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dy, in in order to open the fitting.
His Majefty addreffed the Affcmbly
as follows:
Messieurs, the Deputies of the
Departments to the Legislative
Body,
The code of laws, laying down
the principles of property, and of
civil freedom, which forms the lub
jed of your labors, will be adopted
as the fentiment of Europe. My
people already experience the moft
falutary effed from them.
The late# laws have laid the
foundarion of our fyftem of finance.
That is a monument of the might
andgreatnefs of France. We fhall
hence forward be able to meet the
expenditure which might be ren
dered neceffary, even by a general
coalition of Europe, from our year
ly income alone. Never ffiall we
be reduced to have recourfe to the
fatal expendimrnts, of, paper money
of leans or of anticipations of revenue.
I have, in the prefent year, laid
out more than a thoufand milea of
road. The fvftem of works which
1 have eflablifhed for the improve
ment of our territory, will be car
ried forward with zeal.
The profped of the great French
family, lately torn to pieces by o
piniors and Intcftine rancour, but
now profperous, tranquil, and uni
ted, has affe&ed my foul in a re
markable manner.— l have felt that
in order to be happy, I Jhould m the
firft place , b: aJJ'ured that France was
happy.
The peace of Prefburg, that of
Talfir, rhea flank of Copenhagen,
the plans of England again# all na
tions on the ocean, the different re
volutions at Conftantinople, the af
fairs of Spain and Portugal, have,
in various ways, exercifed an influ
ence on the affairs of the world.
Ruffia and Denmark have united
with ine again# England.
The United #atcs of America
have rather chofcn to abandon com
merce and the fea, than to acknowl
edge their flavery.
A part of my army has marched
again# that which England has for
med in Spain, or has diftmbarked.
It is a diftingtnfhed favor of that
Providence, which has conftantly
proteded our arms, that paflion has
To far blinded the Englilh Councils,
that they abandon the defence of
the Teas, and at laft produce their ar
my on the Continent.
I depart in a few days to put my
fclf in perfon at the head of my ar
my, and, with God’siielp, to crown
the King of Spain in Madrid, and
to plant my Eagles on the Forts of
Spain.
I have only to praife the fenti
ments of the Princes of the Con
federation of the Rhine.
Switzerland experiences more
and more the benefits of the ad of
Mediation.
The people of Iraly gave me
grounds for nothing but expreflions
of fatisfadion.
The emperor of Rufiia and my
self have had an interview at Erfurt.
Our fir# thought was a thought of
peace. We have even relolved to
make fome facrifices, in order to
enaole the hundred millions of men
whom we reprefent, if pr ffiblc, the
fooner to enjoy the bentfi.s of the
commerce of the fras. We are
agreed and unchangeably united, as
well for peace as for war.
Messieurs Deputies,
I have ordered my Minifters of
Finance, and of the General Trea
fury, to lay before you an account
of the receipt and expenditure of the
year. You will therein fee with
fatisfa&ion that I have not felt it
ncctffary to incrcafe the urif with
any impoft. My people fhall ex
perience no new burden.
The Speaker’s of my Council of
State, will fubmit to you many
plans of laws, and among others, all
thofe which have relation to the
criminal code.
I rely conftantly on your co-op
eration.
His Majcfty’s fpeech excited the
moft lively emotion, and the Sitting
was clofed under repeated acclama
tions of Long live the K.nperor ! The
fame rejoicings were mamftfted in
the ftreets through which hi* ma
jefty paffed.
Odobrr 28.
Yefterday, at noon, the Emperor
being feared on his throne, furround
ed by the Princei, grand officers
and officers of his houlehold, the
minifters, members of the fenate
and council of ftate, received at the
palace of the Thuilleries a deputa
tion of the legiflative body. ,
The deputation being admitted
to the foot of the throne, his excel
lency the Count de Fonrane, Ye
President,pronounced the following
addrefs.
“ Sire —The leg : #uive body
lays at your majefty’s reef, the Ad
drefs of thanks voted by all the
French people, as will as by them.
“ The paternal fentiments con
tained in the fpecch you have deli
vered from the throne, have dif
fulcd throughout, love and grati
tude.
“ The firft of captains fees fome
thlng more heroic and elevated
than victory—Yes, Sire, we have
it from your own mouth j there is
an authority more powerful and
permanent than that of arms—it is
the authority which is founded upon
good laws and national Inftitutior.s.
The codes which your wifdom dic
tated will extend further than your
conqutfts, and reign wi hour effort
over twenty different nations, whofe
brnefador you are.
“ The legiflative body ought, a
bove all, to celebrate thofe peace
ful triumphs, which are never fol
lowed but by the bit flings f the
human race.
, “ Leglflation and the finances—
it is to thac that our duties are con
fined, and it is from you we have
icceivedrhat double benefit.
“ To you was it given to re
discover focial r order under the
wreck of a vaft empire, and to re
eftablflh the fortune of the ftate in
the midft of the ravag-s of war.
“ You have created, as you have
every thing be Tides, the true ele
ments of the fyftem of {fiance. —
That fyftem, the moft proper for
great monarchies, is fimple and fix
ed as the principle that governs
them—lt is not fuftained by thofe
artificial means which have ail the
inconftancy of opinions and of e
vents —It is imperilhable as the
riches of our foil.
<c If fomecimes and ffi:dt circum
ftances render new taxes rectffary,
thofe taxes always proportioned to
that nectffity, do not exceed the du
ration of it. The future is not de
voured beforehand. We Hull fee
no more, after years of glory, the
ftate lunk under the weight of the
public debt, and bankruptcy, fol
lowed by revolutions, open an a
byfs in which thrones and focicty
itfeif are entirely loft.
“ Thefc mifeiies are far from us.
The receipts equal the expenditure.
The prefent burdens will not be
augmented j and you give us this
affurance at the moment when other
flares are exhaufting all their re
fources. —When you immolate your
own happinels, the happmefs of the
people occupies your whole foul.—
It was affeded with the afped of the
Grand Family, (for thus you call
France) snd though fure cf its ut
moft devotednefs, you offer peace
at the head of a million of invinci
ble warriors.
“ his with this generons defign
that you faw the e mperor of Ruffia.
Hitherto, when Sovereigns fo pow
erful each other from
the tflK'cmines of Europe, all the
nei i 1 c ates were in alarm.—
S; 1 r fr.-i Menacing prefages ac
comparf their grand interviews.
The two firft Mnnarchs of the
world unite their ftandards, not to
invade, but to pacify the world.
“ Sire, your rnsjefty has pro
nounced the word facrifices , and we
dare fay to your majefty, that word
completes all.your triumphs. Cer
tainly the ration willies no more
than yourfelffor thofe facrifices that
would Injury their glory and yours:
bur there was but one means of in
creafing your grandeur, it was to
moderate the ufe of it. You have
us the Ipeclade of force
which fubducs every thing, and you
referve for us a more extraordinary
fpedade, that cf force fubduine it
ftif.
tr A hoftile people, it is true, pre
tend to retard this laft glory—They
h?.ve dtfeended upon the continent
at the voice of dsfeord and of rati
ons. Already you have taken up
your arms to march and meet them
—already ycu abandon France,
which, for fo many years, has feen
you but fo few days ; you depart,
and I know not what f. ar, infpirtd
by -love, and tempered by hope,
hascfiftuibtd nil our hearts. Yet
we know full well, that wherever
you are, you carry with you fortune
and vidlory. The country accom
panies you with its regret and its
wilhes; it re com mends you to her
brave children, who form your faith
ful legions. Her wiftv-s will be
accomplifhed——all yrjjur foldiers
fwear upon their fwords to watch
round a head fo dear and fo glori
ous, where fo many deftinics repofe.
Sue, the hand that has led ycu fr n
miracle to miracle, to the fummic
of hunyan grandeur, will abandon
neither France nor Europe, which
yet, for fo long a time, Hands in
need of you.”
His Mij fty replied—
“ Gentlemen, Prdident and De
puties of the Leg flative Body—My
duty and my inclinations lead me to
fhare the dangers of my foldiers.—
We are mutually ntctffry. My
return to my capital fhall be fpee
dy, I think little of fatigues when
they can contribute to infure the
glory and grandeur of France. I
recognize, in the foiicitude you ex
press, the love ycu bear me. I
thank you for it.”
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 28.
The Charlefton Packet has ar
rived in lids port from Bordeaux,
the precife time of her departure
we have not learnt, but we have re
ceived the Moniteur, Indicateur,
and Argus, down to Nov. 1.
Th vefLl brings difpatches, for
government, which proceeded this
morning for Waifrngton.
The French emperor had p?ff:d
through Bordeaux, on the firft cf
November, to command the grand
army in Spain, as he fignified in a
fpeech which we have copied.
Seventy-five vtffrli bearing the
American flag, had been carried in
to Charcnte, 71 of which were found
to have forged papers, and to be
Britifli property ; the greater num
ber of thefe vefftls were from Nor
way, with hemp, iron, and other
naval Acres, Ccff:c had beer, a: a
dollar a pound in France, but had
fallen to one third.
Cotton was at two dollars per
pound.
Prov!lions cf every defeription
were abundant in France.
CHARLESTON, Dec. j 7. ‘
The brig Jane, Capt. Brown,
which arrived yefterday from W>l
- gmn, s. c. was bound to New.
York with a cargo of ffour, rice and
Haves, and the fame day (he left
Wilmington was boarded by a
French letter of marque, who took
out the wh#le of his cargo j to ob
tain pa’ ment cf which, the fuper
•carg jcfthe on board o£
her, where he intended to remain,
until flie a lived at her port of def
tinatior,. ard there feck his juft
rights! Wc are neither hafty in
condemning nor apt to cenfure, yet,
from the Angular circumftance of
-the fuptreargo’s going wiih the
letter of marque, decs it not appear •
as rho’ trurc. v.'as a g ;od under- 2
Handing between rhun l
NOTICE.
rp
JL HAT having been appointed
Treafurer and Land of the
B srd oi Truftees of the Univerhty,
I am req itfted to notify aii per Tons
who may be indebted to f&id Beard,
whether tor tuition, Tales of lots, or
arrears of ant, to make immediate
payment to me, and to me only;,
in default whereof, fuits arc ordered
to be fpeedil/ commenced.
A. S. CLAYTON.
January ai, ISO 9
TO SHERIFFS .
T" 1
IhxECUTIONS will be for
warded from this Office, by every
mail b- tween ihu date of this and
tht; fidl of April next, to fome one
or nnreof the Sheriffs of th's ftate.
Th-.y wdl confuic their own in ter eft, v
therefore, bv applying in perfon, at
the Pt ft Offices in their re foe dive
cour.tier., and receiving their letters
as cady as poffioie after the arrival
of each mail.
GEO. R. CLAYTON,
T rcafurcr.
Treafury Office> Georgia,
MllledgevilUy 2d Jan. 1809.
(fj’ The Printers m the Middle
and Weftern D .ftrids are rrqueft
cd to inferc the above in their pa
papeis two or three times.
NOTICE.
WILL BE SOLD,
O N Thurfday the 23d of Feb
ruary next, at Madifon (Morgan
Court-Houfe) all the Public Lot*
at ITd place ; the fi e Vs now per
manent.) fixed near the centre on a,
beautiful eminence, and excelienife
water —there is no doubt but it will!
he one cf the moft fl lurifhing vil- f
Lg-$ in ad the up country.—The
terms of fa’e will be made known
on the day by the
’ COMMISSIONERS.
January 21, 1809.
A GREAT BARGAIN.
FOR SALE
The trad of Land on ChandleTs
Cretk, (near the Oconee) Jackfon
County, whereon tne luoicriber
now lives; a good plantation is o
pened upon the premifes, on which
are good orchards, and the place
well improved with buildings; it is
a moft excellent Hand for an Indian
and fetdement (lore, being clofe t®
the boundary line.
OWEN J. BOWEN.
December 24, 18cl.