¥800.}. 
a By bankruptcy. 
2. By fucceffion in part or in whole to 
the property of a bankrupt. 
3. By domeftic fervitude. 
And 4. By a ftate of judicial interdics 
tion, accufation, or contumacy. 
In refpect to the eleétions,-each com- 
mune fhall-choofe a lift of candidates equal 
to one-tenth of its number, and this tenth 
fhall fele&t a tenth of themfelves. A de- 
partmental lit is allo to be kept, out of - 
which the public fun&tionaries of the de- 
partment are to be chofen. 
There is a CONSERVATIVE SENATE 
of eiohty members, each of whom {hall 
be forty years of age at Jeaft, and thele 
fhall not be removable during life; on the 
other hand, they are ineligible for any 
other public funétion whatever. he le- 
giflative power fhall not promulge any 
new laws, until the projects of them fhall 
have been propofed by the Government, 
communicated to the Tribunate, and de- 
creed by the Legiflative Body. 
The TRigunaTe is compofed of one 
hundred members, each of whom fhall be 
at leaft feventy-five years of age. A fifth 
is to be renewed yearly. It 1s to difculs 
the projects of every new law, and votes- 
either the adoption or rejection; it is alfo 
to fuperintend public affairs, correct abules, 
and ameliorate all the branches of the ad- 
miniftration. 
The Lecistative Bopy is compofed 
of three hundred members, each of whom 
fhall be at leaft thirty years of age; a fifth 
is renewed yearly. 
Vhe government is confided to Turee 
CONSULS, nominated for ten years, and 
indefinitely re-eligible; the firft Conful 
poflefles certain functions and attributes 
peculiar to himfelf. He promulges the 
laws, nominates and revokes the members 
of the council of ftate, appoints ambafla- 
dors, military and naval officers, all 
judges, whether civil or criminal, except 
juftices of the peace, and judges of cafla- 
tion: but he fhall not revoke the powers 
of the faid judges. 
Bonaparte, having thus overturned that 
very government which he himfelf had not 
only fupported, but {worn to protect, and 
impofed a conftitution which, with- 
gut feating him on the throne, confers a 
“degree of power nearly bordering on the 
delpotifm of the ancient Bourbons, imme- 
diately nominated the new members, and 
inftalled the council of ftate, Inftead of 
the former oaths of ‘hatred to kings,” 
and ** hatred of monarchy in France,”’ 
the council enjoined the fubititution of me 
following fimple formula :. ‘* I promife to 
be faithful to the coniftitution.”’ 
State Pas Affrirs } in fra ance. 
bers being prefent. 
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A decree was foon after pated allowing 
the freedom of worfhip, and the cruel law. - 
of the 4th of September, by which Barthe- 
lemy and Carnot, the Directors, feveral 
deputies, and a number of printers and 
editors, had been condemned to tranfporta- 
tion without a previous trial, was re- 
pealed. Some exceptions were however 
made, in refpect to Ramel, Pichegru, &c. 
~On the. 26th of Tecelers the thirty- 
feyen members of the late legiflature, who 
had been at firft fentenced to banifiment 
to Guiana, and were afterwards placed un- 
der the fuperintendence of the Minifter of 
Police,-were fet at liberty.. Two days 
after this, the Confuly announced to the 
Confervatiye Senate, ‘ That the govern 
ment had been inftalled, and that they 
culd employ, under every circumftance, 
all their refources and means to dettroy the 
{pirit of faétion, to create public fj fpirit, and 
to confolidate that conftitution Which isthe 
object of the wifhes of the French people.’” 
On the fame day, Bonaparte fignified 
to General Agereau, that he had ap- 
pointed him to, the important ftation of 
commander in chief of the French army in 
Batavia. Inthe letter written by him on 
this occafion, after tating ‘“‘ that the glory. 
of the republic was the fruit of the blood 
fhed by their comrades,’ hedefires him in 
all the aéts originating from his command, 
.to fhow himfelf fuperior to ‘* thofe mifer- 
able difputes of public affemblies, which 
had for ten years paft convulfed France.”” 
He concludes with this memorable expref- 
fion: ‘* Should circumftances compel me 
to carry on the war my/elf, be affured that 
T will not fuffer you to remain in Holland, 
and that I fhail never forget the glorious 
-action of Caftaglione.” 
The firft fitting of the Tribunate took 
place January the firft, under the prefi- 
dence of Daunou, two chide of the mem- 
Penieres, on this oc- 
cafion, made a long oration in favour of 
the Firlt Confal, whofe moderation he 
praifed, and whole earneft defire he faid | 
it was “to put an end to the cruel war 
tnat has for fo many years defolated Eu- 
rope.” 
In the firft Gtting of the Legiflative Bo- 
dy, which occurred on the fame day, the 
members, who had affembled at oneo’clock, 
in the hall formerly occupied by the Coun- 
cil of F 
des Vofges prefident. _Divifions had been 
previoufly made on each fide of the bar for 
the orators of the Tribanate and theGoverne 
ment, and the places to be occupied by them. 
were covered with red-cloth. On thecir= 
cular altar, in the middle, was placed an 
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