PARIS, MAY 9. ACTS OF THE GOVERNMENT. RE-ELECTION OF THE FIRST CONSUL. The Senate, having affembled together to the number prefcribed by the goth Article of the Conftitution, decreed as follows: "Art. 1. The Confervative Senate, in the name of the French People, expreffes its gratitude to the Confuls of the Republic. 2. The Confervative Senate re-dets Citizen NAPOLEON BONAPARTE Foft Conful of the Republic for the ten years that fhall immediately follsaw the ten years for which by was apprinted by the 30th Artide of the Constitution. 3. The prefent Senatus Confultum thail be tranfmitted by a metfige to the Legiftive Body, and to the Confuls of the Republic. "(Signed) TRONCHET, President." BONAPARTE, Firft Conful of the French Re public to the Confervative Senate. "Senators, "The honourable teftimony of your efteem, expreffed in your deliberations of the 8th, fhall be for ever engraven on my heart. The fuffrages of the people have invested me with the fupreme Magistracy. I thould not look upon myself as affured of the national confidence, if the act that wis to continue me in that bigh oflice was not again fanctioned by the fame fuffiage. During the three years that have juft elapfed, Fortune has failed propitiously on the Republic: but Fortune is inconftant; and how many are thote on whom the has lavithed her favours, that have lived a few years too long! The intereft I feel for my glory and my happiness fhould feem to have marked the term of my public life at the moment that the peace of the world was proclaimed. But every attention to the glory and the happiness of a Citizen fhould ceafe to operate when the interests of the State or the public kindness call upon him. You think that I owe a new facrifice to the people that facrifice I will make, if the with of the people commands what is authorifed by your vote. BONAPARTE. 66 By order of the First Conful, ARRETE of May 10. Shall NAPOLEON BONAPARTE bi 2. There fhall be Regifters opened in every Commune, where the Citizens fhall be invited to fign their opinion upon this question. 3. Thefe Registers fhall be open to the Secretaries of all adminiftrations, to the Greffes of the Tribunals, and to all Mayors and Notaries. 4. The time allowed for voting in each ing from the day of the arrival of this Ardepartment shall be three weeks, reckonreckoning from the time when the difpatch rête at the Prefecture, and feren days, fhall arrive at each Commune. 5. The Minifters are charged with the execution of the prefent Airête, which The Second Conful (Signed) CAMBACERES. fhall be inferted in the bulletin of the laws. The Sec. of State (Signed) H. B. MARET. The French General Deftaing' has been killed in a duel by Gen. Reignier. They fought with pistols at 20 paces, advancing by the fecond. An explanation was at two paces each hot. Regnier was wounded tempted; and Regnier faid, that he did not mean to impeach the perfonal courage of logy for fuch an offence to a foldier could the other; but Deitaing faid, that no apohe received. Regnier's next thot entered his forehead, and killed him on the spot. nou, accufing him of having been the im- Treaty of Amiens, and voted thanks to The 12 Mayors of Paris have anfmitted Thefe Mr. URBAN, May 19. HE CALCUTTA MILITIA CAVALRY confifted of two troops under the command of Major William Farquharfon. THE This volunteer corps was eftablished in November 1798, under the aufpices of his Excellency Marquis Wellesley, at that time Earl of Mornington, and governor-general of the British poffeffions in the Eaft Indies. When his Lordthip found it expedient to call on the British inhabitants of the city of Calcutta to ferve as a militia for the defence and protection of that metropolis, an option was given to those who preferred ferving as cavalry to enroll themfelves as fuch, and hence originated this corps fo jufily celebrated for its loyalty, zeal, and perfection. It defrayed all its own expences, and was generally mounted on Arabian horses. The engraving here annexed (Plate I.) is calculated to fhew the uniform, dreffes, and accoutrements of this refpectable corps, which, in February 1801, confifted of the following gentlemen, officiating as officers and privates. Capt. 1. T. Brown, G. Simpson, Lieut. M. G. Prendergast, Cornet Colin Robertson, William Hunter. J. Hunter, J. Irwin, J Law, P Maitland, H. Mundy, W. Parker, W. Camac, W. Elliot, C. Fryer, G. Ferguson, On the departure of Major Farquharfon from Calcutta, in March 1801, he was fucceeded in the command of this corps by the Hon. Henry Welletley. Mr URBAN, April 19. KNOWING your promptitude to admit any communication into your useful and widely-circulating Mifcellany, that has for its object the good of mankind, I make no apology for tranfmitting to you the mclofed fines, conceiving that the fact of their having been audibly, correctly, and feelingly recited to a company of 800 perfons, and upwards, by children, once entirely dumb and fill totally deaf, merits publicity. The establishment of the Afylum for the indigent Deaf and Dumb (of which, I believe, the first public hint was given in your pages) reflects honour on our age and country. Who that witneffes what they can attain to by inftruction but laments the many thoufands, who, for want of being taught, have lived ufelefs and died without hope? Too long, indeed, were they neglected, but it is never too late to do well; and that the great and the good who may call an eye upon this, and have not already contributed their mite to enable this truly useful and benevolent inftitution to extend its aid to the numerous objects for whom it is folicited, may no longer delay it, is the with and prayer of A SUBSCRIBER. "Had we the found-controlling ear, held. In fhort, Sir, I perceive it is the PANCRAS has given a sketch of, p. 409. "The Deaf and Dumb, from age to age, Laftly, where uniform piers, without breaks or embellifhments of any kind, buttress up a facade, being capped with large fquare abacufes, and finished with hatched billets, by way of crocket pinnacles? I fay nothing of the flat battlements, without coping or mouldings, here exhibited; of the new idea of reprefenting the emblem of Christianity by a tranfverfe hole on the tympan, inftead of exalting it to the fummit of the pediment; of the double row of dimi nutive niches, occupying the place where we look for the bold columns. and arches of the grand portal; or, finally, of the difproportion in a chapel that is defigned to be in the antient ftyle, of making its breadth to be nearly equal to its length. Ineffable, Mr. Urban, as my contempt is for the fquare meeting-houses and other chapels that are raifed by almost all denomi nations of Chriliians at the prefent day, which, when the defks and altars are removed out of them, are found to be as well calculated for the purposes of dancing dancing as of praying, in comparifon with the venerable ftructures of our antient ecclefiaftical Architects; yet I greatly prefer the former to fuch burfefque imitations of the latter as the chapel under confideration, and certain others, exhibit. But I am unwilling to invade, any further, the province of another correfpondent, who is fo much better qualified than I am to expofe the bad talle of modern architectural reformers and innovators, in proportion as he is more converfant with the difpolition and beauties of our anticat najonal tiructures. To his various exertions in this caufe, though too often displayed with a vehemence which his enchufiatim for Antiquity can alone excufe, Architectural Antiquaries are more indebted than to thofe of any other mun living, not only for acquiring jud notions in thete matters, but alfo for the prefervation of fome of the molt precious monuments of antient art and magnificence. The latt obfervation obliges me to animadvert on what has fallen from a writer with a whimsical title, in p. 412. He thinks proper to queftion Mr. Carter's credentials for calling hiafelf an Architect." In return, may not we quellion whether the writer is acquainted with that Antiquary's various publications, or even with the late fuperb and exquifite works of the Society of Antiquaries, fo much to their own and the Nation's honour, exhibiting the clevations, fections, and ornaments, of St. Stephen's chapel, and of the feveral cathedrals of Exeter, Bath, and Durham; all which are engraved from Mr. Carter's drawings? Were he converfant with thefe, he would be convinced that this Artit must have ftudied the masterpieces of Our National Architecture, from the principles of their contruction down to their minuteft embellishments, with an attention that has never been exceeded, if it has been equalled; and he would be difpofed to believe, what I have reafon to affert, that, were the Architect in queftion coufined to his ftudy, without the fight of a fingle original ftructure, or copy of one, and with nothing but pen, ink, and paper, fcale and compatles, he would be able to produce finished drawings for a ftructure of any kind, or any style, that was in ufe between the 10th and the 16th centuries. Thus much, I think, will hardly be quefiioned by any man of intelligence, that it is to the ere dentials of the Architect in question, particularly thofe which have been published by the Society, the Literati of future ages will refort in order to learn how the masterpieces of our National Architecture, as I have already called them*, were conftructed, when the originals fhall be no more, and how they are to be rebuilt, fhould there every be found talte and munificence enough for the undertaking. I now look back, Mr. Urbản, tọ the concerns of another of my old ac quaintances and a former antagonist, Poor D: Geddes, who to unquestion able talents and learning added many good qualities, is nevertheless very truly defcribed, in your Obituary, as having co-operated with the author of all evil, by his irreligious writings, particularly by thole which undermine the authority of Holy Writ. This pofition, fo felf-evident to every Ch.iftian, has been flatly denied in p. 312. But, by whom has it been denied è By the very author of evil in question; viz. by SATAN himfelf, under his own name, who pronounces a panegyric on the virtue of Dr. Geddes, difclaims all acquaintance with him, and teftifies, on the credit of his own veracity, and the oaths of his inferior deinons, that the deceafed is not come into his dominions, on the contrary, that he is gone to heaven. But, most certainly, fir, your new correfpondent either is an impoftor, that is to fay, no devil at all, It is much to be wifhed," fivs the author of the account of Durham Cathedral, in the late fplendid work of the Society of Antiquaries, "that the word Gothic should no longer be ufed in fpeaking of the architecture if England from the 13th to the 16th century. The term tends to give falle ide is on the fubject. There is very little doubt that the light and elegant style of building, whofe principal characteristic feature is the bigh pointed arch, ftruck from two centuries, was invented in this country: it is certain that it was here brought to its higheft ftate of perfections and the teftimony of other countries, whofe national traditions afcribe their most beautiful churches to Englith artists, adds great weight to this affertion, and peculiar propriety to the term English, now propofed to be fubtituted to the word Gothic. It is hoped that no English Antirary will be offended at the fubftitution of an accurate and honourable name, in the place of one which is both contemptuous and inappropriate." P. 3. and |