execution without its authority.-62. No part of | der any other title can be published, or become the French territory can be erected into cures or matter of instruction, till the publication or prosubsidiaries, without the express authority of go- mulgation of it has been authorised by government. vernment. 63. The priests serving as subsidiaries-5. No change in discipline can be made without shall be named by the government. being authorised in the like manner.-6. The Of the salary of ministers.-64. The salary of council of state shall be made acquainted with all the archbishops shall be 15,000 livres.-65. The enterprizes of the ministers of worship, and with salary of the bishops shall be 10,000 livres.-66. all the dissentions that may arise among these miThe curates shall be divided into two classes. nisters.-7. A provision shall be made for the The salary of the curates of the first class shall be pastors of the consistorial churches, but it is un1,500 livres; that of the curates of the second derstood that the property which these churches class 1000-67. The pensions which they enjoy possess, and the offerings established by usage and in consequence of the laws of the constituent fixed regulations, shall be applied to that purpose. assembly, shall be reckoned as part of their salary. -8. The dispositions made by the organic articles The general councils of the great communes may of the catholic worship, respecting the liberty of give them an augmentation upon their glebes or foundations, and the nature of the property which grants, if circumstances require it.-68. The vi- can be the object of them, shall be common to the cars and substitutes shall be chosen from among protestant churches.-9. There shall be two acathe ecclesiastics who receive pensions in conse- denies or seminaries in the east of France, for the quence of the laws of the constituent assembly. educating ministers of the confession of AugsThese pensions, and the produce of oblations, burgh.-10. There shall be a seminary at Geneva shall form their salary.-69. The bishops shall di- for educating ministers of the reformed churches. gest the regulations relative to the oblations to be II. The professors of the seminaries shall be received by ecclesiastics, for administering the sa- named by the First Consul.-12. No one can be craments. The projets of regulations digested chosen a minister or pastor of the church of the by the bishops cannot be carried into effect till communion of Augsburgh, unless he has studied after they shall have been approved by the govern- for a determinate time in one of the French semiment.-70. Every pensioned ecclesiastic shall be naries destined to the instruction of the ministers deprived of his pension, if he refuse, without a le- of that communion, and unless he can produce a gitimate cause, the functions committed to him.-certificate in proper form, certifying the time he 71. The general councils of the departments are authorized to provide convenient dwellings for the archbishops and bishops.-72. The gardens and tenements not alienated shall be restored to the curates, and to the substitute subsidiaries. In default of these possessions, the general councils of the communes shall be authorized to provide them with a house and garden.-73. The foundations intended for the support of the clergy and the churches, can consist only of rents drawn on the state; they shall be accepted by the bishop of the diocese, and cannot be executed but by the authority of government.-74. Possessions not moveable, except the houses destined for their residence, and the appertaining gardens, cannot be attached to the ecclesiastical titles, nor possessed by the clergy in consequence of their func tions. has studied, his capacity, and good morals. Of the reformed Churches.-15. The reformed churches of France shall have pastors, local consistories, and synods.-16. There shall be a consistorial church for every six thousand souls of the same communion.-17. Five consistorial churches shall form the jurisdiction of a synod. Section II.-Of the Pastors and Local ConsisOf the edifices destined for worship.-75. The tories.-18. The consistory of each church shall edifices anciently destined to the catholic wor- be composed of the pastor or pastors belonging ship, and actually in the hands of the nation, shall to that church, lay elders, of notables chosen be placed at the disposal of the bishops, by a de- from the most respectable citizens inscribed in cree of the prefect of the department. A copy of the list of direct contributions. The number of these decrees shall be sent to the counsellor of these notables shall not be less than six nor more state entrusted with matters of worship-76. than twelve.-19. The number of the ministers or Boards shall be appointed to take charge of the pastors in the same consistorial church cannot be Tepairs of temples, and the distribution of alms.increased without the permission of government. 77. la parishes where there is no building appro--20. The consistories shall watch over the main priated to worship, the bishop and the prefect tenance of discipline, and the administration of shall pitch upon an edifice suitable to the pur- the property of the church, and of the money pose. arising from alms.-21. The pastor, or oldest of Organic articles of the protestant form of wor- the pastors, shall preside in the assemblies of the ship.-Title 2.-Art. 1. No one can exercise the consistories. One of the elders or notables shall functions of worship unless he be a Frenchman.-discharge the office of secretary-22. The ordi2. Neither the protestant churches, nor their mi-nary assemblies of the consistories shall continue nisters, can have relations with any foreign power or authority.-3. The pastors and ministers of the different protestant communions shall pray, and cause prayers to be offered up in their service for the prosperity of the French Republic and for the Consuls.-4. No doctrinal or dogmatical decisions, no formulary under the title of confession, or unVOL. II. to be held on the days marked out by usage.-Extraordinary assemblies cannot be held without permission from the sub-prefect, or in his absence from the mayor.-23. Every two years one half of the elders of the consistory shall be changed; at that period the elders in office shall unite to themselves an equal number of protestant citi30 zens, heads of families, chosen from the most respectable persons inscribed in the roll of direct contributions, of the commune where the consistorial church is situated, to proceed to renew the number. The elders who go out may be re-elected.-24. In churches where there is at present no consistory, one shall be formed: the members of which shall be elected by a meeting of twentyfive heads of protestant families, the most respectable in the list of direct contributions. This meeting shall be held only by the permission and in the presence of the prefect, or sub-prefect.25. The pastors cannot be deposed, unless the motives of deposition are presented to the government, which shall approve or reject them.26. In case of the death, voluntary resignation, or confirmed deposition of a pastor, the consistory formed, according to the manner prescribed in the 18th article, shall choose by a majority of -voices one to succeed him.-The title of election shall be presented to the First Consul by the counsellor of state, charged with all affairs concerning religious worship, in order to have his approbation. When the approbation is given, he cannot perform the duties of his office till he has taken before the prefect the oath required from ministers of the catholic worship.-27. All pastors at present in the exercise of their functions are confirmed.-28. No church can extend itself from one department to another. Section III.-Of Synods.-29. Each synod shall be formed of the pastor or one of the pastors, and an elder or notable of each church.-30. The synods shall watch over every thing that concerns the celebration of religious worship, teaching its doctrines, and the management of ccclesiastical affairs. All the decisions proceeding from them, of whatever nature they may be, shall be subject to the approbation of gov.-31. The synods cannot assemble without the permission of government. Notice shall be previously given to the counsellor of state, charged with all affairs concerning worship, and matters to be discussed in them. The assembly shall be held in the presence of the prefect or sub-prefect, and a copy of the proces-verbal of the deliberations shall be addressed by the prefect to the counsellor of state, charged with all affairs respecting religious worship, who shall without delay make a report of it to government.-32. The assembly of the synod can last only six days. Title III.Of the Organization of the Churches of the Confession of Augsburgh-Section I.General Dispositions.-33. The churches of the Confession of Augsburgh shall have pastors, local consistories, inspections, and general consistories. Section II-Of the Ministers, Pastors, and local Consistories of each Church.-34. In regard to pastors, the circumscription and management of the consitorial churches, the same rules shall be followed as are prescribed by the second section of the preceding title for the reformed pastors and churches. Section III-Of Inspection.-35. The churches of the Confession of Augsburg shall be subordinate to inspection.-36. Five consistorial churches shall form an inspection or arrondissement.-37. Each inspection shall be composed of the minister and an elder, or notable of each church of the arrondissement. It cannot assemble without the perarission of gov.: the first time it is convoked it Shall be by the senior minister belonging to the churches of the arrondissement. Each inspection shall choose within itself two laymen and an éc clesiastic, who shall take the title of Inspector, and who shall be charged to watch over the ministers, and the maintenance of good order in the different churches.-The choice of inspector and the two laymen must be confirmed by the First Consul.-38. The inspection cannot assemble without the permission of gov., in the presence of the prefect, or sub-prefect, and after having informed the counsellor of state charged with all affairs relating to religious worship, of the business intended to be discussed.—39. The inspector may visit the churches of his arrondissement; he shall unite with him the two laymen, named along with him, whenever circumstances may require; he shall be charged with the convocation of a gr neral assembly of the inspestion. No decision of the general inspection can be executed until approved by government. Section IV. Of the General Consistories.—45. There shall be three general consistories-one at Strasburgh, for protestants of the Confession of Augsburgh, in the departments of the Upper Rhine; another at Mentz, for those of the departments of La Sare, and Mont Tonnere; and the third at Cologne, for those of the departments of Rhine and Moselle, and La Roer.-41. Each consistory shall be composed of a lay president, two eccle siastical inspectors, and a deputy from each inspection.-The president and the two ecclesiasti cal inspectors shall be named by the First Consul -The president shall take the oath required from ministers of the catholic worship before the First Consul, or the public functionary whom the First Consul shall be pleased to delegate for that purpose The two ecclesiastical inspectors, and the lay members, shall take the same oath before the presi dent.-42. The general consistory cannot assemble without the permission of gov., and in presence of the prefect, or sub-prefect, and notice shall be pre viously given to the counsellor of state charged with all affairs relating to religious worship, of the matters about to be discussed. The assembly can sit only six days.-43. In the intermediate time between one assembly and another, there shall be a directory, composed of the president, the senior of the two ecclesiastical inspectors, and three laymen, one of whom shall be named by the First Consul; the two others shall be chosen by the general consistory.-44. The privileges of the general consistory and the directory shall continue to be directed by the regutalions and customs of the churches of the Confession of Augsburgh, in every thing which has not been formally abolished by the laws of the republic, and by the present laws. Approved. The First Consul Buonaparte. By the First Consul. The Secretary of State. (Signed) H. B. Marti Extract of a Letter from Gobert, Commander is Chief at Guadaloupe, to the Minister of Marine and Colonies, giving an Account of the Operations of the Army in that Colony, fr the 6th May to the 5th September. After detailing the first operations of the army, which had been given in former letters from General Richepanse, it proceeds :-On the 24th of May I encamped at Petit Bourg, and my advanced guard attacked a large body of the Brigands, and of Marseilles, be delivered to the consignee, and enjoy a pro forma, or fictitious entrepot; provided always, that in case of those articles not being reexported within twelve months after their delivery, such consignee shall be bound to pay the duties to which such articles are liable.V. All produce, staple commodities, and goods coming from foreign countries, not liable to the real or fictitious entrepot, as before stated, may enter the port of Marseilles, and be exported again, free of all duties and charges.—VI. All the above-mentioned produce, staple commodities, and goods exported from Marseilles, by land or sea, for the interior of the republic, shall pay the duties established by laws, at the first custom-house where they shall be entered.-VII. Merchants exporting into foreign countries soaps manufactured in France shall be entitled to a bounty.-This bounty shall be of four francs per quintal. The regulations relative to manufacturing of soap, the mode of verification to which soap to be exported shall be subject, the manner in which the bounty of exportation shall be received, are to be determined by peculiar statutes of public administration.-. VIII. The Ministers of the Interior and Finances are entrusted, every one, in what concerns them, with the execution of the present decree. killed 150 of them. On the 25th we attacked a ticles of any kind that are prohibited at this present large body of them in the woods; they were under moment, or that shall hereafter be subject to the the command of Ignace, one of the most ferocious entrepot, the unloading of these shall be effected of their chiefs; they set fire to a powder maga-in a peculiar circuit fixed upon by the Director of zine, but the explosion only injured themselves. the Customs.-That place or circuit destined for We made a dreadful slaughter of them.-On the the entrepot shall shut with two keys.-III. At 6th in the morning, Ignace, with 400 men, took the time of unloading such goods, produce, or possession of Fort Bembrick, in which he was at- staple commodities, pointed out in the preceding tacked by the troops from Grand Terre and Point article, they shall be examined, weighed, and au Pitre, but without success. I arrived with a numbered, and subject to a storage duty. At the reinforcement of 300 men, and at the same time epocha of their re-exportation, they shall be liathe garrison of the fort also received a considera- ble to a register duty (droit d'enregistrement.)—1V. ble reinforcement.- We then attacked the fort, Wines, brandies, stuffs of all descriptions, cotton and having carried it, a horrible carnage ensued; yarn, iron, steel, salt-fish of all descriptions, inIgnace blew his brains out. On the 28th, an at digoes, and oils coming from foreign countries, tack was made upon Matouba, the last and strong-may, at the moment of their arrival in the port est refuge of the brigands, which was carried, after a desperate resistance. After the taking of Bembrick and Matouba, the fate of Guadaloupe was decided, and the remainder of the brigands retired into the woods, and are now considered in the same light as the ancient Maroon negroes, who only appeared in the night for the purposes of plunder. They were, however, so annoyed by our patrols, that their chief offered that all the blacks should return to their duty, if some advantages were granted to them. On the 14th of June, I proposed to General Richepanse to terminate the war in this manner; but as he was not accustomed to resistance,' he would not listen to the proposal. On the 27th of June they attacked the post of Bananier, but were repulsed with loss. On the 31st of July i had certain information that the negroes had assembled in the woods of Goyave. They were entirely dispersed, and all 3 their resources destroyed, with great slaughter.— Six hundred blacks, and five of the most formidable chiefs, were soon afterwards induced to return 3 to their duty.-Another assemblage of brigands were attacked in the woods of Capesterre, and entirely dispersed. The wreck of this party took refuge in an old camp of the blacks, called Mondongues, which had existed for more than ten years. This camp was attacked on the 3d of August, and the last refuge of the brigands destroyed. At present almost all the blacks have returned to their labour, and the inhabitants may rest without fear. Almost all the chiefs, and above all, those who are most feared, are in our hands. Doubtless, however, we must still be watchful.Grand Terre enjoys a profound tranquillity, which appears to be well established. Our greatest enemy is disease; but the sickness is now sensibly diminished. The troops have not lost more than six men in more than three months by the hands of the brigands, but their imprudence frequently costs them their lives. He concludes his letter by paying compliments to several of the officers, few of whom have been spared, he says, by disease. Decree of the Consuls of the French Republic, dated June 10, 1802. ART. I. All vessels, either French or foreign, arriving in the port of Marseilles, shall be under the immediate inspection of the Board of Customs; in consequence of which, all captains or masters shall, within twenty-four hours after their arrival, present to the Board of Customs a manifest, signed by them, expressing every individual article contained in their cargoes.-II. Whenever such cargoes shall contain produce, goods, or staple ar Magallon Lamorliere, Commander in Chief in the General, The satisfactory accounts brought to happy, the future cannot but be equally so; and all this has been effected by you. It is with the liveliest satisfaction that I announce to you so favourable a state of things; and I have every reason to believe, that henceforth I shall only have to send you accounts equally calculated to please you.-(Signed) Magallon Lamorliere. Decree of the 2d of July, 1802. addressed to you on the 9th inst. and sent by a packet-boat which was then immediately getting under sail for London, by which I was prevented from giving those lengthened details which I wished.-I proceeded to St. Pierre with the civil and military officers, on the 14th inst. to meet MajorGeneral Keppel, governor of the colony for his Britannic Majesty.-As soon as the corvette le Berceau, in which I sailed, was perceived in the road, the French flag was saluted by a discharge The Consuls of the republic, on the report of of fifteen pieces of cannon from the forts, to which the Minister of Marine and Colonies, having I returned an equal salute; the forts then fired a heard the Council of State, decree,--Art. 1. It is second discharge, which the corvette returned as prohibited to all foreigners to bring into the con- soon as she had cast anchor. I landed soon aftertinental territory of the republic any black, mu- wards, under a discharge of artillery.-The whole of latto, or person of colour, of either sex.-2. It is the shore was covered by an immense crowd of the likewise prohibited to all blacks, mulattoes, or inhabitants and people of colour.-The English people of colour, of either sex, who shall not be in officers and a detachment of their troops waited to the service of the republic, to enter in future on escort me to the government-house. The agent of the continental territory of the republic, for any government was received with acclamations and cause, or under any pretext whatever, unless they shouts of joy, which proved the pleasure experishall be furnished with a special authority from enced by the inhabitants at the return of the the magistrates of the colonies from whence they French.-Nothing could be added to the distincome, and have not quitted the colonies without guished frank and cordial manner with which I was the authority of the Minister of Marine and Co- received by M. Keppel. I found in him the best lonies.-3. All blacks or mulattoes who shall be intentions, and the most marked eagerness to seintroduced after the publication of the present de-cond the views of his government, in delivering eree, on the continental territory of the republic, without being furnished with the authority pointed out in the preceding article, shall be arrested, and detained until their transportation. 4. The Minister of Marine and Colonies is charged with the execution of the present decree, which shall be inserted in the bulletin of laws.-(Signed) Buonaparte. up the colony with the greatest order and the utmost promptitude. After these dispositions, I tr pedited on the next day the corvette le Berceau to Guadaloupe, whither the Adjutant Commandant Rewbel proceeded with dispatches from me to the Captain-General Richepanse. I address also to you those which I transmitted to him.-Three merchant vessels, of which two were from Bourdeaux, and the third from Marseilles, have arrived Head-quarters at the Cape, July 12, 1802. here. I obtained permission from General KepThe Captain-General, Commander in Chief, de-pel, that they, as well as those which should come crees,-I. That the catholic religion, roman and here in future, should be admitted to discharge and apostolical, is the sole religion of which the public sell their cargoes in all the ports of the colonyworship shall be authorised in St. Domingo.-II. As to the English vessels, they will have no duties Two ecclesiastics, appointed by the General in to pay. The declarations of the captains will be Chief, shall execute the functions of apostolical received by a French agent, in order to discharge vicars. These are charged to present to the Gene- the acquits à caution which they have brought from ral in Chief proper candidates for the offices of France, when they leave the island, which cannot curé and vicar, and they are to suggest such regu- be before the epoch when the French flag will be lations as they shall deem proper for the object in flying in the colony.-I continue to occupy myself view.-III. There shall be one curé in the comwith the means of procuring for the barracks and munes of the chief places in each quarter; the hospitals left to us by the English, all those indisother communes shall be supplied with vicars.pensable necessaries for our troops, with which IV. Sunday shall henceforth be the day of rest to all the public functionaries, and to the citizens at large; nevertheless, the dates of public and private acts shall continue to be expressed conformably to the republican calendar, as far as respects the days and the names of the months; the names of the days shall be those of the ancient calendar. -V. The present regulation is but provisional.— VI. These presents are addressed to the Colonial Prefect, in order to their publication and execution. They shall also be inserted in the Official Gazette.-The Captain-General, and Commander | in Chief, Leclers. Charles Henri Bertin, Counsellor of State of the French Republic, Colonial Prefect of Martinique and its Dependencies, to the Minister of the Marine and Colonies-Saint Pierre, July 19, 1802. I have the honour to transmit to you, annexed, Citizen Minister, a dupl cate of the letter which I those establishments are wholly unprovided. The expense will of course be considerable, but it is. necessary. The officers of engineers and artillery are occupied at present with the inspection of the forts and military establishments. I shall send you an account the first opportunity of the result of these operations.-I have the honour to salute you.-Bertin, R. Lacrosse, Rear-Admiral, Captain-General of Guadaloupe and its Dependencies, to Rear-Admiral Dacres, Minister of Marine and Cob nies.-At Basseterre, Isle of Guadalupe, 5th August, 1802. Citizen Minister,-I have the honour to inform you that I returned yeterday to Guadaloupe, to resum: the government, conformably to the instruc tion which you sent me. I request you may as sure the First Consul of the entire devotion with which I shall execute his orders for the prosperity of this colony, which is at length restored to, subordination and tranquillity, by the destruction or expulsion of the rebels, who had given it up to all the horrors of revolt and anarchy.-Health and respect,-Lacrosse. our country with foreign powers, let us turn our eyes to its moral situation. Contrary opinions, the effect of the yet recent effervescence of the passions; erroneous opinions upon public affairs, for want of a rule and point of comparison; indecision and uncertainty, the natural result of the novelty of our position: such is the moral situation which circumstances present to the eyes of the the cruel effects of so many long and deep calamities cannot cease in a moment; but passion never reasons. The weariness of past sufferings sharpens the sentiment of present wants; the urgency of the remedy leads men to inveigh bitterly against the delay of it, and the indiscreet hope of a rapid prosperity, which is impossible, prevents them from seeing the effect of slow and gradual ameliorations, because they measure things rather upon the expectation of an imaginary future, than upon the remembrance of the past. Some have thought that with the war ought to cease all the consequences of a revolution, which, considered by them as the means of conquest, had the usual principles and effects. Others have thought that the war could never end but by esta blishing the order of things which they had imagined. The course of events has proved to both that they were equally mistaken. But if so solemn a demonstration cannot yet persuade them, how shall we hope in future for faithful and zealous colleagues? how obtain ever impartial judgments among men, some of whom, nourishing regret, live in the past; while others, thrown by their vague disquietude into imaginary space, are continually impelled to the future. Placed in this. difficult situation, the government has made it a law to oppose nothing but truth to error, reason to passions, and the most severe indifference to parties, which it neither persecutes nor patronizes, leaving to Time, that judge whose rights are not to be destroyed, the triumph of true principles, which can alone consolidate the new order of things. But they must declare to you that to accelerate that happy moment, they stand in need of the assistance and all the zeal of the first magistrates of the republic. Substance of the Report of the Government to the Legislative Body upon the Situation of the Re-attentive observer.-Reason, indeed, tells us, that public.-Milan, Sept. 1, 1802. The report begins with asserting the necessity of laying before the legislature a faithful picture of the political, moral, and economical situation of the republic; persuaded that nothing is more calculated to maintain a good understanding between two powers, which can only do good by following the same path, and to destroy those fatal errors which evil intentions and ignorance give birth to, and which blind credulity believes.-The report divides itself into four sections. The first relates to External Relations.-Scarcely had the Consulta at Lyons consecrated this new order of things, than a thousand doubts arose upon the effects that were to result from it. Many affirmed, that the new system, so far from being consolidated, would be an obstacle to the general peace, and would light up again the flame of war upon the continent. The contrary took place. The general peace was concluded soon after, and the principal powers did not even wait to be officially informed of the result of the congress at Lyons, before they expressed their satisfaction, pleased to discover in our new constitutional system the basis of our independence, on which principally depends the future repose of Italy.-Already the House of Austria, by means of its ministers, in full and friendly correspondence with the Italian Republic, and under all circumstances, its expressions, and its relations of neighbourhood, leave no doubt with respect to the loyalty of its sentiments. The courts of Berlin, Madrid, Lisbon, Naples, Rome, Florence, Parma, the Porte itself, and the Helvetic, Batavian, Ligurian, and Lucca Republics have explained themselves in the same sense. If all the formalities have not yet been fulfilled with all powers; if regular and direct communications have not yet been opened with every one, it is easy to see the cause in that crowd of combinations which are connected with the progressive re-establishment of the diplomatic system in Europe; but as all these things belong only to the last effects of political arrangements, and are not of a nature to alarm or injure adopted principles, we Of the Wants and extraordinary Resources for cannot reasonably discover in them the slightest the current Year-But the consolatory hopes of subject for apprehension. And this is so true, better days are insufficient for the urgent and imthat the powers with which even our correspond-perious wants of the moment. The government ence is not established in the usual forms, have could have wished to have presented you a regular nevertheless received in a friendly manner the no- statement of the receipts and expenditure; but tification that has been made to them by the minis- how could they establish it upon the experience. ters of the French Republic, of the new naval flag of the first five months of the constitutional year, of the Italian Republic; the English minister, when there are not in the past data applicable to among others, has recently declared, that orders the present? If the government have shewn some would be immediately given to cause it to be resentiment of loyalty in giving you an account of spected, and to ensure to the ships of the Italian the debut of the public administration, they will Republic (as is the practice among friends) the not evince less frankness and sincerity in acquaintsuccours and protection of which they may stand in ing you with what has been received and expended need. The government therefore may declare in from the day of their installation to the end of full confidence and security, that in a short time the month of July.-This account, in proving to the external relations of the Italian Republic, will you, that during all that space of time, one farbe completely established and regulated, as be- thing of the public revenues has not been sent out comes it's dignity, and as its interests demand. of the territory, will inform you exactly of all that Of the Moral Situation.-From the relations of ễ has been paid into the treasury, and what has been Public Administration-Under this head the report takes a rapid review of the measures of the administrative system. It states that at the time when the constitutioral government was carried into effect, the most contradictory measures were adopted in the different departments→→ measures compounded of ancient customs and new. methods. |