181 i.J 
18. Security consists in the protection af¬ 
forded by society to each of its members, for 
the preservation of his person, his rights, and 
his property. 
19. Every individual possesses the right to 
acquire property, and to dispose of it at will, 
unless his will be contrary to a previous com¬ 
pact, or to law. 
20. No kind of labour, art, industry, or 
commerce, shall be ])ruhibited to any citizen, 
save only such establishments as may be re. 
quired for the subsistence of the state. 
21. No one can be deprived of the least 
portion of his property without his consent, 
except when the public necessity requires it, 
and then under the condition of a just com¬ 
pensation. No contribution can be required 
and established, unless for the geheral utility. 
Every citizen entitled to suffrage, has the 
right, through the medium of his representa¬ 
tives, to advise and consult on the estabiish- 
Jnent of contributions, to watch over their 
application, and to require an account of the 
same from those he has elected as his repre¬ 
sentatives. 
22. The liberty of claiming one’s rights In 
the presence of tne depositories of the public 
'authority, in no case can be withheld, nor 
conffiied to any particular citizen. 
23. There is individual oppression, when 
cne member of society is oppressed ; there 
is also the oppression of a memtier, when the 
social body is oppressed, In these cases, t.he 
lav;s are violated, and the citizens have a 
right to demand the observance of the laws. 
24. The house of every citizen is, an in¬ 
violable assylum. No one has a right to en¬ 
ter it violently, except in cases of conflagra¬ 
tion, deluge, or application, proceeding from 
the same house ; or for objects of criminal 
prociedings in the cases, and with the essen¬ 
tials determined by law, and under the re¬ 
sponsibility of the constituted authorities 
v/ho have issued the decree. Domiciliary 
visits, and civil executions, shall take ^lace 
only in open day, in virtue of the law, and 
with respect to the person and object ex¬ 
pressly pointed out in the act authorising such 
visitation and execution. 
25. Every foreigner of whatever nation he 
may be, shall be received and admitted into 
the state of V'enezuela. 
26. The persons and properties of foreigners 
shall enjoy the same security as the native 
Citizens, provided always, that they acknov/- 
ledge the sovereignty and independence, and 
respect the catholic religion, the only one ia 
this country. 
27. The foreigners who reside in the 5tate 
of the Caraccas, becoming naturalized, and 
holding property, shall enjoy all the rights 
of citizenship. 
Duties »f Man in Seciety. 
1. The rights or others, in relation to each 
individual, have their limit in the moral prin¬ 
ciple which determines their duties, the lul- 
fliment whereof, is the necessary effect of the 
respect due to the rights of each of the indi¬ 
viduals. Their basis are these maxims:— 
“ Render to others the good which you would 
they should render under you.” Do not 
unto another that which you do not wish to 
be done unto you.” 
2. The duties of every individual with re¬ 
spect to society, are : to live in absolute sub¬ 
mission to the law’s—-to obey and respect the 
legal acts of the constituted authorities—to 
maintain liberty and equality—to contribute 
to the public expences—to serve tne country 
in all its exigencies—and, if it becomes ne¬ 
cessary, to render to it the sacrifice of proper¬ 
ty and life; in the exercise of these virtues 
consists genuine patriotism. 
3. Whoever openly does violence to the 
laws—whoever endeavours to elude them— 
declares himselr an enemy to society. 
4. No one can be a good citizen, unless he 
be a good parent, a good son, a good brother, 
a good friend, and a good husband. 
5. No man can be a man of worth, unless he 
be a candid, faithful, and religious, observer 
of the laws j the exercise of private and do¬ 
mestic virtues is the basis of public virtue. 
Duties of the Social Body. 
1. The duty ot society with respect to its 
individual members, is the social guarantee. 
This consists in the obligation on the whole 
to secure to every individual the enjoyment 
and preservation of his rights, which is the 
ioundatiou of the national sovereignty. 
2. The social guarantee cannot exist unless 
the law clearly determines the bounds of the 
powers vested in the functionaries j nor when 
the responsibility of the public functionaties 
lias not been expressly termined ana defined, 
3. Public succour is a sacred duty of so¬ 
ciety j it ought to provide for the subsistence 
of the unfortunate citizens, either by ensuring 
employment to those who are capable of ac¬ 
quiring means of subsistence, or else by af- 
fording the means of support to such as can¬ 
not require it by labour. 
Incidents in and near London 
INCIDENTS, MARRIAGES, a>7D DEATHS, in and near LONDONs 
With Biographical Memoirs of distinguished Characters recently deceased^ 
A NUMEROUS meeting of the subscribers Samuel Whitbread, esq. in the chair.—Front 
to the rebuilding Drury-iahe theatre, has the report of the committee appointed under 
ieen held at the Crown and Anchor tavern, the Act of last year, it appeared that it would 
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