1802.) 
( 605.) 
STATE OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS, 
In June, 1802. 
EL 
FRANCE, 
FIAHAT the man who, by his own in- 
dividual exertions, has quelled do- 
meftic diffenfioas, and uniformly triumph- 
edina defperate warfare—who has tripled | 
the extent, and doubted the fplendour of 
the Hatecopet organifed its financial de- 
partment from the rain into which it 
was thrown, by theignorance, feli-intereft, 
and perfidy, of former altiinitteaberes tas 
eftablifhed confidence between citizen and 
citizen, ahd renovated that exterzal reve- 
rence at leaft for religion, which it fhould 
ever poflefs—that fuch a man is entitled 
to fome pre-eminent mark of public gra- 
titude and veneration, there can. be no 
doubt; and, perhaps, in the prefent ftate 
of the country, embracing a variety 
of new fyftems and relations abroad, full 
engaged at home by the embers of former 
animofities, or the rifing jealoufies of rival 
fa&tions and interefts, the benefit of the 
ftate might be as fully confulted by inveft- 
ing Bonaparte with an additional ten 
years of fupreme power, or even extend- 
Ing it to the term of his life, as his own 
ambition gratified. But beyond this 
we cannot advance; to be avaricious of 
a power of nominating a fucceflor to him- 
‘felf, is to fubvert, in the moft flagrant 
. manner, the very principles (if principles 
it may yet pretend to), of the conftitution 
he himlelf has lately eftablifhed, and to 
re-introduce that very form of government, 
only under another. dynafty, to abolifh: 
which has been the uniform and unalien- 
able objeét of the war. 
It-has been faid, that the difpofition of 
Bonaparte’s government prohibits every 
{pecies of oppofition to his yiews. This 
does not appear.to bea fact: the corps of 
honour propofed for his proteftion.has met 
with much animadverfion in the tribunate ; 
but the feffion is clofed, and the eftablith-. 
ment will unqueftionably take place, We 
have heard alfo that the prefs has not any 
'-fhare of liberty; but we have, neverthe- 
’ Tefs, juft perufed a book, entitled “ Prins 
cipes du Droit Politique,’ publifned a few 
months ago, with the name of the pub- 
lifher fubjoined, in which all the princi- 
ples of the Revolution are more violently 
attacked, and the rights of the Bourbon 
family more warmly defended,than in any 
that has hitherto reached us from any 
| Montury Mac. Ne, 88, 
pb thay Bonaparte cannot trample upon 
public opinion with fo much impunity as 
many people pretend to conceive. The 
French Governnient, if at prefent defpotic 
in tLeory, will probably be gradually ame- 
liorated, and rendered more liberal, by the 
practic but paper pcb! e efforts of the 
French people thetnfelves. As to the . 
plots againft the life of the Chief Conful, 
all fuch reports are fcarcely worth attend- 
ing to; and rumours of this kind | may be 
expected to be regularly propagated for 
~ fome time to come. 
It is afferted, that arrangements for a 
commercial treaty are about to take place, 
and that it is only potponed at the de- 
fire of the French government, and to 
give them an opportunity of projecting ar- 
ticles more favourable to themfelves than 
thofe concluded by former minifters. Thefe 
conjectures are confirmed, by the appoint- 
ment of a perfon charged with this ex- 
prefs negociation, in conjunction with M. 
Otto, 
The Minifter of the Interior has ad- 
drefled an official letter to the Department 
of the North, on the fubject of the prefent 
fcarcity of corn, in-which he holds out 
the profpe&t of an immienfe importation 
from Dantzic, Amfterdam, and North 
America, announces the arrival of fortys 
five fhips, laden with corn and flour, in 
the ports of Havre, Dieppe, Dunkirk, 
and St. Vallery, and ftates that the ruth 
ern departments are all abundantly fup- 
plied; fo that the high prices of corn at 
Paris, and in its vicinity, muft be fpee- 
dily reduced. 
The Emperor cf Ruffia is faid to have 
declared to France, that if the fove. 
reignty of Malta be not yielded to Naples, 
he will not take upon him to guarantee 
the order, and will feparate from it the 
priories in Roffia, 
It is afferted, that General Andreoffi is 
appointed Ambaffador to Great Britain, 
and that he is thortly expeéted, when Lord 
Whitworth will immediately depart, in 
the fame capacity, for Paris. 
The French Minifer for Foreign Af- 
fairs has announced to the Germanic Body 
the plan of eleéting Bonaparte for life.. 
The Minifter of Police has iffued the 
following note refpe&ting the reports which 
have been in circulation at Paris,‘ Re. 
41 ports’ 
