---The Secretary of State has the rank of a Minister; and all the Ministers will have the title of "their Excellencies." The Functionaries of the Departments, and all those who present petitions, are to address them by the title of "Monseig, eur." The President of the Senate will receive the title of his Excellency." The Marshals of the Einpire are to be called "Monsieur le Marshal;" and when spoken to, or addressed in writing, they are to have the title of "Monseigueur."

Organic Senatus Consultum extracted from the Register of the Conservative Senate. Floreal, Year 12.-May 18, 1804.

The Conservative Senate, assembled to the number of members prescribed by the 90th article of the Constitution, having seen the project of the Senatus Consultum drawn up according to the 57th article of the Organic Senatus Consultum, dated Thermidor, 16, year 10, and after having heard on the motives of the said project the Orators of Government, and the report of its Special Commission, nominated in the sitting of the 26th of this month, and having deliberated on the adoption of it, to the number of voices prescribed by the 56th article of the Organic Senatus Consultum, of the 16th of Thermidor, year 10, decrees as follows:

TITLE I.

ART. 1. The Government of the Republic shall be entrusted to an Emperor, who assumes the title of mperor of the French. —Justice shall be administered in the name of the Emperor by officers whom he shall appoint.2. Napoleon Buonaparté, now First Consul of the Republic, shall be Emperor of the French.

TITLE II-OP HEREDITAMENT.

3. The imperial dignity is hereditary, in the direct, natural, and legitimate descent of Napoleon Buonaparté, from male to male, by order of primogeniture, and to the perpetual exclusion of females and their descent.4. Napoleon Buonaparté may adopt the children or grand-children of his brothers, provided they have attained the age of eighteen years complete, and that he himself have no male heirs at the time of adoption. His adopted sons enter into the line of his direct descent. If he has any

male children posterior to adoption, his adopted sons can succeed only after the natural and legitimate descendants. Adoption is interdicted to the successors of Napoleon Buonaparté, and to their descendants.5. Failing a natural or legitimate heir, or adopted heir of Napoleon Buonaparté, the imperial dignity shall devolve to and be conferred on Joseph Buonaparté and his natural and legitimate descendants, in the order of primogeniture, to the perpetual exclusion of females and their descendants.--6. Failing Joseph Buonaparté and his male de-scendants, the imperial dignity shall devolve to and be conferred on Louis Buonaparté and his natural and legitimate descendants, in the order of primogeniture, from male to male, and to the perpetual exclusion of females and their descendants.--7. Failing a natural and legitimate heir, or adopted heir of Napoleon Buonaparté, falling a natural or legitimate heir of Joseph Buonaparté and his male descendants, of Louis Buonaparté and his male descendants, an Organic Senatus Consultum, proposed to the Senate by the titularies of the great dignitaries of the Empire, and submitted to the acceptance of the people, shall nominate the Emperor, and regulate in his family the order of hereditament, from male to male, to the perpetual exclusion of females and of their descendants.-8. Until the moment of the election of the new Emperor, the affairs of the state shall be governed by the Ministers, who shail form in Council the Government, and who shall deliberate by a majority of voices. The Secretary of State shall keep a journal of the deliberations.

TITLE III.-OF THE IMPERIAL FAMILY.

9. The Members of the Imperial Family in the order of hereditament shall bear the title of French Princes. The eldest son of the Emperor shall be styled Imperial Prince.-10. The mode of education for the French Princes shall be regulated by a Senatus Consultum.——11. They are Members of the Senate and of the Council of State, when they have attained to their eighteenth year.-12. They cannot marry without the consent of the Emperor. The marriage of a French Prince without the consent of the Emperor, incurs the pri vation of all right of inheritance both for the individual who has contracted it, and for his descendants.-13. The acts which attest the birth, the marriages, and deaths of Mem bers of the Imperial Family, shall be transmitted, by order from the Emperor, to the Senate, who shall order them to be inscribed in their journals, and deposited among their archives.-14. Napoleon Buonaparté sha

establish, by statutes to which his successors are bound to conform, 1st. The duties of the individeals of both sexes, who are me bers of the Imperial Family towards the Emperor: 2d An organization of the Imperial Palace, conformably to the dignity of the throne, and the grandeur of the nation 15. The civil list reinains regulated in the s me manner as it was by the 1st and 4h articles of the decree of May 20, 1791.--The Princes Joseph and Louis Buonaparté, and, in future, the younger natural and legitimate sous of the imperor, shall be treated agreeably to the articles 1, 10 11, 12, and 13 of the decree of December 21. 1790. The Emperor may fix the jointure of the Empress, and refer it to the Civil List. His successors can introduce no change in the dispositions made in this respect. 16. The Emperor shall visit the departments: Imperial palaces shall therefore be established in the four principal points of the empire. These palaces shall be fixed, and their dependencies established by a law.

TITLE IV.-OF THE R GENCY.

17. The Emperor is a minor till the age of eighteen years complete; during his minority there shall be a Regent of the Empire.18 The Regent must be at least twenty five years of age, complete, females are excluded from the Regency.- -19. The Emperor chooses the Regent from among the French Princes why have attained to the age prescribed by the preceding article; and failing them, from among the titularies of the gr at dignities of the Empire. -20. Failing designation on the part of the Em perr, the Regency shan devove to the Prince nearest in degree in the order of inheritance, who has atrained to 25 years com. plete.--21 In cases where the Lmperor has not chosen the Regent, if none of the French Punces have attained to the age of 25 years complete the Senate shall choose the Regent from the titularies of the great dignities of the Empire.-22. When, on account of the minority of a Prince called to the Regency in the order of inheritance, it has been conferred on a more distant relation, or on one of the titularies of the great dignities of the Empire, the Regent who has entered on the exercise of his functions, shall continue them till the majority of the Emperor.-23. No organic Senatus Consultum can be passed during the Regency, nor before the end of the third year after the majority.-24. The Regent shall exercise, till the majority of the Emperor, all the attributes of the Imperial dignity: he cannot, hower, nominate to the grand dignities of the Empire, nor to the places of the great

officers which may be vacant at the period of the Regency, or which may become va cant during the minority, nor use the prerogative reserved for the Emperor of raising citizens to the rank of Senator. He cannot dismiss either the Grand Judge or the Sccretary of State.--23. He is not personally responsible for the acts of his administration. --26 All Acts of the Regency are in the name of the Emperor under age.--27. The Regent can propose no project of a law or Senatus Consultum, and can adopt no regulation of public administration, until he has consulted the Council of Regency, com posed of the titularies of the great dignities of the Empire. He cannot declare war or sign treaties of pace, alliance, or commerce, until after deliberation in the Council of Regency: he members of which in this case only have a deliberative voice. The decision shall be by a majority of voices, and if there be an equality that of the Regent shall determine it. The Minister of Foreign Rela tions shall have a seat in the Council of Regency, when the Council deliberates on affairs relating to his department. The Grand Judge, Minister of Justice, may be called to it by order of the Regent. The Secretary of State shall keep a journal of the deliberations. -28. The Regency can confer að right on the person of the minor Emperor.

-29 The salary of the Regent is fixed at a fourth amount of the civil list.--30 The care of the minor Emperor is entrusted to his mother, and, failing her, to the prince chosen for that purpose by the predecessor of the minor Emperor. Failing the mother of the minor Emperor, and a prince chosen by the Emperor, the Senate shall en rust the care of the minor Emperor to one of the ti tularies of the great dignities of the Empire. Neither the Regent, nor his descendants or females, can be chosen to take charge of the minor Emperor.-31. In case Napoleon Buonaparte shall use the faculty conferred en him by the 4th Article of Title II. the act of adoption shall be performed in the presence of the titularies of the grand dignities of the Empire; shall be received by the Secretary of State, and immediately transmitted to the Senate to be inscribed in the Journals, and deposited among the archives; when the Emperor nominates either a Regent for the minority, or a Prince to take charge of the minor Emperor, the same formalities shall be observed; the act of nomination, either of a Regent for the minority, or a Prince to take charge of the minor Emperor, are revocable, at the pleasure of the Emperor; every act of adoption, nomination, or revo cation of a nomination, which has not been

inscribed in the Journals of the Senate, before the death of the Emperor, shall be null and void.

TITLE V. OF THE GREAT DIGNITIES OF THE EMPIRE.

32. The Grand Dignities of the Empire, are these of Grand Elector, Arch Chancellor of State, Arch Treasurer, Constable, and Grand Admiral. 33. The titularies of the Grand Dignities of the Empire are nominated by the Emperor. They shall enjoy the same honours as the French Princes, and take precedency immediately after them. The period of their reception determines the rank which they respectively hold.———34. The Grand Diguities of the Empire cannot be removed.---35. The titularies of the Great Dignities of the Empire, are Senators and Counsellors of State.-36. They form the Grand Council of the Emperor, they are Members of the Privy Council; they compose the Grand Council of the Legion of Honour. The present Members of the Grand Council of the Legion of Honour shall retain, during life, their titles, functions, and prerogatives --37. The Emperor presides in the Senate and Council of State. When the Emperor does not preside in the Senate or Council of State, he shall nominate one of the titularies of the Great Dignities of the State to be President.--35. All acts of the Senate and Legislative Body are passed in the name of the Emperor, and promulgated or published under the Imperial Seal.--39. The Grand Elector performs the functions of Chancellor--1st. In convoking the Legislative Body, the Electoral Colleges, and the Cantonal Assemblies; 2d. In promulgating the Senatus Consulta for dissolving the Legislative Boly, or the Electoral Colleges. The Grand Elector presides in the absence of the Emperor, when the Senate proceeds to the nomination of Se nators, Legislators, or Tribunes. He may reside in the Palace of the Senate. he makes known to the Emperor the remon strances presented by the Electoral Colleges of the Cantonal Assemblies, in regard to the preservation of their prerogatives.-When a Member of an Electoral College is denounced, agree.bly to the 21st article of the organic Senatus Consultum, of the 10th of Thermidor, year 10, as having committed any act contrary to the honour or the good of his country, the Grand Elector shall invite the College to manifest its will He shall report the will of the College to the Emperor. The Grand Elector presents the Mem bers of the Senate, of the Council of State, and of the Legislative Body, to take the oath before the Emperor. He administers the

Verbal Declaration, made on the 16th of May, at the Dict of Ratisbon, by the Ministers for the Elector of Baden, Brandenburgh, and others, relative to the Subject of the Russian Note

The Electoral Legation has not failed to. transmit to the Court of Baden and their other principals, the Imperial Russian Note; but have not received, nor indeed could they as yet receive any commands on the subject. They conceive, however, that they may declare that his Majesty the King, and the other Courts, whom they represent, entertain a well founded hope that the First Consul will of himself be inclined (according to the sentiment of the Bohemian, and Austrian Minister) to give a full and sat actory expla nation on the subject that hoccasioned anxiety, and such as may entirely correspond to the expectation of his Majesty, the Emperor of Russia.

FOREIGN OFFICIAL PAPERS. Letter from Rear Admiral Linois, Commander of the French Naval Force in India to the Minister of Marine, &c. Dated on board the Marengo, in the Road of Bencoolen, Dec. 3, 1803.

Chizen Minister, I have the honour to inform you of my departure from the Isle of Reunion. I have taken under the line an English merchantman of 1500 tons, from Bengal bound to China, carrying 16 guns, and valued at many millions. My mission was to make an attack upon the island of Sumatra --Before I enter d the Straits of Sunda, I was desirous to ascertain if they had any vessels in the road of Bencoolen; and yesterday I discovered six, but the night forced me to anchor at a distance In the morning the vessels seeing ine at anchor, ran for safety to ellabar, to the southward of Bencoolen. I hoisted English colours, on which an English pilot was sent off to demand of me the names of my division, and to what fleet it belonged. I employed this pilot to anchor before Bencoolen, out of the fire of the cannon of Fort Mariborough.-I sent at the same time, La Semillante, Captain Motard, and Le Barceau Capt Halgan, to Sellabar, to destroy such English vessels as

they might find there, and notwithstanding the fire of a little fort, which discharged several shot without effect, these two vessels fulfilled their mission. Six vessels were burnt by the English themselves, and two were burnt by us, together with three large magazines of the Company, filled with pepper, rice, and opium. The ship Eliza Ann, from Madras, is taken, as well as two bigs. The loss of the English may be estimated at 10 or 12 millions of francs. I could have destroyed the town of Bencoolen, but we are not at war with the natives, and I did not wish to imitate the conduct of our enemies, by endeavouring to injure individuals without an object. The vessels lost by the English were rich'y laden, and had come from Bengal. A lieutenant and a drummer were killed by a canson shot, and two men were wounded. At Sellabar we respected private property, and only seized the magazines of the Company; this conduct procured us the confidence of the inhabitants. I have no sick; the crews are in good health, and I am continuing my cruise.

Letter from JULLIFM, Gen. of Brigade, Prefect of the Department of Morbiban, so the Grand Judge. Dated Vannes, May 15,

1804.

Citizen Grand Judge. An English -An English corvette was taken a few days ago, by our gun boats, at the entrance of the Morbihan; and having yesterday learned that the officers and crew of this vessel had reached Vannes, on their way to Epinal, I had an interview with the captain, with the intention of obtaining, by artifice, some admission or accounts relative to the traitors who might be aiding him on the coast, or of the accomplices in the conspiracy who might have secreted themselves aboard the vessel, to escape, as I suspected, to England.--I soon discovered this captain to be a person of some importance. He is a Mr. Wright, who landed Georges, Pichegru, and their accomplices on the coast of Dieppe. I knew him well in Egypt, where he was the lieutenant of Sir Sidney Smith, and charged by that commodore with all his negotiations with the French army. I thought he might I thought he might make some useful discoveries, or at least might acquit himself, by avowing that it was by order of his government that he disembarked on our coast that band of assassins, and might thus furnish a new and authentic proof of the participation of the British Cabinet in this atrocity. I have, therefore, sent him off by the Diligence, and under the escort of the gendarmerie, recommending you, however, to pay him the respect due to

a prisoner of war.Mr. Wright is the same person who some years since escaped from the Temple with Sir Sidney Smith; he is very reserved and cunning, a fanatical enemy of the French, vain enough to consider himself destined to play a considerable part, and so insolent as to believe that his situation secures him from danger.-But this may fail him, if he is placed in the alternative of throwing the blame of his mission upon his government, or of passing for an ostensible conspirator, and so liable to justice. I thought proper to state my own opinion on this subject.-He will set off this evening in the Diligence from Rennes, and will arrive at Paris almost as soon as my letter: he is accompanied by a very young nephew and his domestic, whom I did not think proper to separate from him--Although I wished to conceal from him the motive of the extraordinary measure adopted towards him, he was not to be duped; and I have reason to believe, from my conversation with him, that he had studied his part, and is determined to remain silent, on the principle that he ought only to retider an account of his military exertions to his own govern ment. Nevertheless, whatever measures you may take' respecting him, I thought, at all events, it would be of importance to send you a man who has acted so conspicuously in the frightful conspiracy which has struck all France with alarm, and which Providence, always propitious, seems to have thrown (as a new example of its benevolence towards Buonaparté) on the coast of Morbihan, where his well armed ship was destined to be taken by simple gun boats, and himself to be discovered amidst a croud of prisoners, amongst whom in any other part than here, he might have remained undis covered.

SUMMARY OF POLITICS.

DIET OF RATISBON.— -The ministers of the Electors of the Empire have made a verbal declaration, in the diet, by way of answer to the note of the Russian minister; but, they take very good care not to express any participation in the better feelings of the Emperor of Russia, upon the subject. They agree with the Russian Note, as to the fact of a violation of territory and of the neutrality of Germany having been committed; but, they observe, that they have no doubt but that the First Consul of France will, of himself, hasten to apologize for an act "which, they are certain, he must have disapproved of!"-They know very well, that he did not disapprouve of that act; but, that, on the contrary, it was by his express orders the

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act was committed: and, it will naturally excite a good deal of surprize, it they should not be egregiously mistaken, as to his hastening to make an apology. It is improbable that he should make any apology at all; and, if he should, it will be in such a way as by no means to bar his right to exercise a similar power, whenever his interests may require it. The Electors of the Empire are unwilling to offend the Emperor of Russia; but, they are much more unwilling to offend the Emperor of the French. Fear is the feeling, by which petty half-dependent states are almost always actuated; and of course, they are more likely to yield to a great power that is near them, than to a great power at a distance. France has several of them under her very paw they may, in case of danger, cry to Russia; but, before their supplications can scarcely be heard, they are crushed to death; and, as their desire is to live, be the condition what it may, it is more than probable, that their feeble declaration at the diet is the last that the world will ever hear of their resentment of the arrest, and the subsequent execution, of the Duc d'Enghien. As to their joining in a war against France, on account of this violation of their territory, or, indeed, on any other account, the man must be mad who, though but for one moment, entertains the idea.

RUSSIA. -Nor does there appear to be any good reason for supposing, that Russia will declare war against France. Without the aid of Prussia and Austria, or one of them, Russia can do little or nothing against France. Prussia will not stir, if she can, and Austria cannot, if she would, unassisted with British subsidies, which subsidies Mr. Pitt will never be able to spare. A declaration of war, on the part of Russia alone, would only furnish the French with a fair pretext for again over-running two or three of the circles of the German empire, with. out affording to this country one moment's relief from the danger of invasion. Russia cannot send a force sufficient to compel the French to withdraw their armies from the coast opposite us. The flotillas will continue augmenting, in spite of every thing that Russia alone can do; and our expense, our alarm, our inglorious degrading warfare, must continue. There is nothing short of an extensive coalition upon the continent that will do us any good; and, to render that coalition firm and durable, we must be the soul of it; it must be cemented by British gold, and strengthened by British troops. Unless a combination of this sort can take place, it is much better for us that the con

tinent should remain as it is, because every partial attempt at humbling France must naturally tend to exalt her, and to extend still further her influence and her dominion; and, that such a combination will ever be formed, under the auspices of Mr. Pitt and Lord Melville, it would be excessive folly to suppose. These two persons never have understood any thing of the true interests of England, as connected with the continent of Europe they have no notion of making war but for the sake of grasping at bits of colonial territory: if they assist the powers of the continent, it is only for the sake of leav ing themselves at liberty to pursue their favourite projects in other parts of the world.

EXPEDITION AGAINST THE CAPE.-At a time when ships are fitting out, and troops are collecting, said to be destined against the Cape of Good Hope, it may not be amiss to turn back for a moment, to the opinions delivered by some of the members of the present ministry, respecting that post, at the time when it was surrendered to the enemy.The Lord Chancellor asked, upon what grounds the cession of the Cape could be regarded as matter of regret? Is it," said he," because the place has been fed at a most enormous expense, from which this country is now happily relieved ?"* Lord Mulgrave said: "much stress has been laid "on the value of the Cape of Good Hope.

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to lose his head!" Lord Hawkesbury called the Cape "an unproductive and use"less possession, maintained at an enormous

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expense; a constant drain of men and of money;" and insisted, "that to surren"der it to the Dutch was the wisest course "we could pursue." Mr. Pitt did, indeed, say, that "the opinion he had been taught "to entertain of the value of the Cape, was "much higher than that expressed by his "noble friend. He knew there were great "authorities against him; but, on the other "hand, from what he had heard frem "noble Marquis, and from a right hon.

* See Debates, Register Vol. II. p. 1105.