Gazette Of The United States, & Philadelphia Daily Advertiser

LONDON, September 14.

The Abbe Sieyes and his coadjutors, the Committee of Safety, who have proposed the plan of transportation as a measure of national security, have evidently adopted an old saying of this country. We have heard it given as a toast from the Civic Chair—" I love the land we live in ; and may those who don't like it, leave it!"

As the Directory have the power of transporting the proscribed Deputies to any place which they may please to prescribe, there is no doubt but that they will take special care to send them to some distant country, where they will never more be heard of. For certain it is, that if they are suffered to remain in Europe, they will very soon detect the forgery on which the Triumvirate have founded their accusations against them.

How well the French Triumviri have regarded the Letter of the Constitution, of which they profess themselves such zealous defenders, may be judged from the following Extract, under the Section Legislative Power.

It. The Members of the Legislative Body, from the moment of their nomination to the 20th day after the expiration of their functions cannot be brought to trial but according to the forms prescribed by the following articles:

Ira. They may, for criminal acts, be seized in flagranti delicto, but notice must be given of it, without delay to the Legislative Body, and the prosecution cannot be continued till after the Council of Five Hundred have proposed the bringing to trial, and the Council of Ancients has decreed it.

II3. Except in the case of flagrant delictum, the Members of the Legislative Body cannot be carried before the Officers of Police, or put in a state of arrest before the Council of Five Hundred has proposed the bringing to trial, and the Council of Ancients has decreed it.

II4. In the case of the two preceding Articles, a Member of the Legislative Body cannot be carried before any Tribunal but the High Court of Justice.

15. They may be carried before the same Courts for acts of treason, dilapidation, manoeuvres to overturn the Constitution, and offences against the internal security of the Republic.

Under the 6th head of Executive Power we find the following Article:

145 If the Directory is informed that any conspiracy is plotting against the external or internal safety of the State, it may issue warrants of summons, or Warrants of Arrest against the presumed authors or accomplices; it may interrogate them, but it is obliged, under the penalties against the crime of arbitrary detention, to send them before the Officer of Police, within the delay of two days, to proceed according to the laws.

N. B. All the Deputies arrested have been ordered to be transported out of the Country, without even the form of a trial, or being told the nature of their offences.

All the Emigrant Writers in London have pledged themselves to prove, that the late triumph of the French Directory will ultimately operate to the establishment of that very system of Government, the seeds of which it was his object to eradicate. The storm of the moment may they, will but scatter them like those of the thistle, to take root on more expansive ground.

The number of Editors of papers in Paris condemned to transportation, are forty one,— the fate of thirteen remains in suspense. The Redacteur continues the official print.

In order to judge of the clearance which the several steps taken by the Directory, have made in the Councils, it is only necessary to state, that out of the Council of Elders which consists of 240, there were only 116 to be found, who assembled upon the Dictatorial Mandate of the Directory to pass the Decrees ordered by them, and that of the Council of Five Hundred only 34 could be found to perform the same ungracious and dishonourable task.