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—Austria, Denmark, and Prussia have given your lajesty the strongest assuistocee of their sentiments. °nisei* has even ofered to augment a third, and arty the contingent which she had furnished in ext.. ;titian of treaties to 30,000 Mei% " tot whilst this power roastifested diapcial dons so amformable to heetugagements, and to the interests if her policy, the intrigues of Englandliripared one these events which characterise the spirit of disor ler and anarchy, which that power does not cease to 10111113% in Europe. • ' • Genetal D'York, toms:landing .the Prussian Corps under the orders of Marshal the Duke of Ta tente, betrayed at once his honour,. his General in Chief, and his King. He has Made ft perticliPus com. pact with. the enemy. • 0 There are no intrigues, no threats Which Eng iittd has not put in work to change the dispositions . of Sovereigns ; but when she has found them firm to their true interests, and.inimoveable is their alliance with your Majesty, she has undertaken to produce a lgeneral disorder by endeavouring to shako the fide ty of 'the people. • " Beyond the states of your Majesty, Sire, there are few countries where the audacity and manceuvres of disorginatoms have carried uneasiness among tjle depositaries of the public tranquillity. • In the Courts of the agents. of corruptions in the camps of vile in. 'rit;gators, and in s short a to cities, schools, and even the bosoms of the most reveled institutions, false enthu siasts inceatandy lalaoar to seduce by dark doctrines those who ought, with . the most' c•Ourageous fidelity, =distal° the authority which has been confided to - and those whahaeo no other duty than that of obeying, • h such' cireamstances, Sire, and whenever , the ' :Vous of an alrieci.:Priace has uotheenible to : Knuth the advantages which your political system , ughtao'have insured you, it becomes animperious ,ecessity to have recourse 'to thou:Kam which your sty will find in the power of your Empire, and t • love of your subjects. • • • Under these considerations. the Ministers of our Majesty, assembled in an extraordinary Cabinet mined, propose to you 1. To send to the active army the 100 cohorts f National Guards. " 2.. To make a call of 100,000 men from the conscriptions of 1809, 1810, 1811, and 1812. ' t 3. To raise 100,000 men of the conscription for 1814, which shall be formed in garrisons apd camps pun our frantiers and coasts, and ready to march herever it may be necessary, to the assistance of our Majesty's allies. • 44 By this immense developement of forces, the in-, rest„ the consideration of France, and the safety of r.allies, will be guaririteed against all events. " The French people will feel the force of circum ances ; it will, render .fresh homage to this truth, 'so frequently proclaimed by your Majesty from the 'eight of your throne—that there is no repose for urope till England shall have been forced to con. ude a peace, " It is net in vain'. Sire, that you have given France the title of the Grand Nation'—no efrOrt is painful ta. her, .when the objet :s to evince her love for your Majesty and. her devotion , to the glory of the Aench natte. . . .a .I. join , to this repoa . the documents relative to lie defection of General D'Arork. a I am, with the mosi*profound respect, Sire, your klnesty's very litimble„ .very obedient, and faithful 'eat, • (Signed) ~ The Duke of BASSANO• taxis, bauiary 9,181 J," SITTING OF VIE il,Tt& JANUARY. -' I • ' The Senate re-assembled at two o'clock under the, sidency of his Sereee Highness the Prince Aral , haocellor of the Empire. I n bj M• the Count de Lacepede, in' the name of de Special Commission nominated in the Sitting of yes :ening, made the Report of the Ptojet of the Senato:- onsultutn,, I The &nate, after. having dclibm.ated on the Pro-, et of the Senatus'Consultum, ordered it to be pre-; "rated, with an Address, to his Majesty. In. consequ trice of which, at ha: f-past eight O'clock is evening, Messrs.. the Counts of I,...scepede, Presi. at ; 'Deleaunaent And Pe Laparens, Secretaries, ad the honour of presenting the Senatus Consultum ci, his Majesty, with an Address,, the contents of filch are *s follows:, TRACT, FROM TILE REGIATERS OF THE CONSERVATIVE SENATE., a. On Monday, the I.lthlatoua.ry, 1813, the Con ative Senate assembled, to the nuotber of Mem * rescrbed, by the 90th article of the Act of Con n. of the I.3th December, 1799, Having adopted the Prajet of Senatus Consul which was presented to it in, the Sitting of yes r-day,by which 350,000 are placed at the disposal Government :. a. Deliberating oe the proposition. made by its toio ecial Commisston s charged with the Report of this rojet t " Ordain,. That the. Senatus Consultum, of this y be ptesented to his Majesty the Emperee and ing by the Officers of the Senate, and that after tch presentation M. the annual, Presiden,t, shall ex. ress to his. Majesty the sentiments of the Senate by pt Address of the following tenor; . 1 ;46 ormei,....lrhe Senate has the honour to present to Pis Xrnperial and Royal Majesty the homage of its telity, its devotion, Its respect and the Senatus Con ilturn which it has just adopted, , • gg It was its desire, Sire * to expressat _the foot c i ut Majesty's Throne, the profound indignation ith which all the French are inspired, at the treasbn . a General of an Allied Power, placed under• the refers ofoone of your Majesty's Marshals, and. foTrft 1g a part of your armies. , ~ ig 'This violation of the laws Othettearand of war a new effect of the corrupt intrignei of the British rabinet. It is a crime against the safety of Govern tents, the repose of nations, against public faith, rid the order of society, The Continent of Europe, Ire, is :weaved with those terrible commotions, 'hid% your Majesty alone has been Able to annihilate our own country. • u pat your Molesty has foreseewevery thing; you ►ve discovered that it was needful to employ the reatest power, in order to command. events, or to sect their effects. You wished to have nothing that light turn you off from the object of your desires, ;* all your victories, and of the • so frequently re, ;wed sacrifice of your repose, of your affections, 4 of Tour dearest enigmatic The antics ,adds to its numerous phalauses 350,000 Frenchmen, the brave men of the immense armies which your Ma jesty is going to put in motion, will be ;he'Conquerors of Peace, pignut st The President nod Seerltaries, " Camsactites, (Seen snd sealed) u The Chancellor of the Senate,. Mdned) 41 &Ma Ar L ACC' • Napoleon, by the Grace of OOD sat the Constitutions, Emperor et the French, King of - Italy, Protector of the Confederation of the Rhine, Mediator of the Swiss Confederation, ace. &c. to whom these,presents may come greeting. The Senate, after boxing heard the Orators of the Council of State,has decreed, and we ordain as follows : EXTRACT 111034 THE 'RE.COTERS OP THE CoNaERVATIVR SENATE OF ItiONDA.t, THE 11TH JAN. 1813. 44 The Conservative Senate being assembled to the number of Members prescribed by the 90th Article of the Act of Constitution, of the 13th December, 1799; " Having seen the projet of Scnatus Coosultum drawn up, and in the form prescribed by-the Act of Constitution of the 4th August, 1802; 44 After having heard the Orators of the Council of State on the motives of the said projet, and the report of the Special Commission nominated in yesterday's sitting, the adoption having been deliberated by the number of voices prescribed by the 56th Article of the Act of Constitution of the 4th August, 1802; DECREE. ART. 1,-.350.000 nien are placed at the disposal of thaw. dater at War, to-wit: " lat.-100,000 mu forming the 100 eohlorts of the first Boa of the National Guards. • 2d.-100,000 men of the Conscription of 180 g, 1810, 1811, and 1812, taken• from among those who have not been called upon to make a part of the active army. I " Sd.-150,000 of the Conscription of 1812. • 11.—In the itecatlon of the preceding Article, the hundred cohorts of the-first Ban shall cease to form a part of the Nation! Guard, and shall form a part of the active army. " Such men as have married before the publication of this prevent Senatus Consultum, cannot be designated to make a part of the levies taken on the CenscriptiontA tor the years 1802, 1810 1811, and 1812. " The 150,000 men of the Conscription of 1814 shall be levied is the course of the year, at such time as shall be designated by the Minister at War. " ill. The present Senates Consultunt shall be transmitted by a Message to his Majesty the Emperor and King. (Signed) " The President and Secretaries, CAMEACEECS. " The. Count de BEAUMONT. " The Count de (,APPARENT. (Signed and Sealed) " Count Lartace, Chancellor " of the Senate." " We cofnmand and ordain that these presents, sealed with the seals of the State, inserted in the Bul. letin of the Laws, shall be addressed to the Courts, the Tribunals and other Administrative Authorities, to be by them inserted in their Registers, to observe them, and cause them to be observed, and our Grand Judge, Miniiter of Justice, is charged to see they are duly published. - 44 Given at our Palace of the nuilleries, on the llth January. (Signed) " NAPOLICON. (Seen by us) We, Arch-Chancellor of the Empire, (Signed) " CAMBACERge. " By order of the Emperor, (Signed) " Duke de CADORE." After the reading of the Report, Mes:.ieurs the Councillors of State presented a Projet of a Sznatus Consultum, (see the followitt; of the lIM,) the .motives for *thick were explained by M. the Cotnit Regnaud de St. Jean d'Angely, in the manner fol lowing: MOTIVIA. OF THE SETTATUS CONEULTUNI FOR PUTTING THREE HUNDRET) ANTIFIFTY THOUSAND MEN AT 'ffie DISPOSAL OF TILE MINISTER OF WAR. " Monseigneur and Senators—The Treaty of Til sit gave to the North of Europe a peace, which ir. appeared would haVe been of duration. But Eng land, menaced with a war wilt the United States of America, and dreading with great reason the bad :ssue for her wl,ich must, sooner or later, attend the flaniz kindled in Spain, occupied hesseif in giving birth to a new war against France, by obtaining the breach of the alliance lately sworn to by Russis. All the efforts r.t•the Emperor to•keep it, and to insure the execution of the treaties were useless, and the war was renewed. " It was forced on him by the violation of the most solemn' conventions, by rumerous armaments, by evident aggressions, by repeated refusals of every explanation, and in short, by the necessity imposed on his Majesty to maintain the rights and dignity of his Crown, and those of his Allies. N The enemy, forced from all his posts, repulsed in every combat, vanqUished in every battle, was forced to abandon his capital to the victor, but he gave it to the flames, which almost seduced it to ashes. 44 From t!:ence the necessity of this glorious retreat, a retreat in which we have not been disheartened by the asperity of the climate, the early severity of the season, and its unussal excessive rigour. • " The 29th Bulletin of the Grand Army at once astonished and re-assured France ; the information of its losses unveiled to the natio* with so much cnerge. tic simplicity, with such a noble confidence, awakened in all Frenchmen a feeling of the necessity of revair- mg them. " Meanthile the Emperor, who his enemies must always fear, and whose arrival was wished for by his allies and his subjects, returned to his capital whilst he was believed to be still before Wilna, and causing an account to be rendered high of thej resources of his arsenals, his magazines, his treasury, of the num ber of his troops—announced to France his intention of not making any demand of men nor of new con tributions, 4 , With the annual imposts and the soldiery already ender arms, he can support all the wants of the cajn paign both in the South and in the North of Furope. But, Senators, the facts of which the Minister for Foreign Affairs has just given you information by his Majesty's ostlers, must alter tke first calculations of his wisdom, economical in the sacrifices of his people, and cause them to be succeeded by calculations of foresight and necessity. • " Already, Messieurs, I have seen in this assembly bursts of that indignation which all Europe will feel at the 'recital- of a treason to which we would hesitate to give belief, were T not avowed and written by its author himself. " The Prussian General, whose name Tust hence. forth become idfameus, betrayed at once his Sove reign, bis honour, the duties of a citipn, and those of a soldier. a He ahaliefujly Sertraod . himself f,r9n, the Rail of which he formed a part of the corps with which he marched ; he has-given up those. who were exposed, upon his faith, to the hazardous consequences of his base abandonmente—of his unexpected desertion. " Informed of*this'crime ' new in histnry data dern wars, his Majesty the King of Piussia evinced a resentment worthy.of his fidelity to his Allies. Joined in sentiments with the Monarch, his Cabinet has only shewn the wish of repairing—of punishing a political and military crime, which offends the Prussian nation,- and outrages its Sovereign. 44 These faits,these - assurances are contained id the letters of which the Minister for Foreign Affairs has given you a communication. gs The guarantee that the heinousness of this event will not only be appreciated by the Government, but by the whole Prussian people. They will judge, and all the nations of the North will-judge-with them ] of what misfortunes such a crime might be the source. Prussia will chew her attachment to the Prince Who governs her, by rallying at his example, and the voice of honour, and by thelaithful observation of treaties. , 44 Nevertheless, policy, attentive for many years to the cause of events, will necessarily pause respecting the causes which have effected. what I have just spokefi of to you, and these causes, Senators, do not appear improper to be rapidly traced here. We evi -1 dently find them in the manoeuvres and intrigues of England upon the Continent. Too weak to defend herself alone urn the sea against the French power, .she has constantly and successively laboured to arm against us all European Cabinets. It is England who has brought and re-brought upon the fields of battle the armies which the Emperor has conquered and reconquered during the last twelve years. 44 When enlightened Cabinets, by experience, 1- wished for peace, the peace which rejoiced Europe made Englatid groan. Then she scattered among the people, and particularly in large cities, by means of her numerous emissaries and active corruption, the seeds of hatred, the causes of division, the princi ples of disaganization, which separate subjects from their'Princes, and people from their governments. 44 It was thus that numerous societies, under the name of Friends of the Truth, of Nature, &c. &c. or under other titles less ridiculous, have been iormed,en ' couraged, and supported, preaching hatred, insurrec tion, and disobedience, against every Sovereign, the friend of France, of Peace; and the Continent. " Alas ! it was in our trance—now so peaceable, then so miserable and so agitated,—that the English Cabinet made, during several years, which were years of crimes and misfortune, the trial of these fatal means of discord and civil troubles. 66 It was by these means that England acted in 1809 against the Cabinet of St. Petersburg!), when it chewed friendly dispositions towards France. It was by her agents that England prepared in Russia the influence of the party hostile to France, and by it arose the hesitations, the variations, the hostile reso lutions of the Cabinet ; and in short, this List war, which has cost Russia the devastation of her finest provinces, the repose of Europe, the regrets of hu manity. 66 England has employed, without doubt, to pre pare the eternal dishonour of General d'York, the same means, the same associations, by which in 1809 she brought regular corps into a rebellion, and (a thingr before unheard of) to make war against the orders even of their Sovereign. "Thus England disunites and divides the countries over which she cannot dotnineer ; sl:e preparts the ruin of states which she cannot subject to her system. " In :bout, what means of destruction more iuevi i table for the throne the most strongly secured, than j the desertion of an army ; its opposition to the in terests di its country ; its disobedience to the orders lof its Monarch ; it all the Sovereigns interested in ' the suppression of such a crime, do not unite their vows to cause their efforts to insure the punishment of it, it will not b..! in their power to prevent a recur. rence of it. • " Happily, Gentlemen, the attempts of our enemies to extend to France their fatal influence, their fatal successes, are impotent. " Our vast territory, our immense population, feel only the sacrifices inseparable from the state of war ; but are far from suffering the misfortunes of the country which is its theatre. " internally, trangoillity prevails ; industry, the arts, the public works, pursue their course. " Externally, Austria and our other allies shew themselves affectionate and faithful. " Our• forces, our means, our military resources are immense. Always at the moment when the first eruption of those destructive volcanos fired by England, is going to break out under these thrones which wi. h to rest independent of her politics, it is necessary to collect proportionable resources, even superior to the dangers which prudence discovers. " That which was yesterday sufficient for the se curity of Government, is to-day found to be deficient in foresight. New events have created new wants; ' unforeseen conjunctures require unexpecmd sacrifices. " An universal sentiment of devotion and fidelity unites itself in the French people to the feelings of their interest and of their glory, to direct their con iluct,anddetermine their resolutions. 4g His Majesty proposes to you, to put at the dis• posal, of his Minister at War, a force sufficiently con siderable to overawe all our enemies, to destroy all their hopes in all their suppositions ; and you know, Messieurs, reflection and history has taught it you, that it is thus we must repulse danger, it is thus that success is guaranteed, that we ensure glory, and that we must prepare peace. 44 The number of men demanded by the Minister at War, are to be divided into three classes : 66 The first is to be composed of those cohorts whose wishes have outstripped necessity, and who have solicited as a favour, to exchange the duty of defending the Frontiers of France, for the honour of going to seek thienemy on the other side of the Siea nas. The second Class consists of a levy among those men, who forming part of the four preceding Con scriptions are not comprised in the last. The levy has for its object to keep up in the interior, until the ' moment when they shall have acquired a greater strength, more decided aptitude for the military service : the third Class, called by the Senatus Con sultum, I would denominate the conscription of 1814. This is not to be immediately assembled ; the Mini ster of war will judge at what moment it will be suitable to cause them to march. The efforts of the Islanders, fouftlers of the coßtiqktal fir, stecpari at a war wtthciut end, create an imperious law on the part of France, of setting on footformidablt armaments. 14 She has not forgotten either the victories unw•; Louis 14th, nor the disgraceful treaties under Loins 15th ; neither will she forget the triumphs which have effaced those humiliations, the,necessity of preserving untainted the glory she acquired, the utility of r e . 'paring for new successes, the dignity of tie Crown, or the honour of the nation, and of the French arms." The.project-of the Senatus Consultum WAS referred to a Special Committee, and the Sur.ate adjourned anti 1 to-mor► ow. COPY Or A LETTER mom COUNT ST. :.).IE.SZti TO TILE MINUTE!' FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS. " Beeiin, January 1. gi MONSVONETR—An A ide-cle-Cam p from the Dul l of 'Parente, dispatched by the Prince of Nqtfchatel, has reached me. He brought me the inclosed d,‘ patch from the Major-General, with the letters WUr accompanied it. The whole arrived at the rr,-.Tn el • when 1 was in the house of Marshal the Dr.ke of t. tiglioni, with the Chancellor Baron de Hardenbtrg, Count de Narbonne, and Prince de Haltzfeld. 4 , Baron Hardenberg appeared indignant : he irs mediately went to the King, who had just returned to the city. lam assured the King has determin e d to dismiss General 11 York, cause him to :arcs ted, give the commard to General Mien, call upon the trosips, although there is but very little proii.dip lily that they can be withdrawn, and to enjoin them to place themselves under the orders of the Xing Naples ; to address all ordess to this Prince ; to pub lish to the French army at Potsdam in Silesia, in the Gazettes, an Ordrr du Jour in consequence. 4 ‘ In short, lam assured, that on this occasion the King has again publicly manifested his attachment to the cause of his Imperial Majesty and King, art his indignation at-what had just taken place. 44 I have the honour, Sec. (Signed) 44 The Count de Sr. Mantras." No Us LETTER FROM THE AVER Of TAREVTE TO THE PRINCI SIAJOR-GENERAL. • " .TlLit, Dec. 31. 44 MONSEIGNEUR—After four days of expectation, inquietude, and anguish, which one part of the Pius.. sian carps has experienced respecting the fate of the rear-guard, which from Mittau followed me at one march distant, I at last am infolined by a letter from General D'York, that lie himself. had decided the fate of the Prussian corps. 46 I here transmit a copy of this letter, upon whirls I will not allow myself to make any reiTectiJn; it gill excite the indignation of every honourable man. 44 General Massenbach, who was here with me with two batteries, six battalions and six squadrons, I set out this morning without my orders to repass the Niemen. He is going to rejoin Gen. D'Yurk. He thus abandons us before the enemy. ACcept, &c. (Signed) " The Marshal Duke of 'Lice el" No. HI. LETTER FROM GENERAL D'YORK TO THE DUKE OP TARENTE. Tattroggen. Dec. 3/. " MormonEvn—After very painful marches, it wa§ not possible for me to continue them without being attacked on my flanks and rear;—it was this that retarded my junction srith your Excellency,and. left me to chuse betA'veen the alternative of losing the greater part of my troops; and all the material which alone insured my subsistence. On saving the whole * I have thought it my duty to conclude : a couveation, by which the assembling of the Prusiian troops is to. rake place in Eastern Prussia, which, by the retreat cf the french army, is in the power of the Russian army. The Prussian troops will form a neutral corps, and will not commit hostilities against either party. Subsequent events, the consequence of negc ciations which are to take place between the Bellige rent powers, will decide their future fate. 44 I hasten to inform your Excellency of a pro• ceeding to which I have been forced by weighty circumstances. 4. Whatever be the judgment that the world may pass upon my conduct, I shall be very indifferent to' it. Duty towards my troops, and the most mature deliberation dictated ir; the most pure motives, what ever appearances may be, guided me. la making this declaration to you, Monseigneur, I acquit myself of obligation towards you, and beg of you to accept the assurances of the most profound respect, with which I am, &c. . (Signed) a D'YOILK. " A true Copy. (Signed) " The Marshal Duke of Tarente, MACDONALD! No. IV. LETTER FROM LIMITENANT•OENERAL DI MAURER/MI, TO IJAASHAL TUE DUI* OF TARENTI. " General D'York's letter will already have in formed your Excellency, that my last step was dic tated to me, and that I' could alter nothing, because the precautionary measures which your Excellency ordered to be taken this night, made me stispect, that perhaps you intended to detain 'why force, or in the present case dissrm my troops. It was there fore necessary for me to take the part I did, ti join my troops to the convention which the commanding General had signed, and of which he gave informa tion and instruction this morning. " Your Excellency will pardon my not haling per sonally informed you of the proceeding; it was to spare myself a sensation very painful to my heart, because the sentiments of respect and esteem for the person of your Excellency, which I shall preserve to the end of my life, would have prevented me from doing my duty. (Signed) " The Lieut,-General MASSENBACII. (A true Copy) (Signed) " Marshal the Duke of TARENTE. " December 31 , 1512." PARIS, JANUARY 9. The Prince of Neufchatel, Major-General, wr►ces from Konigsberg, under date of Scl December, and makes known the positions of the army. Marshal the Duke of Tarente, with the 10th corps, occupies Tilsit and the banks of the Niemen ; he has taken several Russian battalions and several pieces of cannon. Wiela and Hndelet's division occupies Lsbraw, Insterbourg ; the head-quarters of the 31st division, and the guard are at I,onigsberg. The first corps at Whom, the second at Maria werder, the fourth at Marienbourg, the third occu pies Ebbing, the 9th DAntaig, the 6th Flock ; --the. Austrian corps at on. Bialiatock covers the Duchy 0 1 Warsa ; the 7th carps beoteen Presing and the V's' All Ol l 4 Oat 9avilitury fi tj to sth corps is at Warsali• di 11 em IP M .4h to ri, fra Pre the bef in N C by I eai are 04 the vroi dist II rap ben ari trail; ice, te of hi Irmo I R 071 ,4111111 c