GENERAL HISTORY. 



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with which they have concurred 

 in the re-establishment of tran- 

 quillity and good oider. 



The long debated law of am- 

 nesty was at length jiassed, and 

 was sanctioned by the royal as- 

 sent on Jan. l^th. Its articles 

 are stated in the following terms, 

 in the Gazette Officielle. 



Art. 1. A full and an entire 

 Amnesty is accorded to all those 

 who directly or indirectly took 

 part in the rebellion and usur- 

 pation of Napoleon Buonaparte, 

 saving the exceptions hereinafter 

 named. 



2. The ordinance of the 26th 

 of July will continue to be exe- 

 cuted with respect to the indivi- 

 duals named in the first article of 

 that Ordinance. 



3. The King can, in the space 

 of two months from the promul- 

 gation of the present law, exile 

 from France such of the indivi- 

 duals comprised in the 2d article 

 of the said ordinance as he shall 

 keep on it, and as shall not have 

 been previously brought before 

 the Tribunals ; and in that case 

 such parties shall quit France 

 within the time fixed for them, 

 and shall not return without the 

 express permission of his jNIajesty, 

 under ))ain of transportation. 



The King may, in like manner, 

 deprive them of all property and 

 all pensions granted to them on 

 giounds of favour. 



-4. The relatives of Napoleon 

 Buonaparte, in ascending and de- 

 scending line — his uncles, aunts, 

 nephews, nieces ; his brothers, 

 their wives, and their issue ; his 

 sisters and their husbands, are 

 excluded for ever from the king- 

 dom. All are bound to depart 

 therefrom in the sjjace of one 



month, under J^he penalties spe- 

 cified in the 9 1st article of the 

 Penal Code. They cannot enjoy 

 any civil riglit in France, nor 

 possess any pioperty whatsoever, 

 any title or pension granted to 

 them of favour ; and they shall 

 be bound to sell, within six 

 months, all the property that they 

 hold in France by purchase. 



.5. The present Amnesty is not 

 applicable to those persons against 

 whom prosecutions have been di- 

 rected, or against whom judg- 

 ments have been pronounced, 

 prior to the promulgation of the 

 present law ; such prosecutions 

 shall be continued, and such judg- 

 ments executed conformably to 

 the laws. 



6. Are not comprised in the 

 present Amnesty crimes or of- 

 fences against individuals, at what- 

 ever period they may have been 

 committed. The persons charged 

 with such crimes may be always 

 prosecuted according to the laws. 



7. Those of the regicides, who, 

 in contempt of a clemency almost 

 boundless, voted for the Addi- 

 tional Act, or accepted offices or 

 employments from the Usurper, 

 and who, by so doing, declared 

 themselves irreconcileable eneaues 

 of France, and of the lawful Go- 

 vernment, are for ever excluded 

 the lealm, and are bound to quit 

 it in the space of one month, 

 under pain of the punishment en- 

 acted by the 33d article of the 

 Penal Code. They cannot possess 

 any civil right in France, nor any 

 property, title or pension granted 

 to them of favour. 



On Jan. 20th, the anniversary 

 service of the obsequies of Louis 

 XVI. and his consort was cele- 

 brated at the Abbey church of St. 



Denis 



