WEDNESDAY, FEB. 19. A new militia bill was brought down from the Senate, read, and tomorrow II o'clock appointed for the fecond reading.

The new annual Tax Bill paffed to be enacted

A bill to regulate the manufacture of nails within this Commonwealth, and repeal all laws heretofore made, was read, and to-morrow, II o'clock appointed for the fecond reading.

The Eighth Turnpike Corporation Bill paffed to be enacted.

The additional Judiciary Bill paffed to be enacted.

A report was received relative to the Hofpital at Martha's Vineyard, and concurred in.

A new bill to regulate the manufacture of nails, paffed to be engroffed. The additional bill providing for the Inftruction of Youth paffed to be engroffed.

The bill for encouraging the manufacture of leather, boots, &c. paffed to be enacted.

The additional Militia Bill paffed to be engroffed.

The Bofton Municipal Court Bill paffed to be engroffed.

SATURDAY, FEB. 22.

A Committee was appointed to confider when the Legislature may have a recefs.

MONDAY, FORENOON, FEB. 24.

The additional Bill for enforcing the fpeedy payment of rates, &c. paffed to

be enacted.

An order paffed that no petion prefented after this day, fhould be fuftained the prefent feffion.

A new Bill providing for the Public Worship of God, was received from the Senate, where it had paffed to be engroffed. Read, and this day, 4 o'clock, affigned for the fecond reading.

The Bill directing the infpection of butter, was read a fecond time, and to-morrow, 3 o'clock affigned for the third reading; and in the interim it was committed to a fpecial committee.

ERY few articles of importance have feached this country from Europe, in the course of this month, which is the more to be regretted, as all fociety is pregnant with alarm and expectation, relative to the confequences of the last revolution in France.

One of the most prominent principles of the authors of the revolution in France, was, that a republican Conftitution ought to organize the legislature with a fingle houfe or branch. This was the favourite theme of Mr. Turgot, which gave rife to the learned and profound difcuffion of the fubject of Conftitutions, by Mr. Adams, now Prefident of the United States, publifhed in his defence of the Conftitutions of the United States. Dr. Franklin had adopted the fame principle, partly, perhaps, from the long and obftinate conteft between the proprietaries of Pennfylvania and the affembly, before the American revolution; and partly from his intimacy with the men in France, who had imbibed the doctrine from fpeculation. This doctrine Dr. FrankJin maintained until his death; his influence introduced the principle into the first Conftitution of Pennsylvania, after the revolution; and although he affented to the prefent Conftitution of the United States, yet foon after that inftrument was completed, he obferved to the writer, "That he could not fee the neceffity of two branches in the legislature; but as he had, in the course of a long life, found occafion very often to change his opinions, from a conviction that they were wrong, he had become less confident of his opinions, and freely yielded to the fenfe of a majority against him."

It is well known, that in 1799, the State of Pennsylvania formed a new Conftitution, and divided the legiflature into two branches. This change must have proceeded from a general conviction of the expedience or neceffity of fuch a division, and was an excellent eulogy on the doctrines of Mr. Adams, in oppofition to his antagonist.

The first managers of the reform in

France, determined to make a grand experiment, to fhow the world the excellence of a democratic legiflature, confifting of one branch. For the purpofes of deftroying the clergy and nobility, it was neceffary to form the first national convention into a fingle house, It was a bold measure, but decifive. On the policy of the meafure we fhall not dilate; but after that bufinefs was executed, the legislative body should have been feparated into distinct branches, which might have checked and controlled each other.

PARIS, DEC. 12. NEW CONSTITUTION OF FRANCE. Buonaparte affembled at the Confular Palace, on the 8th of December, the two legiflative commiffions. Roger Ducas took the chair.

Dannou read the plan of the New Conftitution, of which we have hitherto collected only imperfect fragments.

The difcuffion was calm, and every way worthy of fo great a caufe. They firft difcuffed it in whole, and then article by article.

Some of the articles were ftrongly combated, but they were carried by a great majority; others were rejected; and it was here that Buonaparte manifefted his wonderful powers; for, after having collected ali the opinions for and against an article, he commented on the argument advanced, and concluded by bringing the majority to agree to the propofitions which he made.

The affembly did not feparate till 7 o'clock next morning, and the estimable Dannou was appointed to digest the alterations which were made; and the act will be made public in a few days.

Citizen Roederer has now lifted up another corner of the curtain that concealed the New Conftitution. The following is the sketch which he gives of the public establishment:

Legiflative Porver.

There is to be a Council of State, to propofe laws; which Council of State conftitutes part of the Executive Pow

er.

For the difcuffion of thefe propofed

ed laws, there is a Tribunate, or a felect body of the Reprefentatives of the people; and a Legislative body to decide upon the propofitions after they have been difcuffed or affented to.

"The Legislative Body is to confift of 300 members; the Tribunate of and the Council of State of 30.

100;

Executive Pozver. "There is to be a Firft or Principal Conful, invefted with power to appoint and remove Minilters, Generals, Ambaffadors, and Counsellors of State. There are to be two other Confuls, to difcufs public matters in concert with the First Conful. They are to have but a confuitive voice; their perfons are inviolable. They are named for ten years; they may be re-elected; they will have a guard. The Grand Conful will have 500,000 francs of falary. There are, befides, two, Councils of State the one for the Department of Foreign Affairs, and the other for the Home Department. This latter Council will have the initiative. It will have alfo to judge and decide on litigated queftions in the Department of the Admiralty. Such is the Government.

The adminiftration is confined, "I. To Ministers, or Councils of Administration, fuch as the Admiral

ty.

2. To Adminiftrations of Com mittees of 20 fquare Myriametres, affifted by commiffioners to be named by the Confuls.

66 3. To intermediate Burcaus, charged only with the tranfmiflion of the orders of the Ministers to the Communal Adminiftrations and of the reports of the execution of the orders by the Administrative, as well as of Petitions and Appeals of the People to the Minifters, from the acts of the Adminiftrative Bodies.

"The Confular acts must be figned by a Minister before they can be executed. The Minfters are responsible, each in his department, for the execu tion of Confular Acts, which fhall be contrary to the law, and for the nonexecution of Confular Acts agreeably

to the Law.

Confervative Power.

"There is to be a body of from 8 to 100 members elected for life. They must have a qualification in land rental of 25000 francs a year. They name themfelves to vacancies in their own body. A perfon must be forty years of age to be admifible. This body fhall exercise various functions:

"1. They elect the members of the Legislative Body and the Tribunate, and take them from the lift of the Nota bles of the nation, or elected out of the third degree.

"2. They fhall pronounce on the unconftitutional acts committed by the inviolable bodies of the legislative or executive Powers.

"3. They shall exercise the right of cenfure on the lift of the Notables of the nation, which they may every year reduce one hundredth part.

4. They are, or they may proba bly become, a grand jury to try the crimes of High Treafon, imputed to the great refponfible Functionaries.

"The Confuls, in going out of office, or on giving their refignation, fhall enter of right into the Confervative Body.

"The manner in which the Confervative Power fhall fill up vacancies in their own body, is-three can didates fhall be prefented to them i one by the Grand Conful, one by the Legislative Body, and one by the Tribunate.

"The Grand Conful will alone be lodged at the Luxembourgh: the two others in the palace of the 500. The Tribunate and the Senate in the pa-. vilion of the Thuilleries. The Confervative Jury at the Louvre, in the place of the Inftitute, and the Inflitute in the buildings of the Sarbonne. The invalids will be transferred to Verfailles, and every thing that belongs to the miniftry at war, fuch as the EtatsMajor, the Adminiftration, &c. &c.

"On the 22d inft. (the 13th Dec.). the legislative body will be affembled, and on the 27th the Conftitution will be officially tranfmitted to the Departments."

It is faid, a Congrefs for the purpose. of negociating a European peace, is to, meet within the Pruffian Territory,

BOSTON, FEB. 1800.

Mr. Jofeph Allen, merchant, to Mrs. Eliza Gordon.

Mr. Daniel Warner, of Hopkinton, to Mifs Betfey Homer, of this town. By the Rev. Dr. Thacher, Hon. Daniel Newcomb, of Keene, to Mrs. Hannah Goldthwait.

Mr. Thomas Howe, to Mrs. Mary Rofs.

Sunday, Jan. 12. By the Rev. Dr. Walter, Mr. P. A. Von Hagen, to Mifs Lucy Ballard, both of this town.

By the Rev. Mr. Emerson, Mr. Andrew Page, to Mifs Catherine Cary.

At Cambridge, Caleb Gannett, Efq. to Mifs Ruth Stiles, daughter of the late Prefident Stiles.

At Waltham, Mr. Thomas Hunt, of Medford, to Mifs Mary Soren, formerly of Bofton.

At Salem, Capt. Addison Richardfon, to Mrs. Otis Blanchard.

Capt. Melatiah Bourne, of Boston, to Mifs Ruth Lambert, of Scituate.

At Brookfield, Mr. Ebenezer Meriam, printer, to Mifs Sally Hitchcock.

At Shrewsbury, Benjamin Stone, A. M. to Mifs Sally Fairbanks, of Northborough.

Dr. Zephaniah Jennings, of Hardwick, to Mifs Martha Eddy, of Shrewfbury, daughter of Capt. Eddy.

At Concord, by the Rev. Mr. Ripley, Samuel Thacher, Efq. attorney at law, of Warren, diftrict of Maine, to Mifs Sally Broon, of the former place.

The Rev. Lincoln Ripley, of Waterford, to Mifs Phebe Emerfon, fecond daughter of the late W. Emerson, of the former place.

At Montville, Mr. William Goff, aged 88, to Mifs Ifabella Bowles, aged 75.

At New-York, Dr. S. I. Lewis, to Mifs Elizabeth Jones, daughter of Dr. Gardner Jones.

At Brunswick, Dr. Jonas B. Parker, to Mifs Mary Bowman, of Drefden, only daughter of the Hon. Jonathan Bowman, Efq.

At Franklin, Mr. Seth Bacon, aged 70, to Mifs Hitty Morfe, aged 47after 21 years of courtship. Perhaps, better late than never.

In this town, Dr. W. Boyd, aged 23.

He early discovered a thirst for literature. In the vigour of expectation, he has fallen a facrifice to his zeal for profeffional and literary excellence.

Mrs. Margaret Goodale, confort of Nathan Goodale, Efq. Humanity, benevolence and charity, were ftriking traits in her character through life; having been much beloved, her death is greatly lamented by all who knew her.

Capt. Henry Swan, aged 66.

Mrs. Elizabeth H. Williams, aged 18. Mr. Jofeph Sprague, aged 45. Of a confumption, Mifs Sally Randall, aged 16, daughter of Mr. Robert Randall, of this town.

Mrs. Mary Davis, wife of Mr. William Davis, merchant, aged 78.

Mr. James Dakin, aged 30.

Mr. John Weare, aged 71 years,— having been many years in the fervice of the town, though in a humble ftation, generally known, and as generally regarded as an honest man.

Mifs

After a few days' illnefs, John Winthrop, Efq. in the 53d year of his age, an eminent merchant of this town. Mafter Alexander Revere, jun. aged 16.

Mrs. Mary Hill, aged 79. Mr. Mofes Newhall, aged 24. Mrs. Hannah Roufe, aged 63. After a lingering ficknefs, Mrs. Sarah Rogers, aged 59, widow of the late William Rogers, of this town.

Mr. Richard Montgomery Adams, aged 21.

At Cambridge, Mrs. Ruth Prentifs, wife of Henry Prentifs, aged 45.

Widow Sarah Warland, aged 73. At Medford, Mrs. Sufannah Hall, aged 63, wife of Eben. Hall, Efq.

At Dorchester, Mafter James Clap, aged 18, fon to Mr. Samuel Clap. At Milton, Capt. Hugh Mc.Lean, aged 78.

At Hingham, David Cufhing, Efq. At Portfmouth, Mrs. Mary Clough, aged 46.

At Plymouth, very fuddenly, and greatly lamented, Mrs. Irene Thomfon, aged 53, fifter of the late Rev. Dr. Robbins.

Mifs Catharine Thacher, of the dropfy in her head, aged 3 years.

At Dartmouth, very fuddenly, widow Elizabeth Gifford, in the 78th year of her age. She walked the room about an hour previous to her decease.

At Brookfield, Mrs. Anna Olds, aged 76.

At Hartford, Mrs. Ruth Goodwin, aged 96.

B. Davis, Efq.

Mr. Arthur Bryan.

At New-Haven, J. Goodrich, Efq. attorney at law, aged 48, compiler of the Civil Officer's Affiftant.

At Albany, Mr. Nathan Lock, formerly of Boston.

John Ostrander, jun. Efq. At New-York, John G. Glover. At Philadelphia, Henry Phillips, mer chant.

At Brunswick, Capt. Wm. Stanwood. At Londonderry, Mrs. Wilfon, aged 97. Pofterity mostly living, 260. At Wells, Mrs. Wells, wife of the Hon. Nathaniel Wells.

At Granville, (Con.) Capt. Shena Burbank, aged 63. He went to bed in feeming health, and was found a corpfe in the morning, The text of the funeral fermen, was-" Boaft not thyself of to-morrow !”

At Welfleet, Capt. Solomon Harding, aged 47.

At Marlborough, Jotham Bender, Efq. attorney at law, aged 28.

SUICIDE.] On the night of the 8th of Feb. Capt. Ifaac Lawrence, of Wefport, after having been miffing about five hours, was found about midnight, fufpended from a tree, with a rope round his neck, within half a mile of his house. It was fuppofed he had been dead but a fhort time, when found; and the circumstances attending this melancholy event, were fuch as to leave no doubt but he perpetra ted the deed with his own hands.