1802} 
cd 
fineft prints that has been engraved in this 
country. We promifed a lift of the por- 
traits: thofe which follow are the prin- 
cipal :— 
Prince Frederick of Orange, Colonel 
Moncrief, Marquis of Huntley, Heredi- 
tary Prince of Orange, Prince Erneft, 
Field Marfhal Freytag, Sir James Murray, 
Colone! Hulfe, Prince Adolphus, Major 
General Lake, General Count Walmoden, 
Duke of York, Lieut. Colonel St. Leger, 
Prince Hohenloe, Major General Aber- 
crombie, Archduke Charles, Enfign Tol- 
lemache, Lieut. Colonel Doyle, Major 
State of Public Affairs in December, 1801. 
549. 
Congreve, Colonel Leigh, General Count 
Feraris, Lieut. Thornton, General Coant 
Clairfait, Prince Frederick of Wirtem- 
berg, Major General Wankkeim, Prince 
Saxe Cobourg. | 
Shakefpeare’ s Seven Ages, engraved by 
Bromley, - from defigns by Stothart, are 
ow publifhing in colours, and have a 
very good effect of light and fhade. | 
Meffrs. Boydell have publithed the fame 
feries of fubje&ts from defigns by Smirke, 
but our remarks on them muft be poftponed 
to next month, 
e 
So EET ETE SES = 
STATE OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS, 
In December, 1801. 
FRANCE. 
KVEVERAL Treaties concluded by the 
S Chief Conful have been fubmitted to 
the confideration of the Legiflative Body, 
who appear to have approved of the whole. 
It has chofen a Committee to exarhine into 
the {chedule of the national code, lately 
communicated; but this Committee bas in- 
aufpicioully rejeSted the firft chapter al- 
together, as ill arranged, incoherent, and 
diffatisfatory. 
The Valais, itis faid, will be fpeedily 
united to France, in exchange for which 
Switzerland is to receive the *Frikthal. If, 
as it is reported, England and Roffa 
concur .in offering Malta to the Pope, 
France can ftart no objection; the Eccle- 
fiattical States are at this hour, and muit 
continue to be, under the aiielcee con- 
troul of this. Republic ; contequenily 
Maltamay even then be regarded as her own. 
The pacific Congrefs have at length 
affembled at Amiens, and commenced their 
important difcuffions: a-variety of mef- 
fages have been interchanged between the 
Britifh Cabinet and Lord_Cornwallis, and 
feveral points have heen already farted, 
concerning which, as may naturally We 
fuppoled, a difference of opinion has been 
“manitetied between the Plenipotentiaries. 
Among thefe, one of the moi important 
relative to our own country’is, an adjuit- 
ment of the claims of Britith fubjeéts to 
property of different kinds in Franee,- fo_ 
as to produce an equal advantage, or fome- 
thing like an equality, to property poftet- 
fed by Frenchmen in Great Britain. 8e- 
tween thefe claimants of the two nations, 
the war has produced an immenfe dif: 
ference in their fituation, and a difference 
which it will be found extremely difficult 
MontuLy Mac. No. 81. 
to reconcile upon any terms.- While in 
Great Britain property of every defcrip- 
tion has been progreffively advancing in 
value, the very reverfe has taken place in 
France: multitudes of houfes, eftates, and. 
manufactories, appertaining to Englith fa-' 
milies, have paffed’ into other hands; or 
been totally deftroyed, without compenfa- 
tion of any kind; while immenfe quanti- 
ties of affignats, ‘in many cafes locked up, 
in private ‘drawers, or faddenly feized by - 
fome of the earlier faGtions of othe Revo- 
lution, though they were at that time of 
confiderable value, will be now, upon their 
reftoration, found devoid of all value what- 
ever. Thefe, Britifh fufferers have cer- 
tainly a ftrong claim upon the. protestion 
of the Britith Government, and if. not 
provided for by the Convention at Amiens, 
fiould affuredly. be recompenfed at homes 
The fir part of the civil code we already 
intimated has beens prefented to the. Le- 
giflature by three Counfellors of State, one 
ot whom, Portalis, made a long and able 
preliminary fpeech, in which be “developed 
the plan and divifion of the civil code; the 
fundamental principles of the legiflation 
of perfons; the rights of parents, “and the 
duties of children; the principles of re- 
ligion and civil inftiturions ; punifaments 
and penalties ; marriages and divorces 5 
children born in marriage and out; and 
the bafis of property in general, The 
facrednels of m arriage is declared, and dis 
vorces allowed on! iy under particular and 
very fingular circumfances. The latt 
part of the code, which relates to property, 
is not yet completed, and is not to be 
fubmitted to the Legiflature this feffion, 
The fick plan of civil law, which relates: 
to the promu'gation, effeéts, and applica- 
4 tions 
