SUPPLIES granted in the Fifth Session of the Eighteenth Parliament of Great Britain.

NAVY.

November 21, 1800.

That 120,000 feamen be employed, for three lunar

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months, commencing Ift January, 1800, including

22,696 Marines.

For pay for ditto

For victuals for ditto

For wear and tear of ships

For ordnance fea-service on board such ships

For the ordinary establishment of the navy, for three

lunar months

For the extraordinary establishment of ditto, for ditto

For tranfport-fervice, prisoners of war, &c.

For the accommodation of fick prisoners

s. d.

666,000 0

684,000 0 0

1,800,000 00

90,000 0 0

205,000 0 0

200,000 0 0

475,000 0 0

35,000.00

That 58,528 men, including 4797 invalids, officers, and non-commiffioned officers, be granted to his majesty for the service of three months, from the 25th of December, 1800, to the 21st of March, 1801, both included.

For guards, garrisons, and other land-forces

For forces in the plantations, Mediterranean, Portugal,

and New South Wales

For the militia, miners, and fenoibles

For increafed rates of subsistance to inn-keepers, and in

562,055 0 0

51,486 0 0

374,350 0 0

lieu of small beer

110,000 0 0

For recruiting and contingencies for land-forces, and

extra feed for the cavalry

127,500 0 0

For volunteers, cavalry and infantry

145,000 0 0

For the department of barrack-master-general

171,200 0 0

For foreign corps

120,000 0 0

For ordnance for the land fervice

457,000 0 0

1.2,118,591 00 MISCELLANEOUS SERVICES,

For foreign and other fecret services
For the fuffering clergy and laity of France

For convicts at home

8,000 0 0

To cover the interest of exchequer-bills granted in 1799 151,643 0 0

November 21.

For continuing the duties on malt, mum, cider, and perry
For raising 4s. in the pound, upon pensions, offices, and personal

eftates.

For continuing certain duties on sugar, malt, tobacco, and snuff 2,000,000

Return of Buonaparte from Egypt to France. - His Letter to the Army of Egypt. The Companions of his Voyage-Arrives at Corfica. And at Frejus in Provence. - Enthusiastic Joy with which he was every where received.-Proceeds by Lyons to Paris. -Hopes and Confidence of the Pa rifians, and in general all the French centered on this military Chief.Situation of the French Republic at this Period, external and internal.State of Parties. Var in the Western Departments. Weakness and Halfmeasures of Government.-New political Changes meditated by Abté Sicycš. -Perfonal Interview between the Abbe and Buonaparte. - Buonaparte caressed and courted by all Parties. The Army alone courted by him. He favours and joins the moderate Party. - Character of Albe Sieyes. - And of Buonaparte. Splendid Feast given in Honour of Buonaparte.-Project for a Change in t e Government and Conftitution.- Neceffarily communicated to confiderable Numbers of the Members of both Councils. Yet keptSecret till the Moment of Explosion. -The Council of Elders empowered by the Conftitution of 1795 to transport the Icgislature whenever it should think Proper to any Commune within a certain Distance of Paris-Command of the French Troops in and near Paris, vested, by the, Council of Elders, in Buonaparte. Translation of the Legislative Bodies and the Di rectory to St. Cloud

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The Village of St. Cloud filled with Troops, and Spectators from Paris. The Two Councils constituted there-Resignations of the Directorial Office.Motion in the Council of Elders for inquiring into the Reasons for their Translation to St. Cloud. - A Debate on this Subject fufpended, by a Motion for Meffages to the Council of Five Hundred and the Directory, which was agreed to. Buonaparte comes into the Hall and addresses a Speech to the Council of Elders, in which he flates the Danger of the Country, and invites them to affociate their Wisdom with the Force they had placed under his Command for its Salvation. Opposition to Buonaparte, and a Change in the Conftitution.-Buonaparte goes out and harangues the Soldiers and the People. Returns, and infifts on the Neceffity of taking Measures for the Realization of facred Principles that had hitherto been only chimerical.Motion by Dalphonse for renewing the Oath of Fidelity to the Conftitution.. -This Motion oppojed, and the Defects of the Constitution briefly frated.The Council of Elders adjourned till nine o'Clock in the Evening.-Proceedings in the Council of Five Hundred.-Motion for a Committee for mak

ing a Report on the actual State of the Nation. And propofing Measures

for the public Interest. Suspicions expreffed of an intended Dilatojhrip,

and Cries for maintaining the Conflitution. The actual Constitution of

France distinguished from certain Republics.-Motion for renewing the

Oath of Fidelity to the Constitution. Agreed to. And the Ceremony per-

formed with the greatest sang froid, even by the moderate Party.-Mej

Jage from the Elders. --Buonaparte appears in the Council of Five Hun-

dred.-Uproar and Violence.-Lucian Buonaparte, together with his Robes,

lays afide the Office of Prefident.-Threatened by the adverse Party.-Car-

ried out of the Hall by a Party of Grenadiers. -The Soldiers harangued

by both the Buonapartes. -The Council of Five Hundred dispersed, and the

Legislature thus diffolved by a military Force

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Effets of what passed in the Council of Five Hundred on the Deliberations and

Measures of the Council of Elders. - Meeting of the moderate Party in the

late Council of Five Hundred.-Speech of Lucian Buonaparte on the critical

State of the Nation.-A Committee of Five appointed to report on the Mea-

fures proper to be adopted in the prefent Crifis. - The Council addreffed hy

the Chairman of the Committee, by Boulay de la Meurthe, und again by

Lucian Buonaparte. -The Council adjourned, and the Session terminated.-

Reflections

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First Measures of the confular Government. - Proclamations by the legislative

Body. And by the Chief Conful.-Now Oath to be taken by all public

Functionaries. Letter to the foreign Ministers of France. Written De-

fences of the Revolution of St. Cloud, and the provisional Government.-

Letter from the Chief Conful to the Army of Egypt. -Conciliatory Conduct

of Buonaparte.-Professed Spirit of the new Government.-Odious Lazes

repealed. Measures of Finance. Of police and internal Government.-

Mercy extended to purious Classes of Men. -Marine and Commerce.-A

new Confiitution

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CHAP. V.

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The Return of Buonaparte from Egypt, the leading Event in the History of
1800.-The vasi and unbounded Power vested in him by the new Conflitu-
tion. General Expectations and Presages. - Able and prudent Conduct of
Buonaparte. The Justice and Moderation of his Government.-His Soh-
citude to pacify and tranquillize France. -Meaus adopted for this Purpose.
-Beth of Perfuafion and Force.-War in the western Departments - Ar-
miftice. The War renewed.-Overtures from Buonaparle for Peace with
England. Rejected

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CHAP. VI.

Meeting of Parliament. -Meffage from the King, refpeting Overtures of

Peace from the Confular Government of France. Debates thereon in both

Houfes

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