1 TfT - 'TWFIT- AND Ours are-the plans of lair, deli erhtfu! peace, ' -Ok. Unwarp'd hy party rag'e to live like brothers." Yol. II. ,,;."; j.-ii -'iv;- .v 1' ' -. . mm ' ' 1 ' 11 ' ' i ' ':- ' '" '11." V -V s t ' ' THE REGISTER U published every Tpesdat and Fribat, by , JOSEPH GALES Sc SON, At FTE Dollars per annum half in advance ADVERTISEMENTS Not exceeding" 16 lines, neatly inserted three times for a Dollar, and 25 cents for every suc ceeding publication v those of greater length in the sme proportion.. ;. Communications thankfully recei vea.. ... lkttui s to the Edi- tors muse oe pusi-atu. nRTOIN OF THR CODE NAPO LEON, We know not the. mdiv idual to whose character justice is so little likely to be done, as -iNapoieon lionapane. x ue child of the French! Revolution,5 he is, by most persons', , cnfourided with its active leaders.? The criminality of its horrid excesses fixes on him, as on the most prominent individual, that owed :iiis advancement to that: Revolution, Jt is difficult to induce men to, reflect, that the niost i eyol ting of these excess es were perpetrated .while Bonaparte was at school ; and that though he did not bring the .Revolution to a fclose, bj restoring the Bourbons,1 he brought it " still more efle c t u al ly to a dose, by crush ing its parliesv reviving many useful in stitutions, which it had destroyed, and reorganizing the government of the coun try. - It is very easy to charge him with be'iiig a tyrant and an oppressor ; the changes are easily rung upon his ambi tion, conquest, and; devastation of fo reign states, the conscriptoin,! and toe . nuidtr of the Duke u?Enghejn. It is iii no degree our, design to defend him jiom the real or imaginary guilt, imput ed m these or any similar charges. We are even free to confess, that we do not think Napoleon possessed the true sen timent of greatness. lie was not a Washington. But he was an Alexan der, :a Cscsar, a Frederick the Great j as brave as the bravest, and as good as the best of theni. He governed by no very good title ; but it was a better one than that by which any prince iu Eu rope sits on Ills throne!. We presume the most enthusiastic frichd 'of legiti mate, monarchy, does not believe, that if the right to" reign of Charles Tenth, George Fourth, or Alexander were put toethe vote of the -male population' of their several states, oil the age of twen-tv-one vears and unwards, ! either of these' Sovereigns would unite as many unbribed suffrages as those m hich pro claimed Bohaoarte Emneror. ! He rul - ed, nd they, rule, by the risrht of the strongest, and that alone. . j i " But it is too prevalent an impression, that Napoleon owed his advancement, and his continuanccHn power. : solelj' to his talents as a military chief 5 that it - :' . - . . . i -. i ' L ivas merely a militarv uestiotism, in which he held France 'and the continent of Europe enslaved . Fairly analyzed and explained, indeed, this impression is just enough. IS of one can , suppose that, but. for his military talents and success, he could either have reached ur maintained his throne. In a form a little modified, the condition of every prince1 in Europe is the same. .There is not one of the leading sovereigns; who could; reign a day, without his stand in 2: the horse guards, bi table. Iiohdon itse nbt be ba Nor does it seem to us, in point ot principle. to matte v. much whether th e head of i the Vovernment be maintained in his bovver, by an army 4 fascinated with the splendor of his mi litary qualities if you jdease, by the glory and plunder, which that army has acquired undei his command ; or bya standing army in the; legitimate sense of the wonl, a redcoated rabble, hired out of the jails and the brothels.. To an American citizen the difference id not worth a straw. Nevertheless it is tme, that Napole on Boaapartejrose Uo his" greatness by many qualities,;? besides and above those '"of; the'miuaryTchIeftainY7n which, had his fame in war been less,1 would .unquestioiiaWv liavje-given linn a great name a& an administrator, , a financier, and a statesman jWe presume there is nothing paradoxical in this remark j riothing violently absu rd i n th e; i nti ma tjou, that, because he did not emanate froiiith e Faubou rg G ibrmai n -h e was therefore as stupid and as sense less as the handle j of hisrown swordi We are willing to grant, that the naiture of the part which he wds called j to play, led to a far uipre imuosihgdevelopuientof ; rmUtary, than ot his political talents. Much Mill and secluded meditation is .necessary for the formation tf a sound jjyticiau. 1 ins advantage isapoieon Uld Uot eioT : but Vieri ao-ain ivn doubt. -uciucruie nouie. stir'ot camps ana tj&ttles be more unfriendly to true phi- t, iosop;ical latluaaa.polititi.' on " , - ; 1 ' . -----" . . - ' ftiiv thinj; else, than t!m importunate ssipmgs and small intrigue, that eat ut the life of a cabinet politician. The Duke of Marlborough wasa truly s;reat man. ' One sordid vice only weighed down his sou) td the dust ; and makes it impossible to ove, admire, orpraise him, without a woful parenthesis" But he was a great n an, and more like Na poleon Bonaparte, in the versatility of his greatness V than any other person of the last century or of this. The read er of his life may judge what part of his career was best adapted to forni and mature the statesman ; the contempt ible intrigues ink the cabinet of St. James, or the vyars in Germany, and Flanders. The truth seems to be, that action- the responsible control , and management of great interests is the j school of great minds. Small caballing, even in the offices of a department; does not forma good discipline for any thing, not even for the business of the de partment itself. I It is well known to those who have read any of the late memoirs and jour pals of Napoleonl that he prided him self on nothing mure than his Code of Law. Mr. Butler, in his Remiuiscen ccs, observes, that a friend of his Itad heard Napoleon say, that he could wish to be buried with iis Codeln his hands. Various anecdotes in the books of O' Mcara and Las Cases, will readily, oc cur to the memory of our" readers, il lustrative of the same complacency.- Yet we imagine, tjiat it is not every one who is aware; of ttye right of Bonaparte to pride himself upon the Code, which bore his name." We suppose that the prevalent opinion may be, that he, at be drawn up, com best, ordered it to missioned the lawyers whom his minis ter may have designated lor the pur pose, and finally, perhaps, honored the manuscript copy with his imperial sig nature. In short, that in claiming to be another Justinian, he contented him self with doing what Justinian did, and that was nothing. This however is an impression whol ly false. The agency of Bonaparte, in tlie formation of the Code,, was of the most eflicient kind. Its provisions were discussed in his presence 5 these discussions were presided over and dis cussed by hiinselll; and the Reports which were made of them, and which are now before the public, furnish the most satisfactory proof of his real and energetic participation in the drafting 01 the code ; and justify the pride which he. took iu it as a monument to his mem ory; A s;ood deal of the odium against. ex- isting institutions, in an old and de :enet-ate country, like France before the Revolution, naturally falls on the persons connected with the administra tion of the law, although the lawv as a system, may not be defective. Private justice is said to have been tolerably well ad riinistered in Fiance before the Revolution. But the venality which existed with regard to all the places of high trust and proht in the administra lion of justice, and the connexion of the law with all the oppressive institu tions of the state, the privileges of the nobles, and of the, church, and the va rious financial systems -(it being by the arm of. the law that these institutions were sustained)lnaturally turned a full portion of the popular fury " against the legal institutions of the, monarchy at the time or , tnei itevoiution. ; 3Jucn was necessarily rendered obsolete, by the cnange in the administration or. tne go vernment, and much by the suppression of the nobility a id clergy. Much more also was sweat away, in consequence of the new princinles that prevailed on all subjects. These changes were of course, in the first instance, brought about by separate laws or acts off the various assemblies, which, under 'different names, success ively exercised the legislative, or rather despotic & dictatorial nower in France. It was not lorijr.' however, before the notion of a uniform code of law suggest ed itself, not only as necessary, in or tier to ascertain what; alter sucn an overthrow of former legal ' institutions and principles, was the law ofthe French I nation 5 but also as a work, altogethci in the spirit of an aire and of a crisis. when men" had risen up, after cihteen centuries of discretionarr and arbitrary administration, to.cut their waj yitli the' dagger', ahd'the s wonl, to firsts and simpler principles. - j ; J -. The first laborer yi this field was the celebrated Cambaceres. He was a law yer by profession j as a native of Mont pelier,; he was a childjof jthepflysf du droit ecrii z & earlyl rose to eminence in the practice of his professfen in his native citv. aud October; In the months or 'August 1793. die presented to tift Conventicn his first draff of a code of law, pmfi t de code civile ; to which he proposed some modifications in Decern-' ber of the same year. The work was too great or.a moment 9o stormy, and the minds of men were too unsettled for a n u ndertaki ug,' like the estaol ish ment of a legal system. Two years after, as a member of the Council of Five Hundred Cambaceres presented to this body a new project of a code, which was ordered to be printed. This document was compiled fromrall -the acts ol Revolutioniiryilegislation; from 1T89 to 1 795. f Notjidecisive, how ever, was dime at this time towards the achievement of this great work- 1 ! On the pyerthrow ofthe Directory by the Revolution of the 18th of Brumaire, ! of the year VII L (November 9th, 1T99) the attention 01,-tne new consular gt- vernment "was '' immediately turned to the subject iof a code. Bonaparte made it one maftr of charge against the Di rectory, hat they had not achieved a work so loudly; called for by the spirit of the age, jand the unsettled state of the jurisprudence of the country ; arid the great interest, which the second consul Ci mbaceres hail taken in the former efforts' towards this end, ttatural ly engaged; him to pursue the same de sign. Accordingly, in the course Of the first year of the consulate, a third pro- jet of a code, containing the ten prin cipal tints; was drawn up, and present ed to tjhe government, by a commission of the Conhcil of Five Hundred, at the head ofwhjch was Jacqueminot, after wards, a member of the Senate under Napoleon. ! ' Such was tSs State of preparation wlien, by a consular decree, -dated 24th of Thertnidor, year VI II, ( ugust 12, 1800,) a bpmmission was instituied to compare he order,, which had been fol lowed in the preparation of the pr je's for a civil code, hitherto published,, to determinl? the plan, which the'commis sion shal think best to adopt, and to discuss t e chief principles of civil le gislation.' This commission consisted of Mess-s. Portalis, Tronchet, Biot Preameneu, and Maleville : and the Minister of Justice was joined to their number. The first and the last of the four named were of the Faysjlu droit ecnt: In the following year. 1801, these commiss oners reported a draft'of a Ci vil Code formed on the materials enu- meratedJ and accompanied with a pre di'scourse, on the principles I i miliary by whicN thev had been guided. Their draft w as ti s in the first instance subnnt- ted to t Court of Cassation, (of er rors) and the various courts of ap and the reports- 01 tne judges 01 mese courts furnished the matter of some im provements inthe draft, as it was next submitted to the council of state. In this body, over which the first Consul, Bonaparte, presided, every part of i the proposed code was thoroughly discuss ed 5 and in one of the works of which the titles are placed at the head of this article the Con ference du Code 'Civil, is containedj a detailed and very care fully prepared report of these discussi ons. After- the article had been dis cussed ir this manner, it was presented to the Tribunate, where it underwent another discussion, and was returned to the Cc uncil of State, as adopted, re jected, o amended. In this way five codes of law were successively matur ed and produced : viz : the CWe Ci vile, win :h was that called by eminence the Code Napoleon ; 2. The Code de Procedure Civilejlby Which the forms of actions and modes of proceeding, from the tribunal of a justice of the of peace up to the highest courts, in civil cases, were enacted : 3. The Code Penal, or Criminal Code ; 4. The Code d9 Instruction Criminelle, or mode of proceeding in actions ; and, 5. The Code de Commerce, or code of law mer chant. T lis" whole body of Jaw is often seen prin ed in one duodecimo volume. The system thus enacted became, the law of Frtnce, and of the countries de pendent n French power. It was in t rod u ceil in Holland in the confedera tion of the Rhine, in the kingdom of Westphalia, in Bavaria, in the kingdom f Italy, in Naples, in Spain; and in the vanotls smaller btates, that were under the. mfluence oL the French. - S'uhstantiaU founded on the principles ofthe civil law, the common basis of continental j u risprudeQce, i t was intro duced into these various countries with out vioetly shocking the prejudices and habits of their inhabitants." : h, North. Jlmerican Review. 3ust .3x.ecYeCLi BY J. GALES & SON, - . A fresh supply of WALDO'S Dictionar' SpcUiflff-BjOstrl : - - - : ... . . i . .... ' t . t Toy Tlent; THE eligible Stand on, Fayette ville Street, recently occupied bv John K. Hendoft. as a Grocery Store. Apply to W; TJ.lGales.H "TTJEHSOjSS living at a distance,4 having hu aL sinoss to transact with' either of the Banks in this place, may have it promptly attended to, 911 reasonable terms, bv applying to BEVERLY HOSE. Fayettevdle, April 20th. X825. 52-6w OomilKkd ; 0 the Jail in Ashboro IsTorth-Carolina, in M October last," a N.egro man, as a runaway,' about 35 years of aur ; . 5 feet 8 ov 9 inches high ; speaks rather slow, has vi do fore teeth and wide apart. Who calls, his name lih.IV, says, he belonsrs to Will am Arnold, of Alabama, and that he ,'curne from; Isle of Wir:ht County. Va. lat AvinJer. ' . SILAS DAVIDSON, Jailor. Nov; 1324. 6nm. ' : . ' JTew York State Literature; Lottery. X:' y: The following are the numbers which were drawn from the wheel on the 6ih instant; - '" CLASSJS!. 4. ; 20, -17, 42, 37, 8, 54, 5G, 59, 25. Holders pf Prizes are requested to come forward and renew their Ticket? at, the Of fice 01 ; YATES & M'INTYRE Iialcigh. Apr 15. - ' TAKEN UP, AND committed to the Jail of this county, on the 21st inst. a Negro Fellow,; sup posed to be a runaway slave, who saysvhis name is Cornelius Jones and that he has lived in New-York four or five years last past, but cannot, or will not name the state, county or town in which he was raised, lie is about hye feet seven inches high, black complex ion, with a small scar over his right eye, anl anl one near the corner of the same'.: His "dres is a drab pea-jacket, blue round ditto, and duck trowsers. He was brought to this place iu the schooner. Hetty, WrigVit, last from Charleston. The nwiV; r is requv --stdu? come. forward, prove property, pay rliarge and take hirn away, or he will be dealt wis, as the law directs. I ' - 1 JOS. GARRETT, Shff. Washington countv.Novj 23, 1824. 19-6rn X vnfcty Slav es 'o Sale . 1 Y virtue of a deed of trust, executed to us by Alexander Boyd, for the purpose of securing 'a debt therein mentrone.d, and due to Blair Biirwell, we will on MONDAY the. 23rd day of May next, at Mecklenburg Court-House, proceed to sell for cash, I between NINETY and ONE HUNDRED SLAVES, embracing every description ; among them are tradesmen of various kinds ; to ivitt Black smiths, Shoemakers and Coopers., ' So fine -n opportunity is seldom offered to persons wishing to purchase property of this descnptionto accommodate themselves. The slaves are remarkably likely and the sale must certainly take placfe. If the day mentioned should be a bad onej the sale will commence.on the next good day, and will continue from daV to day until all the slaves shall be sold, or: a sufficiency to satisfy the object of the deed of trust. JOHN W., LEWIS, WILLIAM TOVVNES, . I't-ustees. Anril 7th, 1 825. ; . 52-St J. G AtTES & SON, have just . received from the North, the following new Books : ' " ; ) Go won the Law of Partnership ijuniague on iiie aiivv 01 a-.icu Powell on Devises, a new American edition Wheaton's Reports, Vols 8 9. Paris's Pharmacologia, 2 vols.' -Chapman's Therapeutics ;. r. "v ; . T. E well's Family Physician Madam Campari's Journal - 1 Private Correspondence of Ld. Byron Byron's Works complete c Goslington Shadow, a Ilpmance of the 19th Century, 2 vols. ; :V Kothelan, a Romance ofthe English Histo ries, by the author of Annals -of the. Parish, 2 volumes ' ' . . . , The Refugee, a Romanqe, 2 vols, i M'Creery's Seleotion from the ancient Mu sic of Ireland, arranged for the Flute or Vio lin, adapted to Arnerican Poetry . A supply of School Books, and J Morocco Paper, of- different, colors, for Ladies' work. , ' . L ' ' Raleigh, May 9, 1825 ' ' ' ' lining staAsvmvn J OSEPH WOODWORTH, respectfully in forms the citizens of Raleigh and its vi cinity, that he has rented a. house of Capt. Theo. Hunter, nearly opposite the Court House, where he' proposes carrying on the Dying EBusiness in all its branches. ! " The Proprietor has been acknowledged by Merchants and others in New-York, Philadel phia and Washington City, where he carried on the above business 17 years, to he ecjual to any Dyer in the Union. ' . ' Cloths are dyed any color, and finished as imported. Silks, Satins and Crapes, are dy ed by pattern or otherwise. He dyfcs Ladies' Dresses i and Gentlemen's Apparel. .He scours Coats, & Pantaloons, & finishes them in he neatest manner. lie talles, Camel Hair Shawls, which he cleans, and restores to their primitive color. - : IJeghorn and Straw. Hats are dyed and finihedin the neatest jnanner. He also dyes Ladies Shoes, any color td please. He dyes Ladies' Feathers, any color; and finishes them.' 'And his. utmost desire will be to give satisfaction to those, whomay favor him with their commands ! y 9tbilS25--5s5 - , - . " UTJANK tt a resolution- f.thel Stbcld-'- 17 holders 'at their snnu.fl meeef iitT,J A. 1. ISSa-Notce is! ti.erev- rven, thnt hie next Annual t Sfetinf. of tlrh Stock! 10UI t s of thle Cape-Fear Nwiation Company ' will be ho den at.the::iovrn-IIouse,--an FayeUevil'eV on' Friday the 3d day of June next at,!whic?t time the presencej of the proprietorsor their representatives is requested. - ' J s" 1 i t N ' HO 11 E RT. ST It AN GF;, PrtsicKnf. f ' -5rave'fteV!e, ! April 25.- ; 52fm' " T -. t TllE subscriber has. lately( received Li4con siderable aecessloti to his former stock. and having made "favorable purchases; he is embled to otleir them asclu:ap as they can be obtained elsewhere. . lih business; hei-ic-after, ,wilb'c" for Cash exclusively.'- 1 i. i . '!- W'M. II. HILL. , Raleigh, Feb, 17, 1825- j Ot-t!i i ' 1 i.. .. Xorth-CaroSinn, ' : Pabarrus Gourjtv; 1 , ; SHAKEN UP j by 'ltepry jjisonIiemer?; on? Grey Mare, about 12 or 13 years jold t branded on thel near shoulder with'the ji-ttrr O ; with a hurt r Wound in her birth-pUiqo. Entered on the Stray Book, jApni 9th) 1825; valued to 20 doJIars." Said Misonh'enVei' hVes about 3 miles from Concordi 1 - ;; . .AI.EX'R, SCOTT, Rat'r.h i: IIIE subscriber respectfully inforrris t friendsaad the public generally, thjat has removed to his old. Stand, ijr.meti(atf Iv west ofthe Sfaie-House Square, lately in the1 occtipancy of Robert IL Wynne wberje jlio is prepared to accommodate Travellers. Boarders andothers, on moderate termis;t nil with his usual attention. 1 ',.-'. i ; " - :'! '-': II. II. COOKE ' Ilalei.dh, May 5. j - - 54 ot Notice. i'J QTRAYED from the subscriber on the 16th kJ dav of list Sn 1 , th, a BAY MARE, 8 or 9 years old, 4 feet 10 or. 11 inches high,! has been docked, jin low order, left eye blind, which may be jdiscovered by a nice inspecti on, has a good, head, neck and ear ; no othet mark recollected. 'U She was raised in the lower, part of prangfe . county j . and hasjbeeni heard of making up the country on the north side of Neiise.j Any inforniidion respecting' her will be thankfully received, e ? i ALLEN ROGERS. X Roads, Wake county, N- C. -:-: .;.;-t. i .' . : 54 4 w Rogers's May 2. University of IsTorth-Carolina. THE Public Anniversary Examiriation of the Students of the University of North Carolina, will be held at Cfeapel HH1 oh Wed nesday, the 1st June' next; and continue from day to day, until Thursday- the 9th of that month, on which last mentioned clay th'; Jlnmifd Commencement of' the College will take place. J ,f " '---"'. ; J j ' The following Trusfees' composing the Committee of Visitation, for A. Dv 1825, will attend, viz;". --'--j-.- ' : ; '. - ' - . I I His Exc'y. H. Birton, Prest. et. ofheib. I Uev. Dr, Joseph Caldwetj, ( l ; ? John li. Balcer, Edward JonesJ - I Thos. D. Bennelian, William Martin, ! i T hos.' Brown, Afch'd. M.Bride, William Miller, r W'iHie P. 'Mangurpt Arch'd R. Ruffiniv Rich'd D. SpaSghti Bartlett Yancv. . John II. Bryan, V Duncan Camerom, John Hay,wdod, John D. Hawkins, Atlas 'Jones,1 ";-."-' All other Trustees -ivko 'man attend, will be considered Members of this Committee ; and their attendance is solicited Individually ba an Ordinance of tie.Jioart?, - " . . v 1 nu ts iiti Y Raleigh, 26th April, 1825. . , . - - i WV-W 1. :' ty '-' " ' !-Vtaj ' "' j. . ;" . From Granville county 18 miles south of the Court-Hpuse, on the Sth instant, i A Bay Ilgrse, about' 8 years old, 4 feej T J inches high, he stands a little forward in his fore-knets, 'and tiirns his feet inward. He trots and paces well, and is a good plough horse. The horse Jiad a Saddle, which had been lately;new moulded behindh and plated .., before. ';'' " ' -,.- . :: , He went off in a south jiirection, but wai . not traced more than two mile-?.- j Ariy person giving information of the said horse immediately so that he 6e restored to the owner, will be damply satisfied for any trouole hfe may be at. 'HENRY SYKES Beaver l)am District, ; V ! Granville County,' May S- S , State of North-Carolina ' . Edgeconib County. '! ; Court of Pleas and Quniter Session February Term. 1825? v - Titus Moore:") Original attachment Dan'l . - Hopkins summoned as ijir-. Thos. House. 1 usnee. ; 1 j - ;- -. IT appearing to the satisfaction ofthe Court, that the Defendant is -not a resident of this. State : It is therefore ordered, that publica tion be made for three months in the Raleigh"" Uegister, for the Defendant to appear at the next Court of Plea? and Quarter Sessions to be held for said Cpunty at the Courts House in Tarborot igh, on the fourth Monday of May next; plead, answer orilemur, or tiuU judg ment will be entered against him." , : - - ' Witness tich'J Ilearn, Clerk of said Court, at Tarboroughjj the fourth' Monday of Febl--ary, A. D. 1825. - - ; M. 11 EAItN," CI V BLANK WARRANTS for sale at Uus effictv : - s , ';-,' ' . - - - . !- ! '.(- -. . . . -.- . ,-: .. . f . - . . :y. ' . -- ." - c ': . : . A :.:?r :" !-v :''v':'' ':" , : "' . rL . r '- ::,. 11- - ..'-;' ? ,i 'v.,:;-..'-'":,. :,-'- :' .i:V:;i '-:,-- ; . ' '' 'I .' ...v-- rf-.-'i " - - :-, - ' ' ". " 't 1 ' c-s' , . - - .-.-.... .v-.......f l: ' 1 . '' ..... tr, f