M. GARNERIN'S ACCOUNT OF HIS AERIAL VOYAGE FROM VAUX- MR. EDITOR, Aug. 4, 1802. THE afcenfion I made yesterday from Vauxhall was unquestionably per formed in the most favourable weather experienced this fealon. The day was fo calm and ferene, that I thould have been g'al of that opportunity to make the experi nent of the Parachute, which feems to have fixed more particularly the expectation and intereit of the Public. Anxious to gratify curiofity on this occation, and to thew my eagernefs and acknowledg. ments on this fift and only opportunity, I made the offer, which was rejected. The calm of the day affifted much in the operation of filling my balloon. At five it was ready to afcend, and remained on the platform erected for the purpofe till the fignal was given. A quarter after feven was the time when Madame Garnerin and Mr. Glaffford feated themfelves in the car with me, and we gradually afcended, under the most flattering aufpices, and with the plaudits of a general multitude, furrounding, whole unanimous appro bation has rai ed a monument t at will be ever dear to my pride and grati tude. After having cleared the trees, we perceived an imenfe number of fpectators, which enlivened, heyond the poffibility of description, the beautiful picture of the metropolis, which we explored at an elevation of 200 yards. Having obtained this height, I launched a cat with a parachute, in miniature, which encompaffed a column of air 38 inches and a half in its bafis. The descent was gradual, and the cat fell, with its little vehicle, in the garden of a man who infiits on receiving three guineas as an indemnification for the treipals committed by poor pu's, or at least its picture with the para chute. Under fuch well grounded pretences, alfo, I have this very moment received a letter from a Mr. C. of Hampitead, defining that I should appoint a furveyor immediately, to afcertain the damages done to his premites, in confequence of my defcent and trespass on them yesterday evening with any balloon, which, when eftimated, Mr. C. pretumes I will inftantly reimburse Digression afide, I return to my cat and its parachute; the experiment with which, by proving fufficiently the elasticity of the air, mut do away the uneafine's which my own defcent, by means of a pa achute of a greater magnitude, might excite; an experiment which, I trust, will take place between this and the 10th inft Having thrown away fome ballait, the balloon went. up progreffively, although it appeared ftationary. However, the dilatation of the inflammable air, caufed by a diminution of the weight of the atmosphere, compelled me to open the valve. According to the barometer, we were then at the height of 300 yards. The temperature being nine degrees lower, the inflammable gas condenfed itself, and the balloon was fenfibly lowering on the Thames, so as to make people believe that our balloon was coming down upon it, which was clearly perceivable by the movements of the num berlefs boats which were put in motion, in order to protect the descent. I thould most certainly have performed it had I been by myfelf, in order to reafcend, and prove thereby how little dangerous it is to defcend on a river. Every one will readily conceive that the regard due to the timidity of a young woman, and of a newly initiated aeronaut, made me reject the thought. Having made a proper use of my ballaft, and being feconded by a degree of dilatation which the inflammable air received from the warmer temperature we were then in, we role fenfibly above St. James's Park, and reached an elevation of 409 yards, when I let at liberty a pigeon carrier, which immediately took an unfettled direction, and feemed wandering wild for a time; we at lat lot fight of him, and I am informed that he returned to his nelt at night. I have often in former afcenfions let loofe, at the height of 50 yards, birds which were feen flying about my machine, and came at lalt to perch on my car, in a state of ftupefaction and drowfinefs the most extraordinary. When above Westminster Abbey, we were feverally engaged with the lenfations which affected each of us moit, The curiofity of my travelling companions led them more particularly to the obfervation of founds. They ob ferved ferved the fenfible evaporation of the noise coming from the earth, although we were not at a great height. This effect, which is produced by the rarification of the air, proves the use of trifling philofophical experiments on the conftitution of the atmosphere, where fo many changes are felt in rapid fucceffion. It happens, fometimes, that inexperienced aerial travellers are led into error on account of the founds produced, when the lower part of the balloon offers cavities tolerably regular, and of an extent equal not only to the reflection of the voice of the aerial travellers, but fufceptible even to reflect the founds which come from the furface of the earth. Such is the effect which conftitutes the magic attri butes of the Invisible Girl. Invited by the ferenity of the atmofphere, I kept my travelling companions at a moderate distance from the earth. But it becoming late, I was under the neceffity of landing, which I effected at the time and place mentioned in all the Papers, with the affiftance of a few very polite individuals. Notwithstanding the annoyance of the mob, I folded, after inexpreffible toils, my balloon, which has been fince brought to the Pantheon, where Mrs. Garnerin attends in person, in order to answer the questions, and to acknowledge the kind intereft and pe culiar marks of attention fhe was honoured with at her return to Vaux-. hall. GARNERIN. SUPPLEMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION OF THE FRENCH REPUBLIC. PARIS, AUG. 5. Extract from the Regiflers of the Deliberations of the Council of State, SITTING OF AUGUST 4. PROJECT OF A SENATUS CONSULTUM TITLE I. taxes among the Citizens having a right to vote in the Cantonal Affem. bly. The Prefident and four Inspectors appoint the Secretary. 6. The Affembly of the Canton divides itself into fections for perform ing the operations belonging to it. At the first convocation of each Affembly, its organization and forms ART. 1. FACH jurifdiction of a Juftice of proceeding fhall be determined by of the Peace has a Can OF THE CANTONAL ASSEMBLIES. 4. The Affembly of the Canton is compofed of all the Citizens domiciliated in the Canton, and inscribed on the commune lift of the circuit. From the epoch when the communal lifts ought to be renewed in the terms of the Constitution, the Affembly of the Canton thall be compofed of all the Citizens domiciliated in the Canton, and enjoying the rights of Citizenship. 5. The First Conful nominates the Prefident of the Cantonal Affembly. His functions continue for five years, and he may be re-appointed indefinitely. He is affifted by four Infpectors; two of them being the oldeft, and the ether two the perfons paying moft a regulation iffued by the Govern Their functions terminate with each Sectionary Affembly. They are, each of them, affifted by two Infpectors; the one being the eldeft, and the other the moft heavily taxed, of the Citizens having a right to vote in the Section. 8. The Cantonal Affembly returns two Citizens, out of whom the First Conful chooses the Juftice of the Peace for the Canton. It, in like manner, returns two Citizens for each vacant place of Suppleant to the Juftices of Peace. 9. The Juftices of the Peace and their Suppleants are appointed for ten years. 10. In cities containing 5000 perfons, the Cantonal Affembly prefents two Citizens for each feat in the Municipal Council. In cities where there may be be feveral Juftices of the Peace, or feveral Cantonal Affemblies, each Assembly will, in like manner, prefent two Citi zens for each feat in the Municipal Council. 11. The Members of the Municipal Councils are taken by each Cantonal Affembly from a lift of a hundred of the perfons paying mott taxes in the Canton. This list thall be executed and printed by order of the Prefect. 12. The Municipal Councils are renewed in the proportion of one-half every ten years. 13. The First Conful chooses the Mayors and Affiftants in the Municipal Councils. They are to be five years in office, and may be re-appointed. 14. The Cantonal Affembly nominates to the Electoral College of the Circuit the number of members affigned to it, in proportion to the number of Citizens of which it is compofed. 15. It nominates to the Electoral College of the Department, from a list hereinafter referred to, the number of members affigned to it. 16. The members of the Electoral Colleges must be domiciliated in the refpective circuits and departments. 17. The Government convokes the Cantonal Affemblies, fixes the time of their fitting, and the object of their meeting. TITLE III. ELECTORAL COLLEGES. 18. The Electoral Colleges of the circuits have one member for every 5oo domiciliated inhabitants of the circuit. The number of members cannot, however, exceed 200, nor fall below 120. 19. The Department Electoral Colleges have one member for every 1000 domiciliated inhabitants in the department; but notwithstanding, thefe members cannot be more than 300, nor fewer than 200. 20. The members of the Electoral Colleges are appointed for life. 21. If a member of an Electoral College is denounced to the Government as having permitted any act contrary to the dictates of honour or the interefts of the country, the Government invites the College to manifelt its opinion thereon. Three-fourths of the votes are neceffary to make a denounced member lofe his place in the College. 22. A member lofes his feat in the Electoral Colleges for the fame caufes which would deprive him of the rights of citizenship. He alfo lofes when, without any legitimate obftruation, he abfents himleif from three fucceffive meetings. 23 The Firit Conful appoints the Presidents of the Electoral Colleges on each Seflion. The Police of the Electoral College when affembled is exclufively under. the direction of the Prefident. 24. The Electoral Colleges appoint, at the commencement of each Seton, two Infpectors and a Secretary. 25. In order to the formation of the Electoral Colleges of Department, there thali be drawn up in each department, under the orders of the Minister of Finance, a lift of 600 Citizens, who are moit heavily affeffed to the land tax, the tax on moveables, the tax on luxury, and the tax on licences. To the amount of the contribution must be added in the departmental domicile, fuch fum as may be proved to be paid in other parts of the territory of France or the Colonies. This lift thail be printed. 26. The Cantonal Affembly will felect from this lift the members to be appointed to the Electoral College of the department. 27. The Firit Conful may add to the Electoral Colleges of circuit ten members chofen from among the Citizens belonging to the Legion of Honour, or who have performed public fervices. He may add to each Electoral College of department twenty Citizens, ten of whom to be taken from the thirty most heavily taxed in the department, and ten others either from the members of the Legion of Honour, or Citizens who have performed public fervices. He is not limited to precife periods in making thefe nominations. 28. The Electoral Colleges of circuit prefent to the Firit Conful two Citizens domiciliated in the circuit for each vacant feat in the Council of the circuit. Of thefe Citizens, one at least must, of neceflity, be chofen from among the members of the Electoral College which appoints him. The Councils of circuit are removed by thirds, once in five years. 29. The Electoral Colleges of circuit prefent at each meeting two Citizens to to form part of the lift, from which are to be chofen the members of the Tribunate. Of these Citizens, one, at least, must neceffarily belong to the College which prefents him. Both of them may be chofen from perfons not refiding in the depart ment. 30. The Electoral Colleges of the Departments prefent to the First Conful two Citizens domicilated in each department for every place vacant in the Council General of the depart. ment.. One of thefe Citizens, at least, muft neceffarily be taken from the Electoral .College which prefents him. The renovation of the Councils General of the departments takes place by thirds every five years. 31. The Electoral Colleges of the departments prefent at each meeting two Citizens to form the lift from which the members of the Senate are named. One of them, at least, must neceffarily be taken from the College which prefents him, and they both may be taken from the department. They are to have the age and the qualifications prefcribed by the Conftitution. 32. The Electoral Colleges of the departments and circuits prefent each two Citizens domiciliated in the department, in order to form a lift from which the members of the deputation to the Legislative Body are to be named. One of thefe Citizens is neceffarily to be taken from the College which presents him There must be three times as many different candidates on the lift formed by the combination of the prefentations of the Electoral Colleges of the departments and circuits as there are vacant places. 33. The fame perfon may be a member of a Council of Commune and of an Electoral College of Circuit or Department. -The fame perfon cannot, however, be at the fame time Member of a Col lege of Circuit and College of Depart ment. 34. The members of the Legislative Body and of the Tribunate cannot attend the fittings of the Electoral College to which they belong. -All the other public functionaries have a right to attend and to vote. 35. No Cantonal Affembly fhall pro. ceed to nominate to the places that belong to it in an Electoral College, until these places are reduced to two-thirds. 36. The Electoral Colleges can affemble only in confequence of an act of convocation emanating from the Government, and in the places affigned to them. They can take cognizance of the fubjects only for which they are affemble, nor can they prolong their fittings beyond the time fixed by the act of Convocation. If they exceed thefe limits, the Government poffeffes the right of diffolving them. 37. The Electoral Colleges can neither directly or indirectly, nor under any pretext whatfoever, hold any intercourfe with each other. 38. The diffolution of an Electoral Body neceffarily leads to the renewal of all its members. TITLE IV. OF THE CONSULS. 39. The Confuls are for life. They are members of the Senate, and act as Prefidents. 40. The Second and Third Confuls are appointed by the Senate on the prefentation of the First. 41. For this purpose, when any of the two places becomes vacant, the First Conful prefents to the Senate a first perfon. If he is not appointed, he prefents a fecond; and if the fecond is not accepted, he prefents a third, who is of neceffity appointed. 42. When the Firft Conful thinks proper, he appoints a Citizen to fucceed him after his death, according to the forms preferibed in the preceding article. 43. The Citizen appointed to fucceed the First Conful takes an oath to the Republic, to be administered by the Fit Conful, afsluited by the Second and Third Confuls, in the prefence of the Senate, the Minifters, the Council of State, the Legiflative Body, the Tribunate, the Tribunal of Cassation, the Archbishops, Bithops, Prefidents of the Tribunals of Appeal, the Prefidents of the Electoral Colleges, the Prefidents of the Cantonal Affemblies, the Grand Officers of the Legion of Honour, and the Mayors of the twentyfour principal Cities of the Republic. The Secretary of State draws up the proces-verbal of the adminiftration of the oath. 44. The 44. The oath is in these terms "I fwear to maintain the Conftitu tion, to refpect the liberty of confcience, to oppofe the return of feudal inftitutions; never to make war but for the defence and glory of the Republic; and not to employ the power wherewith I thall be invefted, but for the happiness of the people, from whom and for whom I shall have received it." 45. Having taken this oath, he takes his feat in the Senate immediately after the Third Conful. 46. The First Conful may depo fit, among the archives of Government, his with as to the nomination of a fucceffor, to be prefented to the Senate after his death. 47. In this cafe, he fummonfes the attendance of the Second and Third Confuls, the Minifters, and Presidents of the Sections of the Council of State. In their presence he delivers to the Secretary of State the paper fealed with his feal, and in which his with is recorded. This paper is fubfcribed by all those who are prefent at the tranfaction. The Secretary of State depofits it among the archives of Go. vernment, in the prefence of the Minifters and Presidents of the Sections of the Council of State. 48. The First Conful may withdraw this depofit, obferving the formalities prescribed in the preceding article. 49. After the death of the First Conful, if his choice has remained in depofit, the paper containing it is withdrawn from the archives of Government by the Secretary of State, in the prefence of the Minifters and Prefidents of the Sections of the Council of State; their authenticity and identity being afcertained in the presence of the Second and Third Confuls. It is addreffed to the Senate by a meffage from the Government, with a copy of the proces-verbaux, certifying the depofit, the identity, and authenticity. 50. If the perfon prefented by the First Conful is not appointed, the Second and the Third Confuls prefent one each; in case of neither of thefe being nominated, they each make an other prefentation, and one of the two muft of neceffity be appointed. 51. If the Firft Conful leaves no prefentation, the Second and Third Confuls make their prefentations feparate, one first, one fecond, and if neither obtains the nomination, they make a VOL. XLII. Aug. 1802. third, from which the Senate muft of neceffity nominate. 52. In every cafe, the presentations and nomination must be completed within twenty-four hours after the death of the First Conful. 53. The law determines for the life of each First Conful the state of the expenditure of Government. TITLE V. OF THE SENATE. 54. The Senate regulates, by an Organic Senatus Confultum rft, The Conftitution of the Colo nies. 2d, Every thing not provided for by the Conftitution, and which may yet be neceffary to its operation. 3d, It explains thofe articles of the Conftitution which admit of different interpretations. 55. The Senate, by acts entitled Senatus Confulta ift, Sufpends for five years the func tions of Juries in the departments, where that measure may be neceffary. 2d, Proclaims, when circumftances require it, certain departments out of the protection of the Constitution. 3d, Determines the time when the individuals arrested in virtue of the 46th article of the Conftitution, are to be brought before the Tribunals, in fuch cafes where they are not brought to trial in ten days from the period of their arreft. 4th, Annuls the judgments of the Civil and Criminal Tribunals, when dangerous to the fafety of the State. 5th, Diffolves the Legislative Body and Tribunate. 6th, Appoints the Confuls. 56. The Organic Senatus Confulta and Ordinary Senatus Confulta are deliberated upon by the Senate, on the initiative of the Government. A fimple majority fuffices for a Senatus Confulta. Two-thirds of the votes of the members prefent are necessary for an Organic Senatus Confultum. 57. The projects of the Senatus Confultum, adopted in confequence of articles 54 and 55, are difcuffed in a Privy Council, compofed of the Confuls, two Minifters, two Senators, two Counsellors of State, and two grand Officers of the Legion of Honour. At each meeting the Firft Conful appoints the members who are to compofe the Privy Council. 58. The |