of their gtjierqys designs; I leprefentcd to them
the calamities ol the country, by which they had been
suggested; they joined me in new testimonies of their con
llant determination.
I appeared in the council of five hundred alone, without
arms, my head uncovered, such as the ciders had received
and applauded me; 1 went to remind the ma.ority of the
intentions by which they were animated, and to assure
them that they might rely on their power.
1 he stilettos by, which the deputies were menaced were
railed against him who wifl.ed to be their deliverer; 20 ai
faffins darted upon me and aimed at my breast; the grena
diers of the legiilative body, whom T had left at the door
ot the hall, ran up and threw themselves between the al
fuliins and me; one of these brave grenadiers, named
1 home, received a blow of a stiletto, which pierced his
clothes; they carried me off.
At the fame moment the cnes of Declare him an outlaw
were heard against the man who wilhed to defend the law;,
it was the frantic cry of the afl’affin against the force def
ined to rob him of his prey.
They thronged round the president with threats in their
mouths and arms in their hands; they ordered him to put
the question of outlawry. I was informed of this, and
gave orders to relate him from their fury, and accordingly
fix grenadiers brought him out. Immediately after lbrne
grenadiers of the legiilative body entered at the pas de
charge into the hall, and cleared it.
The factious leaders being thus intimidated dispersed
and went away. The majority returned to the hall of
their fitting, and heard the propositions which were to be
made for the public fafety, deliberate upon them, and pre
pare the salutary resolution which is to become the new and
provilional law of the republic.
Frenchmen! you will doubtless recognize in this conduct
the zeal of a soldier of liberty, and of a citizen devoted
to the republic. Views directed to confcrvation, to pro
tection, to liberal purport's, will resume their influence by
the dispersion of incendiaries who opprefled the council,
and who, though they rendered themfelvcs the moft odi
ous, never ceased to be the moft contemptible of mankind.
(Signed) Buonaparte.
Add refs from the leg flat he body to the French people.
St. Cloud, November 10.
Frenchmen ,
The republic has again escaped the rage of faction; your
faithful representatives have broken the poniard in the hands
of the parricides; but, after having averted the blows with
•which you were menaced, they have felt it their duty to
prevent an internal agitation, and, taking counsel from
their duty and their courage only, they presume to hope
that they have Ihewu themselves worthy of you.
Frenchmen, your liberties torn, still bloody with the
crimes of the revolutionary government, wc shall leek an
asylum in the arms of a constitution which promiles at least
fome rep oft*.
But the seditious have attacked without ccafing the weak
parts of our constitution; and the constitutional regime has
been but a continuation of the revolution in every lenfe in
which the different parties themselves have interpreted it.
Those even who wilhed the moft lincerely to maintain that
constitution have been forced to violate it every instant that
they might save it from perilhing.
From this slate of inability of the government has re
fill ted greater instability still iu legislation, and rights the
moft sacred of social man have been delivered up to the
caprice of faftion and events.
It is time to put an end to this tumult; it is time to give
a solid guarantee to the liberty of the citizens, to the fo
vertigo ty of the people, to the independence of the con
stitutional powers, to the republic itfelf, of which the name
has too often served to coitfecrate the violation of all prin
ciples, it is time that the great nation fliould have a go
vernment worthy of itfelf; a government firm and wife,
which can give a ipeedy and solid peace, that you may
3 true happiness. For the purpose of arriving more
y at this ed a provilional government is instituted.
Frenchmen! rally round'. our magiftmtes! Soldiers of li
berty puiffue the coUrle'ot’ypur victories; you will achieve
the conquest of peace, that you may so. ,11 return to the
inidft of your brethren, and receive from the public £r:t .1-
tude the honors and rewards reftrved for your glorious la
bors.
The Consuls to the French people.
Paris, 21 Brumaire, 12th November, Sth year of
the French republic one and indivisible.
Ihe constitution of the third year has perilhed. It was
neither used to protect your righ's nor support itfelf.
Multiplied attacks deprived it for ever of the refpetl of
the people. Heinous and ambitious factions divided the
republic between them. France at length approached to
the last term ol a general diforganizatiou.
The patriots have made themselves heard. Every thing
that can injure you has been removed. Evtry thing that
could lerve you, every thing that remained pure in the
national reprel’entation, is United under the banners of li
berty.
J
Frenchmen! The republic, reestablished and replaced in
Europe in the rank which (lie never llionld have 1011, will
proceed to realize all the hopes of citizens, arid will accom
pli! h its glorious delimits.
Take with us the oath which vve have made, to be
faithful to the republic, one and indivisible, founded upon
equality, liberty, and the representative system.
By the consuls of the republic.
Roger Dccos,
Buonaparte,
Sieves.
(True copy.)
Hagufs Bkhnaku Maret, fee. gen,
London, Novembers). It is his majeftv’s ship Nassau,
of 64 guns, and cot the Kent, that has been unfortun
ately loft; ll.e was driven by a strong currtnt on a fund
bank near the TtxcT liland in the gale on Friday fe’nnight.
From the a ft: Ranee that was afl’ortlcd her there was reaibn
to hope that the whole of the crew would have been saved.
but unfortunately fome cf tl e lea men threw off all regard
to dili ipline, and became intent on plunder, by Inch
means two officers and 42 men perilhed; these two officers
were the captain of marines and purler; all the other of
ficers and men were happily saved.
Accounts from Constantinople mention that fir Sidney
Smith failed from the iiland of Cyprus, in the liortheaftcm
part of the Mediterranean, for Alexandria in Egvpt, n
the 17th of September, for the purpose of bombarding that
city.
November 21. We last nigl£ received the French
papers up to the 17th instant imlufne.
We lee no prol'pedl of a pacification with the emperor.
Ihe story of an armistice being concluded is untrue. Thev
copy, the article from the German papers as an unfounded
rumor; while they give us ati account of a m >ft del pa rate
battle, fought upon their new system of combined attacks,
on a lengthened line, in which their arms were crowned
with viiftory. By this important victory Championet
gained pofllffion of all the country between the Sura and
the Tanaro; lie made himfelf master of Mondovi, and
took 3920 prisoners, 16 pieces of cannon, and a great
number of officers.
Copy fa letter from capt. Mucnamara, rs his ihajef.
tfs Jhip Cerberus, to admiral Kingfmill .
Lerberus, t-ff St. Andero, Cdlober 22, 1799.
Siß,——On the 20th, at sp. m. Cape Ortegal bearing
s. vv. 8 or 9 leagues, a fleet was difeovered from our mast
head Handing to the s. e. I Rood towards them, and at
8 p. m. I hailed one of the leading frigates, and nearly
touching brought her to aft ion. The enemy now seemed
only to with to join his squadron to leeward, as he was
making fail for that purpose, and his fire was not very
briik. 1 o obviate his intentions I wore and engaged hint
under his lee. At half past 8 his fire was completely fi>.
leticed, but all my efforts to take poffelTion of him were
ruidci ed fruitleL by the rest of the (quadron coining up to
support him, which I now found to consist of 5 frigates and
2 brigs. On hauling up, to prevent being raked, we
neatly fell on board one of them, and carried away her
main top fail yard. Thus engaged till half past 9 o’clock,
the greatest part of that time keeping up a fire on both
sides, I was under the mortifying necessity to haul off. I
then laid hold of one of their convoy, which I was obliged
to set fire to, as the enemy’s squadron was within a mile,
Handing towards us, ready to support each other. That
very zealous officer, litut. Stachpole, performed this fer
vicc in the jolly boat, blowing hard, and in a heavy lea.
ihe Cerberus only fullered in her fails and rigging, and
4 me if wounded, which I attribute to the confulion which
a dole and Ready fire, and an unexpected attack, must:
have thrown into. I observed in the latter part of
the aft ion fome of their frigates fired whole broadsides
without (hot. I have to regret I had not another frg.ite
with me, as in that case I am confident I lliould have de
stroyed the greatest part of the enemy’s convoy, and have
taken fome of their men of war.
I need not fay that the officers and (hip’s company of his
majesty’s fliip under my command Ihewed themselves cool
and intrepid men; and, though I have not been fortunate
enough to take any of the enemy’s squadron, I hope I may
l* allowed to speak to the able affiance I received from
lieut. Stackpole on the quarterdeck, and the foirit and a
lacrity with which he executed all my orders,’ during an
aflion in which manoeuvre was so neceflary to prevent the
enemy from having that advantage over us which so great
a iuperiority must otherwise have given them. The names
of the (hips compofmg the enemy’s squadron I herewith
fend you, as given to me by the prisoners taken out of
the fliip we burned.
I lvave tlie honor to be, Sec.
James Macnamara.
Admiral Kingfmill, b?c. fr’e.
The Spani(l) squadron.
La Ceres, 44 guns; la Nymphe, 40 guns; la Dianai,
40 guns; l’Emeralda, 36 guns; la Mecredes, 40 guns;
l’Artoche, 18 guns; la Bologna, 22 guns.
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