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3802:]. 
the independence of the ifland is guaran- 
eed by England, France, Auftria, Ruffia, 
Spain, and Pruffia. 
The Concordat lately fubmitted to the 
Legiflature of France contains the follow- 
ing regulations. The Archbifhops are 
to receive 15,000 livres a year, or nearly 
8ool.—the Bifhops 10,000, or upwards 
of sool.—the reétors in large towns 
¥5c0 livres, or between 7ol. and 80l.— 
and in villages rooo livres, or between 
sol. and 601, The Government, it is 
faid, will pay the clergy of all fects, ex- 
cept the Jews, who muft pay their own, 
It is faid that the day before the Con- 
cordat was prefented, a private fitting of 
the Tribunare was held, in which Carnot, 
one of the new Members, fpoke very 
ftrongly againf&{ the Concordat, and the 
prefent anti-revolutionary tate of France. 
In the Legiflative Aflembly Lucien Bo- 
naparte made a brilliant fpeech in favour 
of the Concordat, which was carried in 
the affirmative, and declared by the Pre- 
fident to be a law of the State, 
The Chief Conful of France has very 
modefily put himfelf at the head of the 
Chriftian Church. ‘¢ I and his Hélinefs 
(faid Bonaparte) have made choice of 
you, &c.”’ when he addreffed himfelf to 
the Cardinal Legate. 
By the new regulation Proteftants and 
Papifts are placed, as they fhould be, . 
upon equal footing, and equally entrufted 
with the only arms with which they fhould 
ever engage—-we mean thefe of fair argu- 
ment and difcuffion ; yeafon and the right 
‘of private judgment has prevailed over 
bigotry and fuperitition, It may be 
afferted, it is true, with refpeét to France 
itfelf, that her own individual pofletfion of 
liberty 1s but nominal—that the Chief 
Conful has, at this moment, a control 
- fupersor to that poffeffed by moit of the 
Bourbons—and that the new fyftem of 
patronizing religion is a mere farce and 
mockery with refpect to himfelf, and in- 
tended for no other purpoie than that of 
advancing his own ambitious views, and 
fecuring bimtelf in the fupreme power, 
But the more dith. neft we admit the Chief 
Contul to be in his profeffions, the more 
we behold him, in order to fecure his 
fituation, compelled to conful the will of 
the people—the more we behold the 
triumph of popular opinion, the tupremacy 
of the majefly of the people. : 
*,* Inour next Magazine we foall infert 
acarrect copy of the Concor{at. 
WEST INDIES. 
By his Majeity’s brig Raven, Captain 
Saunders,. which arrived at Spithead on 
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State of Public Affairs in April, 1802 
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the roth of April, Government received 
difpatches from St. Domingo, containing 
the important information that Touflaint, 
after fultaining a defeat, had.retired with 
his army into the interior part of the 
ifland. The army of Touffaint, it is 
faid, fought with the greateft defperation. 
The Moditeur of the 15th of April 
afferts, that. the difpatches brought to 
Breft by Jerome Bonaparte fays, that 
General Leclerc feems to confider, the 
formidable obftacles which prefented them- 
felves on his firft landing, very nearly 
overcome, and that he had great hopes of 
fubjugating Touffaint. All the coatt, 
and the whole of the ports, are in poffef- 
fion of the French. Theblacks, in their 
retreat, fet fire to feveral of the places 
which they were obliged to evacuate, and 
a numbe*® of the white inhabitants, it is 
faid, have been pur to death by them. 
GREAT BRITAIN. 
The Chancellor of the Exchequer, on 
the 29th of March, faid, he was happy 
that there would now be laid before the 
Houfe and the public a clear ftatement of 
the expenditure of the Civil Lift, which 
would ferve to do away the charges made 
by ignorance, mralevolence, and dilaffec- 
tion; it would thew what part of rhe Civil 
Lift was expended on his Majefty’s per 
fon, and what on his government. After 
a detail refpeéting the amount of the Civil 
Lift, and the fums granted in aid of it, 
in 1769, 1775, 1776, 1784, and 1786, 
he caine to the prefent application, being 
for 990,053!. a fum which, he contended, 
was extremely fimall, to have been in- 
curred in a {pace of 16 years, “in the latter 
part of which every thitg was raifed to 
an unufual price, and a great part of which 
was ata period of war, which neceflarily 
occafioned additional expences. He then 
concliided by moving, That a finn not 
exceeding 990,053!. be granted -to his 
Majetty, to’ make good the like fum due 
and owing from the Civil Lift Revenues, 
on the 1rft day of January, 1302. Mr. 
Fox delivered a very long and eloquent 
fpeech, after declaring that it was his with 
to fmooth the difficulties of the Royal 
Family, inftead of embarrafling them 3 
but with what face could Minifers come 
down to Parliament and fay, ‘‘ You have 
fixed the Civil Lift at goo,;oool. but we 
have a€tually made 25¢,000]. addition— 
you have made one law, and we have 
acted on another.”” He then dwelt upon 
the expences paid to the law department. 
We find. upon infpection, a fum of not _ 
lefs than 16241. paid in the year 1800, ,to 
W. Baldwin, efq. as Counicl to the Se- 
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