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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.