termined by her marriage contract. For this time it is agreed, that this dowry be fixed at the annual sum of 250,000 florins, which shall be taken from the domains of the Crown. After the deduction of this sum, half the remainder of the revenues of the Crown shall be expended in the maintenance of the household of the minor King; the other half shall defray the expenses of the be in perpetuity a Grand Dignitary of the regency. VI. The King of Holland shall Empire, by the title of Constable. The functions of this high dignity may, nevertheless, be fulfilled, at the pleasure of the Emperor of the French, by a Prince ViceConstable, when he shall think proper to create that dignity.-VII. The members of the reigning House in Holland shall remain personally subject to the dispositions of the constitutional statute of the 39th of March last, forming the law of the Imperial Family of France. VIII. The offices and employments of the state, other than those connected with the personal service of the King's household, shall be conferred only on nas tives IX. The arms of the King shall be the ancient arms of Holland, quartered with the Imperial Eagle of France, and surmounted with the Royal Crown.-X. A treaty of commerce shall be immediately concluded between the contracting powers, by virtue of which the subjects of Holland shall at all times be treated, in the ports and in the territory of the French Empire, as the most high favoured nation. His Majesty, the Emperor, moreover engages to employ his interference with the Barbary Powers, that the Dutch flag may be respected by them, as well as that of his Majesty the Emperor of the French-The ratification of the present treaty shall be exchanged at Paris in the Signed CH. M. TALLEYRAND, CH. HENRY space of ten days.-Paris, May 24, 1806. VERHUEL, J. J. A. GOGEL, JOHN VAN STYRUM, W. SIX, BRANTSEN. (A correct copy.) The Minister of Exterior Relations, Signed CH. M. TALLEYHAND. Inet, Vice Admiral, and Minister of the Marine of the Batavian Republic, decorated with the Grand Eagle of the Legion of Honour; Isaac John Alexander Gogel, Minister of the Finances; John Van Styrum, Member of the Assembly of their High Mightiness; William Six, Member of the Council of State; and Gerard de Brantzen, Minister Plenipotentiary of the Batavian Re public to his Imperial and Royal Maj., decorated with the Grand Eagle of the Legion of Honours; who, after exchanging their full powers, agreed to the following articles:-Art. 1. His Maj. the Emperor of the French, and King of Italy, both for himself and his heirs and successors for ever, guarantees to Holland the maintenance of her constitutional rights, her independence, the integrity of her possessions in the two worlds, her political, civil, and religious liberty, as sanctioned by the laws at present established, and the abolition of every privilege in the way of impost-II. On the formal demand made by their High Mightinesses, representing the Batavian Republic, that Prince Louis Napoleon be nominated and crowned hereditary and constitutional King of Holland, his Maj. complies with this wish, and authorises Prince Louis Napoleon to accept the crown of Holland, to be possessed by him and his legitimate and male descendants, in order of primogeniture, to the perpetual exclusion of females and their descendants. In consequence of this authorisation, the Prince Louis Napoleon will possess that crown by the title of King, and with all the power and all the authority that shall be determined by the constitutional laws, which the Emperor Napoleon has guaranteed in the preceding article. It is, nevertheless, decreed, that the Crowns of France and Holland shall never be united on the same head. -III. The domains of the Crown shall comprize: 1. A palace at the Hague, which shall be allotted for the residence of the Royal Family; 2. The house in the wood; 3. The domain of Soestdick; 4. A revenue in funded property of 500,000 florins. The law of the State assigns to the King a farther annual sum of 1,500,000 florins sterling money of Holland, payable one twelfth monthly. IV. In case of minority, the reLouis Napoleon, by the grace of God and the constitutional laws of the state, King of gency belongs by right to the Queen, and if Holland, to all those who shall see and read there be none the Emperor of the French, in his quality of perpetual Chief of the Imperial one, that we, with the approbation of his this, greeting! Make known to all and every Family, shall nominate the regent of the Majesty the Emperor and King Napoleon, kingdom, who shall be chosen from among our illustrious brother, have accepted and do the Princes of the Royal Family, or, in fai-accept the Royal Dignity of Holland, in conJure of them, from among natives of the country. The minority of Kings shall terminate on the completion of their 18th year.-V. The Queen's dowry shall be de Proclamation given at Paris, June 5, 1806 being the 1st Year of Our Reign. formity to the wish of the country, with the constitutional laws, and the treaty presented us to-day, and the reciprocal ratifications, by the deputies of the Dutch nation. On our accession to the throne, it shall be our most sacred care to be alive to the interests of our people. It shall be our constant wish to give them incessant and manifold instances of our love and of our solicitude; to that end maintaining the liberties of all our subjects, and their rights, and continually employing ourselves to their welfare. The indepen- dence of the kingdom is guaranteed by his Majesty the Emperor and King. The constitutional laws, with our firm will, serve no less for every one as a pledge to the creditors of the state, to personal security, and to liberty of conscience. Conformably to this declaration, &c. &c. (Signed) LOUIS. On behalf of the King, VERHEUL. THE CONSTITUTIONAL LAW, General dispositions.-Art. I. The constitutional laws actually in force, especially the constitution of 1805, as the civil, political, and religious laws, the exercise of which is conformable to the regulations of the treaty concluded May 24 of this year, shall be preserved inviolate, with the exception of those only which shall be abolished by the present constitutional laws. 2. The administration of the Dutch colonies is regulated by particular laws, and the expenses of the colonies shall be estimated as a part of the revenues of the state. 3. The public debt is guaranteed by the present laws. 4. The Dutch language shall continue to be employed exclusively in the laws, the publications, ordonnances, urdgments, and all publie acts, without distinction. 5. There shall be no changes made in the name or the value of the current coin, unless it shall be authorised by a particular law. 6. The ancient colours of the state shall be preserved. 7. The council of state shall be composed of thirteen members. The ministers shall hold their rank, their sitting, and their votes of deliberation, in the said council. OF RELIGION.-1. The King and the law grant equal protection to all religions which are professed in the state. By their authority every thing necessary for the organization, the protection, and the exercise of every kind of worship is to be confined to the interior of the churches belonging to the different communions. 2. The King shall enjoy the public exercise of his religion in his Palace, and in every other place where he shall reside. OF THE KING. 1. The King shall have, exclusively and without restriction, the complete exercise of the government, and all the power necessary to secure the execution of the laws, and to cause them to be respected. He has the nomination to all the charges and offices, civil and military, which, according to anterior laws, were vested in the Grand Pensionary. He likewise enjoys theg pre-eminence and the prerogatives hitherto attached to that dignity. The coin of the state shall bear his naine. Justice shall be administered in his name. He has the right of granting pardon, abolition, or the mitigation of the pains pronounced by judiciary awards; nevertheless, he shall not be authorised to exercise this right, but after having heard the members of the national court in his privy council. 2. Upon the death of the King, the office of guardian to the Minor King shall be vested in the Queen Dowager; and, in case of her death, in that person who shall be nominated for the purpose by the Emperor of the French, &c. &c. OF THE LAW. 1. The law is established in Holland by the concurrence of the legis lative body, formed of the assembly of their high mightinesses, and by the King. The legislative corps is composed of 38 members, elected for five years, and nominated as follows for the Department of Holland, 17 members; Guelderland, 4; Brabant, 4; Friesland, 4; Overyssel, 3; Zealand, 2; Groningen, 2; Utrecht, 2; Drenthe, 1. But the number of their high mightinesses may be augmented by a law, in case of ag grandizement of territory. 2. To complete the number of members authorised by the foregoing article, their high mightinesses shall present to his Majesty a list of two candidates for each of the vacant places. The King shall make the election out of the candidates proposed. 3. The present Grand Pensionary shall take the title of President of their High Mightinesses, and exercise his function in this quality during life. The choice of his successor shall take place in the manner determined by the constitution of 1805. 4. The legislative body shall chuse a recorder out of its own body, by a plurality of votes, 5. The legislative corps shall as semble in ordinary twice in the year, viz. from the 15th of April to the 1st of June, and from the 15th of Nov. to the 15th of Jan. On the 15th of Nov. a fifth of the oldest members shall go out from the body. The first members shall go out on the 15th of Nov. 1807. Such members, notwithstanding, may be re-elected. OF JUDICIARY POWER-1. The judiciary institutions shall be preserved in the mode they have been established by the constitution of 1805. 2. Relative to the judiciary power, the King shall exercise all the rights and all the authority yested in the Grand Pensionary by virtue of the constitution ot 1805. 3. Every thing that relates to the exercise of military criminal justice, shall be separately regulated an ulterio law. Table of the Number of Christenings and Burials within the Bills of Mortality, from December, 1805 te Clergy; X. Y. on the Character and Conduct of Non Residence; M. N. on, 593 Residence Act; Senex's Letter to Mr. Cobbett, Mr.; his Address to the People of Eng- and Permanent Army, 385 his First Letter to the Electors of his First Letter to the Electors of -- Consequences of the late Campaign; Camilius on Constant Reader, A.; on Mr. Cobbett's Military Continental War; 22, 58, 127 Cornelius; on the Fate of the Funds, 188 A Country Tradesman on, 416 C. S.; on the Sinking Fund, 376 on the Property Tax and Sinking Fund, 585 on the Property Tax and Freedom of Trade Custos; on Commissioners of Accounts, 933 D. D.; on the Income Tax, 848 Davison, Mr.; A. B. on his Appointment to the Debtors, Insolvent; on, 625 Decius; on India Affairs, 845 Detence of the Kingdom; Camillus on the, 181 Domestic Official Papers, 141, 157, 158, 223, 344, F. Election Treating Bill; W. B. on the, 597 R. T. on his Appointment, 856 E. N.; on the Fall of the Funds, 820 on the Condition of the People of Ireland, 54% Epigram; a Greek one imitated, 913- F. Farmer, A.; on Country Banks, 417, Fordyce, Mr.; Case of, 565 Foreign Official Papers, 135, 156, 221, 245, 429% Fund De-ling Clergymen; Clericus on, 217 A. Z. on the Fate of the, 21 D.-N. on the Fate of the, 47 Letter from A Farmer; on Country Banks, 417 420 from Britannus; on the Fate of the Funds, from Senex; on the Clergy Non-Residence from Major Cartwright; on the Army, 462 from Anglo-Hibernicus; on the Condition from Major Cartwright; on Mr. Cobbett's from Belisarius; on Mr. Cobbett's Mili- from A Constant Reader; on Mr. Cob from T. C. P.; on Mr. Cobbett's Military from Richard; on the Army, 534 from A Whig; on Parties, 540 from An Englishman; on the Condition of from A Country Gentleman and Volunteer from Publius; on the Army, 570 597 from M. N.; on Clergy Non Residence, 593 from I. S. W.; on the Affairs of India, 600 - from R. W.; on Paper Currency, 631 from Britannicus; on the Hanoverian from Tamerlane; on Colonial Service, 670 from W, W.; on the Slave Trade Bill, 688 from H. C.; to a Volunteer, 746 from A Northern Freeholder; on the Pro- from A. B,; on the Property Tax, 755. from An Oppressed Woman, on the In- from C. S.; on the Property Tax and from D, N.; on the Fate of the Funds, 820 from A Friend to the Government; on the |