Western Sun, Volume 6, Number 2, Vincennes, Knox County, 9 July 1814 — Page 4

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NEW FRENCH CONSTITUTION. s C0NSIRVATIV1 SENATE. Extract from the register of the confervative fenate, oi Wednelclay the 6th of April. The confervative fenate deliberating upon the plan of the conftitution pre fen ted to it by the provitional government, in ex cution of the act of the fenate of the ill inft. After having heard the report of a fpecial commiflion of feen members, decree as follows : Art. r. The French government is monarchical and hereditary from male to male, in order of primogeniture. 2- 1 lie French people call freely to the throne of France, Louis Staniflaus Xavier de Trance, brother of the iaiT king, and after him the other members of the houfe of Bourbon, in the ancient order 3. The ancient nobility refume their title:. The new preferve their's hereditary. The legion of honor is maintain ed with its prerogatives- The king fhal) fix the decoration.

i he executive power belongs to the king. rhe king, the fenate and the le&iflative body concur in

the making of laws ; plans of laws may be equally propofed

in the leeiflative body thofe relating to contributions can only be propofed in the Irgiflative body , T he king can in vite equally the two bodies to occupy thetnfelves upon ob jecb which he deems proper. The lanQion of the king is neceflary for the completion of a law. 6. There are 150 Senators at leaft, and 200 at mod their dignity is immoveable, and hereditary from male to n ale, in order of primogeniture They are named by the king the prefent fenators, with the exception of thofe who fhould renounce the quality of French citizens, are maintained and form parr of this number. The actual endowment of the fenate and fen at or Chips belong to them The revenue s are divided equally between them, and pais to their fucctffcfs. In cafe of the death of a fenator without direct male pofterity, his portion returns to the public treafure. The fenato 's w ho (hall be named in future cannot partake of this endow menu 7 The princes of the royal family, and the prince of the blood are by right members of the fenate the functions of a fenator cannot be exertifed until the perfon lias attained the age ot twenty one. 8. rhe fenate decides the cafes in whic h the deciflon of objects before them 51 1 a II be public or fee ret, 9. Each department (hall fe nd to the legiflattve body ttie fame number ot deputies it fent thither the deputies who

annually to the legiflattve boiy and the fenate, at the opening of the fitting of the le giflative body. 16. The law fnall fix the mode and amount of the recruiting of the army. 17. The independence of

i the judicial power is guaran-

ittii. l kj uijw can UC ICUJVV ed from his natural ju iges the inftttution of juries is pre-

27. All Frenchmen arc equally admiflable to all civil and military employments. 28 All the laws exifiing at prefent remain in vigor, untiL they be legally repealed the code of civil Jaws (hall be entitled 1 the civil code of the French. 29. The prefent confticution (hall be fubmitted to the acceptance of the f rench peo-

ierved, as well as the publicity I p!e, in the form winch (hail of trial in criminal matters j be regulated Louis Stanifihe penalty of confiscation of laus Xavier, (ha!! be proclai goods is abolifhed the king med king of the French, as lias the right of pardoning. loon he (hall have figned i3. The courts 6c ordinary and fworn, by an aft Rating tribunals exifting at prefent 1 I accept ?he conftitution ; are preferved ; their numoer fwear to obferi'C it. and caufe cannot be dimirtifhed or in- it to be oteferved this oath crealed, but in virtue of a I fhaii be repeated lnTolemnity, law the judges are for life when he fhall receive the oatU

and irremoveable, except the! oi fidelity of the Ftench.

juftices 01 the peace and the judges of commerce the com millions ik extraordinary tribunals are fupprcfted, and cannot be re eltabiifhed. 19. The court of caflation

Providetict

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The Newport mad brings a letter from the port matter, dated this m orbing an extract from winch follows :

nas juit arnv

tt"iA rnnrrc rf thhpt nnrl tlio

t 1- c .1 c n 1 ft jedirorn New Bedford, brine

propofe to the king three candidates for each place of judge

vacant in that body the king

ing the me Tinoy news

that the t.ne;.iih ient in

barges ill tl

their

ic to '-vii cf Ware

looles one or the three the ! . , , J , .

USJT iilJU UUI lit IOC ',

fat in the lelflative I

fhall

n n f 1 1

: the period of the iaft adjournment

Al! preferve

immediately b)

ue to t'.t until they

1 w

c placed.

ee c

ti eir pay. In future they foali

the electoral bodies, which are preierved with the exception V ft I I 1

w may be maoe by a taw in tneir organi

-the duration or the tunctiotis or tue deputies to the vc body Is fixed at rive years the new election fiiall

o; rhe changes C1

zation h giQa tak, p f o. on the inary

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ll

C. I

fion of t S 1 6.

tiie body (hall auemble of l igln each year

firil of C c ber the ki ag may convoke it extraordhe may adjourn it ; he m.y dWTolve it; bur in the

latter cafe a not hei le&iflative body mufl be formed in three

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the

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ai colleges.

r

leaiflattv

1

IV'llC Wl Ullv vili J -1 Vllv-

king names the firft prefidcnt and the public mini (fry of thc court and the tribunals. 20 The military on for vice the oncers ik (oldiers on half pay, rhe widows cc penfioned officers preferve their ranks, honors and penfions. 2 1 . The perfon of the king

is facred and invioble. All j the a els cf the government are figned by a minilter the miniQers are refponfible for all which thofe acts contain violatQry ot the Saws, public and private liberty, and the

right of the citizens. 21- The freedom of war (hip and conference is guaran teed the miniifers of worfhi arc treated and protected alike.

toi, about 60 houfes

I t f 1 s

and

all the manufao ories to the ground--the ficet could no: get within three miles of rhe

town they at tempted to get into New Bedford, but the wind blowing ahead, they proceeded to Wareham 9 In a polffcriptwe aie icd9 ' Look out at Providence the Knglifli have fent us word that all the towns in thisfiate near the water, fiiall be def

ti oyeu

1

Columbian,

Pittsburgh June 22. Col. Cimpbetl. with a detachment of regulars, failed

rrom cne

ft inn.

on th.e 15th

lor Buffalo, cn bord the U.

States fchooners Porcupine &

.Vomers. Gen. Bro

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an d

Tiic liberty of theprefs i fall have arrived at Buffalo.

inont;,s

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fjttinp are public, unlelsiu cales where ttchoofesto form it

felf into a general committee. 12 I he len :ie, h p iflatiVc body, electoral coilcores 3nd af femblies oi cantons elel their preiident from among themfcl C3. 13. No member of the fenate, or legislative body cm arretted without a previous authority horn the body to which he belongs--the trial ol a member of the fenate or legiflative body belongs exclufively to the fenate. 14 I he minittcrs n aj be members either of the fenate or legillative body 1 Equality of proportion in the taxes is of rigt ; no tax can be impofed 01 received unlels it has been freely confent cd to by the legiflai vt body at)d the (enate the land tax can only be eftblifhcd for one year the budget oi the follow 102

yeart and the accounts of the preceding year, at e prefiKited J

is entire with the exception!

or the legal repreflion of of

fences which may refult from

It is reported that two thou-

fand hoftile Indians had coN hctel at Saganau. on lake

ty miles.

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the abufe of that liberty r-thc Huron, diOaoc from Detroic

lenatorial commnTions of the out one hundred and tvven-

liberty of the prefs and indi vidual liberty arc preferved.

24. The public debt is 1

guarameed the lales of the national domains are irrevocably maintained. 25. No French.man can be proiecuted for opinions or votes which he has given. 25. Evejy peifou has the right to addrefs individual pe titions to every coniiituttd authority.

The Spies or Guards I 'HAT wrrc with me pn the c

JL of 13 11 to 'I ; ;re- ainif. tinder vmm

nor Btftifon, may cJj at mr. C ill's ia '' . - J r-

nac.mcs, .nu receive lome mosey tj their fer vices. T. Dubois.

June 18, 1814.

FROM THF P I? ESS OF E. STOUT. PRINTER O THE LAWS OF TEE UN I TED STATES.