the fatisfaction of general Brune; but no armed detachment will be permitted to approach, or to take poft, nearer than they already are to our pofition. It must be farther understood, that, on his part, general Brune will not allow any approaches or offenfive preparations to be carried on, and that the French and Batavian army fhall remain in the line of advanced pofts which it occupies at prefent, which fhall alfo be the line of feparation between the two armies refpectively. Anfw. to Art. V. The embarkation of the English and Ruffian troops will take place with all poffible expedition; and at this feafon of the year any unneceffary delay will naturally be avoided as much as poffible; but to prevent any difficult or future difcuffion upon this point, it is propofed, that the fufpenfion of hoftilities fhall be limited to the end of the month of November next, in order to fecure fufficient time for the complete evacuation of the country, which, however, fhall be effected sooner, if practicable. Anfw. to Art. VI. The fhips of war, or other veffels immediately expected with reinforcements for the combined English and Ruffian army, or which may hereafter be fent, fhall not land their troops, but fhall put to fea again as foon as poffible. Anfw. to Art. VII. Hoftages fhall be reciprocally given, to be felected among the officers of rank of the two armies, to guarantee the execution of this agreement. > Sir, Alkmaar, O&tober 17. I have feen general Brune, and have talked over with him fully all the articles on which I have received his royal highnefs's inftructions. I have found the greateft difpofition on the part of general Brune to enter fairly into the fubject. In refpect to the effential article of the fleet, general Brune has already received a letter from the Dutch directory, to make the delivery of it a fine qua non; and I much doubt whether there is any chance of his being brought to give way on this point, at leaft without fome affurance that his royal highness would forward the demand to his court. In refpect to the other very effential article of the prifoners, after much converfation, 1 brought the general to lower his demands to 8000 men, beyond which he cannot recede. Every other point can be amicably fettled. I beg his royal highnefs's orders on thefe points; and I hope to receive them by noon to-morrow. I have the honour to be, &c. To the hon. colonel Hope, Head-quarters, Schagen Brug, Sir, His royal highnefs the commander-in-chief, in his inftructions to you of yesterday's date, having declared that every paper or propofal from general Brune, and confequently that relative to the whole Dutch fleet, will of courfe be regularly tranfmitted to England, can give no other answer than what you are already empowered to make, viz. "His royal highnefs will, on no acH. Taylor, fec. count, treat upon this article; the By order of his royal highness the duke of York, commander-inchief of the combined English and Ruffian army. (Signed) execution public. TITLE I. I Article 1. The French republic is one and indivifible. execution of which, it must be evi- New Conftitution of the French Redent to both parties, is impoffible." If general Brune expects any thing farther to pafs on that fubject, the fooner the negociation is put an end to the better. In regard to the number of prifoners, if every other point is clearly and immediately decided upon, his royal highness may be induced to relax; if not, it is unneceffary to enter farther into the fubject; and he directs you to finish the negociation. I have the honour to be, &c. (Signed) Alex. Hope, Deputy adjutant-general. To the hon. major-gen. Knox, &c. Sir, Alkmaar, Odober 18, I have received your letter, and have the pleafure to inform you that every thing is fettled to his royal highnefs's fatisfaction; in confequence of which general Brune has given immediate orders to all his pofts that all hoftilities fhall ceafe, and that no farther work of any kind fhall be carried on; he requefts his royal highnefs will be pleafed to give fimilar orders without lofs of time, as a report has juft been made that fome houfes have been fet on fire on the road leading to Herenhuyfen. I have the honour to be, &c. To the hon. colonel Hope, P. S. General Brune has fent off to Amfterdam, to direct that nothing hoftile fhall be attempted on the part of the flotilla there fitted out; and he begs that fimilar notice may be fent to admiral Mitchell. Its European territory is diftributed into departmental and communal districts (arrondissemens). 2. Every man of the age of twen ty-one years complete, born and refident in France, who has caufed his name to be infcribed upon the civic lift of his communal diftria, and who has dwelt from that period for a year within the territory of the republic, is a French citizen. 3. A foreigner becomes a French the age of twenty-one years comcitizen when, after having attained plete, and after having declared his refided in it ten years without inintention of fettling in France, has terruption. 4. The character of French citizen may be loft By naturalization in a foreign country; By the acceptance of functions, or of penfions offered by a foreign government; poration, which would infer diftincBy affiliation with any foreign cortion of birth; by condemnation to corporal or ignominious punishments. 5. The exercife of the rights of French citizen is fufpended by a man's being an infolvent debtor, or a direct heir keeping up, with an onerous title, the fucceffion of a bankrupt, in whole or in part; By a man's acting as a hired domeftic, attached either to the perfon or the bufinefs of an individual; By a man's being in a state of judicial interdiction, accufation, or contumacy. 6. In order to exercife the rights of citizenship in a communal diftrict, a perfon must have fixed in it his domicile or place of abode by a year's refidence, and at the fame time he must not have lost it by a year's abfence. 7. The citizens of every communal district are to point out, by their votes, thofe they conceive moft proper to manage the public affairs. The number fo pointed out forms a lift of men worthy of confidence, amounting to a tenth of the number of citizens having a right to vote. Out of this lift are to be chofen the public functionarles of the dif tri&t. 9. The citizens, comprehended in the communal lifts of a department, fhall likewife point out a tenth part of their own number. Hence is formed a fecond lift, called departnental, from which are be chofen the public functionaries of the department. 9. The citizens whofe names ftand on the departmental lift, fhall likewife name a tenth of their own number. Thus there is a third lift formed, which comprehends the citizens of the department eligible to public national functions. 10. The citizens having a right to afflift in the formation of any of the lifts mentioned in the three preceding articles, are to be called upon every three years to fupply the place of thofe upon the lifts who may have died, or who are abfent for any other cause than that of excrcifing a public employment. 11. They at the fame time may erafe from the lift thofe whom they think unfit to appear any longer upon it, and appoint as their fucceffors other citizens in whom they have greater confidence. 12. No perfon can be erafed from any of the lifts, but by the votes of an abfolute majority of the citizens having a right to vote on its formation. 13. A perfon is not to be erased from one lift of eligible perfons, folely because he is, at a given pe riod, member of another lift, inferior or fuperior. 14. Infeription on a lift of perfons eligible, is not neceflary but for thofe public offices, for which this condition is expreffly required by the conftitution of the law. the lifts of eligible perfons fhall be formed in the courfe of the year 9. TITLE II. Of the Confervative Senate. All 15. The confervative fenate is compofed of eighty members, irremovable, and for life, who shall be forty years of age at leaft. For the formation of the fenate, there fhall at first be named fixty members. This number fhall be increafed to fixty-two in the course of the year 8; to fixty-four in the courfe of the year 9; and thus be gradually increased to eighty, by the addition of two members during each of the ten first years. 16. The appointment of the fituation of fenator is made by the fenate itself, which chooses one out of three candidates prefented; the firft by the legislative body, the fecond by the tribunate, and the third by the chief conful. The fenate may chocfe one of two candidates, in the cafe that one of them is propofed by two of the prefenting bodies. The fenate muft admit a perfon who is propofed, on the fame occafion, by all the three authorities. 17. The 17. The chief conful quitting his ftation, either on the expiration of his functions, or in confequence of refignation, becomes a fenator by immediate right, and of neceffity. The two other confuls, during the month which follows the expiration of their functions, may take a place in the fenate, and are not obliged to avail themfelves of this right. They do not poffefs this right at all when they quit their confular functions by refignation. 18. A fenator is for ever ineligi ble to any other public function. 19. All the lifts made up in the departments in virtue of the 9th article, are to be addreffed to the fenate. They compofe the national lift. 20. Out of this lift the fenate chooses the legiflators, tribunes, confuls, judges of caffation, and com miffioners of accounts. 21. It is to maintain or to annul all the refolutions referred to it as unconstitutional by the tribunate or the government. The lifts of eligible perfons are comprehended among fuch refolutions. 22. The revenues of certain national domains to be fixed upon, are to be liable to the payment of the expenfes of the fenate. The annual falary of each member is to be taken out of thefe revenues. It is to be equal to the 20th of that of the chief conful. 23. The fittings of the fenate are not to be public. 24. The citizens Sieyes and Roger Ducos, the confuls quitting their functions, are appointed members of the confervative fenate. They fhall aflemble along with the fecond and third confuls nominated by the prefent conflitution. Thefe four citizens fhall appoint the majority of the fenate, which hall then complete itself, and proceed to the elec tions intrufted to it. TITLE III. Of the Legislative Power. 25. No new laws fhall be promulgated, but when the project fhall have been propofed by the government, communicated to the tribunate, and decreed by the legiflative body. 26. The projects which the government propofes fhall be drawn up in articles. In every ftage of the difcuffion of these projects the government may withdraw them. It may produce them anew in a modified ftate. 27. The tribunate is to be com pofed of one hundred members, at leaft twenty-five years of age. They are to be renewed by a fifth part every year, and are indefinitely reeligible as long as they continue on the national list. 28. The tribunate difcufles the project of a law; and votes for its adoption or rejection. It is to fend three fpeakers, chofen out of its own number, who are to explain and defend its views and motives in either cafe before the legiflative body. It may refer to the fenate, and that folely, on the ground of unconftitutionality, the lifts of perfons eligible, the proceedings of the legillative body, and thole of the government. 29. It may exprefs an opinion refpecting laws made, or to be made, refpecting abufes that require correction, refpecting improvements to be attempted in all the parts of the public administration; but ne ver refpecting matters criminal or civil fubmitted to the courts. The opinions which it fhall ex prefs in virtue of the prefent article have no neceffary confequence, and do not bind any conftituted authority to act. 30. When the tribunate adjourns itself, it may appoint a committee of from ten to fifteen members, authorized to assemble it, if thought advisable. 31. The legislative body is compofed of three hundred members, thirty years of age at leaft. They are renewed by a fifth every year. It must always contain at least one citizen from each department of the republic. 32. A member quitting the legiflative body cannot be re-elected to it till the lapfe of a year; but he may immediately be elected to any other public function, including that of tribune, if in other refpects he is eligible. 33. The fitting of the legislative body fhall commence every year on the 1ft Frimaire (22d November), and fhall continue only four months. It may be extraordinarily convoked during the eight remaining months by the government. 34. The legislative body enacts laws by a private ballot, and with out any. difcuffion on the part of its members refpecting the projects of laws debated in its prefence by the speakers of the tribunate and of the government. 35. The fittings of the tribunate and those of the legislative body are to be public. The number of ftrangers in both shall not exceed two hundred in each. 36. The falary of a tribune is to be 15,000 francs (6257.); that of a legiflator 10,000 francs (4167) VOL. XLI 36. Every decree of the legiflative body, upon the tenth day after its paffing, thall be promulgated by the chief conful, unlefs during that interval he has appealed to the fenate on the ground of unconftitutionality. This recourfe fhall not exift against laws promulgated. 38. The first renewal of the legiflative body fhall take place only in the courfe of the year 10. TITLE IV. Of the Government. 39. The government is confided to three confuls, chofen for ten years, and re-eligible indefinitely. Each of thefe is elected individually in the capacity of firft, fecond, or third conful. In the firft inftance the third conful fhall be appointed only for five years. For this time the following are appointed: general Buonaparte, chief conful; citizen Cambaceres; now minister of justice; and citizen Lebrun, member of the committeë of elders, third conful. 40. The chief consul has functions and prerogatives peculiar to himfelf, in which his place may be temporarily fupplied, when the cafe occurs, by one of his colleagues. 41. The chief conful promulgates laws. He makes and revokes at pleasure appointments of members of the council of ftate; minifters, ambaffadors, and other external fuperior agents; the officers of the army by fea and land; members of local administrations, and commiffioners of the government to the different courts. He appoints all the civil and criminal judges, except the juftices of peace, and judges of caffation, without the power of revocation. L 42. In |