Mr. Marriott had been chaplain at Sweden.

The 3d. instant, at Vienna, the duchess de Polignac.

At Exeter-house, Brownlow 9th earl of Exeter. He was born September 21, 1725; and succeeded his father and namesake 1754. He was elected M. P. for Stamford 1747, and likewise for the county of Rutland; and made his election for the latter, which he was chosen to represent again, 1754; and appointed lord-lieutenant and custosrotulorum Sept. 1752. He was a fellow of the society of Antiquaries, and of the Royal Society of London; and married, July 24, 1749, Letitia, sole daughter and heiress of the hon. Horatio Townshend, one of the commissioners of excise, and third son of Horatio viscount T.; but by her, who died April 17, 1755, had no issue. He is succeeded in his estate and title by his brother's son, Henry Cecil, who married, May 23, 1776, Emma, sole daughter and heir of Thomas Vernon, of Hanbury, in Worcestershire, esq. by whom he had a son, Henry Vernon Cecil (who died an infant), and from whom he has since been divorced. He bore a long illness with the utmost fortitude and resignation.

At his seat at Maiden-Bradley, Wilts Webb duke of Somerset, baron Seymour, and a baronet. His grace was born Dec. 3, 1718, and succeeded to the family titles and estates on the death of his brother Edward, duke of Somerset, Jan 2, 1792. He was married Dec. 11, 1765, to Miss Bonnel, daughter and sole heiress of John Bonnel, esq. of Ashwick, in the county of Lincoln, by whom he has left issue two sons, Edward Adolphus (now

duke of Somerset), and Webb John, neither of whom is yet of age. The estates of the Somerset family have been small ever since their distribution at the death of the great duke, in 1750, who died without male heirs, and was succeeded by a lineal descendant of Edward, the first duke, so created in 1546. The property of the late duke somewhat exceeded that of his brother, his grandfather's estate at Monckton Farley having descended to him, and his lady's inheritance having been added to it. The three years of the present duke's minority will somewhat increase the possessions of a family, lately little known, except in the neighbourhood of their country residence, but once unrivalled in splendour by any in the kingdom.

14th. At Dynevor-castle, Carmarthenshire, the right hon. Cecil Rice Cardonnel, baroness Dynevor in her own right. She was the only daughter of lord Talbot, and was married in 1756 to George Rice, esq. treasurer of his majesty's chamber.

ABSTRACT OF THE NEW CONSTI

TUTION OF FRANCE.

[The tendency of this important code cannot be too generally known; but, as it is too long to be given here in detail, we present the following abstract for the information of the general reader.]

THER

HE object, it begins, of all union of men in society, being the maintaining of natural, civil, and political, rights, these rights ought to be the basis of the social compact. The acknowledgment and declaration of them ought to precede the constitution which assures the guarantee of them.

(Then follows the declaration of the natural, political, and civil, rights of man.) *

After the recognition of these rights, on which the government is founded, the French nation is declared to form one indivisible republic.

The division into departments is retained; each department is divided into communes or districts, and each commune into municipal sections and primary assemblies.

Primary Assemblies.

In the primary assemblies, every man aged twenty-one years has a

right to vote, provided that his name is inscribed on the civic table, and that he shall have resided one year in France.

The primary assemblies shall be so distributed in each department, that none shall consist of less than four hundred and nine, or more than nine hundred members; in each of these a select committee is to be chosen by ballot, consisting of as many members as there are fifties of citizens in the assembly.

In this committee, he who has the majority of votes shall be president of the assembly; the three next on the list shall be secretaries. The duty of the select committee is to keep the records, and to arrange and submit the business to the assembly.

All elections are to be carried on in those assemblies. The intermediate, or electorial, assemblies, have no place in this code. The elections are to be made by what is called a double scrutiny; each gives a signed list of candidates equal to the number of places to be filled. These bulletins, or lists, of presentation, as they are termed, are sent to the administration of each department. They select a triple number of those candidates who have most votes, which from these are sent back to the primary assemblies; a

definitive

definitive election is made, each citizen giving in, as before, a signed list of the candidates to whom he gives his preference.

In the deliberations of these assemblies, the same mode is to be followed, as in the elections. The question is to be shaped so as to be answered by a simple negative or affirmative. On the day appointed for the decision, each citizen gives in a bulletin, or slip of paper, inscribed with his name, and the word yes or no. These are to be transmitted from the district to the department where the general result is to be ascertained.

Administrative Bodies. There shall be in each department an administrative council of eighteen members; and, in each district, an administration of twelve members, with subordinate agencles. The former are to controul the revenue, and to correspond with the executive government. The inferior administrations are not as yet organized.

The administrators are to be elected in the primary assemblies, and the half renewed every two years.

Executive Council.

I. The executive council of the republic shall be composed of several general agents or ministers, and a secretary.

II. There shall be,

1. A minister of legislation.
2. A minister of war.

3. A minister of foreign affairs. 4. A minister of public contributions.

5. A minister of the marine. 6. A minister of agriculture, commerce, and manufactures.

7. A minister of works, aids, public establishments, and arts.

III. Each of the ministers shall alternately preside in the executive council, and the president shall be changed every fifteen days.-To this council it belongs to execute all the laws and all the decrees passed by the legislative body.

The ministers are to be chosen in the primary assemblies, and in the manner before described. - Eight suppléans, or substitutes, are to be chosen at the same time.

The members of the council are to be chosen for two years. The half shall be renewed every year; but they may be re-elected.

The executive council are accountable to, and cannot be members of, the legislative body. They have no controul over the national treasury, which is to be directed by three commissioners appointed for that purpose, and elected in the same manner. Two hundred members are to be chosen in the legislative body, of whom a jury of seven is to audit each account.

Legislative Body.

The legislative body is to consist of one chamber, and to be renewed annually, by election in the manner before mentioned.

The number of deputies to be sent from each department is to be newly fixed every ten years, according to the increase or decrease of the population.

The members of the legislative body shall not at any time be prosecuted, impeached, or tried for any thing which they may have said or written in the exercise of their functions.

No proposition shall pass into a law, unless it be first proposed in

the

the assembly, then referred to a committee of thirteen, and, after the interval of a fortnight, if the time should permit, re-debated in the assembly.

Censorship of the People. Under this head it is proposed, that any citizen shall have the right of convoking the primary assembly where he resides, to consider of the enactment of a new, or the repeal of an existing law. If they agree to the proposition, they are to address the people of other assemblies, and the wish of the department, thus collected, is to be transmitted to and decided upon by the members of the legislative body.

The citizens shall likewise have the right to demand an inquiry into the conduct of public functionaries, in case of an abuse of power and violations of the law.

A Convention.

A convention is to be summoned whenever any change is to be made in the legislative body. In the twentieth year after passing of the constitutional code, a convention shall be called to revise and improve.

The convention cannot hold its sittings within fifty leagues of the legislative body. It shall be formed of two members from each depart

ment.

Administration of Justice.

In the civil as well as the cri

minal code, the trial by jury is to be established. The jurors as well as judges are to be elected. The former to be taken one from every hundred citizens. The jury to consist of a director, a reporter, a national commissioner, and the number of jurymen to be specified.

The punishment of death is abolished for all private offences.

There are to be two juries, whose functions correspond with those of the grand and petty juries in the English constitution.

Judicial censors are to be appointed to travel at fixed periods, and to try all questions of appeal.

A national jury, consisting of three jurors from each department, is to try all questions of high treason.

The arrest and detention of an individual are qualified by a number of minute regulations, highly favourable to personal liberty.

The liberty of the press is declared to be indefinite.

None can be judged either civilly or criminally, on account of writings printed or published, except it shall have been recognized and declared by a jury, 1st. whether there is any criminality in the the person prosecuted is guilty writing denounced; 2dly, whether of it.

Public Force.

The forces of the republic are placed under the controul of the executive council. The public force is declared to be essentially obedient, as no armed body can deliberate.

The commanders in chief are to have annual and revocable commission from the executive council.

The commanders of all the national guards shall be elected annually by the citizens in each district.

Public Contributions.

The public contributions ought never to exceed the exigencies of the state.

There