1802. ] 
pointed: General Thureau is ftill in'the 
Valais. The following are the leading 
features of the New Conftitution :—-The- 
Helvetic Republic is one.—Every Citizen’ 
has the right of fettling in any Canton of 
the Republic, and of exercifing all the 
civil and political rights in the fame man- 
ner as the Citizens of the canton. , 
Berne is thé capital of Helvetia. ‘The 
Helvetic territory is divided into 21 can- 
tons. The ecclefiaftical property in general 
cai be employed only for efablifhments 
of religious inftruétion, or of charity. 
There is a Central Adminiftration of: 
the Republic for the exercife of the Na- 
tional Sovereignty, and an Adminiftra- 
tion of the Cantons. The Adminiftration 
of the Cantons is compofed of a Diet anda 
Senate. The Diet is formed by tie union 
of Reprefentatives from all the cantons, 
in the following proportions :—Berne 6, 
Zurich 2, Lucefie *s, Uri i, Schwitz 3, 
Underwalden 1, Zug 1,’ Glarus 1, So- 
leure2, Fribourg 3, Bafle2, Shaffhaufen 
1, Appenzel 2, Saint Gall 4, “Targovia 
2,Argovia 2, Baden2z, Vaud4, Grifons 1, 
Teffin 3, Valais 2—Total 50 Reprefenta- 
tives. The Members of the Diet remain 
five years in office. The Diet is to affem- 
ble regularly every year on the 1ft of 
March. | It fhall be extraordinarily con- 
voked by the Senate when the majority of 
the cantons require it, or when itfelf fhall 
judge that meafure neceflary. The Pre- 
fident of the Diet fhal! bethe Landamtman 
who is not in office. He has a cafting 
Vote, in cafe the votes fhall be equally 
divided. A deputation of four Members 
from the Senate fhall aft at the Dice; 
and fhall take part in its deliberations, 
but without having a right to vote. 
The Senate is compofed of two Lan- 
damtmans, two Stadtholders or Lieute- 
nants, and twenty-fix Counfellors. Each 
eanton muft have at leaft one Member in 
init. The Senate forms the projects’ of 
laws and regulations, and {ubmits them 
to the fan&tion of the cantons. ‘The two 
Landamtmans and their Lieutenants have 
the direétion of foreign affairs. The Se- 
nate names dnd recalls dipiomatic agents, 
ona propoiition from the Landamtmans. 
The Landamtman in office is to receive a 
falary of 16,000 livres, Swifs currency 3 
the fecond Landamtman, his two Lieute- 
nants, and the Members of the Petty 
Council, S000 livres; thofe of the Senate 
4000. The Senate may adjourn for three 
months. During this interval the Petty 
Council exercifes the executive power. 
. WEST INDIES. 
For intelligence from Ss. Domingo fee 
the article France. 4 Beth 0 
. State of Pie Affairs in March, 1802. © | 
279 
Let our Weft India planters, flave- 
traders, merchants, and all thofe who: 
have fo long and fo obftinately fupported 
the traffic in the flefh and blcod -ot their. 
fellow-men, read the awful intelligence 
from §t. Domingo, .and tremble! Al- 
though the whites may again be partially 
fucceishtl ; yet, from the frequentand vie 
sorous rifings of infulted humanity, in the 
perfons of the blacks, it is not improba- 
ble that deftru€tion ere long will over- 
whelm thofe, whofe hearts have been {fo 
completely fteeled againit every principle 
of juftice and mercy, and who appear to 
have adopted the maxim of the Chief 
Conful for their motto.—-‘¢ Where flavery 
has been eftablithed, it fhall remain efta- 
-blifhed.”” tee 
: TURKEY. : 
Authentic intelligence has arrived froma 
Conftantinople, dated the 25th of January, 
announcing trom the laft letters from Alex« 
andria, that the Englith troops continued 
to occupy that place; their Commandant 
having ftriétly forbidden any veffel from 
leaving the port, and Turkith fhips were 
alfo forbidden to enter it. - 
The murder of the Pacha of Belgrade 
has made a great impreffion on the Sultaun, 
and feveral Councils of State have been 
beldin confequence., It is now confident- 
ly faid, that an army of 60,000 men will | 
march immediately againft Pafwan Oglou, 
and the infurgents in Belgrade. Whe- 
ther the Captain Pacha will command this 
army ts, as yet, uncertain. 
GREAT BRITAIN. 
The bufile of hoftile preparations is 
fill continued; a new prefs has com-~ 
menced on the Thames, as well as in fe- 
veral of our fea-ports ;.a number of fhips 
ordered to be paid off have received coun- 
ter directions ; and others, which were 
only on the ftocks, are completing with 
all expedition. Marquis Cornwallis has 
certainly been inftructed to demand an 
initantaneous and categorical anfwer as to. 
the chief points im difpute, and to quit 
the feat of negociation in cale of no reply, 
or a manifeft intention to delay the fig- 
nature of the Definitive Treaty any longer. 
In the a€tual circumftances of the times 
all this is highly commendable, and we 
have no doubt will be produftive of a 
‘happy iffue, for. an immediate ratification 
will be the confequence ; the imbecility af 
every party, and on this the whole of our 
hopes depend, muit prevent the renewal 
of hoftilities. 
Pruffia has deliyered an anfwer to the 
Ele&tor of Hanover, upon the fubjett of 
the indemnities. His Prufliazn Majetty 
adheres to his former principles of car- 
' ; rying 
