Of the Chamber of Peers. Arts. 24 and 25, declare this chamber an essential part of the Legislature, to be convoked and closed at the same time as that of the Deputies.-Art. 27. The King nominates the Peers; their number is unlimited; they may be nominated for life, or rendered hereditary, as the King pleases.-Art. 28. Peers enter the chamber at the age of twenty-five, and have a deliberative voice at that of thirty. By Art. 29 and 30, the Chancellor presides in the Senate, and the Princes of the Blood are always Peers by right of birth.-Art. 32. All the deliberations of the Chamber of Peers are secret.-Art. 33. The Chamber of Peers takes cognizance of the erimes of high treason and offences against the state. Peers only to be judged by their Pecrs.

Art. 33. This Chamber to be composed of Deputies chosen by the Electoral Colleges, whose organization shall be determined by law. Art. 36 and 37. Every department to have the same number of deputies as at present; the deputies to be chosen for five years, and the chamber to be renewed annually, by a fifth.-Art. 38. No deputy can be admitted into the chamber, unless he be forty years of age, and pay direct taxes to the amount of one thousand francs. -By Art. 40, the electors of the deputies must pay direct taxes to the amount of three hundred francs, and be at least thirty years of age. -By Art. 41, the presidents of the Electoral Colleges are to be nominated by the King.-By Art. 43, the King appoints the president of

the chamber of deputies from a list of five members presented by the chamber.-Art. 44. The sittings of the chamber are public; but the demand of five members is sufficient for forming it into a secret committee.-Art. 45. The chamber divides into bureaux to discuss the projets which have been presented to it on the part of the King.-Art. 46. No amendment can be made in a law, unless proposed in committee by the King, and unless transmitted to and discussed in the bureaux-Art. 47 and 48. The Chamber of Deputies receives all propositions for taxes; and no tax can be imposed or levied unless assented to by the two chambers, and sanctioned by the King.-Art. 49. The land-tax is voted only for a year; the indirect taxes may be voted for several years.-Art. 50. The King every year convokes the two chambers; he prorogues them, and may dissolve that of the Deputies; but in this case, he must convoke a new one within the space of three months.-Art. 51. No personal restraint shall be laid upon any member of the house during the session, or within six weeks before and after it.-Art. 52. No member of the house can, during the session, be prosecuted or arrested for criminal matters, till the house has permitted his prosecution.Art. 53. All petitions to either house must be presented in writing.

Of the Ministers.

right to impeach the Ministers before the Peers, which alone are competent to try them.-Art. 56. They cannot be accused, except for high treason or peculation.

Of the Judicial Order. Art. 57. All justice emanates from the King: it is administered in his name by judges whom he nominates and appoints.-Art. 58. The judges nominated by the King cannot be removed. Art. 59. The ordinary courts and tribunals actually existing are retained. Art. 60. The present institution of the judges of commerce is preserved. Art. 61. The office of justice of the peace is likewise retained. The justices of the peace, though nominated by the King, are removable. -Art. 62. No man can be taken out of the hands of his natural judges.-Art. 63. There cannot, of course, be created any extraordinary commissions and tribunals. -Art. 64. The pleadings in criminal matters may be published, unless their publicity be dangerous to good order and morals; and in this case the tribunals shall declare it by a judgment-Art. 65. The institution of juries is retained Art. 66. The penalty of the confiscation of property is abolished, and cannot be re-established-Art. 67. The King has the right of pardon, and that of commuting punishments.-Art. 68. The civil code and the laws actually existing not contrary to the present charter, remain in force till they shall be legally abolished.

Art. 69. The military in active service, the officers and soldiers who have retired, the widows, of

ficers, and soldiers pensioned, shall retain their ranks, honours, and pensions.-Art. 70. The public debt is guaranteed: all kinds of engagements contracted by the state, with its creditors, are invio, lable,-Art. 71. The ancient nobi. lity resume their titles; the new retain theirs. The King ereates nobles at pleasure, but he confers on them only ranks and honours, without any exemption from the charges and duties of society.-Art. 72. The Legion of Honour is maintained: the King will fix its interior regulations and decorations.

Art. 73. The colonies shall be governed by particular laws and regulations.-Art. 74. The King and his successors shall swear at the ceremony of their anointment to the faithful observance of the present constitutional charter.

Temporary Articles.

Art. 75. The deputies of the departments of France, who sat in the Legislative Body at the time of the last adjournment, shall continue to sit in the house of deputies till they are replaced.— Art. 76. The first renewal of one-fifth of the house of deputies shall take place, at the latest, in the year 1816, according to the order fixed between the classes,

President of the United States of America.

A Proclamation.

Whereas it is manifest that the blockade, which has been proclaimed by the enemy, of the whole Atlantic coast of the United States, nearly two thousand miles in extent, and abounding in ports, harbours, and navigable inlets,

cannot

discuss, settle, and sign, a treaty of peace and amity, namely:

His Majesty the King of Spain and the Indies, Don Pedro Gomez Labrador, Knight of the Royal Spanish Order of Charles III. his Counsellor of State, &c.; and his Majesty the King of France and Navarre, M. Charles Maurice Talleyrand Perigord, Prince of Benevent, Grand Eagle of the Legion of Honour, Knight of the Golden Fleece, &c.; who having exchanged their full powers, found to be in good and due form, have agreed on the following articles:

Art. 1. Reckoning from this date, there shall be perpetual peace and amity between his Majesty the King of Spain and the Indies, and his allies, on the one part, and his Majesty the King of France and Navarre on the other part, their heirs and successors, their states and respective subjects. The high contracting parties will apply all their cares to maintain, not only between themselves, but also, as far as depends on them, between all the states of Europe, the harmony and good understanding so necessary to its repose.

[Here follow the articles contained in the Treaty concluded on the 30th of May, between France and the Allied Powers.]

Additional Articles. Art. 1. The property, of whatever kind, which Spaniards possess in France, or Frenchmen in Spain, shall be respectively restored to them in the state in which it was at the period of sequestration or confiscation. The removal of the sequestration shall extend to all property in this predicament, at what period soever it may have been sequestrated. The disputes

respecting money matters, at present existing, or which may hereafter arise, between Spaniards and French, whether they began before the war or originated since, shall be adjusted by a mixed commission; and if these disputes fall under the exclusive cognizance of the courts of justice, the respective tribunals shall be exhorted on both sides to administer due and speedy justice.

Art. 2. A treaty of commerce shall be concluded as soon as possible between the two powers; and till this treaty can be carried into effect, the commercial relations between the two countries shall be re-established on the footing on which they were in 1792.

The present additional articles shall have the same force and effect as if they were inserted word for word in the treaty of this day. They shall be ratified, and their ratifications exchanged at the same time. In faith of which the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed them, and affixed the seal of their arms.

Done at Paris, the 20th of July, in the Year of Grace 1814.

(Signed)

D. PEDRO GOMEZ LABRADOR. The Prince of BENEVENT.

PROCLAMATIONS IN BELGIUM.

Though the evils of war have been felt among you longer than we had hoped, I am at least conscious that I have neglected nothing to alleviate the burden.

The peace, which has given repose to Europe, is going to confirm the happiness of the people of Belgium and Holland: already connected by the natural bonds of a common descent, of common industry and virtues, you will find the pledge of your durable prosperity in the strict conformity of your administration.

Belgium, under the government of the Serene House of Orange, under a system the most favourable to its commerce, and with the preservation of its religion and manners, will soon be restored to its ancient lustre. Your fine cities, Ghent, Bruges, Ostend, Antwerp, &c. the monuments of your national industry, which languished in the late unhappy times, will again rival in industry and prosperity the first commercial nations.

People of Belgium! the general interest of Europe destines you an enviable fate; an indissoluble union shall ensure its duration, under the most venerable guarantee that human power can give.

Permit me, after having in these difficult times struggled with you against adversity, to indulge a hope that you will sometimes remember me in the days of your prosperity.

Baron de VINCENT.

Brussels, July 31st.

At the same time the following was published in Dutch and French:

William, by the Grace of God, Prince of Orange Nassau, Sove

Europe owes its deliverance to the magnanimity of the allied sovereigns; soon it will owe to their wisdom a political system, which will ensure to agitated nations long years of prosperity and repose.

The new destination of your beautiful provinces is a necessary part of this system; and the negociations which are going to be opened at Vienna will have for their object to have it recognized, and consolidate the extension of Belgium on a basis conformable to your interests, to that of your neighbours, and of all Europe.

Called to the government of your country for the short interval which still separates us from the future so long desired, I come among you with the wish of being useful to you-with all the sentiments of a friend, of a father. I desire to be assisted by the most enlightened, the most respected among you, in the honourable task assigned me by the confidence of the allied monarchs, and of which I hasten to acquit myself in person.

To put an end to the evils which still bear heavy upon Belgium, notwithstanding the firm, wise. and liberal conduct of Baron de Vincent in the difficult times in which he has exercised the office of governor-general; to honour and protect your religion; to give the nobility the splendour due to its merit; to encourage agriculture, commerce, and all branches of industry; these will be my most delightful duties, the objects of my

most incessant care.

Happy