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With respect to the right of Bonaparte's naming his successor, the debates in the French Council of State, ran very high, when he prit la parole, rose and said, with great mildness and solemnity--" Citizens, I bow to the will of the Council ; but the privilege of naming a successor, is one of those which most tends to the tranquility of the state, by preventing revolutions. All I shall desire, in such a case, is, the not being compelled to publish my choice-- every one would then be disposed to promote the public welfare, as the factions could make no party. There is not one amongst you, Citizens Counsellors, who might not, with propriety, suppose yourself my choice, and of course, that in aiming at the general prosperity, you might ultimately enjoy personally, every thing that would be great and glorious."-- These were nearly his words.

From the French papers (received at N. York) less information is to be obtained concerning the state of French politics, than from English prints. The nation at large appears to acquiesce, with the utmost sang froid. in every dictate of its present rulers : incapable of living tranquil under any modification of a free form of government and exhausted by the eternal cessation of revolutionary constitutions, it at length, reposes in the sullen calm of military despotism, for such in fact, notwithstanding all the provision of the late ordinances, respecting the prolongation of the authority of the first Consul, is the positive state of France.

Public fetes and processions of a civil or religious nature still amuse the populace of Paris, and Paris gives the tone to the rest of France, which appears to forget, in the pomp and parade of Bonaparte's military establishment, the once imposing etiquette and ceremonies of the old court.

What has often been predicated seems fully verified. that the French nation is doomed to despotism.

The nation is, now, apparently happy, and however discordant with our ideas, enjoys and cherishes the energetic government of Bonaparte, whose administration, it must be confessed, is evidently directed to the aggrandizement of France, not only by extending its empire but by fostering the arts of peace:--the whole energies of the nation are impelled towards manufacturing and mercantile enterprises, which cannot fail, in the course of a few years, to effect a sensible change in the commerce of the world.

(N. Y. Dai, Adv.)