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ANNUAL REGISTER, 1S04. 



the evil will be prevented, without 

 interrupting the communication ne- 

 cessary for the aliment of our com- 

 merce and of our manufactures. — 

 In the centre of La Vendee a new 

 city is building, intended to be the 

 seat of the administration. From 

 thence it will exercise over every 

 point an acMve and sure superin- 

 tendance ; from thence knowledge 

 and sound principles vj\\\ be propa- 

 gated throughout that department 

 in which ignorance and the want of 

 instruction have so frequently deli- 

 vered over simple and honest minds 

 to the intrigues of malevolence. — 

 Decrees of the emperor have recalled 

 commerce to the left bank of the 



Rhine, and bestowed, on 

 and Cologne, all the 



advantages 



Mentz 

 of 

 real emporiums, Mithout the dan- 

 ger of introducing contraband goods 

 into the interior of France. — Manu- 

 factures arc improving ; and vvliilst 

 in vain declamations, mercenaries 

 piiid by the British govt-rnment, 

 boast its distant and precarious re- 

 sources dispersed over the seas 

 and the Indies ; whilst they describe 

 our workshops as de-sertcd and our 

 workmen dying with misery, our 

 industry extends its roots over our 

 own soil, repels English industry far 

 from our frontiers, and has suc- 

 ceeded in equalling it, in what form- 

 ed its glory and its success, the per- 

 fection of its machines, and is pre- 

 paring to dispute with it consumers 

 in every place where it can meet 

 vith and reach it. — Our first manu- 

 facture, agriculture, has enlarged 

 and become clear — a system of ex- 

 portation, in such a manner com- 

 bined, that it shuts and opens ac- 

 cording to our wants, assures to 

 the husbandman the price of his 

 labour, and abundance to our mar- 



kets. New 



encouragements 

 3 



pre- 



pare the improvement of the race of 

 our horses, our wools arc melio- 

 rated, our fields are covered with 

 cattle, and throughout every part 

 of the empire its true riches multi- 

 ply. — Aided by riches, renewed se- 

 curity has given a freer scope to 

 active beneficence : excited by reli- 

 gion, and by the recollection of 

 our misfortunes, the latter is not 

 limited to charities of the moment; 

 it embraces the future, and trusts 

 its treasure to government, which 

 guarantees to it an employment con- 

 formable to its wishes. i\evcr have 

 so many legacies and pious dona- 

 tions been made in favour of the 

 hospitals, and of the establishments 

 of beneficence. Some of these in- 

 stitutions have been created or re- 

 established by private persons ; never 

 has suffering humanity found more 

 friends, nor indigence more succour. 

 They are distributed with as much 

 wisdom as zeal, and the liospitiils 

 of Paris directed with an intelligence 

 which multiplies the cares in econo- 

 mising the funds, relieve all wants, 

 cure many evils, and are no more 

 those murderous asylums which de- 

 vour their numerous and miserable 

 population. The number of the 

 indigent of the capital is according- 

 ly thirty-two thousand below that 

 which it was in 1791, and twenty- 

 five thousand less than that which it 

 was in the year 10. — Religion has 

 resumed its empire ; it no longer 

 exercises itself but for the good of 

 humanity ; a wite tolerance accom- 

 panies it, and the ministers of dif- 

 ferent forms of worship, who adore 

 the same God, do honour to them- 

 selves by testimonies of reciprocal re- 

 spect, and know no other rivality 

 than that of virtues. — Such i.s our po- 

 sition v.ithin; without, French cou- 

 rage, seconded by Spanish goodfaith, 



has 



