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to male, in the order of primogeniture. They are named 
by the king. The prefent fenators, with the exception of 
Chofe who fhould .renounce the quality of French citizens, 
are maintained, and form part of this number. The ac¬ 
tual endowments of the fenate and che fenatorfhips belong 
to them; the revenues are divided equally between them, 
and pafs to their fucceffors ; in cafe of the death of a fe- 
nator without direct male pofterity, his portion returns 
to the public treafure. The fenators w ho fhall be named 
in future cannot partake of this endowment. 
7. The princes of the royal family, and the princes of the 
blood, are by right members of the fenate. The func¬ 
tions of a fenrftor cannot be exercifed until the perfon has 
attained the age of twenty-one years. 
8. The fenate decides the cafes in which the difcuffion 
of objects before them (hall be public or fecret. 
9. Each department (hall fend to the legiflative body 
the fame number of deputies it has already fent thither. 
The deputies who fat in the legiflative body at the period 
of the lait adjournment fliall continue to fit till they are 
replaced. All pfeferve their pay. In future they fliall 
be chofen immediately by the electoral bodies, which are 
preferved, with the exception of the changes that may be 
made by a law in their organization. The duration of 
the functions of the deputies to the legiflative body is 
fixed at live years. The new election fhall take place for 
the feflion of 1816. 
10. The legiflative body fliall aflemble of right each 
year on the 1 ft of OCtober. The king may convoke it 
extraordinarily ; he may adjourn it ; he may alfo difl'olve 
it; but in the latter cafe another legiflative body mult be 
formed, in three months at the latelt, by the electoral 
colleges. 
11. The legiflative body has the right of difcuflion. 
The fittings are public, unlefs in cafes where it chufes to 
form itfell into a general committee. 
12. TheVenate, legiflative body, electoral colleges, and 
affemblies of cantons, eleCt their prefident from among 
themfelves. 
13. No member of the fenate, or legiflative body, can 
be arretted without a previous authority from the body 
to which he belongs. The trial of a member of the fenate 
or legiflative body belongs exclufively to the fenate. 
14. The minilters may be members either of the fenate 
or legiflative body. 
15. Equality of proportion in the taxes is of right; no 
tax can be impofed or received unlefs it lias been freely 
confented to by the legiflative body and the fenate. The 
land-tax can only be eltablifhed for a year. The budget 
of the following year, and the accounts cf the preceding 
year, are prefented annually to the legiflative body and 
tiie fenate, at the opening of the fitting of the legiflative 
body. 
16. The law fhall fix the mode and amount of the re¬ 
cruiting of the,army. 
17. The independence of the judicial power is guaran¬ 
teed. No one can be removed from bis natural judges. 
The inftitution of juries is preferved, as well as the pub¬ 
licity of trial in criminal matters. The penalty of con- 
fifeation of goods is abolifhed. The king has the right 
of pardoning. 
18. The courts and ordinary tribunals exifting at pre¬ 
fent are preferved ; their number cannot be dirninifhed 
or increafed, but in virtue of a law. The judges are for 
life and irremovable, except the indices of the peace and 
the judges of commerce. The commiflions and extraor¬ 
dinary tribunals are l'upprefled, and cannot be re-elta- 
blilhed.. 
19. The court of caffation, the courts of appeal, and 
the tribunals of the firlt inftauce, propofe to the king 
three candidates for each place of judge, vacant in their 
body. The king choofes one of the three. The king 
names the firlf prefldents and the public miniltry of the 
courts and the tribunals. 
20. The military on fervice, the officers and foldiers on 
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half-pay, the widows and penfioned officers, preferve their 
ranks, honours, and penfiens. 
et. The perfon of the king is facred and inviolable. 
All the atts of the government are figned by a minifter. 
The minilters are refponlibte for all which thofe afts con¬ 
tain, violations of the laws, public and private liberty, and 
the rights of citizens. 
42. The freedom of worth ip and confcience is guaran¬ 
teed. Tiie minifters of worfiiip are treated and protected 
alike. 
23. The liberty of the prefs is entire, with the excep¬ 
tion of the legal repreffion of offences which may refult 
from the abufe of that liberty. The fenatorial commiflions 
of the liberty of the. prefs and individual liberty are pre¬ 
ferved. 
24. The public debt is guaranteed. The Tales of the 
national domains are irrevocably maintained. 
25. No Frenchman can be profecuted for opinions or 
votes which he has given. 
26. Every perfon has the right to addrefs individual 
petitions to every conflituted authority. 
27. All Frenchmen are equally admiflible to all civil 
and military employments. 
28. All the laws existing at prefent remain in vigour 
until they be legally repealed. The code of civil laws 
Hull be entitled, Civil Code of the French. 
29. The prefent conftitution (hall be fubmitfed to the 
acceptance of the French people, in the form which fliall 
be regulated. Louis Staniflaus Xavier fhall be proclaimed 
King of the French, as foon as he (liaii have ligned and 
fv.orn, by an act ltating, “ I accept the Conltitution; 
I (wear to obferve it, and caufe it to be obferved.” This 
oath fhall be repeated in the folemnity, when be fliall re¬ 
ceive the oath of fidelity of the French. (Signed) 
Talleyrand, Prince of Benevento, Prefident; 
and 67 Members of the Senate. 
On the two or three fucceeding days, the provifional 
authorities appear to have been occupied in making the 
conltitution public, and in receiving letters of adherence 
from the members of the late government. Among the 
earliell of the names fent in, is that of cardinal Maury, 
one of the noifieft of Bonaparte's flatterers, and, in fhort, 
a grofs man of the world, who for his tergiverfations, and 
his efforts to keep well under all changes, deferves to be 
called the French Vicar of Bray. His eminence however 
does not appear in the prelent inftance to have had the 
vicar’s good fortune, and has fince been recommended not 
to officiate. He was preparing to officiate in pontijica - 
libus on Eaftcr-day. The pulpit was already prepared, 
and the epif'copal throne decorated : but, the chapter hav¬ 
ing taken from his eminence the adminiftration of the church,, 
he was deceived in his expectation ; and the preparations 
that had been made ferved for M. La Roue, the arch- 
priefl, who performed mai's. 
While thefe important vranfaCtions were going forward, 
Bonaparte remained at Fontainebleau.—We have feen that 
the allies entered Paris on the morning of the 31ft cf 
March.—In the evening of the fame day, Caulincouit 
duke of Vicenza came from Bonaparte to the emperor 
of Ruflia, offering to accede to the terms of peace which 
the allies had offered at Chatillon. The emperor gave no 
other anfwer, than that the time was paft for treating 
with Bonaparte as fovereign of France. 
On the firlt of April, in the morning, Bonaparte reviewed 
the troops, which he Teemed to confider as his own ; the 
marfbals and generals, who had learned from the papers 
the relolutions of the fenate and the provifional govern¬ 
ment, converfed together on the fubjedt loud enough to 
be beard by Napoleon ; but be appeared to pay no atten¬ 
tion to what they faid, and the review pafled quietly. 
When it was over, marflial Ney, as had been fettled, en¬ 
tered the palace with him, and followed him into his ca¬ 
binet, where he afked him if he was informed of the great 
revolution that had taken place at Paris. He replied, with 
all the compofuie he could aflume., that he knew nothing off. 
