dignity of the nation, and exalted the character of the man, whose nioderation and Justice have ensured its credit, stability, and honour.-April 5, 1802.

Mr. Addington a Virtuous Minister. Without reverting to that long catalogue of glorious achievements which during the last nine years, justly entitle us to this envied precedencé, we need only remark, that under such an administration as the present, we have every possible guarantee that those blessings will be preserved inviolate to the latest posterity. If these expectations should be disappointed, the fault will lie, either on the restless machinations of the worst part of the people, or in the elevation of men to ostensible situations, who neither possess the heads nor hearts of the present virtuous mimisters, and who, consequently, can never possess an equal share of the public confi dence and estimation.—Jan. 2, 1802.

Mr. Addington fit for bis bigh Station. A complete and perfect knowledge of the subject under consideration, marks the language and conduct of Mr. Addington on every individual occasion. In looking forward, then, what have we not to hope? Should a definitive treaty crown the labours of the cabinet, the applause of a grateful people will be his reward.-Jan. 4, 1802.

Mr. Addington the Genius of Innocence. Thanks to our present government, we now contemplate the dawnings of happiness, end humanity, rising from amidst the ruins of a world.

In short, secured by the awful sanctions of a free constitution, which is respected by a virtuous minister, we remain, after a nine year's war, independent, wealthy, free, and powerful. If we may be permitted to use a metaphor, Astrea, who had gone up to heaven for so long a time, his now come down upon earth again, and the reign of Innocence and Concord is revived among mankind 1-April 5, 1802.

Mr. Addington's Economy. Mr. Addington's administration is, in all respects, most economical. He is watchful over the public expenditure even in all its details.-June 21, 1802.

Mr. Addington no Jobber.

In filling up vacancies, Mr. Addington disregards great interests, and only consults the permanent interests of the country. He

Mr. Addington a Political Apostate. Mr. Addington now finds that it is not only in finance that he is vulnerable, and he is therefore casting about for aid against the meeting of Parliament. He has partly thrown himself into the arms of the Old Opposition, and now finds it necessary to complete his political apostacy by an union with their leader. We shall not fail to expose the hideous policy to an indignant pub. lic.-Nov. 11, 1803.

From the conduct of our minister it seems not unlikely that he would coalesce with any body, in order to shew that he could do without the only man (Mr. Pitt) who could efectually extricate him from his difficulties. -Oct. 29, 1803.

Mr. Addington unfit for his bigb Station.

Mr. Addington must consider himself fully qualified for the high station he fills, or certainly he could not reconcile it to his corscience to remain there at such a moment as the present, and expose to hazard the best interests of the nation.-Jan. 21, 1804.

Mr. Addington a desperate Gamester. Every day brings us nearer to our fate. Every hour brings forth some fresh instance of deficiency in those who are set up and appointed to encounter it. Is it that the minister has thrown the die, and is determined to abide the bazard of it, without reflecting that seventeen millions of people are involved in the effects of his rash temerity? -Nov. 3, 1803..

Our constitution will be sacrificed to a narrow and selfish policy, unknown as unresorted to by men born to govern, and our existence bartered away for a few short months of feverish power, which the minister and his colleagues have enjoyed at the expense of the people.-Nov, 10, 1803,

Mr. Addington's Pro ligality. Doctor Addington has improved upon the system of Doctor Perkins in the use of Tractors. The chief ingredient in the composition of Doctor Addington's Tractors is gold, and they have been found very potent in their operation.-Nov. 15, 1803.

Mr. Addington a notorious Jobber.

To the evils which are experienced from a weak administration, is now to be added. that of almost all the inferior offices being

FOREIGN OFFICIAL PAPERS. EXPOSE of the State of the French Republic, taid before the Legislative Body, on the 25th Nivose, 12th Year, (10th January, 1804 ) The Republic has been for ed to change its attitude, but it has not changed its situation; it continues to preserve in the consciousness of its strength the pledge of its prosperity. Every thing was calm in the interior of France, when, at the commencement of the last year, we still entertained the hope of a durable peace. Every thing has remained calmer since a jealous power has rekindled the torches of war; but in this last epoch the union of interests and sentiments has shewn itself more full and entire; the public mind has developed itself with more energy. Ia the new departments, which the First Consul has traversed, he has heard, as well as in the old, the accents of a truly French indignation; he recognized in their hatred against a government hostile to our prosperity, even more than in the bursts of public joy and personal affection, their attachment to the country, and their devotion to his destiny. In all the departments the ministers of worship have exerted the influence of religion to consecrate this spontaneous movement of the minds of ir dividuals. Depôts of arms, which fugitive rebels had committed to the earth, in order to take them up again at a future opportunity, which a culpable foresight suggested to them, have been disclosed at the first signal of the danger, and delivered to the magistrates for the purpose of arming our defenders. The Eritish government will attempt to throw, and perhaps has already thrown, on our coasts some of these monsters whom it nourished in its bosom during the peace, in order to tear in pieces the land which gave them birth; but they will no longer find in it those impious Lands which were the instruments of their former crimes; terror has dissolved them, or justice has purged our territory of them; they will find neither that credulity which they abused, nor that animosity, the poignards of which they whetted. Experience has enlightened every mind; the io leration of the laws, and the administration of them has re

conciled every heart. Surrounded every where by the public force, overtaken every where by he tribunals, these dreadful men will in future neither be able to make ebels, nor to re-organize with impunity their horde of brigands and assassins. It is but now that a miserable attempt has been made in La Vendée; the conscription was made the pretext for it; but citizens, priests, soldiers, all classes exerted themselves for the common defence; those who in other times were the movers of disturbances, came to

offer their aid to the public authority, and to give their persons and their families, as pledges of their fidelity and devotion. Finaliy, what characterizes, above all things, the security of the citizens, the return of social affections, beneficence displays itself every day more and more. On every side donations are offered to the unfortunate and foundations are made for useful establishments. The war has not interrupted the intentions of the peace; and the government has pursued with constancy every thing that tends to establish the constitution in the manners and disposition of the citizens, every thing likely to attach all interests and all hopes to its duration. Thus, the senate has been placed in that elevation to which its institution called it, an endowment such as the constitution had fixed, encircles it with an imposing grandeur. The legislative body will no longer appear, except surrounded with the majesty, which its functions demand; it will no longer be looked for in vain, except in its sitting. An annual president will be the centre of its motion and the organ of its thoughts and its wishes, in its relations with the government. This body will have at length that dignity which could not exist with forms changeable and undetermined. The electoral colleges have conducted themselves every where with that calioness and wisdom which secures happy elections. The legion of honour exists in the higher parts of its organization, and in a part of the elements which are to compose These elements still equal, await from a final choice, their functions, and their places. How many honourable traits have been displayed by the ambition of being admitted into it. What treasures will the republic have in this institution to encourage and recompense service and virtues. In the council of state, another institution proposes for the choice of the government men for all the superior branches of administration: auditors are formed there in the laboratories of regulations and laws; they perpetuate themselves there with the maximus and princ ples of public order. Always surrounded with witnesses and judges, often under the eyes of the government, often on important missions, they will arrive at the public functions with the maturity of experience, and with the security which is given by a character, a conduct, and a skill proved by repeated trials. Lyceums and secondary schools are erecting on every side, and are not yet erected with sufficient rapidity to satisfy the impatience of the cinzens. Common regulations, a common discipline, the same system of instruction, are forming in the generations which will support the glory of France by

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their talents, and its institutions by their principles and their virtues. A single prytaneum, the prytaneum of St. Cyr, receives the children of those citizens who died for their country. Education already breathes forth there a military enthusiasm. At Fontainbleau, the special military school numbers many hundreds of soldiers who are rendered pliant to discipline, and inued to fatigue, and who acquire with the habits of the profession the knowledge of the art. The school of Compiegne pre-ents the aspect of a vast manufactory, where five hundred young persons pass from their studies to the workshops, and from the workshops to their studies. After a few months they execute with the precision of skill, works which could not have been obtained from them af ter years of a common apprenticeship; and in a short time commerce and industry will enjoy the benefit of their labour, and of the cares of the government. The engineers and the artillery have now but one school, and one common institution. Medicine is every where submitted to the new regime, which the law prescribed to it. By a salutary reform, means have been found to simplify the expense and to add to the instruction. The exercise of pharmacy has been put under the care of skill and probity. A regulation has placed between master and workman, judges who terminate their differences with the rapidity which their interests and their wants require; and at the same time with the impartiality which justice demands. The civil code is approaching to completion; and in the course of this session the last projects of laws which are to complete it altogether will be in a state to be submitted to the deliberations of the legislative body. The judicial code, called for by every wish, is at this moment undergoing the discussions which are to conduct it to its maturity. The criminal code is in a state of advancement; and that part of it which circumstances appear to call for most imperiously, are in a condition to receive the seal of the law in the next session. New chefs d'œuvre are come to embellish our museums; and, whilst the rest of Europe envies our treasures, our young artists continue still to go into the bosom of Italy to kindle the fire of their genius, with the view of its great monuments, and to respire the enthusiasm which produced them. In the department of Marengo, under the walls of that Alexandria, which will be one of the strongest bulwarks of France, the first camp of our veterans is formed There they will keep up the recollection of their exploits, and the pride of their victories. They will inspire their new fellowcitizens with love and respect for that cour

try which they have extended, and which has rewarded them. They will leave in their children heirs of their courage, and new defenders of that country whose benefits they will enjoy. In the ancient territory of the republic, in Belgium, old fortifications, which were no longer any thing but useless monuments of the misfortunes of our forefathers, or of the progressive growth of France, will be demolished. The lands which had been sacrificed to their defence, will be restored to culture and commerce; and with the funds arising from these demolitions, and these lands, new fortresses will be constructed on our new frontiers. The tax for the support of the public roads has received a new increase, under a better system of adjudication. Farmers, from year to year, were without emulation; farmers of too small portions were without fortune, and without security Triennial adjudications, and adjudications of a number of barriers together, have invited a greater number of bidders, richer and more enterprising. The tolls on the highway have produced 15 millions in the year eleven: ten millions more have been appropriated within the same year to the repairs and completion of the roads. The old roads have been kept up and repaired: some of the roads have been connected with others by new roads. From this year forth carriages can pass the Simplon and Mount Cenis. Three broken arches have been rebuilt in the bridge at Tours. New bridges are erecting at Cabeil, Boanne, Nemours, and on the rivers Isere, Roubion, Durance, and Rhine. A communication is to be opened between Avignon and Villeneuve, by a bridge undertaken by a private company. Three bridges were begun at Paris with funds contributed by some of the citizens; two have been in part completed with the public money; and the tolls to be collected thereon afford a security for the payment of the interest and principal of the sum advanced in a certain number of years. The third, the most interesting of all (that of the botanic garden), is in progress, and will soon be completed. It will relieve the interior of Paris from a fatiguing, circuitous communication, and will lead to a splendid space or square, a long time ordered for sale, which is to be ornamented with plantations, and the waters of the river Ourcq, and on which the street St. Antoine, and that of its suburb, are to terminate in a direct line. The bridge alone will constitute a source of expense, which the tolls proposed to be collected on it will rapidly cover. The square and all its appurtenances will cost the state only the ground and the ruins on which it is to be formed. The works of the ca◄

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nal of St. Quintin are carrying on in four different points at the same time. A subterraneous cut, a thousand meters in extent, has already been completed, two locks are finished, eight more are in a state of forwardness, some others are rising from their foundations, and this vast undertaking will in some years afford a complete navigation. The canals of Arles, Aigues-Mortes, the Soane, and the Yonne, the canal that is to connect the Rhone with the Rhine, and that which is to extend the navigation by the B'avet to the centre of ancient Britany, are ail begun, and will all be completed within. a period proportioned to the labours they require. The canal which is to connect the Scheldt, the Meuse, and the Rhine, is yet only in the contemplation of the government: compensation has been made for the scite: funds are already provided for the execution of an undertaking, which will open Germany to us, and restore to our commerce and industry such parts of our own territories as were by their situation consigned to the industry and commerce of foreigners. The junction of the Rance with the Vilaine, will connect the channel with the ocean, will convey prosperity and civilization to districts, in which agriculture and the arts languish, in which their rustic manners are still unacquainted with our refinements. From this year, considerable sums are appropriated to this operation. The draining of the marshes of Rochfort, often undertaken, and as often abandoned, goes on without interruption. A million will be applied this year to promote the salubrity of this port, which used to destroy our sailors and its own inhabitants. Culture and population will extend themselves over tracts devoted for ages to diseases and desolation. A project of draining, in the centre of the Cotentin, no less important, the plan of which is formed, and the expense of which, calculated on a great scale, will unavoidably be repaid by the result of the undertaking, will transform into rich pasture lands other marshes of a vast extent, which are at present only an everlasting source of contagion. The funds requisite for this operation are comprehended in the budget for the year twelve. At the same time a bridge over the Vire will unite the departments of La Manche and Calvados, will put a stop to a passage always dangerous, and often fatal, and will shorten the route from Paris to Cherbourg by some myriameters. A canal is planned in another quarter of the department of La Manche (the Channel), which will convey the sea sand and fertility to a barren district, and will yield to public buildings and to the marine timber, that now decays without

being used a few myriameters from the On all the canals, on every part of the coast of Belgium, the banks which had been undermined by time, or impaired by the sea, are in a state of repair, of being extended and strengthened. The bank and bason of Ostend are secured from waste: a bridge will open a communication of importance to the city; and agriculture will draw riches from a valuable tract recovered from the sea. An werp has seen a military post, an arsenal, and ships of war upon the stocks, produced at once by a decree. Two mil lions, secured on the sale of national domains situated in the departments of the Scheldt and Deux-Nethes, are appropriated to the restoration and augmentation of its ancient port. On the credit of this security, commerce makes advances, the works are begun, and will be completed next year. At Boulogne, at Havre, in every point of this coast, which our enemies have heretofore called an iron coast, great works are in progress or completed. The Mole of Cherbourg, a long time given up, long the object of solicitude and doubt, rises at length from the bosom of the waters, and is already a source of destruction to our enemies and a protection to our own mariners. Under shelter of this Mole, at the extremity of an immense road, an haven is now digging, where, in a few years, the Republic will have its arsenals and its fleets. At Rochelle, at Cette, at Marseilles, and at Nice, the ravages of carelessness and of time are repaired with well secured funds. It is in our maritime cities in particular, where the stagnation of commerce has mul tiplied misfortunes and wants, that the wisdom of government has employed itself in creating resources by useful and necessary works. The navigation in the interior was in a state of decay, from a forgetfulness of principles and regulations; it is henceforth subjected to a tutelary and conservative re gime. A duty is appropriated to its support, to the works it requires; to the improvements which the public interest demands: submitted to the superintendance of the Prefects, it has also in the Chamber of Commerce useful guardians, witnesses, and estimators of the proper application of the funds it produces; in short, enlightened men to appreciate the plans formed for its preservation or extension. The right of fishing in navigable rivers has again become, what it ought always to be, a public property. It is committed to the care of the administration of the forests; and the triennial adjudications give it, in the farmers, still more active guardians, because they are more interested. The last has been a year of prosperity for all our finances: the collection has happily disap