W

HAT is a Bachelor ?—a thing,
A non-defcript without a fting;
A pipe unfill'd with Joy's mandungus,
A mule-a manakin-a fungus;
A fterile rock or feedlefs grafs,
A rufty key-a nought-an afs;
I'll have a Co, if I can get her,
Who would be thus, who could be bet-
ter ?

I'm full of gout, or bile, or grief;
Faith I'll turn o'er another leaf:
As Nature's ebb'd to half my term,
I'll take a partner in the firm;
The cunning, in their cautious will,
Would, with a prop, defcend the hill;
I've pafs'd the rubicon of wealth;
I've topp'd the height of manly health;
And, as I gaze adown the fteep,
I fee the human phantoms creep:
The lame-the peftilent-the blind,
And I'm not many leagues behind;
Odfniggins, what a truth to know,
The more we are, the more's our woe!
Squeeze the ripe clufters in my glass,
I'll drown the thought, and hail my
lafs :
I'll inundate my bane in wine,
No ftatute bids the heart repine;
We'll circle Hope and scorn to ftir,

Despair's at beft, a fniv'lling cur ; Though Bergen's poor, and Newport garish,

There's happiness in every parish;
I'll have a fpic'd honne bouche to eat ;
I want fone pickles to my meat;
Time gnaws me (ah that I could noofe
him)

While I, a blockhead, but abuse him!
The tyrant feuds, like Dian's hounds,
But even as he runs, he wounds:
He mars my vitals-fpoils my geer,
Yet ftill my motto's NEVER FEAR;
Thofe hours we wafte, for Love de-
fign'd,

Proclaims the folly of our kind;
What are we at? The deuce is in it,
That either sex should flip a minute ;
The orbs of beauty lofe their rays,
And man, imperial man, decays!
I'll quit thefe temples, which we fin in,
I want a Dame to darn my linen :
To read the Bible; warm my flops;
Tuck up the bed and broil my chops:
Lead me from error, like a fairy,
And skim the cream, in Paffions dairy:
To share the nectar of my bowl,
And smooth the angles of my foul:
'Tis woman, lovely woman, gives,

The

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.

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.

How, PHEBE, can I elfe but fnarl,

When you, who went a country girl,
In habit frugal, neat and plain,
That might attract fome rural fwain ;
Who never dreamt of filk or lawn,
Nor rov'd beyond our county town;
I fay, how could you thus return
A Holland Doll?-Who did adorn
Your head in this prodigious dress,
Of foreign gewgaws, and not lefs
Than live-oak tops on yonder bluff,
A mountain of fantastic stuff?

Now, by flirtation's felf, I fwear,
You must your old apparel wear;
Those glitt❜ring follies lay afide,
That feed at once your floth and pride,
Fut on again your home-fpun geer,
And drop thofe pound-weights from
your ear;

As well might vanities like those
Be feen fufpended from your nose.
You fhall not wear Morocco caps-
For idle beaus they may be traps;
But, though acquired at high expenfe,
Will never catch a man of sense.

What fops will now befiege my door

Attracted by that Dry Goods Store,

In every form which cut and hack'd,
Is to your idle carcafs tack'd;
But let them fear the vengeance due
To all I catch in quest of you;
Of fuch gay birds you may be vain,
But mind-I tell you there's my cane.

Far hence from us be China's ware,
Or India fhawls of camel's hair :
Thefe quiltings, quilted at Marseilles,
And filver'd fhoes, and color'd veils ;
I execrate all trash like that,
Nor fhall you wear Suwarrow's hat.
These muflins, fatins, muflinet,
God knows, have brought a ferious
debt;

You PHEBE, do not count the coft
Of time mif-fpent, and labour loft;
You may indulge your modifh tricks,
But I'm no fool at fifty-fix;

Thefe ribbands, edgings and galloons,
Will make me fing some dismal tunes,
Will force me when the bill is read,
To bite my nails and scratch my head,
If PHEBE does not for me feel,
And turn again the spinning-wheel.

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