thereon, excepting those lands which it is hereafter agreed that the Maharajah is to retain.-IV. The Maharajah likewise cedes to the hon. East India company and their allies, all the territories which belonged to him previous to the breaking out of the war, which are situated to the southward of the Adjuntee hills, including the fort and districts of Jalnapoor, the town and district of Gandapoor, and all other districts between that range of hills and the river Godavery.-V. The Maharajah Ali Jah Dowlut Rao Scindia, for himself, his heirs and successors, hereby renounces all claims to the forts, territories, rights, and interests ceded by the foregoing articles, and all claims of every description upon the British government and their allies, the soubah of the Dekan, the peishwa and Anand Row Guick war. VI. The fort of Asser Ghur, the city of Berhampore, the forts of Powanghur and Dohud, and the territories in Candeish and the Guzerat, depending on these forts, shall be restored to Maharajah Ali Jah Dowlut Rao Scindia.-VII: Whereas the Maharajah Ali Jah Dowlut Rao Scindia has represented that his family have long held an Enaum as a gift from the king of Hindostan, the districts of Dhoolpoor, Baree, and rajah Kerrah, which are situated to the northward of the countries of the rajahs of Jeypoor and Joodepoor, and of the rajah of Gohud, and that lands in Hindostan, ceded by the articles in this treaty to the hon. East India company and their allies, are held in Jacquin by the family of the late Mahadgie Scindia, and others, who would suffer much distress if deprived of the advantages they enjoy in that country: it is agreed the Maharajah shall continue to hold in Enaum the lands of Dhoolpoor, Baree, and rajah Kerrah, and that Balah Baye Sahel, and Munsoor Sahel Moonsha Ravel Nyne, Boogagee Jamdah Amragie, Jadhoo, and Wurda Charie, shall continue to hold their lands in Jaghir, under the protection of the company; and farther, in order that no individuals may incur loss, or even suffer distress in consequence of these arrangements, it is agreed that the honourable East India company shall either pay pensions or grant lands in Jaghir, according to the plan laid down by the British government, for certain other sirbans and others to be named by Maharajah, provided that the total amount of the sums paid, and Jaghirs granted, does not exceed seventeen lacks of rupees per ann. VIII. That the following lands, villages, &c. in the territories of Rao Pundit Pundham, in Enaum, lately taken possession of by the British government, be restored to the Maharajah, provided that no troops are introduced there on the pretence of collecting revenues, or any other pretence whatsoever, viz. Choomargondy Purguunah, Jamgaun, Ranjengaun, half of Siengaun Purgunnah, six villages in Umbir Purgunnah, five villages in Pytan Purgunnah, five villages in Newag Purgunnah, five villages in Kurloh Purgunnah, six villages in Poona Purgunnah, two villages in Wahy Purgunnah, six villages in Palwood Purgunnah, five villages in Pandy Peergaum Purgunnah, five villages in Pagoon Purgunnah, two villages in Parnena Purgunnah. IX. Whereas certain treaties with feudatories of Maharajah have been made by the British govern ment, - ment, it is agreed that the same be confirmed. Maharajah hereby renounces all claims on the persons with whom such treaties have been made, and proclaims them to be independent of his Government.— X. No person whatever is to be molested on account of the part which he may have taken in the present war.-XI. It is agreed that the rights of his highness, the peishwa, to cultivate certain lands in Meluah and elsewhere, shall be established as heretofore.-XII. The Maharajah hereby renounces all claims upon Shah Allum, and engages not to interfere any further in the affairs of his majesty.XIII. The Maharajah agrees never to engage in his service any Frenchman, or other European, or nations at war with Great Britain.-XIV. For the better carrying into execution this treaty of peace and amity, it is agreed that accredited ministers reside at each court from each of the contracting powers.-XV. This treaty of peace and amity to be ratified by the Maharajah Ali Jah Dowlut Rao Scindia, within eight days from the present time, and the ratification is to be delivered to major-gen. Wellesley, at which time the orders for the cession of the ceded territories are to be delivered over, and the troops are to withdraw. -XVI. Major-gen. Wellesley engages that the treaty shall be ratified on the part of the hon. company, by his excellency the most noble the governor-general in council, and that the said ratification shall be delivered two months from this date. Orders of Council relative to the Detention of Spanish Skips, and Ships bound to Spain. Dated at the Court at the Queen's Palace, the 19th of Dec. 1804. Present the King's most excellent Majesty in Council. Whereas information has been received that an embargo has been ordered to be laid upon all British ships in the ports of the kingdom of Spain: it is this day ordered by his majesty, by and with the advice of his privy council, that no ships or vessels belonging to any of his majesty's subjects be permitted to enter and clear out for any of the ports of Spain, until further orders: and his majesty is further pleased to order that a general embargo or stop be made of all ships and vessels whatsoever, now within, or which hereafter shall come into any of the ports, harbours, or roads, within the united kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, together with all persons and effects on board the said ships and vessels; but that the utmost care be taken for the preservation of all and every part of the cargoes on board any of the said ships, so that no damage or embez zlement whatever be sustained. (Signed) S. Cottrell. Exposé of the State of the French Republic, laid before the Legislative Body, on the 25th Nivose, 12th Year (16th Jan. 1804). The republic has been forced to change its attitude, but it has not changed its situation; it continues to preserve in the consciousness of its strength the pledge of its prosperity. Every thing was calm in the interior of France, when, at the commencement of the last year, we still entertained tertained the hope of a durable peace. Every thing has remained calmer since a jealous power has rekindled the torches of war; but in this last epoch, the union of interests and sentiments has shewn itself more full and entire; the public mind has developed itself with more energy. In the new departments which the first consul has traversed, he has heard, as well as in the old, the accents of a truly French indignation; he recognized in their hatred against a government hostile to our prosperity, even more than in the bursts of public joy and personal affection, their attachment to the country, and their devotion to his destiny. In all the departments, the ministers of worship have exerted the influence of religion to consecrate this spontaneous movement of the minds of individuals. Depôts of arms, which fugitive rebels had committed to the earth, in order to take them up again at a future opportunity, which a culpable foresight suggested to them, have been disclosed at the first signal of the danger, and delivered to the magistrates for the purpose of arming our defenders. The British government will attempt to throw, and perhaps has already thrown, on our coasts some of these monsters whom it nourished in its bosom during the peace, in order to tear in pieces the land which gave them birth; but they will no longer find in it those impious bands which were the instruments of their former crimes; terror has dissolved them, or justice has purged our territory of them; they will find neither that credulity which they abused, nor that animosity the poniards of which they whetted. Experience has enlightened every mind; the YOL. XLVI. moderation of the laws, and the administration of them has reconciled every heart. Surrounded every where by the public force. overtaken every where by the tribunals, these dreadful men will in future neither be able to make rebels, nor to re-organize with impunity their hordes of brigands and assassins.It is but now that a miserable attempt has been made in La Vendée; the conscription was made the pretext for it; but citizens, priests, soldiers, all classes exerted themselves for the common defence; those who in other times were the movers of disturbances, came to offer their aid to the public authority, and to give their persons and their families, as pledges of their fidelity and devotion. Finally, what characterizes, above all things, the security of the citizens, the return of social affections, is that, beneficence displays itself every day more and more. On every side donations are offered to the unfortunate, and foundations are made for useful establishments. The war has not interrupted the intentions of the peace; and the government has pursued with constancy every thing that tends to establish the constitution in the manners and disposition of the citizens, every thing likely to attach all interests and all hopes to its duration. Thus, the senate has been placed in that elevation to which its institution called it; an endowment such as the constitution had fixed, encircles it with an imposing grandeur. The legislative body will no longer appear, except surrounded with the majesty which its functions demand; it will no longer be looked for in vain, except in its sitting. An annual president will be the centre of its Rr motion motion and the organ of its thoughts and its wishes, in its relations with the government. This body will have at length that dignity which could not exist with forms changeable and undetermined. The electoral colleges have conducted them. selves every where with that calmness and wisdom which secures happy elections. The legion of honour exists in the higher parts of its organization, and in a part of the elements which are to compose it. These elements, still equal, await from a final choice, their functions, and their places. How many honourable traits have been displayed by the ambition of being admitted into it. What treasures will the republic have in this institution to encourage and recompense service and virtues. In the council of state, another institution proposes for the choice of the government men for all the superior branches of administration: auditors are formed there in the laboratories of regulations and laws; they perpetuate themselves there with the maxims and principles of public order. Always surrounded with 'witnesses and judges, often under the eyes of the government, often on important missions, they will arrive at the public functions with the maturity of experience, and with the security which is given by a character, a conduct, and a skill proved by repeated trials. Lyceums and secondary schools are erecting on every side, and are not yet erected with sufficient rapidity to satisfy the impatience of the citizens. Common regulations, a discipline, the same system of instruction, are forming in the generations which will support the glory of France by their talents, and its common institutions by their principles and their virtues. A single prytaneum, the prytaneum of St. Cyr, receives the children of those citizens who died for their country. Education already breathes forth there a military enthusiasm. At Fontainbleau, the special military school numbers many hundreds of soldiers who are rendered pliant to discipline, and inured to fatigue, and who acquire with the habits of the profession The the knowledge of the art. school of Compiegne presents the aspect of a vast manufactory, where five hundred young persons pass from their studies to the workshops, and from the workshops to their studies. After a few months they execute with the precision of skill, works which could not have been obtained from them after years of a common apprenticeship; and in a short time commerce and industry will enjoy the benefit of their labour, and of the cares of the government. The engineers and the artillery have now but one school, and one common institution. Medicine is every where submitted to the new regime, which the law prescribed to it. By a salutary reform, means have been found to simplify the expence and to add to the instruction. The exercise of pharmacy has been put under the care of skill and probity. A regulation has placed between master and workman judges who terminate their differences with the rapidity which their interests and their wants require; and at the same time with the impartiality which justice demands. The civil code is approaching to completion; and in the course of this session the last projects of laws which are to complete it altogether, will be in a state to be be submitted to the deliberations of the legislative body. The judicial code, called for by every wish, is at this moment undergoing the discussions which are to conduct it to its maturity. The criminal code is in a state of advancement; and that part of it which circumstances appear to call for most imperiously, are in a condition to receive the seal of the law in the next session. New chefs d'œuvre are come to embellish our museums; and, whilst the rest of Europe envies our treasures, our young artists continue still to go into the bosom of Italy to kindle the fire of their genius, with the view of its great monuments, and to respire the enthusiasm which produced them. In the department of Marengo, under the walls of that Alexandria, which will be one of the strongest bulwarks of France, the first camp of our veterans is formed. There they will keep up the recollection of their exploits, and the pride of their victories. They will inspire their new fellow-citizens with love and respect for that country which they have extended, and which has rewarded them. They will leave in their children heirs of their courage, and new defenders of that country whose benefits they will enjoy. In the ancient territory of the repub. lic, in Belgium, old fortifications, which were no longer any thing but useless monuments of the misfortunes of our forefathers, or of the progressive growth of France, will be demolished. The lands which had been sacrificed to their defence, will be restored to culture and commerce; and with the funds arising from these demolitions, and these lands, new fortresses will be constructed on our new frontiers. The tax for the support of the public roads has received a new increase, under a better system of adjudication. Farmers, from year to year, were without emulation; farmers of too small portions were without fortune, and without secu rity. Triennial adjudications, and adjudications of a number of barriers together, have invited a greater number of bidders, richer and more enterprising. The tolls on the highway have produced fifteen millions in the year eleven: ten millions more have been appropriated within the same year to the repairs and completion of the roads. The old roads have been kept up and repaired: some of the roads have been connected with others by new roads. From this year forth carriages can pass the Simplon and Mount Cenis. Three broken arches have been rebuilt in the bridge at Tours. New bridges are erecting at Cabeil, Boanne, Nemours, and on the rivers Isere, Roubion, Durance, and Rhine. A communication is to be opened between Avignon and Villeneuve, by a bridge undertaken by a private company. Three bridges were begun at Paris with funds contributed by some of the citizens; two have been in part completed with the public money; and the tolls to be collected thereon afford a security for the payment of the interest and principal of the sum advanced in a certain number of years. The third, the most interesting of all (that of the botanic garden), is in progress, and will soon be completed. It will relieve the interior of Paris from a fatigning circuitous communication, and will lead to a splendid space or square, a long time ordered for sale, which is to be ornamented with plantaRr 2 tions, |