1802. ] 
prove, beyond any pofitive affertion what- 
ever, the full conviction which every other 
party to the Convention a& Amiens feels, 
of its own comparative debility and lit- 
tlene{s. 
' The Paris Papers to the 12th of Fe- 
bruary make mention, that the Conferva 
tive Senate has, as was expected, in the 
feleétion of the fifth of the Members of 
the Legiflative Body and Tribunate, who 
are to go out annually, removed molt of 
thofe Deputies who were obnoxious to the 
Government. Among the names of the 
Members who are removed from the Ti1- 
bunaate we find that of Chenier, wno made 
the celebrated fpeech againft the Civil Code ; 
of Benjamin Conftant, Ballieul, Daunou, 
Ifnard, Chazal, and Thieflee; Chenier, 
Courtois, Bailleul. 
were Members of the Convention; Chazal 
was the Prefident of the Council of Five 
Hundred, at the memorable fi'ting of St. 
Cloud, after Lucien Bonaparte had re- 
figned the office of Prefident, and been 
carried off by the grenadiers. The new 
fitth will be chofen from the lifl of Nota- 
bles. It is {uppofed that the Civil Code 
will be again laid before the Legifliture 
atter the new elections, when the Govern- 
ment hope to find more uxity of intention 
than they experienced when the Code was 
Jaft under difcuffion. 
Intelligence from Lyons ftates the par- 
ticulars of the reception of the Firft Conful 
in that city on the rtth ult. The eager- 
nels to receive him was general, as the 
effulions of joy and admiration were uni- 
verfal. All the Conftituted Authorities, 
and the Public Funétionaries, waited on 
the Minifters of the Home Department. 
The proceffion commenced moving at two 
in the afternoon, agreeably to the orders if- 
. fued for the occafion by the Prefect, Coun- 
fellor of State, and by General Duhelime; 
the Deputies went as far as the afcent of 
Balmont, where the Firft Conful arrived 
at eight o'clock. While proceeding to 
the city, thoutands iflued from every yuar- 
ter, exclaiming, ‘* Viwe Bonaparte.” The 
Firtt Conful’s carriage was in the centre 
of a brilliant corps of cavalry. An im- 
menfe number of lighted torches atrended’ 
the proceflion. The ftreets through which 
the Chief Conful paffed, the triumphal 
arch, and the whole of the bridge, were 
illuminated ; the front of the State Palace 
would have fhone beyond expreffion bril- 
hiant, had not the {pectacle, in fome mca-> 
{nre, been dimmed by the heavy fall of 
fnow, and the violence of the wind. When 
the Firit Contul aiighted at the Palace, 
be found, on the fecond landing-place of 
/ 
Daunou, and If{nard, . 
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the great ftair-cafe, a fuitable in{cription. 
on his vifit to Lyons. The fecond day _ 
after the Firft Conful’s arrival ne gave au- 
ditnee to the Conftituted Authorities, in- 
troduced to him by Citizen Najar, Coun- 
fellor of State, Prefedt of the department, 
in prefence of the Minifter of the Home 
Department. All the military corps in 
Ly.ns were prefented to. him by General 
Dubefme, commanding a divifion, and 
eight individuals of the different Confti- 
tuted Bod:es delivered, feverally, appro- 
priate harangues on the oceafion. 
“The Members of the Confulta were alfo 
int.oduced by M. de Marefcalchi, their 
Miniter, The Conful fpoke to them in 
Italian, concerning whatever could have 
reference to the happinels and profperity 
of thei Republic. The audience lated 
from noon to feven in’ the evening. 
When a deputation of the Lyonefe cavalry 
was prelented to the Firft Conful by Ge- 
neral Duhelme, he enquired, With fome 
eagernels, if the greater part of them were 
not meichants’ fons, and if they ferved at 
their own expence; and when it was men- 
tioned, that they wifhed that a guard for 
the Pirft Conful’s perfon fhould be formed 
from their {quadron, he anfwered, “I ac 
cept the offer, and fhall always be happy - 
to fee fuch people about me.” 
A grand fete was given oa the 15th, in 
the name of the Prefe&, and of the three 
Mayors, to the Firft Conlul; and a de- 
putation from Bourdeaux, compofed of 
Citizen Letellier, Mayors; and Partarild 
Lafofle, Member of the Prefe@ture of the 
department ot Gironde, prefented to the 
Firft Conful a fuitable adurefs. 
A deputation alfo from the Council Ge- 
neral of the Commune of Grenoble fer out 
for Lyons on the 13th, to pay their re- 
{pects to the Firft Conful. One of the 
deputies was Citizen Dupré, who in- 
ttructed Bonaparte in the mathematical 
{ciences, . 
Intelligence has arrived, that the ar- 
rangement which has been for fome time 
negotiating at Berlin, betwen the Bata- 
vian Government and the Prince of 
Orange, relative to the indemnity of the 
latter for the lofs of his private property 
in Holland, has been definitively concluded 
and figned, througn the mediation of 
France and Pruffia. The particular dif 
pohtions of this arrangement are not 
Known; it is generally reported, how- 
ever, that the indemnity of the Houle of 
Orange is fixed @ the rate of 8,000,000 of 
~Deren florins. 
The french Government being in- 
formed that a great number of toldiers 
gO Ne MS oe had 
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