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motion and the organ of its thoughts 

 and its wishes, in its relations with 

 the government. This body will 

 have at length that dignity which 

 could not exist with forms change- 

 able and undetermiftcd. The elec- 

 toral colleges have conducted them- 

 selves every where with that calm- 

 ness and wisdom which secures 

 happy eleftions. The legion of 

 honour exists in the higher parts of 

 its organization, and in a part of 

 the elements which are to compose 

 it. These elements, still equal, 

 await from a final choice, their 

 functions, and their places. How 

 many honourable traits have been 

 displayed by the ambition of being 

 admitted into it. What treasures 

 will the republic have in this insti- 

 tution to encourage and recompense 

 service and virtues. In the council 

 of state, another institution pro. 

 poses for the choice of the govern- 

 ment men for all the superior 

 branches of administration : audi- 

 tors are formed there in the labora- 

 tories of regulations and laws ; they 

 perpetuate themselves there with 

 the maxims and principles of pub- 

 lic order. Always surrounded with 

 ■witnesses and judges, often under 

 the eyes of the government, otten 

 on important missions, they will 

 arrive at the public functions with 

 the maturity of experience, and with 

 the security which is given by a 

 charafler, a conduct, and a skill 

 proved by repealed trials. Lyceums 

 and secondary schools are erecting 

 on every side, and are not yet 

 erefted with sufficient rapidity to 

 Batisfy the impatience of the citizens. 

 Common regulations, a common 

 discipline, the same system of in- 

 struction, are forming in i\vi gene- 

 rations which will support the glory 

 •f France by their taleafs, and its 



institutions by their principles and 

 their virtues. A single prytaneum, 

 the prytaneum of St. Cyr, receives 

 tlic children of those citizens who 

 died for their country. Education 

 already breathes forth there a mili- 

 tary enthusiasm. At Fontainblcau, 

 the special military school numbers 

 many hundreds of soldiers who arc 

 rendered pliant to discipline, and 

 inured to fatigue, and who acquire 

 with tiic habits of the profession 

 the knowledge of tlie art. The 

 school of Compiegne presents the 

 aspe<^l^ of a vast manufactory, where 

 five hundred young per>oiis pass 

 from their studies to the workshops, 

 and from the workshops to tkeir 

 studies. After a few months they 

 execute with the precision of skill, 

 works which could not have been 

 obtained from them alter years of 

 a common apprenticeship ; and in 

 a short time commerce and industry 

 will enjoy the benefit of their la- 

 bour, and of the cares of the go- 

 vernment. The engineers and tiie 

 artillery have now but one school, 

 and one .common institution. JNIe- 

 diciuc is every where submitted to 

 the new regime, which the law pre- 

 scribed to it. I3y a salutary reform, 

 means have been found to simplify 

 the cxpcHce and to add to the in- 

 strurtion. The exercise of phar- 

 macv has been put under the care 

 of skill and pi-obity. A regulation 

 has i)laced between master and 

 workman judges who terminate their 

 differences with the rapidity which 

 their interests and their wants re- 

 quire ; and at the same time with 

 the impartiality which justice de- 

 mands. The civil code is approach- 

 ing to completion ; and in the 

 course of this session the last pro- 

 jects of laws which are to complete 

 it altogether, will be in a state to 



