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~ merce, it is still kept alive, but the picture 
drawn of it as in France, is most humiliating 
to that country, and it has favoured one of the 
greatest scourges to commerce—smuggling : 
but, says the orator, it has been strongly re- 
pressed. His language on this subject deserves 
particular notice: . 
“ The Government is preparing new means 
against this foe to the public revenue and 
national industry; the great emoluments it 
procures excites the most ardent cupidity. 
These, who ought not be honoured with the 
appellation of merchants, lest we should de- 
‘grade commerce, are still devoting themselves 
to criminal peculations; they think they are 
’ only braving the shame of an ordinary trans~ 
‘gression, but the public indignation and venge- 
ance will overtake them, and teach them, that 
under circumstances where the nation employs 
for-its defence, in an unexampled war, the 
interdiction of all commercial relations with 
_the enemy, the violation of these dispositions 
As an hostile declaration, a true alliance with 
this seme enemy; that consequently every 
smuggler renounces the benefit of the muni- 
cipal laws to be subjected solely to those of 
‘war, and that he ought to dread the terrible 
and rapid application of those laws, which au- 
‘thorise the invasion of his fortune and per- 
sonal castigation.” 
+ The Minister took a view at some length 
of the state of Agriculture in France. He. 
spoke highly uf the success which had attended 
-the culture of tobacco, and states it to be equal 
to the best American; he recymmends the 
_ culture of cotton also. 
Two new sheep farms have been introduced. 
Six hundred Merinos, of the be breed, have 
been ordered from Spain; and they are already 
arrived in France, notwithftanding the variety 
of obstacles that have occurred on their passage. 
They will be divided in two new establish- 
‘ments, as yctin embryo. ‘he multiplication 
of the flocks increases rapidly. The orator 
concluded the Exposé thus: 
In the interior the greatest order in all 
- parts of the administration, important amelio- 
_fations, a great number of new inftitutions, 
have excited the gratitude of the people. ~ 
The creation of titles of nobility has envi- 
soned the thfone with a new splendour. ‘This 
system creates in all hearts a laudable emu- 
“Sation. It perpetuates the recollection of the 
_ most illustrious services paid by the most 
- honourable reward. : ; 
. The Clergy have distinguished themselves 
by their patriotism, and by their attachment 
to their Sovercign and their duties. Respect 
» to the Ministers of the Altar, who honour 
religion bya devotion so pure, and virtues so 
. d.sinterested ! 
The Magistrates of all classes every 
_where aid, with their efforts, the views of 
the Sovereign, and the people by their zeal 
facilitate the operation of their authority, and 
‘by the manifestation of the most affecting 
State of Public Affairs in November. 
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sentiments, exalt the courage and ardour of 
the troops. ; 
Soldiers, Magistrates, Citizens, all have 
but one object, the service of the State ; but 
one sentiment, that of admiration for the 
Sovereign; but oné desire, that of seeing 
Heaven watch over his days, how just a recom- 
pence fora Monarch who has no other thought, 
no other ambition, than those of the happi- 
ness and the glory of the French nation ! 
[He descended from the Tribune amidst 
the applauses of rhe Assembly. ] 
The President made the following reply sm 
Monsieur the Minister of the Interior, and 
Gentlemen Counsellors of State, 
You have painted the true greatness of the 
Prince, in retracing all the good he has 
done. The annual pictures of his internal 
‘administration will one day be the finest mo- 
numents of his reign. Unhappy the sove- 
reign whois great only at the head of his ar- 
mies; happy the one who knows how to go- 
vern as well as to conquer, who occupies him- 
self incessantly with useful works, in order 
to rest himself from the tativucs of war, and 
whose provident hand sows in the midst of so 
many ravages, the fruitful seeds of public 
felicity. One single man has fulfilled these 
two great destinies. He has subdued power- 
ful states—he has traversed Furope, as a 
conqueror under triumphalarches, erected te 
his glory, from the bounds of Italy tothe ex- 
tremity of Poland. 
It was enough forthe first of heroes, but 
not enough for the first of Kings, In the 
fields of Marengo and o! Jena, that indefati- 
gable genius meditated the happiness of na- 
tions. All the ideas of public order, all those 
safe councils which profect societies and’ em- 
pires have always accompanied him in his 
warlike tent, It was’ he that re opened the 
temples of desolated religion, and who saved 
morality and the Jaws from a ruin which was 
almost inevitable. In one word, he has 
founded more than others had destroyed—be~ 
hold that which recommends his memory te 
eternity! i 
In the midst of the magnificent of our 
squares a column, worthy ot the age of the 
' Antonines or the Trajans, has been elevated 
in opposition to the voice of the hero who ig 
above such things. Our exploits will be en- 
graved on the glorious bronzes with which ie 
is to be covered. Victory erect on this cri- 
umphal column will point to Italy twice sub- 
dued, to” Vienna, to Berlin, to Warsaw, 
opening their gates, our standards floating on 
the Pyramids, the Po, the Danube, the Rhine, , 
the Spree, the Vistula, stovping beneath our 
Jaws.—Frenchmen will stop Nich pride at the 
foot of this monument, 
The day-is not perhaps far distant, when 
we may be able to erect, tu the pacificator of 
nPop» a monument ‘still more worthy of 
im. * , 
Let all the arts decorate him with the em- 
blems 
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