III. To form the Assembly of R viBon, the primary allemblies fhall be konvoked, and electors chofen for this puroofe alone, in the fame number, and according to the fame forms, as for the election of the Legislative, Alembies. IV. The Legiflative Body and the King are charged by the conftitur on to proclaim, three months at least before the ift of June, the meeting of all the citizens in primary affemblies, and the place where the Affembly of Revision Thall fit.

The pace of meeting fhall be at the ditance of twenty miles at least from the place where the Legislative Body faell Git..

V. Theconituting affe nbly once met, that be free to remove to any part of the kingdom.

No body of troops can be established, or remain within less than thirty miles of it.

VI. The Affembly of Revifion may either adopt in its deliberations the forms of the Legislative Aff mblies, or frame others, provided they do not abridge the time of difcuffion.

Those who are then members of the Legislative Body cannot be chofen members of the conftituting assembly.

SECTION II.

PUNCTIONS and RIGHTS of the CONSTITU

TING NATIONAL ASSEMBLY.

1. The functions of the Affembly of Revifion which fhall be held in 1800, fhall be to examine if the confti uted powers, whole divifion is the fundamental basis of every conftitution, and has been the fole object of the National Affembly of 1789, have reciprocally preferved the limits which have been prefer bed to them; and to restore them, if any infringements have been made by either of the conliituted powers.

II. The Affembly of R-vifion in 1800 fhail have likewife the function to determine refpecting the deman's which, according to the form that that be citab! fhed, may be made by the petitions of Citizens, by the Legidative Bo iv, or by the King, for the purpose of reformning any part of the conflitution.

SECTION III.

Forms by which the wife of CITIZENS, and the demands of the LEGISLATIVE BODY and the KING foall be establifoed.

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any part of the conftitution can be made before the first of January 1800.

II. After this period, every citizen who fhall think that any part of the con ftitution ought to be reformed, shall be at liberty to exprefs his with by a petition, figned by himself and those who agr e with him in opinion: This peti tion fhall be depofited with the munici pality of the refidence of the petitioners, and thall be registered. It fhall contain a precife ftatement of the parts of the conftitution on which, according to the petitioners, the reform ought to take place.

III. When the number of petitioners on the fame fu. je 9. ball form the ma jorny of the citizens who compose a com munity, and the municipal officers fhall addrefs their petition to the administra tion of the department.

IV. The admimftrators in each department hall verify the number of citizens who shall have deman led the reform of one or more points of the con➡ ftution, particularly making out the objects, if there are more than one; and if the majority of active citizens of the department join in making this demand on one or more points, the intimation of their petition fhall be fent by the ad miniftrators to the Legislative Body.

V When petitions of the fame fübe ject fhall have been made in more than forty-one departments, the L giflative Body fhal review the propofal which fhall have been addreffed to it. Every department fhall be counted in this review for the number of deputies which it fends for the Legislative Affembly, fo that the calculation fhall be established upon 745 unites.

VI. After that by the review it shall have been determined that the petition is formed by the abfolute majority of citizens of the departments, the Leg flative B dy fhall clearly and precifely eftablifh the objets of the petitions: It they relate to fevera parts of the conftitution, they shall be that d diftinct y.

VII. The Legilla ive Body shall then give its opinion on the question, whe ther the object ought to be fubmitted to the examination of the Affembly of Re

mmitted to them according to the forms above prescribed: The decrees which it all pals on any other fubject shall be null and of no effect.

It can neither engage in any arrange ment in the legislative order, nor in any infpection of any part whatfoever of the adminiftrative order. It fhall have no other power than that of examining the articles which fhall be fubmitted to it. it may, however, give all the neceffry orders to fecure its own entire liberty and perfect independence, and it shall have, as the legifla tive body, the police in the place of its meeting.

XXIII. It fhall be perfectly free in its opinions; and whatever be the majority of petitions, whatever be the coincidence or oppofition of the legislative body or the King, each of the members of the Aflembly of Revision, fhall be under no other obligation than that of voting according to his judgment and confcience, what he thinks moit confonant to juice and general utility.

XXIV. The legislative body and the King fhall name each four Commillioners; to remit to the Affembly of Revision at its c pening the articles decreed to be the object of its labours.

XXV. As foon as their labours fhall be finished, the Affembly of Revifion hall give notice to the legislative body and the King, It fhall name twenty-four Commiflioners to wait upon the legislative body, and in their prefence, and that of the King, in a minute depofited in the archives, folemnly make upon the conftitution the changes and reforms which fhall have been decreed.

The Affembly of revifion fhall immediately separate.

XXVI. In the reforms which it may decree, it fhall be regulated by the rights of men and of citizens, and thofe eternal principles of liberty and equality, which forms of government ought to fecure, and which they cannot alter without being unjust and oppreffive.

Sept. 3

The National Affembly having spent fome time in revifing and amending the Conftitution, now refolved that it was completed, and no farther change would take place in it. A Committee of 60 Members was accordingly appointed to prefent it that fame day to the King. The deputation accordingly began its march in the evening, attended by flambeaux, between two files of National Guards, who kept great filence.— The deputation was received in the Council Chamber. The King was furrounded by all his Ministers, and a great number of other perfons.

The Reporter of the Committee of Con

ftitution, M. Thouret, ipɔke as follows:" "The reprefentatives of the nation prefent to your Majefy the comtitutional code, which confecrates the imprefcriptible rights of the French people, which reftores to the throne its true dignity, and which organizes the government of the empire."

THE KING'S ANSWER.

"I receive the conftitution prefented to me by the National Affumbly. I will com municate ray refolution to the National Af fembly as foon as the examination of so important an object will render it poffible.I am determined to remain in Paris. I will give orders to the Commandant General of the national Parifian guard respecting the guard for my perfon."

the Affembly by the fame way and in the The deputation returned to the hall of fame order by which they had left it, when M. Thouret gave an account to the memhis Majefty's anfwer. bers there of what he faid to the King, and

Sept. 14.

The Minifter of Justice prefented himself yefterday in the National Affembly, and delivered into the hands of the Profident a written melage from his Majeity, containing his full and voluntary ratification of the terms on which he is again to reiume the exercife of the Royal Authority,

Here follows an exact copy of the notification, as it was read amidit the plaudits of the audience, all of whom, the Patriots efpecially, feemed to rejoice at this aufpici eus circumstance.

GENTLEMEN,

"I have attentively examined the Conftitutional Act, which you have prefented for my acceptance. I accept it, and I fhall caufe it to be executed. This acela ration alone might have been thought fufficient at any other period; but I owe it, at the prefent moment, to the interefts of the Nation, and I owe it to myfelf, to disclofe my motives.

From the commencement of my reign I have been defirous to reform every kind of abuse, and, in all the Acts of my Govcrnment, I have been ambitious to the the public opinion as the rule of my conduct. Divers caules, among the number of which may be reckoned the fituation of the Finances on my coming to the Throne, and the immenfe expences attendant on an honourable war, fuftained without the increafe of imports, had occafioned a confiderable difproportion between the Revenue and Expenditure of the State.

Struck with the magnitude of the evil, Kk2 1 nos

date its execution, let us confent to forget what is paft. The left hand side of the Houle, and Galleries, teftified their fatisfaction at this paragraph.] Let the accufations and the perfecunions, commenced in confequence of the Revolution, now drop, and be buried in a general reconciliation. "I fpeak not of those who have been determined by their attachment to me; can you yourselves think them guilty?

"As for thole who, by exceiles, or by perfonal injuries, may have wounded the Laws in regard to me, I fhall prove to th m, by my clemency, that I am King of all the French. (Signea) LOUIS." P.S. I think, Gentlemen, that it is in the place where the Conftitution has been formed, that I ought to pronounce my fojeinn acceptation of it; I fhall in confe. quence repair to-morrow to the National Affembly."

M. la Fayette rofe and said, “I should not do juftice to the tentiments with which the Afembly has juft received the King's reCommendation of a general amnesty, were I to do any more than fimply to move it in the orm of a decree :

"The National Affembly, after hearing the King's meffage, by which he accepts the Conftitutional Act, and adopting the fentiments expreffed by the King on the ceffation of all profecutions relative to the events of the Revolution, decree as fullows:

'- “ First, Alf perfons in arreft, or under accufation, on account of the King's departure, fhall be inftantly liberated, and all profecutions against them fhall ceafe.

"Second, The Committees of Conftitution and Criminal Jurifprudence, fhal prefent to-morrow, at the opening of the fit ting, a decree to annu, immediately all profecutions relative to the events of the Revolution.

"A decree fhall also be prefented to morrow to abolish the use of paliports, and annull all the momentary impediments to the liberty which the Constitution affures to alt French citizens, of going and coming, both out of and into the kingdom.

* A deputation of fixty Members fhall inftantly go and present the above decree to the King."

This was decreed by acclamation,

exultation. His Majefty feemed very fenfibly affected by the acclamations of the crowd.

The ceremony was conducted with much regularity and order, and the effect was grand and imprefive. A large detachment of National Guards efcorted the King, and the proceflion move between two imes of the lame troops. His acceptance before the Affembly was announced by a general difcharge from the Arullery of the National Guards.,

When the King entred the hall, he was accompanied by all his officers, and the Af fembly wood up. He feated himfell befide the Fretident, and and addreffed the Afiem. bly in the following words:

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"I come folemnly to confecrate my ac ceptation of the conftitutional code. confequence of which I favear the members now fat down] to be faithful to the nation, and to the laruto employ all the power with which I am entrusted in maintaining the conftitution de reed by the National Affemuly, and to cause the laws to be executed."

The King fat down, and the hall refound ed with applaufes, after which he proceed, ed:

"May this great and memoral le epoch be that of the re-establishment of peace and union, and become the bats of the welfare of the people, and of the prosperity of the empire!"

The hall refour Jed for feveral minutes with applaufes, an fhouts of Vive le Roi!

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The Prefident, on his legs - -Abutes of long standing, which had triumphed over. the good intentions of the boil of Kings, and had unceatingly braved the authority of the throne, had oppreffed France King reniained fitting, and the Prefident fat down.-Depofitery of the wishes, of the rights, and of the power of the people, the National Aflembly ha eftablifhen, by. the deftruction of all abufes, the fold bats of public profperity. Sire, what this Affembly has decreed, the national concur rence has ratified. The most complete execution of its decrees in all parts of the em pire attefts the general fentiment. It deranges the weak plans of thofe whom difcontent has too long kept blind to their own interefts. It promiles to your Majelly, that your wishes for the welfare of the French will no longer be vain.

"The National Alembly has nothing more to deure on this ever-memorable day, in which you complete, in its bofom, by the moft folemn engagement, the acceptation of Conflitutional Royalty. It is the attachment of the French it is their confidence, who confer upon you that pure and refpectable title to the nioft defirable crown in the unverfe; and what secures it to you, Sire, is the unperishable authority of a conftitution

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