Untwine the ferpent from his hair Thus Guilt will wound his own repose! RECITATIVE. Elevated by the conqueft of himself, he was fuperior to vanity. His feeling was honour, and his thought wisdom. In bleffing others, he was amply bleft. He fear'd to do wrong, but he knew no other fear. DUET. Nor Syrian perfume, nor the regal gem, Nor Beauty's potency, nor Valor's might, Or ftay the mantle of oblivious night. RECITATIVE. His laurels as a conqueror were spotless, and his code of legislation perfect. He confecrated the federal compact upon the altar of Justice; his life evinced the glory of Humanity; his end difplayed the bliss of refignation; released from martal care he's now afcended to the heaven of heavens. W HAT is a Bachelor ?—a thing, I'm full of gout, or bile, or grief; Despair's at beft, a fniv'lling cur ; Though Bergen's poor, and Newport garish, There's happiness in every parish; While I, a blockhead, but abuse him! Proclaims the folly of our kind; The The zeft to him who truly lives: Pray who will people the Ohio? Is only how they each may gain it : create ! Your moralists may preach and tire, She broke the heart of honeft Dick! But then your widows are fo knowing, Young traders, take a bill on credit!- warm, Good humour rides out many a storm NEW-YORK, April 1st, 1799. AMERICA IN MOURNING. Now lies immur'd in Vernon's All are his due-for many a year he lonely vault, The best of men, who e'er adorn'd his race; [fault, A human form, with fcarce a human Combining passions pure, with manly grace. Low is his head, but high his glories rife; [his urn; Refplendent beams concentrate round His brilliant conquests echo through the skies; His lamp of fame fhall never cease to buru. ftrove, [release; From bafe oppreffion's yoke to gain Infpir'd by juftice, and his country's love, He fought her battles, and attain'd her peace. At length to private life the fage re tires, Where nought but virtue e'er alone could come; [fires, And there enjoy'd unçeafing, pure de Till Heaven recall'd him to his native home. Though dead he lives in every grate When angels bore him through the ftarry skies, [pain; All nature, drooping, teftified our The faints rejoic'd, while tears bedew'd our eyes; The lofs was OURS-but HIS is all the gain. LINES, Written by an old Planter, in the country, to his daughter, who having gone in her plain country drefs to refide in the city, returned after fome months tricked off in all the gaudy attire of the gay world. How, PHEBE, can I elfe but fnarl, When you, who went a country girl, Now, by flirtation's felf, I fwear, As well might vanities like those What fops will now befiege my door Attracted by that Dry Goods Store, In every form which cut and hack'd, Far hence from us be China's ware, You PHEBE, do not count the coft Thefe ribbands, edgings and galloons, Important European Intelligence. [The fhip Supply, arrived at New-York, from Liverpool, has brought but little news; but this is compenfated by the communication of an official copy of the New Conftitution of France: this important Inftrument will be read with attention and profit ] NEW CONSTITUTION OF THE FRENCH REPUBLIC, [AN OFFICIAL COPY.] one and indivifible. European territory is diftributed into departments and communal diftricts. 2. Every man born and refident in France, and of the age of 21 years, who has infcribed his name in the civic regifter of his communal diftrict, and afterwards remained a year on the territory of the French Republic, is a French citizen. 3. A foreigner becomes a French citizen, who after having attained the age of 21 years, and declared his intention of fixing his refidence in France, has refided there for 10 fucceffive years. 4. The title of French citizen is forfeited By naturalization in a foreign country. By accepting any office or penfion from a foreign government. By affiliation with any foreign corporation which fuppofes diftinctions of birth. By condemnation to corporal or infamous punishments. 5. The exercife of the rights of a French citizen is fufpended by a bankruptcy or by a total or partial fucceffion to the property of an infolvent. By a ftate of hired fervitude, either attached to the fervice of the perfon or the family. By a ftate of judicial interdiétion, accufation or contumacy. 6. In order to exercife the rights of citizenship they must have been acquitted by being domiciliated by a year's refidence, and not forfeited by a year's abfence. 7. The citizens of every communal diftrict fhall appoint by their fuffrages thofe whom they think moft worthy of conducting the public affairs. There fhall be a lift of confidence, containing a number of names equal to a tenth of the number of citizens poffeffing the right of fuffrage. From this first com, munal lift the public functionaries of diftricts fhall be taken. 8. The citizens comprifed in the communal lifts of a department fhall alfo appoint a tenth of their number, These fhall conftitute a fecond lift called the department lift, from which the public functionaries of each department fhall be taken. 9. The citizens included in the departmental lift fhall alfo appoint a renth of their number; this 3d lift fhall confift of the citizens of each department, eligible to public national functions. IO. The citizens who fhall have a right of co-operating in the formation of any of the lifts mentioned in the three preceding articles, fhall every third year be called upon to exercife the power of replacing those who shall have died, or abfented themselves for any other caufe than the exercise of a public function. II. They may alfo withdraw from the lift thofe whom they fhall not jndge proper to continue, and replace them by other citizens in whom they may have greater confidence. 12. No one fhall be erafed from the lifts, otherwife than by the votes of the decifive majority of the citizens, having the right of co-operating in their formation. 13. No one fhall be erafed from the lift of those eligible to public national functions merely becaufe his name may have been ftruck out of a lift of an inferior or fuperior degree. 14. The appointment to the lift of eligibles eligibles is only neceffary with regard to public functions, for which that condition is exprefsly required by the constitution or by the law. All the lifts of the eligibles fhall be formed in the course of the 9th year. CHAP. II. 15. The confervatory fenate fhall be compofed of 80 members, of 40 years of age at leaft, to be irremovable during life. For the formation of the fenate, there fhall be nominated in the firft inftance 60 members-this number fhall be increased to 62 in the courfe of the 8th year, to 64 in the 9th year, and fhall be gradually increafed to 70 by the addition of two members in each of the ten first years. 16. The nomination to the office of fenate fhall be by the fenate, who shall make choice out of thefe candidates prefented to them; the firft by the legiflative body, the second by the tribunate and the third by the chief conful. 17. The chief conful, upon quitting his office, either by the expiration of his functions, or by refignation, neceffarily, and as a matter of right, becomes a fenator, The two other confuls, during the month which follows the expiration of their functions, may take their feats in the fenate, but are not obliged to exercife that privilege. They lofe it altogether, if they quit their confular functions by refignation. 18. A fenator is always ineligible to any other public functions. 19. All the lifts made in the depart ments, by virtue of the 9th article, fhall be addreffed to the fenate. They fhall compofe the national lift. 20. From this lift fhall be elected the legislators, the tribunes, the confuls, the judges of caffation, and the Commiffaries à la Refponfibilité. 21. They fhall confirm or annul every act referred to them as unconftitutional by their tribunate, or the government; the lifts of the eligibles fhall be included among these acts. 22. The revenues of national domains, the terms of which are expired, fhall be liable to the expenfes of the fenate. The annual falary of each of its members shall be paid out of thofe revenues. It shall be equal to a 20th of that of the chief conful. 23. The fittings of the fenate are not public. 24. Citizen Sieyes and Roger Ducos, the two confuls who are to go out of office, fhall be nominated members of the confervatory fenate; they fhall unite with the fecond and third confuls nominated by the prefent one. Thefe four citizens fhall appoint the majority of the fenate, which hall afterwards complete itself, and proceed to the elections intrufted to its direction. CHAP. III. Of the Legislative Power. 25. No new law fhall be promulgated, unlefs the plan fhall have been propofed by the government, communicated to the tribune, and decreed by the legiflative body. 26. The plan which the government may propofe fhal be drawn up under the different heads. In every cafe in which fuch plans fhall be dif cuffed, the government may withdraw them, and prefent them again in a modified ftate. 27. The tribunate is to be compofed of 100 members of 25 years of age at leaft; they fhall be renewed by fifths every year, and indefinitely reeligible while they remain upon the national lift . 28. The tribunate fhall difcufs the plans of every law that may be propofed; it fhall vote for the adoption or rejection of them. It fhall fend three orators taken from its body, by whom the motives of its vote, with respect to each of the plans, fhall be stated and fupported before the legislative body. It fhall refer to the fenate, but for the caufe of inconftitutionality only, the lift of the eligibles, the acts of the legislative body, and those of the gov |